Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 99 - 92: Escape from Death!

Chapter 99: Chapter 92: Escape from Death!

Extreme panic was erupting in the small tram.

The two girls who had luckily escaped following Smith hid beside Wang Hao, their faces pale.

The monster was horrifying beyond belief!

It didn’t operate on reason, but rather as a product of Idealism rules.

It had no weaknesses; the so-called brain and heart weren’t weaknesses at all. Even though this monster’s killing rule was simple, in the face of panic, only a few could make the right decisions.

The closest spot to the middle-aged Asian man was occupied by a heavily made-up, blonde, fat woman and a black man, both of whom had ghastly pale faces, continuously squeezing backward.

Even everyone crammed into the back half of the tram, trying to stay far from the woman.

The woman slightly turned and begged the black man for food, "I’m so hungry... I’m so hungry! Give me something to eat!"

This scene kept repeating, almost driving people insane.

Wang Hao furrowed his brows, yet an idea was forming in his mind; he discovered a new clue!

The blonde fat woman was standing closer, so why did the "big mama" beg the black man?

"It doesn’t make sense. If ’big mama’ begs from humans, it should be according to proximity, but the ’proximity rule’ seems not to be followed... Could it be that ’big mama’ is female and prefers males?"

"Impossible..."

There must be some special reason!

Even in terms of heaviness, the black man wasn’t as heavy as the blonde fat woman.

The fat woman almost weighed two hundred pounds.

"Could it be it prefers lean meat and doesn’t like fat meat?"

This detail...

was very important!

The monster was a product of Idealism rules and strictly followed its own rules, which meant it hadn’t personal preferences or the ability to think flexibly.

What made the blonde fat woman so special that she avoided being the monster’s first attack target?

At that moment, Wang Hao’s mind raced, thinking hard.

"Weight, skin color, gender, smell, health condition... There are too many factors; it’s hard to check them all."

"However, this monster’s rule is obviously related to food."

"Could it be that the woman is too fat to be swallowed in one bite, and therefore it won’t eat her?"

It wasn’t an impossible possibility.

For instance, snakes in nature wouldn’t recklessly attack food they couldn’t swallow.

"It might also be because she smells too bad, not smelling like food... Yes, the smell! It’s the smell!"

Thinking of this, Wang Hao’s eyes lit up, seizing that sliver of possibility.

Westerners often have a strong body odor and need deodorant to cover it up.

The blonde fat woman was so hefty, giving off a strong scent, and with heavy makeup, her body covered in perfume — had the cosmetics marinated her flesh over time, causing her to smell unlike a human?

"So, does the monster identify its targets by smell?!"

Wang Hao looked around, swallowed his saliva, and tried to find a safe spot.

He wanted to hide where the smell was strongest.

The place was currently too dangerous, not only exposed to the red light from above but also surrounded by more monsters lurking menacingly.

A few seconds later, horror struck again!

"I’m so hungry... I’m so hungry! Give me something to eat!"

Having eaten two people already, ’big mama’s’ body grew even fatter, her thick layers of fat bulging with lots of flesh, resembling an elastic ball.

Smelling that decayed, putrid odor, plus witnessing several people being devoured, the black man’s originally dark face turned even darker.

He was just an ordinary, honest worker and had never witnessed such a scene.

Moreover, he carried no food with him. Panic breeding veracity, he viciously took a dagger he had grabbed from a supermarket out of his bag.

"Die, devil!"

His fierce stab pierced ’big mama’s’ layer of fat but drew no blood, instead extruding a yellow fatty substance.

"I’m so hungry... Then I’ll eat myself!"

Unscathed, ’big mama’ opened her mouth wide again, rapidly swallowing forward, engulfing the middle-aged man and his fruit knife.

The valiant black man didn’t even have time to scream before he vanished.

Anthony Smith, seeing the monster continually killing, had also nearly figured out its nature. He shouted loudly from outside the tram, "Whoever has extra food, throw it outside, the farther the better!"

"It prioritizes eating food!"

He took out a compressed biscuit from his bag, raised it hoping to attract ’big mama’s’ attention, and yelled, "Use the food to draw her attention!"

"Stop crowding back, do you think you can hide? Throw food."

After such great chaos, finally a small group of people reacted quickly, frantically pulling snacks from their bags — lollipops, cucumbers, sausages, throwing them all out.

’Big mama’ seemed to accept anything, immediately crouching down, picking up and eating anything from the ground.

Due to his increased bulk, his movement speed was not very fast.

