Free Web NovelChapter 567: Chapter 184: Your Mom!
Whether Bai Wu really understood or not, Bai Yuan didn’t care, the puzzle had reached a point where there was no longer a need to hide or protect it.
Actually, conversing with Bai Wu like this could be considered a family gathering.
So this time, without waiting for Bai Wu to continue his speculation, Bai Yuan directly revealed the answer:
"Let’s call her Fish for now. At first, she clung to me, observing the world through my eyes, but then, after we arrived in a small town in the Origin World, she discovered that those things she had longed for... were everywhere here."
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"A peaceful life, mundane life, boring life, anxieties about the future, poverty, illness, friends, children, parents, money, love."
Bai Yuan tapped the wall twice with his hand, as if greeting someone inside the room.
Bai Wu thought about it, and indeed, to the original Fish... that is, to Fish herself, all these mundane things were what she had dreamt of.
"So she, changed her host, to a woman with strong spiritual power who lived in this world, seemingly an ordinary woman."
"Fish observed this woman for a long time, like a deity in the heavens observing the mortal world."
"This woman had a foolish brother, but he wasn’t always foolish. They were one of the sources of distortion in this world, yet they lived like ordinary people."
"The siblings had a good relationship. On rainy days, the sister would be very happy, always saying that the world has no ceiling, because the world has four seasons, because even she couldn’t see the end of the sky, so the human journey should still be the stars and the sea."
Strangely, Bai Yuan’s tone became tender:
"She also said that coming here was fortunate, and when she said that, there was sadness in her eyes. It was a kind of sadness I really wanted to explore."
"She is not an ordinary woman."
Bai Wu knew very well that he was talking about his own mother.
His feelings were complex, because up until now, what Bai Yuan had always emphasized was—
Marry an ordinary woman and have an ordinary child.
But today, Bai Yuan changed his rhetoric.
The rain in the town had completely stopped.
Even the roaring noise had ceased, and a purple mist filled the space between heaven and earth.
It meant that the personality in control of this body was feeling fear.
Perhaps the outer world, the tyrant and the Inner Personality Bai Wu, had encountered a crisis.
However, Bai Yuan didn’t care, he seemed to sense something and quickly calmed down, continuing to speak about his... ordinary wife.
"But she truly lived an ordinary life. Her siblings hid it well from many people, so how could they possibly hide it from me and the Jack of Spades?"
"I really wanted to explore her inner world, while I was not yet bound by the Rule Binding, before I was completely stripped of my abilities."
Bai Wu remembered that the Jack of Spades had said that Bai Yuan’s powers hadn’t disappeared from the start.
"But Fish didn’t let me do that. She really liked your mother... the way she liked her was a longing deep inside to become her."
Hearing this, Bai Wu became somewhat worried.
Bai Yuan understood this worry, but only continued:
"With Fish’s protection, she, already strong in spiritual power, became even stronger."
"Just like that, Fish began to observe the world from your mother’s perspective, no longer looking down upon humanity in loneliness."
"Your mother... had an average figure, um, ordinary looks, and due to the blending of our genes, you ended up not as good-looking as me."
At this point, Bai Yuan even made a victory gesture. It was as if he was saying, "Yep, your dad is still your dad."
Bai Wu’s lips twitched at the corner; this man really knew how to ruin the mood of a story.
He was very clear, this Mr. Bai was not cute at all.
Bai Wu gave Bai Yuan a roll of the eyes.
Bai Yuan didn’t mind and continued narrating:
"Fish has no physical form, more like an extra, lonely soul, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as she has no physical form, she doesn’t get the same illness me and the Jack of Spades have."
"At first, I thought she would steal your mother. After all, your mother, just like that uncle of yours... theoretically was immortal. Even in this world."
"Moreover, whether it’s Xiaoyugan or Dong Nianyu... these Split Bodies, they are all extremely lonely. The original entity, well, would only be lonelier."
"Such loneliness can sometimes make people become pathological, and she might desire to take over someone else..."
Bai Wu had also had such doubts, but Bai Yuan bringing it up voluntarily might mean the opposite, that this possibility had not occurred.
Indeed, this was the case, as Bai Yuan continued:
"However, there was no surprise, they actually became friends. Your mother was like a dream that the fish would never awaken from. And the fish, it was as if your mother’s... another personality."
"They had different souls, one lonely and introverted, with certain dangerous elements."
"The other kind-hearted, gentle, the type you’d find a lot of in the human world."
"But somehow these two souls met and cherished each other, I truly wanted to explore their Inner World... But I couldn’t do it, the fish protected your mother."
Bai Yuan looked at Bai Wu and said earnestly,
"I must have told you more than once, her spiritual power is strong enough to twist reality."
Bai Wu nodded.
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But Bai Yuan spoke this for Bai Wu to hear, and not just for Bai Wu.
Bai Yuan said,
"The outside world is in trouble. This time... if you don’t take action, he will truly die."
This sentence was clearly not addressed to Bai Wu anymore.
Behind the purple door, everything remained unclear and quiet.
