Life Game In Other World
Chapter 728: A Bit of Charm (Requesting Monthly Tickets for the Long - )

Chapter 728: Chapter 728: A Bit of Charm (Requesting Monthly Tickets for the Long Chapter)

The old stone house, the vast and silent sea, and the clear sky reflected in the surface of the water.

He Ao quietly observed everything around him, which seemed to have not changed at all.

The coin that had flown out was now in his hand, showing the reverse side.

His gaze wandered toward the door, the sight that met his eyes was the glittering sea, but this sea had no undulations, nor any sound of waves hitting the sand and stones.

Everything around was eerily silent.

Outside the window, there was still the clear sky, except that this sky and the clouds within it were motionless, like a lifelike painting.

This was the ’Mirror Space’ created by Mirror Shadow.

He Ao held the coin, bowed his head, and looked at the ’flesh materials’ he had prepared.

Like ice left out in the open, the flesh materials laid in the center of the stone house slowly ’melted’.

The flowing bright red liquid spilled out from beneath these flesh materials, like rivers flowing over a vast landscape, drawing bright red lines on the floor of the stone house.

Until they covered the entire stone house.

This flowing red liquid slowly contracted and then pulsed as if the silent space were breathing rhythmically.

To be more precise, this space was ’digesting’ the flesh materials.

At this moment, He Ao had chosen this Mirror Space as a ’fixed Mirror Space’.

To create such a fixed Mirror Space, firstly a sufficient ’price’ was needed.

For this, one had to thank all the puppeteers behind the scenes; if they had not sent that Transcendent monster to attack He Ao, he wouldn’t have found so many ’Transcendent materials’.

These Transcendent materials would be gradually absorbed by this Mirror Space, transformed into its own energy, and maintain the stability of the Mirror Space.

Now, even if He Ao left this Mirror Space, it would not be immediately devoured.

Of course, this was just the beginning of ’fixing’ the Mirror Space.

The Mirror Space that He Ao was in was not stable enough, nor sufficient to serve as the core that connects other temporary Mirror Spaces.

The entire fixing process would last for about a day and a bit more, until the entire Mirror Space was completely fixed, it would then become the core of all surrounding temporary Mirror Spaces.

And the moment this new fixed Mirror Space was completely fixed, the original ’fixed Mirror Space’ would lose its core status and gradually dissipate.

He Ao currently chose this stone house, roughly in the direction slightly south of Wenlan Island of Newland City-State, more than fifty kilometers away from Wester’s originally fixed Mirror Space in the city center.

The reason for this choice was due to the mutual repulsion between the new and the old fixed Mirror Spaces.

If there was already a fixed Mirror Space in place, the new fixed Mirror Space had to be beyond fifty kilometers from the original one, and could not be within the scope of the original fixed Mirror Space; otherwise, it would not be successfully fixed.

As he watched the flesh materials at the center of the stone house gradually dissolving and the entire Mirror Space beginning to fix, He Ao also turned his gaze to the remaining mirrors around.

The scenery within these mirrors was the real sight of the main world.

Now, what He Ao needed to do was to choose a mirror to serve as a ’door’.

Unlike temporary Mirror Spaces, which can only be entered or exited by the coin holder pulling people in or out, fixed Mirror Spaces are connected to the main world.

The coin holder can choose a wide mirror within the fixed Mirror Space as a ’door,’ and once the ’door’ is connected to the main world, anyone can pass through this ’door’ into and out of the fixed Mirror Space.

Of course, the right to open and close this door is in the hands of the coin holder.

After scanning for a moment, He Ao chose the mirror right in front of the door to be the ’door’.

Opening the ’door’ was simple, hold the coin and with a thought, it would be done, but there were requirements for the location of the coin holder.

If the coin holder is within fifty kilometers of the fixed Mirror Space in a temporary Mirror Space, they can open the door with just a thought.

However, if the coin holder is not in the Mirror Space but in the main world, they must be able to see the corresponding ’mirror’ of the ’door’ to open it.

This has nothing to do with distance; as long as one can directly ’see’ the mirror with the naked eye, it can be opened.

This ’seeing’ is quite an ’idealist’ concept. For example, if the mirror in the real world corresponding to the ’door’ is destroyed.

