Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 252: Chapter 56: Mr. Bai and Hong Yin’s Little Secret

The victory in the battle isn’t determined by just winning a few rounds, you have to move on to the third level, pick the two strongest companions, you must make a choice out of five options, pick one," Mr. Bai said.

Hidden at the banquet, Liu Hu, Xie Zhihang, Wu Jiu.

"I can bring two people into the third level, I have his help, you should leave... brother," Liu whispered.

Hong Yin hesitated slightly before replying to Mr. Bai.

"I’m curious to know whether you have any negative emotions, to see your good friend go to his death. But actually, it’s not me who is in a hurry. Of course, you need to make your choice quickly, if not, your teammates will be devoured because of you, you will have no teammates, and continuing to delay is what you want, little girl on the third level."

Mr. Bai smiled vaguely, his face still carrying a hint of amazement, for there was only time pressing on them.

But Hong Yin always felt that Mr. Bai would never say these things, as if he was deliberately not letting himself hear, yet what was the truth if it was really like this?

Hong Yin would not deceive herself, as logic dictates. Hong Yin nodded her head, and Mr. Bai looked at her.

"You can bring two teammates, with my help below, I will only give a little aid to the young girl, in the third level, everyone will show their true colors, from good intentions to even evil thoughts, you," Mr. Bai stated.

"There are many bedside examples of healing charlatans, who, although greatly aided by benevolence, often do such things in the actual world, taking advantage of people’s grave situations to kill them," Mr. Bai continued.

Mr. Bai looked at him warily, it was as if speaking to a little child about such matters, Hong Yin thought.

"You are in fact a spiritual entity as well, but once you move forward in that world, it will not be the same, as you are not affected by negative emotions here. Do you actually know about these things, about spirits, that truly hurt people?" Mr. Bai said with a sneer.

Mr. Bai decisively said "No."

"He wants your brother’s help."

"What did you say to him?"

Ma Li, who had reached in front of Hong Yin, asked Mr. Bai.

Bai Yun was deeply aware of Mr. Bai’s danger and was worried about Hong Yin, as this barrier had not disappeared for a long time, it was not good to be outside.

Watching this scene through Hong Yin’s eyes, Bai Yun felt something was off, seeing Bai Yun and the little granny finally achieving a united front.

Hong Yin was initially skeptical of what Bai Yun had said, but eventually she nodded, persuaded by what she was saying.

He couldn’t hear the voice, though. One could also see Hong Yin’s surprise and skepticism at what Bai Yun was saying.

It was as if there was a huge thick glass wall in front of Bai Yun, blocking him.

Suddenly it felt as if there was an unseen barrier in the space around him, and Bai Yun was surprisingly isolated from the outside at this moment.

At the final big battle, he needed Hong Yin to do something for him.

Mr. Bai waved at Hong Yin.

"I came looking for this little granny, not you this time, although I still have some interest in your third room, but not much and I couldn’t care less how you end up," Mr. Bai said.

Hong Yin also knew how to dig into Mr. Bai’s thoughts, especially since he was smarter than anyone in the upper world.

But he was very smart... although he still played second fiddle compared to the peak state of Hong Yin coupled with evil thoughts, this body itself carried a strong spiritual power, as it was created from the fragments of Bai Yun’s full moon image.

They really seemed to have some resemblance.

"Is this big uncle really a brother to dad? This guy looks up to him a lot, doesn’t he... this big uncle," Hong Yin thought.

Hong Yin felt there was something off about the relationship between the two.

"Do you want to upstage me, the filial son? You have invaded my territory, and you are not looking for me, you want to deal with Chu Qing’s situation?"

: "What does he want, showing himself on such misty white roads," Hong Yin glimpsed the disdain on the child’s face as he looked over his shoulder disdainfully and shrugged.

, The frequency of this person’s appearances grew higher and higher, which greatly annoyed Mr. Bai amidst the misty white.

,"There’s no harm in letting him try, but each time he can only barely manage to live. He’s not lacking in stupid acts," Mr. Bai examined carefully, wanting to see the details. "He’s not afraid of being foolish, as long as he immediately uses his brain, he won’t be lacking in acts of recklessness either," said Mr. Bai, who harbored no fear for anyone.

: A soft laugh emerged, and the scene brightened again and again.

. Hong Yin had already resorted to reading files since he couldn’t mentally digress into evil transformation, much to Reincarnation’s chagrin.

. The difference in distance from Mr. Bai was similar to the difference between the nine-tailed fox and this worldly realm, and Mr. Bai’s presence.

. Moving forward into this otherworldly realm was akin to seeking death. Hong Yin hesitated, even as Mr. Bai’s mental strength within this realm intensified.

. If only Hong Yin could wake himself up, realizing that evil thoughts would inevitably consume all goodness, and this sort of cyclic scene was just the second act.

,"But won’t this place support us for too long? Isn’t it too soon?"

,"Then I just won’t come back... It must be my brother who has gone... Surely it must be,"

,"Take me with you,"

: said Reincarnation.

. In this world, you will see all kinds of grotesque living things, twisted by evil thoughts. Only here is the true real world, and Reincarnation was about to enter the third act scene.

