Chapter 217: Countdown and Invitation Letter

Wen Xishu was still fighting constantly.

The moment the blue sun rose, law enforcers were also arriving one after another.

After consuming almost one-third of his Tower Power and using the ultimate move just now, Wen Xishu was still a bit weak.

Although the ability was still there, his physical strength was gradually reaching its limit.

And facing more and more ability users, Wen Xishu couldn't see the end.

It was just that he could feel...

The outside world had changed.

On the spherical building, the most ironic blue sun rose.

Under the efforts of the previous batch of people—Yin Junchi and others, Wen Xishu and others finally succeeded in the relay.

In the world outside the sphere, everyone looked up at the sky together.

This scene was also equally neat.

Thanks to the behavioral norms manual that had been used on everyone in the city for these years, to the point where there was almost no difference, everyone looked up at the sun almost at the same time.

Then, they fell into stillness.

And the law enforcers inside the spherical building were constantly raging, seemingly having received the most ultimate order from the behavioral norms manual—

Stop the spread of the situation.

But it was too late. The joint efforts of Wen Xishu and Horn bought enough time for this sun to shine on the world.

The first batch of people who began to awaken their free will under the blue sun had already appeared.

"Freedom! I want freedom!"

This word was finally shouted out, but unprecedentedly, the Sinister Sea Behemoth did not appear.

It was still thanks to the degree to which people had been domesticated over the years, even shouting the words of freedom...

The time of awakening, the inner craving, and the backlash of various emotions other than joy... were all so similar.

Freedom.

The sound wave of these two words was as fierce as the sunlight of the blue sun.

"Freedom! Freedom!"

This huge sound reached the inside of the sphere.

After all, this was an entire city shouting.

Wen Xishu heard this sound, initially a bit worried, worried that the Sinister Sea Behemoth would appear.

But that feeling of being stared at by someone had completely disappeared.

At this moment, Wen Xishu surged with a huge sense of achievement.

Yes, he did it.

Combined with Horn, he completed this challenge without exceeding his own ability.

Although for Wen Xishu, it seemed there was still the challenge of returning to the Ark, still having to face the captain, and ability users ranked higher than Lei Nuo and others.

But at this moment, Wen Xishu was very excited. He reached the challenge without alerting the mechanism of the Sinister Sea Behemoth.

This was the sixty-something floor of the Mysterious Tower.

Originally Wen Xishu felt... violent clearance was fine; after all, those combat abilities were his spoils of war, and reasonable use of spoils of war was a means in itself.

But after meeting Horn, Wen Xishu gradually thought, if I were Horn, how would I do it?

Honestly, in this process, Wen Xishu also had to use some combat means, but after all—

This was already the sixty-something floor of the Mysterious Tower, not the ten or twenty floors; basic combat ability must be there.

He was exceptionally excited at this moment.

As the sound of freedom rose wave after wave, Wen Xishu also received a prompt.

【Obtained Invitation Letter: Sirius Prison Break Plan.】

Although still fighting, the law enforcers around seemed to be affected.

Because a large number of criminals who "dismantled the behavioral norms manual" appeared outside, the law enforcers' behavior seemed a bit chaotic.

The situation outside gradually exceeded the situation inside, which also caused some law enforcers to receive orders to go outside.

But interestingly—the law enforcers who went outside all rebelled under the light of the blue sun.

So Wen Xishu fought and fought, and suddenly found that there were fewer and fewer enemies, and finally there were no enemies.

Horn said:

"We won. The sound outside... is starting to become uneven; there will soon be huge chaos in this city."

Wen Xishu could understand.

To give the simplest example, for so many years, you have lived in a city without your own will, and everything operates according to behavioral norms.

You dare not scold some idiots, you dare not abandon some abstract marriages and families, you dare not resign from some jobs that violate your will...

You dare not strive for some things you crave.

After suddenly awakening the will of freedom, you will definitely want to find a way to make some changes.

Before a new order that respects personal will is established...

There will be chaos on a super-large scale in this city.

