Chapter 224: Choice

Horn rarely woke up at this time. In fact, the Ark rarely entered this state.

Most of the time on the Niehai Sea, people would not arrange for people to land on the island until they entered the stage of collective hallucination.

Of course, there would occasionally be omissions, such as this time.

It's just that Horn clearly felt that the people around him were still in hallucinations.

Everyone was motionless, looking at the wall.

The cabin where Horn was located was a relatively good cabin, and the population density was far less than the cabin below, but there were also more than a dozen people.

At this time, these people all had their backs to Horn, looking at the wall in a daze.

Horn realized something was wrong.

"I don't have any ability, how could I wake up early?"

Just as Horn noticed this, Horn heard a voice.

"Horn, I come from the future. In the future, I fought with you, trying to break the captain's rule over the Ark."

This came inexplicably.

Horn thought:

"Oh, so I didn't wake up early, but I'm still in a hallucination. This hallucination is interesting... is it a projection of my inner subconscious? I long for someone to fight side by side with me."

Just as Horn thought this, the voice said again:

"I know you might not believe it, but you in the future, you even gave me a message. As long as you hear this message, you will believe me. Of course, it doesn't exclude that you think this is in a hallucination, so in the hallucination, everything you hear is reasonable."

"But next, everyone will wake up. If you determine it's a hallucination, you might as well try to initiate a riot in the hallucination, and then follow the scene you see... and keep escaping."

"We need a particularly big riot, preferably one that attracts the captain's attention."

The one talking to Horn was naturally Wen Xishu, but it was Sirius who passed the message.

Wen Xishu also said Horn's secret. In a very special period, he couldn't care that Sirius would know about this.

That secret, actually, didn't mean much to Sirius. But for Horn and Wen Xishu, it was of great significance. It was a common point in the experience of the two, something both of them had done in their childhood.

It's just that what Horn did was not as outrageous as Wen Xishu, but Horn still did it.

In fact, Wen Xishu knew that being able to tell himself this kind of thing, in the Strange Tower, that is, the future version of Horn... really treated himself as a friend.

And after Horn heard this secret, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

"What do I need to do?"

Even if this is a hallucination, even if this is a subconscious projection, but mentioning this matter is also his brain hinting that this is a very important "hallucination".

Wen Xishu began to talk about Horn's plan.

Horn was very rational and not surprised that the other party knew these things. After all, even more critical information was known.

"No problem, if everyone can wake up, I can make that riot happen within fifteen minutes."

"Then I'll leave it to you," Wen Xishu said sincerely.

Horn, on the Ark, although not a powerful ability user, had a far-reaching layout.

Wen Xishu always felt that if Horn could go to the bunker, then let Horn climb the Strange Tower a few times and get a few sequences... Horn, even without the Dice of Reversal, could become a Strange Tower helper second only to himself.

Sirius also didn't expect... there were ordinary people on the Ark who dared to plot against the captain.

"He is just a disabled, non-ability user, how could he have such great ambition?" Sirius said to Wen Xishu in surprise.

Wen Xishu said:

"His brain is good. He can endure, has a pattern, and has a sense of justice in his heart, but he knows how to abandon pieces. To be honest... I admire him very much."

This escape along the way had already made Sirius realize what an important existence Wen Xishu was.

Wen Xishu might not know it himself, but Sirius keenly noticed that Wen Xishu was like an unpredictable variable.

And he could gather many powerful people around him in the future.

Since such a person would admire a disabled person, then this disabled person must have something extraordinary.

He said:

"Start."

Wen Xishu nodded.

Horn in the distance also let out a breath.

Horn could actually feel that this was not a hallucination... because a large number of people began to wake up, and everyone's reactions were very real.

This is something that is really happening. If this is a scam—

Then all his plans will be exposed.

But he chose to gamble.

He soon began to contact everyone with the Ark's equipment, and an unprecedented riot was about to begin.

Sirius had completely controlled the body at this time. The so-called hallucination was released by the Niehai Sea Beast, but the Niehai Sea Beast was Sirius's pet.

It was a creature in the sea area created by Sirius, and he could fully control it.

When the Niehai Sea Beast lifted the illusion, the first reaction of the captain and others was that they had entered the stage, because the people arranged to land on the island had just entered the island.

This meant that a certain concept in Sirius's heart was invaded.

And it was also at this time that Horn began to organize the riot.

Sirius was a little worried at first, could a guy in a wheelchair really attract the attention of the captain and others through organization?

