Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 36 - 35 Heaven’s Ladder

Chapter 36: Chapter 35 Heaven’s Ladder

The youngest lady, number 28, who also happened to be the shortest, covered her face, no longer wanting to listen, "My painstakingly cultivated Immortal Beans, to think they would be treated as mere snacks... wahh," she was on the brink of crying out loud.

After teasing lady number 28, Lu Tianming became serious again, no longer joking, "I’ll set out tomorrow to pass through the ’Heavenly Stairs’ to the game training ground described by Li Qingshan and see what’s really going on."

"It’s tough work, your mission is very important, possibly the most important in the past ten years, second only to the [Blood Demon] investigation mission. But the risk is equally tremendous, although the Divination predicted an auspicious outcome..."

Lu Tianming waved his hand, "It’s nothing, we can’t always expect you number 1 old man to take personal action... Lady number 28, stop staring at me, don’t hold me in such high esteem, I am simply passionate about the thrill of pursuing the unknown and exploration."

Lady number 28 hung her head, silent, her heart aching over her Immortal Beans!

All ten of them, those were for emergencies, not to be eaten as snacks!

"Those present, let’s get moving."

So, the meeting officially adjourned half an hour later.

The Black-clothed Guards split into two groups. The first dispatched a large number of personnel to look for the so-called "Players" in the cyberspace! Indeed, it wasn’t just a task for the Black-clothed Guards; a large amount of fresh force from the Great Science Academy and others would band together to conduct a thorough check of the "Players"!

The second, Comrade Lu Tianming number 12, would immediately pass through the "Heavenly Stairs" to the game’s training ground to investigate the specifics.

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In a small town near Kunlun Mountain, there was an abandoned residential building called the "Heavenly Stairs," which from the outside looked no different from the other nearby residential buildings.

It was just a six-story residential building with a layer of cement on the outer wall and a somewhat dated metal security door for the main entrance.

However, once inside this particular building, one would find the stairs to be infinite in number.

Theoretically, these special stairs could lead one to any desired destination.

"I’m off."

Lu Tianming took a deep breath, tightened his backpack, and stepped into the stairwell.

From the 1st to 6th floor, there was little difference from a normal apartment building’s stairs, you could even see small ads on the walls like "For ID cards dial 10086...", "Treatment for syphilis and gonorrhea Aids just one supplement", "Miraculous revival, treatment for infertility", "Beautiful and charming, voluptuous young wives, wealthy husbands, infertile disabled, high reward for a child" and others.

It seemed like a return to more than twenty years ago, an era overflowing with swindlers and not enough fools.

Every time one climbed a floor, two wooden doors could be seen in the stairwell, leading to abandoned residential units.

The rooms were filled with construction debris and almost nothing of value.

"Due to the abrupt appearance of this supernatural phenomenon, the local residents moved out twenty years ago," said a neutral electronic voice in the headphones, it was his assistant Xiao Guo.

Lu Tianming’s headphones were not ordinary headphones, but rather a pair of "Strange Objects" shaped like sea conches, named Conch Headphones.

These Magic Conches appeared in pairs and regardless of the distance, could communicate sound with each other, making them the best communication tools.

Of course, they were extremely expensive, for cultivating these Magic Conches demanded tremendous resources. Their reproduction abilities were low, and their production capacity extremely limited.

"The scene inside is not much different from the last time I entered, just more worn and aged," Lu Tianming said as he patted one of the wooden doors, which made a wood-tearing noise in the silence of the environment.

"From the 1st to the 6th floor, our Investigators often come here to check, theoretically there shouldn’t be any major issues."

"Alright, now I will continue upward."

Above the sixth floor was the domain of the supernatural, everything there was different from the real world.

This stairwell possessed a unique supernatural ability. It would present one’s "destination" in the form of a "door".

To give a simple example, if someone wanted to go to Heaven, then by continually climbing upward, eventually, the "door" to Heaven would appear at a certain level on the stairs.

Therefore, it has been revered as the "Stairs to Heaven".

But it’s critical to note that the more incredible and distant from the real world the destination is, the higher one needs to climb.

The current human limit is the 2390th floor!

Seven years ago, a Cardinal from the Western Church, also a S-level Investigator-level powerful Superpower User of the Black-clothed Guards, made a climb with the utmost devotion.

He reached the gate to Heaven at the 2390th floor, and his last recorded words were, "Is this... Heaven? I have seen God!"

"Oh, God."

After that, the Cardinal entered the unknown Heaven and never returned.

No one knew whether he truly made it.

In any case, the Western Church was overjoyed with the outcome and held a grand celebration; it seemed they had attained something...

However, human thinking is irrational; goals are often undefined, mere human will seems inconsequential against objective reality.

The scene in the stairwell kept changing, gradually affecting human consciousness, causing fears to arise within one’s mind.

In the moment of experiencing various emotions because of a wavering target, the content behind the "door" would change as well.

If one thought of "death" while climbing the stairs, then the destination behind the door might inadvertently become "Hell".

If one thought of "ghosts," the world behind the door might lead to a genuine parallel world inhabited by ghosts.

Humans find it difficult to control their wandering minds completely.

To tell a human not to think of an "elephant," upon hearing the word "elephant," images of an elephant would come to mind.

Therefore, even for an S-level Investigator, embarking on this road filled with the unknown is fraught with risks.

Lu Tianming took a deep breath and stepped onto the seventh floor.

"Hey, not everyone has the guts to walk this path."

In that instance, the scene in the stairwell changed. The outside sky turned gloomy, shifting from early morning to dusk in an instant. The walls were covered with greasy mold, as if a thick darkness was brewing in the higher floors.

The two doors on the seventh floor turned to bronze, etched with rough patterns, and it was uncertain where they led.

Lu Tianming asked with a smile, "What if I open this door, could I travel to ancient times?"

The electronic voice replied, "If the destination deep in your heart hasn’t reached the required number of floors yet, these doors cannot be opened."

"To travel to an ancient parallel world, you’d have to be at least a thousand floors up. Based on what we know so far, if you open a door now, you might end up in a coffin, keeping company with the dead."

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