Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 188: Chapter 188: The Omniscient Bai Wu

About thirty minutes had passed when Bai Wu completed the red examination room, which represented the university course test.

He advanced once again with a perfect score.

"You have obtained another extra enhancement attribute, and it is worth affirming that this attribute is permanently owned, because strictly speaking, Spirit Possession of an item does not count as an enhancement attribute. Now, you must be wondering which item has possessed a spirit. Let’s use the process of elimination, first excluding one option—pot.

Furthermore, do not consider repeating a grade to acquire Spirit Possession of an item, after all... once you repeat a grade in the red region, negative attributes are retained, but all enhancements are reset to zero."]

The enhancement given was actually Spirit Possession of an item...

If it weren’t for the eyes’ last warning, Bai Wu might have really wanted to repeat grades to test and level up his pot with Spirit Possession.

He quickly sensed which item had undergone Spirit Possession.

That wristwatch that refused to lay dormant had once again added to the drama—

"With such a small thing that loves to steal the spotlight, it is destined to undergo a second development. Now its attributes have undergone a tiny change. Instead of calling it a Spirit Possession wristwatch, it would be better to call it an Evil Fallen Transformer. Realizing that the hands only attract your attention in the red region, this crazy little thing upgraded itself, and now your wristwatch emotional value will not drop below 280. Wear it for five seconds, and you will be able to become an Evil Fallen."]

Bai Wu didn’t think this was a free attribute, but the problem was that the Temporary Save Device only had three uses left, and using the wristwatch still came with great restrictions.

"Speaking of which... if I could find Jing Si, who made the save device, maybe I could resolve the side effects of using the wristwatch. But he has fallen into madness... I suppose even if there is a possibility to make it work, it would be extremely dangerous."

The scene began to switch.

Everything around suddenly turned pitch black; the desks, chairs, and props in the original examination room all disappeared. After a few seconds, Bai Wu saw white light focusing in the center of the room, but the surroundings remained indistinct.

"Welcome to the last Q&A section. You are the most outstanding student we have encountered in seven hundred years."

In the black area examination room, there was only one chair, surrounded by darkness. The mixed greetings came from the darkness around.

This kind of darkness seemed to be an effect that could not be dispelled. Even with Enhanced Vision, Bai Wu was unable to see clearly the several figures in the dark.

Everything in his line of sight appeared blurry. In the haze, Bai Wu saw approximately twelve teachers forming a semicircle.

Bai Wu was at the center of the semicircle, seemingly in the position of being interrogated.

He could not make out the faces of these teachers.

"I guess the questions you’re going to ask me... won’t be ordinary questions anymore, after all, if it were still academic questions, then a test paper would suffice, and you wouldn’t need to come in person. I suppose these questions will be rather special?"

Passing the exam in the red area, Bai Wu had a bit of luck on his side.

After all, the university-level exams tested general knowledge, and had they involved knowledge from some obscure specialties, he would have only been able to cheat to get through.

Although his tone was calm, looking at the dark outline at the edge of the examination room, Bai Wu felt some surprise inside:

"With your current strength, even a Level 9 Mutant can easily be observed, but this time it’s different. These twelve old fogeys have already connected into a whole. Although they also suffer from the pain of seeking but not obtaining, they have transcended pain and become existences on another level. This darkness that you cannot see through is an isolation barrier, as I said, you must see something in order to analyze. However, one thing is certain, the omniscient and omnipotent Yan will lead you to victory and light."]

Twelve Evil Falls linked together into a whole...

Bai Wu had not anticipated this, that Evil Falls could fuse with one another? If so, they indeed could become the strongest force in the school below Jiang Yimi.

Even purely in terms of fighting power, they were mightier than Jiang Yimi.

Bai Wu quickly came to terms with it, realizing that to learn the true status of these teachers, all he had to do was answer the questions correctly.

"Next, we will tell you the rules."

"Okay." freēwebnovel.com

Bai Wu even straightened his seating posture, almost as if he was about to say ’Good day, teacher’.

"The world has been destroyed. To leave this school, you must master enough knowledge. You have passed the first trial. Next, we will conduct the second test on you. You will have one minute to answer each question, and if you answer one question incorrectly, you will immediately return to the blue examination room."

"May I ask for help outside the venue? Or can I choose a teacher on the spot to be my support think tank?"

