Free Web NovelChapter 608: Chapter 225: Farewell Prayle’s Eye, Erasing the World Will
In the instant I saw Bai Wu, that overwhelming sense of familiarity surged up.
Even though the memories had still not emerged, Wu Jiu was convinced that he knew this person.
At this moment, Bai Wu was still immersed in the process of "erasing" Will.
Many pages had been written with plenty of content, which Bai Wu often chose not to read, so as not to let the Will of the Well World disturb his mind.
He feared those words.
They seemed to follow some law, like Destiny itself, capable of easily dominating their lives.
So when Bai Wu revisited this content, he discovered many interesting things.
He found... that there were actually two writing styles within these yellowed pages.
The first was when the author’s head would lift to look at him, deliberately displaying a sense of mocking power, as if they could decide everything.
The second seemed very ordinary and routine, like a silent documentation of various actions, giving off a sense of documentary literature.
Previously, Bai Wu had not thought that these were two different writing styles, inscribed by the same person.
But now Bai Wu suddenly thought that perhaps the one who inscribed these words... was not the same person.
He erased much.
Like the city at night.
Dawn broke soon after, and Wu Jiu shockingly found that the countdown in his eyes had sped up by seven hours.
The city, which should have been in darkness, was unexpectedly greeted by the early morning.
At this time, he could see Bai Wu’s actions more meticulously.
He was certain that all the wonders he experienced were controlled by Bai Wu.
"How did you do this?"
"It’s a reward we got after conquering the zoo, captain, don’t speak now, I am... a bit busy."
Erasing these words, for Bai Wu, was an action that greatly exhausted spiritual power.
At first, Bai Wu only erased the part about Wu Jiu going blind.
But as Bai Wu changed the weather, altered day and night, the more things he changed...
Bai Wu could clearly feel his spiritual power disappearing as if it were a clay ox entering the sea.
Especially when Bai Wu tried to inscribe words onto the pages... there was an instinctive sense of aversion and danger.
He could not do this, yet at the same time, he felt that if he really did... the loss would outweigh the gain.
Inscribing words onto the pages meant he was doing what the Will of the Well World did.
Was such a thing really possible?
Bai Wu’s breathing became more and more hurried, not just because of the exhaustion of spiritual power.
Wu Jiu shockingly found that the boy was sweating.
They were both such powerful beings that not even a highly intense battle would necessarily tire them out.
The sunlight sprinkled over the city bit by bit, as if spreading a golden jam on a piece of bread.
Bai Wu tried to erase many things.
Like this section—
[In this city of cold-hearted people, who would care about a car accident?]
[Freemen are a very noble existence, they can control everything, and it seems our Dragon Slayer intends to find a breakthrough from the freemen.]
He wanted to erase the words ’cold-hearted people’.
He also wanted to erase ’control everything’.
Bai Wu felt it was possible to do so, but if he really went through with it, he would probably fall into an extremely exhausted state.
Such a state might be even more exaggerated than forcefully invoking the Twisted Realm.
So in the end... Bai Wu did not do it, he merely flipped through the pages, endlessly turning them.
Ultimately, he flipped to the very first page of the yellowed book...
There, Bai Wu saw this passage:
[I must say, the Sequence I created is quite diligent. It always wants to spoil the story for you, but sorry, it’s offline now.]
Welcome to the fifth level, if you dare to come.
By the way, considering you’re probably tired of reading the notes, do you want to change the format?
After turning to this page, Bai Wu took a deep breath:
"I may become very weak soon, maybe even faint. Captain, have you recovered your memory?"
Wu Jiu shook his head.
Bai Wu put it another way:
"Then do you think I would harm you? Do you trust me now?"
Wu Jiu nodded.
"Alright, then my life is in your hands. Protect me before I wake up."
"Okay."
Wu Jiu’s promise was light, but Bai Wu knew very well that the man who could not be destroyed by the World Will was as good as his word.
And Bai Wu took another deep breath as if bracing for a great battle, his fingers slowly tracing over the pages of the book.
Erasing the text about the Well World Will taking possession of Prayle’s Eye... one character at a time.
With each character erased, Bai Wu felt increasingly weak and tired.
