"If everyone wants to enter here, then the first ones to enter must be the patients and staff downstairs."
"They might not play good roles. If we go downstairs, we might have to deal with those guys."
Zheng Zai pondered:
"Those guys... are they strong?"
Wen Xishu said:
"Some people eat their meals by saving the best dishes for last, while others eat them first. But if the situation is such that if you don’t eat it, someone else will take it, most people would choose to eat it first."
"In other words, the bottom three floors... if there are indeed enemies, the weapons they hold would be the most valuable, and what we can pick now are just the leftovers."
Zheng Zai understood and asked worriedly:
"Then aren’t we extremely dangerous? Will they... come up?"
Wen Xishu shook his head:
"Not sure, but the time left for us definitely won’t be ample. It’s hard to stay for seven days like some scenarios."
Zheng Zai asked again:
"What should we do? Our props are worse than those on the bottom three floors. Doesn’t this mean we can’t possibly beat them?"
"This is still Deceit Tower, our Anti-Magic Value is so low, they’ll have a significant advantage when attacking us. This... there’s no chance of winning, right?"
Wen Xishu walked slowly, carefully observing the surroundings, and said:
"Two possibilities."
"Find an item capable of handling the twelfth level’s monsters. Then find an item that can hide our presence and quietly sneak away. It’s not graceful but effective."
Zheng Zai suddenly realized:
"Oh right, if we can’t beat them, we can choose to escape. As long as we complete the task, it’s fine."
"What’s the second possibility?"
Wen Xishu pointed to the floor:
"This floor hides a secret. A secret waiting for us to unravel. If this secret is uncovered, we can obtain what the task hint referred to as the most valuable item."
"Once we get this item, we can fulfill the great inventor’s wish and at least easily handle the monsters in this building. That’s what I personally think is the most reliable approach."
Zheng Zai got excited:
"Brother, do you already have some clues?"
Reflecting now, Zheng Zai found Wen Xishu’s previous request for the lamp quite odd.
Wen Xishu said:
"It’s just a guess, not yet a clue."
At this moment, Tong Ming came out from 4-2. Seeing Wen Xishu still in the hallway, Tong Ming was slightly surprised:
"You two brothers are quite relaxed."
Wen Xishu said:
"Didn’t you find a satisfactory item?"
Tong Ming had already reached the door of 4-4:
"You can go check 4-2, you might need it, I don’t."
Tong Ming entered 4-4, and Wen Xishu indeed went to 4-2 with Zheng Zai.
Zheng Zai thought, since Tong Ming didn’t want it, it probably wasn’t necessary to check.
However, whatever Wen Xishu did always had deeper meaning in Zheng Zai’s eyes.
Wen Xishu arrived at the door of 4-2.
Unlike 4-1, 4-2 was very simple and clean. Inside, there was only a bedside cabinet, on which an item was placed.
It was a broom.
Zheng Zai quietly asked:
"Brother, your Anti-Magic Value should be the highest... did you find anything?"
Wen Xishu saw a few words.
Assimilation, Cleaning, Taming.
The rest was gibberish, but these words were enough for Wen Xishu to guess the function of the broom.
"Trash and dust will be tamed by the broom. They will think they are on the broom’s side, assimilating other trash, thus cleaning the area."
Zheng Zai’s mouth formed an ’o’ shape:
"Wow, this is a cleaning marvel... pity it’s not useful for fighting, I thought it was a magical broom written in a lower-level novel."
Zheng Zai thought how amazing it would be if this thing could fly him around.
"Let’s go, this thing doesn’t seem valuable." Zheng Zai said.
Wen Xishu replied with a hum but didn’t leave immediately. Instead, he pointed at the room:
"Zheng Zai, I ask you, besides finding no use for that thing, do you have any other thoughts looking at this room?"
Zheng Zai shook his head:
"Time is pressing... I think we should quickly start searching the next room."
Wen Xishu said softly:
"You should compare it to the situation in 4-1."
"Doesn’t 4-1 obviously have many things, a sickbed, bedding, other things a ward would typically have."
"But 4-2 doesn’t. In 4-1, you might have to search a bit to identify which item is on display."
"But in 4-2? You can tell at a glance that the item on display is the broom. The main reason is that 4-2 clearly doesn’t look like it had patients."
"So—"
Wen Xishu intentionally paused to guide Zheng Zai. Zheng Zai, fortunately, picked it up:
"Got it, got it. Some rooms have patients, some don’t!"
"Rooms without patients only have display props, but rooms with patients... might allow us to find some extra clues?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"Not bad, let’s go, now we can check 4-5."
Zheng Zai walked ahead of Wen Xishu and quickly reached 4-5, feeling happy as Wen always considered things comprehensively.
He recalled last time when it felt like Wen was cheating through the game, breezing through and making victory effortless.
Wang Ying’s room, 4-3, was also very clean. The display item in 4-3 was a glass bottle.
Wang Ying was entangled in whether to identify it. As everyone knows, bottles can be smashing weapons...