Chapter 266

Wen Wen Xishu felt that Mr. Jin was very twisted, but also felt... that he and Mr. Jin were actually a little similar.

When Mr. Jin appeared to be ready to die for righteousness and sacrifice something for the bunker, he suspected that Mr. Jin had a conspiracy.

After truly discovering that Mr. Jin was indeed hiding thoughts and a part of the conspiracy was revealed... he inexplicably felt some identification with this person.

Whatever Longxia was not Wen Wen Xishu's motherland in his previous life, but if there really was such a thing as parallel worlds corresponding to each other, then Whatever Longxia and his own country were likely corresponding.

Because of this, Wen Wen Xishu had a little bit of favoritism for this country.

Mr. Jin's favoritism was much more obvious than his, but as it happens, under his operation, the bunker could be said to be very harmonious among all ethnic groups. Whatever Longxia people were not superior to others.

Mr. Jin longed for Whatever Longxia people to be around him, and he kept saying that those not of his race must have a different heart...

Deep in his heart, he must have also longed for the Long Yin Project to succeed.

But around him, only Luo Feng was a pure-blooded Whatever Longxia person.

He could also become friends with people like Albert, and he could also let children like Nisen not be discriminated against.

At a time when the bunker should have united all humans, he had no prejudice and united all humans who could be united.

Wen Wen Xishu could imagine that in the early days of the doomsday, when the doomsday response plans of various countries had many problems, how one person had to take people from various countries to a bunker of unknown location, and also had to face the Three Towers that were enough to collapse faith and scientific views, and how to rebuild human civilization step by step.

Humans at that time must have been terrified, as if primitive people had been suddenly thrown into a city full of steel and concrete.

This process was incomparably arduous, but Mr. Jin achieved everything.

If after this, he could stop thinking about the Long Yin Project, perhaps he would be the first person in this world to save humanity.

But as it happens, after everything was done by him... he was still thinking about the Long Yin Project of Whatever Longxia.

It was like a person who, after finding an ideal partner, was still thinking about that first love who was unsuitable in every way and had hurt him deeply.

Of course, whether it was purely patriotic sentiment or if there were unavoidable reasons, Wen Wen Xishu really didn't know.

Wen Wen Xishu tried to put himself in Mr. Jin's shoes and found that if he were Mr. Jin... he would likely choose the bunker as the new starting point for human civilization and give up on Whatever Longxia.

This was not because he lacked patriotic sentiment, but precisely because there were things that transcended patriotic sentiment.

Because the wrong choice would lead to the destruction of the entire civilization.

Wen Wen Xishu ultimately didn't understand Mr. Jin very well, and many things couldn't be concluded too early.

His interrogation had also not yet ended.

The third memory arrived.

It was a familiar scene again.

Liu Liu Zhizai stayed in Mr. Jin's "recuperation room," sitting quietly.

Unlike before, although Liu Liu Zhizai's position had not changed, Mr. Jin was actually gone.

Wen Wen Xishu could feel Liu Liu Zhizai's fear through the Rune of Mixed Feelings.

However, he still didn't know where the fear came from.

Before long, footsteps came from the facility.

"Liu Zhizai, come here."

That was Mr. Jin's voice; he had appeared in the room at some point.

Liu Liu Zhizai stood up and approached Mr. Jin with a respectful demeanor.

Mr. Jin patted his shoulder and said:

"I gave up one of your things; the Miyamoto family is being supported by you, right?"

Liu Liu Zhizai nodded:

"I have nothing of my own; everything I have is yours. You can decide as you please."

Mr. Jin smiled:

"You are still too cautious, Liu Zhizai; here with me, there is no need to be so repressed."

"Yes!" Liu Liu Zhizai bowed.

Mr. Jin continued:

"Aren't you curious which thing it is?"

Liu Liu Zhizai said:

"The sword."

"Yes, your sword, that sword; you spent a lot of effort to get it back then. Now, I want the kid from the Miyamoto family to use this sword to challenge Wen Wen Xishu," Mr. Jin said.

