Three Towers Game

Chapter 410 A Bunker is Also a Tower

Strangely enough, in Wen Xishu's view, 001 had plenty of time to explain certain issues to him.

But for some reason, they would also give extra talks to the former principal.

Albert first talked about Wen Xishu's predicament at the time.

It was only after hearing this that Wen Xishu realized that he had almost died, and that it was a crisis that he was completely unaware of and had no way to resist.

He couldn't help but feel a lingering fear. Considering the guide's reaction, Wen Xishu suddenly understood—

No wonder those three heads reacted so strongly; in their minds, this level was probably almost impossible to pass.

Wen Xishu finally realized that she hadn't made any mistakes throughout this level...

But in reality, until the very end, life and death are not in one's own control.

The key to victory or defeat lies entirely with "me". If "I" am even slightly selfish, or to be more precise—have a narrow-minded perspective, I would probably be doomed.

"It was a massive rescue operation, with many people going to the bunker and the Three Towers battlefield."

"You have to thank everyone, and of course, everyone thanks you too."

"I haven't seen such a magnificent sight in a long time."

Wen Xishu nodded:

"It seems that I am no longer some despicable remnant of the Wen family in the bunker."

Albert laughed:

"Hahahaha, of course not. Strength is only one aspect. Your strength is very altruistic. The Five Elders are also very strong, and their power is even greater than yours."

"But their power is more like the exploitation of the weak."

"But you are different. You brought hope to countless people, and you also made the bunker's supplies abundant in a short time."

Wen Xishu smiled bitterly:
"I didn't do it for the bunker people; my only motivation was to survive."

Albert shook his head:

"A gentleman judges by his actions."

"Alright, it's time to tell you about the extra stuff you mentioned, the strongest one."

"To be honest, you are really strong, incredibly strong. This is good news, at least I know the potential you can achieve in the future."

"However, what I'm about to tell you is bad news."

"The strongest version of you told you a lot about the Three Towers Battlefield, right?"

Wen Xishu nodded. His greatest gain came from learning about the existence of the Outer Gods and acquiring the ability to discern their "gifts".

"What he told me had nothing to do with the Three Towers battlefield, but rather with the bunker."

"In his universe, the birth of the bunker actually has nothing to do with Old Jin."

"Old Jin was just someone who received guidance. Old Jin was the first legend of the bunker, a great pioneer, but not the creator."

"Old Jin, he mentioned the term Outer God, saying that Old Jin is an extremely outstanding innovator with strong qualifications and temperament. Such a person is likely to become a hegemon in the Three Towers battlefield, and is also likely to be targeted by the Outer God."

“He told me that many gifts are fortunate and beneficial to mankind in the short term.”

"But the Outer God's gift comes at a price. Old Jin obtained clues about the bunker and saved many people, but these people may not be safe forever."

“A bunker is not a safe haven. Whether it is a safe haven or a trap depends on human behavior.”

"If humanity craves comfort and chooses only to eke out a living in bunkers, exchanging safety for food by climbing towers of desire..."

"Humanity will face annihilation."

"Fortunately, under Lao Jin's leadership, many people are doing the right thing."

"But we still cannot avoid the Great Devouring of the Tower of Ghosts. Until you appear."

Mr. Jin is a legend, Albert is the second, and Wen Xishu is the third.

Wen Xishu had also vaguely sensed that the bunker was very strange.

The bunker is like a boundless world; it looks small, but it can expand infinitely.

However, what he was really worried about right now was the rescue he was about from the countless bunker dwellers and those qualified to fight the Three Towers, as mentioned by the old principal.

Even though they were still in the Tower of Ghosts, how could 001 possibly get to the bunker through the chessboard inside the Tower of Ghosts?

At this moment, Wen Xishu had lost some of his sense of security.

A bunker is like a safe zone, an absolute safe zone, a place to return to with peace of mind after a tiring journey.

But just recently, 001, a product of the Tower of Ghosts, did indeed travel to the bunker by taking advantage of the Tower of Ghosts' own rules.

And it took countless people to a certain place.

Although this incident was essentially a rescue operation, upon closer examination, it is a chilling matter.

This interactive grid feels like some kind of prophecy.

Albert happened to say:

"The bunker and the three towers are closely related. There is a kind of passage between the three towers. For example, the Deceptive Tower can be transferred to the Desire Tower."

"And the bunker is the fourth tower. The bunker's layering is very similar to that of a tower."

