Free Web NovelChapter 566: Chapter 183: A Family Topic
Time rewound to not too long ago.
The Inner World.
After Bai Wu pushed open that door, he didn’t see his mother.
Inside the room, there was only a mass of purple energy that couldn’t be seen through.
Bai Wu tried to go in, but Bai Yuan said,
"If you didn’t see her, you won’t see her even if you go in."
At this very moment, the tyrant gained new emotions, using fear as a spear to deal with the powerful Seven Sins.
The sky over the town turned purple.
The torrential rain that was pouring down on the town gradually ceased.
The once silent town finally had someone open a window and peek out.
But it wasn’t long before it closed again.
Bai Wu’s eyes were full of confusion, while Bai Yuan shook off the rainwater from his hair on the side:
"How about a story? Want to hear it? This is one of the rare father-son moments, you know. Although your childhood lacked a father to tell you stories and tuck you into bed, it’s not too late. By the standards of the Eternal Beings, you’re still just a baby."
On any other day, Bai Wu would have retorted to Bai Yuan, but now he wasn’t in the mood.
He wanted to explore the room thoroughly, but he was afraid of frightening the person inside.
It was confirmed by the store clerk from the Origin World that his mother was not the true form of Xiaoyugan,
Because the timeline didn’t match up.
Bai Wu nodded.
Bai Yuan leaned against the doorframe of the purple room, looking quite self-satisfied:
"Once upon a time, there was a farm where a group of happy, yet ignorant children lived."
"Among them was an ugly child who put on a mask very young and another child who was somewhat autistic and always enjoyed reading strange books."
"Of course, our protagonist was a mischievous little kid. He was handsome and charming, just like the relatable hero of every novel. Let’s call him Hearts."
Even as Bai Wu was preoccupied with thoughts of his mother, he couldn’t help being taken aback by Bai Yuan’s sense of humor.
Bai Yuan remained nonchalant:
"In the whole farm, there were actually only three children with talents. The other two, let’s call them Masked Face and Honest Guy."
Masked Face made sense, as The First Generation had always worn a mask.
But the third should be Spades Ten, right? How could Spades Ten be considered an Honest Guy?
Bai Wu didn’t interrupt Bai Yuan and simply leaned against the other side of the door.
Like father and son, they stood side by side as if they were taking a break from work in the room, chatting idly.
"Of course, every story needs a villain, and the villain was the farm owner, the Great Demon King."
"The clever Hearts discovered the Great Demon King’s secret—that outside the farm lay a body of a monster, unsealed and having gained a certain degree of self-awareness."
"These children had high talents, good as either food or tools."
"When they reached a certain age, either they awakened a talent that happened to be useful to the Great Demon King and were sent to the outside area—to practice among humans—or,"
"If their aptitude was average, they were fed to the monster outside to extract some emotions. Of course, some suitable girls were responsible for doing various chores around the farm."
"The characteristic of these girls was unconditional obedience to the Great Demon King, with a servile nature."
"After spending a long time there, the handsome and clever Hearts couldn’t help but feel bored as he had sensed something was wrong with the place all along. Especially later when he had some revelations."
"Of course, he always imagined this world with a sense of the absurd, even if one day in a dream, a guy wearing a dazzling white robe appeared and spoke a bunch about the essence of the world, he would not consider it more than a strange dream."
Bai Yuan chuckled twice:
"He will only wish that this dream is real, and treat the dream as such, integrating it into reality."
"In fact, he already knew without this dream that there was a fourth interesting child on the farm."
"Even someone more interesting than himself, how amusing is that? A person who can merely rely on spiritual power, on his own delusions, to twist reality."
"How could The Deceiver let go of such a person? Conveniently, that revelatory dream also led him to this person and decided to take him to a... somewhat lackluster world."
"Thus, The Deceiver began to slowly investigate the farm, and in the process, he awakened his own ability."
At this point, Bai Wu couldn’t help but interrupt:
"What ability?"
"Parasitic Heart Demon."
Bai Wu wasn’t surprised, but the fact that Bai Yuan awakened a top ten Sequence ability still made him wonder at Bai Yuan’s aptitude.
"He gained control over quite a few children on the farm, but he is not the type to use excessive force. More often, he prefers a slow and steady approach."
