Life Game In Other World
Chapter 663: Evolution Acolytes (Two-in-One Super-Sized - , Seeking Monthly Pass)

Chapter 663: Chapter 663: Evolution Acolytes (Two-in-One Super-Sized Chapter, Seeking Monthly Pass)

Green Olive Street, Building 3·10th Floor

"Jia Xi! Aim for the forehead!"

He Ao shouted loudly.

A petite little girl leaped into action, somersaulting over He Ao’s head from behind him, and her knife headed straight towards the forehead of a scar-faced man in a prison uniform standing in front of He Ao.

At this moment, the man, holding He Ao’s cane with one hand, saw Jia Xi’s attack coming. He immediately raised his hand, seizing the descending blade of her knife.

He gripped the thick blade tightly, exerting force suddenly to bend the entire blade, then with a swift motion, flung Jia Xi, who was still holding the knife handle, through the air.

Jia Xi’s body spun several times in midair, like a falling petal, before landing next to a gang member just slain in retaliation.

And it was in that instant, He Ao gathered strength in his arms, yanking back forcefully to free his cane from the man’s grip, then thrust it forward again.

"Old man, with just this little ability from you two, you think you can kill me? I’m afraid that’s wishful thinking," the man in the prison uniform laughed, reaching for He Ao’s cane, "Do you know what a C-level Transcendent is?"

The sharp end of the cane reached his throat, almost touching his skin, but at the same time, it was firmly grasped by him, unable to advance further. He smiled at He Ao, "There’s something about this cane of yours, but it’s about to be mine."

Boom—

In that moment, a muffled sound came from behind him.

His gaze flickered to the side, catching a reflection in the window glass beside him. He saw the diminutive Jia Xi standing behind him, holding a spiked club.

Under the great force, the thick metal spiked club had even bent slightly.

Bright red blood flowed down from the back of the man’s neck, his vision now blurred and hazy, as the energy within his body seemed to stumble into temporary chaos.

Behind him, the petite girl took a few steps back.

While the man was distracted by the girl behind him, the cane, which he was holding, shot out like a bullet the moment his arm weakened, slipping past his fingers and piercing his neck.

Blood splattered.

The man’s body stiffened, the light fading from his eyes.

He Ao pulled out the cane, letting the body of the man in the prison uniform fall to the ground, revealing the figure of the little girl standing behind him.

The nape of this man’s neck was the focal point of his energy.

Jia Xi’s previous attack disrupted the flow of the man’s energy, causing a moment of weakness in which He Ao struck the man’s energy focal point.

He Ao looked down at the man’s corpse. This man should have been a C-level Transcendent, with physical attributes around 100, technically five times that of Jia Xi’s physical strength.

If it weren’t for seeing the man’s weakness through Divine Sense, without activating Super Memory, and relying only on the coordination between He Ao and Jia Xi as well as their basic physical strength, they would have found it very difficult to defeat this guy.

But with Divine Sense able to pierce through energy flow and the Fist Technique’s method of harnessing the body’s power, both He Ao and Jia Xi could burst forth with strength far beyond what their physical attributes would normally allow, enabling them to prevail over such a formidable enemy with relatively lesser strength.

The same, this battle served as excellent training for Jia Xi.

"How do you feel?"

He Ao placed the cane on the ground and walked towards Jia Xi, lifting his hand.

"Not bad!"

Jia Xi raised her hand and high-fived her grandfather.

Her breathing was a bit rapid, gasping for air.

In that tense environment just now, she had gathered her body’s strength to the maximum at the last moment, allowing her to unleash that powerful strike capable of harming a C-level Transcendent.

And that strike had almost determined the final outcome of the battle.

Before that, she could only marshal a bit of energy, never to such an extreme degree.

Through this battle, she gained a deeper understanding of how to gather energy, mastering it more skillfully.

Of course, her ’grandfather’s’ understanding played a big part in influencing the battle.

When ’grandfather’ shouted that ’aim for the forehead’ line, it was not meant for her, but for the man in the prison uniform.

Its purpose was simple, to make the man in the prison uniform let down his guard.

When He Ao called out to target the head, his attack was not aiming for the man’s forehead, but for the neck - the key point. At that moment, Jia Xi realized that the real target was the man’s neck.

At that time, the man was still caught in the fixed idea that He Ao would command Jia Xi to strike at his forehead, leaving his neck poorly defended, which gave Jia Xi a chance to make her successful attack.

After this ’life-and-death battle’, Jia Xi felt as if everything her grandfather had taught her along the way all clicked in that moment.

It was almost like an Epiphany.

The only issue was that she had overdrawn her body’s energy by forcing it, leaving her somewhat depleted afterward.

