Chapter 160: Meeting an Old Friend Again

Seeing the chef with a gentle face telling these stories, Wen Xishu sighed that there were probably more than one ruthless person like the chef.

Although it was making up stories, increasing expectation value...

But it wasn't that the more outrageous, the more winning chances.

"It must be something that really happened. In other words, he really did that..."

Deep-frying the mistress?

The chef only had one minute, so he didn't tell any details. There was no suspense, no suppression before elevation...

It could be said that there was no technique, all relying on the explosive plot.

Deep-frying was indeed explosive enough, especially when telling about the skin appearing golden and crispy when deep-fried...

In Wen Xishu's own barrage, some felt disgusted, some felt stimulated.

At this time, the chef's expectation value had undoubtedly become 264.

The snake-tongued woman's expectation value dropped quite a bit, but it still maintained 229, which was still outrageously high for others.

"So that's it, the number of audiences is large... At the beginning, everyone had 10 on their heads."

Wen Xishu analyzed silently.

"But now it seems that the sum of the numbers has long exceeded 80... and there are lurking audiences."

"So, I don't necessarily have to grab audiences from the chef and the snake-tongued woman..."

"I have to find a way to make those lurking audiences interested in me."

"The snake-tongued woman's audiences should all be those who like color-color. In this field, it's impossible for me to win..."

"And in terms of curiosity, deep-frying one's own mistress is also more curious than mine. But his storytelling technique still needs improvement."

The third person, the chef, had finished telling the story.

"Want to see how I cook my wife, especially... she still has one in her belly, welcome to choose me!" The chef clearly had also figured out the game rules.

But this line to pull expectation... wasn't it too born?

Could it be that this was a twisted "confession ritual?"

Telling the sins of the past, it must be true, a bunch of people listening... it sounded like a confession meeting, but it was twisted by the Mysterious Tower.

Wen Xishu didn't speak, just analyzed silently.

The fourth one, still wasn't him. Actually, Wen Xishu's pressure wasn't big...

In this round of telling stories, after all, there was a scum who only told 2 points of expectation value.

No matter what, he couldn't just tell 2 points.

In the first round of the game, that shifty-eyed man would probably die, so the pressure was mainly in the second round.

It seemed that they also thought of this point...

The fourth one was that refined man, ordinary in appearance, but giving people a feeling of being bathed in the spring breeze.

Except for the shifty-eyed man, it seemed that everyone else easily accepted the current situation, which was what Wen Xishu found most strange.

Of course, perhaps these guys who were used to doing evil all had strong psychological qualities?

In short, it was the gentle man's turn to tell a story.

Wen Xishu originally thought that this man would also tell the story of his wife, after all, he said at the beginning that he was attending his wife's funeral, and then was brought over by the masked man.

As a result, this story had nothing to do with his wife.

"I was a lecturer at a school, that school, considered one of the highest institutions of learning in our country. I once... did some bad things to my colleague, she was also a lecturer."

"Her parents hated me very much, because in their eyes, what I did was very excessive."

"This thing led to me being dismissed, but I didn't feel at a loss at all... it wasn't because I earned anything, but because I proved that this theory was feasible."

"I was sentenced to three years and two months, and also compensated the woman's family more than 700,000."

"Three years later, I came out... hehe, I met my current wife, and we lived a happy life."

"This is my story."

【What on earth did he do? What did he do to that colleague!!! Ah ah ah ah ah!】

【Damn riddle man!! I want to give you a low score!】

【Although it seems he was only sentenced to three years and two months, it should count as no big crime, but I really want to know...】

【Wait, his wife died later... could it be related?】

The technique type had arrived.

This was the barrage in Wen Xishu's eyes. These people who sent the barrage, in the end, still didn't escape Wen Xishu.

But Wen Xishu could see that they were all itching.

Compared to the previous few people, this lecturer man was the one who truly understood the game rules.

First of all...

The game was divided into telling stories and experiencing accidents.

If the story was told very outrageously, then the accident would presumably be very outrageous.

So it was best not to play the king bomb at the beginning, and to wait until experiencing the accident part and confirming the gameplay of that part, before telling the king bomb plot.

Then, the story couldn't be too outrageous, and couldn't obtain high expectation value... how to proceed?

The answer was technique.

