Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 102: Chapter 102: Level 9 Evil Fallen

Bai Wu’s first reaction was not joy at the prospect of the thigh drawing near.

On the contrary, he furrowed his brow.

"This should be a list of invitees... If that’s the case, why doesn’t Green-Eyed Crow have this list? Will the area code I falsified be discovered?"

Bai Wu continued to look at the next line of the list, which was quite informative.

Ninth Psychiatric Hospital zone: Building Four, Distortion Level: Red. Arrived. Checked. Number of Evil Fallen in the area: one.

"It seems that this is a general list, the crow is just the first checkpoint... Or does it mean they don’t care about uninvited Evil Fallen entering?"

"Judging by the number, the cave master probably prefers having as many attending Evil Fallen as possible. But considering the level, it probably starts at five..."

"I should be safe for the time being, but I can’t exclude the possibility of the cave master seeing through me..."

"Hong Yin is a level nine mutant... It’s a pity, I said I would take her to see a wider world, but someone else ended up doing it. However, given her temperament, she will certainly help me. If Hong Yin is here, at least my identity won’t be exposed."

"But Hong Yin alone is sustaining a red zone?"

Bai Wu was surprised for a second and then immediately came to terms with it.

Building One is a white zone.

Building Two has Elijah in it, a blue zone.

Building Three, Hong Yin’s ability called Grudge Manifestation and Super Grudge Manifestation, affected by the grudge near Building Four, therefore it is also a blue zone.

And the area where her true body is located, is directly a red zone... That doesn’t seem surprising, after all, she’s able to sustain a blue zone simply with grudges.

Bai Wu looked around, unable to find Hong Yin in the humanoid area, then remembered that Hong Yin’s true form was a black fog with many eyes within it.

And the true size of Hong Yin... is also unclear.

Even though he had seen it once, that was only in his memory.

"I haven’t seen a level nine being yet, but Hong Yin has already arrived, meaning this chess piece Evil Fallen has been checked. It seems level nine Evil Fallen might not appear with the others, but in some separate area."

As an invited guest, and a guest overwhelming in strength, Hong Yin must know more details.

Evil Fallen continued to enter one after another, and Bai Wu guessed that the master of the cave wouldn’t show up until all the Evil Fallen were present.

Taking advantage of the moment the chess piece was dispelling the somnolent state of the half-human, Bai Wu glanced around and memorized all the contents of the first page of the roster.

There was no black zone, the highest was the red zone.

Sea of Blood-Red Clouds, Distortion Level: Red, Not Yet Arrived. Participation abandoned. Number of Evil Fallen in the area: one.

Another Evil Fallen alone upholding a red zone?

"Blood-red, Sea of Clouds... Wait, it couldn’t be the area below the flight, could it?"

The plane was flying at thirty thousand feet, and below, an endless sea of red clouds.

The clouds gave Bai Wu the feeling that they were hiding some kind of gigantic monster.

Abyss Amusement Park. Distortion Level: Red, Not Yet Arrived. Participation abandoned. Number of Evil Fallen in the area: one hundred twenty-four.

Amusement Park...

"It can’t be that coincidental. Is it the edge of the area I explored? Have I narrowly escaped death several times?"

In the adjacent zone of the zoo, Bai Wu remembered a haunted house, an abandoned amusement park, and a circus. They each formed the sensory parts of a face: eyes, ears, mouth, nose.

"If it really is that area, then the level of aberration in the amusement park is far higher than I imagined, and although they do not individually sustain a zone, I shouldn’t assume by inertia that these single Evil Fallen supporting the whole scene are necessarily stronger than the other Evil Fallen in the red zones."

"It’s a pity there’s no number recorded here... otherwise, I could arrive precisely,"

Bai Wu felt regretful. There were just four places on the first page. And apart from Hong Yin, no one from other red areas had come.

Baichuan University Affiliated Middle School. Distortion level, red, not yet reached. Participation already abandoned. Number of Evil Fallen in the area: one thousand.

"There are so many... Could it be that before the apocalypse arrived... not a single student from the entire school managed to escape?"

As a scene often visited in many ghost stories, Bai Wu believed that the danger level of this school, or rather, the horrifying incidents that happened there, might not be less than those at the Ninth Psychiatric Hospital where Hong Yin was.

The last place.

Shudu Prison. Distortion level, red, not yet reached. Participation already abandoned, number of Evil Fallen in the area: two hundred.