As she breathed heavily, she was also continuously absorbing energy, recovering her lost strength.

At this time, He Ao stood beside her, looking up at the overlapping floors above.

They encountered an F-level Transcendent on the first floor, a C-level Transcendent on the tenth, and there were still thirty floors to go.

The arrangement of the Scorpion Gang was quite impressive.

Meanwhile, as he gazed at the floors above, He Ao also raised his handgun.

Bang—

The bullet traveled through the light from the top floor, hitting a person armed with a rifle who had been lying in wait around the eighteenth floor, trying to take a shot.

The figure fell backwards, rolling onto the corridor.

"Grandpa, I feel better now."

Jia Xi took a deep breath and turned her head to look at He Ao.

By now, her previously exhausted strength had recovered significantly.

With his Divine Sense, He Ao scanned the flow of energy inside Jia Xi’s body and found that her recovery rate was faster than he had anticipated.

"Shall we continue?"

He withdrew his gaze, leaned on his cane, and looked towards the staircase at the end of the corridor ahead.

At that moment, new gang members had already charged down the stairs.

The staircases in this building were not straight up but spiraled and alternated upwards.

After ascending one floor, one had to walk in a clockwise direction along a corridor bounded by a skywell on one side and closed doors on the other before reaching the staircase leading to the next level.

"Alright!"

Jia Xi also saw the gang members and nodded firmly.

The two moved forward together towards that section of the staircase.

This time, He Ao didn’t walk beside Jia Xi as before; instead, he maintained a slight distance, staying a bit behind her to give her more room to maneuver.

A gang member wielding a machete glanced at He Ao and Jia Xi and reached for Jia Xi’s face.

Jia Xi sidestepped, swept her leg deeply, tripping the gang member, who then tilted forward and lunged toward He Ao, who was behind.

The machete also arrived in front of He Ao.

He Ao raised his cane, positioning it vertically in front of his chest, then deflected to the right, causing the gang member to crash into the railing and topple over it.

By then, Jia Xi was already dealing with the second gang member who had lunged at her.

With such skillful coordination, the pair quickly advanced.

Soon, they ascended to the ninth floor and swiftly reached the seventeenth floor.

After the fifteenth floor, gang members who had undergone Mechanical Modification began to appear among the enemies.

These individuals wielded powerful firearms or possessed mechanically augmented arms with great strength.

The first time they were encountered, Jia Xi suffered a setback when a gang member’s powerful mechanized arm flung her out, nearly throwing her off the corridor.

He Ao, following behind, promptly caught the young girl, preventing the fall.

After this scare, Jia Xi quickly composed herself and used her mace to break the modified person’s mechanized arm.

After that, Jia Xi primarily handled the close-combat Mechanically Modified Persons, while He Ao took care of those armed with guns in advance.

In his hand now was a Gauss Gun he had taken from one of the Mechanically Modified Persons.

At that moment, Jia Xi was dealing with a brutally modified gang member whose entire body had undergone Mechanical Modification, barely resembling a human.

In her hands, Jia Xi held a steel rod, while the Mechanically Modified Person swung its all-steel fist at her.

On the ground lay a bent steel rod, which had been twisted when Jia Xi used it to block the Mechanically Modified Person’s attack.

While her burst of strength could counter the Mechanically Modified Person’s blows, her weapon and her body were not so resilient.

After being briefly overpowered in close combat, she started to employ hit-and-run tactics, exploiting her agile physique to gradually dismantle the Mechanically Modified Person’s body structure.

And she was leading the Mechanically Modified Person toward the next staircase.

During this process, many gang members who attacked were inadvertently injured by the Mechanically Modified Person.

"You little bitch, you’re fooling with me!"

However, just as they were about to reach the staircase, the Mechanically Modified Person could no longer stand the feeling of being led by the nose by Jia Xi.

A brilliant light flickered from his chest, and his movements suddenly accelerated as he threw a punch at Jia Xi.

At that moment, Jia Xi stood in front of a window. She had intended to dodge but suddenly realized that the window was not tightly shut, and behind it, a pair of bright little eyes were watching her.

It was a child who had been hiding behind the window, peeking out.

If Jia Xi dodged now, the child wouldn’t have enough time to react and would be instantly crushed by the Mechanically Modified Person’s hammering blow.

In that split second, Jia Xi made her decision.

She placed the steel rod in front of her, channeling all her strength into her arms.

As the fist came down, she sidestepped and used the rod to catch the Mechanically Modified Person’s mechanical arm, forcefully pushing it to the right front with great force.

The concrete beneath her feet shattered instantly, and the once-straight steel rod bent under the tremendous force.

The Mechanically Modified Person, pulled by this great force, changed direction and spun several times, crashing towards He Ao.

