Three Towers Game

Chapter 335 The Witty Spark Bro
The series of deaths caused Wen Xishu to experience mental health issues.

But he had seen his share of storms, and despite the erosion of life, he did not become depressed.

From the distant clock tower, one could still hear some rustling sounds.

Facing these Hanged Men again, Wen Xishu now possesses the same methods, along with multiple shields and immense strength.

He was the real monster. This time, he forcibly suppressed the negative emotions in his heart and began a frenzied sprint.

The puddles formed by dust and tears could not stop his steps.

Wen Xishu's movements precisely avoided every puddle. Then, countless Hanged Men were startled awake, and they once again uttered mocking sounds directed at Charlie:

"Charlie, you're a piece of trash, a complete waste!"

Countless ropes intertwined in the sky, marking the trajectory of the inverted people's collective attack, but all the ropes that tried to approach Wenxi Tree were deflected by the arms behind Wenxi Tree.

The arms of the Rejection Wall seemed to have a sense of absolute defense, making it difficult for the ropes to even get close to the Wenxi Tree, let alone touch it.

The hunger pangs in Wen Xishu's abdomen led him to stuff ropes directly into his large mouth whenever he encountered them.

Then, Wen Xishu also activated the Hanged Man's ability, levitating into the air and rushing into the Hanged Man's camp.

He moved like a valiant general slaying bandits, his numerous arms waving wildly, and wherever he went, the corpses of people hanging upside down flew about.

"Charlie, Charlie, nobody loves you."

After saying this, the upside-down man was torn apart by Wen Xishu with his bare hands and then stuffed into his own abdomen.

The people hanging upside down showed no fear on their faces, but instead wore mocking smiles, not because they believed they still had a chance of winning.

However, no matter what environment they face, they always show an annoying face.

The Hanged Man symbolizes self-loathing, but there must be other elements involved.

Suddenly, Wen Xishu's body began to feel immense pressure, which rendered him unable to move.

That's gravity.

Whispering noose, dusty tears, and altered gravity—these are the three abilities of the Hanged Man.

As gravity shifted, the hanging men sped up, while Wen Xishu slowed down. The hanging men began charging forward again, one by one, attempting to kill Wen Xishu as they had done the first time.

But Wen Xishu is also ruthless in the face of this change:
"You think only you can create a geographical advantage?"

Wen Xishu pulled out the Scorpion Knife, but instead of harming his enemy, he reversed the hilt and, with a flourish, stabbed himself in the stomach.

The immense pain contorted Wen Xishu's expression into a grimace.

At the same time, Wen Xishu's body began to change, and sharp horns grew on his arms.

The arms behind it became thick and powerful, with nails as sharp as blades.

This is the change he desires to break through and kill his enemies.

Meanwhile, the surrounding gravity began to favor Wenxi Tree.

Trapped beasts in the marshland, they are subjected to mutated carnage.

The two methods, combined with Wen Xishu's current monster form, instantly reversed the battlefield situation.

This time, it wasn't Wenxi Tree that slowed down, but the people hanging upside down.

Faced with the surging Hanged Man, Wen Xishu raised his knife and brought it down, summoning his shadow once more.

This time, Shadow didn't give Wen Xishu the middle finger. He quickly calculated that this was an advantageous situation, so he nodded to Wen Xishu and began to join the mowing army.

One man, one shadow, one knife, rampaging through countless hanging men.

Severed arms and heads flew around, while eerie dust was constantly being sprayed out.

ten minutes later.

The shadow disappeared.

Wen Xishu held the knife, his breathing somewhat rapid.

Behind him was a hazy, endless expanse of dust. Those were the corpses of people hanging upside down.

Instead of dissipating, the dust slowly began to coalesce again, forming a new Hanged Man.

Killing the Hanged Man won't kill the knot in Charlie's heart, nor will it erase his past experiences.

As long as the inner morbidity remains, the Hanged Man will always exist.

But it will take time for a new Hanged Man to appear.

This gives Wen Xishu enough time to explore the clock tower.

……

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At the end of the alley, a crooked, dilapidated brick and stone clock tower rises from the ground.

It pierced straight into the gray, fog-shrouded sky. The spire had collapsed, revealing a twisted steel frame.

The huge clock face was empty, without hands or numbers, just a dark, round hole.

It's as if time stands still here, and suffering is eternal.

Wen Xishu remained vigilant, after all, there might be an even more powerful enemy hiding in the clock tower.

The heavy oak door was already rotten and half-open, covered with scratches and engravings. When Wen Xishu pushed the door open, he found that the content of these engravings was basically the same as the Wall of Rejection.

"Don't come in!" "Leave here!" "Get out!"

They all contain the same kind of content.

He thought about it and decided he still had to go in and take a look.

