Three Towers Game

Chapter 388 The Strange Tale of Killing Oneself
Actually, if you can't choose the first option...

The subsequent experiences will most likely also present difficult choices.

[Experience Two: Jiang Zhaonan fell in love with a man, and this man loved her too. This man was compassionate and selfless.]

Once you understand the true nature of the game, you'll realize it's a twisted narrative disguised in seemingly normal language...

Wen Xishu felt that this was the time to examine the dark side of his own heart.

Tang Rui asked:

"Is there... a problem with this option?"

Wen Xishu sighed:
"All I can say is that you're still too... not dark enough, and that's no less of a problem than the one before."

Wen Xishu had already looked at Experience Three.

[Experience 3: Jiang Zhaonan falls in love with a man who cares for her like a father.]

Without a doubt, Jiang Zhaonan's father is a scumbag... so this option doesn't seem like a good one either.

Stop looking for men, why not focus on your career?
Wen Xishu genuinely felt sorry for the girl. At the same time, he realized that he himself was quite dark as well; his experiences from one to three could, in his opinion, be enough to write a story intertwined with the bizarre and the perverse.

The scariest thing is... this option actually allows multiple selections.

Any one of these options is enough to drive someone crazy.

Wen Xishu wondered if Tang Rui would be driven insane by the villains she herself had designed.
Wen Xishu was constantly making choices while thinking things through.

What I'm thinking about is the purpose of this game.

Suppose...

Let's assume the girl on the electronic screen is a disgusting pervert, an enemy that Tang Rui needs to defeat.

So why did she make Tang Rui make these choices?

Wen Xishu quickly thought of Tang Rui's abilities—and was filled with mixed feelings.

This ability allowed Tang Rui to experience Wen Xishu's past, and thus, the two exchanged secrets.

Tang Rui also experienced the loneliness of burning her parents to death from Wen Xishu's perspective.

So……

When Tang Rui faces these villains, wouldn't she also be able to sense... their past?

Thinking about it this way, Wen Xishu felt a little reluctant.

He looked at the last option:

[Experience 4: Jiang Zhaonan was dedicated to her career and achieved great success; everyone spoke highly of her. However, due to poor health, she retired early.]

Career? What career? Highly praised?

Damn it, not a single option is something a good person in the conventional sense would choose.

Wen Xishu fell silent.

Tang Rui said:

"Choose three."

Tang Rui, being the owner of this possession with mixed feelings, naturally knew that Wen Xishu's silence at this moment was because he was thinking about how to protect her to the greatest extent.

She was grateful for Wen Xishu's tenderness at that moment.

“Wen Xishu… Here, our hearts are connected. You are really amazing. I didn’t understand before why I was asked to design these people’s experiences.”

"So, it turns out, they wanted to use my abilities and these experiences to make me experience the same dark life."

"Thank you."

“Choose number three, number three is relatively better. No matter how awful her father is, I’ve been through similar things.”

These words made Wen Xishu feel a pang of heartache.

He finally nodded:

"If I make the wrong choice, it's my responsibility, understand?"

Wen Xishu made a choice.

Some say that men ultimately choose a partner based on their mothers, while women ultimately choose a partner based on their fathers. Jiang Zhaonan truly found a man just as awful as her father—an alcoholic, gambler, and abuser. She lived a life of hardship in a small house, often locked up by the man and unable to move. On the day she became pregnant, she began to pray that she would give birth to a boy.

Jiang Zhaonan gains the ability "Ghost Fetus".

[Jiang Zhaonan's creation complete. This is an urban fantasy tale filled with intense hatred for all men. She wanders the nights of Jiangcheng, always exuding a fatal allure to the drunken lads. The drunks believe it's a night full of romance, but it will be the last night of their lives.]

Wen Xishu knew that from this moment on, a strange tale had been added to that peculiar Jiangcheng, a city that seemed as if the apocalypse had never come.

Jiang Zhaonan possesses four abilities: good fortune, charm, intimacy, and ulterior motives.

Naturally, as a supernatural tale, their basic physical strength, speed, and power are far superior to those of ordinary people.

The taxi driver's target was a couple, but this time Jiang Zhaonan's target was a drunk man.

Wen Xishu felt sorry for this Jiang Zhaonan.

He suddenly said:
What will happen if we ignore her?

Jiang Zhaonan's experiences are likely just as damaging as Tang Rui's. If Tang Rui were to defeat Jiang Zhaonan, she would truly understand the pain she has endured...

Wen Xishu was willing to let Jiang Zhaonan go.

