Chapter 130

Mariko's flirtatiousness has now become a fatal thing.

Wen Xishu said:

"Mariko, I'm very tired. Why don't you wait until I wake up?"

Mariko's hair was almost completely wrapped around Wen Xishu; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Wen Xishu was a "mummy" bound by black hair.

But at this moment, he still said, very calmly and with a sense of weariness:

"In this situation, it's just coping. What's the point of coping?"

"Wait until I'm full of energy before we do this."

Mariko looked at Wen Xishu, clearly not intending to let him off so easily, but Wen Xishu said:

"Although I promised you that our intimate behavior would escalate, isn't your one-sided demand right now a bit disrespectful to me? I'm a little disappointed in you. Is there no consideration in love at all?"

Wen Xishu looked exactly like a husband unwilling to pay his 'public grain,' attempting to use moral kidnapping:

"I thought the love between us still had a Platonic purity. I didn't expect you to be so greedy for carnal desire."

"Perhaps you don't love me at all? You like this aren't cute at all."

"If you still want to forcibly possess me, you can, but you won't see any emotion from me. Even so, do you think you should continue?"

"But you will never experience complete love."

Wen Xishu actually didn't know whether Mariko's obsession after becoming "them" was to satisfy carnal desire or to crave true love.

In Wen Xishu's view, it should be the former more, but the latter also had some share.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be talk of escalating intimate behavior; the first act would have been mating directly.

Wen Xishu guessed right.

Seeing Mariko's hair unravel bit by bit, and Mariko's expression gradually revealing a look of guilt, he let out a long sigh of relief inside.

Almost died before dawn...

Wen Xishu held Mariko in his arms:

"That's my good girl. Sleep now, we'll talk about everything when we wake up."

When he wakes up, that will be a different set of rhetoric.

Wen Xishu fell asleep instantly. Mariko nodded in understanding; deep in her eyes, there was joy, and also resentment.

Wen Xishu had a dream.

Unlike before, when Wen Xishu woke up, it felt as if time had been stolen directly.

Before, he only felt as if he had slept and yet hadn't slept.

But now, Wen Xishu had a strange dream.

In the dream, he saw a black sculpture.

The sculpture was covered in talismans.

Wen Xishu felt these talismans were very familiar; he boldly leaned forward and discovered the talismans were exactly the same as the ones in the room on the 42nd floor.

The sculpture was of a certain person, wearing a black kimono, looking somewhat serious.

The sculpture was sitting.

At first, Wen Xishu was just very strange as to why he would see such a sculpture.

But then, several kinds of voices appeared from within the sculpture.

"Why is there only this little bit of food!"

"The next client is still waiting for me!"

"Good doggy... stop playing, open the door for Mommy quickly, okay?"

"Lord God, are you going to abandon me? Didn't we agree to be together forever?"

"Kill kill kill kill, hehehe, kill you all! Kill them all!"

"How delicious. Look, everyone, how delicious!"

"What a healthy and beautiful body; such a body is destined to contribute to human evolution!"

Then, a police officer appeared beside Wen Xishu.

This police officer radiated a violent aura; it turned its head and looked at Wen Xishu:

"You also have the scent of sin on you."

Wen Xishu remained unmoved:

"Where is the evidence?"

Wen Xishu recognized it; this was the police officer who was at the door last night.

Upon hearing the word 'evidence,' the police officer was silent for a while:

"This world has many sins that leave no evidence. But they truly exist. Is it really right to blindly pursue evidence?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Before the apocalypse, some things were wrong, but after the apocalypse, some things... there's no need to follow the rules."

Wen Xishu didn't know why he had blurted out such a sentence on a whim. But after the police officer heard it, he seemed very satisfied:

"For Kashima to be able to restore order... it still lacks—opening the door."

The police officer said a strange phrase, but after this sentence was finished, Wen Xishu suddenly woke up.

Woke up.

When Wen Xishu woke up, it was already night.

Mysterious Tower, 42nd floor, second day of the seven-day Kashima survival, 19:01 PM.

