Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 106: Chapter 106: The Terrifying Strength of Level 9 Evil Fallen

Outside the tower, within the mines.

Even level nine Evil Fallen found it hard to be immune to the Siren’s Song, a perfect Mutation Entry. But compared to other Evil Fallen, their murderous intent rose very slowly.

The Evil Fallen with black wings like a demon spread its wings wide.

Mirror Evil Fallen suddenly said,

"The cave has been sealed off, and a teleportation barrier has been set up all around. If we try to flee, we will be teleported back here."

"Is it a loop? From the look of it, it seems you figured it out a while ago," said the female Evil Fallen with the Beauty Mark.

"I can see the truth. We were invited here to be predators. Kill them, absorb them, and then move to a new area, where we might find the opportunity to evolve again."

Mirror Evil Fallen took a step forward.

"What if I kill you guys? I haven’t tried devouring a being of the same level yet."

The Evil Fallen with the Beauty Mark looked at Mirror Evil Fallen with a mischievous grin.

"You can’t kill me, and I would have a hard time killing you. It’s the same for the two of them. As top predators on the food chain, there’s no need for us to waste time here."

Both the demon and the Beauty Mark agreed with this statement.

They were genuine monsters, possessing strength that humans could not match. The Traveler had created an environment like a closed loop, where all Evil Fallen fought each other, and only after reducing their numbers to a certain extent would the survivors be allocated to other areas.

Three level nine Evil Fallen were ready to begin their hunt.

Only Hong Yin looked at Bai Wu uneasily.

Since his arrival in this world, Bai Wu had also tried to avoid pain, but most of the time, the pain, devoid of fear, left only pure sensation and excitement. He even welcomed this feeling.

But a short while ago, at the moment the Siren’s Song began, Bai Wu felt averse to the tearing pain for the first time. Even he could hardly bear the agony of needles piercing his nerve endings.

It was a very brief moment, so short that before Hong Yin could figure out what was going on, Bai Wu had abruptly awakened.

He breathed deeply, as if he had just been pulled up from the deep sea.

[Brother, what’s wrong?]

"Nothing. We’re going to save people, if they’re still alive." Bai Wu became completely calm.

Hong Yin nodded.

Under the influence of the Siren’s Song, even those with vastly more spiritual power than the Traveler would still develop a desire to kill.

The black mist had expanded several times over, and the eyes within the mist grew increasingly fierce.

Hong Yin led Bai Wu and slowly left the rest area. Grudges wrapped around Bai Wu, who wore a mask, making his expression unknowable to others.

The Siren’s Song. A perfect-level Mutation Entry with the power to bewitch and even hypnotize others.

Lower-level Evil Fallen could even fall into a deep hypnotic state the instant the song sounded.

Bai Wu would normally be the same, but at the moment the Siren’s Song tried to bewitch him, he remembered a time spent alone with his father.

"...Entering the 20th century, with the application of anesthetics, doctors gave up hypnosis. For the sake of profit, hypnosis moved into entertainment venues and became a performance that greatly intrigued the public. After the Second World War, due to hypnosis’ pronounced effects in treating war neuroses, dental, and obstetric ailments, hypnosis was revived."

His father’s calm and composed voice rose, as if he was teaching his child a lesson.

If one ignored the tightly bound Bai Wu, the scene might even be described in four words: ’a father’s tender love.’

"Even though the human will can gradually build up various defenses against hypnosis, with the advent of the pharmaceutical era, external forces of hypnosis have become increasingly powerful. In the future, if the world we live in becomes absurd enough, we might even encounter mythical creatures that are adept at hypnosis and bewitchment."

Mr. Bai was saying these words while hypnotizing Bai Wu.

Bai Wu’s eyes slowly became vacant, as if he had entered a shallow sleep state.

"But in the end, the human body rejects being conquered by others. As long as you can establish a perfect defense mechanism, a conditioning reflex process that wakes you up, you can escape from the hypnotized state in the shortest time. This mechanism is pain."

Bai Wu let out a heart-wrenching scream, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot from the severe pain. He was tied to a chair, struggling violently, but was quickly subdued by Mr. Bai’s hand.

Mr. Bai squinted his eyes, gently soothing Bai Wu.

As if it wasn’t he who, just a few seconds ago, had inserted a slender silver needle into the center of Bai Wu’s forehead.

"Actually, the Punishment of Thorns has always been exaggerated in terms of the pain it causes. After all, executioners who know the exact acupuncture points are rare. I deliberately avoided the most painful points just now; you should have screamed less. Next time, if you fall under my hypnosis again, I might stick it in a place that causes you more pain. But don’t get nervous; you will slowly adapt. Perhaps, when your body establishes these conditioning reflexes, you will only feel a very short moment of pain."

