Life Game In Other World
Chapter 494 Chapter: A New Task? (Super long - asking for monthly pass)

Chapter 494: 494 Chapter: A New Task? (Super long Chapter asking for monthly pass)

Dusk Delayed: [Guys, don’t freak out about what I’m about to tell you, okay? You all know about that train that was rumored to run over the sea, right? That’s a B-grade supernatural item.]

Cyber-Mates When Free: [Front row couch spot.]

Kicking Lame Guys’ Good Legs: [Yo, Level 1, newbie? Newbie, reveal yourself, preferably with thigh-highs.]

Nanananana: [With that title, you’re wasting your talent not working for the Shock Department, a real loss to the industry.]

Rainy Night Cucumber: [We’ve all had professional training at the Research Institute, we won’t get scared, just spill it.]

Dusk Delayed: [When I was traveling, I saw that train on the beach.]

Dusk Delayed: [At that time, I really thought it was an abandoned train—it was parked on the beach with no tracks in sight, and it looked like those old-fashioned trains from decades ago. I thought it was a new tourist spot until I boarded the train and was greeted by a super creepy conductor.]

Dusk Delayed: [I was really frightened. On the train, I met a handsome guy and a busty blonde from the Tia Empire. This train had a special rule that whenever it went through a tunnel, everyone had to return to their compartments...]

Wind Suddenly Rises: [Blonde with big waves? Really? I don’t buy it unless you post pics.]

Turning Minds with a Flick: [Lady, you’ve got my attention now.]

Dusk Delayed: [Don’t rush me, I type slow. Later, a thug got on the train along with an adorable ’little’ sister. Speaking of thugs, I have to mention that handsome guy. The thug was harassing me and even pulled out a gun—it was my first time seeing a real gun, and I was so scared.]

Dusk Delayed: [But then, the guy just grabbed the gun barrel and slapped the thug out of the train. You wouldn’t believe how cool he was, I’ve never seen anyone that handsome.]

Little Tales after the Rain: [Okay, we get it, he’s handsome. Your nickname for him has gone from uncle in your title to big brother, and now to just brother. Clearly, you were quite smitten.]

Little Fists Breaking Your Ribs: [He does sound very handsome, even imagining him is cool. When will I get a handsome hero to save me like that?]

The Man Called Handsome: [The one above, flex your well-developed biceps and you never know, maybe you’ll be the one doing the saving.]

Little Fists Breaking Your Ribs: [Come at me, I’ll crush your dog head.]

Cyber-Mates When Free: [Stay on topic, author, skip the personal emotions and get to the story.]

Dusk Delayed: [Fine... When all the passengers had boarded and the train entered the tunnel again... we each received a ’prop,’ and that’s when the real horror began...]

He Ao’s fingers swiftly glided over the phone screen, scanning the post’s content quickly.

This person nicknamed ’Dusk Delayed’ somewhat recounted He Ao’s actions on board the Vinora, including solving the Murder Game, catching the murderous conductor, seeing through player number nine Jin Ya, and more, all from a third-person perspective.

It wasn’t hard to deduce from her nickname and the contents of the story that the person behind it was Lin Chichi.

The girl He Ao met on the Velora who skilfully played her gender to her advantage, seemed a tad pretentious, but in the end, trusted He Ao and gambled her life by handing over the final piece of the puzzle to him to complete the clues.

Lin Chichi had that look of someone with eyes only for what’s in her heart.

The post was filled with her subjective narrative.

The ’Hao Yi’ that He Ao impersonated wasn’t very handsome, with only an okay build and average looks, yet Lin Chichi praised him to the skies in her post.

Of course, she also hinted throughout that she herself was a gentle, adorable, and naive ’little girl’ who wasn’t too bright.

It must be said, Lin Chichi had a talent for storytelling, turning the whole event into a thrilling adventure between a mysterious and wise Transcendent and a naive and unknowing young girl.

And she mixed in elements like sacrifice, betrayal, undercover players, twists, and the mysterious B-grade supernatural item.

The story quickly attracted a swarm of replies and rose rapidly in popularity.

However, despite a lot of ’artistic embellishment,’ the post generally did recreate what had happened at the time.

