Of course, we can't justify preemptively killing a few people just because most of them are going to die anyway.
But the value of the Desire Tower lies in altering the fate trajectories of the bosses in the Deceit Tower and the Slaughter Tower.
Once these trajectories are changed, the overall fate of humanity might be positively impacted.
For instance, I unlocked the conditions for recruiting Slaughter Jack and Jennifer the Slaughter. If I manage to recruit them in the future, it would be a massive surprise for humanity in deciphering the Three Towers.
Today's situation is the same.
For Wen Xishu, killing a few scumbags on the eve of the apocalypse to elevate the bosses of the Slaughter Tower and get rewards from the Desire Tower is both satisfying and profitable.
Of course, he couldn't tell Tang Rui about all these things openly. There's always a huge boundary between players and NPCs.
Tang Rui suddenly spoke:
"Will we... meet again?"
