Free Web NovelChapter 465: Chapter 82: Revelations from the Future
Whether this was truly the future or just a simulated scene had yet to be fully confirmed by Bai Wu.
He quickly calmed down, realizing his behavior couldn’t be too exaggerated.
When he looked at the clerk who was eating a "meat roll", his expression became normal.
The clerk, of course, had no idea whom he was eating, merely saying,
"A patient escaped from the hospital yesterday."
Bai Wu nodded without engaging the clerk and started walking towards the shelves, like a customer who was just browsing.
In the meantime, he gathered some information through the news and also had many questions.
"The High Tower has been found... This means the High Tower has appeared, and the High Tower... has been breached?"
"But if that’s the case, why would the news specifically mention that saying ’the world has been twisted’ is blasphemous?"
"Right, come to think of it, the doctor’s experiment report also said that many patients with the Black Mist disease claim to see monsters or such, but strangely, the doctor thinks this kind of talk is absurd."
Distortion obviously exists when the High Tower appears, it signifies that a faction has entered Inside the Mist.
How could the people of these countries possibly not know about those monsters?
Not to mention the future, just considering the timeline outside the Magic Tower, the Light Arrow Knight, Stitched Monsters, Mechanical Descending God, cruise ships, all of these are symbols of distortion.
Zero even directly revealed everything Inside the Mist using a virtual image, so under these circumstances, why would these people deny distortion?
Unless...
Bai Wu thought of a possibility.
"Unless they’ve been twisted already. When everyone in the world is a madman, then madmen are no longer madmen, and it’s the sane who are regarded as patients."
Thinking of this and then seeing the clerk’s satisfied expression while eating the "meat roll", Bai Wu gradually understood.
"This second act is a bit outrageous... This future should be fake, right?"
Bai Wu believed it was fake, that such a future couldn’t possibly come, but deep inside, although he wasn’t panicking, there was an indescribable irritation.
"Regardless of its veracity, I’ll treat it as a warning. I must prevent this future from coming, and if... if all this truly is a scene from the real future, I can still gather some intelligence here... deduce some of the past causes and effects, to stop all this."
Gradually having an idea, Bai Wu pondered Dr. Liu’s mindset, gradually aligning his gaze with that of Dr. Liu.
He noticed how the passersby had looked at him with disfavor because he had the appearance of a person from Sheng Country. Although he wore a face mask, one could still tell at a glance.
But their gaze quickly normalized because of the hospital badge on his chest—Kein.
Kein, Bai Wu didn’t yet understand the meaning of the word but guessed it was probably the name of some medical company.
"Not bad, good thing I didn’t choose another difficulty. This can also count as a hellish start, the city is now fully armed. Not only the past can bring intelligence, but the future can provide even more if it’s true."
Once he had accepted his current situation, Bai Wu quickly became excited again.
How far is this from the real timeline?
The High Tower has been found, but who ultimately seized it, Jing Yi or Jing Liu?
What’s the deal with sending a large group of people from Sheng Country to a concentration camp?
Where are the Evil Fallen?
What are the current conditions of Captain Qin, Zero, Yan Zizai, and the Baichuan City refuge?
This future might be extremely cruel, perhaps friends from the past have all perished in this future, Mechanical City destroyed, refuge collapsed.
The High Tower taken, the Investigation Corps slaughtered to the last man.
But since this future hasn’t come yet, Bai Wu treats it like a game.
First figure out the situation, then find a way to prevent the coming of this future.
At this moment, the choices arrived.
[You have gradually clarified your thoughts, but now the city is fully armed, and a large group of people are moving towards the hospital. You decide—]
[A: These people must know what happened, ask them.]
[B: There’s a treasure hidden in the hospital, they’re searching for it.]
[C: Evacuate immediately.]
[D: Act on your own. (Once this option is chosen, it will not be triggered subsequently.)]
Bai Wu instantly chose C.
"The hospital almost lacked security personnel, which means people hadn’t considered the possibility of patients escaping, implying that the doctors are very powerful."
"Now that Pei Ju, patient number four suffering from Hei Wu, has been caught, it will definitely attract attention. Perhaps Pei Ju has already confessed, and these people must be up to no good."
Bai Wu walked straight out.
But just as Bai Wu was about to leave the supermarket, he suddenly felt a force on his shoulder.
[A mysterious force is pressing down on your shoulder, you decide to—]
[A: Shout loudly.]
[B: Stay calm, but follow the other person.]
[C: You have been targeted, run faster!]
[D: Act on your own. (Once this option is chosen, it will not be triggered subsequently.)]
He couldn’t see, but someone definitely had a hand on his shoulder; Bai Wu couldn’t see, but his sense of smell was very sharp.
The smell of disinfectant and the invisibility made it clear to Bai Wu—it was Lu En.
Although Pei Ju was caught, Lu En could still use the Sequence Hidden Dragon, so for now, Lu En was still safe.
