Life Game In Other World
Chapter 580: We Are Law-Abiding Enthusiastic Citizens (Extra Large - for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 580: Chapter 580: We Are Law-Abiding Enthusiastic Citizens (Extra Large Chapter for Monthly Votes)

The bright sunlight shone through the half-open sheer curtains, illuminating the pristine white bed.

The girl’s silver hair spread out over the bed like satin, as the crisp ringing of the bell and the vibration of the bracelet awakened the sleeping dream.

The girl struggled to throw off the covers and clambered up from the bed, looking around in confusion.

Her befuddled dreams and the clear reality intertwined in her eyes.

Not far from the bed was an ergonomic chair and a wall covered with densely packed computer screens.

This was her room, and also her studio.

It took a while before she entirely awoke from her dreams, rubbing her head, her somewhat unfocused pupils gathering a faint glow.

She turned her head towards the bedside, where the smart bracelet placed there was slowly vibrating, ringing with a clear tone.

A pale hand reached out, pressed on the bracelet, then grabbed it and picked up the noisy thing.

Looking at the bracelet, she saw that the call was marked as coming from Ino Media, and she chose to answer with a hint of bewilderment.

"What’s the matter?"

She sat up from the bed, her delicate and fair feet touching the sleek floor, as the ergonomic chair automatically slid forward to her position.

She leaned to one side and sat down on the chair, which then smoothly carried her to the computer desk.

"Miss Vianne, there was a gentleman from Vitland City who called you this morning, he said he was an old friend of yours, but it has been many years, and he hasn’t seen you since. He didn’t have your contact and asked us to reach out to you."

A gentle voice from the clerk came through the phone.

"A friend from Vitland?"

Vianne blinked, Vitland — that was a city on the other side of the Federation.

She was somewhat puzzled and couldn’t recall whether she had a friend from Vitland.

It had been a very long time since she had made any new friends.

"What’s his name?"

She unlocked the computer screen saver and woke the computer.

As windows filled with code appeared before her, the voice on the phone responded, "He said his name is Jess, you have met before in Kaye City."

The girl’s fingers froze on the keyboard.

——

He Ao leaned back against the alley’s shadow, observing the smugglers and gang members making a deal in front of him.

"You have a new friend request."

Eve’s voice echoed in He Ao’s ear.

He lifted his hand to glance at his bracelet, then looked up at the road ahead as he sat back in the modified car’s rear seat.

The gang members, who had come for the meetup and completed the transaction, were now starting their off-road vehicles, preparing to leave.

"Mr. Jess, shall we follow?"

Ryan, sitting in the driver’s seat, saw He Ao close the car door. He did not inquire about what He Ao had just been doing, but rather softly asked.

"Follow them," He Ao nodded lightly.

"All right."

Ryan started the vehicle, maintaining a distance as it slowly followed the off-road vehicles.

Meanwhile, He Ao looked down at the friend request on his bracelet.

It was an account with a cartoon avatar of a girl with silver hair.

That avatar stirred a memory that felt somewhat distant to him.

The last time he saw Vianne was in the third official Copy World, in the restaurant boss Roy’s copy.

The girl was not tall, with beautiful silver hair, following behind him, calling him ’Uncle’.

After ’Roy’ died, she joined Christos’s team and became a senior consultant for Ino Media, which Christos owned.

On the official website of Ino Media, her name was still posted.

Vianne possessed strong computer talents. According to Christos, it was she who had spread ’K’s speech on the internet.

This talent was different from Vian’s. Vian could learn, build, and create an artificial intelligence like Eve with vast and efficient computing power, while Vianne was more adept at finding vulnerabilities in software and systems.

In a sense, Vianne was a natural-born hacker.

Under certain circumstances, He Ao needed Vianne’s help.

So he contacted Vianne through Ino Media and then left his social media account for Vianne to add him as a friend.

As the buildings outside the car window slowly receded, He Ao accepted Vianne’s friend request.

After accepting the request, both parties fell silent for a moment; finally, it was Vianne who sent a message first, "Uncle Jess?"

He Ao then had a brief exchange with her.

First was proving his identity, which was not difficult, because Vianne’s grandfather, Professor Moke, not only often praised Jess in front of his students but also to his little granddaughter, encouraging her to become a scholar like Jess.

So although Jess’s memory did not contain much information about Vianne, Vianne’s memory of Jess was very profound.

After some simple exchanges and a brief video call, Vianne tentatively confirmed He Ao’s identity.

Next was a conversation about the events of recent years.

After Professor Moke’s death, Vianne fled to Dawn City with Roy’s father. At that time, Jess thought Vianne had already died, so he did not bother investigating and was unaware of this episode.

Of course, He Ao was aware of it.

The scenery outside the car window flashed by, and before he knew it, the SUV in front had already left the West District and entered the Plante District.

Ryan was experienced in tailing. He did not follow those SUVs closely, but rather, by using some secluded paths and keeping them in sight, he clung to the SUVs through his familiarity with the roads.

