Chapter 117: A Living Game

Wen Xishu needed to show a bit of class, because he felt he was being looked down upon by this game.

First, he chose the "Majority," and second, he had no hidden options. If not for the Three Phases of Power, he would be a total loser right now.

The blind man said very candidly: "You don't need to give me hope; I don't need that kind of thing, and you don't need to worry about me."

"Once the door opens, just go your own way."

Wen Xishu said:

"Do you have any assets in the Three Towers?"

The blind man was somewhat puzzled:

"No, why do you ask?"

Wen Xishu first shook his head, but then realized the other person couldn't see, so he said:

"Then you aren't even worth dying for. I have a suggestion: here, take this axe."

"There are two ways to die in this world. One way is to go throw your life away, but there's absolutely no need to die in the Three Towers; where can't you throw your life away?"

"If you really want to die, I recommend the second way: just keep swinging that axe as you go. Killing one is breaking even, killing two is a profit, and if you kill three, I'll call you the Sunglasses God of War."

The blind man still had an expressionless face:

"Do you want me to do this to bring you some value?"

What must this person have experienced to be in such a state of completely not wanting to live?

Wen Xishu said:

"I'm just making a suggestion. I don't save those who won't save themselves, so let's move separately. If we can meet later, we'll make other arrangements then."

Wen Xishu gave the axe to the blind man.

Perhaps feeling the other person's respect—a very equal kind of respect—the blind man actually took the axe.

To him, everyone in this world was insignificant; at the same time, all the things he heard were that kind of condescending pity.

But Wen Xishu's actions at this moment gave him a feeling that the two of them were equals.

Because this person really did give a blind man an axe, as if he truly believed he could accomplish some kind of miracle. He even thought the two of them could meet at a later node.

He had never experienced this before. In the past, everything about him was decided by others.

People pitied him and cared about him, but they never cared about his own thoughts. Because everyone felt—what could a blind man possibly understand?

Wen Xishu didn't intend to save the blind man anymore; let him fend for himself. He really didn't want to bring such a person along.

It would just be a burden later. If he saved him, he felt it would increase the game's difficulty; if he didn't... he was a strange person. There were some people he wanted to kill, but there were others he just felt like saving in his heart.

It was better not to bring him.

However, before leaving, Wen Xishu asked:

"Can you reveal some details about hidden classes to me? I don't have a hidden class."

After hearing this, the blind man accepted Wen Xishu even more. He himself just couldn't afford the assets, but this person... actually didn't have a hidden class.

Is he actually poorer than me?

"How could you not have a hidden class?"

"Because I am a hidden character." Wen Xishu remained stubborn.

The blind man didn't expose him, seemingly understanding this way of maintaining one's own self-esteem, and said:

"I just refused to choose a hidden class because I don't have any assets. I can't afford the price of the first-recharge of six asset points."

Wen Xishu was stunned:

"What the hell? First-recharge? This game actually has a first-recharge?"

The blind man nodded:

"It seems you really are poor, so poor that the game determined you wouldn't have any assets."

"Hidden is a paid option. But I don't have any assets. Choosing a hidden class will prompt you that this is the investment with the most abundant returns. You can lead everyone from the starting point."

Asset value.

This was something emphasized in the mission introduction. The mission introduction also said that if you can't beat the game, you can become stronger by paying a price; everything on your body can be exchanged for assets.

Wen Xishu had a bad premonition; he seemed to understand a little bit about what that vague mission introduction was actually expressing.

"Can you describe it in more detail?"

The blind man thought carefully:

"I actually had assets at the time. If I chose 'Super-Senser,' the assets I would need to pay were that I could choose to lose another sense, such as smell or taste, to pay the asset value and obtain Super-Senser."

"But I refused, because for me, the powerful hearing of a Super-Senser cannot replace vision."

Wen Xishu felt increasingly strange:

"Things on the body are also assets that can be traded..."

The blind man had never played games, and said:

"It's quite reasonable, isn't it? You don't have this option, which is actually quite strange. Is there really nothing on you worth exchanging?"

"Is everything you have someone else's, not belonging to yourself?"

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"No, I think I was just assigned the most difficult option. I have a suggestion for you..."

The blind man said:

"You've already given suggestions to a dying person more than once. But... go ahead, let me hear it."

