Life Dungeon Game

He Ao also took a bite.

Hot dog, drinking cola, looking at the magnificent golden gate.

At that moment, he suddenly paused.

As he ate the food, he felt a tiny bit of energy in his throat.

His mind raced as he began to recall the passage about the throat in the little book, and soon he found it.

The second page of this book contains information about the throat's path. This path is also very short. It starts from the throat, passes through the left shoulder and elbow, returns to the index finger, then passes through the left shoulder, throat, and nasal cavity, goes around in a circle, passes through the right shoulder, returns to the right index finger, and ends at the throat.

He tried to follow the route described on the second page, but the energy was used up as soon as it left his throat.

Even after the entire hot dog was eaten, the energy didn't escape the throat.

However, this also opened up a new idea for He Ao: not only does energy exist in the air, but also in the food we eat.

But his stomach seemed to have a limited capacity; after finishing that big hot dog and a cup of cola, he was already a little full.

It appears that this energy is not converted from food; it simply exists in food and enters the body when food is ingested.

If food itself is a storage medium, then do different foods contain different amounts of energy?

"Let's go, to the car."

After Selena finished eating and drinking, she threw the packaging bag into the nearby trash can.

He followed suit and threw away his trash, then got into the car with Selena.

As he got into the car, the entire door closed instantly, the convertible's canopy slowly opened, and the windows rose gently, turning into a dark, one-way transparent mode.

Pop-up windows appeared one by one on the car window, and the huge windshield in front of He Ao slowly turned dark, with dozens of surveillance images neatly arranged on the dark windshield.

This huge windshield also serves as a display screen.

These surveillance cameras essentially covered every corner of the entrance to the 'Crown Casino'.

"This is?"

He Ao was shocked by this sudden sci-fi scene.

“What I’m seeing,” Selena shrugged, “is what the cameras on this car are capturing.”

So Selena just said she was watching, and she really has been watching all along.

"So we're going to have to keep watching these surveillance cameras?"

He Ao stared blankly at the densely packed images.

“No need,” Selena reclined the driver’s seat. “I’ve set up a similarity detection system. When someone resembling Mu Xiu appears, the system will automatically alert me. I’m going to take a nap. Just wake me up if there’s an alarm. There’s only one entrance to the Crown Casino. We can just guard this place.”

"Shouldn't we go in and search first?" He Ao asked, somewhat puzzled. "What if Mu Xiu gets here before us?"

"The Crown Casino is nominally part of the Money Rat Gang, but it is actually an industry indirectly controlled by the Morning Light City Grain Industry Group and the Nord Financial Consortium through multiple layers of shareholding. We can't get in without a legitimate reason. However, they will 'investigate' the casino's internal personnel to confirm that Mu Xiu hasn't infiltrated. We just need to keep watch."

After Selena finished speaking, she closed her eyes. Her chest rose and fell slightly, and her breathing became even, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

If Heo hadn't once wrapped his tentacles around Selena, he sometimes wouldn't have realized that she was a purely mechanical body.

Her body is so human-like.

During the beginner missions, the system would label Selena as a 'cyborg', but that label is no longer available; it seems that was a perk only for beginners.

He Ao leaned back on the sofa, opened his personal device, and searched for 'Dawn City' in the search bar.

Now, he finally has the time to learn more about the city.

At the end of the street, a figure shrouded in a black hood looked up at the magnificent casino from a distance.

Then he casually stopped a passerby.

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Chapter 27 Mu Xiu Appears! (Please add to your favorites, read on, and vote with monthly tickets)

The origins of Dawn City can be traced back to the chaotic period after the Great Cataclysm. When the creators of the Federation arrived on this land, they saw a beautiful sunrise, hence the name Dawn City.

As the oldest fortress city in the Federation, Dawn City is also one of the most prosperous commercial cities in the Federation. Three of the top fifty conglomerates in the Federation originated from Dawn City. 2800 million people live in this huge fortress city.

The rest were brief introductions about the economy and people's livelihood. He Ao browsed through them and then clicked on the keywords that interested him.

Cataclysm:

It refers to the cataclysmic event that destroyed the prehistoric civilization. A large number of strange beasts and mutated plants suddenly appeared, and the prehistoric civilization was destroyed. The remaining humans on the planet established the Former Federation on the ruins of the prehistoric civilization.

Barrier cities:

Humans built high walls to isolate themselves from the dangers of the wilderness, and the prosperous cities built inside these walls are called fortified cities. Currently, more than 99% of the people in the Federation live in fortified cities.

Federation (referring to the former Second Federal District):

The current federal government is the former Federal Second District government, which consists of 113 former Federal Second District barracks cities and 32 newly built barracks cities, totaling 145 barracks cities (excluding 3 barracks cities under construction), with a total population of approximately 2 million. The Federal President is the supreme leader of the federal government, and the barracks cities are, in principle, under the jurisdiction of the federal central government.

Former Federation:

Humanity established a unified government amidst the ruins of a cataclysmic catastrophe, divided into five districts. *Ten years after the original Federation was established, a storm swallowed the sea, communication was cut off, and the remaining four districts were lost.

These entries contained detailed explanations of the term. He Ao glanced at them briefly and then closed the windows.

He originally thought the dungeon world was a future world, but it turned out to be a post-apocalyptic world being rebuilt.

