Chapter 132: The Tower of Desire, More Twisted Than the Mysterious Tower

【Starting from that policy that destroyed everything, Kashima, as a pilot city, received a massive amount of beautified propaganda. This country tried to make other countries understand that only by doing this... could one use magic to defeat magic.

Everything in Kashima began to mutate. There is too much misfortune hidden here. Please find the person you believe is worth saving and let them find happiness.】

This was Wen Xishu's mission for the Tower of Desire this time.

The mission itself didn't have much that required interpretation, but the difficulty was immense...

"There is too much misfortune hidden here... find the person I believe is worth saving."

If a place hides too many unfortunate people, then there are simply too many people worth saving.

According to Wen Xishu's past experience, to obtain a high-rating ending, one must possess the ability to change the trajectory of a key character's fate.

At this very moment, Wen Xishu was in a room; it was a hospital ward.

Due to Minimalism, Wen Xishu's luck value had been cleared to zero. Furthermore, this was the forty-second floor, and the base luck requirement to approach key targets was very high...

The base luck requirement to obtain a good identity and a good start was also very high.

If not for the invitation letter, the place where Wen Xishu might have appeared would have been some remote corner far away from the key targets.

Wen Xishu's start this time was very poor.

When he opened his eyes, what he saw was the hospital ceiling with an old-fashioned ceiling fan hanging from it. There were other people in the ward, but they were separated by curtains.

Wen Xishu checked himself and discovered that there was no useful information in his memory.

"What a deadly entry point; not a shred of useful memory."

Wen Xishu didn't even know how he had entered the hospital. He checked his body and found it to be completely intact.

"Why am I in the hospital? I'm clearly not sick."

"No... you are sick," the patient next to him said in a slightly hoarse voice.

Separated by the curtain, Wen Xishu couldn't see this person, but he had already begun pulling out the various tubes in his body.

"You are the same as me... Heh, we are all people abandoned by the era. This is our sickness; our misfortune is simply because we cannot integrate into this era."

This was indeed a sentence the islanders loved to use: we are all people abandoned by XXX, and the new era has no place for us.

Wen Xishu couldn't be bothered to respond and prepared to get up and leave.

But at this moment, the patient next to him said something that made Wen Xishu suddenly stop:

"I want to grow a third hand. I hope this surgery goes smoothly so that I can... successfully grow a third hand. As long as I possess specialty, I can integrate into this island."

"I want to evolve! I want to evolve! When will it be my turn for surgery!"

The patient next to him became emotionally agitated.

Wen Xishu suddenly thought of the doctor who performed the horrifying surgeries. He suddenly had the desire to ask:

"You mean, we aren't sick? You're having surgery to make yourself... special?"

The patient said somewhat strangely:

"Isn't that why you're lying here?"

Wen Xishu didn't speak; he didn't know how to respond.

After a long while, the patient began to mutter to himself:

"A goddess came to Hujiang... they say there are five holes there... if I could, I really wish I could evolve four extra little brothers."

"Then I would be her most compatible partner, right?"

"I heard she goes around doing that kind of thing with people, spreading the special evolutionary bacteria from Hujiang to our Kashima."

Wen Xishu immediately thought of Takahashi Zhenlizi.

This start... why does it feel as weird as the Mysterious Tower?

Zhenlizi is from Hujiang, Zhenlizi likes doing that kind of thing with people... Zhenlizi carries various viruses, counting as a biochemical mother body.

Thinking about it this way, it really fits Zhenlizi's style too well.

But how is it that in the Tower of Desire, Zhenlizi's reputation has actually improved?

"That woman you mentioned... is her name Takahashi Zhenlizi?" Wen Xishu asked.

The patient next to him was a bit angry:

"I think so, I'm not sure, but is it really okay for you to call the goddess by her name so directly?"

"Having a go with her... either you die, or you evolve. But that feeling, even if I died, I'd be willing; it's better than... better than this surgery."

Wen Xishu said:

"Then the doctor performing our surgery... what's the situation with him?"

