Recaps

Wen Xishu intimidated Aspasia, then found the Phoenix Heart and Phoenix Feather in room 4-30 and gained the Phoenix Glove · Unbinding. He used its power to wipe out the prison’s monsters in stage ten and continued clearing stages eleven and twelve while Wang Ying was still fighting in stage nine.

• Wen Xishu warned Aspasia not to scheme for the treasure in room 4-30, and she fled to another room.
• Wen Xishu unlocked room 4-30 and touched the Phoenix Feather, which vanished, then fused the Phoenix Heart into his glove.
• Wen Xishu learned that the glove could strip supernatural powers from Phoenix Constellation creations, disable an enemy item, and shut down an opponent’s inventory.
• In stage ten, Wen Xishu snapped his fingers and used the glove to turn the monsters, including rare, elite, and boss-level creatures, into clay-like objects.
• Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai cleared stage ten, and Wen Xishu moved on to finish stages eleven and twelve while Wang Ying remained in stage nine.

Wen Xishu, Zheng Zai, and Wang Ying cleared the Museum’s final stages, chose items, and fought their way through the hospital as its monsters attacked. They escaped just before an Elite Species could catch them, completing the mission and returning to their guide for their rating and rewards.

• Wen Xishu and Zheng Zai cleared stage eleven, then appraised a soccer ball and entered the final stage, where Wen Xishu noticed strange sights that seemed connected to Ding Dong’s past.
• Wen Xishu erased the final boss, and Zheng Zai used the Murder Football to defeat the remaining enemies and clear stage twelve.
• The Museum lifted its item restrictions, and Wen Xishu chose the Dare Wine Cups and Murder Football, Zheng Zai chose the chainsaw, and Wang Ying chose the vacuum cleaner.
• The group descended through the hospital, where Wen Xishu killed the long-haired ghost and Aspasia died after an invisible monster drained her.
• Wen Xishu, Zheng Zai, and Wang Ying fought through the hospital’s monsters, fled from an Elite Species, and escaped through the front doors as the mission completion notice appeared.

After completing another Strange Tower mission, Wen Xishu gained a Level Six Travel Agency but struggled with limited inventory slots, so Jabbar took him to store his excess items at Three Towers Academy. Back in the Bunker, Wen Xishu learned his Slaughter Tower entry would be arranged for the next day and headed to see Yue Yun and Nissen, finding someone else in their room.

• Wen Xishu checked his status and items, discovered that the Murder Football had become an orange True Murder Football, and asked the guide about obtaining more inventory slots.
• The guide awarded Wen Xishu completion level six and an exclusive Level Six Travel Agency, while warning him that lower floors faced greater danger from the Great Devourment.
• Jabbar helped Wen Xishu store his excess items in a twenty-four-slot locker at Three Towers Academy's Materials Department and explained how storage worked.
• Wen Xishu asked to enter the Slaughter Tower immediately, but Jabbar said his Login Device would arrive the next day and urged him to rest.
• Wen Xishu decided to visit Yue Yun and Nissen, hoping to enter the Slaughter Tower with them, but found another person in their room.

Wen Xishu met his new roommate, Jin Shan, a young prodigy who had reached the Seventeenth Floor of the Slaughter Tower and could obtain Comrade's Wristbands through his grandfather. Despite Xiao Jin's doubts about protecting them, Wen Xishu and Yue Yun agreed to climb with him, and Nissen was left with little choice but to join.

• Wen Xishu met Xiao Jin, whose awkward compliments revealed that he was trying to fit in with his new roommates.
• Wen Xishu suspected Xiao Jin's grandfather was Old Jin, then learned Xiao Jin had reached the Seventeenth Floor of the Slaughter Tower before turning eighteen.
• Xiao Jin offered to ask his grandfather for Comrade's Wristbands so the roommates could form a party and climb together.
• Wen Xishu proposed climbing above his level to gain inventory slots, while Xiao Jin warned that he might not be able to protect the others.
• Wen Xishu persuaded Yue Yun to join, Xiao Jin agreed to do his best to protect them, and Nissen realized he would have to come along.

