Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 471: Chapter 88: The Bai Family Father and Son Join Forces

Tang Jing watched his master’s receding figure, listening to the words his master spoke, and suddenly remembered a game he had once played.

The game was also called Magic Tower.

After collecting all the equipment, defeating many monsters, and obtaining quite a few keys—challenging the Great Demon King, he ultimately lost to the Great Demon King.

So he started over and eventually realized... the savior wasn’t himself, but someone else.

His master thought he had lost, thinking that in the new twisted area that appeared, he had made the wrong choice.

But looking at it now, the master’s choice was the right one.

Tang Jing did not know what his master had experienced in that area, but he guessed that perhaps it was different from his own experience, where he made seemingly correct choices yet ended up failing.

Perhaps his master, on the contrary, made what seemed like the wrong choice, but ended up succeeding.

Yet, he had never seen his master so downcast, this powerful figure looking so solitary.

It was clear that the cost of "winning" was also heavy.

Bai Wu stood up:

"How much longer will it take to access the satellite surveillance around that area?"

"The data is massive... Even Jiang Ling would need a good while to deal with it, it might still take a day." Tang Jing was somewhat uncomfortable.

He had thought his master would remain dejected for a while, but all of a sudden, Bai Wu was bravely facing the difficulties.

It was as if there was a temporal rift; just a few seconds ago, his master was lonely, carrying a sense of age. Now he looked as he usually did.

"Good, get the surveillance to me as soon as possible, I’ll contact a friend."

"Who?"

"Clubs K, Xi Yunzi, our time is very pressing, we need to deploy as quickly as possible."

Tang Jing felt a sense of crisis in his master’s words:

"Has something happened?"

"Not yet, which is why it’s urgent. Once it happens... it becomes less important."

Bai Wu was referring to Dong Nianyu setting off the negative emotions.

If it really occurred, at least seventy percent of the world’s population would become Evil Fallen, and even if there were a chance to turn the future around, that future would no longer be a perfect outcome.

Although Bai Wu knew in his heart that it was difficult to pursue perfection in anything.

Bai Wu was very concerned about one thing.

Whether the future could not be changed, and whether his actions to change the future were actually the key to shaping it.

If one learned of inevitable defeat, should they calmly face the defeat, preparing for what comes after...

Or should they strive to break the label of "inevitability"?

He didn’t know the answer, and for a moment, he didn’t know whether he should tell everyone everything he had seen.

Tang Jing and Xu Ling were confused but quickly got busy.

Bai Wu prepared to head to the place where he had spoken with Xi Yunzi before, to inquire about Dong Nianyu, deciding to go to the temporary airplane hangar that Zhao had built not too far away.

But soon after he stepped out the door, Bai Yuan appeared.

This father and son walked on the road toward the airplane hangar, and Bai Wu said:

"I don’t have time to waste on a tea drinker who never speaks his whole mind. If you have something to say, just say it directly."

"Tsk, tsk, you’re quite fierce. Haven’t you noticed? Sadness is an emotion that withers all things, while anger makes everything burn. But these two emotions are not opposites of each other; they can perfectly blend together." Bai Yuan’s words were still off-key.

Bai Wu looked at the huge airplane hangar in the distance and said: freёwebnovel.com

"I don’t want to play guessing games with you."

Bai Yuan shrugged his shoulders:

"It’s nothing, not some riddle. You’ve gradually regained some emotions, which is a good thing, although those doors are normally closed, and you can hardly feel anger and sadness most of the time. But there are already certain individuals who can influence your emotions."

"The sky of the Inner World has become splendid, and that is something I enjoy seeing. Who wouldn’t want to sip tea and admire beautiful and unique scenery at the same time?"

Bai Wu stopped in his tracks, looking at Bai Yuan:

"As for the secret of my lost negative emotions, about the memories I’m missing, I will find them. If you want to tell me, just say it directly, save us all some time."

Bai Yuan still wore his usual smile:

"Nothing to disclose. What I’m saying is just to help you understand that one can’t become complete solely through self-perception. Everyone in the world is imperfect, only becoming more complete through interactions with others."

"Of course, there is no true completeness; every person has flaws. Even completeness is just another kind of imperfection."

Bai Wu didn’t expect Bai Yuan to say something like that.

"Times always have a sense of destiny. You now are much like I was seven hundred years ago, and the current dwarf is much like K back then."

"K made me aware of my imperfection, but I don’t plan to become complete because of it. Becoming complete is actually a process toward being imperfect."

That statement was somewhat convoluted. Bai Wu pondered its meaning while Bai Yuan continued:

"The dwarf has made you aware of your imperfection, and you’ve made a different choice from mine. My appearance is only to tell you that since you’ve made a choice, you should be prepared for its consequences."