The patient raged:

"Are you suffering from amnesia? How can you know nothing? The doctor is naturally a divine physician; he can give us ordinary people the chance to evolve."

"Only in this way can we integrate into the new era."

Wen Xishu said:

"The new era of nationwide mutation?"

The patient spat:

"What mutation! It's evolution, it's evolution! All diseases can potentially bring us new evolutionary possibilities! Do you understand!"

Wen Xishu had a feeling that from the moment he received the invitation letter, he had entered a hallucination.

He had never left the Mysterious Tower; he was still in the Mysterious Tower now.

Otherwise, it was hard to convince himself... that in the world of the Tower of Desire, in some country, a nation would do such a thing.

When the public highly approves of certain anti-human behaviors... it is very likely because the rulers at a higher level also approve, and then use policy to stimulate it.

Combining the mission introduction, Wen Xishu felt...

The island nation in the Three Towers World had made some extremely terrifying decision.

Just as Wen Xishu was thinking about these things, footsteps came from outside the ward; they were the nurse's footsteps.

"Number 27, Fu Jianyi Bo, you are about to start surgery. Are you ready?"

"I am ready!"

The patient with such a good name was the one next to Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu only felt... was this surgery too hasty?

Next, he heard the movements of several people, as if they were pushing the hospital bed out together.

Wen Xishu didn't want to stay here anymore; he decided to leave. Tearing off the various IV drips tied to his body, Wen Xishu sat up.

Then, with footsteps that made almost no sound, he began to walk out of the ward.

There was no one in the corridor, and the doors of all the wards were closed, but the corridor of this hospital made one feel a strange sense of oppression.

It was as if it were an esophagus.

Wen Xishu looked around and found there were no cameras in the corners.

After a short moment of silence, he decided to start sprinting.

Although Minimalism had emptied his attribute panel, Wen Xishu's sequence power combined with his own freakish attributes as a parkour expert gave him ultra-fast speed that surpassed human limits.

Not long after he ran out... the hospital triggered a red alarm.

The warm yellow lights in the corridor turned into flashing red.

The alarm sound combined with the constantly flashing red light gave one an extremely dangerous feeling.

This instead stimulated Wen Xishu's adrenaline, and his speed became faster and faster.

At this moment, the door of a ward on the first floor of the hospital building opened.

A deformed human with six legs, resembling a spider, began to chase Wen Xishu.

"Stop! Stop! You restless patient! You are abnormal! You are abnormal! If you go out, you will only harm society!"

Wen Xishu didn't expect... that he would be able to see an evolutionary species in the Tower of Desire world...

But it seemed different from other normal or rare species; the monster behind him still possessed human thinking and could speak...

And although the appearance made one feel very terrified, with six legs like a spider, this person only ran relatively fast and did not give Wen Xishu the sense of oppression he felt when facing rare species or even higher-level creatures.

The six-legged person was clearly much faster than an ordinary person, but still couldn't outrun Wen Xishu...

To the point that the six-legged person began to wonder, could it be that this person had already completed the surgery?

This doubt made his speed slower and slower, and Wen Xishu finally, with the help of a running start, performed a parkour-style climb and jumped out of the hospital.

The hospital was on the edge of Kashima, and around the hospital was a woodland.

Wen Xishu could see the buildings in the distance; that was the city center of Kashima.

This island was not large, and the buildings were all concentrated in the center of the island.

"Although there are no useful memories... I can distinguish my possible location in the Mysterious Tower room based on the scene when looking through the peephole in the Mysterious Tower!"

Wen Xishu began to run toward the center of Kashima. Along the way, he discovered that even the trees were twisted; some tree roots actually grew on the branches.

There were also some trees that bloomed with white flowers, and the texture of those flowers was like layers upon layers of mold piled up.

"Is this really the Tower of Desire? The degree of distortion feels far beyond the Mysterious Tower."

This was Wen Xishu's true feeling.