Tang Rui sighed softly:

"Many people will die in Jiangcheng... These dead people will become the nourishment for the birth of the next villain."

"As I've said before, I'm caught in a strange cycle."

“I have to kill the villains I designed myself, so that I can experience their experiences.”

"The side effect of this mixed feeling is that it gave me immense mental strength, but it also caused me some pain."

“I can ignore them. I’m certain that the monster is in Jiangcheng.”

"I mean, the real mastermind. It's hiding in Jiangcheng. But I can't find it."

"Once I enter Jiangcheng, I will enter Jiangcheng, a place where it rains constantly but has not been ravaged by the apocalypse."

“In this river city, whenever I fall asleep, I enter this place and have to devise a villain.”

“If I don’t deal with the villains, they will kill indiscriminately, which will lead to… the next villain having an even more twisted experience and being even more powerful.”

Wen Xishu pressed further:
"How about controlling the other party?"

"What if we exploit a bug to trap the target, preventing them from dying but also preventing them from harming others?"

Tang Rui said:

“It didn’t work. I’ve tried doing that, taking control of someone and locking them up in a dark place.”

"But that night, I dreamt of his past... I was awakened by those twisted memories. Then I thought about going to see him..."

“But when I arrived, he was already dead. The surveillance footage showed that he seemed to have been affected by some external force, and his vitality rapidly withered away.”

Wen Xishu never expected there to be such a "restriction".

You can only kill the target. If you don't kill the target... even if you just control the target, you will be affected by the bizarre dream.

In her dreams, those experiences probably had an even greater impact on Tang Rui.

After all, the protagonist in the dream was Tang Rui herself.

He could imagine how twisted a dream must be to be able to wake Tang Rui up.

Tang Rui said helplessly:
"I'll say it again: unless I leave Jiangcheng forever and never set foot here again."

Wen Xishu understood:
"But you need to go back to Jiangcheng, right?"

Tang Rui said:

"Yes, I want to go back here."

While escaping might be useful, Wen Xishu also knew very well that he couldn't escape.

This is the content of this mission.

So the recruitment missions in the Tower of Slaughter are actually in such a bizarre style?
“Then… let’s continue the cycle and go through a complete process?” Wen Xishu suggested.

Tang Rui nodded:
"Okay. The best way I can think of right now is to quickly find the target and then kill him."

"In that case, although I will soon start creating the next villain... in the end, the next enemy won't be too strong."

Wen Xishu didn't speak, but was thinking about how to capture this urban legend named Jiang Zhaonan.

He took out his compass.

At first, the compass didn't point to anyone, but as Wen Xishu's desires became more and more obvious, the compass quickly gave a direction.

It has to be said that Dingdong's products, even in this version, still work well.

After confirming the direction, Wen Xishu said:
“I’ll do it; you’re not allowed to participate in the hunt. I don’t want you to go through what Jiang Zhaonan went through.”

Tang Rui did not refuse, but whispered:

"Thank you, Wen Xishu." ...

……

The dream ended quickly once the villain's creation was complete.

On this rainy night, the taxi driver who hunted down the couple is dead, but a new monster has been born.

Wearing shiny black stockings, a business suit, and with her hair tied up, Jiang Zhaonan, looking drunk, appeared outside the restroom of a nightclub with a dazed look in her eyes.

She leaned against the sink, and soon, her prey took the bait.

The man was immediately captivated by the woman's gaze.

In a nightclub, with those kinds of looks, everyone knows what's going to happen next.

Soon, the two embraced, then went into the bathroom, closed the door, and began kissing.

The man is a player; in fact, he is very shrewd and has high aspirations.

His ability to park a supercar outside a nightclub, in particular, made him incredibly successful.

Over time, not just anyone can get into his car. Under the spotlight, the club makeup makes every woman alluring, but once in the car, he will carefully sized up his prey.

If they find the prey unattractive, they might even force it off the vehicle.

But for some reason, today he acted like a starving man who had never seen a woman before, his mind filled with nothing but desire, wanting to devour women like a wild beast.

The woman's laughter was alluring, and in this filthy place, the two of them became like wild beasts, caring for nothing.

But soon, the man suddenly woke up.

The two were in the midst of a passionate embrace, their pants already off, when the man soon touched... a head.

The baby's cries terrified the man, who thought he was hallucinating.

At this moment, the woman becomes even more alluring:

"I gave birth to a boy for you. Do you like him?"

The man was so frightened he couldn't move. He saw the baby boy crawl out of the woman's blood-soaked genitals with a twisted smile, the umbilical cord still attached, and then slowly crawl towards him.

