I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 43: The Mystery Revealed
The reason for the appearance of the red death countdown has been basically determined.

It is related to the eternal night and the terrifying fog.

What Li Changgeng didn't expect was that everyone in Black Sea City had experienced a similar situation of entering another dimension. Just as Lin Jiuge said, some people might have died directly without ever entering, while others entered through a dream and woke up to find that their bodies had undergone unusual changes. None of them ever thought that it was because they had entered another dimension.

Lin Jiuge continued, "You know Xia Mengmeng from Black Sea City University. She always felt that the white giant snake in the Buddhist temple had merged with her soul, making her one of the Ten Heavenly Stems and Ten Pillar Gods. In reality, she had simply entered the white demon beast world. Many people are like that!"

"When will this kind of travel or entry into another dimension end?" Li Changgeng wanted to ask this question. As long as it's a road, there will always be an end point. It can't go on forever without stopping, right?

The more bizarre events one experiences, the greater the chance of death becomes; it's better to end it sooner rather than later.

In the world of eternal night, survival is perhaps the only thing that matters. What else is important?

For Li Changgeng, his younger sister Li Ying, his parents, and his missing cat Qi Xi were all his ties. He had promised his parents that he would take good care of his sister and help her wake up so that she could live a healthy, happy, and normal life. He believed that the eternal night would eventually end.

"It varies from person to person. Most people only have one chance to enter a special other-dimensional world. Once they achieve their goal, they will stop. The energy in other-dimensional spaces is not inexhaustible. Some people will keep entering even if they don't achieve their goal. It's hard to say."

"By the way!"

Lin Jiuge said seriously, "Your sister Li Ying is unconscious. She is likely trapped somewhere in the Sky Sea. If you find her, Li Ying may wake up."

"What should I do after finding Li Ying?" Li Changgeng really didn't know how to rescue Li Ying. The Sky Sea was too vast, and the floating Sky City stretched as far as the eye could see. Finding someone was extremely difficult.

"I don't know either." Lin Jiuge shrugged; she truly had no way to help.

Li Changgeng had asked almost everything he could about the first question, and his biggest question was one that he wouldn't get an answer from Lin Jiuge even if he asked her.

What caused the eternal night and the mist?
"The second question is, what are the Thirteen Coffins of Evil Spirits, and why do such disgusting creatures exist in our world!" Li Changgeng had a deep memory of the Thirteen Coffins of Evil Spirits, especially the disgusting little dwarf that split off from the Nightmare of the Womb. Humans were so insignificant in front of them.

Let alone the Thirteen Coffins of Evil Spirits, even the most ordinary evil spirits would be helpless against them.

Lin Jiuge felt that this question was very easy to answer. "It is a matter of racial ecological balance. When ordinary humans become extraordinary, there will naturally be corresponding counterbalancing forces. Otherwise, the human world will be in chaos! Humans gain some things, but they will also lose some things! Fortunately, the number of humans surviving in the world of the monster city is still very large."

"Don't forget, humans have a very strong ability to evolve and adapt to their environment! Aren't you, Li Changgeng, a perfect example? Although you've been taking medication, it seems no one can stop you, not even the Metaverse System can do anything about you!"

Evil always accompanies justice; if there were no evil, what would be the point of justice?

When justice and evil finally clash, the world will be restored to a new era, and a new order will emerge.

There is not much time left, less than two minutes.

Li Changgeng seemed to have received the perfect answer, yet he also seemed not to have understood it.

"Will the things you experience in another world happen in the real world?" Li Changgeng also wanted to know the answer to this question. At this moment, he didn't care whether Lin Jiuge was real or not; getting some strange answers was also important to him. Lin Jiuge said with utmost seriousness, "Yes! It definitely will. It will just appear in different forms and in different places. Of course, maybe what you experienced will happen to people around you, or to people around others. Everything follows the law of conservation of energy; for every bit of water you drink, there will be an equal amount excreted."

Li Changgeng still had questions, "I feel that you are not the real Lin Jiuge. Why is that? Also, the people I met on the ghost train were not quite the same as the people I know in real life."

It is precisely because of this that Li Changgeng has some difficulty distinguishing between reality and other worlds.

This feeling of chaos drove him crazy.

"Didn't I already say that people in the real world, the alternate dimension, and even the cyberpunk world are all the same person, but they behave differently? It's like one person going to different environments and developing into different people. It's that simple! Do you understand?" Lin Jiuge felt that this kind of question shouldn't even be called a question; it was a question that Li Changgeng couldn't understand.

The green countdown in front of Li Changgeng showed that there wasn't much time left.

Li Changgeng had even more questions about the game company he worked for. Why did he go to work almost every day, as if it were programmed, taking the subway to the same places? He wanted to take the bus or the light rail, but Li Changgeng just felt very awkward. The people in the game company didn't have names, only code names and nicknames, which was even stranger.

"There's one last question: what exactly is KMS Games Company? And the company's employees are all very strange. They don't have names, and some of them don't seem like real people, more like digital programs. Who is the boss behind the game company? The company's employees don't have names, it's all so weird, I'm very confused!" Perhaps Li Changgeng was thinking too much and too complicatedly, because his head started to ache again.

Lin Jiuge guessed that Li Changgeng would definitely ask this question.

Many people at KMS Games have asked the same question.

"KMS Games really exists. You've seen the company's building before; to be precise, it should be called a skyscraper. There are indeed many eccentric people working at the company. They're all working hard to design games. You know, people's demand for games is huge these days. The company has many game geniuses and computer geniuses. You know, geniuses are often a little eccentric, even out of place."

Lin Jiuge did not want to tell Li Changgeng one of the truths she knew.

Sometimes, knowing the truth can be a very painful thing.

"Including Silly Butt, Bucktooth Girl, Number 15, and Cross-Eyes, etc., these people actually know their real names, it's just that others don't know them."

Li Changgeng blinked, a little confused. "What do you mean? You mean they don't know their code names, they only know their real names?"

Lin Jiuge explained, "You could say that in their world, when you call out 'Number 15,' what Number 15 hears is you calling his name, just like you, whose name is Li Changgeng, you know that, but you don't know your code name, right?"

"Actually, your code name isn't one of the Ten Heavenly Stems and Ten Pillars of Deity, but rather one of the Four Symbols. Your code name is..."

Boom... boom...

The train tumbled through the air and plummeted rapidly. The countdown ended, and Li Changgeng didn't hear clearly what Lin Jiuge's last code name was.

Li Changgeng opened his eyes and woke up...

(End of this chapter)