Chapter 128

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe suddenly ignored Wen Xishu's warning and just stood up like that.

His expression also changed from honest to a state of watching the fun. That appearance was somewhat strange, and the smile at the corner of his mouth also made Wen Xishu feel somewhat unfamiliar.

Simply... like he had changed into another person.

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe inside the door kept approaching. Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe outside the door kept knocking on the door.

【It is fake, it is fake, it is fake, it is fake...】

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe outside the door began to constantly write four words.

It is fake.

He seemed very worried about Wen Xishu inside the door, directly sticking to the door and shouting:

"It is fake!"

At this moment, Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe inside the door was only a few steps away from Wen Xishu, and his smile was also very exaggerated:

"Outside, what happened?"

He was still constantly approaching Wen Xishu; Wen Xishu only felt a huge cold air eroding him.

That kind of oppressive feeling unique to "them" had arrived.

They had been let in by himself.

At this very moment, the answer was almost told directly to Wen Xishu...

Whether it was the Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe inside the door or the Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe outside the door, both were fake.

"Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe's ability... could it be creating visitors? This ability is too perverted, right?"

"Then doesn't that mean I can't believe any visitor from now on?"

"Also, it created a 'Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe' to visit... just to make me suspicious, right? And then deliberately made strange expressions and abnormal actions. Let me logically judge... that the Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe in the room is fake."

"Wanting to use this... to forcibly end the lurking state in advance. This is the same as Takahashi Mariko trying to take off her underwear."

Wen Xishu's brain reaction was still very fast.

He immediately made a decision and walked directly towards Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe inside the door.

When the two were face to face, Wen Xishu kicked Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe directly in the abdomen.

It can be said that the leg is Wen Xishu's most powerful part; this kick directly kicked Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe back to his previous position.

Then Wen Xishu took a step and arrived beside Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe, slapping him three times.

"Did I fucking allow you to move around without permission? Do you not understand human speech? And you're a Kashima top scorer?"

Wen Xishu grabbed Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe by the neck.

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe's eyes turned red with anxiety, trying to make an even more bizarre, strange smiling expression to provoke Wen Xishu.

But Wen Xishu just didn't take the bait; if you want to pretend not to be human, I will just insist on recognizing you as a human.

"Laughing?"

Slap, one slap sent Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe's glasses flying.

"Still laughing?"

Another slap, hitting Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe until his eyeballs were bloodshot.

"Laugh, keep laughing! Laugh louder."

After several slaps in a row, Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe's face quickly became red and swollen.

Wen Xishu simply started swinging his fists.

After a round of beating, Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe finally stopped showing a strange smile.

"You... why don't you ask me why I'm laughing?" Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe was still very surprised in his heart.

Doesn't this man think his laughter is abnormal?

Wen Xishu said:

"None of my business. You laugh too ugly; I will send you to see God."

Wen Xishu took out his gun:

"If you laugh again, I will shoot immediately."

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe was really honest now.

But he was still using underhanded tricks.

Because Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe outside the door was still constantly knocking on the door.

At the same time, a very strange "rustling" sound could be heard.

That was Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe outside the door, writing furiously, with a speed that was almost ghostly; one could even see the afterimage of Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe's hand waving outside the door.

Densely packed, crookedly, it was all filled with one sentence—

"It is fake!"

At the same time, Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe outside the door also seemed unable to continue acting for some reason; his eyes lost the white part, and the entire eyes began to be constantly dyed black, finally leaving only black eyes like a black hole vortex.

It was like the previous visitor, pressing its eyes tightly against the peephole, saying viciously:

"It is fake!"

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe at this time didn't even dare to ask: who is fake.

He was really scared by Wen Xishu's unreasonable beating.

Wen Xishu said:

"There is a monster outside pretending to be you; you are the real Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe, otherwise I wouldn't have let you in; don't use suspicious people, don't suspect the people you use."

"Don't worry, no matter how realistic the fake Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe acts outside, I won't believe it."

"But next, if you move around again, I will kill you. Although I know you are a human, I will still kill you."

Wen Xishu showed the same somewhat perverted and strange smile to Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe:

"Understand?"

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe hugged his knees, squatted on the chair, didn't dare to speak, just nodded, and then buried his head in his knees.

Wen Xishu realized.

"Them" who are invited into the room will use various means to want the owner to discover that "they" are not humans.

