Three Towers Game

Chapter 301 The Dream Interpreter

Attack from both sides.

Wen Xishu could hear the corpse-driving footsteps behind him, but he couldn't turn around.

That statue of the great man is now filled with an eerie atmosphere.

8.

The numbers were still dropping, so Wen Xishu had to muster up the courage to kick the statue.

The ultimate kick is about to be launched.

Fear can be transformed into rage, and rage can make Wen Xishu's power grow stronger with each kick. Proficiency can also make Wen Xishu's ultimate kick permanently stronger after a certain number of kicks.

His powerful kick shattered the statue into pieces.

This is not Kashima anymore; he is no longer the man who had no firepower when fear descended.

But strangely, as the number changed to 5—

The broken statue emitted the cries of countless children, and a face grew from the surface of each broken fragment.

Those were the faces of countless children, fragments of a statue kicked to pieces, as if countless children were trying to come together.

Countless fragments, countless children, crawled and wriggled, attacking the Wenxi Tree.

Wen Xishu also heard the approaching voice behind him, and he suddenly turned around and delivered a spinning kick.

The kick, which was supposed to break the other person's neck, failed to do so...

Instead, he broke both of the opponent's legs.

It turned out that the thumping sound wasn't the sound of jumping, but the sound of someone hitting their head on the ground.

"Why does this dream feel so eerie?"

She was walking on her head, and it was vaguely recognizable as a girl. Wen Xishu looked down at her face, and she looked down at Wen Xishu in return.

This bizarre perspective made Wen Xishu feel like she was losing her mind.

Looking at the girl's bloodied and mangled face, Wen Xishu vaguely guessed... that the girl had jumped off the building.

At this moment, the countless fragments of the statue behind him had touched Wen Xishu's shoes. Like parasites that had found a host, they tried to cover Wen Xishu and frantically climbed up his trouser legs.

Wen Xishu never expected that he would encounter such a sinister thing as soon as he stepped into the "light".

But at that very moment, a song suddenly appeared in my ears.

The singing wasn't particularly good; it was just a girl barely staying in tune, singing softly with a completely unskilled voice.

"La la la la la, la la la la la, la~ la la la~"

To be honest, Wen Xishu suddenly understood why so many people disliked Nicole.

The melody was very similar to the Salva tore he had heard in his past life. If someone were to suddenly hear such music in a dream, they would surely be frightened.

Wen Xishu thought this was another side effect of the decrease in the number of people in his field of vision—auditory hallucinations.

But he immediately remembered that it was his teammate Nicole's voice.

Nicole's isolation isn't entirely someone else's fault. Interestingly, it's because Nicole is trying to save Wenxi Tree.

9.

14.

17.

As the mind-numbingly catchy song began, the numbers in Wen Xishu's field of vision immediately started to change.

They are getting bigger.

As the numbers increased, Wen Xishu immediately noticed that the surrounding scene began to flicker, and the fragments wrapped around his feet... had somehow returned to the statue he had been in before.

The statue of that great man, whose location is unknown, has been restored to its original state, and the missing facial features have returned.

The little girl who had jumped off the building behind Wen Xishu also began to show her delicate features. She was no longer lying down, but standing timidly. Then she quickly backed away and looked at Wen Xishu with an incredulous gaze.

"La la la la la, la la la la la, la~ la la la~"

Nicole's singing continued.

The number stopped at 24.

It's impossible to go any higher, which means that the highest level you can reach here is 24, and you can't go back to 30.

Many clues flashed through Wen Xishu's mind.

But at that moment, he seemed to hear other sounds as well.

These sounds came from an extremely ethereal place.

"Commander, wake up!"

"Wake up! What will we do without you!"

Nicole's singing, along with the worries of those around her, made the world in Wen Xishu's eyes begin to flicker.

Not long after...

Wen Xishu opened her eyes, and the scene around her had completely changed.

In an abandoned, dilapidated town, where only animals are seen and no human habitation is visible...

Wen Xishu, Nicole, Colonel Devon, Borg, Cavendish, and Elsa—all six of them were present.

Wen Xishu immediately realized what had happened:
"I see. Once you enter this place, you will be pulled into a dream."

Colonel Devon exclaimed with delight:
"Great, Commander, you're finally awake."

Nicole also stopped singing:

"That's great... I'm sorry, I sang a little badly... Please don't mind."

