Chapter 103: The Conclusion of the Museum Mission

The eleventh stage.

The item Wen Xishu used in this stage was a grappling hook, an object from 4-27. It was clearly difficult to kill one hundred high-level normal-type monsters with this item.

However, Wen Xishu still used the grappling hook to hoist himself and Zheng Zai high into the air.

The grappling hook's ability was well-suited for completing certain stunt challenges; its effect was a one-hundred-percent success rate for hooking onto things, making it a conceptual-type item.

Even if you threw it toward the sky, it would create a point of force out of thin air. With this thing, unless the space was completely sealed, you could climb out even if you fell into a bottomless abyss.

Wen Xishu mused that when Ding Dong designed this, he might have considered that the group would need to trek across mountains and rivers in the future, requiring a grappling hook to traverse special terrain.

The eleventh stage was the same; Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai used the grappling hook to hang high in the air, occupying a favorable position, which allowed the item to play a major role in the process of killing enemies.

Next, Wen Xishu used his gloves to directly erase the rare-type, elite-type, and even leader-level monsters created by Ding Dong.

Only the normal-type monsters remained, allowing Zheng Zai to complete one hundred effective kills.

There was nothing worth mentioning about the combat in this stage, but Wen Xishu discovered that the setting of this stage was very special.

The setting of this stage was a research institute on an island.

Anyone else would only think that the setting of each stage was just a change of location to kill monsters. But Wen Xishu thought in terms of connections.

"These places must all be places Ding Dong has been. This should be where he stayed with that Professor Jin when he was a child."

"How strange. Does this mean that this place has actually fallen? The previous settings aren't important, because Ding Dong didn't mention them much."

"But this setting, when Ding Dong talked about his past, was specifically mentioned: the research institute on the island."

"And as the person who created the stages, although he designed them according to the plan I proposed, he knew what would happen here later."

"In my conversations with Ding Dong, he knew my friends would come here, so is he leaving behind some information?"

The monsters were not important. Wen Xishu was certain of one thing: if he were Ding Dong, he would definitely assume that "Airplane" could obtain the Phoenix Gloves. Then all the monsters would be meaningless.

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu thought of another question:

"This kind of island should be a place far from war. At least... the Twelve Constellations never found this place. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Ding Dong and Professor Jin to survive here for over a decade."

"Then how did this place fall? I have always had a doubt: what is the reason humans turn into normal-types?"

"As of now, the ones I have saved—Jack, Jennifer, Tang Rui, the An brothers—are all future 'leaders,' and An Rong was not saved by me; he is a future 'dominator'."

"But there are still a large number of people in this world who do not possess supernatural aptitude; they must have turned into normal-types."

"This is very strange. Is it some kind of disease? But how could this disease spread to an island without a port or an airport?"

In Wen Xishu's past life, there was a game called Plague Inc., where Greenland, which had no airport, was often teased by players as the final pure land, a sanctuary, and so on.

This confirmed that places humans could not reach were also unreachable by strife and disaster.

"Airborne? Or is it simply a rule? After the apocalypse descended, was it some kind of rule that turned humans into normal-types?"

There were more and more puzzles regarding the apocalypse, and Wen Xishu developed a very strong interest. However, he had no way to explore the details of the scene.

Because Zheng Zai's performance was as stable as ever, he ended this stage quickly.

The eleventh stage was successfully cleared; at this time, Wang Ying was still in the ninth stage.

Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai headed very briskly to 4-21 and found the final item to be appraised: a soccer ball.

The pattern on the surface of the soccer ball was the standard alternating black and white hexagons.

However, Wen Xishu was able to see some very interesting notes.

[Kill, ball, trajectory.]

Under the influence of the garbled text, only four characters could be distinguished, but Wen Xishu had already sensed the wonderful use of this ball.

This could already be considered a standard Tower-Slaying item. The two did not hesitate and decisively appraised the ball. At the same time, they walked directly out of the room and began the usage phase.

Wen Xishu was very curious: if the research institute was only the penultimate stage, what was the setting of the final stage?

