IRCDM Chapter 96

Chapter 96: Parting Ways, And Also Checking On Li Yao

The Eastern Third District Black Market’s simulated reality experience hall has become famous, attracting a swarm of people eager to try it out. Streamers, celebrities, and even top solo mercenaries from outside the district have come to participate. Just then, the Eastern Third District Administrative Court finally released its first official livestream video.

The man in the video is very young.

He looks to be in his early twenties, but his demeanor is remarkably steady. He’s tall, with excellent proportions, and the ordinary mercenary uniform looks like a high-end military outfit on him. Just when people thought he was an actor hired by the Eastern Third District, a voiceover suddenly said, “Deputy District Chief, say hello to everyone.”

The young Deputy District Chief smiled slightly at the camera: “Hello everyone, I am Liang Huan, Deputy District Chief of the Eastern Third District. Next, I will take everyone through a complete simulated reality game experience of our certified Black Market.”

His smile was gentle and persuasive, and his handsome and beautiful face was particularly attractive. Not to mention the way he looked at the screen, focused and affectionate, as if he were looking at his lover.

[Mom, I’m in love!!!]

[The Deputy District Chief of the Eastern Third District? I think he made a brief appearance in the previous promotional video, but is he really this good-looking?]

[What does being good-looking have to do with you? Where are the mechas?]

[I bet they found an actor to pretend. What District Chief looks like that?]

[Does the face matter? Stop dawdling, hurry up and show us the simulated reality game!]

[Where are the mechas? How many?]

Liang Huan glanced at the light screen and smiled, “There are currently seventeen mechas in the Eastern Third District.”

[Mechas aren’t important, hubby District Chief, how old are you?]

[I heard he’s only twenty-two years old this year!!!]

[Little brother, want to date? I’ll buy you all the mechas in the entire Eastern District base!]

[Sisters, I’m leaving, I’m already preparing to immigrate to the Eastern Third District!]

[Add me!]

[Does little brother like men or women? I can be either, I’ll go transform.]

…………

[Are we going to the zombie outbreak first, or the alien invasion? Where are the mechas?]

[Stream the game! Stop looking at the face, what’s so good about a man’s face!]

[Show us the mechas?]

[Where are the mechas?!!!]

Liang Huan couldn’t see the dense text clearly, so he leaned closer and adjusted the angle of the personal livestream light screen. He didn’t know what mechanism he triggered, but the gift effects instantly overwhelmed the entire screen.

In the military office, Li Yao frowned in annoyance as he watched him suddenly approach the screen.

These people have never seen the world.

He typed out a message: [Hurry up and introduce the game, you’re blocking the mechas, move aside!]

Liang Huan couldn’t see which one was Li Yao, so he had to withdraw his gaze and introduce, “The Eastern Third District certified Black Market has eight underground levels in total. Levels -1, -2, and -3 are the mental strength and physical fitness evaluation center and the mecha training base. We’ll skip those for now. Next, I’ll take everyone to experience the zombie outbreak on level -4, the alien invasion on level -5, and the external district reality on levels -6 and -7. The livestream has two modes: follow-along and panoramic. You can adjust it yourselves as needed.”

Li Yao raised an eyebrow and changed the entire livestream light screen to panoramic mode. Liang Huan’s figure instantly appeared on the screen.

First was the zombie outbreak on level -4. The Eastern Third District had spared no expense in creating the real-world environment, even simulating the extreme weather conditions of the eve of the apocalypse. The restored city scene slowly unfolded before everyone’s eyes, with abandoned vehicles and dense zombies among the tall buildings. To increase the realism, holographic-like real humans were added, and they were frantically fleeing everywhere.

Liang Huan stood on the roof overlooking the zombies below, patiently introducing to the audience in the livestream, “Our mission is to collect enough supplies to support our successful escape from this city within three days. Professional real-time mercenary bodyguards are equipped here, and they will come to help us once the emergency button is pressed.”

[Three days? Is the streamer going to broadcast for three days and three nights?]

[Ahhh, this looks so exciting, if someone is always there to save me, I can’t help but want to try it, I can’t die anyway.]

[I haven’t seen real zombies in a long time. I only saw them in the breeding park during extracurricular activities when I was a kid.]