"I actually thought about this a long time ago. Lao Jin also agrees."

"Of course, at that time we didn't know why the bunker exhibited these characteristics. Why the bunker was like a tower."

"But thanks to you, through the strongest version of you... no, I should say the temporarily stronger version of you, he provided the answer to this question."

"Because this tower is meant to be climbed."

Wen Xishu was suddenly startled. He didn't quite understand the meaning of the sentence, but an absurd answer instantly popped into his mind.

"The bunker...can be climbed by non-bunker creatures?"

Wen Xishu simply couldn't understand it.

Albert said:

"Our exploration of the three towers at different levels determined the stage of the bunker."

Wen Xishu asked:
"What does it mean?"

Albert said:

"The stronger version of you gave an example of a game, saying that there is a game called Wulin Heroes".

"The game itself doesn't have a timeline; the early, middle, and late stages of the game aren't defined by time..."

"It's based on your progress in the game's missions."

"The same applies to bunkers. There is no such thing as an early, middle, or late period for bunkers; from a time perspective, there is none."

"If bunker dwellers don't climb the tower, they'll remain in the early stages forever."

"If you remain in the early stages for a long time, unable to change the three-tower battlefield through the three towers, and unable to provide combat power for the three-tower battlefield..."

"Then eventually the bunker will be destroyed, and the Three Towers War will end in a complete defeat for humanity."

"But if the game reaches the mid-game... that is, when the bunker dwellers are climbing the towers and their exploration of the three towers has moved beyond the early stages, and they have gained a certain understanding of the three towers..."

"The bunker has entered the mid-stage."

Albert frowned slightly:

"Initially, people were worried about the lack of supplies and the fear of being devoured by the Great Devourer."

"But in the medium term, what people need to worry about are the challengers."

Wen Xishu pondered for a moment and said:

"The challenger? Someone who climbs the bunker like it's a tower?"

Albert nodded:

"Yes. In the first phase, the Great Devouring will create vortexes that will devour some people and send them into the Tower of Ghosts."

"But as long as more people climb the tower, the Great Devouring will disappear." "Once more people climb the tower, the bunker's facilities will increase, its resources will increase, and the bunker will flourish."

"But correspondingly, in the second stage, some special 'outsiders' will appear."

"These people must complete certain tasks in the bunker before they can leave and return to their original world."

"They can only stay in the bunker for a maximum of seven days. Does that sound familiar?"

Wen Xishu did indeed feel a sense of familiarity.

Isn't this just like the bunker dwellers climbing towers? They can only return to the bunker after completing their mission inside the towers. Also, bunker dwellers can only stay in the three towers for a maximum of seven days.

Wen Xishu really didn't expect it to be like this.

"It seems their mission is either to stop us from climbing the tower? Or to kill us?"

Albert nodded:

"Yes, according to what you said, they are also tiered, and the task of each tier is roughly the same—to eliminate someone in the bunker. The higher the tier of the outsider, the more powerful the target they have to eliminate."

hiss.

Wen Xishu immediately thought of Mr. Jin. Mr. Jin had been hiding in the facility because he suspected he would be assassinated by an unknown force.

Could it be that Mr. Jin knows about these things?
Later, after Mr. Kim learned of his progress in climbing the tower, he suddenly decided to leave the bunker...

Wen Xishu wasn't quite sure if there was any connection between them.

He raised a question:
"The higher the level, the stronger the assassination target... So, old headmaster, you must be over ninety levels in the bunker, right?"

Albert was completely unafraid of assassination:

"Hahahaha, I don't think there's anything that can kill me."

"Frankly, I don't think there's anyone who could pose a threat to you or me at this stage."

"But it is very possible that some promising talents will be assassinated."

"Your climbing of the Tower of Ghosts will change the future. It will allow many originally weak individuals to change their destiny and become important figures who will have a certain impact on the Three Towers War in the future."

"Is it possible that outsiders also climb the towers in reverse, causing certain bunker dwellers who will have a significant impact on the Three Towers War to be killed when they are weak, thus changing the future?"

This answer truly surprised Wen Xishu.

He seemed to understand a little. He felt that Wen Chaohua's sudden disappearance instead of climbing the tower as usual made sense.

Wen Chaohua's most important opinions and views are that climbing the strange tower is the most important thing.

But it was themselves who truly propelled the reform of the Tower of Deception. Wen Chaohua, the pioneer, withdrew halfway through.