Thinking about it now, in the original hint, the reason Yuliya abandoned Jennifer was because there was only one "boarding quota" left.

He wondered, could it have something to do with the so-called "Ark"?

This time, Wen Xishu guessed wrong.

The twelfth stage.

An endless grassland, low-hanging white clouds, gentle sunlight; on the hillside stood a Gothic-style church, which was not entirely a church, but also an orphanage.

At the foot of the mountain lay a huge lake, the surface like a mirror, and on the other side of the lake, at the foot of a massive mountain range, sat a small town that did not look very populous.

This was the setting of the final stage, completely different from the Ark and the ocean Wen Xishu had imagined. This stage's setting actually had a feeling of a secluded paradise. The air here was sweet.

Wen Xishu suddenly realized—the stage settings were actually reversed. Perhaps everything was reversed.

The first setting was a ruined city; that might instead be the last place Ding Dong had visited later.

The second setting was a subway station; perhaps it was the first setting reached by train.

The fourth stage was a cross-sea bridge; perhaps that setting was related to the Ark. The fifth stage was a cruise ship; it should have been the way to reach a certain seaside city by cruise ship.

Thinking of this order, Wen Xishu realized that the later the stage, the younger Ding Dong was.

The research institute corresponded to Ding Dong's childhood, while the ruined city was when Ding Dong was leading Grandma Wu and the others to find a certain pure land.

Then the twelfth stage, this small town between the grassland and the blue sky, as well as the church and orphanage on the hillside... did it correspond to when Ding Dong was still a young child?

A flock of sheep suddenly appeared in the sky.

Yes, a flock of sheep in the sky. They were densely packed and floating very low, their cotton-like bodies stacked together, like a mass of wriggling clouds.

Zheng Zai and Wen Xishu were both startled. Zheng Zai thought this was too damn weird:

"Brother Wen, what is this situation? Are these normal-types?"

Wen Xishu shook his head: "I'm not sure, but these sheep don't seem to have any hostility?"

The "cloud" formed by the flock of sheep drifted over their heads. They looked very miserable, as if they wanted to eat grass, but because they were floating in the sky, they couldn't reach it.

The flock of sheep was the first weird point Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai saw. The second weird point... the massive mountain range opened its eyes.

The ground began to shake, the clouds in the sky were slowly torn apart by some force, and the mirror-like calm lake began to ripple with layers of waves, like the fine wrinkles on an old man's face.

All of this stemmed from the fact that the massive mountain range, which spanned one-third of people's field of vision, had opened its eyes.

Its eyeballs were dark green; after blinking twice, they slowly closed again.

The third weird point appeared: the people in the small town were all draped in white bedsheets, their heads covered, and began to walk in groups toward the lake like corpses driven by a corpse-driver.

Splash, the first person jumped into the lake. Although the lake water had some ripples, the person in the water clearly did not struggle. Immediately after, the second person also jumped into the lake.

This group of people was committing suicide.

The fourth weird point: two of the buildings in the Gothic-style church on the hillside began to rise continuously, at an extremely fast speed, and before long, they were towering into the clouds.

There was another building that was rising bit by bit; the speed was much slower, but it was also constantly getting taller.

Chanting like Sanskrit came from the church, mixed with the crying and laughter of children.

For some reason, these weird places gave Zheng Zai goosebumps; he was a little scared.

Only at this moment did the monsters begin to appear. The dominator-level monster was an old man wearing a black robe, followed by countless sculptures wearing iron armor.

Wen Xishu could not judge what level these sculptures were either.

Zheng Zai only felt that the atmosphere of this stage was very eerie.

Wen Xishu snapped his fingers, and the black-robed old man was directly erased.

This made him feel a little more at ease:

"Old Zheng, don't panic. This stage is just a simulation of a scene. Those weird elements, to put it bluntly, are all like textures in a game; they are just information, not problems we need to solve."

Zheng Zai nodded. The final boss was killed instantly at the start... what else did he have to be afraid of?

