Free Web NovelChapter 526: Chapter 143: The Avenger
"Wu Jiu" found this sentence very strange.
"I have no identity. What you see as a projection is a projection, but I am not that person."
"That’s how I call you now. I still have many questions I want to know, these questions represent a lot of information... Sometimes, we can understand each other better through the questions we ask, not necessarily through the answers."
Wu Jiu did not explicitly say whether he was part of the Rebel Army or not.
Bai Wu didn’t press for details either, they both kept the conversation to the point without revealing too much.
Just a self-destructive truck-style interview introduction garnered forthright disclosure from the other party, which had already clarified a lot of issues.
Wu Jiu said:
"I have already said enough for today, you need to familiarize yourself with the environment. As for your questions, think carefully about what you want to ask, and I will answer you tomorrow."
Bai Wu nodded his head; he indeed needed time to properly question both The Spade Ten and Jing Liu about his own memory.
As well as what he needed most to retrieve at present.
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In the business department on the seventh floor, Bai Wu saw many familiar faces.
He silently read their names.
"Yin Shuang," "Wang Shi," "Shang Xiaoyi," "Lin Wurou."
There were also many familiar faces, and The Spade Ten said:
"The projections of these people are also subordinates of Little Dwarf in reality. It’s possible that... the most dangerous place could be the safest, and this entire seventh-floor insurance business department... belongs to the Rebel Army’s stronghold."
Jing Liu unexpectedly agreed with The Spade Ten’s claim:
"When the gap between two forces is too large, the weaker force should try to find ways to disintegrate the larger power from within."
"The Seven Consortiums are too strong, the Rebel Army too weak, the only thing they can do is to keep stirring up internal conflicts within the Seven Consortiums."
Bai Wu thought the same. The clients of this company were probably all elites from the Seven Consortiums.
On the surface, they were doing insurance business, but in reality, they were also gathering intelligence.
As for why "Zero" initially forced him to come and assassinate, it must not be because he discovered this place was a Rebel Army stronghold, but because "Zero" belonged to a certain consortium’s power and had currently discovered that "Wu Jiu" was from another consortium.
But in fact, that was only Wu Jiu’s first layer of identity.
However, one point The Spade Ten had to admit was that Bai Wu and Wu Jiu... if there were multiple universes, perhaps these two, no matter which world they were in, would become close friends.
The explosive introduction of Bai Wu today, if it were someone else, would clearly not have been able to achieve this effect.
When night fell, Bai Wu returned to his residence and checked for any monitoring devices.
Mainly listening devices because with "spy satellites" around, there was no safe place in this city, or rather, this world.
After confirming there was no danger, Bai Wu busied himself with dinner while engaging in a conversation with both The Spade Ten and Jing Liu.
High Tower, humanity, Evil Fallen, Seven Deadly Sins, six Well characters, farm, K, Wu Jiu, Zero...
Bai Wu obtained a basic understanding of all the information.
Jing Liu’s position was complex, but The Spade Ten appeared to be entirely on Bai Wu’s side, and she summarized several questions—
"So, what you need to know tomorrow are these points: you are in Alpha’s shell; how will you break the shell?"
"Next, what is your main task working under Wu Jiu, and what impact does it have on the real world?"
"How will you retrieve your memory, as well as the Seven Deadly Sins Weapons? From the looks of it, the Seven Deadly Sins are not simple at all."
Bai Wu took note of these matters.
The next morning, he began a normal "Order Citizen’s" workday.
On the streets, people of all sorts walked along, including students in a hurry, running while eating bread in their hands.
There were middle-aged men holding briefcases, answering phone calls.
People in the car would reveal annoyed expressions over minor contacts during carpooling.
White steam wafted from the bun shop at the street corner.
Everything was no different from a truly normal world.
It was hard to imagine that these people corresponded to various parameters of rules in the real world.
Bai Wu wondered if a nuclear bomb fell here... would the distortion concentration in the real world directly drop by half?
But what about this world?
These people were so real; they were also striving to make a living, trying hard to stay alive.
Perhaps Jing Si... swayed back and forth years ago because he discovered that the people here were also real, flesh and blood humans?
A phrase suddenly emerged in Bai Wu’s mind—
"Next, you will make a series of...choices involving the soul."