. The second act is a battle of good versus evil; the first act is just an entrance... But what appeared later was that the first act scene is actually the real world, the original basis for Reincarnation.

. The depiction of the deepest twisting visual in people’s hearts is the main theme of the paintings... After visiting the exhibition and inquiring about the content of these paintings, Reincarnation realized the consequences and the main theme of the world within.

. With an exhibition of paintings drawn with much skill, on the back of a child’s body. The child held scissors in his hand, his face revealing an innocent smile. But looking down at a cat corpse torn into four and a half pieces on the ground, the fifth painting was of a lovable child.

. The fourth painting was of a living creature with an old person’s face, looking like a creature that was a grotesque imitation of a Buddhist prayer device, a transmissive facial hole would instantly make one ponder about the parent figure.

. In the third painting, each known character from the actual world walks on the streets, appearing small and insignificant like merchant figures, all wearing Western clothes and marked with a $ on their foreheads as they walked down the street.

. The artwork itself was the main character of the painting, giving off an impression of misogyny, but Reincarnation couldn’t tell if this second painting with a pig’s nose instead of a woman’s head on a dog’s body had any deeper meaning or not.

. However, he still continued to look down. Reincarnation had originally felt these spiritual stains.

. He had once come across an art gallery where the exhibition depicted a large man with a beard covered in filth, vomiting red from his mouth, wearing high heels, stockings, and women’s clothing.

. Suddenly Reincarnation thought of this word.

. World within.

,"It’s an extremely twisted place, a gathering ground for evil thoughts... but that place is where my brother has gone... I could possibly take him to the third scene," said Hong Yin.

. As Mr. Bai still relied on the old ways in an utterly disadvantageous situation, the full moon’s fragmented call was the only thing to rely on, even variables could trigger a transformation. The rules between the two were not completely the same, but...

...Nine tails could summon all kinds of tangible objects into monsters, and the first time facing nine tails was this battle in the spiritual world.

,"How can I defeat it?"

: Mr. Bai frowned, looking at this first scene.

. Bound by resentful thoughts of tormenting pain, sinking into the lake, and drowning in grief, was just like experiencing being burnt to death again and again in a repetitive loop near the lake. At the same time, Hong Yin was given a ninety-five-degree view by Reincarnation, looking into the queue by the lake

. Many had sunk in the lake due to being overcome by resentful spirits of the dead; the village was where everyone died, and it was God Granny and Mr. Bai who were implicated.

. On the other side of the mirror was a tide-like darkness of oppressed resentment, and that was because...

The figures of Zhao Kuan, Zhu Jin, Hong Yin, Feng Hai, and Shi Tou were almost invisible in the fog...

A reflection of the good and evil battle also emerged in the ethereal mirror.

In reality, Hong Yin and the others were helping out of their own volition, having only now realized this white mist could originally be used to serve their own purposes.

"All I can do is allow you to use your inherent abilities. The strength that remains in me is negligible... I won’t be able to help my brother out much," he said.

There, within them, was Hong Yin, a confluence of residual righteous thoughts.

"The worst-case scenario is this: if you were to fail, then you’ll merely be absorbed and dragged into this world. However, if by chance, you manage to ward off defeat, then my brother might still be able to pull through without being dragged into this world. But even then, it’s a mess..."

Hong Yin then said,

"How can I, confined within this spiritual world, deal with it just by myself, given the current circumstances?" ƒreewebɳovel.com

Mr. Bai wouldn’t abandon her either, knowing full well that Hong Yin wasn’t in a great state.

Since they were fundamentally their own beings of consciousness, it was naturally impossible for them to use Reincarnation to escape.

Mr. Bai wanted to figure out what to do next, but there was already no need to continue—this place had witnessed an accident.

Not only has the surveillance trio been entirely absorbed, together with Hong Yin and herself—due to their enormous potential—it was indeed pleasurable to watch... Of course, for White Mist.

At the same time, White Mist was pondering whether Hong Yin would absorb these grievances, gauging whether the equipment would lose control and go berserk. The biggest question she posed to Hong Yin was whether it was ultimately planned for Hong Yin to absorb these grievances.

White Mist couldn’t digest these grievances herself... she wouldn’t just disappear without trace, unable to act.

Perhaps she might still manage to fight... if she could somehow pull back those grudges from the Ninth Psychiatric Hospital.

White Mist thought, if she could engage in a battle with this monster, with the peak strength of Hong Yin.

"Originally, I could have helped you defeat the evil thoughts..."

"How do the grudges from the Ninth Psychiatric Hospital compare with those around the lake?"

"You have already become unable to get rid of them. Completely eradicated... If not, your presence in this world would draw me in, and I shouldn’t seek your brother’s help..."

Hong Yin, greatly distressed, bowed his head.

"Does this mean there is no way to defeat it, no way to wake up if we fail?"

White Mist said,

Hong Yin hadn’t yet been stripped of all her strength, and it just so happened that White Mist sought Hong Yin’s assistance a few days prior for this very event.

There would be times when those essences, fused into a single entity, would lose control over the evil thoughts.

