Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 568: Chapter 185: You Are Never Alone

Within the Inner World, Bai Wu’s figure gradually became illusory.

This meant that the next time he awoke, he would replace the Inner Personality and once again take control of his body.

At this moment, the "emergency device" was gradually losing its effectiveness, the things he desperately protected were being destroyed, and immense grief and rage surged in his heart once again.

Yet Bai Wu forcefully suppressed all emotions, looking at the purple mist inside the door:

"You should have let me have a glimpse. Perhaps you’ve been watching over me, but I truly wish to see you with my own eyes."

Bai Yuan, for once, did not display his usual expression of watching something intriguing and said with slight seriousness:

"What you see is only an illusion; she no longer has a physical form. Even the hand just now was constructed by her using spiritual power."

Bai Wu was stunned.

"The fusion with the fish, and then the fusion with you, followed by the execution of our plan, the sealing of your emotions—all these processes naturally involve consumption and sacrifice."

Bai Wu looked at Bai Yuan, his gaze sharp:

"They couldn’t have thought of these things... Was it all your plan?"

"It was me. I am the one who made your mother like this, and I am the one who made your childhood painful, but apart from you, I have not forced anyone."

Bai Yuan’s composure made Bai Wu feel a hint of cold-bloodedness.

"Do you care..."

Bai Wu’s question was left unfinished, as Bai Yuan answered directly:

"Didn’t we discuss this question when you met Xiaoyugan?"

A chill spread through him.

The man before him, seemingly perfect in every way, was in essence an entity that saw all beings as mere chess pieces.

Perhaps it was fortunate that he stood on the side of humanity, for the human side needed a chess player.

Only then could an interesting game be constructed.

Perhaps it was from the moment Bai Yuan had his epiphany on the farm... he became interested in this world, a chaotic mix of order and distortion.

Bai Wu found it hard to imagine such a person could speak of repaying kindness as his ultimate truth.

But on further thought, he himself was also a cold person, yet willing to fight desperately for his captain.

Perhaps, to Bai Yuan, K was a similar kind of person.

"Have you ever considered that the inevitable defeat mentioned in the revelations has not yet come?"

Faced with Bai Wu’s question, Bai Yuan simply spread his hands nonchalantly:

"So what if it hasn’t?"

"Fine."

The conversation between father and son came to an end.

In Bai Wu’s memory, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared.

She wasn’t so beautiful as to astonish people, or be regarded as flawless.

But by any standard of aesthetics, she was definitely good-looking.

This woman wore a work uniform, and like her brother, she wore a cap.

Countless fragments of memories emerged and then faded away.

Bai Wu’s memories, altered or deleted by the Parasitic Heart Demon, began to flash back at an alarming speed.

His mother, for his sake, cried and pleaded with Bai Yuan.

In the rainy weather, he stood outside the school, watching numerous parents hold umbrellas for their children going to school.

In fact, at that time, there was an invisible figure standing right beside him, watching those passersby with the same loneliness in her eyes.

When the call to the Light Kingdom went unanswered, the invisible figure would also be standing by Bai Wu’s side. She made no sound, or perhaps she did, but he could not hear.

But by watching her lips, Bai Wu could tell she was seriously responding to him.

Tears fell silently.

When Bai Wu was in Zao Lake Village, he saw the red door open, and he also saw a woman humming nursery rhymes.

She was actually very angry, but her child had once again fallen into loneliness.

Suppressing her anger, she hummed the nursery rhymes, seemingly trying to calm her child.

But the endless Karmic Fire still evaporated that sinful lake.

She burned down the Lake God’s Inner World to ashes. All of this was her rage.

Facing Xiaoyugan, Bai Wu saw her mother with tears streaming down her face.

She touched Xiaoyugan’s head, but Xiaoyugan could not feel her.

Seeing another self, who could only end up alone in the Memory Palace, in the company of memories, that guilt made her shed tears incessantly.

When The Pursuer captured her, sorrowful emotions finally opened that door.

And it was not just that.

On the flight, caught in Reincarnation, Bai Yuan was absent, and in the woman’s eyes, it was hard for Bai Wu of that time to escape Reincarnation as well.

That’s why the emotional wristwatch fluctuated for the first time.

Emotions surged countless times, and Bai Wu always felt an empty sensation. It wasn’t that he lost those emotions...

It was just that the fear, anger, and sadness were carried by someone else for him.

He was the calmest person in the Investigation Corps. According to Wu Jiu and Yin Shuang, he was naturally suited for the investigations outside the tower.

But all of this was actually just his mother’s protection.

Bai Wu then realized that he was never alone by his side.

