Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 437: Chapter 54: When the Scammer Doesn’t Want to Deceive Anymore

In the name of survival and exploration, Bai Wu never skimped on lies.

Along the way, Bai Wu deceived Hong Yin, Bai Xiaoyu, Jian Qiu, Violet, Jing Si, Gu Hailin, Jiang Yimi, Tomb Guardian, the prison inmates, the bizarre Guardian Spirits, his little apprentice’s girlfriend...

It could be said that along the road, Bai Wu deceived everyone whenever it was to his advantage.

But the major difference between him and Bai Yuan was that, afterwards, Bai Wu really did befriend these people and developed life-and-death bonds with them.

So he never faced any moral dilemmas.

But now...

When Bai Wu knew he might have to do the same thing again, he actually found it hard to bear.

For the first time, he loathed such behavior. He loathed what Bai Yuan had once taught him... to "speak human with humans, and speak ghoul with ghouls."

Xiaoyugan appeared.

Only in this Memory World could she suppress all rules.

As Bai Wu’s gaze focused on her slender figure, Prayle’s Eye provided this annotation.

"Playing on an away field where even an advanced personal analyst can’t analyze. She’s avoiding a Pursuer, so she’s blocking all chances; once you have seen her and spoken with her, she might erase this memory. I don’t know more than this. But I suggest you listen to the wisdom of elders and use your traditional talents."

The eyes are one’s other self. Now scrutinizing his own, Bai Wu realized that no matter which side of himself it was, the influence of Bai Yuan was profound.

Xiaoyugan was very beautiful, but the way she looked at people was strange, guarded.

Unlike Liu Chengzi’s enthusiasm, Dwarf’s Wife’s composure, Yin Shuang’s indifference, and Yan Jiu’s dullness.

She seemed to be afraid... terrified.

Dressed in the patient’s uniform from the farm where she had first met Bai Yuan, it was altered in size in the Memory World. Barefoot, she looked at Bai Wu timidly, clutching her heart, her eyes filled with fear... and a touch of sadness.

Even in this world, she couldn’t directly see Bai Yuan.

She could only see Bai Yuan through Bai Wu’s memories.

When Bai Wu first entered the Memory World, Xiaoyugan had noticed the outsider.

But even as Bai Wu conversed with The First Generation, she didn’t care, would not easily show herself, even thinking... it wasn’t worth making an appearance.

Because she was afraid of interacting with people, and because there was a Pursuer in this world... only by hiding in the depths of the Memory World could she feel a sliver of safety.

It wasn’t until Bai Wu spoke with Bai Yuan that a new "copy" was created. Through this copy, Xiaoyugan sensed someone she had been waiting for a long time.

In that moment, regardless of everything, she crossed numerous thresholds to arrive by Bai Wu’s side.

But upon seeing Bai Wu, she didn’t know what to say. With disheveled hair, pale face, and slender figure, she looked even more like a patient than she did on the farm.

She was afraid to speak.

She also didn’t understand the way Bai Wu and Bai Yuan communicated. Why she could see Bai Yuan in the memories, but not when she arrived next to this person.

Timidly peeking around, sensing no immediate danger, Xiaoyugan finally mustered the courage to say,

"I... I want to see him."

Bai Wu had already understood how Xiaoyugan was able to catch the scent of Bai Yuan.

Since it was through that memory, she naturally knew about his conversation with Bai Yuan. freёwebnoѵel.com

But she still came, and the first thing she said was that she wanted to see him.

This was truly ironic. What on earth had Bai Yuan done before?

Bai Wu didn’t know how to face this person for a while.

They are Eternal Beings; once their bodies mature to a certain point, they no longer change.

Xiaoyugan looked the same as she did seven hundred years ago.

Although Bai Wu didn’t know what she looked like seven hundred years ago, he guessed... the change wasn’t significant.

This was Bai Wu’s first time seeing this square k.

Sharp, confronting one’s core.

Yet reclusive and introverted, described by The First Generation as not good at conversation, not good at interacting with people, and even difficult to get along with.

Bai Wu remained silent, unsure of how to respond.

Xiaoyugan repeated herself:

"I... I want to see him! I don’t want to see you."

Because I am Bai Yuan’s and another person’s child? Speaking of which, what was my mother like?

Bai Wu thought to himself:

So Bai Yuan wants me to make good use of my identity as his son... If it isn’t just a jest or a prank, perhaps the breakthrough lies in steering the conversation towards him and my mother...

And then create a lie that Xiaoyugan can accept and is willing to help me with?

It’s not difficult, in fact, quite easy. No matter who it is, if they are overly infatuated with someone, they will want to know how to obtain that person.

But Bai Wu shook his head, choosing not to approach it that way:

"He cannot see you. Or rather, he doesn’t want to see you."

Bai Wu couldn’t remember who his mother was, nor did he want to follow Bai Yuan’s line of thought. He also didn’t wish for Xiaoyugan to keep waiting for Bai Yuan.

Even at that moment, Bai Wu felt an irrational emotion that even if this exploration ended without results, he didn’t want to deceive this person.