All the fear in his heart vanished with that snap of the fingers. All fear stems from a lack of firepower, and Brother Wen now felt to him like the god who defined firepower.

After Brother Wen killed the final boss, Zheng Zai only felt that the eyes of the great mountain were bright and clear, and the flock of sheep in the sky were soft and fluffy.

Subsequently, under the control of Wen Xishu's controller... Zheng Zai kicked the killer soccer ball hard.

This was a true combat item. Depending on the player's foot strength, point of impact, and kicking posture, it would release various "bullets."

Under the control of the controller, Zheng Zai performed a tornado shot; the soccer ball flew toward the armored sculptures in a super-fast rotating trajectory, like a tornado destroying a parking lot.

After completing fifteen kills, the soccer ball magically returned to the starting point.

Wen Xishu found it very interesting, so he manipulated the controller to have Zheng Zai use the instep to kick a straight ball.

This time, the soccer ball was like a running tiger, charging forward and crushing the enemies in a line, like a bowling ball hitting pins.

"Brother Wen, this thing feels even more ruthless than a chainsaw. It's a long-range weapon!"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"The compass guides me to the items most suitable for dealing with certain stages, so if we follow the order of the stages, then the items are also constantly getting stronger, or rather, constantly becoming more suitable for us."

Next, under Wen Xishu's control, Zheng Zai kicked out a tornado shot, a tiger shot, a crescent banana shot that could cut enemies in half like a swordsman drawing a blade, and a jumping shot that could bounce continuously between enemies.

Many years ago, Wen Xishu had heard a comedy king surnamed Zhou say that combining soccer with kung fu had great potential. At the same time, others said that kung fu was a killing technique, determining both superiority and life and death.

So according to the equation, does combining soccer and killing techniques have potential? Of course it does.

Among all the combat items, this ball became Wen Xishu's favorite. Under several types of powerful shots, the twelfth stage finally ended.

The bells in the church rang, and the laughter and wailing of the children all stopped.

Wen Xishu looked around; he really couldn't recognize where this was. After all, he was indeed not very familiar with the Three-Tower World, but he remembered this scene.

The huge lake surface, like a mirror when still, like an old man's face when rippling. The mountain range opening its eyes, the church ascending to heaven, the crowd jumping into the lake in groups to commit suicide, the flock of sheep in the sky.

Wen Xishu kept all these elements in his mind, thinking that perhaps in the future, he would get some clues somewhere, or be able to find answers from Hercules, Lyra, Monoceros, or Canis Major.

The fourth floor of the hospital.

When Wang Ying returned, he also noticed the image on the TV; the weird scene also made him feel uneasy.

But he had thought this was the tenth stage, and it wasn't until Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai returned, and a new prompt appeared, that Wang Ying suddenly realized these two monsters had cleared all the remaining stages in one go while he was busy with the sixth and ninth stages.

[You have completed the challenges of all stages, proving your profound understanding of the museum owner and your sufficiently precise judgment. Next, the usage restrictions on the identified items will be lifted. Anyone who participated in more than three identifications during this process, or completed one hundred kills in a single identification, may choose one item you have identified as an extra reward for this mission.]

Note 1: If you fail to leave the hospital successfully, it will still be considered a mission failure, and the items will be forcibly returned to the museum. After the mission is successfully completed, all memories regarding the functions of the items will be forcibly erased.

Note 2: Items brought out this time cannot be traded. However, they may be temporarily shared under special circumstances.]

As soon as this prompt appeared, some were happy while others were worried.

Wen Xishu remembered that it was stated at the beginning of the mission introduction that memories would be altered after clearing the stages. Now he understood.

This museum is either influenced by the abilities of the Three Towers Master or the abilities of Ding Dong... in any case, there is an anti-walkthrough mechanism in place.

Wang Ying stood frozen in place; no matter how much he cared about his reputation or how excessive his pride was, facing the performance of Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai, who had essentially carried him to victory, he had to be convinced:

"Brother Wen, Brother Zheng, I truly never expected you two to have such monstrous abilities. My eyes were blind; I actually thought I was qualified to be your captain."

