Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 375: Chapter 179: Well 7 by Bai Someone

Jing Er looked down from the high sky with pity at the resisting beings, lamenting the stubbornness of the human race. He offered them love, but they did not understand gratitude.

He even comforted himself by thinking that not all humans were like this, perhaps those in the High Tower were more docile.

He had always known that the rulers of the High Tower had cooperated with the Evil Fallen.

In his view, it was those who lived in the High Tower who were kind and deserving of being cared for by him.

And those attempting to leave the High Tower were the sinful, the vile humans.

However, Jing Er thought again, maybe it was precisely because of this that there was value in influencing them.

Humans have love, fundamentally different from many of the creatures he helped transcend along the way.

Eventually, Jing Er’s gaze settled on Bai Wu, planning to kill this person from the prophecy first, then go on to love all beings.

As he thought this, Jing Wu’s body was already shrouded in black matter.

Jing Er didn’t like this color or this aura, but since their paths converged, he no longer minded.

The Buddha’s light grew ever brighter, Jing Er and Jing Wu in the sky, like Bodhisattvas saving the world and Asuras destroying it.

But whether they were gods or Buddhas, they all stood opposite humanity.

The already faltering Huangquan Great Army launched another attack, met by the determined shelter forces and the Human Allied Forces, whose morale soared even higher!

Twenty-four Black Flame Iron Cavalry charged out, leaving trails in their wake.

Gu Hailin’s nine snake heads spewed various powerful beams, causing immense damage to the enemy’s rear.

The terrifying Death Cold Light and various elemental forces demonstrated the astonishing strength of this former dual-army leader!

Nie Chongshan faced off against the Evil Fallen once again, and although his strength had not changed, the Evil Fallen could sense Nie Chongshan’s astounding fighting spirit.

Liu Mu once again faced the blacksmith, determined to fight to the death!

Both the Huangquan Island Master and Black Gold Island Master survived, but were too heavily injured to continue fighting in this battle.

If one did not consider the two Jing characters, humanity certainly had the strength to expel the invaders.

The blacksmith felt the two powerful forces in the sky, disbelief that these humans were unaware.

Such enormous, vast strength—under this power, they chose not resistance over submission?

"Do they really not fear death?"

Of course they were afraid, and perhaps retreating back into the High Tower to cower, slowly digesting the fear and gradually increasing their strength, was the truly correct course of action.

But as Gu Hailin led the charge and blood heated everyone’s soul, death seemed to become the least of their concerns.

This was much like an attack launched at the darkest hour when driven into a corner.

If only...

There weren’t those two Jing characters.

Jing Wu sought to destroy humanity, but now it shared Jing Er’s idea—to kill Bai Wu first.

It didn’t matter whether the elder brother did it or it did it itself, Bai Wu must be killed.

Only by killing Bai Wu, the person in Bai Wu’s mind, could it really put its mind at ease.

Reluctant to admit it inwardly, Jing Wu had already begun to fear Bai Wu, to dread a human.

So in the great battle of the two forces, they didn’t intervene at first.

Jing Wu and Jing Er approached Bai Wu at great speed, but standing in Bai Wu’s way was a man with a knife.

"I do not wish to kill. From your eyes, I can see many precious qualities of humanity, so please step aside," Jing Er said soothingly to the human in front of him.

Wu Jiu.

While everyone charged forward with heated blood, Wu Jiu, who was equally impassioned, remained calm.

He was very clear that everything today, the human shelters, the united front between humans and Evil Fallen, it was all related to Bai Wu.

This was humanity’s future. Back on the journey in Xuanhui City, the savior the scientists believed in truly existed.

That person must be Bai Wu.

After the Jing characters’ monsters appeared, Wu Jiu knew what he needed to do, and he proceeded as he always had—

Protect Bai Wu.

Wu Jiu’s response was to hold his knife horizontally in front of him. The message was simple—if you want to kill Bai Wu, you’ll have to step over my dead body.

Jing Wu didn’t want to dawdle like its brother. In an instant, it was in front of Wu Jiu, hand formed into a claw, ready to kill him.

But to Jing Wu’s surprise, Wu Jiu actually saw through its movement.

To be precise, he kept up with its motion and cleverly avoided it.

In the moment of dodging, Wu Jiu struck back carefully.

The reason for such caution was because Wu Jiu was very aware of the opponent’s terror.

He was a combat genius, able to instantaneously analyze the tricky points of any opponent he had faced.

