Chapter 89: Teaching Zheng Zai

Wen Xishu said:

"I actually tend to keep the original method, what do you think, Captain?"

This was Wen Xishu's second chance for everyone.

After all, the leading gap in anti-magic value allowed him to have an initial interpretation of items. In this kind of game, away from him, others would actually only be more dangerous.

But everyone had their own little calculations in their hearts, all feeling that as long as they entered the patient room quickly enough, they could find that item with combat functions first.

A desk lamp, able to smash the heads of one hundred normal species without breaking, and also having other special abilities.

Then if you found a sword, a knife... it would probably be a monster harvester.

Including Tong Ming, Aspasia, and Wang Ying all thought so.

Wen Xishu didn't think so. He didn't believe the underlying logic was that simple.

Wang Ying thought for a moment and said:

"The scene just now was only lv1, I should be considered the best fighter among us. But I still almost died."

"I don't know how difficult lv2 will be... each of us has to identify items. Each of us may enter that battlefield that looks like the Slaughter Tower environment."

"But entering there, there are no Slaughter Tower attribute panels! You must know the criticality of items."

"This floor looks like it has many rooms, dozens for sure, we go room by room, it's indeed slow... and that place just now was too dangerous. If we act collectively, I can't guarantee whether the items you get can handle that kind of danger."

"So, let everyone act separately, life and death are determined by fate, use what you choose, go to the battlefield, if you die, blame yourself for misjudging, don't blame others, how about it?"

Wen Xishu smiled, this person was quite articulate.

"I have no problem, of course, I'll listen to the arrangements."

Wang Ying thought for a moment:

"Zheng Zai, do you want to be with us?"

Zheng Zai was tall and big, the iron mask on his mouth didn't look like an ordinary person at first glance.

Wang Ying felt he was a number one combat force.

But Zheng Zai shook his head and said:

"Sorry, Captain Wang, I want to be with Brother Wen."

Wang Ying's face sank, and the little bit of favor he originally had for Wen Xishu disappeared instantly:

"Fine, then I wish you good luck."

Wen Xishu suddenly said at this time:

"Captain Wang, can I ask you for one thing?"

Wang Ying was puzzled:

"What is it?"

Wen Xishu pointed to the desk lamp:

"Do you still want this thing? It actually has no value in actual combat."

Wang Ying said:

"This thing... fine, since you want it, then I'll give it to you."

Wen Xishu didn't want to identify the desk lamp at first, because he was thinking about whether there would be any link that needed the desk lamp.

Now, he wanted this desk lamp because someone had already experienced a full round.

Wang Ying seemed quite generous. This desk lamp indeed had clever uses, but it could also be said to be very chicken-rib-like. He was concerned about his face earlier, so he said the desk lamp was a divine artifact, but in reality...

This thing was very chicken-rib-like, the vision of others appearing in his eyes even made him a bit dizzy. The most critical thing was that this thing actually dragged down his performance in battle, and was not even as good as the steel bars on the ground.

And, considering that the items each person could carry were limited, and there was no shortage of items here, and one must obtain new items before entering the process of the next round, this desk lamp was definitely not something he would carry, and he absolutely could not use the desk lamp to challenge the more difficult lv2 or lv3... he was already prepared to discard it.

Now that Wen Xishu wanted it, he was happy to do a favor, after all, Wen Xishu had just spoken up to help him.

……

In the end, the five people exploring the museum were divided into three teams.

No one wanted Including Tong Ming.

Wang Ying felt Including Tong Ming was a burden. Including Tong Ming himself didn't look down on others.

Wang Ying and Aspasia were in a team. Although Aspasia was dissatisfied with Wang Ying's irrationality, she had seen that Wang Ying had risked his life to save her just now.

Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai were in a team. Including Tong Ming went to 4-2. Wang Ying chose 4-3.

Wen Xishu didn't go to 4-4, but took Zheng Zai to stroll in the hallway.

"Brother Wen, aren't we going in to take a look?"

Wen Xishu looked ahead:

"We appeared on the fourth floor as soon as we arrived, Zheng Zai, do you think there's a problem?"

Zheng Zai shook his head:

"I... my brain can't think of these."

Wen Xishu was very patient with Zheng Zai. After all, in a sense, Zheng Zai was someone who had been tested.

"Simply put, the museum is on the fourth floor. But it's strange, in a psychiatric hospital, generally speaking, it's the group of people with the most serious problems who would live on the highest floor."

"If you were the Great Inventor, the owner of these items in the museum, and you were forced to set up a museum in a psychiatric hospital... would you choose to open it on the fourth floor?"

"The patients below are clearly more normal, right?"

Zheng Zai thought carefully:

"What if he had a good relationship with the people on the fourth floor?"

Wen Xishu gave affirmation:

"This is a reason, I actually thought so too, so I'm wondering if there are some special patients in these patient rooms."

