Chapter 242: Twins

Hearing this, Wen Xishu felt he had a handle on things. It seemed the old Master had made a breakthrough?

Mr. Jin likely wouldn't be able to leave that place for a short time.

Because he was afraid; of course, these were just his own speculations.

Wen Xishu was also very curious now about what secret Xiao Jin actually held.

"Take me to see the Master?"

"Please follow me."

Wen Xishu left with the Tower Guide.

The Mysterious Tower Academy was deathly quiet, which made Wen Xishu realize he had indeed been a bit too heavy-handed.

It had only been a few days, and he had already turned the crowd from being full of confidence to being afraid to come near.

This was bad for recruitment; it had to change. He needed to participate in some lower-level Mysterious Tower dungeons to get a feel for the low-level strange horrors.

After walking out of the Mysterious Tower Academy, many students actually saw this legendary Master who was the same age as them.

But no student dared to approach.

Because they were truly afraid of the Tower Guide. The Tower Guide still knew how to handle things.

It took the initiative to take the blame for everything it could for Wen Xishu; for instance, in the facility memoirs, the Tower Guide would claim it was the one who raised the difficulty.

Although the parents of that student who went insane wanted to cause trouble for Wen Xishu, most people believed that the great Master Wen wouldn't be that cruel, and it was all the work of this strange Tower Guide.

The Tower Guide's fearsome reputation also kept ordinary students from coming near.

After Wen Xishu's "Red House Set Meal," the number of applicants to the Mysterious Tower Academy decreased rather than increased; he had indeed gone too far.

Soon, Wen Xishu left the Mysterious Tower Academy, passed through the campus area, and arrived at the department area of the Tower of Desire Academy.

In the garden within the Tower of Desire Academy, Albert and Evelyn were playing chess, with Wen Renjing and Xun Hui watching.

This was roughly equivalent to a meeting between the number one and number two ranked players of the two tower systems.

Wen Xishu's arrival completed the trio of the Mysterious Tower's number one.

Seeing Wen Xishu, Xun Hui's reaction was strange—should he call him Master Wen?

But this guy was just Wen Zhaohua's younger brother, and Wen Zhaohua hadn't been this full of himself back in the day.

He felt a bit conflicted.

Wen Renjing, however, called out very naturally:

"Master Wen is here."

Wen Xishu immediately waved his hand:

"Don't, there's no need for that between us. Senior Senior Wenren, Senior Xun, you should still call me by my name."

"Alright, Master Wen, no problem, Master Wen," Wen Renjing teased with a smile.

Wen Xishu didn't take the bait and just gave an awkward laugh.

It just so happened there was a seat for him; somehow, a few more chairs had appeared in the Tower of Desire forbidden garden.

Wen Xishu said:

"Master, you asked us to come, there must be something you want to discuss?"

Albert nodded, a smile still on his face:

"Just got back from the Mysterious Tower? Did it go smoothly?"

Wen Xishu nodded; it had gone smoothly enough. He hadn't figured out how to use the Heart of Fusion yet, hadn't pondered it through. But all in all, he had obtained a powerful item.

Albert didn't cut straight to the point either:

"Although it hasn't officially opened and is still in the recruitment phase, some preview courses have been complained about for being too difficult..."

"Still need to be careful."

Wen Xishu gave a bitter smile:

"Yes, my fault. Later, I will design the levels myself and let the 'teachers' in the facility be responsible for building them. As for the difficulty, I will lower it as much as possible."

Albert nodded:

"Education and tower climbing are different. Education requires encouragement and positive feedback. Some children hate studying, possibly because even when they make progress, their parents compare them to someone stronger, so in their eyes, they never get positive feedback."

"You need to appropriately give the children some sweetness. Let them feel that they are good at climbing the Mysterious Tower."

"The teacher is not the student's opponent, and neither is the coursework. What we need to think about is not how to beat the students, but how to let the students win."

Wen Xishu stood up and bowed:

"I have been taught, old Master."

Evelyn found it amusing. Albert himself was actually the type who would always choose the hardest option.

Albert himself also did only the difficult things whenever possible. That he could say these words... it was highly likely because of the student enrollment issue.

Although public opinion was overwhelmingly in support of Wen Xishu, most of it was verbal support; if they were really asked to study at the Mysterious Tower Academy...

They would likely still wave their hands.

Wen Xishu hadn't made a good start, which had even led Albert to start studying education.

Xun Hui was also wondering, what's wrong with the old man? When I was climbing the Slaughter Tower, the old man made me train until I was half-dead.

After finishing this, Albert cut back to the main topic:

"Let's talk about business. I told old Jin about the things you told us not long ago."

"Old Jin was very surprised. As expected, no matter how I introduced it, or how the Bunker boasted, it was meaningless to him."

"It still has to be relevant to him personally. Old Jin didn't expect that someone would have such a deep connection with the constellations. You guessed Capricorn and Sagittarius..."

"This made old Jin very curious about your progress in climbing the Mysterious Tower."

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"Currently, regarding the massive battlefield of the Three Towers War, what I have learned is still just the tip of the iceberg."

