Chapter 188

Wen Renjing did not understand:

"Xiaoshu, it's best not to underestimate the high-level Tower of Desire."

"First, in the Tower of Desire, once the level is raised, you might encounter some guys with powerful strength."

"Second, Disruptors may also awaken certain traits. Additionally, since Immortal Morita is an absolute happy person, if we want to punish him, in a sense, we become his disaster and misfortune. But with Morita Hitomi there... will Morita Yu really become unfortunate?"

Wen Xishu had to say that Senior Wen Renjing's analysis was indeed very reasonable. If it were anyone else, it would be fine, but Morita Yu must be special...

Heaven knows how many layers of protection he would use Morita Hitomi to stack on himself?

These problems indeed needed to be thought about carefully.

However, since the topic had shifted, Wen Xishu didn't mention that he could use violence. It wasn't that he minded.

When confronting the Priest, the reaction of Wen Renjing, who was summoned through Jessica, had already explained many things.

Namely, that Wen Renjing was a man; otherwise, he might have had to call Wen Renjing "sister-in-law."

When confronting the Priest in the small town, Wen Xishu truly learned that Wen Renjing had always believed in Wen Zhaohua.

The most vicious criminal in the bunker, the crime of human extinction... Wen Renjing didn't care at all. In this respect, Wen Renjing was actually quite crazy.

He was a thorough... double-standard party. Even if a friend he valued committed a crime as world-destroying as that, he would think—did this world treat my friend unfairly?

Such a person is naturally trustworthy.

"Senior, tell me, so far, what mutated versions of Disruptors have you encountered, the ones on the sixtieth floor?" Wen Xishu asked.

Wen Renjing heard it; was Wen Xishu planning to go hard against the Disruptor? To kill the Disruptor head-on?

"Are you... sure you listened to what I said?"

Seeing Wen Xishu still maintaining his previous smile, Wen Renjing sighed:

"It's related to the level. Starting from the fiftieth floor, some Disruptors will awaken certain variant powers of the desire sequence."

"On the sixtieth floor, they often implant some rune effects, but there aren't many such people. Even on the sixty-fifth floor, I often encounter some Disruptors without any power."

Wen Xishu noticed the key—

"In other words, the traits awakened by Disruptors are often related to the mental level?"

Wen Renjing nodded:

"Yes. Disruptors often awaken abilities like the desire sequence. Some Disruptors can even see future changes; this kind of Disruptor is the most troublesome."

"Generally speaking, I would default to the Disruptor being powerful and difficult to confront, so I wouldn't choose to fight head-on."

Wen Xishu smiled:

"That's great. I was worried I wouldn't be able to beat them. Now I'm confident."

"Senior. Let's find Xiaoxing first, no... let's solve the Disruptor first. The Disruptor has the memory of multiple cycles and should be able to provide a lot of information," Wen Xishu said.

He said it very firmly, and Wen Renjing became even more curious:

"As long as you find the Disruptor, you can deal with him? Are you that confident?"

"Yes. As long as I find him, I can handle him," Wen Xishu said directly.

His tone was so unquestionable that it made Wen Renjing wonder what trump cards Wen Xishu had.

"I want to save these two children, Xiaoshu. We cannot overestimate ourselves. But I believe that you were able to survive all the way from the Mysterious Tower; since you are so confident, there must be a reason."

"I will listen to you from now on. Just tell me how you need me to help."

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Senior just needs to ensure that the Disruptor's special means don't work on me."

Wen Renjing asked again:

"Then how do you plan to find this person? You know, Disruptors are extremely sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment. If someone they haven't seen appears, they might think... a variable has occurred."

Wen Xishu took out the Luo Pan.

Wen Renjing looked at the Luo Pan and sighed:

"I forgot, you have many tools."

Wen Renjing was somewhat convinced. Admittedly, Wen Xishu's desire sequences were not as many as his, but Wen Xishu's methods for climbing the Tower of Desire were truly no fewer than his.

It's like, while others are still reading the mission and looking for the mission location based on the description... Wen Xishu can already use the automatic pathfinding function.

No need to investigate, no need to think, just follow the tool.

Heaven knows how many more labor-saving things this kid has? And judging by the confidence that he can solve the Disruptor as long as he finds him...

It seems there are even bigger trump cards.

This is also what Wen Renjing cares about, because in the past, in order to solve a Disruptor, he would often spend a long time, even after finding the Disruptor.

"I'm starting to get curious... how long it will take for this Luo Pan plus the invitation letter to let you change the fate of these two children."

Wen Xishu smiled:

"What is certain is—less than forty-eight hours."

Hujiang, Twentieth District.

April is approaching. Xiaoxing doesn't like April.

Because the first day of April is April Fool's Day. That is a holiday she detests very much.

At the beginning of April, all lies seem reasonable. Unwringed cotton floats in the air, even the weather forecast becomes an ambiguous riddle, love letters in the back of the classroom never wait for a signature, and even the magnolias downstairs, when they are about to wither, lie and say they will bloom for another season.

She is really afraid; April is a bad image in her life. All hope is reasonably fooling herself on April 1st.

