Chapter 76: The Miracle Building in the Desire Tower
Chapter 76: The Miracle Building in the Desire Tower
Wen Xishu also knew that human power was no match for an engine, so after he rode out of Hanjiang Park and saw the road for motor vehicles... he immediately made a decision.
48 hours, minutes have passed, and he doesn't even know where the mission target is. In order to prevent himself from dying in the Desire Tower... Wen Xishu decided to commit a series of crimes.
He planned to do what Ah Hui had done more often.
At the edge of the road, Wen Xishu stopped a taxi. After getting in the car, Wen Xishu said:
"Master, Miracle Building."
The taxi driver frowned:
"Sir, that place has a bad reputation recently. Why don't you get off the car? I...I don't want to do this business."
Wen Xishu was quite surprised.
"I'll pay more, Master."
"I won't go no matter how much you add... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please don't complain about me, I really don't dare to go there."
The driver seemed to feel the need to make it clear, not wanting Wen Xishu to die in vain, so he said:
"I had a friend who was interviewing for an elevator maintenance job there... I suddenly lost contact with him, and yesterday he appeared on the screen to speak for the Miracle Building."
"But the way he looked... was too weird. That smile was full of happiness. Obviously... he was a person with a bad temper and didn't like to smile much. And what happened at home?"
Wen Xishu immediately thought of the person in the elevator. It seemed that these staff members had all suffered an extremely terrifying and strange invasion and had completely changed. He asked:
"What kind of thing?"
The little people in the city are extremely sensitive when it comes to survival. Whether it's Ah Hui or the driver... they all avoided the Miracle Building.
Wen Xishu still admired this very much.
Instead, people like Jiang Yingce and Yin Junchi entered one by one.
"Something happened at home. His child died, his wife ran away... But that smile of his, it's like he's totally unaware of this. No... Even if he really doesn't know, his life is a mess, he shouldn't smile like that. Guest, I really can't go there."
Wen Xishu nodded. He understood his master, but he didn't intend to waste time:
"I'm sorry, Master. I'm in a hurry to save the world."
After this sentence, Wen Xishu saw the multiple-choice questions again.
[You quickly caught an opportunity to get closer to the main goal, and your cross-border behavior caused your good and evil values to begin to change.]
Now you decide:
Wen Xishu chose to seize the car, and did not consider other options at all. Since the points were 19 points, which was considered a great success, the car seizure was very smooth.
Wen Xishu's moves are textbook standard for fighting films.
He started a series of smooth moves, elbowing his opponent to stun him, kicking him out of the car, turning the car around quickly, and running away with the car.
All actions are done in one go.
There must be very few people in the bunker who can master driving skills, but Wen Xishu has the memory of his previous life. He stepped on the accelerator and started to rush towards the Miracle Building.
It was also at this time that Wen Xishu saw another prompt.
[Crime value +3, current wanted value is one star. ]
[Some police have heard about you. A small number of police will be refreshed in the area. They don't know your exact location, but they will keep approaching you. ]
[The wanted order lasts for five minutes. If a new crime is committed during this period, the wanted order value will be raised to two stars.]
Good guy.
Wen Xishu began to realize the horror of the owners of these constellation names.
The abilities of the weird Virgo and Gemini are unclear for now, but Scorpio is real, and has injected a lot of game content into an extremely realistic experience.
I was actually wanted just like in Game 5.
But Wen Xishu was not in a hurry. He had the impression that many games could easily get rid of the one-star wanted list. He quickly determined the best route through navigation, and walked towards the Miracle Building at the fastest speed.
"My area is not far from Jiangnan District... only about 20 kilometers away. I hope I can find An Jincheng on the 42nd floor of the Miracle Building."
Wen Xishu thought so. As long as he found An Jincheng, he would be able to figure out the whole story of Ni Qi.
But in the next half hour, he was extremely embarrassed, and he was forced to change his route several times.
In the gamified Desire Tower, Wen Xishu's navigation system can actually display the wanted range of police cars.
He had to find a way to avoid the red circles on the navigation map. This state was said to last only five minutes, but because he was forced into the wanted area several times, the timer for eliminating the wanted area had to start over.
This also made Wen Xishu quite embarrassed.
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Caicheng, Jiangnan District, outside the gate of Miracle Building.
When Wen Xishu drove closer to the building, he saw a red Ferrari supercar parked outside the gate. The female driver in the supercar looked familiar to Wen Xishu.
Not long ago, Wen Xishu had escaped the one-star wanted list and regained his innocence. He honked the horn, and the female driver in the car turned her head and looked at him.
The female driver immediately smiled:
"Ashu!"
