Chapter 145: The Shoe Girl's Counterattack, Wen Xishu's Final Kill

Twenty jars containing dirty things, and one jar area that might contain good things.

This victory was undoubtedly extremely great.

After solving Osiris, Wen Xishu did two things.

He spent one usage of the "God-Slayer Finger."

Used to identify the twenty jars arranged by Osiris.

Identified twice.

This was out of caution. He was worried about one thing: he anticipated the Shoe Girl, but

So, to avoid such a thing from happening, Wen Xishu chose to spend two fingers' worth of identification.

Sure enough, when faced with two random jars selected by Osiris... the God-Slayer's finger reacted.

This meant that these two jars indeed contained something dirty.

At this, everyone was convinced.

Jin, Wang Yueyun, and Nisen were strictly guarding these twenty jars.

For the next round of opening jars, Ling Fu's group continued; they still needed to open jars.

Wen Xishu arranged for Zheng Zai to be responsible for supervision.

He himself found four jars.

Among the four jars, one was a special jar—the one Osiris, or rather the Shoe Lady, believed must absolutely not be opened.

Wen Xishu thought for a moment and decided to open it himself.

There could actually be danger inside; this matter was not absolute.

Perhaps the Shoe Lady also played a game of "counter-strategy"?

Of course, once such a chain of suspicion forms, it becomes endless.

So Wen Xishu decided to open it himself. For no other reason than his high magic resistance.

Plus, he had "Topsy-Turvy."

Wen Xishu opened the first jar, and the first jar yielded a harvest: a playlist.

Chanting this playlist in the prayer room could bring peace to everyone's heart. The effect wasn't powerful, but it could quickly pull everyone out of a state of panic or excitement.

Wen Xishu felt it wasn't very useful; taking this playlist out would have the same effect—calming the mind and spirit.

Wen Xishu decided to keep it to give to Amiao later.

At this time, in Ling Fu's team, someone started opening a jar, and the jar opened wasn't empty, but Shadow.

Fortunately, Bao Longtao was there, and the Shadow was stopped.

Wen Xishu also opened the second jar.

The second jar was empty.

Next was the third jar. Now, there was a fifty-something percent chance that a jar the Shoe Lady absolutely didn't want to appear would show up.

Wen Xishu thought for a moment and chose a jar that looked relatively old.

At the same time, the third person in Ling Fu's team started opening a jar.

Wen Xishu ignored it.

He truly believed in a little bit of metaphysics, so he was genuinely praying.

"There are still many vortices... If one vortex delays me for too many days, I can't imagine how long it will take to eliminate this Great Devouring."

Wen Xishu recited silently in his heart:

"Give me a badass item; that's not too much to ask, right?"

After saying this, Wen Xishu smashed the jar open. He had the feeling of a protagonist in a manga about to hit the jackpot in one shot.

Of course, facts proved this was an illusion.

The jar was empty.

He laughed dumbly. Sure enough, when it comes to luck, one can never trust oneself.

Why is the younger brother so afraid of the older one? If this were an NPC in the Mysterious Tower, I doubt even Gemini would be interested, right?

Then he poured out the contents of the jar.

It yielded something.

This time, what appeared before Wen Xishu was a piece of parchment. Of course, there was no message from someone from the future on the parchment.

Wen Xishu stared at the parchment, and the note he saw was as follows.

【Mysterious parchment, which seems to record a certain ritual and a story.】

Wen Xishu didn't find a text introduction about the ritual, but he saw the patterns and guessed that the ritual should be something the "players" need to guess.

But the story, the parchment did record.