Clearly, the lecturer man did tell a story, but this time he left suspense.

What crime was sentenced to three years and two months? What did he do? Was his wife's death related to him?

All of this was in the lecturer man's calculations.

Sure enough, with the blessing of storytelling technique, the lecturer man actually obtained 196 points.

Current score ranking—

Murderous chef, 264 points.

Snake-tongued woman, 229 points.

Lecturer man, 196 points.

Shifty-eyed man, 2 points.

The lecturer man was able to directly approach the snake-tongued woman, partly because everyone wanted to know what happened.

One minute of time, relying on almost no curiosity and erotic content, approaching the top two, also let the latecomers know how to do it.

But some things were hard to learn.

The fifth person, it was finally Wen Xishu's turn.

Wen Xishu had many story materials, and he was still thinking, which part should he pick to tell?

He didn't plan to be number one either. If possible, Wen Xishu very much hoped he could control the score, controlling it to the third-to-last position.

Of course, Wen Xishu actually had a king bomb plot, which he could use to pull the score when he felt he needed to.

However, for now, he still planned to tell only some plain and ordinary things.

"Can't be too related to the mysterious. But it must have expectation and gimmicks. The kind that makes people feel outrageous... but actually, there is no danger at all on my side."

To defeat people who could tell stories, the color woman, and people who were curious enough...

Then perhaps he had to start from the unknown.

As the knight behind him lit up... Wen Xishu's story also began.

"My story, speaking of it, you might not believe it."

"I am very good at letting a person detach from their original life."

"I let a daughter leave her mother and live with a stranger with no blood relationship, and I also let a group of patients in a mental hospital leave the mental hospital without the doctor's permission."

"There are many similar things. Perhaps everyone feels that kidnappers can also do it. But I am not a kidnapper."

"The largest conglomerate in Qicheng, the Three Balls Group, I don't know if everyone has heard of it?"

"Under my influence, to be precise, just a bit of lobbying~ the two young masters of the Three Balls Group voluntarily gave up their trillion-dollar family fortune and ran to Longxia to be homeless. They could never return to the days of spending money like water."

"But I must emphasize, I am not a kidnapper, I don't smuggle, I only rely on lobbying."

"As everyone knows, we can't lie~"

Everyone looked at Wen Xishu together.

Indeed, when Wen Xishu deliberately told it like that at the beginning, some people were thinking, could this be a kidnapper?

Deliberately making his own behavior sound very tall, what detaching from the original life...

But soon, as Wen Xishu emphasized that he was not a kidnapper, everyone began to be surprised.

How was it done?

Giving up a trillion-dollar family fortune? Going to be homeless?

Wen Xishu only wanted to take the second or third to last place, but clearly, he was still too experienced in life. After this story was told...

Wen Xishu found that his expectation value actually rose to 160.

【How was it done! How was it done! Trillion-dollar family fortune not wanted?】

【It's impossible to brag here, otherwise he would have died already!】

【I rub, the focus of this story is those two trillion-dollar family fortune heirs, right? I want to see, what will he say when he meets those two people later!】

This barrage made Wen Xishu excited inside.

Good guy... this ancient castle, could it really make stories become reality?

Could it be that he could also catch the An brothers to the ancient castle?

"Don't panic first... now it can be determined that the story is no problem, but he still has to experience the 'accident' link."

"Listen to the barrage, the An brothers might appear. I will judge later whether the An brothers are the An brothers I know, or if it's just some dungeon manufactured by the ancient castle."

"If it's the one I know... hehe, then the space I can operate in is huge."

Wen Xishu was currently in fourth place, 160 points.

This score was not low and not high. But it was definitely enough.

Right now, Wen Xishu clearly felt that there were many more barrages in his eyes.

This was a good thing.

More barrage meant more information. In his previous life, Wen Xishu heard that there was a novelist who never saved drafts and wrote on the spot every day, just to wait for the audience's comments to find inspiration.

Now Wen Xishu also had a similar behavior.

Most barrages were worthless complaints—

【I also want to learn! I also want to let the rich brother give up the family fortune to be homeless, and then I will go be homeless!】

【I suspect his ability is to make people become idiots.】

【I want money!】

This type of barrage indeed had no meaning.

But there were also some barrages that would spoil the plot.