Albert gathered Wen Renjing and Xun Hui to explain that repeatedly reaching the Slaughter Tower’s killing limit had afflicted them with the Scorpio Curse, which could be eased by killing or by spending time away from the tower. He then asked Xun Hui to join Wen Xishu and Old Jin’s grandson for Wen Xishu’s first Slaughter Tower exploration.

• Wen Renjing discussed how Wen Xishu’s Invitation Letter and experience in the Strange Tower helped him uncover deeper routes through the Desire Tower.
• Xun Hui arrived, and Albert asked whether his temper and urge to kill had grown stronger as he climbed the Slaughter Tower.
• Albert explained that repeatedly killing up to the critical threshold caused the Scorpio Curse, and admitted he had secretly killed people to relieve it.
• Xun Hui refused to stop climbing and asked Albert for names of people to kill, while Wen Renjing wondered whether Wen Chaohua and Wen Xishu could reveal a way to resist the curse.
• Albert praised Wen Xishu as someone who could fill the place Wen Chaohua had left and told Xun Hui to accompany him and Old Jin’s grandson into the Slaughter Tower.

Albert arranged for Xun Hui to take Wen Xishu and his dormmates into the Slaughter Tower, while pressing Xun Hui to eliminate a Bunker official who obstructed Wen Xishu’s restoration of human rights. Xun Hui arrived at the dorm with Wen Xishu’s new Login Device and prepared to lead the group to the Materials Department, leaving Ye Chenzhou objecting and the other students stunned.

• Albert agreed that Xun Hui could take Wen Xishu and his companions on a Slaughter Tower climb, then asked Xun Hui to target the director of the Bunker Security Bureau’s Third Bureau.
• Wen Xishu, Xiao Jin, Yue Yun, and Nissen prepared to climb together using Comrade’s Wristbands, but Ye Chenzhou arrived and insisted they submit a written application because of the risks posed by different floor levels.
• Yue Yun suspected Wen Xun was connected to the Strange Tower’s legendary climber Wen Xishu after learning he lacked a working Slaughter Tower Login Device.
• Xun Hui arrived with a new Slaughter Tower Login Device for Wen Xishu and announced that he would take the students to the Slaughter Tower, shocking Ye Chenzhou, the dormmates, and Miyamoto Yoshiki.
• Ye Chenzhou protested the dangerous plan, but Yue Yun chose to go, and Xun Hui told the group to follow him to the Materials Department.

Xun Hui led Wen Xishu, Yue Yun, Nissen, and Xiao Jin into the Slaughter Tower for a first climb on Floor 52, while Wen Xishu learned that his Travel Agency was helping people in the Bunker. After choosing dice effects and receiving Xun Hui’s survival briefing, the group activated their Login Devices and entered the tower.

• Xun Hui brought Wen Xishu and the others to the Materials Department, where Yue Yun chose a heavy purple sword and Nissen chose purple armor for survival.
• Wen Xishu called Liu Jinsen to check in, learned that his Travel Agency was popular, and heard that the Security Bureau’s Third Bureau planned measures against him and the Xishu Divine Church.
• At the garden, the group activated their Login Devices and received Floor 52 as their destination; Wen Xishu rolled a four-five-six straight and chose Two-Stage Chain and Smooth Sailing.
• In the Heavenly Origin Rest Area, Xun Hui introduced Atlas, the Gambling Stone Association’s strategist, who asked about Wen Xishu and discussed recruiting him and preparing a Strange Tower Assault Team.
• Xun Hui explained that he would kill enough enemies for the party while the others focused on survival, then warned them about dangerous areas, hidden powerful monsters, and straying from their starting location.
• Wen Xishu, Xun Hui, Yue Yun, Nissen, and Xiao Jin activated their Login Devices and entered the Slaughter Tower.

