Chapter 200: Floating and Sinking in the Sea of Sin

Mysterious Tower rest area.

The current Mysterious Tower rest area already felt somewhat like the Tower of Desire rest area; it appeared quite lively here.

The Tianyuan area naturally belonged to Wen Xishu; not to mention having the Three Highs, even without them, Wen Xishu would likely occupy the Tianyuan area.

After equipping his sequences and items, Wen Xishu began to interpret the mission.

Finally, everything had returned to how it began. The process of climbing the Mysterious Tower had become the process he was familiar with, no longer like the Great Devouring, where he entered the scene directly without any mission clues.

In the Mysterious Tower rest area, people would occasionally ask for advice on how to pass certain missions.

But Wen Xishu was certain that if there were no characters he was familiar with, he would no longer pay attention.

This was also normal; even though he had climbed the Mysterious Tower many times, in the vast strange world, there were countless areas he had yet to explore.

Wen Xishu had no time to deal with others now.

Because this time, what he had to face was the Mysterious Tower's—sixty-third floor.

Without a doubt, this was Wen Xishu's highest floor in the Mysterious Tower. Under the influence of the Three Highs, he had been forcibly elevated to the same stage as Wen Renjing and Xun Hui.

With the Mysterious Tower Heavenly Ladder Ranking about to appear, if he could return alive, Wen Xishu was certain that his name would likely once again draw exclamations from the crowd.

This was certainly good, but the prerequisite was actually being able to return alive.

And this time, he seemed to feel that this mission was not as simple as he had imagined.

【Mission Name: Voyage of the Sea of Sin.】

【Mission Description: That sea area was actually not like this from the beginning, and people did not know why that sea area had become this way. For a very long time, the giant Ark achieved ecological circulation, and people once thought—that a human civilization floating on the sea had truly been successfully constructed. People rejoiced, people wept, people sang praises!

But one day, strange rules finally shrouded that sea, and no one knew where that obsession came from.

The ocean that people relied on for survival turned into a mysterious sea area called the Sea of Sin. And beneath the Sea of Sin, there were countless strange creatures.

Do not float on the sea forever; go find islands. A long time later, after everyone on the Ark had paid a painful price, they finally found a cruel way to survive.

Perhaps you can let them leave the Sea of Sin, or perhaps, you too will be swallowed by the Sea of Sin.】

Sea of Sin.

This name gave Wen Xishu an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Because the old man selling tea, that strange existence, that third-party existence that seemed not to belong to the Three Towers War nor the Bunker... had once mentioned a place.

Sin Soil.

Wen Xishu's first reaction was to wonder if the two were related.

But without a doubt, there was no one now who could give him an answer.

Although there were many more people in the entire Mysterious Tower rest area... Wen Xishu's acquaintances were all reveling in the victory of the Great Devouring.

Wen Xishu did not delay and directly activated the login device.

The journey to conquer the Sea of Sin officially began.

……

……

Lead-gray clouds pressed toward the sea surface like an iron curtain, and wave crests were torn into scarlet fragments in the gale.

The billion-ton super steel beast trembled violently at this moment like a child's paper boat, following the strange undulations of the sea surface.

The sea surface suddenly bulged with tumor-like bumps, drawing exclamations from a group of people.

The broadcast began to sound:

"Everyone, immediately close the cabin doors and stay in your rooms!"

"We have encountered a Sea of Sin giant beast, the sin level is red!"

The blood-red sea surface made people realize that the creatures beneath the sea were very powerful.

Even though the Ark had evolved several times, people still did not dare to bet on whether the Ark could withstand that monster.

What's more... they had to land on an island; if they didn't land on an island, it would bring about an even greater disaster.

……

The lights were swaying. The dining table was also shaking.

Some people were gorging themselves, while others remained silent.

Wen Xishu had had many starts; he had been a prisoner in a park, and a beggar in a park, but this time...

He seemed to be in a rather good environment.

This was a luxury cruise ship restaurant, and the entire restaurant was cleared out, with only their table eating.

The delicacies on the table made one's appetite stir. Wen Xishu also had an appetite; after all, he really couldn't eat these things in the Bunker.

He picked up his chopsticks and at the same time observed the situation around him clearly.

