Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters! -
Chapter 95 - 88 Mysterious Uninhabited Area
Chapter 95: Chapter 88 Mysterious Uninhabited Area
Wang Hao carefully surveyed his surroundings, attempting to identify any abnormalities from various details.
"Hmm... this tongue looks normal, the coating is a bit thick, digestive issues probably? Should eat lighter."
"No forked tongue. No tiny creatures living inside the mouth like aliens."
"What about Chen Xinyi? How did she end up in this creepy place... What’s going on?"
However, he couldn’t find his character on the tram.
The red fog grew denser and began to obscure the surrounding buildings.
At this moment, the passengers inside the vehicle, as if a beat too slow, noticed the eerie red fog.
Men and women alike started to take photos with their cell phones, amazed at the sight of this strange and magnificent vista.
"The sunset is so beautiful today, reminds me a bit of the cherry blossoms at Corona Park... I’ve heard the blossoms there are lush!"
"Let’s go to Corona Park for the cherry blossoms tomorrow, it’s the weekend after all."
"Yay!"
These voices were in English, but the screen displayed high-quality Chinese translations.
"This translation system is quite powerful," Wang Hao mused internally, "Artificial intelligence... yay!"
"Hey, Lianna, my phone seems unable to connect to the network, what about yours?"
"I can’t connect either!"
As Wang Hao listened to their conversation, he felt his briefcase and found it packed with various miscellaneous items.
His own phone was the latest model, the "Fruit 999."
A fully charged battery gave him a strong sense of security.
He checked the time; it was exactly seven in the evening.
Wang Hao stroked his chin and gazed at the dense fog in the distance, then suddenly yelled, "Hey, driver, what’s the next stop? I need to get off! When will we arrive?"
The driver did not respond at all.
With one person taking the lead, more people started to ask questions too.
"With the fog this thick, are we still on the original tram route?"
A middle-aged Asian man about 1.7 meters tall was quietly complaining about something, and from his use of the phrase "Simida," it seemed he was a Korean immigrant.
As the tram route continued to deviate, it appeared they had arrived in an unknown area, and more passengers began to discuss quietly in their seats.
Then, suddenly, the scene changed!
Terror struck!
The sky turned a dim red. The swathes of red light, filtering through the tram windows, spread thickly as if alive. Wang Hao quickly drew the curtains, but still, some of his skin was exposed to the red light.
"It doesn’t seem to have much of an effect."
There were no visible moving targets on the streets, and the exteriors of the surrounding buildings were severely decayed, as if drenched in acid rain for tens of years.
The layout of these buildings was also bizarre, with modern high-rises interspersed with ancient civilian houses.
Many building surfaces were as smooth as pebbles due to erosion, and some structures had simply collapsed.
A large uninhabited area had evidently been around for a very long time...
"Is this the legendary crossover of time and space?"
"We ran from the Earth to the parallel world..."
Wang Hao swallowed hard, starting to doubt his idea of breezing through in one life.
Looking at this, it seemed to be a large-scale supernatural incident, similar to "Paradise," where many supernatural events overlapped.
Of course, a three-star difficulty level might be slightly easier.
"Oh, God... where are we?"
"Where are we going?"
Just then, a woman finally couldn’t bear it any longer and attempted to approach the driver to ask where he intended to go.
But as soon as the woman touched the driver,
Everyone in the carriage perked up their ears and heard a soft "thud"...
The tram driver, stiff all over, toppled forward onto the ground.
He appeared to have been dead for a long time.
"Ah!" a middle-aged woman screamed sharply, stepping back a few steps, her face filled with extreme terror as she sat down directly on the floor.
This was terrifying right from the start. Wang Hao couldn’t help but take a sharp breath in, wondering how many of the more than twenty people on the tram could survive under these mysterious and unknown phenomena.
"At the moment, the most important thing is information."
Wang Hao was presented with two options, "Let these people continue to perish for the sake of gathering information, or do it myself... Forget about clearing this in ’one life,’ to hell with that."
His own avatar’s physique had a full score of 300 points, bullying ordinary people was nothing to him.
Just as he was about to stand up, he noticed an unremarkable, skinny white man quickly stepping forward to examine the driver, but he dared not touch him directly.
"Is there a doctor here?"
"Is there a doctor... can someone check what’s wrong with him?" the white man shouted loudly, but no one responded.
"Now we are in a state of danger, is there a doctor who knows first aid?"
Turning his head, he looked at Wang Hao, who had stood up from his seat.
"Sir, you are..."