Wen Xishu and his companions entered the Slaughter Tower’s fifty-second floor, survived a name-calling ghost, and learned that his special item let him kill without gaining Slaughter Value. Xun Hui cleared a supermarket for them to use as a Bonfire refuge, and Wen Xishu looked forward to unlocking the Scorpio Knife’s friends chat once the fire was lit.

• Xun Hui led Nissen, Yue Yun, Xiao Jin, and Wen Xishu into a pitch-black area where a gigantic bat soon flew away, revealing a ruined city filled with dangerous monsters.
• Wen Xishu discovered that the Scorpio Knife had unlocked a chat channel, but combat restrictions and limited functionality prevented him from messaging his listed friends.
• Xun Hui went alone into Joy for All Supermarket to defeat its monster while the others were confronted by a ghost that repeatedly asked Wen Xishu who it was.
• Wen Xishu attacked the ghost with his True Murder Football, then Nissen, Yue Yun, and Xiao Jin joined in and helped kill it without Wen Xishu suffering any Slaughter Value consequences.
• Xun Hui defeated the supermarket monster, returned to the group, and agreed to bring them inside to light a Bonfire; Xiao Jin volunteered to handle it.

Wen Xishu deduced that the Supermarket’s strange plant feared the goods on its shelves, and Xun Hui used that weakness to kill it. While resting at a Bonfire, Wen Xishu reopened chat with people from his past, leaving them stunned by how powerful they believed he had become.

• Wen Xishu noticed that the Supermarket’s goods had replenished and realized a hidden monster was preventing Xun Hui from lighting a Bonfire.
• Wen Xishu inferred that the strange plant had taken over B District and feared the harmful goods in A District, then called Xun Hui back with a plan to exploit that weakness.
• Xun Hui dragged shelves full of supplies into B District, disrupted the plant with the goods, and killed it by throwing an orange-grade sword at its core.
• Xun Hui lit a Bonfire and rested while Wen Xishu used Friend chat to contact Tang Rui, Slaughter Jack, Slaughter Jennifer, and the An Family Brothers.
• Tang Rui recognized Wen Xishu but hesitated to reply because she feared he would be frightened by her changed appearance, while Jack, Jennifer, and the An Family Brothers marveled at his apparent power.

Wen Xishu learned more about the constellations and recruited Tang Rui’s help, then joined Xun Hui in pursuing the Ghost Bride after discovering he could force her out of her coffin. The chapter ended with Xun Hui and Wen Xishu setting out to hunt her while Xiao Jin, Yue Yun, and Nissen stayed behind.

• Wen Xishu questioned Jack, Jennifer, and the An Family brothers about the constellations, Red Houses, and Gemini, learning that Gemini was weakened and that Jennifer had refused Virgo’s recruitment.
• Tang Rui pledged to help Wen Xishu, invited him to bring her letter so she could find him, and activated a recruitment quest for him.
• Xun Hui warned the group about the Ghost Bride after her funeral procession passed near the campfire, explaining that her coffin hid her true body and summoned powerful, unkillable spirits.
• Tang Rui told Wen Xishu that the Ghost Bride’s true body was weaker than she was, but her coffin made her a Little Red House; Wen Xishu then proposed hunting the bride.
• Wen Xishu told Xun Hui he could force the Ghost Bride out of her coffin, and Xun Hui agreed to go with him while Xiao Jin, Yue Yun, and Nissen remained at the campfire.

Wen Xishu explained how the Slaughter Tower’s thirteen-month time loop could advance when people changed monsters’ fates, and warned Xun Hui that its monsters might be outdated versions of those in the real world. Xun Hui and Wen Xishu defeated the Ghost Bride, earning an unprecedented achievement notification and leaving the Tower-Exit Kill’s additional rewards undisclosed.