Liu Liu Zhizai understood:

"No wonder... you turned into my appearance."

Mr. Jin laughed:

"Sorry, Liu Zhizai; perhaps one day in the future, you will also turn into my appearance."

"Becoming a part of me, perhaps in this way, you won't be so cautious in front of me."

Liu Liu Zhizai became even more terrified:

"I just don't understand... you once said that those not of my race must have a different heart. So are you still not trusting me? You could have completely entrusted this matter to me to do!"

"I understand that you don't think much of the child from the Miyamoto family; his aptitude, in the end, cannot catch your eye."

"But you turned into my appearance and also let the child from the Miyamoto family... go challenge Wen Wen Xishu; this will offend Albert, right?"

"Not to mention that Wen Wen Xishu's current achievements are not low. After the Great Devouring ends, he will only become stronger."

Mr. Jin nodded:

"I need to confirm some things; turning into your appearance is just because I need to confirm it personally, for example, if the child from the Miyamoto family becomes a sacrifice, whether it is too much of a pity."

"Liu Zhizai, I will compensate you in the future."

Liu Liu Zhizai relaxed a little; first, he was called into this room and not allowed to go out, and then he saw his master turn into his own appearance...

He was very afraid that he would be replaced.

Liu Liu Zhizai was very afraid of Mr. Jin. Afraid to the depths of his soul. Because Mr. Jin's saying that those not of his race must have a different heart was actually never said to others. It was just constantly muttered to Liu Liu Zhizai.

He vaguely felt that everyone had their own position.

William, Ma Xiu, Evelyn, the three of them were Elders, but unlike him, their positions were completely different from his.

As for Luo Feng... he was the old subordinate Mr. Jin favored the most.

And what about himself?

Liu Liu Zhizai was grateful for Mr. Jin's rescue, and he also knew by climbing the Slaughter Tower what kind of chaos his former hometown, Hujiang, was in outside the bunker.

So Liu Liu Zhizai was very grateful that Mr. Jin could let him reach his current position.

But deep down, he was also so afraid of this mysterious man.

This memory ended here.

In these three memories, there was Mr. Jin's life-and-death rescue, and also Liu Liu Zhizai's internal fear.

For Wen Wen Xishu, the third memory was even more shocking than the previous two.

"Miyamoto Miyamoto Yishu challenged me because of Mr. Jin?"

Wen Wen Xishu was indeed shocked.

He knew that Mr. Jin could turn into other people, but he didn't expect that Miyamoto Miyamoto Yishu's challenge to him back then was actually Mr. Jin's arrangement.

He turned into Liu Liu Zhizai and observed Miyamoto Miyamoto Yishu, confirming that Miyamoto Miyamoto Yishu's aptitude was that of a genius in the eyes of ordinary people, but if one set aside the family's support, it was not too rare.

So Miyamoto Miyamoto Yishu could be sacrificed.

But this was not the key point.

The key was, at that time, had Mr. Jin already started testing him?

Once the Dice of Reversal was connected with Mr. Jin and the various connections of the Wen family...

Wen Wen Xishu was certain that perhaps not long after he transmigrated, or even earlier, Mr. Jin had already set his sights on him.

But before, it was all observation.

After all, earlier, the protagonist of the bunker was called Wen Zhaohua.

But as he kept climbing the tower and changing his fate... Mr. Jin gradually changed from observation and attention to testing.

Wen Wen Xishu actually felt it was all too coincidental.

"Sending the sword... it just happened to step on the node where I had no tower power value. What was he confirming?"

One moment he was consuming tower power value in the Great Devouring, and the next moment someone immediately replenished it.

Looking at it this way, Wen Wen Xishu felt that this was Liu Liu Zhizai, which meant Mr. Jin was helping him.

So at that time, he didn't mind his hatred for Liu Liu Zhizai. Nor did he deliberately make things difficult for the Miyamoto family.

