Free Web NovelChapter 468: Chapter 85: The Things That Happened After the Fall of High Tower
Bai Wu undoubtedly asked an extremely critical question.
However, the reply from Yan Zizai took Bai Wu by surprise. Shaking his head, Yan Zizai said,
"Jing Si’s strength was overwhelmingly dominant, and he won the battle, but the High Tower belonged to Jing Yi... The affairs involved are very complicated."
"The Ark should still be safe, right? Take your time and explain?"
Jing Si’s strength being overwhelmingly dominant... yet the High Tower belonged to Jing Yi, suggests that quite a few events must have taken place.
Yan Zizai began speaking slowly,
"After the High Tower appeared, people all over the world were shocked. And following Zero’s and your guidance, they began to head for the High Tower."
"That was also the last thing you did before entering the Mist... It was said that you should have many enemies, but it seems you realized something very important. You told us that you were going to Denglin City."
"Afterward, you left, and the matters related to the High Tower fell to me and Wu... Gu Qingyu, who had been away from the High Tower for a very long time."
"But in the end, he never entered the High Tower."
"Why?"
Bai Wu wondered. Although the transformation of the High Tower caused many deaths, the kind of High Tower the captain hoped to see had seemingly appeared.
The barriers between levels had been temporarily broken down, and there were no longer "Heavenly Dragons" in the High Tower.
For such a High Tower, why wouldn’t the captain want to go in and have a look?
"He became friends with an Evil Fallen. It seems he didn’t want to leave his friend behind, so he simply asked me to send a message of safety to the people inside the Tower, especially to Ruan Qingyun."
A friend who is an Evil Fallen?
Although the captain seemed to have changed sides, Bai Wu couldn’t help but smile.
Had the captain actually made friends with an Evil Fallen? What a great leap forward. He still remembered what the captain said the first time they left the Tower: "An Evil Fallen is an Evil Fallen."
Bai Wu decided not to pursue that topic and switched to a different question.
"Entering the High Tower... what is the method?"
"Just like how we left the High Tower. Near the High Tower, there are Teleportation Steles."
Yan Zizai’s answer didn’t surprise Bai Wu, for the method of leaving the High Tower was the same as the method of entering it.
But he still had many doubts.
"I’m afraid the process of entering the High Tower isn’t very smooth, is it?"
Yan Zizai nodded,
"Yes, some people are unwilling to enter the High Tower; there are also conspiracy theories claiming that the High Tower is some kind of container. The existence of the High Tower is beyond people’s cognition, but they should have changed their cognition a long time ago..."
"With the appearance of various monsters, they should have realized that the world has long been abnormal. But the strange thing is, these people can accept monsters, accept a twisted world, but they just can’t accept the High Tower."
A thought occurred to Bai Wu—perhaps it was Dong Nianyu’s ability, an ability that was truly exaggeratedly powerful...
"Evil Fallen roam freely, and the people who emerge from the High Tower begin eradicating the Evil Fallen and escorting others into the High Tower."
"These arrogant white people entered the High Tower but seemed very reluctant to change their former attitudes. After seeing the interior of the Tower, they referred to it as the Sheng Country Pasture."
Bai Wu could tell Yan Zizai’s blood pressure clearly rose.
But Yan Zizai also scoffed,
"However, Old Xie and I basically had the final say in the High Tower. We didn’t indulge those people. They soon became obedient."
Bai Wu could imagine that the process of making them obedient must have been interesting.
"We originally thought that this was a spread of the apocalypse; many died in the High Tower, which actually needed replenishing with some new blood. As for those unwilling to come, we really didn’t care."
Bai Wu strongly agreed with Yan Zizai’s words. Although Bai Wu liked people like Bai Xiaoyu, to be a leader, one had to be like Yan Zizai, capable of sacrificing lives.
Only the subsequent events were unpredictable.
"But the exposure of the High Tower also made us quite uneasy; it was the first time that the High Tower appeared in the public eye in the seven hundred years of the Post-Tower Era."
"We were worried that the High Tower might be attacked, especially near the teleportation gates into the Tower. Although there was a power suppressing the Evil Fallen, it wasn’t as absolute as the suppression inside the High Tower."
