Chapter 215 Countdown and Invitation
Chapter 215 Countdown and Invitation
Wen Xishu is still fighting.
The moment the blue sun rose, law enforcement officers arrived in an endless stream.
After consuming almost one-third of his tower strength and using his ultimate skill, Wen Xishu was still a little weak.
Although his abilities were still there, his physical strength was gradually reaching its limit.
Faced with an increasing number of people with special abilities, Wen Xishu couldn't see the end of the road.
He just could feel...
The world outside has changed.
Above the spherical building, the most ironic blue sun rose.
Thanks to the hard work of the previous group of people, Yin Junchi and others, Wen Xishu and others finally succeeded in taking over the relay.
In the world outside the sphere, everyone looked up at the sky together.
This picture is equally neat.
Thanks to the code of conduct manuals that have been passed down over the years, everyone in the city has been advised to follow almost the same rules, so when facing the sun, almost everyone looks up at the same time.
Then they fell into stillness.
The law enforcers inside the spherical building were going berserk, as if they had received the ultimate order from the code of conduct manual.
Prevent the situation from spreading.
But it was too late. Wen Xishu and Horn's collaboration bought enough time for the sun to shine on the world.
The first group of people who began to awaken their free will under the blue sun have appeared.
"Freedom! I want freedom!"
This word was finally shouted out, but for the first time ever, the giant beast from the sea of sin did not appear.
Thanks to the degree to which people have been domesticated over the years, even shouting the word freedom...
The time of awakening, the inner desire, the backlash of emotions beyond joy... are all so similar.
free.
The sound of these two words is as fierce as the sunlight of the blue sun.
"Freedom! Freedom!"
This huge sound reached the inside of the sphere.
After all, it's a whole city shouting.
When Wen Xishu heard this voice, he was a little worried at first, fearing that the giant beast from the sea of sin would appear.
But the feeling of being watched by someone has completely disappeared.
At this moment, Wen Xishu felt a great sense of accomplishment.
Yes, he did.
Together with Horn, he completed the challenge without exceeding his own abilities.
Although for Wen Xishu, it seems that there is still the challenge of returning to the Ark, and he still has to face the captain and the people with abilities who are ranked higher than Renault and others.
But at this moment, Wen Xishu was very excited. He completed the challenge without alarming the monster in the sea of sin.
This is more than sixty floors of the strange tower.
Originally, Wen Xishu thought... it was okay to pass the level by brute force. After all, those combat abilities were his trophies, and making proper use of the trophies was a means in itself.
But after meeting Horn, Wen Xishu began to wonder, if he were Horn, how would he do it?
Admittedly, during this process, Wen Xishu had to use certain combat methods, but after all——
This is already more than 60 floors in the strange tower, not just 10 or 20 floors, so basic combat capabilities must be possessed.
He was extremely excited at the moment.
As the sound of freedom came wave after wave, Wen Xishu also got the hint.
[Get the invitation letter·Tianlang Prison Escape Plan. 】
Although they were still fighting, the surrounding law enforcers seemed to be affected as well.
Since there are a lot of criminals out there who have "dismantled the code of conduct manual", the behavior of law enforcement officers seems to be a bit confused.
The situation outside gradually surpassed that inside, which led to some law enforcement officers receiving orders to go outside.
But the interesting thing is that all the law enforcers who went outside rebelled under the blue sunlight.
As Wen Xishu fought, he suddenly discovered that there were fewer and fewer enemies, and finally there was no enemy left.
Horn said:
"We won. The noises outside...are starting to get chaotic. There will soon be chaos in this city."
Wen Xishu could understand it.
To give the simplest example, for so many years, you have lived in a city without your own will, and everything is operated according to behavioral norms.
There are some idiots you dare not scold, some abstract marriages and families you dare not abandon, and some jobs that go against your will you dare not quit...
There are some things you desire that you dare not strive for.
After the sudden awakening of free will, one will definitely find ways to make some changes.