If the coin holder can’t see the ’door’ in the real world, there’s no way to open the door from there, and people in the real world can’t enter the fixed Mirror Space through the ’door’ either.

However, it is possible to open the ’door’ from within the fixed Mirror Space and walk out.

Of course, besides opening the door, the coin holder can also bring people into or out of the fixed Mirror Space by tossing the coin; it’s just not as convenient as using the door.

Once the mirror is determined to be the ’door,’ it cannot be changed, so if the main world’s door mirror is destroyed, the Mirror Space’s ’door’ effectively becomes half useless.

He Ao gazed at the mirror in front of him, which had been confirmed as the ’door.’

Although the Mirror Space he was in had not yet fully stabilized, this door mirror was already usable.

He pondered for a moment, then with a thought, he opened the ’door mirror.’

At the moment of his decision, the mirror surface in front of him trembled slightly, rippling gently like water for a moment, before returning to calmness.

The opening of this passage was not instantaneous; there was a delay of nearly two seconds.

Two seconds was enough time to do many things.

Perhaps once the Mirror Space was completely stabilized, this delay would be reduced, but He Ao still noted this data down.

He then slowly extended his hand towards the ’mirror surface.’

His hand did not make contact with any actual object, but passed through the mirror surface as if piercing through water.

He then stepped forward, entering the ’mirror surface.’

The moist, moss-covered, and dilapidated stone house appeared almost instantly in his view.

He turned to glance at the mirror facing the stone house’s door.

He stepped into the mirror, yet he also emerged from it.

It had a disorienting sense of temporal displacement.

He Ao focused on the door mirror, extended his hand to the mirror surface, and as it rippled like water, his hand sank into the mirror.

Then he withdrew his hand, and with a thought, he closed the passage.

The channel could be open for a maximum of fifteen minutes; after fifteen minutes it would close automatically. At the same time, it would consume a large amount of energy while open, affecting the stabilization process of the Mirror Space.

The closure of the channel also had a near two-second delay, and once the channel closed completely, He Ao touched the mirror surface again, but this time, his hand only felt a smooth, flat surface.

He turned around again to look towards the center of the stone house.

At this moment, the center of the stone house He Ao faced was empty, without the vivid red lines and melted flesh materials—it was the real world, not the Mirror Space.

He Ao looked at the vast sky outside the door and the thick fog beyond the sky, and instead of leaving immediately, he rested against the wall for a while.

The Mirror Shadow coin is a Transcendent artifact that can only be controlled by B-levels, but this clone is only C-level. When the coin was launched, the price of creating the Mirror Space could almost drain this body completely.

Even though He Ao’s Soul Advent had been briefly activated, granting Super Memory and sharing most of the cost with the original soul, the clone still paid a portion of the price.

——

Newland City-State · Core Island

He Ao’s actual body regained consciousness and observed the situation in front of him.

The monsters’ corpses lay scattered at their feet, while Feiya, Kodo, and Chen Lin stood beside him; behind them were some Transcendents from the Research Institute and Moonlight who had followed along.

In front of them now, the door to a small utility room stood wide open.

However, beyond this door was not a utility room but a closed-off space.

The vaguely visible rock walls, the strange blood-red moss covering them, and the flesh creeping at the edges of the walls all contributed to a twisted and oppressive atmosphere that seemed to engulf every corner of this space.

This was the stable ’door’ they had just discovered.

At this moment, Feiya’s eyes were slightly closed, her hand resting on the doorframe, and all eyes were focused on her pale hand.

The scene inside the door rippled lightly like the surface of a pond disturbed by pebbles, as some strange force seemed to begin operating around them, and at the same time, He Ao could clearly feel that Feiya’s complexion had worsened somewhat.

Suddenly, as if breaking through some boundary, the rippling scenery sharply contracted into a yellow point of light, swirling around Feiya’s fingertip.

The view of the original utility room reappeared before everyone’s eyes.

"Did it work?"

He Ao asked Feiya.

"Yes,"

Feiya nodded gently, lifting her hand and looking at the yellow point of light on her fingertip, "If we can find twenty such stable ’doors,’ we should be able to assemble a passageway that can support up to C-level."

"We’ve been running around one-fifth of the Core Island looking for this door; if this is the proportion, we should have enough,"

Chen Lin said thoughtfully, "And as the two worlds draw closer, more stable ’doors’ will appear."

