"We’re playing a game where failure means death. I hope everyone can manage to trust each other."
"Since there are enemies outside, we’ve got even more reason to stick together, don’t we?"
The arrangement was perfectly reasonable, and with Wen Xishu’s terrifying battle record right there, he had already become their spiritual leader.
The members started writing down their own information.
Before long, all the info was in Wen Xishu’s hands.
He flipped through a stack of A4 sheets in no time.
The Ability Users were as follows: Shen Changfeng, whose ability was actually not needing to eat, drink, or sleep. Evaluation: Iron Man.
After his evolution, Shen Changfeng could obtain energy just by breathing.
Gao Lele’s ability was called "turning trash into treasure." Simply put, by consuming his own stamina, he could alter the properties of certain things and directly transform them into other items.
The ability was very powerful, but severely underdeveloped. At present, he could only turn some rotten food into fresh food.
Li Weiwei, besides being able to heal others, had another ability—turning damage into healing. Seventy-five percent of the damage she took would be converted into healing for herself.
Clark Kent, muscles forged a thousand times over, an incredibly strong body.
Of course, there were a few other Ability Users as well.
For example, a young man named Zhao Qi, twenty-two years old, with the ability to create flames.
These abilities weren’t that meaningful. Wen Xishu just noted down their names and considered it read.
He had a general sense now—this team wasn’t bad at all. Even in the Bunker, they’d count as an elite squad.
But what came next, the rules that were announced, took everyone by surprise.
The electronic screen’s voice rang out again.
"The bosses of the other three zones have already been selected. Their profiles have been sent to each of you."
Zone A’s boss, Yun Xinghe, had a name that felt like it came straight out of an early romance xianxia drama protagonist.
It gave off a strange sense of power.
Highest achievement: commanding a force of over a thousand people.
Unlike Wen Xishu, Yun Xinghe clearly couldn’t beat the Red House, so his highest achievement had nothing to do with monsters.
Highest achievement here seemed to mean the most impressive thing he had ever done.
Trait: Balance.
Zone B’s boss, Alexander.
Highest achievement: surviving more than seventy days alone in a pure-monster community.
In simple terms, an absolute master of turtling.
Trait: Endurance.
Zone D’s boss, Lorenzo.
Highest achievement: annihilating a nation.
Trait: Enchantment.
None of them are simple...
Wen Xishu studied these opponents.
"Well then, bosses of each zone, it’s time for you to start your employee work. One month from now, we’ll meet again. We hope your team can become the most outstanding one, the one that defeats all the others."
The voice from the electronic screen faded away.
At the same time, the following options appeared in Wen Xishu’s field of vision.
[Internal Affairs]
[Diplomacy]
[Military Strategy]
He looked at Diplomacy and Military Strategy... and seemed to understand a few ways points could get deducted.
A simulation formed in his mind immediately—this was a complex game of strategy...
The external competition was obvious, but the inside probably wouldn’t be stable either.
All the employees, at this exact moment, discovered new content had appeared on the electronic screen.
Team Points Ranking.
Individual Points Ranking.
And the vending machine in the office area lit up with a green light at that moment.
"Welcome to the vending machine. All food and drink from this machine must be exchanged for with points."
"Note: Food and drink will restore your HP and DR values. HP and DR are products of the rules and cannot be replenished through your own abilities."
This line shocked everyone.
Lele had originally been thinking: since points were all distributed by the boss, if he just performed well and used his trash-to-treasure ability to solve the food and drink problem... then even if he didn’t work, he could still get points.
Now, that lovely dream was shattered.
And the one who’d been extremely popular and could have become Wen Xishu’s right-hand woman, who’d planned to seduce him—Li Weiwei—also realized at this moment...
Her ability had been directly targeted by the rules.
She couldn’t restore anyone’s HP at all.
Wen Xishu didn’t panic. In fact, he felt this was perfectly reasonable.
Because if there really were no restrictions, his hand of cards would be way too good.
He wasn’t used to winning that easily.
Right now, what lay before Wen Xishu was a dilemma...
His track record was too damn impressive.
No matter what anyone else had done—annihilating nations, surviving how many days, managing how many people...
None of it was as shocking as killing the Red House.
And in diplomacy, there was a certain unspoken rule: the weak join forces to take down the strong.
Wen Xishu’s record gave him a huge advantage—it made everyone worship him and trust him.
But the downside was... he might get targeted right from the start.
There was no doubt that the ones most likely to be promoted to formal employees were the bosses of each zone.
If those bosses saw someone who had soloed the Red House, they would definitely think of ways to use the rules to erase him, to stop him from becoming a competitor.
"Well, isn’t this nice. Turns out the great power everyone has to contain... is me."
When the soldiers come, block them; when the water rises, use earth to dam it. Even though he’d guessed he might be targeted, Wen Xishu had weathered enough storms.
"Whatever the case, I need to figure out the rules first."