Dimensional Codex - Chapter 42

Chapter 42: A World With No Tomorrow

The sense of weightlessness disappeared all of a sudden.

BOOM!

Fang Zheng flew out the portal and crashed heavily into the ground, causing him to curse out involuntarily.

“F***!”

Fang Zheng could not help but gnash his teeth, feeling the dull pain coming from his body. He really suspected whether he had some feud with the teleportation; there had never been a teleportation where he had been standing on the ground perfectly, since his rebirth in this world. When he was first teleported to the Diablo world, he was thrown into the pile of living dead, and the second teleportation sent him directly to Maghda, leaving Fang Zheng with no choice but to fight with the boss outside what he had signed up for. Back in the main world, the first teleportation of the star path had separated him from the other two. And this time… F***, it’s like I was born to become enemies with teleportation!

“What bad luck!”

Fang Zheng complained as he stood up and quickly glanced around. What made him heave a sigh of relief was the fact that this time he wasn’t thrown into a pile of monsters. On the contrary, he was standing in a dark and narrow valley. He saw tall concrete walls on either side of him, and could even hear the sounds of trumpets and whistling in the distance. This scene was both familiar, and at the same time, unfamiliar to Fang Zheng. The scene in front of him was once the most common and familiar part of his daily life, but the strange part was that… things were different now. His body no longer belonged to this world.

“Hey, guys, look! Who do we have here?”

Just as Fang Zheng was staring at the scene before his eyes with nostalgia, a sudden voice threw a wet blanket over it. Involuntarily, he turned his head, casting his eyes toward the source of this voice. There he saw three blond and white hoodlums smiling and looking right at him.

“Who would have thought we would find a stray cat here. Hello, young master!?”

While speaking, the man in the lead grinned and walked towards Fang Zheng in strides, flexing his knuckles.

“This is our Craft Brothers’ site. I don’t know what you are doing here, but… don’t you think you should apologize to us?”

“…”

Well, I take back what I said. The place where I used to live in my previous life wasn’t this messy.

“Sigh…”

Fang Zheng heaved a helpless sigh, looking at the three thugs before him.

“Then, I am really sorry…!”

Before he finished his words, Fang Zheng turned into a phantom, rushing straight at the leading man. But he punched the man in his chest instead of using Skybreaker. The guy grunted through his nose before he was sent flying back 10 meters before he crashed heavily into the ground.

“Boss!”

The two younger brothers behind him immediately shouted at the sight of this. Then, they hurriedly turned to Fang Zheng. One of them reached into his pocket and took out a switchblade, but before he could make his next move, Fang Zheng grabbed his head and smashed it directly to the ground. The poor, helpless fella fell to the ground with a bleeding nose without saying a word.

“Hel…Help!”

All of this happened in a flash; from Fang Zheng sending the trio’s boss flying to getting his followers, it took no more than five seconds. It was only then that the last idiot reacted and screamed for help. But before he could scream another word, Fang Zheng held him by his throat and pushed him against the wall.

“Shhh…keep your voice down, don’t shout. I just want to ask you some questions.”

Facing the little bastard in front of him, Fang Zheng seemed very calm. He was no longer like he had been when he had just reborn. He had fought the cultists, toiled with the living dead, danced in the abyss in his dreams, and just had a face to face run-in with the lich lord. And if this really was a normal world, Fang Zheng really had nothing to fear.

However…

“Sure enough, it’s not a normal world.”

Walking out of the alley, Fang Zheng counted the banknotes he had just obtained from the three punks and sighed helplessly. He walked to a store and looked at the TV in the window. At that moment, the TV host was excitedly reporting the latest news.

“After five years, we finally have our victory! These are the pictures just in from Verdun…”

Following the host’s words, the scene on the screen switched to the crowd happily waving their hands. Heavily armed, armored vehicles passed by the middle of the road. The soldiers on them stood up with excitement, waving to the crowd around them, and the crowd immediately cheered in response to their wave. Everyone was cheering and dancing; they were extremely excited.

Soon, the camera turned back to the host as she continued to report with a smile on her face.

“It’s commendable how low the casualties were. The damage was very minimal. It should be said that this is indeed a great victory! And all of this is all due to the newly developed mech-suits. With the new jacket technology, we can create super soldiers with just a minimal amount of training, who can defeat those aliens just after stepping on the battlefield!”

That’s right, aliens.

This was a world where humans were fighting against aliens.

Judging by the news that Fang Zheng got from those little gangsters, a group of mysterious aliens came to Earth five years ago, and they launched an attack on Earth, unsurprisingly. The humans called these aliens mimics. They caused great damage to humans from the very beginning. Humans almost had no power to fight back in the face of this threat from the sky. In the past five years, they had almost captured the entire Europe. And just yesterday, mankind finally won the first victory over the aliens.

At first, Fang Zheng didn’t know what kind of world this was until he saw Tom Cruise in the military uniform talking on TV, as well as, the aliens who looked like bundled wires. Only then did Fang Zheng finally remembered the name of this world.

Edge of Tomorrow.

This was a science fiction movie. Its concept was very simple. It was about an alien invasion, the fight against the decline of mankind. The protagonist, Tom Cruise, played an officer-in-charge of media relations. At the beginning of the movie, Tom was told by the general of the coalition army to go to the front lines to shoot and fight with the troops. Naturally, Tom didn’t want to do anything as he was in media relations. He couldn’t go to the front lines to fight the enemy. But the general wasn’t that easy to deal with. In response to Tom’s refusal, he directly ordered him to be arrested and sent to the front lines as a deserter.

Sure enough, as a new recruit, Tom was completely terrified to death on the front line, but he was a man, nonetheless. In the end, he bit the bullet and pulled the claymore in the face of the enemy’s attack, blasting his opponent to pieces. But Tom did not expect for the alien he had killed to be special. His body was contaminated with alien blood. The next time he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that he had gone back in time to the first day when he was sent to the front line camp! He was reliving everything, once again!

The next plot was pretty simple. Tom was sent to the front lines, again and again, killed, again and again, and each time he slowly became stronger and stronger. Then, he met the heroine who had the same experience as himself. And like any other Hollywood movie, the two fought side by side. Tom used the knowledge he had gained through reliving the day, again and again, to find the trail of the horde mind, and he finally found the boss. And then he formed a unique Hollywood assault team that sneaked in and successfully killed the boss, saving Earth…

This movie was once popular among the game makers such as Fang Zheng. Because in their opinion, this was actually the story of a player constantly reading the files and grinding the boss. Some people even jokingly claimed that he had no choice but to read the files unless he wanted to be killed, which was a bit unacceptable as others were simply enjoying the comfort!

To be honest, Fang Zheng was sympathizing with Tom a bit because it reminded him of his time in the Dark Soul world… Forget it, it will just bring tears if I talk anymore.

Who would have thought that I would cross into a movie world?

Before crossing to this world, Fang Zheng had thought that he would travel to a game world. After all, he had transmigrated to a game world at the beginning, and the free instance of the Dark Soul world seemed to be a game world. So, Fang Zheng also thought that the third instance would be a Western fantasy game world too.

But he didn’t expect it to be a science fiction movie world this time.

So, what should I do next?

Fang Zheng thought, watching the host’s explanation on the screen. The main plot of this world was too simple. It’s quite clear where the alien boss is but what’s the mission?

If he was asked to join the army to fight those monsters, Fang Zheng wouldn’t have done it. It was hard to escape from the main world already and he would still have to take the initiative to get abused?

DING!

While Fang Zheng was thinking, a system prompt popped up in front of him with a soft ring.

[The Main Mission Has Been Issued!]