This non-standard response left the twelve teachers silent for a few seconds before a voice came from the left side of Bai Wu:

"No."

"Then may I request to activate the guest privilege to eliminate one wrong answer?"

"..."

After several more seconds of silence, a voice came directly in front of Bai Wu:

"That is also not allowed."

"Okay."

Although Bai Wu knew this was not "Who Wants to Be a Ghost School Millionaire" or "The Unlucky Fifty-Two" type of variety show, based on the principle of carefulness and resistance to cheating, it was still worth asking—just in case there were shortcuts that could be taken without having to cheat.

"Do you have any more questions?" Another different voice came from the darkness.

"Yes, can I use a question to answer a question?"

"Only the correct answer will be counted as answering the question."

"Will anything I say be considered as an answer?"

"Before you officially say ’the answer is’ those three words, we will not consider the content of your words as an answer."

"Okay, I have no more questions."

Twelve gazes were fixed on Bai Wu, seeming to find the student’s line of thought quite peculiar.

"The first question is a math question."

I’m familiar with math, Bai Wu suddenly got excited.

"Please listen to the question. Assume that the High Tower is 6,300 meters tall and that the base area of the High Tower is about 645 times that of Baichuan University. Then, how many rulers are there on the fifth floor of the High Tower?"

From the moment he heard the two words ’High Tower,’ Bai Wu felt something was wrong. When he heard that the question and the conditions were unrelated, he suddenly froze.

The height of the High Tower is 6,300 meters, and the area is 645 times that of Baichuan University. How could these conditions determine how many rulers are on the fifth floor?

This question was as nonsensical as "Xiao Ming ate an apple in the morning, four buns at noon, and five beef patties in the evening. Please guess how old Xiao Ming’s mother is."

"You will have sixty seconds to answer, and the timer starts now."

Sixty seconds is a very short time.

Many thoughts flashed through Bai Wu’s mind at this moment. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

Why would the High Tower be 6,300 meters tall?

"I have been to the fourth floor once, and the intervals between the layers of the High Tower, at least from what I have seen from the first to the fifth layer, are intervals of 900 meters. By this calculation, if there is a top above the sixth layer, then the total height of the High Tower should only be 5,400 meters... But why is it 6,300 meters in the question?"

"Is this implying that the High Tower actually has more than six floors?"

Influenced by this question, Bai Wu’s thoughts wandered far. After wasting more than ten seconds, he suddenly realized he had to solve this question first.

A remark popped up in his eyes at this moment.

[Perhaps we need to reassess these twelve old folks. Of course, let me tell you the answer to the question first. As you probably know, eight.]

Right, Lilith’s answer was eight, and Bai Wu had also asked this question before. There are currently eight rulers of the High Tower.

The known ones are the Pang Family, the Yan Family, the Qin Family, the Zhong Family, and the Xie Family. The other three are yet unknown.

Bai Wu did not immediately give the answer.

He had to make the most of the time.

"The eye mentioned reassessing these twelve old fellows, what does it mean? Speaking of which... who set the rules for this area in the first place? If what they want is for all students to graduate on time, then why put in such a perverse question?"

"With the questions from the red and purple areas, if the students aren’t systematically taught, let alone seven hundred years, even after seven thousand years, as Evil Fallen, bearing various negative attributes, they would never be able to learn..."

"Or is it that... what these twelve Evil Fallen want to test isn’t these students at all?"

With thirty-five seconds left, Bai Wu suddenly said:

"May I ask a question that’s unrelated to the topic?"

"You may, but we reserve the right not to answer."

"Before me, has anyone else ever reached the Q&A section?"

"Only one person." The voice came from above and to the right of Bai Wu.

The voices all seemed like a mix of many people’s voices, age indistinguishable, but Bai Wu didn’t care, presumably this was some natural state of Evil Fallen fusion.

He was now very curious about who the last person to pass all the exams and make it to the Q&A area was.

"Who was that person?"

"You have ten seconds left," a voice from a different direction cautioned.

"The answer is eight. There are eight rulers of the High Tower," Bai Wu said loudly.

"Correct answer."

"Tell me, who was that person? Did he pass the Q&A?"

"The Q&A was meaningless for him. We do not know who he is, please listen to the second question."

"The second question is a physics problem."

This time, Bai Wu wouldn’t get excited; he had a feeling this physics problem was also going to be bizarre.

