Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 573: Chapter 190: The High Tower Master and the Twisted Master

On the other side of the door, there were no unusual artifacts.

Neither were there any strange and evil objects terrifying enough for Bai Wu.

When the door opened, Bai Wu saw what looked like a massive library.

There were tens of thousands of volumes stored in this spherical structure, with every wall serving as bookshelves, and a spiraling path meandering through the giant sphere’s center.

The pathway was comparable to an overpass in a certain 8D city, which not even the local veteran drivers might fully know by heart.

In the whole massive sphere shaped library, Bai Wu quickly saw a small desk hidden at the end of a path.

The tyrant was puzzled,

"The last civilization is said to have faced extinction due to the improper use of the Well, but why had their civilization not moved beyond paper records?"

Bai Wu shook his head,

"Of course, using computers to record information would not require such a large spherical library, but it’s very possible that they fell into the same trap as humanity, with their technological civilization, and various physical theories being blocked by some power."

"At such times, the most practical method is to leave markings and symbols on objects, to record everything in the oldest way—with text."

The tyrant nodded, looking at the chaotic, maze-like central pathways of the sphere, he didn’t even know which path led where.

"With such a vast library, how are you going to find what you need?"

To Bai Wu, this wasn’t a problem at all; a library this vast was essentially a record hall of civilization.

It’s just that this civilization’s last testament lies within the Well.

Prayle’s Eye’s annotations on overly simple questions began to dodge around the crucial point.

Always showing some irrelevant information.

For example, the materials used for construction or something, each book only tells you the thickness, word count.

Bai Wu didn’t fret, which meant that the contents of these books were not of immediate importance to him.

But at the end of one path, the notes on that small desk were crucial.

Because that big exclamation mark had already been marked, even changing into a dark golden color.

It gave off a feeling akin to that of an epic-level prop.

In the library, there seemed to be a suppressive force of some rule in place, Bai Wu and the tyrant found their powers significantly weakened.

This wasn’t surprising.

The High Tower had it, too, so this place might correspond to the High Tower.

The High Tower suppresses the Evil Fallen, this place might suppress the Evil Fallen humans as well.

In a sense, it could also be seen as protecting the books.

Bai Wu had already figured out the layout, and began to advance towards the marked notes.

On the way, he grew more curious.

The rulers of the High Tower were killing each other in a bloodbath on the fifth level, but clearly, this place was different.

The High Tower goes from bottom to top, this place from top to bottom.

Indeed, there were signs of battle from the people of this civilization, but it was definitely not the kind of free-for-all fight where only one person could survive.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for someone to build such a gigantic library here.

Even possibly... all other buildings might also be filled with books.

To record a civilization that might have a history longer than humanity’s, one library like this... is still not enough.

Arrived.

At the end of a winding narrow path, Bai Wu saw his mission target.

On a long rectangular desk made of an unknown material, very similar in style to human furniture, he saw some manuscript drawings, and some letters that were never sent out.

And he saw that note, not so thick, marked by the eye.

Interestingly, this time, the note... was written in human script.

The surrounding manuscripts, all the books in the library, were written in the Sequence text, which someone of the tyrant’s cultural level could only machine translate.

Yes, judging from translations like a depressive umbrella, a red-eyed greatsword, and a gluttonous shield, Bai Wu thought it possible the creator didn’t just casually name them.

It was the tyrant’s limited cultural level... which translated the items terribly.

Fortunately, this time, Bai Wu was looking at an "officially proofread version" rather than a Baidu-Youdao translation.

"Revelations of the Outsider".

When he saw those words, Bai Wu was finally certain that this was a place where the High Tower Creator had once been.

Including the drawings above and those excavated black substances, they were all made by the High Tower Creator.

As Alpha’s most powerful rival, someone who sealed Alpha for thousands of years, Bai Wu wasn’t surprised that he had come to the depths of the Well.

But he indeed had many questions, because clearly, more than one person had been to this place.

This should have been the site of a large tribe’s visit.

With various questions in mind, Bai Wu flipped through the notebook:

"Hello, stranger."

"First of all, to answer a question of yours, I do not know who you are, nor am I aware of your arrival."

"Causality is something that high-dimensional beings have grasped as a unique rule of how things operate, and then they predict the actions of low-dimensional beings."

