Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 141 - 132 Earth in Danger!

Chapter 141: Chapter 132 Earth in Danger!

It was a crazy, heavy, despairing sleepless night.

First, the Blood Demons kept surfacing, escalating the severity of catastrophes blooming globally.

Then, the Doomsday Roulette was turned, and the Doomsday Angels opened their eyes.

After that, this omen abruptly vanished...

Next, astonishingly, one hundred twenty-eight prophets, through various means, prophesied the same scene!!!

Due to differing abilities, this scene was either clear or blurred.

But the general plot was almost the same: an expedition team and a child had been killed by the natives of Taoyuan Village decades ago, and the expedition team had been turned into paper figures hanging on trees.

This scene baffled everyone but seemed to profoundly reveal something...

"I have placed the fragments of the dream into the Crystal Ball."

The most renowned prophet, Madame Jenny the Gypsy, once again provided a new prophetic result.

All the scenes were displayed in the Crystal Ball.

At 32, Jenny felt numb, being a famed prophet with power and wealth within easy reach.

She could easily avoid certain disasters and predict long-term stock trends; she was sought after by upper-class nobility.

At one point, she believed she was the center of the world, destined to leave her mark in history.

That was until she encountered a much broader world.

Too much had happened tonight; she was in a state of panic.

At a time when life could vanish at any moment, power and wealth were mere illusions.

Until now, she had never felt such confusion, even doubting her own abilities.

In the struggle between colossal beings, humans didn’t even know what was fighting.

And those eerie paper figures, inexplicable customs. An endless array of unknowns approached, and compared to them, humans were indeed mere infants in swaddling clothes, struggling even to protect themselves.

Earth was in peril!

A spokesperson from the Mysterious Bureau said, "Since so many have simultaneously prophesied this scene, it is likely a strong warning emitted by Gaia’s consciousness."

"Ladies and gentlemen, please analyze the scene in the Crystal Ball and interpret its meaning..."

In fact, this piece of intelligence was substantially incomplete.

There was no sound; it was unknown what the expedition members were saying.

Furthermore, with the scene blurred and everyone’s features indistinct, it was impossible to discern expressions or analyze lip reading.

That was the limit of Jenny’s ability; the content in the Crystal Ball could not be made clearer.

...

...

Kunlun Mountain, Black-clothed Guard video conference room.

Such a significant event naturally involved the Black-clothed Guard, who seriously studied and discussed it.

The influence of the Blood Demon incident continued to ferment, making even the most indifferent person unable to sleep peacefully.

Fortunately, Spiritual Strength was to some extent equivalent to spiritual power, so these people could manage without sleep for a day or two.

The members each voiced their opinions, resulting in a variety of views.

"Could this child be comrade No. 12’s elder brother?"

"No. 12, the one who is like a Heavenly God descending to Earth, is he already... dead? Died from drinking water from a well?"

"But didn’t they escape from that haunted place? Why would they go back?"

No. 1 was carrying out a mission in ’Binge Eating Heaven’, so the similarly aged No. 2 convened a related meeting: "Comrade No. 24, regarding the hints issued by Gaia’s consciousness, do you have any special insights or opinions?"

No. 24 from the Great Science Academy pondered for a moment, adjusted his glasses, and said, "Regarding this piece of intelligence..."

"If it actually happened in history, it only proves that the derived power of the Blood Demon has led the native residents in the vicinity to form a series of terrifying customary practices."

"These customs effectively prevent their death."

Due to eerie existences, humans forming special customs in the past had many precedents.

For example, in some places, there was a legend that said, "If you hear someone shouting while walking on a mountain path, don’t turn around," because turning around would trigger an eerie attack.

This eerie being, called "Do Not Turn Back," was of Evil God Level.

There were even explanations for this: a person has three oil lamps, one on the head and two on the shoulders. These represent the Yang Fire on a person; at night, if someone calls your name, don’t look around. If the flames are blown out, you’ll call forth spirits.

In summary, the locals developed these customs through life’s trial and error.

No. 24 paused briefly: "Of course, there is another possibility that these customs offer some benefits."

The types of oddities were vast and varied, and some did offer benefits beforehand.

"The Blood Demon’s ability makes people long-lived, which indeed brings some benefits."

"So, I currently favor the latter assumption, that perhaps these villagers sacrificed the expedition team for eternal life, for an even longer life."

The conference room fell somewhat silent.