Bai Wu still had many questions.
For instance, how his mother and Bai Yuan came together, what happened to the fish and his mother in the end? Did that mean he had two mothers?
But at this very moment, in the real world, the Inner Personality Bai Wu controlling this body was rattling off certain matters to Alpha.
The tyrant had been repelled, and all the Evil Fallen were immobilized.
Jing Liu’s identity had been exposed.
All this logically turned into memory.
Bai Wu wanted to say something but was suddenly forced to change the subject:
"Jing Liu is not a consciousness... So does that mean the Ten of Spades isn’t either?"
Bai Yuan said,
"Of course. Do you know about the time-space paradox? When the same life from two different timespaces meets, one of them will disappear."
Bai Wu suddenly understood.
No wonder the Ten of Spades disappeared when he entered the Original World.
At the time, Bai Wu found it strange, why it was the Ten of Spades that vanished.
If the Ten of Spades was just an thought entity in the Inner World, similar to Bai Yuan, it wouldn’t just disappear.
"But if the Ten of Spades isn’t a consciousness from my Inner World, how could it know so much about me?"
Bai Wu raised this doubt.
If both Jing Liu and the Ten of Spades were beings that merely mastered some sort of consciousness ability, in reality, they were the true entities.
That would mean the Ten of Spades and Jing Liu had together deceived him.
But if so, how could the Ten of Spades have been so familiar with all his experiences, wouldn’t that be highly suspicious?
Bai Yuan did not directly answer this question:
"He is, and he isn’t. Time is pressing at the moment, it involves the final plan between me and the Ten of Spades. There’s no way I can tell you too much for now."
"Regarding the deception by the Ten of Spades, and even all of the Ten of Spades’ arrangements, I have tried my best to cooperate with him. Because one thing he didn’t lie to you about, he may be a deceiver, yet he’s a deceiver who stands on our side."
In the outside world, Bai Wu was already being restrained by Alpha.
Less than three minutes were left until the destined death.
In the Inner World, Bai Wu raised his head and asked Bai Yuan a significant question:
"What exactly are you and the Ten of Spades plotting?"
On such questions, Bai Yuan would usually smile and steer the conversation in a different direction.
But this time, perhaps because a great battle was not far away, because only the last step remained to solving the puzzle, Bai Yuan gave an answer that didn’t fit his usual persona:
"Bai Wu, I never believe in a savior, even if your mother had hopes for you, even if you have indeed shown many traits."
"But I must take into account the possibility that you cannot save this world, the possibility that you won’t fulfill some fool’s wish. Thus, the Ten of Spades is also one of my chess pieces, or rather, he and I are chess pieces for each other."
Bai Yuan suddenly took a few steps forward, and for the first time, Bai Wu felt Bai Yuan’s silhouette seemed lonely.
"In this world, deceit, cruelty, perversion, violence, and betrayal are all means of survival, all codes to live by. I only seek excitement and stimulation. I don’t have much affection for many people... but I repay kindness with kindness. Consider it the last piece of reality in this twisted world."
It was rare to hear Bai Yuan say such words.
"Return a favor..." Hearing these words from Bai Yuan’s mouth was truly unusual.
Gratitude owed to whom? To be repaid to whom? An answer also formed in Bai Wu’s mind.
Perhaps for Bai Yuan, everything was just a game, but at least in this game, some masked freak...
would be etched in Bai Yuan’s memory in a special way.
Bai Wu suddenly stopped asking. He was quite curious about the ultimate plan of Spade Ten and Bai Yuan.
It could be said that Spade Ten had already obtained from him what he wanted.
Spade Ten had also joined forces with Bai Yuan to obtain what they wanted from many others.
It was hard to imagine... just how powerful the two of them would’ve been if not in that Rule Binding Original World.
Bai Wu stopped thinking about it, and his mood suddenly cleared.
He was a man of this era.
Old K and Bai Yuan were men of the previous era.
The old soldiers of the previous era were not yet dead, nor had they withered.
Maybe in the near future, there would be a tumultuous battle... belonging to the Dragon Slayers of the last era.
"I seem to have run into trouble."
Bai Wu looked at the increasingly thick purple clouds enveloping the small town, and the topic returned.
"Yes, your Inner Personality is very interesting; it has already analyzed the special nature of your body. Your mother came from the Well, and I am from the outside. Thus, you are both an original inhabitant and an outsider."
"Although I can’t dissuade Alpha from his determination to kill you, at least, I’ve bought time for your mother."
"To deceive Alpha... even for her, it would require considerable preparation. Feel fortunate, this Alpha... it shouldn’t be at its peak state, otherwise today there really wouldn’t have been any chance of survival. Your Inner Personality did well."
Bai Yuan looked towards the purple gate.
Bai Wu also glanced over.
The world within the door couldn’t be penetrated by sight, yet faintly, Bai Wu made out a shadowy figure.
Within the endless purple mist, a pale hand reached out.
