Life Game In Other World
Chapter 619: The Map (Mega - for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 619: Chapter 619: The Map (Mega Chapter for Monthly Votes)

"Let me take a look."

He Ao stood up and walked towards Zhang Yusi.

Zhang Yusi handed him the bullet she was holding.

He Ao, using the light from Zhang Yusi’s flashlight, meticulously examined the bullet head.

The bullet had severely deformed, completely flattened, with the engraved serial number on the bottom twisted beyond recognition, leaving only a few partially discernible letters.

He Ao bent down to where Zhang Yusi had just found the bullet.

It wasn’t lodged in the flesh of the monster, but caught in a crevice between the roots of its tentacles.

The bullet hadn’t penetrated the monster’s defenses but had lodged itself perfectly in the crevices of the monster’s surface and was preserved.

"Do you know a lot about firearms?"

He Ao handed the bullet back to Zhang Yusi.

"I’m the champion of the Beidu shooting competition," Zhang Yusi replied with a faint smile as she took the bullet back, "I’m familiar with every firearm at the Research Institute."

Without real talent, one wouldn’t even get a chance to enter the relics.

Zhang Yusi had managed to accurately hit the monster’s head with the plasma cannon on her first try, indicating that her shooting talents were indeed remarkable.

"Great,"

He Ao nodded, returned to his original spot, and resumed searching for the storage chip, "What do you think the origin of this bullet is?"

"This 9mm rifle has only been in service at the Research Institute for less than two months, so it could only have come from one of the two relic openings," Zhang Yusi observed the bullet in her hand, wiping off the bloodstains, "And this bullet is quite new, I think it was probably fired not long ago,"

She paused for a moment, then shared her judgment, "There may be other people from the Research Institute who also entered this relic world with us, just not at the same location as us. And that group happened to encounter this monster and engaged in combat with it..."

Her voice grew fainter.

If there really was another group that had encountered the monster, given its strength and without He’s protection, their chances of survival were uncertain.

"See if you can find any other bullets."

He Ao cut open another metallic casing, moving aside the wires within and continued searching as he spoke.

"Okay, sure."

Zhang Yusi was taken aback, not quite understanding what He Ao was planning to do, but she complied and began a meticulous search in the surrounding area.

A hush fell over the area.

The monster’s blood slowly flowed across the bloodstained ground, covering the original somber stains, and trickled deeper into the corner where the hibernation pod met the floor.

"Found one."

After circling around the monster’s corpse, Zhang Yusi felt through the tangle of tentacles and found a new bullet.

She raised the flashlight, examining the bullet closely, "This doesn’t look like it’s from the Research Institute, but I’m not sure if it’s from Moonlight or World Tree..."

As she spoke, she hesitated a little, seemingly beginning to understand why He Ao had asked her to look for more bullets.

If they could randomly appear in the same place as people from Moonlight, then perhaps individuals from the Research Institute could also randomly come across people from other organizations.

And among those who entered the relic world this time, there was more than one C-level.

Yasia was lucky to have encountered He Ao and survived; the member of the Research Institute who hadn’t appeared with them might also have had the possibility of running into another C-level, potentially saving their life.

Even if that C-level wasn’t as strong as He Ao, they might still manage to cover a retreat.

If that was the case, the chances of that C-level from the Research Institute surviving would be much higher.

"The C-level from World Tree that came in with us, his name is Ivier,"

He Ao pryed open the last area, "He’s not weak, but..."

He paused, not finishing his thought, and instead said, "Later on, we’ll follow the direction this monster came from and go further inside to see if we can find other people from the Research Institute."

Ivier was indeed strong, but his personality might not incline him to protect those from the Research Institute.

However, if the researcher had come across Ye Yun from the same Institute, their odds of survival were much better.

"Good!"

Zhang Yusi nodded.

Just as she responded, He Ao’s hands paused, extracting a small chip complete with circuits and a circuit board.

This thing looked very much like the storage chips that had been destroyed in the host computer.

But He Ao couldn’t be sure.

After all, the structure within the monster’s body wasn’t the same as the technological creations of the Copy World and the main world.

He carefully dismantled the chip and then walked back to the small metal door of the host computer, pulling out several wires from inside it.

He didn’t know if the motherboard module with the central processor installed could read the data on this chip.

But it was always worth a try.

He Ao squatted on the ground and began to connect the storage chip’s wires with those of the motherboard module, and pulled out the severed power lines from behind the metal door to connect them to the motherboard module.

At that moment, Zhang Yusi came over, carrying the plasma cannon, shining a flashlight to provide light for He Ao while keeping watch.

He Ao was quick, almost in the blink of an eye, he had connected all the wires.

Then he asked Zhang Yusi for a knife, pried open the casing of his mini computer with it, pulled out the display cable, and connected it to the motherboard module.