Eight people at a table, a standard banquet number, but the configuration was maxed out, with all kinds of top-tier seafood dishes placed on the table.

The treatment of the eight people was clearly very good.

But Wen Xishu also immediately noticed something wrong; the eight people including him were dining at the table, but some were eating frantically, while others were frowning.

What concerned Wen Xishu even more were those on the periphery holding guns.

Yes, a circle of soldiers were standing guard with guns, and coincidentally, every entrance and exit from this dining hall was strictly guarded.

Wen Xishu immediately realized—

His situation might not be as good as it appeared on the surface.

"Looking at the reaction outside, it should be the second wave of disaster arriving. Heh, soon we will be forced to land on an island. Hey, brother, your features look like you are from the East? Which district of the Ark are you from?" a man with long hair and a long beard said in a somewhat slurred tone.

His pronunciation was very blurry, not because of a speech problem, but because he was stuffing a chicken leg into his mouth. The man seemed a bit hungry, had a good appetite, and was gorging himself.

But at the dining table, the other few people did not have as good an appetite as him.

An old man looked sickly.

A middle-aged man with a soldier's temperament.

A black man who was very tall and had extremely well-developed muscles.

And a teenager in a wheelchair, with quite soft blonde hair, who didn't look like a child from an ordinary family.

Then there was the man who spoke, with long hair and a long beard, in his thirties.

Finally, there was a couple, but both were women, without the stereotypical lesbian image in Wen Xishu's mind; for example, one of the women had short hair and was dressed in a relatively neutral style...

Both were very standard and conformed to the public's impression of female attire, except one leaned towards a spicy girl, with Latin American skin tone, and one leaned towards intellectual, like a cold and glamorous female CEO.

The spicy girl was using a spoon to feed the female CEO, but the female CEO seemed to have no appetite.

After Wen Xishu looked over this circle of people, he said:

"My name is Wen Xishu. I forgot which district I am from."

"Wen Xishu? Sounds like... this is a Whatever Longxia person's name, heh, on the Ark, the status of Whatever Longxia people is not high; after all, when we were making the Ark, you Whatever Longxia people were obsessed with burrowing underground. I have to say, Whatever Longxia is always right."

This was not a remark by the man mocking the Great Freedom Nation; the man said this because at least—he did not know what obstacles the Whatever Longxia shelters encountered. But he was very clear about the Ark's obstacles.

Wen Xishu also knew about that plan—the Long Yin plan. He immediately thought of the plan from Whatever Longxia.

Now it seemed that every country had a plan to deal with the end of the world.

Some countries, such as Whatever Longxia's neighbor, that country with a vast territory, tried to build a space station in the sky.

There were also those like Whatever Longxia, trying to build shelters underground.

There were also countries that built Arks on the sea.

Of course, there are also countries that gamble their national destiny, evolving the entire population; they just gamble and be done with it.

To date, Wen Xishu had come to the Ark, and except for the space station in the sky, he seemed to have an understanding of all the shelters.

"My name is Russell, I am from District 2, that area is all people like me, considered to be from the Eagle Nation. My luck is very bad, because it was my turn. But I always suspect... that the lottery mechanism is problematic," Russell said.

He was actually very strong, and his long hair and long beard gave him quite a bit of a Middle Eastern desperado vibe.

Wen Xishu carefully recalled many things, but still couldn't remember any useful memories.

He only knew that he was in a super-huge sea vehicle called the Ark.

At the same time, he seemed to have received a mission, and this mission was very dangerous, enough to let him enjoy a very sumptuous dinner.

Russell saw that Wen Xishu didn't speak and looked around again.

"Eight people land on the island to let the Sea of Sin calm its anger; he doesn't speak, you six don't speak either?"

The sickly old man responded to Russell:

"Saying more is meaningless. Russell... you have a good appetite, eat more."

Russell didn't have much to talk about with such a gloomy old man.

Wen Xishu suddenly stood up.

As he stood up, all those soldiers on the periphery immediately raised their guns and aimed at Wen Xishu.

"I was wondering why my luck was so good, to be able to eat such a delicacy; it turns out I'm back to the beginning, eating a last meal?"

