Chapter 1571: Chapter 1571

"Captain, are we just going to let him leave ?" Lily seemed a bit confused, "Won’t he run away?"

According to procedure, they seemed like they should take the young man back, but it seemed they didn’t have a definitive reason to take him away.

"If he were going to run, he wouldn’t have waited here for us." Reid shook his head, turning his gaze to Lily, "If you were him, having gone through what happened today, would you still calmly take a bath, change your clothes, and wait for us here?"

Lily thought for a moment, "I would probably be so scared that I’d just cry in a corner,"

Then she shook her head, "No, on the ring, I might have just been beaten to death."

She looked at the figure standing by the street, "He still looks so young."

"He has a lot more social experience than you do." Reid shook his head.

"Has he encountered abnormalities before?" Lily wondered.

"No," Reid fell silent for a moment, then shook his head slightly, "This should be his first contact with abnormalities. I can feel his surprise, fear, doubts, and worries,"

His gaze lowered, "He’s just very calm, or rather, he can force himself to calm down, completely suppressing his fear. That’s his ’talent.’ There are many people like him in the association. The more dangerous the situation, the calmer they become, which gives them a huge advantage when dealing with abnormalities."

Looking back now, the people ’Loren’ killed, besides the organizer he didn’t see, he actually didn’t exert much effort at any other time, always using momentum against momentum.

Although it seemed smooth and flowing, it actually didn’t have that much operational difficulty, and it wasn’t without mistakes.

It’s just that ’Loren’ was particularly calm, and even when he made mistakes, he could immediately correct them. He could calmly judge the most suitable fighting style at the most appropriate time.

Even though it was above average, it didn’t go beyond the range of ’talented young people.’

"But he killed so many people, and so many saw it..." Lily hesitated for a moment, speaking softly.

"He was indeed acting in self-defense," Reid shook his head, then glanced back at Lily, smiled, "Even if it wasn’t self-defense, it wouldn’t matter. Those young men died in the abnormality ’Life and Death Boxing Ring,’ and the person in charge along with the two assassins were all bounty criminals with murder charges."

Upon hearing this, Lily was slightly taken aback, "Do normal underground fights have so many ’bounty criminals’?"

"No." Reid watched He Ao’s departure direction, shaking his head.

Lily lowered her gaze, falling into some sort of contemplation. After a brief pause, she seemed to recall something, "By the way, I’ve seen that address of Loren before."

While Reid and Lily were talking, He Ao was standing in front of a vehicle painted bright yellow.

The front passenger window of the car was rolled down, but the door was not unlocked. A camera located at the rearview mirror was lit up, scanning He Ao’s body.

At the same time, a gentle mechanical female voice came from inside the car, "Vidal Travel is sincerely at your service. We have detected traces of blood on you. We need to inform you in advance that to ensure the riding experience of you and other passengers, you will need to pay an additional cleaning fee of 10 federal coins if you have blood on you,

"As all our vehicles use luxurious leather seats, if your blood stains the seats, an additional seat cleaning fee of 150 federal coins will be required. This fee will be deducted through the credit card you signed with Vidal, and the bill will be sent to your email within a week.

"Given your situation, we recommend Vidal Financial Insurance’s accident insurance, which is only 19.9 federal coins and can be compensated up to 200,000 federal coins for accidental death in the car···"

"I don’t have blood on me; you saw wrong." As the car rattled on with its ads, He Ao had already taken out a long scarf, wrapping his injured head with it, leaving only his eyes exposed.

Upon hearing his words, the voice in the car abruptly stopped. Then in the next moment, the camera in the car lit up again, seemingly rescanning him.

After a brief pause, the mechanical female voice sounded again, "We apologize for the scanning error just now. Welcome to use Vidal Travel,"

With a crisp sound, the car door was unlocked, "We are dedicated to serving you, and will deliver you safely to your destination as quickly as possible."

He Ao opened the car door, sat in the back seat, and the vehicle slowly started.

"Are you feeling hungry or thirsty?" As the vehicle started, a new voice sounded again, "This car provides a variety of snacks and drinks to ensure your journey is not tiring. You can freely take from the car’s vending cabinet, and the costs will be deducted from your contracted credit card···"

He Ao lowered his head, opened the bracelet, ignoring the car’s advertisements.

Vidal Travel is the largest transportation company in the Northeastern Federation, and these omnipresent advertisements are their feature.

’Loren’ had already gotten used to it.

The cab fare of Vidal Travel is indeed a bit cheaper than other companies, but there are a whole bunch of inexplicable ’deduction’ rules.

However, they don’t seem to intend to spend money upgrading their AI module. The AI’s recognition and response capabilities are negligible, easily fooled with some disguise.

Of course, they are quick at deducting money for purchases, and sometimes even mischarge.

But they send you the credit card statement a week later, betting you won’t check, even if you do and find the mischarges, it takes at least two weeks of appeals to refund.

He Ao quickly raised his bracelet, opening the communications interface, and dialed the ’coach’s’ number.

But after a few busy tones, the call went to the voicemail interface.

He Ao hung up the call and opened the social media app.

There was a message sent by Loren before the match, but it hadn’t been replied to.

