Life Game In Other World
Chapter 638: A Rescue Mission (Extra Long - , Seeking Monthly Passes)

Chapter 638: Chapter 638: A Rescue Mission (Extra Long Chapter, Seeking Monthly Passes)

Navigator·Fourth Annular Chamber

In a pitch-black cramped room, a tall woman with bandages on her arms and legs sat alone in the gloomy environment.

She didn’t know how long she had been in this safety cabin.

This was a safety cabin specially constructed for her by Minister Ye, with dark corridors outside the window.

Outside, there was complete silence.

She didn’t know how much time had passed since the last time Minister Ye and Minister He walked past the window.

She wasn’t sure if it was due to spending too much time in this dark room, but she always felt somewhat restless.

In this dark loneliness, she began to miss home.

Fortunately, based on her past experience with ruins exploration.

Entering the ruins was time-constrained; theoretically, as long as she waited three days inside the ruins, the passage would naturally bring back everyone who was still alive to the real world.

She stood up and looked out at the silent window.

Three days, a long time, yet also short.

She would soon be able to return home.

Zzzt—

In this silent darkness, it seemed as if something had gently wriggled.

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Navigator·Core Control Room

In He Ao’s sight, a figure with ragged clothes and covered in blood entered the core control room.

He appeared to be there for the first time, looking around at the towering metal pillars with some surprise.

Soon, he noticed He Ao, sitting against the wall, covered in injuries.

But he did not immediately approach; instead, he maintained a safe distance, lifted up his mini computer, and wrote down a sentence on the screen, showing it to He Ao.

The sentence was written using the standard cryptic script of the Research Institute, with "leaf" and "river" at the beginning.

Deciphered, it meant, "The mountains and rivers of the homeland are beautiful."

After displaying this sentence, he looked up at He Ao.

He Ao lifted his bloodstained hand and slowly wrote a signature on the ground.

The newcomer, upon seeing that signature, breathed a sigh of relief and quickly approached. He glanced at Ivier, who was already dead on the floor, with a mix of surprise and delight,

"He Ao? Did you succeed?"

"Yes,"

He Ao chewed on a chunk of meat and nodded lightly.

As he moved, his wound was torn open again, spilling fresh red blood.

"Sir, your injuries need treatment," the voice of A02 rang out again, "The purification array in this hall was built for me. You can destroy the array and take the authority key; the corruption will not affect me."

"What do we do next?"

Hearing this, Ye Yun looked at the broken mini computer and turned to He Ao.

"My injuries are manageable."

He Ao reached for the bone sword on the ground, seemingly trying to grasp it to support himself.

At that moment, Ye Yun hurried over. His right hand supported He Ao’s arm as it reached for the bone sword, applying slight pressure, while his left hand reached out as if to assist He Ao’s other hand.

But as his left hand passed over He Ao’s chest, a short dagger suddenly sprang from his grip, aiming for He Ao’s heart.

Thwump—

The short dagger stopped mid-air, He Ao clasping Ye Yun’s wrist tightly, preventing it from advancing any further.

"Did you guess?"

Ye Yun lifted his head to look at He Ao.

At the same time, he suddenly let go of He Ao’s right hand, and another dagger sprung from his hand, thrusting forward.

Aiming directly for He Ao’s throat.

This time, He Ao lifted his left hand, palm facing upward, and the back of his hand stopped at his wrist, suddenly flicking outwards. As he flicked the other’s wrist away, he turned the flick into a grab, about to clamp down on that hand once more.

Boom—

In that instant, a gust carrying intense pollution exploded from the very center of the hall, disturbing He Ao’s attention.

Grey lines began to surface on Ye Yun’s cheeks, and then he fiercely pulled back, retracting his right hand just before He Ao’s palm could firmly grasp it.

He wanted to step back and dodge, but his other hand was firmly clamped by He Ao.

Without hesitation, he swung his knife and directly chopped off the left hand held by He Ao, then quickly rolled backward, creating distance between them and swiftly made his way to the gate.

"It seems you’re not too merciful towards yourself,"

He Ao dropped the arm he had clamped, picked up the mechanical broadsword and bone sword from the ground, and with his body wounded, staggered forward. He gazed at ’Ye Yun’, "Should I call you ’Ye Yun’, or should I call you Mr. David from World Tree?"

