Life Game In Other World
Chapter 735: The Released ’Thing’ (Seeking Monthly Pass for Large - )

Chapter 735: Chapter 735: The Released ’Thing’ (Seeking Monthly Pass for Large Chapter)

In the pitch-dark corridors of the Underground Palace, He Ao and Feiya watched the chaotic scene within the light gate.

"It doesn’t look too good over there,"

Feiya eyed everything within the light gate, observing the disordered figures and the noisy streets, she said softly.

"Mm."

He Ao nodded lightly, then suddenly raised his hand and threw the bone sword in his hand diagonally downward.

With the scattering of fresh blood, a small emerald snake that had been moving slowly toward the light gate through the vines was revealed from its ’invisibility,’ displaying its severed body.

Its two sections of snake body twitched once and finally came to a complete stop.

Only then did Feiya notice the small snake.

This snake had a similar ’invisibility’ ability to that of the larger snakes, but its camouflage wasn’t as good.

After slicing the small snake, He Ao took a few steps forward, pulled out his bone sword, and reached his hand into the light gate.

The entire light gate suddenly shook violently the moment his hand touched it, then exploded with a bang and dissipated in the darkness.

This gate couldn’t withstand their power.

"This gate seemed much more stable than when we entered,"

Feiya watched the door that had turned into specks of light and vanished, "Now it might barely be able to withstand some of the weaker D-class monsters."

She paused, her voice tinged with worry, "Even if this is the most stable gate among all the gates we’ve seen, the situation on the other side in the real world is probably not optimistic, and there are also those people on the streets... We have no idea what has happened over there."

"Mm,"

He Ao nodded gently, withdrew his hand, sheathed his bone sword in the ’Scabbard’ on his back, and walked towards the half-open gate not far away, "We continue downward."

Now, panicking was of no use. Maintaining speed, unraveling the secrets of this Underground Palace, and the reasons it ’approached’ the main world, the Newland City-State, was the only way to resolve the predicament.

The sound of their quiet footsteps once again echoed in the dark corridor. With the faint light spilling from her flashlight, Feiya glanced at the calm profile of the young man beside her.

This kind of calm and composure in times of peril always brought a reassuring strength.

The two soon reached the end of the corridor and saw the half-open gate.

To be precise, it was a ’half-closed’ gate.

The huge gate had fallen halfway from the top and then got stuck there, with dense vines covering the entire gate, giving this steel creation, which had withstood the test of countless years, a somewhat verdant appearance.

"This is the Main Vine..."

Feiya shone her flashlight on the vines on the gate.

The thick Main Vine extended from the wall to the gate, wrapping it up and down, while the branches that spread from the Main Vine intertwined with each other, and along with the vines on the walls, formed a huge ’green net’ that enveloped the entire gate.

"Watch your head."

He Ao bent down and moved quickly under the gate.

Feiya also bent down and followed behind him, and the two swiftly passed through the gate, arriving in the elevator hall that led to the third floor.

He Ao didn’t look at the elevator hall’s interior, instead turning around to shine his flashlight on the outer side of the gate.

Just like the inside, the outside of the gate was tightly covered with vines, almost blending with the wall.

"Did these vines ’catch’ this gate?"

Feiya shone her flashlight on those vines, puzzled, "Did the Main Vine extend here just to prevent this gate from closing? But why?"

"Perhaps to let out something that was trapped here."

He Ao shone his flashlight around, noting that there were seven elevators in this hall. The overhead lights in the elevator hall had long been destroyed, all the elevator indicator lights were off, and it seemed that the control screens had also been damaged by some external force, suggesting the elevators were completely unusable.

The elevator hall’s walls and floor were covered in bloodstains, as if to tell ’visitors’ that a brutal slaughter had taken place here. In some of the wall crevices, you could even see bullets that had been shot into the walls and were now rusted.

Naturally, the slaughter wasn’t caused by the vines, as He Ao had just witnessed the vines’ ’hunting’ technique.

The vines would directly drain the blood from their prey, and if it had been the vines’ prey, there wouldn’t be so much blood left behind.

Given the density of the vines on the outer side of the corridor, as well as the strength of the gigantic python that lived symbiotically within those vines, most exotic beasts or monsters that ’took a wrong turn’ would likely become their prey.

Moreover, there were far fewer bloodstains in this elevator area than on the outside, indicating that fewer people or creatures died here than in the outside world.

In other words, not many other beings made it to this elevator area because not everyone understood the ’rules’ of the vine attacks like Kalin did.

This elevator area was likely preserved to some extent undisturbed, retaining the appearance it had at the very outset of the crisis.

He Ao stepped back a few paces, his flashlight sweeping across every corner of the elevator area, his gaze scanning over bullet and weapon traces, and even the marks left by some kind of blade.

