Three Towers Game

Chapter 318 Blood Debts Paying Off

Boom boom boom!
The knocking sounded again. Everyone was on edge.

who can that be?

New troubles have arisen, but the old ones are not over.

Xiaoya stood behind Wen Xishu, silently indicating her stance, which meant that she would become Wen Xishu's supporter in the upcoming voting process.

This scene made Zhang Qiang even more vigilant. Wen Xishu was not like an ordinary teacher at all; he was too calm.

Chen Ming also greatly admired Wen Xishu's various responses when he finally resolved the crisis.

Of course, Lao Zhou and Li Wei are still on Zhang Qiang's side, and the nerdy Afei is still out of the loop.

It's worth mentioning that the search for a replacement for the water ghost is still ongoing.

Wen Xishu noticed that Xiaoya's body... was dripping more and more severely, and her clothes were starting to get soaked.

She also smelled of the salty seawater. Wen Xishu knew this was bad, but right now, he couldn't find a way to stop Xiaoya from being replaced.

Water also began to appear in Xiaoya's other eye.

If you look at the water ghost now, you'll see that it has two eyes and a nose. It's starting to look more and more like Xiaoya.

In Xiaoya's field of vision, the real view and the water ghost's view each occupy half.

However, they don't appear simultaneously; instead, the scene shifts between the bar and the scene of the person drowning.

This was extremely agonizing, but Xiaoya endured it silently, trying her best to remain rational.

The most painful thing in her life has just passed, and she believes that as long as she gets through this ordeal, things will get better.

The most troublesome thing is the knocking on the door.

It was very urgent.

dong dong dong dong!

A host of problems remained unresolved, and new ones began to emerge, leaving everyone feeling extremely stressed.

Wen Xishu looked at the surveillance footage and noticed that the person knocking on the door was not staring at the camera like the previous ghost.

He seemed different from the ghosts; he didn't know there were cameras around.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this is just a facade to show that this person is intelligent.

Then Wen Xishu said:
"who are you?"

"A debt collector."

"Whose debt is it?"

"Whoever is the richest is the one who is in debt."

The voice of the person outside the door was extremely low, carrying a kind of gnashing hatred.

"Sorry, no one here owes you any money. Tonight is Ghost Festival, and we can't open the door to suspicious people."

The person outside the door said:

"I am a human, not a ghost."

Wen Xishu turned around and glanced at everyone.

Father Zhou remained trembling and apprehensive.

Li Wei's eyes darted around, Chen Ming remained calm as always, like a bystander, A Fei kept operating the computer, and Zhang Qiang wore a detached smile.

Wen Xishu understood:

"Lift your head up so I can see? There's a camera on the door."

The man outside the door looked up and realized there was a camera. He stared at the camera with a sinister look in his eyes.

This man's cheeks were deeply sunken, his cheekbones protruded sharply as if carved by a knife, and most unsettling of all were his eyes. His eye sockets were deep-set like two pitch-black holes.

Wen Xishu was all too familiar with that look; it was the look of someone yearning for revenge.

He was breathing heavily, each breath accompanied by a hoarse, wheezing sound like a broken bellows, as if his lungs were riddled with holes.

Even in such a weakened state, he still exudes an intense sense of hatred.

Wen Xishu observed silently for a while.

This face is more ferocious and angry than eerie, completely different from the previous ghost child.

This is the most difficult to judge.

Because this person looked like he had suffered a severe injury and was on the verge of death, but he just didn't die.

It's very likely that he's already dead, but his ghost form retains the appearance he had before his death.

But it's also very possible... he didn't die.

Wen Xishu said:
How do you know that someone inside owes you money?

How did you find this place?

The man angrily said:

"I've struggled through the gates of hell, and I'll settle every score! This is the path countless evil spirits have shown me! My enemies are inside!"

"Li Wei! You bastard!"

This statement seems to reveal quite a bit of information.

