Life Game In Other World
Chapter 759: Eternal Secret Teachings (Major - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 759: Chapter 759: Eternal Secret Teachings (Major Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

He Ao folded his home-made "coffin board" to make it into an improvised ski board.

The main structural elements of the nutrient pod were made of lightweight alloy which actually wasn’t heavy. The heavy parts were the life support equipment inside, so using the nutrient pod lid as a ski board wouldn’t crush the snow underneath.

It was much more comfortable to have a ski board to move forward in the snow than to walk.

The clothes that had been soaked with seawater were starting to freeze in the cold of the snowy field. He Ao shook off the ice chips from his clothes and, using the harpoon as a pole, managed to slide across the forest’s snowy surface.

Soon, he had covered one or two kilometers, and at that moment, the howling from the sky finally reached an area not far from him.

A giant mecha with a snow-white paint job appeared on the snowfield not far from him.

He Ao glanced at the mecha. It bore some resemblance to the Hell Apostle Mechs he had piloted before. It was a modified version produced by Yiwis Space System Company, named "Fallen Angel."

This model was lighter, more agile, and energy-efficient, possessing strong cold and moisture resistance, suitable for operations in snowy plains and mountainous terrain. Its downside was fragile armor and weak close-combat abilities, requiring higher piloting skill.

Following the Fallen Angel were two Hell Apostle Mechs, also painted in snowfield camouflage.

The two Hell Apostles were targeting the Fallen Angel ahead, firing at it tentatively.

Their position was only a little further forward from the safe zone, beyond which was the Storm Sea.

In the Storm Sea, filled with thunder and tempest, neither Hell Apostles nor Fallen Angels could operate normally, effectively making it a dead end.

It appeared that the two Hell Apostles were trying to corner the Fallen Angel, aiming to encircle it completely.

But this encirclement was hard to complete. After all, there was still some distance to the Storm Sea, and if the pilot of the Fallen Angel was skilled enough, there was still a chance to break through.

However...

He Ao turned his head and looked towards a ’small hill’ that seemed to be purely buried by snow in front of the Fallen Angel Mecha.

The situation might not be that simple.

And in that instant when his thoughts flashed, the hill he had been watching suddenly trembled.

Boom—

The dazzling plasma cannon, long prepared, tore through the sky, and its immense heat instantly melted all the surrounding snow.

However, the Fallen Angel Mecha in the sky seemed to have noticed the anomaly in the hill. In the last moment, it changed its flight direction.

The snow-white mecha suddenly swerved in mid-air, shooting upwards in a vertical loop, evading the shot that could have pierced it.

Still, the plasma cannon grazed its thigh, damaging the thigh along with the thruster on it, causing the mecha’s body to skew somewhat unstably in the air.

At the same time, the Hell Apostle Mech camouflaged in the snowy hill burst out from the pristine white snow.

It drew the giant sword from its back and faced the unbalanced Fallen Angel Mecha in the air.

The Fallen Angel Mecha quickly drew its broadsword for defense.

But it was still hit by the strike, sent flying like a cannonball in the huge impact, crashing towards the direction where He Ao stood.

Seeing this, He Ao’s brows slightly furrowed.

The two Hell Apostle Mechs behind followed close behind. All three Hell Apostle Mechs opened fire with their guns, raining down fire from above on the Fallen Angel Mecha.

In a fiercely sudden barrage, the Fallen Angel Mecha tumbled and crashed into the forest in front of He Ao.

At this time, the Fallen Angel Mech seemed to have spotted He Ao. It immediately got up and sprinted in a direction away from He Ao.

It was at this moment that the mech on the far left raised its cannon, but it wasn’t aimed at the Fallen Angel Mech; it was aimed at He Ao’s position.

The Fallen Angel Mecha’s movements hesitated for a moment, then it quickly turned and flipped over to stand in front of He Ao, taking the cannon fire with its arm shield.

The three Hell Apostle Mechs immediately spread out, encircling the Fallen Angel Mecha.

At that moment, He Ao was almost certain that he was now being treated as a ’hostage.’

These Hell Apostle Mechs had noticed him a while ago and deliberately drove the Fallen Angel Mech towards him to use him as a ’hostage’ to finish off the Fallen Angel Mech.

"Run quickly!"

It was then that a slightly husky, deep voice came from the Fallen Angel Mech’s speaker.

In Yiluo’s memory, there was no fragment of this mecha and this voice.

It shouldn’t be an acquaintance of Yiluo.

Moreover, judging from the tone of the mecha pilot, it seemed that he was not familiar with Yiluo either.

He Ao was silent for a moment, then raised the harpoon in his hand.

"Run fast! Run deep into the forest!"