There had once been a fierce battle here, and it seemed that humans were one of the participants.

In this battle, the humans probably weren’t able to defeat their opponent, so those among them who could control the gates opted to close them, sealing both their foe and themselves inside to die together.

It was around this time that the vines stretched out, pressing against the closed gates.

The final outcome was evident, the humans lost, and whatever ’thing’ they tried to block out left this place, while their corpses likely became nourishment for the vines.

He Ao walked through the quiet elevator area, where there were considerably fewer vines on the ground.

These vines, unlike those in the stairwells of the first and second floors, did not spread from the hallway or into it; they reached this spot and didn’t extend any further, as if they had come to the end of the line for this floor.

In the corners of the elevator area’s floor, one could still vaguely make out pieces of clothing that hadn’t entirely decayed.

He Ao continued to step back, searching around the periphery of the elevator area.

Feiya looked at him somewhat blankly, not knowing what he was looking for, but she immediately came over with her flashlight to help He Ao illuminate a wider view.

Although this place was better preserved, He Ao failed to find anything particularly useful, not even a name tag from any casualties.

In the end, between two vines, he spotted a broken Gauss Rifle stained with blood.

Once he finished checking every corner and confirmed there were no more clues, He Ao returned to the hallway, picked up the carcass of the small snake he had killed without touching the vines, and threw it onto the vines beside the rifle.

The two vines quickly coiled, entwining the snake carcass, while He Ao deftly used his bone sword to lift the Gauss Rifle from beneath the vines.

Feiya blinked as she watched He Ao’s maneuvers.

She had thought of luring the vines away with the snake carcass as well, but by the time she had the idea, He Ao had already brought the snake carcass back and thrown it out again.

She could only lean over and help He Ao with the flashlight, eyeing the Gauss Gun in his hand, "Is there something special about this gun?"

"Don’t know,"

He Ao shook his head, carefully examining the broken Gauss Gun. Due to lack of maintenance and the harsh storage conditions, the metal structures on the gun were rusted.

However, the rust on one piece was not uniform but had an irregular relief-like appearance, resembling a kind of special pattern.

He Ao wiped away the surface rust, revealing two crooked characters etched on the gun that he recognized,

[Isolation]

He knew these characters.

"Relic language?"

Feiya peered confusedly at the two crooked characters on the gun, revealing an illiterate gaze.

Although she was not poorly educated, she didn’t recognize a single symbol of the relic language. In fact, the entire main world was illiterate when it came to the relic language.

Without any references, trying to decode a lost language from scratch was very difficult, especially since the main world actually didn’t have much material on relic language to begin with.

"Perhaps the owner of this gun wanted to leave something behind?"

She adjusted her glasses with some helplessness, "But it seems that he did not anticipate that the person to find this gun would be illiterate. It would have been better if he had left some simple pictograms."

"Let’s take a picture first."

He Ao pulled out the small camera that Moonlight had prepared for them before departure and photographed the two characters.

Then he searched carefully around the gun once more and, finding no additional characters, he placed the now-defunct weapon in a corner.

"Are we going down now?"

Feiya asked softly, watching his actions.

"Yes."

He Ao nodded, "This time, we’ll take the staircase."

The staircase leading from the second underground level to the third was at the innermost part of the elevator room, and it didn’t have any vines.

With the stairs being safe, choosing the staircase—a space with continuous access—definitely offered more escape routes compared to the confined space of an elevator.

"Good!"

Feiya nodded and stepped on the floor, walking towards the staircase door nearby.

This staircase door had long been destroyed by some creature, leaving impact marks and some hair at the edges of the walls.

"It indeed looks like the traces left by a ’Ram Demon’."

Feiya said in a low voice as she looked at the hair.

Kalin had mentioned before that he had seen marks on the third level’s staircase door that appeared to have been made by a Ram Demon breaking through.

"Hmm,"

He Ao also came over and looked at the ’fresh’ looking hair and the damaged lock of the staircase door, as well as the relatively new marks on the wall. "It seems that the Ram Demon ’came up’ not long ago."

Perhaps just within the last year or two.

With this thought, he turned to glance back at the dark and deep corridor overgrown with vines.

According to Kalin’s accounts, when he first arrived at the second underground level, he encountered attacks from some fierce exotic beasts. Realizing the second level was very dangerous, he didn’t proceed to explore the third level but retreated to the first level instead.

Kalin had explored that corridor, been to this elevator room, but when he was here, it seemed that he hadn’t been attacked by that snake.

Either the snake hadn’t arrived at that time, or some ’special circumstances’ prevented the snake’s actions.

In the Shadow, He Ao felt like he was grasping at one of the many tangled threads beneath this complex event, but he couldn’t quite get a firm hold.

