Life Game In Other World
Chapter 574: Interwoven Dominoes (Massive - for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 574: Chapter 574: Interwoven Dominoes (Massive Chapter for Monthly Votes)

Upon hearing this voice, Heish’s body stiffened, and then she immediately pushed open the cupboard door and rushed out.

At this moment, the figure lying on the cupboard also turned its head, looking toward the door. He gazed at He Ao standing at the doorway and leapt down from the cupboard, revealing a smile, "You’re here?"

Heish, who had darted out from under the cupboard, also looked at He Ao with a mix of surprise and confusion, "Jess, how did you find this place?"

"This friend invited me here."

He Ao extended his right hand, palms up, pointing to the figure standing at the side of the cupboard.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Ved."

The figure was dressed in simple yet exquisitely made casual clothes, with crimson blood splashed on his pristine garments. Under the hazy moonlight, it somewhat resembled plums blossoming in the snow. He watched He Ao with a smile, "It seems you’ve seen through my plan."

"It wasn’t difficult,"

He Ao drew back his hand and gripped the handle of the bone axe behind his back.

"All the areas around here have signal interference set up. Heish, as the ’prey’, would not be allowed to communicate with the outside, which means the location couldn’t have been sent to me by Heish from inside the building.

"Judging by the chaotic footsteps at the entrance, Heish and the others being driven into this building was entirely accidental, and this was not their intended destination, which means the location couldn’t have been sent by them before they arrived."

He shrugged slightly, "The result then becomes quite obvious. You snatched Heish’s wristband during your previous fight, used some method to crack the wristband’s password, and sent me a location using Heish’s wristband. This isn’t a difficult task and doesn’t even need hacking skills.

"All you had to do was to deceive Heish into looking at the wristband during the fight, and you could unlock it using facial recognition and mechanical iris scanning. Even if you didn’t accomplish this, I remember you have a very skilled hacker, who even developed software for me."

"That hacker didn’t want to help me."

Ved laughed lightly. Behind him, Heish signaled to the middle-aged man who had crawled out of the cupboard with her to retreat with her.

Ved seemed not to notice the escape of the two targets he had been chasing for a long time; all his attention was focused on He Ao.

"It looks like your ’boss’, the Mysterious Person, doesn’t seem to be aware of your presumptuous actions."

He Ao glanced at Heish, who was gradually putting distance between herself and Ved, and continued,

"Your original mission should have been to take care of Heish and this man..."

His gaze swept over the middle-aged man behind Heish. He had just seen the man’s photo in the night news he had passed by, "Senator candidate Mr. Dasanc."

"More or less,"

Ved raised his hand, and a silver blade, thin as a needle, appeared in his grasp. This slender sword shimmered with a cold light under the moon, with a silver ring guard connecting both ends of the hilt surrounding Ved’s fingers.

He revealed a smile, watching He Ao, "If it’s not urgent, Miss Heish could also be left alive. After all, a C-level is quite rare, and using her as a blood bank to produce Gene Potions is the most valuable choice."

He Ao gripped the handle of the axe, slowly drawing the bone axe from behind his back. He stared at Ved, his gaze slightly sharpened, "You seem to know a lot about Gene Potions?"

The blood of Transcendents was an important ingredient in Gene Potions, which actually touched on the core of Gene Potion formulas. He Ao did not believe the Mysterious Person would let this information be known so easily.

"Senior, I’ve attended your lectures."

Ved squinted his eyes, cracking a smile.

This kitchen had two doors, and now Heish and his companion had already reached the vicinity of the other door in the kitchen.

He Ao gazed at his face, searching through all the memories in Jess’s recollection.

Jess and his wife had conducted too many lectures in their lifetime, and too many people had attended their lectures; Jess couldn’t possibly remember the faces of everyone.

However, among these memories, He Ao actually found a face that resembled the one before him, Ved.

The reason he remembered this face was because that particular lecture was rather special; it was a lecture Jess had given at Kaya City Medical University.

It was during that lecture that Jess had taken the opportunity to converse with a former professor who had taught his wife, learned that the professor had exchanged thoughts with Jess’s father, and received from the professor the secret knowledge that formed the theoretical foundation of the Gene Potion.