【Later he might meet those two rich brothers, you guess, after being homeless for so long, will they hate him?】

【How did he do it? Hypnosis?】

【But I feel the last one was more like one who could hypnotize!】

Among these three barrages, there were two... that made Wen Xishu feel valuable.

First of all—

What was the meaning of the existence of accidents?

A group of villains gathered here, in the form of stories, telling the evil they had done... and then they would encounter the content in the story, is it for repentance?

"Assuming I am really a bad person... then the An brothers were cheated by me, they would definitely kill me..."

"In other words, the chef later, said he would fight with the mistress... how will he choose? This is a highlight..."

Wen Xishu felt more and more that this was a disguised, twisted "confession meeting."

In addition, Wen Xishu thought of that lecturer man based on hypnosis.

In his previous life, Wen Xishu heard of an outrageous case.

A talented woman from Peking University was severely pua-ed, acting as a dog for someone, and in order to please her master, she tattooed "I am xx's dog" on her body, and with one word from the master, she could go to the hospital for surgery to be sterilized...

Finally, under the pain of extreme pua, she committed suicide.

Wen Xishu only felt it was very outrageous. This was hypnosis in a realistic sense, right?

Of course, he couldn't draw a conclusion.

The remaining ones who hadn't told stories were the bald spider man, the brat, and the fool.

The sixth one, it was the brat's turn to tell a story.

The brat was stunned for a long while:

"I don't seem to have done any bad things."

The countdown still had fifty-plus seconds.

Wen Xishu now didn't believe that in this story meeting, there would still be people who hadn't done bad things.

Presumably, this child didn't think the things he did were bad things.

Fortunately, this brat was still quite smart, and he seemed to think of it soon.

"There was a courier, delivering things. I knew he was in a hurry, so I pressed every floor of the elevator."

"I also said to him, I know you are in a hurry, it's fun, right, hehehehe."

"But I was scolded by many people, and I didn't do anything wrong! My mom and dad didn't say anything about me!"

"They all said I was a good child, and I didn't do any bad things."

This story was finished.

Originally the brat still planned to continue telling about how he disciplined the cats and dogs in the community...

But because the one-minute time was up, the story was forcibly ended.

He kept laughing hehehe, even Wen Xishu felt extremely disgusted.

The chef looked at the brat with an even gentler gaze, like looking at a piece of beautiful jade.

The lecturer man had no feeling.

On the contrary, the snake-tongued woman looked at the brat with extremely disgusted eyes.

Wen Xishu was thinking... perhaps this woman's sexual concept was just relatively indifferent, or she just felt that this kind of thing, she was very cool.

But essentially, it wasn't bad?

The brat's rating was unexpectedly high.

This made everyone puzzled.

You know, what were the stories before? Mysterious crimes sentenced to three years, full of suspense.

Billionaire voluntarily giving up trillion-dollar family fortune, mistress deep-fried, and big-bun woman shouting daddy...

Under such a combination, a brat actually broke out of the siege and got the highest score?

Yes, the brat got the highest score.

266 points.

But the brat clearly couldn't be happy...

Because he could see the barrage.

The barrage in Wen Xishu's eyes was like this.

【Really want to see the delivery guy descend to the scene and beat him up!】

【I want to too, but I'll squat on this guy; I want to learn the great magic of making a billionaire give up his family fortune!】

【Beat him to death, beat him to death, beat him to death!】

【Hehehehe! Must beat him to death, although I don't watch!】

Wen Xishu seemed to understand...

"The essence of the barrage doesn't seem to be very bad. Although they are full of fun, love watching curiosity, love watching color-color, and seem to show great interest in all kinds of evil..."

"But what they want to see more is us dying in our own stories?"

"Assuming we are all villains... their behavior is more like watching us being judged?"

The brat's behavior undoubtedly aroused public anger, and everyone really wanted to see how that delivery guy dealt with the brat.

The barrage in Wen Xishu's eyes was already like this, let alone the brat's barrage.

Almost all were 【I only laugh hahahahaha, are you bad or not, later the delivery guy will tell you.】

【How dare you bet on a stranger's temper?】

【I'm waiting to see you beaten to death!】

【Beat you to death!】

This type of barrage made the brat's face turn pale. Although he got the highest score...

But he might die earlier than the shifty-eyed man.

