The wack's footsteps and sinister laughter grew closer.
He was in the hallway outside the room.
This type of old building, similar in style to a Hospital from the nineties, had many rooms on each floor, separated by a straight corridor.
The bathrooms and laundry facilities were communal, often located at the end of the hallway, just like the stairwell.
Wen Xishu lay under the bed, patiently waiting.
He wore a faint smile, and his calm expression gave Jennifer a strange sense of security.
Her heart, which had been pounding with fear, gradually returned to a normal rhythm.
However, even so, the wack's footsteps did not stop.
Wen Xishu was not flustered.
He had avoided the first death point—the opening kill—which convinced him that the dangers here were traceable.
He had noticed that everyone in the Bunker referred to exploring the Three Towers as the Three Towers Game.
This indicated that various dangerous situations, like a game, had a method for completion.
“Never lose your composure just because the footsteps are approaching.”
Wen Xishu began to wait patiently.
As the footsteps drew nearer, Jennifer once again fell into fear. Wen Xishu first made a shushing gesture.
His experiences in his previous life, where he couldn't leave bad reviews, had given him an incredibly strong heart.
Then Wen Xishu picked up his phone, quickly opened the notepad, and typed with one hand:
“Don't be afraid, just be quiet. Do whatever I tell you to do. If you understand, just blink.”
Jennifer blinked her eyes.
“Good girl.”
Wen Xishu relaxed.
After comforting Jennifer, he continued to wait.
Just as the wack's footsteps seemed to have reached the room door, about to open it—
The wack spoke again:
“My dear Jenny, are you going to be as quiet as Remian?”
“He did hide for a while, but I've already smashed his brains, hehe.”
“He can never slander me on the phone again. Never! Again! He is now a silent Remian!”
Footsteps crushed the floor. The wack's anger surged when he mentioned the last sentence.
Wen Xishu felt the entire building shaking.
This made him realize that the monsters in the Weird Tower likely possessed supernatural powers.
But he remained calm:
“Unlike his previous speeches, this time the wack mentioned someone named Remian.”
“He's angry about Remian constantly slandering him on the phone.”
“The key information should be 'silent Remian' and 'phone.'”
It was as if he understood the boss's wind-up before an attack; Wen Xishu realized this was a breakthrough point.
He decisively opened his phone again, his finger calmly sliding through the contacts.
Indeed, he found Remian.
And as his gaze focused on Remian—a translucent dialogue box popped up.
But the content of the dialogue box made his head feel dizzy.
It was all a jumble of garbled characters.
“It's a game after all. Some special places or items will provide hints.”
“However, it's probably because my Anti-magic Value is too low. Originally, I should have seen some information about Remian here…”
“But now, this information is completely blocked, and gazing at it can even affect my thoughts.”
Wen Xishu looked away.
“It doesn't matter. Even without Remian's information, I can guess what to do.”
The sound of the doorknob turning came, and the wack was about to enter the room.
Jennifer's pupils trembled. She was terrified, afraid that a grotesque face would suddenly peer under the bed, excitedly saying, “I found you.”
But at that moment, Wen Xishu dialed Remian's number.
A silent Remian, slandering people on the phone, the wack's extreme anger…
To Wen Xishu, these messages were clearly telling him how to dismantle the boss's next move.
Suddenly, a phone rang upstairs, and the wack's footsteps abruptly stopped.
Not just upstairs, but after the first phone ring, phone bells rang from almost all directions, filling the entire building.
It was like a thousand phones ringing simultaneously in the dead of night.
“Another supernatural phenomenon… This building seems to amplify the wack's inner activities,” Wen Xishu analyzed silently.
The loud and chaotic phone ringing enraged the wack:
“Remian! You're still alive! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to stomp your brains out!”
“So noisy! So noisy! You backstabbing chatterbox!”
The sound, in an instant, moved from this room to several floors above.
