Chapter 246

Those five?

Wen Xishu immediately realized:

"Phoenix has a good relationship with me, and he also found a way to get away. Sirius's whereabouts are unknown; after I saved him, we went our separate ways."

"He likely fell into the hands of Scorpio."

"As for the others... I have to keep it confidential."

Wen Xishu didn't say whether he knew or didn't know; he just said it was confidential, and he didn't give details about Phoenix and Sirius either.

But indeed, his attitude gave Mr. Jin the feeling that he did know quite a few things.

Mr. Jin said:

"I really didn't expect that you could have such an encounter. It can be seen that the value of climbing the Mysterious Tower is great, but the most important thing is to go deep."

"The level is not about being high, but about being deep enough on every floor. You are very good, surpassing me and Albert back then."

The evaluation given by Mr. Jin was very high.

Wen Xishu showed a flattered look and shook his head:

"I am not on the same level as you and the old principal. By the way, Senior Jin, I have something I want to ask you."

Mr. Jin said:

"Speak freely. Before I leave, I shouldn't take some secrets that are valuable to you to the netherworld."

These words were indeed spoken very righteously, but Wen Xishu always felt that Mr. Jin's epiphany... or rather, his transformation was too fast.

He had been hiding for decades, and just because of the deduction he made about Little Jin not long ago... he decided to come out of seclusion?

Of course, in terms of superficial work, Wen Xishu didn't show any flaws:

"Ding Dong... do you have any impression of this name?"

"Little Phoenix, of course I remember, one of my children." Mr. Jin smiled, with a bit of nostalgia in his smile.

"That was the first 'god' we came into contact with. He was a talented child, very great. The items he made might be able to help us deal with the doomsday... or even find a pure land."

Mr. Jin appeared very regretful and remorseful. Wen Xishu didn't speak.

Mr. Jin said:

"But I still made a mistake. I should have tried my best to stop those radicals. Their Swan Plan attempted to dissect Ding Dong."

"I couldn't bear it, but I couldn't betray my country either, so I let Ding Dong go."

It roughly matched the plot he knew.

Wen Xishu said:

"You are from Whatever Longxia."

Mr. Jin did not deny it.

"Then you let Ding Dong go, will this cause... you to be punished?"

Mr. Jin said:

"Yes, for a while after that, I stayed at the experimental base on the island... that most dangerous place, waiting for punishment."

"I believe my country will still need me."

Wen Xishu's heart skipped a beat.

He is hiding it!

This doesn't match what Wei Ping'an said!

Wen Xishu began to recall what Wei Ping'an had said, that is, the train conductor of the Whatever Longxia Chosen Train. At that time, Wei Ping'an said this:

"This is the Swan Plan."

"The person in charge of the plan was a person as excellent as you, named Jin Zhenyuan."

"But he betrayed us... he let go of the child who had a great connection with the god."

"But Jin Zhenyuan was an extremely excellent person, and we needed his power... we arranged for people to go to the island, wanting to let Jin Zhenyuan come back. He loved that child too much; we can understand."

"But what happened next was beyond our expectations. Jin Zhenyuan seemed to have obtained superpowers; with his own strength, he defeated all... the experts we arranged."

"It turns out that Mr. Jin Zhenyuan had already obtained some of the god's power... through some unknown means."

"His physique was different from ordinary people; his reaction, agility, and speed far exceeded human beings."

"Jin Zhenyuan didn't kill his former comrades, just left one sentence... The future of mankind does not lie in the real world; please do not contact him again."

Wen Xishu was convinced that Mr. Jin had already glimpsed something. At that time, he knew that whether it was the Swan Plan or the Chosen Plan, they would all fail.

Only the Bunker, this mysterious base that did not exist in the real world, was the true correct answer.

But the problem was, what exactly did Mr. Jin do?

Wen Xishu remained calm:

"So, how did you come to the Bunker? In the old principal's memories, you were a very powerful existence from birth. You unified the Bunker's various systems, languages, and currencies. You looked very much like a certain emperor in Whatever Longxia's history."

"Your power... where did it come from?"

