Life Game In Other World
Chapter 644: The Matter Is Settled (Long - , Asking for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 644: Chapter 644: The Matter Is Settled (Long Chapter, Asking for Monthly Votes)

The dining car’s partition door slowly opened, and as He Ao was just walking through the door, a figure stood in his way.

Zhang Yusi, petite and with her head lowered, said nervously,

"Mr. Hao Yi, I know our request is somewhat presumptuous, but the situation is that we still have a minister trapped in that large spaceship. Could you please go back and save that minister... or perhaps you could let us return, we were all saved by him, so we are willing to stand with him on the same front at the end..."

"Yusi,"

Zhang Yusi hadn’t finished speaking when Yuan Guo suddenly pulled her aside.

"Huh?"

Zhang Yusi was momentarily confused.

Before she could recover, He Ao said with a smile, "If you all run back to your deaths, wouldn’t my rescue have been in vain?"

Zhang Yusi’s head shot up, and she looked at He Ao standing before her in surprise, a faint blush spreading across her usually calm face, "Minister He!!! Are you alright?!!"

"Why, you want a piece of your home minister’s action?"

’Hao Yi’ walked out from behind He Ao, teasing with a smile.

"I-I-I."

Zhang Yusi stuttered, at a loss for words.

"All right, it’s okay," He Ao said with a smile, coming to her aid, "as long as everyone’s fine."

Everyone let out a sigh of relief.

At that moment, Yuan Guo looked at He Ao, opened her mouth as if to say something, then hesitated.

"If you’re about to ask whether Ye Yun is still alive, then I suppose he’s very much alive. But if you’re asking if the ’Ye Yun’ who saved you is still alive, then I’m afraid not."

He Ao said slowly to Yuan Guo.

In fact, the information he had sent to Zhang Yusi initially had mentioned that ’Ye Yun’ was a fake.

For Yuan Guo, the fake Ye Yun, after all, had saved her life.

"You’re right," Yuan Guo said with a smile, "Thank you."

She wasn’t oblivious to the fact. After learning Ye Yun was a fake, she knew that the ’hero saving the beauty’ scenario was likely staged, but emotions often conflict with reason. Compared to Zhang Yusi, she was actually more emotional.

But this didn’t affect her judgement of right and wrong; she was just somewhat sentimental.

He Ao was also reflective. In the end, A02 had said David could take his place in the ceremony, which suggested that even in death, David may have harbored feelings of homesickness.

The words about ’going home’ that he had said to He Ao were not entirely meant to deceive.

For a while, the atmosphere around them grew heavy.

"Minister He, why don’t you tell us what happened after we separated?"

Zhang Yusi had recovered from her earlier stuttering and asked with a smile.

"Sure, I also want to hear what happened to you guys afterward."

He Ao smiled, found a table to sit at.

The atmosphere lightened slightly as everyone gathered around, all curious about what had happened to He Ao afterward.

Among this group, the survivors were only Zhang Yusi, Yuan Guo, Shu Gui, and Yasia; basically, the people from the Research Institute had survived.

Although He Ao didn’t know if there were others sent to the Navigator, his observations thereafter suggested that there were not.

In the battles, he had also casually noted the condition of the other ring chambers, which mostly showed no signs of combat.

Interfering with the ruins’ transport pathway and sending people to the Navigator was probably not an easy feat.

Once everyone had settled down, He Ao began to recount what had happened after they had separated.

He omitted some parts related to his unique abilities and his connection with Hao Yi, keeping only the general rhythm of the story intact.

As he continued with the narrative, the group became engrossed in the tale he was telling.

Even Yasia, who didn’t speak Central Earth language very fluently, joined in with some stammering effort.

"So, Minister He, is that how you deduced from those simple details that Minister Ye was a fake?"

By the time the story was almost finished, Zhang Yusi’s eyes were wide with astonishment.

"Yes."

He Ao nodded.

"You figured out what was wrong with A02 just like that?"

Yuan Guo leaned in too, his face full of shock.

He Ao turned to the astounded Yuan Guo and Zhang Yusi, blinking somewhat bewilderedly. He hadn’t used any exaggerated language, simply recounting the story plainly, "Shouldn’t it be easy?"

Upon hearing his words, Zhang Yusi and Yuan Guo’s gazes briefly went blank.

Neither of them knew how to respond to that question.

"Minister He, I think they made a mistake bringing you in on this."

Zhang Yusi slumped back into his chair, looking utterly defeated, "A grave mistake."

"If I were A02, I would have gone completely dumbfounded,"

Yuan Guo scratched his head, "This is just too absurd."

"Hold on, can someone tell me what exactly happened? I didn’t catch that. What was the problem with that Minister Ye and the artificial intelligence?"

Shu Gui looked around, a bit perplexed.

"It should be like this..."

Yasia stuttered as he began to explain to him.

Meanwhile, Yuan Guo and Zhang Yusi also turned around, helping to clarify.

The dining car became lively for a moment.