"He simply changed some minor parameters in many people’s hearts, so they seemed no different from usual. That is, they became a bit more friendly toward the already charming Red Heart."
"In their eyes, this person seemed to shine with light."
Bai Wu paused in astonishment.
There had been so many times... he felt that Bai Yuan had some sort of special effect.
But it was all just a feeling.
"Don’t look at me with that expression. Yes... I indeed used such a method on every person I came in contact with, and you are no exception."
"People are like this, thanks to the education they receive when young, there is a belief in an abstract concept of greatness, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, essentially it’s the same principle."
Bai Wu was at a loss for words.
But Bai Yuan’s alteration of these people was not unwarranted, for he himself was already perfect, the so-called "man enveloped in holy light" was rather superfluous, almost a perverse pleasure.
Bai Yuan continued:
"Of course, anything requires coherence, making them feel fond of me served more to gather information, but... I overestimated them."
"Ultimately, I found the forbidden territory myself. So, when The Great Demon King was out, I chose to enter the forbidden territory."
This time, there was no need for The Deceiver, as the story switched from third to first person.
"The forbidden territory had many defense mechanisms, but what’s interesting is... although I couldn’t unlock them myself, they opened automatically for me."
"Eventually, I reached the very depths of the forbidden territory. Let’s skip the environmental descriptions, after all, the battle outside seems about to end, and you won’t be staying here much longer."
"Fine, omit eight thousand words of environmental description, just assume I’ve said ten thousand words, and ultimately I reached the deepest part of the forbidden territory, where I met the last interesting person."
"She was a girl, but her figure seemed very blurry. How to describe this blurriness? Have you seen a TV with an unstable signal? You used to love watching those tokusatsu shows when you were a kid, didn’t you?"
"She looked like the flickering image on an unstable signal."
"Subconsciously, I tried to use my ability to understand her."
A blurry figure... Bai Wu thought of Xiaoyugan’s true body, whose spiritual power was strong enough to twist reality; perhaps this was an outward manifestation of her spiritual power.
"The result... I felt a pain in my soul like being pricked by a needle. That... really hurt."
"So much so that I’ve been wondering if such pain can be achieved physically, giving a person the sensation of their soul, their nerve endings... being pricked by a needle."
Bai Wu’s hands started shaking involuntarily.
As Bai Yuan uttered these words, he also looked at Bai Wu with amusement.
Bai Wu quickly regained his composure:
"I thought it was erasing my emotions, although I won’t forgive what you have done... but at least, the absence of negative emotions has been my weapon for a long time."
Early explorations, void of negative emotions, enabled Bai Wu to calmly analyze Evil Fallen.
Bai Yuan said:
"When a person is endowed with immense spiritual power, they indeed need to endure a lot of pain. Fortunately, I found that kind of pain to be not so bad afterward."
"In the forbidden land, I experienced two things. First, I saw her split into several avatars, that is, Split Bodies."
"The second thing... she attached herself onto my body."
This statement was short, but the information was shocking enough.
Attached herself to Bai Yuan’s body?
"Actually, you could have deduced something. Her spiritual power was too immense, nearly becoming something like a will. Her body was almost losing its form..."
"Attaching herself to me was like completely abandoning her own body..."
"As for those Split Bodies, well... Xiaoyugan, Dong Nianyu, they were among them."
"It’s just that later on, for a while, they all believed they were the original entity."
This was naturally a lie of Jing Yi’s. Bai Wu asked:
"You mean she is fine after attaching to your body?"
Bai Yuan shook his head:
"Of course—not fine. It scared the hell out of me, you know. Though my life won’t be very long and revelation tells me I am destined to fail, if I don’t handle this ’intruder’ properly in the time to come, I might not even have a short life left."
Scared the hell out of him? Bai Wu couldn’t imagine Bai Yuan showing a look of terror.
He was more inclined to think that Bai Yuan found everything extremely amusing.
As a matter of fact, it was indeed so. When life suddenly entered a countdown, it made Bai Yuan feel everything became more thrilling.
He had to find a place that could suppress the rules, suppress all distortions, a normal place where nearly no supernatural incidents existed.
