The Three Towers Game: A Madman's Ascent
Chapter 9

Desire Tower Power Couple

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"The mission you mentioned takes place in a place called Moen City. This area mission is quite difficult."

"Jennifer, a Three Towers person, is just a child and easy to please. But no matter how happy or delighted she gets, you can only achieve a Level 1 Completion Level in the end."

The smile on Ji Boda's face faded slightly.

"No one knows why Jennifer, who is so easy to placate, is not truly happy."

"For most Three Towers people, once their emotional values rise, you can achieve a Level 1 Completion Level."

"But Jennifer is different. This little girl is easy to please. Give her a piece of candy, and she'll be happy for half the day."

"The mission immediately shows that it can be completed."

"But if you really choose to complete the mission... you'll find that you can only receive the reward for the lowest Completion Level."

At this point, Ji Boda gave a mysterious smile.

"That's why many people have speculated that, for Jennifer on the twenty-first floor, the way to make her happy may have nothing to do with Jennifer herself."

"The key lies with her mother, the Three Towers person Yulia."

"Young man, you're handsome, young, tall, and carry yourself well. Perhaps you can rely on your natural endowment to conquer that Three Towers person, Yulia!"

Wen Xishu almost laughed, but he had received professional training and could still hold it in.

Ji Boda's words made him think of two things.

First, Three Towers people were not some alien species. They were simply people who lived in the Three Towers World.

Yet it seemed that only humans from the Desire Tower were called Three Towers people.

They were the equivalent of Bunker people, which also meant that Bunker people acknowledged Three Towers people as their own kind.

But the Strange Tower and Slaughter Tower were different. At least Deception Jack and the monsters in the Tower of Slaughter... could indeed only be called monsters.

Second, Wen Xishu recalled a joke.

It was said that the Free Nation hoped to use ideological infiltration through the foreign internet to make the people of China hate their own country.

But the statistics showed that 99.9 percent of Chinese people went on the foreign internet to watch porn, then closed their browsers afterward.

All those American officials combined might not have been as famous as Taipei Nana, Hashimoto Kana, and the like...

The Three Towers were the same. If some demon wanted to observe how humans brought happiness to others in order to study the complexity of human emotions, it would surely be disappointed.

At least, Bunker people seemed to have thought of only one way to bring happiness.

Jennifer was a child and couldn't be touched, so they would target Jennifer's mother instead.

Wen Xishu had to admit that he greatly admired this group of people who relied on smut to solve every problem.

"Thank you very much for the information. It's very useful."

In a sense, Ji Boda was right.

A large part of the root cause of a child's unhappiness came from their parents.

If Jennifer's mother could be made happy, Jennifer might remain happy for quite some time.

But unfortunately, the true root of this mission lay with a neighbor named Jack.

No matter how much happiness they brought Jennifer, if they couldn't change Jack's circumstances...

Then Jennifer's fate, and the fate of all the neighbors, would not change.

That was why people exploring this floor could only achieve a Level 1 Completion Level.

Wen Xishu said,

"I don't have the means to buy your information. In that case, I'll repay you with some information."

Ji Boda readily agreed.

"I like this kind of trade."

Wen Xishu said,

"It's still the same area. I suggest you try a different approach and start with Jennifer's neighbors. For example, Jack. Talk to Jack about Jennifer, and you'll learn some details."

Ji Boda truly could not remember whether there had been someone named Jack when he last explored the twenty-first floor...

Liu Ruyan seemed thoughtful, her gaze at Wen Xishu growing deeper.

"By the way, how do I leave this place early?"

It was another extremely newbie question, and Ji Boda patiently answered,

"Through your Login Device."

Wen Xishu turned around, putting his back to the couple. He rolled up his sleeve and revealed the Tower of Deception's black login device on his wrist.

A Strange Tower Login Device appearing in the Tower of Desire preparation zone was indeed strange, and he did not want to waste effort explaining it.

"Farewell, then. See you in the Bunker if fate allows, you two."

"Then see you again if fate allows," Ji Boda said with a smile.

The next instant, Wen Xishu vanished.

After Wen Xishu disappeared, Liu Ruyan slowly spoke.

"It didn't look like an act. Judging from the subtle tremors in his facial muscles, he was hiding something, but he wasn't lying."

Ji Boda's smile vanished as well.

"Hiss, he can't really be a newcomer, can he? But why would a newcomer go to the twenty-first floor?"

Liu Ruyan said,

"When you mentioned that the way to complete the mission was to please Yulia, he showed signs of suppressing a laugh."

Ji Boda fell silent for a second.

"So he thinks there's something wrong with my information. He has his own view of that area... and he did offer a suggestion. He told us to try starting with the neighbor, Jack."

"That's strange. A mission can only be entered once, yet he seemed to have already been there."

"Being able to reach the twenty-first floor meant he had already weathered several rounds in the sea of desire."

"Yet he was so young. And he asked so many questions like a newcomer."

Liu Ruyan said flatly,

"Wen Chaohua, Xun Hui, Wen Renjing—those few also explored dozens of floors while still very young."

"Now, Wen Renjing has explored more than sixty floors in the Desire Tower. Xun Hui has explored fifty-seven floors in the Slaughter Tower. The two of them can be called the finest among Tower Ascenders."

Ji Boda gave a bitter smile.

"But the people you mentioned are geniuses among geniuses. Could he be that level of genius?"

"There are so many things about that kid that feel contradictory to me."

Liu Ruyan nodded.

"He doesn't know us. So he's not from the Tower of Desire Academy either."

Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan were a top-ranked husband-and-wife duo on the Tower of Desire Heavenly Ladder Ranking.

The two were also teachers at the Tower of Desire Academy, appointed by the Bunker Administration Bureau.

They came from the lower class, but through powerful talent and hard work, they had brought back many things from the Desire Tower.

It could be said that their traces appeared in countless stories across many planes of the Desire Tower.

Liu Ruyan was exceptionally skilled at reading people and judging their inner thoughts.

Ji Boda, meanwhile, excelled at acting and could wear a thousand different faces.

Both were vital means of survival in the Desire Tower. They were also things modern humanity needed to learn.

Because of their respective skills, both of them gave lectures at the Tower of Desire Academy.

Ji Boda smiled.

"A young Asian man who claims to come from the lower class, yet is qualified to enter the Desire Tower and has reached such a high floor. How interesting."

"I suddenly wonder what Completion Level he'll achieve."

Liu Ruyan said,

"If he really is a genius, he might cause quite a stir. Unfortunately, we don't know his name."

Ji Boda nodded.

"Yes. Otherwise, I would definitely recruit him into the Tower of Desire Academy."

Liu Ruyan seemed to remember something else.

"There's one more strange thing. When he activated his Login Device, he had to turn his back to us, and he deliberately hid it inside his sleeve."

Ji Boda remembered as well, looking somewhat puzzled.

"Could there be something unusual about his Login Device? I'm getting more and more curious."

Even with their extensive experience as instructors at the Tower of Desire Academy, the two could not help becoming interested in Wen Xishu.

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