Wen Xishu said:

"Based on my experience, any game with a six-yuan first-recharge is trash, one and all. It has nothing to do with the game's art, plot, or settings; it only has to do with numerical planning."

"I have a guess... if you want the game to be more normal, I suggest you use your brain as much as possible in the survival levels later, rather than relying on trading."

"Here, you will truly feel the weight of dreams, and all your actions will make a value judgment for your dreams. These are the words in the mission introduction... don't you think it's ironic that this sentence is linked to the pay-to-win atmosphere of asset value?"

The blind man still had that same look:

"Do you think a blind man can survive without relying on the strongest help provided by the game?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Why not? You're just blind, not dead. I've even seen people in wheelchairs invited to kick a goalkeeper. People play quite happily, don't they?"

The blind man was stunned, and an image appeared in his mind. He said again:

"Don't you think you are a person abandoned by heaven?"

Wen Xishu gave the medical kit to the blind man as well, saying:

"Just because I can't trade with assets?"

Brother, I'm a hacker; how can pay-to-win players compare to me? Wen Xishu thought very calmly.

The blind man said:

"I'll tell you a cruel fact: actually, when choosing initial survival items, I could also exchange 30 asset points for a gun with infinite ammo."

Wen Xishu was silent for two seconds; this shop... is indeed powerful. It seems the shop's power is even more ruthless than what I hacked.

"Do you still think your experience is the same as theirs? Do you think this game of choosing a savior still has anything to do with you?"

The blind man seemed to be competing with Wen Xishu, as if persuading Wen Xishu to quit would prove that his own desire to die was the correct thing.

Wen Xishu said:

"Since I've come, I have the possibility of becoming the savior. Alright, I won't talk to you anymore; I'll leave this medical kit for you too. I'll leave the bullets for you as well."

"I'll collect items after I leave here myself."

As Wen Xishu spoke, he had already started turning the doorknob. Once the door opened, there was no turning back.

The blind man suddenly felt a bit annoyed; why did this person think he could do it?

The door opened.

Wen Xishu was currently in a storage room inside a school's indoor stadium.

Looking far away, he discovered the danger here.

"Listen to me, if you want to live, keep running to the right later..."

"Outside there is an indoor basketball court and an indoor volleyball court, with a few scattered zombies wearing school uniforms."

"Their strength shouldn't be high. That's all I can say, blind man, good luck."

Wen Xishu closed the door for the blind man, then shouted loudly himself:

"Babies, come and eat meat!"

This loud shout made all the slowly wandering zombies suddenly turn their heads.

Wen Xishu was certain that these zombies should be the lowest-level kind; their speed was indeed a bit fast, but not the kind of fast that makes humans despair.

Wen Xishu was confident he could easily shake them off.

But after he started running... he discovered the problem.

Wen Xishu's speed at this moment was as fast as a primitive man from a tribe, the kind of primitive man who would be eaten by wild beasts if he ran too slowly.

His speed was indeed very fast, but the strange thing was, it wasn't fast enough to satisfy his heart.

"Hell, this place can actually suppress attributes? The values have been corrected!"

Wen Xishu already understood what was going on.

Logically speaking, "Majority" is the most useless, completely mediocre class.

They can't outrun zombies when they run.

But Wen Xishu was not an ordinary Majority; he had the Three Phases of Power and carried the Slaughter Tower panel.

So Wen Xishu's speed was exaggerated, almost maxing out his physical fitness.

But normally, his speed could be several levels faster. At least breaking existing human records was possible.

But the game actually limited his attributes, keeping Wen Xishu's attributes at the limit of humans within the cognitive range, never breaking through to a superhuman level.

"I'll have to test later if the effect of the items has been weakened."

Wen Xishu started running wildly.

Inside the storage room, the blind man was a bit restless; he naturally knew that Wen Xishu's shout was to attract firepower for him.

Is it worth it? Is it worth it? I am a blind man, I can't even take care of my own life, and you actually think I can survive?

This was truly an unprecedented feeling.

Wen Xishu's speed was very fast, and before long, he ran out of the stadium and arrived at an open square between the stadium and the cafeteria.

Here there were dense crowds of zombies.

He should have sped up and run faster, but Wen Xishu's vision and hearing were at the level of a max-level human.

He suddenly discovered an anomaly in the zombie crowd.

A woman with long hair wearing a white dress was squatting in the corner, crying silently; that crying sound made one want to go up and comfort her.