The moment Wen Xishu woke up.

Besides feeling Mariko's body temperature, a prompt also appeared in his mind.

【Congratulations, you have successfully reached the second night. On this night, you will unlock a new ability—Prayer.】

【Prayer: Unfortunately, on an island full of evil spirits, the power of prayer has decreased a lot. The content you can pray for has shrunk from the original various aspects to "visitors." You can pray for the traits of the next visitor. Prayer has a certain probability of increasing the chance of visitors who meet certain traits coming to knock on the door. Good luck, Housekeeper.】

Active prayer, increasing the chance of visitors arriving!

Wen Xishu had to say, this skill was a divine skill. If he could pray for a real person to appear...

Then there were three monsters in the room now, all in the incubation period, and he had three bullets. As long as he could pray for one human! Even one! The game could end.

"According to what was described on the TV, there are four survivors on this Kashima; if I exclude myself, that's three..."

"As long as any one of the three appears, I can live safely for the next few days!"

Wen Xishu was invigorated.

But at this time, Mariko's eyes were full of love and desire:

"Lord God, have you rested well?"

"Mariko, I have rested well; I am full of energy now."

"Then... shall we begin?"

"Mm, let's start working. Today is also a day worth coping with all our might!"

"Lord God... have you forgotten what you said?"

"I haven't forgotten. Let's do that kind of thing when it's time to sleep, Mariko."

Mariko was clearly not very satisfied with this result.

But Wen Xishu said:

"For a man, career is always the most important thing, Mariko. Is your love so narrow? You actually want a man to put down his career?"

"I'm very busy at night, there are so many outside..."

Wait, Wen Xishu really wanted to say, so many poor people outside, but he suddenly remembered—

Every word the TV said, everyone else in the room could hear.

The TV said exactly this—the number of survivors is four.

But there were exactly four people in the room.

"If I say there are so many people outside, would that logically imply that the ones in the room are not people?"

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu suddenly stopped, appearing somewhat speechless. However, Mariko clearly didn't want to end the incubation period, so Mariko wasn't looking forward to Wen Xishu making this mistake.

She just looked at Wen Xishu resentfully:

"You complain that you're tired when sleeping during the day, and you complain that it delays things when sleeping at night... You wouldn't keep using these two excuses to repeatedly put me off, right? Lord God? You wouldn't do that, would you?"

This counts as the guest becoming the host.

"I wouldn't. Mariko, I love you so much, how could I use this method to drag you along? I'm not that kind of person," Wen Xishu said frankly.

With prayer, if he was lucky, he could end the game today.

Mariko restored her smiling face again and said:

"I like men with a sense of career. Although I don't know what your career is, Lord God, I won't hinder you."

"I also won't let others hinder you."

Mariko's answer made Wen Xishu very satisfied.

Wen Xishu tidied up his attire and walked out of the bedroom.

In the living room, Sanshen Banzao was still trying to charm Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie, but Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie just closed his eyes.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie was clearly also in the midst of a battle between heaven and man.

He really wanted to kill Sanshen Banzao, this dead cross-dresser who had a wrong assessment of his own charm. He really wanted to dismember him.

Sanshen Banzao was also puzzled; even if they knew there was only one real person in the room...

But there were so many monsters outside, and it could easily tame them, so why didn't it work on Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie?

It clearly didn't know Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's inner heart.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie, as the top student of Kashima, almost a person who was about to be admitted to Hujiang University with a full score, actually had a very powerful "mental strength." Manifested in...

His inner heart hid more than one personality.

At this time, all of Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's personalities defaulted to one thing—incubation.

But gradually, with Sanshen Banzao's harassment, a part of his personality also thought that he could kill Sanshen first.

Wen Xishu saw at a glance that Sanshen had overestimated his own charm, and Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's inner heart was in a state of being about to snap.

Wen Xishu suddenly really wanted to try an attempt:

"Alright, Mr. Sanshen, you can go. Your pet is not here, isn't it obvious?"

The words 'you can go' made the scene suddenly a bit eerie.