He Ao, who had been ready to shoot, watched this unfold with a smile. He lowered his gun, thrust the cane forward in an instant, piercing the Mechanically Modified Person’s energy core, and with a flick, threw him down the building.

Boom—

Accompanied by a deafening roar echoing in the quiet skywell, Jia Xi turned back to the child inside the window and sighed with relief.

At that moment, a withered arm stretched out from the darkness behind the window, tightly shielding the child.

In the dim light, Jia Xi caught sight of a few strands of straw-like hair, then the child at the window was pulled into the secluded darkness.

Jia Xi didn’t look inside again; instead, she turned around and took several deep breaths.

"Well done."

Leaning on a cane, He Ao had already walked up to his granddaughter’s side. He praised her with a sentence and continued forward.

"Mhm!"

Jia Xi nodded excitedly and followed her grandfather’s pace.

This time, He Ao didn’t let Jia Xi walk in front of him; instead, he maintained a close distance between them.

Soon after they left, the window that had only been cracked open was pushed open a bit further.

Two pairs of eyes peered through the window, watching the two figures outside in the corridor.

A small walkie-talkie antenna protruded from the gap in the window.

······ Twentieth floor ······

This floor did not have a ’guardian’ like the ones on the first and tenth floors.

A C-level Mechanically Modified Person guarded the stairs leading to the twenty-first floor.

With Jia Xi’s assistance, He Ao severed its mechanical neck, but just as they were about to continue upward, a sharp ’squeak’ of a door opening came from behind them.

He Ao turned his head and looked back.

A thin man, almost skin and bones with sparse hair, stood behind a slightly open door, looking at them.

"Is there something you need?"

He Ao looked at the man.

"Are you planning to go upstairs?"

The man, clutching a faded device that seemed to be a small walkie-talkie in one hand and holding the door with the other, asked cautiously.

"Yes."

He Ao nodded.

"It’s very dangerous up there."

The man emphasized carefully, "If you want to survive, don’t go any further up."

"Can you tell me what dangers are there?"

He Ao asked.

The man looked at He Ao, and after a brief silence, he continued, "Between the twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh floors, there is a robot that enjoys torturing people, and no one has been able to defeat it."

Then he glanced at the body on the floor, paused, and continued, "If you get past him successfully, be very careful of rooms 3505 to 3508. No one who has entered there has ever come back."

After saying this, he immediately slammed the door shut, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps getting farther away, as if he was hiding deeper inside the room.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and continued up the stairs with Jia Xi.

Jia Xi, however, looked back thoughtfully at the tightly closed door.

After the twentieth floor, not all doors along the corridor were tightly shut; some were open. The higher they went, the more open doors there were.

Some weapons could be vaguely seen at the doorways, which seemed to be the rooms where the gang members lived.

By the twenty-sixth floor, no rooms were closed. All were open.

In contrast, the number of ordinary gang members was significantly less compared to those below the twentieth floor, while the proportion of mechanically modified individuals had increased.

When they reached the twenty-seventh floor, there were no ordinary gang members in sight, just a figure standing in the middle of the corridor.

It was a figure without hair, with eyes that sparkled with a faint light.

He watched He Ao and his companion, smiling, "I didn’t expect you to make it this far. It’s really surprising."

Flames spewed from beneath his feet, lifting his body into the air.

Mechanized Body, it looked to be D-level.

Although it didn’t seem like a D-level Mechanized Body that came from a regular arms dealer.

He Ao handed the Gauss Gun to his granddaughter, and then reached into his clothes with one hand.

"Are you about to pull out a weapon that can take me down?"

The man floating in the air scoffed, raising his hand towards He Ao as a dazzling light gathered in his palm, "This is the end, old man. You can pick out a nice spot in Heaven now."

"You can take a look for yourself,"

a raspy and elderly voice rose beside his ear.

His glowing pupils suddenly contracted, looking with astonishment beside him.

There stood a well-dressed Elderly man, leaning on a cane with one hand, calmly looking at him.

In the Elderly’s other hand, he held the handle of a butterfly knife with a metallic sheen. The blade connected to the handle was now embedded in his chest.

Right where his energy core was located.

"How··· can··· it··· be··· so··· fast?"

His mouth opened, his face filled with disbelief.

He Ao flicked his wrist, sending his mechanical body flying across the corridor and into the open air shaft.

Boom——

A brilliant firework exploded in the sky, momentarily dispelling the night.

Although this person’s Mechanized Body was not from a regular manufacturer, Vian had previously studied these makeshift Mechanized Bodies produced by small factories or individual mechanics.

Lacking a powerful research team, these bodies were essentially basic models available on the market which had been modified and manufactured.

And the energy cores of these public models were generally located in the chest.