【Item Name: Mysterious Parchment (Part 1)】

【Legend has it that a medieval witch found a substance whose pronunciation in the spell was "Tower." This substance granted the witch very powerful strength.】

【The first witch seemed to resonate with the Tower and realized a catastrophe was coming. She wrote down the fact that the future world would be destroyed... as a prophecy. But the Pope at the time believed this was pure rumor, and the witch's doomsday remarks had a huge impact on the Pope...】

【The witch was burned alive. The Tower within her left her, but in the end, it fell to the Pope's granddaughter, Bonnie.】

【After the witch died, Bonnie became the heartthrob of the entire country. Everyone, even her grandfather the Pope, wished they could kneel at her feet and kiss her shoe surface. But one day, after Bonnie lost her shoes... people were no longer obsessed with her.】

【People realized that the witch's power had not fallen on anyone, but on an item.】

【This might be the earliest known "Monster" in all of human history.】

Pope, witch.

Wen Xishu didn't expect that the content of this story wasn't a doomsday background... but actually appeared a long time ago?

Tower.

This was the first time he had seen this thing.

Wen Xishu realized, could the item sealed this time be some kind of origin-level existence?

"Could it be that long ago... someone had already obtained certain powers?"

Not everyone mutated around the doomsday; some people might have come into contact with it hundreds or even thousands of years ago? But due to the culture, technological limitations, and people's ignorance at that time...

So some revelations from thousands of years ago were very likely understood by people as incorrect information?

Would the Twelve Constellations know about this?

It's a pity that this is only the Mysterious Parchment (Part 1). Although it also records some patterns, these patterns might hide the secret to killing the "Shoe."

But these patterns are only half, and Wen Xishu couldn't possibly find the complete "ritual" through only half the patterns.

He was just shocked that the Tower was mentioned in this story.

And regarding the Tower, he always thinks of the extremely rare "Tower Power Value" and the Three Towers.

Additionally, Wen Xishu also remembered that the scene of the twelfth level of Phoenix Ding Dong's Mental Hospital Museum... was also particularly medieval.

A strange town, a church on the mountainside...

It felt as if it were fitting for a witch or Pope to appear there.

These speculations made Wen Xishu feel excited. The Shoe Lady was afraid of opening this jar; presumably, the complete parchment indeed contained something that made her feel terrified.

It is worth mentioning that the Mysterious Parchment didn't just provide some information.

It also had a kind of ability.

Many items in the jars have effects after being taken out. And the parchment does too.

【Half a sequence—you need to find the other half of the parchment to get the complete sequence; they won't be separated too far.】

Interesting.

Although Wen Xishu didn't know what this half-sequence was, he felt it definitely wouldn't be bad.

"It seems I have to find the second half of the parchment. They won't be separated too far... Is this sentence a hint? This might be the key for me to find the jar containing the second half of the parchment..."

The jar opening continued.

Ling Fu's group had no surprises for the rest of the time. They opened Shadow twice, but ever since Oyer's ten-in-a-row, Bao Longtao had become very generous.

The others were basically empty jars, plus a pen. The function of the pen could not be identified by the group, so it was left on the ground, waiting for Wen Xishu to identify it.

In short, after Osiris moved away twenty jars, everything became incomparably normal. The number of empty jars and props increased, and so far...

Except for that left eye, none of the Shoe Lady's items had been opened by anyone.

The Shoe Lady's ability had also not upgraded.

It could be said that the human camp was quite lucky.

As of now, Wen Xishu had opened four jars, and Ling Fu's group and Lang Haidu's group had opened thirty jars.

Next was Ling Chen's group of the old, weak, sick, and disabled.

Ling Fu noticed that Wen Xishu's attention seemed to be elsewhere, so he became extra serious.

By now, he would no longer doubt Wen Xishu's ability.

On the contrary, seeing Wen Xishu distracted, Ling Fu even wondered if there was something more important than watching people open jars?

There really was.

Wen Xishu really wanted to do one thing now... and that was to increase the distance. Increase the distance between one jar and another.

Wen Xishu's idea was—if the literal riddle is that they won't be separated too far, then when I try to increase the distance between them, will that jar react?

After all, this place is huge; the cellar gave people the feeling of being enormous from the start.

Wen Xishu now felt that the jar-opening game actually had several endings. Different endings represent different completion levels.

One can survive, without unsealing anyone or killing anyone. A mediocre ending.