Before the Era of the High Tower, the world festered with distortion and panic, slowly turning into something unfamiliar to people.

Many boarded flights that couldn’t reach their destination, and many others didn’t even have the chance to leave.

They were locked up in prison, where perhaps many truly repented, but equally, some continued to embody the worst of human nature to the end.

"Prison, huh... that’s quite interesting,"

Those who were already overflowing with evil before the world became twisted naturally became even more insane after the distortion.

The world is so vast, Bai Wu really wanted to go and see everywhere, which was much more thrilling than tourism in his previous life.

Apart from the red areas, Bai Wu also took note of many purple areas. Although there is a large number of Evil Fallen here, two-thirds of the areas indicate not yet reached.

And looking at the names of the various areas... Bai Wu realized the map probably didn’t cover the scope of sailing across the seas.

"Speaking of which, why are there no white or black skins?"

Having been in the High Tower for so long, visiting the outside several times, and even the third level of the High Tower, Bai Wu had yet to see those with different skin colors, the international friends from his previous life.

Bai Wu didn’t quite believe these people were gone; there might be more than one High Tower, but in seven hundred years, humanity’s exploration outside the tower had been too limited.

The chess piece’s voice interrupted Bai Wu’s thoughts.

"Repair completed. I wish you success in allocating more resources." After finishing the formal well-wish, the chess piece left.

The half-headed person reverted to his previous expression, fierce and malevolent, no longer the dumbfounded look from before.

Reflecting on the ability of the area to suppress mutations, Bai Wu suddenly wondered if the Evil Fallen owner’s ability might be restoration? ƒrēewebnovel.com

He suppressed the urge to use Prayle’s Eye, bid farewell to the Shadow Killer and the half-headed person, and started walking back.

More and more humanoid Evil Fallen arrived.

After the Evil Fallen Transformation, the form might become very strange, but Bai Wu roughly estimated that the humanoid Evil Fallen constituted the highest proportion.

Most people still retain a bit of human form after turning into Evil Fallen.

When Bai Wu returned to the junction where he had to choose a path, this time he noticed there was another path outside the largest area.

That path had been previously blocked by something gigantic, and now it was visible to him.

"Looks like it’s the VIP area,"

Bai Wu understood why the cave’s owner didn’t classify by size, cramming level nine Evil Fallen into crowded places.

Probably because these creatures were too dangerous.

"Speaking of which... Xiaoyi might have just happened to sense Hong Yin and then got knocked out by her. Hong Yin knows him and Dwarf, maybe it’s a warning?"

Bai Wu arrived at the path he hadn’t noticed before and waited for a long time. He realized no one chose this path.

The Evil Fallen had their own ways of perception and could also feel some kind of powerful force suppression.

Unless a few Evil Fallen deliberately hid their abilities, most Evil Fallen, like animals, would display their threat levels to warn other Evil Fallen.

The area where Bai Wu was, was too dangerous.

"If you don’t want to die, it’s best not to take that road," said one of the crows on the edge, speaking suddenly.

Bai Wu nodded and replied:

"Okay, I want to die."

The crow was stunned, its logic irrefutable, and it stopped trying to stop him.

...

Bai Wu wasn’t an Evil Fallen, but his senses were very normal, the space in front of him as if veiled by a black mist.

This seemed to be a gate, warning the living not to enter.

Bai Wu was familiar with this kind of mist; it was grudge.

What common people, and even Evil Fallen couldn’t bear, was like a gift to him.

After passing through the gate of black mist, Bai Wu saw a different world.

In the delicate house were four tables of varying sizes, each bearing a human dressed in miner’s garb.

The reason these four humans weren’t scared into becoming Evil Fallen on the spot was because their consciousness had become rather fragmented, their gazes vacant, as though they had been injected with an overly high dose of tranquilizers, but their facial expressions were still one of immense pain.

Bai Wu tried his best to remain calm.

"Four tables, which means all the level nine Evil Fallen have arrived. These miners... if Dwarf were here, maybe he would find a way to help them, but I’m sorry, I might not be able to achieve a perfect ending."

For Bai Wu, the main mission of this exploration was to unravel the mysteries of the area’s restrictions. To achieve a perfect ending while synchronizing 100% would be to coincidentally rescue the miners.

But that difficulty was too high, so Bai Wu simply gave up.

The miners on the four tables seemed like food emitting negative emotions or, more precisely, they served the same purpose as incense burners did in the past.