Before a new order that respects individual will is established...
There will be a massive chaos in this city.
Hugo sat on the ground, feeling that everything that happened today was just like a dream.
Horn waited quietly:
"I don't know...what will happen when we return to the Ark."
Wen Xishu did not respond to this sentence.
Wen Xishu just felt very strange, why... there is such a thing as an invitation letter?
This time, the strange tower is not a strange tower.
Although he experienced some weird things, such as the spiritual world of Sirius, Wen Xishu felt it was very weird.
But this is not a strange tower. Wen Xishu feels that this journey of the three towers seemed to have started from the Tower of Desire.
Generally speaking, in the Weird Tower Wen Xishu will experience a world that is almost incomprehensible.
Only by going to the Desire Tower can one trace the source.
But this time, Wen Xishu actually felt that... through Yin Junchi's notes, he had found the entire source.
He also overthrew the ultimate slavery, and now Sirius is most likely awakening to free will.
The chaos in this city may also symbolize the emergence of many thoughts in Sirius's heart.
This looks very much like the Tower of Desire. Wen Xishu even feels that he has brought salvation.
But he still got the invitation.
Wen Xishu did not avoid Horn and opened the invitation letter, but he did not go there immediately.
Just read the content of the invitation.
[Since Sirius' will awakens at some point in the future, he uses his own power to start a game with Pisces in the past, and the Ark presents a time turbulence. Please find the right time among the many time turbulences, and take the relevant personnel away to avoid the correction of the time walker and escape from the Ark. ]
[Note: This invitation has a countdown setting of twelve hours. If the invitation cannot be activated within twelve hours, it will disappear.]
Wen Xishu was shocked.
He didn't expect such a result.
Time turbulence? Time walker? Correction?
At this moment, Wen Xishu suddenly felt extremely tired and powerless.
The Ark of the Strange Tower gave Wen Xishu a feeling of a desire tower.
Wen Xishu was thinking... Could it be that everything would happen again on the Ark of the Desire Tower?
I have already achieved all the good endings in the Weird Tower. Is it really necessary for me to go back to the Desire Tower through the invitation letter?
But now he understood - the Desire Tower was more dangerous. It not only had the captain, but also the minions of Pisces.
There is no doubt that the twelve zodiac signs all know the three-tower mechanism.
Some of them, such as Scorpio, are eager to use this mechanism to cooperate with the tower climbers.
There are also people, such as Aquarius, who absolutely do not allow tower climbers to participate.
But now it seems that Pisces is still the strongest.
"In the past, I was often able to build new strange towers..."
"At least in terms of the timeline, the Tower of Desire is before the Tower of Weirdness."
“Will it be the same this time?”
Pisces' ability is related to time, and Wen Xishu has also seen the pattern of Pisces.
That is the pattern of the Yin-Yang fish, symbolizing the changes in the world and the passage of time.
Horn was surprised to see Wen Xishu looking so sad:
"Wen Xishu, are we friends?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"of course."
Horn said:
"what happens?"
Wen Xishu sighed:
"I rarely make friends in the Trickster Tower, Horn, you are the first one."
"In the Weird Tower, everything is distorted by obsession, so I have always thought that you are just a bunch of losers, a bunch of losers waiting for me to save you."
Horn didn't understand.
But he had heard of the Three Towers, in Yin Junchi's story. As strong as Horn was, he immediately thought that perhaps one of the Three Towers was the Ghost Tower.
Wen Xishu said:
"Only when I return to the Desire Tower can I establish a true bond with you..."
"But now... I'm a little confused."
"My experience in the Weird Tower was so similar to the experience in the Desire Tower." "So much so that when I rescued Sirius, I was thinking, why is my journey this time so similar to the Desire Tower?"
Horn said:
"The spooky tower, the lustful tower, and another tower?"
Wen Xishu said:
"The Slaughter Tower. The relationship between the three towers... is probably like this."
Wen Xishu described the contents of the following picture through words.
During this process, Horn listened with great interest.
