Chapter 105: Mr. Jin's Grandson

Wen Xishu arrived at the dormitory entrance. He did not enter, because at that moment, a sound emanated from within that nearly caused him to lose his composure.

"Wow, Brother Nisen, the way you speak is truly... um, very interesting! Every single word was pronounced correctly!"

At first, Nisen didn't think there was anything wrong with this compliment.

"Right, right! Bro, you really are my talent scout! I can dance too! Jin, let me show you my dance technique! Yo, these are my dance steps, I'm the coolest in the world!"

Nisen initiated his dance of heaven.

"My goodness, Brother Nisen, when you dance, your limbs are all grown in exactly the right places! Oh, look at these steps, they are just like dance steps!"

This time... Nisen clearly felt that something was not quite right.

But looking at the sincerity and joy on the newcomer's face, Nisen still said:

"Welcome! Jin, let me tell you, our dormitory is full of talent, and Yueyun is also very impressive."

"Wow, Brother Nisen, you are truly so friendly. You actually introduced another roommate to me."

"Uh... this is actually quite normal."

"Wow, Brother Nisen, you are simply too humble!"

"Not at all, not at all."

"Wow..."

The child in the room kept starting sentences with "Wow, Brother Nisen, you are simply xxx," but they were all awkward compliments.

Wen Xishu had already guessed who this child was.

Before starting the mission to enter the Tower of Deception, Wen Xishu had heard Albert say that a transfer student named Little Jin would be arriving at the Slaughter Tower Academy soon. Albert had arranged for him to stay in his dormitory.

His trait was that he loved to compliment people and was easy to get along with, but his way of complimenting could give someone a cerebral hemorrhage.

Nisen suddenly stopped talking, looking at Little Jin with a strange expression.

Only then did Wen Xishu knock on the door.

"Wen! You're finally back. Let me introduce you, this is our new roommate, Little Jin!" Nisen opened the door for Wen Xishu very enthusiastically and introduced the new roommate.

"Wow, you must be the Brother Wen Xun that Brother Nisen mentioned. Hello, Brother Wen, my name is Little Jin. Brother Wen, you look so handsome, your eyes are above your nose, and your mouth is below your nose!" Little Jin revealed a very friendly smile.

Wen Xishu noticed that Yueyun was wearing headphones and reading a textbook, the content of which was "Combat Techniques for Fighting Giant Objects in the Slaughter Tower," written by an expert from the Xun family.

The headphones were standard noise-canceling ones, clearly...

Yueyun had already been tormented by Little Jin's perverse desire to compliment.

"Mm, I am Wen Xun. Little Jin, welcome here. You also look quite good; your height is over one meter, you have eyes where eyes should be, and a mouth where a mouth should be."

"Wow, Brother Wen, thank you for the compliment, I feel so happy all over!"

[Hahahaha, I got complimented too!]

The mental barrage made Wen Xishu want to touch it, but after thinking about it, he decided it was better not to expose himself.

However, Little Jin's barrage was enough to show that this child just really didn't know how to compliment people. But he was indeed trying to integrate into the new environment through the friendly act of complimenting.

Little Jin was indeed quite handsome, but in a somewhat wild way. He wasn't tall, probably just over one meter five, but not because he could only grow that tall, but because he was clearly still quite young.

The rule that one must be eighteen to enter the Three Towers Academy did not apply to a very small number of people. Little Jin was clearly not yet eighteen.

However, Nisen and Yueyun had both been fooled, thinking Little Jin was just "petite."

Wen Xishu could see that Little Jin's age was off, but he didn't care; after all, this was someone Albert had specifically named to be squeezed in.

He was more curious about how Little Jin's behavior of awkward complimenting had been cultivated.

Wen Xishu said:

"Little Jin, can you tell us about your family? I just feel that you are a bit different from us three children from poor families."

Little Jin shook his head:

"Ah, I promised Grandpa that I couldn't say."

Wen Xishu was now somewhat sensitive to the surname Jin. First, there was that day on the phone when Albert had lost his temper at someone named Old Jin.