"Flesh is merely a material that will perish,"

’David’ backed away, standing in front of the huge hole created by Ivier in the gate, his front and clothes now displaying a layer of ’paper-like’ ’epidermis’.

Then, like willow fluff, that layer of epidermis shed, revealing the appearance of a young man dressed in detached activewear, with sandy-blonde hair. "It seems you have more information than I expected."

Clumps of steel rose from behind David, connecting to the blood-stained half of his arm that had been severed.

Soon, a new steel arm was restored, and he looked at He Ao, "So how did you figure out my identity?"

"It wasn’t difficult,"

He Ao stumbled to the side of the dodecahedron in the center, glancing at the crystal dodecahedron. The powerful pollution that had interrupted his actions had burst out from this crystal.

However, he didn’t proceed further and just stood there, raising his head to look at David,

"Your plan was meticulous. To avoid being seen during your disguise process, you chose to enter this spacecraft alone.

"But being alone would naturally arouse suspicion, so you arranged for a member of the Research Institute to appear near you, alone as well. After completing your disguise, you immediately ran over to save her, easily gaining her trust and making her your ’proof of identity.’

"I think that while attempting to impersonate Ye Yun, you must have thoroughly collected his information, analyzed his personality.

"These ’homework’ became an important part of your disguise."

"A very nice analysis,"

David smiled at He Ao, a violent, mechanical shudder sounding behind him, "but all your speculations now are based on the premise that I am a pretender, so,"

he fixed his gaze on He Ao, "how did you discern my real identity?"

"Do you remember Ye Yun has a sister who claimed to be my fan?"

He Ao looked at David.

"Ye Yun dotes on his sister very much. Where did I go wrong in my portrayal?"

David’s brows furrowed slightly.

"No, you played it perfectly, showing Ye Yun’s adoration, care, and concern for his sister to the life. Your emotion and acting were excellent,"

He Ao smiled slightly, glancing at the signature he had just written, "Ye Yun once asked me for an autograph for his sister."

At this reply, David was stunned, then burst into laughter upon realizing the implication, "I thought it unlikely that during those one or two brief hours of contact, you’d talk about anything unrelated to work. This is where I outsmarted myself. To highlight the authenticity of Ye Yun’s identity, I even brought up his sister,"

he paused then, contemplatively adding, "So, you started suspecting me when I mentioned the ’sister’, and that’s why you used the signature as a code word to test me when I suggested exchanging secret signals?"

At this moment, he finally grasped the crux of the matter, "So you began to doubt me from the moment I mentioned ’sister’. I thought I was doing well in my disguise. I have to say, He Ao, you’re more wary than I imagined."

"You’re also very good at exploiting people’s wariness, aren’t you? The sudden arrangement to use a code word with me was just for that moment, wasn’t it?"

He Ao smiled at him, "A reunion after separation, after verifying identities, people’s wariness easily relaxes, and that’s the best moment for a surprise attack."

In fact, when ’Ye Yun’ talked about his sister, it didn’t arouse much suspicion in He Ao.

What made He Ao’s suspicion towards ’Ye Yun’ intensify was after entering the core region, where he encountered very low levels of pollution.

In the external annular chambers, encountering low pollution could be attributed to luck.

But upon entering the core axis, the pollution remaining low was somewhat strange.

After all, He Ao had seen a ’fog’ that almost enveloped the entire axis from that giant observation window.

And the core region wrapped in the fog, which bore traces of Divine Beings, had pollution intensity far less than the external annular chambers.

It seemed as if the pollution had deliberately dispersed, clearing a path for He Ao and his companion, allowing them to easily reach the most central area.

And these decreases in pollution occurred after meeting ’Ye Yun’.

Moreover, ’Ye Yun’s’ sudden suggestion to set up a secret signal was actually quite abrupt—logical, but abrupt.

Moreover, He Ao had been deceived by that B-level monster the last time he entered the relic, so naturally, he was much more cautious this time.

Under the influence of various factors, He Ao chose to sign his name for ’Ye Yun,’ proceeding with further probing.

Soon after exchanging the ’secret signal,’ ’Ye Yun’ just happened to get separated from He Ao due to the attack of that gigantic mechanical monster.