This sentence came from Prayle’s Eye, some very important hints that Bai Wu always remembered.
He hadn’t understood what choices involving the soul meant, but now he suddenly did.
"To save the world, you have to be a villain... This may be a very contradictory proposition."
"You must continuously take cruel actions in this world to gradually restore the other world to normal."
Jing Si perhaps could not make such a choice.
Bai Wu quickly pushed these will-disturbing thoughts to the back of his mind.
He arrived at the company.
Then he headed straight to Wu Jiu’s office.
Wu Jiu arrived earlier than most, tirelessly industrious for a leader.
By the time Bai Wu got there, Wu Jiu had already started working.
"Come in, take a look at this."
Without looking up, Wu Jiu handed over a report to Bai Wu as soon as he entered.
Bai Wu flipped through it, and it was full of numbers.
It recorded each person’s number, their positions, ages, living habits.
At the end, the potential impact these people might have on the real world.
"The list of the next batch to be handled is right here."
Wu Jiu closed the pen in his hand, his gaze sharp:
"I have already conducted an investigation on you, and you indeed are an outsider, so welcome to join—the Rebel Army."
"We are seen as villains by everyone, people who overthrow the Order. From now on, you will act as a five-star good citizen on the surface."
"In reality, what you do will be the deeds of a five-star wanted criminal, murder, arson, bombing buildings, we do it all."
Boy, the work I was exposed to yesterday and today is completely different.
It seems that the work to come would be to assassinate these people.
Looking at Wu Jiu’s calm and deep gaze, Bai Wu didn’t seem so confused anymore.
Saving the world just seemed like that, didn’t it? If every job were glamorous, then being a savior would be too easy.
As if he had suddenly understood something, Bai Wu’s expression relaxed:
"I noticed something, the people on the list, their corresponding relationship with reality, is all speculative? What is the basis for the speculation?"
"The Pursuer."
Bai Wu hadn’t reacted yet, but behind him, the Ten of Spades and Jing Liu simultaneously furrowed their brows.
How does this involve The Pursuer as well?
He of Spades Ten said,
"Little Bai, relay my question next."
Bai Wu began to relate He of Spades Ten’s question,
"I have some recollection of The Pursuer, I know that The Pursuer is a person who highly esteems order."
Wu Jiu nodded,
"In the real world, those who revere order and eliminate distortions are, to Well World, terrorists, the most dangerous entities."
Bai Wu asked again,
"But wasn’t The Pursuer almost wiped out by Jing Yi, leaving only one person?"
This question made Wu Jiu even more certain that Bai Wu was an outsider.
Wu Jiu’s reply surprised He of Spades Ten,
"Actually, there are two left... It’s just that these two individuals are unaware of each other’s existence."
The Pursuer, I know they possess a very special power, that allows them, through attacking others in battle, to seize control of those others’ powers.
"But how can one establish a connection with Well World and inform its people of the corresponding relationship with the real world?"
Bai Wu undoubtedly touched on a critical point, Wu Jiu said,
"Sequence Ten, Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies, is actually just the first layer of The Pursuer’s special abilities, and his second layer of special abilities is called Divine Revelation."
"Divine Revelation?" Bai Wu was puzzled, but Jing Liu, behind him, understood.
Because they met on the flight and before killing Bai Wu, Jing Liu had once forcefully probed into causality.
At that time, Jing Liu saw The Pursuer guided by Divine Revelation, arriving at the flight.
"It’s a long story, I’ll have to explain it slowly to you." Wu Jiu opened his water bottle and took a sip.
Bai Wu stopped talking and sat down on the sofa opposite the desk.
Wu Jiu slowly said,
"Yesterday, I told you about the last survivor of the previous civilization—Alpha, as you call him."
"He is special. Completely killing him can put an end to the distortion."
"But don’t forget, there’s also the creator of High Tower. If Alpha is the Twisted Master, then the creator of High Tower can become the Lord of Order."
"His uniqueness is not inferior to Alpha’s, his only weakness is that he is not immortal."
"He lacks an immortal body, therefore, after ultimately sealing Alpha, his physical body was destroyed. He won, yet he was the one to decay."
Bai Wu learned a bit about this yesterday.
The creator of High Tower had defeated Alpha, but while Alpha still lived, the creator of High Tower had died.