He couldn’t be infected by the opponent’s aura, and after dodging a move from Jing Wu, Wu Jiu slightly bent his knees, lowered his center of gravity, and with a gentle draw of his sword, he cut out a curved blade.

In the instant he attacked, Wu Jiu immediately retreated, activating Instant Shadow and reappearing two yards behind.

From the moment Jing Wu launched an attack to Wu Jiu completing the defense and counterattack, it was all over in the blink of an eye.

Jing Er hadn’t expected that this human could actually hold Jing Wu off, even if just for one second.

He smiled gently, his palm aiming at Wu Jiu.

A golden ray, like a meteor, streaked through the darkness tracing a trail full of Buddhist intent.

In that moment, Wu Jiu felt as if he saw the grand visages of all beings. The myriad gods and Buddhas seemed to watch over him with compassionate gazes.

He bit his tongue, knowing all this was an illusion, and that he was about to be penetrated by some powerful force.

But by the time he really sobered up, it was already a bit too late.

The golden Buddhist light had already reached him, as though it would penetrate Wu Jiu in the next instant.

But just when Wu Jiu realized that perhaps it was time to activate Instant Shadow, his figure had already disappeared.

In Wu Jiu’s place... was a merchant.

The Buddhist light pierced through the merchant’s body, Jing Wu deeply shocked. The merchant wouldn’t necessarily die like that, but being struck by his elder brother would be very painful.

No matter what clauses were in place, it was hard to erase that pain and weakness.

The merchant originally thought he would just lie there and wait for the two big shots to flatten the city, never expecting to be hit even while lying down.

Jing Er was much more powerful than the human dwarf who had cut him in dreams.

The merchant soon passed out amidst his fear.

Wu Jiu found himself next to Yan Zizai with Bai Wu just tens of meters behind them.

"The targets of those two monsters are Bai Wu," Wu Jiu said.

"I know, otherwise why do you think I saved you. Gu Qingyu, don’t be too arrogant, such existences are not something you can deal with."

Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai confronted Jing Er and Jing Wu. freёwebnovel.com

Jing Wu’s strike was dodged by Wu Jiu, who also counterattacked, while Jing Er’s strike was replaced by Yan Zizai, hitting a merchant of Black Gold Island instead.

The two humans were like two door gods in front of Bai Wu.

Jing Er smiled:

"I am indeed surprised. It’s been a long time since I left that area, and I didn’t expect human progress to be this significant. It seems you are trying to prevent me from killing my way through?"

The aura of Soul-Devouring Swamp spread out, slowly diffusing into the night, Jing Wu sneering.

Then, amidst the other battlefields, where humans were making heroic charges, suddenly, some began to scream in pain as their bodies, under the surge of strong negative emotions, transformed into Evil Fallen in an instant!

"Pain... it hurts so much!"

"I hate this... why... why!"

"Don’t kill me... don’t kill me..."

Fear, sorrow, anger, countless past despondencies drowned out the human’s will to fight.

One by one, monsters were born in the crowd, some without any rationality, while others, though also intelligent, were still shrouded in negative emotions, beginning to attack indiscriminately in madness.

Such infection continued to spread, and Qin Zong also acted crazy, or perhaps it was another kind of rationality?

Watching people in the crowd turn into Evil Fallen due to negative emotions, Qin Zong made a decisive decision:

"Inject the tranquilizer!"

The tranquilizer from the Tower Investigation would forcefully induce calmness for five minutes, but after that time, the body’s emotions would explode instantaneously.

Five minutes later, if these humans hadn’t returned to High Tower, a tragic sight would surely happen.

Qin Zong didn’t think too much about it. He couldn’t see that far into the future.

The fate awaiting him and everyone else may not even last for five minutes.

This do-or-die charge might not even last for five minutes.

Jing Wu’s black substance spread out, but it quickly found that humans injected with a certain reagent no longer transformed into Evil Fallen.

Jing Wu wasn’t concerned. It knew what that was, strictly speaking, the formula for this reagent came from High Tower.

It was High Tower, not humans.

Jing Wu stopped paying attention to humans, a group of pitiful ants who would lose their sanity in five minutes. They were no longer worth its concern.

It did that just to make the two humans in front of it understand, in confronting itself, humans had no chance of winning.

