Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 394: Chapter 11: The Alliance of Two Madmen

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What would happen on the sixth layer of the High Tower, Bai Wu himself was also not sure. Cain had not given much information, or perhaps even Cain did not know much about it.

Bai Wu would not let down his guard just because Bai Yuan said, "You may go," so he had to make all the preparations before heading to the sixth layer of the High Tower.

Of course, the so-called preparations were mostly trifling matters. free𝑤ebnovel.com

Trifling matters that there was no time to deal with before, Bai Wu decided to settle them all during this period.

Lately, he had been dealing with various affairs and had not had the chance to attend to his private matters.

Reconstruction work in Baichuan City was in full swing, and many people who had died in the great war came back to life because of the events at the East Campus.

This included the Clown, but ultimately the Clown returned to his own circus to live with the freaks he used to be with.

Yan Jiu made no attempt to retain him, only promising to watch the Clown’s performances often.

Unfortunately, people like Lin Rui could not be revived. Even Zero, who could sense souls, stated that Lin Rui could not be resurrected because he lacked any sign of life characteristics.

Bai Wu knew the reason but did not say it out loud because it was something more terrifying than death itself. Death was no longer the start of the next journey but a repeat of another. Besides, he was not absolutely sure he could break that cycle.

Jiang Yimi was heartbroken and, to keep her emotions under control, decided to spend some time outside of Baichuan City.

During his time at the shelter, Bai Wu mainly dealt with various post-war traumas, from the city and the warriors.

When Zero was leaving, he told Bai Wu something about Core City.

About the source of energy that sustained Core City, and he also looked forward to the next time Bai Wu would join forces with him, which would be an alliance of two major powers.

Hoping that Mechanical City and the Refuge would become the two strongest forces outside the tower.

Lastly there was Hong Yin; Bai Wu originally planned for Hong Yin to stay in Baichuan City, but the little girl insisted on returning to her former place.

And she said she made a friend, the White Deer.

This piqued Bai Wu’s interest, but he did not overly insist on her staying, as Hong Yin indeed did not do well in crowded places.

The more people there were, the more likely she was to lose control and fly into a rage.

There were many, many affairs to be handled in Baichuan City; Qian Yixin, Yuan Ye, Colt, Gu Hailin, Nie Chongshan, and Liu Mu all had a ton of issues on their plates.

Even the Evil Fallen, who lingered on the outskirts of Baichuan City with nowhere to go and not well-regarded, needed to be dealt with by Bai Wu.

Therefore, matters of the High Tower were, actually, a piece of cake for Bai Wu, who used not to work overtime. But now, because of the affairs outside the tower, he was putting in extra hours. The matters outside the tower had consumed much of his time.

Bai Wu increasingly missed Wu Jiu; at such a time, all the affairs inside the tower could be left to the captain to handle.

Without the captain, Bai Wu became the most legendary figure in the High Tower Investigation Corps.

This was not necessarily a good thing, at least not for Bai Wu. Such a so-called title, besides adding to his workload, was pointless.

For instance, Lin Wurou issued an invitation to leave the tower, hoping Bai Wu could come and offer advice.

Ever since the fierce battle at Baichuan Middle School, Lin Wurou, though still foul-mouthed, had completely stopped calling Bai Wu a noob. Of course, the places where Lin Wurou could curse at Bai Wu had become fewer and fewer.

Comparing people could really kill.

He saw that Bai Wu was no longer of the same world as him and his group.

Bai Wu politely declined the invitation to leave the tower.

It wasn’t that he looked down on Lin Wurou as a drag but that Bai Wu was worried about accidentally experiencing a hundred percent difficulty increase, facing a situation that these people couldn’t handle.

Shang Xiaoyi, Wang Shi, and Yin Shuang also invited Bai Wu to join them outside the tower when submitting their investigation reports, hoping that Bai Wu could venture out with them.

Yin Shuang obviously had some different ideas—about the fifth floor of the High Tower.

But Bai Wu had already refused. Luckily, everyone understood and didn’t make a big deal out of it.

The attitudes of the old companions towards Bai Wu had changed, but there were also many aspects that hadn’t.

Yin Shuang, Wang Shi, Shang Xiaoyi, Bai Xiaoyu, Qin Lin, these members of the seventh team’s Vanguard Group, although they knew Bai Wu was very powerful, to the extent that they could no longer keep up, they never became distant with Bai Wu in terms of their relationship.

This made Bai Wu very gratified, even the other non-combat personnel felt the same way.

The head of the Interrogation Group, Tian Xun, was recently proposed to by his girlfriend, and he expressed great anxiety, unsure of how to spend the rest of his life.

