Chapter 207: Joining Forces to Break the Situation

Horn shook his head:

"I don't want to leave the Ark. I feel that the Ark... is a viable solution."

"Wen Xishu, you aren't someone from the Ark, are you?"

Wen Xishu did not deny it.

If he were Horn, he would also be able to sense that "Wen Xishu" was extraordinary.

Horn smiled: "It seems you come from some correct answer."

"Perhaps there really is some way I could leave with you, but for me, that would be choosing the easy way, not the correct way."

Wen Xishu was slightly startled.

This sentence was too familiar. He hadn't expected that outside the bunker, on this Ark which was supposed to have already failed in the future world...

There would be someone with the same thoughts as himself and the Headmaster.

"I will do my utmost to make the Ark another correct answer."

Wen Xishu rolled up his sleeves, clearly prepared to go all out. Because above the clouds, the massive black fog had descended once again.

Wen Xishu and Horn, and even Mia and Judy—were all bugs.

If the bugs of this world were not eliminated, the Abyss Sea Behemoth would descend every so often.

And it would be stronger each time.

Horn had also thought of a counter-strategy, which was to amplify the bugs until the whole world was a bug.

Wen Xishu had also thought of this point:

"Our scenario this time is a modernized city, so next, after defeating the Abyss Sea Behemoth, we have a way to use modern equipment to let everyone hear those two words."

"But Horn, what if there's no way to let everyone hear it? What if our scenario this time is more primitive?"

Horn had naturally considered this problem, but he hadn't thought of the answer:

"I don't know. You seem to have a way?"

A murderous intent appeared on Wen Xishu's face:

"If there's no way to let everyone know about the bug, then let me alone be equal to everyone. Oh no, let the two of us be equal to everyone."

Horn fell silent.

The dark clouds in the sky were somewhat like the darkness in Wen Xishu's heart.

He understood Wen Xishu's statement—kill them all.

"If you could kill everyone, then theoretically, passing the message to them would be easier than killing them." Horn seemed not to have such great murderous intent.

Wen Xishu, however, said:

"Not necessarily... Perhaps one day, you will face such a dilemma."

Their conversation ended there. Because in the dark sky, huge tentacles had already pierced through the clouds.

Horn sighed:

"I am very curious about your experiences. Once we survive this ordeal, please tell me all about it."

His fingers had already begun to press the controller, but Horn still subconsciously added:

"My friend."

The great battle began again.

Linked by the controller, Wen Xishu once again displayed strength at the level of a God of War.

Under Horn's increasingly proficient operation, Wen Xishu's Limit Kick could turn more precisely, and the arc achieved by the Killer Soccer Ball was even more bizarre and unpredictable.

Holding the Scorpio Blade, kicking the Killer Soccer Ball, combined with his own explosive power and Horn's god-like operation.

Even with the Abyss Sea Behemoth strengthened by more than double, Wen Xishu still kept moving up along the tentacles.

The tentacles' downward stabbing speed was even more fierce, and the body in the sky was even more massive.

But Wen Xishu was still able to cut off the tentacles time and again, and use the Killer Soccer Ball to blow up those octopus monsters time and again.

Finally, Wen Xishu and Horn once again joined forces to reach the node for slaying the monster.

Under the super attack of the Limit Kick fully driving the Killer Soccer Ball...

The Abyss Sea Behemoth was defeated once again.

It was just that this time, both Horn and Wen Xishu felt...

The improvement brought by their tacit understanding and operation had reached its limit. This slaying process was extremely difficult; several times Horn had felt the tentacle attacks reach the limit of his neural reaction.

Wen Xishu had also been injured several times, but fortunately, they were all minor injuries. Under the controller's enhancement, Wen Xishu was still able to perform the terrifying operation of self-healing.

But this was the limit.

It would be very difficult for Wen Xishu and Horn to deal with the next descent of the behemoth. So the two did not enjoy the joy of victory.

The two had no small talk either; they had already started running toward the building in the city center.

Even after defeating the Abyss Sea Behemoth, Horn did not stop operating the controller, all to take Wen Xishu to the city's largest media building as much as possible.

Along this road, in the city center area, everyone saw a very bizarre scene.

Wen Xishu could probably imagine... how absurd this picture was.

In his past life, in the Jiulongpo area of Chongqing, he saw a group of old men racing in electric wheelchairs.

Now, the scene he and Horn presented was probably even more bizarre.

He had pushed this wheelchair to the feeling of nitrogen acceleration. Especially since he and Horn were each carrying a person.

"What the hell am I seeing? A wheelchair running faster than a sports car?"