• Xiao Jin, Nissen, and Yue Yun overcame their discouragement after Xun Hui and Wen Xishu left, then reviewed how they might learn from Wen Xishu’s methods.
• Wen Xishu asked Xun Hui about first kills, and Xun Hui explained personal first kills, Three Towers First Kills, and the Slaughter Tower’s thirteen-month time loop.
• Wen Xishu deduced that changing people’s fates through noncombat actions could advance the Slaughter Tower’s timeline, and warned Xun Hui that its monsters might lag far behind the real world.
• Xun Hui attacked the Ghost Bride while Wen Xishu used Phoenix Glove · Unbinding to seal her coffin and items, disrupting her mental world and preventing her escape.
• Xun Hui tore apart the Ghost Bride, kicked the coffin away when her blood tried to reach it, and finally twisted off her head until her body and garments stopped moving.
• Xun Hui and Wen Xishu received the same unprecedented achievement notification, while Xun Hui confirmed that the Ghost Bride’s coffin, Red Wedding Dress, and Red Bridal Veil had disappeared.

Xun Hui led Wen Xishu and his companions through a perilous Slaughter Tower journey, killing several powerful monsters while protecting them from visitors. After returning to the Bunker with valuable rewards and new knowledge about how Tower-Exit Kills affect luck and fate, Xun Hui took Wen Xishu to meet the Old Principal.

• Xun Hui returned with Wen Xishu and the others to the Supermarket Bonfire after killing the Ghost Bride, and told Wen Xishu to refuse the Security Bureau's demand for a report.
• The group survived two dangerous nights of visitors by refusing their invitations and staying together near the Bonfire, while Xun Hui hunted monsters during the day.
• Wen Xishu discovered that his chat-channel information could not easily change anyone's fate, and resolved to build stronger bonds with Jack, Jennifer, and the An Family Brothers.
• Xun Hui killed more monsters, including the Big-Head Monster, and the group left the Slaughter Tower after learning about the Old Principal's Limit Break Punch sequence.
• The Guides awarded Wen Xishu Slaughter Sequence 199: Limit Break Kick, Superb Skill football abilities, and Black Coffin Blood, then explained that Tower-Exit Kills transfer luck and opportunities to people whose fates have been changed.
• Back in the Bunker, Xun Hui revealed that he had obtained a Level Six facility for the Academy and invited Wen Xishu and the others to meet the Old Principal.

The author recounted completing thirty days of extra updates at ten thousand characters a day, despite exhaustion and disrupted sleep. After setting a personal writing record, the author planned to keep updating as much as health allowed and asked readers for monthly votes.

• The author told operations manager Nangong that they would try writing ten thousand characters a day for a month.
• The author struggled with exhaustion, poor sleep, and late-night coffee but continued the daily extra updates.
• The author finished Chapter 112 near five in the morning and realized they had completed thirty days of extra updates, a personal record.
• The author decided to keep producing extra updates as health allowed and asked readers for monthly votes.

Wen Xishu returned from the Slaughter Tower with Xun Hui and learned that his tower strategies were now protected intellectual property and that he could explore without reporting to the Security Bureau. After speaking with Albert about Tower-Exit Kills, returning bosses, and the Hundredth Floor, Wen Xishu immediately set out for another Strange Tower climb, while Miyamoto Yoshiki tried and failed to confirm his identity.

• Xun Hui brought Yue Yun, Nissen, Xiao Jin, and Wen Xishu to meet Albert, while Wang Xia saw them and abandoned his plans for revenge against Yue Yun.
• Liu Jinsen told Wen Xishu that he no longer needed to submit tower reports and offered him paid work as a Strange Tower consultant; Wen Xishu accepted and learned that Xun Hui had killed the Third Bureau director.
• Xun Hui told Albert about the Mental Training Hall and praised Yue Yun, Nissen, and Xiao Jin for their conduct in the Slaughter Tower, then traded the Ghost Bride's coffin to Albert.
• Wen Xishu told Albert about his Tower-Exit Kill, learned that time passed at the same rate in the Bunker and the Three Towers, and heard that returned bosses would be forgotten by everyone except those who anchored their fate.
• Wen Xishu offered Albert Slaughter Sequence 199: Limit Break Kick in exchange for Limit Break Punch, but Albert declined; Albert also said he believed there might be floors beyond the Hundredth Floor.
• Wen Xishu left for another tower climb after storing the Black Coffin Blood, while Miyamoto Yoshiki confronted him about Wen Chaohua and failed to confirm that Wen Xun was Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu chose Three-Phase Power and Fourth Evil, which sent him into a team-based doomsday game with seven strangers, though his forced Average Joe class separated him from most of them. He began the apocalypse scenario alone with the blind man, and set out to prove they could survive together.