But that lecture was not open to the public.

He Ao’s gaze returned from his memories, and he stared at Ved’s cheek, "Were you a student of Professor Moke?"

All participants of that lecture were students from the professor’s laboratory.

"At that time, I had just started my postgraduate studies," Ved smiled, mimicking He Ao’s manner with a shrug, "When you, as a senior, stood at the podium talking about your academic achievements, you were truly the envy of all. I especially wanted to be someone like you, who was watched by tens of thousands."

He Ao watched his expression, his voice gradually lowering, "Was it you who told the Mysterious Person about the Gene Potion?"

"I actually didn’t do much,"

Ved spoke evenly, "At that time, ’the Boss’ found me and asked me to keep an eye out for any special work the professor might be doing on the side. Then, I found a time when the professor was out and sneaked into his office and turned on his computer."

He paused, "You know, the professor was very trusting of his own students, and I very easily found the experimental data for the Gene Potion hidden in a folder. Of course, that was also the time when I was exposed to the world of the Transcendents."

"Professor Moke treated you quite well; I remember every person in your lab received a significant additional stipend. He would also support and guide each of your ideas so you could achieve appropriate results."

He Ao drew out his bone axe, the blade facing down. The smooth handle slid down along his hand, and as it neared the end, he grasped it fiercely.

"I admit, when I saw those documents, I did hesitate. I really didn’t qualify for postgraduate studies; my family couldn’t afford my tuition after my junior year of college, and it was the professor who subsidized me. He taught me knowledge and helped me obtain the qualifications for direct admission to postgraduate studies; I am grateful to him."

Ved slightly raised his short sword, "But when a beautiful world like that of the Transcendents unfolds in front of you, would you still be content to be a junior researcher?"

"The professor often said I was the most talented student in the lab, but I am well aware that talent is of little use in this world and can even bring disasters.

"There are few people like the professor who can make it; most researchers in schools struggle to maintain a relatively comfortable life, and any major illness could wipe out their savings or even saddle them with heavy debts.

"I was not born into a wealthy family with a fortune; if I wanted to stand out, I had to use my own means to seek other powers."

"Even if it means killing your own mentor?"

He Ao asked calmly.

"Even if it means killing my own mentor."

Ved’s expression remained calm.

"You’re mad."

He Ao didn’t judge his actions, but stated calmly.

"Senior," Ved looked at He Ao and suddenly laughed, "in this world, who isn’t crazy? On the day the professor died, I had nothing. All that was in front of me was power, status, wealth."

"So you designed a trap to lure me here," He Ao stared at the Ved in front of him, "you were gambling that you could kill me and get a chance to showcase yourself to the Mysterious Person, betting on your chance to advance further."

"Actually, I’m quite jealous of you, Senior,"

Ved raised his rapier, "you have such a good father, with such impressive Talent.

"The professor would rather cooperate with you than trust the Gene Potion project to us students, even though you had never conducted research with the professor, he often boasted about your Talent in front of me."

At this point, he laughed, "But this excellent Talent of yours has become your curse. If you hadn’t been so outstanding, you wouldn’t have ended up in this situation, and Tiny wouldn’t have died."

"Actually, what you did handing over all the Gene Potion research data was right, the ’Boss’ organized a lab specifically to take over that data to study the Gene Potion, and I was part of it. The result of our research was,"

"No results at all.

"That’s when I knew you were in trouble. Your Talent was too great, and this project could only be carried out by you, and that mysterious boss is no good Samaritan."

Hearing these words, He Ao just gently shook his head, "Talent itself is not a mistake."

The Mysterious Person had never stopped monitoring Jess, even after Jess handed over all the data on the Gene Potion, he still guided Jess’s every move through a detective agency.

The Mysterious Person never let Jess off the hook; he was just trying to see if the Gene Potion project could proceed without Jess.

If Ved and the others had successfully researched the Gene Potion, then as a person with knowledge of the Potion and the capability to potentially develop it, Jess would still be silenced.

The difference was that Ved and his team did not figure out the Gene Potion, proving Jess’s importance. This significance allowed Jess to live a few more years until the very end when the Gene Potion was developed.