"Bro, don’t be nervous, I am not a doctor, but I can analyze that he has probably been dead for about two hours."
Actually, he said this because there were three different options that had appeared on the game interface:
[After a careful examination, you think that the driver has been dead for one hour.]
[After a careful examination, you think that the driver has been dead for two hours.]
[After a careful examination, you think that the driver has been dead for three hours.]
Wang Hao naturally did not have the corresponding medical knowledge, but relying on his Lucky Fish Fortune, as long as there was a correct answer, randomly choosing one would most likely be correct.
He chose option 2.
As a result, the character he was controlling explained in much detail on his own.
"... Look at the position of his elbow, there are small patches of livor mortis, and some on his buttocks as well, this means his time of death was probably about two hours."
"If he had died only recently, the blood wouldn’t have completely cooled down and wouldn’t form such livor mortis markings."
"Another hour from now, these spots would merge into a large area, and there would be a foul smell emitted from his mouth, nose, and anus, colloquially known as... cadaveric odor."
Learning something new every day.
Wang Hao didn’t even know these medical details.
The Caucasian man was startled and said glumly, "But we haven’t been on this tram for even half an hour!"
Wang Hao waved his hand, very calmly stating, "So I’m guessing it’s some kind of mysterious supernatural effect that has brought this tram here. More things are likely to happen next."
The Caucasian man’s expression grew even uglier.
Wang Hao casually surveyed his surroundings with the corner of his eye, seeing fear appear on the faces of the surrounding people.
An autonomously driving tram, a mysterious uninhabited area, dark red skies...
But this scene had indeed really happened, and the tram was still moving forward, as if it intended to take all of them toward the direction of Hell.
Eventually, the Caucasian man silently glanced at Wang Hao, took out a badge and a handgun from his pocket, and loudly announced to everyone, "My name is Anthony Smith, a C-grade investigator from the Mysterious Bureau, and I’m investigating the tram disappearance case."
"Everyone, do not panic, report your professions and skills!"
Oh, an important plot character.
Wang Hao felt a stir in his heart, the Mysterious Bureau?
An organization similar to the Black-clothed Guard...
But only C-grade, a bit weak, probably not a powerful figure.
Anthony Smith had not taken the initiative to step forward from the start; was he afraid the driver was a real anomaly?
By the time the tram reached this eerie place, it was already too late to think of jumping off and escaping.
"Could this task require me to cooperate with this guy?"
The appearance of a character from an official-like organization slightly boosted the morale of the passengers.
But that being said, it was only a slight boost. In that magical land where land can be acquired for free, the credibility of official personnel was very low, and people generally did not have high willingness to cooperate with authorities. Only a few reported their professions.
"What’s your name?" Noticing the civilians were not very cooperative, Smith did not insist, shrugged his shoulders, and asked helplessly.
Wang Hao hadn’t had the chance to speak before a game option popped up, [Zhao Tiantian, Black-clothed Guard Investigator.]
There was only one option, no other choice.
"Zhao Tiantian, Black-clothed Guard Investigator."
Black-clothed Guard Investigator?
The Caucasian man frowned slightly; why would the Black-clothed Guard come here?
But, no matter.
In the current situation, there wasn’t the luxury to fuss over this; as long as the other party was human, and if actually an official investigator, it was an added strength.
With this in mind, Anthony Smith took out his handgun and forcibly coerced a large African-American man to touch the tram’s steering wheel and brakes.
"Press down hard on the brake, understand!"
"The brakes, do you know how to drive? Oh my god, this is terrible, what are you doing... don’t touch that body?!!"
The poor African-American man could only comply, tremblingly operating the steering wheel.
In Wang Hao’s opinion, this was actually quite dangerous.
However, he didn’t intervene in any way. After all, without much information, he didn’t have any better plan.
But no matter how they operated the steering wheel or pressed the brakes, it was all futile; these functions seemed completely useless, and the tram still automatically continued toward its final destination.
Smith grew restless, gripping the gun in his hand tightly.
Most people still sat in their seats, their pale faces betraying their terrifying emotions; a couple of sisters tightly embraced each other, almost crying.
In the end, old Wang couldn’t stand watching the African-American’s plight: "Mr. Smith, I don’t recommend letting him smash the windows, mess with the steering wheel, or mess with the brakes..."
"You see the fog outside is so thick, and the area of this uninhabited land is so vast, what can we do even if we stop the tram? If something bizarre comes out, would you be able to defeat it?"
"What do you think we should do?" The other party asked somewhat despondently.
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