Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the condemned Wen Xishu, Wen Xishu tried to avoid his imminent execution by applying to explore the Strange Tower. Higher authorities rejected his request because of the Wen family's crimes, and his death sentence was carried out immediately.

• While awaiting execution, Wen Xishu overheard Park Young-so argue that his abilities belonged in the Desire Tower, which reminded Wen Xishu of the Three Towers.
• Wen Xishu refused to sign his death-penalty confirmation and applied to explore the Strange Tower instead.
• The court worker warned Wen Xishu about the Strange Tower's dangers and asked him to sign a waiver.
• Wen Xishu explained his understanding of the three towers and agreed to the waiver.
• Higher authorities rejected Wen Xishu's application because of the Wen family's crimes, and the court worker ordered his sentence carried out immediately.

As Wen Xishu faced lethal injection, he recalled his older brother Wen Chaohua and claimed to have clues that made the authorities halt his execution. He remembered Wen Chaohua’s gift, a set of Three Colored Dice, while a secret file revealed that Wen Chaohua had broken the rules separating the Three Towers.

• Wen Xishu was strapped down for lethal injection after eating his final meal and requesting an unavailable execution song.
• As the injection began, Wen Xishu reasoned that the authorities had delayed his execution because he might know something about a surviving Wen family member.
• Wen Xishu named Wen Chaohua, prompting the court worker to stop the execution and contact superiors.
• Wen Xishu recalled Wen Chaohua telling him about a gift that could overturn the Three Towers Game, and saw Three Colored Dice in his mind.
• A high-ranking official ordered Wen Xishu interrogated, then read a top-secret file stating that Wen Chaohua had commanded Slaughter Tower monsters and slaughtered everyone on a Desire Tower floor.

Wen Xishu learned that he had to survive the Strange Tower and earn a level-four completion reward to escape execution if he could not provide clues about Wen Chaohua. At the Three Towers Game Allocation Office, he requested to begin his ascent, determined to contribute to the Bunker.

• Wen Xishu told the allocation clerk he was male, and the clerk explained how new tower ascenders were assigned to the Desire or Slaughter Tower.
• Wen Xishu recalled that Officer Liu Jinsen had warned him he must reveal clues about Wen Chaohua within seven days or bring back a level-four reward to save his life.
• Liu Jinsen explained the rewards for each tower-completion level and said Wen Xishu might need to save hundreds of lives to survive.
• The clerk judged Wen Xishu suited to the Desire Tower and offered to alter his physical information if he returned alive.
• Wen Xishu interrupted the clerk and asked to ascend the tower immediately.

Wen Xishu learned how the Bunker and the Three Towers worked, then used a Black Login Device to enter the Three Towers Game. Before his first mission began, the game detected his Madman's Dice and offered him the chance to roll it.

• Sha Ruijing explained that Wen Xishu could use only a Black Login Device to enter the Strange Tower while under supervision.
• Sha Ruijing told Wen Xishu that the sealed Bunker had no exit, grew as humanity explored the Three Towers, and assigned citizens to towers through specialized institutions.
• After completing the procedures, Wen Xishu returned to his solitary prison cell and activated the Login Device.
• Wen Xishu saw a vision of a world breaking into fragments that formed three towers, then received a message that he had to complete his first mission before registering with a guide.
• The game detected Wen Xishu's Madman's Dice and asked whether he wanted to roll it.

Liu Jinsen learned that the Bunker’s epidemic was worsening and that medicine was urgently needed, but he was ordered to focus on Wen Xishu. After a disastrous dice roll sent Wen Xishu to the twenty-first floor of Strange Tower, he began a rescue mission with Jennifer while hiding from a killer who could hear them.

• Liu Jinsen told the Bunker Health Bureau that no medicine had been brought back, and learned the epidemic was spreading among young people as well as the elderly.
• Wen Xishu accepted the dice roll and got three ones, which tripled his entry floor and sent him to the twenty-first floor of Strange Tower.
• Wen Xishu received a mission to rescue Jennifer from a contaminated old building and began the Three Towers Game.
• Wen Xishu found himself beneath a bed with Jennifer, covering her mouth as a madman searched nearby.
• Wen Xishu realized that speaking or making noise could draw the madman to them, while his low Magic Resistance left him unable to fight back.

Wen Xishu protected Jennifer from Jack the madman by using Remian’s phone to draw him away, then discovered the building was trapped in a loop. With Jack closing in again, Wen Xishu decided to confront him by going to his room to watch his performance.