Sanshen's head tilted, Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's head also tilted, Mariko's head also tilted...

The three people actually fell into a kind of trance at the same time.

Thus, in the room, a scene that made people's hair stand on end appeared. Three people with empty eyes, tilting their necks... looked at Wen Xishu at the same time.

Fortunately, after three or five seconds, Sanshen Banzao reacted:

"I just haven't found them yet, it doesn't mean they aren't here. I can't leave yet."

At this moment, even Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie said:

"What if his dog knocks on the door? Let's wait a bit longer. Although he is very disgusting, a dead cross-dresser, he shouldn't be... driven out. No need, right?"

Mariko nodded:

"Lord God, you can't drive him away, it's too dangerous outside. My Lord God wouldn't do such an unkind thing, would he?"

Wen Xishu was slightly surprised inside.

Was this some hidden rule discovered by himself? What's wrong with the three of them? This sentence of his...

Made the three of them actually unite against a common enemy?

No...

Not right.

Wen Xishu observed carefully and found that Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie was still disgusted with Sanshen Banzao. That look couldn't be fake.

Mariko still had some kind of desire for him, and that tone and demeanor couldn't be fake either.

Sanshen itself was the same, insisting on taming the dog, insisting on believing there was its dog in the room.

This was very interesting.

Wen Xishu was actually just testing. After all, with prayer, he could wait for a real person tonight.

By then, if Sanshen left... killing Mariko and Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie would just be a matter of two bullets.

If Sanshen didn't leave, it didn't matter; three bullets were enough.

Wen Xishu was just testing on a whim.

But what he didn't expect was—

The three people's reactions were all very big; they seemed to have crashed.

"I should be unable to expel them, otherwise this game would be too simple... and Sanshen Banzao rejected my request."

"But the interesting point is here; it can reject my request, and I also can't expel them..."

"But why did they have such a huge reaction when hearing 'you can go'?"

"Could it be that some kind of rule is hidden here? What rule could it be?"

Wen Xishu noted this point; he always felt that he had inadvertently found a crucial rule.

But since he couldn't drive them away, he couldn't figure out why they had such a huge reaction.

Wen Xishu didn't think about it anymore:

"Then you stay, it's indeed very dangerous outside."

"By the way, just like I said before, the information on the TV isn't necessarily true. What do you think?"

No one spoke; the three monsters were still staring at Wen Xishu in unison.

Wen Xishu was already used to this gaze that made people lose their sanity, and said:

"Mariko, my good girl, do you remember, when I heard a certain sentence on the TV at the beginning, I said the news might be fake. You stopped a certain action at that time; you agreed with me. Right?"

Mariko had to nod.

Wen Xishu said:

"Therefore, we reach a consensus: when the TV lights up and transmits new rules, we must all understand that the rules might be true, or they might be fake."

"Student Zheyie, Mr. Banzao, what do you think? If you don't agree, I can only ask you to leave this room."

The second half of the sentence was Wen Xishu's another test.

It was very strange; clearly he couldn't force them to leave, but upon hearing the words 'leave,' Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie and Sanshen Banzao had to agree with Wen Xishu's point of view.

Wen Xishu said with certainty:

"Very good, then next, if someone knocks on the door again, that person might also be a real person, because I think the sentence 'there are only four survivors on the island at present' is fake."

"Four survivors, that must be the four of us. I don't believe there are only four of us."

"I think the TV has certain problems."

Wen Xishu went around such a big circle just to prepare for opening the door next.

Because if the words in the TV must be the truth... and the people in the room must logically be real people.

Then it would mean there are no more living people outside.

In this way, even if Wen Xishu really waited for a living person through 【Prayer】, he would have no way to open the door.

Because logically, there are no living people outside; the one knocking must be "them."

At the same time, Wen Xishu doing this also avoided the TV suddenly popping up some rule, logically forcing the monsters in the room to forcibly end the incubation period.

Undoubtedly, whether it was Mariko, Sanshen Banzao, or Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie, none of them wanted to admit that the TV rules were fake...

