Chapter 278

Wen Xishu's question, the killers thought about it at first, but didn't think in the direction of a breaker.

After all, in their cognition, there was no such thing as a breaker.

On the killer ranking list, there were indeed some who were quite crazy. They thought of fellow killers.

Fortunately, Wen Xishu added:

"Among the people you have contacted, do you feel... you have been deceived?"

"Perhaps he didn't look very evil, but was good at deceiving people, perhaps even looking harmless; think carefully, how you reached today, is there any pusher?"

"How exactly were you all captured?"

"Those people in the Ark, whether it's Renault or Feng Nuoyiman, logically speaking, should have no grudges against you all."

After such a reminder, Canon suddenly remembered:

"I met a person who gave me an order to kill a person named Charles."

"It was also because of this person that I was captured by Renault. My way of killing is witchcraft, and I am quite famous in the industry. So many times, someone can recognize that certain dead targets were done by me."

When the Cannon heard Canon say this, he also thought of some strange points:

"I was also targeted because I received a mission. My target was a girl in a wheelchair, disabled in both legs, but it seemed to be the daughter of some super rich businessman; I didn't investigate the background, but I had killed warlords before, so I thought, killing a businessman's daughter was just killing."

"But my mission failed; I didn't expect that there would be military base-level defense in that place."

"And soon, the arms dealers were all interviewed, and I was also targeted by Feng Nuoyiman."

Similarly, Shadow and Night Demon both had it.

They all received a mission to assassinate a target, but soon began to have bad luck, and thus were targeted.

"Do you know the names?" Wen Xishu asked.

"We don't know the employer's name." The Cannon shook his head.

Night Demon added:

"Everything is contacted on the dark web. The employer won't show up, but will give a deposit; it's almost impossible to check the source of funds."

The clue was broken.

But without a doubt, this employer was very much a prankster. It matched Wen Xishu's judgment of a breaker.

First—

Players climbing the tower can't hit people, but several killers aren't players; in the eyes of tower climbers, they are NPCs.

Using the dark web to hire killers, this can indeed avoid trouble.

Secondly, he must know the Ark very well, and also know the killers; perhaps in cycle after cycle, he figured everything out.

Finally, he let the killers and the Ark's experts have conflicts by placing orders.

No need to question why he could afford to hire these top killers, and no need to question why he dared to offend those monster ability users of the Ark...

Because the breaker's cycle will only end in the hands of players.

Each of their deaths is the beginning of a new round of fun.

Perhaps, even Zoe of the Investigation Bureau was played by the breaker, otherwise Wen Xishu wouldn't dare to imagine...

Why would several killers be arranged to assassinate top players in the Red House like Cain?

"Do you still have an impression of the time?" Wen Xishu asked.

A group of killers soon gave the time and found that the time nodes were surprisingly consistent.

They themselves realized something was wrong.

"So... we were all calculated by some guy."

After Wen Xishu finished reading, he was even more convinced that this was a breaker.

However, the information chain was broken; he had to go to the Desire Tower world himself to find this guy.

With the goal set, Wen Xishu didn't struggle anymore.

To let him go to the Desire Tower and achieve the Mysterious Tower's record without the Death Feather Pen was certainly impossible.

But possessing the Compass and the Power of Three, finding a breaker was simply too easy.

"I have to go, everyone; I have already completed the mission here, and I will help you solve this guy who teased you."

"Your lives have no regrets, so in this apocalypse, please live well."

Actually, it was meaningless.

Saying these words wasn't for the real people in the Desire Tower, but just to the obsessions.

But Wen Xishu felt that these obsessions were also very real.

After he finished speaking, he activated the invitation letter, preparing to kill his way into the Desire Tower.

But an unexpected surprise came at this moment, coming off guard, making even Wen Xishu stunned.

【Mysterious Tower level reached a perfect ending; this time, the invitation letter is used to transfer towers; after attributes meet the standard, corresponding assistance will be obtained.】

【Current luck value has met the standard.】

【Assistance 1: You will be able to freely choose those characters who died in the apocalypse and failed to have a greater influence on history as the Desire Tower traversal characters this time; if this method is chosen, the character's interpersonal relationships and memories will be fully inherited, own abilities will not be affected, and all valuable character information and locations in this Desire Tower scene will be unlocked. And this round of Desire Tower scene will have no necessary missions.】

【Assistance 2: Choose to go to the Desire Tower with the current identity, unlock all valuable character information and locations in this Desire Tower scene. And can specify a single target to obtain initial favorability. And this round of Desire Tower scene will have no necessary missions.】

Wen Xishu really didn't expect that this invitation letter would have such a surprise.

