Life Game In Other World
Chapter 761: Eternal Kingdom (Major - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 761: Chapter 761: Eternal Kingdom (Major Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

However, they were not able to enter the city smoothly, as they were stopped by the City Defense Army at the gate.

At this time, Vili had also awakened. Her hand fumbled under the blanket, seemingly searching for something.

Meanwhile, a City Defense Army soldier walked over, knocked on the window, and asked in a low voice,

"Miss, are you in charge of this merchant convoy? We have been notified that a group of bandits claiming to be from the Twilight Society has attacked convoys outside the city. We suspect they might disguise themselves to enter the city, so we need to inspect your convoy in detail..."

The rear window of the SUV rolled down, and the long blanket covered Vili’s body. She raised her hand, a smooth arm extending out of the blanket, showing a work permit to the soldier, "Do you still need to inspect?"

"You’re with United Industries..."

The soldier took the work permit, glanced at it, his expression changed, and then handed it back to Vili, "Please wait a moment, I need to ask for instructions from my superiors."

Then, the soldier retreated to a distance away from the convoy and spoke into the walkie-talkie.

After a short while, he came back and respectfully said, "Please, go ahead."

"Do you still need to inspect?"

Vili’s expression was cold, and she huffed.

"No, no need,"

The soldier wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Please, go ahead!"

He immediately stepped back a few paces, distancing himself from the SUV, as the vehicles of the convoy began to start up again.

Vili kept a straight face and pulled up the car window. Almost at the same instant the window closed, she let out a long sigh of relief.

Then she retracted her hand back under the blanket,

"You’re with United Industries?"

He Ao, leaning back in his seat, asked curiously.

United Industries was the largest consortium in Wint City, with most of the city’s factories and mining ships belonging to its enterprise.

"In a manner of speaking," Vili smiled, and the blanket on her slowly moved, "But I’ve just secured an identity for emergencies."

He Ao nodded lightly, casually asking, "Are you with the Twilight Society?"

Vili’s movements abruptly stiffened, and she turned her head to look at He Ao, "How do you..."

"Isn’t it obvious? Normal wanderers in the wilderness have no need to enter the city, nor is there a need to set up a checkpoint specifically to stop them unless these so-called ’Twilight Society bandits’ come from inside the city,"

He Ao said calmly, with an expression as if looking at a monster, "The Eternal Secret Teachings attacked your base, knew you had to return to the city, so they set up the checkpoint specially to see if they could capture you. Your convoy must be carrying quite a few items taken from the base, right? Perhaps even weapons that can’t be completely stored in the wilderness?"

"Are you really only twelve years old?"

Vili’s eyes widened, momentarily forgetting her actions.

"Actually, I am quite older," He Ao lifted his chin, "Call me brother."

"Childish."

Vili glanced away.

Then she suddenly remembered that she had previously asked He Ao to call her sister, and her face turned red.

"You see, you don’t believe me when I say I’m older."

He Ao sat in his chair, watching as the convoy slowly drove into the city and gradually fell silent.

Vili sat next to him, calmly observing his somewhat youthful profile.

She moved her palm, putting on the Combat Suit hidden under the blanket.

She had just taken off one of the sleeves of her Combat Suit to prevent it from being exposed, baring her arm to hand over the work permit. When one takes off a sleeve of a bodysuit, the shoulder is also revealed, which is why she had been covering herself with the blanket.

After she had fully donned the combat suit, she carefully lifted the blanket and pulled a small box from under the seat.

She rummaged through the box for a moment, then handed He Ao a brand-new wristband box, "Did you lose your wristband? This is for you."

He Ao turned his head to look at the box Vili had passed him. It was Trison’s latest model of a smart bracelet, top configuration, and it cost around five thousand federal coins.

He Ao took the box directly, opened it, got out the wristband, activated it, and linked his account.

Then, he raised his wristband and said to Vili, "Turn on the payment mode."

Yiluo’s father had taught him from a young age not to accept gifts lightly.

"Huh?"

Vili was taken aback.

But seeing He Ao’s calm and determined look, she still raised her own wristband and activated the payment mode.

With a ’beep’, Vili glanced at her incoming payments account and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

Meanwhile, He Ao sat in his chair, curiously fiddling with the wristband in his hands.