This was an extremely presumptuous question. But Mr. Jin had his own answer:

"All of this has to be mentioned with another child."

Up to now, Wen Xishu couldn't judge whether Mr. Jin was good or evil. Because this person, in Wei Ping'an's eyes, betrayed his own country.

But this person indeed counted as having made a great contribution to the Bunker people.

And, the life-and-death friendship that the old principal kept thinking about... presumably had personal charm.

But out of caution, Wen Xishu still had to test him from various sides.

He said:

"Could it be that who you are talking about is Jin Shan?"

Mr. Jin nodded:

"He actually isn't called Jin Shan, but later I thought he should have a name, and his identity is my grandson, so I called him Jin Shan."

"But if one day, outside the Bunker, in the Three Towers world, you meet him and hear him claim to be Jin Shan, don't be surprised."

"Because he, like Pisces, can see time. He can see how his future self is addressed."

Pisces?

How is this Jin Shan related to Pisces again?

Mr. Jin said:

"Do you know what choice Whatever Longxia made after the Swan Plan failed?"

"They started the Chosen Plan. They began to obsess over creating a god created by Whatever Longxia people."

Wen Xishu of course knew, but he didn't pick up the conversation.

Here, Wei Ping'an also mentioned that Libra improved the Chosen Train, and Bai Yang provided the ritual.

"Mr. Wen Xishu, we have been cultivating true warriors, and we have also found an ancient... god-making ritual through two existences that are extremely close to gods."

"They are the brothers and sisters of the Swan Plan researchers. They didn't reveal their names, but one held a long cane in his hand, and the top of the cane had a ram's head."

"The other wore a wide robe, and the back of the robe was engraved with Libra."

This was Wei Ping'an's original words.

At that time, Wen Xishu was still surprised that these two constellations had actually joined forces. But he suddenly thought that Mr. Jin just said that Little Jin could see the future like Pisces, and not long ago, Mr. Jin said—Little Jin is Gemini.

These words made Wen Xishu think of a possibility.

Is it possible that the owner of the ram's head cane and the owner of the Libra robe that Wei Ping'an thought...

They are actually not Bai Yang and Libra?

So Wen Xishu asked a question:

"As far as I know, no matter what ritual it is, or the god-making plan... they all need special power."

"But the national institutions at that time generally did not possess this power. What was the foundation of Whatever Longxia's god-making?"

Wen Xishu asked cleverly, and Mr. Jin's answer was also very straightforward:

"Originating from Jin Shan."

Why does Little Jin feel more and more awesome?

Mr. Jin continued:

"In the process of raising Ding Dong, I also obtained Ding Dong's painstaking work. Perhaps Ding Dong told you that he made some special works, gloves, a compass."

Wen Xishu nodded; he didn't deny it here.

Mr. Jin said:

"That compass guided Ding Dong to meet you?"

Wen Xishu thought for a while and decided to reveal the details, because in Ding Dong's description, "father" was very important, and it was "father" who asked him to make the compass.

It seems here that Mr. Jin is a very good person.

Wen Xishu said:

"Under the guidance of the compass, he turned bad luck into good, withdrew from the Three Towers battlefield, and also met very good people, making up for his 'heart'."

Mr. Jin nodded:

"Thank you for being willing to tell me this. Next, back to Jin Shan. He was actually a child I discovered very early using the compass."

"But I didn't report it, because I knew that once reported, Jin Shan would become a victim of the Swan Plan."

"Jin Shan might be able to replace Ding Dong, but the compass guiding me to meet him wasn't as simple as replacing Ding Dong."

"At first, Jin Shan was very sluggish and was a very weak child, about the level of a two-year-old human, looking harmless to humans and animals. Of course, later, like those constellations, after he grew to a certain age, there was no change. But this was a later matter."

"What I want to tell you... is that Jin Shan, he will undergo some special changes."

Mr. Jin sighed:

"Sorry, I told Albert at first that he was Gemini. On one hand, I wasn't sure what the truth was, and on the other hand, I didn't really want to tell Albert all of this."

"I hope Albert can make good use of Little Jin and cultivate Little Jin."

