Chapter 226: The curtain falls on the Ark's Niehai Floating and Sinking

When the Desire Tower journey ended and Wen Xishu returned to the Ark, the surrounding scene didn't actually change much.

But some dead people came back to life—such as the Ark general Renault. This is very reasonable, because some things were changed at the source, leading to changes in the future.

Renault didn't die in Sirius's small world.

At this time, the content of the Strange Tower challenge had changed from waking up Sirius to waking up the Ark masses. This even included Antoine, Nikolai, and Renault, these original ability users

But it did not include Feng Nuoyiman.

In other words, the Captain's weakness path in the future had become even more powerful, but it was no longer targeted at Tianlangxing alone; it was targeted at everyone.

It was just that Wen Xishu had already completed all the challenges.

Wen Xishu was not at all unfamiliar with this scene.

If the Tower of Desire changed the source, then correspondingly, the Mysterious Tower would change. It was possible that the difficulty of the levels would be downgraded, or it was possible that because there were still too many other unexplored factors, it did not downgrade, but merely changed.

Wen Xishu's current experience was not much different from his previous experience in the Mysterious Tower; he needed to find lost concepts in worlds with various strange rules, only that avoiding the Sea Behemoth had turned into avoiding the mental sweeps of the Captain and Feng Nuoyiman.

But because Tianlangxing was gone, these worlds of strange rules were purely mental worlds. For Wen Xishu, who possessed a certain level of mental resistance and was equipped with Nightmare Absolution and Personality Party, the difficulty was far lower than the previous version of the Mysterious Tower.

Furthermore, although the markings on the blue sun had historically almost never appeared... Wen Xishu still remembered them.

And Yin Junchi's sacrifice had brought a return; that marking on the blue sun indeed had a miraculous effect, appearing to be a strong counter to the Captain's weakness path.

Therefore, Wen Xishu had already retrieved the most important concept and knew how to make this concept return to everyone's minds.

When Wen Xishu opened his eyes, he immediately figured out the results after the simulation.

"The storyline of the Tower of Desire has been changed. The current Mysterious Tower mission has become to awaken everyone. Just like before, as the journey through the Tower of Desire ends, the journey through the Mysterious Tower is effectively completed as well."

"But I am now effectively back on the correct timeline. Compared to the Tower of Desire, this is a future version of the Tower of Desire..."

"So, is Huoen there?"

"Did I awaken Huoen again?"

Wen Xishu very much wanted to try to contact Huoen, but he did not possess such an ability. As more and more people woke up, the Ark soon began to become lively.

The Captain, who attempted to enslave everyone and turn them all into "nutrients," and the Ark's top expert, Feng Nuoyiman, clearly had an even more evil plan. After Tianlangxing was rescued, they seemed to have found some alternative method.

But now, everything had been ruined by Wen Xishu again.

Wen Xishu suddenly understood why Pisces's favorability had been deducted even more...

"So that's how it is. I understand. I didn't expect there to be such a layer of causality."

"I am very clear that Huoen's obsession is to save the Ark and liberate the Ark. He can risk his life for this."

"In the Tower of Desire, although I abducted Tianlangxing, if I had chosen to take Huoen with me, then Huoen would not have become the later Slaughter·Huoen."

"Naturally, Huoen's subsequent fate would not have existed. Then the Captain, Feng Nuoyiman, and even those gods and people like Pisces, although they lost Tianlangxing, would have had no obstacles to their subsequent correction plans."

"But because the save-loading ability Scorpio left for me was used by me..."

"Huoen's fate had a sequel. He changed certain things, which also led to Scorpio's favorability toward me increasing more, and Pisces's favorability toward me decreasing more."

"This is truly interesting."

"Huoen must still be on this Ark. This awakening must be of great help to Huoen."

Wen Xishu very much wanted to stay for a while longer; that way, he could use the time-delay nature of the Mysterious Tower to know what Huoen had done.

Huoen's experiences were indeed very rich.

As a non-Whatever Longxia person, someone whose legs could not move, Huoen also entered the time turbulence, but Huoen was different from Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu's main mission was to save Tianlangxing.

And Huoen's was to explore the world outside the Ark and find a means to check and balance the Captain and the others.

The Free State's doomsday avoidance plan was the Ark Project, while Whatever Longxia's doomsday avoidance plan was the Long Yin Chosen Project and the underground bunkers.