"We originally thought the appearance of the High Tower wouldn’t have a big impact on us. It was merely the High Tower absorbing new blood internally, a replication of the transition from the Pre-Tower Era to the Era of the High Tower seven hundred years ago, but eventually, an unexpected variable arrived."
"A massive tide of Evil Fallen began flooding towards the High Tower... that was the true Tide of Evil Fallen..."
Yan Zizai’s statement was filled with a sense of shock.
Suddenly, Bai Wu recalled Yan Jiu’s painting.
Around the grand High Tower, there was a dense mass of uncountable black dots, and each black dot... was an Evil Fallen.
"They frantically charged against the High Tower, as if they wanted to destroy it from the outside..."
"It was also at this time that Black Gold Island and Huangquan Island began to make trouble for Mechanical City... Bai Wu, can you imagine... our step-by-step exploration, thinking we could finally allow humanity to survive outside the tower, thinking the High Tower had finally become a true place for human habitation. When..."
"The most powerful monsters emerged from their nests, displaying strength that drove us to despair..."
"How are we to face this force? This is no mere shelter from calamity..."
"The outbreak of negative emotions caused most of humanity to become Evil Fallen, with extremely high distortion levels, and the remaining humans are also on the road to becoming Evil Fallen. There are exceedingly many of these Evil Fallen; we simply can’t kill them all."
"Besides their numbers, some possess powerful forces..."
"Evil Fallen from several farms, all bearing playing card patterns on their hands, erupted with astonishing combat power... It was they who made our defense of the High Tower tragically heroic..."
Farms? Several farms?
Bai Wu faintly understood, that being the case, he had noticed during his time on the farm that there was more than one farm.
Perhaps these farms had different divisions of labor.
Maybe the ones he had faced, like Xi Yunzi and Dong Nianyu, were responsible for infiltrating the world beyond the mist.
And perhaps the others from the farms had been cultivated as Evil Fallen leaders over the past seven hundred years.
The power of Jing Yi might be unimaginably vast?
Bai Wu sorted through the intelligence he had gathered—
The outbreak of negative emotions, the appearance of the High Tower.
He went to Denglin City.
The confrontation of Zero with the siege of the two islands.
The captain and his Evil Fallen friend guarded outside the High Tower, while Yan Zizai and Xie were responsible for managing the interior of the High Tower.
After the outbreak of negative emotions, the monsters from the farms and those Evil Fallen humans outside the mist began attacking the High Tower.
Bai Wu always felt something was off.
He quickly realized it.
"But the difference in numbers couldn’t possibly make up for the gap between Jing Yi and Jing Si..."
What about Jing Si?
And why isn’t Jing Yi the one attacking the High Tower? Is it because it’s beneath them? But that shouldn’t be...
Jing Liu and Jing Si, even if they have different objectives from the other Wells, wouldn’t just ignore the High Tower.
Bai Wu directly posed this question:
"A change in quantity can’t make up for a difference in quality. Ordinary Evil Fallen or those elite Evil Fallen from the farms, although strong, shouldn’t be able to stop an opponent of the Well level..."
"What about Jing Si? What about Jing Yi? What about Jing Liu? Where is their battlefield?"
Yan Zizai replied:
"That is the most brilliant part of Jing Yi’s plan. Jing Liu died because he helped Jing Si glimpse a certain causality. As for Jing Si and Jing Yi, their battlefield is elsewhere."
Members of the Jing Family were almost immortal, Jing Er and Jing Wu could come back to life even after being turned to ashes by Jing Si, but Jing Liu died because of backlashes from the power of causality...?
Jing Liu died?
Bai Wu found it hard to imagine this outcome.
Yan Zizai continued:
"We do not know where their battlefield is, but the fight between Jing Yi and Jing Si has left no white areas inside the mist... This was told to us by Xu Wei, who, besides possessing Temporal Return, can also sense changes between certain regions."
Xu Wei... the bearer of Temporal Return.
And The Pursuer, the bearer of Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies.
These two seem key for that monster inside the High Tower to penetrate the Sequence power.
As long as these two are not drained of their souls by that Soul Tree, the monster inside the High Tower can’t break through from the inside on its own—temporarily.
That’s why the Alpha Evil Fallen must rely on Jing Yi for rescue.
But why would Jing Yi be inside the mist with Jing Si? How did Jing Liu cure Jing Si’s madness?