Bai Wu decided to follow Lu En.
In front of Bai Wu was indeed Lu En, who silently guided him.
His little hand trembled slightly, letting Bai Wu sense that the child was actually very scared.
Lu En indeed was frightened, leading Bai Wu through streets and alleys, avoiding prying eyes as much as possible.
Bai Wu noticed that the population density in Meinan had actually increased.
People were active everywhere. It was only that everyone dressed similarly, which seemed—very ordinary.
At the same time, Bai Wu also noticed many posters plastered on the walls—
"Donate blood, it will change your destiny!"
"Contact us, and your blood will bring you wealth!"
"Want to enjoy a high-quality life? Luxury cars, mansions, beauties? Contact us!"
"Kein Blood Bank: Your blood is more valuable than you imagine!"
"Kein Emotion Experience Hall: We provide a variety of emotional experiences for people. Bring your loved one and children on the weekend, and you can visit our hall to relax for free..." ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
"Do you have someone by your side who experiences significant emotional fluctuations? Congratulations, contact us, and we will provide you with a generous referral fee—Kein Group."
Blood... emotions...
Since Lu En was still leading him to safety, Bai Wu didn’t ask questions, just thinking.
"The world has changed a lot..."
"These ads are everywhere, does it mean the blood banks in this world are running short on blood?"
"Why is there a shortage of blood?"
With these questions in mind, Bai Wu and Lu En walked for about half an hour. After leaving the hospital far behind, they arrived at a dark alley, where there was an old four-story residential building.
Lu En took Bai Wu to the second floor.
As they approached the door, Bai Wu smelled decay.
The house was very old, with cobwebs on the ceiling, and right beneath the cobwebs... sat an old woman, skin and bones.
The old woman sat in a wheelchair, facing the entrance. The note indicated she was already dead—
[This elderly woman from Meinan had passed away, yet her surroundings "teemed with life."
The spiders on the ceiling wove their webs, these arachnids loved to eat cockroaches.
Inside the decaying flesh, maggots and fly larvae wriggled, and around the wheelchair’s cushion, shiny black cockroaches the size of a thumb crawled about.]
But you’re not afraid, after all, you’re a Southerner who rides a cockroach to work. And there’s no need to worry, although the distortion density in this world is off the charts, this place is a ranch, a special area.]
Anyone who saw such a scene would feel intimidated.
Lu En was so scared that he deactivated the Hidden Dragon Sequence, deeming this place temporarily safe.
"She must have been dead for over a day, did you discover this yesterday?" Bai Wu calmly asked.
Lu En nodded:
"After everyone... fled from the hospital yesterday, we found that the outside world... had changed."
"How long were you locked in the hospital?"
"I don’t remember... It seems like I was always in the hospital, like I never went out... but it also seems like I did, I don’t remember."
It made sense.
Lu En, number four, must have had their cognition limited in the first scene.
If I hadn’t rescued them, the second scene would have arrived normally, but it’s very likely that the hospital wouldn’t have been investigated. I could have used the hospital as a stronghold.
Apocalyptic survival games are just like that, disgusting. If you choose not to save someone, you often fare better; if you choose to save them, you might get information, but you often also attract trouble.
Luckily, Lu En found a place to stay. And perhaps Lu En would be an extremely important "tool person" in the second scene.
After all, the Hidden Dragon Sequence was too useful.
"I looked in many places... I was so scared, I didn’t dare to show myself, because as soon as others went out, I saw them... they were beaten by those Meinan people." Lu En’s voice was tinged with a sob.
"Finally, you found this place, the only spot where you found a place to stay," Bai Wu patted Lu En on the shoulder.
Lu En still nodded, his face full of fear.
"It looks like we’ll have to spend the night with the corpse, don’t be scared, she’s already dead."
Bai Wu contemplated the last phrase mentioned by the eyes and subconsciously, he remembered a monster he had once fought — the God of Wealth.
That cat loyal to Black Gold Island had said something similar — You are nothing more than livestock corralled in a pasture.
There was a similar feeling in those remarks.
Has Meinan become a place where humans are corralled? Are there also high walls outside of Meinan? Is this a farm in another sense?
Are blood donations and emotional tests equivalent to testing how "tasty" a person is?
This was a dark thought, and Bai Wu refrained from delving deeper. He decided to figure all this out and find a way to visit that blood donation base.
"Are you hungry?" Bai Wu looked at Lu En.
"Hungry..."
"Do you want to eat roasted cockroach?" Bai Wu joked with Lu En.
"Yue..." If Lu En hadn’t been so hungry, he would certainly have thrown up something.
Bai Wu said with a laugh:
"Don’t be too nervous, don’t be too fearful, just be like me."
Bai Wu made a revolting joke, but the urge to vomit indeed dispelled Lu En’s fear.