[As long as District Chief Liang himself is broadcasting, I’m willing to watch for thirty days!]

[Wait, did he just jump down?!!]

The audience outside the screen was discussing, and before everyone could react, Liang Huan jumped off the roof. With the help of the safety rope—although the rope seemed useless to him—he went directly to another building. An explosion sounded behind him, and the zombies were immediately blown into a frenzy.

Liang Huan stood cleanly beside the pile of corpses, seriously looked at the screen camera, opened the zombie’s brain and skillfully took out the crystal nucleus inside: “Zombie crystal nuclei are very important resources for humans. In the past, humans used them to upgrade aliens. Although there are no more superpowers now, they are helpful for improving our mental strength. The more crystal clear the crystal nucleus, the higher the quality. Everyone should pay attention to identifying them when they are in the outer districts.”

The screen was eerily silent for a moment.

[Ah, so bloody, but so handsome.]

[I don’t understand what you’re saying, but please say more, I love to watch.]

…………

[Wait, did he just fly over here? Didn’t you all notice?]

[Isn’t there a safety rope? Do you think technology doesn’t exist?]

[What if you get bitten by a zombie?]

Liang Huan put the crystal nucleus into his backpack and replied, “Now our zombie serum technology is very mature. As long as it is not a large-scale trauma, timely injection of serum will prevent infection.”

He paused and looked at the screen seriously: “I can’t fly, it’s just that the rope is of good quality, everyone can buy high-quality safety ropes when the time comes.”

Behind the screen, Li Yao almost laughed out loud.

The following scenes were slightly rough and bloody. Liang Huan went into the zombie crowd alone, got out of the zombie crowd, filled his backpack, and successfully found a usable vehicle. After planning the evacuation route, he enthusiastically rescued a player participating in the game… By the time he left level -4, only an hour and a half had passed.

The livestream screen was full of question marks and exclamation points.

[What happened?]

[Weren’t you supposed to broadcast for three days?]

[About right, the professional mercenaries also used a day last time, three days is for ordinary people.]

[But it’s only been an hour and a half!]

Liang Huan nodded slightly apologetically: “Sorry, because the administrative court is busy, the game time needs to be compressed. If you want to learn more, you are welcome to come to the Eastern Third District to experience it yourself. The first two months are free.”

The audience in the livestream room suddenly became a little eager to try.

[Damn, if you say it’s free, I’m really tempted.]

[I almost forgot that he is the Deputy District Chief of the Eastern Third District. The Deputy District Chief personally came to broadcast us killing zombies. They have done so much, it seems a little impolite not to go.]

[But I’m really afraid of zombies, my legs are shaking when I see them.]

[It’s okay, brother, the aliens love you.]

[……]

Soon Liang Huan took them to the alien invasion. Unlike the previous zombie city, this place was more like a factory complex in the suburbs. The treacherous terrain and gloomy sky made people feel like they were really in the end of the world. All kinds of strange aliens were wandering around, as if they could harvest people’s lives at any time.

Watching the gentle and harmless person kill aliens without even blinking an eye, the alien, more than five meters tall, was split in half by the ice axe transformed from the bracelet. Perhaps because he was using his mental power, the person who was still smiling became cold and solemn, and his oppressive aura was full. The audience who was still joking silently kept quiet.

[…I always feel like the Deputy District Chief can chop me up as an alien]

[Why does he look a little excited]

[Oh my god, he made eye contact with me, so scary]

[So, was it because the zombies have human shapes that he was worried about killing them?]

Muddy alien blood splashed on his eyelids. Liang Huan raised his eyes, looked at the forgotten camera, and smiled slightly: “Because aliens need mental power to fight, sorry for scaring everyone. In the future, everyone must also concentrate when encountering aliens. A little distraction will cause you to have your mental source devoured.”

[Bro, I’m not calling you little brother anymore, I’m not an alien don’t kill me]

[Got it, bro, don’t smile, it’s scary]

[Help, why do I feel like I’m going to be sent to the aliens by District Chief Bro in the next second?]

[I can barely try zombies, but let’s forget about aliens, my mental power is only D+]

The smile in Liang Huan’s eyes deepened: “How will you know if you don’t try? Some people with D- mental power can control five mechas.”