Although there was a speed limit in the city center, when wheelchairs appeared in the windows of sports cars one after another... all the drivers began to doubt their lives.

Wen Xishu and Horn saw the media building at light speed. Their goal was very simple: to propagate a certain concept.

At this moment, black clouds gathered in the sky once more above the two of them.

That damn error-correction mechanism, the Abyss Sea Behemoth had actually come again!

Horn said:

"Based on the judgment from the previous two times, we have less than five minutes."

Wen Xishu looked at the sky, wondering whether to activate the Ghost Groom form.

Before concluding that this was a mental world, Wen Xishu didn't mind activating the Ghost Groom form.

But now, he began to care instead.

Because Wen Xishu couldn't help but think... inside the Ark, would there be some peeper?

Would there be an observer watching everything?

What state was his body in right now? If the observer knew he had a Ghost Groom personality, would they forcibly destroy his body?

However, these questions did not affect Wen Xishu's actions.

The two raced against time, constantly running toward the upper floors of the building.

Here, there was equipment that could control many electronic displays in the city center.

At this time, Horn operated the controller with one hand, while gently patting Judy's face with the other.

"Judy, wake up!"

Judy should wake up. Although Mia's voice could continuously spread that bug-like information.

But Mia could not supplement the details.

And Horn guessed that Judy might be able to supplement the details about women.

Inside the Ark.

Location area.

The middle-aged man in a suit with blonde hair combed back, his face carrying that smile capable of conquering everything—though called a middle-aged man, he was actually only in his early thirties.

The man looked at the person in the cage—under the imprisonment of eight pillars, the mysterious existence like a beast in the cage had fallen into a deep sleep.

Only the captain and his confidants could enter this mysterious room.

This middle-aged man was precisely the ruler of this Ark.

Among the many gifted ones, he was the first to awaken his ability. His ability sequence number was extremely high, yet he did not possess any combat power.

However, because he possessed a special power of rules, he quickly attained a transcendent status. Even among the many gifted ones, he was the supreme emperor.

Beside the captain was his confidant, a female officer from the former Free Nation Marine Corps. There was a scar on the female officer's face, making her image appear cold-blooded and cruel.

"Captain, the old, the young, the women... these things he craves are now gradually being lost. As long as this process goes smoothly, in the next step, we can completely control him, right?"

The captain shook his head:

"Many times, people's inner worlds have layers of defenses. People are very complex."

"He always misses the past, and he is the guy who can trigger space-time tremors. In his past, there are hidden guys who are far more terrifying than all of us combined."

"Fortunately, we erased the concept of the old, so that those terrifying things will no longer appear during the process of landing on the island."

Recalling the existence that had once appeared in some Abyss Sea...

The captain still had lingering fears.

He had seen an archer. When the Ark's ability users entered that mental island, the archer locked onto them. The captain had a feeling that if that arrow were shot... the Ark could be pierced through.

The most terrifying was the person with the lion pattern, who incited half of the ability users on the ship to rebel.

The captain himself had almost fallen for it; just seeing that person felt like he was about to kneel down.

But he still escaped.

He realized that he must bypass the prisoner's memories and find more hidden imagery to slowly eliminate the imagery.

Finally, he found a new path to land on the island.

"The elimination of the old means the past no longer exists."

"The elimination of the young means he has lost his faith in the future."

Seeing the captain suddenly stop, the female officer asked cooperatively:

"Then... what about women?"

The captain said very contentedly:

"Women, well, they represent his love. In his memory, there was once a lover named Lyra. After losing this concept, he will no longer possess the associated memories."

"Although I want to hunt Lyra after hunting him, if Lyra is still in his memory, it will be very difficult for me to hunt him."

The female officer, however, said:

"His current situation is actually just more time-consuming for you. But he has absolutely no possibility of escaping, right?"

The captain thought for a while:

"Yes. Absolutely no possibility. The next 'island' is the most important imagery. As long as he falls on this island too... he will be my puppet."

"That is an island in my ideal, and I very much hope the Ark is just like that island."

The female officer was very good at handling things:

"Congratulations in advance on mastering this power comparable to a god."

The captain shook his head, making an expression of reminiscing about the past:

"Comparable to a god? Heh, a bit late. I still envy that Mr. Jin from Longxia more. He must be like me, still alive."

"I once invited him to the Ark, but he firmly believed that the Ark was not the path to salvation. This makes me feel very regretful. After all, I have always believed... he is the man who truly mastered the power of a god. I have always wanted to take away the things on him."

The female officer didn't know who this Mr. Jin was, but she felt that outside the Ark, there shouldn't be any living humans left; there should only be various monsters on land.