By that time, He Ao had basically confirmed that this ’Ye Yun’ was an imposter.

However, he had not yet ascertained the true identity of ’Ye Yun,’ so he had Daybreak help him collect information on the Transcendents from the World Tree and Moonlight who had entered the relic.

"I have to say, you’re very sharp. Perhaps I shouldn’t have chosen you as the target of deceit,"

David clapped softly. "But I still have one question,"

His gaze was fixed on He Ao’s cheek, "How exactly did you recognize my true identity?"

That was the point that truly shocked him.

After all, if a false identity was exposed, it was exposed—the world never had a perfect disguise, but He Ao even turned his very foundation inside out, which was a bit too outrageous.

It was like two people dueling with guns: He Ao not only saw that his opponent’s gun was no good but even knew there were no bullets in it.

"This is actually very simple,"

He Ao said calmly, lifting a finger, "First of all, what I need to know is whether or not you are connected with the contamination on this ship."

David looked up at him.

"Of course, the answer is affirmative. The contamination drops everywhere you appear and considering the coincidental way we were chased and separated by the mechanical monsters, there is definitely a connection between you and these creatures. Then we come to the second question,"

He Ao raised a second finger,

"Can you travel freely between this ship and the real world?

"The answer is negative. If you could already travel freely, there would be no need to gather so many people here. You would merely transfer the items from the Navigator directly to the real world to carry out your plans.

"Based on these two points, I can draw a conclusion,"

He Ao lifted his head, looking at David, "You are one of the Transcendents from the three major organizations that entered the relic this time. This significantly narrows down the range of choices.

"Judging by Ivier’s actions, he actually doesn’t know much about this ship. So he was lured here by you, to serve as the ’pawn’ to destroy the gate.

"But he is a proud and vigilant man. To gain the trust of such a cunning fox, you must have an identity very close to him. So it is very likely that your identity is from the World Tree.

"At this time, the range narrows down further to just a few people from the World Tree who entered the relic.

"And at this point, I came across the third issue,"

He Ao’s gaze swept past David’s back, at the gates behind, where the dimly lit corridors were gradually contracting, folding into the endless darkness, and from the depths came the sound of massive mechanical distortions. He Ao continued, his actions unceasing,

"The relic passage can only allow three C-levels through: me, Ye Yun, and Ivier—that’s already three spots filled. The rest are D-level or E-level. So how did you, a ’C-level,’ manage to slip in?

"At first, I did not understand this problem until I recalled some recent intelligence data from Daybreak. One of the Directors of Daybreak in the Western Lands, ’Painter’, had disappeared.

"This ’Painter’ was someone with a public image, but whose identity couldn’t be traced. At that time, I suspected that the identity used by Painter was likely false, and this Painter was very likely someone extremely adept at disguising themselves."

He Ao fixed his gaze on David, "And in this world, there aren’t many who are skilled at disguising their identities."

"So you linked me, disguised as ’Ye Yun,’ with ’Painter’?"

David looked at He Ao, "But you still haven’t solved the issue of how the fourth ’C-level’ passed through the relic’s passage. If I’m not mistaken, this ’Painter’ is also said to be C-level."

"Indeed, I haven’t resolved the matter of the fourth ’C-level.’ But what if the fourth ’C-level’ isn’t ’C-level’ at all?"

He Ao smiled at him, "There has never been definitive evidence that Painter is C-level, only that he has defeated C-level enemies. Such accomplishments, a D-level with a powerful C-level Transcendent item, could also achieve.

"Am I right, Mr. Painter?"

"A splendid deduction,"

David clapped, unable to restrain his applause,

"Now I am even more curious as to how you deduced it was me. I can’t think of any connection between my ’David’ identity and the Painter."

He paused in his speech,

"After determining World Tree, D-level, Painter—these clues—the range was already very small. Are you telling me you guessed by luck?"

"Usually, I won’t choose to guess an outcome,"

He Ao shook his head, looking at David, "You’re the Leader of the Restoration Organization’s Transcendents, aren’t you?"

As he spoke, David’s face changed.