When he looked outside through the peephole in the Mysterious Tower, although he couldn't see anything, he felt that the streets outside seemed to be normal streets.

Now that he had come to the Tower of Desire, he discovered that this place was simply not a place for humans to survive.

There were many such strange scenes. Wen Xishu ran wildly all the way, escaped the hospital, passed through the eerie forest, and finally arrived at the residential area of Kashima.

He soon discovered a convenience store. Its location was relatively remote, and next to the convenience store was a stone tablet that said "Welcome to Kashima."

Wen Xishu discovered that on the ground, one could see some internal organs from time to time, mixed with blood and pus.

When he approached the convenience store, he found the convenience store owner was vomiting.

The owner had no hair, wore a straw hat on his back, held a palm-leaf fan in his hand, and his teeth presented a sharp, beast-like shape, but also carried the yellow stains of an old smoker.

"Want to buy something? I recently imported a batch of canned goods from Hujiang; these canned goods are really good."

The convenience store owner introduced the canned goods to Wen Xishu very enthusiastically, as if he were certain Wen Xishu would buy them.

"This peach canned good contains the saliva and urine of Hachishaku-sama. Eat it, hehehe, you might die, but you might also become as tall as her."

"And this fish canned good, eat it, and you will become smart. Just like people often say... eating fish supplements the brain."

"I see you don't seem to have any external features; why not try this drink? This drink is incredible, a treasure of mine; it is said to be a fusion of ostrich blood, eagle blood, vulture blood, and the blood of the winged Tian Yu-sama from Hujiang. Drink it, and you might just fly!"

The owner revealed sharp teeth and smiled hideously.

Wen Xishu had no interest in these products. He saw a canned good the owner had opened, which was the one that could make people grow taller.

Clearly, the canned good mixed with saliva and urine made the owner start vomiting crazily.

But this owner felt it was a precious item, so he caught it with a basin. He didn't pour out the vomit either. Presumably... he had other plans.

Wen Xishu realized that it was probably difficult for normal people to survive here:

"I want to ask about something."

"Then you have to buy something first, don't you?"

"I can't afford it."

"Oh... you must be an outsider, a guy who doesn't know etiquette." The owner began to bare his fangs.

His teeth were like a beast's, so making this movement was quite threatening.

But Wen Xishu didn't buy it.

"You might have misunderstood my meaning; asking about something, to me, is actually two words: 'beat' and 'listen to things'."

Wen Xishu directly raised his fist and began to beat the convenience store owner violently.

Clearly, Wen Xishu was a bit angry.

On this journey, whether it was the Mysterious Tower or the Tower of Desire, Wen Xishu felt a bit stifled; he needed to release his anger.

So Wen Xishu's fists didn't hold back at all. Although he no longer had an attribute panel, his full-force beating still caused the convenience store owner to be quickly injured, with a bruised and swollen face.

During this process, Wen Xishu asked several questions.

The barrage obtained provided the following intelligence—

1:

This island was not the Okinawa island of his past life in Wen Xishu's impression... this island actually corresponded to a place called Fukushima.

2:

The apocalypse is approaching. Human powerhouses like An Rong in Jicheng had long sensed that the end was near, and many strange phenomena had appeared. Correspondingly, some big figures in the island nation had sensed it too.

In order to allow the citizens of the island nation to survive in the apocalypse, under the influence of a certain "God," the upper levels made a decision that shocked the world...

"The apocalypse is approaching, and we will face a large number of monsters, but monsters are not scary; as long as we evolve first, we can catch the monsters off guard!"

"We will make the island nation great again, and the glory of being number one in the world will fall upon our citizens! Join us and start the journey of evolution!"

"We will rule the world!"

It is reported that the island nation, through the help of a certain "God," found a way to allow humans to withstand the mutations brought by radiation, while making radiation no longer fatal to humans.

3:

Hujiang and Kashima became the cities for piloting the terrifying plan mentioned above.

To be precise, Hujiang was only a small-scale pilot, while Kashima was a large-scale pilot.

