Chapter 265

There are still many differences between one spirit body and another.

Although spirit bodies cannot fight each other and cannot cause any damage to one another.

But if they sustain damage, some spirit bodies lose consciousness very easily, while others are extremely strong-willed and only lose consciousness when their lives are in critical danger.

After Liu Zhizai was subdued by Wen Xishu in the basement, Wen Xishu also prepared to properly pry some information out of him.

Liu Zhizai had lost a portion of his memories.

At the very least, he did not know how he had died. And this part of his memory was, in fact, extremely crucial.

Wen Xishu also thought of this point; he likely wouldn't be able to get it out of him, but he might be able to ask about some things that happened after Mr. Jin went to the Slaughter Tower.

【If this were the Lower Spirit Zone, you might not be able to deal with him easily, but this is the Upper Spirit Zone. Do you know why people from every world dislike those from the Sinful Earth?

Because people from the Sinful Earth do not follow the rules; it is as if, in a world full of good people, a bad person suddenly appears, and that bad person will certainly live very comfortably.

The Upper Spirit Zone is just like that; I will turn a blind eye, but do not let other administrators discover you.】

The text appeared once again.

Between Liu Zhizai and Wen Xishu, if they were in the world of the living, at the current stage, even if Wen Xishu played all his trump cards, he might not necessarily be able to take down Liu Zhizai.

Even after arriving in the world of the dead, if they were in the Lower Spirit Zone, Liu Zhizai might not necessarily lack a chance of winning.

But as it happens, this is the Upper Spirit Zone.

Liu Zhizai attempted to resist, but just as he knew, his abilities could not cause any damage to Wen Xishu.

And Wen Xishu's subsequent attacks could be described as a storm, dense—but not aesthetically pleasing.

There was not a shred of so-called violent aesthetics, only slaps, punches, and kicks, as if it were a street brawl.

Wen Xishu didn't care either; he had the Dice of Reversal on him anyway. Any move could cause damage to the opponent.

To cause high damage, he had to make the attacks denser.

Liu Zhizai was soon injured.

Now Liu Zhizai truly believed... that Wen Xishu could make him die one more time, until his soul was scattered.

Liu Zhizai panicked, but he also quickly remembered one thing.

"On your body! You really are hiding a secret! Wen Xishu, this kind of power is absolutely related to the deaths of your Wen family!"

Liu Zhizai's spirit body was like a melting wax figure, completely misshapen; many parts of his body began to twist, which meant he was enduring immense pain.

He was actually a person with a very tough backbone; usually, after a spirit body suffered such an attack, they would most likely have confessed.

Barrages had even begun to appear.

But Liu Zhizai was actually still able to grit his teeth, harboring the intention to resist.

Facing Wen Xishu's power that broke the rules, Liu Zhizai actually connected everything together at this moment.

Why did the perfectly fine Wen family suddenly go insane and attack others on the Heavenly Ladder Ranking inside the Slaughter Tower?

Why would Wen Zhaohua, as the most promising young person in the bunker who excelled in all three tower systems, suddenly destroy his own future?

And how did Wen Zhaohua manage to slaughter crazily in the Tower of Desire, a place where violence could not be used?

After that, the Wen family was almost wiped out, and Wen Zhaohua also went missing.

The only one alive in the Wen family was actually a fool.

But soon, the fool was no longer a fool.

The fool even became the new number one person of the Mysterious Tower.

In order to figure out what Wen Xishu had actually done, the Five Elders had actually issued orders and arranged for a large number of people from the lower levels and criminals to go undercover.

This method of attempting to monitor Wen Xishu ultimately had too high a cost and was soon stopped.

But now, Liu Zhizai seemed to finally understand that Wen Xishu possessed a power that twisted the rules and ignored the rules.

Or rather, Wen Xishu held a power that could create the highest priority rules!

Wen Zhaohua's power back then might have been the same!

Liu Zhizai exclaimed in wonder:

"How on earth did the Wen family obtain such a heaven-defying treasure? A sacrifice?"

"Could the Wen family's abnormality back then have been a... ritual?"

He did not answer Wen Xishu's question, and even began to counter-question him.

Wen Xishu sighed:

"You really are muddled, Elder Liu."

"I have experienced the death of a spirit body; when he died, he would turn into Qi, and this Qi would blow over me like the wind... and then I would know his memories."

"Since you, Elder Liu, are unwilling to tell me the truth, I have no choice but to kill you."

Wen Xishu was not joking; he did not have much time left.

He had already stayed in the Underworld for several days in order to find that person worth bringing back.

If this person was not Liu Zhizai, he could not waste time; he had to hurry and find that person.

Wen Xishu approached step by step, and Liu Zhizai retreated step by step, but Wen Xishu's speed was ultimately faster.