The wristbands Yiluo used to have were children’s models without so many functions, but his account was linked to a sub-card of his father’s credit card, so he still had the capability to make payments.

He Ao clicked through various icons on the wristband interface, studying them for a while, then downloaded some of Yiluo’s favorite games.

Vili watched the young boy carefully, noting his focus on the wristband and the faint smile on his youthful cheeks.

She shifted her gaze forward, and a smile unconsciously spread across her face as well.

Meanwhile, after playing with the wristband for a while, He Ao shifted his attention away from it and looked out the window.

At this moment, they had entered the city through the South City gate.

Entering Wint City from the south gate, the first district they came into was Aka District, a civilian area of Wint City as well as a poverty-stricken district.

He turned his head to look at Vili, raised his wristband, and asked, "Do you have any materials on the Eternal Secret Teachings? Could you send me a copy?"

The main mission this time was very clear—related to the Eternal Radiance. The organization currently most strongly linked to the Eternal Radiance that He Ao had encountered was the "Eternal Secret Teachings".

Moreover, this organization seemed to be involved in the events of Yiluo’s parents’ deaths as well.

"Of course!"

Vili snapped back from some recollection and then raised her wristband to enable the wireless transmission feature, "I’ve sent it over; take a look."

"Okay."

He Ao nodded, activated his wristband, and started reading the file Vili had sent him.

"Although the Eternal Secret Teachings are widely preaching in Wint City, the information that can be collected is actually not much. Much of it ends on the surface,"

While He Ao read, Vili started to explain slowly, "The main point that the Eternal Secret Teachings currently preach is the ’Eternal Divine Nation’."

"Eternal Divine Nation?"

He Ao lifted his head to look at Vili.

"It seems to be a special afterlife world,"

Vili explained, "They claim that after believing in the Eternal Radiance, the dead will enter an eternal kingdom free from hunger, where there is endless food, countless performances, and palaces too numerous to inhabit. There, there is no cold winter, no scorching heat, and no night—only everlasting light and spring."

"That sounds very appealing, and even a bit extreme,"

He Ao recalled the ’visions’ he had seen among those lights, "So, what do the believers need to do? Just believe, and after death, they can enter the ’Eternal Kingdom’?"

"If it were only that simple,"

Vili seemed to recall something, sighing deeply, "The Eternal Secret Teachings hold ’ceremonies’ regularly, usually every one to two weeks. The ceremonies are ’conducted’ by core followers, while believers must offer certain valuables or food to ’please’ the Eternal Radiance.

"And these believers of the Eternal Secret Teachings are mostly the poor from the Storm Zone and Aka District. They don’t even have enough food for themselves, yet they offer what little they have to the Eternal Secret Teachings. Some of the more fanatical believers even overdraw their credit cards or take out loans to purchase goods to present to the priests of the Eternal Secret Teachings."

"We’ve tried to persuade them, but they won’t listen. Some of the zealots even curse us, saying we want to sabotage their path to the Eternal Kingdom."

"Is there anything special about the rituals themselves?"

He Ao continued to inquire.

"We have very little information in that regard,"

Vili shook her head, "These ’sacrifices’ are usually held in great secrecy, and aside from the priests and core believers, no one knows where each sacrifice is carried out. However, we recently ’discovered’ a ’sacrifice’ site and raided that place,

"The priests there were very powerful; we lost quite a few people, but in the end, we stopped their sacrifice from being completed."

"Did you find anything?"

He Ao asked softly.

"We made one rather ’significant’ discovery,"

Vili pondered before speaking, "We found that recently, they’ve started to absorb more contributors who give more and are more ’fanatical’ in their beliefs to participate in the ’sacrifices.’ In fact, it was by following the trail of one ’fanatical’ believer that we located their sacrificial site.

"Usually, most of these fanatical believers disappear after taking part in a sacrifice. There are rumors that they have been absorbed into the Eternal Secret Teachings and have become servants of the gods, as many of the core believers were once fanatical believers ’converted.’ However, there is another rumor,"

Vili paused, looking at He Ao, "These ’believers’ have been taken into the ’Eternal Kingdom.’

"Bringing the living to the ’afterlife’?"

He Ao paused.

Right now, he could only think of one way to bring the living into the afterlife.

