Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 40 - 38: Black-clothed Guard’s Probe (4K)_2

Chapter 40: Chapter 38: Black-clothed Guard’s Probe (4K)_2

"What game have I been playing lately? Ugh... it’s kind of embarrassing to say, I’ve degenerated so much that even Xiaoyue despises me!"

"I can’t even bring myself to talk about my current life to others!"

He loathed his own downfall.

After graduating from college, classmates spread out to different corners of the world, busy with their lives, each striving for success. Some got married, bringing their college romances to fruition; some bought bikes; nobody dropped dead. Everyone had a bright future ahead.

But even the closest friends could drift away on an unremarkable day. Life is just like that, a train ride where some get off and others get on. The connection between people only lasts a few years. With everyone having different experiences, common topics of conversation become rare, and you end up being nothing more than like-minded acquaintances on social media.

Conversely, it was the underclasswoman he met through gaming that he still occasionally chats with on WeChat.

Maybe it’s because she hasn’t graduated yet and has a more leisurely life.

"Could it be that my skills in leading ladies is superb?"

Wang Hao didn’t dare admit the truth of him living as a winner in life and replied, "I’m trying to save the world!"

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Save the world?!

Sun Qingqing was suddenly enthusiastic. As a heavy internet addict, whether it came to games, novels, or traditional literature, she had countless topics to discuss and immediately came up with something, "Are you writing a novel? What’s the title? Let me take a look!"

"I’ve been pondering a question, why are there fewer and fewer classic novels in the world? Because of this question, I wrote an article on BiHu."

"Why?"

"Because the quality of life is improving! Plus, with the information explosion, people’s expectations for stories are getting higher. The future’s classic novels will surely come from the impoverished regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America."

"That sounds quite sensible!"

"For us modern folk, a novel with a memorable plot is quite impressive. Like Ziyang, that ’Phoenix Seeking Phoenix,’ and ’The Record of the Qiongming Goddess,’ which can lead to a breakdown in one’s moral heart, are pretty awesome."

"True that!"

While chatting, Sun Qingqing forgot her mission and unwrapped a lychee candy, popping it into her mouth. Her delicate, round face showed a smile and chatting with Jin Li was always delightful.

She was petite, with sweet and cute features, still retaining some baby fat, and her voice was very pleasant to listen to.

Her ability was also strange—"Harmlessness," which was of little use to humans but could significantly reduce the aggressiveness of the aberrant creatures.

That’s why she was able to cultivate the Immortal Beans because, inherently, the "Immortal Bean" was a bloodthirsty aberration.

Besides, she was responsible for investigating the special being "Jin Li."

Special beings, before turning into aberrations, have thought patterns not too dissimilar from humans, and are not inherently dangerous.

"Wait, who am I, and what am I doing?" Sun Qingqing remembered her task and asked again, "So, classmate Wang, have you been playing any particularly fun games lately?"

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While making small talk with the underclasswoman, Wang Hao found it increasingly difficult to mention his own degeneration.

He could feel his face going red.

He didn’t like to lie, but sometimes, as a man, you just have to lie.

As for the web novel he had once written, he naturally couldn’t show it to the underclasswoman, not because it flopped, but because it contained risqué content that was unsuitable for minors.

Damn, I get so annoyed just thinking about how despite writing such a good novel, it still flopped!

With that thought, Wang Hao typed out a message: "I haven’t really been gaming lately; I’m busy with entrepreneurship, trying to increase the nation’s employment rate."

The underclasswoman probed persistently: "What kind of business are you starting? Let’s hear it. In this day and age, it seems only the truly brave dare to start a business."

Wang Hao hastily replied, "It’s still in the planning stage, might take some time, and it could fail, you know. It’s a secret for now."

He had indeed considered starting a business—a VR café.

Whether it made money was irrelevant; having a legitimate reason to play games was what mattered most.