He soon arrived in front of Liu Zhizai, whose spirit body was already twisted.

A new round of aesthetic-less, hooligan-style beating began.

As his health points gradually bottomed out, Liu Zhizai's spirit body began to shatter, and some Qi had already begun to flow out.

There was no barrage.

It must be said that those who could be chosen by Mr. Jin as subordinates all had backbone.

Liu Zhizai snorted coldly:

"I fear your power... but don't even think about asking me for any news about Mr. Jin!"

"What Mr. Jin has done will benefit all eternity!"

Wen Xishu was silent, simply continuing to beat him.

Liu Zhizai's health points soon reached the final few percent. His consciousness was finally about to give out.

A lot of Qi also began to flow out.

Facing Liu Zhizai's final resistance, Wen Xishu still had some internal struggle.

"Personal grudges are personal grudges... but I have now accepted the fact that I am Wen Xishu."

"You have made the bunker a mess, but correspondingly, you were also the pioneers back then."

"Elder Liu, I do not want to obtain that final piece of information by killing you. You have already cleared your good and evil deeds while alive; you should have a decent afterlife now that you are dead."

Wen Xishu's attacks would take away a bit of maximum health points each time; although it was like scraping a surface, the scraping was very steady.

Liu Zhizai, whose health points were almost at the execution threshold, still did not want to answer Wen Xishu's questions, but deep in his heart... he was afraid.

Under these words from Wen Xishu, his survival instinct was still awakened.

Especially at this moment when his consciousness was blurred, he finally fell into certain emotions.

【I have followed Mr. Jin all my life, and I am absolutely not wrong!】

This was a sentence Liu Zhizai used to steady his heart; this sentence had now turned into a barrage.

Wen Xishu had to admit that the Five Elders were indeed not simple.

Even at this point, the content of the barrage had not revealed anything.

However, the barrage kept appearing.

Although the content of these barrages was the same, all about following Mr. Jin without regret, the emotions within them changed, and the corresponding memories were also different.

If one only looked at the barrage, it seemed impossible to tell the difference; fortunately, Wen Xishu possessed Tang Rui's Rune of Mixed Feelings.

He gently touched the barrage and instantly entered a memory.

Slaughter Tower, eighty-fourth floor.

The heavily injured Liu Zhizai lay on the ground, on the verge of death.

Liu Zhizai had encountered a formidable enemy, an unimaginably formidable enemy.

Feng Nuoyiman stepped on Liu Zhizai's head. Under the system of the Slaughter Tower, because there was no meeting of the Mysterious Tower and the Tower of Desire, although the languages were the same, there was no possibility of recruitment.

Feng Nuoyiman sighed with emotion:

"Truly a very hard person to kill; as a human, you are not bad; after all, it is not easy to be able to see me."

That time, Liu Zhizai thought he was surely going to die.

But soon, Feng Nuoyiman felt a powerful aura.

That aura was actually very similar to his own.

He suddenly discovered that his own proud "scan" had landed on himself.

Some ethereal voices came from all around.

"The first guardian of the Ark?"

"Your ability is really quite useful; all kinds of data and weaknesses appear instantly."

"Cooperating with your captain's weak path construction... it really is a headache."

Feng Nuoyiman was greatly shocked, because even the voice was the same as his own.

And Liu Zhizai was overjoyed; although he couldn't tell whose voice this was, he knew that anyone who could appear here at this time must be Mr. Jin.

This battle eventually ended with Feng Nuoyiman being killed first.

Mr. Jin defeated Feng Nuoyiman, but also exposed one of his own secrets.

"You... can turn into other people?"

Mr. Jin said:

"Shh! Keep it a secret. Since you know, Zhizai, I have two choices for you."

"You die here. Or, you remain my most loyal subordinate and become a part of me."

Liu Zhizai could not imagine that Mr. Jin was Feng Nuoyiman a second ago...

And the next second, he had actually turned into his appearance.

"Too magical, what kind of power is this?"

"This is power from the gods. Keep it a secret for me. The reason I saved you, on one hand, is that you encountered someone I dislike in the Slaughter Tower."

"That Feng Nuoyiman?"

"Yes, he represents the Ark, which is a different doomsday choice from my motherland. In the Slaughter Tower, I can at least cut off some of his opportunities. Perhaps in the future, he will encounter certain people because of this, leading to the collapse of his conspiracy."

Liu Zhizai knew that the monsters in the Slaughter Tower would be resurrected after death. But death would make their future "fortune" worse.

"On the other hand, Zhizai, I need a confidant, and I think this confidant can be you."

Liu Zhizai knelt down:

"I swear to serve you to the death! This is something I began practicing many years ago!"

This memory made Wen Xishu secretly shocked.

On the Ark, he had heard the great name of Feng Nuoyiman; Feng Nuoyiman and the captain were existences capable of imprisoning the demigod Sirius.

