Chapter 1643 - 525: Mad Dice Unleashed_3

Chapter 1643: Chapter 525: Mad Dice Unleashed_3

Especially because... everyone is only playing a role, not doing things from the bottom of their heart.

As for intermediate goals, they are relatively much harder.

Roughly things like resolving a family conflict once, or completing a household supply run while keeping within the budget.

It doesn’t sound hard, but in reality... if you are the wife in the family, and there is no "love" in this family, and the household budget is very limited, yet the shopping list is required to include certain items...

These tasks will drive people to distraction.

Advanced goals are even harder, and for most people they are goals one would almost instinctively choose to give up on.

"Maintain the integrity of the family (that is, no matter how outrageous your husband’s behavior, you must still maintain the fa?ade of marriage, and still keep your mood pleasant.)"

Or, "Make your husband genuinely fall in love with you."

In Wen Xishu’s view, this too is very hard to accomplish.

You’d probably really need hypnotic abilities to complete this kind of task.

As for this milestone goal, if Wen Xishu were the one playing this role, he would absolutely be unable to complete it.

The goal is "Give birth to your child for Balance City."

What disgusted Wen Xishu the most... to the point of visceral rejection, was the content in parentheses following this milestone task—

(The base reward for this task is fifty points. But if you give birth to two children, you can obtain one hundred points. Pregnancy also counts. The Libra system will bless you with a smooth delivery; more children, more fortune.)

This passage filled Wen Xishu with extreme loathing.

The manual also gave a real-life case.

Mr. Wang of Balance City, after learning his wife was pregnant, genuinely wanted to seek a better life for his wife and child. He finally truly accepted his wife, decided to walk out from his past memories, and embrace his new family.

He fell in love with his wife.

Thus Mr. Wang’s wife, Mr. Li... on that very day, completed two tasks. The first task, making your husband truly fall in love with you, earned her twenty points.

The second task, giving birth to a child for Balance City.

Thus, the wife, Mr. Li, obtained seventy points.

She advanced.

The manual contained the following wording:

"We congratulate Ms. Li xx on completing the milestone task and the advanced task, and obtaining a score of seventy points.

Ms. Li xx will arrive at her new family tomorrow, and her life will move from the Fifth Ring sector into the Fourth Ring sector. She will obtain better living conditions."

This passage left Wen Xishu dumbfounded.

This is Balance City, a twisted life segment under this role-playing system.

The wife, on the very day she becomes pregnant, has to let the child in her womb be separated from his real father.

The moment the husband truly falls in love with his wife, he must accept one thing—that his wife is about to leave him and go to a new family.

And he will be matched with the next... unfamiliar partner.

Wen Xishu had still underestimated this city’s madness.

What he experienced in the Deceit Tower could in fact only be considered a beta version.

At this moment, Balance City is the real official version.

In the beta version, Wen Xishu met a little girl. That girl called him dad, and he also learned that the girl had changed fathers many times.

Balance’s Life and Death Rules made unqualified fathers disappear. And when one person dies, a new person is born.

The new father must play the role of father well in order not to disappear. In the Deceit Tower, everyone’s obsession was to stop having their family members replaced.

But this is not the Deceit Tower version; this is the official version in reality. The obsessions here are likely far more numerous and far more deranged.

For example, that staff member at the household registration office—he may instead actually want to change his family. The pain he suffers is of a completely different kind.

The real Balance City has more complete—and more twisted—rules. Here, when a person dies, a new person is born.

A wife’s pregnancy, the birth of new life, is actually a milestone task, which means this city encourages the breeding of new life.

And the birth of a new life will inevitably cause some originally living person to die.

Likewise, as an outsider, once you pass the Abilities Dark Forest and prove your excellence, and receive a "visa" to Balance City... you actually squeeze out the original spot of some person.

Take Liu Jianxin, for example.

The family Liu Jianxin is now heading to has just experienced a "reduction in headcount," and this reduction was caused by Liu Jianxin.

Wen Xishu could imagine...

If the members of that family had genuine feelings for the person they lost... would they see Liu Jianxin as an enemy?

Under such twisted rules, they must play their roles well. Would they then suppress their love and hatred and force themselves to accept Liu Jianxin?

In such an environment... the obsessions in people’s hearts are likely monstrously huge.

Wen Xishu faintly sensed that Libra might be attempting something extremely dangerous.

But for now, he had no choice but to accept all this. He now felt that the entire Balance City might well be a miniature Deceit Tower, with everyone inside twisted and in pain.

And Wen Xishu very soon arrived at his new home.

The Libra system also, at that moment, began to take effect.

[The role you are playing is—Father.]

This piece of information made Wen Xishu feel slightly better inside.

No extra roles, simply a father. It showed that this family’s structure was not complicated.

After all, very often, a man may be a father, a child, and at the same time a husband.

But for the first time, Wen Xishu did not encounter that situation; the identity he received was only that of father.

[Relevant items have already appeared in your pocket. You now possess the key to this residence.]

And not just various items—very soon, Wen Xishu also received his...

Ordinary goals, advanced goals, milestone goals.

And when Wen Xishu opened the door, the face he saw actually looked somewhat familiar.