He Ao flicked his wrist, retracting the blade of the butterfly knife into the handle, and then he slipped the knife back into the inner side of his clothing.

D-level had already surpassed the scope of what Jia Xi could handle, so he directly activated Super Memory to finish off the guy in an instant.

Jia Xi, however, just stared dumbfounded at her grandfather’s retreating figure.

Before they had begun actual combat, because she was not clear about her own position, she had no concept of her strength.

But now, she was fully aware of just how strong that robot had been.

"Shall we continue?"

He Ao, leaning on his cane, turned to look back at his granddaughter and asked softly.

"Yes!"

Jia Xi nodded emphatically.

The two of them continued onward.

The gang members on the twenty-eighth floor and above were becoming fewer and fewer, and of course, their combat power was getting higher and higher.

The kind of fully mechanized Mechanically Modified Persons were something He Ao had encountered several times.

During this stretch, Jia Xi basically dealt with any enemies she encountered by herself, only calling on He Ao to deliver a killing blow or when she absolutely couldn’t win.

He Ao, on the other hand, stood behind his granddaughter, allowing her to continuously learn, fight, and grow.

Soon, the two arrived at the thirty-fifth floor.

The doors on this level were all closed, but defending this floor was an automated turret.

As soon as He Ao ascended to this level, the turret fired instantly, nearly hitting him.

He Ao was also somewhat surprised by the appearance of the machine.

This kind of equipment was generally specially supplied to the City Defense Army. It was difficult to buy through normal channels and was very expensive.

However, compared to humanoid robots, this kind of fixed turret, while powerful, was actually easier to deal with.

He Ao immediately pulled out the butterfly knife, charged forward, and during the turret’s charging interval, he thrust the blade through the barrel’s protective cover, destroying the inner mechanical structure.

At that moment, Jia Xi, who stood behind him, saw the door number beside He Ao—3507.

She realized something and yelled out, "Grandpa, watch out!"

Almost at the same time her voice rang out, a huge tentacle pierced through the glass of 3507 and rolled toward He Ao, who was standing on the turret.

A C-level monster with Concealed Qi.

He Ao looked at the tentacle, his movements not slower than the tentacle’s, and it seemed as if he had been prepared for the tentacle’s surge.

However, he did not leap at the tentacle but instead directly rammed the door of unit 3507 open.

A room filled with the stench of blood appeared before his eyes.

The room was covered in the dim red of blood everywhere, and chunks of flesh like fungi crawled across the walls and ceiling.

He Ao had refrained from acting because he couldn’t pinpoint the exact location of the monster, fearing that a sudden move might startle it. But now, he no longer had that concern.

His Divine Sense allowed his gaze to swiftly scan the room, and amidst the chaotic flow of energy, he precisely located a mass of flesh on the left wall.

At this moment, the tentacles reaching outside had already started retracting back into the room.

He Ao then charged forward, and before the tentacle fully retracted, he plunged the blade of the butterfly knife into that mass of flesh.

The entire room convulsed violently in that instant, and countless pieces of flesh fell from the ceiling.

He Ao immediately pulled out the butterfly knife and leaped backward, rushing out through the narrow door.

By this time, Jia Xi had come rushing over. She glanced at the writhing flesh inside the door and then turned all her attention to He Ao.

He Ao saw the worry in her eyes and reached out to pat her head.

Then he turned his head to look toward the end of the corridor.

The Concealment monster had indeed been formidable, and the presence of the turret had been a distraction.

Had it not been for the warning from the man on the twentieth floor, he might have had a harder time.

However, the existence of this Polluted Monster also indirectly confirmed that He Ao’s previous deduction was correct.

He Ao, holding his granddaughter’s hand, walked toward the staircase at the end of the hall.

On the following floors, no one came to stop He Ao, and the entire corridor was eerily silent.

He Ao ascended level by level and quickly reached the top floor.

This was the fortieth floor of the building, climbing thirty-nine flights of stairs from the first floor.

This level had only one door.

He Ao walked towards that door, using the edge of the corridor to look down at the atrium once more.

Looking down from the top of this very high floor, the deep atrium was as if an endless abyss, dark, dull, swallowing everything.

Yet the bright light fell at He Ao’s feet.

He Ao withdrew his gaze, pausing in front of the door.

That door seemed to sense the presence of an ’invited guest’ outside, shivered slightly, and slowly opened.

A man in a white shirt stood behind the door, in front of a liquor cabinet, pulling out the cork from a bottle of red wine. He glanced at He Ao outside the door, his face wearing a gentle smile; he looked cultivated and elegant.

"Elderly sir, what brings you to this place today? Pollution Cleaning Department, or, the Evolution Acolytes?"