"You’ve seen a revelation of the future, and that is still a choice."

"Well... Although any choice seems interesting, as an adult, I’d hope you choose them all, but that’s not possible."

"For now, you’d better give up on Dong Nianyu, stop looking for her."

Bai Wu stopped again:

"Why?"

Bai Yuan did not answer directly:

"Let me clarify something first, I’m annoyed by so-called revelations. I don’t know whether my advice will lead you away from the revelation or guide you toward the prophecy."

The usually unserious Bai Yuan became rare serious.

This man, overflowing with charisma, had gone through similar experiences.

He was born detesting to be dictated by prophecies, but he truly couldn’t avoid that fated failure.

Perhaps for this reason, he hoped that Bai Wu’s choices could be different from his own in the past, that maybe... something different could emerge.

Although watching Bai Wu evade the future and make the same choices as he once did, leading to the world’s downfall, seemed quite interesting too.

Therefore, for the reasons above, Bai Yuan was quite talkative today and started to sincerely strategize for Bai Wu for once.

He probably wanted to test whether so-called revelations and prophecies could indeed be broken, rather than just making things interesting.

Or perhaps there were factors that even Bai Yuan himself couldn’t articulate.

Bai Wu said:

"What do you suggest?"

"Either you hide in some place where no one can find you, surround yourself with a few confidantes, have children, raise them, and live a life you’ve never experienced before."

"The next suggestion." Bai Wu frowned.

"Good, I didn’t want you to pick that one either. Since that’s the case, you should think about where the battlefield is now. My obsession with Dong Nianyu is only hatred; your appearance will only deepen her hatred."

"She’s different from Dong Yugan, even though they are both Split Bodies, their personalities are completely different."

"You should be able to feel it, right? Club’s attitude towards Jing Yi isn’t as respectful as Q’s. But don’t assume that Jing Yi doesn’t know about it."

Bai Wu also thought of this. Bai Yuan continued:

"Jing Yi won’t make past mistakes again. The closer people are to him, the less likely they are to betray him. So don’t you think that Jing Liu’s success in taking away Dong Nianyu went too smoothly? And you also received the revelation that Dong Nianyu betrayed Jing Liu."

Bai Wu showed a disdainful expression:

"According to Yan Zizai, it’s because Jing Liu can’t let Dong Nianyu see you. But I can."

"That’s Yan Zizai’s version, and I can tell you very responsibly that Dong Nianyu only wants to kill me. Seeing you would only make her more eager to kill me."

"Don’t think Jing Yi’s control over his subordinates is weak, not everyone is like me or K."

Bai Wu did listen to this.

Indeed, everything Yan Zizai said was just hearsay. Bai Yuan was familiar with the human heart, and Bai Wu had no doubt about this.

If using a ’beauty trap’ were possible, Bai Wu wouldn’t mind letting Bai Yuan sell his looks.

But the problem was that Bai Yuan was convinced of Dong Nianyu’s pure hatred.

Upon a little thought, Bai Wu also realized this.

"Xiaoyugan stays in her own Memory World, her memories never interrupted or distorted."

"But the farmer is someone who can erase memories... Dong Nianyu is different from Xiaoyugan. Xiaoyugan has lived in longing for seven hundred years, with no one to guide her making any choices."

"But Dong Nianyu has been by Jing Yi’s side, especially after Bai Yuan and The First Generation fled, and particularly since Xiaoyugan’s true body was taken away. In the circumstance of Jing Yi not being able to create Split Bodies, Dong Nianyu has become his biggest weapon..."

"Would Jing Yi be the kind of person who repeats the same mistake several times?"

"During these seven hundred years, Dong Nianyu must have become a true enemy... Bai Yuan’s charm is unlikely to work."

Bai Yuan looked at Bai Wu, probably guessing Bai Wu’s thoughts:

"It seems you’ve already figured it out."

Bai Wu shook his head:

"Even so, Dong Nianyu’s significance can’t be ignored... Her ability is too strong, should we just sit back and do nothing?"

Bai Yuan explained:

"Dong Nianyu is just a bomb, or rather, a negative emotional nuclear bomb capable of destroying the world. Her purpose is to detonate everyone’s negative emotions."

"This will take a long time and some groundwork to make people aware of the dangers of negative emotions."

"And you and Zero have given her this opportunity. Mechanical Descending God, it seems you and Zero sniped at Club Q, but in reality, it was Dong Nianyu using your actions to plant the seeds of emotional detonation in everyone’s minds."

Bai Wu had already realized this a few days ago.

"There are many false choices in this world, these choices seem important, but in fact, you’ll find they can’t be changed. Dong Nianyu is just such an option, a brilliant move by Jing Yi. If you devote all your energy to Dong Nianyu, you’ll fall right into the trap."