One can escape, after all, there is the prop key.

One can also kill the Shoe Lady and figure out the cause and effect.

But the best result must be completing the task ahead of time, so is there a possibility of killing the Shoe Lady ahead of time?

It exists.

That is to dig out the complete secret or find the invitation letter.

But whether the Great Devouring has an invitation letter is hard to say.

So Wen Xishu's idea was still to find the remaining half of the parchment first.

However, Wen Xishu wasn't completely not watching the jar opening.

After Ling Fu's team finished, it was the old, weak, sick, and disabled team led by Ling Chen.

With Oyer's brave ten-in-a-row, defying the heavens and changing fate, the old, weak, sick, and disabled also realized that the time to open jars had arrived.

This was certainly a good thing, but the small episode that followed... no, to be precise, a huge change, made everyone start to feel afraid.

As of now, a pile of jars containing "dirty things" was being guarded by Jin and the other two.

With fewer dirty things, naturally, the probability of opening good things or opening jars safely increased significantly.

Right now, people had won a victory and hadn't realized the arrival of danger.

Now thirty-four jars had been opened, and twenty-six remained.

Osiris had indeed found many parts, but Osiris had not found all of the Shoe Lady's organs.

To be precise, there was one Shoe Lady organ that didn't need to appear too early.

But this organ appeared anyway.

The thirty-ninth jar, when there were only twenty-one jars left until today's safe conclusion...

An accident happened.

The person opening the jar was named Flamingo, a disabled person who was missing a leg. He originally thought he would definitely be able to open something good.

But as soon as the jar was thrown, a bloody ear appeared before him.

The intelligence Wen Xishu now possessed included one of the pieces of information Ayovich died to pass on—the Shoe Lady's mouth can create whispers on a large scale. It was very likely inside the twenty jars.

And the second piece of information Ayovich died to pass on—the Shoe Lady's hand can transfer items in the jars.

But it didn't specify whether it was the left hand or the right hand, or if both hands had the same function.

The Shoe Lady's left eye launches camouflage and makes the person opening the jar blind.

Now, the Shoe Lady's ear had appeared.

Wen Xishu never expected that the Shoe Lady's ear would appear here.

No one expected it.

"As one of the organs... why would Osiris not put the ear in the jar?"

Wen Xishu began to stare at the Shoe Lady's ear, wanting to know the reason.

Obviously, after the Shoe Lady controlled Osiris, she became complacent, thinking she could deceive everyone, but was seen through by Wen Xishu.

But the Shoe Lady wasn't stupid enough to... put all important items in twenty jars.

The Shoe Lady had actually considered, what if there was a reversal later, should she leave one or two props to turn the tables?

So she discovered a certain jar hiding one of her parts, but she didn't control Osiris to bring that jar over.

This was so that if she accidentally fell into the cunning humans' trap, this thing could help her turn the tables.

Wen Xishu actually thought that the Shoe Lady wouldn't be truly stupid enough to put all her eggs in one basket...

But he really couldn't imagine that among the Shoe Lady's organs, there was such a heaven-defying prop capable of turning the tables.

【Prop: Hearing is Believing.】

【Prop Introduction: The goddess's eyes are always remembered by people because those eyes are so beautiful. It has a deadly ability, making people sink into her camouflage and illusions.】

【But in fact, the goddess's ears are not simple either. Those pointed ears, which look like an elf's, have the ability to turn reality into nothingness and negate the present.】

【Prop Supplement: Note, this item cannot be taken out of the scene.】

When this introduction appeared before Wen Xishu's eyes... Wen Xishu's first reaction was "bad," perhaps the current situation would be hit with a negation effect.

The ear didn't grow countless thin threads like the eye and then crawl into the mural.

On the contrary, the ear just stayed where it was. But Wen Xishu saw countless facts that had already been discovered.

This was a situation only Wen Xishu could see.

While everyone was still shocked by opening such a horrific part as an ear... Wen Xishu had already seen a terrifying scene.