Based on Wen Xishu's experience... once this kind of zombie gets close, he will definitely die.

"Damn, there's a mini-boss just after I walked out of the stadium..."

He decisively ran to the other side. Wen Xishu didn't intend to fight; even if there was turn-based combat, he felt that female zombie was the kind of player who could KO him in one turn.

A large number of zombies started chasing Wen Xishu, but fortunately, it didn't disturb the long-haired female zombie sobbing in the corner.

While running, Wen Xishu took out the Pseudo-Fate Luo Pan.

His items had a constant three-piece set. Scorpio Knife, Phoenix Gloves, Fate Luo Pan.

At this moment, the direction the Fate Luo Pan pointed was exactly the direction of the school gate. He didn't look back for a moment, and after getting far away from the crying woman, Wen Xishu almost ran wildly all the way.

Following the constantly changing direction of the compass, Wen Xishu traveled through this city full of zombies.

The attributes of a max-level human were indeed powerful; behind Wen Xishu was already a mighty army of zombies.

Under the guidance of the compass, he arrived at the top of a 70-meter-tall office building. Due to the narrowness of the stairwell, the monsters behind Wen Xishu were finally blocked on the stairwell because of their excessive numbers.

And he himself, on the rooftop of the office building, jumped directly to another building through parkour.

Through this super jump that ordinary people couldn't accomplish, Wen Xishu completely shook off the zombies. When overlooking the city through the view of the high-rise building, Wen Xishu discovered many interesting things.

This place was divided into many areas, and each area had places to collect resources.

Some areas were white, where basic survival resources could be collected. There would be a skull logo above the area.

Blue areas would have three to four skull logos, and purple areas would have five to seven skull logos.

Red areas, ten skull logos, which meant ten-star difficulty levels.

Looking far away from the top of the building, Wen Xishu could discover that the final gathering place was located at a ten-star difficulty level.

"I must find enough supplies and equipment before entering that place."

A wild run had already left Wen Xishu's body in a state of hunger and thirst.

These were also two values. They were the things survival games loved to create the most: hunger and thirst.

Usually, games like to design blue bars and red bars for characters, but survival games also have resource bars, health bars, mood bars, and other attributes.

Wen Xishu only now started to carefully observe his attributes.

Mood: Good.

Hunger: 50.

Thirst: 70 (Your life recovery ability has started to decline, and your tolerance to high temperatures has decreased.)

Health status: Currently no illness.

"Normally, I shouldn't feel thirsty or hungry after that level of exercise." Wen Xishu was a bit helpless.

Fortunately, he had the Three Phases; otherwise, a pure "Majority" would be too difficult to survive in the game. He opened the compass again, and the compass started to rotate, guiding him to find water and food. This place was not far away.

It was right in the building where Wen Xishu was currently located.

Wen Xishu started to walk in a stealthy way, without making any sound.

At the same time, he started to slowly read the information of others in his field of vision.

Tam: The rocket launcher is so cool, this game is really fun, have you guys used that 98 asset value thing? I exchanged for a rocket launcher!

On the other side of the city, Wen Xishu could indeed hear some kind of explosion sound.

The criminal Tam, with a group of underlings, was wantonly slaughtering zombies.

Wen Xishu indeed felt that after paying to win, the other person's experience was much better than his own.

He was being chased wildly by a group of zombies, and from time to time he would encounter one or two crying female zombies, the kind he dared not provoke.

But Tam directly had a group of underlings dying for him, and now he had even exchanged for a rocket launcher, a weapon that almost only appeared in the late stages of the game.

Ye Lingfeng's class was a social elite; this class's ability was that he knew a little bit of all techniques, which could be considered an enhanced version of the "Majority."

Ye Lingfeng said:

"I have already started using an armored vehicle worth 128 asset points. I am different from you; my feet don't like to be stained with dust."

Child-Faced Wolf:

"Already started using 128 asset value trading? It seems I overestimated you. Well, we were never people from the same world anyway."

Child-Faced Wolf didn't use any extra pay-to-win; after choosing a hidden class, he had been exploring on his own.

At the current stage, everyone was exploring on their own. Almost everyone was like Wen Xishu, having experienced an escape.

It's just that Wen Xishu was escaping, while others were making the zombies escape.