The young Bai Wu was trembling slightly, and Mr. Bai’s expression seemed extraordinarily affectionate, as if what had just occurred was nothing more than the most intimate interaction between father and son.

His smile was gentle and warm, making everyone who saw it feel genuinely comfortable from the bottom of their heart.

"Now I’m going to increase the difficulty a little. Pain can affect a person’s judgment, but I hope you can overcome it. I will ask you some questions, and you need to answer them all correctly."

"Let’s start with the headless case that happened last month; you were involved in it. But so much time has passed, and it’s still unsolved. Let’s go over it again and see what clues you may have missed. And remember, don’t let me hypnotize you during this process."

Mr. Bai’s voice was as gentle and magnetic as ever.

...

The father-son hypnosis and conversation went on for four months. Naturally, Mr. Bai’s "teaching" of Bai Wu wasn’t confined to just words and actions.

Bai Wu couldn’t understand why his father would torture him like this, especially with more excessive tests to come.

But when the Siren’s Song sounded, as a human of the Innate Force third rank, he should have fallen into hypnosis sooner than the fifth-rank Evil Fallen.

Yet, as a stabbing pain surged in his mind, Bai Wu easily woke up.

...

...

The battle had already begun.

The Siren’s Song persisted endlessly, turning the entire cave into an Asura hell.

But even as the Evil Fallen had entered a frenzied state of combat, they still dared not provoke a ninth-rank Evil Fallen lightly.

Protected by Hong Yin, Bai Wu was essentially in a safe zone.

The scene unfolding before Bai Wu’s eyes was akin to a large-scale brawl among the Evil Fallen.

The Shadow Killer’s back sprouted countless bones, those moss-covered bones continuously spread and writhed, forming a defensive shell!

A fifth-rank Mutant in this vast cave was too vulnerable. To survive, she had to resist the Siren’s Song relentlessly.

As an observer, Bai Wu thought the Shadow Killer might make it out alive, but as the Siren’s Song became clearer, he quickly saw her true end.

A barrage of grenades shattered her skeletal shell, reducing her body to countless tiny pieces of flesh.

This was the tragic end of the woman’s life.

Then Bai Wu turned his gaze to another side, the visual spectacle was incredibly stunning.

Two seventh-rank Evil Fallen clashed, but the scene was grotesquely bizarre—like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

The gigantic monster, like Godzilla, lashed out with its claws, trying to grasp an Evil Fallen the size of a bee.

Although both were seventh-level Evil Fallen, their size disparity was immense, one resembled a building, while the other was like a speck of dust in that building.

Yet the outcome of this battle was beyond Bai Wu’s expectations.

The giant Godzilla-like creature suddenly collapsed, the whole battlefield trembling with its fall.

The bee, although also at level seven, had insignificant strength compared to the giant creature imbued with a Mutation Entry for enlargement.

However, this bee-shaped Evil Fallen managed to enter through the giant Evil Fallen’s ear, and began to gnaw on its internal organs.

As the Siren’s Song grew increasingly intense, Bai Wu also heard intermittent phone calls.

An eighth-level Evil Fallen with a phone for a face, when it showed a desire to attack, a large number of Evil Fallen around it received a fatal call.

"Have you seen my wife? Where is she?"

Any Evil Fallen that did not take this question seriously were no longer puppets transformed into phone faces; a powerful force emanated from within them and one after another, the Evil Fallen perished.

For a moment, the ringing of the phones sounded like whispers from the Grim Reaper.

Giant Evil Fallen, human-shaped Evil Fallen, beast-shaped Evil Fallen, mechanical Evil Fallen, all were battling in the caverns inside the mine.

In the vast cavern, nearly every corner was affected by the war.

Only the areas where a few ninth-level Evil Fallen resided seemed unusually calm.

All Evil Fallen steered clear of them, but they did not spare these Evil Fallen.

The first to strike was a Demon Evil Fallen with black wings.

Unlike other Evil Fallen with bizarre abilities, the strength of the Demon Evil Fallen lay purely in its raw power and speed.

Seventh-level Evil Fallen were easily torn apart by it, and even eighth-level Evil Fallen, if they were slightly careless at the sight of it, could be killed in a single blow.

It possessed explosive strength within its body, which afforded it melee capabilities beyond the ninth level.

Soon, only a pile of shattered Evil Fallen remains surrounded it.

In stark contrast to the Demon Evil Fallen was an Evil Fallen with a beauty mark.

