Chapter 91: Zheng Zai's Correct Usage

The bunker's gaming industry is very scarce. Of course, what game could be more exciting than the Three Towers game?

The Three Towers Academy itself also has simulation halls. In a sense, this world doesn't need a gaming industry.

It's just that this also led to many things that only Wen Xishu recognized, while others didn't.

However, even Wen Xishu was seeing this kind of controller for the first time. This controller had four joysticks, and there were so many buttons that there were six in each row, four rows in total, some densely scattered on the controller.

This was clearly used to operate extremely complex props.

Zheng Zai shook his head:

"Don't know, but how should it kill enemies?"

Wen Xishu said:

"You'll know after entering the TV world. Now what I care about are two things."

"First, it's unrelated to our adventure this time. Aspasia and Wang Ying are both mercenaries. And you, Zheng Zai, are also not an ordinary person... your physical fitness is also very strong."

"As for me, I have some confidence in my own skills, but Including Tong Ming surprised me. He might be the most capable fighter among us besides you. This contrast makes me care."

"I'm thinking, the challenge mechanism of the Mysterious Tower... whether it also selects based on the challenger's own qualities."

"Five people, all possessing combat abilities beyond ordinary people, is it a coincidence?"

"If we are very prominent in some aspects and deliberately cultivate them, will there be a possibility that future levels will also use these aspects?"

Zheng Zai still shook his head:

"This... to really go and count, you need a lot of data, but what you said also makes some sense. But for me, it's really too far away. Brother, have you already started considering such macro things?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Just killing time, after all, when there is no information, you might as well let your brain process other problems. The second point I care about. We can verify this point very quickly."

Zheng Zai asked:

"What is it?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Whether we challenge lv2 or lv3 after Including Tong Ming dies. This is very important, think about it."

Zheng Zai pondered for a while:

"If it's lv3... it means lv2 has actually passed? We just need to continue to challenge, whether we live or die doesn't matter, we just need to successfully identify twelve items... and don't need to successfully use twelve items."

"Even if... even if we die, can we save two challenges for other teammates?"

Wen Xishu corrected:

"It's other teammates dying, which can also save us two challenges."

Zheng Zai didn't speak.

Wen Xishu said: "Remember, the essence of survival in the Mysterious Tower, the first core, is to ensure your own survival."

"If we need to challenge lv2 again, it means we have to successfully identify 12 items and successfully use 12 items."

"If we don't need to challenge lv2 again... Zheng Zai, you have to keep an eye on some places."

Zheng Zai said:

"What should I pay attention to?"

Wen Xishu slowly restrained the smile on his face:

"What I can think of, they can also think of. If the rule is the latter, we don't need to challenge lv2, which means, for the last two levels, just stuff two people into lv11 and lv12, and it doesn't matter if these two people die in the level."

"In other words, the last and most difficult two levels, they can not fight, let us fight. They only need to fight to lv10. In short, in the process later, I hope you carefully observe their choices..."

"Remember, in the Mysterious Tower, if others are good to you, you don't necessarily have to return it. But if others take advantage of you, you absolutely cannot forgive them. Sometimes, tolerance is fatal."

Zheng Zai was silent for a full ten seconds before nodding:

"I understand what you mean. These last two levels are the most difficult, with the lowest survival probability. If they let us fight these last two levels—"

Before Zheng Zai finished speaking, Wen Xishu said:

"We can fight, the capable work harder, but the premise of this sentence is—more work, more gain."

"If the other party has paid enough, we can bear the risk. But if they just want to take advantage... you know, right?"

Zheng Zai had completely understood:

"Okay, no matter what happens then, I will firmly stand on your side."

"Brother Wen, I trust your judgment. No matter how you treat others, but to me, you have a great grace. Others have the position to criticize some of your behaviors, I don't, and you always have your reasons for doing things!"

Wen Xishu was very satisfied with this result:

"Good, next, we start testing this thing," Wen Xishu said.

Zheng Zai was shocked:

"You're playing for real? What is the description you see for this thing?"

"Control, skill, accessory. Only six words, but I think these six words are enough to explain many things."

Wen Xishu thought for a moment and added:

"If I pit you and put you in a dangerous situation, will you resent me?"

Zheng Zai shook his head:

"Depends on whether it's intentional or unintentional... but I don't think you will harm me."

Wen Xishu smiled:

"Actually, I am a very selfish person, the me you know is not the real me. But I can guarantee you one thing, at least this time, I will be in the same predicament as you."

Zheng Zai was quite understanding.

The five people in this mission were actually gambling. Gambling that this item was useful.

Some people gambled with their basic judgment of the item, some gambled with the information given by the anti-magic value, and some gambled with experience.

