Chapter 175 The Little Angel in the Man Cave

The appearance of amateur Wen Xishu undoubtedly surprised everyone.

A body that has never been polluted by pain, a person whose pain tolerance has never been improved.

This made Reina gnashed her teeth in hatred:

“Why! Why did I even sacrifice my own father! And you still want to hinder me.”

Pain coins usually cannot be held by others, but can be inherited by blood relatives after one party dies. This also extends to a pain school called the sacrifice of one’s parents.

Of course, there were also child sacrifices.

Wen Xishu now understood why Xu 04 asked himself whether his biological mother was still alive.

“Everyone here has the ability to heal themselves. I guess I have the same ability now that I’ve come to this environment.”

He pulled out Scorpio’s cheat knife.

The knife itself is very sharp and evolved from the Spanish ham knife.

Wen Xishu thought about it and finally decided to adapt to the local customs, so he used the tip of the knife… to lift up his fingernail.

This tremendous pain instantly made him feel some kind of power emerging around him, but the next moment, this power turned into monetary value.

A tiny UI appeared in the upper right corner of Wen Xishu’s sight. It was a number – 51 points.

Cutting off a finger is painful, but the fingers are connected to the heart, and the operation of lifting the nail is learned from ancient criminal law. And acupuncture…

Wen Xishu really didn’t want to use these operations on himself, as he didn’t want to become a pervert who loved pain.

But since the Pain Auction has made everyone covet the auction items, it is obvious that these auction items may really be able to bring about some destiny-changing things.

Necklaces are also easy to hide.

Wen Xishu said:
“I don’t necessarily want to compete with you for everything. If you want to compete, you might as well think about it carefully.”

This sentence is a warning.

After Wen Xishu said this, his body began to change slightly.

A number appeared in the upper left corner of my sight…0.8.

He guessed that this was pain tolerance, that is, he had become numb to pain.

Of course, 0.8 is almost equivalent to no pain tolerance for everyone.

Wen Xishu was considering another aspect:

“I have an invitation letter. If I use it now… I will go to the source of the Desire Tower and kill the weird source…”

“Can we break down the pain rules?”

“But before that, I can actually use this rule to temper myself. Use pain to get good things, and then improve my pain tolerance. In the future, I will be immune to some pain.”

Considering this, Wen Xishu felt that he could stay in the Weird Tower for a while longer. He didn’t have to go to the Desire Tower immediately.

“51 points at a time!”

“51 points twice!”

“51 points three times! Deal! Congratulations, new face, you got the item.”

Xu04 took Wen Xishu to the auction booth and got the Necklace of Pain.

The auction continues.

At this time, the half-headed old man came to Wen Xishu.

“Kid, congratulations, you got the most valuable auction item in my eyes.” The half-old man with a white beard looked at her without any malice.

“My name is Yoshida Daitake. Because of my appearance, everyone calls me a half-headed ghost. Little ghost, can you make a deal with me?” The half-headed old man was very sincere.

Wen Xishu nodded:

“You might as well talk about it.”

The auction is still going on. The item being auctioned this time is a syringe shaped like an Ouroboros. Once injected, it can convert mental pain into physical pain.

Gradually, you become numb and have no emotions, but your body’s pain tolerance will be rebuilt.

Many people began to bid, and seeing that Xishu was not interested, everyone started to compete for this treasure.

Wen Xishu was of course not interested.

He doesn’t want to be a monster without emotions. In his opinion, human emotions cannot be erased.

But for many people present, the mental pain was too much to bear. They were willing to become numb.

The half-headed old man said:

“My grandson is an unfortunate fellow. He was born with intellectual disabilities, which made everything he did difficult. He was laughed at when he was a child, and looked down upon by his teachers and classmates when he went to middle school. When he grew up, he couldn’t get married or find a good job… But he didn’t care.”

“Under our guidance, he gradually began to get better and started to do some simple errands. He is living a good life.”

“We once heard that in Rendong Village… no, it was called District 19 at that time, there was a miracle doctor who could cure all kinds of difficult and complicated diseases, so we wanted to cure him.”

“But when we arrived, District 19 had already become the terrifying man-cave village it is today.”

“My grandson…was transformed into a man cave by a horrible curse.”

The half-headed old man clenched his fists, and at this moment, pain currency appeared on his body again. It is worth mentioning that after the pain is turned into currency, it will not disappear immediately, but will last for a while, but during this process, it will not be turned into additional currency.

The half-headed old man was obviously immersed in the grief of losing his little grandson.

Although his grandson was born with a defect, he loved him deeply. He raised such a defective child and allowed him to support himself in the cruel urban environment of Tojiang…

It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine the amount of effort that was put in during this period.

“I quickly began to adapt to this painful system of rules and overdrawn a lot of currency, but there are too many self-torturing perverts here. Even if I smashed my head into the lava and half of it was destroyed… there were still many times when I couldn’t get a seat in the man cave.”