"But the Lord of Order also possessed a mighty soul, and before sealing Alpha, in order to prevent the monsters bred from Alpha’s ’Well eggs’ from destroying the world, he also created The Pursuer."
"But as you know, although The Pursuers are stronger than humans and most Evil Fallens, they were not as strong as the first messenger of Alpha—Jing Yi, as you call him."
"Jing Yi was simply too mighty and exceedingly cunning, seducing one Pursuer after another, eventually leading almost to the extinction of The Pursuers..."
"Once The Pursuer activates Divine Revelation, we of the Rebel Army, the former Order Faction, can sense the variations between the two worlds."
"When there were many Pursuers before, it can be said that we could continuously sense the connection between the two worlds and react."
"But with the appearance of Jing Yi... everything changed."
"In the end... only two Pursuers were left. And the Pursuer who has been constantly in touch with us has, for seven hundred years, mostly resided in High Tower."
He of Spades Ten felt this was very interesting. There was such a strong existence in High Tower?
So Bai Wu posed the question,
"How could there be such an existence in the High Tower?"
"Because of the Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies, he can take on any form; thus, seven hundred years ago, he was one of the seventy-two rulers. And over those seven hundred years... he has assumed the identity of one of the rulers’ servants, continuously gathering intelligence."
"He would periodically deliver Divine Revelations, bringing news of changes in both worlds. This is the basis of our conjectures."
Having lost his memories, Bai Wu could only deduce all of this with the help of Spades Ten, who was intimately familiar with Bai Wu’s memories. frёewebηovel.cѳm
Spades Ten said:
"This person must not have been around for the past two years; otherwise, no one could carry out an impersonation under the watch of Prayle’s Eye. You’d better ask whether this Pursuer has met with some misfortune."
Bai Wu posed the question:
"But I didn’t encounter him in the High Tower."
"Wu Jiu" sighed:
"Indeed, he hasn’t been in the High Tower for the past twenty years. Throughout these twenty years, we have relied on the Divine Revelations from another Pursuer. As for the one in the High Tower... He fell in love with a human woman and fathered a daughter."
"For seven hundred years... he was always diligent and loyal, but suddenly, he had the life he wanted for himself, which we could not possibly hinder."
"Still, a tragedy occurred."
"What tragedy?"
A Pursuer, posing as a servant to the rulers, lives in the High Tower, marrying and fathering a child with a woman from there.
Spades Ten suddenly thought of a woman that Bai Wu knew, who might be related to this Pursuer.
"He killed his own wife. As for the reason, even we do not know. He received a revelation that he could no longer stay in the High Tower because the monster on the sixth level—Alpha, as you call it—seems to have taken a particular interest in those of Sequence Ten with Ten Thousand Phantasmal Bodies."
"To continue staying in the High Tower, Alpha was even willing to risk soul fragmentation to obtain Sequence Ten. Therefore, to prevent that from happening, he left the High Tower."
"And he also left behind his daughter, who was only a few years old."
To kill his wife and abandon his daughter...
If that daughter is still alive, she would probably despise her father for a lifetime.
Yet, Spades Ten deduced a possibility.
"The reason for killing his wife... might also be related to Alpha. His daughter, you should know her, but you can’t remember her right now."
Bai Wu silently noted this:
"What happened to that Pursuer afterward?"
"I don’t know. There’s been no word from him; perhaps he is already dead."
Bai Wu nodded.
"I think I understand now; our job, in essence, is still to carry out assassinations, right?"
"Yes."
"How can I return to my original world?"
"I don’t have the answer to that question. The last outsider also left suddenly; maybe you will know."
Bai Wu understood:
"It seems I need to retrieve my memories and my equipment."
"Wu Jiu" switched on the projector, and Bai Wu looked towards the side wall, where a bank building was projected.
"Under Pride’s flag, Eternal Bank, with a vault that holds many things, boasts the title of safest bank. Your weapons, your memories, they’re all in a safety deposit box inside this bank’s vault."
"Wu Jiu" turned around to face Bai Wu:
"So next, you have two things to do. The first is to familiarize yourself with this world and formulate a strategy for assassination."
"The other—is to rob a bank."
As befitting a five-star fugitive, once free from confusion and moral hesitation, these tasks suddenly sparked Bai Wu’s interest.
