Free Web NovelChapter 470: Chapter 87: The Awareness of a Real Man
Bai Wu slowly opened his eyes.
When his consciousness became clear again and everything in his vision became sharp, Bai Wu only remembered the piercing pain and a great, floating force.
Then he looked around and was stunned.
"Am I ... have I left the Magic Tower?"
At this moment, Bai Wu had already left the Magic Tower and was standing on the outskirts of the Magic Tower area, in the northwest corner of the desolate city.
He suddenly felt a sense of vicissitude because he clearly remembered that before he entered the Magic Tower area, the surroundings had not been devastated on such a large scale.
But now, there were pits and craters everywhere, and the surrounding houses had been destroyed by a terrifying force.
All of this looked as if it had gone through a calamity.
Bai Wu had just experienced an "absurd future" not long ago, so when he suddenly saw this apocalyptic scene of ruin and decay, he naturally felt a confusing sense of whether the vast sea had really turned into a mulberry field.
But soon, this feeling of vicissitude was dispelled by Prayle’s Eye.
[Although it looks like it has been through a calamity here, you don’t have to worry, you have returned to the most familiar timeline, it’s just that in this place, there has been a war involving, two women ... oh, no, three women.]
Three women? That riddle was not easy to guess.
Bai Wu looked around.
"A huge crater ... just in terms of destructive power, the strength is at least that of a ninth-level Evil Fallen ... "
"In the building not far away, there seem to be sharp slash marks ... very neat slashes, this cut must have been very fast, and carried a strong cutting force."
"There’s no blood at the scene, which means this battle hasn’t reached a point of life and death ... Both sides are probably in some kind of balance, without truly unleashing their full strength."
Bai Wu began reconstructing the battle in his mind based on the remains of the scene.
"There’s an existence with great destructive power and a large attack range ... A giant creature? No ... there are no footprints. It’s just a purely large attack range."
"Strange, the footsteps around here are very chaotic ... it looks like there are a lot of people ... "
"There’s also a very fast Sword Knight, whose slashing is terrifying ... The speed displayed is top-notch not just outside the Mist, but even inside the Mist."
"But that must be the opponent holding back, not using full force ... Otherwise, with such a blade, it’s impossible not to draw blood. Hundreds of slash marks ... seem to have been blocked by some blunt object as well."
After observing for a while, Bai Wu felt that he should have left the Magic Tower earlier and seemed to have missed a good show.
"This is definitely a fight of the highest standard within the Mist, involving three women? It doesn’t quite seem like it ... "
Bai Wu thought of the captain.
But in his memory, it seemed the captain didn’t have such a fast blade ... However, those impressions were from the shelter period, and Bai Wu was unclear about what level Wu Jiu had reached now.
And when he thought of the captain, thought of that final slash, Bai Wu felt somewhat heavy.
"I must have died and logged out of the Magic Tower, and the tower still holds many secrets, but now I have more important things to do."
Bai Wu tried to contact Zero, Zhao, and others.
Next, he needed to tell Zero some revelations, beware of Jing Wu, and ensure that Mechanical City was as prepared for war as possible.
At the same time, he wanted Zhao to find that merchant, the Kein Group. This company must have been established before High Tower reappeared, just always very low-key.
Also, he needed to find Dong Nianyu and the captain by all means possible.
On one hand, he wanted Dong Nianyu to return, as gently as possible, some conceptions and understandings regarding negative emotions back to humankind.
What Dong Nianyu was doing was forcibly preventing people from showing negative emotions, like an emotional tranquilizer, with strong side effects.
It could be said that after these times of fermentation, once Dong Nianyu decided to ignite these suppressed emotions, High Tower would appear instantly.
About seventy percent of the world’s population would directly turn into Evil Fallen.
Comparable to an emotional nuclear bomb, Dong Nianyu’s importance goes without saying, and it was hard to imagine that both she and Xiaoyugan were Split Bodies – what kind of monster was the real body?
The second important thing, Bai Wu didn’t want the captain to reach the step inside the Magic Tower, no matter what, he had to make contact with Wu Jiu and have Wu Jiu go to the shelter.