"I remember you two, you intercepted me in Mechanical City. You have potential. I’m giving you a chance to follow me. Everything you’ve tried to obtain as humans in the human camp, I can promise, even for these people, I can take extra care of them,"

Jing Wu acknowledged the abilities of Yan Zizai and Wu Jiu. It indeed harbored an appreciation for talent.

"Otherwise, you will become Evil Fallen in an instant, the result would be the same."

Humans simply couldn’t stand up to Well Level creatures, as merely coming into contact with the aura of the Soul-Devouring Swamp would lead to Evil Fallen Transformation.

That’s why Wu Jiu fought back with such caution, and why Yan Zizai’s transposition only dared to affect those around him and not the two Well Level monsters.

Even Wu Jiu was well aware that facing not just two Well Level foes but even if he and Yan Zizai teamed up against a single Jing Wu, they would not be able to hold out for long.

Whether it was speed, strength, spiritual power, or vitality, the difference was too great.

It was like the difference between heaven and earth.

Yet Wu Jiu’s response remained as straightforward and direct as ever.

"If you want to kill my subordinates, you’ll have to step over my dead body."

"I owe him a life, and only those of corrupted character would default on a debt."

Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai each made their stance clear.

Jing Er felt moved by such pure human friendship:

"Admirable. Perhaps my earlier thoughts were wrong. You aren’t stubborn fools, just misunderstood us. Little brother, I don’t want to kill them, and I hope you won’t either."

Jing Er decided not to take action.

Wu Jiu realized something difficult to definitively judge, whether this monster with a Buddha-like aura was hypocritically good or truly good.

Jing Wu didn’t care for such things.

"Such a pity, you’ve chosen the most erroneous path."

The strongest duo of humanity began their battle against the mightiest beings outside the Tower!

A crushing tide of black aura bore down. Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai leapt into the air, for even the ground beneath them had opened up into black vortexes.

Touch it, and you would be devoured by the black matter, with negative emotions exploding instantaneously, turning into Evil Fallen.

"Don’t try to inflict any damage, the goal is to hold the opponent back! Restrain them!" Wu Jiu exclaimed as he leaped up.

"Understood! But you need to keep up with my moves!"

Yan Zizai’s movements obviously weren’t faster than Wu Jiu’s. Telling Wu Jiu to keep up with his own movements meant coordinating their attacks.

When to initiate Bipolar Transposition, who to transpose with, and the purpose of the transposition—these were things Yan Zizai believed Wu Jiu couldn’t fathom.

Not everyone could sync their intentions with him like Bai Wu.

At least Yan Zizai was certain that Wu Jiu lacked any perceptive-type Sequences.

But he overlooked one thing... Wu Jiu was very fast.

Fast in speed, fast in reaction, fast in thinking.

So quick that he had enough of a temporal margin... to ponder the significance of every move his teammate made.

Jing Wu’s black matter was like a net, but the two of them kept changing positions in the air, coordinating flawlessly.

Prayle’s Eye couldn’t observe the Jing Family monsters isolated from cause and effect, but Eye of the Scales, a lesser perceptive Sequence, could.

Because it worked on a different principle.

Jing Wu was fast, but not so fast that Yan Zizai couldn’t react.

Wu Jiu was even more formidable, barely keeping up with Jing Wu by relying on Instant Shadow and extreme balance!

Thus, their coordination was unexpectedly harmonious.

Jing Er was impressed; even though his brother wasn’t using all his strength, the idea that two humans could hold him back was utterly inconceivable.

These were two humans with immense potential. It would indeed be a shame to kill them.

Darkness surrounded them as the black matter relentlessly pursued Yan Zizai, with powerful forces exploding through the air.

But those affected by each explosion were chosen by the Bipolar Transposition, belonging to the invading forces.

And Wu Jiu’s speed kept increasing!

Of course, Jing Wu hadn’t used his full strength, and beyond that was an even stronger state of Extreme Release.

But it still couldn’t fathom that the two who had been so easily defeated by Jing Wu in the Mechanical City now managed to hold their ground against him for so many exchanges.

It felt humiliated.

And then, in the next second, the battle ended.

Jing Wu looked indifferently at the two humans. In just an instant, the black matter that had been chasing them through the air dispersed everywhere.

Countless cracks fragmented the space around Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai. In the darkness, they were hard to see, but as objects got sucked into the fissures, Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai could feel... the space was collapsing.

They could no longer freely control their bodies. One tried to leave using Instant Shadow, the other through Bipolar Transposition, but when they actually tried...