Bai Wu had guessed this point, so he asked a rather off-topic question:
"Why did she choose you? If she could open all the restrictions of the forbidden land... why didn’t she run away?"
Bai Yuan smiled and said, freewēbnoveℓ.com
"Good question. Perhaps she envied me a lot."
His answer was strange.
But Bai Wu suddenly felt a pang of sadness.
He did not know what the forbidden land was like, but given Bai Yuan deliberately omitted the description of the environment, that place must not be anywhere pleasant.
Great spiritual power signifies remarkable talent.
But it also brings misfortune.
Perhaps through her spiritual power, she had been observing everything all along.
She realized she could never live like a human, so she could only watch in silence.
It might have been during this process that she began to envy Bai Yuan.
Bai Yuan was a person without a heart.
He seemed nice to everyone, but Bai Wu knew that to Bai Yuan, everyone was just "game props".
Yet even so, there were people who liked someone like Bai Yuan, wishing to be as popular as him.
She might not have been able to differentiate whether Bai Yuan was pretending or being sincere.
Perhaps in her eyes, Bai Yuan was a perfect person.
That’s why those Split Bodies also liked Bai Yuan, even though he was just being normally nice to her.
Of course, to withstand her affection was not something ordinary people could achieve.
Bai Wu guessed that it was also because Bai Yuan had the Parasitic Heart Demon, with spiritual power far exceeding that of others, that she chose Bai Yuan.
Bai Yuan continued:
"You know the rest of the story. We started planning to escape the farm. At first, we did not include the Jack of Spades in our game, and we did not later, either. He insisted on catching up with us on his own."
"It was all for the persona. Knowing everything, I was willing to cooperate with him."
Bai Wu asked a question unrelated to the current topic:
"Aren’t you worried about being deceived by the Jack of Spades?"
"Not worried. The Deceiver has different requirements for different users. On your little adversary Cain’s body, he has to deceive people into becoming Evil Fallen to work."
Bai Wu knew this; all of Cain’s disciples were Evil Fallen, who were also obsessed with turning Bai Xiaoyu into Evil Fallen.
In this process, Bai Wu speculated that Cain’s conditions for deception were very stringent.
However, what Bai Yuan said next surprised Bai Wu a bit:
"The Jack of Spades is considered a Sequence advancement, but the deception judgment is also very complex. It must be based on something sufficiently grand, something people deeply believe without a doubt."
"Most crucially, his condition for deception is to expose his own Sequence."
Bai Yuan’s smile grew wider:
"That is, to lay his cards on the table. To deceive under the circumstance where everyone knows he’s a deceiver."
Bai Wu had once pondered what it was about the Jack of Spades that he could deeply trust— and it was that he was a deceiver, and his arch-enemy relationship with Bai Yuan.
But the fact that the Jack of Spades was a deceiver couldn’t be a condition for judgment.
It wasn’t specific to deceiving a certain person; it was more a public perception. Besides... at his core, the Jack of Spades truly was a deceiver.
And being arch-enemies with Bai Yuan, under Bai Yuan’s cooperation, indeed became the biggest ace in the hole for the Jack of Spades to play his cards openly.
"Sequence 23 is actually a Sequence I really want, but there’s no way to exchange Sequences in this world... and I also can’t bear to part with the Sequence I have."
Bai Yuan then changed the subject:
"Back to the topic of your mother, you don’t think... that Xiaoyugan’s main body is your mother, do you?"
"In that world, you also found a clue; your mother is a native."
"But... there is indeed a connection between them."
Bai Yuan paused.
It seemed he was letting Bai Wu guess.
By that time, the Tyrant had already eradicated the Seven Sins, but soon, an even greater calamity would descend.
And the only one who had reached that point was the person in the purple house.
Bai Wu started to integrate all the information.
His own mother was somewhat related to Xiaoyugan’s original entity.
When he opened the door to the purple house, he had once seen a bird’s eye view.
That scene was like someone looking down upon the world, only their gaze... fixated on a woman.
Maybe in the farm, that’s how she observed Bai Yuan.
And in the end, she chose to attach herself to Bai Yuan.
At this thought, Bai Wu suddenly understood.
(Can’t finish~ Continue tomorrow)
