Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 245 - 225: The City of an Otherworldly

Chapter 245: Chapter 225: The City of an Otherworldly

Old Lu looked at her like that, and knew very well, teasingly saying, "What? You haven’t figured anything out and you’re already in a rush to ask for help from headquarters. Such an attitude is really not good. When you travelled to that world, you had a historical responsibility to bear, Miss Chen."

"This... this... but there shouldn’t be too much of a technological gap!" Chen Xinyi’s face turned slightly red, as she hadn’t investigated the things Lu Tianming was talking about at all.

How could she possibly have had the time to investigate these things?

Lu Tianming said, "Technological gaps can’t just be determined by appearances. A thousand years ago we were using iron pots, now we’re still using iron pots, and a hundred years from now, we will probably still be using iron pots."

"You should know, the major worlds within the Etheric Abyss are generally far apart, which makes crossing difficult, while there are quite a few small worlds."

"The Paradise Village where the Blood Demon is located is one such small world..."

"Investigating a major world is simply a great opportunity to make a name for oneself and be recorded in history, akin to Columbus discovering the New World, tch tch, do you understand what this means? Countless explorers desire such an opportunity."

Old Lu teased with his mouth, but of course, he knew how much Miss Chen really weighed.

She was just a slightly cleverer, prettier ordinary girl, that’s all.

In fact, he felt a little relieved that these two had returned safely: "Alright, let’s not talk about this. Tell me about what you encountered."

"Long story short, the sooner your souls return to your bodies."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Xinyi said, "We stumbled upon an advertisement and entered an elevator that could travel between worlds. I was already extremely careful on the elevator."

"But as soon as I got off the elevator and entered that hospital, I forgot all my caution... It was as if I had caught amnesia, and subconsciously felt that I had arrived at the best hospital in the world."

"Heh, was your memory altered?" Lu Tianming sneered coldly, "It’s because you don’t work hard enough usually. If you had constructed your own mental world and built a spiritual firewall, you wouldn’t be so easily influenced."

Miss Chen scratched her head and let out a few embarrassed laughs.

Using lucid dreaming techniques to construct one’s own mental world is a relatively advanced psychic skill.

How could she manage anything like that...

A few seconds later, she thought of something and said loudly, "There’s also good news. Xu Zhijun underwent a soul mutation and often suffered from headaches, so we, without really understanding, consulted a neurologist there."

"Incredibly... It really worked! He doesn’t have headaches anymore, and he can talk normally now, though he still seems not too bright."

Xu Zhijun laughed with a hehehe, clapped his hands and said, "Yes, I can talk now, I can talk now."

"And no more headaches!"

He still seemed not too bright.

But no matter what, it was much, much better than before.

However, Lu Tianming shook his head and sighed, "The information you’ve described is already known to us."

"The lady who crossed over from the Parallel Worlds spoke of related intelligence, and that lady has done quite a business, much, much stronger than the two of you."

Chen Xinyi was stunned for a moment, "Did she come over with ’Game’?"

"It’s highly likely. The two of you should have been sent there by the ’Game’ as representatives of our world."

"And that female guest was a representative of the otherworldly."

"Cheer up, Miss Chen, you might still have a very important communication task next. Don’t embarrass us."

Miss Chen felt slightly irritated, what did he mean, ’don’t embarrass us’...

She was not too bad in terms of appearance or social communication, was she?

"According to the girl, Feng Ling, who fled here, getting treatment at that hospital comes with a cost. The first is becoming anchored by the hospital, and when they’re short-staffed, you might have memories injected into you and become one of the hospital’s workers; second, the doctors there use up their own soul power to treat you, which might lead to early aging and death."

"This... Is that so." Xu Zhijun’s expression of happiness faded, and he was a bit worried about the doctor who had treated him.

After all, he was an honest person, and once he thought about the doctor who had treated him using up their own life force, he hung his head with some regret.

"And you? It’s understandable that Xu Zhijun would check his own brain. But you became a sewage worker, you must have had something looked at in the hospital, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to anchor you."

"I... I had a minor scar removal surgery at that hospital..." Chen Xinyi said with some embarrassment, "When I was a child, I fell and got a scar on my knee, which has always bothered me."

"Then I had a little surgery there, it shouldn’t have used up the doctor’s lifespan, right?"

Old Lu was almost convinced, getting anchored to the hospital over a scar on the knee?

And you were even a sewage worker for several days!

Was it worth it?