"Or perhaps it’s not about predicting, but issuing a diagnosis."

"To pronounce a diagnosis on their destiny."

Bai Wu was quite surprised, as he had thought this notebook would record a lot of irrelevant things and might even start from some very ancient origins.

But obviously, the other party got straight to the point and wrote this document for a specific purpose.

"In the process of observing, I learned many kinds of script and must admit, although Sequence script has extra capabilities, this is but a peculiarity of our civilization, we are innately equipped with a higher dimensional perception."

"As humans, a civilization weaker than ours, the surprises you’ve given have far exceeded my estimates."

"I even think, if our civilization’s special abilities were removed -- our race’s... what you call superpowers, perhaps we are not as good as humans."

"In any case, observing low-dimensionality beings like you has taught me a lot, about compliance with order, and the positive transformation of order. Of course, in this process, humanity has taken many detours too."

"So what you see now is something I have recorded in your script. In your history, this is called Sheng Country script."

"Of course, as I said, this is by observing low-dimensional beings. But I cannot predict who you are or where you come from, I can only deduce the activities of those high-dimensional beings based on the majority of low-dimensional beings’ actions."

This explanation was a bit convoluted, but Bai Wu understood it well.

Just like Jing Liu cannot see the causality from Jing Yi to Jing Wu, nor its own causality, but can infer through some other observable causality.

In the High Tower Creator’s conjecture, it was clear that Sheng Country, soaked in the Twisted for seven hundred years, would face a massive assault.

But similarly, because the High Tower appeared, Sheng Country’s civilization was able to continue, which also made... in the later distortion that swept the whole world, the survival rate of Sheng Country’s people was the highest.

Therefore, the High Tower Master logically surmised that the one who could finally come here and witness this written record would be a person from Sheng Country.

Bai Wu continued to read:

"I believe that when you step into the Well, or rather, when you come into contact with things related to the Well, the revelations I left around the world will slowly converge towards you."

"After battling to the death with another member of my kind, I was about to face death. Before the ultimate demise arrived, I had visited the place where another of my kind had stayed—a place where his will prevailed. There, many children grew up happily but were inevitably met with a tragic fate."

"There, I left some revelations, which will gradually appear during the course of your adventures as an outsider. I believe you’ve already received some."

Bai Wu suddenly realized.

He indeed had received messages during his challenge in the Magic Tower.

It was also there that he learned he was destined to fail and that Denglin City hid two genuine Seven Sins.

However, he clearly hadn’t received all of the revelations.

This could be because he hadn’t found them yet, but it could also be that—some revelations were not meant for him.

There were other heroes in this world, some with less of an advantage than he had, but who resembled a hero more than he did.

If possible, Bai Wu hoped they too would receive the revelations.

"It was also there that I discovered the extraordinary plasticity humans showed in the face of epochal choices."

"The distortion created creatures that your descendants would call the Evil Fallen. These beings are a manifestation of human negative emotions in the Well World."

"Regarding the Well, we will discuss it later, so please don’t be impatient. My race, our entire civilization, was annihilated by the Well, and my fellow kin has already been completely corrupted by it. I will explain all this to you later."

"Evil Fallen Bodies survive in the Well World, while humans live in the real world, but if the two overlap in the real world, the Evil Fallen Bodies will strip humans of their rationality and bestow upon them powers not of their own kind."

"Only those with firm will and outstanding talent can preserve their minds when becoming Evil Fallen and gain recognition from the Evil Fallen themselves."

"And with that prerequisite of being recognized, only the most powerful and exceptional of humans might earn the respect of the Evil Fallen, even admiration, and acquire the full power of the Evil Fallen, and even their memories."

The memories of the Evil Fallen Body...

So far, Bai Wu had encountered Evil Fallen like Nie Chongshan, Liu Mu, and Gu Hailin, who were actually great individuals, but they did not have the memories of the Evil Fallen.

They knew nothing about the world inside the Well. Could there really be such a person?

A human whom even their own Evil Fallen Body would respect?

Bai Wu’s mind suddenly flashed back to his conversation with Omega.

"Is his personality very different from that of the captain?"

"No... Gu Qingyu and Crimson... have highly overlapping personalities."

He shook his head; for him, this was ultimately a failure and a distressing experience.