Hugo sat on the ground, only feeling like a dream for everything that happened today.

And Horn waited quietly:

"I don't know... what everything will be like after returning to the Ark."

Wen Xishu didn't take this sentence.

Wen Xishu only felt very strange, why... would there be something like an invitation letter?

This Mysterious Tower was not very mysterious.

Although he experienced some things at the mysterious level, such as these mental worlds of Sirius, which made Wen Xishu feel very strange.

But this was not very mysterious; it gave Wen Xishu the feeling that this Three Towers journey started from the Desire Tower.

Generally speaking, in the Mysterious Tower, Wen Xishu would experience a world that he almost couldn't understand.

He could only trace the source when he reached the Desire Tower.

But this time, Wen Xishu actually felt... through Yin Junchi's notes, he had already found all the sources.

He also overturned the final enslavement; now Sirius is most likely awakening his free will.

The chaos in this city is likely to symbolize the emergence of Sirius' many thoughts in his heart.

This is very much like the Desire Tower; Wen Xishu felt that he had brought salvation.

But he still got the invitation letter.

Wen Xishu didn't avoid Horn and opened the invitation letter, but he didn't go immediately.

He just read the contents of the invitation letter.

【Due to Sirius' will awakening at a certain moment in the future, he uses his own power to play against the Pisces of the past, and the Ark presents a time turbulence. Please find the correct time in the many time turbulences, and take the relevant personnel to hide from the correction of the time walker and escape the Ark.】

【Note: This invitation letter has a countdown setting, a countdown of twelve hours. If the invitation letter cannot be activated within twelve hours, the invitation letter will disappear.】

Wen Xishu was shocked.

He didn't expect such a result.

Time turbulence? Time walker? Correction?

At this moment, Wen Xishu suddenly felt a huge sense of fatigue and powerlessness.

The Ark of the Mysterious Tower gave Wen Xishu a feeling of the Desire Tower.

Wen Xishu was thinking... could it be that the Ark of the Desire Tower would repeat everything?

I have already played out all the good endings in the Mysterious Tower; is there really any need to return to the Desire Tower through the invitation letter?

But he now understands—the Desire Tower is more dangerous; the Desire Tower not only has the captain, but also Pisces' minions.

The twelve constellations, without a doubt, all know the mechanism of the Three Towers.

Among them, some people are eager to use this mechanism to cooperate with tower climbers, such as Scorpio.

There are also people, such as Aquarius, who absolutely do not allow tower climbers to participate.

But now it seems that the strongest is still Pisces.

"In the past, I could often build new Mysterious Towers..."

"At least in terms of timeline, the Desire Tower is before the Mysterious Tower."

"Is it still the same this time?"

Pisces' ability is related to time, and Wen Xishu has also seen Pisces' pattern.

That is the pattern of the Yin-Yang fish, symbolizing the changes in the world and the operation of time.

Horn saw Wen Xishu so worried and couldn't help but be a little strange:

"Wen Xishu, we are friends, right?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Of course."

Horn said:

"What happened?"

Wen Xishu sighed:

"I rarely make friends in the Mysterious Tower, Horn, you are the first."

"In the Mysterious Tower, everything is distorted by obsession, so I have been thinking that you are actually just a group of losers, a group of losers waiting for me to save."

Horn didn't understand.

But he had heard of the Three Towers, right in Yin Junchi's story. As powerful as Horn, he immediately thought that perhaps one of the Three Towers was the Mysterious Tower.

Wen Xishu said:

"I can only establish a true bond with you when I return to the Desire Tower..."

"But now it just... makes me a bit confused."

"My experience in the Mysterious Tower is too much like the Desire Tower."

"So much so that the moment I saved Sirius, I was thinking, why is my journey this time so much like the Desire Tower?"

Horn said:

"Mysterious Tower, Desire Tower, and another tower?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Slaughter Tower. The relationship between the three towers... is probably like this."

Wen Xishu described the content of the following figure through language.

In this process, Horn listened with great interest.