"And there is another point. When I first appeared in the Mysterious Tower, it was on a higher level of a building."

"I had to save a little girl and leave. In this process, I had to go downstairs."

"Guess, will we go downstairs? If we go downstairs, will we encounter some unknown terror?"

"You still remember the mission introduction, right?"

Zheng Zai nodded, he was adapting to Wen Xishu's train of thought:

"You mean... after the apocalypse came, people here were fighting to get in?"

Wen Xishu praised:

"Very good, you haven't forgotten the mission description."

"After the apocalypse came, the psychiatric hospital where he was located became a place that everyone was crazy to pour into. As if it were the only paradise in the world."

"If everyone wanted to enter here, then the first ones to enter here must be the patients and staff below."

"The roles they play may not necessarily be good roles. If we are to go downstairs, we might have to deal with these guys."

Zheng Zai was thoughtful:

"These guys... will they be very strong?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Some people, when eating, will choose to eat the good dishes last, some will eat them first. But if the situation is that if you don't eat, you will be snatched away by others, then most likely they will choose to eat them first."

"In other words, the lower three floors... if there are really enemies, then the weapons in the hands of these people are the most valuable, and what we can pick now are all what others have left behind."

Zheng Zai understood, he asked worriedly:

"Then aren't we very dangerous? Will they... come up?"

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"Not clear, but the time left for us certainly won't be very ample, it's hard to stay for seven days like in some scenes."

Zheng Zai asked again:

"Then what to do? Our props are worse than the lower three floors, doesn't this mean we can't beat them no matter what?"

"This is still the Mysterious Tower, our anti-magic value is so low, them hitting us will have a clear bonus. This... is there no chance of winning?"

Wen Xishu's pace was very slow, carefully observing the surroundings, and said:

"Two possibilities."

"Find a combat item sufficient to handle the twelfth level, used to deal with various monsters in the TV world. Then find an item sufficient to hide our aura, and sneak away quietly. Not very decent, but effective."

Zheng Zai suddenly realized:

"Oh right, if we can't beat them, we choose to escape. Anyway, just complete the mission."

"Then what is the second possibility?"

Wen Xishu pointed to the floor:

"On this floor, a secret is hidden. A secret waiting for us to solve. If this secret is solved, we can obtain what is said in the mission prompt—the most valuable item."

"Once we get this item, we can complete the Great Inventor's wish, and by then, we can at least easily deal with the monsters on this floor. This is also what I personally think is the most reliable approach."

Zheng Zai was a bit excited:

"Brother, do you already have some clues!"

Zheng Zai recalled now, Wen Xishu just wanted the desk lamp, and felt it was very strange.

Wen Xishu said:

"Just a guess, it doesn't constitute a clue yet."

At this time, Including Tong Ming came out of 4-2. Seeing Wen Xishu still in the hallway, Including Tong Ming was slightly surprised:

"Two big brothers, you are really leisurely."

Wen Xishu said:

"Didn't you find a satisfactory item?"

Including Tong Ming had already arrived at the door of 4-4:

"You can go to 4-2 and take a look, you might need it, anyway I don't need it."

Including Tong Ming entered 4-4, and Wen Xishu really went with Zheng Zai to 4-2.

Zheng Zai thought, since Including Tong Ming didn't want it, then there was actually no need to go and see.

However, whatever Wen Xishu did, in Zheng Zai's eyes, had deep meaning.

Wen Xishu arrived at the door of 4-2.

Unlike the 4-1 earlier, 4-2 looked very simple and clean. There was only one bedside cabinet inside, and an item was placed on the bedside cabinet.

That was a broom.

Zheng Zai asked in a low voice:

"Brother, your anti-magic value should be the highest... did you find anything?"

Wen Xishu did see a few words.

Assimilation, Cleaning, Taming.

The others were all garbled text, but these words were enough for Wen Xishu to guess the function of this broom.

"Trash and dust will be tamed by the broom, they will think they are on the broom's side, and will assimilate other trash to clean up this area."

Zheng Zai's mouth opened into an O shape:

"Wow, this is a cleaning tool... unfortunately, it's not convenient for fighting, I thought it was the magic broom written in the bottom-layer novels."

Zheng Zai thought, if this thing could take him flying, how good would that be.

"Let's go, this thing doesn't look like it has any value," Zheng Zai said.

Wen Xishu said "Hmm," but didn't leave immediately, instead pointing to the room:

"Zheng Zai, I ask you, after you saw this room, besides that thing not being usable, do you have any other thoughts?"

Zheng Zai shook his head:

"Time is tight... I was thinking, just hurry up and start searching the next room?"

Wen Xishu said softly:

"You should compare it with the situation in 4-1 earlier."

"Didn't 4-1 clearly have many things, hospital beds, bedding, and other things that should be in a patient room."

"But 4-2 doesn't, in 4-1 you might have to look around to determine which item is the exhibit."