Almost everyone looked at businessman Li Wei, who immediately went to the laptop and looked at the monitor screen. After seeing the screen, he staggered and almost fell.

But Wen Xishu paid no attention to Li Wei; his focus was on the "gates of hell".

In normal times, "having walked through the gates of hell" means having experienced a perilous situation.

But within the context of the Tower of Ghosts, the Gates of Hell could very well be a precise description, a real place.

The sight of countless evil spirits pointing the way seems to explain the problem.

Some ideas came to Wen Xishu's mind.

Let's say he's playing a game called Defense Bar.

They are on the defense, and their goal is to keep the bar completely empty of ghosts.

The attacker is the ghost.

So as long as everyone continues to vote against it, just as Zhang Qiang said, everyone will be safe.

No matter how well a ghost disguises itself, it will die...

Therefore, ghosts must take advantage of the rules.

A real person must knock on the door. If the person inside votes incorrectly, the rules will turn the real person into a vengeful ghost and put them in the bar.

Those who defend will understand... that they cannot blindly vote against it.

This gives the ghost a chance.

Therefore, ghosts might specifically target people who have interacted with others in the bar.

These people might even be disguised by ghosts as if they are about to die, especially if they appear tonight, they are likely to look even more like ghosts.

Wen Xishu was right; the person who came did indeed have connections with Li Wei.

Li Wei exclaimed in alarm:
"A ghost! This person is definitely a ghost!"

Although he insisted it was a ghost, unlike Zhang Qiang who exuded hostility, Li Wei was clearly somewhat afraid.

But Li Wei still drank a glass of wine very quickly, almost without hesitation.

Red wine.

"Ghost! Everyone listen to me, don't let the ghost in! This person is already dead! He jumped off a building and died! How could he still be alive?"

Li Wei was so fast that by the time everyone looked at him, he had already drunk the red wine.

Wen Xishu frowned slightly.

Li Wei and Zhang Qiang are two of a kind. They started drinking without saying a word, forcing everyone to make a decision.

This is an extremely irrational approach.

Wen Xishu decided to teach this kind of person a lesson, and he said:

"I have a small request."

"Whether you think it's a person or a ghost, please wait until everyone reaches a consensus before drinking."

Wen Xishu's expression gradually hardened, and he said coldly:

“You and Zhang Qiang, can you two learn from Xiaoya? When faced with someone connected to your past, Xiaoya, although she hoped everyone would recognize that it was a person, didn’t just start drinking as soon as the person arrived.”

"Do you realize how incredibly stupid it is to make a choice without even asking questions?"

“Originally, if there were living people outside, my best course of action would have been to drink the toasts and let them in.”

"And now? Because you alone drank the red anti-drinking wine, the only possible outcome is either total opposition or partial opposition."

"In the second round, we proved one thing: if it's a matter of partial support and partial opposition, then even if the other side is human, they will be forcibly turned into ghosts and let in. It's just that ghosts don't seem to kill us immediately."

Zhang Qiang retorted:
"Bullshit! That guy in the second round was a ghost! A ghost! If he were a human, he definitely wouldn't have acted like this!"

"He is a ghost."

Xiaoya retorted:
“He’s a human being. He didn’t drown. I already know a lot about his secrets. I can see…”

Xiaoya's eyes have started to look a little scary, as if they've been soaking in water for too long.

Zhang Qiang mocked:
"It's hard to say whether you're a human or a ghost now. Don't forget, you were the one who persuaded everyone to open the door for the ghost in the third round."

Zhang Qiang drank the red wine:
"I support Li Wei. You bunch of idiots, why do you care about all those damn rules?"

"As long as we don't open any doors, the vengeful spirits will be stuck in the corners and can't harm us, right?"

"But if we let the ghost in... it will attack us immediately, right, Nurse Ren? Why don't you look in the mirror and see what you look like, like a drowned ghost?"