During this time, the group of passengers jumped off one by one, scattering all over the place.

But before he could feel relieved, Wang Hao’s eyes widened as he saw more chubby people from a distance, sensing human presence and slowly walking towards the tram from the outskirts of the red fog.

He chuckled bitterly, "Is this the legendary ’Binge Eating Heaven’?"

The entire area’s sky was red, eerily silent, completely deserted, and frighteningly quiet, as if aside from them, there were no other people left.

"The original inhabitants here, might they have all been killed already?"

Now that he had a decent understanding of the basic rules, Wang Hao did not want to stay here any longer and raced towards a building not far away.

With a Physique of 300, his running speed was like Bolt, leaving everyone far behind.

The rest of the massive group exerted all their strength, trying desperately to catch up.

The slowest running overweight woman got tangled up by another woman whose voice was sinister and hoarse from afar, "I’m so hungry... I’m so hungry! Give me some food, please!"

These words, like a death knell, disturbed everyone’s nerves.

"Save me! Save me!"

Hysterical screams came from behind.

After triggering the murder rule, the woman took off her high heels and ran barefoot on the ground, trying to escape the horrifying aberration.

However, after running less than ten meters, she was caught and pulled back, and in just one bite, the woman disappeared from the world.

At this moment, Wang Hao also felt powerless; he did not have the ability to confront these monsters head-on, even if he were to restart from a save point, these mentally unprepared civilians would still die.

Panic spread among the crowd as snacks carried on their persons were thrown about haphazardly.

The old woman leisurely picked up the food from the ground and momentarily paid no heed to the people scattering in all directions.

Taking advantage of this time, Wang Hao exhaustedly thought of ways to survive long-term.

As he ran, he pondered in his mind, "These guys probably hunt us through sight, hearing, or smell; let’s gamble, it’s probably smell!"

"If I lose the bet, I can only restart from the save point..."

He wasn’t the type to be obstinately traditional; if he couldn’t complete it on hardcore mode, he could accept playing on normal mode.

As for the lower completion percentage after revival, that didn’t really matter since this clue was free anyway, and the joy of the game was all that mattered.

"Since that’s the case, I need to find a place to hide, the smellier the better, toilets, sewers, cesspools, don’t let them find us!"

After a breakneck sprint for a few seconds, he suddenly saw a circular manhole cover on the ground, as if an endless stench was wafting up from the sewer, bringing a sudden streak of joy.

Haha, found a good spot!

Wang Hao suddenly stopped running and shouted, "Smith, can you open this manhole cover?"

"Just running on our legs, it’s hard to escape... that creature will finish the food on the ground soon and catch up."

Smith was yelling: "Manhole cover... needs a tool... a crowbar, but I don’t have a tool! Why should we hide here... oh, God! It’s too close, she’ll find us! We’re all going to be eaten!"

Wang Hao shouted, "If you trust me, just hurry up and pry this open, stop freaking praying to God!"

Sweating profusely, Smith pulled out a stiff, long object from his trouser pocket: "I have a pen... can a pen work?"

"Let’s try!"

The sewer manhole cover had two small holes, requiring a crowbar to be inserted into the holes to pry it open.

Wang Hao held the pen at an angle, inserting it into one of the small holes, and put another finger into the other hole, "Hey," he exclaimed, muscles straining in both hands.

The pen twisted, and the manhole cover was forcefully pulled open.

The entire process took less than five seconds.

"Quick, get inside!"

Smith seemed a bit stunned by the scene, steeling himself, he hopped down into the sewer.

"It stinks!"

Wang Hao peered inside, "It’s quite spacious..."

He couldn’t help but think of the news he had seen in the past, something about "Sewer manhole not covered, child fell in and got washed away," and now, it had unexpectedly turned into a lifeline.

"If you don’t want to die, jump in here!"

"Move inside, squeeze into the pipe!"

The passengers following him jumped into the sewer one after another.

The place was stinky and dirty, possibly connected to a sewage treatment plant.

Fortunately, this area was not a cesspool for fecal discharge but an underground channel for sewage and rainwater, so the concentration of toxic gases was barely acceptable.

Wang Hao jumped down last, saw the old woman still picking up food on the ground, stretched out his arms, and slowly replaced the lid.

Thrilling, it was really thrilling!

Now it seemed, this gamble... might have been successful?

"How did Chen Xinyi manage to survive, did she morph into a smart warrior after joining the Black-clothed Guard? The game system must be cheating, right?"

"Could she also think of the method I thought of?"

"If she died, there would have been a system prompt."

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