Some people took rocket launchers and brought underlings everywhere to clear floors. They even fired directly at buildings.

Others drove armored vehicles, like rich young masters enjoying the scenery, cruising around the city.

There were also people who were intoxicated in their own role-playing, hiding in corners after killing a few zombies, fantasizing about how lonely they were and how they weren't understood.

Wen Xishu noticed one point: it seemed... not only was he excluded, but these few people were all separated.

He realized that the starting locations for ordinary classes and hidden classes were different. So he, as an ordinary class, could only appear at the same novice birth point as the blind man, who was also an ordinary class.

But hidden classes weren't together either; because they chose hidden classes, Child-Faced Wolf, Tam, and others also had their own birth points, with everyone in different areas of the city.

Fitness coach Zhang Hai said:

"I seem to have arrived at a plot location... brothers, I found survivors, they are in a prison. I see them."

"They used the prison walls to block the monsters outside, and they even planted vegetables inside. I see the huge exclamation mark floating above this prison, I'll go in and take a look first!"

Zhang Hai was the only one who gave Wen Xishu useful information. Although Wen Xishu had guessed it long ago.

At this moment, Wen Xishu had already sneaked to the 21st floor of this building.

There were only a few scattered zombies at the 21st-floor stairwell. There was a zombie with an exclamation mark on its head; it was a zombie holding a steel pipe and wearing a military green coat.

It was patrolling at the stairwell. Occasionally, zombies would try to pass through the stairwell, but this zombie would swing the steel pipe and beat back the other zombies.

Wen Xishu was on a high floor, overlooking this scene through the collapsed floorboards.

"This zombie... should have had a very strong obsession before death, prompting it to stubbornly perform some kind of behavior. It should be protecting someone..."

"Zombies don't have interactivity; it has an exclamation mark on its head, but the mission definitely isn't to find it."

Wen Xishu noticed that there was barbed wire outside room 2111 on the 21st-floor hallway.

This was a simple defensive fortification, considered to be something that hindered zombies from getting close. Zombies, driven by hunger, would also bypass some things because of pain.

"If I'm not mistaken, there are people in room 2111, and the people inside should be the target this zombie is longing to protect."

Wen Xishu discovered that his hunger value had reached 60 at this time, and his thirst value had reached 80. Rated as extremely thirsty.

He had to find a water source as soon as possible.

"There is a zombie at the stairwell, the zombie is holding a steel pipe, this steel pipe might be useful to me."

"At the same time, the door to 2111 is locked. If I try to knock on the door and enter from the 21st-floor hallway, I will inevitably disturb the zombies, and in that case, the mission will likely fail."

Currently, this game has pay-to-win options.

The source of asset value is the things on your body. According to the mission interpretation, you can exchange everything you have for asset value, and then use asset value to buy cheat items in the game.

And Wen Xishu doesn't have this ability. So Wen Xishu cherishes one point...

That is the mission.

A game, if it's not too bad, must have a sufficiently good growth system, such as doing missions.

If the game's reward output relies purely on pay-to-win... then this game is probably raising pigs or geese.

"The compass guided me here, which shows that this mission should be very important."

The stairwell is guarded by a zombie; Wen Xishu is confident he can kill the zombie, but the zombie has an exclamation mark on its head, and Wen Xishu feels that killing it is wrong.

At the same time, if he bypasses the zombie and enters from the door of room 2111, Wen Xishu will disturb other zombies, and it is very likely that the zombie with the exclamation mark will also fight Wen Xishu again to protect the residents of 2111.

Wen Xishu is certain... the result will be him running away, or accidentally killing the zombie.

The mission will still fail.

"I must enter 2111 directly. I cannot disturb any zombies. I cannot enter from the doorway."

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu quickly had a plan.

He first observed the structure of the hallway, and then slowly returned to the rooftop of the building.

That was the 24th floor of the building. Based on his memory, Wen Xishu found room 2411.

Then he climbed over the railing and started descending from the exterior of the building.

He had seen this kind of gameplay in games and movies, and he had done it himself in the Reverse Seven Building.

That was to jump down directly from the 24th floor, and then, with the help of arm strength, when falling to the window of room 2311 on the 23rd floor, grab the anchor point with both hands, then let go, fall to the window of room 2211, then let go, and fall to the window of room 2111.

