Chapter 71: Loan Invitation Letter

Now he was nine-tenths sure that he was the writer in the story.

"Continue! Quick, continue!" Yin Junchi felt it.

Wen Xishu continued:

"Don't rush, the writer soon moved into... Room 14-1."

"He discovered that not long after moving in, regardless of whether he had inspiration or not, he seemed to be increasingly eager to work."

"His sloth seemed to be absorbed by something."

"At first, he was a bit uncomfortable. As a bestselling author, of course, he should be slothful."

"He had always thought so: I can't be too diligent, that would make me look like a beast of burden, and would make me look like those web novel authors who win by updating."

"But after coming here, he simply couldn't sleep. The desire to work gradually squeezed his reason. After the original sin of sloth was partially extracted, he began to become diligent."

"He hadn't realized that his 'sloth' was also a part of his self. He was happy about the magic of this room."

"But deep down, he felt... how could it be so anti-scientific? Perhaps it's a magnetic field problem? Does this world really exist in a place that can make people diligent? For example, a prison in the Kangaroo country?"

"In short, he became very diligent. He began to read that newspaper related to horror stories repeatedly. The newspapers he used to find inspiration in the past were just glanced at and thrown away."

"But this time, he read it many times."

Yin Junchi had a feeling that someone had installed a camera in his room. He felt offended.

But he wanted to continue listening to the follow-up of this story:

"Keep talking!"

Wen Xishu said:

"He began to work forgetfully. But at this time, he didn't know that there were six other floors. Six people were the same as him, becoming part of the sacrifice."

"7-5, lives an extremely obese fat man. He was gluttonous, but now he only drinks water and doesn't eat. He is already a bit haggard because his gluttony has been extracted."

"21-9, lives a university student who is a bit too addicted to his hands, causing his body to be a bit floating. He used to watch two-dimensional characters and 'take care of business' every day, which can be described as a chosen one of Slaanesh."

"But now, he has begun to extremely hate doing such things. Because his lust has been extracted."

"28-11, lives a lawyer named Jiang Yingce. This is an elite in the legal world, arrogant by nature. But now he is overly inferior because of the slight flaws in his home and the slight dust on his body... not daring to see people."

"Because his pride has been extracted."

"35-13, a comedian. People in this line of work bring joy to others, but they are often very painful themselves, and their tempers are very big. In my hometown, there is a guy named Zhou Xingxing who has many good works, but almost everyone who has worked with him says he has a big temper."

"But guess what the situation is with this 35-13 actor now? Perhaps you can occasionally hear his exaggerated laughter. He feels very happy no matter what he does."

"Because his wrath has been extracted."

"Next is Room 49-3. The one who moved into this room is a mother and son. The mother is actually a strict mother because she cannot accept that other people's children are better than her own."

"Although she is very ordinary, her child should be the first in Anzhen University in the future, should be a super genius who can break the class barrier by relying on learning. Her unwillingness, envy, and desire were all added to the child."

"But now, she doesn't care about the child at all. Whatever makes the child happy is fine. She only has indulgence."

"Because her envy has been extracted."

"42-7, I don't need to say it, right? Anzhen Qi, this chaebol descendant, changed his past greed and started doing charity-like behavior. Because his greed has been extracted."

"Greed, pride, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, wrath."

"In seven floors with seven as the key number, seven such households live!"

"Even the homophone of this building is called the Seven-Taboo Building."

"Oh, this writer also often has hallucinations... In the hallucinations, six hundred and thirty people surround him, making expressions of extreme fear. Guess how the six hundred and thirty people came about?"

"There are forty-nine floors in this building, with thirteen households on each floor. If one person lives on each floor..."

Wen Xishu's eyes stared dead at the writer Yin Junchi. He didn't care if this would scare Yin Junchi.

Anyway, Yin Junchi wouldn't die suddenly for a while.

Yin Junchi immediately began to calculate. If there were thirteen households on each floor, and one person per household, there would be six hundred and thirty-seven people in total...

And subtracting the seven people whose original sins were taken away, that would leave six hundred and thirty people! Exactly the number of people in the hallucinations when he was extremely tired.

At this moment, Yin Junchi already had a feeling of hair-raising horror.

"How is my story? Oh, the ending is that the author dies. His death becomes part of the story. He indeed wrote a great work, and his editor made a fortune because of it, but... it has no meaning."

Indeed, it has no meaning.