Wen Xishu said:

"It seems that Little Jin's special changes have had a great impact on you? What exactly is Little Jin's identity?"

After Mr. Jin calmed his emotions, he said with a solemn expression:

"I don't know. I still don't know what Little Jin is. But in the end, I saw Little Jin split into two people, so I gave the answer of Gemini. He might be a certain constellation, perhaps one of the twelve, perhaps one of the five weaker ones."

"But I have never seen such a constellation."

"He... seems to be able to transform into other constellations."

"I have seen him have the power to conquer everything like Leo. At one time, everyone in the shelter seemed to be enslaved by him and worshipped him."

"I have also seen him become evil and strange, making people in the shelter kill each other."

"Of course, he would occasionally pose in some strange postures, like aiming, and then shake his head after a long time."

"You should have heard it; he is imitating."

Wen Xishu did indeed hear it.

This is really imitating constellations. This Little Jin... can actually use the power of all constellations?

No... it looks like a simplified version of constellation power. At least, compared to the real Leo and Sagittarius, the scale is very different.

But this is already strange enough.

What the hell is Little Jin?

"I have been taking care of him and trying to educate and influence him. These behaviors have also been somewhat useful. He began to stop hurting the people around him."

"Actually... Little Jin was in the undersea shelter at the time, and was secretly transported here by me, while Ding Dong was in the island shelter. One was above the sea surface, and one was below the sea surface."

"Ding Dong's personality was very stable, but Little Jin was unstable. However, with the input of various knowledge and my earnest teachings, Little Jin also began to understand the concept of good and evil."

"Most of the time, he could also suppress his evil thoughts, like a child as sensible as Ding Dong."

"Later... Ding Dong escaped. Little Jin told me that he heard it. I let Ding Dong follow the guidance of the compass to feel the world."

"He also wanted to feel this world. But my intuition told me that Little Jin was much more dangerous than Ding Dong."

"So I refused. But my refusal was meaningless."

"Not long after, Little Jin disappeared. He left the shelter without anyone knowing how he left."

"And not long after that, I fell into a coma."

"When I woke up again, I had become a traitor to Whatever Longxia. In my mind, there was an extra memory, that I relied on powerful strength to defeat all the armed forces of the Swan Plan..."

"I was like a superman. From the time I woke up from my coma, I gained power, powerful power."

"Not only that, my heart began to waver toward Whatever Longxia's doomsday defense plan. For a while, I seemed to be a different person."

Wen Xishu thought for a while and felt that if one only looked at the traces and not the heart... Mr. Jin was indeed quite strange.

Facing right and wrong, he stood on the side of the country, but he let Ding Dong go. He didn't escape, but chose to accept punishment calmly... but these were just verbal descriptions. The fact was, Mr. Jin suddenly gained power, and he didn't accept punishment, but punished those who tried to punish him.

Wen Xishu tried to substitute Wei Ping'an.

From Wei Ping'an's perspective, if one only looks at Mr. Jin's trajectory—

Mr. Jin indeed looked like a traitor. He stopped the Swan Plan, but he was secretly carrying out the Swan Plan himself, gaining powerful strength.

And using this power, he saw Xiong Su's Sky Dome Plan, the Free Nation's Ark Plan, Whatever Longxia's Swan Plan... all of them failed.

The correct answer was in another world.

Looking at it this way, Mr. Jin was very likely some hidden evil existence. He was just hiding very deeply. No one saw it.

But Wen Xishu suddenly thought of the people Jin Shan had come into contact with—Britney, Zhou Fei, Chris... they all had powerful strength.

Looking at it this way, Jin Shan was indeed very special. Mr. Jin's power should have come from Jin Shan.

"Now, are you sure that the Little Jin you brought back is the Little Jin from back then?" Wen Xishu asked.

Mr. Jin said:

"Their appearance is exactly the same. But after being brought back to the Bunker... all his magic seemed to have disappeared. He was indeed very qualified and had the talent to climb the Slaughter Tower, but it wasn't enough. Compared to the shock he brought me many years ago, the Bunker version of him is like an ordinary person."

"So after I let Evelyn wash away Little Jin's memory, I tried to let Albert cultivate him and dig out the potential he should have had."

