Free Web NovelChapter 490: Chapter 107: Two Complementary People
Wu Jiu listened to Bai Wu’s words and felt Bai Wu’s growth.
As he gradually came to understand Bai Wu, he discovered that Bai Wu’s sense of justice — was very narrow in the beginning.
When he first got to know Bai Wu, one could even say that Bai Wu was somewhat selfish.
In Xuanhui City, Bai Wu was able to deceive Jing Si with incredible calm, and pragmatically convince himself that the prophecy was false, that there was no such thing as a savior. freёwebnoѵel.com
But now, after truly arriving in Denglin City, Bai Wu’s heart had undergone many changes.
This brought Wu Jiu great comfort.
Accompanying this sense of comfort was the surging fighting spirit shared between Wu Jiu and Bai Wu.
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After Wu Jiu and Bai Wu walked out of the Denglin City Science and Technology Building, the monsters saw them like food emerging from a refrigerator.
Numerous districts nearby continued to surge forth on a grand scale.
Bai Wu said,
"Captain, it’s been a long, long time since we fought together. I’m very strong now, and you’d better keep up with my movements —"
Blade light drew countless intersecting white streaks in the air.
Wu Jiu, who had been concealing his own presence, exploded with an astonishing aura in an instant.
To the Evil Fallen outside the Denglin City building, it felt as if a knife was poised at their throats.
Several months ago.
When Wu Jiu was surviving Inside the Mist with Li You, he knew he had to learn many of nature’s survival techniques — camouflage.
Human camouflage involves suppressing one’s emotions and concealing one’s aura.
This was something Wu Jiu initially struggled to truly master, but his talent was simply too high.
So high that even Li You couldn’t help but secretly marvel.
In about six hours, Wu Jiu was able to do it all.
Even —
He could learn from some animals, enter a state akin to playing dead, waiting for the Evil Fallen to let their guard down before launching a deadly strike.
Therefore, the group of Evil Fallen hiding in the shopping center of Denglin City were deceived by Wu Jiu.
Even Bai Wu, though not entirely fooled, did not anticipate that the captain could hide his heartbeat, breathing, and even emotions.
The intersecting blade light left neat bloodlines on each Evil Fallen Body.
It looked chaotic, but in fact, each Evil Fallen was struck by only one blade.
When the sound of the blade being sheathed could be heard, the heads of countless Evil Fallen neatly slid along the bloodlines.
Almost simultaneously, all the Evil Fallen fell.
With the greatsword in his hand, Bai Wu revealed an "I haven’t even boarded yet" expression.
He had always thought that the limit for humans was at the twelfth tier, and indeed it was so.
But somehow, the strength the captain demonstrated did not seem to exceed this range, yet it felt like it had transcended it.
The Evil Fallen kept pouring into the battlefield, appearing from all directions in the streets, even from the sky and the ground.
Bai Wu, watching the captain fight, suddenly understood.
At the same tier, the captain relied on a highly balanced extreme development, without any weaknesses.
Furthermore, when the numerical value of his foundational combat power could no longer be raised, he would change his fighting style.
Bai Wu had noticed this when confronting Zhong Xu; the captain could almost instantly resolve the fight when facing an opponent of the same level.
No other reason, just because of an unbelievable mastery of his body.
It was as if this was a talent that one would be proficient in as soon as they learned it.
Only before, the gap between Bai Wu and Wu Jiu was too large, making it difficult for Bai Wu to see this aspect of Wu Jiu’s talent.
He truly felt it now, watching the captain fight was like watching a performance of slaughter as an art.
By comparison, Bai Wu’s style of combat was simple and rough.
With the speed and strength of Well Level, combined with the power of the Envy Greatsword itself, he merely had to lightly swing the greatsword in his hand to create countless storms.
A group of eighth-level Mutants, seventh-level Mutants, and even quite a few ninth-level Mutants appeared on the battlefield.
Outside the Technology Building in Denglin City, the wails of the Evil Fallen caught the attention of the scientists.
These Evil Fallen were like an ordinary dish that, due to continuous evolution over seven hundred years, had accumulated a pile of modifiers.
And a significant part of these Mutation Entries could alter the appearance of the Evil Fallen.
So the originally normal-formed Evil Fallen, which still retained some human features, now looked bizarre and grotesque.
Some of the Evil Fallen’s heads had become polygons, while others had heads growing on their fingers.
And then there were the Evil Fallen with small statures—Perfect Mutation Entry: Minuscule.
This type of Entry lacked strength compared to enlargement but could enter a person’s body in the span of a breath.
That was the truly terrifying power.
It’s just that they chose the wrong target, for Wu Jiu did not rely on sight but on Heart Net and strong other sensory abilities.