Yin Junchi's eyes were bloodshot, and his survival instinct allowed him to get rid of the urge to continue writing.

He wanted so much to record this story. It was great. In fact, by Yin Junchi's standards, this story was too cliché.

But now his sense of substitution was explosive. This was an unprecedented experience. Many things, as long as they were fresh, didn't require anything else.

Just like young boys watching island country movies for the first time, they almost don't pick the appearance of the female stars. It's usually later that they have various requirements for appearance, figure, theme, clothing, and posture.

Yin Junchi very much wanted to record it, but the sense of crisis allowed him to get rid of the state of being eager to work:

"How can I survive?"

Yin Junchi grabbed Wen Xishu's shoulders with both hands directly.

Wen Xishu said:

"Leave here, go investigate the secrets of this building from the outside. You must first become an outsider to survive."

Yin Junchi looked at Wen Xishu with those eyes with super large dark circles:

"Are we sacrifices in this building?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Not sure yet, but it can be said to be a sacrifice. By the way, don't you intend to verify what I said?"

Yin Junchi shook his head:

"I know the lawyer Jiang Yingce you mentioned. He is a very arrogant person. I once entrusted him to fight a lawsuit about plagiarism. That guy used to be very arrogant."

"He did move in because I saw his ins."

Wen Xishu said:

"Can you leave?"

Yin Junchi didn't want to leave. He was addicted to this state. But this story of Wen Xishu could be described as prescribing the right medicine, using the story to make Yin Junchi, who was a storyteller, desperately eager to survive, and even more desperately eager to know the follow-up of the plot.

He wanted to go outside to investigate the truth.

"I can leave, I have to leave... I can't die. Thank you, Wen Xishu, I have to go. I will find a way to contact you from the outside. Can you tell me your phone number? Also, do you know what exactly is going on?"

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"Unfortunately, I am still investigating, but I won't lie to you about one thing: you are indeed all being taken away of something. Think carefully about your reputation, or what labels readers have put on you."

Yin Junchi was suddenly a bit embarrassed:

"Short and powerless... weekly updates, monthly updates... four thousand words is the limit of human beings, writing one more word counts as my mutation..."

He used to be able to straighten his waist and say these words righteously.

But now, he actually felt that this was really shameful. This short-lived sobriety also made him realize the magnitude of his changes.

"So, the strange really has descended into reality."

Wen Xishu said:

"Yes, that's why we came. I can only tell you one thing: my arrival is your only hope of living."

"You have to realize that you can't continue working day and night. Although your readers are looking forward to you doing so, they don't want to receive an obituary in a few days, and then this book is gone."

Yin Junchi's body trembled slightly:

"Speaking of which... I am really looking forward to what will happen in the end. If I stay here and the seven of us all die... will some terrible product descend? Will a big devil appear? A god or demon with the ability of the Seven Sins?"

Wen Xishu had thought about this question. In the Slaughter Tower, did there exist a super evil boss with the Seven Sins as the theme?

He decided to reveal more information to Yin Junchi:

"They gather, they revel, they start to love each other, and gradually, they start to know the content of the doomsday in advance, and they also start to make preparations for the arrival of the doomsday. Under their efforts, a columnar building named Miracle Apartment was born."

"This is the riddle I know. You can help me refer to what the answer is."

Yin Junchi shook his head:

"I don't know, but I have remembered them. Wen Xishu, thank you again. I will send you a message from the outside. This is too interesting! Although I am afraid, I feel it is too interesting!"

"I have written so many stories, and the strange things in the stories overflow and start to change my life. I still seem to be a core character. This experience is very scary, but also very great!"

"I will investigate from the outside. I need some time."

Wen Xishu nodded.

He had originally worried about whether Yin Junchi could walk out...

If Yin Junchi wanted to leave here but was stopped by other residents in the building, what would happen? If violence was used in this building, what would happen?

But next, Wen Xishu immediately discovered that this difficulty was actually not as hardcore as he had imagined. This was only the seventh floor after all.

Because a prompt appeared in Wen Xishu's mind.

【Your interaction with your neighbor has ended. 50 Action Points deducted. Remaining Action Points: 0.】

【Among the seven people, three have the qualifications to evolve from desire to strange. Yin Junchi's fate trajectory has been rewritten. He left this building voluntarily and did not lose his enthusiasm for work, and will not trigger the 'Suppress Seven' mechanism. Congratulations, you are about to receive an invitation letter. Invitation letter acquisition countdown: 24 hours.】

Damn... what is the situation with "about to receive an invitation letter"?