Hearing the words of He Ao, Ved fell silent for a moment.

In that moment, He Ao just glanced at the moonlight outside the window, "Your betrayal changed the fate of many people."

Through Jess’s memory and the term ’Gene Potion,’ He Ao had basically confirmed that the old professor ’Moke’ in Jess’s memory was the grandfather of the silver-haired girl Vianne encountered by He Ao in the third official Copy World.

The character Roy in the third copy was the owner of a small restaurant.

Roy’s father was a Transcendent mercenary who once accepted a mission to steal information, with the target being Professor Moke and the information to be stolen was that of the Gene Potion.

In the process, Roy’s father, as a bodyguard, got close to Professor Moke and got to know him. He ultimately abandoned the theft mission and later, during the Witch Church’s attack on Professor Moke, he protected Moke’s only granddaughter, Vianne, and helped her escape to Dawn City, where he soon died from severe injuries.

The two Secret Medicines ’Talent Sequences 7: Onlooker’ and ’Talent Sequences 29: Mercenary,’ extracted from Roy’s father’s body, ended up in the hands of ’Roy,’ who was He Ao at the time.

In the end, He Ao and Vianne together thwarted the Witch Church’s scheme, found a good friend to help kill the offspring of the Witch of Desire, and helped Vianne escape the Witch Church’s pursuit.

And the Witch Church’s merciless methods of killing and stealing information, without leaving any survivors, seemed more like the handiwork of the Mysterious Person.

This series of events was like a cascade of dominoes intertwined; Ved wasn’t the one who pushed down the dominoes, but he was the first one to fall.

Because of his betrayal, Professor Moke was killed, Roy’s father died, Vianne was exiled to Dawn City, and in the process of the Witch Church’s pursuit of Vianne, they gradually infiltrated Dawn City.

Of course, the instigator of all this was still the Mysterious Person.

"We are changing other people’s destinies every moment."

Ved didn’t quite understand what He Ao was talking about, but he wouldn’t allow himself to miss connecting with He Ao’s words again.

By now, Heish and Dasanc had completely left the kitchen.

Ved lifted his sword, "Good, the nuisances are gone."

His spirit was more focused than ever before; he needed to use all his strength to deal with He Ao, whose importance to the Mysterious Person far exceeded that of Heish and Dasanc.

He knew He Ao was strong; in the previous battle at the abandoned building, he had been sent by the Mysterious Person, along with another C-level who liked wearing combat suits, to support the mercenaries in the building.

But by the time they arrived, the battle was already over.

It was an elite mercenary troops with three C-level gene potions, and he was well aware that he could not defeat such a troop with his strength alone.

But He Ao not only won but also routed the entire troop and retreated unscathed.

At that moment, he understood the terror of He Ao’s strength.

But this time, he didn’t come unprepared.

A cold syringe was activated inside his sleeve, injecting a reagent with a purple glow into his body.

He was not only a C-level fighter but also one of the core members of the gene potion project, and after ’Jess’ left the project, he became one of the primary persons in charge.

This meant that he could get some gene potions that were not distributed externally.

Terrible, heart-pounding power burst forth from his body, and a strong purple glow covered his body for an instant.

He Ao watched the scene unfold before him, and as the person who understood gene potions best in the world, he knew what this meant.

He tightened his grip on the bone axe in his hand, frowning slightly, "A B-level gene potion?"

The blood needed to create gene potions wasn’t just a little bit, and B-level blood was not so easy to come by, and to make a B-level gene potion, many of the materials in the original formula also needed to be replaced with similarly attributed materials of greater strength.

"You got it right."

Ved lifted his head, looking at He Ao.

The veins on his face bulged one by one; his face, once somewhat handsome, became ferocious and terrifying in an instant.

This was the confidence that fueled his intent to kill He Ao.

A twisted will spread along an invisible force.

He Ao activated his Super Memory, watching the invisible purple shadows around him; this didn’t seem to be purely a B-level gene potion.

The Mysterious Person had replaced the B-level blood with something else.

Clang—

The rapier collided with the bone axe.