And then end the lurking period in advance.

Currently, it seems that the coping method is not difficult; just refuse to admit it to death. But the problem is...

This game is not so idealistic; it's not that if you refuse to admit it to death... the monster's lurking period will never end.

For crises, the effect of "if you don't believe it, it doesn't exist" can only be maintained within eight hours.

It can only act to prevent the monster from forcibly ending the lurking period, but the monster's lurking period also has a state of natural ending. Once the time is up...

The monster will naturally end the lurking period; at that time, if you should die, you will still die.

The knocking and shouting outside the door disappeared.

If a visitor cannot be invited into the room, the stay time is limited.

"There are still a few hours... their lurking period will naturally end; if I'm lucky, I've recruited a real person to come in... then I can kill Takahashi Mariko and Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe recruited earlier."

"But I'm just afraid of bad luck..."

Wen Xishu had a very uneasy feeling. In this night where monsters are rampant, are there really people outside?

If they are all monsters... how should he survive?

"Calm down, calm down, Wen Xishu, don't panic."

Wen Xishu calmed down again; the combination punch of Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe inside and outside the door just now was actually a bit sanity-draining; he had to admit that the impact he received tonight was not small.

"Temporarily can't think of how to deal with the end of the lurking period... but at least, can't let the lurking period end in advance."

Wen Xishu planned to take some sweets to make his brain less tired. Surviving for several days in this kind of environment, even for Wen Xishu, counts as a kind of devastation.

But just at this moment, someone knocked on the door again.

"Hello, I am a delivery person, your delivery has arrived."

"I didn't order delivery."

Wen Xishu observed through the peephole and found that the person opposite was indeed delivering food, wearing the clothes of the island nation's local delivery "Demaekan."

It's just that the clothes were too loose, and the delivery person was wearing a helmet, so Wen Xishu couldn't see the features on the other party clearly.

The delivery person glanced at the order:

"Bu... but this is indeed the delivery you ordered. Mr. Wen Xishu, right? You are a Bunker person, huh, which place is that, forget it, it's not important; in short, it says here that you were suddenly invited to come here to experience it."

"And your friend also said that you will use these supplies, and inside there are rule supplements to help you survive and break the situation."

Wen Xishu's brain "buzzed" again.

What kind of development is this again?

Wen Xishu suddenly looked at Mariko and Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe in the room.

Mariko's expression hadn't changed; flirting, with a blush on her face, looking at Wen Xishu with blurred eyes.

As if she had an unusual obsession with Wen Xishu.

And Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe was still shrinking his head, shivering; clearly, the unreasonable beating just now had beaten Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe into autism.

"Not the people in the room. Could it be that I really have a friend? Who could it be?"

Wen Xishu was a bit puzzled; this delivery person even said "Bunker"... this made Wen Xishu believe more and more that the delivery person might really be delivering food.

"Perhaps there are many special types of characters in this neighborhood... they mainly have various functions..."

While Wen Xishu was still analyzing, the delivery person started knocking on the door again:

"Sir... how about I put the delivery at the door?"

"No, I will give you extra tips, but now, please help me open the delivery and read the so-called rule supplements and survival-breaking methods inside."

Wen Xishu said.

The delivery person did as told; what made Wen Xishu quite surprised was that the delivery person didn't find an excuse to refuse, but was really dismantling his delivery, or rather, express package.

But what the delivery person took out was a rather thick manual.

The delivery person even shook the manual near the peephole.

Wen Xishu saw clearly; the content written on it was "Kashima Survival Rule Guide Complete Edition."

He was of course tempted.

But the delivery person suddenly said at this moment:

"Mr. Wen Xishu, I don't have much time left... you know, if I'm not invited in at the door... I can only stay for a short while."

"But this thing is very thick. Should I leave the book here, and you open the door to take it yourself?"

"Or... you open the window a crack, and I'll throw it in for you?"

If it weren't for the last sentence, Wen Xishu would really feel that maybe he from the Tower of Desire had delivered something to him in the Mysterious Tower?

Or was it that he from the future, because this time his Scorpio knife had the ability to read save files, played some tricks?

Wen Xishu indeed thought so. But it wasn't until the other party suggested "you open the window a crack."

That he suddenly became vigilant.