"This Shoe Lady's ability is actually this heaven-defying?"

Although Scorpio's knife defeated the Shoe Lady's left eye, there was no doubt that it was just Scorpio being awesome, not that the Shoe Lady was weak.

Wen Xishu saw many facts, manifested in the form of entries.

For example, not long ago... Wen Xishu deceived Osiris, making Osiris find twenty jars, and these twenty jars all contained the Shoe Lady's parts or some dirty things capable of pitting other players.

This was a fact that had already happened.

But what was presented to Wen Xishu's eyes was an entry marked with time information.

【At this time, the evil human Wen Xishu secretly opened four jars in the corner. He found the parchment with the ritual for absorbing the Tower's power. But fortunately, fortunately, there are two copies of this thing! This pathetic human only found the first half. Threat level, eight.】

【At this time, the evil human Wen Xishu deceived the great Goddess of Shoes, causing the goddess to gather the jars containing her body and other parts together. Threat level, nine.】

There were many other entries, such as 【At this time, Osiris of the human camp opened the goddess's skirt, but it could not be known by others. Only Wen Xishu seemed to have seen through it, and there might be others who saw through it. Threat level, seven.】

There were also earlier ones.

【At this time, Oyer of the human camp opened an empty jar... Threat level 1.】

【At this time, Fang Tianhen of the human camp opened the skirt belt and was twisted into the Great Goddess's divine guard. Threat level is zero.】

【At this time, the woman in the human camp known as Amiao opened the reshaping mud. Threat level, nine.】

These facts that had happened once appeared one by one like entries in a chronicle.

But soon, an ear pattern appeared after one of the entries.

【At this time, the evil human Wen Xishu deceived the great Goddess of Shoes, causing the goddess to gather the jars containing her body and other parts together. (This event has been identified as invalid; Hearing is Believing takes effect, reality rejected!)】

Others couldn't see this process because in their eyes, everything was garbled code.

They just saw a bunch of garbled code appearing constantly.

But Wen Xishu saw the complete description.

He was shocked by the Shoe Lady's ability; this was simply a cheating-level method comparable to his own.

Hearing is Believing takes effect, reality rejected.

The shock these words gave Wen Xishu was simply too great.

This ability is approximately equal to reloading a save.

But it's not reloading a save; the ability to reload a save is more powerful than this. The current timeline hasn't been modified, whereas reloading a save can modify the timeline.

The current result can only be said to be that the result of reality has been changed.

"I didn't expect that I have Topsy-Turvy, and you have Hearing is Believing..."

"You didn't put the ear in the twenty jars and specifically ignored the ear; it seems you aren't as stupid as I imagined."

Now it's great; the advantage Wen Xishu gained by acting has been vetoed by Hearing is Believing.

The fact that had already been established has been labeled as false, which means that from now on, the fact that there are goddess bodies in the twenty jars... is no longer established. This is no longer the truth.

Where the goddess bodies are concentrated is currently unknown to anyone.

Both the human and shoe sides have returned to a new equilibrium point.

This served as a wake-up call for Wen Xishu.

"The Shoe Lady can be stupid because she has the capital to be stupid, but I don't have that kind of capital..."

Although my cheat is above yours, I still have to use my brain more.

Wen Xishu wasn't too desperate; after all, the situation had only returned to what it was before.

Just as Wen Xishu was thinking about how to deal with the ear...

Wen Xishu suddenly discovered one thing—

The ear was gone.

"Mr. Flamingo, just now you opened the jar, where is the ear that was opened from that place?"

"Did any of you notice?"

Wen Xishu had been staring at the ear and thinking.

But he just blinked slightly... and the ear was actually gone.

After he asked this question, he immediately ran toward the prayer room.

Flamingo, who was questioned by Wen Xishu, looked at Wen Xishu with a somewhat surprised expression:

"Wen... Lord Wen Xishu, what are you doing? What I just opened was an empty jar!"

"Where is there any ear?"

Ling Fu was also very surprised.