Wen Xishu said:
"You can choose a different song next time."

Elsa suddenly spoke:
"Commander, don't you like nursery rhymes?"

Wen Xishu was taken aback:
"You call this a nursery rhyme?"

Elsa suddenly started humming, a tune similar to the children's song "Where is Spring?" It was completely different from what Wen Xishu had heard.

Wen Xishu seemed to understand what was going on.

Nicole then offered her explanation:
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it seems that the songs I sing are different for different people in their dreams."

"It's good that everyone is awake... I'm finally, finally of some use."

Wen Xishu nodded.

Nicole's ability seems to involve different background music in different dreams.

For example, Elsa's dream was probably quite warm and cozy, so the songs she heard were also warm and cozy.

Wen Xishu said:
"Elsa, can you see numbers when you're in your dreams?"

Elsa nodded.

The others nodded in agreement.

"Have your numbers changed?" Wen Xishu asked.

Everyone shook their heads.

Elsa said:
“My number was 30… I saw a school in the distance, and further away a residential area, some of which even had lights on, but I didn’t go there.”

"I noticed that as I walked towards that place, the numbers in my vision started to drop. And then it seemed like... it seemed like there were some strange noises around me."

"It was as if someone was whispering in my ear, and even... even the scenery in my field of vision seemed to become a little sinister."

Wen Xishu nodded:

"The lower the number, the more bizarre the surrounding scenery, and the more likely you are to encounter danger."

"A dream of 30 is considered normal, but if it falls below 10, you will encounter something extremely dangerous..."

"I didn't wake up because of these dangers, so it's highly likely I won't wake up and will die in my dream."

“Nicole’s ability is crucial; she can forcefully increase the numbers to the maximum permissible limit at critical moments…”

"And, to help us wake up."

Kaventim was incredibly impressed:

"Commander, did you just go to an area where the numbers were decreasing?" Wen Xishu nodded:
"My number dropped to 8."

Devon and Borg gasped.

Because both of them were in a dream, trying to explore, but when the number dropped to twenty, they began to feel a chill down their spines, and their ears were filled with soul-chilling murmurs.

Instinct drove them to immediately return to their starting point.

Of course, their actions weren't entirely driven by cowardice. On one hand, there was no commander present, and they feared that rash action would cause trouble for him.

So my first reaction was to stay in a safe place and wait for the group to assemble.

Their response was correct.

However, the two of them had truly experienced a terrifying corner of this dream world. Devon said:

"I was already trembling at level 20, Commander... and you've reached level 8?"

Borg began:

“We’re all awake thanks to Nicole’s abilities. Without Nicole, we would still be struggling in our dreams.”

"But now that we're all awake, does that mean all we have to do is walk through this town and we'll see the door and pass through?"

Everyone had thought of this as well.

The biggest problem has already been solved by Nicole. Targeted recruitment is more expensive than advanced recruitment, and that's because—there's a reason why it's more expensive.

Nicole's abilities are indeed a natural counter to this hurdle, and that hurdle has already been overcome.

But Wen Xishu shook his head, clapped his hands, and drew everyone's attention to him:
"Please don't rush, everyone. Here's my analysis."

"In my opinion, this operation has only just begun. Next, Nicole and I will have to work together."

"Let me first share my guess."

"As you can see, the town in the dream is deserted, but everything is full of life."

"In reality, when I woke up, everything in the town was in utter ruin."

"The Curse of the Balance Sheets was present in the first and second levels, and it seems that it will be the same in this level."

"My guess is that another ability user has awakened and is trying to use their power to fight against the Curse of the Balance."

"Unlike the mad scientist in the second level, who planned to turn living beings into mechanical beings and achieve mechanical ascension, this time, he intends to stuff everyone into a dream world and completely abandon flesh and blood."

"In this way, we might no longer need to occupy people."

"Everyone may be dead, but in the world of dreams, they live forever."

"This may stem from his ability, but this ability inevitably has side effects, and quite significant ones at that. It is very likely to be even more insane and distorted than the mechanical city scene in the second level."

"Everyone has seven emotions and six desires, fears and joys. Some people dream of happy things, while others dream of fearful things."

"In the context of the apocalypse and curses, I suspect that nightmares will occur more frequently."

"So, if there is light in a dream, it means that there are 'indigenous people' there. These indigenous people may be trapped in terrifying dreams and become extremely twisted and bizarre beings."