Lastly, he short-circuited the power switch control wire on the motherboard. After a brief pause, the motherboard module began to light up.

The display of He Ao’s mini computer flickered, revealing a blurry emblem.

The emblem consisted of a planet shrouded in mist and two olive branches orbiting the planet.

Immediately after, a line of text appeared on the screen, masking the emblem,

[Read *** Error]

Read error, what read error?

He Ao stared at the line of text. Although he only recognized the first two and the last two characters, it didn’t stop him from making a judgment.

The motherboard and central processor didn’t need to read, they had to be complete for the entire device to boot up. Now the device had powered on, but an error warning popped up.

It seemed that there was a problem with the storage chip.

There should have been a system storage chip built into the motherboard module, so it could boot up normally. However, during the boot-up process, when it tried to read the storage chip that He Ao had connected externally, there was a problem, causing the entire system to freeze.

He Ao pondered for a moment, disconnected the storage chip, then cut the motherboard’s power and reconnected it, restarting the entire system.

This time, the system booted up correctly. The icon on the display flickered briefly, then slowly disappeared, showing an interface with a plain white background and a simple mist and olive emblem.

Soon after, a flashing popup appeared.

He Ao didn’t recognize the characters on it, but he roughly guessed it was prompting him to insert the storage chip.

Then he connected the storage chip to the motherboard module.

The display showed the animation of the chip being inserted, then, the entire system froze again.

The chip was recognized, but could not be read.

He Ao speculated that the protocol for storing data inside the monster’s body might be different from the protocol that this relic’s motherboard could read, causing it to recognize the chip but failing to read it.

In such a case, without some kind of intermediate protocol to act as a converter, the data inside was entirely unreadable.

Well, it seemed the scientific method wouldn’t work.

Zhang Yusi, standing by He Ao’s side, took a glance at the pondering Minister He.

Although she didn’t know how difficult the task He Ao was undertaking, even with her rudimentary computer knowledge, she could see that the motherboard, display, and storage chip came from three completely different structures.

Especially the storage chip, which was directly dismantled from the body of the monster. Although it resembled a chip, who knew what it actually was?

For all she knew, it could be writhing flesh inside.

In Zhang Yusi’s world view, assembling them together and having them function normally was almost an impossible task.

But if the person on the opposite side was Minister He, it seemed that everything became possible.

He Ao was unaware of Zhang Yusi’s thoughts. He glanced at his hand,

He decided to try an unscientific method.

The Mechanical Core ring on his little finger squirmed, extending numerous fine black lines that connected to various contacts on the motherboard.

In that instant, He Ao felt as if he gained the highest control over the machine.

All the details of the entire device were reflected in his mind.

He could control the device directly through thought.

This time, whether he could recognize the characters no longer mattered; he could directly command the device through thought.

Then he forcibly opened the bottom layer encoding of the storage chip using the software built into the system.

He immediately activated Super Memory, quickly scanning over these encodings and constructing a model in his mind to find patterns in the encoding arrangements.

He simultaneously deciphered the system’s built-in encoder, relied on Vian’s memory for comparative learning of the machine language used by this system and then directly transplanted several decoding programs Vian had written onto this system to assist him in decoding.

As he was controlling it directly with his mind, he could compile programs instantaneously in his mind and then write them into the device.

The main board module’s built-in storage was very small and couldn’t store much data, so He Ao had to optimize the program while rapidly decoding.

Fortunately, the storage protocol on the chip from the monster wasn’t complex; in fact, after fully understanding the system program that came with the main board, He Ao was vaguely able to discern a thought process similar to the storage protocol of the main board module from this storage chip.

Obviously, the protocol on this storage chip was a continuation of the storage protocol of the Relic World, with only minor adjustments.

With this figured out, the rest was easy.

Following this line of thought, He Ao swiftly decoded a part of the data, and then wrote a program to convert these data into a form that the system could display.

And incidentally, he changed the system language to that of the Second Federal District of the Original Federation, which is now the language of the Copy World Federation.

Afterward, he closed Super Memory.

A severe bout of dizziness hit his brain, and even with Super Memory activated, such intense use of his brain made him feel somewhat fatigued.

However, this time he was lucky; the storage protocol of the monster’s memory chip was very similar to that of the Relic civilization, so decrypting it did not take too much effort.

Also, Vian had written many such decryption software programs for hacking into ’competitors’ encrypted data, which He Ao could directly use.

Moreover, he had a Mechanical Core ring, which is almost like a cheat device.

The entire process took him less than ten seconds.

"Did it succeed?"

Zhang Yusi asked anxiously, watching He Ao.

"It’s done."

He Ao nodded, he put away the Mechanical Core and began to operate the display in his hand.

Zhang Yusi watched He Ao’s movements in a daze.

She felt that the strength of this young minister in all aspects had already exceeded her understanding.

She was almost numb with surprise.

