Life Dungeon Game

He Ao asked, then thought for a moment, wet his hand with the water that had just spilled on the cabinet, and quickly drew a simple, crisscrossing map. He pointed to the bottom point, "This is my stall."

Then he pointed forward to a crossroads. "This should be where you were standing just now. Which way did those two go?"

"It seems to be this way!"

This time, Yuan Nannan pointed in a direction.

“That’s to the north,” He Ao said softly into the phone, having roughly understood the situation. “It seems your teammates were lured away, which is why they were able to create an opening to capture Liu Nan.”

“Yes,” Zhang Anxia also heard the conversation between the two, “Our intelligence was flawed; we only have intelligence on the Bulls.”

"So there might still be someone around Bull?"

He Ao astutely grasped the key words.

"No, the other side can only hide two people at most; they don't have that many people."

This time, Zhang Anxia spoke with absolute certainty, and then immediately followed up with, "So, do you have any leads now? Can you find the bull?"

“Yes,” He Ao replied calmly, “it costs extra.”

"Okay, starting at ten thousand, you can give a price after the results are shown."

Zhang Anxia immediately spoke.

The ten thousand dollars I just paid was actually a fee to hire He Ao to help hold off the bulls for a while until he returned.

Zhang Anxia had seen the traces of Bull fleeing in a sorry state after climbing over He Ao's window yesterday, so he judged that this task should not be difficult for He Ao. The 10,000 yuan was mainly a fee for He Ao to handle the task.

Now that the nature of the task has changed, he directly asked He Ao to provide a quote.

Moreover, He Ao's clear logic had impressed him, and now all he could think about was how to trick this kid into joining the research institute.

He Ao naturally didn't know what Zhang Anxia was thinking at that moment, but he knew that Zhang Anxia must have already suspected that he was a superhuman, but he didn't say anything, and Zhang Anxia didn't ask either.

The two tacitly remained silent about the matter.

The research institute to which Zhang Anxia belongs is clearly a large, secretive organization, and most likely one belonging to the order of things.

For Heo, once he realized that the world was beginning to change, he consciously sought out channels that could reliably obtain intelligence.

In a changing era, large organizations often have access to more information than individuals, and information is the most important thing in the world. A gap in information can be the difference between life and death.

For example, if someone drinks paraquat, there's no cure, but if they drink ordinary pesticides, they can be saved by having their stomach pumped. For someone who only wants to threaten others by drinking pesticides and doesn't really want to die, whether they know the toxicity of paraquat or not could be the difference between life and death.

Zhang Anxia is smart enough, and friendly enough.

Therefore, He Ao was very happy to cooperate with him once, and his agreement to hire him this time was also a way of returning the favor.

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Even if he doesn't consider joining the organization now, successful cooperation is based on trust, so Zhang Anxia let He Ao quote whatever he wanted, and He Ao couldn't possibly ask for an exorbitant price.

“My fees are always reasonable,” He Ao reassured Zhang Anxia, ​​because Zhang Anxia’s organization didn’t seem to be very wealthy. Then he thought for a moment and added, “I need to contact Lao Liu and ask him to help me access the surveillance footage and set up defenses on some roads.”

-

Liu Nan was carried on the young man's shoulders as they walked through the gloomy, dark alley. Her physical condition was not as good as He Ao's or Zhang Anxia's, and she could hardly see anything on the dark alley without streetlights.

Most of the surrounding houses had their lights off, and everything was pitch black, with only the young man carrying her walking silently through.

"Hello,"

Liu Nan patted the young man's back, trying to talk to him. She was being carried directly on his shoulder, her legs wrapped around his chest and pressed against his waist, her upper body hanging upside down along his back. So, all she could do was pat his back.

"Whatever you want, I can give it to you directly. How much money do you need? Life isn't easy for anyone, I understand. Let me go, and I'll transfer the money to you. I won't call the police..."

The young man did not respond to him and continued to huff and puff as he walked.

“Really… I’m not lying to you…” Liu Nan clenched her sleeve, feeling the hardness of her hand. “My dad is the chairman of Wanhe Industrial. We can afford to pay him. He taught me to be honest from a young age. If I say I won’t call the police, I really won’t.”

The young man didn't respond, but instead squeezed Liu Nan's leg with his hand. The intense pain caused Liu Nan to cry out in agony.

"Speak again and I'll kill you."

The young man spoke coldly and continued on his way.