But soon, listening to the alarm on the ship and feeling the large-scale footsteps on the Ark...

Sirius was shocked.

How long has this been prepared in secret? No... this is not something that can be done by time. After all, how long has the Ark appeared?

Although he couldn't see the overall situation, Sirius knew very well that to create a riot of this scale, to persuade so many ordinary people to risk their lives...

This requires strong leadership ability and personal charm, as well as the ability to observe the essence of others. Of course, the captain must be cruel enough.

Sirius sighed:

"Really amazing..."

Wen Xishu once complained about himself that once he gave a speech, he would criticize the speech that the price of bread exceeded 500,000 marks—

Thinking about it now, Horn is really another himself. Although the two also have many differences.

The huge riot attracted everyone's attention. Because the scale was too large, even Feng Nuoyiman received orders.

At this moment, the Niehai Sea Beast calmed down, and with everyone released from the illusion...

This seemed to everyone like a successful landing on the island, and everything began to follow the process.

Sirius didn't need to care at this time. And such a large riot also made the high-level officials on the ship have to care.

Wen Xishu also asked a key question at this time:

"What exactly is the captain's ability? Why can he control you? Why does the world you create lose a certain concept?"

Sirius didn't hide it:

"That is an extremely early sequence called Weakness Path. The path is a ritual. The terrifying thing about this sequence is that it can create weaknesses for anyone."

"This weakness can be decided by the owner of the sequence, whether it is a weakness that can kill the opponent, or a weakness that can control the opponent."

"Simply put, the captain relied on this sequence to create a weakness that can control me. After I possessed this weakness—the world I created would lose a certain concept."

"And the captain must build a path, that is, a ritual and a price, for this weakness to always exist."

"This price is to let eight or more people enter the world I created... and lose these concepts together."

"Of course, my ability and the captain's ability... no, to be precise, it is the gap in status, which leads to the instability of the weakness created by the captain, so it is also possible that someone will wake up the concept I lost in the world I created."

"You did it."

Wen Xishu was horrified after listening. This ability is indeed terrifying. In a sense, as long as the captain has enough sacrifices...

He can really enslave even gods.

On the other side, when Sirius and Wen Xishu were talking, Sirius's rotten flesh also began to guide Horn. When Horn started the biggest riot in history—

Sirius helped Horn open the way all the way.

Under Sirius's guidance, Horn began to climb along the Ark's pipes.

Because rotten flesh grew on the cabin walls of the pipes, although Horn was a little uncomfortable, he almost didn't make any movement during the climbing process.

The rotten flesh opened the way all the way, and finally successfully guided Horn to the utility room where Wen Xishu was before.

"Horn, stay here, don't move."

The riot was constantly spreading, and Feng Nuoyiman had already received orders.

After Feng Nuoyiman's aura completely disappeared, Wen Xishu and Sirius also began to break out of prison.

They had to go back along the time turbulence.

It's just that this time, after all the scenes were familiar, Wen Xishu and Sirius were very confident.

For example, when experiencing some rule scenes, they knew very well what the rules were like.

And when they returned to the underground tunnel outside Wind City again, the two didn't say much, and decisively chose to head straight to the escape point.

When they appeared on the chessboard battlefield of Leo and Scorpio again, the chess player—Wen Xishu in the future, had long known all this and arranged for someone to bring Wen Xishu back from the church to the prison.

Yes, when going, it was from the prison back to the church, so when coming, it had to be from the church back to the prison.

Wen Xishu and Sirius were very tacit.

The two soon returned to the first time node, the city that ate human children. But now, Wen Xishu had no intention of studying which city this was.

He and Sirius ran wildly all the way, not caring about the eyes of the monsters around them.

It can be said that compared to the first time, Wen Xishu was almost like speedrunning.

If Scorpio saw it, he would definitely sigh—

Why didn't he use the ability to read files again?

In fact, this was not the first time Wen Xishu obtained the ability to read files, but Wen Xishu really managed to achieve zero errors every time he encountered this kind of situation.

Even Sirius was surprised. It was hard to imagine that escaping Pisces' time prison would be done in a speedrunning way.

Wen Xishu's intuition was already as strong as the experience of a veteran facing a familiar level.

The last and first node was finally broken through.

When Wen Xishu and Sirius opened their eyes, Horn had already appeared in their sight.

Wen Xishu couldn't help but squeeze a cold sweat:

"From the future to the present... we finally gathered together again."