He also completely understood what was going on.

Horn was very surprised:

"Amazing, I didn't expect the true apocalypse savior to be shuttling between the Three Towers... it's really fascinating."

"But according to your past experience, I seem to live in a world formed by obsession?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"But the cooperation with you was so pleasant that I thought this was the Desire Tower. I have been thinking, if you were in the Desire Tower, it would be great. I have also been afraid in my heart, why is this Mysterious Tower journey so like the Desire Tower journey?"

"Now I seem to understand."

For Horn, Wen Xishu was really different from the NPCs of the past; Wen Xishu even showed the invitation letter to Horn.

After reading it, Horn was also completely stunned. He thought of the same result as Wen Xishu:

"You mean... what you saved might just be an extremely critical timeline."

"But this invitation letter mentioned the correction of the time walker..."

"In other words, if you don't go to the Desire Tower and don't pass through layers of time turbulence, everything will be corrected back by the time walker?"

After saying this, Horn felt very tired.

Wen Xishu was the same.

Hugo didn't understand what the two were talking about, but looking at two god-like figures so tired... he also felt a kind of powerlessness and despair.

Clearly, everything was getting better.

"The correction of the time walker... I don't understand what it means, but I know that the fruits of victory I have at this moment must be included in the many time lines of time turbulence..."

"Pisces' ability is to deduce the future and know everything that happens in the future..."

"And Sirius' obsession made me appear on the Ark, making a Mysterious Tower that is very close to the Desire Tower trajectory appear in front of me."

"In the Mysterious Tower, I saved you, saved Sirius... but these changes will inevitably appear in a certain timeline."

"And Pisces, who can see these changes, can use the time walker from the source of the Desire Tower to erase the changes..."

It was a bit awkward, but Horn understood.

In other words, Wen Xishu made one of the timelines have the possibility of Sirius being saved.

But the time walker will inevitably repair this possibility.

It's like, Wen Xishu defeated the captain in 2024.

But Pisces can see this change in 2021, so she can try hard to change this possibility in the next three years.

This is really desperate.

Wen Xishu and Horn joined forces to let Sirius awaken freedom, but all their efforts were like reminding Pisces—there is still a bug here that can be repaired.

If you don't return to the Desire Tower, everything is over.

Having just experienced the siege of law enforcers, and not long ago experienced the battle with the Sinister Sea Behemoth.

Wen Xishu thought that when the blue sun rose, everything should end.

A powerful existence like the captain should be dealt with by Sirius who has awakened his free will.

Next, he could go back.

In fact, Wen Xishu could do so.

Next, he could not activate the invitation letter and could wait patiently for the game to end.

By virtue of the fact that he awakened Sirius... perhaps he could also get a reward of level 5 or even level 6 completion.

This is sixty-something floors; this is already very good.

But now, Wen Xishu looked at Horn, a bit unwilling, but also a bit afraid.

He of course knew that he wouldn't face Pisces directly.

But the captain, super ability users, time turbulence, time walkers...

Can he really defeat these people at his current stage?

But if he does nothing, after twelve hours, everything will be over, right?

Wen Xishu and Horn both noticed one point—

The invitation letter has a countdown mechanism. If after the twelve-hour countdown ends, Wen Xishu still hasn't activated the invitation letter...

Then the invitation letter will disappear.

In other words, that hidden timeline—after twelve hours, will be discovered by the time walker, and then everything Wen Xishu did in the Mysterious Tower will be eliminated.

Horn accepted his fate:

"Wen Xishu, actually when Lei Nuo was pinching my neck, I was thinking... I might have to die here."

"But I didn't expect that I survived. For me, everything was worth it. I have seen this possibility; it is very complete, and the Desire Tower is too dangerous. Wen Xishu, you should go back."

Wen Xishu was stunned.

Horn sighed:

"Your life is more valuable than mine. Now... I am the 'old man' who can be sacrificed."

This sentence made Wen Xishu shiver all over.

When the Ark needs to sacrifice old people, the old people are sacrificed.