Now he knew that there was a more complex "peering" inside.

Liu Liu Zhizai was on the verge of death; in the process of Wen Wen Xishu's contemplation after peeking at the memory, he seemed to have recovered a bit of sanity.

He seemed to have sensed that Wen Wen Xishu seemed to have some means to probe some of his information.

This also made Liu Liu Zhizai feel fear.

"I absolutely cannot hold him back; it absolutely cannot be me who delays Mr. Jin's plans!"

Although Liu Liu Zhizai could not hurt Wen Wen Xishu and could not escape from Wen Wen Xishu's hands, as a spiritual body, he still had a final trump card.

Liu Liu Zhizai's spiritual body, which was already in a mess, suddenly began to become illusory.

Wen Wen Xishu vaguely felt that the Qi began to become intense, and it already felt as if there was wind blowing.

"Self-destruction!"

Spiritual bodies in the Upper Spirit District could not attack each other, and coming to the Upper Spirit District, as long as one was willing to earn merit, one could always satisfy many desires.

There was no high pressure here, and for some spiritual bodies—they could definitely feel here what it meant to be "worse than death."

Some spiritual bodies indeed felt that the world after death was better than the world before death.

Moreover, spiritual body self-destruction required enduring immense pain; that was truly erasing oneself from the world.

【Spiritual bodies in the Lower Spirit District cannot even self-harm; they must endure enough pain before they can return to the Upper Spirit District, but once they return to the Upper Spirit District, they often do not choose to self-harm. Spiritual bodies in the Upper Spirit District can indeed self-harm, but this situation rarely happens.】

Text prompts appeared appropriately before his eyes.

Wen Wen Xishu wanted to stop Liu Liu Zhizai, but everything was already too late.

Wen Wen Xishu did not expect that the fear Mr. Jin had implanted in the depths of Liu Liu Zhizai's soul made Liu Liu Zhizai not dare to betray Mr. Jin even in death.

The Qi of the spiritual body's self-destruction blew over.

At this moment, Wen Wen Xishu saw the... death scene that Liu Liu Zhizai himself had never remembered.

He seemed to have substituted himself for Liu Liu Zhizai.

That immense pressure locked Liu Liu Zhizai firmly.

Liu Liu Zhizai could not move at all.

Subsequently, a powerful force of causality struck as if to destroy time and space.

"Save me! Save me!"

There was no response. Mr. Jin could not save Liu Liu Zhizai at all this time.

Wen Wen Xishu discovered that there was not even Mr. Jin's figure around, and at this time, he had already turned into Mr. Jin's appearance.

He was wearing Mr. Jin's clothes from the past, as if he were going to replace him to endure an unbearable fate.

A terrifying arrow struck.

One of the Five Elders of the bunker, a powerhouse on the eighty-something floor of the Slaughter Tower, died under that arrow just like that.

The wind-like Qi blew across Wen Wen Xishu's face.

Liu Liu Zhizai no longer existed in the underworld; he only existed in the memories of the living.

Wen Wen Xishu felt some emotion; he really hadn't thought about killing Liu Liu Zhizai. Since he was already dead, the grudges were settled. He really didn't have a hatred for the other party deep enough to chase and kill him again in the underworld.

But he also didn't have much time to mourn this bunker Elder.

Because as the Qi of the spiritual body's self-destruction blew past twice... Wen Wen Xishu seemed to have attracted some attention.

【Regarding your affairs, I turn a blind eye, but if a spiritual body does not die at the hands of law enforcers, then some strange scenes will appear next, plus the world of the dead already rejects you; I have said it, you will encounter some obstacles. But the great Crow Brother doesn't mind giving you help again; regarding the things that are about to appear, you also turn a blind eye, but don't really close your eyes; just pretend you didn't see them.】

The text information came a bit late, but overall it was timely; just as Wen Wen Xishu was sighing at the Elder's death...

Dozens of pale smiling faces suddenly appeared around Wen Wen Xishu.

