Chapter 225: The Miracle of Horn

Every mission has its timing, and Wen Xishu is a man who excels at seizing the moment.

He is very clear that he must either take Huo En away or leave Huo En on the Ark, but everything must be done quickly.

It is also at this moment that Wen Xishu suddenly hears a sigh.

"Brother, you never use the things I give you, yet you have already paid the price. What are you still afraid of?"

This voice makes Wen Xishu startle violently.

One should not be too reckless in life; this is Wen Xishu's philosophy. Even with a trump card, one should not lose vigilance just because of it.

Therefore, throughout his journey, Wen Xishu has always followed his own ideas to choose the optimal solution.

So much so that he has not used the ability bestowed by Scorpio at all—the save file.

But at this moment, Wen Xishu is very clear.

Wen Xishu chooses to save the file here, overwriting the first save node, because he can only keep one save slot for a few points of Tower Power.

But it is enough.

Wen Xishu no longer hesitates; with a swift motion, he takes Huo En away.

He says:

"Have you thought it through?"

Wen Xishu says:

"I haven't thought it through, but I can preview the result first; it is the ability of Scorpio."

Sirius suddenly understands. Wen Xishu does not avoid Sirius because Sirius also knows that he will never be truly free.

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The Sin Sea Behemoth begins to ram the massive Ark.

If one were in the deep sea, one could see that the Sin Sea Behemoth, like Sirius, can separate its flesh and blood.

During the process of the Sin Sea Behemoth ramming the Ark—the body of the Sin Sea Behemoth also separates into another Sin Sea Behemoth.

This also causes the Sin Sea Behemoth to become weak, but the other Sin Sea Behemoth immediately surfaces, attempting to attack the Ark.

This is Sirius's discarded pawn.

If this game of chess is to survive, the Sin Sea Behemoth must be allowed to attract attention.

When the Sin Sea Behemoth rams the Ark, and when the corrupted flesh and blood opens a passage leading into the body of the Sin Sea Behemoth...

The others on the Ark are attracted by the other Sin Sea Behemoth.

Feng Nuoyiman stands on the deck of the Ark, facing this behemoth, his expression cold and grim:

"This beast, how has it become so weak?"

He can feel that the Sin Sea Behemoth seems to be injured, as both its speed and strength have weakened significantly.

Behind Feng Nuoyiman is General Lei Nuo.

Lei Nuo suddenly frowns:

"Damn, have we fallen into a trap?"

As soon as these words are spoken, Feng Nuoyiman immediately says:

"Teleport me back to the previous location! Lei Nuo."

Lei Nuo nods and immediately uses his ability to lock onto Feng Nuoyiman.

It can be said that Lei Nuo has extremely precise control over distance. Due to his ability, combined with his own intelligence, Lei Nuo knows clearly what distance to open and from what angle he can reach a certain position.

At this instant, Lei Nuo calls out fifteen hundred meters.

Feng Nuoyiman's body immediately appears near the previous prison.

Disappeared...

Feng Nuoyiman is shocked beyond measure; he has completely disappeared.

The chaos, the attack of the Ark behemoth, the disappearance of Sirius's aura—he reacts to all of this immediately.

It is also at this moment that Wen Xishu, along with Huo En and Sirius, arrive inside the Sin Sea Behemoth.

Inside the Sin Sea Behemoth, Sirius also begins to grow weak; he has overdrawn his power to create a small world within the body.

It counts as a relatively clean room.

The appearance of such a foreign object inside the Sin Sea Behemoth is also exceptionally uncomfortable.

But the behemoth still endures the pain, desperately moving away from the Ark.

Without a doubt, the other split-off Sin Sea Behemoth... is already dead.

Even without Feng Nuoyiman, even relying only on the second-ranked expert, such a weak behemoth would be difficult to withstand.

The riot ends, and soon the captain and everyone begin to inspect all cabins.

At the same time, Feng Nuoyiman and Lei Nuo also board a backup submarine and begin their pursuit.

Fortunately, although a trail of blood flowed out because the Sin Sea Behemoth's body was shattered—

In this scarlet ocean, the bloodstain is almost visually invisible.

The Sin Sea Behemoth also seems to know its mission, desperately moving away regardless of life or death.

Finally, Wen Xishu in the room suddenly receives the message that the mission has ended; he is about to enter a countdown state.

