Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 540: Chapter 157: Spoilers Are Even Worse Than Killing Him

No matter how normal this world seemed, Spades Ten didn’t believe anyone could stop a car with their bare hands.

He had been in this world for quite some time, seen many strange things, yet there were also many strange things he hadn’t seen.

Looking at the face of Bai Wu, which bore a slight resemblance to a certain Red Hearts K, Spades Ten’s expression surprisingly remained very calm.

He certainly knew Bai Wu.

The son of an old rival.

A rather morbid name.

After all the trouble to escape, yet to have a son and give him such a name.

They could have joined forces to investigate certain matters, yet they always engaged in lukewarm endeavors.

It was as if there was a residual yearning for a certain world left behind by the abandoned K, but that was all.

When a person who looked a bit like the old rival and called himself Bai Wu appeared, and showed the astonishing strength to intercept a garbage truck weighing four tons with his bare hands, these factors had led Spades Ten to deduce quite a lot.

"It seems Bai Yuan is paying close attention to me," he said.

"How so?" Bai Wu asked.

"If Bai Yuan wasn’t paying attention to me, how would you know of the crimes I’ve committed? If you’re not from the future, knowing the next place I’m going to strike, how else could you be waiting for me on my only escape route?"

The smile on Spades Ten’s face was remarkably similar to the one Bai Yuan had when he discovered someone had infiltrated his archive room.

He opened the car door, inviting Bai Wu to get in:

"If you want to kill me, naturally you need to start at the source. This isn’t the source, so you’re probably not here to kill me."

"Of course, if I wanted to kill someone, I wouldn’t waste so much time talking."

The young Spades Ten and Bai Yuan, their appearances had not changed.

Or rather, the Spades Ten and Bai Yuan that Bai Wu saw were actually from seven hundred years ago.

Only that... one was a fixation resurrected by a Full Moon Fragment, living in the Inner World.

The other was someone who’d been hiding in the Inner World, hidden so well that even Bai Yuan couldn’t find him.

Bai Wu recalled this and found it truly interesting.

The obsession Spades Ten had for his own father was perhaps deeper than his own.

Bai Yuan escaped to another world and led a listless life.

Spades Ten, in order to compete with Bai Yuan, also escaped there.

After Bai Yuan died, Spades Ten somehow lay dormant within the Inner World of the old rival’s child. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Bai Wu had too many questions he wanted to ask Spades Ten.

Spades Ten hadn’t expected to meet someone from a different time and space today, but he simply said:

"It seems I must remember today’s events, yet also forget them." ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

"Yes, no matter what we discuss today, it can’t change your subsequent actions. You must try to live the coming days as if ’I had not met Bai Wu,’ as though it’s a possibility."

The way Bai Wu was doing things was essentially the same as Qian Yixin sealing The First Generation.

The garbage truck started up again.

Spades Ten, dressed in the uniform of a garbage site worker, wore an amused smile. He wasn’t in a rush to speak and slowly drove the vehicle.

The garbage truck quickly entered the tunnel, and in the dim light, Bai Wu organized his thoughts.

He had many questions he wanted to ask Spades Ten.

His main objective was to find out why this world was shaped like a tower?

What was the basis for it?

He had taken Cain as a disciple so that Cain would split the tower open, yet he himself entered the tower because of Bai Yuan—was this foolish?

In the end, how did he get in? How exactly did he and Bai Yuan come to this world?

What’s going on with me?

Perhaps as Jing Liu said, since I have come to the world of my previous life, maybe I have participated in all the behind-the-scenes activities.

But the Ten of Spades clearly knew a lot.

Yet among so many questions, the first one Bai Wu asked was about the people who came to this world.

"I want to ask about some things."

"You just need to know what to ask and what not to ask, if you have thought about it, I will answer you."

The tunnel was deep, and the Ten of Spades drove very slowly and steadily.

He had quickly accepted both the appearance of Bai Wu and the fact that someone had crossed through time and space.

He also had a rough inferential framework in his mind, and next, he wouldn’t even need to ask questions; just by listening to Bai Wu’s inquiries, he could guess much.

"The first thing I want to know is, how many people have come to this world from the farm?"

The Ten of Spades revealed a smile, at this time he wasn’t as he would later be.

Not yet familiar with Bai Wu, he naturally didn’t show the closeness he would within the Well World.