Xiaoya subconsciously touched her face. She was scared, knowing that she must look terrifying now.

A voice said from outside the door:

"I'm a human being! Li Wei, you bastard, you never expected this, did you? I jumped off a building, right in front of you, but I didn't die! I didn't die!"

The people outside started kicking the door.

The sound was loud, but no one seemed too nervous.

Li Wei said:

"This guy was a bastard. I made him so ashamed that he lost his temper and jumped off a building! I saw him jump with my own eyes! He couldn't possibly be human!"

"Falling from such a height, there's absolutely no way he could survive! I saw him fall to his death with my own eyes."

Xiaoya suddenly let out a chilling laugh:

"Hehehe, if drowning people can be saved, why can't people who jump off buildings live?"

Her entire demeanor changed instantly, and her gaze turned venomous.

But the next moment, after saying those words, she reverted to her original demeanor, and when she saw everyone looking at her, she seemed a little lost.

Possessed by a ghost.

Wen Xishu guessed that the water ghost had already controlled Xiaoya at that moment.

However, the search for a substitute was not yet fully completed, so Xiaoya quickly regained control.

This means that Xiaoya doesn't have much time left.

Wen Xishu made a bold decision: he walked towards the wronged spirit—the very person who had been voted to death by the crowd at the beginning.

It has become a ghost, hovering near the bar, corrupting the minds of everyone who gets close.

Wen Xishu addressed the crowd:

"Don't move, I'm going to get some intelligence."

Chen Ming looked at Wen Xishu with appreciation, and then said:

"I agree with Wen Xishu's point of view. We'd better not drink without consulting someone. Just because you're certain about something doesn't mean it's true."

"If there are only ghosts during Ghost Festival, this game becomes much simpler."

"The difficulty lies precisely in the fact that something may appear to be a ghost, but is actually a human being."

Wen Xishu approached the wronged spirit:

"what are you waiting for?"

The vengeful spirit looked at Wen Xishu. As the first one to dare to approach it, it immediately began to bewitch Wen Xishu: "Do you think you can survive tonight?"

"You bunch of idiots who can't tell the difference between humans and ghosts, hehehe, you'll all die!"

"You only have three more chances. If you make three wrong judgments, that's it!"

Wen Xishu squinted.

They actually obtained intelligence.

The phonograph didn't tell us; perhaps we'll have to dig it out ourselves. It might not be about digging every time we open a door; we might even have to dig it out from the ghost itself.

However, getting close to the ghosts was indeed dangerous. Wen Xishu had already begun to hear their murmurs, making it difficult for him to concentrate.

A wave of negative emotions rose from the bottom of her heart. Wen Xishu was able to hold out for a while thanks to her magic resistance. If it were anyone else, they would probably have started talking nonsense after getting close for so long.

Wen Xishu said:
"Other ghosts aren't as unlucky as you. They won't die so easily, you good-for-nothing."

The ghost paused for a moment.

This man seems difficult to corrupt; his mental strength far surpasses that of others.

And he actually dared to mock me?

"Tsk, do you know what you look like right now? Like a dog on a leash, trying your best to show your ferocity, but I find you extremely pitiful."

"You want to kill me? Don't even mention making the same mistake three more times, even ten or eight more times. What can a bunch of useless trash like you do behind the bar besides put on a show of incompetent barking?"

The ghost roared:

"Once you've wrongly killed three innocent people, we'll kill you all! We'll kill you all!"

Wen Xishu was certain that the other party was very angry and disgusted with him.

This is good. After all, with the new sequence, the more the opponent hates you, the greater your chances of winning.

At the same time, he received a rule.

Wen Xishu quickly retreated from the bar area, and the rambling in her mind vanished instantly.

He glanced at the crowd and said:

"Everyone... I don't know if you heard my conversation with the wronged spirit just now."

"First of all, we must understand that this is a tavern where both humans and ghosts exist. Humans have rules for killing ghosts, and ghosts have rules for killing humans."