Now, it's Horn and Sirius' turn to play such old people.

"You don't have the ability to defeat someone who can see future variables yet. Pisces... seems stronger than Sirius, right?"

"Sirius lost. Although you came here and found the real main line, the next level is too difficult for you right now."

"Your value is higher than anyone on the Ark, so... go back."

"Perhaps one day in the future, you become stronger, and you can still help us."

"It's a pity, I really want to try hard to remember our meeting, but I'm afraid all of this will be corrected."

"However... I'll tell you a secret of mine. As long as you can say this secret, even if you meet the past me again one day in the future, and you tell me you are a time traveler, I will believe in your existence."

Horn knew that his future self—that is, his current self, without Wen Xishu's help, without Sirius' help, after the timeline was corrected, would be hard to escape death.

He could only hope that Wen Xishu could meet his past self.

This is a last word, a entrustment. Then, Horn approached Wen Xishu and told the secret.

Wen Xishu looked at Horn, and complex emotions rose in his heart.

How strong must this person's heart be? When abandoning others, he won't be emotional, but even when abandoning himself, he can be so calm?

Intuition told Wen Xishu that this level was too difficult and should be avoided.

But for the first time, Wen Xishu longed to change this matter.

He opened the invitation letter again, and Horn said:

"Don't do stupid things."

Wen Xishu said:

"No... it's not like that, Horn. I'm not going to the sixty-something floor for the first time, although a senior helped me last time."

"But the difficulty of the last time, although difficult in the Mysterious Tower, was not so difficult in the Desire Tower..."

"I was just thinking, how can the difficulty gap be so huge for the same sixty-something floors?"

Horn understood:

"You suspect that information was missed?"

Wen Xishu looked at the words on the invitation letter again.

"Due to Sirius' will awakening at a certain moment in the future, he uses his own power to play against the Pisces of the past..."

Wen Xishu read this sentence.

He had to admit that he was bluffed by Pisces' time walker, so that he ignored this crucial sentence when reviewing the question.

"We indeed saved Sirius, and the Sirius of the future started to fight against the Pisces of the past."

"Does this imply that if I return to the Desire Tower, I am not alone... but will get the help of the future Sirius, and even the future you, that is, you now?"

Horn didn't understand:

"But for the Desire Tower, none of this has happened. How could I know about the future?"

Wen Xishu said:

"It's Sirius. We actually don't know Sirius' ability; we only know that he can create worlds with some strange rules."

"These worlds are related to his spirit, but they can exist in reality... maybe, this is his breakthrough point."

Sirius couldn't defeat Pisces, but what if he used the Three Towers mechanism and used the bunker people?

Most importantly, the one he was facing was not Pisces, but Pisces' subordinates.

"The difficulty of the sixty-something floor is very difficult, but not to this extent... perhaps, this Desire Tower will instead be more like the Mysterious Tower, and I can use rules to defeat rules!"

Horn understood. Indeed, for Wen Xishu, this Mysterious Tower was like the Desire Tower, so perhaps the Desire Tower would be more like the Mysterious Tower.

And since the question clearly wrote that the future Sirius started to fight against the past Pisces...

Then Wen Xishu is a variable, an existence outside the chessboard.

As long as he overcomes his inner fear, perhaps he can really change the situation.

"You... have you thought it through? Are you really going?" Horn actually felt that he could be a discarded pawn that could be sacrificed.

Wen Xishu said:

"I can't leave fear for a certain constellation... otherwise, I will only be more afraid to face it in the future. I have challenged so many constellation scenes; there is no reason to be afraid of Pisces."

"Everything I did was to get this invitation letter, and I also understood from the invitation letter that Pisces can erase everything I did; I can't give her this opportunity."

"Horn, if there is no such person as you in the future, I will be very sorry."

The invitation letter took effect, and Wen Xishu's figure disappeared. The journey to the Desire Tower began.

Horn sat in the wheelchair, thinking about Wen Xishu's last words, and finally he smiled.

"Then, see you in the past."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 218 =====