Chapter 94 The Easiest Invitation to Obtain
Chapter 94 The Easiest Invitation to Obtain
Wen Xishu's worries are correct. Even if it has no IQ and is purely a product of some test in the TV world, it may have an avoidance mechanism.
If the trap is too direct, it will only cause the monsters to avoid it and it will not be counted as a kill.
To this end, Wen Xishu fiddled with the joystick of the controller, asked Zheng to squat down, and then gently pressed a button.
Zheng Zai took a wrench and began to tap gently on the bridge surface.
A magical scene happened.
With extremely light tapping, the parts of the bridge that had been trampled began to be repaired little by little. But it was really just a little bit.
The steel bars and concrete that had fallen into the sea began to slowly piece together their original positions, as if time was flowing backwards.
Wen Xishu never knocked hard, because he wanted to make sure not to use too much force and repair the bridge completely.
He needs to set a time node, which means to stop the repair progress at a state where it is about to break but not yet broken.
Zheng Zai was stunned:
"This wrench... can it be used like this?"
He originally thought that the ability of the wrench was to make items new, but now he finds that it is not the case. The ability of the wrench is to restore items to their best condition.
In other words, a completely destroyed object can be restored to a critical point of destruction, little by little, using a wrench.
However, the bridge is a huge superstructure that can be divided into multiple objects.
So Wen Xishu noticed that Zheng Zai's wrench had a range. The range was roughly a circle with Zheng Zai as the center and a radius of four meters.
About five minutes later, Wen Xishu had passed Zheng Zai and filled up the trampled area of the bridge.
But this place is extremely fragile and will collapse again if it receives a more significant impact.
But this is exactly what Wen Xishu wanted to pursue.
"Time is very tight. Let's hurry up and make as many traps as possible. And each trap must be far enough apart."
If it is not far enough, it is very likely that Zheng will launch an earthquake core, which will directly lead to a chain reaction of road collapse.
Zheng Zai said:
"Okay! It's all up to you!"
At this moment, Zheng Zai and Wen Xishu were like two players with tacit cooperation. Although Zheng Zai was controlled by Wen Xishu throughout the whole process, after releasing the earthquake core several times and feeling the power of these skills as the first person being controlled, he would give Wen Xishu some appropriate strength feedback.
Wen Xishu tried to adjust the power of the skill by reducing the force of the key press.
The two of them worked together perfectly, and the second trap was made forty seconds shorter than the first.
The third trap was based on the second trap, but was shortened by fifteen seconds.
They are getting faster and smoother.
Wang Ying and Aspasia outside the TV felt envious. They were simply a pair of twin stars. Wasn't it the same as how twins should be so in sync, right?
At this moment, both of them admired Zheng Zai and Wen Xishu's courage and imagination.
Just like that, more than ten minutes later, the monsters could be seen two or three hundred meters away.
They formed a black mass and rushed towards Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai.
The two also officially stopped making traps, with two traps in front and two in the back.
As the monsters get closer and closer——
The first trap ahead took effect, and the road collapsed under the impact of the monsters.
At this moment, dozens of monsters fell directly into the sea because they did not react quickly enough.
Wen Xishu paid special attention and found that those monsters died without even a sound.
The body simply disappeared without any sign of struggle.
It can be seen that the most terrifying thing in the Ghost Tower is the rules themselves. Being killed by the rules does not give you any chance at all.
But fortunately, the rules are fair, and as long as you make good use of the rules, you can achieve a perfect counterattack. The second trap, the third trap, the fourth trap... were triggered continuously within just a dozen seconds.
In the previous levels, the combat parts were all relatively long, but this time it was completely the opposite.
After Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai had been boringly stomping on the floor and banging wrenches for nearly twenty minutes, the battle that was supposed to be coming didn't even take half a minute -
Because there was no fight at all.
The collapsed road surface everywhere continued to spread under the impact of tens of thousands of intermediate normal species, and the collapsed areas were still spreading.
Everything happened as Wen Xishu had expected. The monsters avoided the pits, but the sudden appearance of the pits still caused more than a hundred monsters to fill the sea in an instant.
There were indeed monsters that avoided the pits or jumped over them extremely quickly, and they were indeed very close to the Wen Xi Tree.
But that was all. Before the monsters could touch the Wen Xi Tree, the game was over.