But it’s quite normal to be not quite right in the head and have your memory tampered with in a mysterious hospital.

He did not want to blame the other party, cleared his throat, and got straight to the point: "Alright, we’ve chatted for a bit too long. In short, ’Delusion’ and ’Game’ have already begun their confrontation."

"Our Earth World has also come under attack from ’Delusion’ to some extent... their methods are very strange, but luckily, it’s been temporarily controlled."

"You two are ambassadors of our Earth World, deliberately sent there by ’Game’. Luckily, you’ve made it to that world, so try to find out what that world is exactly about, be smarter, and don’t die so easily!"

"Make your investigation more detailed, look into technology level, human society, supernatural level, got it?"

"Hurry back, find a safe place, and get in touch again!"

Miss Chen frowned; having such a critical task weigh on her shoulders was indeed... an immense pressure.

On the other hand, Xu Zhijun shouted with full breath, "Understood!"

...

With eyes opening, the two once again returned to the reality of the Funeral Parlor.

In the solemn atmosphere, subdued sobs could be heard faintly.

Miss Chen nudged Xu Zhijun and whispered, "Speak less, observe more, got it?"

"Understood." Xu Zhijun was aware of his situation; although his headache had been cured, the boost in his intelligence was just moderate. He understood the wisdom in the saying, ’the more you speak, the more likely you are to slip up.’

About a quarter of an hour later, a van arrived outside the Funeral Parlor, and down stepped a bald middle-aged man wearing sunglasses.

The sunglassed man glanced at them and said, "You may call me ’Black Gold.’ How should I address you two?"

"Cheng Yi, Xu Jun," Chen Xinyi gave two random names on the spot.

"If there are things to be discussed... before that, you need to go through the formalities of resigning from the Hospital."

"Okay."

Completing the resignation wasn’t complicated; a stamp here, a signature there, and it was done.

But it was clear that after this step was completed, "Black Gold" and the logistics chief both breathed a long sigh of relief.

"There shouldn’t be any issues now. I’ll take responsibility for these two from here on out," Black Gold whispered to the logistics chief, "Appreciate it."

Then, turning back, "Please, get in the car."

The van started up and raced along the streets, with the scenery whizzing by.

"The van resembles the Wuling Sunshine from twenty years ago; either technology has regressed, or it has always been this way," Miss Chen mused internally, jotting notes down in her mental notebook.

The city of this otherworldly world wasn’t much different from Earth World: towering skyscrapers and bustling crowds.

"The skyscrapers look a bit old."

Even the neon advertisements on the buildings were nearly identical.

Some landmarks were at least five or six hundred meters tall.

People went to work and left on schedule.

But when looking at these people, Chen Xinyi occasionally felt goosebumps; there was an eerie sensation growing from within.

She didn’t know what this strange feeling was...

But subconsciously, she felt that these people were somewhat dangerous.

She didn’t particularly want to approach them.

The man known as "Black Gold" sat in the driver’s seat, silent, just driving.

She didn’t dare to ask too much.

Xu Zhijun was also quiet, sitting motionlessly.

The van drove a long while, leaving the bustling city for the countryside. This appeared to be a small military base peppered with parked buses and a few helicopters.

Seeing that no one was around, Black Gold finally exhaled slowly, "Do you come from a city we are unaware of?"

He purposefully used the word "city."

"Yes..." Chen Xinyi picked up on the underlying message and responded, "We come from a very distant place... We are from far away."

She felt somewhat anxious.

Now, she was representing all of humanity, not just the Black-clothed Guard!

Black Gold held a letter in his hand and asked, "This letter... was it given by you?"

[The wind blows, the bell tolls, the deal is sealed, success need not rely on me, but surely I’ll be part of it.]

The first characters of this acrostic spelled out: Feng Ling is successful.

As for the other letter, it seemed to hide some mystery, and they dared not open it rashly.

Chen Xinyi pondered for a moment; her inexplicable memory recovery was probably aided by the "Game."

She nodded and said, "We may know something, but we dare not speculate too much on the writer’s identity, nor do we know much."

(Note: In the third Reincarnation, Chen Xinyi and Xu Zhijun did not interact with the ’Game characters.’)

Black Gold’s expression subtly changed, and he sighed, "You dare not speculate... It seems like the situation in your place isn’t great either. But no matter what, more help is always good. The struggle will go on for a long time."

Chen Xinyi was somewhat conflicted; she was not used to this kind of enigmatic dialogue...

Where they were from was doing just fine!