"Captain, the transformation has reached the most critical point... will there be any problems?"

The captain still shook his head:

"Even if there are problems, we cannot go to investigate. After all—entering that place, we would also bear the risk of losing concepts. I don't want to lose any concepts yet."

"Every concept is associated with many imageries. I hope to be a complete self."

"I also can't bear to let you go, so we can only test on those who have successfully awakened."

The officer understood.

It was tested like this before. If the concept of the old was lost—then even if they came to the Ark, or to be precise, even if their consciousness returned to the Ark, they had completely lost the concept of the old.

At this time, just bring the old to interact with them and see their reactions.

The captain said:

"This world seems very gentle. I think among these eight people, more than half will choose to stay in this world."

"Those who cannot wake up, just throw them into the fuel tank. You know what to do, right?"

Claiming to the outside world that those people had stayed on the island, Lilith was of course very clear about it.

The captain said:

"As for those who wake up, arrange a group of young and beautiful ones to test them."

"And induce them as much as possible. If they can say the two words 'woman'... then they must be killed."

Lilith nodded, revealing a ferocious smile:

"I understand, don't worry."

Wen Xishu was overthinking.

Indeed, all of this was happening inside the mental world. But he was not being observed.

Because the person who made the rules also had to follow the rules. This was the Mysterious Tower.

When the black clouds in the sky pressed down, Wen Xishu was currently standing on the other side of the media building, on the top of a towering building that was also a city landmark.

Through parkour, he had transferred from the media building to the other side.

For everything that followed, he could only trust that Horn, who was sitting in a wheelchair, could solve it.

At this time, Horn was operating various equipment inside the media building.

All the security and staff of the entire building had been scared away by the huge black shadow in the sky.

For the third battle against the Abyss Sea Behemoth, what Horn had to do—was to explain everything to the awakened Judy while operating Wen Xishu, and preparing equipment so that Mia's repetitive words could be replayed in this city.

Horn was very busy.

But Wen Xishu was definitely not a dog who just lay there to win.

At this time, Wen Xishu and Horn were like Zoe and Mio in the Dual Shadow Wonderland.

It was hard to say whose work was more complex, after all—Wen Xishu now had to face the twice-evolved Abyss Sea Behemoth.

He had to attract the Abyss Sea Behemoth's attention to buy time for Horn.

The Scorpio Blade emitted a cold glint, and the Killer Soccer Ball also flashed with a golden luster.

When the figure of the behemoth appeared again in the clouds in the sky—

The entire city fell into panic.

The city center was the place with the densest flow of people.

Huge tentacles descended like thunder.

After the second evolution, the power of the tentacles was already five times the speed of sound. Wen Xishu, who had not entered the Ghost Groom form... even with the controller's enhancement, even with Horn's god-like operation.

Facing such an attack, he was simply unable to parry.

Fortunately, the Scorpio Blade was really, really sharp.

The Killer Soccer Ball also seemed to be able to ignore defense. Relying on strong offensive attributes, Wen Xishu attracted the attention of all the tentacles, buying time for Horn.

The tentacles summoned octopus monsters again. This time, the octopus monsters were huge, like humanoid Cthulhus, dense and swarming in.

The black tide instantly covered the building where Wen Xishu was. The building began to collapse, tilt, twist, and deform like melting chocolate.

And Wen Xishu, covered by the tide of monsters, was constantly swinging his blade to kill.

On the other side, Horn also began to constantly operate Wen Xishu, while arranging for Judy to constantly link various equipment.

Judy's body was injured and her movements were not very agile, but she also had a belief.

People are really strange creatures.

At the beginning, Judy was actually thinking about—leaving the Ark, leaving that place without human touch, only with class barriers.

Even if she couldn't be a woman here... being a man wasn't bad either.

But after experiencing life and death, she suddenly had the courage to return to the Ark.

Of course, this had a lot to do with Horn's precise persuasion.

"I will re-establish the rules of the Ark, and I will do everything in my power to make the Ark a paradise for civilization, not a hell for civilization."

"Or are you going to stay in this fake place? Living in fear?"

The leader temperament on Horn actually made Judy feel that he could be trusted.

Thus, Judy began to help Horn.

Wen Xishu, who had once again killed his way out of the octopus monster tide, looked at the tentacles leaning toward the media building... and launched a Limit Kick again.

Although Wen Xishu was controlled by the controller and had strong physical fitness, he also felt...

His feet were going numb, as if he was about to lose all feeling.

His body had also reached its limit.

The Abyss Sea Behemoth was really not something he could deal with.