The simulation also begins at this moment.

[Due to changes in the plot of the Desire Tower, the Strange Tower "Sin Sea Floating and Sinking" will undergo a massive transformation.]

[All players currently participating in this mission (except for invitation holders) will have their memory modules updated synchronously.]

[Memory module updating.]

[Strange Tower logic repair simulation initiated.]

[Simulation started.]

[Through your efforts, Sirius, who possessed the ability to reach the Sin Earth, has finally attained salvation. But the journey belonging to Sirius has not ended, and you are not the companion for his final journey.]

[Sirius gifted you a present, but he did not choose the former direction of the Phoenix constellation, instead traveling far away alone.]

[The captain's conspiracy did not succeed. In order to obtain the power to make the Ark sail forever, the captain's rule became even more brutal.]

[The Ark disappeared from the stage of history from then on. In the future Three Towers War, people would occasionally see some people from the Ark, but everyone would never mention that place.]

[The life and death of the millions on the Ark remain unknown. Since the Ark no longer harbors anyone with a massive obsession, the Strange Tower mission 'Sin Sea Floating and Sinking' cannot be restarted and thus disappears directly.]

[Scorpio favorability +5.]

[Pisces favorability -1.]

This makes Wen Xishu somewhat surprised. The Scorpio favorability did not increase much, and the Pisces favorability did not decrease much either.

The most critical thing...

From beginning to end, Wen Xishu did not receive any message from Huo En. There was no favorability from Sirius either...

Does this mean these two are dead? Sirius traveled far away alone, but with no favorability, in all likelihood, the result of the journey is death.

And traveling alone means Huo En did not go with Sirius.

Huo En naturally does not belong to the bunker and could not return to the bunker...

At this moment, Huo En's words surface in Wen Xishu's mind.

"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."

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

Some people, once they leave the place that belongs to them, lose the meaning of living.

Just as Albert would not abandon the bunker to directly choose a correct, comfortable world.

Wen Xishu sighs softly:

"So, I too can make this kind of mistake; so, I too have times when concern leads to chaos."

He says:

"What's wrong?"

Wen Xishu shakes his head and says:

"Everything must be experienced once more, but this time, we cannot take Huo En with us. Fortunately, I still have a regret pill to take."

The Scorpio Blade emits a scorching light. Time, at this moment—begins to backtrack.

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Save point 01.

When the Sin Sea Behemoth begins to ram the Ark and the familiar sense of imbalance arrives...

Wen Xishu looks at Huo En:

"Huo En, we fought side by side in the Strange Tower, we admired each other, and I truly hoped you and I could leave together..."

"But I have already seen it; that is not your correct answer."

"I'm sorry... just thinking about letting a friend go alone to face so many enemies that even I cannot defeat makes me feel I am being too selfish."

"But since you already have the resolve, then I wish you well. I hope you can turn the Ark into a correct answer!"

Sirius feels absolutely nothing about the save file being loaded.

Only Wen Xishu's memory is unaffected by the save file; everyone else has returned to the state they were in when the file was saved.

Huo En looks at Wen Xishu with gratitude:

"To have one soulmate in life, I have no regrets."

Sirius urged:

"Quick! There isn't much time left!"

Wen Xishu then reached out his hand:

"Good luck. The Ark isn't important to me, but you are."

"Wen Xishu, is it? I will remember you. Although you changed the past, causing me to never experience that future... I believe in the future me."

The two men's hands clasped together.

Wen Xishu gritted his teeth, finally parted from Horn, and together with Sirius, dove into the tunnel of rotting flesh.

For Wen Xishu, everything was normal. Although it had consumed a bit more time... under the desperate swimming of the Sin Sea Behemoth, they finally managed to escape successfully.

But things were very perilous on Horn's side.

Horn had calculated the results... and was certain that if he returned the way he came—

He would inevitably encounter high-ranking generals like Lei Nuo and Feng Nuoyiman. He did not hesitate in the slightest and chose to enter the time turbulence on the outskirts of the prison directly.

By utilizing the time turbulence, Horn successfully masked his aura.

And only a few seconds after Horn disappeared, Feng Nuoyiman was teleported to the vicinity by Lei Nuo's ability.

This was truly a hair's breadth away; had Horn's decision been even a moment slower—

He would have been interrogated by Feng Nuoyiman.