Although Hujiang was a step ahead, it only conducted closed-type experiments on a portion of people.

And Kashima used the entire island as a laboratory.

A large amount of advertising began to bombard various cities and islands of the island nation.

First was the new aesthetic; if you didn't have any special features on your body, you were ugly.

Under the bombardment of massive advertising, people gradually had this viewpoint implanted.

Secondly, it was the beautification of various demons and ghosts.

Birdmen with wings, monsters with three eyes, octopus men whose lower bodies had completely turned into tentacles, multi-handed and multi-footed people whose limbs began to grow irregularly...

Under massive propaganda, there were more and more monsters in Kashima.

4:

Normal people are shameful.

When the abnormal became the majority, normal and abnormal swapped positions.

Normal people need to be transformed. All ways that can make people become abnormal... food, surgery, and even mating, are worth promoting.

One must complete nationwide evolution before the apocalypse; one cannot let this country have even one normal person, because normal people cannot survive in the apocalypse. Seeing a normal person but not urging them to evolve, not helping them to evolve... that is indifference to life.

Under this viewpoint, normal people who feared so-called "evolution" all hid away.

Currently in this country, Hujiang has already seen extremely small-scale mutations, but it is completely different from Kashima; Kashima is large-scale mutation.

And other cities are still similar to normal cities, just also shrouded in the haze of the apocalypse.

The explanation received by other cities is—"We are using Kashima as an experimental site to explore the way for humans to survive in the apocalypse."

But how to survive, how to explore, was not told to the outside world.

In a sense, the entire island of Kashima is extremely pathological. Hujiang is actually not that pathological; Hujiang only had a small number of people secretly used as experimental subjects.

All of this is only known to the people of Kashima, but Kashima now—can only be entered, not escaped.

This was all the intelligence Wen Xishu obtained.

The behavior of the convenience store owner, who was beaten to the point of being on his last breath, made Wen Xishu feel a bit pathetic...

This owner was crawling step by step toward the shelves. It seemed he was looking for some kind of canned good that could give him power.

"This world is too broken. This country has become like this, probably because a 'God' participated."

Standing at the door of the convenience store, Wen Xishu thought of the Master.

What role does the Master play here?

"Doctor, delivery man, gourmet, homeless person, host, nymphomaniac, and top student."

"Why are these seven people different from other monsters? Why are those seven so special in the Mysterious Tower?"

Wen Xishu felt that he had to find the Master first.

Wen Xishu took out the Pseudo-Fate Luo Pan.

During the trip to the Mysterious Tower, Wen Xishu did not use these items. Although he felt immense pressure, he ultimately relied on his own ability to hold on.

The save-loading ability of the Scorpio Dagger was not used even once.

But right now, Wen Xishu needed to use items, otherwise he couldn't find the mission target, because of the information in the mission introduction—there were too many pathetic people on this island.

People chasing pathology and distortion were already broken at the root. It was as if everyone was a breaker.

It was as if everyone was worth saving.

With such a huge population base, finding the target would probably be very difficult. Wen Xishu could only choose to use items.

Wen Xishu silently recited the Master, thinking of the Master's appearance in his mind. He had a feeling that the sculpture in the dream was the Master.

After having a definite desire...

The Luo Pan began to rotate, but the needle of the Luo Pan was rotating randomly again.

This meant that finding the Master was dangerous. Or... the Master himself was a huge danger.

Seeing the Luo Pan needle spinning wildly, Wen Xishu frowned, thinking of two possibilities.

"Perhaps... the Master really is the mastermind. Everyone tells me the Master is evil, the Master is the source of misfortune... but I resist all of this; I subconsciously think, perhaps the Master is the one with the most bitter life. Because I refuse to believe information that is easily obtained..."

"But is there a possibility that the Master really is the final boss?"

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"Of course, there is another possibility: the Master is imprisoned, and there is a huge dangerous object where the Master is imprisoned."

Wen Xishu thought for a while, thinking of the process of obtaining the invitation letter...

He ultimately ruled out the first possibility.