Then, in the Tower of Desire, he learned from Ding Dong that the person who had shown him great kindness when he was young was a Professor Jin.

Now, Albert had arranged a roommate for him named Little Jin.

"What is your name?" Wen Xishu asked.

"Jin Shan," Little Jin replied.

Wen Xishu immediately felt the urge to make a snide remark; this was truly a name that looked like two characters on the surface, but actually felt like three.

"Good name. Anyway, welcome."

Little Jin was also very interested in Wen Xishu:

"Brother Wen, I heard Brother Yun and Brother Nisen say earlier that you are the most mysterious person in our dormitory. Wow, that's amazing, tell me about it, did you go climbing the tower secretly?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"I did go climb the tower."

"Wow, climbing the tower at such a young age, that's so amazing..."

"Stop, if you keep talking like that—"

"Wow, Brother Wen, you have such an attitude!"

Wen Xishu began to feel the pressure. He realized that Yueyun was right to ignore Little Jin and just read his book.

But fortunately, Little Jin also sensed the sharpness in Wen Xishu's eyes, so he had to laugh it off:

"Ah, sorry, sorry. Grandpa told me since I was little that I must discover other people's strengths, and not think that just because I am his grandson, I can be arrogant..."

Little Jin looked apologetic, then said:

"Brother Wen, Brother Yun, Brother Nisen, do you have any plans to climb the tower recently?"

Nisen was interested in this topic and immediately leaned over:

"Bro, we definitely do!"

Clearly, things like headphones couldn't block a gossiping heart. When a topic of interest appeared, even the best noise-canceling headphones were useless. Yueyun said:

"When? Let's go together, but do you have a way to get the items needed to form a team?"

Nisen immediately wilted:

"That stuff is too rare. Most people can't rely on it to form teams freely."

"The school only arranges for multiple teachers and a few students with good aptitude to go together when teachers and students go on missions together for those Slaughter Tower guidance classes."

"For example, Gomban Yoshiki. Last time, neither Little Yun nor I got that treatment. It seemed like three teachers went with him."

Wen Xishu said:

"Are you talking about the Comrade Wristbands?"

Nisen nodded:

"Wen, you've heard of them too!"

Wen Xishu had some impression of them.

Back when he was in the rest area of the Tower of Desire, he met the couple Liu Ruyan and Ji Boda. They were able to team up and act together every time because they relied on the purple item "Mandarin Duck Lock."

It can be seen that in the Three Towers game, being able to travel to a place as a team is itself an extremely rare attribute.

Comrade Wristbands are naturally also very difficult to obtain.

Yueyun said:

"That thing, it is said that only people with great strength and tacit understanding as teammates can apply to use it. The few of us... I suppose we can only rely on luck."

Actually, Wen Xishu quite wanted one. He could ask Albert for one, but Albert was not currently present, and he didn't know how many the principal had.

Little Jin, on the other hand, was thinking that the name Gomban Yoshiki sounded a bit familiar. But after thinking for a while, he realized he really couldn't remember; he didn't know which small fry that was.

His attention shifted to the items:

"Does everyone want to climb the tower together? If everyone wants to, I can help!"

Wen Xishu was stunned, and Yueyun and Nisen also looked at Little Jin in surprise.

"You can help? Bro, that's a purple item, and there are four of us, so we would need two sets of purple items. Although your family might be very rich, you can't just brag about things like that. We should still work hard to become stronger so we can hit the road together later!" Nisen said.

Wen Xishu rubbed his forehead. There were more and more problematic people in the dormitory now. Not a single one had a normal style; why couldn't there be someone like him who was kind-hearted and spoke normally?

Little Jin wanted to start with a "Wow" and awkwardly compliment Nisen's awkward rhyme, but the spell was interrupted.

"You can get them?" Wen Xishu asked hurriedly.

Little Jin nodded:

"No problem, theoretically, as long as the bunker's inventory is sufficient, it's all possible!"