Fake.

This delivery person is also fake.

At this moment, Wen Xishu began to review and discovered the clue...

I have been mentally invaded. I have been read some information by the other party.

"If I really want to read a save file to change certain things... I can't let a delivery person do this... and, since I've read a save file, then the greatest resource is my memory, not giving certain things to my past self."

"Damn, I almost wavered because the other party said my name and said I came from the Bunker."

"This is the forty-second floor; here... it is normal for me, who has no magic resistance, to have all my memories stripped away."

Wen Xishu said:

"Sorry, can you take off your clothes? Can you take off your delivery clothes, helmet, everything? It's summer now, don't you feel hot?"

These words made the delivery person silent for a good while; seeing that Wen Xishu was also consistently not happening and seemed resolute in attitude, the delivery person finally stopped pretending:

"You think you can hide from it? Wen Xishu... we will eat you!"

The delivery person's clothes bulged because some things hidden under the clothes began to squirm.

It left.

Wen Xishu noticed those tentacles appearing from the delivery person's pant legs. Wen Xishu only felt a burst of nausea and lingering fear.

"Damn, almost opened the door; it's really hard to guard against."

Wen Xishu thought for a while and discovered that there are two types of monsters here.

One type is not very greedy.

This kind of monster, it doesn't lurk; it just disguises itself as a human. Its purpose is to trick you into opening the door and kill you directly. Facing this kind of monster, you have to observe more.

If you can't distinguish their strangeness through the peephole, then you are in danger.

And this kind of monster often has certain means to seduce you into opening the door.

There is another type of monster, similar to Mariko and Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe; they belong to the second type. They will lurk because they hope to extract more desire. Monsters that lurk are almost indistinguishable from real people.

It is very difficult for you to see anything through the peephole. This type of monster often won't seduce you into opening the door... but according to the rules, your room does indeed need to have people.

So you must open the door for people, at least open the door for this kind of person who cannot be seen as not human through the peephole.

After they enter the room, they start to exert force, creating various strange phenomena, making you judge that they are not humans, and denying them, and they can end the lurking period in advance.

Of course, the reason for ending the lurking period in advance mainly lies in... you are too hard to handle.

After they enter the room, they find that you don't have the things they crave. For example, lust, for example, fear...

So they want to end the lurking period in advance.

Currently, Wen Xishu has twice prevented the two monsters in the room from casting spells.

"Don't know who the next knocker is; let someone come."

Wen Xishu rarely prays.

But in the current situation, he really has to pin his hopes on metaphysics.

Time has unknowingly changed from 7:00 PM to 9:40 PM.

Actually, the night has just begun.

Those truly bizarre monsters are just about to start moving.

Wen Xishu finally has a chance to take in some sugar.

But when he came to the bathroom to wash his hands, a strange scene appeared.

In Wen Xishu's sink... suddenly many hairs grew. These hairs kept squirming, like black smoke gushing out from the sink's drain hole.

He immediately retreated several steps.

Wen Xishu immediately exited the bathroom and then closed the bathroom door; at this moment, he saw Mariko in the room...

Mariko's hair was gone; Mariko, wearing a maid outfit, was standing straight in front of the TV at this moment.

Just like a model in a clothing store.

Some models in clothing stores also have no hair, exposing round heads, waiting for the clerk to configure a wig.

Wen Xishu of course knew that this was not a coincidence.

Seeing strange hair in the bathroom on the front foot, and seeing Mariko lose her hair on the back foot when going out.

Mariko suddenly turned around, her body appearing somewhat stiff:

"Lord God, do you like my hair?"

Wen Xishu didn't answer, but revealed the two characters of Mariko's name—"Zhenli" (Truth).

He aimed his pistol at Mariko:

"Stop playing pranks, Mariko, go back to the sofa and lie down for me, otherwise I'll shoot."

Mariko widened her eyes.

She didn't expect that under these circumstances, this man could still calmly let her stay in the room?

Shouldn't he be collapsing and accepting the fact that she is not a human?

She looked at Wen Xishu in confusion.

Wen Xishu was suddenly thinking...

Why did Mariko want to mess with him? Because Mariko planned to end the lurking in advance...

Then why did Mariko plan to end the lurking period in advance? Because Mariko found that he didn't have what she wanted.