He thought for a moment and tried to find information about prehistoric civilizations before the Great Cataclysm online, but to no avail.

There are only a few fragmented posts on the internet discussing prehistoric civilizations, but without exception, they are all unfounded speculations.

It was as if the prehistoric civilization had been completely submerged in that massive catastrophe, leaving no trace.

After a moment of silence, he turned to searching for 'talent sequence' online, but still found nothing. The search engine displayed some messy and irrelevant information, which seemed to have been deliberately 'erased'.

So he searched for 'mechanical modification', and this time a large number of advertisements for the Morning Light City Prosthetics Company appeared.

He Ao quickly browsed through the information but found nothing useful. Just as he was about to search for "evil god," a piercing alarm suddenly went off in the car.

Selena sat up instantly, and the electric scooter door opened at the same time. Her voice was serious and cold, "Mu Xiu has appeared."

He looked up at the monitor on the windshield. At this moment, all the surveillance footage had merged into one. In the very center of this screen, a figure marked with a red frame and shrouded in a black hood was walking step by step toward the casino entrance.

Upon seeing the figure, He Ao immediately slipped out of the other car door and chased after Selena.

Selena had already run to the center of the street.

beep--

A piercing whistle blared as a huge bus drove past Selena.

Without hesitation, Selena leaped lightly onto the roof of the bus, took a couple of steps, and then jumped off the roof.

He's kind of handsome...

He was amazed by Selena's actions, then obediently crossed the street using the zebra crossing.

The figure in the black hood didn't turn around, but he seemed to realize that Selena was chasing him. He was walking slowly, but suddenly burst out with terrifying speed, smashing through the figure in front of him and rushing into the casino.

Selena leaped through the crowd, almost following closely behind.

Logically speaking, given Selena's speed, catching the black-hooded figure who resembled Mu Xiu should have been a simple matter. However, when He Ao chased into the casino, he saw Selena being blocked at the casino entrance.

“Miss Selena, please be patient,” a gaunt man in a silver suit walked out of the casino. “We are still conducting our own investigation. Once we are done, we will allow you to enter for a search.”

"Move aside, I just saw a suspicious person go in."

Selena's face was frosty.

He looked at the man in the silver suit and suddenly realized that the man looked familiar. He seemed to be the same man who had made a deal with the wilderness wanderer a few hours ago.

He witnessed firsthand how he was taken away by the Morning Light City Police Department.

“He’s been released on bail,” Selena said casually, seemingly aware of He’s confusion. “In Dawn City, the bail system allows you to go home early as long as you pay enough bail, and you only need to show up for the trial.”

Goodness, money talks.

"Get out of the way,"

After speaking with He Ao, Selena turned to the man in the silver suit, her tone icy. After all, the man suspected to be 'Mu Xiu' had already entered the casino. If he caused a massacre there, it would be too late.

“Ludo, I know you’ll need time to clean up your dirty deals. I won’t concern myself with those. My only target is Muxiu. You know Muxiu’s situation. If we wait until he causes bloodshed, it will be too late.”

“Miss Selena, look at what you’re saying,” Ludo chuckled. “We are a law-abiding company, and all our transactions are legally permissible. It’s just that we haven’t completed our ‘self-inspection’ yet, so we can’t let you in. If we catch ‘Mushu,’ we will personally hand him over to the FBI.”

"Besides, we can't just assume there are suspected cases and that's it. We have to verify before we can know, Ms. Selena, please leave."

"Ludo, you!"

Selena realized at that moment that Ludo was probably holding a grudge about what had happened before and was deliberately making things difficult for them.

“Eek,” Ludo took a half step back. “Miss Selena, you look terrifying. Are you going to attack us? Are the FBI heroes who wiped out the Wilderness Cult going to kill a law-abiding citizen?”

"you!"

Selena was speechless at his words. She didn't have any concrete evidence that the person who had just gone in was Mu Xiu, but her analysis software told her that the person's similarity to Mu Xiu was as high as 98%.

The FBI's authority to kill during missions is also limited. She cannot simply hold a gun to someone's head unless the person has drawn a weapon or made any obvious attack.

However, the instant Selena had this thought, something dark and cold was already pressed against Ludo's forehead.

“Excuse me,” Heo said with a smile, gripping his pistol and looking at Ludo, whose face was gradually stiffening. “Let me introduce myself. My name is Ander.”

"Investigator Ander, what are you going to do?" Ludo swallowed hard. "Are you going to threaten a federal citizen?"

“Mr. Ludo, please let me finish introducing myself,” Heo tilted his head. “My name is Ander. My parents died in an accident five years ago. I have no siblings, no wife, I am not married, I have no girlfriend, and of course, no children.”

He chuckled gently, his index finger on the trigger. "If I pull the trigger, I, all alone, might face twenty years in prison, while you will go to see God. Would you trade places with me?"

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Chapter 28 Hypermemory, Activated! (Please add to your favorites, read on, and recommend!)

In the deal that was recently called off, Ludo was the only one whose eyes were directly on Heo.

He also witnessed the entire process of He Ao firing the gun: raising the gun, pulling the trigger, and the bullet passing through the vagrant's forehead. Everything was so smooth, like a painter drawing a perfect stroke on a canvas.