When the familiar wave of dizziness faded, Wen Xishu opened his eyes.
Nutrient fluid flowed through the tubes into his mask. The wet, clammy feeling made Wen Xishu realize he seemed to be inside some kind of container.
This was nothing like the shattered scene of the Apocalypse Era he’d imagined.
This was clearly an extremely sophisticated laboratory.
[Please locate the current mission target.]
[Current mission target, trait one: possesses a leader’s aura.
Trait two: possesses a special serum sufficient to neutralize radiation mutation.
Trait three: eager to join an enemy faction.
Trait four: age 16.
Trait five: possesses Telekinesis-type Sequence Power that can manipulate objects.]
No doubt, these five traits belonged to the target Wen Xishu was supposed to assassinate. What he had to do now was adapt to the environment, hide himself, locate the target, and kill the target.
This was the standard mission flow.
During this phase, Wen Xishu was unable to speak.
The Three Towers Company ID badge had already been hidden. Right now Wen Xishu was completely naked, as if he had appeared out of thin air in the lab container—or as if he had... been here for a long time.
He heard voices in the distance. A man and a woman were talking.
"This place of ours is about to be exposed, isn’t it?"
"Yeah, that Demon Cleansing Monk and those siblings are way too scary."
"We have to speed up the experiment schedule. We need to hurry and start the next wave of tests."
"But the target is an important sample. He can actually completely immunize radiation—whether we turn him into a monster, or use him as a source of material to make serum that weakens the monsters... it’s still hard to say. If we can refine his serum into a drug, then use Hayabusa Ninja’s kunai launchers, we’re sure to beat the other teams in Taurus’s arena!"
"Fujino, your idea is good, but we still don’t know whether his blood only works on radiation, or works on all superpowers."
"But either way, we have to start the experiment as soon as possible, don’t we? Only if we take part in Taurus’s competition do we have any chance of changing the situation."
"Yes. After all, those siblings possess that rare power from Lian King’s Reincarnation and the Celestial Kingdom of the Goddess of Suffering. Under that power, even those frail Demon Cleansing Monks got a boost."
"We need to hurry. If those siblings recover and use it again, it might very well affect the test subjects."
"And if Lord Libra still doesn’t assign anyone to help us, our only chance is to enter Taurus’s tournament."
That was quite a lot of information.
Listening to all this, Wen Xishu felt inexplicably excited.
Demon Cleansing Monk? Master Lingqing’s squad! Those siblings, Lian King’s Reincarnation, the Goddess of Suffering... Wen Xishu already knew where he was.
The birthplace of ghost stories and twisted freaks—Hujiang.
This had to be one of the major battlefields of the Three Towers War, right?
"Looks like I’m an experimental subject here, probably replaced some original test subject."
"Or maybe this is just how the Three Towers Company makes its entrance."
Inside the nutrient pod, Wen Xishu actually felt pretty comfortable.
But he had to break out of it.
Worth noting: Wen Xishu could now use all of his items, all of his power, all of his Sequences.
Nothing to do with the Three Phases.
He could feel that this wasn’t something granted by the Three Phases, but something he naturally possessed after entering the battlefield of the Three Towers War and stepping into a real world that wasn’t a Desire Tower instance.
If he just smashed the nutrient pod open, it would definitely cause a huge commotion.
Wen Xishu summoned his Shadow.
The Shadow instantly understood: unlock the nutrient pod from the outside. This time, it finally wasn’t some suicide job.
Soon, the liquid inside the pod began to slowly drain away, and the pod’s hatch opened with a soft hiss.
There was sound, but the disturbance was minimal.
After finishing all this, Wen Xishu noticed that although he still didn’t have any clothes, none of his items had been stolen; they were all still stored in his "inventory."
His "inventory" was no longer just thirteen slots, but a full one hundred and twenty-eight slots.
"Rich, insanely rich. Looks like once Bunker People make it to the real world of the Three Towers War, they all get buffed, huh."
With a thought, Wen Xishu took out the Compass.
Everything was simple now—he just had to follow the Compass.
The Compass’s needle wasn’t even spinning around wildly, which was enough to prove that... although the Three Towers War world had plenty of terrifying beings—so many that even the Constellations weren’t the scariest thing around...
At least right here, right now, Wen Xishu’s abilities were more than enough to handle this mission with ease.
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Hujiang, Eleventh District.
Not long ago, Akiyama Sachi and Morioka Hitomi, the sibling pair who had just unleashed the combined skill of Lian King’s Reincarnation and the Celestial Kingdom of the Goddess of Suffering for the fourth time, were resting in a grand theater occupied by the Demon Cleansing Monks.
Right now, Master Lingqing was using sorcery to seal away his originally ghastly appearance, tending to the siblings with his youngest and most handsome face.
Unleashing Lian King’s Reincarnation and the Celestial Kingdom of the Goddess of Suffering had given countless people eroded by radiation new faith, and granted countless low-potential individuals the qualification to evolve.
You could say that Akiyama Sachi and Morioka Hitomi possessed a power that could directly rewrite fate.
Several times now, interference from the Constellations had turned the Hujiang battlefield into a Hellish slaughterfield overflowing with monsters.
The Demon Cleansing Monks, along with everyone trying to drive the monsters out, had nearly been wiped out multiple times.
Even though Master Lingqing was overwhelmingly strong, a lone hand could not clap.
The Demon Cleansing Monks had taken catastrophic losses.