"How are you any different from them?"
Wen Wen hesitated, then asked a question that had long puzzled him.
"I've always been curious. To restore the Containment to its former glory, it would have been much easier for you central administrators to step in directly. There was no need to go through me to slowly revive the facility."
"Even if outsiders were truly needed to restart the Containment, there were many more suitable choices than I was at the time."
When Wen Wen first took over the Containment, he was just an ordinary person, and he had significant personal risks. Even finding a random superpowered individual would have been more reliable than choosing Wen Wen.
Take the Sakura District, for example. There was someone who woke up as an upper-tier superpowered individual, clearly more suited for the task of making the Containment great again.
Mo Gong took out a brush and, while drawing eyes, ears, and a nose on the small wooden horse beneath him, said to Wen Wen.
"You ask too many questions. I'll answer them one by one."
"Jin Kela and the others should have told you that the Containment's decline began when it imprisoned a monster that exceeded its capacity."
Wen Wen nodded. He hadn't seen that monster in the Disaster Zone; it must have been in the 'Calamity Zone.'
"Since that monster has already exceeded the Containment's limit, relying solely on the Containment is not enough. Therefore, to effectively imprison it, a vast majority of our powers were extracted from the four of us central administrators to maintain the stability of the Calamity Zone!"
"However, the extracted power alone was far from sufficient. Thus, the four of us are also pillars of the seal, and we must all remain within the Containment to ensure absolute safety."
"But with your efforts, the Containment is gradually reviving, and its power is slowly recovering. The Calamity Zone's reliance on us is decreasing."
"Under the current circumstances of the Containment, it wouldn't have dire consequences if Jin Kela or one of the others left the Containment for a short period."
"But I cannot."
"Because the pressure I bear alone is more than what the three of them combined carry!"
Wen Wen looked at Mo Gong in surprise. "How strong were you originally?"
Mo Gong shrugged. "I was originally a celestial deity, while Jin Kela, Ni Wei Ya, and Yi Si Wei Te were originally spiritual deities."
This meant that Jin Kela and the others were originally as strong as the fully-powered Chan Zu, while Mo Gong was even more powerful than the three of them combined.
Then, what kind of terrifying existence required the entire Containment, along with the combined efforts of Mo Gong and the other three, to barely seal it?
"Before you opened the Calamity Zone, and without affecting the stability of the seal, I could only act once and for a very short duration. I wanted to use this opportunity on Bai Du."
Wen Wen nodded. Although he now possessed combat capabilities at the True Order level, Bai Du was still a significant threat to him.
If he could lure Bai Du to eliminate Wen Li, that would be the best option. Unfortunately, Wen Wen knew very little about Bai Du.
It wasn't scary for an enemy to be powerful; what was scary was for the enemy to be powerful, hidden in the shadows, and extremely cautious.
Mo Gong finished drawing on the wooden horse and tapped it lightly. The horse came to life and began to prance around the Calamity Zone.
"What I just explained was why we didn't act. As for you..."
"Have more confidence. Don't underestimate yourself. You are the most special human on this planet."
"The Containment is not a brothel that can open with just a few pretty girls."
"Only the most suitable person can wield this power. At least, I've never seen anyone else possess power identical to the Containment's previous master."
"To revive the Containment, you are indispensable!"
Wen Wen wasn't a fool who would just laugh foolishly after hearing "you are indispensable," but Mo Gong's answer did resolve some of his doubts, so he shifted the topic.
"Why did you want Yi Si Wei Te to leave before coming down to wander? Just lingering on different floors within the Containment shouldn't affect the seal's stability, right?"
Mo Gong sighed. "I made some mistakes in the past, which is why they don't want to see me."
Wen Wen looked at Mo Gong, feeling slightly speechless.
Something must have happened in the Containment before, and Jin Kela and the others did indeed have some reservations about Mo Gong.
However, in Wen Wen's opinion, Jin Kela and the others didn't hate Mo Gong to that extent.
Mo Gong's decision to sit alone on the fourth floor for a thousand years, not wanting to leave the Containment or see the other three guardians, was more of a self-punishment.
And his willingness to come out and wander today indicated that the Containment was developing better and better, which had a positive impact on his emotions, leading him to slightly alleviate his 'punishment' on himself.
"Oh, give me one of those mirrors the monsters play with. It should help pass the time."
Wen Wen took out a mirror and handed it to him, then cautioned him carefully, "Through this mirror, you can enter a killing labyrinth using a mirror image. That labyrinth is where the Containment personnel train."
"You can go in and play, but please don't damage the labyrinth, and don't interfere too much with the battles between the personnel and the monsters."
Mo Gong took the mirror, chuckled, and walked towards the stairs, saying to Wen Wen as he went,
"Don't worry. As long as they don't provoke me, I won't attack them..."
From then on, the killing labyrinth gained a new boss.
This boss could appear in any form; it might be a little girl selling flowers or a corpse in a cesspool by the roadside.
Normally, the boss was non-aggressive. However, any harmful action taken against it, even an accidental injury, would activate it, leading to the death of all monsters and personnel in the same room.
The original style of the killing labyrinth was to attack anything alive, regardless of whether it was an enemy.
But because of the boss's existence, the killing labyrinth incorporated some elements of strategic combat.
Both monsters and containment personnel became more cautious, estimating whether the target was the boss before acting.
Some even came up with strategies like impersonating the boss to ambush other containment personnel.
That boss was, of course, Mo Gong. Besides him, no one else in the Containment could guarantee the certain death of an attacker.
However, Wen Wen did not stop his actions. Firstly, he felt a bit sorry for Mo Gong being so bored for so long. Secondly, it did add some fun to the Containment, making the killing labyrinth more engaging.
Wen Wen even wanted to have Ji De Luo come up with more interesting mechanisms to add to the killing labyrinth, rotating them over time to keep it fresh. Constantly fighting whomever you see was simply too monotonous.