Trembling At A High Altitude

After notifying the local colleagues, Li Teng made a statement, explaining the situation... The scammer resisted arrest, attempted to climb over the railing to escape from the window below, and ended up slipping.

Li Teng urgently tried to save him, grabbed the scammer's wrist, but the scammer struggled violently, causing Li Teng to lose his grip and the scammer to fall from the building.

After dealing with all of this, it was not until dinner time that Li Teng returned to He City.

"Can we submit Yang Li's cause of death now?" Gao Feng discussed with Li Teng.

If submitted now, the report would certainly state: she was in a bad mood after arguing with her grandmother, learned that her idol had an incident and quarreled with classmates again, and in despair, she jumped to her death.

"The deadline to submit the conclusion is midnight tonight, let's talk about it then," Li Teng hesitated.

"What's the point? You don't have any more investigations planned, do you? We've already terminated the investigation, and the conclusion can't be changed anymore," Gao Feng was somewhat puzzled.

"Maybe this is the ultimate truth. I just feel it's too simplistic. If you want to submit it then go ahead, I'll wait a bit longer," Li Teng couldn't quite articulate his feelings.

It was just a vague sixth sense telling him that things might not be that simple.

But what Gao Feng said made sense; they had already stopped the investigation, which meant that no new clues would appear.

After dinner, everyone went their separate ways.

Gao Feng decided to go back to the station to check the details again, to see if he could uncover any new clues.

The two women planned to go shopping together, all four keeping their phones on to ensure constant contact.

Li Teng drove to pick up Anna and took her home.

"I have some not-so-good news," Li Teng said to Anna while driving.

"What news?"

"I found the seller, but he refused to admit his mistake and apologize and even tried to run away. I reached out to grab him but missed, and as a result, he fell from the building and died," Li Teng explained to Anna.

"Ah? He's dead?" Anna was quite shocked.

"Yeah, so your money wasn't recovered. However, I got you a better account online; it's a safetransfer account. Here's the login ID and password. Once you're logged in, change it to your own phone number and bind your ID card, and then it won't be retrievable by others," Li Teng passed a note to Anna.

Anna quickly opened her phone and logged into the game ID Li Teng provided.

It was an account that had reached the highest VIP level, with a full set of equipment and resources in it.

"Dad! Such a great account, and a safetransfer account too, how much did it cost?" Anna was delighted.

"Your happiness is more important than money," Li Teng smiled.

"Didn't you say playing games leads to loss of ambition?" Anna looked at Li Teng, somewhat puzzled.

"Did I? Heh..." Li Teng, of course, didn't remember the things that happened before he arrived.

He only had three days to accompany her, and tonight he would leave, so of course, he wanted to give her the best.

"But lately, I've been playing less and reading online novels instead," Anna said as she opened the reading app on her phone.

"Oh?" Li Teng was not surprised, since young people these days spend their time playing games, watching short videos, or reading novels and comics to kill time.

In the eyes of the older generation, this is a generation 'ruined' by electronic devices.

Li Teng's view was quite tolerant.

Isn't the whole point of living to do what you enjoy?

As long as it doesn't harm society, it's fine.

"Dad, some readers are really naive. The book talks about time travel, and they really believe people can travel through time! Dad, do you think it's possible for someone to time travel?" After finishing the latest chapter, Anna started browsing book reviews and couldn't help but mock some of them.

"Time travel..." Li Teng's thoughts drifted for a moment.

Wasn't he the one time traveling all along?

And constantly traveling between various Scripted Worlds.

In the last Scripted World, Anna was Nana, only four years old, and in this Scripted World, she had grown into an eighteen-year-old young woman.

"How can a person possibly time travel? That's just novelists amusing themselves; don't believe those tall tales," Li Teng told Anna.

The cruel truth behind this world is better left unspoken to her.

"This person's book review is really interesting. She said she doesn't like her current life, she really likes the life in the novel world, and she decided to try transmigration herself. She wanted to transmigrate into the world of a novel, and if she stopped posting book reviews after that, it would mean her transmigration was successful.

"She was collecting blessings in the book review section.

"But now, it's been three days since she last posted a book review. Her review has been pinned to the top of the APP's homepage, and everyone is asking about her whereabouts. Hehe, to pretend that her transmigration succeeded, she's really holding out! She used to post dozens of reviews a day, but in these three days she hasn't posted a single one," Anna continued.