But Mariko had something she wanted, and Sanshen Banzao and Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie were deterred by that sentence 'please leave.'

In this way, Wen Xishu's preparatory work was completed.

Now, he started 【Prayer】.

Wen Xishu came to the door, and when he started praying in his heart, hoping for a real person to appear...

Wen Xishu clearly felt that some kind of power was at work, and his body seemed to have entered a particularly mysterious state.

【Prayer has started to take effect; from now on, you will be more likely to encounter the target you prayed for.】

【If the prayed-for target does not appear in the next visit, it will increase the probability of success for the next prayer.】

Wen Xishu didn't expect this ability to have such an effect.

"That is to say, prayer is not necessarily 100% successful, but if it fails, the probability of success later will continuously become higher..."

"I hope I can get it in one shot."

Wen Xishu's imagination was beautiful.

But he didn't get it in one shot; the room soon welcomed the visitor of the second night.

The next one to knock on the door was a deformed guy with three hands, and two eyes not at the same height, appearing crooked.

Undoubtedly, this was "them," and it was the kind of "them" that was unwilling to enter the incubation period, didn't even want to pretend, and only intended to slaughter Wen Xishu immediately after tricking him into opening the door.

But eerily, Wen Xishu found that he actually felt this was normal.

"Get lost, do you think I'm stupid? Would a normal person have three hands?"

"But you have three hands," the person outside the door said.

Wen Xishu looked at himself, damn... he really grew a third hand.

At this moment, it was as if his brain had been modified with some setting; yeah, doesn't everyone have three hands?

On the contrary, Sanshen Banzao, Takahashi Mariko, and Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie in the room... they actually only had two hands.

"They are monsters."

Once this thought appeared, Wen Xishu suddenly felt a chill down his back.

Of course he knew they were monsters, but he wouldn't admit this point, and the logic of deducing them to be monsters shouldn't be because they only had two hands... but just now, Wen Xishu even wanted to blurt it out subconsciously.

"Damn it!"

Wen Xishu bit the tip of his tongue.

He was able to do this because he kept one sentence in mind at all times—absolutely must not logically find a loophole that would make the monsters think they are monsters, letting them end the incubation period early.

This was also the psychological construction Wen Xishu had been doing for the past two days.

Even so, he had almost been breached by the monsters just now.

"Get lost, you are not welcome here, three-handed monster!"

The monster snorted coldly:

"In your room... there is only you, right? You live alone, right?"

"You're the one living alone; everyone in your household register lives in your house, but you still live alone," Wen Xishu countered.

Fury erupted in the monster's two crooked eyes, but it could do nothing to Wen Xishu.

"Your mental strength is about to fail. Tomorrow, I will come again."

Wen Xishu didn't indulge this person:

"Tomorrow you will still be scolded by me. Get lost, don't dirty my door."

The monster had to leave.

Wen Xishu also started to feel lingering fear.

Yes, this was only the second day; according to the rules on the TV—the monsters would be even more powerful on the second night. Then what about the third night, the fourth night?

What about the final seventh night?

"If I were climbing the tower in the normal order, climbing to the 42nd floor bit by bit, my magic resistance should be very, very high; perhaps only on the seventh night would there be the effect of the second night."

"But the situation now is... I chose minimalism, which is equivalent to challenging the 42nd floor at level one. The actual difficulty is probably much more terrifying than the feeling of challenging the 42nd floor by climbing the tower normally... perhaps, this is the feeling that would only be brought to me at the 60th or 70th floor, or even higher levels."

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"I must finish the battle quickly..."

But it was also at this time that Wen Xishu couldn't help but think of a question: even if he really found a human, could he definitely hold on for seven days?

According to the intensity of this mental invasion, on the sixth day, or the fifth day... the two people in the room might go crazy and collapse, right?

"Is this really the correct solution to this level?"

Wen Xishu couldn't help but think so, but soon shook his head, denying these thoughts.

"I cannot be influenced by the horror and eeriness here, and cannot let this shake my initial thoughts."

