Free Web NovelChapter 524: Chapter 141: The Special Characteristics of the Top 10 Sequences
"Infernal Path?"
Bai Wu’s first reaction was just this.
All of this was too coincidental.
He had suddenly come to this world, a murder had suddenly occurred next door, and then two members of the Order Faction had appeared.
After they were killed, Arcas had suddenly found him, without any unexpected incidents along the way.
A phrase echoed in Bai Wu’s mind—
"Do not reveal your uniqueness. If it’s ever exposed, you must eliminate the knowledgeable parties. Unless... you meet someone you can trust forever."
Bai Wu couldn’t remember where this sentence came from, he only knew it was there in his memory.
It was precisely because of this advice that he launched an attack the moment Spade Ten spoke, killing the two members of the Order Faction.
Upon meeting Zero, Bai Wu’s first reaction was one of joy, but now that feeling had changed.
He kept his composure:
"What if I choose to stay in this world? What if I refuse? I don’t know what kind of person I was before, I had no choice then, but now I want to be a good person... To be honest, finding a stable job in this world filled with order doesn’t sound bad."
Arcas reminded him kindly:
"But you have already killed two members of the Order Faction. Do you think the Seventh Consortiums will let you go?"
Bai Wu was fairly certain by now that it was all a setup. He had just woken up and hadn’t had time to "recover his intelligence" before he had already fallen into the trap.
He sighed:
"So, if I don’t become part of the Rebel Army, I can’t coexist with the Seventh Consortiums? So essentially, right from the start, I inadvertently delivered a declaration of allegiance?"
Zero didn’t speak, which served as an affirmation of that point.
"Arcas" said:
"Your abilities are currently unknown, and you will not arouse suspicion, which is why we think you are very suitable for getting close to this person."
"You’ve also said that you’ve failed many times before. Why are you so sure I can succeed?" Bai Wu retorted.
The one who answered was "Zero":
"It’s not that we are certain you will succeed, it’s that we can no longer send any other powerful individuals."
"You are an outsider. Firstly, you are a target we want to win over. Secondly, even though you have just arrived in this world, you already possess the formidable power to easily eliminate members of the Order Faction."
Zero continued:
"I don’t know how much you remember about the real world, but I have to tell you something. In Well World, your power will grow incredibly fast."
"Not just power, but when you leave this world, perhaps your Sequence and Spirit Possession items will experience some positive changes."
Many concepts Bai Wu didn’t understand at all, but Spade Ten explained them from behind, making things somewhat clearer to Bai Wu.
"For the sake of the real world you come from... I hope you will agree to our request."
This "Zero" started to reason with Bai Wu and appeal to his emotions.
Bai Wu was well aware that he could not refuse, inevitably facing death either way, so of course he had to choose the option that gave him the most leeway.
Thus, Bai Wu chose to accept the mission.
"Congratulations, from now on, you are a member of our Rebel Army. I will arrange for my subordinates to inform you of all intelligence, and as for the killing of the Order Faction members, you need not worry. No one will find out about you."
Bai Wu sneered inwardly. Could the Seventh Consortiums really let him suffer a silent loss?
If the Order Faction hadn’t checked on him, there was a very high chance that... the Order Faction had already found him.
Bai Wu became even more skeptical of the identity of the person before him.
"What do I need to do? If your plan is to find this person and attack directly, then I’d advise you to come up with a better plan. I’d like to live a little longer."
Zero said calmly:
"We’ll replace an undercover agent with you, you’ll take his place. This agent has been doing very well, but he isn’t a talent holder. He will recommend you to the company where the target is located, and it’s very likely that you’ll become the target’s assistant."
"Our primary objective is assassination. Your mission is to assassinate the target at the most opportune moment."
"Everything he’s done, everyone he’s been in contact with, the information he’s holding... we don’t need any of it. Remember, this person poses a very great threat... and also has a high anti-surveillance capability. We only want him dead, nothing else!"
With such a solemn warning from Zero, Bai Wu could feel that this person might have indeed cost them quite a few operatives.
He nodded:
"I will act accordingly."
"The deadline is one month. If you haven’t assassinated the target in a month, we’ll assume you’ve been turned by the Seventh Consortiums. Then, we will contact the seven major consortia."
If you’re the sheep and also the wolf, isn’t that a guaranteed win?
Bai Wu silently noted this point.
...
...
Noon, the sun hung high in the sky.
Well City was bustling; walking on the street, Bai Wu felt as though he had returned to his past life.
