But he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Ah Miao, are you happy now? But what about at the beginning, before you visited the neighbor, how did you feel?"
"A little scared, I think. You know, I was risking my life to come here. With the Level Six hospital brought by Master Wen Xishu, someone who would have been dead like me now has a chance to live."
"So I thought, under the policy incentives, I would earn some money at Deceit Tower. But when I discovered that there was a strange power in Deceit Tower that could directly control my body, I was indeed very scared and a bit annoyed. What if this power kept controlling me? Wouldn’t I be able to do nothing?"
Wen Xishu said:
"And now, are you still afraid?"
Ah Miao shook her head:
"Not afraid anymore, life should be filled with laughter. I think my neighbor is very nice, I should learn from him."
It’s bad... Now, apart from Wu Xiangjiao, no one seemed normal.
Wen Xishu faintly captured the common point:
"My neighbor is a best-selling author, looking for inspiration here. He is currently in a state of high excitement, his inspiration overflowing."
"But what he writes is horror novels. Whenever he wants to rest a little, hallucinations appear."
"These hallucinations are very terrifying."
"Xiaowu, Venerable, have you felt scared?"
Xiaowu and Wen Xiangge bowed their heads, thought for a while, and then said together:
"Yes!"
Xiaowu explained the reason for his fear, he felt that the lawyer was very abnormal. The room was so bright, yet he complained it was dirty.
Wen Xiangge thought that in this place, with no mobility, he couldn’t even leave the room. He couldn’t escape at all... and he instinctively felt afraid.
He didn’t want to die here, he still wanted to spread the deeds of Saint Wen to every corner and make the Xishu Divine Teaching stronger and more prosperous.
Wen Xishu sighed:
"It seems to be the case. Even if I tell you not to be afraid, it won’t help."
"Everyone..."
Wen Xishu suddenly fell silent. He realized that not everyone had a strong heart like him.
If at this moment, he emphasized by saying:
"Do you all realize, you’ve changed a lot since before you came in?"
If they pondered over this sentence, they would realize that peaceful people became self-abased, desperate people became optimistic, and it might lead them into even greater fear.
Now he could be sure that fear was the trigger for the strange switch.
The writer felt fear, and hence hallucinations began. Ah Miao felt fear, and hence became extremely optimistic. Xiaowu and Venerable felt fear, and hence became self-abased...
The self-abasement of these two could perhaps be further differentiated.
Only Wu Xiangjiao remained unchanged. Because he wasn’t afraid, but who could say how it would be later?
Wen Xishu was still thinking if the reactions of these people after feeling fear could connect some clues.
Wen Xiangge asked:
"Ah Shu, what were you about to say? I still think your analytical skills are quite reliable; as the future of our Xishu Divine Teaching, you can speak freely."
Wen Xishu shook his head:
"Nothing much, this task is actually not difficult, I have some clues. Everyone, don’t be nervous, if we cooperate with each other, nothing will happen."
"It’s only the first day, I can’t draw any conclusions yet. Let’s wait and see."
The others had their own thoughts but all nodded slightly, and soon the meeting ended.
The first day was almost over, with only a few minutes left.
Before the first day ended, Wen Xishu decided to spend 25 action points to search the room.
Facing the teammates in distress, Wen Xishu instead had a surge of working enthusiasm.
...
...
In fact, there were not many places to explore in the room.
Once he determined to spend action points, Wen Xishu could freely check every corner and use the room’s network equipment to check some information.
Wen Xishu first looked at the recent situation in Jicheng. Then he checked the names of family members behind the Sanqiu Company.
He noticed a person named An Zhenqi. At this moment, Wen Xishu paid particular attention to the seventh item, so he checked An Zhenqi.
By the way, he checked the works under the pen name Yin Junchi, as well as the websites and novel categories they belonged to.
He found some clues but not enough to form a complete link.
Then Wen Xishu started to search the room.
He searched very thoroughly. Instead of searching the entire house, he only looked in the bedroom because the bedroom was next to another room.
That is to say, room 14-1.
After searching all the items and finding nothing special, Wen Xishu did not continue to search for items. He directly pressed his ear to the wall and started listening to the noises next door.
"Great! Just like this!"
Yin Junchi’s voice came through.
"Just write like this! I can write all night, I’ve never been so smooth before, just like thirty years of constipation being relieved all at once!"
Approaching midnight, Yin Junchi showed no signs of fatigue. He seemed to be filled with inspiration again and continuously hit the keyboard.
Wen Xishu felt a sense of discomfort.
But he couldn’t figure out specific clues either, and time mercilessly passed by.
[Exploring the room you are in, completed, consuming 25 action points, remaining action points: 20.]
[Second day arrives. Remaining action points: 100.]
The sudden prompt made Wen Xishu feel a bit of tension.
The first day had just passed like this.