So, at a little past eight in the evening, Tian Xun dragged Bai Wu into the interrogation room of the second division of the Investigation Corps, and while lashing out at prisoners, he pondered life with Bai Wu.

The relationship between the Iron Triangle—Yun Shu, Jing Chu, and Xue Ci—was even more complicated.

These three didn’t cause any trouble for Bai Wu, and Bai Wu just felt sentimental that there hadn’t been much change in his relationship with the people in the small environment of the seventh team of the Investigation Corps, which was a happy thing.

However, when Bai Wu observed the three, he still noticed some slight changes in them.

In the past, the situations were like this: the girl would look at the second guy, the second guy would look at the first guy, and the first guy would look at the girl. Now, it was the girl hugging the first and second guys, the second guy looking at the first guy, the girl looking at the second guy, and the first guy hugging the girl.

It appeared there were no changes, but the intricacies within... were immense.

Latter, Bai Wu learned that Yun Shu had received guidance from Liu Chengzi, so the Iron Triangle had become more stable.

With the High Tower journey approaching, Bai Wu began arranging all affairs, slowly dealing with various matters cleanly.

Handling things with astonishing efficiency, it took Bai Wu roughly two days to get everything in order.

At the same time, he handed the position of deputy leader to Yin Shuang, preparing to be a hands-off manager.

Because Bai Wu didn’t know how much time he would need to reach the sixth floor.

Lastly, before Bai Wu set off, he decided to visit Yan Jiu.

Yan Jiu was now taking refuge in Baichuan City and had his own residence, but Yan Zizai still insisted on asking Yan Jiu to come back home.

The current Yan Family was well-managed by Yan Zizai. The Yan Family father and son had a complete 180-degree change in attitude towards Yan Jiu.

However, Yan Jiu still refused to return to the Yan Family. For him, Baichuan City felt more like home.

And once back to the High Tower, there were still places Yan Jiu yearned to visit.

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On the third floor of the High Tower, the Asylum.

When Bai Wu entered the Asylum again, it was much quieter, with Dr. Zheng babbling to the air, spouting all sorts of nonsense.

The old man who played chess now played alone, as the other chess-playing old man was no longer there.

The crazy book reader was also gone.

On the elevator, Bai Wu did see the woman who claimed to be from the fifth floor.

The Asylum had quieted down a lot.

Yan Jiu felt somewhat distressed looking around. She went back to her own room and began packing with Bai Wu.

"I won’t come back here in the future. Bai Wu, can I take them with me?"

As Yan Jiu packed her old sketches, Bai Wu shook his head: freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

"Although this Asylum is under our guard, in essence, it is for confining some very important patients."

"Aside from the doctors and nurses, every patient in here actually had no simple identity before; they’re much like you, with some ties to the fifth layer. The difference is, they’ve truly gone mad. Staying here is good for them."

Bai Wu actually wanted to believe that there was a special figure among these patients, and that was Yan Jiu.

Once Yan Jiu left, this place would look very dilapidated, very desolate. But before Yan Jiu came, the hospital was like this.

If this girl could really make a place lively, then now, there was a place more suitable for her, and that needed her even more.

"Can I come back to see them again?"

"Of course, the High Tower and the refuge, you can go wherever you want, so you actually don’t need to pack up.

Those words made Yan Jiu somewhat happy; she didn’t truly feel joy, but after meeting the Clown, Yan Jiu got to know better what things could make people happy.

She smiled very naturally, so naturally that even Bai Wu thought she seemed like a normal girl this time.

"But a home can only be one place, not the fifth layer, nor here, so it can only be Baichuan City. Home is very important to me because I never experienced it before I met you and my uncle. Some things can only be placed at home; if they’re put anywhere else, they just don’t fit in."

For many people, it doesn’t matter where they live. But for Yan Jiu, it was essential to distinguish clearly. Where was a temporary residence and where truly belonged to her.

She used to think that the Yan Family Manor belonged to her, but no one cared about her there.

Later, she thought the Asylum was hers, but staying here meant she couldn’t see the wider world with Bai Wu.

Bai Wu could understand these feelings, but now he also understood a part of the captain’s... avoidance of the Dwarf’s Wife.

"Is there anything else you want to take with you?" Bai Wu asked.

Yan Jiu thought about it, but there seemed to be nothing else.

She indeed collected plenty of books about Evil Fallen, but where she was going to live, there was no lack of Evil Fallen, and it was better to study those adorable guardians than study the books.

"No, there isn’t."

"Then let’s go. You don’t have to come back to this Asylum again. We’ll look after the people here."

"Okay," Yan Jiu obediently agreed.