Ten of Spades and Jing Liu still followed Bai Wu closely.
Observing the crowd coming and going, Ten of Spades said:
"The correspondence between the Well World and the real world is almost exactly as I hypothesized, proving my research is correct."
"Your research amounts to random guessing all day long?"
Having left a certain place, although Bai Wu hadn’t regained his full memory, he had learned a lot about his past with the help of Ten of Spades and Jing Liu.
In short, he was a transmigrator who happened to save the world by chance.
The Well, the world, the Well World, Evil Fallen, Talent Sequence, Spirit Possession—he learned the general idea of all these things.
At the moment, they were getting familiar with the office area’s environment.
Tomorrow morning, Bai Wu was going to report to the company—a headhunting agency under the Pride Consortium.
He would be responsible for personnel allocation.
According to Zero, the profession was a major standard of reference for them.
The characteristics of a profession could well be these parameters affecting a certain feature in the real world.
Ten of Spades said:
"Of course I don’t just guess; my partner and I, over the past seven hundred years, have made small observations that when cross-referenced with each other, led to quite a few conclusions."
"Your partner? Who is that?" Bai Wu got a bit interested.
But Ten of Spades just smiled and said no more.
Jing Liu said:
"I can’t activate the Power of Causality, but in the past I tried to use it to locate those within the top ten of the Sequence; only one person is still alive."
"However, it’s different here. Although we can’t measure it, judging from the calmness of that person when he mentioned number fifteen of the Sequence... perhaps the Well World has extremely rare Sequence holders."
Ten of Spades agreed with this point.
This world may have existed longer than human civilization.
Jing Si had spent some time here and, though he went mad when he returned to the real world, he became the strongest being.
It goes to show that the Well is the most distorted place of this world.
The people here aren’t human, including the Rebel Army that Bai Wu encountered; in the end, they are just personifications of various parameters from the real world.
Therefore, if these entities have a Sequence, naturally, they can’t be counted among the living.
Spade Ten knew that Bai Wu had once seen a stone tablet on the sixth layer of the High Tower.
The tablet listed the top ten Sequences, but nine were grayed out, signifying that the first nine Sequences were unowned.
But that might not be the case in this world.
"The heads of the Seventh Consortiums... they might just be the owners of Super Sequences."
Bai Wu couldn’t help but ask,
"The top ten Sequences, just how powerful are they?"
"Very powerful, and among the people I know, only two have them. Our relationship hinges on one of those Sequences. Even my Deceiver couldn’t obtain her Sequence. I’ve deceived her, but to no effect."
"Maybe it’s not that you had no effect, but that she’s pretending to be deceived by you?"
It was Jing Liu who spoke, giving Spade Ten a profound look.
Spade Ten had never considered the possibility that such an innocent person... could turn the tables and deceive an old swindler like herself?
We’ve... been in close company for so long.
Spade Ten’s secret was known to no one.
Bai Wu was confused, but he was used to it; Spade Ten, the talkative one on his left, often provided constructive suggestions.
Jing Liu, on his right, spoke little, mostly supplementing what Spade Ten had to say.
These two were like external cognitive aids to him.
Spade Ten didn’t think too much and continued,
"Anyway, I don’t know how formidable the top ten Sequences are, but one thing’s for sure... even your former boss couldn’t match up to them."
Spade Ten was talking to Jing Liu.
Jing Liu’s former boss was, of course, Alpha. That’s what Bai Wu called him, while the Six Wells referred to him as the Twisted Master.
Jing Liu was now facing unprecedented confusion.
During Bai Wu’s coma, Jing Liu had learned from Spade Ten that... all the future... had been thrown into disarray by a super being named Qian Yixin.
And the causality he saw was that Bai Wu would become the biggest obstacle to his brother Jing Si.
All signs indicated that Bai Wu was his enemy.
But now... Jing Liu wasn’t so sure.
Because Bai Wu’s experiences were exactly like his brother’s.
Except when his brother first arrived in the Well World, he wasn’t as fortunate... you could say he was completely toyed with by these "rules" of the Well World.
But Bai Wu had his own will.
"Sequence 4, Rule Binding, can block most forces according to one’s own desires. Alpha had his power sealed by this Sequence."
"Sequence 7, Reverse Dimension, Alpha could only ascend, unable to descend, perhaps due to Reverse Dimension. This ability is undoubtedly not as simple as I described; maybe it strips multidimensional beings of their ability to explore a certain dimension forever. In short, a dimensionality reduction strike."