• Wen Xishu rolled three fours, selected Three-Phase Power and Fourth Evil, and was assigned a high-mortality team challenge on floor fifteen.
• The Mad Dice effect gathered seven other explorers around Wen Xishu, including Zhang Hai, Tokugawa Taiga, Child-Faced Wolf, Kate, Ye Lingfeng, Blind Man, and Tam.
• The group entered the Doomsday Game and reviewed classes; the others unlocked hidden classes, but Wen Xishu could select only Average Joe.
• The game separated Wen Xishu from the others and placed him and Blind Man in a locked storage room with an axe, five bullets, and a medical kit.
• Wen Xishu urged Blind Man to choose survival and proposed that they leave the storage room together when ready.

Wen Xishu escaped the gymnasium, found a survivor quest in an office building, and chose a brutal family reunion that earned him resistance to hunger and thirst. As he headed toward a harder mission, he realized the game changed its story to match players’ desires and learned Blind Man was still alive.

• Wen Xishu gave Blind Man an axe and a medical kit, explained that hidden classes required asset points, and left him behind when the gymnasium door opened.
• Wen Xishu escaped pursuing zombies, avoided a crying female zombie, and followed the Faux Fate Compass to an office building while noticing that the game capped his stats at human limits.
• Wen Xishu entered room 2111 through its window and chose the Family Reunion quest, then let the zombified father reach his wife and daughter, who became a family of zombies.
• Wen Xishu received increased hunger and thirst resistance, advanced beyond the Majority, and followed the Compass toward a three-skull mission area.
• Wen Xishu read messages showing that Tam, Ye Lingfeng, and Tokugawa Taiga were receiving missions shaped to their desires, concluded that the game was a living thing, and discovered Blind Man was still alive.

Wen Xishu completed a quest in Violet Garden by manipulating Duan Donghuo’s desires and killing him, earning combat and shooting abilities. He uncovered Duan Donghuo’s hidden mother and a clue to another quest, then saw Tam ask the players to lend him money for a costly asset-point pack.

• The Blind Man encountered a Witch but survived, then broke down crying alongside her when she ignored his pleas to die.
• Wen Xishu entered Violet Garden, followed the Compass to Duan Donghuo’s villa, and chose The Power of Love over Giant Python in the Cave.
• Wen Xishu gained Duan Donghuo’s trust by pretending to seek his girlfriend, then lured him to a pavilion and stabbed him from behind.
• Wen Xishu received Zombie Perception, Combat Techniques, and Shooting Techniques, and found Duan Donghuo’s chained Zombie mother and diary in the locked room.
• Wen Xishu noticed the radio station could trigger another quest, but Tam messaged the players asking to borrow asset points to buy a 6,480-point pack.

Wen Xishu realized that the game was consuming players who spent asset points to indulge their desires, and Tam accepted a massive loan before disappearing and apparently becoming an armed zombie. Wen Xishu reached the Golden Tower shelter, chose a mission, and woke as a captive being prepared to fight zombies for wealthy spectators.

• Tam spent his lifespan and assets to become the emperor of Wind City, then accepted a 100,000-point loan and disappeared as a Baron-level zombie leader appeared in northern Wind City.
• Wen Xishu warned the other players that Tam had become part of the game; Zhang Hai and Kate agreed to avoid spending, while Ye Lingfeng and Child-Faced Wolf dismissed his warning.
• Wen Xishu followed a radio warning to the Golden Tower, tested his combat abilities on the way, and chose the mission Turn the tables after fighting through the tower.
• A scripted sequence led to Wen Xishu being captured, stripped of his gear, and fitted with a collar labeled Obedient zombie.
• The makeup artist arrived to prepare Wen Xishu for the Golden Tower's zombie fights, but Wen Xishu calmly asked to choose his outfit and backstory.