This was a very irrational feeling; if Bai Yuan had not appeared, Bai Wu would have been willing to play the "traditional art" role.

But out of sympathy for this person and distaste for Bai Yuan, Bai Wu didn’t want to do so.

Xiaoyugan showed a puzzled expression:

"Why won’t he see me, is it because I’m no longer of any use to him? But I’m different from seven hundred years ago."

As she spoke, she looked around as if on guard against something.

Bai Wu thought she was afraid of The Pursuer, the intruder mentioned by Wen Hao.

But in reality, Xiaoyugan was always like this at the farm.

For seven hundred years, she had never felt safe.

As a special existence during her childhood, the abuse she suffered always put her on guard against her surroundings.

Only when Bai Yuan was around did she feel secure, not looking around anxiously, wary of some nonexistent, unknown predicament.

Regarding Xiaoyugan’s straightforward question, Bai Wu really wanted to say yes, he feels you’re no longer useful.

But he couldn’t bring himself to say it.

Oddly enough, though it was the first time meeting this person, she had some kind of trait that made him not want to hurt her.

Bai Wu decided to tell the truth in a different manner:

"He cannot see you. The Bai Yuan you saw is my obsession. The real Bai Yuan is already dead. The current Bai Yuan, you could say he is Bai Yuan, but you could also say he is not Bai Yuan."

"This is the ability of a Doomsday Puzzle fragment, I’m not sure if you can understand that."

Xiaoyugan clutched her hair, seemingly in pain:

"The one who died is K... he hasn’t died, he just doesn’t want me anymore."

The world around them began to show continuous swirls, some of which, due to instability, began to warp into some sort of tear.

It was hard to imagine the level of spiritual power involved.

Bai Wu suddenly realized that when The First Generation spoke of the two Ks, one being a fugitive, the truth had to be asked from Xiaoyugan, probably because Xiaoyugan had a certain specialness.

This specialness even surpassed that of Bai Yuan and The First Generation.

In the following process, Bai Wu began to experience the difficulty in dealing with Xiaoyugan’s feelings.

Her emotions were extremely unstable, and the huge Ark in the distance began to disintegrate, its materials floating in the sky.

Blocking out the sky.

Yet the surrounding light did not dim. Looking over to the brightest spot, there were two shadows.

That was Bai Yuan and Xiaoyugan.

But only shadows.

"He... when he left, he took the memory with him... He won’t let me see him."

Looking at the shadows behind her, Xiaoyugan seemed a bit aggrieved.

Bai Wu also suddenly realized, since in the world of memory, memories have their own trajectories, why didn’t Xiaoyugan return to her own memory?

It seems Bai Yuan was very resolute.

At least some restrictions were left upon Xiaoyugan.

So much so that the master of this Memory World could find anyone’s memory, yet could not find his own.

Of course, it might also be a method of isolation, noticed by cause and effect.

In Bai Wu’s view, the woman, Zhang Xian, who lost her daughter—all having forgotten her daughter’s existence—might be some sort of cause and effect abduction.

But Bai Wu had no evidence for these things.

Bai Yuan was skilled in areas that he was not.

Interpreting and controlling the Inner World and the spiritual world was extremely difficult and obscure for Bai Wu.

Bai Wu said,

"He doesn’t like you. He’s been using you from the beginning. Why do you want to see him? Such a person isn’t worth waiting for seven hundred years."

The interplay of light and shadow did not stop.

For Xiaoyugan, who could only look back on past times through those shadows, seven hundred years passed like a single day.

"I know he doesn’t like me. You’re so annoying! I don’t want to see you! I want to kill you! No...that’s not right... I don’t want to hurt you!"

Bai Wu’s body almost disintegrated in that instant, just like the Ark; part of his skin was directly stripped away, exposing the flesh and blood of his face.

But with his strong power, it began to heal at high speed.

Healing...shattering, healing again, and then shattering once more.

Afterward, an unbearable storm blew him away, slamming him into the ruins behind him.

This was the Memory World, a world dominated by Xiaoyugan. Bai Wu, however powerful, knew that he could not possibly compete in this away game.

Moreover, he had no intention to fight Xiaoyugan.

Xiaoyugan looked at him, seeming both in pain and terrified:

"Why won’t you come out to see me? I’ll kill your child! Come out and see me now!"

The ruins and the Ark had a kind of apocalyptic beauty, but this beauty was extremely deadly.

Bai Wu could feel that Xiaoyugan’s mental state was a bit unstable, and he was actually in an extremely dangerous situation.

"If you kill me...he will be even less likely to come to see you. In a way, he and I have a symbiotic relationship."

Xiaoyugan instantly panicked.

Bai Wu did not want her to become too emotional and lose control again. He had to say something to appease her:

"I am here to help you. I can’t make him see you. He doesn’t want to see you either. But in this world, he’s not the only one who can help you. Your world shouldn’t care about him alone."

"I don’t need your interference! Get out...or else I’ll kill you! I hate you! No, wait...you can’t leave."

Of course, Bai Wu could not leave at this time.

