On the second day after Wen Xishu returned, the entire Bunker celebrated the miracle he had brought them.
Meanwhile, Miyamoto Yoshiki was tortured to death.
The Miyamoto Family had probably guessed what had happened, but they dared not make any rash moves.
Before long, the Miyamoto Family began trying to contact Wen Xishu, hoping he would honor them with a meeting.
Unable to reach Wen Xishu, they contacted William Hockner instead.
By now, William Hockner and Wen Xishu actually had something of a personal friendship. Wen Xishu thought highly of this future richest man in humanity.
Money could move even gods, including the god of the Xishu Divine Church.
Without William Hockner, Wen Xishu could never have improved the treatment of Strange Tower climbers so quickly.
If William Hockner wanted to see him, he could practically bypass the Academy Spirit.
But just because something was easy to arrange did not mean he should make it look easy.
William Hockner told the Miyamoto Family Head:
"This is going to be very difficult."
Only after those words had extracted a hefty sum from the Miyamoto Family did he go to Wen Xishu. He told him that he had squeezed a great deal of money out of the family, but whether to meet them was entirely Wen Xishu's decision.
William Hockner had already worked out how to take their money without doing anything for them.
Wen Xishu liked his honesty, the way he openly admitted even his greed and bribe-taking.
But... he refused to meet the Miyamoto Family.
His reason was that he had already started climbing the tower.
Most of the time, Wen Xishu was climbing the tower while his friends rested and recuperated in the Bunker.
But occasionally, he would be resting while his friends climbed.
Wen Xishu had