This places extreme demands on grip and arm strength, but for Wen Xishu now, it felt incredibly easy.

Before long, Wen Xishu arrived at the windowsill of 2111.

The window was open.

The moment Wen Xishu's feet landed on the windowsill, two mission choices appeared in Wen Xishu's mind, and time seemed to become extremely slow in an instant.

Everything around was in a slow-motion state.

【Please choose the mission you want to accept.】

【Mission 1: Family Reunion.】

【Mission 2: Toiling and Laboring.】

There was no mission introduction, nor was there a mission reward preview. One could almost only choose from the name.

And the countdown time was only five seconds.

Wen Xishu chose Mission 1. At this moment, everything around returned to normal speed, and time seemed to return to its normal flow.

The woman inside subconsciously wanted to exclaim, but Wen Xishu was quick-witted and fast-handed; he immediately rushed up in one stride and covered the woman's mouth directly.

There was actually more than just the woman in the room; there was also a little girl who was in a coma and running a high fever. The little girl's hands were tied with a belt.

The woman's mouth was covered by Wen Xishu, and Wen Xishu made a shushing gesture:

"If you make a sound, you should know it will attract zombies. So, if you still want to live, and want your daughter to live too, be quiet. I won't hurt you, okay?"

The woman nodded.

This was a woman of thirty-five or thirty-six years old, with no special features, neither good-looking nor ugly.

Wen Xishu let go of his hand:

"I'm just a passing survivor; I need a little water and food."

The woman looked at Wen Xishu in fear and shook her head:

"There's only a little bit left... please, please don't take them away."

On the table in room 2111, there was half a bottle of mineral water and a bag of instant noodles.

Wen Xishu's gaze turned to the mineral water and discovered the following note: 【Drinking it will reduce thirst by 40 points.】

The instant noodles were also marked with the hunger value they would reduce.

Seeing that Wen Xishu seemed relatively friendly, the woman suddenly became fierce; she actually rushed over, wanting to grab the half bottle of water and the bag of instant noodles on the table.

But Wen Xishu pulled gently and grabbed the woman's whole body.

The woman gritted her teeth, afraid of crying out loud, and she said:

"You... don't take ours... this is our last resource. My daughter is still sick."

Wen Xishu first put the water and food into his pocket, and then silently thought about his current situation.

"If there's no melodramatic plot, this woman and this girl probably won't live much longer."

"I seem to understand the mission mechanism of this game. Missions will be forcibly triggered when approaching the location, and there are multiple possible endings."

"And it won't give you enough time to think, nor is there any mission introduction. Your only information is the mission name."

The mission Wen Xishu chose was Family Reunion.

At this moment, the cruel side of this game appeared.

Wen Xishu said:

"Is your daughter infected?"

The girl was lying on the bed, with wounds on her arms, purple lips, and from time to time, one could see something like a worm lurking and crawling under the girl's skin, like a walking wrinkle.

The woman seemed unable to accept this statement:

"No! She's not infected, she's not infected, she just has a cold."

Wen Xishu calmed down completely:

"Regarding this disaster, is there anything you can tell me?"

The woman shook her head, just staring at Wen Xishu's pocket:

"I don't know anything, please... leave me a mouthful of water!"

Wen Xishu asked again:

"Okay, but regarding this apocalypse, can you tell me some useful information?"

The woman still shook her head.

Wen Xishu was certain that the daughter's life, plus her own life, could not make this woman deliberately hide it.

So he said:

"Okay, it seems this mission is just to test my moral tendencies..."

"Your daughter is about to turn into a zombie, and you won't be able to live without water. I'll tell you your next ending."

"This world belongs to zombies. You and your daughter must accept this point. You are about to welcome a new life, no need to worry about water and food, and you don't need to run away or be afraid when you see humans, but rather a life of excitedly pouncing on them. Very beautiful, isn't it?"

"In addition, the girl's father has been guarding you outside for a long time. Your family should be reunited. Sorry, I said too much. I should save my saliva."

As Wen Xishu spoke, he pulled open the door.

The sound of the door opening instantly attracted other zombies. And the zombie at the stairwell wearing the military green coat made a mad dash, unlike the slow steps of ordinary zombies.

It was like a wolf whose territory had been violated, emitting a terrifying roar filled with the scent of decay.

It started beating other zombies wildly, then used the steel pipe to sweep away the barbed wire at the door and rushed into room 2111.

