Free Web NovelChapter 492: Chapter 109: The Last Checkpoint of Denglin City
A shadow died completely, instilling fear in the other shadows.
Their methods became increasingly intense. Before Bai Wu and Wu Jiu could launch their attack, a series of terms transformed into various shapes, piling up countless elements in front of the two.
As vessels bearing parts of Jing Si’s memory, their strength was already extremely formidable.
One of the humans had already consumed Well Water and mastered the essence of distortion, possessing a Well Level body, and could no longer be considered human.
The other, although a pure human, was among the best in combat talent, and with countless opportunities and fortune had endured many twisted rules, ultimately reaching a level difficult for humans to achieve.
Their joint efforts meant these strong monsters, each capable of ruling an area alone, were being dealt with one after another.
Through this battle, Bai Wu finally felt the results of the captain’s long training.
When the white light from his blade sliced through the shadow in the dull space, he thought he could hear the sound of electricity.
The collaboration between Bai Wu and Wu Jiu signified a pinnacle partnership of combat strategy and experience.
If they were at a disadvantage, they would surely turn it into an advantage; if they held the advantage, they would definitely expand it further.
"Captain, are you okay?"
Bai Wu looked at Wu Jiu, who knew Bai Wu was asking about the memory explosion following the shadow’s death.
"The next segment of memory is coming, get ready!"
As the word "ready" was spoken, Wu Jiu’s figure had already appeared behind a shadow.
Earth walls, ice barriers, firewalls, black holes, spider webs, vines...
Numerous methods tried to block Wu Jiu, but his only way to break through was speed—fast.
Bypass the enemy’s defense before all the defensive measures could take effect!
A powerful slash beheaded another shadow once more.
At that moment, Bai Wu burst forth with all his might, throwing the greatsword in his hand as if it were a flying wheel!
In this way, even if his body momentarily lost control when the memory struck, the trajectory of the Envy Greatsword would not change.
Prayle’s Eye, too, allowed Bai Wu to see a brief future before the memory’s onslaught.
The path of this greatsword would conveniently interfere with several shadows, giving him and Wu Jiu a moment to become "absent-minded."
The second shadow died.
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In Ddnglin City, Jing Si roared, and black substance erupted in an instant.
Jing Liu stood at the door:
"Brother, snap out of it! Snap out of it!"
"Get...out of my way!"
Jing Si was having an episode, his frenzied will to fight tearing at his sanity. Even with Jing Liu in front of him, Jing Si was struggling to hold back.
Just then, outside the sixteenth floor of the Ddnglin City Tech Building, at ninety meters in the air, a golden vortex appeared.
The Temporal Power formed into a golden storm, the strong wind beating against everything. Jing Liu, seeing K’s arrival in this moment... it was as though her eyes twinkled with countless stars.
"Such an interesting Power of Causality..." Jing Liu murmured to herself as she watched The First Generation.
Jing Si, facing The First Generation, actually managed to grasp those golden trajectories with his hands.
The Inverted Well Domain hadn’t formed seven hundred years ago, but at that time, Jing Si already possessed the power to directly capture the essence of distortion!
"Hahaha, having an episode, huh? No worries, I’ll give you a good fight! I’ll wake you up!"
It was as if a sun had appeared inside the sixteenth floor, with brilliant golden light making the Ddnglin City Tech Building dazzle.
By the time Jing Liu came to her senses, The First Generation had already used Temporal Power to take away Jing Si.
The strength of both was too formidable; a real fight here would naturally affect the entire city.
In the moment the memory shifted, Jing Liu’s eyes were still somewhat excited, as if she saw a key that could unlock many locks.
This key was The First Generation.
Only then did Bai Wu slowly begin to understand. It was probably around this time that The First Generation caught the attention of Jing Liu.
It was because he wanted to save Jing Si, to save the scientists, that the causality of The First Generation was manipulated by Jing Liu into a closed loop.
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In Ddnglin City, amidst the grey fog.
Wu Jiu and Bai Wu opened their eyes at the same time. At that moment, the Envy Greatsword had just completed a rotation, returning like a boomerang to Bai Wu’s hand.
"Again!"
With another swing of the greatsword, Bai Wu’s momentum grew stronger after two attacks!
"Get ready!"
Like a bolt of lightning, the white light flickered, and under Bai Wu’s cover, Wu Jiu’s slash was as precise as a sniper’s bullet.
Memories surged once more.
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Unknown land.
What Bai Wu and Wu Jiu saw in their consciousness was a desert.
The sand whirled, and two figures lay upon the desert.
One was Jing Si, the other The First Generation.
"May I see your face?" Jing Si’s eyes were clear, apparently having regained consciousness.
"No."