They were surprised to find that the four barriers around them had cut off all presence.

Black barriers. Jing Wu really felt humiliated. It hadn’t used its real power up to this point.

But the fact that it had to employ tactics reserved for combating Zero and that Semi-Evil Fallen girl against two humans was mortifying.

Even Jing Er couldn’t help but exclaim:

"You have become complacent."

To Jing Wu, Jing Er’s words were nothing short of mockery.

Enraged, it resolved to kill these two humans.

Trapped in a dire situation, Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai could not sense the outside world and were simultaneously struggling against the powerful pull of the Obliteration Black Hole.

The two humans, who had just coordinated seamlessly, now found it exceedingly difficult to move freely. frёeωebɳovel.com

It was as if the Obliteration Black Hole was a shackle, restricting their movements.

Jing Wu advanced step by step toward them, with an endless stream of black aura trailing behind it, like a ravenous beast ready to devour its prey.

The shadow of death loomed over Yan Zizai and Wu Jiu.

In that moment, numerous images flashed through Wu Jiu’s mind.

There were companions from the Ghost Grinding Firm, colleagues from the Investigation Corps, overt and covert confessions from Ruan Qingyun, and the smiles and tears of those living in the lower echelons of society.

This was a life in miniature, something only seen when true death approached.

Yan Zizai’s world, in contrast, was rather dull.

He had lived longer than Wu Jiu, but his memories were pitifully few; now, the only people he cared for were Yan Jiu and Bai Wu.

Their expressions shifted from confusion to complexity, from surprise to regret... until finally, they settled on resignation.

At the moment when death came knocking, they might have had regrets, but they were not afraid.

As the black substance descended, all memories became distorted in that instant, and both Yan Zizai and Wu Jiu were overwhelmed by a torrent of negative emotions.

It seemed as though they were on the verge of shedding their human identities.

But at that very instant, Jing Wu and Jing Er sensed an incredibly familiar presence!

Jing Er’s compassionate expression twisted immediately.

Jing Wu stared in shock in the direction beyond the black barrier.

Across the battlefield, every Evil Fallen, as if hungry wolves catching the scent of food, were overtaken by instinct and desire so overwhelmingly that they even forgot to fight!

This was true not just for the attacking forces, but also for the defenders...

Even Gu Hailin and others were resisting that fatal attraction with great effort.

Fortunately, this anomaly lasted but a moment, a single breath, and then everything vanished.

It was as if that fatally enticing aura... had never existed.

No one knew what had happened; they simply looked subconsciously towards where Bai Wu had stood.

But there was no one there anymore.

The Evil Fallen that had been blocking Bai Wu were scattered like leaves in the wind by a terrifying force.

Of course, Jing Er and Jing Wu knew what had happened... They had sensed that presence from the moment they were born.

But why here? How could such a thing appear in Baichuan City? And why had the presence suddenly disappeared...?

Both Jing Er and Jing Wu came to a certain possibility.

For the first time, these lofty deities showed signs of solemnity on their faces.

And the events that followed seemed to confirm their suspicions—

A huge hole appeared suddenly in the black barrier that blocked all senses, as if a ferocious beast had torn open the chest of its opponent, and a powerful force rent asunder Jing Wu’s black barrier.

If one looked closely, they would see it was not tearing, but rather, the black barrier was being absorbed continuously!

With long hair fluttering in the wind and an astonishing aura, a figure stepped through the breach.

His hand touched Yan Zizai and Wu Jiu, and all their negative emotions were instantly absorbed.

The Obliteration Black Hole that bound Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai was neutralized by another kind of Obliteration Black Hole with an opposite effect.

Wu Jiu and Yan Zizai regained their freedom.

"Are you... Bai Wu?"

His face was the same, but his pupils shone like stars and his hair had grown much longer. But the biggest change was in some indescribable quality of his aura.

Bai Wu nodded, paying no attention to the frowning Jing Wu or the thoughtful Jing Er not far away.

He spoke gently to the two people who had fought desperately to protect him:

"Captain, Yan Zizai, you two should leave this place and go support elsewhere. Leave this to me."

(This place is really not good for a Chapter break, but the next Chapter has to cover a certain plot hole, one that you will definitely love reading about—the process of Bai Wu using the Well Water, as well as some developments on Lin Rui’s side, so no more for today. Tomorrow’s Chapter will be quite important. Lastly, continue to ask for your votes.)