Of course, Lin Chichi was very aware of what could be written and what couldn’t. When it came to the front of the train, anything involving angels and rituals was only briefly mentioned without any detailed explanation.

Rabbit-Eating Carrot: [Done reading, the conductor and chef were both players, and the conductor had been impersonated by the murderer early on. There was also a C-level ’mole.’ I feel like if I were there, I wouldn’t survive the first night.]

Hand-Cranked Tractor Driver: [Have some confidence, the person who died on the first night would have to draw a special prop that allowed them to leave their room, maybe you’ll make it to the second night.]

Picked Up Two Pounds of White Sesame: [Is this Hao Yi really that awesome? He solved that kind of situation? I’m not well-read, so don’t trick me, author.]

Dusk Delayed: [Tricking you would make me a puppy, Brother Hao Yi is really that amazing. Without him, I probably wouldn’t have made it through the tunnel.]

It seems there’s a major misunderstanding: [Poster, you say that this Hao Yi guy is so powerful and solves all the problems, doesn’t that make it look like our overseas department bigwigs haven’t done anything? Didn’t you say you were saved by the overseas department in the end?]

Dusk Delayed: [Our overseas department is pretty awesome too, especially Deputy Minister Wu Lan, who’s both handsome and good-looking!]

Let’s Surf the Net Together: [Deputy Minister Wu Lan is indeed impressive, good-looking and capable.]

Rainy Night Cucumber: [Indeed, I’m from the overseas department, and Deputy Minister Wu Lan is our boss, that waist, those hips, those long legs, I fall asleep thinking about her every night.]

Let’s Surf the Net Together: [?]

[Rainy Night Cucumber has been muted by the administrator.]

Minister Yang’s Fangirl: [Poster, did you see any of the other ministers? Like Minister Yang, which minister was it that saved you back then?]

Dusk Delayed: [Of course, I saw them. The person who saved me, I didn’t get a good look, seemed like a young man, but he just grabbed me and dashed outside, spoke so fiercely, didn’t know at all how to treat a lady with tenderness, and even shook me into fainting, definitely an old bachelor who can’t find a girlfriend, not nearly as gentle and considerate as my brother Hao Yi.]

He Ao: ?

His finger long-pressed on Lin Chichi’s avatar.

[Dusk Delayed has been muted by the administrator.]

Let’s Surf the Net Together: [LMAO, surely one of the deputy ministers was screening and caught someone bad-mouthing them on the spot.]

He Ao exited the forum interface and opened the chat group for the overseas department ministers.

Wu Lan: [Link]

Wu Lan: [Look at this girl I’m dealing with, isn’t she great? She just popularized the matter like this.]

Having stayed in the Copy World for too long, He Ao’s thinking was a bit misaligned, and he somewhat forgot what exactly this was about.

He scrolled up through the chat history to find the previous discussions in the minister group.

The post by Lin Chichi was actually the result of a discussion that He Ao and others had planned beforehand.

The situation with Velora was too complex, especially its ability to absorb people indiscriminately and cross vast spatial distances in a short period of time, which could cause considerable harm.

Although the ’Hao Yi’ who now controls Velora seems to have a good impression of Central Earth, the thoughts of such an existence are unfathomable.

Therefore, Yang De, the minister of the Research Institute’s overseas department, hoped to publicize some information about Velora, especially about the weird self-mutilating game, to keep the staff of the Research Institute alert.

After all, the most unpredictable part of that game is that the two seemingly NPC ’Chef’ and ’Attendant’ are actually players, as well as the point that all players actually belong to different factions.

These points, especially the first one that ’NPCs’ are all players, are like an exceedingly thin and elusive barrier, before you think of it, your mind can’t break out, but once you do, it’s easily pierced.

What Yang De thought was to directly publicize these difficult points, revealing the inner workings of the entire train, to prevent the people from the Research Institute from being caught off guard in the future.

However, doing so might inadvertently offend ’Hao Yi’, after all, he is now the owner of Velora, and if he knew that such information about his Transcendent item was publicly disclosed, he might change his attitude towards the Research Institute.

So, while publicizing this information, it was also important to express the Research Institute’s goodwill towards ’Hao Yi’.

The final suggestion was presented by He Ao himself, except his suggestion was to find a stakeholder to participate in writing the report that needed to be published, to express goodwill towards ’Hao Yi’.