[You have successfully demonstrated the value of this item after the end of the world. You will return to the museum soon. I hope you can show more items to people. When you return this round, your physical strength will be restored to 50% of the maximum value.]
Wen Xishu was a little surprised that the hidden task was not triggered, but the successful use of the item and the kill count exceeding 100 were worth being happy about.
Zheng Zai shouted excitedly:
"Brother, you're right. Indirect kills also count as kills! I understand. As long as the item has been used, as long as it is used correctly, and shows its value in the process of killing monsters, it counts as a kill!"
"This way, we can challenge and use more items that do not have weapon attributes!"
Wen Xishu nodded.
Now think about it, if that crazy kid Tong Ming used the sword that cannot kill to attack himself, then after he recovered, he could kill the enemy again, which could still be counted as a kill even if he didn't use the sword.
Wen Xishu didn't feel too much. Tong Ming's death was a good thing for him.
He and Zheng Zai soon returned to the fourth floor of the inpatient department.
Wang Ying quickly calmed down and smiled, which was not very charming:
"Brother Wen, you did a great job! You are so wise. I think the Gambling Stone Club will definitely be very willing to accept you! When we return to the bunker together, I will definitely introduce our leader to you. If you come to our Gambling Stone Club, you will definitely be a fierce general!"
Wang Ying even changed his address, but Wen Xishu was not too polite this time, he just smiled:
"Okay, Captain Wang, but we have to find a way to survive first. Let's find some tools to handle the fifth level first."
Wang Ying seemed to sense the slight indifference in Wen Xishu's attitude, but he pretended not to know and still wore a warm smile:
"Brother Wen, can I ask you a favor?"
Wen Xishu said:
"Captain Wang, you are the captain. If you have any requests, just tell me directly."
Wang Ying waved his hand and said:
"It's not really a request, it's just... you see, you asked me for that lamp, so I gave it to you. Can you lend me this thing in your hand?"
"Don't worry, I'm just borrowing it and I'll return it to you after I'm done! When the items are finally distributed, I definitely won't take this."
Wang Ying was talking about the handle in Wen Xishu's hand.
Wen Xishu pretended to be generous and said:
"No problem, but...you two better figure out who will be in charge of the controls."
"This thing has four joysticks to control the field of vision, body, and perspective, and 24 buttons, with each part having several different ways of pressing. In addition, if the person being controlled doesn't trust the controller... the power of this thing will be discounted, and it is likely that nothing can be done with it."
"If you really think you can use this thing, then I'll give it to you. I'm a very generous person."
"But Captain Wang, I have to remind you that if you can't control this well, you may not even be able to perform normally."
"It's a small matter if something is lost in the TV world, but it's a pity if someone dies in it."
After saying this, Aspasia and Wang Ying were silent. Aspasia assumed that she was controlling Wang Ying. But Wang Ying believed that he was the captain and should be the controller rather than the controlled.
When the two looked at each other, they both knew that they had a disagreement.
Plus this overly complicated design...
Wang Ying finally shook his head:
"I am sorry for being so presumptuous. This thing is indeed good, but even if you give me a few days, I may not be able to do it as well as you do. Forget it."
Wang Ying and Aspasia are back to 4-10
Wen Xishu just smiled and took Zheng Zai to 4-11.
The item at 4-11 was a vase, and the flowers in the vase were still blooming. Wen Xishu thought that this was probably a preserved flower vase.
This thing is definitely not used to kill monsters, so he gave up.
Soon the duo went to 4-12 again.
Now Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai are full of energy, which is in sharp contrast to Wang Ying and Aspasia.
……
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4-12 is a ward.
This made Wen Xishu very excited.
"Brother Wen, someone has lived in this room before!"
Zheng Zai has already started searching the bedside table. After watching Wen Xishu do it twice, he has gained some experience.
Sure enough, this time Zheng Zai found the third small note in the bedside table.
Zheng Zai couldn't understand the contents of the note, so he handed it to Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu took a look and immediately frowned.
The content of this note was a picture of a young man riding an electric donkey, and above his head was something that looked like the earth.
And at the center of the earth, there is a boot pattern.
"What's wrong, Brother Wen? Is the new clue not in our favor?" Zheng Zai noticed that Wen Xishu's expression was not right.
Wen Xishu nodded:
"I think I made a wrong judgment."