Wen Xishu didn't expect to meet A Miao here. This happened much earlier than he expected.
Wen Xishu said:
"Ah Miao, why are you here?"
"I had a feeling that you would come here to look for clues, so I came here." A Miao said.
Wen Xishu asked again:
"What's wrong with this car?"
A Miu said:
"I don't know either. I seemed to have appeared directly in the car at the beginning."
Wen Xishu was a little speechless:
"Can you still drive?"
A Miao shook his head:
"No, but my original identity was, and it seemed like I was pretty good at it, as a racing driver. This was also my first time experiencing this kind of excitement."
Wen Xishu was speechless:
"And you drove all the way here without encountering any obstacles?"
A Miao still shook his head:
"It was smooth... I drove at full throttle all the way, but the road conditions were pretty good and I basically didn't stop."
Wen Xishu was speechless:
"So the luck points all belong to me, but the fortune all belongs to you, right?"
Having said that, Wen Xishu was still very happy. A Miao had indeed grown a lot. He originally thought that the other party would not easily reunite with him, and in Wen Xishu's preset plan, A Miao would not provide any help.
But now it seems that Ami plays a big role. Whether it is a sports car or Ami's driving skills.
Ah Miao looked at the fence and gate in front of him:
"Ashu, what are we going to do now?"
Wen Xishu also looked forward, and after a few seconds of silence, he slowly asked:
"How is this experience in the Desire Tower different from your last time? Will you get prompts and choices that pop up suddenly?"
A Miao nodded:
"meeting."
Wen Xishu said: "Then you do nothing. Just wait for the option to appear. Hide nearby now and don't enter the Miracle Building. Your racing driver skills are very useful. Perhaps the key to our race against time this time lies in you."
"By the way, what's your phone number?"
A Miao took out her cell phone and exchanged numbers with Wen Xishu. Wen Xishu's cell phone was stolen, but A Miao's cell phone was her own.
Ah Miao said, "Is it all right if I just wait outside to pick you up? Don't you need my help? Ah Shu, I am still very useful now!"
Wen Xishu smiled. He indeed noticed that there was no fear in A Miao's eyes. It was not because of blind joy, but because he really had courage.
He shook his head and smiled:
"You can only help me if you are outside, because I will become invisible from now on. If you follow me, it will only affect me. But don't worry, you are not useless."
"Remember what I said? Even if it's just to consume action points to initiate a meeting, that person is still valuable. And Miao, you've done very well."
Ah Miao nodded and said:
"Okay, I'll wait for you. Just make a phone call and I'll drive the car in!"
Wen Xishu had no doubt about A Miao's words:
"Okay, wait for my news."
The two separated outside the Miracle Building. A Miao drove away. After Wen Xishu got out of the car, he came to the door of the Miracle Building.
In the past few days, a lot of negative news has been exposed about the Miracle Building, saying that a lot of strange things have happened in the Miracle Building and many people have been killed there. However, all these people appeared in the camera and personally refuted the rumors, saying that they lived happily in the Miracle Building.
Wen Xishu suddenly remembered the words in the task prompt, which were also what he said to Yin Junchi:
They gathered, they partyed, they began to love each other, and gradually, they began to know the content of the doomsday in advance, and they also began to prepare for the arrival of the doomsday.
Does this "they" refer to the residents of Miracle Apartment? These residents have nothing to do with the seven households affected by the Reverse Seven, but are all ordinary people who fill the entire building of Miracle Apartment.
They gathered, they reveled, loved each other, and prepared for the end of the world. Can this be interpreted as - they were assimilated.
They turned into some kind of... weird beings?
Just like the staff member Wen Xishu met in the elevator last night.
Wen Xishu didn't think too much, but walked towards the interior of the Miracle Apartment Building.
When we arrived at the gate, a security guard came in with a very formal, stiff smile and a mechanical tone and said:
"Hello, this is Miracle Building. If you are not a resident or staff member of the building, please leave the building."
The two tall security guards smiled together in a way that gave people goosebumps. They were like machines.
But this is not the most terrifying thing. What makes people feel cold in the back is that when you look through the door, in the lobby on the first floor of the building, you can see many residents wearing green clothes.
Some of them were sweeping the floor, some were getting water from the water dispenser, and some were looking at each other as if they were communicating.
If you don't look closely, at first glance, the first floor of this miracle building of Desire Tower seems to be very popular and lively.
But it all seems like a disguise.
When the two security guards noticed Wen Xishu and smiled at him, all of them turned around at the same time.
Wen Xishu only saw it for a moment before everyone stopped what they were doing, turned around in unison, and looked at Wen Xishu with the same smile as the security guard.