What everyone saw just now was clearly an empty jar; why would Wen Xishu speak of an ear?

Where is the ear? Was an ear opened?

Others soon thought, could it be that Lord Wen Xishu's state is not quite right? Too tired, to the point of seeing hallucinations?

But Ling Fu was too clear about Wen Xishu's capabilities. Could it be that an ear really appeared just now?

But only Wen Xishu saw it?

Ling Fu immediately headed toward the prayer room.

Inside the prayer room, Wen Xishu looked at the "goddess" in the mural who had already been dotted with eyes; there was no change at the ear.

The eye was hidden in the mural, the eyeball rotating, looking at Wen Xishu.

That look seemed very proud, as if conveying some kind of contempt.

Wen Xishu understood immediately.

"It seems... the ear will be opened again."

"The ear is one of your final trump cards. After the ear is opened, it won't return to the mural like other parts, but will return to the jar."

"As long as a fact you want to veto appears in the future, others may again be vetoed by you because of opening the ear."

"Additionally, the ear can veto a fact that has already happened, but it only achieves vetoing. There is also the effect that the ear itself vetoes the ear being opened."

"So when the ear is opened, others cannot perceive it."

Wen Xishu wasn't talking to himself, but trying to converse with the Shoe Lady.

In the mural, the fluctuation of that eyeball clearly indicated that the Shoe Lady had heard Wen Xishu's conversation.

The eyeball was very surprised; the Shoe Lady couldn't imagine why Wen Xishu could know all this.

How could Wen Xishu resist the fact-veto of "the ear being opened."

After the fact-veto occurs, it is equivalent to the fact in everyone's eyes being—the ear was not opened.

Just like Wang Yueyun and Ling Fu at this moment, standing on the left and right in front of Wen Xishu.

Ling Fu said:

"Did we... really open an ear just now?"

"But there is no ear in the mural; could it be that the ear is very special and can return to the jar?"

Although Ling Fu analyzed it this way, he wasn't sure about the actual situation, and he couldn't help but think in his heart, could it be that Wen Xishu really made a mistake?

Wen Xishu turned around and told Ling Fu what had happened just now.

Ling Fu listened and felt it was ridiculous; this Shoe Lady could actually negate a fact that had already happened?

This ability is too outrageous, right?

Although he could be sure that this ability must have limitations and couldn't negate just any fact, negating an adversity once in the jar opening was indeed too cheeky.

However, combined with Wen Xishu's own abilities, Ling Fu accepted this ridiculous fact.

"Then what do we do now?" Ling Fu said.

Wen Xishu said:

"Regardless, continue opening jars. So far, we still can't get rid of one thing, and that is relying on luck, but at least I know some secrets. Let's continue opening jars."

Wen Xishu walked toward the hall.

Wang Yueyun, Nisen, and Jin were still watching the jars.

This made Wen Xishu think that the ear only negated one result... in other words, people still thought the twenty jars containing the Shoe Lady's dirty things were piled together by Osiris.

This matter had not been vetoed.

People just didn't know... that the twenty jars found by Osiris had already become ordinary jars.

They were most likely empty jars, not jars hiding good things.

Wen Xishu thought for a moment and asked Ling Fu to keep it a secret and not do anything for now, to avoid causing panic and boycotting the jar opening.

The current situation is just like playing cards; Wen Xishu plays a card to suppress the Shoe Lady, and the Shoe Lady plays a card to lift the suppression.

It's like turn-based combat.

Actually, humans should have been wiped out long ago.

But Wen Xishu relied on his hard strength to turn the situation around several times. This time was the same; if Wen Xishu hadn't sensed the ear being opened and seen the whole process of the ear taking effect...

It's very likely that Wen Xishu himself wouldn't have realized that the game situation had completely changed.

Obviously, when it comes to cheeky cheating, certain props on Wen Xishu offset part of the effect of the Shoe Lady's props.

Fact negation is accompanied by a portion of mental intrusion and memory modification.