Lies or deception, if High Tower truly appeared, if the fall of High Tower was inevitable, then at least Wu Jiu must be protected.
These two matters were urgent in Bai Wu’s opinion, but to find Dong Nianyu, he still had to rely on the technological support of Zhao and Zero.
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Outside the Mist, on Fuyue New Island, stood a strange church.
More than a day had passed since Dong Nianyu was kidnapped. In the Magic Tower challenge forum, the only challenger, "Splitter Bai Yuan," was experiencing the second act.
After Club received a secret message from Heart, he and Spade rushed to this shabby church used for preaching and proselytizing.
Spade, leaning on his cane and wearing a top hat, presented a different image from before.
Meanwhile, Club was busy sketching the various figures of the church.
When Heart arrived, the two turned towards him:
"You’ve made a grave mistake. Among us, you’re the strongest, at least in terms of combat ability, but you failed to protect Xiaoyu. Now, we might have to face punishment," Club said.
Spade spoke up promptly:
"The boss specifically instructed us to take good care of her. Ostensibly, we three serve her, but in reality, we also meant to restrain her. And now you’re telling us she was whisked away? That’s unreasonable, isn’t it?"
"I mean, you Heart guys, do you particularly love playing the traitor?"
Xi Yunzi couldn’t bear their reprimands:
"Betray your mom’s Gobi Desert... Do you have any idea what the situation was like? I don’t mind being the scapegoat, and if it really comes down to it, I’ll take the blame."
"But let me be clear, in that situation, not just me alone, but even if the three of us had joined forces, including the group from Land of Bliss, we wouldn’t have been able to keep Xiaoyu."
Club perked up with interest, and Spade tapped the end of his cane, a hint of skepticism in his voice:
"Look at the way you talk—we all know that if no one takes the blame, we need to exaggerate the opponent’s capabilities to avoid looking incompetent."
Heart replied irritably:
"Do you Spade lot even use your brains? That’s Xiaoyu we’re talking about. With her spiritual power combined with my abilities, I’d say it’s not too much to call everyone here trash, right?"
The faces of the other two Ks darkened instantly, yet they couldn’t refute him.
The spiritual power of the fortune-teller indeed complemented Xiaoyu’s; the synergy of their abilities meant that together, the fortune-teller was akin to a true god descending to earth.
Seeing that the other two Ks were less vocal, Heart explained somewhat impatiently:
"The opponent was very strong. That woman was extremely troublesome; the first time I’ve seen such a disgusting ability—kill one, and more appear... And no matter how she split, her stamina seemed inexhaustible."
Recalling the battle, Xi Yunzi, as Heart, felt a chill. He started to describe the fight.
The woman, with a charming smile, formed an army amidst laughter. Each Split Body was terrifying, seemingly possessing the power of the original.
Especially after it was mentioned she was one of Jing Liu’s, the other two Ks showed a marked decrease in their disdain.
"Now do you understand how formidable the opponent was? That woman couldn’t be killed, her attributes... I doubt you’d find many throughout the entire farm that are better than hers. Was she someone we could take on?"
"Xiaoyu’s spiritual power is strong, but her basic combat ability is weak. I realized that fighting someone from Jing Liu would lead to no outcome, and if it dragged on, I might be worn down by her instead..."
"Her basic combat ability must be at least at the level of a ninth-grade Mutant. Can you imagine an army made up entirely of ninth-grade Mutants?"
The two Ks couldn’t comprehend. Such an ability, if it truly existed, would be extremely thorny even within the Mist, wouldn’t it?
Was this Jing Liu’s method?
"It looks like we might be exiting the stage soon," Club remarked.
After a moment of reflection, Spade added:
"Not necessarily. It’s hard to say whether the boss anticipated that Xiaoyu would be kidnapped. After all, he is the boss. You two know his capabilities. Fortune-teller, what happened afterward? You escaped, so why didn’t Xiaoyu?"
Xi Yunzi shook his head:
"I was slightly faster than that woman, and coupled with Xiaoyu’s spiritual power warping, I could have led her away. But damn it! Suddenly, a shorty appeared!"