"The ghosts are waiting for us to make a mistake. We currently know that the price of wrongfully killing an innocent person is that the number of wronged souls will increase. When the number of wronged souls reaches four..."

"We will die, everyone will die."

Everyone was startled.

Inside the door are chilling rules, outside there is a desperate knocking.

At that moment, Lao Zhou suddenly started vomiting.

He was scared.

Wen Xishu said:
“The wronged spirits may be lying, and we can comfort ourselves by thinking it’s fake news… but one thing is certain: we dare not gamble.”

"We can't afford to make a mistake. We'd better not kill any more innocent people, otherwise... if the rules are true, we'll all be gone."

Wen Xishu said:
"Li Wei, what exactly did you do to the person outside the door?"

Wen Xishu knew that Li Wei was timid, so he decided to go for something big.

He walked over to Li Wei, picked him up with one hand, and Zhang Qiang was shocked when he saw this.

Wen Xishu claims to be a teacher, but his arm strength is astonishing.

Without a gun... I might not be a match for him.

Li Wei was lifted up and angrily shouted:
"What are you doing! What are you trying to do!"

Wen Xishu said:
"I want to know the truth."

Li Wei tried to struggle, but Wen Xishu was too strong. Then, he realized Wen Xishu's intention.

Wen Xishu actually grabbed him and pulled him closer to the ghost at the bar.

In that instant, a surge of negative emotions overwhelmed him, and rambling thoughts entered Li Wei's mind.

Li Wei was instantly gripped by extreme fear.

The barrage of comments also occurred at this moment.

Wen Xishu did not hesitate and immediately obtained the information.

The truth was revealed in an instant.

……

……

The person outside the door is named Wang Hai.

He is a friend of Li Wei, the "Doomsday Merchant," and the two used to be friends.

Before the apocalypse, Wang Hai financially supported Li Wei during his many times of hardship.

After the apocalypse, before the order in many cities completely collapsed, Li Wei established a charitable mutual aid association.

In cities where ghost stories are becoming increasingly prevalent, people can come to him to collect supplies for free.

Wang Hai thought Li Wei's idea was brilliant, and with Li Wei's persuasion, Wang Hai quickly joined the group.

For a few days, Li Wei really acted like a benevolent philanthropist during the apocalypse.

More and more people came here because of his reputation, resting here as if they had found a safe haven.

But Wang Hai didn't know that the mutual assistance was a pretense, and the real purpose was plunder.

More and more people were grateful to Li Wei for the free food and water, but soon Li Wei began to amass wealth through various means, including but not limited to violence and poisoning.

"In this apocalypse, what's the value of conscience!"

“These people were going to starve to death anyway. I gave them a bite to eat, which allowed them to live a few more days! Now, I’m taking their things… No, this isn’t robbery, this is a transaction!”

"Isn't that reasonable?"

"You know some people don't have a single valuable item on them, and I'm even losing money! I've already been very kind!"

These words were spoken by Li Wei to Wang Hai's face when Wang Hai discovered Li Wei's true colors.

Earlier, Li Wei realized that there were many strange things happening in the city, and that the whole world was not at peace.

He began frantically hoarding food and weapons. Yes, even if he didn't have weapons, he was just hoarding food for someone else.

After the apocalypse, Li Wei occupied an office building and, together with his former relatives, renovated it, using the guise of mutual aid to attract others.

After gaining the trust of others by offering them some food, they robbed them of everything.

The looted goods were then used to trade for food with some "doomsday officials" in other regions.

The so-called "doomsday leader" refers to people like Li Wei who have a small force in the apocalypse and occupy a building.

For a businessman, the first thing is to find buyers.

Using such methods, Li Wei deceived many people.

When Wang Hai learned everything, he questioned Li Wei about why he did this. Li Wei stopped pretending and said the things mentioned above.