There was always an invisible person, lonely for his loneliness, angry for his anger, and sad for his sadness.

He had the worst father, but correspondingly, the world gave him the best mother.

A plethora of memories flashed through his mind, like a gust of wind blowing through the Sea of Memory.

The wind was elusive, and only the ripples on the surface of the sea were a trace. freeweɓnovel.cøm

Tears pattered down.

The figure of Bai Wu grew dimmer and dimmer.

The adventure of the fourth layer of the Well World would soon begin.

A most powerful woman from the Origin World, a most calculating man in a twisted world, and a monster in the farm with spiritual power strong enough to warp reality...

The centerpiece of these people was Bai Wu.

Thinking of this, Bai Wu suddenly felt confident about the upcoming fourth layer of the Well World.

"I will definitely come to see you again."

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Well World, third layer.

Jing finally stopped barking.

Because that faint breath had disappeared, it cocked its head, and in its eye sockets devoid of eyes, there was only some blue light, like some kind of energy.

From a distance, it seemed to show a puzzled expression.

The relationship between Dracula and Omega was very peculiar.

One was a human-bodied cheat who had also lived for more than seven hundred years, and the other was a naïve heart that was cheated by the cheat for seven hundred years.

But their Evil Fallen Bodies had a much better relationship.

"Killing the human body means the Evil Fallen Body will also die. It seems that although we have beaten the seven great consortia, we won’t live much longer," Dracula said to Omega.

Omega knew Dracula was implying something:

"What do you want to ask?"

"I want to live, but I also don’t want to kill myself and go to the human world."

"So?"

"I believe the tyrant doesn’t want to commit suicide either, but when Bai Wu died just now, the tyrant didn’t die immediately. I always feel there’s something fishy about this," Dracula’s eyes were full of skepticism.

"What I want to know is, you visited the tyrant once, and although you got beaten up, you asked about the way to the fourth layer."

"To tell the truth, this guy is quite useful to us. Even if Seven Sins died, who can guarantee that Seven Sins isn’t hiding some master? But your reaction is way too calm, isn’t it?"

Omega calmly said:

"By the sound of it, your heart is almost certain of some things, so why bother asking? There are things we are uncertain about, unaware of, unclear about, and that is a form of protection for those who are certain, aware, and clear," Omega replied.

Dracula understood.

Although his own human body lusted after the tyrant’s human form, he had had no good impression of the tyrant before.

But today was different—the terrifying strength displayed by the tyrant made him realize the tyrant’s endless potential.

The final blow had even injured Alpha.

Alpha’s strength was there for all to see, and his question today was just to find some peace of mind.

The Evil Fallen began to work methodically, occupying the Ice Kui City stronghold; the death of the Seven Sins meant that the future balance of power would undergo a tremendous change.

It was very likely that this change would affect the second layer.

Just having witnessed the terror of Alpha, Dracula, Omega, and others were also very clear about one thing:

"If everything is as Bai Wu said, and Alpha cannot interfere with the life and death of the people in this world, then what will Alpha do?"

Dracula was, in effect, asking a rhetorical question once again.

Omega countered with a question:

"What do you think?"

"He will accelerate his control over the outside world..."

"Yes, the battle in the Well World is nearly over, and the new battlefield lies in the outside world."

In the outside world, Alpha’s chances of winning were even greater.

Thinking of this, Omega and Dracula once again looked in agreement toward one place.

The spot where Bai Wu had been killed was empty, as if nothing had ever existed there.

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The farm, the forbidden grounds. frёeωebɳovel.com

Memories began to emerge bit by bit; the moment Jing Er’s hand shattered the prohibition, the true memories that belonged to him from many years ago began to surface.

To break through the prohibition completely would still take some time.

During this time, Hong Yin looked at Shen Shuyue and Dong Nianyu, and the three women began to speak.

"Why did it have to be this stupid monk?"

"You call him a stupid monk?" Shen Shuyue found it amusing.

She had an impression of Hong Yin, who had once stood before Bai Wu; she could see that Hong Yin was very attached to Bai Wu.

But she had not expected that Hong Yin would have such a significant say in front of Jing Er.

As a guardian of the Well, Jing Er was undoubtedly the one with the weakest presence.

Compared to Jing Yi, Jing Liu, Jing Si, or even Jing Wu, Jing Er appeared less active.

But Jing Er was also difficult to persuade.

Therefore, Jing Er did not belong to Jing Yi, to Jing Si, or to Jing Liu.

Naturally, he was even less likely to belong to the power of Jing Wu.