His words were more direct:

"Tsk, that is indeed a good question, it includes how we came in, and who came in."

"It seems you have been to the Ark?"

Talking with someone like the Ten of Spades meant mutually extracting information.

It was possible to get some information from the other party, but they could glean even more from your questions.

Bai Wu didn’t mind because he had seen the future.

"Yes, I have been to the Ark."

"Then you also saw that pitiable Split Body. Interesting, you come from the future and yet, seeing that Split Body, she didn’t kill you for being Bai Yuan’s son..."

The Ten of Spades made a slight deduction:

"Maybe she has realized she is just a Split Body, a tool Bai Yuan used to build his ship."

"And you helped her to discover that point."

"So, it’s very likely, that you want to know the whereabouts of the original?"

Jing Liu, hidden in the void unseen, had previously thought the Ten of Spades was nothing more than a chuckling deceiver, but now she suddenly felt that this man was very sharp.

Just that, in the world of the Well, the Ten of Spades had concealed his sharpness.

Bai Wu didn’t deny it:

"I indeed have been to the Ark, and indeed... I met a pitiable girl there."

The tunnel still had no end in sight, and the Ten of Spades focused on the road ahead, but he didn’t stop speaking:

"You carry a twisted aura, and you are fundamentally different from us, the world’s rules seem not to apply to you, this may originate from the fact that you and I came through different channels."

"It seems, you didn’t come in through a Teleportation Stele, at least, this crossing of yours has nothing to do with K’s Temporal Power."

"Is K still alive?"

Bai Wu hadn’t seen the gift left by Qian Yixin, so he shook his head.

The Ten of Spades’ smile faded a bit:

"That’s a shame, if he and Bai Yuan had continued to work together, perhaps the outcome would have been different. If you meet a capable comrade in the future, don’t give them up lightly."

K was barely acquainted with the Ten of Spades.

In the memory of the Ten of Spades, their latest interaction involved him deceiving K in order to obtain some item through The Deceiver.

Though his eyes were only for Bai Yuan, in the few interactions he had with K, the Ten of Spades also felt this man’s personal charisma.

He began to answer Bai Wu’s questions:

"To enter this world, one must go through a Teleportation Stele."

"And those who can inscribe the stele are two in number, three including myself," he said.

Bai Wu grasped the critical point—was The Deceiver also in possession of the method to create the Teleportation Stele?

How did he acquire it?

The Deceiver gestured with his eyes for Bai Wu not to speak, and he continued slowly:

"What you are most concerned about is how many people have entered this world."

"Strictly speaking, there are two. Bai Yuan and I. However, Bai Yuan passed through K’s stele, while I acquired K’s abilities through... The Deceiver."

Bai Wu was shocked.

The Deceiver’s powers were heavily restricted when used by Cain; at the very least, the judgement of deception was complex.

Yet, for The Deceiver, it seemed to have become much easier.

However, Bai Wu quickly thought of Sequence advancement and no longer found it strange.

But the notion of acquiring the power of The First Generation still felt beyond his imagination.

"You needn’t concern yourself with that. The powers I’ve acquired are far from few, not just those of The First Generation but also those of your father."

"It’s just that in this world, my powers are momentarily unable to trigger."

Just how powerful was The Deceiver?

Bai Wu realized that he had underestimated the Sequence known as The Deceiver.

Ranked just before Prayle’s Eye, it now appeared that a Sequence was merely a weapon. A weapon itself might possess immense power, but to become legendary, it all depended on the wielder.

The pebble of the strong is mightier than the bullet of the weak.

If Bai Wu was the most fitting wielder for Prayle’s Eye,

If Wu Jiu was the most harmoniously fitting wielder, then The Deceiver was the most fitting wielder of The Deceiver.

Those Sequences ranked even higher, such as Bipolar Transposition, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, God of Destruction, Temporal Return... etc., also depended on the user.

Clearly, figures like Zheng Yue and Yan Zizai, despite their strength, had not yet unleashed the full potential of their Sequences.

The Deceiver said:

"Deception is a tool for survival. I believe you have a deep understanding of this from that twisted world,"

Bai Wu nodded.

"To get back to the point, Bai Yuan and I arrived in this world one after the other, but in fact, Bai Yuan... is not just Bai Yuan."

Bai Wu understood:

"The true form of Xiaoyugan... joined him?"

A subtle change came over The Deceiver’s expression as he gazed at Bai Wu, his eyes resembling those of a predator eyeing its prey.

