Free Web NovelChapter 190: Chapter 190: Gifts and Blessings
The darkness dissipated, and the initially concentrated white light at the center, facing the chair, suddenly spread out.
It was only then that Bai Wu realized the classroom was much larger than he had imagined. From the moment he stepped into the teaching building, he noticed some alterations to the spatial structure within.
The distribution pattern of the white, blue, purple, red, and black areas was almost identical to that of ascending the High Tower.
It was less a teaching building and more a tower with clear difficulties and distinct levels.
Bai Wu’s location was at the top of the tower.
The room had walls on all four sides, with external light sources unable to penetrate within, leaving only the central light source to brighten the room.
It wasn’t that there were no windows on the surrounding walls, but all the windows were covered by silk.
The blurry outlines that Bai Wu saw were not real people; they were made from innumerable threads wrapped into human shapes.
As for the twelve Evil Fallen, their true forms were actually those of gigantic—silkworms.
These enormous Bai Can silkworms had countless eyes on their bodies, their forms seemingly independent yet connected into a whole by strange strands of silk.
"[Once, these teachers held great initial intentions, wishing to nurture clean and just souls. But under the torment of grades and exams, their desires also began to change slightly.
It wasn’t until the calamity seven hundred years ago that they suddenly rediscovered their original purpose. In the moment of their Evil Fallen Transformation, these people finally realized that the existing knowledge system could no longer enable these children to live in the future world. What they could do was to keep bestowing knowledge upon them, allowing the students to survive in the doomsday world.
But as you know, this area has developed strange rules—they’ve realized that exams are not the end goal, the purpose lies in imparting wisdom, receiving education, and resolving doubts. Yet here, their desires are unattainable. The more they wish to correct past mistakes, the more endless exams all students have to endure. So, in the final test, they had no choice but to convey the outside situation through the mode of a test."
Level 9 Mutant, Rare Mutation Entry: Severing, Yanshi. Perfect Mutation Entry: Broken Lotus Roots Continue to Connect, Peeping Eye, Dark Barrier.
Although the Peeping Eye is far from all-knowing and omnipotent like me, in a state of twelve hundred percent efficacy, it can see farther than I do in certain aspects, and can be considered an unstable spacetime observatory.]
Twelve enormous, continuously writhing, conjoined Bai Can silkworms were in front of Bai Wu; as they squirmed, the countless eyes also writhed, their dense and moving gaze enough to provoke a sense of disgust in many.
Bai Wu didn’t feel disgusted but once again experienced a hollow feeling inside.
Bai Can.
He understood of course what this symbol meant.
Now, Bai Wu had detected a pattern—many humans, due to the obsessions in their hearts, take on special forms after undergoing Evil Fallen Transformation.
Some of these Evil Fallen are pitiable, some detestable, and some respectable.
Although Bai Wu had not seen Liu Mu’s Evil Fallen form, Lin Wurou had told him that in the last moments of the military exercise between the two armies, Captain Liu transformed into a shield, positioning himself in front of the captain. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
For even in death, he wanted to protect his comrades, thereby Liu Mu’s body became as hard as a shield in the end.
And Elijah, in his quest for Cain’s recognition, became a Stitched monstrosity, his features indicating the powers he had acquired.
Dandelion’s desire was to consume humans, and so the giant transformation of his being was like a stomach encompassing the cosmos. Violet longed for her family, and so she and the Manor merged as one.
Their human obsessions had influenced their attitudes upon becoming Evil Fallen.
These teachers were the same. At the time of the doomsday arrival, they thought about protecting the students as much as possible, so they transformed into silkworms.
Bai Wu could imagine that not only Jiang Yimi felt remorse when students disappeared one after another due to supernatural events.
The teachers must have suffered deeply in their hearts, which is why they took on such forms.
Just like the silkworms expend their silk until they die.
When the apocalypse descended, their greatest obsession was to protect these students. However, due to the special rules of the region, they could not reap the gratitude of the students, but would only be despised because of the endless tests.
"Peeping Eye, judging from the hints given by the eyes, the Peeping Eye had its power amplified twelvefold due to the effect of Broken Lotus Roots Continue to Connect, enabling it to do certain things that even Prayle’s Eye couldn’t. Presumably, their source of knowledge is related to this eye?"
Perhaps sensing the need to survive in the outside world required a lot of information and knowledge reserves, the teachers’ obsession with knowledge caused them to evolve the Peeping Eye.