Wen Xishu looked at the three people in the room; except for Mariko, the other two looked at Wen Xishu with a look of expectation.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie and Sanshen Banzao seemed to know how much pressure Wen Xishu was under tonight.

The two were very much looking forward to Wen Xishu's next visitor being able to bring some huge mental shock to Wen Xishu.

Making Wen Xishu make a mistake.

Up to now, Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie was actually very surprised inside.

This person almost didn't make any mistakes, and could even predict certain mistakes that might appear in advance, blocking them in advance.

For example, making everyone agree—the information on the TV might be fake.

Wen Xishu also saw that the two were waiting for him to make a mistake.

【Your prayer failed, but the probability of the next prayer succeeding has increased.】

Wen Xishu started to continue 【Prayer.】

At this time, a new prompt appeared in Wen Xishu's mind—

【Prayer successful.】

Outside the door, at the same time, there was also a knocking sound.

Wen Xishu was immediately invigorated. Sanshen and Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie also felt a little nervous.

It seemed that this "visitor" was finally a bit different from before.

They clearly felt that Wen Xishu's attitude had undergone a huge change.

That emotional fluctuation was something that hadn't existed before.

"Finally... finally let me walk out! This maze is too terrifying."

Outside the door was a man, a man with a bit of a hunchback; he hunched his body, his voice carrying a slight crying tone and hoarseness.

"Sorry... I lost my composure a bit... I... I have been drifting in the maze these days!"

"I fear every corner! I thought this time, I would start fleeing crazily again, but I didn't expect, this corner is a room! A room!"

The hunchbacked man's lips were trembling with excitement.

Wen Xishu was also excited inside; at this moment, he even took out his gun, he could finally rest assured.

Next, he just needed to open the door, and after welcoming the hunchbacked man, Wen Xishu could shoot and kill the three "them" in the room.

Wen Xishu realized that he must control his emotions and not let the three monsters in the room feel anything unusual.

He turned his body slightly to ensure he could see part of the scene in the room, but at the same time could also observe the visitor outside the peephole.

The hunchbacked man whispered:

"Is... is the room full? Hello, is anyone there?"

He never received a response, so he thought, could it be that there was no one in the room?

Without anyone, naturally he couldn't enter; at this moment, the hunchbacked man's tone even carried a bit of despair.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie stood up.

Its expression was rarely a bit nervous.

If a real person came into the room, Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie knew very well what this represented.

It couldn't forcibly end the incubation period, but as a top student, it actually more or less understood that the owner of the room knew they were monsters.

And also knew the mechanism that they couldn't immediately become monsters.

So Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie revealed the determination to kill the visitor at this moment.

This action of his also prompted Sanshen Banzao, and Sanshen Banzao also reacted.

Only Mariko remained unmoved. Probably the love-struck brain really believed that she and others were different.

The tone of the person outside the door, plus the prompt of successful prayer, and the actions of Sanshen and Tetsuya Fukang...

All of this implied that this visitor would change Wen Xishu's current situation.

Wen Xishu took out his gun:

"Sit back, who allowed you to stand up? Did I not say that you have to report before acting?"

"I can kill you right now, you know very well I can do it."

At the same time, Wen Xishu tried to turn the doorknob.

This was an exciting moment, but Wen Xishu suddenly realized something was wrong.

The more it was at this time, the more amazing Wen Xishu's observation power was.

He actually caught a trace of cunning flashing in the eyes behind the lenses when Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie lowered his head.

This was a trap!

Wen Xishu turned his head abruptly and looked at the peephole.

The moment he gently turned the doorknob, he saw an eerie scene: the "hunch" behind the hunchbacked man, that hunch started to twist and squirm.

Wen Xishu stopped turning the doorknob instantly.

It was also at this moment that Wen Xishu discovered—

【Prayer successful.】 This prompt was fake. This was another mental invasion!

Really hard to guard against...

Wen Xishu was completely speechless.

