Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 342: Chapter 146: The Original Wish of the Scum Bai Wu

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The electric elevator murderer and the human trafficked girl both felt very strange. They were beings feared by humans, yet there they sat in a room hiding three skeletons, as if they were enjoying a pleasant chat.

But the situation was stronger than the individuals.

Bai Wu was also thinking about how to execute his plan in detail.

"How can I make each of the six eerie stories believe that the other five have already been expelled?"

This question slightly troubled Bai Wu, but he soon knew what to do.

"I am about to go to other levels to investigate the eerie stories," the elevator stopped at the fifth floor, "and my presence allowed you to find its location, right?"

Bai Wu suddenly realized it wasn’t that the eerie stories brought each other here; for instance, the human trafficked girl didn’t call forth the electric elevator murderer.

It was he who had brought them.

The electric elevator murderer nodded:

"I, killed, it."

"You cannot have killed it. You’d better understand the gap between us. If you don’t obey, I don’t mind killing you first. I’ll gather some intelligence and then consider comprehensively who among you will die.

Now, I already know how to use the rules to make the two of you appear. So don’t think you can run away, after all, I am a tenant. According to the rules here, when I find enough information about you—

I can use the rules to make you appear."

Bai Wu’s words seemed to be a warning to the electric elevator murderer, but they also served as a warning to another. At the same time, he was certain of one thing: although the eerie stories had been hiding in this apartment for seven hundred years, they were constantly seeking and hiding from each other.

The little girl was hiding from the electric elevator murderer, and the fact that she dared not raise her head indicated she was also avoiding that guy who always made people look up from their phones.

But perhaps there were others hiding from the little girl as well.

"To prevent you from killing each other before I collect enough information, I need you to continue to hide during this time, and you two cannot appear together."

The girl was very willing, of course, she did not want to be with this guy she created, who was intent on killing her.

However, Bai Wu clearly had another plan in mind.

So, he then arranged for the bulky electric elevator murderer to stay in room number one on the fifth floor.

And the little girl was arranged to stay in room number twelve.

Bai Wu first went to room number one.

"I will expel that human trafficker, and the other four I will also expel. By then, I will show you evidence. But during this process, you cannot appear, you cannot leave this place, you should know, only I can do it. You have waited here for seven hundred years, do not miss this opportunity, do you understand what I’m saying?"

The bulky figure seemed somewhat excited, all the talismans on his body fluttering. It nodded:

"You... keep your word."

"Of course, I come from the neighboring Baichuan Middle School, where I am universally recognized by all the faculty and students as a trustworthy person. By the way, regarding the other eerie stories, do you have any information you can share?"

Bai Wu was looking forward to getting all the conditions required for the six "believe it to see it" eerie stories directly from the mouths of two horrors.

However, unfortunately, the electric elevator murderer shook its head.

"No comment..."

This answer slightly surprised Bai Wu. He nodded and said:

"Alright then, remember, everything requires a payment. I need something from you, something vitally connected to you. As you know, this apartment is full of weirdos, and I’m no exception. If you want my help, you have to play by my rules."

Bai Wu narrowed his eyes, and began to scrutinize the monster that had been created, a hybrid of human desire and Evil Fallen.

It bore many features conjured by human imagination, among which the most representative was a patch of skin sewn onto its face.

"This piece of skin isn’t bad, I need this thing, tear it off."

Although the Elevator Murderer was somewhat resistant, Bai Wu wouldn’t allow for resistance, as the disparity in strength ultimately compelled it to make a decision.

After placing the decay-scented human skin mask into the carry bag, Bai Wu left contentedly.

Next, Bai Wu arrived at room 5-12 at the corridor’s end.

The evil girl with long hair, after Bai Wu had departed, spun a barrier with her hair like a spider spinning webs.

But this barrier was meaningless to Bai Wu; he took the words he had said to the Elevator Murderer, changed the meaning slightly, and repeated them.

"I’m now going to investigate other supernatural tales. I’ve already distracted the big guy. Although your sins are numerous, I may still help you as long as you are sufficiently cooperative. I need you to stay here, go nowhere, and wait until I finish finding clues about the other ghost stories,"

"You’re lying, hehe, I can feel it, you’re plotting against us!"

As if knowing that Bai Wu wouldn’t immediately kill her, the evil girl’s eyes began to darken again.

"You must be planning something, that’s why you haven’t expelled me right away, but I can feel it, you don’t like me."