"I know there is danger here, but then again... this island might be more dangerous than the lower levels of the Mysterious Tower; there is nowhere that is safe."

"Your way of judging danger is different from mine; I suggest you work honestly and give me a definite direction. After all, even if I die, I can load a save, can't I?"

Wen Xishu actually wasn't sure if this Luo Pan could sense his deep-seated wishes.

So he planned to try it. Since it was a replica of an artifact that could guide the Phoenix constellation Ding Dong to avoid the apocalypse, it should be able to understand some of the owner's requirements.

Sure enough, after Wen Xishu's words, the Luo Pan's wildly spinning needle slowly began to point in one direction.

Wen Xishu didn't say much; after kicking the convenience store owner unconscious, he immediately moved in the direction of the Luo Pan needle.

……

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The road to finding the Master was far more twisted than Wen Xishu had imagined.

Wen Xishu also understood during this pursuit—why the forty-second floor of the Mysterious Tower had such a great sense of oppression...

The streets of Kashima were simply full of monsters. The entire Kashima, humans probably lived in the shadows.

This was simply an "apocalypse experience server." The real apocalypse hadn't arrived yet, but the island nation had already created an apocalypse in advance.

"On the timeline, at this time, Jack had just killed his best friend... Tang Rui and I were preparing to kill in the rainy night..."

"Who would have thought that before the apocalypse arrived, on a small island in this world, it was already full of apocalyptic atmosphere."

"This decision of the island nation probably wasn't caused by the breakers, but by a 'God' who is countless times more terrifying than the breakers."

Wen Xishu couldn't guess for the time being which constellation's handiwork this was.

"But it shouldn't be Virgo, not Scorpio, and not Gemini..."

The streets were full of deformed and twisted humans.

Although the appearance was twisted, the heart might not necessarily be twisted, but if the things people chased were twisted themselves, then the soul must be moving in the direction of distortion.

When Wen Xishu passed by an electronics mall, he discovered that the exhibition TVs inside were playing a program.

The person being interviewed was a student who looked very normal—Tetsuya Fukang Zheye.

Seeing Tetsuya Fukang Zheye, Wen Xishu naturally stopped his footsteps.

"Having achieved such a high score, how do you feel?" The reporter was interviewing Tetsuya Fukang Zheye.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheye said with the habitual smiling face of a good student:

"I am very happy; I hope to be able to go to Hujiang University, hoping to fulfill my father and mother's wish."

"Your father and mother must be very happy too, right?"

"They are probably happy."

Tetsuya Fukang Zheye's smile was a bit playful. Wen Xishu suddenly thought... perhaps Tetsuya Fukang Zheye's parents were already dead.

Killed by Tetsuya Fukang Zheye.

At this moment, the reporter asked Tetsuya Fukang Zheye a question:

"By the way, have you completed your evolution?"

The camera turned to the reporter; the reporter's neck was significantly longer than others. It was so long that it made one feel like some kind of limb.

Without a doubt, the reporter had also mutated under the influence of radiation.

Tetsuya Fukang Zheye said at this time:

"Of course. Such a policy that can add points, I will naturally respond to it."

A close-up shot of Tetsuya Fukang Zheye came.

Wen Xishu saw... Tetsuya Fukang Zheye's eyeballs began to rotate; from the normal-colored pupils, they turned into dark green pupils in the blink of an eye, and in another blink, they turned into red pupils.

Even... at a certain angle, one could see several pupils in Tetsuya Fukang Zheye's eyes.

He had indeed begun to mutate, only it was not yet known what Tetsuya Fukang Zheye's ability in the Mysterious Tower actually was.

Wen Xishu only guessed that when Tetsuya Fukang Zheye revealed different eyeballs, he switched to different "personalities."

But more specific abilities were still unclear until now.

After watching the interview about Tetsuya Fukang Zheye, Wen Xishu didn't linger, but continued to run in the direction of the needle.

During this process, the Luo Pan's needle changed direction several times. Unknowingly, Wen Xishu actually left the center of the island and walked toward another edge of Kashima.