Zheng Zai said:

"Brother, if you pit me, I'll admit it. Since I decided to trust you, I will be responsible for my own actions."

Wen Xishu was very satisfied with this answer:

"That's good, then I'll start identifying, are you willing to identify with me?"

Zheng Zai nodded:

"Just do it! I trust you!"

The prompt for identification appeared in everyone's mind. The third item to be identified appeared.

This also made Wang Ying and Aspasia next door immediately come to the 4-7 room where Wen Xishu was.

"What's the situation? They take this as a weapon?" Wang Ying said.

【The item has entered the forced function display link.】

Looking at the thing Wen Xishu was holding that he had never seen before, Wang Ying felt Wen Xishu was a bit crazy.

Aspasia discovered that Zheng Zai's body was making many strange movements.

【Are you willing to accept becoming the character linked by the controller?】

This was the prompt that appeared in Zheng Zai's mind after entering the item display. Zheng Zai didn't speak, but didn't hesitate, decisively choosing yes.

Immediately he felt his body didn't seem to belong to himself. He started making some strange movements, making Aspasia think he was possessed.

"Wait a moment, Old Zheng."

Wen Xishu changed his address to Zheng Zai, so naturally that he didn't even notice it himself.

"Very good, very good. The controller has many keys, it's troublesome to adapt, but I should already be familiar with it," Wen Xishu said with a smile.

Zheng Zai's strange movements of raising his hands and swinging his legs suddenly stopped.

Wen Xishu said:

"Then, shall we walk out?"

After Wen Xishu pressed a circular button, Zheng Zai discovered he could move freely.

"This... is this the end? Don't you want to familiarize yourself more?" Zheng Zai was still a bit empty.

Trusting Wen Xishu was one thing, but being afraid was another. The scene of Including Tong Ming being bitten to death was still vivid in his mind.

Wen Xishu didn't avoid Wang Ying and Aspasia:

"The items left here are either of no combat use, or are very complex to use."

"This thing is quite good, complex enough, but I can already handle it, don't worry."

Zheng Zai didn't struggle anymore, his heart hardened, and instead, he was the first to walk out the door.

Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai, therefore, disappeared.

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【You are already familiar enough with the item, so you have stepped out of the patient room, and now you have entered the item-usage phase.】

【Current challenge level, lv3.】

The scene where Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai appeared was a concert stage.

The audience seats were full of monsters, which didn't surprise Wen Xishu at all, but he didn't expect that there was also a monster on the stage, holding an electric guitar. That monster had a standard skull face, but had a head of wavy long hair.

Wearing a huge denim jacket, the thick bones were full of various heavy metal style tattoos.

In the skull's mouth, there was even a cigarette.

All the audience were primary level three normal species.

"Sure enough, it's lv3, which means, as long as identification is completed, even if you don't survive the usage link, it doesn't matter. Whether we live or die, for the next person identifying the item, it's challenging lv4."

"So as long as there is still a living person in the whole team, the game defaults to us having identified an item... even if the process of using the item doesn't go very smoothly."

Wen Xishu analyzed with interest.

In this concert venue that could accommodate 12,000 people, it was densely packed with monsters, which made Zheng Zai afraid.

"Don't be afraid, Old Zheng, next, I will control you to deal with these monsters."

"Look, the progress bar in our eyes is still one hundred. One hundred normal species, it's no problem for you."

Zheng Zai really wanted to thank Brother Wen for having such confidence in him, but he himself really didn't have confidence.

Because level three normal species, besides speed being as fast as ordinary people running at full speed, strength and vitality had also improved quite a bit.

Some even had a small part of their bodies deformed, possessing other abilities.

Outside the TV world, Wang Ying in the inpatient building saw the scene in the venue and also took a cold breath.

That skeleton face in the center of the stage, the degree of mutation had already reached the elite species.

No matter what level of elite species it was, it could easily kill Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai. Without the Slaughter Tower sequence and Slaughter Tower attribute bonuses, even a genius with innate divine power was just a presence that would die in minutes.

"This... this is only the two of us left," Wang Ying said.

Aspasia said:

"That skeleton face, might not necessarily make a move, right?"

Wang Ying said:

"Hard to say, I hope so. If it makes a move, I can't imagine, lv3 is like this, what will the difficulty of lv4 be."

And what will the difficulty of the final lv12 be?

A sense of fear rose in Wang Ying's heart. The Mysterious Tower was only on the eighth floor, how could it be so difficult?

Inside the TV world.

Wen Xishu said:

"Monsters also want to listen to a concert, it's too interesting, Old Zheng, are you ready?"

"No... how could this be ready... but, forgot the beginning, forgot the middle, in short, I'll leave it to you!"