He also completely understood what was going on.
Horn was surprised:
"Amazing, I didn't expect that the real savior of the doomsday is traveling between the three towers... It's really fascinating."
"But based on your past experiences, I seem to live in a world formed by obsession?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"But it was so pleasant to work with you that I thought this was the Desire Tower. I have been thinking, Horn, it would be great if you were in the Desire Tower. I have been afraid in my heart. Why does this trip to the spooky tower look so much like a trip to the Desire Tower?"
"Now I think I understand."
To Horn, Wen Xishu was really different from the NPCs in the past. Wen Xishu even showed Horn the invitation letter.
Horn was also completely stunned after reading it. He came to the same conclusion as Wen Xishu:
"You mean... what you saved might just be an extremely critical timeline."
"But the invitation letter mentioned the Time Walker's amendment..."
"In other words, if you don't go to the Desire Tower and don't go through the layers of time turbulence, everything will be corrected by the Time Walker?"
After saying this, Horn felt very tired.
The same goes for Wen Xishu.
Hugo didn't understand what the two were saying, but seeing that the two god-like figures were so tired... he also felt a sense of powerlessness and despair.
Obviously, everything is fine.
"The Time Walker's correction... I don't understand what it means, but I know that the fruits of my victory at this moment must be included in the many timelines of the time turbulence..."
"The ability of Pisces is to predict the future and know everything that will happen in the future..."
"And Tianlang's obsession made me appear on the Ark, and a strange tower very close to the trajectory of the Desire Tower appeared in front of me."
"I saved you and Sirius in the Trickster Tower...but these changes will inevitably occur in a certain timeline."
"And Pisces, who can see these changes, can use the Time Walker to erase the changes from the source of the Desire Tower..."
It was a little confusing, but Horn got it.
In other words, Wen Xishu created the possibility of Sirius being redeemed in one of the events.
But the Time Walker will certainly fix this possibility.
It’s like Wen Xishu defeated the captain in 2024.
But Pisces can see this change in 2021, so they can work hard to change this possibility in the next three years.
This is really despairing.
Wen Xishu and Horn teamed up to help Sirius awaken and regain his freedom, but all their efforts seemed to remind Pisces that there were still bugs that could be fixed.
If you don't return to the Desire Tower, everything will be over.
He had just experienced a siege by law enforcers, and not long ago he had also experienced a battle with a giant beast from the sea of evil.
Wen Xishu thought that when the blue sun rose, everything would be over.
A powerful being like the Captain should be dealt with by Sirius, who has awakened his free will.
Next, you can go back.
In fact, Wen Xishu can do the same.
Next, he can choose not to activate the invitation letter and wait patiently for the game to end.
With the fact that he awakened Sirius... perhaps he could get a reward for level five or even level six completion.
This is more than sixty floors, which is very good.
But now, Wen Xishu looked at Horn, feeling somewhat unwilling but also somewhat scared.
Of course he knew that he would not face Pisces directly.
But the captain, a person with super powers, time turbulence, time walker...
Can I really defeat these people at my current stage?
But if I do nothing, everything will be over in twelve hours, right?
Wen Xishu and Horn both noticed one thing——
The invitation letter has a countdown mechanism. If Wen Xishu still doesn't activate the invitation letter after the twelve-hour countdown ends...
Then the invitation will disappear.
In other words, that hidden timeline will be discovered by the Time Walker after twelve hours, and then everything Wen Xishu did in the Weird Tower will be eliminated.
Horn accepted his fate:
"Wen Xishu, when Renault was choking me, I was thinking... I might die here."
"But I didn't expect that I would survive. For me, everything is worth it. I have seen this possibility, it is perfect, and the Desire Tower is too dangerous. Wen Xishu, you should go back."
Wen Xishu was stunned.
Horn sighed:
"Your life is worth more than mine. Now... I am the 'old man' who can be expended."
These words made Wen Xishu shu shudder.
