Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 561: Chapter 178: The Real Main Character Appears

"In the past, impulsiveness was a hobby; now, impulsiveness is the devil. You’re like you’re gambling. Before you make your decision, let me talk about the situations you might face,"

Bai Yuan was not surprised by Bai Wu’s answer. He wiped the rainwater off his face and gestured invitingly.

Bai Wu then came to the side of three strange houses.

Bai Yuan said:

"One possibility is that you will die, not because you’d completely collapse after losing a friend but because your negative emotions have gotten out of control."

As Bai Wu’s hand touched the door, Bai Yuan did the same, his gaze also fixed on that door:

"Your experiences should have led to an emotional outburst by now. But because you lost your negative emotions, you could never let it out. Until... the last straw that breaks the camel’s back appears."

Bai Wu’s response was the same:

"I want to kill them."

Light as a feather, as if stating a fact.

Bai Yuan hummed in acknowledgment:

"Then let’s pray together that the second outcome will be that you survive because sometimes... fear can make people clear-headed. And the third emotion is fear."

"I have considered many possibilities that external forces might cause you to open this door. But there isn’t such a possibility; even if you never lost your negative emotions, as my child, it would be difficult for you to feel fear."

Bai Wu also caught the key point. If he didn’t have that much fear, then how could the negative emotions in this room... help the tyrant?

This time, Bai Yuan didn’t keep him guessing and unravelled a mystery:

"You seem to have realized that, although your childhood is unbearable to look back on, your negative emotions seem overwhelmingly large."

A mystery that had always accompanied Bai Wu finally found its answer.

"In Zao Lake Village, the first time Wu Jiu died, you showed anger; then upon seeing Xiaoyugan, you showed sadness."

"But these are all normal human emotions. By the time you were in Mechanical City, you should have known that you could treat Zero’s Lau virus because you can absorb nearly endless negative emotions... processing what Zero couldn’t contain."

"Your body is like a huge container, yet you clearly... have no negative emotions. In fact, it’s simple; it’s just that another person is hiding in your Inner World."

"Anger is yours, but also hers; sadness is yours, but also hers."

Bai Wu was slightly startled.

Bai Yuan continued to gaze at the door, his eyes seeming to pierce through it:

"She likes all that you like, detests all that you detest. She always prefers to observe the world from a condescending view, as if a bystander, but it was only after you were born that she could see the world through your eyes, from another perspective."

Bai Wu’s hands began to tremble.

But now, no matter what emotion surged within him, he only felt hollow.

Just as Bai Yuan said, he was merely a protective mechanism; someone to bring him back on track when he lost control of himself.

It was like the final restraint in the heart of the main character in a shounen manga, who goes berserk. freewēbnoveℓ.com

"Who is she?"

"Your mother."

In the city drenched with heavy rain, thunder suddenly roared.

The sound of thunder was deafening, even drowning out the vague roar from beyond the sky.

Confusion and cluelessness filled Bai Wu’s wet eyes.

"She loves everything you love, hates everything you hate. She is the person in this world who cares about you the most. When your friend lost the right to be human, she was angrier, sadder than you."

"Of course, she also feared this world, was frightened of it. In the end, if the door of fear opens and you’re still alive, that would be the luckiest outcome,"

Bai Yuan and Bai Wu began to exert force on their hands.

In that moment, Bai Wu seemed to see some scenes from the town.

A bird’s-eye view.

He saw the café clerk, and also the clerk’s younger sister.

The bird’s-eye gaze seemed to focus on the clerk’s sister.

Only that figure was somewhat blurry.

The voice of Bai Yuan also became vague, because Bai Wu’s consciousness... had become fragmented once again.

"But even in the best outcome, you’ll temporarily lose control over your body."

"Don’t worry though, there’s plenty of joy to be found in madness, much like how some patients with mental disorders suddenly become a different person when their emotions surge."

"Your Inner Personality will temporarily take control of your body during this time."

The door was opening, bit by bit.

Suddenly, the heavy rain and the thunderous roar came to a halt, as if the world had grown still.

Only the friction sound of Bai Yuan and Bai Wu pushing open the great door could be heard, like an ancient bronze door slowly unlocking.

"I am quite looking forward to seeing your Inner Personality," he remarked.

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...

The third layer of the Well World.

The execution ground area with the seven Windmill Towers had long been encased by the domains of the Seven Sins.