"Oh?" Li Teng glanced at Anna's phone and saw the ID of the person who wrote the transmigration book review.

The nickname of the ID was 'Yifanfan Muyi'.

Now, netizens really rack their brains to come up with nicknames, no matter how strange they are.

Yifanfan Muyi!?

Li Teng's mind suddenly exploded, and he quickly pulled the car over to the side of the road, grabbing Anna's phone from her.

Muyi, isn't that Yang? Yifanfan put together is Li!

Could it be that this is Yang Li's ID?

Li Teng opened the book reviews posted under this ID.

He found that this ID really liked transmigration novels.

In these transmigration novels, many begin with jumping off a building, being in a car accident, and then transmigrating to another world.

This ID especially liked to discuss transmigration with other readers in the book review section. Some readers' answers were clearly making fun of her, but she took them seriously and asked further questions.

The last book review under the ID name was posted exactly at the deep night when Yang Li jumped off the building, perfectly matching the time of death determined by the medical examiner.

...

Li Teng dialed Gao Feng's phone.

"Gao, have you returned to the station?"

"Yes."

"Is Yang Li's phone still at the station? You didn't give it back to her family, did you?"

"What happened?"

"There's a new clue! We must get her phone!"

"All right, I'll ask around."

Gao Feng hung up.

"Daddy, what happened?" Anna saw that Li Teng's expression was a bit unsettled.

"Mmhmm... it's a good thing, you might have made a great contribution," Li Teng restarted the car.

"What good thing?"

"Daddy is waiting for some news."

After a while, Gao Feng called back.

He had obtained Yang Li's phone.

Yang Li's phone had already been processed by the technical department, allowing direct access.

"Check if there is an APP named XX reading on her phone?"

"Hang on... I found it."

"Open that APP and see what her nickname is?"

"Wait a moment... it's opened, yes, her nickname is... Yifanfan Muyi... it's a play on her name, right? What did you figure out?"

"I know the real cause of her death," Li Teng sighed deeply.

It was fortunate that he picked up Anna tonight, and even more fortunate that they had that conversation in the car.

Yang Li did indeed commit suicide, but not because her idol was arrested.

It wasn't sleepwalking over the barrier.

The reason she committed suicide was because she was too obsessed with online novels and believed the transmigration plotlines, so she wanted to travel to another, better world.

Falling with the blanket, perhaps she thought it would hurt a lot? She naively believed that the blanket could lessen the pain when she transmigrated.

It truly is sigh-inducing.

"The reason she committed suicide... is because of this? Thank goodness! Thank goodness I haven't submitted the conclusion yet..." Gao Feng realized the problem and felt relieved on the other end of the phone.

"There can't be any other reason. We can close the case now." Li Teng confirmed Gao Feng's words.

"Li, how did you think of this?" Gao Feng sighed.

"I was discussing online literature with my daughter and came across Yang Li's book reviews by chance," Li Teng said honestly.

"Your daughter really is our lucky star!"

"Mhm, indeed." Li Teng couldn't help but reach out and pat Anna's head.

"Dad! Focus on driving!" Anna quickly reminded Li Teng.

"Haha..."

...

After successfully completing another task, Li Teng's sentence was reduced from sixteen years to fifteen.

"Because of your outstanding performance, the prison has decided to give you a chance to undertake a super task."

"If you successfully complete the super task, you will be granted a five-year reduction in your sentence at once."

As Li Teng lay on his cell bed, resting with his eyes closed, an electronic voice rang in his head.

"A five-year reduction at once? That works. Otherwise, fifteen years, fifteen tasks—it'd take forever." Li Teng didn't want to stay in prison any longer.

"For this super task, you will receive a golden finger, but the task will be extremely difficult. Using the golden finger well is the key to completing the task. Good luck!"

With the sound of the electronic voice, Li Teng's consciousness blurred for a moment.

Falling... transmigrating...

...

A delivery guy in a yellow uniform sped across the street on his electric bike.

The traffic light on the cross street was about to turn from green to red...

Just then, a private car sped up, attempting to catch the last few seconds of the green light, and only saw the rushing delivery guy when it was almost at the intersection.