In Wen Xishu's eyes, Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie didn't have a threat at first, but now it seemed that this man's level of belly-blackness was not generally high.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie stood up, showing a fierce look, appearing to be about to kill the person outside, but doing so conveyed a feeling to Wen Xishu—

The one who came outside was really a person.

Combined with the fake prompt of 【Prayer successful】, Wen Xishu almost really believed it.

But if Wen Xishu reacted that the one outside was a fake person, was "them," then Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's action just now could also be explained as "I am going to protect you."

Advance can attack, retreat can defend.

Wen Xishu looked at Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie wearing lenses and realized one thing... after Mariko's offensive ended, it was Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's turn to attack again.

"Get lost! You are not welcome here."

Wen Xishu shouted angrily at the hunchback outside the door.

Actually, Wen Xishu knew one thing very well—the monsters were more familiar with the rules than him.

This time, he was not the only one who could use the rules; the monsters could also use the rules.

They attacked, he defended.

So everything that appeared in his mind was very likely a mental invasion by the monsters.

Wen Xishu understood. But the reason he almost believed it, almost fell for it—was all because of Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's acting just now.

"I underestimated this student... at first he was outside the door, and would release barrage, which shows his emotion to want to come in was very strong."

"But after coming in, during the process of being beaten by me, the barrage didn't appear... I shouldn't have noticed it only at this time. That is to say, during the process of being beaten by me, although he appeared very scared... but in fact, his emotions were very stable."

"He has been acting all along!"

However, Wen Xishu wasn't angry and didn't think about beating Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie up. Wen Xishu said very gratefully:

"You were going to protect me just now, right? I'm really sorry, I misunderstood. Thank you very much, Tetsuya Fukang, and Sanshen, you are all good people."

Wen Xishu's reaction made Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie a bit surprised.

"This man... is as deep in schemes as I am, really annoying, I really want to kill him."

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie thought so inside.

Wen Xishu said:

"I will wait for the next visitor, but I still hope you can sit properly. Your actions just now warmed my heart, and I also realized the mistake I might make. It's really great, this mistake can no longer affect me."

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie's eyes also gradually cooled down.

Yeah, if that damn hunchback could have restrained himself just now, how good would that be? There won't be a second chance like this.

Besides... perhaps his acting still needs to be polished.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie knew very well that Wen Xishu would be in a state of high alert for a short time, even if Wen Xishu could use "Prayer." Now he probably wouldn't easily believe any hint of "Prayer successful."

He missed a chance.

【Your prayer failed, but the probability of the next prayer succeeding has increased.】

Wen Xishu received this prompt again, but this time, Wen Xishu was even thinking, could it be that even this prompt was fake?

Could it be that from a long time ago, he had already fallen into the trap?

He thought of that classic line from a classic villain in the anime world—since when did you get the illusion that I didn't use Kyoka Suigetsu?

Because even the rule prompts could be mental invasions, this also caused Wen Xishu's nerves to be too tense.

He only felt that every bush and tree looked like an enemy now.

Could everything tonight... from getting prayer, everything was a mental invasion?

Once falling into this kind of thinking, one would crazily consume oneself and be anxious.

Fortunately, Wen Xishu had a powerful memory, and through various observations and comparisons, he finally confirmed—

"No, I indeed felt that mysterious feeling after prayer started, this is not fake..."

"And, the people in the room cannot invade me; they are in the incubation period, their abilities are greatly reduced."

"So, if the rule prompt is when someone happens to be knocking on the door, I have to be suspicious."

"Calm down, calm down, this is only the second night, I cannot mess up my own position."

Level 0 challenge to the 42nd floor, even with a cheat, made Wen Xishu bear great pressure inside; this was undoubtedly the time with the strongest sense of oppression since he climbed the tower.

At this time, someone knocked on the door again.

The knocking sound was very light, very, very light.

So light that that 'thump' seemed not to exist, as if it just touched the door lightly and separated immediately.

Wen Xishu looked at the peephole for the first time.

It was a man.