The dust made the interior of the clock tower look decayed, and in a corner on the ground floor, some childhood items were piled up.

The first thing Wen Xishu saw was a worn-out, patched teddy bear. One of its eyes had been gouged out. Not only that, its head looked like it had been torn apart, revealing the stuffing inside.

He noticed... there were words written on the teddy bear's belly: Spark.

Wen Xishu identified the several torn fairy tale books by the children on the covers, but the titles were no longer legible.

In addition, there was a math competition medal with a chip in it. The medal wasn't gold.

"A brass medal, it seems like he came in third place?"

All of these things were covered in a layer of dust.

Wen Xishu sighed and walked upstairs.

The only path to the top floor is an interior, decaying wooden staircase and platform. The structure is extremely unstable, with many steps broken or missing, and the handrails teetering on the verge of collapse.

If this happened in a ghost world, you might fall down while walking and then be surrounded by several hanging men.

Fortunately, Wen Xishu is not the protagonist of the soul-wandering story; he can use jumping and ropes to solve all the terrain in the underworld.

On the middle level of the clock tower, there was only one place that caught Wen Xishu's attention.

A letter was placed in the niche in the staircase.

Without a doubt, textual information is the most valuable element in this kind of exploration game.

Wen Xishu also got excited. After the second battle and finally defeating the Hanged Man, he was finally able to unlock some clear text information.

Beside the niche, Wen Xishu picked up the letter.

The handwriting on the letter had become much blurred, not because of the passage of time, but because of... tears.

Even so, there are still many things that can be identified; the letter was written to a girl named Anya.

But clearly, the letter was never sent.

It was still in an envelope, and you could see the words "To Anya" written on it.

Wen Xishu opened the envelope.

At that moment, a tremendous emotional shock struck.

He sensed some images.

Countless failed exam papers, the ridicule of countless peers, and the father's cold response...

And finally, the news of Anya's death.

All of this made Wen Xishu feel extremely oppressed.

He opened the envelope and began to read. It was a letter of confession, with only one theme throughout.

Anya, I'm sorry I didn't come to save you. If I had cared about you more, would you still be alive?
Inside the envelope were only self-reproach, longing for Anya, and feelings of guilt.

There was no other information. All that was known was that a girl named Anya had died.

Charlie was cowardly and failed to make any changes before Anya died. He also blamed himself for Anya's death.

However, Wen Xishu was still unclear about the specifics.

He walked toward the top of the clock tower, knowing that the truth must lie inside.

The cramped top floor of the decaying clock tower was filled with howling winds. The floor was riddled with cracks, through which one could glimpse the dizzying alleyways below.

There's only one thing worth noting on the top floor: a tape recorder.

The electrical sound Wen Xishu heard not long ago was from this very thing.

It seemed decayed, corroded by the dust and tears of the Hanged Man, to the point that it made a hissing sound.

Wen Xishu thought for a moment and decided to repair the tape recorder.

He touched the area covered by the dust and tears, flicking them away. Those tears, which were corrosive enough to cause a person, caused Wenxi Tree some pain.

However, Wen Xishu's own strength was enough to easily withstand this pain.

Soon, after the dust and tears were brushed away, the tape recorder started playing.

That's the sound of a puppy barking.

This includes, but is not limited to, barking and whining sounds that are meant to be affectionate.

"Spark, Spark, only you won't despise me."

"Spark, Spark, we'll always be best friends."

"Spark, I also named my teddy bear Spark."

"If one day... I can't hold on any longer, please wag your tail at me, and I will live on for you."

The voice on the tape recorder was unmistakably Charlie's.

Charlie's voice trembled with tears.

Wen Xishu remembered the images that came to mind when he touched the envelope, one of which was a stack of failed exam papers.

And there was the ridicule from countless peers.

"Perhaps these were the pressures of his childhood? Under such pressure, he began to break down and took his emotional burdens out on his little dog named Spark."

The tape recorder continued recording.

After a while, the last sound played on the tape recorder was Charlie's desperate cries.

"No... Daddy! Please save Spark!"

“You should focus on your studies! That’s just a stray dog ​​near the clock tower. I don’t consider it a member of our family.”

"Dad...please save it, it's my friend!"

"Charlie! I buy you expensive children's clothes, watches that your classmates envy, and tutors you in private, not so you can befriend dogs!"

"Dad...it...it's really dying."

"Charlie, this dog probably costs fifty dollars on the market? No, maybe even less. Do you know how expensive these study guides I bought for you are? You want to buy a puppy? Sure, I can give you an expensive purebred dog, as long as you can win a gold medal in the next math competition."

A hissing sound came through, followed by a series of crackling noises, and then the tape recorder started playing back the earliest sound.