Zheng Zai didn't ask and waited patiently. Wen Xishu pointed at the items on the bedside table:
"Shoes, shoes with a 'footprint' pattern on them, these are the items we need to identify." The item on the bedside table was a pair of running shoes. The pattern on the shoes was two footprints.
Wen Xishu couldn't tell what the shoes were for from what he saw this time. In a pile of garbled text, he only saw four words: "Jie", "Lin", "Wang", and "Hua".
With just these four words, it is difficult to guess the purpose of the shoes. Of course, this is not the key point that Wen Xishu wants to explore.
Wen Xishu said:
"Eyes and ears made me think that elements were related to the five senses, but now I've discovered the presence of feet... In other words, there may be more elements than I thought. There may be eyes, ears, mouth, nose, body, hands, and feet. The number of elements is more than I expected."
Zheng Zai asked again:
"Is there something wrong with this?"
Wen Xishu said:
"That's not wrong, but in this way, the possibility of identifying these items is reduced, and it can even be ruled out. You have to know that if there are ears, mouth, nose, body, hands, feet... or more elements, then the minimum level to pass is already a lot."
"We have reached the fifth level. I originally thought that by identifying these items, we could find hidden clues."
"But if we finish identifying these items... this mission will be almost over."
Zheng Zai didn't quite understand because he didn't know what an invitation letter was. Wen Xishu didn't explain it either.
"If we appraise all the items containing human body elements, there might be 12 levels. This doesn't conform to the pattern of the levels I've experienced before."
What Wen Xishu cares about is how to obtain the invitation letter. Only by getting the invitation letter can he figure out the trajectory of his destiny and re-anchor it.
But if you are close to clearing the customs, or have already cleared the customs, then there is no chance.
"Maybe my guess is wrong. I think it's too complicated... It's not that there are so many items to identify, but these items containing body elements are hiding secrets."
Wen Xishu began to recall carefully.
Footprints, eyes, ears, these elements are printed on running shoes, desk lamps, and radios.
He had a guess in his heart, but there was too little information to support this guess.
After about half a minute, Wen Xishu closed his eyes and began to recall the description of the task. The whole process was silent, and Zheng Zai didn't dare to speak.
Suddenly, Wen Xishu opened his eyes:
"Come on, follow me and continue searching other houses!"
"Oh, good!"
Zheng Zai held the desk lamp and left the room with Wen Xishu.
After that, Wen Xishu's efficiency obviously became much higher. If he hadn't stayed in a patient's room before, he would just open the door, take a look and leave.
From 4-13 to 4-22, Wen Xishu only stayed in three rooms.
In these three rooms, Wen Xishu found three items: an electric rice cooker, a pipe, and a pair of gloves.
The patterns on the pipe and rice cooker correspond to the nose and mouth respectively, while the pattern on the gloves corresponds to the hands, which is a pair of palm prints.
Of course, there are also small notes in the room where these three items are. These items can only be taken away after being identified, but Wen Xishu can take these notes away directly.
In the room where the pipe was found, the note contained a picture of a drooling child with his hands raised, looking very happy.
The note found in the room where the rice cooker was hidden was of a chef holding a fork.
The third item, although there is a palm pattern on the gloves, the content of the small note is the strangest.
It is a stick figure whose head is a simple circle and whose body is a somewhat narrow hexagon.
The bound and blindfolded girl, the big-eared old lady listening to the movements, the guy riding a bicycle, the stickman, the chef waving a fork, the drooling child...
Zheng Zai couldn't make any connections between the contents of these notes. Each note seemed to have no connection with the other notes.
Finally, Wen Xishu found a ward at 4-26.
It was obvious that someone had lived in this house, but there was only a pen and a piece of white paper in the house.
There was still a note in the bedside table, but when it was unfolded, there was nothing on it, just a blank.
Wen Xishu looked at the pen, and his frowning face finally broke into a smile.
"Brother Wen, you look like this... have you found the key item you're looking for?"
"That's it."
Zheng Zai looked at the pen carefully and found that it had no elements.
There are no body elements such as eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands and feet. The pen is a fountain pen, but there is no pattern on it, it looks like a thin iron tube.
"What is the function code of this pen?"
"No, this pen is not an item that needs to be identified."
"no?"
"Well, no, the most valuable thing in this room is not the pen, but this piece of paper."
"Eh? The item in front..."
"Yes, the items in front are. The room with the note in front has content on it, so the items need to be identified, but this room does not."