About twenty-four or twenty-five years old, short hair, very ordinary appearance, not tall... maybe only 1.6 meters.

Wen Xishu said:

"Who are you?"

"Who are you? How strange... I clearly shouldn't have appeared here! Who are you! Why do you also have a room here!"

The barrage floated out.

【Why am I here! Why did I encounter a room again! Hurry and drive me away! Drive me away!】

Up to now, Wen Xishu hadn't found that the barrage could be faked, because the barrage produced under strong emotions, although not necessarily the truth, for the owner of the barrage, must be the product of true emotions.

When Wen Xishu saw this barrage, he was a bit surprised inside,

"Could it be that monsters can now forge barrage? Am I seeing an illusion now?"

Wen Xishu didn't rule out the possibility that his ability had also been explored by the monsters on the island.

Since the other party could mentally invade to create fake prompts, then making him see fake barrage might also be possible.

He had no magic resistance, and in the end, he was left to be invaded by these monsters at will.

But the place Wen Xishu felt very strange was—

"But if it's an illusion... why would he deliberately create the illusion of 'drive me away'?"

"Logically, shouldn't it be 'don't drive me away, let me in'?"

Wen Xishu felt something was wrong.

He couldn't be playing some rebellious psychology with me, right? Deliberately saying drive me away, and then betting that I am a prediction monster who goes against the grain?

Predicting my prediction?

"It's very dangerous outside, come in. I'll open the door for you." Wen Xishu intended to try.

This sentence really scared the man outside the door:

"Don't open! I beg you, don't open! I know there are other... people in your room. Right?" the short-haired man outside the door pleaded.

"There are. What's wrong? Could it be that you are not a person?" Wen Xishu was puzzled.

Wen Xishu suddenly realized, could it be that prayer was successful? But prayer was successful, why would the other party have this reaction?

Wen Xishu faintly felt that perhaps this person could solve the ultimate mystery. The two started a conversation.

"Yes, I am not a person, let me go!"

"If you want to go, could it be that I can force you to stay?"

"Then hurry and let me get lost! Or don't open the door... just don't open the door."

"Why, is it so dangerous outside?"

"Don't worry about it! Don't worry about it! I beg you, don't open the door! I don't want to go in!"

【There are only perverts in the room! There are only perverts in the room! All the owners of the rooms! Have all been assimilated by "them"! I'm done for, it will definitely open the door, right?】

【Damn it! Damn it! Why did I appear here! Who will save me, how can I go back!】

【That damn mage! It must be that damn mage!】

【According to the rules, once I encounter this room... I will encounter another room, right?】

The content of this barrage was too strange.

So strange that it somewhat subverted Wen Xishu's cognition.

Monsters all wanted to come in one by one, because there were living people in the room, and they craved to devour the various desires of living people to gain the power of evolution.

But this guy outside the door actually didn't want to come in?

He even mentioned a mage...

Wen Xishu was a bit confused. Why didn't he want to come in? There were only perverts in the room, all the owners of the rooms... had been assimilated by "them."

Where did this come from?

Wen Xishu felt that this person's words seemed to subvert something. But this subversion, however, happened to... make Wen Xishu feel that he seemed to be about to grasp the key point.

"This is a human. This is a real human... my prayer was successful."

"Unlike monsters, monsters can walk away directly. Once a monster asks you if you live alone, and gets a negative answer, and it is indeed not living alone... the monster can leave."

"But people are different, people actually need to refuse!"

"In other words, if I don't refuse the other party, the other party cannot leave. This is what I can guess from this person's words at present."

"And if I open the door, he will be forcibly invited in. This point can be deduced from his scared attitude at this time. He doesn't want me to open the door, which means if I open the door... he will be a guest in this room."

"He also didn't guess wrong, there are indeed 'them' in the room. But the problem is, once I invite him in, and then kill 'them,' wouldn't we be safe?"

"Why is he so scared?"

Wen Xishu really wanted to ask the answer to this question directly.

But the other party was already scared to the point of urinary incontinence at this time; yes, Wen Xishu saw through the peephole that the other party's pants, at the thigh, were already wet.