Liu Nan glanced at the pitch-black surroundings and endured the pain to quiet down.

She realized that these strange people didn't seem to be after money, or rather, they weren't just after money.

-

“Can you watch over the stall for me?” He Ao hung the sign “[Closed Today]” on the stall, locked his small cabinet, and let Yuan Nannan sit in his seat. “I’ve already contacted the police. Someone will come to protect you later. Don’t worry, there are surveillance cameras here, it’s safe.”

In fact, Yuan Nannan was always safe. If the other party really wanted to arrest her, they would have arrested Liu Nan at the same time, instead of letting her run back to find He Ao.

When He Ao mentioned that there was surveillance footage, the short-haired girl who was eating cold noodles normally in a corner in the distance suddenly paused for a moment, and then continued to eat her noodles slowly.

At this time, there were not many people eating at He Ao's stall. There were only a few people left, and they were sitting quite far away, so they could hardly hear He Ao speaking.

After calming Yuan Nannan down, He Ao glanced back at the short-haired girl, said nothing, and slowly walked into the depths of the street.

As the short-haired girl watched He Ao disappear into the night, she let out a long sigh of relief. Then she looked around and noticed a security camera at the top of the street pointing directly at them.

Then she quickly finished shoveling the noodles and pulled the cart along.

Li Xiang then left in the opposite direction from He Ao.

She walked for a while to make sure no one was chasing her, then started jogging. She ran for quite a while until there was no one around, then stopped and gasped for breath.

"What are you hiding from?"

A soft question suddenly came to my ear.

"what!!!"

The girl was startled by the sudden 'greeting' and twisted her ankle, falling directly to the ground.

Seeing her fall, He Ao quickly reached out his hand.

They pulled the suitcase.

boom--

The girl fell hard on her bottom.

She looked up, stared blankly at He Ao, then rubbed her bottom and stood up. "Don't you have any gentlemanly manners? You didn't even know to help me up."

"May I see what's in your box?"

He looked at her calmly.

"Look...look..."

Looking into his cold eyes, the girl felt that if she refused, he would suddenly kill her the next second.

She had even imagined herself being dumped in the wilderness, her body left to rot.

“I have obtained your consent, so viewing your belongings does not violate your privacy.”

He looked at the box. It had a combination lock, but the girl hadn't locked it. He pressed the switch, and with a 'click,' the box opened.

A multi-layered, foldable internal box was displayed, containing various bottles and jars.

However, there are some things that He Ao still recognizes, such as foundation, eyeliner, and lipstick.

He had expected it to contain all sorts of things—jewelry, contraband, or weapons—but he never imagined it would contain these things.

"This is?"

He looked at the girl with a puzzled expression.

“Cosmetics…” the girl stammered. He Ao’s demeanor was too cold, completely different from the enthusiastic owner who had just sold cold noodles. It was a bit scary. “I am a makeup artist.”

"Makeup artist?"

Although He Ao had never heard of this profession before, it sounded like a very normal one. He slowly closed the suitcase, carefully zipped it up, and returned to his original position.

"They are people who do makeup professionally."

The girl explained.

She felt that something was wrong with He Ao's actions, but since he had asked for her opinion and hadn't touched anything, he seemed to be very polite.

"There shouldn't be anyone here who needs your help with makeup?"

He Ao returned the box to the girl.

He had noticed the girl's unusual behavior long ago, but he hadn't paid attention to it at first.

It wasn't until he discovered that the girl seemed to have been eavesdropping on his conversation with Yuan Nannan, and that she was clearly stalling for time by slurping noodles one by one.

If she were just an ordinary guest with 'special' characteristics, He Ao wouldn't bother with her.

But the girl seemed too suspicious, so he fished to see what she was up to.

"I...I...I have a guest nearby..."

The girl didn't know why she had to answer He Ao's question, but she didn't dare to refuse.

Clearly, she was lying, and not a skilled or habitual liar. She didn't even know that speaking with a confident tone and looking directly at the other person would increase her credibility.

But Heo no longer has time to argue with her about these things.

He took out his phone and glanced at the time, then looked at the girl. "When I mentioned the surveillance cameras and the police coming soon, you paused, and then you left immediately after I left. Were you very afraid of the police?"

"what?"

The girl was startled for a moment, and then a bad feeling welled up in her heart.

He Ao looked behind her.

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The short-haired girl subconsciously followed He Ao's gaze and turned around.

In that instant, He Ao darted forward and grabbed her wrist.