Wen Xishu infiltrated the Golden Tower’s Zombie arena, used his performances to win Charles Yang’s trust, and learned that the game’s wealthy operators knew about outsiders and Asset Value. After Charles revealed part of the game’s secrets, Wen Xishu killed him and received an invitation promising to reveal the game’s origin.

• Wen Xishu used Mental Barrage on makeup artist A-Jie and learned about the Golden Tower’s Zombie arena and wealthy casino.
• Wen Xishu defeated the real Zombie Bob in the arena, convincingly imitated Zombies, and drew Charles Yang’s attention.
• Wen Xishu staged further matches under different Zombie identities, manipulated the betting, and gained Charles’s trust and rewards.
• Wen Xishu met Charles over dinner and learned that outsiders’ Asset Value fueled desire and that the world summoned and consumed them.
• Wen Xishu killed Charles to secure his freedom and received the Invitation Letter · Genius John's Troubles.

Wen Xishu entered Wind City to find John Leon and discovered that Scorpio was turning John's game, "Doomsday," into the coming apocalypse. Scorpio paused the world and showed Wen Xishu John's past, ending with Scorpio approaching John at his lowest point and offering to help him kill the Demon King.

• Wen Xishu met Wen Renjing in the Desire Tower Rest Area and learned that the Zombie game could not be cleared like a single-player game, though Wen Renjing had acquired its company to force an ending.
• Wen Xishu arrived in Wind City, recognized that the game's advertisements described the coming apocalypse, and inferred that Scorpio was influencing John Leon to bring the game into reality.
• Wen Xishu's Faux Fate Compass and Scorpio's Cheating Knife warned him away from John, but he followed their reactions to Violet Garden and encountered Scorpio.
• Scorpio stopped time, led Wen Xishu to John, and opened a game interface that let Wen Xishu revisit John's past.
• Wen Xishu watched John's memories of creating Doomsday, suffering betrayal and commercialization, and breaking down after his team sold the game to the Tengyi Group.
• Scorpio appeared to John at his darkest moment, introduced himself, praised John's game, and offered to help him kill the Demon King.

Wen Xishu traveled back to the decisive moment in John’s past and challenged John’s hatred of money, urging him to reconsider turning Doomsday into a real apocalypse. Scorpio accepted Wen Xishu’s argument and ended their game, and Wen Xishu’s mission concluded with Scorpio claiming that Wen Xishu owed him a favor.

• Scorpio offered Wen Xishu a chance to change John by reloading the moment when John was about to accept the apocalypse, wagering Wen Xishu’s Faux Fate Compass if he lost.
• Wen Xishu confronted John with secret details from Doomsday and argued that John’s resentment of money had distorted his understanding of his friends, Catherine, and the joy of games.
• John remembered the happiness he had shared with his father and began to fear the apocalypse he had agreed to bring about, while Wen Xishu explained that Doomsday was a good game but the real apocalypse was awful.
• Scorpio froze John and the world, then said their contract could not be changed, but Wen Xishu trusted John’s kindness and explained that John had created an Easter egg to protect disabled players.
• Scorpio chose not to reinforce John’s hatred of money, and Wen Xishu received a notification that his mission had ended.
• Scorpio told Wen Xishu he owed him a favor, and Wen Xishu agreed to repay it.

Wen Xishu returned to the original Doomsday after John’s transformation reset the other players into an easier version, then uncovered the conspiracy behind the apocalypse and found Catherine in the protected game-world John had created for her. After reading John’s letter, Wen Xishu urged Catherine to recognize his gift and decide whether to remain there, completing her hidden quest as she chose to stay connected to John.