Indeed, these Evil Fallen who delight in sin and manipulating others were not so easy to coax.

"You don’t need to know what I’m planning. You only need to know that you begged for mercy just now, I heard you, and I saved your life. I indeed am scheming something, which has led me to decide to help you expel the other supernatural beings. You’d better believe me, because I am reasoning with you."

Bai Wu flaunted the reasoning in his hand.

Considering that the girl probably thought he wouldn’t harm her and therefore became reckless, this time Bai Wu didn’t negotiate with her. He grabbed her hair like one would a rabbit, and swung his axe down.

This time her hair didn’t dissipate into black mist like before, because this was her real hair, not grown from harbouring grudges.

Bai Wu felt it wasn’t enough, so he swung his axe again, severing the evil girl’s wrist. The gushing purple liquid finally made him, like a psychopath, reveal a blissful smile.

The following scene resembled dipping spring onions in sauce, as Bai Wu held a lock of black hair, now stained with the purple blood of the Evil Fallen.

With a severed wrist, the Evil Fallen would recover in time by its own ability, unless Bai Wu held a Sequence as potent as the God of Destruction.

So there was no need to worry, but seeing Bai Wu’s delighted smile, the young girl shivered from the depths of her soul.

Looking at the instrument that could kill her instantly, she suddenly felt that what he said was so reasonable; he really was a man of logic.

So much so that she didn’t dare to speak.

"I’ll expel the others and provide you with evidence of their expulsion. You just need to wait here. As for why I want to help you, once you see the evidence of the other ghost stories being expelled, you’ll understand."

Touching the little girl’s cute, chubby face, Bai Wu said very tenderly,

"Be good, don’t run around, or I might have to properly scold and educate you."

Such an ordinary phrase made this supernatural being feel like it was experiencing the most terrifying moment in seven hundred years.

Thus Bai Wu resolved the second case, collecting the key item from the evil girl.

Bai Wu now had a detailed and viable plan for convincing all six ghost stories that the other five had been expelled.

He was like a scoundrel dating six women at the same time, and what he had to do now was to make each believe she was different from the other five vixens.

Of course, the key to not getting caught was to prevent the six from meeting each other.

Before leaving, Bai Wu asked,

"By the way, I have one more question. Regarding the other ghost stories, do you have any clues you can tell me about?"

"No... There’s nothing..."

"Alright, seems like my reasoning isn’t enough to get you to open up. In that case, I’ll have to enlighten you with reason and move you with emotion." freewebnøvel.coɱ

Bai Wu raised her axe.

The voice on the other side came through with a sobbing tone, sounding like an adult shamelessly bullying a kindergartener.

"There really isn’t! There really isn’t! Although we know their information... we can’t reveal it to the tenants!"

Bai Wu frowned.

This Evil Fallen didn’t seem to be lying, so if what it said was true, could it be that some rule was preventing them from using the tenants to kill others?

Bai Wu roughly had an idea in mind, it seemed that unrequited desire was indeed a powerful buff, not in the least weaker than faith.

The twisted power that erupted from Jiang Yimi’s integration disease back then was incredibly potent.

"Stay here, I’m going to take care of the other ghost stories."

Not daring to refuse or play any tricks, the evil girl now seemed meek and frail, nothing like a ghost story.

After securing the door and ensuring that everything was okay, Bai Wu went up to the sixth floor.

There were four more ghost stories. According to the hints given by the eyes, the strength of these four ghost stories must be greater than the first two encountered.

Bai Wu was still very cautious, holding the axe as she started to search each floor and room, looking for clues.

...

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Baichuan, outskirts.

While Bai Wu was investigating that apartment full of ghost stories, Lin Rui had reached the outskirts of Baichuan City, starting to search for the source of the laughter.

His abilities made everything he did very swift.

After pinpointing the direction, Lin Rui turned into a beam of golden light and arrived at the zoo area of Baichuan City in an instant.

This was a zoo that housed many mechanical animals and once had a Guardian, who, upon death, caused the animals to revel for a while.

The terrible giant monster had finally left, and they no longer worried about being torn apart by a brutal force while they were active.

But when a Guardian died, the area became leaderless, and the Circus Deformity Crowd from the neighboring area began to dominate this place with laughter.

Lin Rui always felt a sense of sadness permeating the area, as if some tragedy had taken place on this land seven hundred years ago.