"But he soon had problems in the process of climbing the tower. It seems he shouldn't climb the Mysterious Tower; he should climb the Slaughter Tower."

Wen Xishu didn't know what to say for a moment. Mr. Jin continued:

"And before I entered the Bunker, the last time I saw Little Jin, he split into two people. He began to imitate Gemini."

"I don't know what this indicates, but I always have a feeling that his imitation hasn't ended yet. Perhaps in the Three Towers world, there is another Little Jin?"

"Just like twins."

Wen Xishu's heart skipped a beat. Mr. Jin next described the characteristics of twins:

"It is said that twins only exert their full power when they are together, and once separated... both will be significantly weakened."

Wen Xishu understood Mr. Jin's words.

Little Jin could take turns becoming certain constellations and possessed a part of the constellation's mechanism and power, but Gemini was very special...

Because of becoming Gemini, Little Jin's power was incomplete. The Little Jin brought back by Mr. Jin—

It was very likely just one of the twins, which could explain why this Little Jin was far less powerful than the Little Jin at the beginning.

And the other Little Jin was the one encountered by Zhou Fei, Chris, and others.

Actually, in a sense, Mr. Jin stealing one of the Little Jins instead affected Little Jin's ability to exert his original power.

Of course, Little Jin becoming ordinary could also be due to the Bunker. The Bunker was very special and could limit certain powers.

"In addition, Whatever Longxia's Chosen Plan is very likely related to Little Jin. This is some information I only knew after meeting Capricorn." Mr. Jin added.

Wen Xishu lowered his head, thinking about all the information.

Heart of Fusion, the mixture of all constellation powers... taking turns to transform, unstable temperament, but finally stopped at the change of Gemini.

Wen Xishu felt that there might be a connection here, but there were too few clues now.

Mr. Jin said:

"Is there anything else you want to know? I will tell you everything."

Wen Xishu felt that there were too many things to dig into, and he also needed this information to judge what kind of person Mr. Jin was.

But unfortunately, up to now, he hadn't figured out who Little Jin was, but instead had more bizarre points.

After thinking about it, Wen Xishu said:

"The Bunker... how did it start? You were the first person to enter the Bunker, right?"

Mr. Jin did not hide it:

"After I woke up from my coma, I knew the entrance to the Bunker and could reach the Bunker through a special channel built by the Guide."

"These memories... I don't know who they came from, but after I woke up, they were like established facts. In my mind, they reminded me that this was the only correct answer."

"I was indeed the first to enter the Bunker, and it was I who, in the gaps of the Sky Dome Plan, Chosen Plan, and Ark Plan, constantly guided others to enter the Bunker."

"Compared to the millions of people in other countries' plans, the initial population of the Bunker was very, very small. The Bunker initially only had two levels."

"Functional level, residential level."

"Relying on powerful strength, I became the master of the Bunker at that time, and everyone had to survive under my arrangement."

Wen Xishu said:

"How was the Bunker formed? What is the Three Towers game?"

This question was asked very broadly. Mr. Jin just stood up and left the cushion. His white robe moved without wind, appearing quite immortal:

"I am just a chess piece under the torrent of fate."

"From the moment I met Jin Shan, I was pushed forward by some kind of power. The Three Towers is a chessboard, a rule, but if you ask me where these rules come from, what exactly Little Jin is, and what the twelve constellations are all about..."

"I cannot answer these questions for you. I feel that my mission has been completed, child. For a while, I felt that I was the person of destiny."

"Especially after waking up from a coma, having powerful strength, and having memories that could truly save others... all of this made me feel that I was shouldering the mission of pushing history forward."

"But later, I found that I was no longer special. Albert even slowly surpassed me, and I realized—"

"Everything was just because I was at that node, and the person playing chess... gave me a push."

"But I don't know how all of this happened."

Mr. Jin turned around, his eyes full of vicissitudes, but there were also sparks in the depths of his eyes:

"I still have the last mission, which is to open the way for you. As for those sources, only you can explore them yourself."

"Go climb the tower and let the Three Towers answer you."

(Happy May Day to all readers!)

(End of chapter)