At the same time, on the third layer of the Well World, in the Windmill Tower square of Ice Kui City, Alpha’s palm already aimed a lethal attack at Bai Wu.
...
...
The third layer of the Well World.
The Bai Wu with an Inner Personality always dared not make a sound.
Alpha had been gone for a long time, but the Bai Wu with an Inner Personality was very worried that the opponent might make a surprise comeback.
"I’m actually not dead?"
The operations of the Inner World were unclear to the external entity.
Currently, Bai Wu’s mind was also filled with many question marks.
As Alpha’s attack was directed toward him, his perspective suddenly switched to an aerial view...
It was as if God was observing the human world.
Then, Bai Wu saw the horrific Power of Twist of Alpha, coalescing into a beam of light that penetrated his body.
But what was baffling was that there also seemed to be an awakening in the tyrant’s eyes... but soon, the tyrant’s body decayed, and he apparently died along with it.
The Bai Wu with an Inner Personality even thought:
"Is this what they call astral projection, ascension mode? Have I really reached the grand finale?"
But afterward... following a brief period of sorrow from everyone, everything began to function normally again.
Bai Wu realized that he was still in this field of view.
Then, Jing began to bark furiously at the void.
He looked towards Jing and noticed Jing’s gaze was fixed on him.
"So it turns out dogs really can see unclean things. It seems I have become one of those unclean things, damn it... This external personality isn’t competitive, the Bai family hasn’t continued the lineage!"
Once he accepted the fact that he had died...
He became cheeky again.
But then he immediately wondered, could it be that like some handsome transmigrator, he had become nothing more than a field of vision?
I can’t just keep staring at this hairless dog, can I?
Where are the Bullhead and Horseface? Where are the people from the Underworld Human Resources Department?
In a moment of wild thoughts... his vision suddenly became blurry.
All the sights in his eyes—the Windmill Tower, the ground littered with Remnants of the Order Son, Omega, Dracula, Jing, Jing...
All began to twist and swirl into a vortex.
Eventually... Bai Wu’s mind went blank.
...
...
Inner World.
When the main personality falls into a comatose state and the mind goes blank, the Inner World senses some changes too.
Everything in the entire world seems to slow down several beats, as if they were operating at 0.5 times the speed.
After feeling all the bizarre psychological activities and memories of Bai Wu in the Outer World, Bai Wu was somewhat puzzled:
"What on earth is happening? It seems I’ve been transferred, and I’ve dodged this calamity... But how did I suddenly fall into a coma?"
Bai Yuan was also encountering this situation for the first time. He looked towards the door, hesitating for a moment at the little hand that was about to retract into the purple mist.
But then she retracted it anyway, with a feeling of "I don’t know," "Don’t ask me," "I’ve already helped Little Bai through the crisis."
Clearly, it’s up to the mother to take action and the father to think.
Not a single word was spoken the whole time.
Bai Yuan knew that the woman inside was still a little afraid of him.
Because of some fatherly and filial acts she had performed on Bai Wu, she still refuses to speak to him to this day.
Bai Yuan had long been accustomed to it:
"Just a short while ago, your mother used spiritual power to twist reality. Alpha hadn’t reached its peak state, and this move slipped past successfully."
"A Split Body modelled after you exchanged places with you... And your own true body has been transferred to a location where Alpha is unlikely to detect you for the time being."
"However, this method won’t last too long, so that dog has already sensed something’s not right."
"Logically, you should’ve gotten past the crisis. Next... you should come out from the barrier formed by spiritual power."
Bai Wu understood:
"But now I’ve entered a comatose state, it’s as if I’ve just entered the third layer... And throughout the process... the only variable is the tyrant’s unreasonable death."
In Alpha’s eyes, Bai Wu is dead, and it’s logical that the tyrant would also die—a two-for-one deal.
But the truth is, Bai Wu is clearly not dead, yet the tyrant is.
Considering the conditions for entering a deeper level of the Well, the first layer requires Bai Wu to exhibit killing in a pure world.
The second layer, an escalation of killing, requires the murder of a friend who cares for him.
But no one knows about the third layer, except for the Seventh Consortiums and the tyrant; no one in this world knows the way from the third layer to the fourth layer.
Thinking about this, Bai Wu and Bai Yuan exchanged glances, and the father and son seemed to think of the same thing. Bai Yuan said:
"The tyrant doesn’t have a god’s-eye view... He clearly doesn’t know you’re actually safe. Perhaps, he’s also trying to save you in his own way."
Bai Wu felt conflicted.
His encounter with the tyrant was brief, and when they first met, they almost fought.
At that time, the tyrant was already in a state where he couldn’t defeat any of the Seven Sins.
He had weakened to the extreme, and the name of the tyrant was more like an irony.
But Bai Wu’s appearance bestowed the dignity that a tyrant of Evil Fallen deserved.
He once again defeated his seven archenemies by himself.
He reduced the twisted reality of the Original World significantly.
"Maybe when you wake up, you’ll find yourself in the fourth layer," Bai Yuan said.
Bai Wu nodded:
"I hope he hasn’t really died..."
