Life Game In Other World
Chapter 610: Quota is Set, The Relic Opens (Super Long - - Monthly Ticket Request)

Chapter 610: Chapter 610: Quota is Set, The Relic Opens (Super Long Chapter - Monthly Ticket Request)

"You mean to say there’s a place in the park where the former king buried a lot of explosives?"

The young gendarme standing at the street corner looked up at the looming mountains nearby, phone in hand, and asked with some confusion.

"That’s exactly the case, and we have at most half an hour left, but we can’t rule out the possibility of unexpected conditions causing an early explosion."

A hoarse voice that obviously had been altered came through from the other end of the phone.

"Half an hour left, what will happen?" the gendarme stared at the mountains, "Will it go ~boom~? You aren’t trying to fool me, are you? Why don’t I believe you?"

"I suggest you report it."

The calm response came from the other end before the call was disconnected.

"Boring asshole,"

The young gendarme put down the phone, glanced at the screen, and then back at the distant mountains, "Don’t let me catch you."

He turned and walked away, but at that moment, he felt a slight tremor under his feet. His stepping foot lost its center, causing his whole body to sway.

Boom——

Suddenly, a deafening explosion, like a thunderclap, erupted from the forest behind him.

The young gendarme felt temporarily deaf, as if countless bees were buzzing by his ears, leaving him unable to hear anything else.

"What happened, what’s going on?"

The surrounding crowd also came to a panicked halt, frantically looking towards the deepest part of the mountains,

It... it really exploded...

The young gendarme felt his mind go blank as he turned and looked back towards the mountains.

In a flurry, he gripped his phone tightly and dialed back the number he had just called.

After a series of busy tones, he heard a message, "The number you have dialed is not in service..."

——

Deep within Rodan National Park

The once even cliff faces and forests had vanished, leaving behind only a huge crater hundreds of meters wide and dozens of meters deep, with the broken arm of an excavator tossed aside into the nearby forest like trash.

Countless tiny black charcoals littered the bottom of the pit.

From the surrounding sand and stone, there came a rustling sound, the friction of the top layer of earth flowing downwards after support was lost.

Puff——

With a faint sound, a charred arm struggled to emerge from the dirt filled with charcoal, followed by a body so burnt it was barely recognizable as human, slowly rising from the ground.

He strained to twist his body, attempting to fully extricate himself from the mud, but hefty rocks pinned down his body, preventing him from moving at all.

Eventually, with difficulty, he reached out to pick up a piece of charcoal lying in front of him.

The person who issued the warning must know something...

His voice was hoarse, like a broken bellows.

"God... ah..." clutching the charcoal, he strained to write on the ground, "Bless... us..."

His body gradually lost strength, and all his movements slowly ceased as if a withered root had come to its end.

——

Inside a hotel in the heart of Eren City, He Ao’s original body looked up in the direction of the sound, slightly bewildered.

Intentional? Or accidental?

He had given a clear warning not to meddle, so did these people not understand words? Or were they just naturally defiant?

"Something seems to have happened over there?"

Li Cheng, sitting beside He Ao, also looked up following his gaze.

"Not sure."

He Ao shook his head in bewilderment, picked up his phone, "I’ll contact the field agents here to check it out."

"Okay."

Li Cheng nodded, turning his attention back to the computer.

On his screen was a densely packed list of Transcendent items.

The Research Institute’s warehouse actually contained a lot, from the supernatural artifacts associated with various bizarre events to Transcendent items formed from deceased Transcendents, to those obtained from ruins.

Basically, each item had detailed records of origin and test data.

Among these stored items, those that contained Transcendent powers but had not formed into Transcendent items, such as animals and plants, were only a minority and not particularly treasured by the Research Institute.

So even if He Ao wanted all of this category of items, for the Research Institute, it would not result in any real loss of strength. Losing these things might hurt a bit, but not cause deep pain.

This was also something He Ao had taken into consideration.

At this moment, a message popped up in the bottom right corner of Li Cheng’s computer screen. He moved the mouse over and glanced at the pop-up message.

