Life Game In Other World
Chapter 748: Fragment 001 (Super Long - , Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 748: Chapter 748: Fragment 001 (Super Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Newland City-State

Chen Lin stood outside a settlement, slicing up a few stray monsters that had appeared before him.

"Mr. Hao Yi" seemed to have completely killed the mind-controlling Black Shadow, and after that encounter, the seductive voices in everyone’s ears had disappeared.

Consequently, those originally beguiled ’followers’ lost their ability to control the monsters. Most of them, before they could panic from losing their ’master’, were torn apart by the now uncontrollable monsters surrounding them.

The monster hordes that had banded together to attack the settlements also lost control, unable to assemble. This allowed the various settlements to finally ’survive’ the relentless monster ’waves’.

However, this did not mean the monsters had disappeared completely.

Monsters wandering the streets became more numerous and stronger over time.

Even without organization, these wandering monsters exerted significant pressure on all the major temporary settlements.

"Boss,"

the young man standing next to Chen Lin looked around at the monster corpses and the dense swarm of monsters freely roaming amongst them, swallowing hard, "Can we really kill all these monsters?"

Hearing this, Chen Lin fell silent for a moment before finally speaking softly, "We’ll do what we can."

Understanding the answer, the young man lifted his gaze to the sky, looking at the unchanging stars and the faint traces of dawn on the horizon.

The sun might never rise again.

Just then, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he exclaimed somewhat breathlessly, "Boss, look at the sky!"

Chen Lin raised his head to look at the sky.

A massive planet phantom that reflected a faint glow was suspended over the city, filling much of the sky.

It was like a terrifying giant, overlooking the world.

In a nearby settlement, more and more people were drawn to look up at the oppressive planet overhead.

A silent suffocation and fearful sobbing echoed under the pitch-black night.

Chen Lin also watched the enormous planet, but his gaze wasn’t entirely captured by it; he could vaguely sense that although the planet was dangerous, it was still far from them.

His intuition told him that there seemed to be something even more terrifying in the city.

And just as this thought surfaced, directly below the massive planet, on the edge of the city, a huge Phantom Shadow composed of countless twisted space fragments and mist appeared right above the city.

Eyes that twinkled emerged within those fragmented spaces, seemingly sweeping over the entire city.

"What is that?"

At that moment, the young man next to Chen Lin also spotted the Phantom Shadow and instinctively turned his head away.

"Don’t look!"

Chen Lin suddenly pressed down on his head, also lowering his own.

Almost the moment they lowered their heads, among the myriad of eyes hidden in the space fragments of the massive Phantom Shadow, one swept in the direction where Chen Lin and the young man were standing.

Several monsters nearby who had instinctively looked at the Phantom Shadow made eye contact for an instant with this sweeping gaze. Their bodies suddenly swelled up and then burst like an inflated balloon with a ’bang’.

The scattered flesh rained onto the monsters beside them, whose bodies instantly twisted and swelled further, growing wriggling eyes.

Seeing this sight, Chen Lin abruptly pulled the young man next to him, keeping their heads down, and directly slashed through a few still-twitching monsters in their way, rushing into a nearby settlement.

"Don’t look up in that direction!"

He shouted loudly.

—

Outside Newland City-State

Night had once again descended, and He Ao’s clone stood on a ship, his gaze extending past the spherical building phantom that was gradually emerging from the fog, looking up at the sky.

"What is that?"

Li Cheng, who was standing next to him, followed his gaze looking toward the distant horizon.

A day had passed since the blockade of Newland City-State. Due to interference with nearby air routes, Li Cheng had made several detours, traveling from Central Earth before finally meeting He Ao’s clone, who had just dealt with the Black Shadow.

On this ship, it wasn’t just Li Cheng, but also Rudel from the World Tree and the last surviving C-level from Moonlight.

These strongest fighters from the main world all followed He Ao’s gaze, looking toward the end of the spherical mist.

