Nissen jumped up excitedly:
"Bro, I can tell you guys are anything but ordinary. This treasure definitely isn't ordinary either. As long as the three of us work together with one heart, we'll surely overcome every hardship!"
Wen Xishu gradually grew accustomed to Nissen's habit of making everything rhyme.
Yue Yun said:
"If there's only one treasure and all three of us obtain it, how will we divide it?"
That was a good question. Nissen fell silent as well.
Wen Xishu inexplicably wanted to laugh.
A person's life was one of constant compromise and self-compression.
Wen Xishu had seen too many people who had once held grand dreams as children, only to continually shrink themselves along the way until they ultimately wanted nothing more than to be an ordinary person.
Having lived two lives, he naturally had no interest in certain illusory things.
Especially this sort of scenario where no one else could find it, but he could. He did not believe it would happen to him at all.
But judging by Yue Yun's expression, he seemed to have already decided that the academy's treasure belonged to him.
It truly gave Wen Xishu the feeling of returning to his student days.
Of course, as a transmigrator, it would be a lie to say Wen Xishu had no expectations for his life.
"We'll see who it suits. It may be treasure, but that doesn't mean it'll match our own attributes. When the time comes, whoever it suits best gets it."
"It's fate that we've come together. If we can find something that none of the seniors before us have ever found, then the three of us together must be extraordinary."
"The treasure itself is only secondary."
Wen Xishu was indeed very good at playing the sort of person everyone found warm and likable.
Just as he had when facing Jennifer in the Strange Tower.
His words made both Yue Yun and Nissen feel quite comfortable.
"Yo! This is our invincible bond! We're destined to become the best partners! Though countless hardships lie ahead, whoever dares block our way will pay the price!"
Nissen continued being painfully cheesy.
Yet the things people found embarrassing after reaching thirty were precisely what made one's student years unique.
Wen Xishu said:
"Nissen, why don't you tell us first? Have you found any clues?"
Nissen nodded.
"Apparently, the treasure only appears at night. You can't see it during the day."
"At night, special signs will appear. If you pay attention, you'll find something like an entrance."
Nissen stopped speaking. After a long while, Yue Yun continued, still posing like a brooding king, "That's it? Just that?"
Nissen shrugged.
"That's already pretty good. It's far better than those searching for treasure during the day!"
Yue Yun took a deep breath. In an academy this enormous, that little information was practically no information at all.
Yue Yun said:
"In that case, let's familiarize ourselves with the academy first. Are you two interested in taking a look around?"
Wen Xishu was naturally interested. His injuries were recovering quickly, and walking was no longer a problem.
Since Three Towers Academy was an academy, it ought to have things associated with an academy. For example, according to people's fixed impressions, an academy had to have a library.
Wen Xishu rather wanted to visit the library.
Thus, the three of them set off together to tour the academy. Yue Yun, who had also received perfect marks in cultural subjects, memorized the academy's appearance.
He stored every view they passed and every detail of each building in his mind, making it easier to compare them with anything different at night.
Wen Xishu did not put much thought into those matters. He was not especially interested in the treasure.
His attitude was simply, "It'd be nice to find it, but it's no big deal if we don't."
Wen Xishu mainly wanted to familiarize himself with the academy's layout.
The academy was divided into department areas and academy areas.
The department areas were regions belonging exclusively to the Slaughter Tower and Desire Tower departments.
The most distinctive features of the Desire Tower Department Area and the Slaughter Tower Department Area were their simulation halls.
The simulation hall in Tower of Slaughter Academy simulated all kinds of monsters, though "elite monsters" and "bosses" were rare. The simulation hall in the Desire Tower Department Area simulated all kinds of social scenarios.
Tower of Slaughter Academy also had training dummies, the kind that could provide damage feedback. The Desire Tower Academy department area, meanwhile, had emotional fluctuation meters used to verify which words moved people the most.
Teachers mostly trained students in the simulation halls and explained knowledge related to their respective tower departments.
The dormitory area was also located within the department areas.
The greatest feature of the department areas was that Bunker citizens within them could use the powers of the Three Towers.
But they all followed one principle—the independence of Three Towers abilities.
For example, one could not use Desire Tower powers within the Slaughter Tower Department Area.
Of course, Strange Tower powers did not seem to be restricted.
Additionally, the powers of the Three Towers' sequences could not be used against one's own people outside of class hours. Once discovered, a student could be expelled.
Apart from the department areas, everything else belonged to the academy areas.
The academy areas included places such as the cafeteria, library, and lecture halls. Of these buildings, the cafeteria and library were where students went most often.
The library in particular carried the flavor of those magical libraries found in medieval fantasy novels.
At the peak of the library's rooftop hung an enormous device resembling a three-leaf clover and a fan.