"I happen to know that Daybreak’s ’Boss’ is Ruonati, the former King of Rodan and the real Leader of the Restoration Organization,"

He Ao slowly made his way towards the sluice gate entrance, saying each word distinctly,

"And ’Painter’ is one of the closest confidants of ’Boss’, who likes to employ his own people very much. I have reason to believe that ’Painter’ is also someone from Rodan or its vicinity and that he is also inside the Rodan Restoration Organization,"

"Coincidentally, the time of ’Painter’s’ disappearance is close to when the internal war of the Rodan Restoration Organization took place. How about it? Is the treasure left by the ’Boss’ still helpful, Mr. Leader of the defectors of the Rodan Restoration Organization?"

’David’ was the only Rodan among the C-level personnel who entered the ruins of the World Tree this time.

When all the clues overlapped, the answer naturally emerged.

Without logical chains to support him, He Ao usually would not blindly guess just on luck.

"It seems I truly know too little about you."

David, watching He Ao gradually getting closer, laughed, "Actually, at first, I planned to disguise myself as you, but you have too many secrets, and there is too little information that can be investigated. In the end, I had no choice but to opt for disguising myself as Ye Yun."

He gazed at He Ao, "The final power of Ivier took me by surprise. I even prepared for him to kill you and then turn to hunt me. That you could kill such a powerful Ivier exceeded my expectations by far."

He glanced down at his steel arm,

"What surprised me more is that after such a fierce battle, you still maintain such a high fighting capacity."

In truth, He Ao’s overall strength had already been at his limit at that time.

He had forcibly stimulated his power and, relying on constant vigilance and readiness, caught David, the ambusher, off guard, frightening him so much that he severed his own arm.

But He Ao did not bother to explain this.

He watched David, while he spoke, those two pieces of flesh had completely entered his stomach, and the wounds on his body were rapidly closing.

This was the effect of the Transcendent object ’Nutritional Canned Food’ that Yang De specifically lent him. Eating the two pieces of meat from the can would restore 80% of his injuries.

Although the information said ’immediately,’ there was still a process for the wounds to heal and recover.

As He Ao approached, David did not retreat at the moment.

Above their heads, the metal space that used to be layered had now fully opened up, revealing a vast area under a transparent dome.

Through the towering dome, He Ao could see the twinkling stars in the sky and the four annular chambers still operating continuously behind the spacecraft.

"He Ao, you are indeed very smart and capable,"

David spread his arms slightly, "Unfortunately, you made the wrong choice at the turning point of fate."

Behind him, a massive machine intertwined with flesh and machinery rose like a mountain range, the very same giant robot that had previously pursued He Ao,

"From the moment you stepped onto this ship, all of your fates were already sealed, no one of you can leave this ship."

He looked at He Ao, "But under the guidance of the Divine Being, we are willing to give you a new chance, join us, and you will obtain eternal life."

He Ao glanced at his mechanical arm, "Together with the machines? I don’t plan on becoming a robot for the time being."

"Flesh is the source of suffering and weakness, while machinery is true eternity."

A flicker of zeal flashed in David’s eyes as he watched He Ao, "If you don’t care about your own life, maybe you should think about the people from the Research Institute? I know that people from your Research Institute value comrades highly, for the life of a comrade, maybe you could reconsider."

"Yuan Guo?"

He Ao’s brow twitched.

From the Research Institute on this ship, there seemed to be only three people, Zhang Yusi, Shu Gui, Yuan Guo.

And among them, the ’safe house’ where Yuan Guo was located had been set up by ’Ye Yun’.

"Your comrade’s life is in your hands right now."

David bowed his head, gazing at He Ao.

The enormous robot behind him also shifted its gaze towards He Ao.

He actually never thought that He Ao would agree to him; he was just using this method to coerce He Ao, to disrupt He Ao’s thinking, to provide an opportunity for his ambush.

But just as he was ready to launch the ambush, the He Ao standing in front of him suddenly pointed upwards.

He followed the direction of He Ao’s finger, and through the huge transparent dome, he saw that within a localized area of the Fourth Annular Chamber seemed to be ablaze with flames.

He quickly realized that it was the ’safe house’ he had constructed for Yuan Guo.

"What is that?"

He asked subconsciously.

"A rescue operation."

He Ao had already reached him.