This kind of change also made Wen Xishu realize the key, or rather he had guessed it long ago—

"Stories" create "accidents," at least to ensure that the characters in the story are not stronger than themselves.

The shifty-eyed man stole things, the snake-tongued woman stole men, the chef cooked the mistress, the lecturer man did evil to colleagues and wife...

These people, although the stories had highlights, their targets happened not to be necessarily stronger than them.

But the brat was not, the brat faced an adult who was clearly stronger than him.

So the audiences who knew all this were more eager to see the brat being beaten.

Because others wouldn't necessarily be beaten, mainly because accidents might not be able to stump these people.

But the brat's side could be determined.

266 points, leading everyone by a gap.

"There are also quite a few potential audiences with a strong sense of justice..." Wen Xishu silently noted these things.

Next was the seventh person to tell the story.

The fool.

The fool was pretending to be foolish, good at disguise.

Wen Xishu thought, what are you going to do next? Will your story break your disguise?

The fool was indeed not foolish.

His barrages were all fun-seekers, all waiting to see him make a fool of himself.

But the fool had been disguising and observing.

Through barrage information, he almost obtained the same information as Wen Xishu.

And he found that among this group, Wen Xishu and the lecturer man were the most threatening, because these two knew how stories should be told.

Just when Wen Xishu was thinking about whether the fool would be exposed, after all, you couldn't hide your evil deeds—

The fool directly played a ruthless move.

"Hehe... heh, my turn, my turn..."

He drooled at the corners of his mouth, clearly still intending to pretend to be foolish. Actually, among those present, there were not many who believed the fool was foolish.

But the fool's subsequent behavior really made people believe it.

"I... I have pulled poop for people to eat. Because they let me eat too, I ate, said it didn't taste good, they scolded me, beat me... said eating this was respect for them..."

"I, I also want them to respect me."

Ugh...

The snake-tongued woman was clearly going to vomit, although she often used her tongue to clean for guests, she hadn't done more perverted things.

Now, the fool's words seemed to indicate that he was really foolish.

Were there bad things in his story? Presumably there were, but he put himself in the situation of being bullied.

In this way, the fool's audience popularity came up.

Expectation value 98.

Not high, currently at the bottom, but definitely enough. Those who look forward to seeing the fool's "accident" are undoubtedly a small group of more curious audiences.

The things they like to watch are all things that ordinary people hate.

It is worth mentioning that in these few rounds, the expectation values on others' heads didn't change much.

Wen Xishu thought... truly ruthless.

This person must be guarded against.

Truly ruthless. Is this necessary? Killing one thousand enemies and damaging oneself by twelve hundred?

What if later the accident really requires doing some disgusting behaviors... can it really be done?

The fool is not foolish, but perverted! Wen Xishu had to say, this story meeting was truly full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

The eighth person, the last person, the bald spider man.

The bald spider man was actually serving a sentence in prison.

"He asked me if I wanted to change my fate. Hmm, it was the person wearing a mask you spoke of."

The bald man had indeed experienced this scene, only it was in prison.

He said:

"I was on the road, codenamed Black Spider. Because I like using explosives, have you ever blown up a bank vault? It's very cool!"

"Have you seen mountains of banknotes?"

The expectation value didn't have too high a change... just added ten-plus points.

Compared to the people in front, the bald man was definitely the most serious in terms of sentencing.

But this story was not about who was worse, not about whose crime was more serious...

But about who was more evil.

The degree of evil behavior and the size of the crime actually didn't equal each other.

So the bald man was stunned, and he immediately changed his strategy:

"Once a madman let us go rob, six people... everyone had different divisions of labor, he let e kill f, let d kill e, let c kill d, let b kill c."

"Finally, he killed me, but I didn't let him succeed, I instead killed him! I took all the money alone!"

With this, the audience expectation value finally returned to normal, reaching over one hundred.

Because the highlight appeared.

They looked forward to being able to see the bald spider man, to see the former "robber colleagues."

【Oh oh oh, this is interesting, I've seen it in movies, didn't expect it to really happen in reality!】

【If he sees his colleagues resurrected, will he make the same choice?】

【In short, it's more interesting than that shifty-eyed man...】

【I'll just watch this one.】

Expectation value 105.

Up to this point, all eight people's stories had been told.

Wen Xishu also sorted out the expectation value ranking.