This was a group of children; their bodies looked like babies, but their walking posture was not crawling like babies, but jumping as if they were frogs.

Although their bodies were like babies, their heads were all adult heads; every face carried a strange smile, and their faces were as white as if they had been brushed with paint.

If it weren't for the text prompt of the Seven-Colored Crow, Wen Wen Xishu would definitely have shown an expression.

These were Spirit Examiners.

Spiritual bodies would not die for no reason; if a spiritual body did not die at the hands of law enforcers, then these terrifying-looking Spirit Examiners would appear around the dead spiritual body.

They used their heads with smiling faces to look at Wen Wen Xishu in unison.

Wen Wen Xishu felt a chill, but he didn't move at all, just pretending to be dazed while looking forward.

Two Spirit Examiners jumped onto Wen Wen Xishu's shoulders; they were as light as nothing, and Wen Wen Xishu couldn't even feel their weight.

Subsequently, one Spirit Examiner climbed onto Wen Wen Xishu's head, then lowered its head, and had a terrifying face-to-face collision with Wen Wen Xishu.

Wen Wen Xishu just pretended he didn't see it.

These Spirit Examiners tossed and turned on Wen Wen Xishu for a good while, mostly making some scares to test Wen Wen Xishu.

Their scares could not be seen by normal spiritual bodies.

Only "Sinful Spirits" could see them. But when Sinful Spirits saw Spirit Examiners, they would feel incomparable coldness.

Wen Wen Xishu, logically speaking, should also feel the same coldness; he was sinful, but he had not died. His feelings were different from those of the Sinful Spirits.

Spiritual bodies in the Upper Spirit District could only be killed by suicide or by law enforcers, plus Wen Wen Xishu's reaction of seemingly not seeing the Spirit Examiners...

Soon the Spirit Examiners felt everything was normal and left.

One wave after another; just when Wen Wen Xishu thought the Spirit Examiners had left and it was time to think about who else in the vast underworld could be used to obtain information...

He suddenly felt a burst of pain in his palm.

Wen Wen Xishu was a bit surprised.

【The chill of the Spirit Examiners' invasion was resisted by the powerful 'Yang energy' you possess as a living person. But this also caused your Yang energy to seem to be depleted too much. You don't have much time left; although I have been saying this sentence, next, you will see a specific countdown; once the Seven-Colored Flower blooms, you will become a dead person.】

【The more petals there are, the more aura you have on your body that can attract the attention of the underworld officials. You can continue your journey, looking for the person to be taken away, or, you can also choose to escape from here now. The way to escape is to praise Crow Brother.】

On Wen Wen Xishu's hand, a petal appeared; the petal was green.

Green, blue, gold, red, purple, black, white.

Seven colors; once the final white petal appeared, Wen Wen Xishu would die.

Although he did not attract the attention of the underworld managers, the rules of the underworld itself were still rejecting Wen Wen Xishu.

Liu Liu Zhizai's soul-scattering determination ultimately still brought some trouble to Wen Wen Xishu.

Wen Wen Xishu looked at his palm and could vaguely feel... the blue petal slowly "outlining" itself.

About thirty minutes later, the second petal would appear.

The green petal did not bring any negative effects to Wen Wen Xishu, but once the blue petal appeared, he would feel a coldness like breath turning into frost.

But Wen Wen Xishu discovered that although he had figured out some things, he still didn't know who he should take away in this vast underworld?

Now he was almost certain that Mr. Jin was not dead, so taking Mr. Jin away was impossible.

Then who should he take away?

Wen Wen Xishu thought of the Wen family members.

If he took the Wen family members away at this time, even if he returned to the bunker, he could protect the Wen family members, and the secret of the old Wen family residence... could perhaps also be solved?

Just at this moment, footsteps suddenly came from the basement, which should have been empty.

Wen Wen Xishu immediately became vigilant, but soon, the vigilance on his face disappeared, replaced by slight surprise.

"You really are... a living person!"