Then he suddenly asked, "He Ao, did you also visit the last ruin?"

"Yes, he was selected by Xidu,"

He Ao had contacted the field personnel from the surrounding Research Institute through Li Le, asking them to check out the site of the explosion. Hearing Li Cheng’s question, he raised his head, looking at Li Cheng with confusion, "Director, is there any problem?"

"Not really,"

Li Cheng turned off the popup, speaking somewhat sentimentally, "Just suddenly felt like I’m getting a little old."

Then he shook his head, closed his laptop, and got up. "Let’s go, it’s almost two-thirty, we should go see the list prepared by Moonlight and the World Tree."

"Alright."

He Ao stood up as well.

······

2:25 PM

It was still the street outside Wilent Restaurant, with gendarmes maintaining order all around.

Since they had cordoned off the area in the morning, passersby couldn’t see the inside scene. In the morning, there were still curious onlookers trying to peek inside, but by this time, hardly anyone was around.

"He, good afternoon."

Enko with his fiery red curly hair came up to He Ao naturally and struck up a conversation.

The two of them now stood under an old tree with a luxuriant canopy, the noon sun filtering through the mottled leaves, casting shredded shadows on their faces.

"Good afternoon."

He Ao held a bottle of mineral water in his hand and gave him a warm smile.

"He, to be honest, you look so..."

Enko’s gaze fell on He Ao.

"Amiable,"

A bright and decisive voice cut into their chat. Then, a figure with brown short, disheveled hair, tall and thin stature, straight and firm, blocked the sunlight in front of He Ao.

With his back to the sun, the figure extended a hand toward He Ao, "Ivier, from the World Tree, pleased to meet you, He."

"He Ao."

He Ao reached out and shook hands with the brown-haired man who introduced himself as Ivier, smiling.

"Enko, long time no see."

Ivier turned around to look at Enko beside him.

"Long time no see."

Enko also turned around, his face breaking into a smile. In the process of turning, he naturally distanced himself from Ivier.

Actually, he was already breaking out into a slight cold sweat.

Ivier had appeared behind him, and he hadn’t noticed at all. If someone could appear behind him without him realizing, they could also easily plunge a dagger through his throat from behind.

"He, you don’t look very old?"

Ivier turned back around, continuing to smile at He Ao, "I had imagined you to be young before coming here, but I did not expect you to be this... young, looking just like a child still in school. Your world must be filled with the purity of ivory towers, with kindness and gentleness, capable of producing such enviable youthful vigor."

Enko’s expression changed slightly at this remark. Ivier’s words were indirectly calling He Ao naive, a greenhorn still wet behind the ears.

Then he took a small step back, increasing the distance between himself and the other two.

He Ao raised his head, looking at Ivier with slightly narrowed eyes.

Buzz buzz—

A pitch-black fly passed by Ivier’s side and flew toward He Ao’s cheek.

"He, there’s a fly coming your way."

Just as the fly was about to land on He Ao’s cheek, Ivier reached out, his fingers going for the pitch-black fly.

His move was very quick, so fast that Enko beside him couldn’t see a trace of it.

Almost in that instant, Enko realized it was a display of skill just like before.

Ivier was trying to show He Ao that just as he could easily catch a fly on He Ao’s cheek, he could just as easily kill He Ao.

Bang—

A muffled thud sounded as Ivier’s outstretched hand stopped midair, firmly grasped by He Ao’s raised left hand at the wrist.

Ivier instinctively tried to break free from He Ao’s grip, but in that moment, he felt his arm couldn’t exert any strength, and a sharp pain surged from his arm.

His face turned pale, but he didn’t make any sound.

"No need, thank you,"

He Ao smiled as he looked at him, extending his right hand’s index and middle finger, lifting them up. Before the fly could land on his cheek, he pinched the fly.

All these actions happened very quickly, yet they were without any abruptness, flowing smoothly and naturally like murmuring water.

"This fly’s buzzing, it’s rather noisy."