The Fallen Angel Mecha positioned its white greatsword in front of itself, blocking the machine guns of the Hell Apostles, and glanced around.

The Hell Apostle on the far right had already raised its plasma cannon.

It took aim at the Fallen Angel Mecha standing in front of He Ao.

From his position, if the Fallen Angel Mecha dodged, the plasma cannon would hit He Ao.

The Fallen Angel Mecha could only hold the white greatsword horizontally in front of its chest, watching the Hell Apostle while also activating its onboard mini laser cannons, firing at the Hell Apostle in an attempt to disrupt his aim.

And at that instant, the Hell Apostle Mecha on the far left also raised its plasma main cannon.

At this point, the Fallen Angel Mecha stopped urging He Ao to run any further.

It was very clear that a human’s speed across snow could never evade the aim of two plasma cannons.

What he had not expected was that these Hell Apostle pilots would be such scum to threaten him with a child.

He grasped the white greatsword, and his main laser cannon began to charge up.

He seemed to be preparing for a last-ditch attempt, hoping to take down two in exchange for one.

Just then, the Hell Apostle Mecha in the center, which had been the earliest among them to lie in ambush, drew its greatsword and slashed towards the Fallen Angel Mecha head-on.

The body of the Fallen Angel Mecha briefly stiffened.

It seemed that the pilot inside was also somewhat in despair.

But it still raised its greatsword to parry the attack of the Hell Apostle Mecha.

At this moment, the two Hell Apostle Mechas on either side had also finished charging, and destruction seemed imminent.

Boom—

Right at that moment, a violent explosion erupted from the side of the Fallen Angel Mecha.

What was that?

A harpoon?

All the control screens of the mechas showed the object that flew past swiftly in the air.

Could a harpoon fly that fast?

Before anyone could react, the harpoon, as fast as lightning descending from the sky, pierced the plasma cannon of the mecha on the left side, then exited the other side of the barrel and plunged into the high-performance compressed battery within the mecha’s chest.

For a brief moment, the world seemed to fall into a short silence.

Bang—

Then came a deafening explosion.

The remaining three mechas all halted their movements for a moment, seemingly unable to believe what had just happened.

Boom—

But time does not stop for such things, and the sound of a new harpoon breaking through the void erupted to the right of the Fallen Angel Mecha.

The Plasma Cannon of the Hell Apostle on the right side had finished charging, and just as it was about to fire, a sharp harpoon was thrust into the muzzle.

Bang—

Another violent explosion sounded.

It appeared that these people lacked the ability to take hostages after all.

He Ao pulled out the last harpoon from his back.

Accompanied by a violent explosion and flying metal fragments, the Hell Apostle Mech engaged in combat with the Fallen Angel Mech was momentarily dazed, seemingly unaware of what had just occurred.

The Fallen Angel Mech seized this opportunity, aiming its already charged laser cannon at the Hell Apostle Mech. Almost pressing against its body, the cannon fired and pierced the left chest of the mech.

The huge recoil and heat caused damage to the Fallen Angel Mech as well, but it didn’t stop its action and took the chance to push aside the Hell Apostle Mech’s great sword. With one swift cut, it sliced the entire mech in half, and it fell into the snow.

Then it turned around, looking back at He Ao.

Streaks of sparkling electricity danced over the body of the Fallen Angel Mech, which seemed to have sustained severe damage, and it knelt to the ground.

Immediately after, the cockpit hatch of the mech opened, and amidst a waft of smoke, a girl with high gold twin ponytails dressed in a white bodysuit emerged.

Looking down at He Ao on the ground, she clung to the edge of the hatch and descended the unrolled rope ladder.

"Hello..."

She had barely touched ground when she saw He Ao raise a harpoon and abruptly throw it.

The sharp harpoon flew past her cheek almost touching it, the turbulence it caused lifted her ponytails.

Thud—

Accompanied by the sound of a blade piercing flesh, she turned her head and looked behind.

A man in a white robe was standing on the just-severed Hell Apostle Mech, holding a Gauss rifle aimed at her back.

The pointed harpoon had pierced the man’s heart, nailing him to the wreckage of the mech.

His eyes widened, a faint glow flickering in his chest, he tried to say something, but his throat filled up with gushing blood and ultimately, his breath ceased.

He Ao walked past the girl, stopped beside the dead white-robed pilot, reaching into the collar of his robe and pulling out a pendant that emitted a faint glow.

He had noticed a flash of gold on this pilot and guessed that this person also had one of these items.

If his own action had been a moment slower and the man had activated the pendant to summon his armor, it would have been more difficult to deal with.

He slipped the pendant into his pocket.

This pendant was not choosy about its bearer, as long as one knew how to use it, it should be usable by anyone.