They were naturally used to please the king among the four Evil Fallen in the room.

Bai Wu felt as if he had walked into a zone where level nine Evil Fallen rested, which he likened to a classroom.

In the classroom, there were only four students, sitting by the trash can, in the furthest corner, was Hong Yin.

The true form of Hong Yin was a mass of black mist with countless eyes, but she used Grudge Manifestation to transform into a girl in a red dress, black mist swirling in the air, only a thin black line bound to her white wrist.

From a distance, it looked like a child holding a black balloon.

But the balloon was the main body.

The girl’s gaze was empty until Bai Wu entered, and then she began to size him up.

Expressing disbelief, she quickly showed it on her face.

As Bai Wu took his first step, everything in his line of sight began to twist.

In this classroom, near the podium, was a woman with long hair down to her waist and a beauty mark by the corner of her left eye.

What made Bai Wu feel twisted was this woman, but the distortion ended quickly.

In this not-so-large area, a layer of grey suddenly covered everything.

In the balloon-like black mist, all the eyes filled with blood vessels let out a sharp, uncomfortable cry, like fingernails scraping a blackboard.

The red-dressed girl holding the black mist, her face sometimes innocent, sometimes fierce:

"He... is mine!"

At the Ninth Hospital, Hong Yin could barely suppress her evil thoughts, but upon arriving in this place riddled with Evil Fallen, she was reaching her limit.

Even though Bai Wu wore a mask, she could sense through other means and confirm that this person was indeed Bai Wu.

She was happy to see Bai Wu, but the towering grudges in her heart would soon turn to anger because of the woman with a beauty mark at the corner of her eye.

"Okay then, it turns out to be my sister’s friend," Black Long Straight let Bai Wu off the hook.

It seemed not worth it for Bai Wu to offend Hong Yin. Nevertheless, facing Hong Yin, she did not appear very fearful.

Bai Wu didn’t give a second glance to the woman with the beauty mark, because with the first look, he felt a surge of sinister fire rising in his belly.

The completeness of this woman’s body struck Bai Wu as strange because, at first glance, he only felt that she wasn’t an Evil Fallen, just a beautiful woman.

But soon Bai Wu reminded himself—what you see isn’t real, everything in this area might be fake.

Hong Yin stretched out her small hand, holding onto Bai Wu, her eyes fierce as if protecting her own toy.

Only then did Bai Wu start to take a good look at the other two individuals.

Standing in the back row like Hong Yin was a faceless mirror person.

The contours appeared no different from an ordinary person, but every muscle reflected the surrounding scenery like a mirror.

[Don’t look at him, you’ll get lost. And don’t look at that woman either.]

Hong Yin’s voice echoed in Bai Wu’s mind.

Bai Wu obediently shifted his gaze, while pondering what kind of descriptions would turn someone’s entire body into a mirror.

The last Level Nine Mutant was on the right side of Black Long Straight.

If Bai Wu’s Evil Fallen form was a demon with white skin, horns of defiance, and tattered bone wings,

Then this Level Nine Mutant had black skin, similarly acid with horns of defiance, and a pair of black wings.

Different from Black Long Straight’s allure that tempts one’s inner desires, Hong Yin’s overt grudges, and the mystery of the mirror person,

The demon exuded an oppressive aura as if the muscles contained explosive power.

The girl in the red dress looked up, her pitch-dark eyes fixing on Bai Wu.

[Brother, have you become one of us too?]

This sentence resonated directly in Bai Wu’s sea of consciousness, and he immediately realized that under the effect of Hong Yin’s spiritual power, he had instantly arrived at the Ninth Ward.

He swiftly understood that Hong Yin was protecting him; this must be an Illusionary Realm scene, where their conversation couldn’t be heard by the Evil Fallen.

"No, I’ve heard that the Evil Fallen might have found a way to leave their designated areas, so I wanted to investigate what was going on. Then I followed the leads and ended up here."

[Go back quickly, I’ll take you away. Brother, you will die here.]

This time, Bai Wu was not inclined to heed the warning.

"I’m different from the others, I can restrain the negative emotions in my mind, they won’t realize I’m human."

[This place is very dangerous,] Hong Yin said again.

"But this place hides the way for you to leave the ward."

Although this was not the original purpose for Bai Wu coming here, he spoke from the heart when he said this.

Hong Yin bowed her head. The eyes within the black mist softened a bit.

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