He Ao pinched the fly and flicked his fingers. Accompanied by a crisp whistling sound, the fly he was pinching brushed by the side of Ivier’s face and struck the wall behind Ivier. It hit the red bricks, making a hole and burrowing in.

A brief silence spread among the people.

He Ao released his hand and took out his phone to glance at the time, "The time for the trade is almost here, let’s go back to our respective places."

Then he smiled and nodded towards Enko, walked past Ivier, and turned towards one side of the street.

Ivier, still with his arm outstretched in mid-air, looked at his now pale wrist with several fading bright red handprints.

The moment He Ao let go, Ivier felt strength return to his arm.

He Ao had not caused him any harm just now, but the moment his hand was grasped by He Ao, he knew his life was no longer under his own control.

Enko, standing beside him, looked at Ivier and felt the same heart-striking shock, as he was aware of Ivier’s strength.

But beyond the shock, he felt a joy that was no less intense.

He yawned, watched Ivier, and laughed, "Ivier, I don’t know why, but I’m in a great mood today. I feel like having barbecue and drinks tonight, care to join?"

Ivier, who was pulling back his hand, turned pale with anger.

But Enko didn’t pay him any attention; he took out a small jug of wine from his pocket, drank happily, and walked with light steps towards the other end of the street.

After watching Enko leave, Ivier glanced at the handprints on his wrist that were starting to fade and then back at the receding figure of He Ao.

Is that guy really C-level?

...

By this time, He Ao had already walked to a place not far from the restaurant; he turned his head and peeked through the window into the interior.

Li Cheng was sitting in the same seat as in the morning.

Then he withdrew his gaze and stared at the mottled shadows on the wall,

Ivier is strong, probably at the very limit of C-level, but that’s it.

The method to restrain Ivier was simple, He Ao had glanced at the energy flow inside Ivier’s body, seized the key channels of his arm’s energy flow, and simply blocked them for a short period.

The congested power would spill into other parts of the arm, causing some pain, but the damage was minor.

Of course, the next step, He Ao could easily break his neck.

The shadows of daylight slowly moved, and time finally reached 14:30.

...

The rumbling train came to a stop in the middle of the restaurant.

The doors opened, and a clone of He Ao stepped down from the train unhurriedly.

He walked straight to Li Cheng, but the Velora didn’t leave immediately; instead, it stayed parked there.

Li Cheng watched ’Hao Yi’ coming towards him; he knew that ’Hao Yi’ leaving the Velora to enter this restaurant was a display of trust.

In the morning, he had entered the Velora without any precautions, and now at noon ’Hao Yi’ returned the same trust to him.

"Here is the list of materials you wanted."

Li Cheng handed over three files stacked together to He Ao, "We will deliver the materials to the warehouse marked above within a day, and you can just go there and collect them."

"Good,"

He Ao accepted the list.

He looked down, the top file in the three lists was from the Research Institute, the second was from Moonlight, and the third was from the World Tree.

The materials listed in these three files, with the Research Institute’s being the most, were more than those of Moonlight and the World Tree combined.

"Is this all the superpowered plant and animal materials Moonlight and World Tree have?"

He Ao set aside the Research Institute’s list, then held the remaining two, looking at Li Cheng.

"They said that’s all they have,"

Li Cheng spoke softly.

Although the Research Institute is the largest Transcendent organization in the main world, it’s unlikely they have twice the amount of Transcendent materials compared to the other two organizations.

Though the other two organizations had agreed to He Ao’s requests, evidently they weren’t willing to truly hand over everything.

However, this was also within He Ao’s expectations, but the honesty of the Research Institute was somewhat beyond his expectations.

It seems Li Cheng indeed wants to foster a good relationship with him.

"We have built a special data network for you,"

At this moment, Li Cheng took out a piece of paper and a USB drive, "Here is the address and login key for the site. We will upload all the relic research data to this network. There are three servers on this site; we are each responsible for our server, but only you can freely access any server."

"How often will the latest files be uploaded?"

He Ao took the paper and USB drive.