But it was truly massive, made of brass, and no one knew how it remained suspended in the air.
The academy areas did not allow the use of Three Towers powers and were like ordinary academies. Thus, countless students found the suspended clover-shaped device immensely shocking.
The library itself was also one of the tallest buildings in the Bunker. It could be said to resemble a tower filled with books.
The Bunker's current collection had not yet filled this tower, but even so, this place contained the most books in the Bunker.
Students mostly read on the first six floors, especially the sixth floor. The sixth floor was almost entirely filled with books about the Slaughter Tower and Desire Tower.
Thus, students from the Desire Tower department and the Slaughter Tower department could also encounter one another in the academy areas.
Over time, some Tower of Desire Academy students would be hit on by Tower of Slaughter Academy students.
That was because Tower of Desire Academy students generally came from better families and were more attractive.
Entering the library and cafeteria required a student ID.
Albert had already gotten one for Wen Xishu.
Tower of Desire Academy student IDs had white backgrounds, while Tower of Slaughter Academy student IDs had red backgrounds.
One could tell a student's affiliation at a glance through their ID.
So when Wen Xishu, Nissen, and Yue Yun arrived at the library—
Among the few Tower of Desire Academy students in the library, someone revealed a disdainful expression.
She was a second-year senior from the Desire Tower department named Luo Xian, and she was fairly attractive.
Over the past year, Luo Xian had also slept with quite a few wealthy young men from the Desire Tower department. She had done a good job of cashing in on her talent.
She had also begun living the high-class life of shopping freely on the sixth Function Layer and enjoying all kinds of entertainment.
When she looked at students from the Slaughter Tower department, she could not help but disdain them.
Crude Slaughter Tower brutes.
That was the stereotype Desire Tower department students held of Slaughter Tower department students.
In Luo Xian's eyes, as well as the eyes of many Desire Tower department students, they were elites who contributed to society with their brains.
As for those from the Slaughter Tower department, they were merely a bunch of fighters with no brains who only knew how to use brute force.
The only reason those people came to the library was to pick up girls.
For instance, the girl named Jiang Xue in the corner had already been harassed by quite a few Tower of Slaughter Academy freshmen.
Luo Xian saw it but paid no attention. She did not like the girl named Jiang Xue.
Judging from Jiang Xue's clothes, she was obviously from the lower class. Although Luo Xian had once been from the lower class herself, she now despised such people beyond measure and considered herself of a different class.
Furthermore, Jiang Xue's beauty made her feel inferior.
There was a saying: all your interpretations and readings of me do not make up even one ten-thousandth of who I am, yet they reveal you completely.
In Luo Xian's eyes, a girl like Jiang Xue had to be slutty to the bone. Otherwise, why would she enter Tower of Desire Academy?
When she saw Jiang Xue politely rejecting the Tower of Slaughter Academy freshmen and reading with such focus, she felt sick.
Disgusting bitch. What are you pretending to be pure for? Aren't you just waiting to be slept with by those rich young masters?
Only when the Mental Barrage drifted past did Wen Xishu notice this senior girl named Luo Xian. Her disgust toward a certain freshman had reached an extreme.
At the same time, he followed her gaze and looked at the freshman being criticized by the female student.
Wen Xishu could imagine how difficult life was for some lower-class women in the Desire Tower.
But he was not interested in other people's fates.
He was merely surprised...
Could he actually see Mental Barrage in an academy area like the library?
On the way here, Wen Xishu had been asking about some basic common knowledge.
He now knew that only department areas allowed the use of sequences corresponding to their tower departments.
But this seemed to reveal something—
As long as one was within Three Towers Academy, whether in a department area or academy area, the Eerie Sequence could be used.
Wen Xishu fell into thought...
Three Towers Academy alone had no Strange Tower Academy, while both the Slaughter Tower and Desire Tower had their own academies.
According to Albert, raiding the Strange Tower could not be taught. It was eerie and unpredictable, without any rules.
But was that really true?
A treasure no one could find, an Eerie Sequence covering the academy, and a place called Three Towers Academy that had no Strange Tower Academy...
Wen Xishu frowned slightly but could not make sense of it.
Still, he vaguely felt that the so-called treasure might be related to the eerie.
He did not dwell on it for long, because he soon found the book he had been looking for.
Wen Xishu, Yue Yun, and Nissen did not care about the disdainful gazes of the Desire Tower students.
The three of them decided to study in the library for a while before searching for the academy treasure after nightfall.
The book Nissen read was the "Tower of Slaughter Academy Freshman Guide." It had been written by one of the academy's teachers.
The book Yue Yun read was the "Tower of Slaughter Sequence Compendium."
Wen Xishu, meanwhile, found a copy of the "Tower of Slaughter Monster Compendium."
It contained something that interested him.
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