That thing, combined with the way Mariko looked before, overflowing with charm, Wen Xishu seemed to understand.

"Damn, these idiots are hard to handle."

Every now and then, they create some terrifying hallucinations to mess with the owner's mind, forcing the owner to give a reason, allowing them to end the lurking in advance.

But Wen Xishu will not do this.

Mariko returned to the sofa, and her hair began to squirm bit by bit, like a squirming tapeworm, beginning to gush out from Mariko's scalp.

Wen Xishu had a premonition that the duel between the two had not ended.

Mariko turned her head at this moment, revealing a strange smile:

"Then do you like Mariko's chest? You can touch it."

After saying this, Wen Xishu originally thought it was just a seduction, but he immediately realized he was wrong.

Because Mariko's chest... began to shrivel. Just like a sponge that had been sucked dry of water.

At the same time, Wen Xishu suddenly felt that something very creepy had appeared in the room; all the charms seemed to be no longer charms, but... a certain part of a woman.

Densely packed, they were linked together, like the holes of a honeycomb, and also like the skin of a pineapple.

Mariko still looked at Wen Xishu with that kind of smile.

Wen Xishu finally realized the benefit of magic resistance; if he had magic resistance, could he be tortured like this?

But Mariko wasn't finished; she continued to say:

"There are also some guests who would like Mariko's feet; Lord God, do you like a woman's feet?"

Considering the scene that would appear next, which was too disgusting and creepy, Wen Xishu took out his gun:

"Mariko, stop."

Mariko didn't stop; her feet began to wither, and then she began to crawl with her hands; she was like a bug, falling from the sofa, and then landing on her back.

Many bugs cannot flip over when landing on their backs, and Mariko was the same; her two hands kept waving, but she could never flip over.

Fortunately, in the next second, Mariko's head turned one hundred and eighty degrees directly, so her abdomen became her back, and her hands made a sound like a bone fracture, as if they were directly and forcibly twisted over.

Mariko could finally continue crawling.

At the same time, countless feet without upper bodies, just like shoe molds, began to appear.

They surrounded Wen Xishu, as if performing some kind of ritual.

Mariko crawled closer to Wen Xishu and said:

"What do you like, God, tell me."

Wen Xishu indeed planned to shoot at this moment. This mental pollution impact was a bit big.

But he began to think deeply about one thing...

Mariko kept showing that kind of infatuated expression before; now that she suddenly did this, is she preparing to attack?

Is she not afraid of my bullets? These are all hallucinations, Wen Xishu knew very well.

If Mariko really turned into a monster and ended the lurking, he wouldn't even have the chance to take out his gun.

Then Mariko's intention in doing this, could it be to seek death? Is it to force him to admit that Mariko is not a human?

Wen Xishu felt it didn't make sense.

"Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe has already been beaten into submission by me; now Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe doesn't dare to act rashly, because he knows that I will really admit they are humans while killing them. Then what is Mariko doing? She should know that I won't deny she is a human..."

"And it's very strange, I took out my gun, and she became even... even more strange."

"So... is it possible that Mariko doing this is not to force me, but to cater to me?"

Shooting is an instinct. Facing this situation, Wen Xishu shooting is also understandable. But Wen Xishu always felt that to survive in this kind of game...

One has to make some special moves.

Up to now, whether it's opening the door to let people in or letting people leave, in Wen Xishu's eyes, all of this is actually standard. He can do it, and others can do it too...

So he needs to grasp the truly critical choices more keenly.

"First, these are all hallucinations of Mariko... as long as she doesn't end the lurking period, she can't hurt me."

"Secondly, Mariko also knows this, and now it's them who should be afraid of me; I shouldn't be afraid of them."

"Then Mariko still does this; perhaps it's because in her cognition... this is not scaring me, but pleasing me?"

Before, it was just showing hair, but as Wen Xishu prepared to shoot, Mariko's actions became even more intense.

A normal person here might have really shot.

But Wen Xishu wouldn't let go of any details.

"According to my past experience, to get an invitation letter, one has to deeply experience a certain link..."

"Mariko might not give an invitation letter; this is the forty-second floor, everything is not that easy. But if I shoot... Mariko goes offline, perhaps that also leads to me losing many opportunities."

Wen Xishu suddenly put away his gun.