He understood the pain Xiaoyugan was going through; the person she had waited for seven hundred years suddenly appeared, but refused to see her.

What stood before her was the child of her beloved and someone else.

Xiaoyugan curled up in some pain. The enormous remains of the floating Ark in the sky began to twist and deform.

Meanwhile, outside the Memory World, Wen Hao, anxiously awaiting Bai Wu’s return, felt an oppressive, suffocating atmosphere.

All the ornaments and chandeliers on the cruise ship were swinging.

"What’s happening? Did we hit a sea creature?" Jiang Zhu felt the slight tremor of the entire cruise ship.

Wen Hao shook his head:

"No sea creature dares to trouble us. The source of the tremor comes from the forbidden lands. Sit down, don’t panic."

Wen Hao did not know what had happened.

He just hoped that Bai Wu would return safely.

Inside the Memory World.

Enduring the pain that nearly tore him apart, Bai Wu said:

"Those who come from the Ark, some have left alive. Being able to befriend The First Generation, I believe you’re different from Bai Yuan. You have qualities that The First Generation appreciates. You’re a kind person..."

"So you want to kill me...because I’m Bai Yuan’s son?"

Bai Wu was in great pain.

Feeling her body being dissected, shattered, torn apart... it was a pain far worse than the prick of a needle.

Under such circumstances, no normal person could maintain their will.

But Bai Wu, having been tortured from a young age, had the characteristic of becoming clearer the more she suffered.

"It’s... I don’t want to kill you, I want to take a good look at you... but I also really want to kill you..."

Bai Wu suddenly realized that she always said a lot of contradictory things.

He didn’t know the reason.

In Xiaoyugan’s world, where only a handful of people existed, the memories of the farm were both painful and sweet to her.

After Bai Yuan rescued her from the forbidden area of the farm, she followed Bai Yuan and experienced the life of an ordinary child, carefully disguising herself.

Back then, the kindness of the people around her made her feel very happy, but before that, she had experienced the splitting and devastation of her soul.

It was Bai Yuan who rescued her from her plight, Bai Yuan who gave her the social interactions only ordinary humans had, and it was Bai Yuan who resolved crises time and again, ensuring the farm owner never found out... that the monster in the farm’s forbidden area had been replaced.

Later on, she could have lived the life of a normal person.

But the pain from her early years forever prevented her from becoming normal.

Her thoughts would come straight out of her mouth.

The pain and joy in her heart, her liking and disliking of someone, would be expressed simultaneously.

So, in the process of communicating with others, The First Generation found Xiaoyugan difficult to understand, or rather too easy to understand, which sometimes made her hard to get along with.

Everyone should hide something, even from the closest and simplest person.

But Xiaoyugan, due to her special experiences in childhood, couldn’t hide her thoughts.

On the farm, she sometimes would express her liking for someone while at the same time pointing out that person’s shortcomings. Being too straightforward made it impossible for her to make friends.

Even The First Generation had his mentality explode because of Xiaoyugan.

"He’s very impressive, I want to be his friend, he looks like an ugly monster, I really hate him."

The First Generation thought he was the kind who couldn’t chat, but Xiaoyugan was even worse, her words were like giving a date before slapping you in the face.

Only Bai Yuan was an anomaly.

Because Bai Yuan was perfect, in Xiaoyugan’s eyes, she couldn’t find anything to dislike about Bai Yuan, she couldn’t spot any of Bai Yuan’s flaws.

Teenage girls all hope to follow love, especially someone as perfect as Bai Yuan.

And the more straightforward and innocent one is, the harder it is to extricate oneself once they fall in.

Bai Wu now stood in front of Xiaoyugan, who really wanted to say something to Bai Wu but also wanted to kill her to express her anger.

But she ultimately tried to restrain herself, she feared that doing so would commit an irreversible mistake.

"Why did he... abandon me..." Xiaoyugan’s tears blurred as she curled up.

Bai Wu was distressed that he couldn’t find a point of entry; he knew the right answer, at this time, using either Bai Yuan or his own mother as an entry point would suffice.

But he didn’t want to do that, he just inexplicably felt... this confused and contradictory woman shouldn’t be deceived any longer.

When Bai Wu first discovered that he didn’t know how to speak or what to say... an anomaly occurred.

The vortex floating in the sky... suddenly had one more.

But it was different from the other vortices, this one was much larger and not suspended in the air without any change...

While Xiaoyugan was in unbearable pain, a red light arrow shot out from the vortex...

The Pursuer, who kept Xiaoyugan constantly dodging, the invader who broke into this cruise ship 700 years ago, finally found Xiaoyugan.

Bai Wu didn’t know why he wasn’t affected by the memory scene that caught Jing San off guard... all he knew was that if he didn’t take action.

Xiaoyugan was doomed to die.

For this woman, like Bai Yuan, although she possessed strong spiritual power, was not adept at close combat.

The light arrow was swift, as if in an instant it could pierce the woman’s body, and just as Xiaoyugan realized the danger had come and was too late to dodge...

A figure enveloped in crimson flames intercepted it in front of Xiaoyugan!