"But we need to speed up,"

Feiya nodded in agreement, glanced at the light on her fingertip, and then turned to He Ao, "The power of this ’door’ is fading fast."

"The monsters coming through now are mostly F-level,"

He Ao glanced at the others, "All personnel above E-level will act separately, and groups of three F-level will form a small team. Divide the five islands into sections and explore all the stable ’doors’ as soon as possible."

Kodo, standing among the crowd, began to unconsciously object as He Ao spoke.

And in that instant, he saw He Ao’s gaze turn toward him, "Kodo, I’ll have Chen Lin give you a rough list of all members of the Research Institute. You’re most familiar with Newland City-State, so can you handle the zoning for us?"

The words of objection Kodo had ready were suddenly choked back, and he looked at He Ao’s calm gaze, momentarily lost for words.

The relationship between Moonlight and the Research Institute wasn’t good, especially after Liu Zhengyun killed the B-level Sloane from Moonlight during the Velora incident.

From a third-party perspective, Moonlight was in the wrong during that event.

But from Moonlight’s standpoint, the Research Institute was the villain that killed one of their pillars.

Even now, in a shared predicament, Kodo’s instinct was to oppose the young C-level from the Research Institute.

He could accept leadership from the relatively neutral B-level Hao Yi but not from a C-level of the Research Institute, especially when the young man seemed so youthful.

Although he had heard of the young man’s exploits during the Navigator incident—after all, some of Moonlight’s people had survived and returned from the Navigator—he admired He Ao for his deeds and knew that he was the most capable and powerful person to unite everyone at the moment.

But standing with Moonlight, the smarter and more powerful the other party seemed, the more he felt he should be wary.

He also knew that the Research Institute itself did not like Moonlight.

He initially thought that no matter what, the ’kid’ across from him would harbor some animosity towards Moonlight, possibly marginalizing him and Feiya in actual coordination.

But then, the young man suddenly entrusted such an important task to him, throwing him for a loop.

Wasn’t he worried that Kodo might set traps for the Institute’s people?

"Is there a problem?"

Seeing Kodo had not responded, He Ao asked softly.

"No."

After a brief hesitation, Kodo bit his teeth and shook his head.

Then he opened his mouth, trying to say something.

"I appreciate it,"

He Ao glanced at him, then at Chen Lin, and looking at everyone, said in a low voice,

"We’re now in the same crisis. In the world beyond the door, there lurk foes that could easily destroy us, the land beneath us, the entire world.

"The city has been sealed off, and we may not be able to wait for any reinforcements.

"At this moment, the fate of this world rests in our hands.

"We have no other choice, all we can rely on are our fellow humans beside us.

"No matter our previous stances, we stand here now for our future, the future of this city-state, and for the future of all breathing humans living beyond this city-state—in Central Earth, the Empire, the Western Lands."

His gaze swept across everyone’s faces, "Unity is our only hope, we can trust our comrades who face death with us."

The streets under the night sky were eerily quiet, with only the rustling of leaves in the wind.

The Transcendents from the Research Institute and Moonlight, who had clearly divided into two groups, glanced at each other.

Kodo and Chen Lin also exchanged glances.

"For our own future,"

He Ao extended his right hand.

"For our own future,"

Feiya placed her hand on top of his.

Chen Lin also added his hand, followed by several Transcendents from the Research Institute.

The Transcendents of Moonlight congregated as well, hesitating and unconsciously looking toward Kodo.

Although Feiya was theoretically the top leader of the Moonlight organization in Newland City-State, those from Moonlight remaining there were more or less directly under Kodo’s command. Compared to Feiya, they were more concerned with Kodo’s opinion.

Watching hand after hand stack together without a gap, after a brief pause, Kodo slowly placed his hand on top, "For our own future!"

The Transcendents of Moonlight followed his motion and placed their hands on top as well.

"Let’s do this!"

All the hands pressed down simultaneously, the crowd squeezing together closer than ever before.

Some invisible barrier dissolved at that moment.

Many eyes involuntarily focused on the young man at the center of the crowd.

Kodo watched the youth with a hint of a smile on his face.

He had to admit, this young man had a certain charm.

He was persuaded.