Livestreaming: I am retarded, but selected to join the analoghorror game?!

"Who!?"

Upon hearing that voice, Xiao Yi instinctively became alert.

Inside the Tower, it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything. Xiao Yi could only tense up his nerves and enhance his perception to make use of all his senses other than sight to be aware of everything around him.

If something were to attack, he would be able to react immediately.

Just at that moment, the voice spoke up again.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you, so there's no need to be so guarded. Besides, it only drains your spirit and attention, which is pointless."

"...You expect me to believe that?"

"Believe it or not, it's up to you. After all...you are not the one that needs to be eliminated."

"The one that needs to be eliminated?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Yi's eyebrows furrowed, and he was no longer as vigilant as before. He then asked, "Who...are you?"

"Who I am is not important," the voice said. "What's important is...you've come."

"...I've come?"

"Yes, you've come... However, you shouldn't be here."

"But I'm here regardless..." Xiao Yi's mouth twitched slightly, and he said helplessly, "Also... can you stop talking in riddles? I don't have the leisure to waste time with you. I need to get inside the Tower. If you plan to stop me, do it now. If not, stop bothering me and step aside."

"...I see," the voice said. "That's indeed a very common response, in line with human thinking. Your words suggest... why must you enter the Tower?"

"..."

Xiao Yi didn't respond but instead tried using his own power to blast a hole in the Tower, letting a faint light seep in, making it a bit brighter than before.

Just as Xiao Yi had said, he wasn't planning on wasting words and instead began to take action.

However, as the entire city was enveloped by the Tower itself, there wasn't much light, so the inside of the Tower remained dim, only slightly better than the pure darkness before.

At the same time, Xiao Yi didn't see any figure; the individual speaking with him was also hiding somewhere.

"Huh... taking matters into your own hands? Quite the brute force approach," the voice commented. "This action is quite effective within human cognition, but unfortunately... it's not very useful here."

The voice paused for a moment and then continued:

"Xiao Yi, you came into the Tower because you think it holds clues as to why Blue Star became what it is now, and the method to end it all, right?"

Xiao Yi replied, "If you already know, then why ask?"

"I'm just confirming. Anyway... you're not even sure if your objective can be achieved within the Tower. You just think that coming here, you'll have a high chance of figuring everything out, right? Well... let me be frank: your guess is correct. Inside this Tower, indeed lies all the Answers, and moreover, at the very top of the Tower."

"...Really?" Xiao Yi immediately asked, "The top of the Tower, you say? Then, where's the elevator? Tell me quickly."

"Unfortunately..." the voice remarked, "inside the Tower, there's no elevator structure that goes directly to the top. In fact, there's no elevator at all, no stairs for ascending either. If you want to reach the top of the Tower, you must make your way through the internal levels, one by one...

...Of course, don't even think about flying to the top from the outside because any external flying object will be destroyed by the light of the Tower. Even flying close to the Tower won't work; you can only break through from the inside, level by level."

"Ha?" Xiao Yi was speechless. "What kind of design is this? It's so inconsiderate..."

"The initial design never intended for people to reach the top easily. If you want to know everything, you must break through the levels one by one. However..."

At this point, the voice suddenly changed its tune.

"Now, here, there is a way to directly reach the top, with no cost at all. You just need to answer one simple question."

"...Seriously?" Xiao Yi frowned. "Could there really be such a good thing?"

"Of course,..." the voice said. "I had no intention of torturing or troubling you. Just answer my one question, and that's enough. So, do you intend to break through level by level, or will you answer my question here?"

"...I have no choice," Xiao Yi scratched the back of his head. It seemed he really had no other option.

As for the question the other person wanted to ask him, Xiao Yi had some idea of what it might be, and so, naturally, he started getting nervous.

"Sss... Huh..."

Xiao Yi took a deep breath, prepared himself mentally, and then responded:

"Well then, ask your question. Of course, if it's a math problem, then I can only tell you... one plus one equals eleven."

"Don't worry, it's not an academic question. I just want to ask you..."

However, before the voice could finish posing its question, Mr. Xiao quickly gave an answer.

"I confess! Actually, I did it too!"

"...Huh?" The voice was momentarily stunned. "What did you do?"

"...Huh?" Xiao Yi was also taken aback, "Don't you know? Wait a minute, isn't that the question you were going to ask?"