But the effect of the Peeping Eye was limited, so in order to maximize the acquisition of certain intelligence, they abandoned the concept of individuality and merged into a whole with the power of the Mutation Entry ’Broken Lotus Roots Continue to Connect’.
Thus, the most powerful Peeping Eye was born.
Yet even so, this powerful ocular force could not give them all the information they wanted.
It was as if they didn’t know whether Bai Wu had really been to certain places. As for the answers to certain specified questions, they were also not very clear.
Unlike Prayle’s Eye, which could almost decipher everything, although the Peeping Eye could also see the past, the future, and many special secrets, it was not stable.
Over seven hundred years, the twelve teachers collected a lot of information, which at first was obscure and difficult to understand for them.
Gradually, as more and more information accumulated, like pieces of a puzzle, they saw certain causalities and came to understand the suffering various parts of the world were experiencing.
Afterward, they realized they could only continue to wait, because when a person acquires knowledge, they inevitably go through a phase where the more they know, the more fear they have.
The twelve teachers were no different, they had a period of despair and fear. During that time, they saw a world full of Evil Fallen, with humanity huddling in a very few mildly mutated areas to gather resources and barely clinging to life.
Even for decades or centuries without progress.
But as time went by, the fear in their hearts slowly subsided, and they began to hope again, starting to try to analyze the vast information they had peered into.
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To date, two have passed through the red zone examination hall, and the other is actually not an examinee, but a prophet who can bring a wealth of information.
It was this person who enlightened the twelve teachers, giving their existence and wait a sense of destined significance.
The questions received by Bai Wu seemed to be questions, but in fact, they were also a kind of guidance from these teachers.
After inquiring of the twelve teachers, Bai Wu finally had a clue.
"Who was the last person to pass the test? Why does the question and answer session seem meaningless to him?"
"Because she is an all-knowing being. She knows the past and future, the information we hold is even less than what she knows by herself."
Bai Wu suddenly understood:
"So it’s a woman with a transparent chest."
The teachers did not understand what Bai Wu meant; they did not know whether a person’s chest was transparent. After being silent for two or three seconds, the teachers continued:
"Hundreds of years ago, she had been here. Compared to her, the knowledge we peered into is very limited. It was humiliation for us to ask her questions. We are willing to call her the prophet."
"You can’t quite say that, the woman now dares not to use a certain power too much, and she may come to seek your help before long," said Bai Wu.
Bai Wu’s words seemed incredible to these teachers, who saw the woman as nearly omniscient.
But Bai Wu knew that Jing Liu was far from all-knowing; her Power of Causality had reached a stage of backlash, and her body could no longer frequently use this force.
If she continued to use it, she might become hollowed out.
"Besides her, has no one else passed all the exams?"
"There was one rather outstanding... but that student didn’t enter the question-and-answer session because he didn’t score full marks in the red exam room, although he was very close."
Bai Wu’s interest was piqued:
"Does this student have any distinguishing features?"
"Features... He comes from outside the school and is closely associated with seven other people inside the school, including the principal."
Cain!
"When did he come here?" Bai Wu asked.
"A long, long time ago, and he was here not long ago too, but he didn’t accomplish anything," the teachers said.
"There’s something I don’t understand. If one doesn’t pass the exam in the red zone... Shouldn’t they be required to take the exam permanently?"
"Indeed, there is such a rule, but this stipulation only applies to our own kind, and for you humans, it is only binding during class time."
Bai Wu understood; Cain was not Evil Fallen, so he was free after school.
The atmosphere should have been very serious at the moment, but Bai Wu inexplicably felt like laughing.
Cain had failed the exam and had been kept back for a day. Then, after school was over, he slunk away using the Return Roulette.
Thinking about this, he felt quite pleased.
Of course, the content of the red zone’s exam was taken from a randomly generated knowledge base of the same difficulty level, and Bai Wu didn’t have full confidence in passing either, if it weren’t for Prayle’s Eye. Especially since one needed to get every single question right, and a single mistake would mean being held back.
As harsh as the conditions were, it was understandable that Cain had been kept back, yet Bai Wu still felt an urge to laugh.
He guessed the reason for Cain’s visit here—the Doomsday Puzzle Fragment.
However, since Cain was unable to enter the question-and-answer session, it also meant that the fragment he possessed was not one that could eliminate the regional rules.
This was the most powerful fragment. With it, Cain wouldn’t need to take exams at all. He could forcibly erase all the special rules of each area in the school.