"So that's it, so that's it! I understand."

The scene around Wen Xishu had already begun to change at this time; he had to make a choice as soon as possible.

To perform as himself, exploring the Desire Tower with Wen Xishu's identity, or traversing into a small character.

"The Desire Tower can change the Mysterious Tower; if you let an ability user get happiness in the Desire Tower, then the Mysterious Tower will have corresponding changes."

"All along, my breakthrough idea has been—explore the Mysterious Tower, find the invitation letter, and then go to the Desire Tower to subvert the Mysterious Tower."

"In this way, even if the Mysterious Tower level hasn't been fully explored, as long as the performance in the Desire Tower is powerful, I can also get high rewards."

"But until today, I truly, for the first time, cleared the Mysterious Tower level thoroughly. So after clearing the Mysterious Tower level, there are such rewards."

After playing the Mysterious Tower level to the extreme, Wen Xishu actually didn't want to enter the Desire Tower a bit.

After all, he coaxed several obsessions into being happy in the Mysterious Tower, but he couldn't do it in reality.

But he only discovered at this moment—this game is encouraging you to use the invitation letter.

The invitation letter can let you change reality, but correspondingly, if the Mysterious Tower is played thoroughly, it can also let your invitation effect be stronger.

If you get an invitation letter and feel that the Mysterious Tower doesn't need to be explored... that might actually miss some things, or rather some bonuses.

For example, an excellent entry point.

The two achieve each other.

"If I can clear the Mysterious Tower missions in places like Human Cave and Ark... perhaps in the Desire Tower, the difficulty will drop suddenly, right?"

"This information didn't come late; in the future, when exploring the Mysterious Tower, I will try my best to achieve a perfect ending first."

Right now, the problem in front of Wen Xishu is whether to be himself or choose an identity to cut in?

Being himself is of course better, because in the future, when these Desire-prefixed ability users become Slaughter-prefixed, in the Slaughter Tower, they can recognize him.

But Wen Xishu is thinking, perhaps not being himself can also achieve this point.

And, he intends to test something.

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu had an idea in his mind, and he immediately made a choice.

Assistance 1.

And presented in Wen Xishu's mind were countless small characters.

They weren't truly, purely bottom-level; some even had high job ranks, and some were even wealthy enough to rival a nation.

The reason they were evaluated as small characters was that when the apocalypse arrived, their existence itself didn't cause too much influence on the apocalypse.

In other words, they might have great energy, but in the end, they didn't exert it.

Among them, it actually included "Zoe." This white woman who craved joining the Ark, after completing a series of missions, joined the Ark, but on the Ark, she soon lost her utilization value.

Plus Zoe knew some of the captain's dirty past, so Zoe soon died.

Wen Xishu didn't expect that he could choose Zoe.

This is too wonderful. Of course, he didn't choose Zoe, but chose to become the person in charge of the dark web.

After making the choice, Wen Xishu's image didn't change because he hadn't entered the Desire Tower yet.

He also didn't delay; there were actually many acquaintances in the Desire Tower rest area this time.

But Wen Xishu didn't say hello to any of them and directly started the Desire Tower journey.

Desire Tower, Freedom Federation, De City.

De City was less than three hundred kilometers away from Moen City, but compared to Moen City, there were too many people here.

Because there was a seaport here, the first boarding point of the Ark was here.

Memories flooded into Wen Xishu's mind; he was now a nobody named Ethan.

If there were no apocalypse, Ethan's life would actually be worth talking about.

He looked like a shut-in, socially anxious to the extreme; the clothes he wore when going out must have a hood, and then he would wear a hat and mask, afraid of others seeing him.

He would blush when talking to women, but at night, he would fantasize about those women serving him in the most bizarre and humble ways, satisfying his fantasies and fetishes.

In reality, Ethan had no friends; as a super programmer, a hacker, Ethan once had friends, but friends couldn't accept Ethan always hacking into their computers without permission to view their privacy.

Once, Ethan thoughtfully sent a friend a photo of the neighbor's girl naked.

