Chapter 39

The Bunker Anquan Bureau had indeed made a huge investment.

To form a team with Wen Xishu, one must first enter the rest area, which meant entering the Mysterious Tower an hour later.

Entering the Mysterious Tower and matching to the same level has a probability of one in seven; matching to the same area, the probability is even lower. In other words, perhaps only one in a hundred people could successfully match with Wen Xishu. And even then, one would have to calculate Wen Xishu's tower ascension time.

And if Wen Xishu chose to breach the contract and not form a team with anyone, then these people would likely fall into danger in vain.

Even if they formed a team with these people... whether they could observe Wen Xishu's behavior, whether they could find clues about Wen Zhaohua, and whether they could bring them back alive if they found them...

were all unknowns.

Under such circumstances, the Bunker Anquan Bureau was still willing to arrange a large amount of manpower to enter the Mysterious Tower, spending a lot of resources on some criminals, low-level villains, and poor people, which could be considered paying "life-buying money" to get them to form a team with Wen Xishu as much as possible.

Wen Xishu only needed to simply simulate it to know how terrifying this cost was.

At the same time, he was also incomparably clear that under this expensive cost, if he didn't cooperate, the Anquan Bureau would have plenty of excuses to make things difficult for him later.

He had not yet shown the value that would make Albert protect him at all costs.

So after thinking it over, Wen Xishu raised his hand; he didn't know how the Bunker Anquan Bureau ensured whether he had formed a team with anyone.

But in the end, out of consideration for avoiding certain troubles, he decided to choose to form a team with others for this operation.

After all, for Wen Xishu, forming a team was not something unacceptable.

So Wen Xishu raised his hand and even walked around in a small area, saying:

"Sixth floor, is there anyone else who received the mission 'The Fallen Parrot'? Do you want to form a team together? I just feel like this is a mission suitable for a team."

This time, the place Wen Xishu was going to was no longer a place where Westerners lived, like Moen City.

The area he was about to go to was a place called Jiangcheng.

Judging by the name, this place should correspond to a certain city in his country from his previous life.

This actually surprised and delighted Wen Xishu quite a bit.

Because he really wanted to eat some hometown food. However, the mission description made him feel somewhat obscure; this time, he couldn't understand the content of the mission description at all.

This also made him think, perhaps forming a team could allow for collective wisdom?

The content of the mission description was as follows.

【A parrot cage is a very interesting cage; it doesn't look like a cage, just a landing spot. It doesn't know what this world is like, thinking that all landing spots are the same.

Other birds also don't know that life in such a landing spot is like this. Just as they also don't know that parrots can be killed by falling.

Please go to the parrot cage in Jiangcheng and find at least one contaminated item. Perhaps you can change its fate, or will you die inside?

At the same time, I also look forward to you finding all the contaminated items.】

The place where the mission is located is Jiangcheng.

Wen Xishu didn't know what kind of place Jiangcheng was; could it be that everyone there loves to keep birds? The mission target this time is actually non-human?

If it's not birds, but some kind of textual metaphor, this is a bit mind-boggling, because the mission on the sixth floor actually looks more obscure than the mission description on the twenty-first floor...

If that's really the case, then Wen Xishu can only interpret it as an Eastern characteristic.

It's probably that Chinese people fear speaking directly in their bones, because in the ancient environment, people often "could not speak," but everyone loved to speak, so they liked to point at the mulberry and curse the locust, liked to be sarcastic, and liked to make people do reading comprehension. But this is definitely not derogatory.

Because only this great nation of Kyushu can play both of these to perfection, turning them into a literary art, and making them pleasing to the eye.

In word games, the tricks that Chinese can play, or rather the depth of interpretation, are definitely the best in the world.

"I'd like to see what kind of parrot you are."

Wen Xishu became interested.

And around him, several people gradually gathered.

"Wow, hi hi hi, hello hello~ My name is Kane, brother, we are really destined; we are actually on the same mission."

Five people.

What Wen Xishu didn't expect was that five people actually appeared here. He knew his luck was bad, but he didn't expect it to be this bad.

Accepting a team and not hiding his mission location was something Liu Jinsen specifically instructed.

Wen Xishu also followed suit; although he accepted the team on the surface and didn't resist, he was thinking inside, wouldn't it be that unlucky, among the seven levels and so many areas, that someone just happened to be on the same level and area as me?

Wen Xishu clearly underestimated his luck.

The Crazy Dice listing the "No Coincidence Without Pair" option seemed to be a hint.

Five people approached Wen Xishu; counting Wen Xishu, this team had six people.

Of course, it doesn't exclude the possibility that there might be seven, eight, or nine people, but others were unwilling to form a team.

Wen Xishu probably felt that as the Three Towers Academy also announced a new academic credit reward mechanism, the Bunker Anquan Bureau and the Government Bureau would likely also increase their efforts to stimulate people to explore the Mysterious Tower.

It's hard to say, but before long, one might be able to see the Mysterious Tower leaderboard, and then perhaps one could see which level Wen Zhaohua reached at his highest.

Wen Xishu shook hands with Kane:

"My name is..."

He hesitated for a moment; naturally, he was unwilling to tell his name. But first, thinking that there must be spies here who knew his identity.

Second, once he enters the Three Towers game, it is very likely that his ID will be exposed, so Wen Xishu decided to be honest and say:

"My name is Wen Xishu."

His voice was very soft, but the next instant, the few people around him were all stunned for a second or two.

"You... you said your name is what?" The person speaking was someone with an Indian accent; his expression made Wen Xishu believe that he was definitely not a spy.

But Wen Xishu was also certain that this Indian man was not a good bird. Because the other party didn't have the stereotypical "curry smell," but had another kind of stereotypical thing...

The smell of animal feces.

There was one woman among the five people, and this Indian man looked at the woman with a sense of staring at prey.

Wen Xishu inexplicably remembered the many heaven-defying behaviors of the Indian race.

Why would a human have the smell of animal feces on them?

Wen Xishu said:

"Just the same name and surname, don't mind it."

These words made the people around him relax a lot; of course, some were also disappointed because of this.

Wen Xishu mentioned the claim of having the same name and surname, and these people actually didn't doubt it. In fact, the three words "Wen Xishu," under the operation of Sha Ruijing's team, were already very famous.

That degree of fame was heading straight towards god-making.

Among the bottom-level people, some who have religious culture carry some superstition. They believe that the three words "Wen Xishu" can protect themselves.

So, many people who recently learned about Wen Xishu's deeds decided to change their names to Wen Xishu plus a symbol. If they could successfully return from the Mysterious Tower, meet the guide, and complete the registration~ there would probably be a bunch of Wen Xishus in the bunker.

Just like in his previous life, where Daniel Wu had branches all over the world.

Furthermore, another reason why these people didn't doubt much was—it was impossible for Wen Xishu to appear at such a low level; this was people's stereotype.

So after Wen Xishu mentioned having the same name and surname, the people around him didn't have much of a reaction. Some even appeared a bit disappointed, because if it really was that Wen Xishu from the bunker, he thought he would count as a lucky person.

The Indian man said:

"My name is Xita, friend, I used to be a zoo manager, hehehe, I mixed in the functional layer of the fourth floor, because... because I did some loving things to the animals, I was arrested."

"What about you guys? What is the reason you came to the Mysterious Tower?"

Did some... love to animals.

Wen Xishu smiled without mirth.

He wasn't surprised by the other party's self-reporting and crimes; he was surprised that he could see it now, judging by the calm reactions of the people around him—

There wasn't a single good person here; everyone was a villain. I'm afraid each one of them has unique skills.

(End of chapter)