When everyone chose to abandon the bunkers and head to Wind City for refuge—

Even if Huoen also entered Wind City, even if Huoen also knew that staying in Wind City would be safer... he still chose to leave Wind City.

It was very simple: Wind City was a safe haven, and the ordinary people stationed here felt that there were monsters with red auras protecting them.

But those monsters might have had the same thought. This place was already a sanctuary, already changed into a correct answer by some powerful existence.

All the creatures here, although there were many powerful ones, their personalities seemed to lean toward guarding rather than expanding.

So Huoen left Wind City and headed to an extremely dangerous place.

But Wen Xishu did not know all of this; even in the future timeline, the Wen Xishu of Wind City did not know all of this.

As the countdown to his return appeared...

Wen Xishu suddenly realized that this did not seem to be a journey that belonged to him.

At least this time, the Ark's rule would not be truly overthrown. Perhaps in the future, at a higher level, he would come to the Ark again.

Or rather, on the even more distant battlefield of the Three Towers War, he would see the Ark's forces.

But Wen Xishu was very clear that since time did not allow him to do more, it meant that he had already reached his limit.

Let everything be left to fate.

As Wen Xishu was about to leave, everyone on the Ark regained their will, and gradually, the Ark was no longer lifeless.

This Ark would also usher in a new resistance and uprising.

Wen Xishu smiled:

"Huoen, I wish you all the best, and I hope we can meet again in the future."

The familiar, crisscrossing white lines began to disintegrate and weave the scene.

In a trance, Wen Xishu seemed to see a certain golden-haired figure in the disintegrating scene.

But that was only for an instant.

Subsequently, the familiar door and clock appeared in Wen Xishu's line of sight.

The Place of Reception.

Before Wen Xishu opened his eyes, he heard the new version of the exaggerated laughter, but the end of the laughter was a rebuke—

"Bang bang bang bang bang~ You really don't listen to advice at all," the Receiver's black strange head said.

Wen Xishu raised an eyebrow and habitually began to check his panel. (Note 1)

The harvest was bountiful. Due to the leapfrog challenge brought by the Three Highs, Wen Xishu's item slots and sequence slots had both increased.

Wen Xishu was no longer a newbie. Regarding his current access permissions, except for certain specific items and facilities that would be transferred to him by the Receiver, normally, Wen Xishu could directly check other items.

This time, in addition to the comprehensive improvement of his level and panel, Wen Xishu also harvested a very interesting rune.

The Receiver said:

"You seem to have a way to bypass some mechanisms to challenge levels that don't currently belong to you. This is very good; the Mysterious Tower will grant you things to overcome the Mysterious Tower."

"This is the fun of exploring the Mysterious Tower."

"But you should still remember what I said: don't jump too fast. Why not try to move forward with small steps? Taking too big a step carries risks."

Wen Xishu nodded:

"I've remembered it. Don't worry, through this journey, I've also realized that some levels are indeed still too early for me."

The one speaking was the red Slaughter head: "That is indeed the case. Although you have once again changed certain futures, if your own strength is very powerful... then you should understand that you can do more."

Wen Xishu did not deny it. If his own strength were a bit stronger—

Then perhaps many situations could have been opened up more easily. Wen Xishu thought about it; he had no choice regarding the results brought by the Crazy Dice.

He couldn't just not use it, right? Not using it seemed like too much of a waste.

But he had indeed learned his lesson this time.

The black strange head also cut back to the main topic:

"You encountered another powerful existence. Although the harvest was not as good as that time in the mental hospital, he didn't give you things that could be called stingy... No, actually, he was very generous."

Wen Xishu had already checked his panel and indeed felt the generosity.

Rare Unique Rune · Earthly Advantage Trapped Beast.

Although it was a rare unique rune, it could be applied to any sequence. It was best if it could be used on a sequence that functioned in any tower system. For example, the Three Towers sequence.

As for the effect, it was also very simple and crude.

Rune Introduction: Tianlangxing likes to create strange and bizarre worlds. He appears to be like a fish in water in various worlds because he seems to be able to adapt to all strange worlds. Now, you also have such an ability.

Rune Effect: When your physical state is below the average level, the lower the state, the greater the "Earthly Advantage" rule correction you receive.

This description was a bit vague, but Wen Xishu seemed to understand.

Heavenly timing, earthly advantage, and human harmony. If you possess all three, you can be invincible in a hundred battles.

And this thing granted by Tianlangxing was a constant provision of earthly advantage to himself.

Facing a powerful enemy, which leads to being in an injured state—then he would gain earthly advantage.