"But I remember you promised me."
"Hahahahaha, you remembered wrong, wrong! Ah... it really hurts."
"I’m sorry... I couldn’t control myself back then."
In front of The First Generation, Jing Si was like a child who had erred.
But from The First Generation’s slightly labored breathing and the wounds on his body, it seemed he had been badly beaten by the "child."
Bai Wu could never have imagined that The First Generation and Jing Si had such a good relationship seven hundred years ago.
"It’s alright, but you’re much more powerful than last time. It seems your strength is rapidly increasing... Next time, I wonder if I can still restrain you."
"I don’t know either, I’ve been growing increasingly less lucid, but correspondingly, my power seems to be continually increasing." Jing Si sat up, looking at his palms with a bewildered expression.
The First Generation remained lying in the sand, letting the desert sun scorch him:
"I, who have mastered Temporal Power, can be injured by you, hahahahaha, it’s so interesting, the power within you is so interesting."
The First Generation’s smile was probably to mask the pain of his injuries. Although his laugh was still spirited, his wounds were healing very slowly.
"Because of the prophecy of the savior, I seem to become more easily irritable... Does the savior really exist? My sister wouldn’t lie to me. But her words are strange too... She used to be so certain about this."
The First Generation stopped laughing:
"Some things, we foolish ones, are always being toyed with by the clever ones."
"I used to have a clever person by my side too, come to think of it, we’re quite similar. You’re good in a fight, I was decent as well, you had a clever person by your side, I also had one."
Jing Si didn’t catch the subtext in The First Generation’s words, and The First Generation wasn’t in a hurry:
"Even though it’s always him making the decisions, what’s strange is, I know when he’s using me, and what he uses on me is always open strategies."
"For him and me... well, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Even though it seems like he’s using me, in reality, I don’t feel uncomfortable about it."
Jing Si slowly shook his head: "I don’t quite understand..."
"Sometimes, people around us will exploit our desires. My desire is to let as many people survive as possible, and so is yours, hence someone made a plan, and someone told you about the existence of the savior."
"The person who constructed a plan for me is also exploiting me. So, the person who told you about the existence of the savior, could they also be looking to exploit... ah, don’t look at me like that, I don’t mean to incite anything."
This time Jing Si understood, but he didn’t say anything more.
The First Generation tried a different approach:
"We all need guidance, yet those who can guide us, do not owe us that guidance."
"So, to some extent, the guidance we receive will be mixed with some self-serving elements. But all of this is for you to ponder," he said.
Jing Si fell silent for a long time before saying,
"The time I can stay lucid is growing shorter... I need someone to make decisions for me, and I can only trust my sister."
"Hmm, that seems about right, but before you go completely mad, I’ll find a way."
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Consciousness returned to reality once more, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu exchanged glances.
Bai Wu suddenly realized that the lie of Wu Liu being a savior might have been to keep Jing Si stable.
If what the revelation suggested was true, Wu Liu probably hoped that Jing Si would ascend to become an existence that transcends Alpha.
As for the savior... The significance of this lie was perhaps to better control Jing Si.
Perhaps it was at that moment that The First Generation spotted some issues, which led him to speak those words to Jing Si.
Perhaps Wu Liu, too, through the Power of Causality, saw through The First Generation’s causal chain and knew that The First Generation was an obstacle in his control over Jing Si.
Wu Jiu made a controlled breathing gesture, the fourth blade was ready.
This time, there was no conversation between Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, both knew exactly what to do.
Bai Wu created opportunities for Wu Jiu with his ferocious, sweeping movements once again.
With three dark entities dead in succession, the situation shifted from one against nine to one against six, making it easier for Bai Wu and Wu Jiu.
A flash of white light.
The fourth dark shadow was slain. After a brief lapse in consciousness, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu awoke from the fourth segment of memories.
In the gray space, colors began to emerge.
As the fifth dark shadow fell, the gray mist became thinner.
As the sixth dark shadow died, fierce eyes pierced through the gray mist.
The Evil Fallen, who had been drawn by the scent of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, no longer dared to approach after seeing the terrifying slash of the two.
Scientists coughed continuously as they watched the horizon through their telescopes, their negative mutations causing coughing fits; some of their skins had begun to decay, looking excruciatingly painful.
Yet no one chose to die.
"Make way for me!" Fu Lei stood up.
This time, even he approached the window.
Because Bi Yunxia had mentioned—the gray mist over that bleak land was slowly fading away.
In seven hundred years, none of the scientists had entered that place, and Fu Lei was no different; he had never traveled as far as Bai Wu and Wu Jiu had.
But he could feel very clearly that the Evil Fallen there were entirely different from those in other places.