"Yes," Vili nodded, "But these are all just rumors, none confirmed. The believers of the Eternal Secret Teachings are extremely fanatical and secretive; the information we can get is only superficial,"

"The attack you suffered this time, was it because you had previously attacked the sacrificial site of the Eternal Secret Teachings?"

He Ao speculated as he posed the question.

"That’s likely," Vili sighed, "I didn’t expect them to react so quickly and to locate our base so precisely."

"Perhaps you’ve been within their ’sights’ for some time,"

He Ao said thoughtfully. Without waiting for Vili to respond, he turned to glance back at the high wall that was gradually receding behind them, "Has their influence grown so strong that they can now impact the City Defense Army?"

"According to our investigation," Vili said softly with a sigh, "the organized Eternal Secret Teachings have been in this city for at least a decade. Their influence is deeply entrenched, and we don’t know how far their tendrils have spread."

The atmosphere inside the vehicle grew silent.

Vili lowered her head to look at the small box beside her that had just been turned out; it carried the wristband. She reached out her hand, getting ready to put the box away.

Meanwhile, He Ao’s gaze had also turned to that small box.

The contents of the box were messy, with several unopened smart wristbands, some basic daily necessities, and even hair ties and face masks.

In the middle of the box, among these assorted items, there lay a black-and-white ’mask’ in silence.

"You know about ’K’ too?"

When Vili noticed He Ao’s gaze on the mask, she paused her movements, speaking with a hint of curiosity.

"K?"

He Ao looked at her.

When Yiluo lay in the Coffin, he had heard his father mention ’K,’ but he didn’t know much about it.

"’K’ is a great hero!"

She carefully picked up the mask, running her fingers over its patterns as though lost in memory, "He changed a lot of things, saved many people, and it’s because of him that the ’Twilight Society’ came to be."

Her eyes dropped, "The people of the Twilight Society are mostly ’exiles’ whose families have been destroyed by the Eternal Sect. ’K’ gave us courage and brought us together to create this organization, trying to change some things,"

Then she gave a wry smile, falling silent as she replaced the mask in the box, "But the truth has proven that not everyone is a ’K’; it seems we can’t change anything at all. Even as we try to expose the atrocities of the Eternal Sect, those who believe in it still believe, and we haven’t saved anyone—now we have even lost the stronghold we had barely established."

"If a person can eat well at every meal and live in a house that shields from the wind and rain, warm as spring, would he still pursue the elusive Eternal Kingdom where there is no hunger?"

He Ao looked up at her and said calmly.

Yiluo had been to Storm Building with his father; he knew what life was like for the ’average person’ in Wint City.

Vili raised her head, staring blankly at the twelve-year-old boy.

In his clear and luminous eyes, it was as if the profound darkness of the world was reflected.

She seemed to have seen such a gaze somewhere before.

He Ao reached out, picked up the mask from the box, and put it on his face.

"What are you and K···"

Vili watched him, dumbstruck.

Then she watched as He Ao took the mask off his own cheek and gently placed it on hers.

"Perhaps, everyone can be K."

The boy’s gentle voice echoed in her ear.

Then he turned his head to look forward, "Carrie, stop at the intersection up ahead."

The SUV halted at the T-junction.

He Ao pushed open the car door, jumped down from the SUV, and walked into the light of dawn.

With the mask in her hand, Vili watched as the boy disappeared into the silhouette of the dawn, her gaze lost and deep.

She had seen K’s videos many times and knew that ’K’ couldn’t possibly be a twelve-year-old boy, yet in her trance-like state, she once again saw a temperament similar to K’s in that boy.

"Everyone can be K?"

She lowered her head, looking at the mask in her hands.

Then she slowly raised her hand ring.

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[Vili]

[2 Pine Forest Street, Cloud District]

[Phone: 976-357-3372]

He Ao glanced at the electronic business card that had been sent to his hand ring, saved it, and then closed the device, looking up at the surrounding neighborhood.

This was the block where Yiluo last saw his parents fall.

As he moved forward, he opened a web browser and logged onto Eve’s website, entering the password in order.

After a brief pause, the image of a cute girl in a white dress appeared on his hand ring.

"Hello, Eve."

He spoke softly.

The girl returned his greeting with a gentle one,

"Hello, K."