The Tyrant now was like a being with an exposed vulnerability fixed in place.

Already struggling to face the Seven Sins alone with less than peak power,

And now with an immobile, nearly perfect target in Bai Wu, the hand-to-hand combat placed him at an absolute disadvantage.

At first, the Tyrant could exchange blows with the seven combatants.

But it was as if the seven shared their abilities, each one possessing terrifying strength and speed akin to that of Pride.

Each one of them had various bizarre traits.

To strike at one was to be struck by the other six, and any attempt to move would result in Bai Wu becoming the target of their attacks.

Trying to defend Bai Wu meant exposing his own vulnerabilities, which were immediately barraged by the remaining members of the Seven Sins.

Crimson flesh clad the bones like armor.

But this armor was now pitted and scarred, bombarded with apocalyptic force by the Seven Sins.

By the end, the Tyrant was like one shielding a flame from a snowstorm, having given up on attacking.

He was solely focused on protecting Bai Wu.

While the Seven Sins continued to inflict wounds upon him.

His body, which had finally surged with power due to terrifying negative emotions... was breaking apart again under the devastating force of the Seven Sins...

Yet like that protective layer of flesh, he guarded Bai Wu.

Even the Seven Sins hadn’t expected this brutal Tyrant to have such a side.

Even though Bai Wu was the source of his power, shouldn’t he abandon Bai Wu in such a circumstance and fight to the death against them?

The Seven Sins paid no mind to the Tyrant’s mistake, as it was a welcome development.

Today, they intended to completely eradicate the other Will of the Well!

The Crimson figure tore through the darkness, but seven terrifying black lines, like the wind from a swordsman’s blade, continuously entwined around the Crimson figure.

The Evil Fallen outside the Array... were already beginning to despair upon witnessing this scene.

Omega had not anticipated that the Bai Wu, which seemed to bring a glimmer of life to the tyrant, would also become the harbinger of the tyrant’s doom.

Perhaps this was fate...

The Evil Fallen Body and the human body had always been entangled in this way.

In the real world, many similar cases had occurred.

In desperate situations, humans had turned into the Evil Fallen and ultimately, by relying on the immense power of the Evil Fallen Body, they broke through from the brink and miraculously survived.

But such miraculous survivals were a dead end for the Evil Fallen Body itself.

When the humans in the real world became the Evil Fallen, it also meant that the Evil Fallen of the Well World... had completely left the Well World.

Life and death... were like a snake biting its own tail.

Omega, being the leader, watched the Seven Sins’ frenzy of attacks, knowing the tyrant might not hold on much longer.

Having fought the Seven Sins, he knew full well how powerful they were.

Within their domain, the Seven Sins probably possessed a despair-inducing strength.

It was time to retreat.

Crimson had already died, and the tyrant was also nearing death; this battle should not end in utter defeat.

Perhaps there was no hope in sight for the future, but at least... as a leader, he had to ensure some survived.

Perhaps in the future... there would be those who would take up the flag and resist the Seven Sins.

As the tyrant’s vitality continued to wane, Omega slowly raised his hand, preparing to signal the retreat.

But just as he lifted his hand, ready to wave it, Omega suddenly froze.

Within the immense black Array... a different color suddenly appeared.

In the tyrant’s roar of domination, there was hidden supreme dignity!

When Pride’s kick, piercing through the air, came hurtling toward him, Pride’s heartbeat suddenly missed a beat!

For he saw... his kick was blocked by a purple lance!

Cool blue wings whipped up a storm, and crimson flesh grew wildly!

The tyrant swung his lance, his eyes filled with the desire for battle and fearlessness in the face of tens of thousands of foes!

In the moment the purple light shone, all the outer Evil Fallen and all the Seven Sins felt a sense of oppression.

But the most shocking event was yet to come.

The tyrant’s swinging lance drew an arc, forcing all the Seven Sins back.

And behind the tyrant, the foreigner who had collapsed out of anger and sorrow... suddenly moved.

He leaped and climbed onto the tyrant’s shoulder, sitting squarely on the massive left shoulder. Frowning, he made a clicking sound of disdain:

"Oh, my old pal, what kind of a bastard is the creator to have designed for you such an ugly combination of red with blue, and blue with purple?"