"Moreover, dreams are unstable. Spending a long time in an unstable dream world that undergoes huge changes would likely lead to many problems, such as the accumulation and repression of desires..."

"The numbers might represent the degree of distortion in that place. The lower the number, the more bizarre the current situation..."

"Clearly, forcibly stuffing everyone into a dream may have avoided the Libra curse, but it has led to an even greater predicament."

This is like a hellish joke—a sniper successfully kills the target, preventing the target from committing suicide.

Perhaps that person's initial intention was good, but the methods used may have plunged everyone into greater suffering.

"I must delve into the dream, find the place where the number is lowest, and learn the truth."

“If we leave now, there’s no problem, that’s an easy thing to do, but it’s not the right thing to do. In the fourth stage, we’ll face casualties again. If we don’t explore this stage as much as possible… I might have to abandon one of you in the next stage.”

"That's wrong, and I don't want to make a mistake."

Everyone was silent.

They all stayed in their dreams for a while, and Wen Xishu woke up a few minutes later than them...

But they really didn't expect that the commander could think of so much from such a brief contact. It was almost as if they filled in the background of the story with just a few clues.

The commander's abilities are truly astonishing.

Devon said:

"So, at this stage, we're basically just going to watch from here? Is there any way we can enter your dream and protect you?"

Devon didn't want to be a loser, and he didn't want to win by doing nothing.

Wen Xishu said:
"I'm not sure if Nicole's ability will be interfered with. Nicole's singing can forcibly increase the distortion level in a dream to the maximum allowed value, and for a longer period of time, it can even pull a person out of the dream."

"This ability is too restrictive to this area, so there's no guarantee that this area doesn't have some countermeasures."

"All of you, protect Nicole."

“And Nicole, you sing regularly, but don’t sing for too long. I just calculated that I will wake up when you finish the first verse… After singing for about ten seconds, the numbers in my area will return to the maximum allowed limit.”

"Sing for twenty seconds, then pause for ten seconds. Then sing for another twenty seconds, then pause for another ten seconds."

"Don't wake me up, just give me some help."

Nicole nodded:
"Well... I sing terribly, please be more forgiving."

Wen Xishu said:
"Believe me, no matter who it is, hearing 'I'm here to save you' in a crisis will only feel like heavenly music."

Nicole's eyes widened; clearly, no one had ever said that to her.

Wen Xishu closed his eyes:
"I need to enter the dream again, but I don't think it will be difficult."

Wen Xishu's guess was correct.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he was quickly enveloped by a great sense of drowsiness.

Before each level was teleported, everyone was in a state of closing their eyes and waiting to wake up, which caused everyone to directly enter a dream.

Fortunately, even when Nicole sings in her dreams, she can forcibly pull herself out of them.

That's why everyone wasn't wiped out in their dream.

……

……

The dilapidated and abandoned town has disappeared once again.

What Wen Xishu saw was a dreamlike street that seemed to have returned to the town's prosperous days.

"Without a doubt, this is a distorted dream world..."

"The indigenous people in my dream have all turned into monsters."

"That girl at school... she might have jumped off the building because she discovered she couldn't die in her dreams, so she started to torture herself."

"But she shouldn't be the culprit behind all this."

“The school is not in the center of the town. If I were the master of this dream, I could weave this dream... I would definitely arrange for myself a position where I can see the whole picture.”

Wen Xishu unleashed a powerful kick, leaping high into the air.

At first, he was drawn to the school's lights and sounds...

But now, Wen Xishu noticed that there was actually a strange building in the very center, with lights on inside.

It was a building that didn't fit into the small town at all, and it definitely shouldn't have been placed in the city center.

An art museum.

Just by looking at the art museum, Wen Xishu noticed that... the numbers in his eyes began to slowly decrease.

When Wen Xishu looked away, the number slowly returned to thirty.

“8 is already enough to threaten me... If it were 1, or even 0 or a negative number…”

I still have a bit of a headache.

But soon, Nicole's singing voice filled my ears.

This time, the singing made Wen Xishu happy.

"A new storm has arrived; how can we stand still?"

It really does have the ability to provide corresponding background music based on the surrounding environment. "That's pretty good," Wen Xishu smiled, taking a step towards the most eerie art museum in the dream.

(End of this chapter)