But the latter is ineffective against Wen Xishu. This is the reason Wen Xishu could see through the Shoe Lady's ear.

Wen Xishu had a premonition... the Shoe Lady's attack wouldn't end, and there would be even more violent attacks next.

But he wasn't panicked either.

"Amiao cannot copy things she hasn't seen; in other words, Amiao cannot copy the prop Hearing is Believing..."

"Because the fact of the ear being opened was vetoed, it's a pity I can't use fact negation to negate fact negation."

This is a bit of a tongue twister, but simply put, it's using magic to defeat magic.

Wen Xishu had always been convinced that the reshaping mud in Amiao's hands had its uses.

And just now, he had it confirmed. He saw that in the Shoe Lady's eyes, the threat level of Amiao's reshaping mud could actually reach level nine.

In other words, the Shoe Lady believed that the jars containing her organs being piled together by Osiris... and Amiao opening the reshaping mud actually had the same level of threat.

"Both are level nine threat levels; this threat level should be the kind that can decide the outcome, it just depends on how I use it..."

The jar opening continued.

Because Wen Xishu and the others didn't say the facts out loud, everyone was still full of confidence.

Wen Xishu thought that even if they opened a dangerous item, it could be explained as the Shoe Lady having more than twenty dangerous items.

The old, weak, sick, and disabled obviously didn't have very good luck in the next few jars. Oyer's ten-in-a-row miracle didn't happen again.

Three instances of Shadow made three poor people who had struggled in the bunker for a long time no longer poor.

Soon, forty-nine out of sixty jars were opened.

Although there were many props in the forty-nine jars, for humans, the only props that were truly useful in a meaningful sense were the parchment.

There were currently eleven jars left.

After opening the last eleven jars, today's opening quota would be considered complete. These last eleven jars were opened by members of Wen Xishu's group.

Wen Xishu quickly designated the people to open the jars.

Actually, there were an unusually large number of empty jars this time, but fortunately, there were no red names. But for Wen Xishu, this was also bad news.

Empty jars are consumed quickly... and with more and more jars remaining, it meant the probability of opening items was getting higher and higher.

That's what Wen Xishu thought, and he also knew that the Shoe Lady's attack would come again soon.

It's just that this scene really came too fast.

A bunker worker named Zhang Xiaoheng was assigned to Wen Xishu's group. Wen Xishu let him open the jar fourth, which meant he would open it when there were only seven jars left.

The previous few jars were without surprise or danger, all empty.

But for this seventh-to-last jar, everyone gasped.

Another part appeared.

As Zhang Xiaoheng threw the jar open, the two people responsible for recording had their legs go soft and fell to the ground in fright.

"Hand! Hand! He opened a hand!"

In this instant, everyone's scalp exploded.

Even Wen Xishu was startled. A hand?

It's over now...

Humans have already lost now!

Doesn't opening the Shoe Lady's hand mean the game's finale?

【Item Name: Shoe Lady's Left Hand.】

【Effect: The goddess is left-handed, which seems to complement her love of crime. She likes using her left hand to destroy evidence the most. It's as if she also likes using her left hand to tease her prey the most.】

【The game enters the next stage; the goddess's left hand can transfer items in the jars to other empty jars.】

The goddess's eyes saw through what was in every jar.

The goddess's ears negated the fact that she had been teased.

Now, the goddess's left hand is about to transfer jars...

In other words, the original empty jars might now no longer be empty, or before you throw the jar, it's empty, but the moment you throw the jar out...

It might be transferred by the goddess's left hand, and the original empty jar will instantly open a goddess organ.

Wen Xishu could imagine that next... the Shoe Lady could make ears appear crazily.

Making people open the Shoe Lady's ears continuously to negate fact after fact.

Checkmate...

The current situation is like a checkmate in chess, or like the opponent getting a "live four" in Gomoku.

You can't not open jars, but the jars you open next, unless they were originally jars with good things... otherwise, all empty jars will be arranged by the Shoe Lady.