As the vehicles entered the Plante District, the SUVs also began to slow down.

Although the Plante District was not as secure as the North Vitland District and the Saint Lote District, the security was far better than in the West District. Causing trouble here would easily attract the attention of the Plante District police.

At this time, there was a slight traffic jam ahead of the vehicles.

Taking advantage of this, He Ao and Ryan switched to a common sedan called by Ryan, which was frequently seen in Plante District. Modified cars were common in the West District, but not so much in the Plante.

After boarding the new car, He Ao withdrew his gaze from the SUVs ahead and looked again at the message from Vianne on his bracelet.

Over a year had passed, and Vianne’s manner of speaking had matured considerably.

She did not go into detail about what happened after fleeing to Dawn City, only briefly mentioning that she was now working at Ino Media and that her life was quite stable.

She could not fully trust He Ao yet. People change, and after so many years, ’Jess’s sudden contact was suspicious in itself.

He Ao was not surprised by her attitude. After all, Vianne had been a fugitive from the Witch Church for so long; if she could trust someone so easily, she would have been reduced to ashes long ago.

He Ao also talked about the events ’Jess’ had encountered over the years.

From the death of Professor Moke, the murder of his wife, the forced involvement in gene potion research, to the recent killing of Ved and learning from Ved that Vianne was still alive, he briefly recounted all these events.

He Ao’s description was succinct and calm, without much emotion.

However, Vianne fell silent after reading it.

He Ao did not wait for her reply but went straight on to say, "I’m about to catch that Mysterious Person. I need your help with a favor, possibly to hack into a system associated with the Mysterious Person to retrieve key data. I’ll have someone here to assist you when the time comes."

This time, the response from the other side was almost immediate, "Okay."

He Ao let out a sigh of relief and put down his bracelet.

"Mr. Jess, we’ve arrived."

The modified car came to a slow stop.

He Ao looked up and saw across the street, those SUVs stopped in front of an open warehouse door and then slowly drove inside, followed by the door closing.

About ten minutes later, the warehouse door opened, and several SUVs drove out. The cargo that had been inside the vehicles was no longer visible.

The warehouse was not large; it was a straightforward structure, and most of the interior area could be seen from the entrance. Through the gaps of the closed warehouse door, He Ao could vaguely make out the goods stacked inside.

The warehouse door had closed again.

"Mr. Jess, shall we follow?"

Ryan glanced at the departing SUVs.

"No need,"

He Ao shook his head. He had briefly activated his Super Memory, his gaze sweeping past the warehouse entrance.

There were few vehicles near the warehouse, and the entrance was littered with messy tire tracks, which all looked quite similar and belonged to off-road vehicles used by gang members.

These tire tracks were closely packed, spanning the last few days, proving that this was a frequently used warehouse, not one temporarily opened just for today.

However, it seemed that only these off-road vehicles were coming and going from this place.

When the warehouse door had opened earlier, He Ao had caught a glimpse that there was not much inside the warehouse, barely the amount for this single transaction.

Many of the herbal ingredients in gene potions have preservation and freshness requirements, and their efficacy significantly decreases if not used within a short period.

The preservation devices provided by the smuggling group usually did not last more than eight hours.

According to the intelligence received from Heish, these ingredients would likely be packaged around six in the morning, an attempt to smuggle them into the city would be made at seven, and after a series of inspections, they would get into the hands of the smuggling group by around nine-thirty.

Therefore, the transaction time at ten-thirty was actually the cutoff point, the one hour just enough for the underground smuggling group to sort all the drugs and transport them to the trade location.

He Ao glanced at his wristband.

It was now twelve-ten in the afternoon. As a middleman transporter, the gang members took roughly an hour and forty minutes for loading, unloading, and transit.

Of course, today’s traffic jam had an impact too.

But calculating this way, from packaging at six o’clock to now, it had already been six hours and ten minutes, and those ingredients with high freshness requirements in the goods were approaching the eight-hour preservation limit.

Time did not permit the Mysterious Person to arrange another ’transfer’.

This warehouse was necessarily the last stop leading to the Second Laboratory.

The Mysterious Person would definitely arrange for the removal of these drugs to the Second Laboratory within the next half an hour.

But now the problem was that only tire tracks from the gang’s off-road vehicles were present at the front of the warehouse, with no other vehicle marks or footprints.

The warehouse door must have been designed with an alarm, it couldn’t be forced open, and to forcibly break into the warehouse would also be illegal.

He Ao’s gaze swept across the row of warehouses again.

This was a specially built rental warehouse, not only one storied, but only the ground floor warehouses allowed direct drive-in access, which was most convenient.

This was user-friendly for those in a hurry.

He Ao activated his wristband and got Eve to find the warehouse’s builder, then traced back to the public blueprints of this type of warehouse.

Then, he found the design blueprints from when the Plante District was constructed.

The blueprints showed that there was a hard rock layer beneath this warehouse, with the city’s sewers even being diverted around this area.