He approached Mariko and touched Mariko's head:

"I still like how you looked at the beginning, Mariko."

The current Mariko, without legs, with hands twisted back, stomach turned into abdomen, head turned one hundred and eighty degrees...

This look, Wen Xishu didn't resist or feel disgusted, just said with slight reproach:

"Can you change back to how you looked at the beginning, Mariko?"

"Of course... of course, as long as it is Lord God's wish, I can do anything."

The broken legs around her began to disappear bit by bit. Mariko's head turned one hundred and eighty degrees again.

At the same time, as her feet grew, Mariko could finally stop crawling and stand up again.

After several changes, Mariko became the image of a maid with white silk stockings and twin tails again.

Although he saw such a terrifying scene just now, Wen Xishu also felt physiological disgust for Mariko's hair.

But he still rubbed Mariko's hair and said in as gentle a tone as possible:

"Not bad, not bad, Mariko, I like how you look now."

The TV suddenly lit up again.

Wen Xishu was already accustomed to this; everything in this room was hellish, including this TV.

The image on the TV was the screen of a galgame.

Inside, the male protagonist stroked the girl's hair, the girl's favorability increased, and she said:

"Next time, there must be more intimate behavior."

After saying this, the girl hid the knife she was preparing to stab into her boyfriend's stomach and revealed a sweet smile.

If it weren't for the scene of hiding the knife, it would make people feel sweet and healing.

Wen Xishu could only say that this is very island nation.

Then the TV turned off again.

Wen Xishu took a deep breath, continued to rub the hair of Mariko, who was gradually becoming obedient and whose eyes were blurred again, while thinking about the information on the TV just now.

Without a doubt, the TV is a rule prompter.

"In other words... Mariko's love is rising and needs a response. And the content of the response needs to be stronger each time, right?"

"If it is as I guessed... this time it was stroking the head, next time it must be a hug, right?"

"That is to say, Mariko will go crazy from time to time... and this kind of madness needs to be appeased with increasingly deep acts of love."

"On the TV, the girl putting away the knife at the end... does it hint that this kind of appeasement can extend the protagonist's life?"

Wen Xishu suddenly had light in his eyes; he seemed to have thought of something.

He looked at Mariko; Mariko was like an obedient kitten after being stroked, making chirping sounds.

Wen Xishu said:

"Mariko, I need you to return to the sofa and stay quietly just like before, can you?"

"Okay, Lord God, I listen to you." Mariko returned to the sofa, continuing to look at Wen Xishu with that infatuated expression.

Wen Xishu was thinking:

The girl on the TV putting away the knife might be a hint. A hint that as long as one follows the rules and constantly deepens the acts of love...

Perhaps one can extend the lurking period.

"Them" in the lurking period, as long as you refuse to admit they are not humans, they can only be humans; at most, they will make some moves that make you feel mentally polluted but won't cause actual harm.

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu was glad that he grasped the opportunity in the critical link.

But at the same time, he also knew that he had buried a hidden danger.

"Next time, there must be more intimate behavior."

This sentence floated in Wen Xishu's mind; after next time, there is next-next time, and after next-next time, there is next-next-next time...

Constantly deepening the intimacy of love acts; stroking the head, hugging, kissing... what's next?

In a sense, this is also a strategy of Mariko, letting you discover this rule, and you have to make moves that can arouse your lust.

Then the ultimate intimate behavior... is it mating?

Wen Xishu felt it shouldn't be.

He suddenly remembered a hair-raising scene; the TV had actually reported Mariko once...

That was when the TV lit up for the first time; the image the TV gave was—

A girl being brutally assaulted.

Perhaps dismemberment is the ultimate love? Wen Xishu felt this kind of perverted thought was entirely possible in Kashima.

In Wen Xishu's previous life, there was a very perverted story in Japan; the heroine was called Tomie, and everyone who fell in love with Tomie...

Would eventually choose to dismember Tomie.

And the image on the TV was the girl being dismembered.

After being dismembered, each part of Tomie's body would either grow into a new Tomie, or... grow infinitely.

Just like the hair, broken feet, and densely packed chests from not long ago.

"What kind of things are these that I invited in."

Wen Xishu didn't want his guess to be right, but his guesses were usually right.

