Jin Zaimin saw Wen Xishu falling silent, thinking that the other party was contemplating, so he didn’t rush him.
Wen Xishu indeed was deep in thought. He found it somewhat amusing—asking him to deal with Scorpio on his third tower climb?
At this moment, two figures indeed surfaced in his mind: a mischievous child and a woman with a cold face, seemingly seeing through everything.
It was foreseeable that each star sign represented a different power... These powers spread throughout the regions of the Three Towers. Since both the Desire Tower and the Deceit Tower had them, the Slaughter Tower likely would as well.
Mostly, they hadn’t engaged in formal battles, except for Pisces and Scorpio.
Due to acquiring Scorpio’s blade and breaking Scorpio’s game, Wen Xishu had drawn the attention of Pisces. Meanwhile, An Rongzai had also aligned with Pisces. An Rongzai planned to use his power to "kill his enemies from the past."
For this mission, this was a mutually beneficial choice.
Option 1: His enemy would no longer be An Rongzai, the Jicheng Demon King, but rather the more terrifying Scorpio.
Option 2: Scorpio may not be a friend, and Pisces along with An Rongzai, this fearsome Jicheng Demon King, could become enemies...and the mission completion might not be high.
Option 2 seemed unwise no matter how it was viewed.
But interestingly, Wen Xishu noticed a detail: even if he chose Option 1, Scorpio’s favorability would not decrease. Although he disrupted the bet between Scorpio and Gemini, Scorpio seemed unperturbed.
"I can’t be swayed by the options."
Not reaching the highest mission completion wasn’t significant for Wen Xishu.
Scorpio’s presented image was of a mischievous child, causing chaos in the Three-Tower World through gamification.
But the Three-Tower Game had its content. For someone like Wen Xishu, accustomed to player thinking, it was an advantage. Otherwise, why call it the Three-Tower Game?
If Pisces’ ability was related to time, naturally, there would be conflicts with Bunker players. And from deep within, Wen Xishu detested those who played with time.
Bunker players followed the rules with no choice, but Pisces did not.
Wen Xishu ultimately chose Option 2.
[Scorpio’s Blade attributes have been upgraded a second time. Specific attributes can be checked at the guide. Scorpio favorability +5, Pisces favorability -10. The mission will end in five minutes, and all team members will return to the bunker.]
[Mission difficulty fluctuated. Death before returning to the guide will be considered mission failure.]
Wen Xishu had made his choice. Though he hadn’t spoken, he saw hostility in Jin Zaimin’s eyes.
Wen Xishu understood that if he died within five minutes, the mission would be deemed a failure, which seemed to be the situation he faced now.
The hostility in Jin Zaimin’s eyes gradually intensified into a killing intent. Outside the door, several green-uniformed staff members had appeared without his notice.
Survival now was likely beyond the original difficulty of the seventh floor of the Deceit Tower.
As the "sacrifice for Seven Suppression," Jin Zaimin was the boss-level existence in this mission, and killing Wen Xishu wouldn’t be difficult for him.
But Wen Xishu found it thrilling:
"It seems my choice doesn’t permit me to live."
Jin Zaimin nodded and said:
"The chairman won’t make the same mistake twice, nor let the same person stop him twice."
Wen Xishu pretended not to hear:
"Before you kill me, can you tell me, what happens after you seven die?"
Jin Zaimin said:
"The seven sins of the seven sacrifices are absorbed and will be instilled in my child, who will become the new miracle created by the Miracle Mansion."
Wen Xishu understood that these seven demons were extremely greedy, gluttonous, lustful, wrathful, proud, envious, and slothful.
And all seven were miracle products, set to become seven perfect sacrifices...
Ultimately, they would be absorbed by An Rongzai.
Wen Xishu didn’t know why An Rongzai could still use this ritual, but that wasn’t the focus now.
He said:
"Killing me is easy, but you’ve heard it, becoming a big fish will have you swallowed by the time whale. Your master An Rongzai fears Pisces too."
"Mr. Jin, you will die. Your child will become food for An Rongzai, just like you. You’re small fish helping him become the big fish, but you don’t care because it’s all for the Group."
Jin Zaimin indeed didn’t care:
"I have devoted my whole life to the chairman and the Sanqiu Group! My desire for the Group’s prosperity rivals that of the chairman! Moreover, I won’t die."
For Jin Zaimin, these seven days were infinite. Death would trigger a restart, and with the powers of the Terminator and Pisces, he would know everything that happened in those seven days.
Thus, in a sense, he was immortal, or one could say, he became an eternal part of the Sanqiu Group.
Wen Xishu nodded:
"Facing Scorpio, An Rongzai did not choose to pin all hopes on Scorpio’s plan; instead, he chose Pisces against Scorpio’s expectation."
"It’s the same this time. Besides An Rongzai, another person desires the Sanqiu Group’s revival. His name is An Youxuan."
Hearing An Youxuan’s name, Jin Zaimin suddenly paused. Wen Xishu seized the moment:
"You can blindly trust your chairman, but if your chairman were here, he would not choose to kill me. Because with me alive, An Youxuan and An Jincheng have more possibilities."
"You’ve been with your chairman long enough to know that more preparations and more variables are essential. Otherwise, how can you turn the tide time and again?"
"You have infinite seven-day cycles... but you won’t encounter a second me. Your chance to make a choice for An Youxuan and An Jincheng is this once!"
"The possibility of not being swallowed by the whale might lie in this choice!"
This forceful speech indeed moved Jin Zaimin. He stood up, staring at Wen Xishu for a long time, feeling like he saw a younger An Rongzai. He finally said:
"I hope you keep your word. This won’t be your last encounter with the Sanqiu Group."
The killing intent from Jin Zaimin completely dissipated.
But Wen Xishu did not feel relieved.
This mission wasn’t particularly difficult, but it seemed like he had glimpsed the prelude to an epic war.
He didn’t know how much mission completion this time would achieve or how many "star signs" it would attract. To Wen Xishu, these star signs noticing him too early was not a good thing.
But he remained optimistic:
"Forget it, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Let’s claim the reward first."
In a certain sense, Wen Xishu had created a formidable enemy for the tower climbers of the Slaughter Tower—An Rongzai.
But he felt that An Rongzai might be different from those pure slaughter monsters in the Slaughter Tower.
Wen Xishu now very much wanted to go to the academy and ask Albert, who had climbed the Slaughter Tower to over ninety floors, surely had heard about various wars in the Slaughter Tower.