At the boundless horizon of the sea, behind the hemispherical machine veiled in thick fog, a giant phantom of a planet was slowly emerging from the point where the sky met the ocean.

As if it were slowly rising from the end of the sea.

"Relic."

He Ao responded calmly.

Upon hearing this answer, everyone was stunned, their expressions filled with surprise and shock.

Although long before, explorers from the main world had scientifically determined that the relic was a dwarf planet with a diameter of about a thousand kilometers.

But this was the first time they were standing at such a close distance, seeing this planet.

The diameter of this dwarf planet was only a fraction of the main world’s planet, one-third of the Moon’s.

But even so, this was still a planet with a diameter measured in thousands of kilometers, and compared to the human body, it remained a terrifying behemoth.

However, He Ao did not focus on this phantom for too long.

Although the relic planet was large, in essence, it was just an incorporeal phantom formed by the dissipation of energy. What truly took part in the "exchange" was Newland City-State and the Underground Palace.

He Ao’s gaze shifted to a corner of the dense fog.

A "Phantom Shadow" formed of mist and shattered space debris was slowly taking shape out of the void.

"What is that?"

Li Cheng followed He Ao’s gaze to the phantom.

"The principal culprit behind this incident."

He Ao stated directly.

"What can we do?"

Li Cheng frowned and asked in a low voice.

They had already tried before, completely unable to penetrate the barrier of that fog.

This incident had surpassed all experiences of the main world; thus, the one with extensive knowledge in esoteric studies and a mysterious background, "Hao Yi," became the linchpin for everyone.

He Ao glanced at him, shaking his head.

What appeared outside Newland City-State right now were all phantoms. Inside the city-state, they might catch glimpses of some real scenes, but the actual entity was still in the Relic World opposite the gate.

And those were Angels. Even if they descended to this world, stand here except Li Cheng, who could briefly control Angel-class weapons, would probably be delivering their own heads on a platter.

And if the exchange were to be completely finalized, and the Angels descended, that would be the worst-case scenario.

That would equate to exposing the coordinates of the main world directly to the Divine Beings beyond it.

In the end, he let out a soft sigh and said,

"Wait."

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Relic World

He Ao’s original body was observing everything before him, fixed on the enormous relic planet.

The massive phantom of the main world, which seemed so real before, was real here in the eyes of He Ao in this place.

Similarly, the huge ’life’ made of space debris and fog here was also real—the 009-1, an Angelic being.

At the moment, the ’gaze’ of that Angelic life form was not on He Ao standing behind it, but rather on the side of the ’man-made sun’ that faced the relic planet below it.

Faint phantom shadows were already appearing on that half sun still blazing with flame.

Those were the phantom shadows of Newland City-State; at this moment, the entire phantom of Newland City-State was facing the relic planet, and the spot where He Ao currently stood was behind the city’s phantom.

The ’exchange’ seemed to be at its final moments, which is why that ’Angel’ was constantly monitoring the status of Newland City-State.

But its keenness was still present, for almost the instant He Ao emerged from the hatch,

An eye opened amidst those shattered pieces of space, looking in He Ao’s direction.

Distorted contamination rushed towards He Ao’s mind in an instant.

It seemed as if the Angel intended to drive He Ao insane directly through the contamination.

Then, He Ao glanced at it, turned around, and went to find the Suppression Field Generator Platform where Fragment 001 was stored.

The endless cosmos seemed to fall into a moment of silence.

In a very short time, 009-1 didn’t seem to realize what had just happened, and then a series of eyes opened from the spatial fragments on the Angel’s body, watching He Ao.

But He Ao merely turned his back, refusing to make eye contact with it.

The twisted contamination continued to spread to He Ao while 009-1 watched him, but it wasn’t as direct as a face-to-face encounter, and even if it had been a direct confrontation, the contamination would not have greatly affected He Ao.

However, through the behavior of 009-1, he also confirmed another hypothesis in his mind.

In this critical moment, 009-1, with its power being used for ’exchange,’ all its abilities were caught up in the ’exchange,’ even restricting its own movements.