Seeing Shu Gui’s expression shift from ’what, what is all this?’ to ’damn, damn, it can be like this?’ ’Is it that impressive?’

Zhang Yusi and Yuan Guo felt a deep sense of satisfaction.

When the discussion among the group had calmed down a bit, ’Hao Yi,’ who had been standing aside, joined in the conversation, asking, "The journey back might take a while, maybe four or five days. Should I arrange lodging for you?"

The angelic energy from Andaville’s Spear, which had been depleted on the way here, meant the return trip would be much longer than the journey here.

However, He Ao had made sure to stock up on enough food aboard the Velora on the way here, so there was no need to worry about hunger; it was just that the protracted travel was a bit grueling.

"That would be great."

He Ao nodded, looking at ’Hao Yi,’ "Would that be convenient?"

Zhang Yusi and the others, who had just moved on from the previous topic, also instinctively looked towards ’Hao Yi.’

This silent ’B-level’ character, who had just displayed terrifying martial prowess, emanated an intense pressure on his own.

If He Ao seemed like the clever hero out of legends to them, then Hao Yi gave off the aura of a divine being from Heaven.

Mysterious, unknown, mighty, it seemed like everything was in his control.

"No problem, this car is a travel train by design, equipped with places to rest."

’Hao Yi’ smiled and began assigning compartments to everyone.

For Zhang Yusi and the others, this ’angel’ was unexpectedly approachable.

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Once everyone had retired to their compartments to rest, He Ao sat alone in the dining car.

He took out the blood-stained golden bracelet and scrutinized the patterns on it carefully.

This bracelet was a B-level Transcendent item; its ability was quite simple.

It could purify the spirit and remove nearby contamination. Judging by these aspects alone, the bracelet’s effect seemed quite beneficial.

However, the bracelet’s capabilities did not stop there. After removing the pollution, the bracelet would fill the cleansed souls of nearby lives with its own corruption. Once this self-pollution was successfully infiltrated, the bracelet would directly ’devour’ the flesh and blood of the polluted.

The more flesh and blood it consumed, the stronger the power of the bracelet.

So for this bracelet, the effect of ’removal’ of pollution was actually just a part of ’food processing.’

Of course, for those lives that had not been contaminated, the bracelet would also slowly attempt to subtly implant its own contamination.

However, without a strengthening circuit, the bracelet only functioned on the person wearing it.

Overall, this bracelet wasn’t particularly ’friendly’ when it came to transcendent items, but considering that there was not a single living person on board the Navigator, the bracelet did indeed have a very good effect when placed there.

It could not only suppress the contamination on A02’s body but also remove the contamination from the flesh-mechanical fusion monsters formed through contamination outside, and even devour the flesh of those monsters to enhance its own power.

That’s why there was not a trace of flesh on the ramp in front of the sluice gate, only steel debris because the flesh of the monsters that tried to break through the sluice gate had been ’eaten’ by the bracelet.

At this moment, as He Ao held the golden bracelet, he could feel the chaotic memories flooding his mind from the Cloak of Replacement, The Fake Master Bracelet, and other contaminants being slowly removed.

Meanwhile, a new kind of contamination was trying to influence his spirit.

Although this contamination was not particularly strong for him and had little effect.

He Ao raised his hand and gazed at the fresh blood on the golden bracelet.

This blood, who knows how many years it had been there, but it still emitted a faint red glow, looking as if it had just stained the bracelet.

In fact, the contamination of the bracelet originated from this blood.

And this blood and contamination gave He Ao a very familiar feeling.

As he focused on the fresh blood on the bracelet, a faint cacophony of noise, like the whispers of countless people, began to gradually rise in his mind.

These voices were illusory and real, like tides, waxing and waning.

Although the voices seemed to have deteriorated quite a bit, when He Ao heard these whispers, he felt as if he could see the twisted trees, the winding paths, and that huge creature with a big hole in its chest.

The War God!

This blood was somehow connected to the War God.

However, this connection was extremely weak, and the contamination it carried was far less than that of the War God’s corpse.

At this time, He Ao suddenly remembered what was written in the book from Elijah’s underground library, that the Original Federation was destroyed in a divine battle that caused the death of the War God.

So, what’s the relationship between that divine battle and the ruins? And what had this bracelet from the Navigator experienced?

He Ao shifted his gaze from the blood on the bracelet.

He didn’t know where the clues to these questions were buried, and he couldn’t solve them yet.

The bracelet’s cleansing of life’s contamination might have side effects, but using it to purify the contamination of dead matter or an area might have a unique effect.

He stored the bracelet away.

He hadn’t completely figured out the energy circuit in the Core Control Room, but he had completely memorized it, and with sufficient Divine Sense, he could fully replicate the entire seal.

As soon as he had put the bracelet away, faint footsteps came from behind him.

’Hao Yi’ came in carrying a large pile of ’barbecue’.

These were made from transcendent animals and plants supplied by the Research Institute.