He seemed to be imprisoned by some strange force.

At this moment, the man realized in despair that he and the woman had become one. He didn't know when, but his limbs were intertwined with the woman's limbs as if they were made of flesh.

Let's live happily as a family of three!

The woman's head split open, followed by her body, which seemed to split into two lumps of flesh. Then, writhing, she devoured the man along with the infant.

The roar of heavy metal music from the nightclub masked the tragedy that had occurred in the restroom.

After a while, the door opened.

A woman with exquisite makeup and a rosy complexion emerged.

She leaned against the sink, waiting for her next prey.

The next prey appeared soon.

This is a young man who looks to have just turned eighteen.

But if you look closely at the young man's eyes, you'll feel that he seems somewhat weathered.

After seeing the other person's appearance clearly and estimating that he was very young, Jiang Zhaonan was surprisingly not interested in this little brother.

Most importantly, she didn't smell any alcohol.

"Go away."

Jiang Zhaonan actually spoke.

"Your eyes were quite alluring just now, how come you sobered up so quickly? Do you think I'm that greedy?"

Wen Xishu was speechless.

He heard Tang Rui's sneer in his mind.

They arrived too late; Jiang Zhaonan had already dealt with one of the men.

Fortunately, Wen Xishu managed to prevent the emergence of another victim.

He noticed Jiang Zhaonan's alluring demeanor from the very beginning, but soon, for some unknown reason, Jiang Zhaonan lost interest in Wen Xishu.

Her eyes were no longer alluring, but had become cold.

They even told him to leave.

Wen Xishu was still a little unconvinced.

Jiang Zhaonan said:
"I have no interest in a fledgling like you who can't hold his liquor."

Wen Xishu was furious:

"What did the fledgling do to you?"

Jiang Zhaonan:
"roll!"

Suddenly her head split open, and the baby inside her belly emerged from her abdomen like a huge tumor, revealing the baby's resentful expression.

This scene would be enough to scare any old pervert into shrinking back into his abdomen on the spot.

But unfortunately... Wen Xishu wasn't a lecherous old man. Although his charm was powerful, Tang Rui, with her terrifying mental strength, was protecting him not far away.

"Wow, this is even better than your cat doing a backflip. I have to seduce her now."

Wen Xishu said calmly.

Jiang Zhaonan was somewhat stunned.

Wen Xishu sighed:
"I'm sorry, I have to take you back. I sympathize with you, but you can't kill people."

While the split head was certainly terrifying, Wen Xishu's ability to summon a shadow out of thin air was even more eerie.

Shadow originally thought Wen Xishu was going to persecute it again, but when it saw that the other party was just a minor character, it kicked him with its ultimate kick without saying a word.

The commotion caused panic among the crowd, but thankfully everyone quickly quieted down.

Under the immense influence of their mental energy, everyone seemed to forget the commotion in the bathroom and continued playing music and dancing.

A short while later, Wen Xishu walked out of the nightclub.

Tang Rui said:

"solved?"

Wen Xishu nodded:
"Monsters of this level are still quite easy for me."

"You...didn't sense anything bad, did you?"

Tang Rui shook her head:

"I didn't kill her with my own hands, and my overwhelming emotions prevented me from experiencing her memories and experiences."

"This time, I don't have any bad feelings."

Wen Xishu felt a little relieved. In this way, the first round of the cycle was considered complete.

Moreover, Tang Rui was not "contaminated" during this process.

But then new troubles arose.

Indeed, ghost stories are dead.

But as long as Tang Rui still wants to protect this city, new strange tales will emerge.

"This night will soon be over, but the next night... will come."

Tang Rui was somewhat worried.

Wen Xishu said:
"Don't rush. The first and second experiences will inevitably be different. Based on these different experiences, we will find the problem."

Wen Xishu hadn't quite figured it out yet, but with his extensive experience climbing the Tower of Ghosts, he already had his own logic for dealing with strange events.

Now, he has caught a glimpse of a clue.

The person behind the scenes may want to use Tang Rui's "mixed feelings" to further destroy her.

Killing monsters, creating monsters, an endless cycle—as someone directly involved, Tang Rui could very well be driven to the brink of collapse.

Fortunately, I have some skill and can kill the current ghost stories.

Wen Xishu already had an interesting idea in his mind:

"The second round of the cycle has begun, which is perfect. I also want to do an experiment and try something different."

Tang Rui said:

"What are you going to do?"

Wen Xishu said:
"This time, let's create a tragic male character and continue... in the direction of a top-tier simp."

(End of this chapter)