Albert said:

"We are the same, and presumably, you two are as well."

Wen Renjing and Xun Hui nodded.

Wen Renjing said:

"What I have come into contact with is all the timeline around the beginning of the apocalypse. I have indeed influenced the fate of some people, but my luck value, at the current level, is always just a bit lacking."

"Every time, I am quite a distance away from the true core characters."

Xun Hui said:

"I know even less; after all, I am only responsible for fighting."

Wen Xishu didn't speak.

Albert sighed with emotion:

"It seems the Mysterious Tower really does have a lot of information. After all, what the Mysterious Tower presents are the obsessions of the most critical characters."

"Old Jin is very concerned about your exploration progress. But he still didn't choose to come out and fight with me because of it."

"Xiao Shu, you guessed right; he no longer belongs to the Bunker, and the Bunker is repelling him. He only stays in his own facility to avoid being repelled."

Wen Xishu was slightly stunned; he actually hadn't expected the truth to be even more exaggerated than he had anticipated.

It wasn't that someone wanted to assassinate Mr. Jin.

Or rather, it wasn't just about assassination; even the Bunker itself was repelling Mr. Jin.

"Mr. Jin told me that he spent quite a bit of karmic luck to get Xiao Jin into the Bunker."

"To let someone who doesn't belong to the Bunker enter the Bunker, someone who belongs to the Bunker must leave."

This sentence deeply touched Wen Xishu.

Because... Wen Zhaohua had disappeared.

Wen Zhaohua originally belonged to the Bunker, but now Wen Zhaohua was no longer a Bunker person.

Wen Xishu wondered, could it be that Wen Zhaohua... had also done something similar?

"Mr. Jin, did he say anything else?" Wen Xishu asked.

The old Master sighed:

"What else could he say? Old Jin said that with you here, you can naturally dig out many secrets. He told me to cultivate you more in the future."

Wen Xishu pressed:

"What about Xiao Jin? Did he mention what kind of existence Xiao Jin actually is?"

Albert nodded and then shook his head:

"He mentioned some things. He suspects that Xiao Jin is Gemini."

Huh?

Wen Xishu was truly bewildered now.

Xiao Jin is Gemini?

Wen Xishu opened his mouth wide; his intuition told him that Xiao Jin shouldn't be Gemini...

Isn't Gemini two people?

Wait!

Could it be that the Jin Shan that Mr. Jin encountered and the Jin Shan that Zhou Fei, Chris, and others encountered... were actually not the same person?

Wen Xishu's reaction was indeed significant, so much so that Evelyn and Albert both noticed the clues.

"What's wrong? Have you come into contact with Gemini?" It was Evelyn who asked.

Wen Xishu said:

"The possibility of Xiao Jin being Gemini is not very high, at least from the information I have obtained."

"Because Gemini is very likely to recruit those special, paired qualified individuals on the great battlefield of the Three Towers War."

"I have quite a fate with Gemini; in many of the Mysterious Tower missions I participated in, I could find similar paired individuals."

"I feel that Gemini is not in the Bunker."

Albert said:

"Actually, old Jin only suspects it. Because in Xiao Jin's memory, it shows that he has a younger brother. The two of them occasionally share thoughts and occasionally can establish telepathy."

"Although their bodies are not the same body, they seem to share a single will."

"Old Jin said he made a mistake; the one he brought back is the evil one of Gemini."

"The thing he needs is with the other person of Gemini."

Hearing this, Wen Renjing and Xun Hui finally understood.

Gemini is two people, which is different from other constellations.

Wen Xishu also seemed to understand; Mr. Jin's basis for judgment was actually this.

"This does indeed look very much like what everyone thinks, the Gemini setting: two bodies, but because they are twins, they easily produce telepathy..."

But the truth is, the telepathy might lie in the fact that the other Jin Shan possesses the "Heart of Fusion."

Wen Xishu shook his head secretly:

"It's not like that; it's wrong, Mr. Jin is wrong."

Albert tapped the chessboard lightly:

"Tell me about it."

Wen Xishu said:

"It's hard to say, hard to say..."

Wen Xishu didn't say the last three words, but instead said:

"But let me put it simply; Xiao Jin does indeed look very much like Gemini, because twins, telepathic thinking, these settings are indeed very similar."

"Even, one person in Gemini went missing; the situation I know is like this, all of this is very similar to Gemini."

"But Xiao Jin is not Gemini. The real Gemini is definitely still on the battlefield of the Three Towers War, and some of Xiao Jin's settings that seem to have very strong twin characteristics... are actually derived from an item."

"Mr. Jin likely wants to obtain this item very much. But Mr. Jin made a mistake."

"He deceived Capricorn to get a smuggling opportunity, and a reverse smuggling at that, to bring Xiao Jin back, but the one he should have brought back was the Child of Good, not the Child of Evil."

"The thing he wants is not on the Child of Evil either, but Mr. Jin paid a painful price, so there was no other way but to continue cultivating Xiao Jin, washing Xiao Jin's background clean, and domesticating Xiao Jin into a kind Xiao Jin."