Although it was a bit strange to discuss how to express goodwill to another identity of his, He Ao still gave his suggestion seriously.

Because, in fact, the information that the Research Institute wanted to publish no longer had any impact on him - the murder game was actually part of the ritual on Velora, and now that the ritual was disrupted, the game was naturally useless.

All the information now in possession of the Research Institute didn’t affect He Ao much, mostly because they were information that He Ao had deliberately filtered and revealed to the Research Institute.

This actually included the goodwill of ’Hao Yi’.

Of course, the Research Institute knew this as well, but they had to consider the worst-case scenario when they thought about issues, as they couldn’t afford to be negligent and needed to be responsible for the lives behind them.

The final decision of that discussion was that Wu Lan took on the task.

At that time, He Ao thought Wu Lan would ask ’fake lolita’ Luo Luo, who had entered the train, to be the main narrator and write a more formal report, since Luo Luo was one of Wu Lan’s people.

He didn’t expect that Wu Lan would end up asking Lin Chichi to do it, and even write such a dramatic little story.

But to be fair, the spread of such a story is indeed more effective than a push notification.

After all, even if the report was really sent out, it wouldn’t guarantee that many people would seriously read it. However, when it comes to stories with a hint of secret information, it’s easy to ignite everyone’s excitement.

Especially since Lin Chichi’s writing is indeed good, and her attitude as a ’little fan girl of Hao Yi’ also genuinely expressed goodwill towards ’Hao Yi’.

But He Ao knew very well that this girl was smart and adept at using her emotions and attitude to win favor, so her ’little fan girl’ persona might not be real. It could simply be a role she played to complete the Research Institute’s mission.

Yet, if she didn’t trust He Ao, she would not have agreed so readily when He Ao told her to ’die’.

When the false appears true, the true also becomes false.

He Ao stopped contemplating this issue and returned to the forum. He took a screenshot and sent it to the overseas department’s minister group.

The screenshot was precisely of the message that said, ’Let’s go online when you’re free’.

He Ao: [Picture]

He Ao: [@Wu Lan, Lan sister, is this ’Let’s go online when you’re free’ your burner account?]

Wu Lan: [Eek, you found out. You’re really sharp, little brother He Ao. Let’s go online when you’re free.]

He Ao: [...]

Wu Lan: [Oops, I used the wrong term. I wouldn’t know whether it is little or not without going online...]

[Wu Lan’s message has been retracted by the admin.]

[Wu Lan has been silenced by the admin]

Yang De: [Mind your language]

[Wu Lan’s silence has been lifted by the admin]

Wu Lan: [Got it, Minister Yang. /Wronged]

Ji Po: [Hahaha]

Wu Lan: [I won’t laugh you to death]

Yang De: [Wu Lan did a good job this time. The approach of popularizing knowledge is very good.]

Wu Lan: [Of course, haha. But it was mainly thanks to little brother He Ao’s excellent suggestion.]

He Ao: [I merely mentioned an idea on a whim, to have done it so well is all thanks to sister Wu Lan’s capabilities.]

Wu Lan: [Hahaha, little brother He Ao knows how to talk /Laugh]

Yang De: [Alright, stop flattering each other. @He Ao, I have a question, apart from us and Director Liu, does anyone else know your real identity?]

He Ao: [The head of the Western Lands Research Institute, Zhang Ansha, and the Institute’s Liu Nan know my identity. Lin Chichi and Luo Luo, who were involved in the last incident, have seen my face.]

Yang De: [Anyone else?]

Ji Po: [During the last melee, did people from the Tia Empire’s Moonlight or the Western Lands’ World Tree see you?]

Wu Lan: [The C-levels who came last time, only two are left alive, right? Those two don’t seem to have met little brother He Ao face to face; they were always on the other side. Moreover, they were contaminated by that Angel and are mentally unstable now.]

Yang De: [Were there any B-levels who saw your face?]

He Ao: [Yes, Sloane.]

Sloane was a B-level from the Tia Empire’s ’Moonlight’ organization, who was eventually taken down by He Ao and Liu Zhengyun.

Yang De: [Did Rudel see you?]