Yueyun felt something was wrong:

"The Material Department... wouldn't agree, would they?"

Little Jin shook his head:

"I'm not going through the Material Department. I'll ask my grandpa for them."

Nisen couldn't help but ask:

"Bro, is your grandpa that rich?"

Little Jin didn't know how to answer this question:

"It seems... it seems he is quite rich, but I've never seen where Grandpa uses money."

Wen Xishu was only certain of one thing: Little Jin's grandpa was the Old Jin whom the old principal Albert had roared at on the phone that day.

Little Jin refused to say, so his identity was likely not simple.

Wen Xishu said: "Fine, then you go get them. If we can really form a team, we can go tomorrow."

Little Jin was clearly very happy:

"No problem, wow, I used to go to the Slaughter Tower alone, but now I can go with everyone, it's too great!"

Yueyun said to Nisen:

"How many times have you been to the Slaughter Tower?"

"Ah... I forgot, but my progress is currently at the seventeenth floor." Xiao Jin remembered his grandfather saying not to show off how many times he had climbed the tower.

He thought about it; he wouldn't mention the number of times, just the floor level. To be safe, he lowered the floor level, so he settled on the seventeenth floor.

This number left Nisen and Yueyun Zhen stunned. Even Wen Xishu hadn't expected that Xiao Jin, who was clearly under eighteen... had actually climbed the tower alone to the seventeenth floor.

This number truly shocked all three of them.

Now, Wen Xishu seemed to understand a little why Xiao Jin's grandfather wanted Xiao Jin to learn how to compliment people. This was a true genius; Xiao Jin's grandfather's idea was likely that he didn't want Xiao Jin to be too arrogant.

Wen Xishu was only slightly surprised and didn't pay much attention to it. After all, he was a genius too.

But the shock in Yueyun's heart was far greater.

Even for Miyamoto Yoshi-ki, his current maximum limit had only reached the ninth floor. But Xiao Jin was at the seventeenth floor... what kind of concept was this?

Everyone started climbing the tower at eighteen, so how could the gap be so large?

He and Nisen, although their maximum level was the seventh floor, still had to honestly enter the tower many times to expand to levels above the seventh.

Yet Xiao Jin had already reached the seventeenth floor.

"I must work twice as hard... What am I doing? I was actually thinking about resting a bit more before climbing the tower... Damn it, there are so many monsters in this world; if I don't work hard, how will I surpass them?"

At this moment, the King of Pretension made up his mind: at the latest, he would enter the Slaughter Tower tomorrow.

Nisen was also surprised for a good while before saying:

"You're too strong, Jin! You really are too strong! If we form a team with you... will we be dragged by you to some dangerous levels?"

Unlike the Trick Tower, the first twenty floors of the Trick Tower couldn't be called dangerous. But the Slaughter Tower was life-threatening from the very first floor.

If several people wore the Comrades' Wristbands, it was indeed very likely that Xiao Jin would pull the initial levels of the other three people higher.

In the Trick Tower, you could rely on luck or wisdom to solve some problems. But in the Slaughter Tower, it was truly one level stronger than the next.

The smile on Xiao Jin's face was about to collapse; after all, his real level was more than just 17, and if he brought people to a place they couldn't handle at all, that would be a bit of a problem.

For some monsters, even killing just one could consume a huge amount of Slaughter Value, and after the twentieth floor, the number of such monsters increased significantly.

In other words, in the Slaughter Tower, not to mention whether novices could defeat the monsters, even if they could, some monsters would, due to unreasonable Slaughter Value settings...

...cause you to not dare to win, otherwise, if you were not careful, you would exceed the limit. Then it would be very likely you would remain in the Slaughter Tower forever.

This was also why there were three teachers giving Miyamoto Yoshi-ki practical guidance lessons for the Slaughter Tower.

In this way, three experienced teachers reduced the pressure significantly.

But Xiao Jin wasn't sure he could protect his three roommates.

So at this moment, Yueyun and Nisen, as normal people, both felt it was better not to stir up trouble.