At that moment, the sound of growling hunger came from He Ao’s stomach.

It was not because he was actually starving, but due to the side effects of the Nutritional Canned Food.

Although this transcendent item could heal injuries, it simultaneously induced a strong craving for flesh.

After consuming two pieces of meat from the Nutritional Canned Food, one must eat a large amount of food within two hours to satisfy the craving for flesh, or else lapse into a near-death state.

However, fortuitously, He Ao could use this side effect to achieve another effect.

These transcendent creatures contained vast amounts of energy, which could be absorbed, transformed, and refined into Divine Sense.

Normally, He Ao’s food intake was quite small, and he couldn’t digest enough flesh in a short time to refine it into Divine Sense, but under the ’hunger’ side effect of the Nutritional Canned Food, his ’digestive ability’ would be significantly amplified.

These transcendent ingredients were already basically processed by ’Hao Yi’ upon arrival, and though now cold, they were still edible.

He Ao immediately piled the meat and ’vegetables’ onto the table and devoured them hungrily.

In the early stages of Martial Arts Training, ’Heaven Qi’ and ’Earth Qi’—the energy drawn from breathing and the energy obtained from food—needed to be ingested at the same time, complementing each other, in order to further train and achieve breakthroughs.

However, as He Ao entered the stage of Qi Refinement and Spirit Transformation, he no longer needed the combination of both energies, as both ’Heaven Qi’ and ’Earth Qi’ could already be refined independently.

Previously aboard the Navigator, He Ao had been refining the transcendent energy from the air.

But the speed at which he refined the energy was far slower than his usage rate, and by the end, even with careful use, his original three paths of Divine Sense had dwindled to only one remaining.

However, there was good news: he now had acquired knowledge on how to use the strengthening circuit, which greatly reduced the consumption of his Divine Sense. Now, this single path could perform the function of more than two from before.

Soon, as he consumed food, streams of energy began to appear within He Ao’s body.

Under the side effects of the nutritional canned food, the transcendent flesh he was eating was being digested at an unbelievable rate.

He was even eating faster than he could digest.

At first, He Ao elegantly cut the meat into pieces with a knife and placed them in his mouth.

Latter on, he simply tore into the food with his mouth, barely chewing before swallowing it down.

And with this, the once withered cyclone of Qi inside him began to swell at a visibly rapid pace.

Meanwhile, He Ao controlled his clone to continuously bring over food. The food prepared in advance was quickly consumed, and later, He Ao simply fired up the mechanical blade as a grill, hastily searing the meat before eating it.

The Velora traversed through a silent and pitch-black tunnel, for how long, no one could tell.

He Ao only knew that the fourth compartment of the transporter, packed full of transcendent materials, was now half-empty from his consumption.

At one point, when the effects of the nutritional canned food wore off, He Ao purposefully ate another piece of meat to trigger the hungry side effect once again.

The cyclone within his chest expanded rapidly, then he condensed it into Divine Sense, and it expanded yet again.

The materials made from transcendent flora and fauna provided by the Research Institute were also nearly all consumed.

He sat in a chair, burping.

Having eaten so much, He Ao felt like the muscles in his face would start twitching from overuse.

Although the energy content in these transcendent materials was not high, the sheer quantity was impressive.

In the end, his Divine Sense had once again recovered to more than three paths. These were only the materials from the Research Institute; the transcendent flora and fauna from the Moonlight and the World Tree might be less in quantity, but added together they were still plentiful.

During the eating, the clone stumbled a few more times, accruing heavier injuries.

He Ao also had the clone rest for a while.

But just as the clone sat down to rest, the entire Velora shook violently.

It was as if something terrifying was passing by the Velora.

Immediately after, a violent surge of pollution swept through the entire vehicle.

He Ao quickly pulled out the golden bracelet, attaching his Divine Sense to it for reinforcement, and began to cleanse the pollution within the vehicle.

At the same time, an obscure scene outside the window came into view of the clone seated facing it.

In the unfathomable darkness, a colossal entity of indiscernible shape was ’swimming’ by the Velora.

Feeling observed, this gigantic creature opened an eye on its massive body and glanced at the clone inside the transporter.

Just with that one look, the violent Angel-level pollution rushed into He Ao’s mind.

Blood flowed from He Ao’s nostrils.

However, it seemed the colossal creature had no interest in the Velora; after merely glancing at it, the creature swayed away.

But Angel-level pollution was not too strong for He Ao, and after the creature left, he wiped away his nosebleed and looked at the clone beside him.

It seems that this was the misfortune brought by the "Lucky Brooch".

Although the misfortune was targeting the clone, the soul-affecting pollution was something both the original and the clone had to endure together.

He Ao closed all the windows to avoid seeing any more strange things.

The Velora continued its smooth journey into the profound darkness.

After that, the clone no longer suffered any new misfortunes.

This moment was exactly one day since He Ao had removed the Lucky Brooch.

He Ao raised his head, looking toward the front of the Velora.

This affair was concluded; it was time to return home.