Letting that last bit of light begin to shatter from lies.

She has waited for a long time, but she knows... if she keeps waiting, Morita Hitomi will not walk out of that small room.

Because this is Morita Yu's wish. Perhaps that person's luck is that Morita Hitomi is forever locked in a dark basement.

The man wore an expensive suit and began today's domestication.

This time, Xiaoxing was very resistant.

The man said earnestly:

"Shame and dignity are obstacles that prevent you from getting a better life. Throw them away, and you can become a qualified pet."

"Xiaoxing, your performance is the same as last time. It's just that last time, I didn't investigate Immortal Morita. At that time, I was busy with other things and didn't pay much attention to your chat history."

"But the result won't change anything; your trajectory hasn't changed at all."

"Do you know, no one will come to save you, no one will give you happiness. Immortal Morita might really exist, but if even a pet like you... already knows. Why do you think you deserve to walk in front of him?"

"If the Buddha in the temple were effective, the poor wouldn't even have the qualifications to bow to the Buddha statue. This is the law of operation of this world. Once a wish-granting machine really appears... then the first person to make a wish must be the one who seizes ownership of this wish-granting machine."

How cruel, but it also seems irrefutable.

The man lifted Xiaoxing's chin:

"Take off your clothes and crawl around the park. Starting in April, you will leave and head to that dry desert."

"I need you to do the final desensitization training for shame."

Xiaoxing could not refute every word of this man.

But this time, she still couldn't help but want to beg the man:

"I have already... I am already a qualified pet, there is no need to make me do this, please..."

The man shook his head helplessly, and a whip appeared in his hand at some point:

"Customers will question my reputation. There are many girls like you, and they are smarter than you; they gave up hope a long time ago."

"Xiaoxing, look, if you are obedient, your pain can be exchanged for gains. But now, because you are disobedient, you will suffer pain and won't get any rewards."

The whip lashed onto Xiaoxing's back, leaving a blood-red mark.

Xiaoxing gritted her teeth, enduring the man's lashing.

She actually didn't know why she suddenly wanted to persist.

She had actually done many more shameful things a long time ago, but this time she just felt she wanted to wait a little longer.

The whip fell again and again, and the blood-red marks slowly turned into shattered flesh.

Under the repeated brutal beatings, Xiaoxing suddenly understood that she didn't want to do those lowly and shameful things because she was afraid that she, being too base, would not deserve happiness.

She wanted to have a little more dignity, wanted to wait for someone to come and save her... and be somewhat presentable.

But she couldn't hold on anymore.

She no longer gritted her teeth to endure, but opened her mouth, letting the wails ring out, and tears began to fall wildly.

The hope that had been built up with such difficulty finally collapsed under the lashes.

Someone like me doesn't deserve happiness.

She finally couldn't help but think this, and then cycled through this thought over and over. She felt more and more how base she was; why should she covet that kind of thing?

But she really hoped that her wish could be realized by Morita Hitomi, so that... even if she were unfortunate, she could let Morita Hitomi find happiness through that wish.

Yes.

When tortured by pain, no longer daring to covet happiness, she still didn't give up on seeing Morita Hitomi, because she knew that child was innocent. She knew that child was not a "ghost."

That was a child with a kind heart.

If she couldn't be a human, at least... please make a wish to let that child be a human.

Thinking this, she gave birth to a little bit of strength to resist.

But she was still crying loudly, begging, curling up, her body instinctively resisting being abused.

The sound of the whip breaking through the air was like a devil's whisper.

The next moment, pain would accurately appear on her festering skin, letting her already rotten life grow another crack.

But suddenly... a huge sound covered everything, and the whole building seemed to be shaking slightly.

The island nation is a country where earthquakes occur frequently, and because of this, most of the buildings here are not very tall; the hotel where Akiyama Xiaoxing was staying was only twelve stories high.

But even so, seeing someone climb in through the window of a room on the twelfth floor and kick the window open with violence was extremely terrifying.

She couldn't imagine such a change, so much so that she suspected she had been beaten too hard and was hallucinating.

But then, the doorbell rang.

The man was startled; this change not only made Akiyama Xiaoxing feel suspicious, but even he himself showed an expression of doubting life.

Impossible. Who is this person?

Why would this person appear here?

Even if his behavior was different from last time, the butterfly effect shouldn't be big enough to add a strange guy climbing in from the twelfth-floor window!

The man's whip stopped in mid-air, looking at the newcomer with an incredible gaze.

"Please open the door for my friend. Well, never mind... he's really amazing, isn't he?"

The door opened.

The man turned around abruptly and saw a man with a peerless appearance.

"Xiaoshu... your physical fitness is truly terrifying. This arm strength is too scary," the handsome man praised.

This man was so beautiful that at first, the man who often auctioned off women felt that such a man... if auctioned off, could make female billionaires around the world go crazy.

But he suddenly realized that he was now in danger.

"Who... who exactly are you, why can you come in?"

The handsome man took off his coat and covered Akiyama Xiaoxing, who was naked and covered in whip marks.

At this moment, Akiyama Xiaoxing only felt a sense of fantasy.

She couldn't believe there would be such a good-looking man.