"But 4-2? You only need one glance to see that the exhibit is that broom. The main reason for this is that 4-2 doesn't look like a patient lived there."

"So—"

Wen Xishu deliberately paused, guiding Zheng Zai, and Zheng Zai was also quite promising:

"Understood, understood, some rooms here have patients, some rooms don't have patients!"

"Rooms without patients only have exhibition props, but rooms with patients... perhaps allow us to find some extra clues?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Not bad, let's go, now we can go to 4-5 and take a look."

Zheng Zai walked in front of Wen Xishu and soon arrived in front of 4-5. He was very happy because the angle from which Brother Wen thought about problems was always very comprehensive.

He recalled the last time, Brother Wen was like opening a cheat, speeding through all the way, the feeling of lying down and winning was very cool.

The 4-3 where Wang Ying was located was actually also very clean. The exhibition item in 4-3 was a glass bottle.

Wang Ying was just hesitating whether to identify it. As everyone knows, a wine bottle is a head-smashing tool...

Wang Ying also had some thoughts of his own, such as earlier in the TV world, facing a group of normal species, the desk lamp actually wouldn't be damaged.

Then it could be assumed that these items were all very hard. Or didn't have the possibility of being damaged.

In this sense, this glass bottle indeed had certain weapon attributes.

But in the end, after hesitating for a while, Wang Ying didn't choose to take this bottle.

Wang Ying went to 4-6.

After the door of 4-5 was pushed open, Zheng Zai was a bit disappointed because it was another clean house inside.

4-5 also had no patients, only one item, and this item didn't have any weapon attributes at all. Zheng Zai shook his head straight away. But Wen Xishu smiled.

Because he had seen this item.

"Good guy... so the Great Inventor was that drunkard?"

Zheng Zai was puzzled:

"What do you mean? Brother Wen, do you recognize this thing?"

Zheng Zai's gaze looked at the pair of wine glasses.

Wen Xishu was actually seeing this pair of wine glasses for the first time, but he had seen the "brother" of this pair of wine glasses—the Truth Wine Glass.

The item description of the Truth Wine Glass was like this: It is a pair with the Adventure Wine Glass, once the treasure of a certain drunkard, later the drunkard died, and the treasure was separated.

Wen Xishu said:

"This pair of items doesn't need to be identified, I also know what function they have, let's ignore them for now. After clearing the level, see if there is any way to take them away without identifying them."

Zheng Zai didn't understand, but thinking about it, a pair of wine glasses to deal with the lv2 level... the scene was indeed very abstract.

Wen Xishu really wanted this pair of wine glasses, this thing was even better to use than the Truth Wine Glass.

Thinking about it, when the Great Inventor was still alive, this pair of wine glasses could be used continuously. But after he died, the wine glasses became a one-time item.

The current rule is that only identified items can be taken away.

But the act of identifying items itself would lead to being teleported to the battlefield to kill enemies next.

So Wen Xishu could only hope that after completing the twelve rounds of identification, there would be other ways to take away some items. Or, find some extra game mechanisms to obtain items.

He and Zheng Zai left 4-5.

It happened that at this time, Including Tong Ming's laughter came from 4-4:

"Hey, it's very sharp! It cuts iron like mud!"

Including Tong Ming's laughter also attracted the attention of Wang Ying and Aspasia:

"What did you find!"

"This... it's actually a knife!"

Everyone gathered in the hallway. In Including Tong Ming's hand, he held a short knife comparable to Wen Xishu's Scorpio Blade.

Very sharp.

The bedside cabinet was cut off by the short knife. During the period of displaying the item, although Including Tong Ming didn't figure out the function of this item, the sharpness of this knife was beyond imagination.

Including Tong Ming said:

"Looks like I'm lucky. This knife is truly exceptionally sharp."

Wang Ying said:

"This knife... can you give it to me?"

Including Tong Ming said:

"Sorry, Captain, I have to enter the usage link, I wish you guys find a weapon soon too."

Zheng Zai also saw it, the cut mark of the short knife cutting the bedside cabinet was as smooth as a mirror.

It could be seen that the sharpness was beyond imagination, this was a rare sharp blade. He was somewhat envious of Including Tong Ming's luck.

But Wen Xishu revealed a smile:

"You are truly lucky, I look forward to your performance in the item-usage link."

Including Tong Ming felt Wen Xishu's smile was a bit strange, it was a kind of prank smile that only one's own kind could feel.

But he felt that even if this knife didn't have other attributes, just being sharp to this extent was already a sharp weapon.

Including Tong Ming didn't think much and stepped out of the room. The next second, his figure appeared in the TV at the end of the hallway.

Wen Xishu turned around:

"Zheng Zai, let's continue searching. Nothing to see."

Zheng Zai nodded. He didn't like this kid, he had a bit of a bratty meaning, but thinking about having this knife, it should be fine, anyway he would be able to return alive.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 90 =====