Free Web NovelChapter 55: Chapter 55: Doomsday Fragment
The adventure in this vast grassland has now come to an end.
Although Lou Xiaoping’s past with the husky was heavy, the end of the world always harbors a variety of twisted stories.
Bai Wu sensed that more would be encountered in the future.
The lion, unaware of when it had happened, lay on the ground with vigilance and fear; after the effect of the ring had worn off, it no longer saw humans as a sweet vision.
The imposing monster vanished without a sound before Bai Wu, and to the lion, Bai Wu seemed even more terrifying.
It felt fortunate that it had not done anything abnormal, such as spraying diesel in the face.
Now it dared not leave and simply lay there on the ground, waiting for Bai Wu.
The flesh and hair on Jing’s head swiftly dissipated, like smoke and dust.
The so-called ’picking up the box’ was just an oddly shaped small object, looking almost like an eye.
Bai Wu picked up the fragment, and from its patterns, it seemed to depict a human eye.
The note quickly clarified for him:
"You have obtained a Doomsday Puzzle Fragment. Although there are four pieces in this regional series—eye, ear, mouth, nose—collecting all four will grant you four enhancements in these areas: Negative Attribute Nullification, Evil Fallen Purification, Physical Laws Normalization, and the ability to listen to the voice of the Evil Fallen.
The powers of the fragments extend beyond these. The eye, ear, mouth, and nose fragments are part of a whole, and this whole is part of another larger whole. As you collect more fragments, you unlock more functions, with an increasingly larger area of influence.
However, for now, you can only use the Evil Fallen Purification ability in this grassland. As the holder of the eye fragment, you will gain the respect of all Evil Fallen in the grassland. You will be unable to enter into combat with them."
The note was unexpectedly brief, and Bai Wu felt cheated.
"Negative Attribute Nullification, Evil Fallen Purification, Physical Laws Normalization... If I collect all four, doesn’t it mean that the four regions will become habitable?"
"It seems that the fragments must possess a set effect... A single fragment has a single function in a specific region. But collecting more fragments will cause them to link and provide more and broader capabilities."
"Does this mean that... if all the fragments are found... Humans could live outside the tower?"
Bai Wu glanced at the lion, thinking about using the purification ability on it, but ultimately, he stopped himself.
The lion’s attitude toward him had reached a level of some reverence.
To purify an Evil Fallen is to restore it to its former state, and Bai Wu shook his head:
"If I really restored you to your previous form, I fear you wouldn’t last an hour in this place."
As for taking a lion back... Although a lion mount would be impressive, it would be too ostentatious.
If they were human Evil Fallen, perhaps Bai Wu could purify the entire region and then take them back.
Riding on the lion’s back, Bai Wu pondered the information about the fragments.
"I’ve obtained the eye, which is part of the eye, ear, mouth, and nose, and these in turn are parts of an even larger whole. I’ll put aside the latter for now... The four regions corresponding to the eye, ear, mouth, and nose are, from the information I’ve obtained before, likely the zoo, the circus, the abandoned amusement park, and the haunted house."
When Bai Wu first entered this region, he looked in four directions, and the hints indicated that the adjacent areas were an even more twisted abandoned amusement park and a haunted house.
...
Bai Wu retrieved the ring.
The ring could typically only be used once in a scene, or in plain terms, the skill had a long cooldown.
However, Bai Wu could also feel that he had intimidated the lion.
"It seems that this is related to the fragment holder gaining the awe of the Evil Fallen in that region. But isn’t this a trap?"
"I have been afflicted with a desire for war, and you give me an inability to enter combat with the Evil Fallen of this region..."
Bai Wu’s plan to farm automatically was thwarted, yet this region had become a stable place for him to level up.
"As long as I use the Traction Disc and record this region, I can come here anytime to farm... Even though I will still be infected with negative attributes, at least the Evil Fallen of this region won’t attack me."
The idea was good, but Bai Wu suddenly realized a problem.
The Traction Disc, bridging the three-day rule, allowed one to return to a previous region, but one had to proceed in order.