Horn thought about it and said:

"It seems... my future self trusts you very much. But I have a question—if you successfully changed the past, then that future wouldn't exist, right?"

"If that future doesn't exist, then will this past still exist?"

Horn was always thinking.

Wen Xishu actually thought about it, if the past was changed, then he wouldn't meet Horn in the future.

But Wen Xishu soon realized that this is normal time logic. But what he experienced was not normal time logic.

Because what he experienced was the Strange Tower transferring to the Desire Tower through the invitation letter.

In other words, because everything in the Strange Tower was too similar to the Desire Tower, it looked like the future Desire Tower. But in fact, Wen Xishu didn't come from the future to the past.

He just transferred from the Strange Tower to the Desire Tower.

And the Three Towers would automatically simulate the timeline when the Desire Tower changed. This is a variable outside of Pisces, a power that even Pisces can hardly match.

To be precise, this is something that all twelve constellations must abide by—the rules of the Three Towers game.

"No need to worry, if the source is the future, then the grandfather paradox will be produced... but the game I experienced has its source in the Desire Tower. Oh, you don't know what the Desire Tower is yet? I'll tell you later, but Horn, we have to go!"

Horn said:

"That is to say... your plan is to escape the Ark? You are all ability users, right?"

He said:

"Horn, don't worry, my ability can take you with me. There is no hope in staying on the Ark."

Wen Xishu's heart skipped a beat.

Broken...

Horn shook his head and said:

"You mean, you want to escape, that's no problem. Since my future self is willing to tell you my secret... then my future self absolutely trusts you."

"But I can't abandon the Ark!"

If one day, Albert was asked to abandon the bunker, Albert might agree, but if he was asked to abandon everyone in the bunker?

Then the meaning of his hard work would no longer exist.

Horn at this time was like this, so Wen Xishu could understand very well.

"Horn, we don't have much time. If the captain and Feng Nuoyiman find out that the riot is just luring the snake out of the hole... all efforts will be in vain."

Horn shook his head:

"You don't know at all, how long this riot had to be paved, how many people had to be sacrificed, and why they started the riot to attract the captain's attention, and what kind of future they believed in..."

"Now, you want me to... leave after they made their awareness and sacrifices?"

Time was really running out. Wen Xishu knew very well that it was a very difficult thing to let Horn give up saving the Ark.

Wen Xishu sighed:

"Offended, Horn."

Wen Xishu said, and was about to raise his hand for a hand knife, but Horn judged Wen Xishu's intention in seconds:

"You are destroying my dream."

This sentence made Wen Xishu stop his action.

Horn's eyes looked very much like Albert at this moment:

"I don't know why my future self trusts you... but I think it must be because I admire you, and you also respect me."

"I cannot abandon the people on the Ark. Maybe your world has your own answer. But for me, the Ark is the existence I want to make the correct answer."

Wen Xishu suddenly wanted to knock Horn unconscious and take Horn away directly.

Let Sirius take Horn away, or return to the guide and send Ding Dong's receipt letter, so that Ding Dong could find the two.

But if that happened, would Horn's heart suffer huge torture?

If Horn really had no feelings, as he said at the beginning, he was just simulating human feelings... a purely rational existence, then Wen Xishu would take action.

But Wen Xishu knew very well that Horn was not without feelings.

Wen Xishu also knew very well that he had never been the villain he said he was.

"Damn it, Horn! Do you know what you are going to face if you stay? You are an ordinary person..."

You are an ordinary person, how can you defeat existences like the captain and Feng Nuoyiman?

When the words reached his lips, Wen Xishu stopped.

Because Horn just shook his head secretly:

"I have to stay. You go quickly. I believe that what I am doing must be correct. I believe that your departure will have a good impact in the future."

"But I have to save the Ark. This is the meaning of my life, and it is also the cause I am willing to die for."

The Niehai Sea Beast no longer lurked, and the scarlet sea mist shrouded the huge Ark again.

The sea beast attacked again, which also made Feng Nuoyiman and others realize that something was wrong.

Time was really running out. Sirius also began to make the cabin walls flesh-and-blood, opening a passage. This passage led to the inside of the Niehai Sea Beast's body.

The Niehai Sea Beast would hit the Ark, and the part of the impact would merge with Sirius's flesh-and-blood, which was the exit to escape the Ark.

Wen Xishu knew that he had to be decisive, but he was facing the most difficult choice in history.

Is it for the sake of a friend to take the friend away, or to believe in this friend and let him fight for that almost impossible future?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 225 =====