Chapter 1230: Chapter 386: Strange Dreams and Bizarre Nightmares (Part 2)
Wen Xishu could probably guess that the girl’s father was adept at business negotiations, and it was related to heavy drinking. After all... In Longxia people’s dining culture, drinking is indeed at the heart of it.
What about option 4?
Wen Xishu didn’t choose to continue. He only speculated:
"Male chauvinism... Could it be domestic violence?"
With option 5, assuming family responsibility, going by the previous logic, it must not be genuine responsibility but rather a one-man show, male dominance.
"Tsk."
Wen Xishu felt the malice of this ’little game’.
He refused to continue supplementing the options.
Thus, the game moved to the next stage.
[According to the father’s settings, Jiang Zhaonan acquired abilities: Charm and Good Luck.]
[Please choose Jiang Zhaonan’s childhood experiences (multiple selections allowed).]
[Experience 1: Met classmates with lots of love, everyone always surrounded Jiang Zhaonan.]
[Experience 2: Jiang Zhaonan’s teacher paid great attention to her, always showing her special care.]
[Experience 3: Jiang Zhaonan’s sisters always taught her some very useful knowledge.]
[Experience 4: Jiang Zhaonan’s grandmother valued her highly.]
Tang Rui felt a sense of guilt.
Wen Xishu said:
"These options... Could they be the same logic as before?"
Tang Rui said:
"Yes. Do you remember that taxi driver... His experiences were created by me. I tried to pick those experiences that seemed beautiful."
"But after I chose, I realized I had created a monster, and given him very twisted and cruel pasts."
"Back then, there was an option like this: He earned love through effort."
"I chose this one, and thus his experiences became about him constantly working heavy labor, doing various health-damaging physical jobs, saving tens of thousands for bride price, and eventually giving it to... a woman from a customs industry."
"You can guess the result, the woman ran off with the money."
"This thing caused immense damage to the driver."
Suddenly, Wen Xishu could understand why that taxi driver kept asking Tang Rui: Do you love him? Do you love him?
After pouring his effort into hard labor, he transformed from a pure-loving warrior to a twisted monster specializing in hunting couples.
Tang Rui said:
"Similar things happened twice more. I ended up creating three monsters."
"The conclusion is, the stronger the monster, the more ordinary people it kills..."
"The more ordinary people it kills, it seems to cause the next monster I create to have increasingly twisted and dark experiences, making them more terrifying, and their abilities more abnormal."
"The driver has already demonstrated some superpower."
"This time, you... No, we created this girl together, she will become even stronger. She will bring more harm to the ordinary people of Jiangcheng."
"Although we can easily kill her, but I’ve already been trapped in this cycle, and I don’t know how to escape it. I can’t be stuck here forever, and I can’t let myself continue creating monsters..."
"Unless I never return to Jiangcheng."
"As long as I don’t enter Jiangcheng, I won’t have this strange dream."
"But I always feel I’ve made a mistake, and this mistake is in Jiangcheng... If I don’t correct this mistake, something very frightening will happen in the future."
Wen Xishu fully understood now.
Tang Rui was... forced into a ’villain creation’ game.
Admittedly, Tang Rui’s exclusive recruitment task is quite interesting.
But obviously, the genesis of these villains will bring pain to Tang Rui.
"In that night of rotten rain slaughters... did we commit a mistake?" Tang Rui said.
Wen Xishu shook his head:
"I don’t know, but maybe it’s really related to that."
In that rainy night, Wen Xishu and Tang Rui killed everyone who caused Tang Rui pain, and that night, Tang Rui finally broke free from the past completely.
Thus, Tang Rui completed her ascension and evolution.
Wen Xishu also achieved Level 6 completion in Desire Tower and Deceit Tower correctly, which should be quite a good performance.
He truly cannot remember who the owner of the laughter on the electronic screen is, nor does Tang Rui have any impression.
And why did this person make Tang Rui create these villains with tragic experiences?
What is the significance of this creation?
These questions currently have no answers.