Bai Wu then took Yan Jiu to other places on the third level of the High Tower, places that Yan Jiu had wanted to go to before but never could.

This girl had always lived in the Asylum, viewed by people as if they were looking at a monster.

But in fact, although she couldn’t feel joy, she also didn’t fall into sorrow because of it.

The third level was the closest to a modern city, with many entertainment venues.

Bai Wu had a feeling that, in the future, the High Tower might really encounter some problems. He hoped that when Yan Jiu remembered this place, at least on some day, she would have been truly happy.

When she retrieved all her emotions.

So, the strongest captain of the Investigation Corps took a girl who had an innocent heart but no joy on a random tour through various places on the third level.

The style of the two was completely different, but when walking together, they didn’t seem out of place.

Bai Wu took Yan Jiu to the amusement park, where this child of a ruler’s family had never experienced the joy that noble children on the third level had.

Latter on they went to a photography studio and took very nice pictures. In them, Yan Jiu looked radiantly happy; the photographer said it was the most healing smile he had seen all year.

But he didn’t know that the young lady had no emotional capacity for joy.

Then Bai Wu took Yan Jiu to buy a lot of clothes, a lot of books, a lot of drawing paper, and also a lot of toys.

A normal person definitely wouldn’t have been able to carry away so much stuff, but Bai Wu, with his Spirit Possession pockets, managed it without overly large or conspicuous packages.

In the end, Yan Jiu looked at Bai Wu, with a light in her eyes:

"Though we already said our goodbyes last time, having the opportunity to say goodbye slowly like today, to slowly appreciate the good aspects of the High Tower, it really is wonderful. Bai Wu, thank you."

Last time referred to the wedding with Qin Zong, when Yan Jiu also wanted to leave, telling Bai Wu that she had already said her goodbyes to the High Tower.

But such a goodbye, in her memory, was only filled with hatred and sadness for this place, which invariably left a sense of regret.

This time, Yan Jiu felt everything was perfect.

Bai Wu always felt that with this atmosphere, Yan Jiu seemed like she was about to say something to him; he couldn’t handle it and said,

"Then let’s go back, don’t treat a brief separation as a final farewell, there will be many more chances like this in the future."

"Mm, I’ll listen to you."

Bai Wu prepared to take Yan Jiu out of the tower.

To head to Baichuan City, only he could escort her. Unless one possessed a Traction Disc, no one could return to Baichuan City.

For Bai Wu, that place also wasn’t yet ready to welcome humans on a large scale; most importantly, the food sources couldn’t keep up.

Dealing with Yan Jiu alone was easy, but a thousand or ten thousand people would be troublesome.

However, Bai Wu now had a new plan in mind. But that’s a story for later.

On the way out of the High Tower, Bai Wu initiated a conversation until he finally saw Yan Jiu off, watching the young girl’s reluctant eyes being submerged by the light of the stele before he let out a sigh of relief.

Relationships between men and women are troublesome, Bai Wu believed that everything was ill-timed, and it was more interesting to explore outside the tower.

He could have chosen not to accompany Yan Jiu, but he always felt that if Yan Jiu didn’t leave this place, where she had lived for over a decade, with happiness, he would also feel regret.

And it was only after Yan Jiu had left that Bai Wu finally felt... that everything inside the High Tower had been settled cleanly.

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Night fell, and after Bai Wu returned to his residence, he contacted "Jiang Xuan" to respond to the little swindler’s invitation to the sixth layer.

The person on the other end of the phone was ecstatic:

"I knew I wasn’t wrong about you! I knew I wasn’t wrong about you! You’re crazy! Utterly insane! So am I! Hahahaha..."

"Enough, there’s no need to keep repeating yourself, when do we leave?"

"The night is best suited for infiltration, darkness is the most powerful disguise. Since we’re going, why not go right now?" Cain was crazy.

But just as Cain said, Bai Wu was also crazy.

Two madmen were about to do something in the High Tower that no one else dared to.

Though according to this, they had already set many precedents, but the venture to the sixth layer of the High Tower was something no one would have imagined.

The rulers also found it hard to believe that after Cain’s example, there would still be someone who dared to venture to that mysterious place.

Two hours later, the ceilings of all the different levels in the High Tower dimmed their lights, signaling the arrival of the deep night.

And on the fifth level of the High Tower, two of the most powerful humans, with adjacent sequences... gazed together at that gigantic ceiling.

"The way to the sixth layer is gone, to go there, it has to be the same as my last time," Cain said, excitement filling his eyes.

He feared that place, but the thought of exploring the sixth layer with Bai Wu thrilled him.

Bai Wu said,

"I hope our ending won’t be as tragic as yours was seven hundred years ago."