No escape.
Wen Xishu actually hit an air wall in the Land of Obsession.
When he tried to escape this scene, the Hanged Men surged towards him, leaving Wen Xishu unable to retreat.
Wen Xishu had to dodge the Hanged Men and walk in the opposite direction.
Weird Sequence's confusion of avatars, the avenger's karmic retribution of the Weird Sequence!
All triggered at this moment.
A shadow immediately caught the attention of the Hanged Men. The shadow was summoned by Wen Xishu, and seeing so many Hanged Men appear, the shadow gestured towards Wen Xishu's main body.
It was an international gesture. Clearly, the shadow, like Wen Xishu, was quite repulsed by the design and timing of such boss face-offs.
Wen Xishu couldn't care less that his shadow actually despised him, because the speed of the Hanged Men was too fierce.
They each hung upside down over his head, and the ropes behind began to come alive.
Those ropes, like snakes, started flying incessantly towards Wen Xishu.
"Charlie, you'll forever be a waste, nobody fancies you! Hehehehe!"
Gravity bent Wen Xishu forward, the immense gravity slowing down his speed.
Meanwhile, the ropes winding downwards approached Wen Xishu with increasing speed.
"Charlie, none of us loves you~ Hehehehe."
The voices of the Hanged Men spawned an overwhelming feeling of abhorrence within Wen Xishu.
"Charlie, who only knows how to avoid~ Go hang yourself, hang yourself!"
Whispering noose.
Wen Xishu realized this was the tactic of the Hanged Men, despite now feeling a tremendous sense of self-loathing.
Yet he could still analyze some things.
"Charlie..."
"This must be why the Land of Dust became so distorted, right?"
"Is this place similar to Tang Rui's, born from someone's childhood wounds?"
"Can't conclude yet."
"Only knows to avoid... hang oneself, upside down..."
Wen Xishu, under immense gravity, slowly dodged more and more ropes.
The sky was filled with countless faces of the Hanged Men, their faces showed no pain, but bore a distorted, almost mocking, serene smile, their eyes were two bottomless black holes.
Such countless faces made the sky resemble Hell.
"Hanging upside down, everything is reversed, escaping leaves no way out..."
"Must move towards the clock tower!"
Wen Xishu suddenly realized something.
He again thought of Silent Hill, perhaps the monsters here symbolize something within someone's heart.
The Hanged Men...
He began to ponder, in the past, from what he learned about the symbolism of the Hanged Men, they often represent extreme self-loathing, guilt, self-punishment, twisted pride.
Though simply fighting, after a round, Wen Xishu vaguely had a clue.
But the biggest problem was...
How could he go to the clock tower?
The endless ridicule of the Hanged Men was incessant, ropes had piled entirely in front of him.
As if all he needed now was to hang himself, hang, become a hanged ghost, all pain would end.
Wen Xishu's hand unconsciously touched it.
He seemed genuinely about to put his head in.
The shadow tried to stop him, but soon, tears poured out from the hollow eye sockets of the Hanged Men...
This was how the pools of water on the ground formed.
Tears clung to the shadow's feet, soon the shadow began to disintegrate like dust.
The shadow shook its head helplessly.
The shadow vanished.
Wen Xishu watched all this, numerous messages appeared in his mind.
Dust tears, gravity change, whispering noose...
These should be the skills of the Hanged Men. But he seemed unable to counter these skills.
This feeling was terrible, he calmly analyzed, analyzed the enemy's symbolism and metaphors, analyzed the enemy's skills, analyzed the potential plot...
But on the other hand, he began to hang himself, under immense self-loathing, started doubting himself.
As a seasoned expert, even wanting to hang himself wasn't easy.
But the whispering noose was different, it was a living entity.
Soon, Wen Xishu felt as if some powerful force was strangling his neck.
Death approached, but at this moment, the immense gravity suddenly vanished!
Wen Xishu suddenly felt all gravity had disappeared.
When life was in danger, Wen Xishu exhibited two effects: one is the "Mutated Slaughter" sequence, which came from the Weird Competition he attended with Old Zheng.
Additionally, the sequence had a rune: the unnameable desire.
Simply put, in a desperate fight, Wen Xishu would become weird. When facing Xiaojin's assassination, Wen Xishu triggered it, becoming an indescribable linear creature.
Meanwhile, the second effect was gaining a geographical advantage, Earth Marsh Trapped Beast.
Though lacking the Three Phases, the Three Tower Sequence didn't need the Three Phases to be effective in the Deceit Tower.
Relying on geographical advantage and mutation, at the brink of life and death...
Wen Xishu's body began to mutate, and the rules started to favor him.
Countless ears began to appear on Wen Xishu.
These ears emerged in pairs, from a distance, it even looked like butterflies.
There were so many ears, enough to make someone with trypophobia vomit on the spot.
From a distance, Wen Xishu became a creature composed of thousands of ear-hole aggregates.
This stems from his desire to decipher everything, to hear everything.
This desire turned Wen Xishu into a bizarre monster.
At this moment, Wen Xishu seemed able to hear the entire battlefield.
"Not only is there the clock tower... there are many, many places."