Chapter 15: A Small Interlude in the Slaughter Tower

Slaughter Tower, 21st floor.

Most people in the Tower of Desire would hang around below the first twenty floors. Above the twentieth floor, the possibility of encountering targets that were difficult to please would appear.

But the Slaughter Tower was different.

Exploration of the Mysterious Tower was only in its preliminary stages, and people knew very little about it. But the Slaughter Tower had been explored for some years.

There was no such thing as safety in the Slaughter Tower; every floor of the Slaughter Tower carried the risk of death.

Because of the monsters.

These monsters weren't completely unable to communicate, but their hatred for humans was extremely strong.

They almost refused all communication, killing on sight and eliminating anyone who showed their head.

The 21st floor of the Slaughter Tower was already a death highland in everyone's eyes.

Except for the teachers and students of the Slaughter Tower Academy, very few Bunker wanderers who climbed the tower would come to such a high level.

"Damn it... I'm still 70 short of the mission count. But if I don't find a place to light a bonfire now to lower my slaughter value, I'll turn into a monster."

A tall, blood-covered second-year senior from the Slaughter Tower Academy said.

His name was Zhang Wei, one of the prominent figures of the second year at the Slaughter Tower Academy. Not long ago, on the 17th floor of the Slaughter Tower, he obtained the powerful Slaughter Sequence 244: Armed Bone.

At the same time, he also possessed the tradable Slaughter Sequence 303: Slaughter Will, rented from an academy teacher.

Equipped with sequences in both of his sequence slots, he thought about how he could show off to the freshmen, so he took the risk and headed to the 21st floor.

If he could successfully lead the juniors to clear the 21st floor, he would be incredibly glorious upon returning to the Slaughter Tower Academy.

The ideal was full, but reality was cruel.

Morn City in the Slaughter Tower could be said to be full of mutant creatures everywhere.

This prominent figure of the second year at the Slaughter Tower Academy had been killing here for a full four hours...

Killing nothing but one kind of monster: rats.

It was said that on the 21st floor of the Tower of Desire, someone had once seen warning signs saying "Beware of rats" posted all over an area.

It was just that it was in the Tower of Desire, and people in the Slaughter Tower didn't care.

But in the Slaughter Tower, these rats were far more terrifying than elite monsters below the tenth floor.

Zhang Wei's foundation was solid, and he kept resisting the rats' attacks. But he could only manage to resist.

"Se... Senior, will we die here?" a 2061-level freshman said, trembling, his heart full of regret.

This freshman had already noticed—the senior's expression was wrong; the side effects of Slaughter Will were beginning to manifest.

Zhang Wei, whose slaughter value was too high, was currently trying his best to suppress his inner desire for slaughter with his sanity.

He knew very well that if he didn't find a place to light a bonfire now to lower his slaughter value...

Then he would become a part of the Slaughter Tower.

Zhang Wei regretted it; he shouldn't have underestimated Morn City. Places where Xun Hui could come, he might not necessarily be able to.

But right now, he couldn't shake off this group of incredibly fast rats.

This wasn't even the worst part.

He felt a terrifying aura; not far away, a super huge rat was slowly approaching.

He couldn't even view any of that rat's panels... it was a monster that was completely over-leveled for him at the current stage.

Unable to fight and unable to avoid, these two students from the Slaughter Tower Academy would likely pay the price for their recklessness today.

Unless... they entered that building.

Jack's Strange Building.

Zhang Wei noticed that the rats didn't even dare to approach the building not far behind him.

In the process of fighting, he had unknowingly approached this building.

But he had heard some rumors that some levels had hidden monsters that absolutely must not be provoked.

These monsters had their own territories and were different from the monsters wandering around the city.

As long as the tower climber didn't approach or intrude into this area, they wouldn't trigger a battle with these monsters.

And once they approached, it would be a boss fight with very low odds of winning.

Zhang Wei was an elite of the second year and would inevitably be one of humanity's strong figures in the future.

But he knew very well that inside that building hid an existence that even the teachers of the Slaughter Tower Academy dared not provoke.

Suddenly... Zhang Wei and the junior widened their eyes.

There was movement from the old building. The surrounding rat pack suddenly retreated several meters.

The door of the old building actually opened.

A young girl walked out from the shadows of the old building; her style was completely different from the terrifying monster Zhang Wei had imagined.

She looked... as if she were just a girl from the Tower of Desire Academy—no, even purer than them.

Even so, Zhang Wei suddenly became vigilant.

Because even that giant rat he couldn't match at all had fled in fear.

Zhang Wei stood in front of the junior, assuming a defensive posture. He certainly knew that he couldn't win at all.

But he had no choice; as a senior, he couldn't let a junior without any sequences go to his death.

But the girl had no intention of fighting; she just said lightly:

"Do you want to come in and rest for a while? Today we can allow you to stay for a short while. I have some questions to ask you."

The junior was very afraid; he didn't understand what was going on, but he had heard a saying...

Monsters in the Slaughter Tower are the mortal enemies of humans; don't try to communicate with them.

The girl's expression was somewhat lazy:

"While you are still human, you can come in and take shelter."

"If you don't want to come in, you can stay there. I'm not interested in whether you live or die, but I need to ask you about someone."

"You look like him, same skin color."

Zhang Wei was puzzled.

He was actually even more shocked than the junior. Because the richer the experience in exploring the Slaughter Tower, the more he understood how outrageous this situation was.

A suspected area boss would not communicate with people at all; they belonged to the kind of existence that would immediately wipe out humans once they detected them.

But this girl at the door of the old building really seemed to have no murderous intent. If the other party wanted to make a move, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to handle it.

Could it be that his killing rats triggered a hidden mission?

Zhang Wei could never have imagined that a death-row prisoner far away in the Mysterious Tower had saved him in the Slaughter Tower after executing a Mysterious Tower mission.

"Who... who do you want to ask about?" Zhang Wei decided to try communicating.

The girl spoke slowly:

"Do you know Wen Xishu?"

Wen Xishu felt that the dizziness and blurred consciousness caused by frequent spatial transitions were actually quite comfortable.

It felt like the sensation a patient has after being anesthetized on an operating table.

A moment ago, he was still in Jack's old building, but the next moment, he opened his eyes and arrived in a strange room.

This room was hung with clocks and doors.

Wristwatches, pocket watches, wall clocks, sundials, hourglasses...

Wooden doors, iron doors, crooked doors, straight doors...

These elements were everywhere, making Wen Xishu, who was already dizzy, even more confused, but when he looked at the figure in front—

He immediately felt that the dizziness and drowsiness disappeared, and he became instantly clear-headed.

The person in front had three heads.

The Three Towers Guide.

Everyone who completes their first tower-climbing journey will come here to see it.

It's just that Wen Xishu didn't expect this guide to have such a bizarre appearance.

But the guide was also very curious. It saw the clues from the reflection in Wen Xishu's pupils.

"How interesting. Who was the last one to see our three heads?"

"It was that slaughter-embryo."

"Oh~ I like that slaughter-embryo. He killed too many people. But he was snatched away by the third one!"

Three different heads actually started a conversation.

What surprised Wen Xishu was that the content of the words seemed to indicate—

Not everyone can see the three heads of the guide.

"Welcome, welcome, a newcomer suitable for all three tower systems. I am the Guide, the one who leads you to the top of the Three Towers."

Three heads spoke simultaneously.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 16 =====