Wen Wen Tingyun didn't know what means he had used, but he had actually found Wen Wen Xishu.

Wen Wen Xishu asked:

"How are you here?"

Wen Wen Tingyun's gaze was complex:

"If I tell you... I have been following you, do you believe me?"

Wen Wen Xishu was stunned.

Wen Wen Tingyun said:

"After I went back, I realized something was wrong; I suddenly received merit. Heh, how could this thing appear out of thin air? Today I met someone who looked like you, and that night I received your merit; it was too coincidental. So I immediately contacted the family head."

"Then I went to the central Yin-Yang Building, and I found you waiting there; I suddenly became very curious about what you were actually going to do."

"So I disguised myself. Not only are you not a dead person, but you can even cause damage to spiritual bodies..."

Wen Wen Xishu didn't expect that he had actually been followed. This Wen Wen Tingyun really had something.

Fortunately, Wen Wen Tingyun was not an enemy.

Wen Wen Tingyun sighed:

"You are doing a very dangerous thing. I shouldn't have asked too much; after all... I don't want to delay you."

"But I have to advise you, A-Shu, I don't want to see you on the roster, no matter what you want to do... but absolutely do not try to bring a dead person back to the world of the living."

Wen Wen Xishu was slightly moved; Wen Wen Tingyun had actually guessed even this? He looked at Wen Wen Tingyun with some incredulity.

"The family head said that if you really made a name for yourself in the world of the living, then you already possessed the ability to break the rules. Honestly, I really envy you; congratulations on your success."

"But no matter how powerful you are, whatever rules you want to break... you must never try to break the rules of life and death."

Wen Wen Tingyun looked at Wen Wen Xishu and slowly walked to Wen Wen Xishu's side:

"A-Shu, if what you want to do is not this thing, if you came to the world of the dead just to investigate information, then consider me meddlesome, but if you want to take someone away... listen to me, A-Shu, absolutely, absolutely do not take anyone away! Hurry back yourself."

Wen Wen Tingyun patted Wen Wen Xishu's shoulder.

Wen Wen Xishu remained silent.

He was thinking, examining the question.

What he needed to make was a choice with significant impact. Wen Wen Xishu had been thinking about who he should take away.

After all... since he was already here.

But now, he was suddenly thinking, if life and death could really be reversed, if such an absolute rule could really be broken because of a "bug."

Hadn't any of those powerful gods really managed to do this?

The many obsessions in the Land of Obsession constructed the rules, allowing Wen Wen Xishu to come to the country of the dead.

Then who did he actually need to save to appease these obsessions?

Perhaps there was no answer at all. Countless obsessions longing for resurrection would not be appeased by the resurrection of a certain individual.

After Wen Wen Xishu thought for a little while, he said seriously:

"I have always cared about you all; what if I could manage to bring you back to life? What if I... am much more powerful than you imagine?"

Wen Wen Tingyun waved his hand almost without thinking:

"A-Shu! Did you listen or not! I don't regret dying; if I caused you to die because you tried to bring me back to life, then I would truly regret it; don't do stupid things! Don't do stupid things!"

"I don't know what you want to do, but absolutely... don't stay in this world; everyone misses you, but they absolutely don't want to see you too early!"

Such an answer truly surprised Wen Wen Xishu, but he also felt it was very much in the style of the Wen family.

Wen Wen Xishu felt a warmth in his heart, but also a faint sorrow:

"I know what to do; thank you. I will leave here, and you should leave too."

Wen Wen Tingyun was still worried:

"Really? You must not do anything presumptuous!"

Wen Wen Xishu nodded:

"I understand. Don't worry, I won't do stupid things."

He had really figured it out. The death countdown brought by the Seven-Colored Flower had already made Wen Wen Xishu intend to retreat.

And Wen Wen Tingyun's appearance was more like a favor from fate to him.

Although he hadn't encountered too many obstacles, it could be imagined that infiltrating the country of the dead and taking a dead person to the world of the living... were not on the same order of magnitude in difficulty.