Wen Xishu had already retreated to the windowsill at this time.

He saw a cruel scene.

The woman looked at this zombie wearing a military green coat, first stunned, and then started crying loudly.

The zombie tilted its head, seemingly recalling something in its mind, but it only recalled for a few seconds.

Then, without any melodrama, without any surprise, it bit the woman's neck.

At this time, the little girl lying on the bed made a sound that also had a somewhat rotten scent.

A family of three, reunited.

Wen Xishu actually didn't like the process of this mission; he just guessed the design arrangement of this mission.

The male zombie was the head of the family, bringing his wife and daughter to this city for a vacation.

The zombie outbreak occurred, and the man relied on his own strength to hold the floor, but he himself was also bitten.

With his powerful obsession, he managed to engrave a mark in his mind, which had already turned into a zombie—no one is allowed to approach 2111.

But he himself actually couldn't recognize his daughter and wife anymore. His wife and daughter also gradually fell into a predicament of having no water and food.

The mother and daughter accidentally discovered that the zombies on the floor didn't seem to approach them, because the father, who had already turned into a zombie, was actually protecting them.

The daughter seemed to try naively to communicate with her father, wanting to awaken her father's humanity.

Believing that even if her father turned into a zombie, he would still protect her.

But she was wrong; the father who turned into a zombie did indeed have some memories in his mind, restraining his instincts, but in the end, he couldn't overcome his instincts. The girl was even scratched because of this.

This was a desperate family; water and food were only a little bit left, the daughter was sick, and the father, who had turned into a zombie, was protecting them, but also cut off their path to survival.

In the apocalypse, such a family of three naturally couldn't survive.

Thus, the game designer made a dark-humored design—

In the seemingly warm mission option of Family Reunion, there was actually a very cruel ending.

You have to let the husband who guards the mother and daughter kill his wife with his own hands, and then the family of three is reunited in the way of zombies.

Of course, you can also choose the second mission, Toiling and Laboring.

It's highly likely that you, like a tool person, received the mission, telling you to help the girl and woman find water and plants, using love to extend the girl's life and prevent the tragedy from coming.

You, like what NPCs in various stupid games ask you to do, go to collect materials boringly.

But this mission must be a wrong option. The real apocalypse is cruel. Wen Xishu, in a situation of hunger and thirst and where the other party was completely unable to survive, could only make the first choice.

When the monster wearing military green clothes finally rushed into room 2111, he only hesitated slightly before biting his former wife to death.

However, at this moment, this zombie might indeed have had emotional fluctuations.

It dropped the steel pipe in its hand.

Although Wen Xishu didn't care for the steel pipe, he picked it up, then retreated to the windowsill, and using climbing, relied on explosive power to jump constantly.

Although the power of the Ultimate Kick was weakened in this savior game, it still gave Wen Xishu amazing jumping ability.

Without spending much effort, Wen Xishu returned to the 24th floor.

At the same time, he also received a mission prompt.

【Your rationality, cruelty, and aggressiveness have given you the qualifications to survive in the apocalypse. Congratulations, now you are no longer a Majority; you have proven that you have the qualifications to be promoted to a savior and win that special grand prize. This is a world where evil people compete with evil people. There are too many evil people lurking in this city; perhaps you should continue your journey and head to the next place.】

【Obtained mission reward: Thirst resistance +25%, hunger resistance +25%.】

After the prompt appeared, although Wen Xishu hadn't drunk water yet, he suddenly felt that he wasn't that hungry anymore.

At this time, he took out half a bottle of water and drank it in two gulps. The whole person also completely got rid of the negative effects of thirst. Wen Xishu only felt unprecedentedly refreshed.

At the same time, Wen Xishu discovered that the "Majority" in his field of vision had changed, becoming "A part of people who are thirst-resistant and hunger-resistant."

He stood on the roof, looking at the zombies wandering below, thinking about the problem:

"It seems this counts as a novice mission. This mission actually shows the designer's intention: how a Majority can slowly evolve into a 'Unique' in the apocalypse world through various choices."

"I have now changed from a 'Majority' to a 'Part.' I think if the next mission choices are made correctly, I will slowly change from a part of people to something even rarer, such as a minority, a very small minority..."

"But will the mission style of this game always be like this?"