At last……

Li Wei felt that Wang Hai always treated him arrogantly because he had helped him before the apocalypse, and since Wang Hai had already discovered Li Wei's secret, he could no longer be allowed to live.

That office building has fourteen floors.

"I'll take care of your wife for you. I've been craving your sister-in-law for a long time, Hai-ge. You can go in peace."

If a person falls from a building more than ten stories high... they will most likely not survive.

Wang Hai's body remained motionless on the ground.

Everyone assumed he was dead, and Li Wei's men quickly took Wang Hai's body to the garbage dump.

This is the story of the person knocking on the door and the person inside.

After reading it, Wen Xishu curled his lips into a cold smile.

Therefore, being timid does not mean being kind-hearted.

Li Wei appears to be a cowardly businessman, yet his heart is exceptionally ruthless.

At the same time, Wen Xishu suddenly realized that in the early days of the apocalypse, there was also a lot of infighting among ordinary people who were not capable of anything.

The apocalypse is far more brutal than people imagine.

The inhabitants of the bunker believed that the apocalypse was about various bizarre monsters trying to kill them... In reality, in the true apocalypse, the monsters were terrifying, but so were the people.

After figuring out all of this, Wen Xishu said:

"I roughly understand the cause and effect now."

"I need to conduct an experiment, an experiment that is very dangerous and could potentially kill someone."

"If you don't want to end up like Xiaoya, hated by ghosts, you'd better all drink blue wine like me."

Wen Xishu threw Li Wei out of the bar area, and Li Wei cried out in pain.

Wen Xishu then drank the blue wine.

That was a welcome drink.

Xiaoya drank the blue wine without hesitation.

At this moment, Li Wei felt utterly hopeless.

Zhang Qiang cursed:

"You bastard, are you going to let that ghost in again?"

Wen Xishu said:
"Let me remind you, in the second round, after the water ghost came in, he immediately found Xiaoya to be his stand-in, and Xiaoya voted against it at the time."

"Guess what? If you choose to help Li Wei out of loyalty and vote against it, will the thing that came in kill you?"

Next, Wen Xishu recounted everything Li Wei had done to Wang Hai outside the door.

Li Wei was shocked:

"How could you know! How could you know! No... everyone, don't listen to his nonsense, I'm not like that! I'm a good person!"

Wang Hai, standing outside the door, was also surprised, but he simply glared at the camera.
You dare call yourself a good person?

"Li Wei, I will not let you go! Everyone knows about your crimes, and I will come in and kill you!"

As Wen Xishu drank the blue wine, he made a threatening gesture, and then finished telling the story of Li Wei and Wang Hai...

With Xiaoya and Chen Ming taking sides, Lao Zhou and the nerdy Afei also drank the blue wine.

Zhang Qiang really didn't want to hear Wen Xishu's words, but he was afraid of what that kid would say.

Now, with blue and red, ghosts and humans alike will definitely be let in.

If the ghost that's let in needs to find a substitute from the person who drank the red wine... then it can only be him.

Zhang Qiang immediately drank the blue wine.

“Officer Zhang! Why don’t you believe me?” Li Wei shouted.

Zhang Qiang cursed:

"Screw you, I'm not going to lose my life for a piece of trash like you, am I?"

Unfortunately, he had already drunk the red wine, and it was too late to back out.

The blue liquor tasted like ordinary water and didn't give Zhang Qiang any feeling.

Zhang Qiang also saw a clue:
Invalid choice

After everyone had drunk their drinks, the familiar opera singing began to play on the gramophone, followed by the sickening scraping sound of an oak door.

Wang Hai, limping, covered in sores, and emaciated, entered.

Everyone subconsciously made way for Wang Hai.

After Wang Hai entered, he glanced gratefully at Wen Xishu, and then his eyes seemed to spit out flames—flames of revenge.

His eyes were bloodshot as he glared at Li Wei:

"It's time to pay back the debt!"

(End of this chapter)