Chapter 6: The Strange Building and the Strange Man

The freak's footsteps and savage laughter grew closer.

It was in the hallway outside the room.

This type of old-fashioned building had a style somewhat similar to the old hospitals of the nineties, with a large number of rooms on each floor, separated left and right by a straight corridor.

The restrooms and laundry areas were communal, usually located at the end of the hallway, just like the stairwell.

Wen Xishu lay under the bed, waiting patiently.

He wore a smile, and that calm expression gave Jennifer a strange sense of security.

Her heart, which had been pounding violently from fear, gradually returned to a normal rhythm.

But even so, the freak's footsteps did not stop.

Wen Xishu was not panicked.

He had dodged the first death point—the opening kill—which convinced him that the dangers here followed a traceable pattern.

He had noticed that everyone in the bunker called exploring the three towers the "Three Towers Game."

This suggested that every dangerous situation, like a game, had some method for clearing it.

"Absolutely do not lose your composure just because the footsteps are approaching."

Wen Xishu began to wait patiently.

The footsteps drew closer and Jennifer fell into fear again; Wen Xishu first made a shushing gesture.

The experiences from his past life, where he couldn't leave negative reviews, had given him nerves of steel.

Then, Wen Xishu picked up his phone, quickly opened the memo app, and typed with one hand:

"Don't be afraid, stay quiet, and do whatever I tell you to do. If you understand, blink your eyes."

Jennifer blinked her eyes.

"Good girl."

Wen Xishu felt relieved.

After calming Jennifer down, he continued to wait.

Just as the freak's footsteps seemed to have reached the doorway and were about to open the door—

The freak spoke again:

"My dear Jenny, do you also want to be as quiet as Remian?"

"He did hide for a while, but his brain has already been smashed by me, hehe."

"He can never slander me on the phone again. Never! Again! He is now the silent Remian!"

Footsteps shattered the floorboards; the freak was clearly overcome with rage when mentioning the last sentence.

Wen Xishu felt the entire building shaking.

This made him realize that the monsters in the Ghost Tower likely possessed supernatural powers.

But he was not panicked:

"Unlike the previous times he spoke, the freak mentioned a person named Remian this time."

"He is angry that Remian often slandered him over the phone."

"The key information should be 'silent Remian' and 'phone'."

Just like recognizing the wind-up before a boss's attack, Wen Xishu realized this was a breakthrough point.

He decisively opened his phone again, his fingers sliding unhurriedly through the contacts.

Sure enough, he found Remian.

And when his gaze fixed on Remian—an illusory dialogue box actually popped up.

But the content in the dialogue box made his head feel dizzy.

It was all a bunch of characters that looked like garbled code.

"It really is a game; some special places or items will have hints."

"But I guess because my magic resistance is too low, I should have been able to see some information about Remian here..."

"But now, this information is completely blocked, and staring at it can even affect my mind."

Wen Xishu looked away.

"It doesn't matter; even without Remian's information, I can guess what to do."

The sound of the doorknob turning came; the freak was about to enter the room.

Jennifer's pupils trembled; she was terrified to the extreme, afraid that a hideous face would suddenly peer under the bed and excitedly say, "Found you."

But just at this moment, Wen Xishu dialed Remian's number.

The silent Remian, slandering people on the phone, the freak's abnormal rage...

To Wen Xishu, these messages were telling him exactly how to dismantle the boss's next move.

A phone ringing suddenly came from upstairs, and the freak's footsteps stopped abruptly.

It wasn't just upstairs; after the initial ring, phone tones erupted from almost every direction, filling the entire building.

It was as if a thousand phones were ringing simultaneously in the middle of a sound sleep.

"Another supernatural phenomenon... This building seems to amplify the freak's inner activities," Wen Xishu analyzed silently.

The loud and chaotic phone ringing made the freak furious:

"Re! Mi! An! You're still alive! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to stomp your head to pieces!"

"So noisy! So noisy! You chattering little coward!"