What kind of causality did Jing Liu witness that led directly to his death?
Bai Wu could not understand this point.
Yet suddenly he had a feeling... Jing Liu’s death might have something to do with himself?
How exactly was he killed by Jing Si, and why, despite accepting a commission from Jing Si, was he killed by Jing Si?
What change had occurred in all this?
Yan Zizai was unclear.
Yan Zizai said,
"Regarding the confrontation between Jing Si and Jing Yi, we have no way of knowing, but we can feel how terrifying both monsters are."
"The concentration of distortion inside the mist is frighteningly high, and all terrifying rules become even more horrifying."
"Through the Bai Can at the shelter, we observed the outcome of that battle—Jing Si won, crushed the opponent to win."
"The battle wasn’t like what we imagined, a back-and-forth clash. It seemed that Jing Yi also relied solely on powerful strength, continuously"
"In the Inverted Well Domain, naturally restraining any distortion."
"Yet the High Tower ultimately still fell."
Jing Si won, the High Tower fell. Is there perhaps also a cause and effect relationship within this?
Maybe Jing Yi’s real intention was to steal the Tower... and he used himself as bait to attract Jing Si?
Bai Wu almost guessed the truth. If Jing Si hadn’t had Jing Liu by his side, it would’ve been truly impossible for Jing Si to be Jing Yi’s opponent in terms of strategy.
But if Jing Si won, even if the High Tower fell, surely he wouldn’t let Jing Yi obtain the High Tower.
Especially since the battle was a crushing victory.
"It seems that in the end, some variable must have occurred. Jing Si and Jing Yi can be said to be mortal enemies... but why didn’t he kill Jing Yi?" Bai Wu asked.
"Because Jing Si no longer had a way to kill Jing Yi. Jing Yi indeed couldn’t contend with Jing Si in combat strength, but the fall of the High Tower allowed the monster controlled by Jing Yi to grasp a new power."
The monster controlled by Jing Yi?
Bai Wu was shocked. Could it be that the body Jing Yi was commanding was that of the sealed creature of the High Tower?
After the High Tower fell, the seal was broken, and the monster’s will returned to that body?
Yan Zizai also provided an answer:
"Originally, the High Tower suppressed a world-ending monster, the source of distortion... It is the prime culprit, an ancient being that has lived for untold years." ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
"Once the Tower was breached by the farm, it could no longer contain that monster..."
"And the creature that Jing Yi controlled is very likely that monster’s corpse, of course, it’s not a corpse anymore, it has resurrected..."
"So Jing Yi initially lost to Jing Si... but then with the help of that monster, he won against Jing Si?"
"No, he did not win."
He did not win?
Bai Wu found it hard to imagine, was Jing Si’s power... already at the Origin Level?
"This is a duel between the two strongest distorted beings, Jing and Inverted Well... we can’t see the outcome of this confrontation, but what can be certain is that the monster... cannot kill Jing Si, and it’s even difficult to say who is stronger."
Yan Zizai’s tone was also full of awe and shock.
Bai Wu was the most shocked.
Because he understood all of this better than Yan Zizai and the others.
Can an omnipotent God create someone stronger than himself?
This is a paradox.
The seal of the High Tower, Alpha within the Evil Fallen, created six Well Glyph Monsters.
Yet one of them actually surpassed this Alpha?
Whether it’s a surpassing isn’t clear yet.
Bai Wu faintly understood—could it be that the true purpose of Jing Liu was for Jing Si to eliminate Alpha... and take its place?
She opened the High Tower not to release this monster but to completely kill this monster?
The conversation with Yan Zizai carried too much information, flooding Bai Wu’s mind with thoughts.
Yan Zizai continued to add,
"This monster indeed is a god-like entity; its emergence already signifies that this world has no hope left..."
"But Jing Si severely wounded it, in the truest sense."
Bai Wu became even more convinced. Jing Liu’s goal was to have Jing Si be that king.
The other Wells’ purpose was to let the monster inside the High Tower return to rule the world.
But Jing Liu believed that Jing Si was the ultimate ruler.
And she didn’t know what kind of power she had brought to Jing Si, merely healing Jing Si’s madness definitely wouldn’t allow Jing Si to have the strength to fight this Tower monster.
Jing Si must have also obtained other powers. Anyway, Jing Liu almost succeeded.