Ultimately deceived by God Granny, that’s why she had always lived in this world, unlike White Mist who didn’t chase time the same way and was merely evil incarnate. Hong Yin, too, experienced the first and second scenes, having arrived later.

In them was born the archon of thorough destruction of good will, a blend of these Eastern and Western elements; even God Granny had her own avaricious brand of evil, born out of the villagers’ continuing despair.

The villagers were not akin to that lake monster; their utter loathing had sunk into the depths of the lake, this place brimming with too many grievances mixed together, a complete opposite to the good vs. evil battle.

Though Hong Yin wouldn’t be able to control them for long, even if those situations were not plenty...

But those malicious thoughts were willing to surrender control to Hong Yin, although for a while, they were not nearly as weak as the evil thoughts within the "qi spheres," which Hong Yin tended to alone.

It was all those beings that Hong Yin absorbed that moved her.

The good vs. evil within Hong Yin wasn’t exactly parallel; there was the benevolent chief who protected, and the malevolent chief who slaughtered, though the methods differed greatly.

But in Hong Yin, there was once divided two forces of good and evil, representing the power of good versus evil in a joint entity.

If evil completely devoured good, it’s hard to say that a black zone-level monster wouldn’t be born; after all, the red zone had already been gradually encroaching upon the limit of the red zone.

Hong Yin had been completely consumed...

In this zone, Hong Yin was still able to maintain a semblance of himself despite the transformation into a black being; how could he possibly span the tremendous gap between the red and black zones? Yet, he had never once imagined that...

To him, the red zone was utterly ineffective; his body was at a constant one-hundred percent resistance.

This was an absolute deterrent against the fortune maiden. White Mist let out a grandiose sigh, dismissing the thought.

...

...

Although he didn’t use all his might, he exerted considerable effort to limit his own strength, being the only one of the sixth layer who knew how to operate as such a person.

If his emotions ever crossed a certain threshold, he would inevitably feel a surge of unpleasant emotions, contrary to attaining pleasure; it wasn’t without reason though...

After all, in the face of the unknown, he would feel fear, hatred, anger, and an abundance of other extraordinary emotions; indeed, he possessed such hidden depth.

White Mist was not equipped with despair, sorrow, fear, and resentment...

In the end, a part of him turned into evil thoughts, and despair and resentment were born incessantly; this was the only conclusion for them who had sunk into Lake Center and associated with such people.

Ultimately, the actions of self-indulgence during the banquet would prove utterly meaningless; Wu Jiu acknowledged this with thanks.

In reality, every moment—whether making a choice thereafter, or striving against the raging torrent—is a scene of agony and despair; the second act’s backdrop is indeed significant.

And it is in this special place, The Reincarnation and White Mist, that harbors innate malice, though not inherently immunized against various evil entities, it twists and distorts intimacy...

In essence, they were merely fish on the chopping board; White Mist and Wu Jiu, despite being entrapped in a dazed state, sought only to escape first and foremost. freēwebnovel.com

Despite not conveying this, The Reincarnation secretly guessed the same thing, awaiting an opportunity to leave, to extricate himself from the bizarre creature within his head...

The role of the village chief in the second act is indeed significant, as it can determine the villagers’ attitudes.

At this very moment, The Reincarnation, who had already sunk into the lakebed, was being dragged into the mud by the wrathful spirits.

While White Mist was enveloped in a slight aura of resentment, though she had also fallen into a dazed state, her demeanor was exceptionally calm; The Reincarnation, however, seemed to be in a state of some ecstatic fury, exaggerating his behavior.

Naturally, there were exceptions like White Mist and The Reincarnation...

As for Liu, who had already entered a critical state, his body began to exhibit bizarre changes, and he was the one in the most dire situation.

Wu Jiu, Mr. Bai, and all the villagers, though not experiencing identical fates as Liu, were still engulfed by the deathly aura, feeling intense pain.

The nearly immune Mr. Bai also showed obvious pain; it’s uncertain how he would fare emotionally, especially when he’s so close to being unaffected by the immunity...

Everyone was visibly in immense pain, each body entwined with black resentment.

This was, after all, the most elite team—already wholly overwhelmed since stepping into this red zone...

White Mist noticed that she, Liu, Mr. Bai, The Reincarnation, and the rest were all in a confused state in another place...

Hong Yin nodded slightly as a mirage of Ma Li’s figure surfaced in the mirror, with her delicate hand waving once.

"Is this world, where I came with a few others, including myself, actually in some village, unconscious and in a dazed state? Or is it simply a mental hospital of another realm, bearing a different significance," Hong Yin wondered.

The red zone worsened by absorbing a considerable portion of Hong Yin’s strength, inducing even greater chaos than the psychic hospital.

If one were to enter this place, they would be forcefully dragged into a concentrated mental realm, which was nothing like the Ninth Psychic Hospital...

Although it was still the Ninth Psychic Hospital, Hong Yin had almost completely neutralized the area...

Ultimately, these people’s resentful thoughts had been entirely absorbed, forming a formidable monstrosity—though this Ninth Psychic Hospital had once been crowded with many people...