He Ao: [He shouldn’t have. At that time, he appeared on the other side of the Velora, and didn’t notice me. After that, he was lured away by Director Liu, so we didn’t face each other.]

Initially, Rudel didn’t pay any attention to He Ao; his focus was all on Liu Zhengyun. Shortly after He Ao became aware of him, he was concealed by the Velora.

But Sloane, upon his entrance, took a careful look at everyone present, naturally not missing He Ao, who could not hide.

Of course, there was also another person aware of He Ao’s existence, and that was the ’Boss’ hiding in the shadows.

However, "Boss" probably never paid attention to him; his focus was all on the Velora and He Ao’s clone "Hao Yi".

After all, He Ao’s clone who’s now in charge of Daybreak in the Alano region still hadn’t received any instructions to be wary of "He Ao’s original body".

Ji Po: ["I suddenly realized something, besides the few of us and those two young girls who were saved, isn’t everyone else who saw He Ao that day dead? And all of them, except for a C-level, were killed by him, only B-level Sloane was killed by Director Liu and that ’Hao Yi’.]

To be precise, Sloane was also killed with the assistance of He Ao.

Wu Lan: ["Damn, Minister Yang, where did you pick up this killer embryo, he’s so cool, I really like him."]

He Ao: ["..."]

He Ao: ["Actually, I am a law-abiding good person."]

He Ao still felt it was important not to let others misunderstand him.

Ji Po: ["..."]

Wu Lan: ["..."]

He Ao: ["Minister Yang, are you asking this because there’s something you need me to do?"]

Yang De: ["A new relic entrance is about to appear. This time, the World Eye’s shard sensed it’s located in the capital of Rodan Republic, Eren."]

Ji Po: ["Rodan Republic, that small coastal country on the southwestern edge of the Western Lands?"]

Yang De: ["Yes, ever since the Rodan Republic went through turmoil five years ago, it has been under the control of pro-Tia Empire forces, so it’s a border region where the forces of the World Tree and Moonlight converge. According to our previous agreement, the first to discover a relic entrance in such a border zone will claim it."]

Wu Lan: ["Are you thinking of... competing for it?"]

Ji Po: ["I think it’s worth a try. The relic is getting closer and closer; we never know when a large-scale mutation will occur. We need to accumulate enough power."]

Wu Lan: ["But we don’t have the manpower to spare..."]

Previously, the Research Institute didn’t have the spare capacity to meddle with relics located at the border of Western Lands and Tia.

Obviously, if they wanted to compete for this relic, a C-level would need to personally make a trip to the Rodan Republic. Only with a C-level in charge could there be a chance of success.

In the past, the Research Institute couldn’t spare that many hands, but things are different now.

With the addition of an extra C-level, He Ao.

Moreover, now that the Tia Empire has only one B-level left and one of the Western Lands’ two B-levels is seriously injured, it’s the best time for the Research Institute to act.

At that moment, Yang De sent He Ao a private message.

Warrior (Yang De): ["What do you think? We don’t demand success this time; it wasn’t ours to begin with. But I think it’s a good chance for you to get out and see the world. Recently, with the increasing instability and the relics drawing closer, that place will definitely attract forces from all sides. It’s a good opportunity for you to get familiar with future enemies and friends, and all expenses can be reimbursed."]

In summary, a business trip.

Clearly, Yang De hoped to take this opportunity to let He Ao get some worldly experience, as He Ao was too young and had entered the world of the Transcendents in too short a time, lacking real-world knowledge of the entire Transcendent world.

Even if he knew, it was only from the information on paper.

And for a mission of this level, the danger to He Ao’s combat abilities should be small.

He Ao didn’t reply immediately but opened up a report from the Research Institute’s database.

This was a report that only department heads had the authority to access, detailing background investigations on several passengers who had previously entered the Velora.

One of them was about Jin Ya,

[Jin Ya, the Daybreak’s officer in charge of the Alano region, codenamed Secret Art Mage, C-level, originally the second daughter of the last King of the Rodan Kingdom. She went missing after the country fell and was killed by ’Hao Yi’ aboard the Velora.]

The Rodan Kingdom is the predecessor of the Rodan Republic.

And Jin Ya was an absolute confidant of "Boss".

He Ao fell into a brief contemplation.