"I don't know the abilities of the Child of Evil, that is, the Bunker Xiao Jin, yet, but this Xiao Jin must also have his own merits."

Albert was extremely surprised, and Xun Hui and Wen Renjing also looked at each other.

Wen Xishu spoke logically and with a firm tone, as if he already knew a lot of information.

In this, there were even things that Mr. Jin didn't know.

How long had he been climbing the tower?

Evelyn asked:

"Xiao Shu, are you sure about all of this?"

Wen Xishu nodded.

Albert said:

"How can you be sure?"

Wen Xishu thought for a moment:

"I have obtained the thing Mr. Jin wants..."

"Its whereabouts."

In the end, Wen Xishu still didn't say that he had already obtained the Heart of Fusion.

It wasn't that he didn't trust Albert and the others, but that Wen Xishu was still somewhat wary of Mr. Jin.

What kind of existence was this mysterious Mr. Jin?

If placed in those years when the apocalypse descended... he always felt that Mr. Jin was a much more terrifying existence than the Ark Captain.

He guessed that Mr. Jin's desire to obtain the Heart of Fusion was for the sake of "Whatever Longxia."

But now, Wen Xishu's stance was very subtle.

He was afraid that Mr. Jin would disregard the interests of the Bunker people just to protect the interests of the Whatever Longxia people.

So Wen Xishu didn't tell the truth.

However, Wen Xishu seemed to have some understanding of the importance of the Heart of Fusion.

Besides, if Xiao Jin were Gemini... then why would he be so similar to Gemini?

He had to figure this out.

Albert's eyes were full of appreciation:

"If old Jin heard this, he would definitely be very happy; I didn't expect you to have so much information!"

"Great, great, great!"

He said "great" three times in a row because, deep down, he still felt that if old Jin could be persuaded to walk out of the facility and explore the Slaughter Tower together, reaching the one-hundredth floor would be just around the corner.

In Albert's eyes, all problems could be overcome.

"Find a time to go talk to old Jin? I'll arrange a meeting," Albert said.

Wen Xishu didn't resist and nodded:

"No problem. I also want to know if Mr. Jin can tell me more secrets about Xiao Jin."

"By the way, how is Xiao Jin?"

Evelyn said:

"He has to have his memory re-implanted again..."

For some reason, Wen Xishu felt Xiao Jin was quite pitiful.

Albert said:

"There is one more thing I must tell you two."

This time he was speaking to Wen Renjing and Xun Hui.

Wen Renjing and Xun Hui looked at Albert, and Wen Renjing said:

"What is it? Please tell us, teacher."

Albert said:

"The price for what old Jin did is very high, which also means that in one of the floors between seventy and seventy-five, it is very likely that you will encounter a super-strong strike that exceeds the level."

"The Tower of Desire, the Mysterious Tower, the Slaughter Tower, all are like this."

"In a sense, to bring Xiao Jin in... old Jin has locked the future of a generation."

"And Jing, Xun Hui, it won't be long before you two break through the seventieth floor."

Wen Xishu thought of Sagittarius again.

Old Jin brought Xiao Jin back... making the floors from seventy to seventy-five directly become Sagittarius's target?

This was equivalent to a generational gap.

Xun Hui and Wen Renjing also finally understood at this moment why there was such a large gap.

Albert said:

"This problem must be solved. I used to think it was just that the latecomers were useless."

"So I thought, I must become stronger."

"But on the vast battlefield, how much can an old man do?"

"I must cultivate more latecomers."

"No matter what the mechanism is, old Jin said that even for constellations, it is very difficult to stop Bunker people from climbing the tower; any means of obstruction can be avoided and resolved."

"For example, bypassing the floors from seventy to seventy-five and arriving directly at the seventy-sixth floor. In this way, you can avoid the risk of death."

"It is also possible that on the sixty-something floors, there is a mission that can allow you to dismantle the enemy's means."

"So, perhaps you three should keep an eye out."

Wen Renjing and Xun Hui nodded.

Wen Xishu thought to himself:

"Oh no, are they treating me as someone on the sixty-something floors too?"

But on second thought, Wen Xishu understood, because he really had climbed past the sixty-something floors...

Looking at the leaderboard, he, Xun Hui, and Wen Renjing were indeed on the same level.

Wen Xishu pondered carefully; if it were the floors from seventy to seventy-five...

Then he could use the "Three Highs" of the Dice of Reversal to jump over them.

The Dice of Reversal could be used in all three towers; if he helped Senior Xun Hui climb the Slaughter Tower, perhaps it could also have an effect?

Lift Wen Renjing and Xun Hui up? But if he did that, certain secrets would definitely be exposed.

After thinking it over, Wen Xishu still felt that perhaps he wouldn't need the Three Highs.

But Wen Renjing and Xun Hui were on the verge of a breakthrough, and he had to find a way to dismantle Sagittarius's targeting as soon as possible.

The conversation between the few lasted for an hour before it ended.

At Albert's signal, later that day, Wen Xishu would head to where Mr. Jin was located to talk with him.

Wen Xishu was now somewhat convinced... that this Mr. Jin might be the father of the Phoenix constellation Ding Dong.

(End of chapter)