In an instant, the voice moved from this room to several floors above.

Wen Xishu looked at Jennifer with a smile and, using the incredible typing speed of someone who had been single for years, quickly typed:

"See, I told you it would be fine; now we can leave this room."

Wen Xishu crawled out from under the bed with composure, like a man regaining his vigor after the victim had left.

Jennifer had tears in her eyes; the freak's footsteps just now had clearly scared her quite a bit.

But Wen Xishu had once again brought her a sense of security.

[Ghost·Jennifer's favorability slightly increased. Desire·Jennifer's favorability slightly increased.]

A message appeared in Wen Xishu's mind.

Wen Xishu was a bit confused; the Desire Tower and the Ghost Tower... both have Jennifer?

Is the mission in the Desire Tower also to rescue Jennifer?

Wen Xishu did not dwell on this question; he had to take Jennifer toward the downstairs exit and leave this building quickly.

Having dodged the opening kill and found a way to lure the freak away, he had already avoided two death nodes.

While leaving the building, Wen Xishu began to read the memos on his phone.

"I am playing the role of someone rescuing Jennifer."

"When I arrived here, the person I am playing had actually already made contact with Jennifer."

"They must have communicated."

His deduction was correct; the memo contained the following content—

"Uncle Jack doesn't know what's wrong with him; he suddenly started going crazy. He killed Uncle Remian and many other people in the building!"

"I'm very scared; I want to leave here. But Mom told me to hide under the bed and not leave."

These were Jennifer's words.

The little girl was actually very smart; she knew how to use the phone to communicate from the start. And the rescuer had also asked a question:

"Are you and Jack very close?"

Jennifer's answer was this:

"Uncle Jack likes Mom; both he and Uncle Remian like Mom. But Mom doesn't like them..."

"Mom said she would definitely take me to live in a brighter building; she doesn't want to have too much contact with the poor people in this building. She is someone who is going to live in a villa."

"But... I really like the people here, especially Uncle Jack."

"Uncle Jack used to be a very good person; he often played with me. He didn't play with me just to make Mom happy."

"He really liked playing with me. I also really liked playing with him."

"I don't know why Uncle Jack turned into what he is now."

Wen Xishu finished reading all the content quickly.

"It seems this is the background story for a certain area on the twenty-first floor of the Ghost Tower."

A story about a good person who suddenly goes mad, gains supernatural powers, and then slaughters all his neighbors...

Wen Xishu had a feeling that if he wanted to clear the level, just leaving by himself would probably only achieve the lowest completion rate.

Ensuring Jennifer stays alive might achieve a level two or even level three completion rate.

But to reach a level four completion rate, he would have to do more.

Just at this moment, he discovered another terrible thing—

The Loop Building.

Originally, at the end of the hallway, there should have been stairs leading to the next or previous floor.

But Wen Xishu had taken Jennifer and walked along the hallway for a long time... only to end up back at the starting point.

A ghost-hitting-wall, a loop building; the original stairs had disappeared.

And at this moment, the entire building shook slightly again. The eerie phone ringing disappeared completely.

Because Remian's phone, along with Remian's twice-mutilated corpse, had been stomped into smithereens.

"Damn you, Remian! You chattering little coward! Damn it! Damn it!"

"Jen—ni—fer! Let's go watch my performance together! I've been rehearsing at home for so long, you'll come, right?"

The target of the words had shifted back to Jennifer once again.

Wen Xishu could feel that Jack the Freak was already very close to them.

The eerie and perverted laughter made Wen Xishu think of spiderwebs sticking to his body, driving him mad.

Jennifer could not see an exit, and there were already tears in her eyes; she truly did not know what to do and just thought about hiding back under the bed from before.

But Wen Xishu suddenly grabbed her, and he very calmly pointed the phone screen toward Jennifer:

"Be good, don't be afraid, I'm here for everything."

"Now tell me, where is Jack's room? We're going to watch his performance."

No more today, but ten thousand words tomorrow.

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(End of chapter)