Zheng Zai was still in fear, quickly refining courage and fighting spirit. Facing this scene, of course, he was afraid.

But now, he could only leave it to Wen Xishu.

The monsters began to surge.

In the center of the stage, the elite species skeleton face, at this time, played a piece of music, which was a piece of music that was not so heavy metal, just the rhythm was very strong.

Under the guidance of the music, the normal species began to run towards Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai.

At this time, Wen Xishu took a deep breath and began to pick up the controller:

"Clear the level in one life, go!"

Zheng Zai's body began to twist.

The reason Wen Xishu had such confidence was because in his vision, he could see many move lists.

One joystick controls direction, press ←→↑↓← plus left hand light attack, and you can make Zheng Zai emit a half-moon-shaped Qi body.

Yes, this controller gave Zheng Zai many additional abilities.

This was also what Wen Xishu guessed after interpreting it. If he guessed wrong, it would be death.

But then again, it had to be identified anyway, when was it not brushing shoulders with the god of death in the Mysterious Tower?

So Wen Xishu firmly believed in his choice.

Zheng Zai was also shocked.

"Damn, how can I still do this? Is this some kind of sequence?"

The huge Qi body half-moon slash, emitted by Zheng Zai's left hand waving, made all the normal species within three meters in front of Zheng Zai's 180 degrees be cut at the waist!

Zheng Zai noticed that this counted as a kill!

"Up, down, left, right, plus heavy right leg, then up, left, down, right, plus right heavy punch. Earth-shaking Core."

Wen Xishu followed the move list and rubbed out the second move.

When monsters began to appear on both sides of Zheng Zai, Zheng Zai first stepped hard on the ground with his right leg, a circular Qi body spread out, and then Zheng Zai punched the ground heavily.

The ground around cracked, and countless tables and chairs from the concert audience seats flew horizontally.

Along with those primary level three normal species.

"My mom! I wasn't this fierce even in the Slaughter Tower! Wow! Brother Wen, I'm too strong! No, the two of us are simply too strong!"

Zheng Zai was now responsible for both being fierce and killing randomly.

Actually, his situation was very dangerous.

Because once the move list was rubbed wrong, or the rubbing speed wasn't fast enough, not smooth enough... then facing the attacks of the monsters around, Zheng Zai looked like he was turning in circles and swinging his legs and hands randomly.

Basically, he was directly scrapped.

But Wen Xishu still rubbed out complex combos very accurately.

This thing was indeed discovered by others before. As long as two people with a good relationship, under the condition that one person is willing to accept, they can completely let the other person control them.

But the problem lies in the fact that this anti-human controller doesn't pay attention to ergonomics like a traditional controller at all.

Four joysticks, twenty-four buttons... a keyboard is just this complex.

Just remembering the function of each button takes a long time, let alone accurately rubbing out various moves?

So no one uses this thing.

But Wen Xishu can use it.

He is a master of playing games. Give him more complex props, and he can also get started quickly.

The picture on the TV also stunned Wang Ying and Aspasia.

"So... that thing can control teammates! And that thing gave teammates additional abilities?" Aspasia had greed in her eyes.

If this thing were given to her, controlling Wang Ying, it would probably be very simple to kill level three monsters. She clearly underestimated the complexity of that controller.

Wang Ying suddenly thought of one thing.

"Holding such a thing, without any weapon attributes, he dared to step out of the room directly, and the relaxed expression on his face at that time..."

"Impossible, could it be that he knew these? But his anti-magic value shouldn't exceed seven points at most!"

Wang Ying still remembered that Wen Xishu said that his anti-magic value was not as high as the level when he first climbed the tower.

So he didn't understand why Wen Xishu was so relaxed at that time.

"Keep watching, them being able to live is also a good thing for us."

Wang Ying also noticed that the monsters were lv3. That means, regardless of whether the teammate lives or dies, as long as they enter the TV world, they can push the level.

"Should we deliberately not identify... and wait for them to identify?" Aspasia made a suggestion.

This suggestion was very immoral, but the scene of lv3 already made Aspasia feel fear.

If they kept one person identifying once with Wen Xishu, everyone took turns identifying...

Then this means they have to challenge lv4 next. But they have no confidence at all in finding items that can handle lv4.

Now there is no rule indicating whether each person or team must have a hard indicator for identifying items. Then letting one side work harder... actually, it's also possible.

Wang Ying didn't answer this question, but was silently calculating in his heart. He thought more than Aspasia.

Letting others suffer losses is fine, but you have to pay benefits... otherwise why should others suffer losses?

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TV world. In the unknown concert scene, the elite species sitting in the center seemed to realize that its "fans" couldn't get close to Zheng Zai.

It had a competitive spirit and immediately changed to a passionate piece of music!