When the Ark needed to sacrifice an old man, the old man was sacrificed.
Now, it's Horn and Sirius' turn to play such old men.
"You don't have what it takes to defeat someone who can see future changes. Pisces... looks stronger than Sirius, right?"
"Sirius lost. Although you came here and found the real main line, the next level is too difficult for you at the moment."
"You are more valuable than anyone else on the Ark, so... go back."
"Maybe one day in the future, when you become stronger, you can help us."
"I'm sorry. I really wanted to try hard to remember our encounter, but I'm afraid it will all be rectified."
"But... I'll tell you a secret of mine. As long as you can tell me this secret, even if you meet my past self again one day in the future and tell me that you are a time traveler, I will still believe in your existence."
Horn knew that his future self - that is, his present self - would not be able to escape death after the timeline was corrected without the help of Wen Xishu and Sirius.
He could only hope that Wen Xishu could meet his past self.
This was a last will and a trust. Then, Horn approached Wen Xishu and told him the secret.
Wen Xishu looked at Horn, with mixed emotions rising in his heart.
How strong must this person be? He doesn't act emotionally when he abandons others, but can he be so calm even when he abandons himself?
Wen Xishu's intuition told him that this level was too difficult and should be avoided.
But for the first time, Wen Xishu longed to change this.
He opened the invitation again and said:
"Don't do anything stupid."
Wen Xishu said:
"No... that's not the case, Horn. This is not the first time I've been to the 60th floor, although I had a senior to help me last time."
"But the difficulty last time was difficult in the Weird Tower, but it was not that difficult in the Desire Tower..."
"I was wondering, with both floors exceeding 60, how could the difference in difficulty be so huge?"
Horn understood:
"You suspect missing information?"
Wen Xishu looked at the words on the invitation again.
"Since Sirius's will awakens at some point in the future, he uses his own power to start a game with the Pisces of the past..."
Wen Xishu read out these words.
He had to admit that he was intimidated by the Pisces Time Walker, so much so that he overlooked this crucial sentence when reviewing the question.
"We did save Sirius, the future Sirius, and began to fight against the past Pisces."
"Does this imply that if I return to the Desire Tower, I will not be alone... but will receive help from the future Sirius, and even the future you, that is, you at this moment?"
Horn was puzzled:
"But for the Desire Tower, none of this has happened yet. How can I know what will happen in the future?"
Wen Xishu said:
"It's Sirius. We actually don't know Sirius's abilities. We only know that he can create some worlds with strange rules."
"These worlds are related to his spirit, but they can also exist in reality... Maybe this is his breakthrough point."
Sirius cannot defeat Pisces, but what if he uses the three-tower mechanism and the bunker man?
The most important thing is that what you are facing is not Pisces, but Pisces's subordinates.
"The 60th floor is difficult, but not to this extent... Maybe, this time the Desire Tower will be like the Trick Tower, and I can use the rules to defeat the rules!"
Horn understood. Indeed, to Wen Xishu, this strange tower was like the tower of desire, so perhaps the tower of desire would be more like the strange tower.
And since it is clearly written in the title, the future Sirius begins to compete with the past Pisces...
Then Wen Xishu is a variable, an existence outside the chessboard.
If he could just overcome his inner fear, he might really be able to change the situation.
"Have you... thought it through? Do you really want to go?" Horn actually felt that he was a pawn that could be abandoned.
Wen Xishu said:
"I can't leave any fear for a certain sign... Otherwise I will be even more afraid to face it in the future. I have challenged so many signs before, there is no reason for me to be afraid of Pisces."
"Everything I did was to get this invitation. I also understood from the invitation that Pisces can erase everything I have done. I cannot give her this opportunity."
"Horn, I would be very sorry if there were no people like you in the future."
The invitation letter came into effect, and Wen Xishu disappeared. The journey to the Desire Tower began.
Horn sat in a wheelchair, thinking about Wen Xishu's last words, and finally he smiled.
"Then, see you over there."
(End of this chapter)