[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-three-towers-game":3,"chapter-three-towers-game-three-towers-game-chapter-869":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},1098117,1431,"Chapter 869 261: Gate to the Realm of Endless Darkness and Death","three-towers-game-chapter-869",869,"\u003Cp>Deceit Tower, fortieth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This extremely peculiar level hides a kingdom of the dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time he enters this scene, Wen Xishu experiences a moment of haziness, as if falling into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until he opens his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, even after Wen Xishu opens his eyes, everything around him remains chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only feels as if he's walking in a swamp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His steps become very heavy, and every step Wen Xishu takes requires great effort to lift his legs, lest he gets stuck in the strange liquid beneath him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this is the Deceit Tower and he has no Three-phase Power, rendering him unable to perform an ultimate kick, Wen Xishu's leg strength is indeed very strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What sort of place is this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black, endless black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He can't see anything, but luckily, even without relying on sight, his current Anti-Magic Value is sufficient for Wen Xishu to sense his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around him is an endless \"void.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is nothing, only this sticky liquid beneath him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hinder his progress, like mud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu becomes somewhat bewildered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In such a vast, dark world, where nothing can be seen and moving forward seems to be the only option, he feels a sense of fear within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear stems from the unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life and death are the most absolute rules, and this time his task seems to be to reverse someone's life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To bring the dead back to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This seems impossible, for if it were possible… then the slaughter among the constellations would be a joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Wen Xishu is somewhat afraid, of any world related to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a world is explored by very few, indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where am I? How long do I have to keep walking like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This world has a very straightforward punishment known as solitary confinement, locking people in a completely dark space where they can't see anything, only feeling oppressively gradually losing track of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a prolonged period, one starts to fear, dread, and go mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu has been walking in this place of darkness, heading in one direction for four hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, Wen Xishu also took out a Compass…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was useless; the Compass pointed to nothing here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has walked for more than four hours, over two hundred forty minutes, more than fourteen thousand four hundred seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Wen Xishu wasn't even sure about these numbers; he was simply counting to prevent himself from breaking down, using his steps to measure time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One step per second was enough to showcase his slowness. More than ten thousand steps could mean a great distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Wen Xishu still couldn't see any \"end in sight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the darkness, and also because this place remained limitlessly void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he had experienced countless bizarre scenarios, Wen Xishu started to struggle at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began to doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without vision, the darkness felt like having his eyes closed. Any direction could be the right way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If at this moment, he doubted he had gone the wrong way, the pressure was immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it had been four hours without seeing any clues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With so many other directions awaiting him, if this path was wrong, was walking for four hours just making a bigger mistake?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world of the dead must be vast, perhaps vaster than the world of the living.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can he really walk across it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eleven hours later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu's resolve began to waver, he even thought that the answer might not be ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But below instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To lay down and let the black liquid swallow him. Maybe there's a world with light below?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He actually tried this, but strangely enough, as the black liquid initially intended to swallow him and he felt himself sinking…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was quickly pushed back up by a force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could even touch the \"bottom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black liquid seemed to refuse to engulf him, merely hindering his movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After just eleven hours, Wen Xishu was naturally not in despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unable to see any clues or possibilities, Wen Xishu was no longer calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it. How do I solve this place?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I supposed to stay here for seven days?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Annoying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No meaning, no echoes heard, the surroundings vast but also empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time Wen Xishu encountered such a situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's like playing a game where you control a car driving forward, with the scenery around you always the same, no other vehicles in sight, and the view ahead unchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can't even determine if the car is truly moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that is how Wen Xishu felt right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even started doubting himself: \"Am I really walking in a straight line?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Research shows that after closing one's eyes, people's steps often form a circle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu couldn't help but wonder if he was just drawing a peculiar circle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty-three hours later, his mentality severely deteriorated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, Wen Xishu still maintained walking in a straight line, at least… according to what he imagined a straight line to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still saw nothing and had no way to deal with this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Scorpion Knife spawned portals in many places…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But maybe this place was too vast, and he never saw a portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was also feeling tired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Wen Xishu began thinking about the taste of food. He had tried many delicacies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, he began craving the compressed biscuits from his execution day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty-four hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu lay on the ground, falling asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his dream, Wen Xishu returned to his original world, where everyone in the Bunker appeared in their original world, but with changed identities.\u003C\u002Fp>",946,"2026-06-03T11:12:56.149Z","2026-06-03T11:13:00.250Z",1,"novelbin.me","a1947b58caa7780fb0819f8a2467eac51a9fcfe4294ce69f5ca4087e992b7465","three-towers-game-chapter-1012","three-towers-game-chapter-868",1179,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthree-towers-game-cover.jpg"]