Wen Xishu can only continue ’villain creation’ for now.
Experience 1 and Experience 2...
Wen Xishu has already decoded them.
Experience 1, all classmates surround Jiang Zhaonan...
At first glance, it’s a story of classmate friendship, but if viewed from a twisted perspective, it’s truly terrible.
Considering it’s related to school, mysterious forces won’t allow such a choice... Wen Xishu looked at Experience 2.
Experience 2 is even worse.
When Wen Xishu looked at Experience 2, he could feel Tang Rui’s inner disgust.
Yes, Experience 2, Tang Rui had also lived through it.
Jiang Zhaonan’s teacher constantly focused on her, showing her special care. Interpreting this sentence with a twisted view... Wen Xishu practically pitied this child unconsciously.
He couldn’t choose this.
If he chose this, the child would live forever under a shadow.
Strangely, at this moment, influenced by Tang Rui’s complex emotions, Wen Xishu started to take this seriously, not just treating it as a pure task.
He even felt it was genuinely about creating a person with a tragic experience.
This person would actually exist.
Hence instinctively, he aimed to pick the relatively less tragic option.
He sighed:
"Seems we can only choose 3 and 4."
Experience 4: Jiang Zhaonan’s grandmother values her highly.
Wen Xishu knew, as long as a girl is called ’Zhaonan’, how much could this grandmother value her?
Being valued probably means being heavily beaten.
Then choose Experience 3?
Wen Xishu furrowed his brow.
Experience 3: Jiang Zhaonan’s sisters always taught her some very useful knowledge.
"Why not... Choose Experience 3?" Tang Rui suggested.
All these experiences were quite bad.
Wen Xishu finally took Tang Rui’s advice and chose Experience 3.
Game began to simulate:
[Jiang Zhaonan’s sisters always brought different men home, and the matters between these men and women often appeared before Jiang Zhaonan’s eyes. Jiang Zhaonan frequently heard very crude words, used by those strange men to describe her sisters. She thought her sisters were bullied, but the sisters told her it was work, it was survival.]
Tang Rui’s heart tightened when she saw this simulation, flooded with massive regret.
Her sorrow communicated to Wen Xishu.
She thought these sisters would just share some dark workplace stories, some negativity...
Yet she underestimated the twisted nature behind these experiences, underestimated the malice of the game designer.
[Jiang Zhaonan acquired ability: Fusion.]
[Time flies, Jiang Zhaonan quickly reached the age of grace and beauty, please choose the last round of experience. After this round finishes, Jiangcheng urban legend will launch revenge on her ’happy’ life during tomorrow’s rainy night.]
[Experience 1: Finally, a baby boy was born into Jiang Zhaonan’s family, and the family was very happy.]
Seeing Experience 1, it seemed the most normal one. Tang Rui instinctively wanted to choose this...
This time, Wen Xishu stopped her.
"Tang Rui, although you have journeyed through darkness, fighting all along... You have settled accounts with your enemies."
"But in essence, your heart is still very pure. Next, don’t make any choices, let me choose."
"All choices are unrelated to you. It’s all my decisions. If it’s wrong, you won’t need to feel guilty, understand?"
Once thoroughly accustomed to using a dark perspective to think about the game’s essence, Wen Xishu deeply felt that Experience 1 was an experience that should absolutely not be touched.
Finally, a baby boy was born into Jiang Zhaonan’s family...
And Jiang Zhaonan at this time, graceful and beautiful, probably eighteen?
Jiang Zhaonan’s mother likely couldn’t conceive anymore, right?
Where did this boy come from?
It’s deeply alarming upon careful thought.
Wen Xishu refused Experience 1.
Tang Rui seemed to understand Wen Xishu’s thoughts through their emotional connection. She was grateful Wen Xishu was willing to share her guilt at this time.
"Alright... Please help me end this nightmare. No matter how you choose, I won’t blame you."
The two reached an understanding, and Wen Xishu’s task of saving Tang Rui officially began.
He looked at the other experiences.