The terrifying scenes from just now almost echoed his guess.

The obedient Mariko in front of him... hid the power of an evil god.

Then... what about Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe? He doesn't look like a good person either, right?

Thinking of this, he felt tired, but soon he changed his way of thinking:

"In any case, I found a way to extend Mariko's lurking period... and Mariko is obedient to me; this might be a favorable point."

Wen Xishu actually had a biggest problem to solve.

That is sleeping.

His first sleep was fine; there was no one in the room, and he didn't worry about anyone knocking on the door when sleeping during the day.

But the second sleep was a big problem.

There were two people in the room, and it was very likely that both of them would end the lurking period during sleep.

Then he would die in his sleep.

But if Mariko could extend the lurking period, and Mariko was obedient to him, perhaps there was room for operation.

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu planned to try:

"Mariko... are you willing to sleep with me later?"

"Of course, of course!" Mariko's eyes lit up.

"But I'm very tired; once I lie on the bed, I can't do anything else. I'm worried about danger tonight; if I fall asleep, can you protect me? If you can protect me, I will reward you with more intimate behavior," Wen Xishu said.

Mariko clearly thought for a while before saying:

"Will you love me more?"

"Of course."

"Then okay, I will protect you; no one can hurt you." This sentence, Mariko said almost directly looking at Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe.

Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe's expression was also clearly wrong, holding hostility towards Mariko.

Wen Xishu saw it and thought, it really can be played like this... fortunately, he didn't kill Mariko.

"In order to get my love, Mariko will extend the lurking period... and if I die, Mariko will also end the lurking period in advance."

"Then if I am killed, for Mariko, it is equivalent to the meat in her mouth being snatched by someone else."

"Without a doubt, Mariko will attack this person."

"In this way, Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe fears Mariko, so he won't dare to make a move on me, and will also be forced to extend the lurking period, waiting for an opportunity."

"The three of them can reach a game balance."

Wen Xishu was more and more glad that he didn't shoot Mariko because of instinctive fear just now.

Next, it was to verify how long this balance could last. However, Wen Xishu didn't have time to think more, because someone knocked on the door again.

Dong-dong-dong-dong, dong-dong.

The rhythm of the knocking was different from everyone else in front. Constantly having visitors knocking on the door meant that the situation was constantly changing.

Should he pull another person in at this time? Would pulling another person in break some kind of balance?

These thoughts piled up in Wen Xishu's mind, but it was difficult to draw a conclusion for a while.

Now, he could only bite the bullet and force himself to make the most favorable choice.

Wen Xishu arrived at the door and, once again, began to observe through the peephole.

And just as he saw the person clearly through the peephole, the TV suddenly rang.

There was no image, the screen was still pitch black, but a sound came out.

【A homeless person is a special existence, just like a scavenger bird; they don't eat living people, but love to eat rotten meat. Take in a homeless person, chat with him, and he can take away a "dirty thing" in the room.】

The TV had no image, no flickering. But Wen Xishu recognized that it was the TV's sound.

Whenever certain things were unlocked, the TV would also give rule supplements.

Wen Xishu had already figured this out.

What appeared outside the door at this time was exactly a homeless person. The homeless person was carrying a plastic bag, appearing skinny, and his eyes were still somewhat lecherous.

He asked timidly:

"Can you take me in to stay for an hour? Sir, I'll only stay for an hour; I smelled... the smell of food; sir, there are unclean things in your house."

"I can take one away... hehe, you can have a peaceful sleep."

Without a doubt, another choice had arrived; choosing wrong would likely lead to disaster, and choosing right... might not necessarily have good things.

Wen Xishu said:

"Can you tell me how many dirty things are in the room? I can give you more food and water. You can stay longer."

The homeless person shook his head:

"Sorry, I cannot tell you these; I will only take one away."

The opportunity to clear a "dirty thing" without spending bullets was certainly very important.

Perhaps someone else would have opened the door.

But Wen Xishu didn't do so; he realized that this was a probability problem.

First, in the room, without a doubt, Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe and Takahashi Mariko, both were dirty things.

If there were no homeless person, Wen Xishu had already reached a kind of balance.

If there were no homeless person, it didn't matter if the homeless person took Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe, because he had already found a way to extend Mariko's lurking period.

But what if... the homeless person took Mariko.