• Wen Xishu stayed hidden beneath the bed with Jennifer and used clues about Remian to call him, making phones ring throughout the building and drawing Jack away.
• Wen Xishu led Jennifer out of the room and read her notes, learning that Jack had once been kind to her and had gone mad after killing Remian and other residents.
• Wen Xishu tried to leave the building with Jennifer but found that the corridor looped back to its starting point and the stairs had vanished.
• Jack destroyed Remian’s phone and corpse, then called for Jennifer as he approached them again.
• Wen Xishu reassured Jennifer and asked her to show him where Jack’s room was so they could watch his performance.

Wen Xishu and Jennifer entered Jack’s apartment and witnessed the memories of how Jack’s neighbors betrayed him and his hopes collapsed before he became a monster. After the performance, Wen Xishu earned a remarkable score and obtained an invitation that could lead to the Desire Tower and reveal connections among the Towers.

• Wen Xishu took Jennifer into Jack’s unlocked apartment, where they sat in chairs and watched Jack’s memories unfold.
• Jack wrote about the people he cared for, then discovered Remian had been smearing him and Anderson had been stealing his savings.
• Jack tried to see Jennifer and Yulia, but Yulia rejected him, and he learned that his mother had died.
• Wen Xishu and Jennifer woke as the chairs stopped rocking, and blood-red scores appeared: 97 for Wen Xishu and 61 for Jennifer.
• Wen Xishu received the Invitation: Happy Jennifer, which could send him to the Desire Tower and unlock hidden plots across the Towers.
• Jennifer pointed out that the stairs had appeared.

Wen Xishu carried Jennifer down an endless, freezing stairwell, resisted Jack’s attempt to lure her into turning around, and reached the building’s first floor. Instead of completing the mission, he used an Invitation Letter to enter the Desire Tower Rest Area, where he learned that his progress had placed him among the highest-level players present.

• Wen Xishu carried Jennifer down the stairs while Jack’s thoughts manifested as swarms of insects spelling out his search for her.
• As the stairwell grew colder, Jack’s voice faded and a woman pretending to be Jennifer’s mother called from behind, but Jennifer trusted Wen Xishu and did not turn around.
• Wen Xishu and Jennifer reached the first floor, where he sent her out of the building and chose to delay completing the mission.
• Wen Xishu used his Invitation Letter, freezing the Strange Tower area before he was transported to the Desire Tower Rest Area.
• Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan introduced themselves and explained that Wen Xishu’s central position reflected his high tower-climbing level.
• Wen Xishu asked for information about the twenty-first-floor mission involving Jennifer, and Ji Boda concluded that he was a young genius from a wealthy family.

Wen Xishu traded information with Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan about the Moen City mission, then left through his Login Device. Afterward, the couple discussed their suspicions about his experience, identity, and unusual device.

• Ji Boda explained that Jennifer’s mission on the twenty-first floor usually ended at Level 1 Completion and speculated that making her mother, Yulia, happy might be the key.
• Wen Xishu told Ji Boda that Jennifer’s fate depended on her neighbor Jack and advised him to start by talking to Jack.
• Wen Xishu asked how to leave early, concealed his Login Device, and vanished from the preparation zone.
• Liu Ruyan judged that Wen Xishu was hiding something but had not lied, while Ji Boda wondered how a young apparent newcomer had reached the twenty-first floor.
• Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan discussed Wen Xishu’s possible talent and the odd way he had hidden his Login Device.

Wen Xishu entered the Desire Tower’s twenty-first floor and began investigating the connection between Desire Jennifer, Ghoul Jennifer, and Jack’s transformation. He reached the old building just as Jack prepared to change his life, at a point Wen Xishu believed could alter what happened next.

• Wen Xishu entered Moen City with only two days to complete his mission and make Jennifer happy.
• Wen Xishu reasoned that Jennifer needed a powerful backer and that the different labels for her and Jack might reveal how they transformed in the Strange Tower.
• Wen Xishu concluded that Jack’s despair and transformation needed an underlying cause, rather than happening through simple catharsis.
• Wen Xishu arrived at the slums and identified the moment before Jack apologized to Remian, confronted Anderson, and asked Yulia to let Jennifer watch his performance.

Wen Xishu questioned Jack about Jennifer, his illness, and the strange symptoms that preceded his diagnosis, then gave him an Invitation Letter. After confirming his theory about Jack becoming a monster, Wen Xishu left to investigate another person who had made him uncomfortable.