"This place should have emotional detection equipment. We shouldn’t have too large emotional fluctuations, just pretend this here is a hospital. Now let’s deal with the body, I’ll handle it, you clean up the room on the inside, don’t worry about shutting the windows too tightly, as that might actually draw people’s attention."
Bai Wu began to instruct on various details.
Even though he had opened the doors to sadness and anger, Bai Wu’s sensitivity to negative emotions was still very low.
Especially since he now lacked the emotion of fear, speaking about many things always gave people a sense of warm strength.
Lu En quickly stabilized emotionally, and Bai Wu, enhanced by the medication, worked efficiently.
A few hours later, Bai Wu finally had the house in order; the body was not easy to deal with, but he managed to cover up the putrid smell.
He couldn’t stay here for too long, and suddenly he found himself looking forward to the next choice.
After cleaning the room, Lu En prepared to go out to steal food, which, with the Hidden Dragon, was quite convenient for him.
Before he left, Bai Wu stressed — no stealing meat.
The cognition of this world had already been distorted, and the hatred these people held for the inhabitants of Sheng Country seemed to have reached the exaggerated extent of literally craving their flesh.
He certainly didn’t want to eat that kind of human flesh.
While Lu En went out to search for food, Bai Wu browsed through some of the belongings left by the deceased old lady.
He saw a photograph of the old lady with her son, framed in a picture frame.
He also found the old lady’s cell phone and discovered in it... her last received text message was a blood donation reminder from three days ago—from Kein Group.
Bai Wu continued to flip back through the old messages, and it became clear that Kein Group was far from simple.
They covered almost every aspect of life, including food, daily living, internet entertainment, and the medical and educational fields.
The cell phone had internet access, and Bai Wu quickly started searching for information.
Kein Group, Keɪn, was founded by a wealthy businessman, but there was hardly any information to be found about this businessman.
Not even a biography.
There were some details of other members of Kein Group, but Bai Wu’s intuition was sharp; these people weren’t important, the founder was most crucial.
Kein... K?
Suddenly, Bai Wu realized that the pronunciation of this word was very similar to the original sound of the letter K, and the uppercase ’K’ stood out noticeably.
"Speaking of which, among the four Ks, Xi Yunzi mentioned, there was a businessman... once I get out, I need to find a way to have Zhao look into this businessman."
Zhao was the wealthiest person Bai Wu knew so far, wealthy enough that he wanted to introduce Qian Yixin to Zhao.
That being said, in this timeline, I was defeated by K? No... my abilities couldn’t possibly lose to anyone below the Well Level, K might be the winner, but not necessarily the one who beat me, these Ks might just be winning by lying down?"
Bai Wu wasn’t being arrogant, but he didn’t believe that just a few Ks could twist the world to this extent.
"Who in the world has turned it into this?"
This question naturally couldn’t be found through a search, and Bai Wu even worried that searching such a question would expose himself, considering that Mei Country boasts freedom and human rights but is the least free and most devoid of human rights.
So Bai Wu checked the Sheng Country’s wanted criminals list.
Soon, the phone displayed a series of tip-off phone numbers and photos of criminals.
Among them, Bai Wu noticed a familiar face—
"Yan Zizai, extremely dangerous, possesses a strong anti-surveillance sense; please do not attempt to confront this criminal alone. If encountered, contact the Distortion Correction Team immediately, and a reward of four hundred million Mei Currency will be given for providing accurate information."
Yan Zizai had become a wanted criminal?
Bai Wu looked at many people and found that Yan Zizai’s bounty was several levels higher than the others.
"Yan Zizai is strong, but he couldn’t be a match for the High Tower Seal or a Well Level adversary... Why haven’t the Well Level people caught him?"
"And if it’s about breeding humans, then why not use more violent methods..."
"Right, where’s the captain?"
Bai Wu dared not enter the captain’s name but could only continue to look through each wanted criminal’s photo. He found Bai Xiaoyu, found Yin Shuang, and even found Yan Jiu and Liu Chengzi.
He was quite pleased during this process; although this future was sufficiently dark and twisted, and it seemed that the High Tower’s emergence had not been stopped, at least quite a few companions were still alive.
Most of these people had become wanted criminals, and the bounties on them were not low either.
But he quickly scrolled through the list and realized he hadn’t seen the captain’s figure.
"Impossible, I must have missed it. I’ll look again; the captain must still be alive."
Bai Wu continued to browse, clicking into each image, and this time, he finally found news about Gu Qingyu.
This news was about the death of a wanted criminal, but not about the death of Gu Qingyu himself. Bai Wu recognized this wanted criminal,
but the relationship between Gu Qingyu and this wanted criminal astonished Bai Wu—
"Wanted criminal Qin Zong, confirmed dead, killed by the captain of the Distortion Correction Team, Gu Qingyu."
However clever Bai Wu was, he could not imagine this development.
Why would the captain kill Captain Qin? Why was it the captain of all people?
"This is just a game... it can’t be real." Bai Wu muttered to himself, feeling an unprecedented irritation inside.