The female driver in the car quickly stepped on the brakes.

But everything was too late.

With a 'bang!' there was a muffled sound.

The electric bike was flung into the air.

The delivery guy was also hurled high into the air, flying for over a dozen meters before crashing heavily onto the ground.

Passersby let out cries of shock.

The delivery guy hadn't worn a helmet, and his head hit the ground.

A female pedestrian who was nearby even heard the sound of the skull cracking and screamed as she hurriedly ran away.

After landing, a large pool of blood flowed from under the delivery guy's head, as he lay motionless on the ground.

The female driver dashed out of the car and ran over to check the delivery guy's injuries.

His head was dented, blood everywhere—there was no doubt it was over for him.

The woman quickly took out her phone to make a call.

"Honey! I hit someone, and his head is smashed to pieces! Dead as dead can be. What should I do now? It was still a green light! Only a few seconds left, I tried to rush through... I was in a hurry to get to the hospital! Honey! What should I do? Wait a second..."

The female driver looked at the delivery guy on the ground with astonishment.

The delivery guy, who was still lying on the ground just a moment ago, slowly got up from the ground.

Half of his head was still caved in, his face covered in blood, he gave her a vacant look.

The female driver suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

She was a fan of zombie movies, and now, the delivery man standing in front of her was the spitting image of a zombie!

Just as the female driver was about to scream and then turn to run away, the delivery man threw her a coquettish look and whistled before turning and sprinting away from the scene.

The female driver stood there dumbfounded.

"Hey! Don't run away!"

It took the female driver a while to recover. His head was smashed, shouldn't he rush to the hospital?

If he ran away and ended up dying, would it be considered manslaughter on her part?

"Husband! The delivery guy ran away!"

"Didn't you say his head was smashed and he was dead as a doornail?"

"Yeah! Half of his head was dented in and covered in blood, he got up and ran... ran... Could he have turned into a zombie?"

...

"It was just a minor delivery guy?"

Li Teng sighed as he looked at the delivery man on the computer screen.

When he entered the Scripted World, he obtained a golden finger for this world.

A set called the "Kidney Hero, Liver Emperor" system.

The greatest feature of this system was that it allowed you to create alternate characters in real life, just like in online games, grinding numerous alternates to provide resources for your main character.

The source of the alternates... according to the system, were people who had just died.

The system would resurrect these people in an instant after their death and repair them completely, turning them into Li Teng's alternates.

After completing a bunch of beginner guide tasks, Li Teng earned enough points to exchange for his first alternate yesterday in the system.

After the exchange, he wouldn't immediately obtain the alternate; the system needed to find a suitable deceased person in the real world. Once a suitable candidate was found, a prompt indicating the acquisition of an alternate would pop up.

Due to rushing to deliver an order, this delivery man didn't watch for the traffic light and dashed across the street, only to encounter a female driver running a green light and tragically met with an accident.

Then he was selected by the system to become Li Teng's first alternate.

"Wouldn't it be great if my alternates were Bill Gates, Joe Apple, Baba Yun, Hua Huateng? What a pity."

Li Teng kept reviewing his first alternate, feeling quite regretful.

According to the system's description, alternates also have ranks.

Delivery guys, couriers, brick movers, and writers on welfare are all considered bottom-tier Black Iron Level alternates.

Teachers, doctors, entry-level civil servants, and contracted writers are part of a higher tier, the Bronze Level alternates.

Principals, hospital directors, section chiefs, and star-contract writers are part of an even higher tier, the Silver Level alternates.

Above that, there are the ranks of Gold, Supreme, Epic, and Legendary.

The alternates Li Teng fantasized about, such as Bill Gates, Joe Apple, Baba Yun, and Hua Huateng, were all Legendary Level, not so easily drawn.

And the precondition is... they have to die an untimely death!

How is that easy?

Joe Apple was already impossible, as he had been dead for several years in this Scripted World.

To draw an alternate, not only do you have to draw a Legendary Level, but you also have to happen upon an event like Joe Apple falling ill and just dying off, which you can imagine has a minuscule chance.

If it's going to be a delivery man, then so be it, let's use this one to practice. Who knows, maybe next time I'll be able to draw a Legendary Level?

Li Teng started to operate this delivery man in the computer.

He had officially begun his adventure in this Scripted World.