There was a mountain on the south side of Kashima, and the top of the mountain was the highest place in the entire Kashima. There was originally a temple on the top of the mountain.

It's just that the mountain path had long been destroyed, artificially destroyed, making it a very difficult thing to want to go up the mountain.

Wen Xishu saw the temple from afar; without hesitation, he began to climb the mountain.

Although the mountain path was destroyed, for Wen Xishu, climbing the mountain was not too difficult.

After about an hour, Wen Xishu climbed this highest mountain in Kashima with his bare hands.

The deformed and twisted trees were each hideous and terrifying, as if blocking people from entering the temple.

Wen Xishu saw that the insects on this island had all become abnormally fat; the beetles were larger than a palm and flashed with strange blue light, seeming to be highly poisonous.

Those spiders, which he had only seen on TV, the size of a human head, were weaving webs and crawling in the twisted and eerie woods.

No creature was spared.

Under the influence of huge radiation... whether it was humans, plants, or animals and insects... they all became twisted and deformed.

Wen Xishu could imagine that if he were bitten by a mountain mosquito here, his body would probably be injected with countless carcinogenic viruses in an instant.

Wen Xishu took out the Scorpio Dagger, used it as a walking stick, pushed aside some overly lush branches and leaves, and after walking cautiously and carefully all the way, finally arrived at the temple gate.

The plaque of the temple had already been smashed; one could only see the word "Temple".

The entire temple also appeared extremely dilapidated.

Wen Xishu walked along the temple stairs and arrived at the location of the main hall; he sensed a strange aura.

To be honest, if he encountered danger now, it would be really hard for him to escape. Going up the mountain was difficult, and going down the mountain was not easy either.

There was black mist around the temple, giving Wen Xishu a feeling of being in the Slaughter Tower.

Those monsters guarding a certain area would carry this kind of black mist.

Wen Xishu gripped the dagger tightly and slowed his footsteps.

Just at this moment, he suddenly heard movement from behind him.

Wen Xishu was startled and instinctively dodged to the side. He saw a huge figure swinging a police baton toward Wen Xishu's head.

That was a policeman, only his body had long been deformed, his face was full of rotting flesh, and one could even see white bones.

"Sneaky, must be a villain! Die!"

The policeman didn't expect that Wen Xishu could dodge his sneak attack, so he began to swing the baton crazily.

Wen Xishu's figure was so agile; he could dodge a sneak attack, and he dodged this frontal attack calmly and precisely.

"Wait a moment! I am not an enemy, I have no malice, and I am not a deformed and twisted person!"

After Wen Xishu dodged several rounds of the policeman's baton attacks, he jumped back directly, then slightly raised his hands to indicate he had no malice.

This action also made the policeman frown, but he indeed did not continue to attack.

"I came to find the Master; I came from outside... I want to know the truth about this place."

There could be no mistake.

This was the scene in the dream; when Wen Xishu saw the steps in front of the temple, he felt that sense of familiarity.

And every time he had a dream, the policeman appeared in the dream.

So Wen Xishu was certain that this was the scene in the dream. Deep in the main hall of the temple, in that pitch-black darkness, the Master must be there.

"This world has long been broken; even if there are normal people, how could they think of knowing the truth through the Master?"

"There can't be normal people here; how can you prove there are normal people here?"

The policeman stopped swinging the baton and chose to draw his gun.

Wen Xishu simply threw away the dagger:

"How about... I take off my pants?"

He remembered the rules on the TV—they, some of them, didn't have anything down there.

Wen Xishu suddenly had a feeling that he was knocking on the door, trying to get the owner inside to open the door.

After this sentence was spoken, the policeman was also silent for a few seconds.

Afterward, a voice came from deep in the main hall:

"Mr. Murata, please stop, let this benefactor in. If you, benefactor, are not afraid of me, then please come in."

Wen Xishu was naturally not afraid.