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"Failure? It’s hardly likely to fail," Sun Qingqing’s attractive eyebrows frowned. As a woman who had enjoyed the "Jin Li" fortune, she deeply understood how terrifying that power was.

That was definitely a power that transcended the natural rules!

Her greatest achievement in life—cultivating "Immortal Beans"—had, to a certain extent, leveraged the luck of her fellow "Jin Li" student.

The accomplishment of the "Immortal Beans" alone had accumulated enough Merit for her to reach Grade A.

Due to Wang Hao’s upright character, his reclusive personality, and the fact that he had been somewhat helpful, after a long-term assessment by the Black-clothed Guards, he was deemed low risk and was merely under observation for the time being.

Many "supernaturals" had no problems marrying and having children. Rashly interfering in their lives, destroying their happiness, would actually lead to serious problems.

However, the deeper the investigation into "Jin Li’s" personal file went, the more incredible it seemed.

From the age of three, Wang Hao often found gold rings, gold necklaces, wallets...

During the Black-clothed Guards’ investigation, another incident occurred: a middle-aged man saw a three-year-old child pick up a gold ring on the street and, driven by greed, claimed it was his and forcibly took it away.

Within two minutes of snatching the gold ring, the middle-aged man tripped and fell, embedding the stolen ring squarely into his eyeball.

Although it was not fatal, the man lost an eye.

When Wang Hao was 6 years old, he whimsically bought a lottery ticket with his pocket money and won the second prize of 100,000 yuan!

However, the Black-clothed Guards’ investigation revealed that he could have won the first prize, but due to fraud at the lottery center, he only received the second prize.

And because of the corruption, the director of the lottery center was officially arrested the very next day.

At the age of 10, while playing with mud in the fields, "Jin Li" inexplicably dug up a ceramic jar, which upon opening, was found to contain over a hundred extremely rare versions of Yuan Shikai silver coins!

During the Black-clothed Guards’ investigation, another incident occurred: under the ceramic jar was a coffin!

And within the coffin hid an oddity: a Ghoul!

It wasn’t a particularly powerful type, but it was quite dangerous to ordinary humans.

The Ghoul lunged at the 10-year-old "Jin Li" only to stumble and fall onto a nail, accidentally killing itself.

Such unbelievable incidents do not happen in the world!

When the Special Investigator learned of this incident at that time, he almost drooled with fright. This little person, through his powerful luck, had inexplicably killed a supernatural being.

At the age of 16, things got even more outrageous. He found a USB drive by the roadside containing over 2000 Bitcoins! There has been no further investigation into this, nor has the owner of the hard drive been identified.

At 18, during the college entrance examination, nearly all the multiple-choice questions were types he had reviewed before, and he even correctly predicted the Chinese essay topic.

In the subsequent investigation, there was no connection between the exam setter and "Jin Li"; the reason remained unknown.

At the age of 20, he met a beautiful and cute underclassman while playing games... well, the underclassman was Sun Qingqing.

When she first took on the task, she spent every day in tension, afraid that she would die from the backfire of luck as she was not skilled in combat.

However, through prolonged contact, she found no sign of luck backfiring as long as she did not harbor great malice towards Wang Hao, and she slowly eased her worries.

Sun Qingqing often envied him, thinking how great it would be to have his kind of luck!

"If only he didn’t have a mental illness," she thought.

With that in mind, Sun Qingqing typed another line into her cellphone: "Your cousin is taking the college entrance exams this year, right?"

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Wang Hao quickly replied, "Yes, I have no idea what school she can get into."

"I don’t think she has any high aspirations, so just let her be."

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Sun Qingqing took a deep breath; everything about Wang Hao was normal except for his nonexistent cousin—Han Xiaoyue!

There simply was no so-called "cousin" in the world!

No one had ever seen what that cousin looked like.

There was also a "Save the Multi-universe Group," but no such group existed in the world; all the group members seemed to be figments of his delusions...

(PS: Two Chapters in one)