There was a note on it:

"Friend, I found in your private journal that you like her; if you need, I can also help you install surveillance on her computer, or install a pinhole camera in her bedroom."

Ethan felt he was very good; there weren't many people who were so thoughtful for their friends.

But the result was that his friend reported him.

After this, Ethan had no friends. He didn't understand why he was so good to his friends, but his friends had to report him.

Weirdo, shut-in, socially anxious but perverted, no emotional intelligence, no sense of boundaries...

These were Ethan's labels.

But these were only the surface Ethan. Ethan had another side—

That was the maintainer of the dark web. Honestly, Wen Xishu felt Ethan wasn't too perverted.

After all, in those things on the dark web, Ethan only watched and never participated.

After seeing so many dirty things, Ethan was just lacking a bit of sense of boundaries, which was actually considered not bad.

Ethan later died in the apocalypse; he had boarding qualifications, but he was afraid of Feng Nuoyiman.

He finally didn't board the ship, so he died in the apocalypse, at the hands of a... most ordinary normal species.

But from this moment on, Ethan's fate changed.

"Your name is Ethan, but your body is now under my control."

"What I need to do is stop several dark web transactions and find a person."

"Ethan, very terrible things will happen in the Ark; if you don't want to enter the Ark in the future, and don't want to be killed by monsters in De City, then you don't need to doubt, you can go to Wind City."

"Of course, the danger on this road is probably great; you might not be able to reach the destination alive."

"I need to use your body to do some things; I also don't know if these memories will be retained, but I think, from this moment on, our fates have intersected, perhaps your future has also changed."

"Next, you will save Cosmos, Night Demon, Cannon, Shadow, and Canon in the killer world."

"The fates of these few killers will change because of you; this might even produce a butterfly effect, having a huge impact on the future."

"Finally, my name is Wen Xishu; when you see this text, I have already started the next journey."

Wen Xishu left this information on Ethan's computer.

And soon, he began to use the memories and abilities possessed by becoming Ethan to lock onto several accounts on the dark web.

Naturally, they were the accounts of the five killers.

According to the time nodes, soon the killers would receive missions.

Wen Xishu spied on the information of the killers' accounts, waiting patiently.

This was Ethan; his superpower was probably that where there was a network, for him, there were no secrets at all.

For the killers, the extremely hidden and safe dark web...

For Ethan, it wasn't anything difficult to crack either.

About an hour later, Wen Xishu saw—

The Cannon received a photo, a photo of a girl with disabled legs.

Followed by a deposit and a kill request.

Everything was the same as what Wen Xishu knew.

Wen Xishu felt that he was the breaker; he was so familiar with these plots.

He used Ethan's ability to cut off this message.

Because although the killers could receive messages, they didn't read them as soon as they received them.

The ability Wen Xishu obtained wasn't just Ethan's ability.

Whether from the invitation letter choosing Assistance 1 or choosing Assistance 2, he could unlock the information and locations of important characters in this scene.

Among these people, there were Zoe, various killers, and even Ark experts like Feng Nuoyiman.

But these people weren't who Wen Xishu was looking for.

Wen Xishu discovered that in the important character information of this scene, there was a woman named Clara.

The note for this woman's information was only one sentence: "familiar with the plot."

Unlike the long notes of Zoe and others, Clara's note was extremely brief.

And Wen Xishu soon discovered that the location of the locked account almost overlapped with Clara's location.

That was a gambling club in the South District of De City.

Wen Xishu checked it and was sure that he had intercepted all of Clara's information.

In this way, several killers wouldn't receive the order at all, and they naturally wouldn't be noticed by monsters like Renault and Feng Nuoyiman.

The fate trajectories of the killers had already had a huge change.

Finally, Wen Xishu headed toward that gambling club.

"As long as I kill the breaker, the trajectory line won't change randomly anymore."

Killing the breaker was easy.

But Wen Xishu chose not to use his main body this time, but to use Ethan's identity, in order to make a more difficult attempt, and to obtain more information about high-level breakers.

The gambling club was on the ninth floor of an office building.

The eighth floor was a gambling place. But unlike those big casinos in Vegas City, most of the gambling places here were playing cards and slot machines and the like.

Wen Xishu could imagine that a breaker, a person in a cycle, if they went to gamble, it would definitely be a dimensionality reduction strike.

Have to say, this breaker was quite good at enjoying life.

(End of chapter)