Then he would have to use bullets to have a chance to sleep peacefully. Because Mariko, who deterred Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe, would have disappeared.

"So, comprehensively judging, the appearance of the homeless person is actually a trap; on the surface, the homeless person can take away a dirty thing, which is favorable to me. But in reality, it might instead make me fall into danger."

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu said decisively:

"Sorry, there are no dirty things in my room; I cannot entertain you for the time being. You go."

After Wen Xishu finished saying this, he left the door, returned to the living room, and continued to wait for the next visitor.

A few minutes later, the homeless person at the door disappeared.

At this moment, the scene that made Wen Xishu feel lingering fear appeared.

The TV suddenly lit up. The image on the TV was the homeless person picking up things.

At the same time, the TV added a rule.

【There are indeed homeless people, but there are also fake homeless people. Please distinguish carefully. In addition, when the TV supplements rules, it will definitely be accompanied by an image.】

Once this was said, Wen Xishu had an urge to smash the TV.

"Such important rules, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Although Wen Xishu felt strange earlier, why did the TV always have images before, but there was no image at the homeless person's place?

And the TV's style had always been a hindsight style, but just now at the homeless person's place, the rule supplement came just right...

It turned out everything was fake.

Just now the TV hadn't started at all; the sound on the TV was just imitated by the fake homeless person outside the door.

"It's really hard to guard against; almost got tricked by this fake homeless person."

Even though Wen Xishu noticed the abnormality of the TV, he still believed that fake homeless person just now.

But fortunately, he calculated the gains and losses and finally refused the homeless person.

"So those who know the rules... are not just me, but also the monsters outside."

This feeling was the first time Wen Xishu had it; previous monsters were NPCs under the rule mechanism. Rules are the means for players to cheat and the iron law limiting NPC operation.

But now, the monsters on this forty-second floor are almost indistinguishable from players.

More like one is attacking, and one is defending.

They can also use the rules.

And they even know the rules better than you.

Just like the fake homeless person just now, it knows "the TV can supplement rules" and "when the TV supplements rules, the TV must be accompanied by an image."

At the same time, it also knows that Wen Xishu, as the owner, doesn't know the second point...

So it dared to take the risk and play this trick on Wen Xishu.

If Wen Xishu had accidentally opened the door, the game would have ended.

"Have to think from more angles." Wen Xishu sighed at the difficulty of this survival.

At this moment, time had passed for only fifty minutes. Now it was only 10:30 PM.

In a sense, this counts as the true middle of the night.

"According to my experience, 7:00 PM probably counts as entering the night, and 6:00 AM counts as the end of the night."

"Damn, there are still six, just today, only three hours have passed."

Wen Xishu could actually just give up.

Now he has found a kind of check and balance; he, Takahashi Mariko, and Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe are already in a delicate state of balance.

Tonight he could actually ignore any knocking on the door outside.

But now Wen Xishu realized that among those knocking on the door, there might be delivery people, homeless people... these special functional existences.

If he misses them, he might miss certain choices. Who knows if there will be some people with special functions knocking on the door later.

So Wen Xishu has to pay attention to every knock on the door at night, at least he has to go and see.

The most critical one—

"People? Are there really no people in this game? Up to now, so many people knocking on the door, is there not a single real person?"

No matter how strange the Mysterious Tower is, it has to be implemented on someone, right?

If there are no real people, then what would the forty-second floor of the Tower of Desire be like?

"If I want to get a high score, I must find a real person. Perhaps only in this way can I get the invitation letter."

Having said that, Wen Xishu really felt... that it was unreasonable for a person to appear at this time.

This kind of night is simply a hundred-ghost night walk in the true sense. Where to find a person?

Wen Xishu thought of the maze that Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe in the room mentioned not long ago.

People and ghosts outside seem to be in a maze.

"It seems I have to ask Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe a few more questions."

Due to the joint attack of two Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhes inside and outside the door, Wen Xishu forgot one thing not long ago...

That is to ask Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe, who looks most like a human, about things outside.

Based on the fact that Tetsuya Fukang Zhezhe is also "them," Wen Xishu knows that these words might not be credible.

But in any case, he can ask.

However, Wen Xishu didn't have time to ask before there was another knock on the door. A new visitor had arrived.

(End of chapter)