Wen Xishu smiled at Jennifer, and with the astonishing hand speed of someone single for many years, he quickly typed:
“See? I told you there was no problem. Now we can leave this room.”
Wen Xishu calmly crawled out from under the bed, like a certain Mr. Wang regaining his vigor after the cuckold left.
Jennifer's eyes were teary; the wack's footsteps earlier had clearly scared her badly.
But Wen Xishu had once again given her a sense of security.
【Gui Jennifer's favorability slightly increased. Desire Jennifer's favorability slightly increased.】
A piece of information appeared in Wen Xishu's mind.
Wen Xishu was a bit confused. Both the Desire Tower and the Weird Tower had Jennifer?
Was the Desire Tower's mission also to rescue Jennifer?
Wen Xishu didn't dwell on this question. He wanted to take Jennifer to the exit downstairs and quickly leave this building.
Having avoided the opening kill and found a way to draw the wack away, he had already bypassed two death nodes.
While leaving the building, Wen Xishu began to read the notepad on his phone.
“I'm playing the role of someone rescuing Jennifer.”
“When I arrived here, the person I'm playing had already made contact with Jennifer.”
“They should have communicated.”
His guess was correct; the notepad contained the following content—
“Uncle Jack, I don't know what happened to him, suddenly went crazy! He killed Uncle Remian and many other people in the building!”
“I'm so scared. I want to leave here. But Mom told me to hide under the bed and not leave here.”
These were Jennifer's words.
The little girl was actually very smart; she knew to communicate using her phone from the start. And the rescuer had also asked a question:
“Are you and Jack on good terms?”
Jennifer's answer was as follows:
“Uncle Jack likes Mom. He and Uncle Remian both like Mom. But Mom doesn't like them…”
“Mom said she would definitely take me to live in a brighter building. She doesn't want to have too much contact with the poor people in this building. She's someone who's going to live in a villa.”
“But… I really like the people here, especially Uncle Jack.”
“Uncle Jack used to be a very good person. He often played with me. He didn't play with me just to make Mom happy.”
“He genuinely liked playing with me. And I really liked playing with him.”
“I don't know why Uncle Jack became like this.”
Wen Xishu quickly finished reading all the content.
“It seems this is the background story of a certain area on the twenty-first floor of the Weird Tower.”
The story of a good person suddenly going mad, gaining supernatural powers, and then slaughtering all his neighbors…
Wen Xishu had a feeling that if he wanted to clear the level, merely leaving by himself would probably only achieve the lowest completion rate.
Ensuring Jennifer's survival might achieve a second or even third-level completion rate.
But to reach a fourth-level completion rate, he would have to do more.
Just then, he discovered another terrible thing—
A loop building.
Originally, at the end of the hallway, there should have been stairs leading to the next or previous floor.
But Wen Xishu, with Jennifer, walked along the hallway for a long time… eventually returning to the starting point.
A ghost wall, a loop building; the original stairs had disappeared.
And at this moment, the entire building began to shake slightly again. The eerie phone ringing completely disappeared.
Because Remian's phone, along with Remian's twice-destroyed corpse, had been stomped to smithereens.
“Damn Remian! You backstabbing chatterbox! Damn it! Damn it!”
“Jen—ni—fer! Let's go see my performance! I've been rehearsing at home for so long, you'll come, right?”
The target of his words had once again shifted back to Jennifer.
Wen Xishu could feel that the wack Jack was very close to them.
The eerie and perverted laughter made Wen Xishu think of spiderwebs sticking to his body, driving him crazy.
Jennifer couldn't see the exit, and tears were already in her eyes. She really didn't know what to do, so she just thought about hiding back under the bed.
But Wen Xishu suddenly pulled her, and with great composure, he aimed his phone screen at Jennifer:
“Good girl, don't be scared, I've got this.”
“Now tell me, where is Jack's room? We're going to see his performance.”
Nothing today, but 10,000 words tomorrow