"That pendant is dangerous, it harbors contamination from the Eternal Secret Teachings. One must be careful in touching or keeping it."

The girl with golden twin ponytails came up beside He Ao, her hazel-gold eyes fixed on the dead white-robed pilot as she spoke softly.

"Hmm," He Ao turned around, looking at the girl, "Eternal Secret Teachings?"

"A secretive sect that venerates the Eternal Radiance," the girl pondered for a bit, then continued, "They have many ’Believers’ in Wint City."

The girl no longer cautioned He Ao about the dangers of the pendant. Judging from his demonstrated abilities, it was clear He Ao was a powerful Transcendent, further along the path of the Transcendent than she was.

However, she did not understand why such a strong Transcendent would be a child.

"Are they hunting you down? Did you intentionally conceal your identity?" He Ao inquired, noting that the voice coming from the mech before was male.

"Yes,"

The girl fell silent for a moment, seemingly weighing her thoughts, then continued, "I belong to an organization resisting the Eternal Secret Teachings. They discovered one of our secret bases, and I was responsible for drawing away the bulk of their mechs. For some reasons, I had to ’disguise’ my identity."

Having said this, she paused, "I’m sorry, I didn’t realize someone was nearby at first and dragged you into this,"

"I noticed,"

He Ao nodded slightly, glancing at the deceased white-robed pilot, "You’re not sensitive to the life around you, nor do you check whether the pilots are alive."

According to standard mecha operating safety protocols, after destroying an enemy mecha, one should use a life detection scanner and a thermal imager to check the pilot’s vital signs. It seems that the girl was not familiar with these devices.

"Cough, cough..."

Her face turned a shade of red all of a sudden, and she averted her gaze subconsciously.

If not for He Ao’s thrown harpoon, she would have truly died.

And not on the frontline of battle, but embarrassingly taken down in a trivial ambush.

He Ao also clearly saw that the girl was a typical talented but unorthodox mecha pilot. She could control a mecha in high-difficulty maneuvers, even one against many, but she was ignorant of various detailed safety regulations that would be taught in formal schools.

Even finishing off a helpless enemy is beyond him.

He’s got talent, but he hasn’t had formal training, and even his experience in life-and-death combat is scarce.

"That..."

Trying to change the subject, the girl glanced at He Ao’s ice-covered, bloodstained clothes, "Are you from Wint City? Are you going back to Wint City?"

"Mhm."

He Ao nodded.

"I need to go back too, maybe we could go together?"

The girl tentatively said.

Even though it was He Ao who had saved her, subconsciously she still felt it was dangerous for this ’child’ to be wandering in the icy wilderness.

That was also the reason she came out of the mecha.

Moreover, she could tell that He Ao seemed to be seriously injured, covered in blood.

He Ao looked at her, silent for a moment, then nodded, "Okay."

The few exchanges just now had exhausted his last bit of strength. He actually didn’t even have the energy to walk anymore. The only reason he hadn’t fallen asleep on the spot was purely by force of will.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Vili."

The girl extended her hand.

"Yiluo."

He Ao also reached out and shook her hand.

"Let’s drive the mecha to another stronghold first, if my friends made it out, they should be waiting for me there,"

Vili turned and walked towards the mecha, "Then we’ll take a caravan back to the city. It’s easier to get through security checks that way."

"Mhm."

He Ao nodded.

He Ao shouldered his ’little coffin board’ and harpoon, and the two of them climbed into the mecha cockpit one after the other.

Accompanied by the closing of the mecha hatch, the Fallen Angel mecha, with red alarms flashing all over, started up slowly, moving across the snowy surface.

He Ao leaned into a corner of the cockpit, squinting slightly.

"By the way, Yiluo,"

Just as his vision was about to go completely dark, Vili suddenly spoke up, "Are you using Transcendent power to keep your body in this condition or..."

"Twelve years old."

He Ao, with his eyes closed, said calmly.

"Then I’m older than you," Vili immediately picked up the conversation, "five years older. By age, you should be calling me ’sister’..."

"I’m not dead yet, I just want to sleep for a while. You don’t have to deliberately talk to me, keeping me conscious."

He Ao, still with his eyes closed, said quickly.

Vili’s tone faltered.

Are kids maturing this early nowadays?

Why does it feel like she’s the child in comparison?

But at twelve, if exposed to a lot of information and smart enough, it seems he should understand what he’s supposed to...

Although, he indeed seems to understand too much.

Vili manipulated the control stick and glanced at He Ao, who sat with his eyes closed in the corner.

The young boy sat on the metal board, curled up in the corner, his brows slightly furrowed, his youthful cheeks smeared with blood, his hair tips heavy with ice crystals.