“Only those guys codenamed Xu can open the portal and let us enter the interior of Rendong Village.”

“Little boy, you may be the one they choose.”

“An amateur like you is simply the chosen one. For us, what we can only get by cutting out our hearts and killing our loved ones, you can get it by just peeling off your fingernail. So… you will definitely become the warrior this time.”

Wen Xishu said:
“Uncle, what do you want me to do?”

The half-headed old man said solemnly:

“This bottle of bitter sake is yours. I just took a sip. I hope you don’t mind. Consider it my reward.”

“I want you to go to this man cave…”

The half-headed old man took out a photo.

The photo shows the shadow of a human who seems to be walking a little crookedly…

Judging from the outline, it was definitely a human shadow.

But if you look closely, it is not a human shadow, but a dark color, not light, but real darkness, like the entrance of a cave.

“This is what the man cave formed by my grandson looks like, and the first man cave I want you to explore, is about him.”

“Actually, this is helpful to you. You already know my grandson’s life story, but you don’t know other people’s stories.”

“So with the comparison, you can know what is going on inside the man cave.”

This is really a good request, and Wen Xishu has no reason to refuse.

A wine that can cause mental pain, a necklace that can use pain to isolate death, and the background story of the person who turned into a man cave is known to me. So I have all the intelligence and preparations ready.

Next, just wait until the auction ends.

A total of six items were auctioned at the auction.

The fourth item is called the Painful Umbilical Cord.

It’s a summoning item… In simple terms, it makes the user experience the pain of childbirth and summons various otherworldly monsters.

It is worth mentioning that it is not just the pain of childbirth. If the summoned monster is a mammoth, then the user will have to experience the pain of giving birth to an elephant using human organs.

This is impossible in reality, but with the help of props, that kind of pain can be simulated.

People with low pain tolerance will die from this kind of pain.

But Wen Xishu was very interested.

He discovered one thing. Just like the Mental Hospital Museum, there was no limit on the number of items that could be auctioned before the mission was over. In other words, they did not occupy any slots until they were taken out of the copy.

Naturally, the more the better.

However… these items are indeed extremely terrifying. They are all designed to make you suffer unbearable pain.

Wen Xishu became more and more curious about what kind of person the creator of the pain rules was.

After Wen Xishu performed a simple trick like pricking the gums with a steel needle and crushed the whole audience… everyone knew that if an amateur took action, it meant they had no chance.

So Wen Xishu got the third item – the umbilical cord of pain.

The shape of this thing is like a several-meter-long intestine. Once it is connected to itself, it will continue to produce monsters…

If you can’t stand it, you can take it off by force.

Wen Xishu did not fight for the fifth item.

This item is a hammer in the shape of a human spine, and it is extremely powerful. It can be said to have destructive power.

But the side effect is that every time you swing the hammer, you permanently lose a portion of your real memory.

Wen Xishu looked down on this hammer, and he would simply ignore any side effects related to the spiritual world. But for others, it was the other way around.

In this painful world, having no memories is a beautiful thing.

The sixth item is called Paradox Heel.

It can move at subsonic speeds, but each step will cause micro-bone explosions, which can cause serious damage to the body.

Since it was damage rather than pain, Wen Xishu ultimately did not choose this item.

Six items later, the auction was over.

Wen Xishu defeated all the pain immortals at the auction at the cost of bleeding gums and peeling fingernails.

And he was hated by a girl named Reina.

Of course he doesn’t care.

Soon, Xu04 said:
“Congratulations, warrior. You got quite a few items, although you should have taken all of them for yourself.”

Wen Xishu shook his head and said:
“I’m not interested in some things. Tell me, how do I get to Mandong Village?”

Void04 took out the knife again:
“I will take you to Man Cave Village.”

Wen Xishu frowned slightly:
“Are you going to… perform seppuku again?”

“Of course, pain can help me teleport more accurately.” Xu04 said frankly.

Wen Xishu said:
“How about…you take a sip of this wine?”

He took out the sake.

Xu04 immediately shook his head:

“No… no, please, don’t make such a request. The mental pain is simply not something I can bear!”

Xu04 was terrified. Wen Xishu thought of the scene at the auction where everyone was scrambling to grab the Ouroboros syringe… and he roughly understood.

They feel pleasure from physical pain.

But mental pain scares them. Of course, even so, for some people whose bodies can no longer feel pain, such as half-headed old people, they will try their best to take pictures of the items.

Wen Xishu said:
“Okay, please lead the way.”

Xu04 stabbed the knife into her abdomen, moving the knife a little further down than last time.

Wen Xishu felt pain just looking at it.

With Hollow 04’s face showing a mixture of pain and joy, the portal opened:
“Warrior! You can definitely…definitely destroy the Man Cave, right? Our curator said…people like you are the most likely to solve everything, and can destroy everything at the source.”