Did Wen Chaohua find out about this? Is that why she didn't advance to the mid-game without a bunker?

"So, we've now entered the mid-stage of the bunker?" Wen Xishu asked.

Albert shook his head slightly:

"I don't know, but I think it's coming soon, even if it hasn't arrived yet."

"According to what you said, the fact that he was able to appear in the bunker and invite us to rescue you means that some of the restrictions on the bunker and the three towers have been loosened."

"An outsider will appear in our timeline. That is to say, he cannot enter the past timeline and kill us before we climbed the tower."

"This is good news. At least we don't have to worry about someone traveling back in time to change us, just like we changed the Three Towers War."

"Even in the later stages of the bunker, this kind of thing won't happen. It seems that only the Tower of Desire can change the timeline."

"We don't need to be constantly on guard against being killed by someone in the past."

"But now, we need to be wary of outsiders killing some newbies who are just getting started in the three towers."

Wen Xishu had a vague feeling that this was like a game of chess.

Initially, the Outer Gods hoped that the gods of the Three Towers would attack, sending their human pawns to their deaths within the Three Towers.

But gradually, humans became able to climb the tower steadily, slowly adapt to the difficulty of the three towers, and gradually explore the three towers...

The Outer Gods panicked again, and hoped that the gods of the Three Towers could slow down their attack.

This is reflected in the arrangement of outsiders, killing some newcomers climbing the tower.

The game has entered the middle game stage.

Towards the end, who knows what kind of trouble might arise in the bunker. Originally, Wen Xishu didn't think much of those facilities…

But now that I think about it, these facilities might be very useful in the future.

Albert continued:

"That's one point, and there's another—once the outsiders complete their mission and successfully return to their original world, after leaving the bunker..."

"We will all lose our memories of him."

"The next time he shows up in the bunker, we'll forget about him."

That's reasonable.

Wen Xishu rubbed his temples, clearly also finding the news he had received this time too shocking.

"Thanks to the stronger you, otherwise, we might have been put on the defensive."

"But once we know all this, we can lure them into our trap."

Albert laughed.

He was actually worried about the "breakthroughs," but knowing this information was better than not knowing at all.

Wen Xishu also understood the value of 001's words.

001's power is the Outer God's means; the Outer God desires to use 001's absolute power to kill himself.

However, 001 also possesses the methods of the Three Towers God. If you want to create a powerful 001, you must accept the logic of the Three Towers God bestowing a lot of information upon 001.

This is a process of mutual competition and checks and balances.

Clearly, the God of Three Towers won this round.

"I don't know what the later stages will be like. In the early stages, we have already dismantled the Great Devourer from the root... So in the mid-stage, we also need to find a way to dismantle the 'Challengers' as soon as possible."

On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?
Wen Xishu didn't want too many unsettling factors to appear in her safe zone.

Albert said:

"Yes, we need to find a way to break it down, a way to expose the intruders as soon as they enter the bunker."

"Your safe house can analyze the vortex of the Great Devouring, but I don't know if it can analyze the challengers."

Wen Xishu shook his head:
"I don't think we can count on it, since each stage has its own limitations."

"But you did remind me, old principal. Perhaps in my next task, I can answer certain questions by guiding the 'Questioning the Heart' and thus obtain similar facilities that can prevent outsiders from entering."

Wen Xishu suddenly remembered that in the previous round of the Heart-Questioning Trial, a strange question had been asked.

You've become much more resolute and honest. One last question: if one day those flowers you've cultivated must wither and become a sacrifice, would you sacrifice them?

He didn't understand the meaning of the question back then, but he does now. At the time, Wenxin Guan said that the question would be asked again later.

That's good. Wen Xishu has already figured out how to manipulate the Heart-Questioning Gate in reverse.

In a sense, he was the tree that supported the bunker, while the countless climbers were the flowers and leaves on that tree.

He certainly wouldn't be willing to sacrifice them.

"Right now, let's make some proper arrangements and improve and perfect some of the bunker's security mechanisms."

"And to form a patrol team. Of course, to truly address the problem, it seems we still have to climb the tower," Wen Xishu said.

Albert approved of this approach.

The two agreed on this point. The best way to solve problems stemming from the Tower of Ghosts is to use the Tower of Ghosts itself.

However, Wen Xishu did not start climbing the tower immediately this time. For once, he planned to rest in the bunker for a day.

Wen Xishu decided to visit the Wen family's old house again, hoping to find more clues this time.

(End of this chapter)