"These are two of the High Tower’s main Sequences, and it’s these two Sequences that have sealed Alpha for countless years... The High Tower has existed so long it couldn’t escape on its own power, so it had to plant seeds to break the seals before being bound."
Spade Ten continued,
"Sequence 8, Parasitic Heart Demon, this Sequence’s power isn’t as exaggerated as the first two, but it’s the strongest in the realm of spiritual power. You can think of it as an external aid that can’t be removed by one’s power or personal will."
"But this Sequence... the owner got it incomplete. The threshold for obtaining this Sequence is high, requiring the spiritual power of one who has reached the pinnacle of the world."
"And the one with this Sequence has powerful spiritual power, yet is merely at the level of being very strong, with no chance of reaching the pinnacle, so the Parasitic Heart Demon... doesn’t wield much power in his hands."
"However, this person is very formidable, such that even without the Sequence, he’s an extremely powerful character. You all know him."
Jing Liu knew who it was.
Bai Wu still didn’t know. After all, his current memory was trigger-based; only when he saw the person would he recall fragments of memory.
The three of them had more or less figured out their surrounding environment.
The Ten of Spades and Jing Liu might as well be invisible ghosts; aside from serving as two useful idiots, they could do many other things.
For instance, they could secretly view someone else’s data, although they couldn’t stray too far from Wurou and couldn’t flip through pages or touch anything.
However, Bai Wu was confident that in the upcoming alternative "corporate career," he would gradually master the correspondences between the people of the Well World and the real world.
From the inside out, he’d accomplish a kind of roundabout rescue.
Jing Liu said,
"It’s hard to imagine what kind of perverted abilities the top three in the Sequence possess."
The Ten of Spades nodded:
"I can’t imagine either. While the rankings outside the top ten do exist, the strength of a Sequence actually depends more on how the user utilizes it."
"But some Sequences within the top ten... they really are unbeatable once acquired."
The discussion about the Sequences ended there.
Bai Wu quickly took his people back to their residence.
Everything was as "Zero" had said; the two from the Order Faction had been dealt with, and he faced no trouble at all.
The murder case next door was still under investigation.
A day went by quickly.
The next day, Bai Wu began working at the insurance building in the center of Well City.
Within the Seventh Consortiums, each had similar businesses, so they all crowded into one building, which amounted to a competition among themselves.
The company Bai Wu belonged to was on the seventh floor of the building.
In the elevator, Bai Wu’s attire fit in exceptionally well with the others.
A girl glanced at him.
But it was just a glance, devoid of any emotion; they only noted Bai Wu’s different code.
In Bai Wu’s vision, there were both men and women, but in the eyes of the people of the Well World, everyone looked like they were cast from the same mold.
The only difference lay in their codes.
Soon, Bai Wu arrived at the seventh floor. As soon as he entered, the sweet-looking "Liu Chengzi" nodded at him:
"Are you an employee of our company?"
Bai Wu knew that in this world, people were all the same, distinguished only by their numbers.
But when the name Liu Chengzi surfaced in his mind, he suddenly felt... there was something profoundly meaningful in the way the receptionist smiled.
"Hello, I’m here to replace number #5405784022414."
"Oh, it’s you. Come with me."
"Liu Chengzi" led Bai Wu toward the office area.
Firstly, they passed through a large area where Bai Wu saw "Lin Wurou" engaging in after-sales with a customer. Her spiel went something like this:
"You’ll be hit by a car and die tomorrow if you dare cancel my order. Do you know that the length of your life depends on your policy’s coverage? You still want to cancel? Do you believe someone will chop you to death tomorrow? You’re just envious of those under the Consortium, right? The entire healthcare system is now monopolized by Gluttony, and they hate those envious folks the most. They won’t cover the exorbitant medical costs, so just wait for your death."
Such a sharp-tongued after-sales service gave Bai Wu an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if this projectionist was meant to talk like that.
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After "Liu Chengzi" knocked on the door, Bai Wu heard a familiar voice from inside.
"Come in."
Bai Wu walked in, and upon opening the door, he saw a figure standing at one meter fifty-nine, frowning as though dealing with some troublesome matter.
In that instant... Bai Wu suddenly thought, screw the Rebel Army, I quit; there’s no way I’m killing this person!
(This afternoon, a reader showed up where I live. It’s not a joke, it’s a real incident... I was forced to update early in the morning, thanks to the readers for sparing my life, and I suddenly realized... It hasn’t been easy for me to survive until now...)