So when those Evil Fallen tried to enter Wu Jiu like dust particles, Wu Jiu could detect them ahead of time.
Slicing such tiny creatures, one slash could kill thousands.
And Bai Wu didn’t care, directly inhaling these things into his body without fear.
His physique had become too strong now, transformed inside and out.
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu—
One was like a berserk warrior, swinging the greatsword wildly, every slash bringing forth a deadly storm.
The other was like an Assassin, precise and skillful, with his blade always in its sheath, seemingly without attention drawn yet always pulling it out at the right moment, ensuring a powerful enemy fell every time he drew his sword.
Bai Wu took care of area attacks, repelling the surge of Evil Fallen with overwhelming force.
Wu Jiu was like a sniper rifle, taking out the most troublesome individuals within the tide one by one.
The two did not deliberately coordinate; neither changed their methods to match the other, yet their teamwork was incredibly harmonious, with a clear division of labor.
On the twentieth floor of the Technology Building in Denglin City, those who initially held no expectations for Wu Jiu and Bai Wu were now attracted by the wailings of the Evil Fallen.
It was Bi Yunxia, the female scientist who started by clutching her chest, tormented by a heart-drilling pain.
Following Bi Yunxia’s call, the other scientists also gathered, their gazes through the windows converging on the open space outside the building.
That open space had given them quite a bit of hope.
When they were abandoned by the higher-ups, devoid of any support or materials for research, that open space had often contained food collected by city survivors.
But later, as Jing Si went mad and Professor Tao became twisted, everything changed.
No longer could they see hope in the open space, only countless Evil Fallen seeking to devour them.
Amidst the flash of blades and swords, two young men were slaughtering these Evil Fallen with an overwhelming force! freewёbnoνel.com
After a long absence, a sense of hope began to swell within some of the scientists.
"Are they still human?"
"My eyes can’t keep up with their movements; can the camera capture it?"
"I can’t see clearly; these two are too fast! They really are too fast!"
"So the Evil Fallen... they’re not invincible! They’re human, right? They’re human, right? Humans can be this powerful!"
"If we had entered the High Tower back then... would we also have had a day when we became stronger?"
"Are they truly saviors? Can they really save us?"
"Professor Tao Xingzhi was wrong! He was wrong!"
The Evil Fallen kept falling, and more and more people’s faces showed shock.
The power demonstrated by Bai Wu and Wu Jiu was not about fighting the Evil Fallen but simply about slaughtering them.
In the most desperate times, such lopsided battles indeed could boost morale.
But soon, voices of cold reality intruded.
Fu Lei cursed:
"Don’t harbor pointless hopes; the Evil Fallen in this city can never be completely eradicated. What progress have we made? The worst of them hasn’t even shown its face yet."
"Heh, holding on to hope will only lead to greater disappointment. Look at you all, so lacksadaisical."
"They’re all high-spirited now because they have not yet encountered death, but soon they will feel it—the distance to despair at first is but a step away, then it slowly becomes three steps, five steps, fifty steps, a hundred steps."
"Have you forgotten? You once believed that you could defeat the Evil Fallen too. And the result?"
When everyone else was in despair, Fu Lei was the one who remained clear-headed.
But as soon as everyone began to hope again, placing their expectations on Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, Fu Lei became the most negative of them all.
This was not a contradiction.
He once was the most hardworking and passionate among these scientists.
When everyone else was defeated by reality, Fu Lei never compromised.
He constantly comforted people, persuading them to continue their research.
But as the number of deaths from negative attributes mounted, he gradually came to recognize reality.
A reality so utterly desperate, one where redemption was simply unattainable.
All hopes were shattered by death, and any hope seen anew was even more distant than before.
Forget which year it started, but people could no longer withstand the negative attributes, already indifferent towards life itself.
After every four hours when those negative attributes arrived, they frantically committed suicide, ending life, only to begin a new round of torment.
As a result, the number of deaths among the scientists kept increasing, and the intervals between deaths kept decreasing.
Previously, Fu Lei could still sway them, and they would comfort and support each other, enduring the tortures that came every four hours.
Not anymore.
Now, they ended their lives directly, just like Bi Yunxia would.
Unwilling to live on in pain.
Because it held no meaning; living with pain and without any hope, why should they bear it?
Only Fu Lei... endured silently all along.
Even after seven hundred years, he still wouldn’t end his own life, preferring to die in pain rather than compromise.
Yet he had changed a lot.
He no longer gave anyone hope, no longer tried to persuade them to change anything.
Where he once gave people hope, now he extinguished it.