"I really lacked the insight."

Wang Ying was sincere. He wasn't a particularly arrogant person, but it was very difficult for anyone to make him truly convinced.

When he came out, he happened to see Zheng Zai unleash a kick that instantly killed over a dozen monsters.

He did not know that Wen Xishu’s tenth and eleventh stages were cleared by directly calling down divine punishment, so in his eyes, Zheng Zai had astonishing combat ability, and Wen Xishu had astonishing insight.

The abilities of these two were clearly a tier above his own.

Wen Xishu smiled:

"Captain Wang, you are too kind. I also thank you for your contributions in the first, fifth, sixth, and ninth stages. You actually participated in quite a few stages yourself. I hope you can choose an item that satisfies you; you will become stronger when exploring the Strange Tower in the future."

Aspasia suddenly spoke up at this moment:

"What does this final prompt mean? By the way, is the mission over? Does this final prompt mean each of us can take one item away? 'If you fail to leave the hospital successfully, it will still be considered a mission failure'... what is that talking about?"

Wen Xishu did not answer such a stupid question.

It was Zheng Zai who answered, and Zheng Zai said:

"My understanding is this: the mission is over, the museum mission is over, but our survival mission has not ended. The place we are in is likely not very safe."

"Originally, there was a rule here: identification of items was divided into an item function exploration phase and an item usage phase."

"The usage phase carries danger, so... the monsters or various strange creatures near the hospital did not approach us. They knew they couldn't snatch the things here."

"Or rather, they snatched a portion of the items, which led to this rule. This museum should be waiting for the fated people mentioned in our mission introduction."

"So after some items were snatched, the museum activated its defense system. Only by being familiar enough with the items here, or truly understanding the designer's intent, can one shut down the defense system."

"The good news is that we managed to do it, the defense system is shut down, and now we can freely identify items and take one away."

"The bad news is that after shutting down the defense system, the monsters might also smell us and come running... we are going to experience a fierce battle!"

Having gone through two missions with Wen Xishu, Zheng Zai’s analytical ability had improved significantly.

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Correct, Old Zheng is absolutely right. Everyone, let’s try our best to pick a weapon capable of combat. Remember what was said at the start of the mission?"

"In this stage, the composition of our magic resistance has changed; our resistance to rules has increased, while our ability to interpret items has decreased."

"This means that in this stage, magic resistance won't let monsters or some kind of rule-based curse kill us easily. It's just that it's very difficult for us to interpret items."

"Moving forward, we won't be instantly killed by monsters due to low magic resistance, but the monsters themselves are likely quite powerful."

"In this mission, we have to face not only the various strange puzzles of the Strange Tower but also combat like that in the Slaughter Tower. What was on the television was a drill; what follows is actual combat."

Zheng Zai really wanted to retort: the stuff on the television was also actual combat; people die there.

Aspasia said:

"Anyone who participated in more than three identifications, or completed one hundred kills in a single identification, can choose an item... does this mean I cannot choose an item?"

Wang Ying said:

"It seems that way. Aspasia, you should have identified with me."

Aspasia was somewhat angry:

"What kind of lousy rule is this? Why didn't you explain it clearly at the beginning!"

Wen Xishu was too lazy to explain to the dead, so it was Zheng Zai who explained:

"If the rules were written clearly, that wouldn't be called rules; that would be called a walkthrough. We also discovered during the process of identifying items that the museum owner was encouraging us to identify items based on the rules."

"Since there is an encouragement mechanism, naturally there is also... a punishment mechanism for those who are timid."

Zheng Zai now understood why Brother Wen had hostility toward Aspasia. He truly did not like such people.

Or perhaps he didn't dislike her originally, but he had started to align his actions and thinking with Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu discovered that Old Zheng was indeed very talented, and one thing he said was very correct.

Aspasia’s face turned pale because, at this moment, she heard the wailing of a woman in the distance.

It was a strange, bone-chilling wail.

The monsters were coming.