An immense fatigue overwhelmed him; several times he nearly closed his eyes, but the next second...
Every time he was about to fall asleep, he would remember the scenes from his childhood when Bai Yuan pricked him with needles.
It was strange indeed. Those memories should have been deeply ingrained, so much so that even now, the mere recollection could bring a tingling pain from the nerve endings.
But towards the perpetrator, Bai Yuan, Bai Wu felt indifferent.
He endured time and again relying on these painful past memories.
Finally...
All the words on the first page of the yellowed book were erased.
Even the entire yellowed page began to curl, darken, and ultimately turned to ash as if burned by fierce flames.
And when Bai Wu turned to look at Wu Jiu, the familiar style of notes and dialog boxes appeared before his eyes.
[The one-meter-fifty-nine war god, even if there were other war gods in the world, none of them would have this height. You are already very familiar with him, so we don’t need to introduce him too much, do we?
By the way... it’s really good to see you again, my old buddy.]
Bai Wu smiled, then collapsed to the ground.
It wasn’t from any serious injury, but erasing the words from those yellowed pages was indeed a very tiring task.
He was just a bit tired and needed a bit of rest.
Wu Jiu caught the stumbling Bai Wu and did not leave the zoo. At this moment, the zoo was relatively safe.
The mechanical creatures left the zoo one by one, following Bai Wu’s instructions to search for the last source of distortion. Wu Jiu guessed... the results would likely come soon.
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...
Bai Wu had a dream.
In the process of fainting, the yellowed book page grew even larger, but it wasn’t hanging over his head.
Slowly, like a curtain, it fell in front of Bai Wu.
That’s how dreams are. When two things can bring a similar sensation, they often blend together in dreams.
The yellowed page turned into a large yellow curtain.
And behind the curtain, two dark silhouettes, just a cloth’s breadth away from Bai Wu.
"You’re about to lose. The game did not destroy him," a calm voice stated.
"But he brought help," another, sharper voice added, its tone capable of enhancing mockery.
"However, we never stipulated that bringing help was against the rules. You lost this game."
The voice was meticulous, while the other said begrudgingly:
"The rewards he got were too generous, but the dangers he faced were not dangerous enough!"
"No. I don’t think so. The dangers he faced were terrifying. Whether it was that hospital or the urban legends of this city. These places were very dangerous."
"You’re just making excuses, he’s not even hurt! Not hurt at all! This game is meaningless!"
"That’s because he firmly believed in their humanity."
"No, no, no... He’s starting from a different point than the others, because he retained his own memories, that’s why he could survive!"
"Really? Well, another person didn’t retain his memories, but he could survive too. And when he experienced these scenarios in the real world, even though they weren’t as dangerous as now, he was very weak at the time, yet he still survived. Now, he doesn’t even have those eyes."
"How can you be so biased? Are you ignoring the facts?"
"No, what I’m saying is the fact."
The two voices were clearly arguing, and Bai Wu was on the other side of the curtain, listening to their dispute.
"I haven’t had enough fun yet..."
The two quarreled for a long time, until the sharp voice finally said this, sounding somewhat weary.
"Why the rush? Like the way you address him with the term ’Dragon Slayer,’ you know you won’t die, the Well won’t close, it will always exist."
Having replied to the other voice in a staccato manner, the two figures behind the curtain fell silent.
The two shadowy figures behind the curtain cast vague spots of light on it, and Bai Wu watched the curtain...
It was as if he saw the eyes of an ancient existence from Chaos.
And at that moment, Bai Wu suddenly woke up.
...
...
It was one o’clock in the afternoon, the sun was at its peak.
The temperature in the city was very high, Bai Wu, feeling the burn after a long while, smiled.
Next to him, Wu Jiu said,
"To have you knocked out for a few hours... it must’ve taken a lot of energy, right?"
"Did I not encounter any danger?"
Bai Wu was curious.
Before he lost consciousness, he had entrusted Wu Jiu to protect him, and Wu Jiu had indeed done so.
But to be more precise, there wasn’t any danger to begin with.
"The city’s in total chaos now. With just a few hours left on the countdown, everyone’s frantically hunting us, but they don’t dare come to the zoo, and no one knows we’re here."
