Chapter 10: The Tower of Desire with Love

Humanity has only been entering the bunkers for a few short decades.

The elders in the bunkers still remember the world where humanity once lived, and they have told the young ones about that world of sky and sea.

But people cannot imagine things they have never seen out of thin air.

Only after entering the Tower of Desire, at the moment they look up, can they feel what it means for the starry sea to be vast and boundless.

But this is not why people love the Tower of Desire.

People love the Tower of Desire because the bloody brutality of the Tower of Slaughter and the terrifying eeriness of the Tower of Mystery make the pursuit of desire in the Tower of Desire... incomparably gentle.

There is no need for fighting and killing here, nor are there any bizarre rules. As long as you make these people pursuing desire feel happy, you can obtain certain survival supplies.

Wen Xishu, having just entered the Tower of Desire, saw a special dialogue box.

[Welcome to the 21st floor of the Tower of Desire, regional location: Moen City. The Tower of Desire is a place with love; please climb this tower with love and responsibility.]

How loving, how warm; the style is completely different from the other two towers.

It is just that Wen Xishu does not know that the complete rule is as follows—

[Welcome to the 21st floor of the Tower of Desire, regional location: Moen City. All violent behavior is prohibited within the Tower of Desire. The Tower of Desire is a place with love; please climb this tower with love and responsibility.]

The rule prohibiting all violent behavior did not take effect on Wen Xishu; even the prompt was erased.

To be precise, it was erased by the chaotic Dice of Inversion. Wen Xishu is unaware of this.

What presented itself to his eyes was a prosperous city.

Towering skyscrapers, people in flashy clothes on the streets, those exquisite cream cakes in the windows of gourmet shops, dazzling billboards, and the scent of women's cosmetics.

All of this made Wen Xishu feel deeply nostalgic, as if he had returned to the world before he transmigrated.

But this world is not entirely real.

For example, the regional boundary constructed by red lines in the distance, or rather, an air wall, as well as the information in Wen Xishu's eyes:

[Jennifer's current happiness value: 0. Mission status: Incomplete.]

[Remaining time: 47 hours, 54 minutes, 16 seconds.]

This information pulled him out of the haze of returning to his original world and gave him a sense of crisis regarding the insufficient time.

Normal tower climbers have seven days, but Wen Xishu entered the Tower of Desire via an invitation letter and only has two days.

He must find clues sufficient to unlock the hidden content of the Tower of Mystery and make Jennifer happy within a very short time.

There are many ways to make a person happy.

People have had decades of experience climbing the Tower of Desire, whether it is earning money in this world to provide material value, or bestowing emotional value.

In the early years, when the qualifications to enter the Tower of Desire were loose, there were some brutes with too little emotional intelligence who died in the Tower of Desire.

And a few geniuses who could say things like "Ni Ye Impact" or "Xuanxuan, I'm going to use my ultimate on you"—playing with abstract concepts—would also die in the Tower of Desire.

Fortunately, such situations are constantly decreasing.

The comprehensive qualifications of people entering the Tower of Desire are getting higher and higher because the competition is getting increasingly fierce.

They have more and more ways to please people, including but not limited to "How to quickly advance a relationship to the point of revealing one's weaknesses."

Today's Tower of Desire has a survival rate of almost one hundred percent.

But that is on the condition of being below the twentieth floor. Once you go above the twentieth floor, the difficulty increases crazily, and the conditions become increasingly harsh.

However, for the vast majority of people, the exploration volume of the first twenty floors is enough to cover their entire lives.

Wen Xishu is on the twenty-first floor; he can already feel the real difficulty of pleasing Jennifer.

Walking on the road to the slum area, Wen Xishu was thinking about how to proceed next.

Making Jennifer happy is easy.

Whether it is coaxing Jennifer or wooing Yulia, both can allow him to successfully complete the mission.

But in the end, he would only be able to take away the food for a "family of three" with the lowest completion rate.