The style of this music was very passionate, it was the kind of music that would make countless people roar along at the scene.

Slaughter Sequence 222: Slaughter Mad Sound.

Can achieve various effects of stimulating the existence around and even one's own ability through the arrangement of notes issued.

Under the action of this passionate music... the speed of the monsters around clearly became faster, they were simply like opening a berserk skill, bloodthirsty and crazy, like ferocious beasts that had been hungry for a long time but still had physical strength, rushing towards Zheng Zai crazily.

Wen Xishu continuously rubbed out the half-moon Qi body slash and Earth-shaking Core. But the monsters were getting closer and closer to Zheng Zai.

Zheng Zai shouted:

"Brother Wen! Do I have any more powerful moves! Hurry, these two moves are about to be unable to hold on!"

The monsters' blood volume, speed, and desire to slaughter had all become more powerful. Relying only on the moves Wen Xishu had mastered now, he really couldn't hold on.

In fact, the controller looks at the person. Zheng Zai's ability was too weak to activate all the abilities of the controller.

If Zheng Zai were replaced by Xun Hui, Wen Xishu could rub out several kinds of explosive Qi must-kill ultimate moves or something.

But Zheng Zai here... only unlocked two.

The rest that could be rubbed were red skills. These skills were more powerful, but the button instructions were not that complex, and the rubbing keys were reduced by at least three to five keys.

According to Wen Xishu's understanding of red skills... these skills were often "blood moves."

That is, once used, they would consume the teammate's health points.

At the same time, there was also a destiny mode.

The destiny mode only had one ability—eat.

Turn on the destiny mode, Zheng Zai would take off the iron mask in his mouth and start eating monsters.

This was a blood recovery ability, but in the process of eating, Zheng Zai couldn't do other things.

Wen Xishu didn't struggle for too long. His plan was to first use blood moves to force back the monster group, give Zheng Zai some time, and then control Zheng Zai to eat the corpses.

Originally he didn't dare to do this, but thinking that Zheng Zai even ate the grandfather's corpse in the Mysterious Tower mission...

Presumably normal species were also melt-in-the-mouth for Zheng Zai?

→←←→+double punch, the blood move instruction was so short, right-left-left-right, Wen Xishu rubbed it out accurately.

At this time, Zheng Zai's skin quickly turned red, and some kind of red luster shrouded Zheng Zai.

That was the blood mist being evaporated, it was the fusion form of Qi and blood, forming a special light that shrouded him.

Zheng Zai tore the clothes in front of his chest, let out a roar like a beast, and then made a tearing action. Two blood-red Qi bodies rushed towards the front in an unstoppable way.

Wherever the blood Qi passed... the monsters were instantly melted, not even slag was left. The destructive power of this move was very amazing.

The kill count also instantly reached 40.

If this were replaced by primary level one normal species of lv1, actually this move would be enough to clear the level.

Zheng Zai's maximum health points dropped rapidly.

Wen Xishu frowned, this health drop was too fast, dropping by one-third directly. In other words, this blood move could only be used three times.

Wen Xishu felt a bit of trouble.

"The move just now was too powerful, and what's outrageous is, this move... didn't leave a corpse, wherever the blood blade passed, the monsters were directly melted."

The monsters were indeed forced back. But the variable of no corpses on the ground made Wen Xishu unable to recover Zheng Zai's health.

At this time, the monsters were about to rush up again. If he let the monsters approach and let Zheng Zai use other means to create corpses... then Zheng Zai would fall into the same situation as Including Tong Ming, and would be completely "wrapped" by the monsters.

If the speed of eating to recover health couldn't keep up with the speed of the monsters consuming health, then it would be meaningless, and instead, he would fall into the predicament of being wrapped.

That skeleton face in the center of the stage changed to a more explosive piece of music. If this kind of music were played in a disco, those people dancing could be high enough to tear their clothes.

Under the action of the music, the monsters launched a charge again.

"Come again with that move just now! Brother Wen! I can come again!"

Zheng Zai saw the monsters rushing over frantically again, he shouted.

Wen Xishu of course knew Zheng Zai could come again. According to the numerical calculation, Zheng Zai could still use it twice.

But according to the actual situation, if a person loses more than sixty percent of their health... then can the various functions of the body still operate normally?

In the game, people die at the last drop of blood, but in reality, if you lose twenty percent of your blood, you will have big problems.

Wen Xishu didn't intend to use Zheng Zai to death. He quickly began to think about strategies in his mind:

"Reasonably use conditions."

"The move just now forced the monsters back very far, Old Zheng now has time to eat and recover health, but now there is nothing to eat."

"Wait, there is something to eat! There is another rule that can be used!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 92 =====