"According to the description, what I obtained is a rule correction... which is to say, facing a strong enemy, the more severely I am injured, the more rules favorable to me will be generated around me."

As for what the specific rule effect of the earthly advantage actually was, Wen Xishu was also unclear.

But he could feel the importance of this rune.

This was a passive, constantly effective rune. Combined with Tianlangxing's Three Towers sequence · Realm Arrival Creation, Tianlangxing's combat power was actually very strong.

But now, Tianlangxing had gifted a very important component to him.

Wen Xishu had to sigh; although these constellations, gods, and such were very dangerous, they were all very generous.

Just like Scorpio.

"If... I had chosen Pisces at the Reverse Seven Apartment, I wonder what I would have obtained?"

In the Three Towers War, the twelve constellations each had their own camps. With intersecting interests, some constellations were hostile to each other, while others secretly formed alliances.

Wen Xishu was very clear that there was no perfect solution.

He did not dwell on it:

"There are other rewards this time, right?"

"Bang bang bang bang~ Of course. Your overall evaluation is a Level 6 completion. In fact, there was a Level 7 completion this time, but your strength was not enough to trigger deeper-level missions."

"However, even so, it is remarkable that you could cross levels to achieve this degree of completion and save an extremely important character."

"You have obtained technology and facilities."

Wen Xishu said:

"Level 6?"

He thought about it and could probably understand.

He had liberated Tianlangxing but had not truly liberated the Ark in a meaningful sense. His abilities were limited... he had awakened everyone, perhaps leading to Huoen being able to threaten the Captain again.

This meant the Ark's future was no longer a dark ending enslaved by the Captain.

It was equivalent to saying he had opened up the situation.

But then again, if he had honestly climbed up step by step, perhaps when he climbed to over sixty floors... his foundation would have been enough to fight the Captain and Feng Nuoyiman.

At that time, perhaps it wouldn't have been opening up the situation, but directly achieving a perfect ending.

Admittedly, you can jump levels and use luck and strategy. But in fact, by playing it safe and having stronger strength, there will always be more ways to clear the level.

Wen Xishu thought of one point: in the Tower of Desire rest area, Jiang Xue said the Old Principal had broken through the ninety-seventh floor—perhaps the Old Principal could have done it long ago, but what he pursued was playing it safe, not aggressive adventurism.

The Three Towers Receiver said:

"The bunker will give birth to a new level to store the facility you obtained—the Fishery. And everyone in the bunker will gain the ability 'Iron Lungs'."

"All bunker people will be able to gain the ability to hold their breath underwater for a long time. After you return to the bunker, they will sing your praises."

"You know, many bunker people have never seen the sea in their lives~ The Fishery can be considered a simulated ocean. It will periodically refresh various fish resources inside based on the bunker people's degree of Three Towers exploration."

Wen Xishu was shocked:

"You mean the bunker will change from the sixteenth floor to the seventeenth floor?"

The Receiver laughed:

"Bang bang bang bang~ That's right. The bunker will constantly acquire various things, and when certain things can't fit, new levels will be created."

"Of course, you can choose whether it is the seventeenth floor, the first floor, or other levels."

Wen Xishu did not think much:

"Arrange it for the lower level. Life is full of regrets without having seen the sea."

The Receiver shrugged, and all three heads shook together.

As the Receiver made the arrangements and Wen Xishu's decision fell—

The bunker began to undergo huge changes.

At this moment, the elevator to the lower level suddenly had an area that could be accessed. And soon, the news that there was a sea in the bunker would reach everyone's ears.

Wen Xishu thought that Tianlangxing and the others knew about the Three Towers, and Tianlangxing's ability was to create a small world.

He smiled; now, Tianlangxing had gifted him a sea... a sea without a scarlet aura, rich in resources.

Wen Xishu was suddenly looking forward to Hercules, Unicorn, and Lyra.

Unlike the twelve constellations, these five relatively weaker constellations looked more like... five special qualified individuals.

"Alright, everything has been settled. You should return to your own world."

Wen Xishu thought about it; that was indeed the case. He had to hurry back and see, lest "Tang Rui" play those "visitors" from the Mysterious Tower Academy to pieces.

(Note 1: Considering that some readers think updating the panel level changes is suspicious of padding, future concluding chapters will update the panel data in the work-related section. It is free and will be updated with each concluding chapter. After you finish reading this chapter, click on the table of contents and scroll to the very front to see the panel chapter.)

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