Otherwise, right when He Ao appeared, it could simply have stuck to his face and gone for a quick finish, without resorting to indirect methods like contamination, using it once and then a second time.

Even so, He Ao didn’t have much time.

Once it realized contamination was ineffective, 009-1 would surely begin to withdraw its power and use more means against him until he was completely killed.

His gaze swept over the spherical metallic surface, as well as the surrounding cosmic vacuum.

The place he was in should be outside the ’Underground Palace.’

The interior of the Underground Palace has many structures similar to those beneath the surface, leading the researchers from the main world who had little information on the Underground Palace to mistakenly believe it was an underground construction.

But in fact, the ’Underground Palace’ itself seemed to be a ’man-made sun’ that exists in the heavens.

The latter half, facing away from the Relic Planet, was the Underground Palace Research Institute, while the front half was presumably a heat-producing device.

This might be why the Explorers of the main world could never find a way to reach the Underground Palace from the ground, no matter what they tried.

Because the ’Underground Palace’ is up in the heavens.

In fact, in the vicinity of the Relic Planet, there are many ’man-made suns’ resembling the Underground Palace.

They burn with blazing flames, revolving around the Relic Planet.

Serving as the lighting system for the Relic Planet, they ensure ample illumination and the alternation of day and night, even as the planet drifts away from its star system.

This may not be the most efficient energy utilization, but it seems to be the best way to protect the ’planet’s original ecology.’

There were no large celestial bodies around, just a hollow universe full of distant stars.

Before destruction arrived, this dwarf planet was ’sailing’ through the vast universe with the entire Relic Civilization and these man-made suns.

However, the Underground Palace might also be one of the more special constructions among these man-made suns.

The ’man-made suns’ around were entirely ablaze with fire and didn’t divide into hemispheres of ’burning’ as the Underground Palace did.

He Ao activated his Super Memory, quickly scanning all the surrounding environment.

Soon, he spotted a small metallic platform not far from him.

Indeed, this Suppression Field Generator Platform would not be placed far from the exit.

He Ao’s feet spewed out flames, propelling him rapidly towards the metallic platform.

At this time, 009-1, which kept opening ’eyes,’ finally realized that He Ao seemed to have some resistance to the contamination.

Its eyes hidden within the spatial fragments no longer focused on He Ao but instead looked around to his front, back, left, and right.

In that moment, a pitch-black vortex suddenly appeared right in front of He Ao.

He Ao immediately raised his hands, and flames spouted, carrying his body off course, bypassing the vortex.

Just as he skirted past the vortex, a new one appeared in front of him, and right then, a ’Lizard’ creature with bared fangs and claws charged out of the vortex, seemingly intent on tearing He Ao’s Mecha apart.

But almost the moment its body emerged from the vortex, its blood vessels burst instantly, with frost covering its body, turning it into a large ’Lizard ice block.’

It seemed this creature didn’t understand science, unaware of what ’careful, vacuum’ meant, nor did it know about the low temperature of the universe.

Even as there were man-made suns around, the energy from those suns appeared to be collected through some method and mainly projected onto Relic Planet.

In the desolate space devoid of any stars nearby, horrifying low temperatures still pervaded every inch of the void.

He Ao’s figure swept over the ’Lizard ice block,’ and in front of his view, more and more vortices opened up.

These vortices seemed to be doors leading to the interior of the Underground Palace.

Allowing 009-1 to summon creatures from within the Underground Palace to hinder He Ao’s actions.

Behind the Lizard monster, what appeared in front of He Ao was a doll with flesh-and-blood eyes.

Its body didn’t seem to be completely made of flesh; even after its blood-soaked eyes burst and froze, it still charged at He Ao, ready to attack.

Then it was bisected by He Ao with a swing of his black broadsword, exposing its mechanical core inside.

As He Ao continued to move forward, the number of monsters in the corridor ahead increased.

