But he still received the invitation.
Wen Xishu did not avoid Horn and opened the invitation, but he did not immediately proceed.
He only read the contents of the invitation.
[Due to the awakening of Sirius's will at a certain future moment, he uses his own power to engage in a duel with the Pisces of the past, causing the Ark to manifest a time stream disorder. Please find the correct time within the many time streams and take relevant personnel away to evade the correction by the Time Walker and escape the Ark.]
[Note: This invitation has a countdown setting, counting down from twelve hours. If the invitation is not activated within twelve hours, it will disappear.]
Wen Xishu was shocked.
He never expected such an outcome.
Time stream disorder? Time Walker? Correction?
At this moment, Wen Xishu suddenly felt a huge sense of exhaustion and powerlessness.
The Ark of the Deceit Tower gave Wen Xishu a feeling akin to that of the Desire Tower.
Wen Xishu wondered... Could it be that everything in the Ark of the Desire Tower will repeat?
I've already achieved a good ending in the Deceit Tower, is there really a need to return to the Desire Tower through the invitation?
But now he understood— the Desire Tower is even more dangerous, with not only the captain but also the minions of the Pisces.
The Twelve Constellations are undoubtedly aware of the mechanism of the Three Towers.
Among them, some are eager to collaborate with the Tower Climber through this mechanism, like Scorpio.
There are also those, like Aquarius, who absolutely forbid the involvement of Tower Climbers.
But now it seems, the strongest is still Pisces.
"In the past, I could often construct a new Deceit Tower..."
"At least in terms of the timeline, the Desire Tower precedes the Deceit Tower."
"Is it still the same this time?"
The ability of Pisces is related to time, and Wen Xishu had also seen the Pisces emblem.
It's the symbol of yin and yang fish, symbolizing the change of the world, symbolizing the operation of time.
Horn, seeing Wen Xishu so troubled, was a bit puzzled:
"Wen Xishu, we're friends, right?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"Of course."
Horn asked:
"What happened?"
Wen Xishu sighed:
"I seldom make friends in the Deceit Tower, Horn, you are the first."
"In the Deceit Tower, everything is distorted by obsession, so I've always thought of you all as nothing more than a group of failures, waiting for me to save you."
Horn couldn't understand.
But he had heard of the Three Towers, from the story of Yin Junchi. Strong as Horn, he immediately thought that perhaps one of the Three Towers was the Deceit Tower.
Wen Xishu said:
"Only by going back to the Desire Tower can I truly establish a bond with you all..."
"But now I'm... a bit lost."
"My experience in the Deceit Tower feels too much like it was in the Desire Tower."
"So much so that when I rescued Sirius, I kept thinking, why does my journey this time seem so much like the Desire Tower?"
Horn said:
"Deceit Tower, Desire Tower, and another tower?"
Wen Xishu said:
"Slaughter Tower. The relationship among the three towers... is probably like this."
Wen Xishu described the following things in words.
During this process, Horn listened with great interest.
He fully understood what was going on.
Horn was astonished:
"Amazing, I never thought the real savior of the apocalypse is one who travels among the Three Towers... It's truly admirable."
"But based on your past experiences, I seem to live in a world formed by obsession?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"But working with you is too delightful, making me think I'm in the Desire Tower. I've always thought, Horn, it would have been great if you were in the Desire Tower. I've also always feared, why does this Deceit Tower journey seem so much like a Desire Tower journey?"
"Now I seem to understand."
For Horn, Wen Xishu was really different from past NPCs. Wen Xishu even showed Horn the invitation.
After Horn finished reading, he was completely stunned. He thought of the same result as Wen Xishu:
"Are you saying... the one you rescued may just be a critical timeline?"
"But the invitation mentions the correction by the Time Walker..."
"In other words, if you don't go to the Desire Tower, if you don't pass through layers of time streams, everything will be corrected back by the Time Walker?"
After finishing this sentence, Horn felt very exhausted.
Wen Xishu felt the same.
Hugo didn't understand what the two were saying, but seeing two such god-like figures so weary... he also felt a sense of powerlessness and despair.
Clearly, everything was getting better.
"The correction by the Time Walker... I don't understand what it means, but I know that the fruits of my victory at this moment are certainly included in the many timelines of the time stream..."
"The ability of Pisces is to deduce the future, to know everything that will happen in the future..."
"And the obsession of Sirius brought me onto the Ark, creating a Deceit Tower very close to the trajectory of the Desire Tower."
"In the Deceit Tower, I saved you, saved Sirius... but these changes will certainly appear in a certain timeline."
"And Pisces, who can glimpse these changes, can erase them using the Time Walker from the source, the Desire Tower..."
It was a bit of a mouthful, but Horn understood.
In other words, Wen Xishu allowed one of the timelines to have the possibility of Sirius being redeemed.
But the Time Walker will inevitably fix this possibility.
It's like Wen Xishu defeated the captain in 2024.
But Pisces can see this change as early as 2021, so they can strive to alter this possibility over the next three years.
This is truly despairing.
Wen Xishu and Horn, teaming up to awaken freedom for Sirius, but all their efforts seemed like a reminder to Pisces—there's a bug here that can still be fixed.