For instance, if Cain used the Traction Disc, he could lead Bai Wu to the regions he had visited.
Bai Wu could also use the Traction Disc to return to a desired region without the three-day restriction, but he would first have to pass through the regions arranged by Cain.
That is to say, the areas recorded by the Traction Disc must be revisited to be cleared; the sequence cannot be skipped.
"In the Dandelion’s Stomach Travel, I didn’t choose according to Cain’s plan, so it’s hard to imagine what extreme things Cain might instruct his disciples to do next. I must be stronger before I face the disciples again," he said.
Once he made up his mind, Bai Wu chose to continue being idle.
"Being infected with a negative attribute every twelve minutes, Dwarf once hung on to more than a hundred negative attributes. This is good; I can experience the thrill the captain once experienced in less time. Doesn’t that sound nice?"
In such a situation, Bai Wu didn’t think of returning to the city; instead, he continued to be idle.
To some extent, he was also a madman.
And so, in the following time, Bai Wu began testing the limits of his body.
Thirty seconds before each negative attribute struck, he would open the Return Roulette. If he found himself still able to move and his consciousness clear, he would close the roulette and continue being idle.
If he found himself unable to move, he would let the roulette take him back.
By using this method, he began to seriously feel the various negative attributes outside the tower.
The first was gravity imbalance.
Bai Wu thought it was uninteresting; the body would mistakenly think it was in a state of weightlessness or overweight.
But he quickly established a new sense of balance. Bai Wu classified it along with the previously experienced "confusion" as a "free buff".
The meaning was that if he was infected with such a negative attribute, it was as if he was not infected at all, and exploration was unaffected.
Then he was infected with photophobia, where sunlight could directly burn the skin, and Bai Wu’s fingers were scorched by the light.
However, wearing a large cloak, hiding his hands in the cloak, there was no longer any problem. freewebnovel.cσ๓
So Bai Wu classified photophobia as a "free buff" too. Just wear more and avoid exposure to light.
He wore a hood, mask, and cloak, fully and tightly covered, impeccable.
Bai Wu then got infected with a series of attributes. freewebnovёl.ƈom
Eternal hunger, failure to distinguish friend from foe, sluggishness, elemental allergy, a surge in sexual desire, evil fervor, death without speaking, and so on.
But only sluggishness was classified by Bai Wu as an "effective attribute." The rest were free.
Hunger was easy to suppress, failing to distinguish friend from foe just meant confusing the appearance of comrades and enemies; simply establishing a new judgmental basis was sufficient.
Elemental allergy was the same as photophobia; it’s fine if the body did not come into contact with these elements. A surge in sexual desire?
Bai Wu admitted, as a healthy, normal man, when his sea of consciousness was aware of this attribute, he was a little panicked...
But after thinking about it, so far, no woman who could arouse his sexual desire had appeared, so he found it tasteless.
In summary, with the arrival of various attributes, Bai Wu considered them all free. In fact... any one of those attributes was fatal.
Eventually, Bai Wu was still driven back to the High Tower.
Because he had brushed against a buff that, for now, he could not handle, Desire for Blood.
This was a negative attribute stronger than a thirst for war; if no killing took place within six minutes, health would progressively drop.
He was finally out of options.
Under the condition of being infected with a negative attribute every twelve minutes, he persisted for seven hours.
If it was one negative attribute every four hours, that would mean Bai Wu had effectively persisted for five days.
With an additional seven hours of survival record, Bai Wu’s Innate Force had also risen to the second tier, ninth rank.
Though he was still weak against disciples and Fragment Guardians, within the High Tower, he was already considered to have first-class skills.
"Well, after all, it’s my first time being idle like this. I can’t expect myself to live up to Dwarf’s standard. I’ll find a way to break his record next time," he thought.
Thinking this, Bai Wu activated the Return Roulette.
[Current exploration degree of the area, 45.5%. Evil Fallen remaining, 702. Doomsday Puzzle Fragment of this area—"The Eye" has been obtained. My evaluation: An unexpected joy. The other Guardians linked to this area test more than just your brains.]
(There will be another Chapter today, but it will be late.)