All the efforts made by humans will be vetoed by the Shoe Lady using her ears.

Or, the Shoe Lady is too lazy to tease humans and will directly open more lethal props... to directly harvest humans.

In short, the current situation is almost a dead end.

Topsy-Turvy?

No, Topsy-Turvy can only reverse the results that happen to oneself...

But it cannot change the Shoe Lady's results.

Then what else can be used?

Wen Xishu faced a formidable enemy.

Without a doubt, before opening a good enough prop to contend with it... opening the left hand is a dead end.

"A-Shu... your face doesn't look too good? What happened? Is this hand hard to deal with?" Amiao asked.

Everyone else also saw the hand.

The hand was still lying on the ground, motionless.

Ling Fu, Lang Haidu, Zheng Zai, everyone looked at Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu said:

"Amiao, can your reshaping mud copy this hand?"

Amiao wasn't sure:

"Should I try?"

Wen Xishu suddenly realized... no.

Even if he copied the Shoe Lady's left hand and could designate an item in a certain jar to go to another jar...

But the premise is that he knows there is something in a certain jar.

The Shoe Lady knew through her left eye, but he didn't know yet. Even if he copied the right hand... he could only transfer blindly.

And the items copied by Amiao wouldn't change sides, which means what he could transfer would only be items useful to humans, and he wouldn't even be sure what they were.

It's probably similar to a "whitewashed goddess left hand"; it can't be said that the effect is inferior to the original goddess left hand... but the premise is that he also has to know what's in the jar.

Otherwise, you're just transferring, but you don't know what you transferred.

"Don't copy! Don't try, this won't work."

Wen Xishu squatted on the ground and began to close his eyes.

He was clearly thinking about how to break the situation.

"Damn it, why is the luck so bad? As soon as we open it, we open a hand!"

Rarely, Wen Xishu began to complain about his teammates.

But Wen Xishu immediately realized, no, complaining about heaven and blaming others is a sign of giving up.

"Now everyone stay quiet, and everyone don't touch the jars!"

Wen Xishu gave the order.

As long as the jars aren't opened, the hand can't exert its power. Wen Xishu tried to use candle fire to burn this hand...

But unfortunately, although the hand was burning, that hand... didn't immediately crawl into the mural.

It let the pain of burning erode it, but at this time, it clearly enjoyed Wen Xishu's despair more.

I can decide what card you open next time.

I can slowly veto every one of your advantages.

I want to appreciate your despair, I want to watch you die!

I want to kill all your teammates!

At this moment, the hand burning in the candle fire began to make a gesture; it was a finger of contempt.

The thumb of that hand propped up the whole hand.

"Damn, a thumbs down... this hand is despising us!" Zheng Zai really wanted to eat this hand.

Wen Xishu was unmoved.

He had completely calmed down.

Ling Fu noticed the change in Wen Xishu's expression and guessed that at some moment, Wen Xishu must have suffered a huge blow.

This hand... what exactly is its effect?

"Can you tell us what the effect of this hand is?" Ling Fu decided to ask directly.

Wen Xishu didn't hide it and recounted the effect of the hand word for word.

Obviously, as Wen Xishu recounted it, the atmosphere in the cellar began to slowly become desperate.

When Wen Xishu finished speaking, someone finally realized the problem and wailed:

"Then... haven't we already lost?"

"Zhang Xiaoheng, you bastard, why is your luck so bad?"

"Damn, that idiot Osiris actually left a hand behind."

In others' impression, the Shoe Lady's items were all piled up in those twenty jars.

So opening this hand was truly leaving a hand behind in both a spiritual and physical sense.

The crowd began to be chaotic; some began to angrily curse Zhang Xiaoheng who opened the hand, and some began to cry and howl.

Ling Fu's face was pale.

He was the smartest and knew best how unsolvable this situation was. No matter how he thought about it, this situation was unsolvable.

Copy? It seems the only variable is Amiao.

But he soon went through the same thought process as Wen Xishu and finally discovered that even if he copied this hand, it would be of no avail.