"So, respected teachers, are your blessings just verbal blessings? I’m risking my life to sit this exam; I should be paid extra."
These teachers, like white silkworms—or Evil Fallen—seemed to gradually get used to Bai Wu’s style. Their voices came from different directions, with each person saying a few words to form a sentence:
"May the gods watch over you, may you break through all barriers."
Bai Wu was stupefied: "Just verbal praise? Honorary medals and certificates are more tangible than this..."
Before he could finish, he suddenly stopped as two small objects appeared on the table in front of him.
"The Prophet instructed us to give these to you. She told us that the entire story might begin here to meet its destruction, or it might start anew from this point."
Eyes, ears, mouth, nose, sun, moon, stars—Bai Wu had seen them all.
This time, what lay on the desk were symbols of insects and flowers from the categories of flowers, birds, insects, and fish.
The remarks in the eye filled Bai Wu with joy.
[Flowers, birds, insects, and fish, good stuff. The flower symbolizes emotions, and now you can gain the trust of all the Evil Fallen in the area. They will instinctively feel moved by and close to you. In other words, they are more easily swayed.
And the insect symbolizes devouring; you can now eradicate all the strange rules of an area, turning the entire region into pristine land.
Of course, to fully liberate this area, you also need to find the bird and fish. The bird symbolizes freedom, capable of breaking the boundaries of the area, while the fish symbolizes return, able to transform all the Evil Fallen back into humans."
Flowers, birds, insects, fish are in correspondence with eyes, ears, mouth, nose.
Bai Wu had already guessed that this area should be linked with several others, much like the Baichuan Zoo area, then gathering the Doomsday Puzzle would liberate the entire larger area.
But what he hadn’t expected was that there were actually two fragments hidden here.
Would these teachers not crave the recognition and respect of their students? Clearly, they would, but now it seemed, the teachers had not utilized the power of the fragments.
As observers, they possessed the Peeping Eye, especially having seen Jing Liu, they certainly would not be uninformed.
Bai Wu looked at the pile of Stitched white silkworms with a puzzled gaze.
As if understanding Bai Wu’s confusion, the teachers still replied in their manner of each speaking a few words:
"So many things have happened at the school, and as teachers, we inherently bear an inescapable responsibility, enduring their resentment is only right. To twist by the power of strict rules is not true recognition."
Bai Wu nodded, knowing that most of these literati were quite stubborn.
"Since you know the efficacy of the Doomsday Fragment, why not use it to purify everything."
"Because of the area’s obstruction, without the flying bird among the flowers, birds, insects, and fish, the effect of the Doomsday Fragment can only be used in an individual area. The flower belongs to our area, while the insect belongs to Jiang Yimi’s area. The principal holds the flying bird, and though it has lifted the travel restrictions, without the flying bird, the fragments of this area cannot take effect in another area."
Bai Wu understood.
The school was divided into several areas which were originally not interconnected.
The principal opened the area travel restrictions, allowing the students from the teaching building to go to the dormitory area.
But the fragment from the teaching building area, although it could gain favorability, could only be used in the teaching building and not in the dormitory area.
Unless they got the flying bird fragment.
As for the insect fragment, capable of scattering all kinds of bizarre rules, this fragment belonged to the school’s forbidden area, that is, Jiang Yimi’s place.
Bai Wu now speculated that Jiang Yimi must have had a fragment, but after the fragment was created, it was taken away by Jing Liu, without anyone being the wiser.
"No matter what kind of plan Jing Liu has, at least... if I really had changed some causality in the phone booth, I would have done something I wanted to do."
The legacy of the Masked Strange Person, the Reunion of a family on a cruise, or joining hands with Gu Hailin across time and space, even if he had to do it all over again, Bai Wu would still choose the same. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Having now obtained two fragments, also indirectly from Jing Liu, Bai Wu sensed the scent of causality, as if Jing Liu was planning something.
But he didn’t resist it.
"Furthermore, the prophet has left you something, and although perhaps this thing was not meant for you, it’s been seven hundred years, and besides her, only you have the capability to leave this place."
White threads were wound around a small object, suddenly extended towards Bai Wu.
After the Evil Fallen’s words fell, the threads began to slowly unwind.
Bai Wu’s eyes widened in confusion at this item.
It was a small bottle, like a vial, with only a few milliliters of capacity, filled with an unknown black liquid.
Without any need for the teachers to explain, Bai Wu had already seen through the remarks, spotting two key words in the description of this liquid—
Well Water.
