15 Chapter 15: The Depths of the Fissure_1

Wang Ran retreated a step quietly, and while Bai Fan was still in a daze, he quickly left Bai Fan's dorm room with the atmosphere group.

"Bye-bye!"

His voice floated into Bai Fan's ears from outside the corridor.

Bai Fan sat stiffly in his chair.

Clutching over a dozen boxes of condoms, he faced the unabashed wind slapping his cheeks and fell into an indescribable mess.

Wang Ran walked briskly toward his own dorm room.

Slipped away! Slipped away!

He didn't have a clear grasp of Bai Fan's background yet, so he didn't want to have a direct confrontation with Bai Fan, and he hadn't figured out what to do next.

Even if Bai Fan was Shi Si from the Doomsday Apostle, killing Bai Fan now would be pointless.

The Doomsday Apostle was clearly a massive organization, and killing just one Shi Si would hardly impact the entire Doomsday Apostle.

Plus, Space-time Replacement could only be effective for ten seconds a day,

The moment he killed Bai Fan, he would be restrained by the Law Enforcers, then he'd either waste Space-time Replacement on fleeing or sit behind bars waiting for doomsday to arrive.

Wang Ran quickly returned to his own dorm room,

sat down on the bed,

and prepared to figure out Bai Fan's identity in the simulation first.

[Start Simulation]

[Day one, you knew what was going to happen today, so you went to Bai Fan's dorm room before dawn, but you found it empty]

The night before doomsday,

Bai Fan wasn't in his dorm room?

Wang Ran looked thoughtful.

He suspected that Bai Fan might be conducting the Awakening Ceremony at that time, just not sure what was being awakened—monsters underground?

If it was about awakening monsters,

then it made sense why the monsters suddenly emerged from underground to attack humans—they'd been sleeping below all this time.

But why would the Awakening Ceremony make people stronger?

[You discovered that the supplies in the dorm room had also vanished]

Strange, why would Bai Fan take the supplies?

Wang Ran felt puzzled.

In the last simulation, Shi Si led the monsters to attack the military.

This indicated that the Doomsday Apostle had at least formed a cooperative relationship with the monsters and could move freely in the city, surely not caring about such small supplies.

Wang Ran found it odd.

From this perspective, Bai Fan, as a member of the Doomsday Apostle, shouldn't have been stealing from the start.

Stealing was meaningless to the Doomsday Apostle,

and it could draw the Law Enforcers' attention,

hindering the Doomsday Apostle's actions in Eternal Peace City,

which would be more loss than gain.

Or maybe Bai Fan was the type to pick at everything he passed?

Maybe he did it,

simply because he couldn't help himself?

Remembering how Shi Si had crushed his eyeballs twice, Wang Ran thought this possibility wasn't nonexistent.

[You went to the rooftop alone]

[You sat at the edge of the building, waiting for catastrophe]

[Suddenly, the earth and mountains shook]

[You jumped from the twelfth floor, feeling a strong jolt, but only suffered one or two minor scrapes that healed in the blink of an eye]

Wang Ran sighed, "I've really become a little superhero."

Most people would be crying for their parents after jumping from a third floor, yet in the apocalypse, he jumped from the twelfth floor and only got a couple of insignificant scrapes.

Wang Ran's eyes twinkled with a yearning look as he muttered to himself, "If only the duration of Space-time Replacement could be a bit longer."

He had just experienced ten seconds of the apocalyptic panel,

and the feeling of power was addictive.

[The moment you landed, the ground beneath your feet cracked open]

[You fell into the fissure]

Falling into a fissure?

Wang Ran's mouth twitched, thinking how unlucky he was, since beneath the fissure must be a monster's den; wasn't this just serving himself up on a silver platter?

[The fissure was bottomless]

[You grabbed onto a jutting rock, halting your fall, and barely hung onto the steep cliff wall]

[You heard a rustling noise coming from below]

A horde of monsters was converging from deep within the fissure.

This was it—doom!

He might have a fighting chance against the monsters on flat ground, but in the fissure where even standing was an issue, there was no room to move around.

He would be turned into a hedgehog by the monsters' projectiles in no time.

"I'm not going to die on the first day, am I?"

[In desperation, you came up with a brilliant idea]

[You deceived yourself with 'Cultivation Master']

[It worked]

[You believed the monsters had no ability to perceive]

["Cover-Ears Steal Bell" took effect]

[Hundreds of monsters passed by you]

[They didn't notice you]

Wang Ran let out a long sigh of relief.

He wasn't dead!

He felt fortunate that he had chosen the "Cultivation Master" paired with "Cover-Ears Steal Bell", as these two Talents had produced an effect greater than the sum of their parts.

[You hesitated for a long time]

[You finally decided to move deeper into the rift]

Wang Ran's eyes brightened.

To venture into a tiger's den despite knowing its dangers was typical of him!

That's so like me!

[You are moving deeper into the rift]

[You are still advancing]

[You encountered a group of monsters]

[Nothing happened]

[You continue to move deeper into the rift]

[You are still advancing]

[...]

[That night, you found a relatively safe depression in the rift and spent the night in a half-sleep state]

Wang Ran wondered, "How deep can this rift be!"

He anticipated the rift would be deep.

After all, if it weren't, the slumbering monsters would have been excavated by humans frenziedly digging the surface for nearly a century,

but he hadn't expected it to be this deep!

He had been going for an entire day and still hadn't reached the bottom.

[The next day, you continued forward with your exhausted body]

[You encountered many forks in the path]

[You used the light from your phone to identify the traces left by the monsters]

[You chose the fork with more traces to continue]

[You did not encounter any monsters]

[You guessed that the monsters had all emerged from their lair]

Obviously, the monsters had all gone to the surface to slaughter humans.

[You explored downwards aimlessly]

[You felt unbearable hunger and thirst]

[You tried to return, but you couldn't find your way back to the surface due to the many forks you passed on the way]

Wang Ran pursed his lips.

In the simulator, when he fell into the rift, he was completely unprepared and didn't carry any food or water with him.

If he couldn't find food and drink underground,

he might die an extremely frustrated death in this simulation.

[You started to feel despair]

["There's a silver lining in every cloud!"]

["What a commanding presence!"]

[You encouraged yourself]

[You barely mustered up the energy to continue exploring]

[You are still exploring]

[You came up empty-handed]

[You fell into despair once again]

Wang Ran sighed, thinking that the simulation was probably going to end now, and next time he would have to bring food and water.

Just then, the situation took a turn!

[In a daze, you heard the sound of water]

[Following the sound, you found an underground river]

[You drank the river water voraciously]

[You caught a few fish from the river]

[You tasted the sashimi made from the fish]

[You felt greatly encouraged]

A gloomy path had led to a hidden village, and there he was, in the depths of the earth within the simulator, finding an underground river.

His problems with food and water were solved!

"This is a turning point!"

Wang Ran's furrowed brow smoothed out.

With his Constitution at a high 127, he wouldn't get sick easily and didn't have to worry about the cleanliness of the river water or fish meat.

If he wanted to,

he could survive underground relying solely on this river.

Luckily, the monsters had gone to the surface,

so he could hoard a great deal of attribute points here!

Wait a second...

Wang Ran suddenly stopped short.

[You rested briefly]

[You explored along the underground river]

[You discovered a magnificent underground plain]