Heart, Xi Yunzi, stood tall, roughly 1.9 meters, for whom someone who abruptly intervened indeed seemed short.
But this person was strong, different from the woman who kept splitting... She was troublesome, while the shorty carried a sharpness that seemed to sever everything.
"A shorty?" Spade asked, puzzled.
"A Sheng Country national; we might encounter him again later... My gut tells me, this man is significant!" Xi Yunzi’s voice suddenly intensified, his tone somewhat excited.
Club and Spade exchanged glances, and Club asked:
"So, this Sheng Country national, he stopped you?"
Fear showed on Xi Yunzi’s face:
"I almost died at his hands. In my lifetime, I have worshiped so many gods, summoning them one by one. With Xiaoyu’s spiritual power, each of them could be considered a true god without a doubt... but guess what?"
"This monster first used one slash to cut off Buddha’s head, then with another slash, he cut off the Taoist Ancestor’s head, and then another slash—God the Father, Yebuo, two lives taken with a single stroke."
"The whole process was over in the blink of an eye, I never thought in my life that there could be anyone that fast! That the cutting could be so terrifying... Those dreadful strokes, after slaughtering the gods, did not dissipate but left terrifying slashes all across the battlefield..."
"When I came to my senses, I realized those were hundreds of slashes. Countless slashes almost grazed past my face, that person had deliberately held back, he was warning me..."
There was someone this powerful?
"Is the other party human?" Clubs K continued to ask.
Xi Yunzi was uncertain:
"Should be. I could sense some emotions, but it’s also possible that I was too tense at the time and had some illusions."
"He and that woman, their powers are of two entirely different magnitudes. If the two were to duel, perhaps the woman would eventually win, but in the short term, the one holding absolute advantage would certainly be this shorty..."
"He is really too terrifying... It’s the first time I’ve felt the presence of the Grim Reaper..."
The gods I believed in were all beheaded, unable to summon them again in a short time, even those evil gods with special abilities were called upon.
Xi Yunzi was still helpless.
The slash from that Sheng Country man seemed like an attack of some rule-level to him—
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"Xiaoyu and that woman eventually reached a consensus, but from the looks of it at the time, it seemed that the Sheng Country man and that woman, although acquainted, were not of the same force. They left together, and Xiaoyu saved me."
"As for where they went in the end, I don’t know."
Spades K knew Hearts K, Xi Yunzi, very well, in fact, some of the earlier snark was just probing. Now he was certain, Xi Yunzi was telling the truth.
"The spread of the Hei Wu has clearly allowed some creatures Inside the Mist to come out, these monsters... truly annoying."
Xi Yunzi expressed his lingering fear:
"This guy, we will definitely encounter him again in the future, then you’ll know. Being friends with such a person might be very interesting, but being enemies with such a person, can be terrifying."
Clubs K frowned:
"We still need to report this to the Land of Bliss, but don’t be too anxious. Judging by the descriptions of the soothsayer, the other party is already too powerful to deal with through schemes, and currently, there is no suitable area for catalyzation... We can only hope for the Magic Tower..."
Clubs K suddenly paused.
Spades K realized something was amiss:
"What happened?"
"That area... someone has cleared it."
Spades K and Xi Yunzi were both shocked. Clubs K could catalyze a certain area’s rules, and after catalysis, she would have a certain sense of it.
They knew very well about the area Clubs K had chosen; once catalyzed, it would become a perilous domain of narrow escapes, where even strong monsters would become ordinary humans upon entry, and a slight misstep could lead to death.
This type of area was exactly what could restrain the likes of Light Arrow Knight with immense fighting capability.
But unexpectedly, this area had... been cleared by someone.
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Aulora Island.
Bai Wu returned to the villa where Tang Jing and Xu Ling were staying, which had effectively become his operation command center outside the Mist.
After instructing Zero to be cautious of Jing Wu, having Zhao investigate Kein Group, and telling Jiang Ling to track down Dong Nianyu, Bai Wu locked himself away alone.
He was contemplating his next move.
As his anger and sadness unlocked, even though Bai Wu was mostly immune to negative emotions, his "humanity" was becoming increasingly complete.