The first time Wen Xishu came to the Bunker, he ate a last meal, but at that time, what he longed to eat was KFC and iced cola.

After all, the Bunker's conditions were limited.

This time, Wen Xishu was quite satisfied with the quality of this last meal, but he had to figure out what was going on.

"Can I ask a few questions, everyone." Wen Xishu turned around and looked at the soldiers at the door.

"Sit down! Number 1195628! Sit down!" the soldier shouted sternly.

Wen Xishu did not sit down.

Because he had the Power of the Three Phases, because he had powerful strength.

As long as the opponent was still using firearms, it was not worth his attention.

Russell hadn't figured out what was going on yet, only feeling wind raging in the restaurant, and the delicacies on the dining table began to shake more violently.

And in Wen Xishu's hands, he was already holding the gun barrel and began to disassemble it.

That exaggerated behavior that appeared in Indian movies was restored by him in reality.

When the soldiers reacted, Wen Xishu had already disassembled a weapon into a fully parted state.

Although this was the sixty-plus floor, although there would inevitably be great danger here—

But Wen Xishu, with his powerful spiritual sense, discovered that there were no special qualified people around.

Russell, the old man, the muscular black man, the teenager in the wheelchair, the middle-aged man with a soldier's temperament, and that lesbian couple were all stunned.

"OMG, is there really Whatever Longxia Kung Fu?" Russell only felt a bit shocked.

But everyone quickly returned to calm.

In the Sea of Sin, they had encountered everything; no matter how strong a person's ability was, could they be stronger than those sea beasts beneath the sea surface?

"Number 1195628! Calm down! Calm down! We really didn't expect that you were actually an ability user! But even if you are a qualified person, you must abide by the Ark Sea of Sin's newly compiled regulations!"

"You already agreed before; if you go back on your word because of your status as an ability user... although it's not impossible, I hope you can calm down! We have no intention of harming you!"

The soldier leader among the soldiers wearing a helmet said.

His tone was very nervous.

Wen Xishu seemed to have heard it.

The other party was very afraid of his status as an ability user. Clearly, ability users were those people who possessed superpowers, that is, qualified people.

And on this Ark, there was more than one ability user.

Wen Xishu's mind began to simulate... if ordinary people and ability users lived together, it was highly likely that many ability users would have high status and possess privileges.

Tang Rui, Jack, Xiaoxing, Xiaotong, the reason they were miserable was because their abilities were not fully awakened, and they had concerns in their hearts, and were kind-hearted.

But they were really just a minority.

Normally, once qualified people discovered their abilities, they would quickly enter a state of "I don't eat beef."

Judging from the soldier leader's nervous attitude, the qualified people on this Ark were afraid they had done many bloody things.

Wen Xishu said:

"I am not nervous, it is you who are more nervous. I need to know now. I need to know the cause and effect, you don't need to care why I want to ask such a topic."

"It is best to explain it to me honestly."

Wen Xishu's ghostly figure suddenly appeared beside the soldier leader.

Not a single soldier saw Wen Xishu's movement trajectory clearly.

Under the blessing of the Dragon Hidden Power and the Extreme Kick, Wen Xishu's foot strength could already be called perverted.

This feeling of being able to bully others at the start gave Wen Xishu a considerable sense of security.

I have to say, the Power of the Three Phases helped Wen Xishu save a lot of effort.

And so—Wen Xishu quickly figured out the cause and effect.

This ship was called the Ark.

It was the last shelter of the Freedom State. The Ark had been sailing on the sea for five years; in the five years, with the help of ability users, the Ark achieved perpetual motion. It built an internal ecological circulation system.

The Ark was able to avoid the end of the world, but inside the Ark—it was almost the same as the Bunker.

It could be said that the Ark was a small Bunker.

Here, the class structure was solidified, even more serious than the Bunker. The Bunker had Albert, but the Ark did not.

Of course, for human civilization to continue, and for people to survive, they had to accept the system.

Originally everything was fine. Until this sixth year...

The Ark, for some reason, suddenly sailed into an area called the Sea of Sin.

At some point, a legend appeared, and this legend was like this:

If you sail on the sea for too long, you might enter the sea area of another world—the Sea of Sin. On the Sea of Sin, there were many islands, called Sin Soil Fragments.