And not to mention whether the rules of life and death could be broken, if he really broke them, it might not be a good thing.

Wen Wen Tingyun didn't stay long; after persuading Wen Wen Xishu, fearing that he would delay Wen Wen Xishu's plan, he left again.

After Wen Wen Tingyun left, Wen Wen Xishu stood in the basement and muttered to himself:

"I'm starting to envy you; your family... are all very reliable."

He was talking to the idiot.

The idiot didn't reply to Wen Wen Xishu, and Wen Wen Xishu didn't care.

He began to silently think about the appearance of the Seven-Colored Crow in his heart, and then recited some words praising the crow.

Before long, Wen Wen Xishu felt his body begin to become transparent.

The seven-colored feather that had merged into his body was actually slowly pulling out of his body.

And the words of the Seven-Colored Crow finally no longer appeared in text form, but in the form of sound.

"Ya, you actually intend to go back; tsk tsk tsk, you found the correct answer again."

The Seven-Colored Crow had appeared on Wen Wen Xishu's shoulder at some point.

Wen Wen Xishu said:

"The correct answer?"

The Seven-Colored Crow said:

"Greed is a great taboo; being able to come to the country of the dead is enough to prove that you have extraordinary skills in your world."

"Such people often feel that they can achieve some miracles."

"You must have a similar mindset, but in the end, you made a correct choice."

Wen Wen Xishu was shocked in his heart:

"If I really decided to take someone away... would I likely die?"

The Seven-Colored Crow laughed:

"I couldn't tell you this before you made this decision, but since you have made this decision... then I'll tell you."

"It's not likely; you would definitely die. Tell me, why did you suddenly give up? If the Jin Zhenyuan you are looking for... really existed here, would you take him away?"

Wen Wen Xishu had a feeling of coldness on his back; he suddenly felt that this journey itself was a conspiracy.

"Perhaps? I'm not sure; indeed, the reason I gave up taking anyone away is, first, there is no one here that I would risk my life to take away..."

"Second, my family warned me not to try to take a dead person away from here."

"His warning is very meaningful."

"Before, I didn't examine the question carefully. Now that I think about it, does the answer seem to have had hints from the beginning?"

"You mentioned earlier that this is a bug, and this bug will not happen a second time."

"I was wondering at the time why you, as an underworld official, didn't fix this bug. Which god in the world of the living was bribing you."

"But later I realized something was wrong... because it was too free. You even gave me a three-year time difference."

"There were too many people to choose from here, and you gave absolutely no hints or prompts. It seems you just wanted to see me leave with a dead person, and as for who that dead person was, it didn't matter at all."

"If there really was a connection between you and a god in the world of the living... he should have had some motive."

"Now it seems that perhaps you are not failing to fix it, but want to use this bug to test something? Your care for me is not because I am a living person, but because you are the one who set the question."

"Along the way, you gave text explanations for many of the puzzles I encountered; when the first person's soul was scattered, logically speaking, that bull-headed person should have come to find me, but he didn't..."

"You also prompted me through text to not seek revenge and to do my own things."

"You helped me a lot because I was slow to enter the testing phase, so I couldn't die."

The Seven-Colored Crow said "Wow":

"Not bad, I'm suddenly very curious about your adventures in the world of the living. But it's a pity, I can't see it, and I also clearly tell you, no one bribed me~"

"It's just that the Land of Obsession indeed has some obsessions that have infiltrated the underworld, but the underworld is a world with stronger rules."

"We want to test the gap between the two worlds. The absolute nature of life and death cannot be shaken; if you really try to shake it—"

"Then as I said, I will take care of you. The premise is that you are dead."

"Only by letting go of the obsession with the dead can you leave this journey of obsession alive. You are very good."

Wen Wen Xishu smiled; so it really was like this?

"Since I didn't take anyone away, then the process of me going back... should be relatively smooth, right?"

"Also, can you tell me what your status in the underworld is?"

(End of chapter)