There was a gap with a genius; one had to face the gap squarely, not avoid it, but also not be reckless.

But Wen Xishu didn't think so:

"Seems pretty exciting, too."

Yueyun looked at Wen Xishu, somewhat puzzled:

"Are you crazy?"

Nisen said:

"Xiao Jin is too strong, Wen. Let's not join in the fun."

Wen Xishu didn't actually want to join in the fun. But he remembered one thing:

The most efficient known method to obtain an inventory slot was to go to a tower system one had never been to before and challenge levels above one's own.

That was how he had obtained his four inventory slots at the very beginning.

Thinking about it this way, he felt it seemed worth a try.

"I actually think that if Xiao Jin is there, it wouldn't be bad for me to skip levels directly."

Xiao Jin waved his hands hurriedly:

"You can't, you can't... I'm not sure I can protect you all. I was just bragging... I forgot."

Xiao Jin forgot that he was different from others; according to the rules, one had to be eighteen to climb the tower, and he was someone who could ignore the rules.

Although he really wanted to climb the tower with his roommates to strengthen their bond, he couldn't drag them to a dangerous place.

But when he said this, it made Yueyun lose face to some extent. He was a student admitted to the Slaughter Tower Academy with a perfect score.

But in this dormitory, he was actually told by a roommate: I might not be able to carry you.

Although Xiao Jin's original intention was that his own ability wasn't enough to carry them, Yueyun's interpretation was that we are too weak and will drag you down.

Wen Xishu, however, felt that he could take a gamble.

Which time in the Trick Tower hadn't he risked his life? It wouldn't be impossible in the Slaughter Tower. It was a pity that Xiao Jin was only at the seventeenth floor; if he were at the twenty-first, there might be a chance to see Jennifer.

Wen Xishu actually had some confidence in his heart. The Scorpio Dagger, the Phoenix Gloves·Release, and the Pseudo-Fate Compass were all items common to the three towers.

Yes, these three orange items were not actually limited to the Trick Tower.

The Scorpio Dagger even intuitively possessed the Slaughter Tower attribute of increasing attack power.

Added to the safety net of the Inverted Dice, if he could use the Trick Tower rules, his own strength would be enough to kill many mid-tier normal-type monsters directly. Wen Xishu was eager to try:

"It's fine, just take care of yourself when the time comes. If you see that I really can't beat them, then you can help me."

Wen Xishu felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said, but in the eyes of Xiao Jin and the others, it was somewhat insane.

Xiao Jin really wanted to start with a "Wow" and compliment him, but then felt that this shouldn't be complimented.

Wen Xishu clearly saw some problems:

"Don't be wishy-washy. The topic of going to the Slaughter Tower was brought up by you, right? And you also took full responsibility, saying you could handle the Comrades' Wristbands, right!?"

"What's the matter? If we're really going, we, the weak ones, aren't afraid, so why are you, the strong one, afraid?"

"I just want to get a taste of challenging levels above my own. Xiao Jin, you aren't just bragging, are you? If we die, it won't be blamed on you. If you think I'm holding you back, don't worry about me; you can just kill your own monsters."

Nisen really wanted to say: Bro, don't be this crazy, I'm scared.

But Wen Xishu's momentum was there; there was a feeling that no rebuttal could be tolerated, so he could only look at Yueyun.

Who was Yueyun? He was the type of person who forced himself to compete with others.

As soon as Yueyun heard Wen Xishu's words, his tiger-like body shook instantly. He felt inspired.

That's right, being so conventional, how could he stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a genius? Yueyun's gaze became firm:

"Count me in!"

Suddenly having two people who weren't afraid of death, Xiao Jin also felt he shouldn't be coy:

"You guys... alright, let's do it! Brother Yun, Brother Wen, I will try my best to protect you!"

Nisen felt it was all over now; three out of four were going, so he couldn't not go.

But what Nisen, Yueyun, and even Xiao Jin did not expect was... this time, their journey to the Slaughter Tower would reach a level far higher than they had imagined.

(End of chapter)