But almost—in the end—means not succeeding.
"So in the final battle, Jing Si and the Tower Monster were both heavily wounded?"
"That’s one way to put it. The most powerful monster never actually defeated Jing Si. In the end, it was gravely injured by Jing Si, and the Inverted Well Domain, along with some force from Denglin City, caused it to sustain irreversible damage."
Professor Tao?
Bai Wu suddenly thought of Professor Tao, the scientist who always refused to enter the High Tower, dedicated to finding a way to suppress the Evil Fallen...
But Professor Tao was supposed to have been destroyed by Jing Si.
Bai Wu was unclear about all this, and Yan Zizai had only learned it from the Bai Can; and later... all these Bai Can died as well. frёewebnoѵēl.com
"The monster realized that Jing Si was so frightening that it had gotten out of control... For a very long time in the future, its wounds were unable to heal, and it feared Jing Si. Because of this... it suppressed Jing Si with a tower..."
Bai Wu exclaimed:
"Are you saying that it created a High Tower... and sealed Jing Si inside it?"
"You could say that. This battle thus came to a close. Jing Si could not escape the High Tower, and both the monster and Jing Yi from the farmland were gravely injured, but there were others in the farm who could convey Jing Yi’s will."
"The world beyond the mist was taken over by Jing Yi’s forces, except for this city of Meinan—the outside was full of Evil Fallen. Humans were penned in here, their twisted cognition erased."
"But this erasure wasn’t absolute because the monsters occasionally toy with humans... and for some reason, the people from Sheng Country in the High Tower were immune to this cognition erase, and thus were deemed a Twisted Force."
"The people now living in this pasture... they are food bred by the Evil Fallen, providing flesh and emotions."
"Not only have they become food, but they’ve also become slaves, harboring enmity toward the people of Sheng Country."
Bai Wu could roughly guess what happened afterwards, Yan Zizai and the others escaped the High Tower, boarding the Ark.
But that process must have been very difficult.
Bai Wu really wanted to know about the refuge, about all his old companions.
For example, after the monster appeared, Xu Wei who possessed Temporal Return, and The Pursuer who held the Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies, whether they were still important to the monster?
Would the monster send people to find clues about these two men?
Were they still alive?
There were so many questions to ask, but the first question that Bai Wu voiced was about Wu Jiu:
"What exactly happened to the captain, why... did he become your enemy?"
Yan Zizai said to himself as expected, this question must rank high in priority, Bai Wu was bound to ask, he shook his head helplessly:
"After we went to the farmland, it just turned out like this... The breach of the High Tower was caused by the elite Evil Fallen there."
"Gu Qingyu was a man; he single-handedly slaughtered most of the elite from the farmland, but after all, he was only human..."
"He stood his ground alone to the end, ultimately swallowed by the tide of Evil Fallen."
"Afterward, when we saw him, he was already the captain of the Distortion Correction Team, he had completely changed, even killing his former boss... Qin Zong by his own hand."
"It’s said that Jing Yi took a fancy to Wu Jiu’s talent. Somehow, it seems not too difficult for these monsters to change a person... huh."
Yan Zizai’s smile was bitter.
Bai Wu’s emotions were complicated, he fell silent. Yan Zizai also said nothing.
And at this moment, a momentous choice arrived silently.
[In your previous life, you were a freak without any friends, but in this world, you have been through life-and-death trials with someone and became the most reliable and trusted comrades to each other.
Now, knowing that the other person is very likely to become an enemy, you will make a choice with significant impact—]
[A: Life will not always be smooth sailing, if you meet on the battlefield, you will kill your former friend, and continue living with his once beautiful hopes for this world, along with his persistence, working even harder to correct this world.]
[B: Only this person is always worthy of trust.]
A choice with significant impact. Bai Wu remained silent, not making any judgment immediately.
He had come to understand that this entire game was a revelation.
The High Tower would fall, the monster would descend upon the world again, Jing Si would be trapped, and both the monster and Jing Yi would be seriously injured.
If this world... still had a sliver of a chance for salvation, it would be at this moment—when these god-like beings were temporarily unable to move due to their injuries.
The most crucial thing was why he was killed by Jing Si, and after leaving this scene, how to choose.
And... the choice he faced now.
After a long silence, Bai Wu made his choice.