【Don't invite me in! I don't want to be tortured! I don't want to be tortured! I don't want to encounter misfortune!】

Too abnormal!

Humans don't want to go in... humans don't want to go in...

Wen Xishu repeated this point silently. He only needed to open the door now, and he could be safe. Actually, if it were someone else, not seeing this barrage, they would probably have opened the door directly.

Wen Xishu also considered this point.

"If there was no barrage, I might have opened the door... for one, I would have a human teammate, and only then could I be truly safe..."

"For two, I also really wanted to ask clearly what was going on. I would subconsciously have a feeling... that he misunderstood me. I feel that I only need to explain clearly..."

Yes, these thoughts appeared in Wen Xishu's mind, making Wen Xishu feel that he was right to open the door.

But the more it was like this, the more he felt strange. So Wen Xishu directly started to recall all the clues of today.

Including his dream.

"Let me sort out all the information now..."

"First, humans don't want to go in."

"In the dream, I dreamed of a sculpture, and there were seven voices in the sculpture..."

"The outline of that sculpture... was a person. The police officer beside me told me that for Kashima to restore order... it still lacks opening the door."

"In addition, when I mentioned 'you can go,' the strange expressions of Sanshen and Tetsuya Fukang Zheyie..."

"They clearly wouldn't be driven away by me, and I didn't have that kind of ability, but they still changed their attitudes immediately."

When all the information was connected, it was like a light suddenly flashing in the dark night.

Wen Xishu's eyes brightened instantly at this moment.

"So that's it! So that's it! I finally understood the true meaning of this game!"

Wen Xishu suddenly saw the light.

The difficulty of this game was even higher than he expected, because at this moment, he truly knew that the purpose of the game was actually not to keep people.

"So... you go, I allow you to go, you leave."

Perhaps suspecting he heard wrong, the short-haired man outside the door looked at the peephole in astonishment:

"You really let me go? Really? You don't invite me in!?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Yes, I don't invite you in, you can go, but you have to do one thing for me. If you accidentally encounter another room, I hope you help me bring a message to the owner of that room."

"Bring a message? Wh... what message? Let him invite me in!? Isn't that the same?" The man was still very afraid of entering the room.

Wen Xishu said:

"I understand you, I cooperate with you. You just tell him, the owner of the other room wants to say to you—I understand you, I cooperate with you."

These words were so inexplicable.

But the man still said:

"I... I will do as you say."

Wen Xishu sneered:

"You'd better do as I say, otherwise, I can still make you appear here again. If you didn't do as I say, you won't be so lucky next time. There is... more than just me in my room. I can make you appear once, I can make you appear a second time."

The man didn't understand, what does this count as?

A pervert saying to another pervert, I understand you? But considering... he actually suddenly appeared here, he didn't dare to violate the will of the pervert in this room.

Wen Xishu only hoped that this barrage was real, especially that line "according to the rules, once you encounter this room, you will also encounter another room."

Only then could he ensure that the "human" in front of him could pass on the words he wanted to pass on.

Choosing not to pull the person into the room, but making this move, was Wen Xishu's guess and gamble on the entire Kashima "mutation."

And next, when the short-haired man encountered the next room, Wen Xishu would know the result of this gamble.

At the same time, the TV lit up.

The TV broadcast a rule that Wen Xishu had just realized. This was also what made Wen Xishu understand the essence of the game...

A crucial rule.

The picture on the TV was a talisman. The moment they saw the TV screen, everyone in the room, including Mariko, had somewhat strange expressions.

And this rule was like this—

【Rule Supplement 1: The rule supplements of the TV are always hindsight; when you realize a certain rule, the rule is no longer a secret. Of course, if you cannot realize it, then the TV will never supplement it.】

【Rule Supplement 2: They cannot resist entering the room; their fate is to constantly knock on the door, tricking the homeowner into opening the door. But only after entering the room will they realize that the conditions for leaving are so special that... perhaps they can never leave.】

(End of chapter)