• Wen Xishu visited Jack at home and persuaded him to answer questions by promising to help him grow closer to Jennifer.
• Jack admitted he did not like Yulia and said Jennifer seemed happier with him than with other people.
• Jack described his increased appetite, frequent vomiting of black liquid containing something inside, and his free examination at Moen City Hospital.
• Jack told Wen Xishu that Jennifer sometimes heard strange sounds when no one was around and gave him the doctor's contact number.
• Wen Xishu gave Jack an Invitation Letter to open if his pain became unbearable and he wanted to see Jennifer.
• Wen Xishu concluded that Jack's transformation into a monster was inevitable rather than caused by his painful experience, then set out to investigate another suspicious person.

Wen Xishu raced to Moen City Fourth Nursing Home after realizing Jack’s life might have been deliberately arranged, and stopped a fake doctor from pushing Jack’s mother off the roof. Jack opened the Invitation Letter and learned that he did not have stomach cancer, while the mysterious doctor’s unusual reaction left Wen Xishu questioning what else Desire Tower concealed.

• Wen Xishu called the number Jack had given him, discovered it was wrong, and hurried toward the nursing home after suspecting the doctor was fake.
• After hearing Remian and Anderson reveal their true feelings, Jack opened the Invitation Letter and read that his mother was waiting, he did not have stomach cancer, and a coming disaster might make him unusually fortunate.
• Wen Xishu concluded that Jack’s betrayals and his mother’s presumed accident might be part of a plan to turn Jack into a monster, and he raced to the nursing home.
• A fake doctor took Jack’s mother to the thirty-seventh floor and pushed her wheelchair toward the rooftop edge, claiming her fall would help Jack evolve.
• Wen Xishu pulled the doctor away and steadied Jack’s mother’s wheelchair, then noticed that the doctor showed panic rather than anger despite being attacked.

Wen Xishu discovered that the doctor was a Breaker who remembered past resets and had been manipulating Jack’s fate, then beat him into revealing his plan. After helping Jack prepare for his transformation and earning Jennifer’s favor, Wen Xishu completed the mission and left the story poised for Jack’s coming change.

• Wen Xishu recognized the doctor’s fear of violence, beat him, and learned that he was a Breaker who remembered the cycles and had engineered Jack’s misery.
• Wen Xishu reunited Jack with his mother, explained Jennifer’s potential and the coming disaster, and urged Jack to become strong enough to protect her.
• Wen Xishu warned Jack to take revenge on Remian and Anderson after his transformation, then took coins from the doctor before leaving the nursing home.
• Wen Xishu invited Yulia to dinner and privately told Jennifer that Jack would soon become powerful and stay with her.
• Jennifer’s happiness reached 99, completing Wen Xishu’s mission and unlocking the Desire Tower reward alongside his Strange Tower reward.

Wen Xishu returned to Strange Tower and found that his changes in Desire Tower had restarted Jack’s mission, replacing the players’ memories and reshaping Jack and Jennifer’s story. After escorting Jennifer to Jack, he received Jack’s Eerie Sequence and completed the quest series, with his Black Login Device’s count rising to one.

• Wen Xishu used his Invitation Letter to return to Strange Tower and learned that changes in Desire Tower had restarted the twenty-first-floor mission and altered other players’ memories.
• Wen Xishu found himself at Jack’s building with Jennifer outside and Deception Jack waiting there; Jack thanked Wen Xishu for bringing Jennifer back and called him a friend.
• Wen Xishu declined Jennifer’s invitation to stay, gave her his name, and received Deception Jack’s Eerie Sequence.
• Wen Xishu left the building, completed the Jack’s Fatal Deceptive Tower quest series, and saw the number on his Black Login Device change from zero to one.

Zhang Wei and his junior were trapped by rats in Moen City until a girl from Jack's Deceptive Building offered them shelter and asked about Wen Xishu. Meanwhile, Wen Xishu arrived at the Three Towers Guide, which welcomed him as a newcomer suited to all three tower systems.

• Zhang Wei struggled to protect his junior from the rats while his Slaughter Value rose and a giant rat approached.
• The rats retreated when a girl emerged from Jack's Deceptive Building and invited Zhang Wei and his junior inside to answer her questions.
• Zhang Wei asked whom the girl was looking for, and she asked whether he knew Wen Xishu.
• Wen Xishu awoke in a room filled with clocks and doors and met the three-headed Three Towers Guide.
• The Three Towers Guide welcomed Wen Xishu as a newcomer suited to all three tower systems.