Dong Nianyu and Shen Shuyue had at first sought to find the person who could unlock the forbidden ground’s Hexagram Magic Circle and had chosen to search for Jing Er.

And they did indeed find Jing Er, just as they had hoped.

But this monk did not compete for anything.

Even when Shen Shuyue and Dong Nianyu brought up crucial stuff—memory.

They spoke of how the array of the forbidden ground might help him find his true self.

Jing Er remained unmoved.

Jing Er was a person who could remain calm; his compassion had been twisted into a form of arrogant mercy.

He viewed humans as one would a pet.

However, as he was defeated by Bai Wu’s hand and spent a long time with Hong Yin and White Deer, Jing Er slowly began to change his attitude.

Yet, regarding who he had been in the past, he became less attached.

As a result, Dong Nianyu and Shen Shuyue were never able to persuade Jing Er.

But oddly enough, a single sentence from Hong Yin caused a complete 180-degree shift in Jing Er’s attitude.

"Monk, why don’t you give it a try? I’m very curious to see what you were like before," Hong Yin said.

Initially, Hong Yin disliked Jing Er greatly—Jing Er was an enemy of Bai Wu and had even nearly killed her.

But through contact with Jing Er, it gradually became clear that Jing Er wasn’t truly hypocritical.

His personality was distorted, but now and then he would still express some of humanity’s ultimate goodness.

’Great compassion and mercy,’ how easy are these words to embody?

Yet on such a person as Jing Er, the Buddha-nature that revealed itself made Hong Yin feel as if it could even dispel the grudges of her "true self."

The eyes on those balloons, after being around Jing Er for a long time, no longer exhibited insatiable greed for negative emotions but carried a certain bewilderment.

"Since you said so, I’ll listen to you."

In terms of spiritual power, Dong Nianyu could guide all of humanity, suppress all of humanity’s negative aspects.

In terms of combat power, Hong Yin was absolutely no match for Shen Shuyue.

But in terms of speaking authority, ten Shen Shuyues plus Dong Nianyu couldn’t compare with Hong Yin.

This was very strange, this girl in the black dress with the eerie balloons, who seemed to embody both good and evil, could get along so well with the immensely Buddha-like Jing Er.

"Your spiritual power is so high."

Hong Yin’s spiritual power was aberrant, having grown from a multiplier of *12 at first, to *36 through constant contact with Jing Er.

Super Grudge Manifestation became even easier to handle, allowing her to replicate more targets.

But facing Dong Nianyu, she still felt that Dong Nianyu’s spiritual power was very strong, much stronger than her own.

Dong Nianyu seemed to remember something:

"The gap between my original self and me is even greater than the gap between you and me."

Was there such a strong monster in this world?

Unable to imagine, Hong Yin asked a question:

"Is she an enemy? Will she harm Bai Wu?"

Dong Nianyu shook her head, perhaps to indicate no, or perhaps to indicate she didn’t know, she didn’t speak.

Shen Shuyue spoke:

"Do you know what became of Bai Wu?"

"I don’t know."

"He might be dead already."

All the eyes in Hong Yin’s balloons instantly glared fiercely at Shen Shuyue.

Even Jing Er, standing nearby, shifted slightly.

Dong Nianyu spoke:

"We need to hurry, Jing Yi must have noticed something."

Jing Yi certainly had noticed something, but the current Jing Yi was far from recovering to his peak condition.

Jing Er spoke:

"Big brother won’t interfere, he doesn’t know what I plan to do. It’s also unlikely for him to be my enemy. He understands my personality, as well as my personality before it was twisted."

"To big brother, a person like me is not a threat. If he were to force himself to be my enemy, he would be placing himself at a disadvantage."

Jing Er rarely spoke.

Hong Yin felt that Jing Er’s demeanor had changed.

Jing Er’s memory was recovering, the distortion gradually fading, but the Buddha-nature seemed to dim.

Yet, for some reason, Jing Er now seemed to exude even more tranquility and simplicity.

"Hong Yin, it’s time for us to leave."

Shen Shuyue spoke:

"Have you gained your freedom?"

Jing Er turned around. In the instant they saw Jing Er, Shen Shuyue, Dong Nianyu, and even Hong Yin—three girls who had experienced hardships and torment—felt an unprecedented clarity and tranquility.

"In a sense, I have indeed become free," Jing Er spoke without deliberately affecting a Buddhist air, but he seemed as sanctified as Buddha’s child.

Dong Nianyu asked:

"What are you planning to do?"

"It so happens I know my purpose, and there’s a place that needs me."

The forbidden area was still dark and gloomy, but as Jing Er took each step towards the outside, the three girls felt as if they could sense his footsteps blooming with flowers.