Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 144 - 135 Complete Clue

Chapter 144: Chapter 135 Complete Clue

The fourth mural depicted some strange and eerie creatures that approached from outside Paradise. These creatures were very powerful in battle, seemingly lacking in wisdom.

However, the creatures’ target was not the well, but rather to leap into the vast sea.

The people of Taoyuan Village built a wall to prevent these odd beings from jumping into the sea, but still, some powerful ones forcefully climbed over the wall and plunged into the waters.

And it was in this image that part of the sea was dyed red.

"You see, the people of Taoyuan Village are bad!" the distorted old man shouted, "They won’t let us go to Nirvana."

The old man’s logic was completely muddled, sometimes saying that jumping into the sea would lead to Nirvana, other times that it would result in death.

The fifth mural was one Wang Hao had not seen before.

Wang Hao held his breath and observed closely.

In the fifth image, the secret of the well was revealed! The water could make one’s mind clearer!

Jumping into the sea, however, would not lead to Nirvana; it would mean certain death!

The creatures instantly rioted.

The original inhabitants of Taoyuan Village began to struggle with the creatures for ownership of the well. The creatures’ strength and numbers far surpassed those of the original inhabitants of Paradise. But since the creatures could not trust one another, the two sides were evenly matched.

After a great battle, half of Taoyuan Village was dead or injured, and so were many of the creatures.

The sixth mural showed a sinister tree appearing next to the well!

The red branches, like veins, starkly blocked the well’s opening.

The tree seemed to be aligned with the creatures’ camp; as long as sacrifices were made to it, it would help the creatures fetch well water.

It was clear that the people of Taoyuan Village abhorred the tree.

The existence of the tree meant that during the following prolonged war, they gradually found themselves at a disadvantage. They had to find a divine child and expend great effort to suppress the tree in order to draw water from the well.

This was the last painting in the temple, with no more images beyond it.

Wang Hao looked confused, "What... What is all this?"

It was just a record of the prolonged war between the strange creatures and the people of Taoyuan Village.

Is that it... Is that it... Where is the Blood Demon’s weakness?

How to make the Blood Demon sink?

Nothing, none of it.

There was no powerful Strange Object in the temple, nor were there any records of the Blood Demon’s weakness.

Indeed, Wang Hao realized that even the red sea was not the true form of the Blood Demon!

It was merely slowly tinted red by the extraneous creatures...

Alright then, feeling like a dead pig who’s not afraid of boiling water, and with his head in a complete mess, what the Blood Demon’s true form was became unimportant.

"Alright, kid, you’ve seen it all, now it’s time for you to help Lord me fetch well water," the distorted old man said.

"One last question, where did this tree come from?" Wang Hao asked again.

"How would I know? I’ve only been here for eighty years. After the war a hundred years ago, the tree existed..."

"Oh, it’s said, just said, that Li Xianfeng turned into the tree, and afterwards, it would help us fetch water, what’s up with that?" The old man started to mutter again.

"Really strange! Why would Li Xianfeng turn into a tree?"

This time, fetching the water was a little different from the last.

Due to the lack of suppression from the villagers of Taoyuan, the eerie tree by the well used its branches to cover up the well opening.

But as long as life was sacrificed to the tree, it would assist in drawing water—though the amount of well water fetched was far less than one could get on their own.

The distorted old man grinned broadly, mumbling nonstop while cheerfully hanging Wang Hao onto the tree.

"I thought you would keep on nagging," Wang Hao scoffed disdainfully, "Didn’t expect that after all we’ve been through, you would still want to kill me."

"I’m really not a good person," the distorted old man droned, "Don’t blame me. I just want to survive."

The crooked, vein-like branches immediately pierced into Wang Hao’s body.

In just a few seconds, he was drained to a husk, only a loose skin hanging there.

The strange tree still didn’t let go, as if intending to dissolve and digest even his skin and bones.

A sentence popped up on the screen: [You have died. Cause of Death: Life force drained by an unknown creature.]

But the view didn’t go completely dark. Instead, it continued for about a minute with a God’s-eye view.

After the tree had absorbed Wang Hao’s vitality, it used its roots to draw a few drops of well water.

The old man used a container he had prepared beforehand to catch these few drops of water, smiling blissfully, with the swellings on his head dancing around.

He cautiously extended his yellowed tongue and tasted just one drop.

With just that single drop, the distorted old man’s mental state greatly improved!

At least his soliloquy seemed to cease... the clarity in his eyes greatly increased!

The screen dimmed, and this cycle of reincarnation came to a close.

Therefore, the storyline of "Paradise II" had been largely experienced.

There might still be some hidden clues that had not been found, but the main bulk of the plot was definitely within this magnificent temple.

Wang Hao had given up the idea that the village was hiding some sort of "World Level Strange Object."

As for how to stop the Blood Demon from rising?

I don’t know, I don’t understand, I’m still clueless—it remains an unsolved mystery.