The newcomer was none other than Wen Renjing and Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu climbed up to the twelfth floor by parkour without using the stairs.

Wen Renjing relied on his charm to successfully make the hotel staff violate the rules and give him the room key.

"My name is Wen Xishu, I'm here to find Akiyama Xiaoxing. A child named Morita Hitomi entrusted us to save her."

"By the way, in the memory of last time, there was no us; it must be very strange to you, Mr. Curator."

Wen Xishu smiled.

At this time, the man called the Curator subconsciously took a step back.

Wen Renjing remained vigilant at all times, but he was also very curious now... what Xiaoshu would do.

Not long ago, Xiaoshu made a bet with him on who could enter the target's room faster. Wen Xishu showed physical fitness that made Wen Renjing admire him.

But now facing the Curator, facing the Disruptor... what would Wen Xishu do?

Suddenly, Wen Renjing's expression froze, because the scene happened so fast that although his heart was surging with stormy waves, his expression couldn't change in time.

I saw Wen Xishu take a step, burst into action, and then a short knife appeared in Wen Xishu's hand, which drew a cold light in the air.

It accurately stabbed into the Curator's scapula. In this process, Wen Xishu was actually very cautious; he used time stop three times to judge the Curator's subtle movements.

But he found... the Curator didn't seem as difficult to deal with as imagined. What Wen Xishu didn't know was that the trait the Curator awakened was on another level.

The violent collision, plus the dagger stabbed into the scapula, the huge force instantly caused the Curator's body to lose balance. Wen Xishu took the opportunity to suppress him.

The sound of bones breaking rang out, and Wen Xishu's punch had already smashed hard into the Curator's nasal bone.

The whole action was done in one go; when Wen Renjing and Akiyama Xiaoxing reacted, Wen Xishu had already started a one-sided crazy punching and beating.

This scene stunned both Wen Renjing and Akiyama Xiaoxing.

Wen Renjing couldn't imagine that the Disruptor was defeated so simply. Defeated in a physical sense. He had thought of many possibilities, but he didn't expect... dealing with a Disruptor of the Tower of Desire could be so simple and rude.

Akiyama Xiaoxing couldn't imagine that the person who could predict everything, the person who seemed to know everything about the world's changes... was being beaten crazily at this moment.

"Ah, that time with Tang Rui, there were several bitches who didn't get their turn for me to deal with, and I was very regretful. This time, I must not leave any regrets."

"Don't worry, I won't beat you to death, and don't think that if you die, you can start the next cycle. Your superpower has ended. Your life has reached a dead end!"

Physical attacks only made the Curator painful, but verbal mental strikes truly made the Curator feel fear.

How did he know his secret?

The Curator's thoughts were quickly interrupted; of course, what was interrupted was not just thoughts, but also his bones.

"Who... who exactly... are you?" the Curator asked in horror.

Wen Xishu didn't stop punching; he was still beating the Curator crazily.

"In this world, some people bear a lot of pain but don't get happiness. Some people don't have to bear any pain to obtain happiness."

"It's so unfair."

"You ask who I am, I am here to collect debts for the unfortunate."

Wen Renjing finally confirmed that this Disruptor had not awakened any abilities, which was a good thing. Wen Xishu also confirmed this through multiple pauses.

It was the first time Wen Renjing saw such a Wen Xishu.

Hideous, furious.

Although he always pretended to be indifferent to everything... it could be seen that Xiaoshu actually sympathized with Xiaoxing and Hitomi very much. Logically speaking, Xiaoshu was actually planning to ask for information...

But after seeing the scars on Akiyama Xiaoxing, the anger was completely ignited.

The storm-like punches were still falling.

Flesh and blood blurred, muscles and bones shattered...

Under Wen Xishu's crazy beating, the Curator didn't die, but gradually became unrecognizable. Blood flowed continuously from under the Curator.

Wen Xishu seemed to ignore the information entirely, just wanting to beat the Curator to death.

Looking at this scene, Akiyama Xiaoxing began to wail; she wasn't afraid, but endless emotions surged.

She finally reacted to that sentence. Because it was too dreamy, she couldn't believe it.

"A child named Morita Hitomi entrusted us to save her."

All misfortune, all self-denial, all cognition of her own baseness... vanished at this moment.

Akiyama Xiaoxing only felt that this sentence was cycling in her mind. She should laugh wildly, but after the huge emotions hit, she couldn't stop crying.

Wen Renjing's hand touched Akiyama Xiaoxing's shoulder.

At this moment, warmth and peace seemed to have substance, like light, shining into her rotten life.

In this world, nothing is more healing than Wen Renjing's smile.

Wen Renjing was also in a good mood at this time; he couldn't help but think, if there were no Xiaoshu, could he rewrite the tragedy belonging to Xiaoxing in the vast Tower of Desire?

He said softly:

"Everything is over, Xiaoxing, you will also have your own happiness, please don't doubt yourself."

By comparison, Wen Xishu next to him had a style that was not warm at all; he patted the Curator's completely rotten face:

"Don't be in a hurry to die, the pain hasn't ended yet, I still have things to ask you."

(End of chapter)