Unaware of Zhang Yusi’s thoughts, He Ao was focused on retrieving the information he had just decoded.

In fact, the majority of the data inside the storage chip had not yet been deciphered; most of the data was filled with incomprehensible, illogical chaos, and it would certainly take a lot of time and mental effort to decipher, without any guarantee of success.

However, He Ao was not very interested in these data; he only looked for those that were logical, potentially containing map information, and deciphered those data.

In the end, he still extracted a vast amount of useless junk data.

But the good news was, he found the map data.

Although it was not complete.

It was a small piece of a 3D structure map, which should be the map from the monster’s ’memory’ just now.

The map was simple, starting from the hall where He Ao was now located, going down the corridor and through five more spacious areas, before ending.

In total, it was only a few hundred meters long.

However, in these few hundred meters, He Ao found what he was looking for.

At the end of the fifth space, there was a vaguely outlined structure, shaped like an elevator.

Theoretically, without considering the use of a small spacecraft, the people in the ring chamber would only be able to reach the shuttle’s central column by the columns that connect the central column and the ring.

And the most suitable mode of transport for these columns is a large elevator.

There, perhaps, was the transport tool to the shuttle’s central column that He Ao was looking for.

But the memory of the monster only had a small part of the elevator, without the complete structure, and it seemed it had not been to the elevator either, only glimpsing it from a distance.

Apart from the elevator, He Ao also discovered another important piece of information.

This monster seemed to have only recently returned from the third spatial region of this memory map.

He Ao lifted his head and estimated the timing according to this information.

The time when this monster returned coincided exactly with when he had killed the Sea Anemone Monster.

It was merely thirty seconds before he reached this hall that the monster had returned to the corridor next to this hall.

And by that time, it must have heard the sounds of battle between He Ao and his companion and the Flesh Spiders, so it deliberately curled up in the dark corridor, lying in wait like a hunter for its prey.

Was it just a coincidence...

He Ao stared at this set of data.

It was as if the monster had come back specifically to wait for them.

Pushing down the doubts in his heart, He Ao stood up and looked at Zhang Yusi, "I think I know where the Transcendent from the Research Institute who fired the bullet might be; he should not be far from us."

"Good."

Zhang Yusi picked up the Plasma Cannon.

She understood that He Ao hadn’t asked her for it, which meant he was leaving it with her by default,

He Ao unplugged the power supply and pressed the display casing of the handheld computer back into place.

He had already memorized all the maps, and now he pocketed the mainboard with the central processor and storage chip.

But before leaving, He Ao returned to the corpse of the monster and from those mechanical parts, he dug out three irregular grey lumps.

He Ao had actually noticed these lumps earlier but had not taken them out until now.

"Minister He, what are these?"

Zhang Yusi looked at He Ao with curiosity.

"These have a high energy content; they might be the monster’s energy cells,"

He Ao glanced at the Plasma Cannon, "Could you turn the cannon around for me, with the tail end facing me?"

"Sure."

Zhang Yusi decisively turned the Plasma Cannon around.

The tail end of this Plasma Cannon was completely fused with the monster’s flesh tentacle, having been fully contaminated, which is why He Ao, when cutting it off earlier, deliberately severed part of the tentacle as well. Now the Plasma Cannon was a combination of flesh and machinery.

He Ao handed the grey lumps he had just picked up to the tentacle part of the tail end.

The already deceased flesh began to wriggle sluggishly as the lumps neared, then suddenly it absorbed the lumps into itself, completely engulfing them.

"Minister He, a light has come on..."

Zhang Yusi, who had been watching the body of the cannon, spoke up immediately after the lump was absorbed. She then paused as if recalling something, "When I fired that shot earlier, one of the lights went out. There are, in total, one, two... nine, nine lights, and now six are still lit."

Does this mean they can fire six more times?

Actually, when He Ao first saw the Plasma Cannon, he noticed that there were no charging ports on its body.

But it was unlikely that the monster would use this cannon as a disposable tool.

So, since there was no charging port, it might have been assimilated by the flesh on those tentacles, allowing the monster to quickly charge the Plasma Cannon through its own body.

And these grey lumps, with their high energy content, seemed to be power cells from the mechanical parts of the monster.

So He Ao thought to try if the severed Plasma Cannon could still absorb and charge.

It turned out it could, though the method of charging was somewhat bizarre.

He Ao then reached out again and fed the remaining two grey blocks to the Plasma Cannon.

Until eight of its energy reserve lights were lit.

Then He Ao straightened his clothes, sheathed his bone sword, and looked at Zhang Yusi, "Can you still withstand the contamination here?"

The contamination in this hall was much stronger than in the corridor they had come through.

Zhang Yusi pondered for a moment and finally nodded, "I can manage!"

It seemed she was reaching her limit.

He Ao nodded, "Let’s go find that Transcendent from the Research Institute first."