Yet at the same time, he also sensed a strange atmosphere.

The animals were constantly making various noises.

Lin Rui couldn’t understand the animals’ calls, but he could feel the evil energy vibrations conveyed through those calls.

Whenever he heard such sounds, Lin Rui would feel a powerful spiritual power disrupting his thoughts, and even his face would begin to twitch involuntarily, as if trying to form some bizarre smile.

An Iron-Winged Condor with metallic-gleaming feathers flew across the sky, but Lin Rui noticed that there seemed to be a mark on the condor.

It was a green balloon.

Mechanical antelopes hopping meters high on the grassland, steel gorilla pounding the ground on the other side of the fence, armed leopards with jet weapons perched in trees, and even the Mech Serpent slithering along the ground, all had balloons of different colors.

Such balloons were common seven hundred years ago, Lin Rui remembered seeing them on TV, as circuses would have similar symbols.

And there was a Circus right nearby. But can Evil Fallen move across regions?

He suddenly remembered that not long ago, indeed due to some reason, the regional restrictions of various areas were lifted.

Although it only lasted for a few days, and even many Evil Fallen didn’t know about the removal of the restrictions, it was during these days that many Evil Fallen crossed regions, and some regions even fused together.

A region without a Guardian would give birth to a new Guardian.

Lin Rui, out of safety considerations, had not directly gone to the source of the laughter, the area where the circus tent was located.

But at this moment, he suddenly realized that he might have already arrived at the source of the laughter.

The animals all bore the mark of the circus - perhaps the people of the circus were nearby!

Indeed, not long after Lin Rui realized this, laughter came from not far away.

"Hahahahahahaha..."

"Hahahahaha..."

The intermittent laughter, Lin Rui initially judged, came from three people.

In order not to return from this investigation empty-handed, Lin Rui instantly teleported to the vicinity of the sounds.

A flash of golden light passed, and many creatures that sensed Lin Rui’s presence instantly thought they were seeing things - this human just disappeared.

Lin Rui concealed himself in a tree, drawing a line of blood on his palm with a dagger.

The pain allowed him to temporarily resist the laughter. At this time, the scene Lin Rui saw caused his san value to plummet.

Seven hundred years ago, before the apocalypse came and the famed Seven Days of Calamity, there was already a Mechanical Zoo and an Abnormal Circus in the outskirts of Baichuan City.

The people in the circus were all born deformed, some naturally dwarfs, others with three hands, some with tails, others with two faces, and even some with no back, able to perform belly dances from both the front and back simultaneously.

They attracted customers with their "monster-like" freakish appearances, and although the world ridiculed them, after watching the performance, customers tended not to care about the content of the show itself, just remembering how these people looked and laughing at them.

But they didn’t mind, after all, this was also a way to bring joy to the customers, and even more so... this was their main method of pleasing the customers.

And what Lin Rui saw were three executive-level individuals from the Abnormal Circus.

Backless Person, Three-Handed, Two-Faced Person.

They had already turned into Evil Fallen, but it wasn’t terrifying at all, after all, having gotten used to their appearances in life, their Evil Fallen transformation didn’t seem too bizarre.

The three kept emitting laughter. This laughter was like a nightmare, and Lin Rui, with his Twelfth Sequence Innate Force, found that even his spiritual power seemed unable to resist.

"Haha... damn it, I don’t want to laugh at all... It seems that these three aren’t the source of the laughter, but the problem is... even if I find the source of the laughter, I am completely unable to fight."

The invasiveness of the laughter was too strong, and Lin Rui had to retreat from this place before the laughter consumed him.

"I can only go back to Baichuan Middle School to have a look! But over there at the school, although the laughter isn’t obvious... if someone were to be infected..."

If the laughter were considered a virus, then any region capable of hearing it was likely to be infected.

Lin Rui realized the seriousness of the issue; Baichuan City might have seen the emergence of an Evil Fallen with special properties that he had not encountered in seven hundred years!

This Evil Fallen might not be powerful in itself, Lin Rui was confident that he could kill the other party the instant he found him.

But the problem was that the other party might possess a certain powerful Legendary Tier Entry capable of assimilating others through laughter.

As a Twelfth Sequence existence, he was still unable to resist this powerful spiritual invasion - how could others manage?

And without finding the source of the laughter... the laughter would never stop.

As more and more people "laugh," Baichuan City would sooner or later be governed by this laughter.