Fu Lei found it hard to believe that there were humans who could battle such monsters.
And yet... these two humans displayed an overwhelming advantage.
Not only against the Evil Fallen outside the building, but even the monsters formed from Jing Si’s distorted memories in the gray mist were being suppressed.
Jing Si’s terror, even after seven hundred years, remained an indelible shadow in the hearts of these scientists.
"Professor Fu... can they, can they win?" a scientist named Xu Zhigao asked.
Fu Lei didn’t respond; he resisted hope yet couldn’t suppress it.
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One by one, the dark shadows fell.
In front of Bai Wu was the last dark shadow, which could no longer change the outcome no matter what it tried.
In the previous memory segments, Bai Wu had seen the interactions between The First Generation and Jing Si.
Jing Si was not alone; The First Generation seemed to have sensed something sharply.
He always managed to appear during Jing Si’s bouts of madness, time and again, bringing him back to clarity through battle.
But his injuries from the duel with Jing Si were becoming graver.
And during this process, Jing Liu gradually became acquainted with The First Generation.
Although in Jing Si’s memory, at this time, Jing Liu had not made any significant moves.
But Bai Wu sensed that Jing Liu had already begun to lay out his plans.
It seemed for seven hundred years, many of Jing Liu’s plans appeared futile.
This was because those who change causality need to pursue the best outcome, and sometimes before this outcome arises, they must forcibly experience many terrible events.
Jing Liu must have tried many things over seven hundred years, leading the farm owner to warn Jing Liu during their meeting that the Power of Causality was ineffective against him.
But even if Jing Liu only succeeded in one thing, that thing must inevitably affect the future of the world.
Jing Liu tried to control Jing Si, whereas The First Generation tried to awaken him.
It’s just that The First Generation, compared to Jing Liu, ultimately faced many restrictions.
What Bai Wu wondered was, what role exactly did the doctor play?
To whom did he truly belong, Jing Liu or Jing Yi?
Jing Si’s madness was gradually spiraling out of control, and the insane amplification of Jing Si’s abilities made it difficult for The First Generation to cope.
And the seven days of calamity in Baichuan City forced The First Generation to leave Ddnglin for a while.
At that time, The First Generation borrowed a weapon from Jing Si.
The memory reached this point, and Bai Wu finally saw clues of the seven deadly sins.
But neither The First Generation nor Jing Si had mentioned this weapon. Was it a genuine one of the seven deadly sins? How did it come about? And where was the second seven deadly sins?
There were no answers to these questions in his memory.
Before parting, The First Generation only mentioned that he would return this weapon to Jing Si.
Several consecutive memories related to The First Generation convinced Bai Wu of one thing—The First Generation must have been a very important person in Jing Si’s heart.
Without immediately swinging the greatsword, Bai Wu looked at the dark figure, this monster formed from memories, and sighed,
"If there were a savior in this world, then The First Generation, Lin Rui, would be the closest to this standard; but whether it’s The First Generation or Lin Rui..."
"Both were killed by Jing Si who desperately awaited a savior."
Bai Wu had not yet witnessed the specific contents of the last memory, but he could guess what it was.
This memory should be of The First Generation’s encounter with Lin Rui before meeting him.
It was the memory of when The First Generation was seriously wounded by Jing Si and entered a near-death state.
"Captain, let’s do it."
"Okay."
Without any suspense, the last shadow was effortlessly killed by the joint efforts of Wu Jiu and Bai Wu.
The final battle of The First Generation unfolded in Bai Wu’s mind.
At the same time, as all the shadows perished, cracks began to appear on the ground of Ddnglin City.
The gray fog dissipated, but the entire city was soon enveloped in black fog.
The immense heartbeat sound that Wu Jiu had felt upon entering this city became increasingly clear.
In the memory, Wu Jiu and Bai Wu, even if their consciousness had not fully awakened, also entered into some defensive state unconsciously due to a strong sense of crisis.
"Why has the sky suddenly darkened?" everyone in the Ddnglin City Science and Technology Building had the same question.
The scientists who had been in Ddnglin City for seven hundred years had never seen such a scene.
As the nine shadows died, the city’s gray fog dissipated, but before they knew it, they were attacked by an even more intense darkness instantaneously.
Wrapped in the black dense fog that shrouded the whole city, on the giant tentacles entwining the Ddnglin City Science and Technology Building, crimson eyes opened one after another.
The Evil Fallen that had gathered due to the scent of humans all dispersed.
The scientists didn’t know what was happening, and Fu Lei’s face turned pale,
"Tao... no, Jing Si has awakened."
(Tomorrow there will either be two Chapters or a single Chapter over ten thousand words... This is the last piece of foreshadowing. See you at midnight~)