The last message from the coach to Loren was from a few days ago, warning Loren not to take random boxing matches. If he offended someone he shouldn’t, the coach would blacklist Loren and run away overnight.

He Ao sent another message to the coach, asking him to return the call ASAP.

He Ao dialed again, but still couldn’t get through.

He couldn’t possibly have really blacklisted and run away, could he?

The crimson specks in his field of view gradually dimmed, as severe exhaustion and pain assaulted He Ao’s consciousness.

He Ao rubbed his temples, recalling the thoughts he felt from the boxing match organizer’s mind.

The organizer approached Loren not by chance but by the signal from an ’upper gang,’ and he received a clear order from a gang leader named ’Sharp Claw Koro’ to have ’Loren’ die in the ’boxing match.’

And this so-called ’upper gang’ is the largest underground gang in the whole Xiluo City, the Black Wolf Gang.

This gang controls more than half of Xiluo City’s underground boxing matches, a gang Loren is very ’familiar’ with.

Loren also had many collaborations with this gang.

From Loren’s memory, He Ao couldn’t find a reason why this gang had to kill Loren.

This is why, even under the coach’s warning, Loren was willing to ’collaborate’ with them.

The two sides already had basic mutual trust, and indeed, Loren had never offended this gang.

Adding it all up, he was only eighteen years old, and although his name was rising, it was mainly among young boxers, competing with peers of similar age.

If he really went against those experienced and vigorous older boxers, he wouldn’t win.

He Ao lifted his gaze, glancing at his personal attribute panel.

His physical fitness had risen to 42, more than doubling from the start.

Even now, his physical fitness was still increasing, just at a much slower pace.

He could also feel his body reaching some kind of limit.

To put it bluntly, this rapid enhancement method’s core is cramming, using divine sense to stretch the energy circuit, forcibly filling it with energy.

It enhances quickly but damages the body greatly. Once filled to the limit, you need to wait for the body to recover, being unable to train further for a long period.

This is why the elderly martial artist also told He Ao that this method harms the body.

However, He Ao didn’t mind this because the first night of opening the dungeon world had system-enforced healing, so not taking advantage of it would be a waste.

Moreover, solely with Loren’s physical condition, he couldn’t have escaped tonight’s situation so easily.

Of course, it was also because it was a pure blank slate, enabling He Ao to enhance quickly using this method.

If there were Talent Sequences in the body, the strength of these sequences in the energy circuit would instead tug and hinder the circuits, disrupting the divine sense’s influence, rendering the method ineffective.

Thinking of this, he rubbed his temples again.

Tonight’s matter was manageable, but how to improve his strength in the later stages was a problem to consider.

Although the control over the Super Memory’s power was short-term, even though his mastery of Super Memory had increased significantly, and even though Super Memory itself was a soul-related Talent Sequences that could be better restrained within the soul, there was a limit to this control.

He Ao’s current restraint, to put it simply, used the Super Memory strength he could control within his soul to create a ’container’ that forcibly restrained the uncontrolled Super Memory power and buried it into his Angel Tier soul.

At the same time, he also referenced Kela’s form of existence, hiding part of his soul deep within the world, which is equivalent to creating another container outside of this body to seal the overflowing power.

This control method was what he could do after his mastery of Super Memory improved, using the special soul attribute of Super Memory and his own Mysticism Technique abilities combined with Kela’s form of existence.

However, this control method was not perfect. It was the first time He Ao used it, and some of the power still overflowed.

Of course, compared to the previous situation where only B-level could bear it, now even C-level or some strong D-level could easily withstand it.

However, Loren was a pure white board. The moment He Ao descended into the dungeon, he was a bit nervous, even considering releasing some of the Super Memory’s power, consuming most of his Divine Sense to create a seal forcibly sealing the dissipating power.

This would cause him direct serious injury, but it wouldn’t directly turn him into a monster at the start.

Fortunately, Loren’s constitution seemed a bit special, with a high resistance to higher-tier powers, and the system didn’t truly give He Ao a hellish start.

In Loren’s memory, He Ao couldn’t find the source of this ’specialness,’ so this ’specialness’ must come from outside his memory, from a place he either has no memory of or hasn’t noticed.

This dungeon character, although seeming like a whiteboard, does not seem that simple.

However, although this body’s ’specialness’ alleviated the crisis, it was not controlled. At the very least, enhancing physical fitness quickly to a D-level is needed to fully enter a controllable domain.

He Ao lowered his gaze, lost in thought.

Currently, he had several Secret Medicine formulas directly reaching B-level on hand, from the main body and different dungeon characters, with experience mastered. He could soon completely grasp these paths.

However, even so, advancing from F-level all the way up would take some time, needing to gather Extraordinary Materials to concoct the Secret Medicine.

Extraordinary Materials below D-level are easy to find, but they start getting hard to find at D-level and more difficult at C-level; B-level probably requires real-time acquisition.

Previously, when He Ao was promoting to B-level in the dungeon world, he took some shortcuts.

But even if acquiring Talent Sequences real-time, you have to find a B-level of the corresponding path to do so.