“Your director?” Wen Xishu suddenly realized something.

The curator knows about the existence of the “Warrior”. Could it be that the curator is a Honkai Impact 3rd?
The Warrior appears randomly somewhere in the area, and the Warrior can solve the problem at the source… These descriptions make it seem like he knows his identity as a bunker player.

So he naturally thought, could it be that the curator of the Pain Auction is a Honkai Impact 3rd?
“I want to meet your director.” Wen Xishu said.

“No, the curator will only see you after you destroy the man cave… To be precise, the curator will be able to recover and see you.” Xu04 said.

Wen Xishu was secretly surprised.

He had seen the Honkai being enslaved like dogs, he had seen the Honkai really destroy the world, and he had also seen the Honkai being whitewashed…

But now, it seems that the mysterious sources have played new tricks on the Honkai Impact 3rd again?
He thought it was interesting, but right now, Xu04 had already cut open his stomach with a knife, so this portal couldn’t be wasted.

So Wen Xishu walked into the portal.

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Rendong Village.

When a floating building appeared in the sky, Wen Xishu knew that he had arrived at Rendong Village from the auction.

There really weren’t any living people around.

The sky over the entire Rendong Village was gray.

The floating buildings surrounded the entire Rendong Village in a circle.

It’s like the ancient Roman arena.

But in the center of the arena, there were no beasts or warriors.

There are only static human shadows that seem to be standing up.

Those were certainly not shadows, but dark outlines, which meant they were holes.

Wen Xishu walked carefully between the man caves.

As he approached a manhole, he seemed to hear a boy whispering:

“Don’t come near, leave now! Don’t come near, leave now!”

Wen Xishu tried several times. No matter whether he walked to the man cave with a figure that looked like a woman or the man cave with a figure that looked like a man… he would hear the same voice.

“Don’t come near, leave now. Are you warning me?”

Too many man caves.

Some of the people in the caves still look like children, while some of the people in the caves are hunched over, like old people.

There are also human caves that are huge in size, and they must be big eaters.

These people were villagers who originally lived in Area 19. But they all died from the curse and turned into man caves.

“If I hadn’t entered the man cave…”

“Just staying here for seven days also meets the requirement of surviving for seven days, right?”

“In other words, after the two vortexes merged, the anti-hang-up mechanism has not been fully developed.”

Wen Xishu finally found the grandson of the half-headed old man outside the man cave.

That’s a very peripheral place.

The closer the man cave is to the center, the darker it is.

Although it was still dark, Wen Xishu felt that the closer to the center of the manhole, the deeper and more terrifying the darkness was.

“People who are close to the center are likely to know something.”

“And the grandson of the half-headed old man is an outsider, so he is ranked at the outermost edge. Logically speaking, the grandson of the half-headed old man actually has no idea what happened here…”

“So I shouldn’t have wasted my time heading to the man cave formed by his grandson.”

“But I promised the half-headed old man, and I also know his grandson’s past. Maybe I can compare their experiences and know what the specific situation is like inside the man cave.”

Wen Xishu came to the man cave of the half-headed old man’s grandson.

Because my grandson has an intellectual disability, his limbs are not coordinated, so even his walking posture is strange.

This is also the reason why Wen Xishu was able to quickly find the cave of the half-headed old man’s grandson among the densely packed shadow caves.

“Don’t come near, leave now! Don’t come near, leave now!”

That voice appeared again.

But Wen Xishu made up his mind and entered the man cave.

His figure was quickly swallowed up by the manhole.

At this moment, if someone looked from outside, it would seem that they could see… Wen Xishu was dead, as if he had been swallowed by a black hole.

At the same time, a new man cave appeared on the outermost layer.

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……

Of course Wen Xishu is not dead.

On the contrary, after stepping into the darkness, he saw a shocking scene.

He came to a tunnel emitting colorful light.

“Big brother, why didn’t you listen to my advice? You shouldn’t have come here. Now… you’re about to become a man cave.”

The little boy in white kimono looked at Wen Xishu with a somewhat resentful look.

The colorful light fell on him, like a little angel.

Wen Xishu was shocked by the change of scenery.

Outside was a group of strange, dark man caves. After entering the man caves… I saw a dreamy tunnel.

“Who are you?” Wen Xishu asked.

“Brother, the guide to the man cave, I will tell you something about the man cave… Hey, it’s too late now, you really shouldn’t have come in.”

The little boy was very sad, and seemed to be sad that Wen Xishu was about to die:
“I really don’t want you to die…”

Wen Xishu became more and more puzzled:
“How do you know I’m going to die?”

There were tears in the little boy’s eyes, and this sadness didn’t seem fake:

“Because no one can leave here alive, ever”

(End of this chapter)