Accompanied by the explosions of various alien mental sources, more and more people poured into the livestream room. Li Yao, through the dense comments and gorgeous mental source fragments, met Liang Huan’s eyes on the screen.

The door to the office was knocked on, and then Lu Lian pushed the door in.

Li Yao put his feet on the table and raised an eyebrow to look at him: “So knocking once can get you in, the military is really efficient now.”

“The technology department has recently detected an unknown signal frequency, which appears regularly almost every night, but it is very cunning, and its location is different every time.” Lu Lian looked around his office, “Just now, we detected this signal again nearby.”

Li Yao glanced at the private light screen where Liang Huan was popularizing basic operation knowledge while driving a mecha, and couldn’t help whistling: “No need to check, it’s mine, do you even have to control my personal hobbies?”

“What—” Lu Lian frowned, and saw Li Yao generously open his private light screen. On the screen, a muscular man with dark brown skin was kneeling on the ground, with a white bow tie around his neck, and two leopard ears on his head. His long tail was wrapped around his waist, and he was about to kiss Lu Lian.

“What is this!” Lu Lian took a step back, his pupils slightly trembling.

Li Yao looked at him with leisure: “Little Lu, do I need to hand this over to Commander Huan for review?”

Lu Lian closed his eyes with a cold face, and there were probably countless swear words he wanted to say in his heart, but he forcibly endured it: “I’ll let it go this time, Li Yao, no matter what your purpose is for returning to the military, I advise you to stop it as soon as possible. When they find out that the signal device is not on you, things will not end so well.”

Li Yao lowered his head and swiped the screen twice, and smiled: “What would I come back for if the signal device wasn’t on me? As for you, as Qi Mingjing’s first secretary, you are now following Yi Hengbai every day, what, Commander Qi and Commander Huan have temporarily allied?”

Lu Lian frowned even deeper: “The military strictly prohibits forming cliques, it’s just a job transfer.”

Li Yao shrugged indifferently.

Lu Lian turned around and took two steps, then suddenly stopped at the door: “You better be careful at tonight’s celebration banquet.”

After saying that, the door was slammed shut, and the person left without looking back.

Li Yao stared at Liang Huan, who was killing everyone and was extremely popular on the light screen, and chuckled: “A weasel greeting a chicken for the New Year.”

“He definitely doesn’t have good intentions.” Deng Meng followed behind Liang Huan and handed over a handkerchief: “Brother Liang, this Zhu Mingyan is untrustworthy and has been delaying and delaying. It’s been a full seven days, let alone the 50 billion, he can’t even get the shares of the Leopard Game Company. The Dawn Group probably doesn’t even take him seriously.”

“Thank you.” Liang Huan took the handkerchief and wiped the blood on his face, “It doesn’t matter whether he has good intentions or not, what matters is what we can get from him.”

Deng Meng looked at him in confusion: “What else can we get?”

Liang Huan smiled: “If we can make the other side lose more than 50 billion, then we won’t be at a loss.”

Deng Meng listened as if he understood: “I see.”

Liang Huan lowered his head and wiped the blood on his ring: “I heard that the military is preparing a celebration banquet for Dawn Stars tonight?”

“That’s right, Brother Li—” Deng Meng paused, “Liang Huan’s return to the military, this week’s news is all about the Black Market game and this, the entire Eastern District base is spreading it.”

Li Yao left silently. Many people in the Eastern Third District Administrative Court only knew that he had returned to the military after watching the news. They had all seen Liang Huan and Li Yao’s relationship before. Now that the two had parted ways, and Liang Huan kept silent about it, anyone could see that the two must have had a conflict.

And the conflict wasn’t small.

Deng Meng hadn’t dared to mention Li Yao’s name in front of Liang Huan these past few days, for fear of reminding Liang Huan of sad things… Although his Brother Liang seems to be in a good mood now?

“Go out with me tonight.” Liang Huan threw the handkerchief into the trash can, “Bring Zhu Ming.”

Deng Meng nodded and tentatively asked: “Brother Liang, where are we going?”

“I left some belongings in the military, and I have time today to get them back.” Liang Huan looked at the chip, which was on the latest news interface.

In the picture, the man with fierce and stern eyebrows and eyes was wearing a dark black military uniform and was arrogantly staring at him.

Liang Huan gently rubbed the picture.

…And also check on Li Yao.