There was a playful allure in her eyes, and Bai Wu even felt that she possessed a power more enticing than the Siren’s Song.

She let out a mischievous laugh in the middle of the battlefield, with her laughter filled with seduction and teasing.

Upon hearing her laughter, Evil Fallen at level seven, six, and even eight, immediately abandoned their current fights and rushed towards her without hesitation.

A large group of Evil Fallen, as if bewitched, began to frenziedly tear at the Beauty Mark.

Such was the terrifying power of the Evil Fallen that within moments, a whole body completely vanished under their demonic gnawing, not even the bones remained.

Bai Wu certainly did not believe that a ninth-level Evil Fallen could be dealt with so easily.

A horrifying scene unfolded: the beauty mark’s devoured flesh and her disheveled hair began to mutate.

Parts of them scattered on the ground while others remained inside the Evil Fallen’s stomach, as their bellies swiftly swelled and their bodies grew lumpy protuberances.

These grotesque growths, like cancer, gradually formed the face of the beauty mark.

Her eyes still held a teasing gaze, as if being devoured was a highly pleasurable affair.

Every Evil Fallen that had ingested her now had a thickened throat, as if something was clawing its way out from within them.

"Come kill me!"

"Hurry up and eat me!"

"Dismember me!"

From all directions, the dense voices of Beauty Mark could be heard, a portion of the Beauty Marks crawled out from the mouths of other Evil Fallen, while some directly tore through the Evil Fallen’s stomachs.

But those torn apart Evil Fallen didn’t die completely, the "bumps" on their bodies were still alive, teasingly shouting from their mouths:

"Eat me up!"

"Kill me!"

"You must really want to do this, right?"

In the vast cavern, soon there were hundreds of Beauty Marks.

Mirror Evil Fallen, watching all this, suddenly understood why this seemingly weakest woman was a Level 9 Mutant.

In that instant, the performance of Beauty Mark completely overshadowed both him and Demon Evil Fallen.

Compared to the terrifying power of Demon Evil Fallen, and the ability of Mirror Evil Fallen to make one lose their way and bounce off all attacks, Beauty Mark, as a Level 9 Evil Fallen, at least in terms of visual impact, was more horrifying. freewebnσvel.cøm

Hong Yin was also unable to contain her desire, the master of Siren’s Song, whose spiritual power was far less than hers, but that didn’t mean Hong Yin was immune to his seduction.

Especially since... she was the one with the heaviest grudge among all the Evil Fallen.

Super Grudge Manifestation, for a moment Bai Wu saw many Level 7 and Level 6 Evil Fallen surrounded by grudge spirits that looked exactly like them.

Compared to Grudge Manifestation, the grudge spirits created by Super Grudge Manifestation were even more powerful. They nearly had all the abilities of their counterparts.

However, under the influence of "Equality of All Beings," most of the Mutations Entries of the Evil Fallen were suppressed, with only a few abilities related to bodily characteristics retained.

But this didn’t affect Hong Yin’s mass slaughter at all.

Her true form was that massive cloud of black mist, under the influence of spiritual power and grudge, the black mist began to absorb the will of the Evil Fallen present.

Just like a long time ago... when Hong Yin had been in Ninth Hospital, absorbing the pain of those patients.

Only at that time, it was the patients who pleaded with Hong Yin to do so. But now, having accumulated too much grudge and affected by Siren’s Song, Hong Yin began to forcibly extract their will.

She was like a black hole, any Evil Fallen that approached her would have endless grudge absorbed by her.

Compared to the split Legion of Beauty Mark, Hong Yin’s Super Grudge Manifestation even outnumbered them in quantity.

From this fight, Bai Wu could tell that while Level 8 Evil Fallen might still have the ability to defend themselves, those Level 7 and Level 6 Evil Fallen, who could each dominate on their own in the blue area, could not even resist.

Bai Wu now realized that there were five Level 9 Evil Fallen in this area, and these Evil Fallen hadn’t even used their full strength, but the combat power they demonstrated was enough to easily crush all the powerful adversaries he had encountered before.

If this were a game, it was as if he had used a bug to get an early glimpse of a later stage.

"I’m still far too lacking... Monsters of this level are not something I can deal with at the moment."

The strength displayed by the Level 9 Evil Fallen made Bai Wu realize that these beings couldn’t be faced simply by piling up combat stats.

Only by collecting Doomsday Fragments, and gathering earlier Talent Sequences, maybe someday in the future, he might use some special powers to contend with these monsters.

Hong Yin’s voice interrupted Bai Wu’s thoughts.

"I’ve found them... but they... they can’t go back anymore. Brother, it’s time for you to go back."]