Free Web NovelChapter 97: Chapter 97: Enabling the Mouth
Wang Shi certainly didn’t just vanish.
He looked at Lin Wurou, who seemed to have discovered something, her face showing surprise.
"Hey, are you guys done?" Wang Shi asked.
Only Lin Wurou heard this sentence.
Bai Wu had now become sure that the problem lay not with the monsters, but with the dense fog.
He took a few steps forward, and Wang Shi’s tall and burly figure soon appeared.
"Wang Shi, you can come back now."
Wang Shi was still clueless, Yin Shuang and Shang Xiaoyi, along with Wu Jiu, had guessed something about the situation, but Lin Wurou, in the middle, didn’t understand what was going on at all.
"What’s going on, what exactly did you discover?" Lin Wurou brushed back her bangs, her face full of confusion.
Bai Wu looked up at the sky and hesitated for two seconds before speaking:
"The observation just now should make it very clear, Wang Shi, you didn’t hear my voice, did you?"
"You spoke?" Wang Shi was surprised; although he wasn’t a perceiver, with the strength of Rank Five, his basic perception was not weak.
He should be able to hear any sounds within a fifteen-meter radius, as long as they were not deliberately suppressed.
Bai Wu nodded:
"We can draw a conclusion, the white fog can block our perception, any perception. If I’m not wrong, Xiaoyi probably habitually tried to perceive Wang Shi, but the feedback from her perception was that there was no trace of Wang Shi."
Shang Xiaoyi nodded in astonishment. freёwebnovel.com
"Just now, I really thought brother Wang had encountered something unexpected."
"The perception of Innate Force, the perception of the five senses, within a visibility range of fifteen meters, are all shielded. So it’s not that Xiaoyi couldn’t detect the presence of Evil Fallen, it’s that the dense fog blocked her perceptual abilities. Even the vibrations coming from fifteen meters away... we couldn’t perceive them."
Bai Wu exaggeratedly said:
"Maybe at this moment, a few hundred meters away, explosions are happening, and a missile could come crashing down with a ’duang’, and we would have no clue."
"Then what do we do... Does this mean that there might actually be many Evil Fallen around us?"
"We still don’t know if this fog can block the perception of Evil Fallen. But given everyone’s qualities, even though there were some emotional fluctuations just now, they were not enough to attract Evil Fallen. Unless there are Evil Fallen everywhere thirty meters away from us, but that possibility is too low."
Bai Wu said this terrifying possibility with a calm face.
Looking at the composed Bai Wu, Yin Shuang quickly calmed down as well; she remembered something:
"Sometimes I wonder if it’s because you possess some kind of Sequence?"
Bai Wu was slightly surprised; could the ice beauty have discovered his secret?
"That allows you to stay so emotionless? In my view, even the top five hundred Sequences might not be as useful as your ability."
Oh... so Yin Shuang was talking about emotions. But come to think of it, his performance just now hadn’t relied on his eyes.
Emotions can’t be hidden, one can pretend to be scared like Shang Xiaoyi, but the wristwatch doesn’t lie.
Bai Wu said:
"It’s not a Sequence, it might be related to my memory loss."
During the interrogation, Bai Wu had revealed his memory loss to Liu Mu. By now, it wasn’t a secret anymore.
Although the true situation had nothing to do with memory loss, but rather a game he played with his father when he was young.
However, Yin Shuang and the others still accepted this explanation.
"I do hope your composure comes from the fact that you truly have a way," Yin Shuang said, looking at Bai Wu.
Bai Wu smiled:
"Actually, by now, everyone should understand that the area we are in is definitely not the white area."
The one questioning was still Yin Shuang:
"Apart from entering an area with a different color through a special number that ignores the Stele’s color, in other cases, the Stele does not transport randomly."
She added another sentence:
"At least for the past seven hundred years, there has been no issue."