That was the voice of "Spark," Charlie's only friend and his dead dog.

Listening to the puppy's whimpering on the tape recorder now, Wen Xishu felt that it was no longer just whining, but rather Charlie's only friend's final, tender farewell to Charlie.

Wen Xishu finally knew how to fill the gluttonous demon's insatiable belly.

He picked up the letter that had never been sent, the one addressed to Anya.

He put it in his pocket as if it were a prop.

This letter should be an important tool for clearing the other chapters.

But then, Wen Xishu did something else.

He searched the clock tower for a while and found the needle and thread, as well as the eyes of the teddy bear "Spark" in the corner.

He sewed the bear's eyes onto its head, stuffed the cotton inside, and then mended the broken head with needle and thread.

After doing all this, Wen Xishu did indeed discover that the outside world had changed somewhat.

In a gloomy place always shrouded in dust... a beam of sunlight, not strong but absolutely eye-catching, gently shines through the cracks in the clock tower and falls on the teddy bear.

In the broken and dark environment, the appearance of such a beam of light instantly gave the whole scene a sense of healing.

And something even more miraculous happened at that moment.

Wen Xishu thought that after repairing the teddy bear, he could take it to the Eternal Hunger Kitchen and trigger the Eternal Hunger Kitchen storyline.

But the following scene made Wen Xishu feel strange.

The teddy bear actually came to life at that moment.

"Phew! In this damp, monster-infested place, finally a normal person has arrived!"

"Let's go save Charlie together! My name is Spark, and I'm a... noble, unnamed mixed-breed dog. Yes, a mixed breed. Don't you humans like mixed breeds? Damn it, why is it called a 'mixed breed' when it comes to dogs!"

As Spark spoke, she became somewhat excited, seemingly forgetting that this was just a self-introduction.

Wen Xishu was stunned; this turn of events was something he had never expected.

In a place with a dark and gloomy art style, there are actually such...warm lives?

Yes, compared to creatures like the Hanged Man, the Glutton, and the Rejection Wall... Teddy Bear Sparks has such a warm color palette that it even gives you a healing feeling.

"What are you standing there for? Damn it, are you an idiot? Oh my god, you absolutely can't be as stupid as Charlie. Okay, you two seem equally stupid. Well then, follow my orders. From now on, call me Master Hua! Master Hua will take you out of this hellhole!"

Just as Spark was chattering away, the first batch of reborn Hanged Men appeared.

They seem to be very sensitive to the presence of sparks; it was they who strangled the sparks in the first place.

In an instant, the Hanging Men threw their ropes over and hung them on the roof, ready to deliver a fatal blow to Teddy Bear Spark.

"Mommy! Help! You there! Help me!" Spark instantly hugged Wen Xishu's leg tightly.

Wen Xishu could face a group of upside-down men, so naturally he didn't care about one or two upside-down men.

In a swift motion, he dispatched the two hanging men.

"Wow! My subordinates are supposed to be this powerful! Of course, your strength is still too weak. Let me tell you this, if I, Master Hua, were to take action, no one in the entire Dust Land would be my match!"

Seeing that the hanging man had been easily dealt with, the sky immediately cleared and the rain stopped.

Wen Xishu couldn't help but find it amusing. This cheeky teddy bear looked so much like the bear in a movie from his past life.
"My name is Wen Xishu. I never expected... that there would be someone in the Land of Obsession who harbored goodwill towards Charlie. By the way, do you know Anya?"

Wen Xishu immediately understood.

Charlie longs for Spark to live. The little creature is intelligent and knows that Charlie will be very sad if he dies.

Its obsession is to continue being Charlie's protector.

This is one of the few places in the entire Dust Land that doesn't feel so oppressive.

It bore the brunt of Charlie's countless negative emotions. If his father had agreed to treat Spark during his childhood, perhaps Dust Land would never have existed.

So, in a sense, Spark really can fight against the entire Dust Land all by itself.

"Anya? Sounds like a beautiful girl's name. I don't know her. She's an NPC in the campus area. I died young. When I was alive, Charlie didn't even have any sexual fantasies."

Wen Xishu nodded:

"The world's malice toward Charlie, and Charlie's own perception of the world, shaped the Land of Obsession... But since you can exist, perhaps Anya, who is one of the few who has goodwill toward Charlie, can also exist."

"Perhaps you are here and can help me get through the wall of rejection."

Spark scratched his backside with his hairy hands, saying as he did so:
"What are you babbling about? Give me two hundred yuan first, then buy me a chicken leg."

Wen Xishu chuckled. He had to admit that having someone like this to explore such places with greatly alleviated his depression. He said:

“I do know where there’s food, more than enough to eat, but do you know how to get out of the clock tower? I don’t want to die out there again.”

(End of this chapter)