Wen Xishu said:

"Alright, let's choose our items."

Wen Xishu had already started thinking about what to choose.

Unlike the others, Wen Xishu had actually received an extra mission prompt. As the person with the best performance in the entire mission, and as a fated person, Wen Xishu’s prompt was as follows.

[He has fulfilled his promise to you, preserving this museum in a place that should have been abandoned. You have gained much in this mission. He hopes you can bring news regarding other "brothers and sisters" soon.

Obtained item — "Ding Dong’s Dedicated Reply Envelope". This item does not occupy an item slot and will be generated at fixed intervals. Ensure you can always tell him some information after encountering his "brothers and sisters". If you encounter his "brothers and sisters" in a mission, please remember to write a letter using this envelope and have the guide send it out.]

[You are the best performer among all identifiers in this mission, and you will be able to take away one extra item. Given your excellent performance when using the "Best Friend Handle", you may take this item away, and it will not consume your item carrying capacity. Current number of items that can be taken: 2.]

[Note: If other Tower Climbers meet the standard for carrying items and leave this mission with an item, it will correspondingly offset a portion of the regular rewards for this mission.

If a Tower Climber’s activity level in this mission is insufficient, they will not receive any other regular rewards after carrying an item. Conversely, if a Tower Climber’s performance is extremely excellent, they will still be given a portion of the regular rewards as a supplement even after the offset.]

The information Wen Xishu obtained was quite extensive.

First, counting the Best Friend Handle, Wen Xishu could take away three items. Others could only take away one.

Second, this mission had a scoring mechanism. Mission rewards were divided into museum rewards and regular mission rewards.

Museum rewards were the items after identification; regular rewards were the material rewards and facility rewards for completion.

If the performance was too poor, those who took away one item would not receive regular rewards.

However, the benefit was that as long as one met the standard for taking away an item, no matter how poor the performance was, one could always take away one item.

Of course, Wen Xishu believed he would definitely be able to obtain sufficient regular rewards.

Now, for him, the most difficult challenge of this mission had begun — the choice.

He started to struggle: which two should he choose?

He wanted the chainsaw and the ball, but the grappling hook seemed good too. And the Adventure Wine Glass was definitely a powerful tool for clearing stages in the future.

If items could be traded, Wen Xishu could have Zheng Zai sacrifice his choice, which would give him three opportunities.

Finally, Wen Xishu said:

"Old Zheng, what do you plan to choose?"

Wen Xishu decided to let Zheng Zai choose first, and Zheng Zai was flattered:

"Ah... Brother, I choose first?"

At this time, Zheng Zai and Wang Ying had actually both tacitly agreed that all spoils should be chosen first by the person with the highest contribution.

Wen Xishu said:

"Of course, without you, I wouldn't have been able to clear the stages on my own."

Zheng Zai felt a warmth in his heart:

"Then I will choose this."

Zheng Zai pointed to the chainsaw. He primarily considered safety issues, and in his current experience, Zheng Zai thought the handle was the strongest tool. But the handle didn't count toward the carrying limit, and others couldn't use it; only Brother Wen could use it so brilliantly.

So Zheng Zai chose the chainsaw; this fairytale-style chainsaw was actually very violent.

Soap bubbles could control, the chainsaw itself could output damage, the little pink horse could add status effects, and the candy could provide endurance and recovery.

Except for the slightly strange art style, there was simply no more comprehensive weapon.

Wen Xishu said:

"There are thirty items in total, and we haven't identified some of them yet. Don't you want to choose more?"

Zheng Zai shook his head:

"This is it."

The idea of the "King of Pretending" using a chainsaw was ultimately dashed; unless it was a special state like a team, others couldn't use this chainsaw. Wen Xishu said:

"Your iron mask makes your whole style look fierce, which doesn't match the style of the chainsaw, but... as long as you like it."

Since the chainsaw was chosen by Zheng Zai, there was one less thing for Wen Xishu to struggle with; he ultimately chose the Adventure Wine Glass and the Murderous Soccer Ball.