Moreover, the ’anomaly’ of this dungeon is somewhat strange.

The large-scale coverage and ’rule’ attributes give He Ao a faint ominous premonition.

Normally advancing to B-level may not be sufficient to handle this matter.

But if B-level isn’t enough, does that mean promoting to Angel in the dungeon world?

He Ao indeed had Secret Medicine formulas for direct advancement to Angel through the ’Memory Inheritor’ path and the ’Secret Wizard’ path.

But the abilities of these two Angels are unpredictably peculiar, and B-level Secret Medicine materials cannot even be found, let alone for Angels.

Moreover, He Ao had never heard about these two Angels or related Extraordinary Items in the dungeon world, and whether the dungeon world has Extraordinary Materials related to these two Angels is uncertain.

Even if He Ao found the materials and prepared the Secret Medicine, the ’rituals’ for these paths are not simple ceremonies.

Alternatively, could he change his thinking and attempt Martial Arts Angel?

Martial Arts in its early stages has no ritual or material restrictions, and as long as one is alive, they can train. The whiteboard role is exactly suitable for experimenting with the Martial Arts Training method he has created.

However, not to mention the martial arts Angel promotion method, Martial Arts Training itself requires grinding time, and the methods to enhance training speed all come with costs and cannot be used continuously. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⁂𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⁂𝙣𝙚𝙩

Hmm, perhaps, there are also areas among these ’anomalies’ that can be leveraged.

Rubbing his temples, He Ao turned his gaze towards the window.

A pure whiteboard doesn’t mean there are no benefits; starting from a mortal, after this time, if the human anchor is well placed, he should resolve the rationality issue rather thoroughly.

With rationality stabilized, not only could he release more power, but perhaps, could he consider the ’next step’?

Though he just became an Angel not too long ago, right?

Shaking his head to rein in his thoughts, He Ao gazed at the buildings passing by outside the window.

Somewhat drifting snow fell from the sky, passing through the coming and going vehicles.

Xiluo City is one of the twenty-six cities of the Northeastern Federation, and so-called Northeastern Federation actually refers to a fixed geographical concept.

It refers to the vast upside-down right-angled trapezoid-like region north of the Minte City northern mountains and east of the Snawvis Mountain Range.

This area is nearly fully enclosed, with mountains to the south and west, vast North Ice Field to the north, and Storm Sea to the east.

The entire region has only two main routes of communication with the outside world. One is from the northern mountains of Minte City, passing through Northern Gate near Minte City, and another is running through the gap north of Svenas Mountain Range and south of North Ice Field, passing near Xiqilelan.

Previously, He Ao intercepted the Mercenary Corps of Stars Pharma descending from the Northeastern Federation at the Northern Gate in the Sote Dungeon.

Now, after going round and round, it’s his turn to come to the north.

He still remembers witnessing the entwined power of the God of Order and some fierce power above Northern Gate.

He wondered why such intertwined powers existed there and what their effects were.

But now, in retrospect, looking at the Northeastern Federation, with its surrounded terrain and the unique ’anomalies’ of this region.

Those powers might be related to that so-called ’anomaly’?

Could it be the spilling of some kind of ’anomaly’ power, or perhaps, some kind of seal?

The missing clues are still too many.

He Ao shook his head, touched his pocket, and took out a silver necklace, at the bottom of which a ’K’ pendant embedded with artificial crystal was connected.

The neon glows outside the car window passed through the glass, illuminating the swaying pendant, reflecting tiny glimmers of light.

He Ao’s physical strength continued to grow, but his vision gradually blurred, and his body had reached its limit.

Even though he could still forcefully propel his body forward by sheer will, the intense fatigue and pain continued to assault his mind like fierce waves.

Loren, after all, is just a mortal.

The vehicle in motion gradually decelerated, and He Ao put away the pendant, waiting for the car to stop, and got off.

The surrounding neon lights shimmered dazzlingly.

This is the East District of Xiluo City. He Ao looked up at the slightly old apartment building in front of him.

Gazing at the somewhat dim neon sign reading ’Maureen Apartment Building.’

He took a step forward, operated his wristband quickly, and slowly walked towards the building, "Hello, Eve."

A gentle yet natural female voice rang in his ear.

"Captain, look at this," Lily handed the tablet in her hand to Reid beside her, displaying the content on it, "Anomaly X3-297: Unchanging House, anomalous area located at Closh Street, Maureen Building, 12th floor, apartment 1251."

He Ao slowly made his way forward through the narrow corridor, his pace somewhat slow, and the scene in his field of view, dotted with bloodstains, already seemed shrouded by a layer of frosted glass, making the way ahead unclear.

Yet he maintained his steady and continuous pace, passing through the corridor, stopping at a stable position.

He raised his head, looking at the door in front of him.

The door displayed a blurred apartment number 1251 on the twelfth floor of the Maureen Building on Closh Street, the anomaly area.

He Ao lifted his head, eyes resting on the somewhat old apartment building in front of him.

He looked at the dim neon sign reading ’Maureen Apartment Building’ above.

He looked at the aged fingerprint lock on the door and, with a crisp sound, the door’s lock was released as he pressed his hand against it.