"At most every seven days, but we generally try to upload them the same day,"

Li Cheng said.

At most every seven days, likely meaning every seven days.

So, for any crucial research data, He Ao might find out up to seven days later than the major organizations.

This "little action" was also within He Ao’s expectations, and it was impossible to prevent.

Even if they had given He Ao access to the internal network, they could still secretly alter data to restrict the scope of He Ao’s browsing abilities.

However, He Ao didn’t particularly care about this, as after all, nobody was willing to share their core secrets easily.

The core of this deal was "legal rights." Legally, all major organizations agreed to let He Ao access their research materials related to the relic, and that was enough.

At this moment, Li Cheng took out another piece of paper and handed it to He Ao, "This is the account set up for you by the Research Institute. You can use this account to download programs from the Institute and access all of our materials related to the relic."

He Ao paused for a moment, then smiled and reached out to take the paper, "Do the other two organizations know about these arrangements?"

Li Cheng pointed to his own ear.

His meaning was clear; he was still on the call with the leaders of the other two organizations.

"Then, about this relic’s quota,"

He Ao stacked all the documents together and looked at Li Cheng.

Li Cheng responded with a smile.

Underneath that mild smile, there was an unavoidable touch of tension. Even at his position and at such a critical moment, he still reacted like a normal human being.

The Research Institute didn’t give so much just to gain the friendship of ’Hao Yi’.

"My suggestion is for the Research Institute to take more than 55% of the quotas. That’s not excessive, is it?"

He Ao said with a smile.

Of course, he wasn’t speaking to Li Cheng alone, but also to the leaders of the other two organizations.

He certainly didn’t have the right to allocate quotas, but he had the capability to prevent anyone from succeeding.

Without the Space-Time Anchor, the relic passage would not open.

Moreover, ’Hao Yi’ was a ’C-level’; Moonlight and World Tree’s actions this time were somewhat unsavory, and they were in the wrong fundamentally, hence they would not be willing to further offend ’Hao Yi’.

So most of the quotas going to the Research Institute was something the other two organizations could accept.

Of course, 55% was already an extreme number; any higher, and the two big organizations would rather see everybody fail than let the Research Institute profit, adopting a scorched-earth mentality.

When He Ao mentioned this number, Li Cheng’s expression clearly changed for a moment.

Obviously, he hadn’t expected ’Hao Yi’ to be so supportive of him.

Then he didn’t speak for a while, probably because there was a quarrel happening over the remote call.

After all, the number He Ao gave was quite ’extreme.’

It took a while before Li Cheng’s expression relaxed.

"Did they agree?"

He Ao asked with a smile.

"Hmm, more or less."

Li Cheng also smiled; this unexpected support from ’Hao Yi’ was like an endorsement for the Research Institute, pressuring the other two organizations to back down. He had originally thought acquiring more than 45% of the quotas would be quite an achievement.

But indeed, 55% was an extreme number and currently in his earpiece, Liu Zhengyun was still arguing with the C-level representatives from Moonlight and World Tree about the specific quotas.

"Thank you."

He said, smiling.

"No need."

He Ao shook his head and gathered the documents, "You’ve also provided plenty in return."

"Would you like to grab a bite to eat?"

Li Cheng glanced in the direction of the kitchen, "This restaurant is said to be quite good."

"No need."

He Ao stacked the documents, parted his lips slightly, but no sound came out.

His mouth shaped the words, ’Remember our deal.’

Li Cheng nodded subtly, watching as He Ao turned and went back to the Velora.

——

"Director, how did it go?"

Standing outside, He Ao’s real body looked up as Li Cheng came out.

"Not bad," Li Cheng smiled, looking at his watch, "I have to make a trip back to Central Earth soon, oh, and,"

he looked up at He Ao, "He Ao, I need a favor from you."

"Hmm?"

He Ao looked at him curiously.

"Liu and those two old guys from the other side ended up tangling over two C-level entry spots for the relic,"

Li Cheng spoke softly, "I want to give one of the spots directly to you."