"Jing Liu fell into this trap. Using cause and effect, she calculated who held control over twisting concentrations, who could detonate negative emotions—it was Dong Nianyu.

She also used cause and effect to understand Dong Nianyu’s obsession...

Thinking that by giving Dong Nianyu a false promise about me, she could drive a wedge between Dong Nianyu and Jing Yi, but all this is probably exactly what Jing Yi would like to see.

Because Dong Nianyu’s obsession is me, but it is to kill me with her own hands."

Bai Wu thought, should he say if you had chosen "I want everything" instead of taking the real body, none of these messes would have happened?

But in the end, Bai Wu didn’t say it. Bai Yuan wasn’t a god, and the idea of expecting him to foresee everything was in itself a weakling’s behavior.

After a long silence, Bai Wu eventually didn’t board the plane.

Standing in front of Zhao’s private helicopter, Bai Wu looked at Bai Yuan:

"So my first step—turning Dong Nianyu against them—is the biggest trap? Dong Nianyu, as Jing Yi’s emotional detonator, her appearance means that in this game, Jing Yi has already won."

"Exactly, you should think about your next move."

Bai Wu looked at Bai Yuan:

"In my past life, how did I not realize that in addition to being a litany of lies and a sadist, you were also a scumbag who likes to toy with women’s feelings?"

Bai Yuan found it quite difficult:

"Don’t put it that way, the neighbors all like me. It’s they who think you are ungrateful. And no matter which life, I have no interest in those women. Be it men or women, the meaning of deceiving them lies in their value to me."

"If there is no value, deception is not even worth considering; after all, lying requires effort, and dealing with the people from your past life didn’t require much thought."

If I could travel through time, I would definitely go back and say these words to the people in that small town.

Of course, this was just a fleeting thought, as Bai Wu said:

"This means, you’ve made quite a few mistakes."

Bai Yuan did not deny it:

"Yes, I underestimated Jing Yi. Having such a person as an enemy is interesting and exciting. His development of Dong Nianyu is much more profound than mine.

Fighting against such an opponent, I couldn’t win smoothly or perfectly, I was bound to make mistakes."

Bai Wu understood and then asked the second question:

"Since the first step involving Dong Nianyu was a mistake, a false option, it’s time for me to take the second step."

"Should I go to Denglin City?"

Because of Jing Yi, because of a certain revelation, father and son, exceptionally, began to ponder a matter together.

For Bai Yuan, the significance of this matter was not in helping his son, but rather an experiment, unrelated to kinship.

For Bai Wu, the matter should be the same, unrelated to kinship. Bai Yuan’s help was probably motivated by some kind of "Bai Yuan’s amusement".

But what Bai Wu did not notice was that, despite his intense dislike for this person, he almost never doubted what Bai Yuan said.

And while the two were brainstorming strategies together, Bai Wu felt a sense of security he did not recognize within himself.

This was quite different from the feeling when Bai Yuan provided information before; this time, Bai Wu seemed able to sense Bai Yuan’s personal desire.

In response to Bai Wu’s question, Bai Yuan also gave a sharp opinion:

"The revelation told you to go to Denglin City, yet in Denglin City, you were torn apart by Jing Si. Don’t you find this revelation contradictory?"

"Either the revelation is wrong, or the account of you being killed by Jing Si in Denglin City is wrong."

Bai Wu had also felt something was amiss: frёewebηovel.cѳm

"But how can I distinguish which one is wrong?"

"That’s difficult. My suggestion is, let’s think about which key element you missed during your exploration."

As soon as Bai Yuan asked this question, Bai Wu immediately thought of something:

"The doctor! Why does that doctor look so much like the doctor from Huangquan Island?"

"Yes, have you considered why K was obsessed with this doctor? Even because of the doctor, he made a mistake and had a fusion disease outbreak, leading to his downfall at Baichuan campus."

"Do you know the reason?" Bai Wu asked.

Bai Yuan shook his head:

"K and I had different responsibilities, and some of the things he investigated, he did not fully disclose to me. Of course, I also hardly tell K about my matters."

"But I do have a conjecture about the doctor’s true identity."

As he spoke, Bai Yuan looked at Bai Wu, as if waiting for Bai Wu to produce the answer.

Bai Wu pondered what he knew about the farm and suddenly thought of the same thing as Bai Yuan.

Father and son almost spoke simultaneously:

"Jing Yi!"

Bai Wu thought of Xiaoyugan’s real form and remembered some of the things Jing Yi had done using Xiaoyugan’s form. Thus, he offered a more precise speculation:

"To be exact, the doctor is not Jing Yi but rather a ’Split Body’ of Jing Yi."

Bai Yuan nodded and continued:

"Before you make your choice, perhaps we can take a trip to Huangquan Island."