[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-three-towers-game":3,"chapter-the-three-towers-game-the-three-towers-game-chapter-6":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Three Towers Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2294143,4488,"Chapter 6: The Strange Building and the Strange Man","the-three-towers-game-chapter-6",6,"\u003Cp>The freak's footsteps and savage laughter grew closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was in the hallway outside the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The restrooms and laundry areas were communal, usually located at the end of the hallway, just like the stairwell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu lay under the bed, waiting patiently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wore a smile, and that calm expression gave Jennifer a strange sense of security.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart, which had been pounding violently from fear, gradually returned to a normal rhythm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so, the freak's footsteps did not stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu was not panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had dodged the first death point—the opening kill—which convinced him that the dangers here followed a traceable pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had noticed that everyone in the bunker called exploring the three towers the \"Three Towers Game.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This suggested that every dangerous situation, like a game, had some method for clearing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Absolutely do not lose your composure just because the footsteps are approaching.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu began to wait patiently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The footsteps drew closer and Jennifer fell into fear again; Wen Xishu first made a shushing gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The experiences from his past life, where he couldn't leave negative reviews, had given him nerves of steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Wen Xishu picked up his phone, quickly opened the memo app, and typed with one hand:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't be afraid, stay quiet, and do whatever I tell you to do. If you understand, blink your eyes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jennifer blinked her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good girl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu felt relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After calming Jennifer down, he continued to wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the freak's footsteps seemed to have reached the doorway and were about to open the door—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The freak spoke again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My dear Jenny, do you also want to be as quiet as Remian?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He did hide for a while, but his brain has already been smashed by me, hehe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He can never slander me on the phone again. Never! Again! He is now the silent Remian!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Footsteps shattered the floorboards; the freak was clearly overcome with rage when mentioning the last sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu felt the entire building shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made him realize that the monsters in the Ghost Tower likely possessed supernatural powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was not panicked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unlike the previous times he spoke, the freak mentioned a person named Remian this time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is angry that Remian often slandered him over the phone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The key information should be 'silent Remian' and 'phone'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like recognizing the wind-up before a boss's attack, Wen Xishu realized this was a breakthrough point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decisively opened his phone again, his fingers sliding unhurriedly through the contacts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, he found Remian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when his gaze fixed on Remian—an illusory dialogue box actually popped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the content in the dialogue box made his head feel dizzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was all a bunch of characters that looked like garbled code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really is a game; some special places or items will have hints.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I guess because my magic resistance is too low, I should have been able to see some information about Remian here...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But now, this information is completely blocked, and staring at it can even affect my mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu looked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It doesn't matter; even without Remian's information, I can guess what to do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of the doorknob turning came; the freak was about to enter the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just at this moment, Wen Xishu dialed Remian's number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silent Remian, slandering people on the phone, the freak's abnormal rage...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Wen Xishu, these messages were telling him exactly how to dismantle the boss's next move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A phone ringing suddenly came from upstairs, and the freak's footsteps stopped abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't just upstairs; after the initial ring, phone tones erupted from almost every direction, filling the entire building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if a thousand phones were ringing simultaneously in the middle of a sound sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another supernatural phenomenon... This building seems to amplify the freak's inner activities,\" Wen Xishu analyzed silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The loud and chaotic phone ringing made the freak furious:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Re! Mi! An! You're still alive! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to stomp your head to pieces!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So noisy! So noisy! You chattering little coward!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the voice moved from this room to several floors above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu looked at Jennifer with a smile and, using the incredible typing speed of someone who had been single for years, quickly typed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See, I told you it would be fine; now we can leave this room.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu crawled out from under the bed with composure, like a man regaining his vigor after the victim had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jennifer had tears in her eyes; the freak's footsteps just now had clearly scared her quite a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wen Xishu had once again brought her a sense of security.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ghost·Jennifer's favorability slightly increased. Desire·Jennifer's favorability slightly increased.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A message appeared in Wen Xishu's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu was a bit confused; the Desire Tower and the Ghost Tower... both have Jennifer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is the mission in the Desire Tower also to rescue Jennifer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu did not dwell on this question; he had to take Jennifer toward the downstairs exit and leave this building quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having dodged the opening kill and found a way to lure the freak away, he had already avoided two death nodes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While leaving the building, Wen Xishu began to read the memos on his phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am playing the role of someone rescuing Jennifer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I arrived here, the person I am playing had actually already made contact with Jennifer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They must have communicated.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His deduction was correct; the memo contained the following content—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm very scared; I want to leave here. But Mom told me to hide under the bed and not leave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were Jennifer's words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you and Jack very close?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jennifer's answer was this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle Jack likes Mom; both he and Uncle Remian like Mom. But Mom doesn't like them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But... I really like the people here, especially Uncle Jack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He really liked playing with me. I also really liked playing with him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know why Uncle Jack turned into what he is now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu finished reading all the content quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems this is the background story for a certain area on the twenty-first floor of the Ghost Tower.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A story about a good person who suddenly goes mad, gains supernatural powers, and then slaughters all his neighbors...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ensuring Jennifer stays alive might achieve a level two or even level three completion rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to reach a level four completion rate, he would have to do more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just at this moment, he discovered another terrible thing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Loop Building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, at the end of the hallway, there should have been stairs leading to the next or previous floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wen Xishu had taken Jennifer and walked along the hallway for a long time... only to end up back at the starting point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ghost-hitting-wall, a loop building; the original stairs had disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at this moment, the entire building shook slightly again. The eerie phone ringing disappeared completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Remian's phone, along with Remian's twice-mutilated corpse, had been stomped into smithereens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn you, Remian! You chattering little coward! Damn it! Damn it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jen—ni—fer! Let's go watch my performance together! I've been rehearsing at home for so long, you'll come, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The target of the words had shifted back to Jennifer once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu could feel that Jack the Freak was already very close to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eerie and perverted laughter made Wen Xishu think of spiderwebs sticking to his body, driving him mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wen Xishu suddenly grabbed her, and he very calmly pointed the phone screen toward Jennifer:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Be good, don't be afraid, I'm here for everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now tell me, where is Jack's room? We're going to watch his performance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more today, but ten thousand words tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1535,"2026-06-20T04:46:41.185Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","73011c91b50efe6c22243c268ac87c5455e04772097c81e7f9265e16f8b40819","the-three-towers-game-chapter-7","the-three-towers-game-chapter-5",281,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-three-towers-game-cover.jpg"]