Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 345 - 272 Article 1 Anchoring

Chapter 345: Chapter 272 Article 1 Anchoring

"Outsider, you’re in pain now, no, in a great deal of pain, in extreme pain."

"Being bitten to death by the White-haired Monster feels awful, and you think to yourself in annoyance: if it were daytime, you could have definitely beaten it."

"Great Demon God, why didn’t you choose a better time? Why must the battle take place at night?"

Wang Hao howled, a blatant case of blaming others!

Having played games for over a decade, I’ve seen plenty of teammates who pass the buck.

It was said that just one weapon would do to defeat the White-haired Monster, and now there’s suddenly the condition of "daytime"! Why the hell didn’t you say so earlier.

"Fortunately, the White-haired Monster isn’t interested in your belongings, and the Strange Object ’Rune Blade’ was left behind, with a chance of recovery."

"In the moment before death, the great Demon God brought your soul back once again, but being bitten to death alive was so painful that it caused another mental collapse."

"For a short time, you may not be able to participate in missions. (Please note: You will need some time to recover mentally, and the required rest time depends on the character’s personality and attributes. The current estimated time is 12 hours.)"

"The difficulty of pioneering the Mountain and Sea Realm is somewhat significant. Not even able to defeat the first minor monster, it’s probably because I’ve neglected to nurture my characters."

In the past few months, he ignored these game characters, letting them farm on autoplay, and now he’s tasting the bitter fruit.

Wang Hao scratched his head: "Should I switch someone else in, let Xu Zhijun take the stage? Anyway, he’s there for training, basically idle."

Xu Zhijun’s melee ability is much higher than Li Qingshan’s.

But Xu Zhijun has a "Foolish" debuff, incapable of using tools, and likewise, he has no night vision ability.

Wang Hao looked at the several buttons on the screen and began to ponder.

The first button was the "Mountain and Sea Realm" pioneering progress, with a brazen "0.0001%" on display.

"You know nothing about the Mountain and Sea Realm, but at least you’ve learned about the general timing there; the sun has just set, and it is now nighttime. Rashly entering may lead to accidents."

"Does that mean, sending Li Qingshan in just now was a wrong choice?"

The second button was the number of anchors, which read "0."

"You have no anchors in the Mountain and Sea Realm, making it extremely difficult to project your own strength. You must send humans to pioneer."

"The more anchors, the lower the consumption of human and material resources for projection."

The third button was the character interface, with the Main Character "Li Qingshan" (nearly collapsing), followed by a countdown "12 hours 22 minutes 49 seconds."

The very next second, the "nearly collapsing" text ended.

Wang Hao was startled for a moment.

"Talent, Iron Will, activate!"

"Your sudden psychological breakdown has caught the attention of the Black-clothed Guard organization."

"After the comfort of psychologists and superiors, you regained your fighting spirit once more."

"You realize that this pioneering work is extremely important."

"That mysterious Highly Spiritual Plane, an existence inaccessible to humans, involves incomprehensible Extraordinary Powers. You are willing to set off once again."

Wang Hao fell silent for a moment, before finally exhaling two words’ admiration, "Li, awesome!"

Bitten alive by the White-haired Monster twice, brain matter stirred by the monster’s tongue, and still willing to go back in with nerve—if I didn’t know for sure this was a character in the game, I’d have to exclaim "What a tough guy, awesome!"

"Would Miss Chen wet herself if I sent her into the pioneer, I wonder?", Wang Hao thought with a bit of wicked humor.

Unfortunately, this is just a text game.

Even if Miss Chen really wet herself from fear, it would only show the line "You died", and 100 points would be wasted for nothing.

Not worth it.

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"Your companions have heard of your plight and have carefully prepared a survival pack for you."

"With this pack, you can confront various disasters more calmly."

"You silently pray in your heart, ’Great Demon God, are you willing to spend more power (3 Power of Illusion) to transfer this pack?’ Otherwise, you truly can’t defeat this monster."

"So expensive?!"

"This means I’ve spent 7 Power of Illusion points!"

In just under half an hour of gameplay, Wang Hao began to question life, with a monthly Power of Illusion tally of just 10 points.

To get more, you’d have to purchase them with points.

25,000 points equates to 250 Power of Illusion; is that really enough to pioneer the "Mountain and Sea Realm"?

The backpack contained no small number of resources: pistol, flashlight, Night Vision Goggles, Flint, candles, Incendiary Bottle, bandages, medicine, compass, Luminous Pearl, food, and all manner of other items, everything one could need!

Clearly prepared by professionals.

"Fine then, even if I die, I can leave those things in the Mountain and Sea Realm. The next time I go in, I can use them again."

"Thinking about it that way, it’s not too bad."

Wang Hao felt as if he was losing a piece of flesh but clicked "Agree" regardless.

Rows of text jumped out from the screen: "The great and merciful Demon God has granted your request."

"Now your ambition begins to swell."

"You swear in your heart that even at night, you will kill that monster and take the first step toward establishing an outsider’s presence! Spreading the light of the Righteous Path on that filthy land."

Wang Hao clicked the "Start" button.

With a "creak," the sound of a wooden door opening echoed.