First place, brat, 266 points.

Second place, chef, 264 points.

Third place, snake-tongued woman, 199 points.

Fourth place, lecturer man, 196 points.

Fifth place, Wen Xishu, 160 points.

Sixth place, bald man, 105 points.

Seventh place, fool, 98 points.

Eighth place, shifty-eyed man, 2 points.

Wen Xishu was in an absolutely safe position.

At this time, the eight knights behind him also began to slowly disperse.

They were like executioners leaving the execution ground. Once they walked away, everyone felt the body's restraint disappear...

Everyone could move freely again and regained control of their bodies.

But this situation didn't last long.

There were eight more statues that came to the side of the eight people, only these eight statues were no longer knights, but looked like servants.

"Congratulations to everyone for finishing the first round of stories. Then next, everyone will enter the story reenactment scene."

"Presumably, everyone who is good at observing barrage already knows that your stories will descend into reality~"

"Those people who were bullied by everyone in the stories back then... they will all come back~"

"This round of links will not be scored, and there are no additional rules. Starting from the second round of stories, additional rules will be generated. However, according to everyone's stories, the audience has already begun to change."

"But first, everyone must survive from the first round~"

"Next, the servants will guide everyone to their respective rooms. In the rooms, everyone will experience the plot in the story. Looking forward to your wonderful performance."

"Hope that in the second round, I can still hear eight stories~"

【Currently there are no additional rules, current audience perversion value has no change.】

In Wen Xishu's mind, such a prompt appeared, which was undoubtedly also information.

Perversion value...

Without a doubt, the more perverted the audience, the harder it is for conventional stimulation to bring them pleasure.

"The person who suspected to be the masked man said, according to the story, the audience has already begun to change... is it saying that the perversion value has already begun to change?"

Wen Xishu subconsciously looked at the chef man.

Sure enough, the chef frowned.

Because among all the stories, actually the most perverted one was still the chef. So the prompt the chef received was like this.

【Currently there are no additional rules, current audience perversion value change, +15%.】

Wen Xishu couldn't see it, but he guessed... the chef's audience perversion value might have changed.

This meant that the chef's next round of stories must be more perverted to satisfy them, and at the same time, it would cause them to be more perverted, so the next story would have to be even more perverted and heavy-mouthed.

"If my guess is correct... the scale of the story must be grasped well, otherwise if the audience is raised to be 'perverted,' then one must tell a more heavy-mouthed and curious story to satisfy them, while at the same time causing them to be more perverted, thus falling into a vicious cycle."

"Screening the audience... perhaps is a very important step in the next step. This might depend on the accident link, and the way of telling stories."

The servant led Wen Xishu toward the house on the right side of the ancient castle hall.

The rest of the people all followed their respective servants.

Soon, a door opened.

"Please... enter..." the servant said weakly.

Wen Xishu soon walked in.

【It's coming, it's coming! Finally coming!】

【Oh oh oh oh, I want to see how you persuade them!】

【Quick quick quick, start your performance!】

【Tricking people into giving up a trillion-dollar family fortune, this is not an ordinary hatred, this brother, don't die in this room!】

At the same time, on the shifty-eyed man's side, the shifty-eyed man let out an exclamation.

On the snake-tongued woman's side, she stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, making a moaning sound.

And the lecturer man sat on the chair, his expression calm.

The accident started, but the direction of some accidents didn't develop in the direction expected by the audience.

For example, Wen Xishu's side.

"Yo, An Jincheng, we meet again."

Unlike what the barrage expected, Wen Xishu seemed to have no fear, greeting An Jincheng.

【Really the An family young master! I rub, I've seen this person, said he was kidnapped!】

【No, this atmosphere is not quite right!】

【Damn, this billionaire's family fortune is gone now, why is he still showing a smile to this person?】

The atmosphere was indeed not right.

Because An Jincheng was somewhat confused, and then, his confusion gradually dissipated, turning into surprise:

"Wen Xishu! My god, I was still wondering where this place is!! We actually suddenly came here? Is this your means?"

"You are indeed... very strong!"

Wen Xishu wasn't sure which "version" of An Jincheng this An Jincheng was.

He smiled and said:

"Come, while others are experiencing the accident process, let's have a good chat about what happened during this period of time."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 161 =====