Of course, what he saw was—"Mysterious Feng Nuoyiman". And what Liu Zhizai encountered was "Slaughter Feng Nuoyiman".

Wen Xishu indeed found it hard to imagine that someone as strong as an Elder would actually be stepped on by Slaughter Feng Nuoyiman.

Yet Mr. Jin was able to easily kill Feng Nuoyiman using the method of returning the favor in kind.

This was also the most crucial information in this memory.

"So from this time on... Mr. Jin could already turn into other people?"

If Mr. Jin could already turn into other people, then who could know that Mr. Jin had never left the "facility"?

Slaughter Tower, ninetieth floor. Beside the bonfire.

Liu Zhizai's ability had reached its limit at the eighty-something floor.

Going to the ninetieth floor was purely because of Mr. Jin.

"I am about to go into seclusion; I did something not long ago... Zhizai, as long as there is killing on the ninetieth floor, then afterwards, even in the bunker, you will possess a certain percentage of attributes from the Slaughter Tower."

Mr. Jin's previous paragraph was such a sentence, but the next sentence made that Liu Zhizai break out in cold sweat.

"Those not of my race must have a different heart."

Before Mr. Jin could finish speaking, Liu Zhizai immediately knelt down:

"Although I am not of the same race as you, I have already changed Liu Sheng Zhizai to Liu Zhizai... You don't have to doubt me at all; I am more loyal than Luo Feng!"

In this memory, Liu Zhizai was kneeling, only able to see Mr. Jin's back, unable to see Mr. Jin's expression.

Mr. Jin just smiled faintly:

"Don't be nervous, Zhizai; of course I believe in your loyalty; you will be of great use to me in the future, and I also believe that I can safely employ you and reuse you."

"I said those not of my race must have a different heart, not to beat you. But out of helplessness."

"I really hope that those who climb to this level are all Whatever Longxia people; I really hope... the Long Yin plan has enough good seedlings."

"But those walking at the very front are still William, Ma Xiu, and you. And Luo Feng."

"Don't look at how I treat Luo Feng the best; in fact, I don't treat you badly either. I will take each of you past the ninetieth floor."

Liu Zhizai said:

"Then what about Albert?"

Mr. Jin slowly shook his head:

"How I wish Albert were a Whatever Longxia person. Of course, he doesn't need me to worry; he is different from all of you; he is a genius, a true genius."

"A child of the era whose talent even I have to sigh at. What a pity, he is not of my race."

Liu Zhizai was puzzled:

"This sentence of yours... is it said to Albert? Those not of my race..."

Mr. Jin shook his head again:

"No, Albert is my friend; I sigh that he is not of my race, not that I cannot trust him."

"It's just that the gods will not accept him. That plan... forget it, the bunker should have its own heroes."

"Zhizai, if one day I calculated against you, would you hate me after you die?"

Although Liu Zhizai did not understand, he still shook his head:

"I wouldn't; my life was given by you; you have saved me more than once; there is an old saying in Whatever Longxia: a scholar dies for his confidant; I am willing to die for you!"

"To die for you, this is my glory!"

This memory had actually always puzzled Liu Zhizai.

Later, in order to prevent himself from being "different-hearted" in Mr. Jin's eyes, Liu Zhizai had always obeyed Mr. Jin's every word.

He also always longed to practice the statement "a scholar dies for his confidant".

It was just that he did not understand Mr. Jin's words; what plan, what heroes?

But Wen Xishu vaguely understood.

"Mr. Jin is very helpless; he appears to teach without discrimination, but in essence, he hopes that William, Ma Xiu, Liu Zhizai... and even Albert, are 'his own people'."

"All are... Whatever Longxia people!"

"But in the end, among the Whatever Longxia people he could 'carry' to the ninetieth floor, only Luo Feng remained."

"He longs in his heart for a genius like Albert to be a Whatever Longxia person, but in his heart, he also thinks that the bunker should have its own heroes, and this hero is Albert..."

"It really is contradictory."

"Mr. Jin actually already has a friendship with Principal Albert, but deep in his heart, he is still resisting friendship... because his heart is not in the bunker."

"He is the pioneer of the bunker, the number one person in the bunker; he also knows that the bunker is the correct answer, and he also avoided the wrong answer and chose this correct answer..."

"But deep in his heart, he is still thinking about his own country, thinking about turning that wrong answer into the correct answer. For this... he might be willing to destroy the bunker?"

All of this was just speculation, but the idea deep in Mr. Jin's bones that those not of his race must have a different heart indeed coincided with the theme of the Long Yin plan.

In Wei Ping's view, Jin Zhenyuan betrayed them.

But what if... Jin Zhenyuan did not betray them? He was just trying to give a plan that was bound to fail the possibility of success.

(End of chapter)