Because Fu Lei understood, fruitless hope was a torment far more terrifying than any negative attribute.
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After Jing Si went mad and realized the irreversibility of their actions,
the now lucid Jing Si, along with a group of scientists, returned to Xuanhui City, Professor Tao’s hometown.
This was Jing Si’s way of making amends. In some ways, the scientists now in Denglin City were considered expendable.
As for why not all were saved, the heart of Jing Si’s malevolence that was embedded inside Professor Tao, also represented Jing Si’s will.
Jing Si couldn’t completely overturn the rules they had created.
Outside the science and technology building of Denglin City, this group of scientists – abandoned by humanity, cursed by Professor Tao, coveted by the Evil Fallen – stared eagerly at the empty space just outside the building:
The brave figures of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu.
Fu Lei’s words brought them back to the harsh reality; indeed, no matter how hard these two young men strived, how powerful they became, they couldn’t change the situation.
Because the true master of this city had yet to appear.
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The numerous corpses of the Evil Fallen gave off a stench.
Neither Wu Jiu nor Bai Wu’s breathing faltered, for Bai Wu’s physique was already of the Well Level.
Although Jing San had been lying down for seven hundred years, he was valued by Jing Yi and assigned to hunt for Xiaoyugan, which meant his strength was not weak at the least.
He might not surpass Jing Er, but he was certainly not lesser than Jing Wu.
Although Jing Wu had been repeatedly defeated in battle, Bai Wu had to admit that even on the flight, if not for the final contest of domains, he was no match for Jing Wu.
Common Evil Fallen, even top-tier ones like judges, merchants, and Nie Chongshan, were far inferior to existences at the Well Level.
So Bai Wu’s breathing was steady because of his absolute strength.
Wu Jiu, Bai Wu noticed, relied on battle experience and techniques of breath control.
Not only that, but every strike of the captain was incredibly precise. It looked as though he had been fighting for a long time, but in reality, he made no superflous movements, only the necessary actions to kill his opponents.
Bai Wu grew to respect Wu Jiu even more.
Wu Jiu’s respect for Bai Wu also grew.
After battling outside the Technology Building in Denglin City for over an hour, the nearby corpses were dense, and not far off, they could be described as piled up like mountains.
But fighting here was not a solution, and Wu Jiu said,
"Since the Evil Fallen won’t enter the Denglin City building, there’s no need for us to waste energy here. This place is like a central area; Evil Fallen will keep coming ceaselessly."
"We must find the strongest Evil Fallen... which is the Mind of Jing Si."
Bai Wu nodded,
"The captain is right, give me a few dozen seconds."
Wu Jiu did not know what Bai Wu was going to do but didn’t ask either.
After all, any Evil Fallen that came close to Bai Wu would be slain with a single stroke of his blade.
What Bai Wu was actually doing was quite simple, something that he had done numerous times—continuously observing his surroundings.
Bai Wu looked to the north:
[This way won’t do; here you’ll appreciate the scenery of Denglin City and encounter countless hospitable Evil Fallen. Although you’re more enthusiastic, why waste your fervor on a bunch of minor characters?]
Then he looked to the west:
[Hmm... There used to be a popular street to the west, with foot-bathing parlors, nightclubs, and those indecent barber shops. I’d love to go, but I guess you wouldn’t be interested.]
There was no news of the Seven Deadly Sins, but actually, before meeting up with Wu Jiu, Bai Wu had observed the area, trying to find the location of the seven weapons with his eyes.
Bai Wu then looked to the south—
[Oh, option ’C’ once again fulfills its mission. Do you see that mist? There are few Evil Fallen inside it, but each one is very strong. Hidden deep within that dense mist lies a piece of secret history that you might find interesting~
Guess which Masked Strange Person’s past is hidden there?]
The last sentence was like a parent playing Santa Claus, holding a gift box and saying to their child, "Guess what kind of learning machine I’ve prepared for you."
There was nothing surprising to say.
Bai Wu furrowed his brow thinking over some clues:
"In 2128, the High Tower was sealed off, and that was the year The First Generation, mortally wounded and close to death, encountered Lin Rui."
"It was also that year that Jing Si left Denglin City and headed for Xuanhui City."
"And I have seen a sword in the hands of The First Generation... Could it be... the Seven Deadly Sins are nearby?"
"The Jing Si deceived by Professor Tao, why did he suddenly come to his senses? Why did The First Generation turn up in Denglin City? Did he encounter Jing Si here, or was he actually coming for Jing Si?"
If The First Generation and Jing Si met, a battle would have surely ensued.
Bai Wu faintly had an answer:
"Captain, let’s head south."
"What’s down there?"
"Traces of a hero’s life."
