Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 84 - 80: Etheric Abyss?!

Chapter 84: Chapter 80: Etheric Abyss?!

Wang Hao felt uneasy as the big guy came with seven or eight cronies, worried that he might have provoked the Black Society.

Upon opening his mouth, he revealed that the bald man was zero comrade from the group.

"I have brought some workers... Brother Tian, where is your shop? We can start renovating right now! We shouldn’t waste time."

Can we not use the name "Brother Tian"... It sounds weird.

This wasn’t Wang Hao’s first time meeting friends from the group offline, so he was fairly familiar and quickly showed them around his shop.

It used to be a coffee shop, two stories, but the business was so bad that the owner ran away with his mistress...

The shop owner, left alone, cried and wailed as she couldn’t pay the rent and almost considered paying with her body, making Wang Hao feel incredibly embarrassed but he managed to waive some of her rent.

"The second floor doesn’t need renovating, but the changes on the first floor might be substantial."

In Wang Hao’s plans, the second floor was a place to have coffee and play games with friends, and the old coffee shop layout was suitable. Han Xiaoyue knew how to cook, and he could cook as well.

As for the main area on the first floor, it needed to evoke a sense of science fiction and mystery.

"Science fiction feel?" the bald man asked curiously.

Wang Hao excitedly gestured, "Imagine a background of starry galaxies, add in some spaceship models, Cthulhu monsters, and better if we can use sound systems and lighting to create a progressive audio effect... There are plenty of space battle types in VR games, aren’t there?"

"Of course, no problem! It’ll just cost a bit more money!"

"What about the adult content in the game consoles, can we block that?"

"No problem at all, the backend can block it with one click and also unblock it just as easily, absolutely undetectable by others!"

We don’t need too many VR consoles, twenty or thirty will suffice as we’re not aiming to make a fortune.

So in the following days, Wang Hao was busy with his entrepreneurial ventures, so busy that he didn’t even have time to play games!

He hustled around various construction material markets purchasing various building materials: plumbing, lighting, fire safety systems, various science-fiction models, especially monster models, which took a lot of his effort.

Also, he always felt that the workers brought by comrade zero were pushed to some extreme level of internal competition, like robots, tirelessly working 24 hours a day?

He came over at 8 a.m., and they were diligently working; came again at 8 p.m., and they were still fervently busy.

At midnight, driven by a sudden impulse, he came to check and found them still working!

It really was strange...

Eventually, out of fear that the workers might suddenly die from overwork, Wang Hao, under his strong insistence, managed to get them to rest for a few hours, though somewhat reluctantly.

As such, time passed day by day.

In just 10 short days, his little shop had already taken quite some shape.

Entering it felt like stepping into a starry galaxy, with crisp sounds of insects all around, and in the distance loomed a huge, almost ethereal creature, giving one the sense of impending danger that it might attack at any moment.

Of course, upon closer inspection, this enormous creature turned out to be just a vending machine for beverages.

The front desk allowed self-service card swiping to recharge funds.

Since everyone uses mobile payments nowadays, it’s possible to operate an internet café without any staff.

As for the second floor, it remained a coffee shop without much alteration.

Having accomplished this speedily, Wang Hao was very satisfied and promptly paid the final installment without much to nitpick.

Of course, the café hadn’t officially opened yet; there were still nuisances like fire approvals, cultural permits, business licenses to handle.

Zero would take care of these licenses, but it would just take some time.

"Really, you’ve been a huge help. You’ve worked hard these days!"

Finally achieving his dream, Wang Hao felt he had escaped a corrupt, filthy life.

He was now a genuine boss, a striving entrepreneur!

Not some loser gaming at home!

Gaming in his own shop was a whole different concept from gaming at home...

The bald guy hurriedly said, "No problem, no problem, Boss Tian you go ahead, I... will take my leave now."

"If there’s an issue, just call me directly. I’ll deliver the business license to you later."

"Okay, bye!"

Watching the two vans gradually disappear at the end of the street, Wang Hao returned to his internet cafe.

Gazing at the cool lighting on the ceiling and a whole row of advanced equipment, he hummed a tune in a good mood.

Though there were no customers now, sooner or later, this place would be packed with people, some might even queue outside!

Just then, his phone vibrated. He checked it and saw a message from Immortal Bean junior.

"Wang classmate, what have you been busy with lately?"

Why this line again?

He remembered that last time it was the same line.

I’ve already graduated, why is she still looking for me?

Wang Hao couldn’t help but experience one of life’s three great delusions: phone vibrations, thinking I can counter-kill, believing she likes me.

I think I mentioned I was busy starting a business, right?

Oh, that’s not right, I was degenerate, corrupt, and ignorant back then.

But now, I am my own master. I am the master of my own destiny. I fully realize my "free will," feeling both a heavy responsibility and unstoppable confidence!

With that thought, Wang Hao puffed up his chest and became more confident.

Focusing on entrepreneurship!

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Code number 28, Sun Qingqing, stared at her phone anxiously, waiting for a response from her classmate Jin Li.

The seventh bead on the Seismograph had already fallen, causing the Blood Demon to keep rising, putting enormous psychological pressure on the higher-ups of the Black-clothed Guard.

No one knew when the eighth bead would drop, maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe in a hundred years...

Not just the Black-clothed Guard, supernatural organizations around the world were in close contact, preparing for possible disasters!

And finding the Player representing the Game was still one of the most crucial tasks.

Based on the clues known, the hunting target of the Game was likely the Blood Demon!

The analysis of the Game’s behavioral rules had caused countless experts at the Great Science Academy to lose countless hairs.

The struggle between these two massive beings involved rule-level implications. The duty of the Black-clothed Guard was to protect the safety of Great Xia Country, even facing Demon Gods, they must ensure the people’s safety as much as possible!

As for screening the players of the Game, several rounds had gone by without any results.

This was the first investigation by Code 28, Sun Qingqing, and it was somewhat lacking, earning harsh criticism millions of times, but finally, she managed to carry out a second investigation.

After a while, her classmate Jin Li from the other side of the phone replied, "I’ve been busy starting up my business these days, and finally, it’s done, hey!"

[Photo][Photo]

The scene in the photo was strange, like a galaxy of stars in a movie theater, or perhaps... the Etheric Abyss?