He was still missing the ’hook’ needed to catch onto this thread.

While he pondered, He Ao didn’t stop his movements. He and Feiya quickly made their way down. The staircase wasn’t long, with only two turns, and the only surprise was that they encountered no monsters in the stairwell.

There were also very few bloodstains in the entire stairwell.

Soon, the two of them reached the third underground level.

The third level’s staircase door was also broken open, only from the outside in.

There was no light outside the door; it seemed the lights in the elevator room were also damaged.

He Ao and Feiya exited the staircase door, their flashlight beams illuminating the narrow elevator room.

"It’s so clean here."

Feiya said somewhat surprised.

There were some bloodstains here, but compared to the areas they had visited before, these bloodstains were almost negligible.

This elevator room was the most preserved of the three they had passed through.

And its ’integrity’, naturally, had its reasons.

He Ao took his flashlight and scanned the surroundings. Across from them, he found a gate that was firmly closed.

Unlike the first and second levels, the gate on this floor had been successfully ’closed.’

Now, He Ao had some understanding of why those vines had come to support the closing gate on the second underground level.

If the gate on the second level had also been closed, then the ’thing’ that had been trapped in the second underground level’s elevator room might have been trapped inside for a long time.

However, the gate in front of He Ao now, although successfully closed, was not ’intact.’

On the right side of the gate, there was a crack wide enough for two people to pass through.

The sturdy alloy that made up the gate had been pierced by an external force, crumpling and shattering outward like punctured paper, creating a gap wide enough for two people.

"What’s this crack?"

Feiya, now holding the flashlight, approached the gap. She shone the light inside the gap and then suddenly paused, "He Ao, look at this."

"It’s a Ram Demon."

He Ao walked over and looked in the direction of her flashlight’s beam. He just caught sight of a rather small Ram Demon lying beyond the gate, with eyes wide open, its skull partially shattered, revealing a hybrid structure of flesh and machinery.

Beyond this gate, not far off, there was another one that had been rammed open.

He Ao glanced at the damaged part of the gate, lifted his foot and stepped over it, "Let’s go take a look."

This staircase only had this one exit. Whether there were any levels below the Underground Palace or not, they had to go out and see for themselves.

The two of them crossed over that gate, and then, behind yet another gate, they again found the corpse of a ’Ram Demon’.

There weren’t just one or two gates that had dropped down in this corridor; there were more than twenty. Nearly after every two gates, they would find one Ram Demon’s body, sometimes even several.

"These ’doors’, were they all smashed open by them?"

At the end, Feiya spoke softly, looking at the corpse at her feet.

"They must have been."

He Ao nodded and lifted his flashlight toward the front. At this moment, the last gate was all that was left in front of them.

This gate had the largest opening, mostly destroyed, and could be considered fully open. At the same time, a colossal entity, larger than the gate itself, was blocking the entrance, its back to them.

Feiya also looked up, staring at the massive being, then she cautiously glanced at He Ao.

"It’s alright, keep moving forward."

He Ao walked ahead, passing through the gap between the large creature and the gate.

Feiya closely followed behind him.

After a few more steps forward, leaving the giant creature behind, they turned back to look.

A massive Ram Demon, seven to eight meters tall and hugely built, sitting on the ground, appeared in their view.

This Ram Demon was blocking the gate entrance, almost completely covering the gate, leaving only narrow spaces on either side for people to get through.

"This Ram Demon..."

Feiya’s voice trembled as she stared at the imposing figure.

"Is dead."

He Ao spoke calmly.

In the gaze of Divine Sense, the high-energy circuit inside the Ram Demon had long since collapsed, leaving behind only a massive body.

At this moment, He Ao also had a guess about what had once happened here.

When a crisis hit the Underground Palace, the staffers most likely opened the gates in a very short span of time, severing the connection between the third level below and the two levels above.

And these Ram Demons lived near these gates, ramming them day after day, taking hundreds of years to break open the gates and escape this place, entering the levels above.

He Ao turned back, sweeping his gaze around. The area was wide open, a three-way junction without any Ram Demons attacking.

The Ram Demons he had previously killed on the first level underground might have been the last ones.

After they broke through the gates, they all escaped to the top, leaving behind the huge corpse of what might be their ancestor to block the passage and deter other monsters.

Perhaps this was the reason why no powerful creatures had appeared on the first level underground since the Ram Demons emerged.

The other monsters might not have realized that this pathway had already been opened, and all the Ram Demons had already vanished.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked towards the three-way junction ahead.

There was one main road going straight ahead and two side roads, one to the left and one to the right.

Feiya, meanwhile, had recovered from the shock of the huge Ram Demon and looked at the three-way path before her, asking in a low voice,

"Which way should we go?"

"The one on the far left."

He Ao replied quickly.