Fortunately, once one enters the time turbulence, their aura is completely lost.

At the same time, Feng Nuoyiman immediately realized that Sirius had escaped.

No one would have thought that all of this was related to a person with disabled legs.

Feng Nuoyiman and Lei Nuo began their pursuit.

And Horn began a brand-new journey.

Inside the Sin Sea Behemoth.

Sirius's actions had not changed.

But the dialogue had shifted slightly:

"I didn't expect you to let him go in the end. But if I were him at that time, I would be grateful to you."

Sirius was the type of person who would rather be killed than choose to lose his free will.

Horn was actually the same; he was willing to die for his dreams.

Wen Xishu wondered if he was the same as well.

If there were an option placed before him now—

To return to his original world, without needing to experience any more anomalies or doomsday, but the worlds he had previously experienced would no longer have any connection to him...

Then, in all likelihood, he would still choose to stay, right?

Wen Xishu smiled.

As parting drew near and the mission entered the countdown phase, Wen Xishu also began to harvest new simulations.

[Simulation begins.]

When these words appeared in his mind, Wen Xishu became uncharacteristically nervous.

He was truly afraid that no matter how he chose, it would be wrong.

A is wrong, but B is also absolutely not correct...

That would be too desperate.

Fortunately, the subsequent result allowed Wen Xishu to see hope.

[Through your efforts, Sirius, who possessed the ability to reach the Sin Earth, finally attained salvation. But the journey belonging to Sirius did not end, and you are not a fellow traveler on his final journey.]

[Sirius gifted you a present, but he did not choose the former direction of the Phoenix constellation, instead traveling far away alone. He wants to cast off the destiny belonging to the constellation.]

[The Captain's conspiracy did not succeed. In order to find Sirius, every cabin inside the Ark was searched, and the fact of Horn's disappearance was soon known to all ability users.]

[Under the Captain's interrogation, the person who created the disturbance also revealed that Horn was the mastermind.]

Seeing this, a "damn" rose in Wen Xishu's heart.

A non-ability user, in order to save himself and Sirius, sacrificed his long-term layout and even exposed his identity...

And what he had to face was a group of super ability users he couldn't even defeat himself.

This kind of opening was likely even harder than his death-row prisoner opening, right?

And Horn didn't have the Dice of Reversal.

Wen Xishu thought to himself, is fate really this cruel to Horn?

But the simulation he saw next was like this.

[But Horn just disappeared like that; no one found where Horn was. Yet there were always people who would occasionally see the elusive Horn.]

[Inside the Ark, ability users died mysteriously. The Captain, obsessed with eternity, finally realized that his rule was not secure; he needed to eliminate the internal threats first.]

[Scorpio favorability +10.]

[Pisces favorability -10.]

[Sirius favorability +80.]

[Slaughter·Horn favorability +95.]

Hmm?

Wen Xishu had the feeling of reading a novel halfway through, just as the climax was about to arrive, it suddenly vanished, and then it went straight to the MVP summary chapter.

How did Sirius survive again?

How did Scorpio's favorability become higher than before?

How did Pisces's favorability change from -1 to -10?

Most importantly... Horn isn't an ability user, so how did he become Slaughter·Horn?

It must be said that this result made Wen Xishu very excited.

But Wen Xishu really couldn't figure out how Horn broke the deadlock.

"This guy is better than me."

Time turbulence.

Due to the different entry point, the first time node Horn encountered was not that man-eating city, but... the underground tunnel outside Wind City.

When Horn and Wen Xishu faced those people, they asked the same question.

"Why do you ask this? Poor child, aren't we from the same place?"

Horn even had the same reason as Wen Xishu:

"I have amnesia."

Everything that happened next was the exact opposite of Wen Xishu's.

Horn learned that the Long Yin plan had failed and that God had "lost control," becoming a slave to someone.

Logically speaking, Horn should have headed to Wind City next. After all, the Wind City Lord at this time, Wen Xishu, had memories because of "the past invading the future" and had taken in this group of Wind City refugees.

But not long after entering Wind City, Horn realized that he had to go against the flow and come to that underground fortress; to defeat God, one could only rely on other gods.

As an ordinary person, what he could do was imitate the lobbyists of history and engage in horizontal and vertical alliances.

And it was precisely this decision that caused Horn's fate to begin to change.

(End of chapter)