"You must go to the Los Santos Mod King for a paint job; this is too ugly, although you still look better than those seven over there. Take a look at those seven, I could splash black ink randomly on paper and it would still resemble a person more than they do."

His face wore an exaggerated, cynical smile tinged with a hint of madness, yet his eyes still held sadness and anger, and he was indeed enveloped in negative emotions.

The best proof was... he was still providing the tyrant with a constant supply of emotional energy.

But it was as if he had become someone else.

The Inner Personality Bai Wu, awakened.

When Bai Wu had once browsed through the Sequence periodic table, looking at some descriptions of Sequences, the description for Sequence 24, Prayle’s Eye, went like this:

"You will see annotations that are consistent with the style of the Inner Personality."

So the various playful annotations that Bai Wu had seen were actually facets of himself.

The shrimp turned out to be himself.

Clearly, in the Inner World, Bai Wu’s gamble had led to an outcome that Bai Yuan found most interesting.

"I’ve been wanting to complain about how ugly this weapon is, but Pride is even uglier. What were the people of the last civilization thinking? Designing a weapon with such orphan-like attributes as Pride?"

"Uh... you’re also called Pride, so may I presumptuously ask you a question? Are you an orphan?"

Bai Wu pointed at Pride, and despite the fact that all Seven Sins seemed to have become the same within the domain, with Prayle’s Eye, he could still tell them apart.

It was just that when Bai Wu’s personality temporarily switched to the Inner Personality, the note associated with Prayle’s Eye, which had an Inner Personality style, changed:

[I don’t want to waste time, let’s start with killing Pride first.]

"Such an unromantic note, how could Little Facial Paralysis ever like this side of me?"

Although he seemed talkative, the next second Bai Wu had already rushed to the side of Pride, the Seven Sins Sovereign.

The tyrant was shocked as well. Even though Bai Wu had managed to break free from the verge of collapse, shouldn’t he be trying to avoid the Seven Sins?

In fact, thanks to the Power of Life and Death from Zhou Zeshui, although it couldn’t give Bai Wu an almost eternal body, it at least provided him with robust vitality.

Using the Twisted Realm consumes exactly this kind of fundamental essence.

In order to save the Evil Fallen Body of the team leader, Bai Wu had nearly exhausted his life force, but after the tyrant had desperately protected him for so long—

Bai Wu now had the confidence to activate the Twisted Realm a second time!

The massive black domain of the Seven Sins suddenly became even darker, but this wasn’t because the Well Domain of the Seven Sins had gotten stronger—

It was another, more powerful domain, overshadowing it!

"I don’t have much time, why don’t you use your purple stick to stab him to death first?"

Under the distortion, Pride couldn’t move at all, and the other six Seven Sins Sovereigns wanted to attack Bai Wu.

But Bai Wu’s face, visibly becoming thinner and sunken, flickered with madness:

"Don’t rush, everyone will die, one by one, everyone gets a share without fail."

Unbreakable.

The Well Domain is too unreasonable; so far, except for Jing Si’s Inverted Well, no power has been able to suppress it in terms of rule level.

The Seven Sins were no exception.

And this round of futile assault allowed the tyrant to find their weakness!

When the purple spear appeared, the Seven Sins realized the worst-case scenario had occurred.

Fearing a protracted battle, they wanted to end things quickly, but they never expected that Bai Wu, who should have been a burden and had been pegged as the tyrant’s weakness—

Would bursts forth with power once again!

Omega never expected this scene either, witnessing the perfect coordination between a human’s body and an Evil Fallen Body together for the first time.

The terrifying purple spear pierced Pride with a domineering posture.

No twists and turns! Neither the Seven Sins nor the domains mattered. None of the powers could stand against this ancient tyrant any longer!

In the moment the tyrant wielded the spear, it was as if a demigod had passed judgment on mortals!

Pride watched his own body being pierced... at that moment... his eyes widened in disbelief:

"How... how is this possible? How could I possibly die? How could I possibly die... here..."

"Next time I’ll burn you a Li-Ning outfit; I hope after you’re reborn you’ll understand that anything is possible."

Bai Wu’s face, now almost skeletal from the loss of vitality, showed not a hint of tiredness, and his Inner Personality’s madness was even more ruthless than the real Bai Wu.

He merely patted his head, which was almost skinny to the point of being a skull, and with excited, crazed eyes, he stared at the six remaining figures:

"Next, anyone who wants to die, please raise your hand!"