009-1 also seemed to have figured out a tactic, no longer summoning purely flesh-and-blood monsters but instead those with a majority of mechanical components.

The strength of the monsters grew as well.

By the time He Ao reached the midpoint, the monsters he faced had already reached the peak of C-level.

Even though opening the gate to the unified space ’Heaven’ was more convenient for 009-1, passing through the gate with such high-intensity monsters must have also drained some strength.

This meant that 009-1 was continuously siphoning power to deal with He Ao.

And when He Ao had covered two-thirds of the distance, he saw on the mechanical surface below a corpse wearing broken protective Mecha, frozen and hanging on the ’artificial sun’s’ mechanical surface.

At the same time, at this distance, he could also clearly see the seriously damaged traces on the metallic platform ahead.

Just then, a massive vine suddenly lashed out from the vortex ahead, striking his Mecha.

He Ao parried the vine with his sword and then maneuvered the Mecha to roll in midair, overclocking the Mecha to leap towards the metal platform at maximum speed.

009-1 seemingly did not anticipate that He Ao could suddenly burst forth with such speed.

Only a few vortexes opened in the last stretch, with huge vines reaching out from within, attempting to obstruct He Ao.

But He Ao did not engage in battle; he used his speed advantage to quickly dodge or sweep away the vines, and in almost the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the metal platform.

And in that instant, a vast vortex appeared in front of him, followed by a ’vine tree’ completely entwined with vines emerging from within it.

Half of its body was in the vortex, half extended out to face He Ao, with countless thickly layered ’skins’ of vines bursting forth from this vine tree, attacking He Ao.

This vine tree appeared to be the ’source’ of the vines in the Underground Palace, and it had modified its structure to adapt to the space environment for the part that extended from the vortex.

Countless tiny vines spread instantly in the quiet vacuum of space, rushing towards He Ao, blocking his path.

Its intent was not on He Ao’s vitals but on trying to destroy the structure of ’Adam 1 Type,’ exposing He Ao’s body to the vacuum.

Compared to He Ao’s combat strength, the defensive power of Adam 1 Type was much weaker.

He Ao looked at the vine with the eyes of Divine Sense.

Energy convergence points, interwoven and distributed on the vine tree, appeared in his sight; and before the vine tree, there were various net-like vines spread out.

These vines came at him thick as raindrops.

He Ao didn’t hesitate to overclock the Mecha, and its enormous propulsion carried him like a streak of light toward the vine tree that blocked the metal platform.

Sharp sword light cut through the green vines, and the severed vines, like clouds suspended in space, spread out behind He Ao’s steps.

Soon, He Ao had reached the vine tree, but just as he was about to reach it, in the last instant, the colossal vine tree suddenly writhed, dragging its lower half out of the vortex as well.

Endless new vines surged from its lower half, blocking He Ao’s retreat, rushing at him from all sides.

The vine tree had kept these vines hidden behind the vortex, out of He Ao’s sight, waiting for this moment to surge forward and completely ’strangle’ He Ao.

He Ao looked at the sky full of vines, lifted his hand, and a wrinkled silver metal block came to his grasp; the contamination of the Mechanical Core ring forcefully activated the metal block’s power in an instant.

Twisted order pervaded the calm depths of space in that instant.

A gigantic vine tree and a small figure before it formed a painting that seemed eternally still in the cosmos.

The next second, that still painting trembled slightly, followed by the silver Mecha breaking free from this ’painting.’

The dark Phantom Shadow, like a fluid brushstroke, swept over the silent world, leaving invisible marks all over the huge vine tree.

Finally, the silver Mecha soared past the vine tree, past the large vortex behind it, reaching the metal platform beyond the vine tree.

The terrifying giant tree and the endless vines behind the Mecha crumbled, turning into blocks of solidified emerald ice.

And He Ao looked towards the completely damaged metal platform.

A hollowed metal cube about fifteen centimeters on each side hovered over the square of the metal platform.

A faint, weak red glow emanated from inside the metal case.

Some twisted whispers echoed in his ears.