It's hard to say what's wrong with this smile. But everyone does it. If it's a photo, it's okay, but if it happens suddenly, it still makes people feel weird.
Wen Xishu was not a good person either, and he showed the same smile.
At this time, options appear.
[You saw their smiles, and became more certain that something was not simple here. You decided—]
Among these options, there are three that Wen Xishu is more interested in.
[Option 3: Try to interview as a security guard.]
[Option 7: Wake up the security guard. ]
[Option 12: Blend in. (This option is provided by the item "Gradual Indifference")]
Wen Xishu actually wanted to try 3 and 7. But considering that the success probability of these two events is low, the possibility of throwing high points is very small...
He finally chose 12.
The 24-sided die that only he could see turned again. The number was 22.
[You throw 22 points, the necklace will deduct more of your health points, but correspondingly, it will give you a higher initial favorability and minimize your presence. ]
After a few times, Wen Xishu found that the points were quite large. He realized that if the choice made was correct, it would be easy to trigger higher points and bring additional attribute bonuses.
It was visibly that Wen Xishu began to become weaker, consuming 30% of his current health points, causing his face to turn pale.
The purple necklace that Wen Renjing gave to Wen Xishu was originally a bug-level item, plus the unique game bonus in Scorpio mode -
The smiles of the two security guards quickly began to disappear.
At first, Wen Xishu thought there was something wrong with the props... How come the original sweet smile disappeared?
But suddenly, Wen Xishu discovered that the two security guards seemed to ignore him and returned to their original positions.
Wen Xishu stepped one foot into the gate. The two security guards did see it, but they did not take any action against Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu was shocked.
"You're treating me like one of your own, right?"
The sense of presence is reduced, but it is certainly not a bug like in basketball anime where you become invisible. Instead, when you walk past the other person, he or she will just feel that it is as natural as if a very familiar person walked by.
Wen Xishu did not delay. This necklace, which consumed a huge amount of life, had a duration, which was half an hour.
The range covered by the necklace is enough for Wen Xishu to move freely in the building, and he must find An Jincheng within the duration.
Wen Xishu walked towards the interior of the building.
The scene along the way was completely different from that in the Weird Tower. There were only a few people in the Weird Tower, but the buildings in the Desire Tower were full of people.
These people all had numb expressions and repeated their actions mechanically.
Wen Xishu had a feeling that the Weird Tower seemed more normal than the Desire Tower, and the Desire Tower seemed more twisted than the Weird Tower. All of these people were wearing green clothes, just like the staff he met in the elevator.
They all ignored Wen Xishu, as if Wen Xishu was one of them.
In the elevator, Wen Xishu met the staff member again, but the other party seemed not to see Wen Xishu and just turned his back to the elevator door.
The 42nd floor could only be pressed by swiping a card. So Wen Xishu pressed the 41st floor.
This time, there was nothing strange about the elevator in the Desire Tower. Wen Xishu quickly arrived at the 41st floor, and without any delay, he walked towards the stairs on the 41st floor.
There were two people in green clothes guarding the staircase leading to the 42nd floor. However, with the help of the Wenren Mirror Necklace, the two of them let Wen Xishu pass.
Wen Xishu sighed, saying that he was worthy of being Wen Ren Jing, and was so generous.
This necklace is indeed powerful, but if I don't leave the building in time after the duration ends, the consequences will be serious.
Because everyone in the building who is affected by the necklace will gradually develop a sense of disgust towards themselves.
Wen Xishu wasted almost no time and trotted to 42-7.
At the door of 42-7, there were two staff members in green clothes guarding it.
"The configuration of the Desire Tower may be exactly the same as that of the Weird Tower in some places. So...if you rashly go to the 42nd floor in the Weird Tower, you may directly encounter the weird staff."
If the magic resistance is not enough, even if it is just a staff member, it can easily kill the tower climber. Wen Xishu was lucky that he did not forcefully explore 42-7 in the strange tower.
This is the Tower of Desire. Under the effect of the necklace, Wen Xishu knocked on the door directly.
The two guards first glanced at Wen Xishu. Smiles quickly formed on their faces, but gradually, the smiles began to disappear bit by bit.
Finally, the two guards stood still and ignored Wen Xishu.
"If these people still had self-awareness... maybe they would be friendly to me, but now, it seems that their self-awareness has been erased by some force, and everyone has become a puppet of this building."
"In the Weird Tower, the other six families have been affected by the weirdness, and some parts of their bodies are extremely exaggerated. So far, it seems that they have not moved in yet."
"And An Jincheng... later known as An Zhenqi, was the first to move in. In other words, he was affected the longest."
“I wonder what kind of person he will be twisted into by the effects of Reverse Seven.”
(End of this chapter)