He walked into the main hall of the temple; it was as if light could not enter here. Once he stepped in, he felt absolute darkness wrapping around him.

Wen Xishu immediately became vigilant.

But in the next instant, the sound of a wooden fish being struck rang out.

The darkness quickly receded, and the entire main hall was filled with golden light. The original sense of dilapidation also vanished at this moment.

But Wen Xishu had a premonition that all of this might just be a hallucination. All of this might just be a means of the Master.

At the same time, Wen Xishu saw the Master wearing monk robes, kneeling on a cushion, striking the wooden fish with a sacred and solemn attitude.

"I offended you just now, benefactor. I am the Master you speak of; you can call me Master Lingqing."

The Master's age surprised Wen Xishu quite a bit.

Wen Xishu never expected that the Master's appearance would be so young and so clean.

Lingqing had a clean face and looked to be only in his early twenties.

He said with a clear smile:

"Benefactor, you carry too many items with spiritual energy on you, so Mr. Murata thought you were in cahoots with... that God."

Wen Xishu was startled; this mentioned God?

"Did the scene in Kashima scare you?" Master Lingqing asked.

Wen Xishu nodded, not denying that he had been scared.

In Fengcheng, Scorpio let the apocalypse arrive in the form of a zombie siege through John.

And now, he didn't know which constellation's handiwork it was, letting the apocalypse arrive in the form of "radiation monsters."

It was also the arrival of the apocalypse, but Wen Xishu had to admit—the apocalypse in Kashima was much more terrifying.

Zombies, no matter how you look at them, are all those few styles. But the humans in Kashima, some styles are rarer than rare species.

"Actually... my true appearance now is also very scary. So I pulled you into a hallucination. Sorry, I was afraid I would scare you," Master Lingqing said frankly.

That is to say, the Master is no longer human?

Wen Xishu suddenly remembered that in the Mysterious Tower, that short-haired man said the house was full of monsters.

Perhaps these monsters also included the Master.

He followed this point in his heart and seemed to understand the determination the Master had made.

Wen Xishu said:

"Master Lingqing, I want to know the cause of the whole incident."

Master Lingqing shook his head and smiled:

"I will naturally tell you everything you want to know, benefactor, but I need to understand one thing first: where do you come from?"

"Or let me ask more clearly, benefactor, which time period in the future do you come from?"

Wen Xishu was stunned; he really didn't expect Master Lingqing to ask such a question.

"Which future? What does that mean?"

Master Lingqing said:

"Benefactor, you only ask about the cause, not the consequence, which shows you know the consequence. And... people who come to Kashima should be extremely hateful toward me."

"I can no longer leave the mountain, and outsiders shouldn't even know about me, so I was thinking, benefactor, perhaps you come from the future?"

In any case, guessing that a person comes from the future was still too detached. The above reasons didn't hold up at all.

So Wen Xishu asked:

"Could it be that you have seen other people from the future? Otherwise, you wouldn't make such an absurd guess, right?"

Master Lingqing nodded:

"I have indeed seen them. According to that person, I have seen them more than once. It's just that I don't remember."

Wen Xishu had to admit that this conversation development was unexpected. However, he also realized that the Master had probably already found the "breaker."

It was "that person" in the Master's mouth. And "that person" was probably very arrogant; he had already defeated Master Lingqing, so he was very rampant in telling Master Lingqing some memories belonging to the breaker.

Wen Xishu was not in a hurry; since he had already found the Master, everything would naturally be known.

He decided to proceed step by step. Wen Xishu said:

"Yes, I do indeed come from the future."

Master Lingqing sighed:

"What is the future you are in like?"

Wen Xishu thought for a while and decided to tell the truth. He began to recount his experience.

After listening, Master Lingqing sighed with emotion:

"Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. I think that at that time, I, hearing your words, must have been greatly encouraged. I didn't expect that there would still be people like me, trying to save this island that has long been mutated and twisted."

Wen Xishu said:

"Can you tell me all of this now?"