Bai Wu roughly understood.
At the moment, everyone in Baichuan City was in a frenzy, searching everywhere for Wu Jiu.
And the mechanical animals escaping from the zoo added even more chaos to the city.
Bai Wu thought about it, and what he needed to do was still to find Violet.
He was almost certain that the cause of the collapse of the identity rules in the city was the Violet who had once been obsessed with playing house.
Luckily, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu had two hostages with them.
These two freelancers were unlucky.
Upon entering the zoo, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, in order to explore the zoo, had knocked them out.
If they had woken up while Bai Wu was contaminated by the mechanical pollution, they probably could have escaped.
Unfortunately, though freelancers had immense authority, they had no real strength. The two attempts Bai Wu and Wu Jiu made to attract attention only woke them up by noon.
By that time, Wu Jiu had already woken up.
So much for freedom without the power to back it up, it’s like building castles in the air.
Now the two were bound beneath a large tree, which had slowly mechanized, sprouting many metallic-looking branches and leaves, while its roots seemed like data exchange cables.
The tree had now become a servant to Bai Wu, tightly binding the two freelancers.
Bai Wu felt that there was no need to waste time on this matter, as hard as these two might be, could they be tougher than Lilith of the Tower God Society?
"I have some experience with interrogation, Captain, could you step away for a bit? I’m afraid my next actions might cause you to have some misconceptions about me..."
Wu Jiu didn’t understand, but still took Bai Wu’s advice and walked away.
After moving about dozens of meters away, Wu Jiu could no longer see what Bai Wu was doing.
But he could hear.
Heart-wrenching cries echoed through the zoo. Fortunately, they did not spread beyond, especially since there were no people around the zoo anyway.
Wu Jiu couldn’t imagine the kind of torment the two free people were enduring.
But what he could foresee was that Bai Wu would probably soon bring intelligence.
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Hours later, night fell once again.
Yet the city, after a day of turmoil, did not return to tranquility with the fall of darkness.
Although the city was no longer in chaos, the subway area was now overcrowded.
Countdown... four minutes remained.
Above the city, various mechanical beasts roamed. People hoped to find a relatively decent place to wait for the identity switch.
There were those who tried lying down at home.
The result was that when the identity switch happened, they became intruders in someone else’s family.
And the person playing the role of Family Head, their other identity was that of a kidnapper.
So the person lying at home, waiting to change identity, upon hearing the sound of keys turning the door handle, immediately saw a dark gun barrel pressed against their own head.
All couples had also drawn lines between them at this time.
Of course, there were those who were passionately affectionate, thinking about doing things between husband and wife before the switch of identities.
But doing so often resulted in forgetting the time, and then the switch happened.
Men and women would suddenly stop... and then a family dispute would ensue.
Such absurdities were many.
One second your mother, the next she might become someone else’s daughter.
One second your husband, the next your own father...
In a world where relationships were shattered, it was best not to trust words like "I’ll still remember you in the next life."
Because they might just come true; the person you love in the next life could marry someone else, and you would have to play their child.
So, to maintain some dignity, everyone who lived long in this city understood one thing—
When the identity switch is upon you, and memories are about to be cleansed... it’s best to find a quiet public area, put on your clothes, stay put, and do nothing.
Today the city was in complete chaos, because mechanical animals ran wild, and because everyone wanted to find Gu Qingyu.
But now, few people had that in their minds.
They just wanted to wait calmly in the subway for the switch of identities.
Some felt very desolate; they tried hard to adapt to their identities but were not doing well due to the poor environment.
Others were full of confidence, believing they had done well enough to earn a better identity.
Ruan Qingyun looked thoughtfully at the subway entrance.
"I wonder how that guy is doing..."
While everyone else was chasing someone, Ruan Qingyun didn’t have that thought; she was silently grateful for everything Wu Jiu had done.
If it weren’t for Wu Jiu, she might have already been ruined by the free people.
Countdown 59 seconds.
seconds.
57...
56...
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3... 2... 1...
0.
The moment the countdown hit zero, the entire city fell into absolute silence.
It wasn’t until several seconds later that someone opened their eyes in confusion...
"Weird, why do I still remember all this? Where’s my new identity?"