Although Wen Xishu didn't hate this kind of game plot that sends people on their way, is this game entirely so "self-interested"?

"In addition, the apocalypse must not have descended on the 15th floor of the Tower of Desire world. I am currently in a game designed by a person, and this person's game mentioned dreams and assets... how will it be displayed in the Tower of Desire?"

Wen Xishu opened the compass again. The True Fate Luo Pan could lead Ding Dong to avoid the Three Towers War, and the Pseudo-Fate Luo Pan helped Wen Xishu find suitable missions; this was not difficult.

He quickly started to act. The novice mission just now was very simple, with only half a skull, because this mission had almost no difficulty.

But next, the place Wen Xishu was heading to was a place with three skulls.

Some questions, Wen Xishu couldn't get the answers to himself, but he could know a part of them through chat conversations.

Just as Wen Xishu was heading to the three-skull mission area, he was also observing other people's messages.

【Tam: This damn game is really interesting. I just did something in the Tower of Desire that could only be done in the Tower of Desire while in the Mysterious Tower. The mission reward for the game was actually a beauty offering herself to me. Hahahaha, what 15th floor of the Mysterious Tower, nothing more than this! I'm going to conquer more women next.】

Tam's words made Wen Xishu feel that something was wrong.

Although Tam's game style was very different because of changing his fate through pay-to-win, the mission style was also different? Listening to the meaning of Tam's words, Tam had also just completed a mission, but this mission rewarded Tam with a beauty.

A second ago, Wen Xishu still felt that the game's style seemed to be a dark, apocalyptic, realistic style game, and judging from the class introduction, some classes even had moral dilemmas.

But now, Tam made Wen Xishu feel a sense of a skin-swapped national war game: expanding territory, fighting zombies, collecting beauties...

Honestly, Wen Xishu wasn't envious. He just felt—this is very strange.

Up to now, Wen Xishu hadn't actually encountered too many things that made him feel like the Mysterious Tower style. But Tam's words just now made him have a strange feeling.

【Ye Family Young Master: People who are addicted to female beauty will only get lost in the apocalypse. Just now, I successfully opened up the cargo trading route for the agents of this area, the commercial street survivors, and the residential area survivors through a mission. Now, people in the two camps already have a market where they can trade supplies regularly. I am still too talented after all; even this damn apocalypse has been conquered by my business mind.】

【Child-Faced Wolf: I really envy you guys who can happily indulge in it without being disturbed by the true cruelty of the apocalypse. But I don't regret my choice, even though I carry everything.】

Wen Xishu gradually came to his senses, and the next paragraph of Tokugawa Dahe's words made Wen Xishu almost confirm his guess.

【Tokugawa Dahe: I just helped a woman find medicine to save her child. Her child was infected... but I spent some asset value to exchange for the antidote. Now her whole family is very grateful to me. In the apocalypse, there is also warmth.】

Tam is a criminal, and the things he longs for... are actually the simplest desires. Women, destruction, expansion, very intuitive.

And Ye Lingfeng is a guy who likes to show off his wealth. Coincidentally, his game started to turn into an apocalypse merchant simulator.

Child-Faced Wolf is not clear for the time being, but this style of liking to pretend to be deep has never changed. Presumably, he is also very satisfied with the role he plays in the game.

Originally, Wen Xishu wasn't sure, after all, it seemed their gameplay could indeed be realized.

It was just that Tokugawa Dahe's next words made Wen Xishu feel it was too coincidental.

Tokugawa Dahe said that he came to the Mysterious Tower to risk his life for his child's job opportunity.

This means he is a person who values family. Coincidentally, he experienced a mission almost exactly the same as his own.

The difference is that the "pay-to-win system" gave Tokugawa Dahe an option that didn't fit the apocalyptic atmosphere at all—the antidote.

If there is already an antidote, is there any need for this apocalypse to exist?

Wen Xishu can now almost confirm... the game is changing and extending according to the player's pay-to-win will.

Until this moment, Wen Xishu seemed to understand the information in the mission introduction—

"Here, you will truly feel the weight of dreams, and all your actions will make a value judgment for your dreams."

He finally understood the meaning of this sentence completely.

"This game is almost like a living thing."

At this time, Wen Xishu was suddenly very curious: if the blind man who was seeking death paid to win, what would change?

He discovered something that surprised him: the blind man was actually not dead yet.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 118 =====