Wen Xishu met the Three Towers Guide and learned that seeing all three heads meant he had changed the content of all three towers. He chose the Strange Tower’s black head as his guide and began registering with it.

• The Three Towers Guide explained that Wen Xishu could see all three heads because he had influenced all three towers during an extraordinary adventure.
• The guide heads offered Wen Xishu different benefits depending on which tower branch he chose, and the black Strange Tower head hinted at information about a mysterious killing machine.
• Wen Xishu chose the black head, preferring the Strange Tower’s eerie and unpredictable challenges to the Desire Tower or Slaughter Tower.
• The black head told Wen Xishu to provide a codename for account registration and said he could also adjust his body.

Wen Xishu learned that he had earned the highest possible completion for the Jack's Haunted Tower Area and chose a Level Six hospital as his reward. He placed it on the second-floor Function Layer for residents of the lower levels and received an exclusive gift from Deception Jack.

• Wen Xishu kept his appearance unchanged and learned that he had reached Level Six in the Strange Tower and Desire Tower.
• The guide told Wen Xishu that he had earned a Level Six Completion by triggering an Area Reset that freed the area's targets from their shackles.
• Wen Xishu learned that his reward could include a top-tier facility and chose a hospital, which could come with medicine and medical resources in exchange for half his supplies.
• The guide explained that the Bunker had Level Six and Level Seven facilities, including the Three Towers Academy.
• Wen Xishu placed the hospital on the second-floor Function Layer serving residents of the lower levels.
• The guide presented Wen Xishu with an exclusive reward: a gift from Deception Jack.

Wen Xishu registered in the Three Towers, received the one-of-a-kind Weird Sequence 37: Mental Barrage and the Truth Serum Wine Cups, and considered how Mad Dice might let him use restricted items. He was sent back to the Bunker, where his new Level Four warehouse and Level Six Hospital arrived under his ownership.

• The Three Towers Guide explained that Wen Xishu could view his status panel through the mirror and warned that Desire and Slaughter Sequences could not be used in the Strange Tower.
• Wen Xishu examined Weird Sequence 37: Mental Barrage, discussed its unusual effects and rarity with the guide, and placed it in his sequence slot.
• The Three Towers Guide gave Wen Xishu the one-time-use Truth Serum Wine Cups, which could make both drinkers tell the truth.
• Wen Xishu considered whether Mad Dice could let him use items from the Desire Tower in other towers.
• A Level Four warehouse filled with supplies and a Level Six Hospital with medical resources appeared in the Bunker under Wen Xishu's ownership.
• The black Login Device caused Wen Xishu pain as he returned to the Bunker.

A Level Six hospital appeared in the Bunker’s Second Level, and Wen Xishu’s name spread among residents desperate for treatment. At a meeting on the Sixteenth Level, officials debated whether to exploit or execute him, but the medicine he brought back could cure the epidemic and grant temporary immunity.

• Hundreds of upper-level doctors and armed Bunker Security Guards arrived to occupy the hospital after residents gathered there and celebrated Wen Xishu’s arrival.
• Bunker Security Bureau and Administration Bureau directors met on the Sixteenth Level to discuss Wen Xishu’s Level Six facility and supplies.
• Officials argued over whether Wen Xishu was connected to Wen Chaohua, with some calling for his interrogation and execution and others defending his potential value.
• The meeting examined the Level Six medicine Wen Xishu brought back and learned it cured all viral diseases and granted fifteen days of immunity.
• Liu Jinsen’s superior, the director of the Bunker Security Bureau’s Second Branch, became more hopeful that Wen Xishu would survive.

Wen Xishu was interrogated after returning from the Strange Tower with Level Six supplies and a hospital, while factions suspected his success was tied to Wen Chaohua. Liu Jinsen sought help to protect him, and the chapter left Liu preparing to contact Three Towers Academy Principal Albert Napolitano.

• Wen Xishu lay under guard as officials prepared a lie detector and truth serum, while he considered the power struggle over Wen Chaohua's secrets.
• Liu Jinsen learned that Wen Xishu had brought back Level Six supplies and a suspected Level Six hospital, and realized the newcomer was in danger of brutal interrogation.
• Liu Jinsen called the Bunker Security Bureau director's assistant and argued that Wen Xishu might have succeeded through his own talent.
• The assistant told Liu Jinsen that the First Bureau and Bunker Administration Bureau wanted to extract Wen Xishu's memories, while the director wanted to protect him.
• The assistant urged Liu Jinsen to contact Three Towers Academy Principal Albert Napolitano and help shape public opinion around Wen Xishu's case.