An Jincheng didn’t speak. He instinctively wanted to refute Wen Xishu, but he couldn’t find a reason. He was afraid of his grandfather An Rongzai, a terrifying old man.
Wen Xishu continued:
"The Reverse Seven reverses the seven sinful natures of seven people, but in other words, it absorbs the seven sinful natures of seven people."
"A person who is extremely greedy, extremely violent, extremely lustful, extremely jealous, extremely gluttonous, extremely proud, and extremely lazy, would he really protect An Youxuan?"
An Jincheng, who had stood up, suddenly collapsed onto the sofa. There was a struggle in his eyes:
"But what can I do? Even if everything you say is true, what can I change?"
"Grandfather has several fully armed squads under his control, and there are all sorts of talented people around him. Do you have any idea how terrifying the Sanqiu Group is?"
"In the entire city of Jicheng, grandfather can call the shots. In this city controlled by a conglomerate, he is practically the true emperor. What he is doing now, in my opinion... it’s like he’s advancing to become a god."
"How can I fight a god? All I can do is sacrifice myself to keep my brother alive."
Wen Xishu’s emotions had completely stabilized. He felt An Jincheng’s deep fear of An Rongzai and realized that everyone in the An family feared the old man.
"Theoretically, there is a way, but you have to trust me completely, and... although you and your brother have a good relationship, I wonder if that’s just your subjective impression. Would he give up everything for you?"
"Maybe your brother is just pretending?"
An Jincheng shook his head confidently:
"I trust my brother; you don’t need to question our bond."
Wen Xishu said:
"That’s good. So, do you have the courage to face your grandfather? I can tell you very clearly that if you don’t have the courage to defy your grandfather’s arrangements..."
"You will die, and your brother will die too."
An Jincheng gradually began to believe this, realizing that some things couldn’t be changed by sacrificing oneself.
He was silent for a moment before asking:
"Do you really have a way? Can you really save us?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"I told you, I am your miracle."
Thinking of his grandfather An Rongzai, An Jincheng was still scared, but eventually, he made a decision:
"My brother cannot die, he absolutely cannot die. If you are here to save him, then I am willing to cooperate with you!"
Wen Xishu breathed a sigh of relief inside.
Finally, there was some progress. He had learned the correct storyline, and most importantly, An Jincheng now had the desire to resist An Rongzai.
"But let me make it clear, we currently do not have the ability to kill your grandfather."
Wen Xishu said this with some frustration.
His abilities were still too low. He could kill some scumbags with Tang Rui on a rainy night, but to kill a national figure who was already aware of the supernatural... with his current abilities, it was not possible.
Wen Xishu thought that going to the Slaughter Tower really needed to be prioritized. He must obtain some attributes from the Slaughter Tower so that he could walk freely in the Desire Tower.
No matter how complex the situation in the Deceit Tower, I’ll kill all the bad seeds in the Desire Tower, and there won’t be any unfortunates left in the Deceit Tower.
Of course, for now, this wasn’t achievable.
Fortunately, from Wen Xishu’s perspective, the current situation wasn’t insoluble. After all, this was just the seventh level task, not the seventieth or seventy-seventh level.
"Listen, this game has initiators and opponents. Your grandfather and that Scorpio are the initiators. And I, you, and your brother An Youxuan are the opponents."
"For us, the condition for winning the game is that you survive. The apocalypse is coming, and you brothers have another mission."
"So, from the perspective of survival, we can approach this from two directions."
An Jincheng said:
"You mean, escape?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"Yes."
An Jincheng shook his head:
"I thought about fleeing with my brother to another city. But grandfather wouldn’t let us escape. And though my brother trusts me, telling him suddenly that grandfather wants to kill us... and the world is about to undergo great changes, even if the most trustworthy person says it, it would be suspicious, right?"
"Moreover, in our current situation, I can’t leave here. Once I step out of this room, those people outside will push me back in. You’ve seen it... those people outside have become like monsters. It’s as if they’ve been hypnotized."
"These people are actually all family members of the Sanqiu Group’s junior staff, working together to build the Miracle Mansion under grandfather’s influence."
"Inside this mansion, they are gradually losing themselves. Recently, there have been many reports about how strange this mansion is."
"But under grandfather’s operations, and with those people already under his control, no one will find out what’s really happening here!"
"Inside this room, I can’t even contact my brother. I can’t escape, I can’t see him, I can’t communicate with him."
Wen Xishu nodded:
"So we move on to the second plan."
An Jincheng looked confused:
"What’s the second plan?"
Wen Xishu said:
"Remember what Scorpio said? This is a game, and as long as it’s a game, it has a solution. You mentioned earlier that these people are gradually losing themselves inside the mansion."
"And the planning document clearly mentioned the need for sacrifices, so we can think of the entire Miracle Mansion as an array."
"The array has two stages, or you could say two functions: creating puppets and creating demons."
An Jincheng was surprised:
"Demons? Why use that term?"
Wen Xishu didn’t hide it:
"This is a game clue. One of my tasks is to find the demon behind it, which is most likely your grandfather. But that’s not our task right now. What we need to do now is to prevent the second stage from happening."
The first stage of the mission is for your grandfather to gather six hundred and thirty people. From the looks of it, he hasn’t gathered enough yet, so we still have time.
An Jincheng didn’t question the origins of these numbers; all he could do now was trust Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu continued:
"But the first stage of the array’s function ’creating puppets’ has already started. The people who come here gradually lose themselves and are assimilated into puppets by the mansion."
"However, a mansion shouldn’t naturally have these functions."
"This means there must be some device or source of strange power in the mansion. It’s this strange power that’s eroding these people’s minds."
An Jincheng suddenly realized; he looked at Wen Xishu:
"So you mean... we need to find the source of this strange power! Whether it’s a device or some special magnetic field, we need to destroy it. Once it’s destroyed, I can escape from here!"
Wen Xishu smiled:
"Correct."
"No matter how powerful your grandfather is, in this world he’s just a very rich man. He hasn’t completely escaped all the rules that constrain him."
"If we disable that strange power source, these people might wake up. Even if they don’t, at least they won’t be under your grandfather’s control anymore."
"The green-clad people in this mansion will become your grandfather’s mess. When that happens, you and An Youxuan will have a chance to leave this city!"
"So we must first find and disable this strange power in the building."
Actually, Wen Xishu’s initial thought was to just blow up the building. The scenarios within the Deceit Tower are hard to destroy... but the Desire Tower is different.
But blowing up the building was difficult to execute, and—An Jincheng would die. He had to first disable the building’s strange powers and take An Jincheng away.
An Jincheng nodded:
"Alright! What do I need to do?"
Wen Xishu noticed there was now a different light in An Jincheng’s eyes, a light of courage and conviction.
Wen Xishu said:
"So please think carefully. Since you’ve read the plan, you know the details of the Miracle Mansion the best."
"Among the various structures and designs of this mansion, is there anything that strikes you as particularly strange?"