If one wanted to construct an underground tunnel here, large machinery would be required, which the warehouse’s management company would not permit.

This warehouse belonged to a company under the Nord Consortium, not the Welme Medical Consortium, and was likely a warehouse temporarily rented by the Mysterious Person.

Apart from the warehouse that the off-road vehicle had driven into, there were no dense tire tracks in front of the other warehouses.

This eliminated the possibility of the Mysterious Person renting other warehouses.

Theoretically, to save time, the Mysterious Person would choose the ground floor warehouse for easy transport.

He Ao pondered for a moment.

Eve began searching the internet for information about this particular warehouse.

And then, he found a ’complaint.’

The complaint came from a residential building near the warehouse complex. The tenants complained that the renters of the warehouse had put something strange inside, which was so loud it kept them awake.

For the soundproofing to be that bad, it could only mean they were extremely close.

He Ao immediately opened a map, and indeed discovered there was an apartment building right behind the warehouse, also constructed by the same company that owned the warehouse, and it was built concurrently with the warehouse.

At the time, they had only purchased that plot of land, which was not large enough, so the two buildings were built right against each other, without even a gap between them.

At this moment, He Ao understood everything.

He pushed the car door open while looking at Ryan, "Wait here for a moment for me, and keep an eye out for any suspicious vehicles entering the warehouse."

"Okay."

Ryan nodded, signifying his understanding.

He Ao got out of the car, his figure quickly crossing the street, skirting around the warehouse, and arriving at the apartment building behind it.

There were residents on the first floor of the apartment building as well.

At the moment, in front of the apartment building, an inconspicuous van was parked illegally on the road, several people alighted from the van, one person stood in front of the vehicle, and the rest opened the door to an apartment on the first floor, carrying several folded cardboard boxes, and walked in.

After a while, the leader hurried out with the boxes, placed them inside the van, and then re-entered the room.

He Ao looked at the open door of the apartment room, a massive three-dimensional model forming in his mind.

He raised his wristband and located the architectural plans of the apartment.

The apartment with the open door faced the warehouse that the off-road vehicle entered from the other side.

He lifted his wristband and dialed Ryan’s number, "Come over directly, I’ve spotted them."

The Mysterious Person took advantage of the characteristics of the warehouse and apartment building, renting the apartment and warehouse that backed onto each other, and then broke through the wall between them, manually connecting the two.

A simple yet clever method.

And it was somewhat of a trick on the leasing company.

Although the warehouse and apartment building were back to back, there was no direct road from the warehouse to the apartment building; driving there would require a big detour, which also indirectly increased the difficulty for others to discover this arrangement.

By the time the van had loaded the goods, shut the apartment door, and started, Ryan had finally arrived in front of He Ao.

He Ao, without hesitation, yanked open the car door and got in, "Follow that van up ahead."

"Okay."

Ryan quickly started the car and followed.

Soon, a huge building appeared in front of them.

He Ao’s gaze swept over the sign at the entrance of the building: [Welme Vitland Hospital].

This was the largest hospital in Vitland City.

’Jess’ had been here before as well.

He Ao withdrew his gaze as the van ahead slowly circled around Welme Vitland Hospital and then drove into a small alley, turning into a small building surrounded by walls at the end of the alley.

Ryan parked the car on the street outside the alley, and together with He Ao, they approached the small building.

The building seemed to have seen years, its iron gate showing signs of rust, and an old sign hung beside it, [Welme Bio-innovation Laboratory].

Ryan was about to get a closer look at the small building but was suddenly held back by He Ao.

"Hmm?"

Ryan looked at He Ao, puzzled.

He Ao gestured for him to look at the equipment on top of the small building’s wall facing their direction.

It was a white camera, albeit a bit large.

Ryan was initially stunned, wondering why He Ao wanted him to look at a camera, but after a closer examination, he realized that it seemed not to be a camera at all.

It was a mini laser cannon disguised as a camera.

The laser cannon was aimed just a short distance in front of him; a little more forward, and he would have been within the firing range of the laser cannon.

Cold sweat seeped down his back. He turned to He Ao, "Mr. Jess, what should we do?"

He Ao glanced at the laser cannon, and his nostrils flared slightly, the air around him tinged with a faint scent of blood.

He wasn’t afraid of the laser cannon, but forcing entry might drive the people inside to desperate measures, and breaking in directly was slightly illegal.

He lowered his head and looked at Ryan, "Do you know anyone from the Federal Bureau of Investigation?"

"Huh?" Ryan was taken aback, not quite understanding why He Ao was asking this question. "I don’t know them well, but I’ve been caught by them before, Mr. Jess, as you know, being in a gang we have some..."

"Do you have a contact’s number?" He Ao spoke quickly, "If not, just call the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s emergency number. We need to report someone smuggling materials prohibited by the Federation."

"Huh?"

Ryan was puzzled for a moment, "But Mr. Jess, we’re in a gang..."

He Ao looked at him oddly,

"What are you talking about? We are law-abiding, concerned citizens."