Zheng Zai didn't understand, so he asked humbly:
"I don't know."
Wen Xishu said:
"Didn't you notice... that this pen didn't pop up any notes?"
Zheng Zai stared at the pen, it was true.
The items placed on the bedside table are basically items that need to be identified. If you stare at them for a moment, a garbled note box will appear.
But not this time, this time the pen doesn't have any notes.
It can be seen that the pen is just an ordinary pen.
On the contrary, this time the paper was completely blank, with nothing on it. But similarly, there were no notes on the paper either.
Wen Xishu smiled and said:
"I don't know yet what the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands and feet represent... I don't know what the drawings on the papers in these rooms are about. Although I have some guesses, they are just guesses."
"Old Zheng, I've been looking for something, something that can help me understand the origin of everything. I thought it might be related to eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands, and feet. But I was wrong. These items containing body parts are indeed very important, but they point to another hidden element."
Zheng Zai seemed to understand:
"So now... have you found the clue to what you are looking for?"
Wen Xishu said:
"Yes, it's very simple. The answer is written directly in the question. I totally over-complicated it and I actually overlooked such an important element."
"Think carefully, is there a particularly strange symbol in your mission description?"
Zheng Zai took the mission seriously, so he felt that he couldn't have ignored the mission introduction.
But when Wen Xishu said the keyword "symbol", Zheng Zai suddenly thought of a sentence:
"Five*good reviews?! Are you going to give his item a five*good review?"
Wen Xishu smiled and said:
"Great. We all overlooked this sentence in the mission introduction - people didn't care that he died, nor did they care about his last words: Remember to give me a five-star rating."
"Don't you think that deliberately using this symbol instead of the five-star review text... is a hint? He is emphasizing this symbol."
Zheng Zai nodded, it’s true.
"So...what should we do now?"
Wen Xishu picked up the pen, which must be able to continue writing. He then used the pen to draw five "※" symbols on the white paper.
"This is actually... the easiest invitation to get, right?" Wen Xishu thought.
After drawing the five “※”, Zheng Zai suddenly felt that the desk lamp in his hand shook slightly.
At the same time, Wen Xishu finally got the hint he wanted.
[Of course you are not the first person to recognize his product. In that hospital with only abnormal people, there are also a few people who are particularly grateful to the great inventor for his invention. But he still longs for a five-star review, a five-star review on paper. Although he has put in all his efforts, he cannot accept it.]
[Obtained item: Invitation letter to the deceased inventor. ]
Wen Xishu's smile froze for a moment. The deceased inventor?
He knew that the inventor was dead in the Weird Tower, but he was also dead in the Desire Tower?
Finally got the invitation, but Wen Xishu didn't seem very happy. According to past missions, these guys were probably close to death and began to mutate, so their mentality changed significantly.
What we need to do is to change some of their experiences so that they no longer hate the world.
This was Wen Xishu’s idea, but now, he guessed that even if he entered the timeline of the Desire Tower... the target would already be dead.
If you die, there is naturally no way to redeem or reverse the fate of the target. It's like if you appear in the scene where Tang Rui dies, how can you save Tang Rui?
And it's very strange. Jack and Tang Rui both experienced death, but under the strange power, both of them did not die. How come they really died when they came to the great inventor?
Wen Xishu could only think:
"I hope I'm wrong."
At this time, Zheng Zai suddenly said:
"Brother Wen, why do I feel like this thing seems to have...changed a little bit?"
Wen Xishu also noticed that the lamp seemed to have a faint luster. But the note in Wen Xishu's eyes remained unchanged, with the same few words.
But as Zheng Zai finished speaking...the desk lamp actually lit up by itself.
Wen Xishu suddenly had a feeling: these are not dead objects, these things... are alive.
However, now that he has received the invitation letter, Wen Xishu will be able to investigate everything at the source.
"Old Zheng, go outside and get some fresh air. I want to be alone for a while. I won't keep you waiting too long. It may only take a minute or two for you."
"I need to be alone and quiet here."
Zheng Zai did not doubt him, and immediately stood up, leaving the lamp behind, and said:
"Okay, tell me if you need any help, I'll be outside to keep watch for you."
Zheng Zai came to the door and closed it.
Wen Xishu took out the invitation letter at this time:
"I hope you are still alive, great inventor."
(End of this chapter)