Bai Wu’s attention returned to the notes.

"In a sense, only the Evil Fallen who can maintain human rationality are able to survive in the subsequent world, but I discovered another form of life."

"Three extremely special individuals: two humans with exceptional qualities, even lacking a corresponding Evil Fallen Body in the world of the Evil Fallen, and one who would be called a Semi-Evil Fallen in future generations."

"I firmly believe they are the ones who can fulfill my mission and correct everything."

"In the territory of another of my kin—what you later call the farm—you can find such humans. I believe they can receive the revelations, which will guide them to purge the distortion."

"But ultimately this process was not realized, and they too were doomed to face failure."

"And the world left to me is already very limited, finding someone capable of carrying the heavy burden within the vast future and the immense causal threads is an exceedingly difficult task."

"All I can do is to leave behind clues at some critical nodes, whether these clues can be gathered, whether they can be found, still ultimately depends on you."

In other words, if I hadn’t gone to the Magic Tower initially, I would have never obtained the clue to the Seven Sins weapon.

Even if I had gone to the Magic Tower but had not made the corresponding choices, I wouldn’t have obtained the clue to the Seven Sins weapon either.

"To defeat my kinsmen, is an almost impossible task."

"My race, our entire civilization, is different from humanity because what we pursue is eternity, to be able to maintain sufficient resources forever in one place, to ensure our people can continue to thrive generation after generation."

"Therefore, we are not like humans who have overly diversified nations."

"But indeed, our race has two different factions."

"One is to improve oneself, to reduce the consumption of energy, and even gradually merge with the world, decrease our impact on it over time, to comply with nature, refine technology, maintain order within the order, and seek the path of harmony between heaven and man, to let our race continue for a long time, to live eternally on this world."

"The other faction, however, is to completely break down the order. Another of my kinsmen is quite persistent in this regard, but at that time, he was not yet sick. Those who supported his statement... were very, very few."

"He believes that it’s precisely because everything has order that one can see the end at a glance. To perpetuate civilization eternally, one must build a twisted world where all rules are unpredictable, and the end can never be clearly seen."

This can be said to be a fallacy, of course, Bai Wu knew who this person was, Alpha.

But in the words of the High Tower Master, it seemed that at that time, Alpha was still just a somewhat madman.

Far from being the Twisted Master.

"Most of our civilization revered following the order, although we pursued the eternity of civilization and coexistence with the world. But at that time, we did not agree with some... extreme methods."

"No one supported him, and he was like someone who was just spouting nonsense. When all the rules of the world become unstable, when all orders twist, when our people can’t survive by finding patterns to seek advantages and avoid harm, then what is there to talk about survival?"

"At least at that time, most of us just thought of him as a madman, not a genius."

The line between genius and madman is actually not as thin as many people think.

In Bai Wu’s eyes, genius and madman are definitely different.

Many people think that the line between genius and madman is thin, but this very phrase itself blurs the boundary between them. The thickness of that line may be unreachable for normal people in their entire lives.

In Bai Wu’s view, Alpha is just a madman, far from being a genius. freewёbnoνel.com

"His ideas were so dangerous that he was exiled. Only after fifteen years of exile, after those thoughts had been erased by hardship, could he return to his homeland."

Thoughts, not dangerous thoughts.

Because at the time everyone thought, Alpha’s words sounded crazy, yet they were unattainable.

Rules are something you can twist? Birth, aging, disease, death, mountains flowing with water, time, space, force fields, aren’t these the universal rules, how can they be changed?

But looking back at reality, Bai Wu knew that everything was about to start turning:

"But as resources continued to deplete, and as we faced more and more calamities, we who had a populous race even larger than humans... yet the number of our people dying each year was slowly surpassing those being born."

"We followed order, but as the environment became increasingly harsh... many species in the world also began to go extinct, and we were very worried about the future."

"And one day, a despairing winter came that could freeze all vitality."

"At that time, our people realized that trying to fathom the order of the heavenly way was a very foolish act. The world’s resources were depleting continually, and our extinction was a foregone conclusion."

"Perhaps it wouldn’t happen in this generation, or even the next, but eventually, we are destined to perish."

"The winter made resources even harder to collect, and the life force of our civilization was also being reduced in the cold."

"And at this time... a madman appeared as if a savior."