He didn't choose the grappling hook because Wen Xishu believed that with his ability, comparable to the master assassin Ezio, he could actually handle various climbing difficulties.

With the handle, the chainsaw, and the gloves, Wen Xishu was confident he could leave this place.

At this moment, the most anxious one was naturally Aspasia:

"Eagle... you, you will protect me, right?"

Aspasia could feel that Zheng Zai was the most well-intentioned person, while Wen Xishu was someone who held malice toward her.

But Zheng Zai would not deliberately save her; the only one she could ask for help was Wang Ying.

Wang Ying nodded:

"Don't worry, we are both from the Gambling Stone Society; I will definitely protect you."

Aspasia felt slightly more at ease.

After Wang Ying finished speaking, he looked at Wen Xishu:

"Brother Wen, what items do you think I should choose? I can help you out with auxiliary items like a desk lamp or glasses; I can use those too."

"Or if you think I need to use items suitable for combat and charge to the front, I will charge to the front."

Wen Xishu did not expect that the speed-run of the twelve levels would have such a huge impact on Wang Ying, making him become so cooperative. It seems Wang Ying must have encountered quite a bit of trouble in the ninth level and felt the difficulty of clearing the level firsthand.

Wen Xishu said:

"We don't know the strength of the monsters outside, so you should still choose an item that can take into account your own survival and has combat attributes."

Wang Ying said:

"In that case, I'll choose the vacuum cleaner. If it can absorb attributes and various status effects, I can charge to the front."

Wen Xishu nodded.

Actually, Wen Xishu had another combat ability: Weird Sequence 37, Spirit Barrage.

Besides gathering information, Spirit Barrage actually had another function—inner thoughts would materialize at certain moments, and this effect was considered a summoning effect.

Moreover, he could control the materialized barrage by consuming a certain special energy.

Wen Xishu had seen the Weird Jack use this move in Jack's Weird Building. Those dense barrages had directly materialized.

It was like some kind of resentment.

It was just that Wen Xishu had never known how to use it. Even now, he had not fully developed all the abilities of the sequence.

Zheng Zai was holding the chainsaw, Wang Ying was holding the vacuum cleaner, Wen Xishu was stepping on the ball, wearing gloves and holding the controller, with the wine glass put away.

Wen Xishu had obtained the optimal solution by relying on the Luo Pan, but Zheng Zai and Wang Ying ought to have identified a few more items.

It was just that they had already entered a state of readiness for battle, the two of them standing left and right, shielding Wen Xishu and Aspasia behind them.

The reason for this was that they had already sensed... the threat coming from outside the building.

That weird, creepy, soft laughter had already arrived. This kind of sound usually only appeared in horror movies, like a voice filled with resentment softly chuckling in one's ear in an extremely quiet environment.

Aspasia looked back, but did not discover anyone.

Ending the mission was simple: first go downstairs, then leave the hospital. All four people had now entered a state of alert and began walking toward the lower floor.

The moment footsteps echoed in the hallway, that soft laughter became sharp.

The third floor; just as he arrived at the stairwell of the third floor, Wen Xishu felt a chill.

A long-haired woman wearing a striped hospital gown stained red with blood stared fixedly at Wen Xishu and his group with a spiteful and greedy gaze.

Subsequently, bloody footprints appeared on the ceiling.

The battle began.

A monster with invisibility abilities appeared; if not for the bloody footprints left behind, it would have been impossible to tell where it was.

However, Wen Xishu did not warn the others to deal with the invisible monster crawling upside down on the ceiling, but instead manipulated the controller to have Zheng Zai deliver a Tiger Shot at the long-haired woman.

The ball shot out in a straight line, piercing through the female ghost like a laser cannon.

After a shrill scream, the long-haired woman fell to the ground.

The roars of countless monsters appeared outside the building, and in the wards on the third floor, dozens of high-level normal-type monsters wearing hospital gowns and holding various items suddenly surged out.

Except for still having human silhouettes, one could almost no longer see any human characteristics.

