[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-three-towers-game":3,"chapter-three-towers-game-three-towers-game-chapter-1078":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Three Towers Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1098344,1431,"Chapter 1078 332: Trial by Certain Death_3","three-towers-game-chapter-1078",1078,"\u003Cp>Its mouth kept chewing on meat, but it seemed it could never be satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was gigantic, towering perhaps six meters tall. It squatted in a corner of the kitchen, gnawing continuously on food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surrounding walls, there were writings that Wen Xishu could recognize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were childish scrawls writing \"Hungry\", \"More\", \"Eat it all\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, they were crazily overwritten with \"Never enough!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides that, a woman's slightly reproachful yet tireless voice kept echoing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Charlie, Charlie, eat them! This is a mother's sacrifice!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Charlie, eat, eat, eat joyfully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Charlie, do you know that food shouldn't be wasted? Many children in other places can't even get food. You have to learn to be grateful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time this voice appeared, the fat man would immediately start to chew frantically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, the fat man would start pounding the ground wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kitchen was as vast as a building, no… akin to a stadium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet under the fat man's hammering, the entire kitchen would actually shake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless lumps would shatter, bursting out plenty of pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witnessing this disgusting scene, Wen Xishu was hanging in the air, observing it all clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu silently analyzed the rules:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be… that we need to defeat the monster?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, if that's the case, it would be too difficult.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster's strength made even the Red House retreat. Wen Xishu couldn't imagine what level of attack power would be needed to fight such a tough-skinned monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in the same league. The chance of winning in head-on combat is very low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This endlessly hungry fat man in the kitchen might be another embodiment of Charlie's desires.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gluttony? Seems too simplistic…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mother's voice exists, but the mother herself is unseen… only endless food.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, in the line of sight, decaying food was everywhere, and in the ears, the mother's voice was audible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no sight of the mother anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could only see, in this constantly expanding, living-like kitchen, the fat man continuously devouring food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu had a way to kill the fat man directly, like summoning Sagittarius, but it's certain that this time's regional challenge...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Requires defeating more than one enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So killing the fat man wouldn't be the final step for a perfect clearance. The cost of summoning Sagittarius was too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu looked at the fat man:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Hanged Man challenge might be brute-forced, but not this one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe some seemingly unbeatable enemies have solutions. If we solve the fat man's puzzle, there might be an entry point.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me think.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Assuming the fat man is some kind of metaphor, what does food represent? Desire?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… not quite, why is desire linked to his mother? That woman's voice, calling for Charlie, should be his mother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And it seems, each time the fat man pounds the ground, it's because the food isn't finished… So is there a way, I can help the fat man finish the food?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu observed silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to admit, the Hanged Man's ability allowed him to safely have an aerial view of the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So soon, Wen Xishu noticed more details of the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He noticed a dining table in the corner of the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crawled cautiously, making no noise, moving along with the fat man's chewing sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu was like a spider fearfully traversing the room's corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the Hanged Man's ability, Wen Xishu and Zheng were quietly solving the puzzle and had grasped some initial clues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the refrigerator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there was a refrigerator in the kitchen. And since the fat man was six meters tall, naturally, the refrigerator was enormous as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rusty industrial refrigerator door embedded in the meat brick wall had a handle polished by countless handprints. Inside was not food, but a bottomless darkness and biting cold wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A note hung on the refrigerator door, bearing the following words:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eat it, Charlie! Wasting food equals harming lives!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu could be certain that approaching the refrigerator would surely result in being sucked into that dark interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far from the refrigerator, Wen Xishu noticed a gigantic, thickly grey-frosted cake model on a greasy counter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at it now, the cake seemed covered in dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the cake were faded birthday hats, whose size, compared to the fat man, might have been worn by a young version of the fat man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were \"child-sized\" birthday hats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the hat was a birthday card, stained with grease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, Wen Xishu could decipher the writing on the card:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Charlie, you've grown another year older, you need to be more sensible than before. Do you like your birthday present? It's a new tutorial book.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu felt a trace of sympathy in his heart, as if he had comprehended all the metaphors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon his gaze fell on the dining table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, the fat man kept chewing on decayed food, everything was in a dim, dusty palette… but on the dining table, there were some different colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu had excellent eyesight and he gazed at those rotten foods on the dining table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his eyes, those weren't foods but broken toys and fragments of test papers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the test paper fragments, syrup-like, symbolizing errors, were red \"X\"s visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the plate, Wen Xishu saw such a pattern—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A stick-figure person, sitting in front of a giant dining table, crying over an empty plate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the plate, it was shakily written with childish handwriting:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I full?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Wen Xishu already had a sure answer in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>",923,"2026-06-03T11:13:02.243Z","2026-06-03T11:13:09.488Z",1,"novelbin.me","eac85ec7b3371268ad725341bdf8d6d487d87c5e19ed4072fed8dfd055b1d1a2","three-towers-game-chapter-1079","three-towers-game-chapter-1077",1179,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthree-towers-game-cover.jpg"]