When hearing this, Wen Xishu once again thought of that old man selling tea.

He even thought—

Could the old man be on the ship? The Ark was so huge, among millions of living beings, could he be one of them?

But soon, his attention was diverted by the rules of the Sea of Sin.

"You mean, if eight people are not arranged to be sacrificed in the Sin Soil Fragments, it will cause the Sea of Sin to swallow the Ark?" Wen Xishu asked back after hearing the end.

Although the soldier leader was curious why this Easterner would ask about common sense, the other party was an ability user, and it was normal for ability users to have some strange quirks.

He nodded:

"Yes."

The sixth year of the Ark's voyage, the fifth year after the end of the world arrived—

The Ark suddenly entered the Sea of Sin from the normal sea area.

And on the Sea of Sin, any ship, any life, would be swallowed by the giant beasts beneath the Sea of Sin.

"The first stage, the giant beast will be awakened; the second stage, the seawater begins to become turbulent, and the ocean becomes scarlet. The third stage, the giant beast begins to attack the Ark, and many people inside the Ark will fall into a hallucinatory state..."

"The fourth stage... you will see the metal cabin walls inside the Ark covered with the flesh and blood of monsters."

"The fifth stage, there is no fifth stage; we must arrange eight people to enter the Sin Soil Fragments, that is, land on the island, when the fourth stage, no, when the first stage begins—"

"Only after landing on the island for twenty-four hours will all the dangers of the Sea of Sin be lifted."

The soldier leader was very nervous:

"So... this gentleman, this is our current situation; although you definitely don't want to be the person landing on the island, you already accepted the lottery ceremony before."

"However... considering you possess abilities and have a noble bloodline, you can choose to reject it. We can immediately arrange for someone to replace you."

Ho, this time I really became a privileged person?

Wen Xishu did not agree immediately; if he was a qualified person and could avoid landing on the island, did that mean—he had missed the main storyline that should have been there?

This was a place of obsession; although it looked normal like the human cave area, with ecological communities, in the end, it was very likely that extremely heaven-defying qualified people were hidden here.

Landing on the island could eliminate the madness of the Sea of Sin; did that mean there were certain things on the island?

"What are the drawbacks of landing on the island? Why are these people, except for Russell, all frowning, as if they are eating their last supper?"

The soldier leader sighed:

"Landing on the island itself has the danger of getting lost on the island; Sin Soil Fragments... are very easy to make people unable to return. And those who return..."

Wen Xishu asked:

"What about those who return?"

The soldier leader said:

"Those who return will all develop certain problems. They... seem to have had some things erased."

Wen Xishu asked:

"Erased what things?"

The soldier leader said:

"It's not uniform; some people stayed on the island and couldn't come back, some people came back, but in their concepts, there seemed to be no children. They looked at children just like looking at adults; in their eyes, children were adults."

"To be precise, there was no concept of children."

"There were also people who didn't know about water. Can you believe it... some people couldn't feel the existence of water. Even if they drank it... they thought they were drinking something else."

"The most outrageous ones even thought they were already dead. In their world, there was no living, no concept of life. That group of people all played the role of some kind of... dead object."

"The symptoms of each group of people who returned were different; in their lives, it seemed they had forever lost certain things."

Wen Xishu heard this and suddenly thought of a story.

"City of If," author gcx.

It said that people living in this city would welcome a rule every week, if this week xxxx.

For example, if this week lost gravity.

So in this week, everyone in the city would fly up.

If this week there were no parents, so in this week, no one knew who their parents were, and humans were all researching how they were born.

If there were no fish, all the anglers would feel that fishing was a Buddhist act of self-cultivation, not some kind of hunting act.

At this very moment, Wen Xishu felt that this Sin Soil Fragment might be such a place.

He suddenly returned to the dining table, sat honestly, and next, he said words that surprised the soldier leader and everyone:

"Okay, I roughly understand the situation, next please arrange for me to land on the island."

Wen Xishu could actually learn more about the Ark, but he was certain that he could not bypass landing on the island.

He also really wanted to know what the difference was between the Sin Soil Fragments and the real Sin Soil.

Which constellation's related area was this scene?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 201 =====