Wen Xishu was shocked. Can mission rewards be defaulted on? If there is an invitation letter, he can go to the Tower of Desire world now and change this story directly from the bottom source code.

But now... the invitation letter actually has to wait for the 24-hour countdown to end before it can be obtained.

He really didn't expect there to be such a game mechanism.

Wen Xishu was certain that after tonight, he would enter an excited state of being unable to sleep. Because the influence of the strange would only deepen with time.

If something couldn't be done today, it might be even harder to do tomorrow.

"So I have to stay up late..."

Although he complained like this, under the influence of the strange power, Wen Xishu was relatively excited and willing to accept it.

He could only wait patiently.

Wen Xishu's body began to be forcibly returned to his residence.

Yin Junchi next door had already started to pack up, preparing to leave. Whether his departure would be smooth, Wen Xishu couldn't intervene. Because he had already run out of Action Points.

Now Wen Xishu had a few more doubts.

From the results, Yin Junchi successfully left.

But according to the prompt, if Yin Junchi didn't leave voluntarily... it seemed it would trigger some kind of mechanism.

The "Suppress Seven" mechanism. He was becoming more and more curious.

In addition, Anzhen Qi, Jiang Yingce, and the university student, the dieter, the comedian, and the spoiled brat's mother...

Among this group of people, counting Yin Junchi, there were actually three core characters. All three were of the kind that could evolve.

"We only have five people. To be honest, the probability of saving seven people is not particularly high..."

"These seven people, some are already terminally ill."

"I originally thought that it was very likely that I couldn't achieve the highest completion degree. But now, perhaps, I can do it. My goal is not completely to achieve a high completion degree."

"Strive to unlock the recruitment qualifications for more and more 'Slaughter' prefix characters."

"But... which two of the remaining six people will it be?"

……

……

Wen Xishu had no Action Points left. For him, the only thing he could do next was wait for Amiao to initiate the meeting again.

And in the process of his waiting, others were also working hard to lobby the remaining four households of the Seven Sins residents to leave.

But their lobbying process also had its own troubles.

Wu Xiangjiao, who had the greatest courage and the least strange invasion, also put some thought into the lobbying process.

The university student's name was Che Renxiao.

Because that desire was too strong, he came to this place, but even so, he still rewarded himself every day.

It was only recently that he began to feel disgusted with this kind of thing.

This disgust began to develop in a twisted direction.

He gradually discovered that the girls he liked in the past were all ugly in reality.

So he began to completely hate real-life three-dimensional women.

But under the influence of the strange, two-dimensional women also seemed to become ugly.

Women of various styles, even Lai Sheng Lei from Cat's Eye Three Sisters, couldn't make him erect.

Now, he seemed to have begun to hate women in every sense.

When Wu Xiangjiao found Che Renxiao again, the TV in Che Renxiao's living room was playing the scene of human birth.

It was the scene of a doctor delivering a baby, the baby coming out of the mother's body.

Wu Xiangjiao suddenly felt that he might hear something terrifying.

Lust is actually one of the root natures of humans. Sloth is removed, in the short term, perhaps this person is just a bit excited.

Greed, pride, wrath, these root natures can actually be appropriately weakened.

But if lust is weakened to the extreme, and the way of weakening is to feel disgusted with such things...

Then this person is very likely to have a distortion in concept.

Che Renxiao suddenly said in an extremely cold tone:

"Oh, A-Jiao, humans are really ugly animals. Why were we born from such a place... I really can't accept the process of life being born. Whether it's a man's or a woman's, it's so ugly."

Che Renxiao's hand, he didn't know when, had an extra knife. He suddenly took off his pants:

"I can't accept it even more. If one day, I really meet a woman I like, who doesn't make me disgusted, and then we get married and have children... but the child will be born from the combination of those two ugly parts. I shouldn't have such things on me."

The pressure instantly came to Wu Xiangjiao's side. He suddenly felt that the university student's calm expression and the upcoming behavior combined together...

It was simply stranger than all the strange stories he had ever heard.

Che Renxiao said in an incomparably rational tone:

"A-Jiao, let's complete the purification!"

(The next chapter about gluttony is a bit heavy, but it has to be written, but surely some readers can't accept it, so I'll give a warning, you can skip Wen Xiange's part. Continue 10,000 words tomorrow.)

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