"All along, my approach to breaking the game has been—explore the Deceit Tower, find the invitation, then head to the Desire Tower to overturn the Deceit Tower."
"In this way, even if the levels of the Deceit Tower aren't fully explored, as long as my performance in the Desire Tower is impressive, I can still receive generous rewards."
"But until today, I've truly, for the first time, fully cleared the levels of the Deceit Tower. It turns out, there's such a reward after completing them."
After playing the levels of the Deceit Tower to the extreme, Wen Xishu actually doesn't quite want to enter the Desire Tower.
After all, in the Deceit Tower, he managed to coax several obsessions into grinning widely, something he can't achieve in reality.
But only at this moment did he realize—the game actually encourages you to use the invitation.
The invitation can allow you to change reality, but correspondingly, mastering the Deceit Tower also strengthens the effect of the invitation.
If you get the invitation and feel there's no need to explore the Deceit Tower... you may actually miss something, or rather, some bonuses.
Like a perfect entry point.
The two complement each other.
"If I can fully complete the Deceit Tower tasks in places like the Human Tunnel, the Ark... perhaps the difficulty in the Desire Tower will suddenly decrease, right?"
"This information doesn't come too late. In future explorations of the Deceit Tower, I'll try to achieve a perfect ending first."
Presently, the problem Wen Xishu faces is whether to be himself or choose an identity to enter?
Being himself is undoubtedly better because in the future, these ability users with the prefix 'Desire' will turn into 'Slaughter', and in the Slaughter Tower, they can recognize him.
But Wen Xishu is thinking that perhaps not being himself could also achieve this.
Besides, he plans to test something.
Thinking of this, an idea arises in Wen Xishu's mind, and he immediately makes a choice.
Support One.
And what's presented in Wen Xishu's mind is countless ordinary individuals.
They're not genuinely, purely at the bottom. Some even have low-level positions, and some are rich enough to rival nations.
They are rated as ordinary individuals because when the apocalypse arrives, their existence doesn't significantly impact it.
In other words, they might have great power, but ultimately didn't utilize it.
Among them, surprisingly, is "Zoe."
This white woman who eagerly desires to join the Ark eventually completes a series of tasks and joins the Ark, but soon loses her value there.
Added to this is Zoe's possession of some dirty secrets of the captain, so she soon dies.
Wen Xishu didn't expect to be able to choose Zoe.
It's too wonderful. Of course, he didn't choose Zoe but decided to become the dark web's leader.
After making the choice, Wen Xishu's image doesn't change, as he has yet to enter the Desire Tower.
He didn't delay either, as there are quite a few acquaintances in the resting area of the Desire Tower.
But Wen Xishu didn't greet any of them and directly embarked on his journey to the Desire Tower.
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Desire Tower, Land of Freedom, De City.
De City is less than three hundred kilometers away from Mo'en City, but compared to Mo'en City, there are too many people here.
Because there's a harbor here, the first boarding point of the Ark is right here.
Memories flood into Wen Xishu's mind; he is now an unknown person named Ethan.
If not for the apocalypse, Ethan's life would actually be worth talking about.
He seems like a shut-in, his social anxiety is to the extreme, and his outdoor attire always includes a hoodie, accompanied by a hat and a mask, fearing others seeing him.
He blushes when talking to women, but at night, he fantasizes about those women serving him in the most grotesque way, satisfying his fantasies and fetishes.
In reality, Ethan has no friends. As a super programmer, a hacker, Ethan used to have friends, but his friends couldn't tolerate Ethan's constant hacking into their computers, viewing their privacy.
Once, Ethan thoughtfully sent a friend a nude photo of a neighbor's girl.
It even came with a note:
"Friend, I've discovered from your private log that you fancy her. If needed, I can help you install surveillance on her computer or a hidden camera in her bedroom."
Ethan thinks he's very considerate, as not many people care so much for their friends.
But the result was his friend reported him.
After this, Ethan had no friends. He doesn't understand why his kindness was met with betrayal.
A freak, shut-in, socially anxious but perverted, without emotional intelligence, without boundaries...
These are Ethan's labels.
But these are just the surface of Ethan. There's another side to Ethan—
That is the administrator of the dark web. Truth be told, Wen Xishu thinks Ethan isn't too perverted.
After all, regarding dark web affairs, Ethan is merely a bystander, never participating.
After seeing so many filthy things, Ethan merely lacks a bit of boundaries, and that's actually somewhat decent.
Later, Ethan died in the apocalypse. He was eligible to board but feared Von Neumann.
He ultimately didn't board, thus perished in the apocalypse, by the hands of the most ordinary common type.
But from this moment, Ethan's fate changed.
"Your name is Ethan, but your body is now under my control."
"What I need to do is stop several dark web transactions and find someone."
"Ethan, the Ark holds terrifying events. If, in the future, you don't wish to enter the Ark and don't want to be killed by monsters in De City, then you need not hesitate, you can go to Wind City."