That is not what Wen Xishu wants.

"The biggest difficulty of this mission is that no matter what, Jennifer's happiness will be wiped clean."

"Because before long, Jennifer will encounter a catastrophe; all current happiness is merely setting the stage for the misery that follows."

"All of this stems from Jack."

Wen Xishu is no pushover; he naturally thought of killing Jack in the Tower of Desire.

If there were no Jack, then shortly after, in that old building, all of Jennifer's attachments would be able to survive.

However, killing Jack is likely a more erroneous choice.

Jennifer cherishes Jack deeply in her heart; killing Jack would only cause the little girl unbearable pain.

The most critical point is that Mystery Jack actually has a necessity for existing.

Wen Xishu still remembers that sentence Jack said to Jennifer—

"Can you handle the world outside on your own? This is all just a beginning."

The world outside the old building will only be more dangerous. Jack is merely a boss in a certain area of the twenty-first floor.

There are countless existences of the same level in the Tower of Mystery.

"To survive in that world, Jennifer must possess a powerful backer."

"And it is worth noting that I saw two Jennifers in the game prompts."

"Desire Jennifer, Mystery Jennifer."

"If the two Jennifers are the same person... then why distinguish them so deliberately?"

"Is it merely because one Jennifer is in the Tower of Mystery and the other is in the Tower of Desire?"

Wen Xishu shook his head slightly.

"How stupid must the designers of the Three Towers game be to come up with such a superfluous setting?"

"Assuming there are other reasons—then for Desire Jennifer to become Mystery Jennifer, she must undergo some kind of process."

"By the same token, Jack is the same."

Intuition told Wen Xishu that the difference in Jennifer's prefixes is an extremely critical clue.

"In the Tower of Desire, Jack thinks he is going to die because he has stomach cancer."

"But in the Tower of Mystery, not only is he still alive, but after experiencing a desperate day, he even became Mystery Jack."

Walking on the street, Wen Xishu suddenly paused for a second; he felt he was about to find the key.

"To be backstabbed by a colleague, deceived by a friend, and loathed by the person one admires, then to turn dark and become ten times stronger, and then kill everyone—this is so unreasonably satisfying."

"If the world is so subjective, wouldn't it just become a misery-comparison contest?"

Regarding this insane world, people rarely think about why the world became like this.

Most people are still just adapting and surviving.

Wen Xishu is actually adapting too. But he feels that the appearance of the Tower of Mystery and Jack's transformation both need a reason.

Only by investigating this reason clearly can he decide what to do next.

……

……

Half an hour later, Wen Xishu arrived at the slum area.

Wen Xishu, who lived in Chongqing, always felt that the world on the internet was just a peacock spreading its tail.

Behind the beautiful feathers is an entirely different scene.

It is just like a subway passing through buildings, where on the left are modern attractions that internet celebrities scramble to take photos of, and on the right is a decaying, dilapidated building that looks like it belongs to the last century.

You can certainly say that this has a strong old Chongqing atmosphere, that it is very nostalgic.

But that must be a condescending attitude. When that old, musty air envelops you, you will only want to escape.

Moen City is the same; its prosperous CBD area makes people intoxicated, but it also has impoverished areas.

Wen Xishu was right at the entrance of that old building.

In the Tower of Desire world, this building has nothing strange about it. It looks like a huge, dust-covered, decaying tomb.

At this moment, Jack had just returned to his room, preparing to write something to show that at the end of his life, he longed to be a good person.

By observing the medical report in Jack's hand, Wen Xishu inferred the time node:

"Next, Jack will go to apologize to Remian, but will soon discover that Remian is incorrigible."

"Subsequently, he will experience the brutal truth-bomb from his good friend Anderson."

"Finally, he will go to beg Yulia to let Jennifer watch his performance, but he will also fail."

"Is it the special effect of the invitation letter? This is truly a... node that can change everything."

(End of chapter)