Many parts of these monsters' bodies had begun to twist and mutate; some had tentacles growing all over their hands, some had mouths full of sharp teeth on their chests, and others had bodies wrapped in disgusting tumors.

They were all still wearing hospital gowns, clearly having once been patients here.

These monsters were awakened by the long-haired woman's scream and began to charge madly toward Wen Xishu and the others. The ball instantly returned to Wen Xishu's feet, but this time Wen Xishu did not manipulate Zheng Zai to kick the ball; instead, he let Zheng Zai and Wang Ying, one wielding a chainsaw and the other a vacuum cleaner, begin to block the monsters.

At the same time, Wen Xishu snapped his fingers.

Snap, all the charging monsters were stunned for an instant; no matter what kind of abilities the items in their hands had, at this moment, they all turned into clay.

The items in the hands of these monsters had originally come from the museum.

However, there was one item Wen Xishu deliberately did not destroy: the invisible hospital gown.

It was precisely because it was wearing the invisible hospital gown that the monster that had been crawling upside down on the ceiling like a spider could silently arrive behind Wen Xishu and Aspasia.

At this moment in the hallway, Wang Ying and Zheng Zai were like a gate, blocking the other charging monsters.

And that monster wearing the invisible hospital gown instantly extended a proboscis that looked like a mosquito's and pierced into the neck of Aspasia, the person standing furthest back.

As the old saying goes, the bigger the mosquito, the more poisonous it is; if a mountain mosquito bites a person, it leaves a huge welt.

Now, what Aspasia was facing was a "mosquito" as huge as a person. Although Wen Xishu didn't know why this normal-type monster's image would be so similar to a mosquito...

But he only felt that this mosquito was very good at its job; this mosquito was a typical monster that liked to ambush enemies.

Wen Xishu deliberately shouted half a beat late:

"Aspasia! Watch out!"

He snapped his fingers, turning the hospital gown into clay, and at the same time flicked his toe to pop the ball into a high-speed shot.

The soccer ball, moving at the speed of sound, blew the head off the monster behind Aspasia with a bang.

However, Aspasia could no longer be saved, because Wen Xishu had not killed the mosquito at the first opportunity.

At this moment, although Aspasia had the monster behind her blown up by Wen Xishu's ball... her body had already been sucked dry in the blink of an eye.

Her body became withered, her skin wrinkled, and her originally exotic face began to sink and become incomparably ugly.

The bigger the mosquito, the more deadly; Wen Xishu silently noted this truth.

Wang Ying looked back, his eyes instantly bloodshot:

"Aspasia! Damn it, I'm going to kill these monsters!"

Although he had been a little dissatisfied with Aspasia, Wang Ying at least acknowledged that she was a member of the Stone Gambling Association.

Wang Ying was furious, not expecting to be ambushed by a monster.

Before Aspasia's withered husk hit the ground, her last words were:

"Eagle... save me."

However, she did not make a sound; she no longer possessed the ability to make a sound.

Before dying, Aspasia's eyeballs shifted upward and saw Wen Xishu's calm face.

If she still had the strength, she would definitely have felt fear, but now, she didn't even have the strength to feel fear.

Aspasia was dead, dead in an exceptionally ugly way.

Wang Ying was angry to the extreme. Wen Xishu also feigned sadness, manipulating Zheng Zai to swing the chainsaw and slash out a handful of rainbow candies.

Although the monsters in the hospital were incredibly bizarre, under the bloody battle of Wang Ying, who had absorbed enough attributes with the vacuum cleaner, and Zheng Zai, whose strength was bolstered by the controller... the three of them still arrived outside the Zhuyuan Force building without any danger.

The already twisted doctors, nurses, and patients were dense, and it was impossible to tell how many normal-type and rare-type monsters were mixed among them.

Some nurses' heads were already surrounded by rotting, purple-colored flesh, like a humanoid flower made of rotten meat petals.

Other doctors had very long tongues, with tongues over ten meters long constantly wriggling on the ground.