If it were normal tower climbing, he believed that when he climbed to the sixty-something floor, his panels in all aspects would be very strong...

But he had come up through the Three Highs.

At high-level tiers, even if the strategy is completely correct, one must have the corresponding "minimum attributes."

If these attributes are not up to standard... then it is very difficult to clear the level.

The tentacles of the octopus monsters once again wrapped around Wen Xishu, piercing through Wen Xishu's knees and ankles.

Just when Wen Xishu thought he had to use the Transpiring Blood Mist to summon the Ghost Groom personality...

Just when the huge sea beast in the sky was about to erase everything—

Suddenly, a huge electronic synthesized sound appeared in the city. All the broadcast equipment in the city center area received an order at this moment!

Those two forbidden words quickly resounded in the sky of this city.

At the critical moment, Horn had actually really done it. This man without legs, at a critical moment, relied on his hands and brain to complete the impossible task.

Wen Xishu was actually still thinking that perhaps Horn had guessed wrong, perhaps this move wouldn't work.

But bizarrely, when the two words "woman" truly appeared—

The whole world stopped as if it had dropped frames.

The huge sea beast in the sky actually showed a mosaic-like pattern.

Mia's voice seemed to have some kind of magic, making everyone fall into a daze.

Every local NPC who heard Mia's voice suddenly stopped, but their mouths were murmuring the two words "woman."

Their voices were not loud, but they won by quantity, starting to spread like a virus.

Originally, black clouds only appeared in the city center area, but next, as more and more people began to mutter the two words "woman"...

More than half of the entire city was covered by black clouds.

But Wen Xishu found that the sea beast in the sky that was originally going to attack him had really stopped.

Although the black clouds spread, the sea beast was like a pile of garbled code.

When all nerves were affected by the bug, when all underlying code was tampered with by the virus...

Then how could the antivirus software also driven by the system possibly continue to run normally?

This city had suddenly implanted a concept, but because of this concept, it fell into a special "downtime" state.

Except for the unconscious Mia, only seven people were still able to move.

Wen Xishu arrived at the building where Horn was in an instant.

Although he was exhausted, covered in wounds and blood, he was ultimately still able to travel through this city.

Seeing that Wen Xishu was so severely injured, Huo En felt a bit of self-reproach:

"Sorry, I was slow... and let you suffer heavy injuries."

Wen Xishu said:

"No, you were truly amazing. If I were to play your role, I wouldn't be as good as you."

Horn still felt some apology:

"Fortunately, we won. Next, we just need to clean up a few tails. Sigh."

Wen Xishu knew what he was talking about.

"You mean, the remaining few people are very likely to expose problems on the Ark. But it shouldn't... include her, right?"

Wen Xishu pointed to Judy.

Horn nodded:

"Yes, I'm guessing that after we wake up, or rather, after we return to the Ark, we will definitely be tested."

"But if it's just you and me, our acting skills will definitely be able to deceive the captain. As for Judy, she helped me, so I have to help her back. I will ensure she won't be the one who gets in the way."

Judy didn't understand their conversation, but she felt a chill. There was a feeling that the two were about to do something big.

Wen Xishu nodded:

"But the others won't do."

Horn was somewhat helpless:

"Yes, the others won't do. I seem to understand what you mean. It turns out that sometimes, killing is indeed the most useful method."

Wen Xishu didn't care, just wiped the black blood of the octopus monsters off his face and said calmly:

"I'll go kill them. End this island landing trip. After returning to the Ark, we have an even bigger crisis."

This sentence made Judy shiver.

Horn nodded.

Wen Xishu suddenly asked:

"Actually, you have never seen Sirius, and you don't understand what kind of existence Sirius is at all, whether good or bad is unknown, but right now, you are counting as helping me, helping Sirius break out of prison..."

"You are going against the captain of the Ark, what is your motivation?"

Horn was not surprised at all by Wen Xishu asking this question, and he didn't avoid Judy either.

He just said calmly:

"I don't like the captain of the Ark. The Ark becoming like this, he is the sinner. And although I don't know who Sirius is."

"But at least, I know I must borrow his power, because what the captain wants to do is what I want to stop."

"My ambition is to become the new owner of the Ark, but I have no power. To defeat an enemy far stronger than me, I cannot be too stubborn about who I become allies with."

Wen Xishu smiled:

"Horn, it's really a pity that someone like you didn't awaken a gift and didn't become an ability user."

Horn was noncommittal, just sighed faintly:

"I'll leave it to you, Wen Xishu. Although I don't know where you come from, in the future... the Ark will be your friend."

(End of chapter)