Signs of low spirits, when he was alone, also grew closer to those of an ordinary person.
He was thinking about what exactly the Farm people had done to the captain. Should he go to Denglin City next? How should he deal with the several Ks? Where was Dong Nianyu now?
If Option A was the correct one, if this future was unavoidable, then when the time came, would he find himself in battle against the captain?
Too many questions kept Bai Wu up all night.
He had no idea about the arrangements made by Jing Yi and Jing Liu.
Even though he’d been to the future and met Yan Zizai, Yan Zizai also had many things he was unclear about.
Bai Wu urgently wanted to know the answers to these questions because he resisted that future.
Time passed quickly, Bai Wu was immersed in thought and completely failed to notice that it was already the early morning of the next day.
If Tang Jing hadn’t knocked on the door, Bai Wu probably would have continued strategizing until news arrived.
"Master! Come out and look at the Magic Tower forum! The Magic Tower forum!"
Tang Jing’s tone was quite excited, which Bai Wu didn’t understand.
He opened the door and saw an excited Tang Jing holding a laptop, its screen displaying the latest news from the Magic Tower forum.
Bai Wu initially thought that the Magic Tower was causing trouble again, especially since he had failed the challenge.
But, looking at Tang Jing’s expression, it seemed different. He glanced at the forum’s content and was instantly stunned.
The content displayed on the forum was very brief, just one sentence—
[This area has been cleared. The clearer— Splitter Bai Yuan. Forced recruitment has been canceled.]
Bai Wu’s heartbeat quickened slightly; clearing an area was normal for him, having been to innumerable areas since coming to this world.
But this time, Bai Wu was very confused:
"I thought I had failed?"
"Yes... Master, you said you failed, but you didn’t! You succeeded! Now, as long as we don’t approach that tower, the fear of one hundred people dying every day shouldn’t spread!"
The look in Tang Jing’s eyes, as he viewed Bai Wu, was that of a little fanboy admiring his idol.
Countless messages in the forum could attest to the high mortality rate of this place. But, just like the previous few times... the master always managed to turn peril into safety!
However, while Tang Jing was excited, this idol, on the contrary, suddenly started trembling.
For the first time, a kind of unprecedented split expression appeared on Bai Wu’s face.
He seemed no different from before, but Tang Jing looked carefully and could feel a slight, almost imperceptible emotion hidden in the master’s eyes—
Like hiding sorrow, and also like hiding joy.
Numerous thoughts stirred up various emotions in Bai Wu’s mind, these emotions clashed together, making him appear in Tang Jing’s eyes... like a human who had survived a catastrophe:
"I thought I had failed and that being killed by the captain led me to exit the game, but now it seems... I didn’t fail?"
"I actually cleared this area... which means my last choice... was actually not a mistake?"
Tang Jing couldn’t understand his master’s mutterings. All he felt was that his master, who always appeared carefree, now seemed... very real.
Bai Wu stood still, not having slept all night, which did not slow down his thinking.
"If I had chosen A then, does it mean I really would have fought him? Maybe I would have killed him..."
"But that would have been the wrong option, that would have been the wrong option!"
"The latter is the right one! That’s why he didn’t kill me! Right... I’ve been overlooking something... the three-headed dog was killed by him with a single slash, so why was I, when it came to me, blown away by a force?"
"But what happened next... I don’t know anymore."
Bai Wu kept muttering to himself, his tone now and then excited, and at other times filled with a sense of sadness.
This was the first time Tang Jing could feel the negative emotions emanating from his master.
Even Xu Ling was astonished; as Evil Fallen, she had felt countless people’s negative emotions—in the streets, at school, and even among the nearby residents, they were everywhere.
But she had never felt such emotions from Bai Wu.
For whom was he grieving? And for whom was he rejoicing?
Bai Wu stepped outside and sat on the steps at the door, his back looking somewhat desolate. After remaining silent for a long while, he slowly looked up at the sky and said:
"If he is still himself, if he hasn’t changed..."
"Then when he personally killed Captain Qin and his former companions, he must have been carrying a heavy resolve, right?"