The shapes of these monsters were more outrageous than the last. If the scene weren't so dangerous, Wen Xishu would really have liked to study carefully what kind of rules caused the differences in their mutations.

Was it everyone's different past? Different genes? Or was it that the evolution of normal-type monsters was just full of uncontrollable factors?

Outside the Zhuyuan Force was a garden for resting; crossing the garden led to the outpatient building.

Only by leaving the outpatient building could the mission end.

Wang Ying's eyes were bloodshot from killing, and the vacuum cleaner began to madly absorb attributes and then transfer them to him.

Due to the limitations of his own body, the attributes Wang Ying absorbed had reached their limit, and his body began to show cracks.

If not for the rainbow candies and the little pink horse constantly healing him, Wang Ying would have long since died from having his attributes burst his body.

This also let Wen Xishu see the limitations of this vacuum cleaner. Even though Wang Ying had absorbed to the limit and the vacuum cleaner had accumulated attributes to the limit...

Wang Ying's performance was still not enough to cross the combat power tier and achieve effects comparable to "transformation" or "Kaio-ken."

"All the items in the early stages that are linked to attributes are actually meaningless. On the contrary, various functional items are more valuable. A level 5 orange item doesn't necessarily have higher attack power than a level 20 blue item..."

Wen Xishu analyzed various items while long-range shooting at the enemy's rear ranks.

Although his thoughts were like this, he still had to say that Wang Ying's performance at this moment had earned his approval.

Under Wang Ying's life-or-death charge, the three of them indeed saw hope of leaving.

Wang Ying was incomparably brave, and Zheng Zai... was cute and innocent.

Zheng Zai actually also wanted to be covered in blood and then swing the chainsaw to let out a terrifying roar.

Although Zheng Zai had powerful abilities, under the boost of the controller, he was not at all inferior to the attribute-filled Wang Ying, but the style of the chainsaw really made Zheng Zai look like a slacker.

"We must hurry! Little brother, I feel that a terrifying guy has appeared."

In the hospital area, there actually existed elite-type monsters.

Facing an elite-type, Wang Ying and Zheng Zai had no chance of winning, and Wen Xishu was also clear on this point. His hand speed was constantly getting faster.

"You... where are you going? It's time to take your medicine, patients."

The human voice came from all directions.

The more powerful the monster, the closer it was to humans in terms of thinking. Elite-types above rare-types were the strongest below the leaders.

A small number of elite-types were even stronger than some leaders who had not yet fully developed their abilities.

The doctor wearing a white coat had a body like viscous liquid, dripping bit by bit.

Those dripping pieces of flesh began to drill into the ground; no one knew what would happen next.

Zheng Zai and Wang Ying were facing a formidable enemy, but Wen Xishu was very calm, only urging:

"Don't get bogged down in the fight, just run. If you clear a path, just keep running forward. Don't think about how to deal with it, just run."

According to the experience from the previous TV level, the more powerful the monster, the later it would make a move.

Wen Xishu always remembered one point—this was not the Slaughter Tower; if this were the Slaughter Tower, then his group would probably already be dead.

But this was the Weird Tower; everything here was a game, and all games conformed to the standards of the current level.

It made no sense for the eighth floor of the Weird Tower to make tower climbers face elite-types, even if they had obtained god-tier items.

Wen Xishu was not bluffed by the elite-type; he only knew one thing:

Killing the monsters is not the goal of the mission; escaping the hospital is the goal of the mission.

Therefore, Wen Xishu did not let Zheng Zai or Wang Ying linger in the fight, and the three began to run frantically. Through the efforts of Wang Ying and Zheng Zai, the three indeed carved out a path.

"Don't look back, don't hesitate, just run!"

Their correct and decisive reaction allowed the three to finally step out of the hospital gates.

The moment their figures left the gates, countless sticky arms emerged from deep within the ground inside the hospital.

At the same time, the notification that the mission was complete finally appeared.

[Congratulations, you have completed the challenges of all scenes in the Wonder Museum mission and are about to return to the Guide to receive your rating and rewards for this mission.]

(End of chapter)