Master Lingqing didn't nod, but looked at Wen Xishu seriously. After looking for a long time, the Master sighed:

"But even if I tell you all of this, benefactor, I'm afraid it won't have much meaning."

Wen Xishu said:

"Why?"

Master Lingqing said:

"Benefactor, there are some things we are powerless to change... the future you are in is very bad."

"But that is not the only future; perhaps... when you return to the time you are in, you will find that the future has become even worse."

Wen Xishu seemed to have grasped some key information:

"You mean... the past is changing? No, that's not right, the present is changing? There exists a person who can change the past and the present, thereby changing the future?"

Lingqing was slightly stunned, surprised at this benefactor's comprehension:

"Yes, benefactor, the future you are in is also just a past tense. You cannot defeat 'that person'. And the future you are in will also change because of 'that person'."

"He might not be as... able to travel to such a distant future as you, but in this time loop, no one knows better than him everything that is about to happen."

"He is already a God on Kashima."

"He also said that even if people 'from the future' appear, they cannot pose a threat to him."

"Because people from the future will be constrained by other rules and cannot even commit a single act of violence against people on the island. This is also his greatest reliance."

"Although on this point, he seems to be the same, but he can command all the monsters on Kashima..."

"Especially, the seven people you mentioned who belong to the future you are in: gourmet, homeless person, doctor, nymphomaniac, top student, delivery man, host."

"He has already found the seven truly key people in countless loops."

"I'm afraid he has already begun to win over those seven people."

Wen Xishu understood everything in an instant.

"So that's it. I was wondering before, how did Zhenlizi become a female Bodhisattva?"

"In the Mysterious Tower version I am in... Zhenlizi is just an ordinary girl from Hujiang."

"But in the Tower of Desire version, that patient clearly has a very respectful attitude toward Zhenlizi."

"And that doctor, Zhenlizi is clearly very afraid of the doctor. When I asked her why she didn't go to the doctor for treatment, her answer was that the doctor would hurt her."

"It can be seen that in the Mysterious Tower version... Zhenlizi thinks the gourmet is a good person and the doctor is a bad person."

"Including Zhenlizi herself... is not a good person either."

"But as the breaker gradually influences everything... Zhenlizi has become a female Bodhisattva. The doctor has become a divine physician who promotes evolution, and the gourmet... well, it's very likely that in the Mysterious Tower version I am in, the gourmet has already been beautified."

"Simply put, the breaker has finally found the seven most key people in loop after loop, and is constantly helping those seven people... complete beautification."

"He is changing the future bit by bit! Bit by bit making the trajectory of fate produce greater breakage!"

In Wen Xishu's original Mysterious Tower, the apocalypse had already arrived, and Zhenlizi didn't have a good reputation even after becoming a monster.

But now, in the Tower of Desire version, before the apocalypse arrived, Zhenlizi had already become a "female Bodhisattva."

That doctor had even directly changed from a villain performing horrifying experiments into a saint who bestows evolution.

"If I don't ferret out the breaker... I can imagine that after returning to the Mysterious Tower, the 42nd floor I am in will probably be even more twisted..."

Wen Xishu suddenly revealed a smile, which surprised Master Lingqing:

"Why is the benefactor smiling so happily?"

Wen Xishu said:

"My luck is very bad; this journey's distortion and breakage degree indeed exceeded expectations."

"But correspondingly, my luck is also very good, because I found you, Master, and because of you, Master, I know the clues to 'that person'. This is too good."

Master Lingqing didn't understand:

"Why does the benefactor say so?"

Wen Xishu said:

"I need to know what happened to this island; this is also the reason I came to find you, Master."

"But before that, I need to tell you one thing. 'That person' is wrong."

Master Lingqing was even more confused, but seemed to see some hope. He asked softly:

"He... where is he wrong?"

Wen Xishu's expression gradually became ferocious, like a demon awakening:

"I am not some good-natured player who is forbidden from using violence. If the future becomes even more twisted, I don't mind starting from now—"

"Killing my way through the entire Kashima."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 133 =====