Humans entered the Bunker only a few short decades ago.
The elders in the Bunker still remembered the world where humans once lived and often told the young people about that world with skies and oceans.
But people cannot imagine things they have never seen out of thin air.
Only after entering the Desire Tower, at the moment they looked up, could they truly feel what an infinitely vast sea of stars meant.
But this was not why people loved the Desire Tower.
People loved the Desire Tower because the bloody brutality of the Slaughter Tower and the terrifying strangeness of the Weird Tower made the pursuit of desire in the Desire Tower… incredibly gentle.
Here, there was no need for fighting or killing, nor were there strange rules. As long as these people pursuing desire felt happiness, they could obtain a certain amount of survival resources.
Upon entering the Desire Tower, Wen Xishu immediately saw a special dialogue box.
“Welcome to the twenty-first floor of the Desire Tower. The area is Moen City. The Desire Tower is a place of love. Please climb this Tower with love and responsibility.”
How loving, how warm, the style was completely different from the other two Towers.
However, Wen Xishu did not know that the complete rule was this:
“Welcome to the twenty-first floor of the Desire Tower. The area is Moen City. All violent behavior is forbidden within the Desire Tower. The Desire Tower is a place of love. Please climb this Tower with love and responsibility.”
The rule prohibiting all violent behavior did not take effect on Wen Xishu, and even the prompt was erased.
To be precise, it was erased by the chaotic Dice of Madness. Wen Xishu was unaware.
What appeared before him was a prosperous city.
The towering skyscrapers, the well-dressed people on the streets, the exquisite cream cakes in the bakery windows, the dazzling billboards, and the scent of women's cosmetics.
All of this made Wen Xishu feel incredibly familiar, as if he had returned to the world before his transmigration.
But this world was not entirely real.
For example, the regional boundary or air wall formed by red lines in the distance, and the information in Wen Xishu's eyes:
“Jennifer's current happiness value: 0. Task status: Incomplete.”
“Remaining time: 47 hours 54 minutes 16 seconds.”
This information pulled him out of the hazy feeling of returning to his original world and gave him a sense of urgency due to insufficient time.
Normal climbers would have seven days, but Wen Xishu entered the Desire Tower through an invitation letter, so he only had two days.
He had to find clues sufficient to unlock the hidden content of the Weird Tower and make Jennifer happy in a very short time.
There were many ways to make a person happy.
People had decades of experience climbing the Desire Tower, whether it was earning money in this world, providing material value with money, or providing emotional value.
In earlier years, when the qualifications to enter the Desire Tower were very lenient, some overly tactless brutes would die in the Desire Tower.
And a small number of geniuses who could say things like “Niye Impact” or “Xuan Xuan, I'm going to unleash my ultimate on you” and played abstractly would also die in the Desire Tower.
Fortunately, such situations were constantly decreasing.
The overall qualifications of people entering the Desire Tower were getting higher and higher, because it was becoming more and more competitive.
They had more and more ways to please people, including but not limited to “How to Quickly Advance a Relationship to the Point of Revealing Vulnerabilities.”
Today, the Desire Tower's survival rate was almost one hundred percent.
But the premise was below the twentieth floor. Above the twentieth floor, the difficulty would increase crazily, and the conditions would become more and more demanding.
However, for Most people, the exploration of the first twenty floors was enough to cover their entire lives.
Wen Xishu was on the twenty-first floor, and he could already feel the true difficulty of pleasing Jennifer.
Walking on the road to the slum, Wen Xishu was thinking about how to proceed.
Making Jennifer happy was easy.
Whether it was to coax Jennifer or to flirt with Yuliya, he could successfully complete the task.
But in the end, he could only take away the “family of three's” food with the lowest completion rate.
That was not what Wen Xishu wanted.
“The biggest difficulty of this task is that no matter what, Jennifer's happiness will be cleared.”
“Because soon, Jennifer will encounter a disaster, and all current happiness will only serve to highlight the subsequent misery.”
“All of this stems from Jack.”
Wen Xishu was not a benevolent person; he naturally thought of killing Jack in the Desire Tower.
If there was no Jack, then soon, all of Jennifer's attachments in that old building would survive.
However, killing Jack was likely a more incorrect choice.
Jennifer deeply cherished Jack, and killing Jack would only cause the little girl immense pain.
Most importantly, Weird Jack actually had a necessary existence.
Wen Xishu still remembered Jack's words to Jennifer:
“Can you handle the outside world alone? This is just the beginning.”
Outside the old building, it would only be more dangerous. Jack was just a boss in a certain area on the twenty-first floor.
There were countless existences of the same level in the Weird Tower.
“To survive in that world, Jennifer needs to have a powerful backer.”
“And it's worth noting that I saw two Jennifers in the game prompt.”
“Desire Jennifer, Weird Jennifer.”
“If the two Jennifers are the same person… then why distinguish them intentionally?”
“Is it just because one Jennifer is in the Weird Tower and the other Jennifer is in the Desire Tower?”
Wen Xishu shook his head slightly.
“How stupid must the Three Towers Game's designer be to come up with such a superfluous setting?”
“Assuming there are other reasons—then Desire Jennifer becoming Weird Jennifer must go through some process.”
“Similarly, the same applies to Jack.”
Intuition told Wen Xishu that the different prefixes for Jennifer were an extremely crucial clue.
“In the Desire Tower, Jack thought he would die because he had stomach cancer.”
“But in the Weird Tower, not only was he still alive, but after experiencing a day of despair, he even became Weird Jack.”
Wen Xishu, walking on the street, suddenly paused for a second; he felt he was about to find the key.
“To experience betrayal from colleagues, deception from friends, and disgust from the person he admired, and then immediately become ten times stronger and kill everyone—this is unreasonably satisfying.”
“If the world is so idealistic, wouldn't it become a competition of misery?”
In this chaotic world, people rarely thought about why the world became this way.
Most people were still adapting and surviving.
Wen Xishu was also adapting. But he felt that the appearance of the Weird Tower and Jack's transformation all needed a reason.
Only by thoroughly investigating this reason could he decide what to do next.
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Half an hour later, Wen Xishu arrived at the slum.
Wen Xishu, living in Chongqing, always felt that the online world was like a peacock displaying its feathers.
Behind the beautiful feathers was a completely different scene.
It was like on a subway train that passed through buildings, where on the left were modern attractions where influencers scrambled to take photos, and on the right was a decaying area, like a dilapidated building from the last century.
Of course, you could say this had a strong old Chongqing vibe, that it was nostalgic.
But that must be from a condescending position. When that old, decaying atmosphere enveloped you, you would only want to escape.
Moen City was the same; its prosperous CBD area intoxicated people, but it also had barren areas.
Wen Xishu was at the entrance of that old building.
In the Desire Tower world, there was nothing strange about this building. It looked like a huge, dusty, decaying tomb.
At this time, Jack had just returned to his room, preparing to write something to express his desire to be a good person at the end of his life.
By observing the medical record in Jack's hand, Wen Xishu deduced the time point:
“Next, Jack will go to apologize to Remian, but quickly discover that Remian is incorrigible.”
“Subsequently, he will experience the honest truth bomb from his good friend Anderson.”
“Finally, he goes to beg Yuliya to let Jennifer watch his performance, but he also fails.”
“Is it the special effect of the invitation letter? This really is a… node that can change everything.”