• Scorpio explained that Wen Xishu’s Cheating Knife would gain experience through use, then vanished as Wen Xishu returned to the Strange Tower and received notices that John’s transformation had made Wind City’s Doomsday easier for other players.
• Wen Xishu found Charles Yang’s corpse, removed his collar, and searched Charles’s computer, learning that Charles and twelve other Island Guests were among the Thirteen Disciples behind the planned apocalypse.
• Wen Xishu left the Golden Tower by jumping from its sixtieth floor, raced across Wind City, and reached the office building where he found Catherine behind a protected doorway.
• Catherine showed Wen Xishu the game worlds John had left for her, then opened a box after Wen Xishu identified himself as a player and he read John’s letter explaining his sacrifice to protect her.
• Catherine mourned John and said she no longer wanted to remain alone, so Wen Xishu told her that John’s gift was his way of staying with her and offered to help if she chose to leave.
• Catherine cried as she understood Wen Xishu’s words, and her hidden quest, Catherine’s Decision, was completed.

Wen Xishu completed Catherine's Decision, gained authority over Wind City, and chose not to use it to kill his companions. After learning the Great Devourment would bring Strange Tower anomalies into the Bunker, he returned with a Level Six Library and warned Albert that the disaster was coming.

• Wen Xishu received the Savior of Wind City title and GM permissions, while Catherine decided to search the games behind the other doors for John's clues.
• Wen Xishu added allies to Wind City's whitelist, rejected the temptation to kill Zhang Hai, Kate, Child-Faced Wolf, Ye Lingfeng, and Blind Man, and exited the game.
• The Black Deception Head explained the Great Devourment and its connection to insufficient Strange Tower exploration, and Wen Xishu chose a Level Six Library for the Bunker's Second Floor.
• Wen Xishu returned to the Bunker, met with Albert, and told him the Great Devourment was coming.

Wen Xishu learned how the coming Great Devourment threatened the Bunker, reclaimed his name, and was publicly recognized as a rising legend. After revealing that he had gained control of Wind City, he learned from Liu Jinsen that Wen Chaohua had helped slaughter nearly half the Slaughter Tower's Ladder Ranking, leaving him determined to investigate his brother's motives.

• Albert explained that the Great Devourment would send many dangerous vortexes into the Bunker and said it would likely arrive within ten days.
• Albert told Wen Xishu that he could reclaim his name, offered him protection and a role as the Strange Tower Assault Team's safety adviser, and revealed that Liu Jinsen would become his assistant.
• Wen Xishu told Albert that he had become Wind City's lord, astonishing Albert, who decided to enter the Slaughter Tower to verify the claim.
• At the Academy assembly, Albert announced the coming Great Devourment and publicly revealed that Wen Xun was Wen Xishu, warning anyone who threatened him.
• Liu Jinsen told Wen Xishu that Wen Chaohua and Wen family members had ambushed top-ranked fighters in the Slaughter Tower with the help of its monsters, killing nearly half of the Ladder Ranking.
• Wen Xishu said he would neither defend nor stop investigating Wen Chaohua, then told Liu Jinsen that the Xishu Divine Church might help with the Great Devourment.

With the Great Devourment approaching, Wen Xishu chose to climb the Strange Tower rather than make a public speech, and used the Madman's Dice to triple his entry floor while resetting his attributes to rookie status. He arrived at the Forty-Second Floor, studied the rules of a deadly Visitors mission, and was awakened by a knock at his door shortly after nightfall.

• Wen Xishu told Liu Jinsen that he would climb the tower to seek another facility, while the Security Bureau, Xishu Divine Church, Six Great Families, and Gambling Stone Association prepared to respond to the approaching Great Devourment.
• Wen Xishu activated his Login Device, rolled three ones on the Madman's Dice, and selected Triple High, Three-Phase Power, and Minimalism, raising his entry floor to the Forty-Second Floor and resetting his attributes to level one.
• At the Rest Area, Wen Xishu met Wang Ying and gave his team advice about their Qi City mission before beginning his own climb.
• Wen Xishu entered a house in Deer Island City, found the previous owner's rules and a revolver, and deduced that he had to admit companions while watching for Visitors who could imitate humans.
• After sleeping during the day, Wen Xishu woke at 7:01 p.m. to three knocks at the door, marking the first night's danger.