I’m completely out of leads.

...

"Seven Stars difficulty really is more than just a step up from Five Stars!" Wang Hao exclaimed, taking off his helmet.

The thick paper strategy guide once again gained some new content.

Seeing that the plot experience was nearly complete, the next step was to figure out how to solve the puzzle.

To uncover the ultimate secret hidden within the village!

The information now known included: "an eight-person expedition team, the clues left by the old comrade Li Xianfeng, the strange customs of the original inhabitants of Taoyuan Village, information provided by the deformed elderly, the ocean, the well, the murals in the temple, Papermen, along with various man-eating oddities."

He listed all the clues he had collected on paper, one by one.

At first glance these clues seemed scattered and unhelpful for the main quest, but they must reveal something important.

Wang Hao furrowed his brows in deep thought, analyzing each clue.

The first problem was the faction conflicts within the village.

Who were the just, and who were the unjust?

The First Camp was humanity itself, which included "the Main Character," "the eight-person expedition team," and the hundred-year-old Li Xianfeng, considered one faction.

The human faction, with incredibly pathetic fighting abilities, died upon encountering anomalies.

Among them, Li Xianfeng did the most.

A hundred years ago, he instigated a battle between the two sides and also left important clues on the walls.

[The Blood Demon’s disaster cannot be defended against by human strength. My time is running out, illusions are rampant, I’m merely scraping by, carrying a guilt in my heart, yet there’s nothing I can do.]

[One day, an idea struck me, and I had an epiphany.]

[But the Blood Demon’s influence has already taken hold, and given time, it will bring great disaster. Rather than destroying without creating, I leave my hopes to future generations, only then is there a glimmer of hope. Future generations must remember: The enemy is not singular.]

[Message from Li Xianfeng of the Black-clothed Guard.]

However, the information in this text was insufficient; it was unclear what he was trying to express.

As for the eight-person expedition team of the human faction, they came simply for wealth, and if left uninterfered with, they would be killed by the red-clothed eerie entity the next morning...

Nor did I understand the real purpose of the game system arranging for this expedition team...

"Are they just mere extras?"

The second faction was the original inhabitants of Taoyuan Village, who sought to steal the power of "the well."

The residents of Taoyuan Village first discovered the well and built their village nearby, attempting to become true Eternals.

The clues left by the original inhabitants of Taoyuan Village were those six murals, which recorded their history in full.

As for the third faction, it was the strange camp influenced by the power of the Blood Demon.

But the anomalies had low levels of intellect and initially, not understanding, all dove into the sea, polluting the water.

Later, persuaded by Li Xianfeng, they fought with the villagers over the well water and stopped jumping into the sea.

Because the anomalies couldn’t trust each other, this faction couldn’t unite and was in a long and ongoing war with the original inhabitants of Taoyuan Village.

The deformed elder claimed that Li Xianfeng turned into the tree by the well?

Although I didn’t know if this information was true, I would consider it to be so for now.

"What a mess..."

Wang Hao wrinkled his brow, wracking his brains. He didn’t understand what Li Xianfeng was doing, nor did he know why he turned into a tree, guarding the well.

Why a Blood Demon would create such a complex web of history was beyond my comprehension. It felt like a tangled mess of yarn, impossible to unravel where to begin.

Suddenly, a spark of insight flashed through my mind.

"Could it be that Li Xianfeng clung to life for a while and then completely fell, joining the ranks of the anomalies?"

"Did he convert to the Blood Demon? Trying to stop others from stealing the power of the well?"

Humans, when faced with Subordinate Demon God-level supernatural phenomena, whether in spirit or flesh, are no more than candles in the wind, extinguishable at any moment.

Humans are vulnerable to temptation. If I, Wang Hao, were starved for three days and nights, hungry to the point where my stomach stuck to my back, and suddenly someone brought me fragrantly steaming chicken leg with rice, and that person was Han Xiaoyue or an Immortal Bean-like adorable girl, and the only price I had to pay was a kiss...

How many could resist such temptation?

Isn’t this how Evil Gods tempt others?

So, the possibility of Li Xianfeng’s complete degradation was not unfounded.

"If Li really did fall... Does that mean some information might be incorrect? Could his existence be the cause of the rapid emergence of the Blood Demon?"

That sense of everyone being villains once again enveloped my heart.

Even Li Xianfeng might not stand for justice.

Having analyzed up to this point, Wang Hao was distressed.

A pitiful, worthless child incessantly returning to the timeline forty years back, trying to save the world solo, alone and desolate; it was absurd, ridiculous, yet pitiable.

Am I the only one who’s just?

"Regardless of whether Li Xianfeng has fallen or not, at the beginning, he must have been on the determined side of justice, doing all that he did with the intention to prevent the Blood Demon’s ascent."

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(Does no one really guess the answer? The puzzle will be solved in the next Chapter!)

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