Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 34 - 33 Code Name: [Game]

Chapter 34: Chapter 33 Code Name: [Game]

There were two different possibilities here.

First, the stake was insufficient—a photo of the "Smiling Dog" was not valuable enough to warrant an answer to the question.

Second, the "Laplace Demon" also did not know the ultimate answer. The "Laplace Demon" was omniscient and omnipotent only compared to humans, not on the level of the Multi-universe.

Thus, it could only issue a refund.

However, this was already an additional piece of information, suggesting that "it" was very powerful and very mysterious, likely ranking above the "Laplace Demon"!

The true "Demon God," perhaps...

Investigator No. 1 shuddered internally.

Yet, he did not wish to offer a higher price and, after pondering for a while, slowly spoke, "Tell me anything about ’it,’ content equivalent in value to the ’Smiling Dog’ will suffice."

"Then, you can take this photo. You would want it, right? If you want the photo, you need to provide me with some useful information."

This time, the other party was silent longer than ever before.

Just as Investigator No. 1 began to feel anxious and uneasy, a mechanical voice finally echoed in his mind, "East."

The memory related to the "Smiling Dog" vanished once again.

East... What does it mean?

Would it appear in the East, or... are its spokespeople in the East?

Isn’t that obvious? Li Qingshan and Chen Xinyi were its spokespeople.

Both of them had been arrested!

Investigator No. 1 frowned, dissatisfied with the information provided by the "Laplace Demon."

However, he did not pursue it further, as he neither had the time nor the energy to chase after this entity, even if it felt like chasing after a steamed bun to hit a dog; he simply had to bite the bullet and accept it.

He rose from his chair and left the room.

The deeper the question, the greater the cost; the "Laplace Demon" would not deliberately exploit humans. But that a single picture of the "Smiling Dog" could only yield the information "East" revealed how enormous and unimaginable the mystery of the newly emerged "it" was.

Thus, the elderly Investigator No. 1, with somewhat heavy steps, returned to the meeting room.

People were discussing something, but they quieted down as they saw Investigator No. 1 come back.

"Gentlemen, the results are in."

Investigator No. 1 relayed the divination results and the information provided by the Laplace Demon.

Lucky!

East!

These two keywords were significant and related to the future of humanity to some extent!

"Please speak freely, without hesitation. Say whatever comes to mind."

After about a minute, Mr. No. 24 from the Academy of Science, wearing glasses, presented his view, "Ladies and gentlemen, with more information, I now more firmly support the viewpoint I raised in the last meeting: this unknown Demon God is a rule-type special anomaly."

"It might be a novel, a movie, or a game. Based on current information, I’m inclined to believe it’s a game!"

"Oh, how so?"

Mr. No. 24 paused briefly, noting the lack of strong reactions from others, and continued, "The two known victims, Li Qingshan and Chen Xinyi, both sensed that they were being manipulated throughout the process, unable to make their own decisions."

"Doesn’t this phenomenon closely resemble that of the main character in a game?"

"They were like characters in a computer game, every action dictated by the player’s keyboard and mouse movements."

"They appeared to have their own thoughts but were merely playing out the game’s narrative; everything progressed according to the script."

This line of reasoning did seem thought-provoking.

Does it make some sense?

"Of course, using ’victims’ to describe these two isn’t quite appropriate."

"At the time, Li Qingshan’s mission was to investigate and destroy the ’Blood Ginseng,’ but in that scenario, he lacked the ability to complete this task. After reassessment, it was highly likely that he would die."

At that time, Li Qingshan was abroad, on the other side of Earth in a country not on friendly terms with Great Xia, so he was essentially acting like a covert agent.

Even if he completed his mission, death was highly probable.

"Following that... In his own dream, Li Qingshan inexplicably became his ancestor ’Li Shan’, and somewhat altered history—could that simply be part of some game’s script?"

"Therefore, I speculate that the Demon God is powerful enough to alter timelines; it can insert any character into a historical point, thus changing the entire timeline."

Mr. No. 24 grew more excited as he spoke, as if brainstorming, "Similarly, another victim, Chen Xinyi, miraculously survived in the ’Turtle Soup Game.’"

"If not for time-reversal phenomena causing resurrection, she would surely have faced certain death."

"Ordinary people facing the anomalous essentially have no solutions, only Black-clothed Guards as investigators possessing lifesaving tools and special abilities can contend with such entities, but Chen Xinyi managed to survive."

"What does that imply? She’s also a main character in the game; if she dies, the game reloads."

"A reload is akin to resurrection in the real world, right?"

"Since these people, who should have been dead, are still alive, hence they must pay a price. Their lives are now controlled by the ’Demon God’... it’s a pretty standard exchange."

Many in the room nodded in agreement; the value of life or, more accurately, the soul is the highest of all human values, an important conclusion reached in recent years by the Academy of Science.

Because the soul is a high-quality low-entropy entity, which can serve as an anchor to effectively bring anomalies from the Etheric Abyss to the surface.

In the world of humans, a low-entropy world, there lies great allure.

Whether it’s anomalies, Evil Gods, or Demon Gods, all are tirelessly searching for ways to enter the Human World.

If at the moment of someone’s death, an anomaly is willing to take away "freedom" as a price to save a life—this is undoubtedly a minor price, suggesting the Demon God might lean towards the side of order?

Mr. No. 24 concluded, "And one final point, both Li Qingshan and Chen Xinyi can enter a special training location through the ’Black Flame’ in their minds."

"The various trainings completed in this place can equivalently affect their real-world physical bodies. The learning speed increase in this training ground is 500%-1000%, a truly terrifying figure; what normally takes a year to learn can be compressed into one or two months."

"Therefore, we can boldly assume that this ’Demon God’ is a game or perhaps that game training camp."

"It considers our world as a game."

"The Eight Diagrams’ prediction was ’auspicious,’ which somewhat proves my point."

It sounded far-fetched, but then again... it seemed quite reasonable!