Everyone was deep in thought.

"However, we still lack information, and I have yet to find an answer as to how these prophetic images are of any help to us. This is probably a story from decades ago; what use is it in solving this case?"

"We surely can’t emulate these native villagers and summon the Blood Demon, can we?"

"Besides, we neither have those strange materials nor that well, and what that tree really is... well, it truly seems inexplicable."

These images are indeed too vague; even with so many brilliant minds globally, it is hard to provide a clear explanation.

Suddenly, number 24 seemed to think of something, "Wait, could our reliance on prophecy be too deep?"

As a scientist, he was habituated to questioning current conclusions.

"What do you mean?" asked number 2, furrowing his brow.

"Is this really a prophecy issued by Gaia’s consciousness? It could just be interference from some Demon God."

"Or maybe, that Demon God has formed some unknown connection with Gaia’s consciousness. It might be bewitching Gaia, deliberately wanting us to see this image."

Prophecy is an ability of the Time System.

The Diamond Sutra states, "Subhuti, the past mind cannot be grasped, the present mind cannot be grasped, and the future mind cannot be grasped."

It means that none of us are saints; thus, we all think and face events, causing our minds to be unsettled. This is the state of a normal person. When we ponder issues, every thought becomes past in the next second.

You can’t hold onto any of the past thoughts.

Nor can you seize the future ones.

As it is with one person, so it is with the world.

The parameters of the timeline are the largest variables of the etheric abyss.

Due to these numerous variables, achieving seventy to eighty percent accuracy is considered world-level for a prophet.

But due to Demon Gods’ abilities, far surpassing humans, those that specifically manipulate time can precisely intervene in human prophecies.

Currently, the Black-clothed Guard just happens to know a Time System Demon God.

"Game!"

"Err, comrade number 24, isn’t this deduction a bit far-fetched?"

Number 12, Lu Tianming, lay in the training camp, speaking through Conch Headphones, "Can’t we pin any unknown phenomenon on ’Game’? What does ’Game’ get out of creating this thing? I don’t quite understand its intentions; is it just showing off?"

"Does it need to show off? It doesn’t..."

Number 24 was also puzzled, shaking his head slightly, "It doesn’t need to show off, but it needs to anchor our world."

"Didn’t ’Game’ create a character, just having fun inside? Maybe it’s one of those sacrificed by the villagers."

Lu Tianming then asked, "But how does it anchor our world? By sending a few images to people’s minds? That doesn’t really stand."

For a Demon God to rise, it’s inevitably complex; the Blood Demon has schemed for a millennium, embedding many anchors in the human world; and ’Game’, an even more colossal entity, thinking it could rise just by sending a few prophetic images, is sheer delusion.

"I’m not ruling out this possibility," said number 24 from the Great Science Academy, "Although I can’t guess what ’Game’s’ current intentions really are..."

"Gaia’s consciousness lacks subjective initiative; when a crisis arrives, it experiences the crisis and will seek information from some parallel worlds on the timeline, arbitrarily sending it to us. It can’t distinguish if Demon Gods are causing trouble."

"Ah, I hope the ones from number 1 succeed," sighed number 2. Sitting in this position, his seat hadn’t even warmed when so many things happened, "Prepare for both scenarios, the first is to stop the Blood Demon’s rise. If it really does come out, we’ll only have to play hard!"

"Second, regarding ’Game’s’ rise, we also need to start observing. Let’s lock it down with the Seismograph."

...

"Seismograph," a Strange Object invented by ancient saints.

It had always locked onto the "Blood Demon," but now the eighth Dragon Ball was teetering, and it was clear to any observant person that the "Blood Demon" was about to rise into the world, no longer necessitating such stringent lockdown.

At this moment, this ancient instrument, cast in fine copper and eight feet in diameter, changed its target.

One of ’Game’s’ Contractors, Li Qingshan, after dropping a drop of blood into it.

The "Seismograph" had located the depth of the Demon God "Game" in the etheric abyss.

"Dang!" The first Dragon Ball fell, quite usual, as any interacting with the human world would naturally drop first.

"Dang!" The second one.

"Dang!" The third one.

Ultimately, within one minute, five Dragon Balls fell.

The sixth, hung in suspension.

Five balls meant that this Demon God now had the capacity to slightly interfere in the human world. But there was still a considerable distance from a true rise.

The members of the Black-clothed Guard breathed a slight sigh of relief.