"Assuming the rules of space-time are under unrestricted reversal due to the interference of the Legendary Tier Entry Reincarnation, and Sequence Twelve—Temporal Return—allows for a brief reverse in time for oneself, please answer whether Temporal Return can suppress Reincarnation, or if Reincarnation can suppress Temporal Return."

Bai Wu really wanted to curse now.

The questions in the white area started with middle school difficulty and progressively got harder through high school and university levels; he had assumed the black area would gradually escalate. Instead, the questions abruptly went from scientific to theological.

But Talent Sequence Twelve—Temporal Return—did give Bai Wu some inspiration.

"Since there is no description, I didn’t know before what Temporal Return does, but now it seems... Isn’t Temporal Return just a permanent Temporary Save Device? If I could get Temporal Return... maybe a lot of problems could be solved."

Bai Wu’s attention returned to the problem at hand.

If someone with Temporal Return entered the Reincarnation area, would their Temporal Return allow them to break free from Reincarnation, or would Reincarnation reverse their Temporal Return?

These twelve old things actually called this a physics question?

If it weren’t for the eye, Bai Wu could only guess at this problem—

[This is indeed a good question, I suggest you ask him the same, at the moment your head is chopped off, is it the head that feels the body fall, or the body that feels the head fall? Of course, we should first state the answer to the problem, although the sequence number of Temporal Return is ahead of mine, it is still a waste that is inferior to Reincarnation. And I am different; I am the one who has overcome Reincarnation with you! Prayle’s Eye should be at Sequence one, who agrees, who disagrees?]

Bai Wu was powerless to retort.

Yet his inner doubts deepened—all twelve of these Evil Fallen were ordinary humans before their Evil Fallen Transformation, middle school teachers in Baichuan University. Did they really have such extensive knowledge?

Even a Sequence with no introduction in the periodic table was known to them?

"Who told you these questions? Did you think of them yourselves?"

"When you respond to a question with another question, you at least need to solve our problem first."

The voices in the dark sounded solemn like a judge.

Without waiting this time, Bai Wu said:

"The answer is that Reincarnation will suppress Temporal Return."

"Correct answer."

"So who exactly told you these questions?"

"No one told us, these questions come from within ourselves."

To Bai Wu’s surprise, the twelve shadowy figures from the darkness actually answered his question, although he felt—the credibility was not high.

He wanted to ask more, but the third question quickly came.

"The third question is a history question."

Now Bai Wu was even less confident, he didn’t understand the history of this world very well, especially since the questions asked by this group of Evil Fallen were bound to be anything but conventional history questions.

"Please listen to the question, Baichuan City is a city with a long history, turning from a poor mountainous city into a first-tier city took seventy-five years. But from prosperity, Baichuan City was only seven days away from destruction. If you had one opportunity to travel through time, which day and area would you choose to return to?"

He was at a complete loss.

It only took seven days to destroy Baichuan City?

From what Bai Wu currently knew, Baichuan City, Denglin City, Xuanhui City, and Food City were all major cities that had gone through a lot during the apocalypse...

Like Denglin City, even in the year 2128, the year the High Tower closed, there were still many people working with Professor Tao and others to save the city.

But why say the destruction of Baichuan City only took seven days?

Was this destruction related to Jiang Yimi and the Masked Man’s manipulation of time? Or was it related to that doctor who never showed up?

Bai Wu truly wished he could answer with questions, as the uncertainties in his mind were growing.

[This is a somewhat serious topic, destruction is much easier than creation. Those seven days in Baichuan City saw hope, experienced despair, and in the end, everything fell silent. I can tell you responsibly that returning to the past wouldn’t save the city. This question is somewhat leading, but unfortunately... If returning to the past could change all conditions of causality, it might only accelerate the destruction of humanity.]

The eye’s tone became uncommonly serious, as if admonishing itself about something.

This statement was somewhat obscure, but Bai Wu suddenly thought of the phrase he heard on the farm—

"Causality is ineffective against us."

The ones who destroyed Baichuan were far more powerful than those who defended it, if those who defended Baichuan could reverse time and change the past, wouldn’t this right of reversal, theoretically, be more appropriately held by the destroyers?

Bai Wu did not raise any questions this time; after reflecting on his various thoughts, he calmly said:

"The chance to save the world lies not in any moment of the past. The answer is here and now, at this moment."