"Oyer! I beg you! Give me the key! I beg you!" The crying of a woman in the crowd attracted Wen Xishu's attention.

Wen Xishu looked over; oh, it was Oyer who had the ten-in-a-row not long ago. The woman Oyer was pursuing had now become Oyer's sycophant.

Wen Xishu didn't doubt at all that at this moment, if Oyer was willing to give the key, the woman would be willing to undress on the spot and have a go with Oyer.

After all, in the current situation, humans seemed to have already lost.

At this time, the person with the key became the biggest winner.

After all, with the key, one could still run.

Wait!

Wen Xishu seemed to have captured something.

Key!

In this instant, it was as if a light had flashed across Wen Xishu's mind, and Wen Xishu's eyes instantly brightened!

"Damn! It's not that we lost! We won! We won! Hahahaha, key! I got it! Key!"

Wen Xishu showed an expression of ecstasy. Amiao had never seen A-Shu lose his composure like this.

Actually, if there were only Wen Xishu alone in this mission, Wen Xishu probably wouldn't be this happy.

But just now, he attributed the fundamental cause of human failure to himself.

He didn't think it was caused by Zhang Xiaoheng's luck, but that he was too incompetent and hadn't found a way to break it before the misfortune arrived.

Unknowingly, Wen Xishu had actually begun to shoulder certain responsibilities, perhaps for those "Lord Wen Xishu" calls.

Perhaps because Ayovich would rather die than betray him.

So, when Wen Xishu thought of a way to save everyone, Wen Xishu was exceptionally excited!

"Hahahaha! Shoe Lady, I won! I won!!"

Wen Xishu shouted, attracting everyone's attention.

Ling Fu, the Wang Yueyun trio, Zheng Zai, Amiao, Lang Haidu, and Zhang Xiaoheng who was blaming himself not long ago, as well as Oyer and others, all had their eyes on Wen Xishu.

"This... A-Shu, what's wrong with you?"

"Brother Wen, why so happy?"

Ling Fu was puzzled:

"Is there really a way to resolve the current situation?"

Wen Xishu said:

"I was thinking just now about which item to copy, for example, if an ear is opened, can I copy the ear? Although Amiao can't see it, I can see it..."

"But this isn't the finishing move."

The crowd didn't quite understand.

Wen Xishu said:

"The real finishing move! It's the parchment! It's the parchment! The two-part parchment!"

When they heard about the parchment, even the Shoe Lady's left hand, which was giving a thumbs down in the fire, suddenly stopped moving.

Wen Xishu said:

"Not long ago, I obtained a piece of parchment, to be precise, half a piece."

"The parchment records a very complex ritual. In the Shoe Lady's memory, it is a technique that can absorb a certain power, and this power is the power of the shoes!"

"Find the complete parchment, and humans will win and can kill the Shoe Lady."

"And I have already found it! The first half of the parchment and the second half of the parchment won't be separated too far!"

"This is the riddle, so I was thinking about how to find the second half of the parchment."

"The clue is 'far'."

"Hahahaha! I originally thought the two diagonals of the cellar were far, but I was wrong, that wasn't far enough!"

"If that were the case, the parchment would have been found long ago!"

"But now, I already know how to find the jar containing the other parchment by increasing the distance!"

Ling Fu narrowed his eyes:

"You mean... the key?"

Wen Xishu exclaimed in admiration:

"Yes, the key!"

Ling Fu was puzzled:

"You intend to let someone take the parchment and then leave here through the key?"

"In this way, the upper and lower parts of the parchment become exceptionally far apart."

"The jar containing the second half of the parchment... will inevitably react!"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Yes."

Ling Fu shook his head and said:

"But in this way, won't the two pieces of parchment be separated? Even if you memorized all the content... but obviously, the two pieces of parchment must be combined for some power to take effect, right?"

Wen Xishu smiled, smiling extremely mysteriously:

"Who said there are only two pieces of parchment?"

(End of chapter)