Even with incredible abilities, Bai Wu was still but an ordinary man at this moment.

"This is something I am still investigating, a matter between him and myself, and you are not welcome to interfere."

"Each person has their own pleasure, and contending with Bai Yuan is mine. Your existence, your arrival might add to the pleasure of this affair, but it can’t dilute it."

"If you were to tell me what will happen in the future that would render my confrontation with Bai Yuan tedious, I would make sure you understand that those who toy with time and space will inevitably be toyed with by time and space."

In just a few sentences, The Deceiver had bared his fangs.

To be precise, he had seen through Bai Wu’s weakness.

Bai Wu came from the future, and a person from the future traveling to the past could easily, with one false move, trigger a massive butterfly effect, resulting in a collapse of causality.

Leading to unprecedented drastic changes in the future.

Therefore, Bai Wu dared not do so.

The Deceiver had seen through this, and even though he had lost the powers of his Sequence, lost the Innate Force, lost a variety of traits,

he was still able to intimidate Bai Wu while bearing the guise of an ordinary person.

His intimidation was effective because he could reveal things that affected Bai Wu’s cause and effect at any moment.

"My contest with Bai Yuan is to be absolutely fair, even when I have external forces at my disposal, I choose not to use them."

"Just like at this moment, if you were to tell me how to outsmart Bai Yuan, it would make the upcoming game boring."

In the Well World before, the Spade Ten didn’t play the role of an enemy, so Bai Wu hadn’t felt the difficulty of dealing with him, but now he was starting to.

Of course, Bai Wu was no pushover:

"It seems Bai Yuan is quite important to you. If you threaten me with disrupting causality again, I will kill Bai Yuan. You might want to bet on whether I’m crazy enough to do it."

Spade Ten’s complexion changed.

He had seen through Bai Wu’s weakness, but Bai Wu had also seen through his.

Just like Bai Yuan, Spade Ten was a person seeking thrills.

And his thrill lay in dealing with Bai Yuan.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who like spoilers to gain an information edge and reduce emotional volatility.

And those who hate spoilers and enjoy the maximum emotional tension that comes from the plot.

Clearly, Spade Ten belonged to the latter.

Killing Bai Yuan would be like giving Spade Ten’s otherworldly journey a tediously predictable ending.

It would be more unbearable than killing him.

"Ha, you truly are the son of the man I detest. You and your father are alike in that way, making light of patricide. Your father-son relationship is truly enviable. So let’s agree. We’ll stay out of each other’s way."

At the end of the tunnel, there was finally light.

The garbage truck slightly increased its speed, and Spade Ten said:

"Regarding what you want to know, the relation between the last K’s original body and Old Bai, I’m still investigating."

"But what is certain is, she came to this world with Old Bai."

Bai Wu, looking at the light ahead, asked:

"My mother, have you met her?"

"I have."

Bai Wu fell silent. Although Spade Ten wasn’t looking at Bai Wu, he could guess certain things from the tone with which Bai Wu asked the question.

He revealed a smile again.

"Is she... still alive?" Bai Wu asked.

If Spade Ten had met his mother and was investigating the relationship between Xiaoyugan’s original body and Bai Yuan, did that mean his mother wasn’t Xiaoyugan’s original body?

For a while, Bai Wu had thought his mother was the original body of Xiaoyugan.

Jing Yi, the farm owner, aimed to control Xiaoyugan to create a powerful spirit that could instantaneously change the world’s distortion concentration and cause the High Tower to appear.

And Bai Yuan took Xiaoyugan away for other schemes.

"I don’t know, I’m only interested in Bai Yuan. As for Bai Yuan’s women... well, by the common standards of this world, Bai Yuan does not lack women, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he had women around."

"Your mother is just an ordinary woman, but you surprised me. I didn’t expect today’s job would bring me an unexpected encounter with someone from the future."

The garbage truck finally emerged from the tunnel.

Bai Wu wasn’t particularly sensitive to the change in light, but Spade Ten clearly found the sunlight somewhat dazzling.

Because he was now an ordinary person.

"You have many secrets, but those secrets may not be within your grasp just by traveling through time and space."

Bai Wu didn’t deny it.

Now in his original world, Bai Wu suddenly realized... the puzzles were multiplying.

"I still have some questions. This world, as a tower, what’s that all about?"