Bai Wu noticed that the ice beauty seemed to have a good understanding of history. Confidently uttering that sentence, perhaps she had researched a lot of High Tower data from the past seven hundred years.
"We might be on the boundary of the area, maybe we have crossed into another area, but perhaps... there are other possibilities. The Stele won’t make mistakes, but don’t forget, the world outside the tower is ever-changing."
Actually, Bai Wu had a very terrifying suspicion in his heart, but he dared not speak it out loud.
He still looked calm as he added,
"At least seeing is believing. These footprints couldn’t possibly have been made by a person, even though the captain just annihilated a giant not long ago. The imprint of the footprints is not human. We can determine that this area is not a white zone purely based on the dense fog, which is far more dangerous than the ward we visited last time. What we can do is either head straight back or follow that direction."
Bai Wu pointed towards the only thing visible through the dense fog fifteen meters away—the silhouette of a distant mountain.
He speculated that within that large mountain lay the holder of the travel pass—the Doomsday Fragment.
"Why is only that mountain visible?"
Bai Wu’s expression gradually grew serious,
"I’m not sure about this question, but perhaps the dense fog wants us to head to that place."
The current clues were not sufficient for Bai Wu to unravel the mysteries of the area.
What exactly was the matter with the strange white fog, he also had no clarity.
The rules of the world outside the tower were too chaotic, amounting to an absence of rules.
The temperature could change constantly, a window might be unbreakable even by an eighth-order strong man. Even the entire area could possibly be inside the belly of an Evil Fallen or maybe even space-time was disordered.
Some rules here stem from the world itself, while others originate from powerful Evil Fallen.
Could the white fog be the ability of an Evil Fallen? Maybe the Evil Fallen wants everyone to go to that mountain?
Or perhaps the white fog is a natural phenomenon outside the tower, but that mountain possesses a super-existence that suppresses the rules of the outside world?
No matter which, they must head to that mountain to find out.
"Let’s make a decision now. This place is not a white zone, it might even be more terrifying than a blue zone. My suggestion is to head back directly, or do you plan to search for that mountain?"
Bai Wu’s tone was quite like that of Prayle’s Eye when advising himself, so much so that he even guessed at the outcome.
"We should at least have a look. If there’s real danger, I’ll have you all retreat."
The decision naturally lay in Wu Jiu’s hands.
Bai Wu nodded,
"The captain has spoken, let’s move forward then."
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Members of the Vanguard Group resumed their journey. With Bai Wu’s intentional reminder, everyone stopped underestimating the white zone.
Their pace slowed down considerably, and Bai Wu observed all the while as they traveled.
The more he observed, the more he felt that the place they were heading to... was like a gathering organized by some Evil Fallen. freewebnoveℓ.com
This absurd thought excited him somewhat.
In his conception, perhaps due to the holder of the travel pass, monsters from the blue, white, and purple zones were gathering in a regional alliance.
But all this waited for verification.
Just as Bai Wu was pondering, within the fifteen-meter range, a sudden change occurred.
A grenade launcher, the size of an arm—duang—shot out from the dense fog!
But it was not aimed at Bai Wu and the others; the grenade passed directly through them, heading towards the dense fog behind them.
Seconds later, it returned to complete calmness. The grenade launcher undoubtedly exploded, but no sound was heard by anyone.
The entire group looked back in horror, their reactions quick as they took up their respective combat positions and entered a state of alert.
Bai Wu realized—his mouth needed to be more careful in the future when giving examples.
"Is this what they call jinxing? Kid, are you an Evil Fallen spy planted in our midst?" Lin asked, still unsettled but not forgetting to throw in a barb.
Bai Wu was also a bit stunned; the example he’d casually given had actually come true.
"That thing just now shouldn’t be usable outside the tower."
Firearms, missiles, rocket launchers, these weapons of war, were unusable outside the tower and under the jurisdiction of the fifth level within it.
Bai Wu had already guessed the answer,
"What people can’t use doesn’t mean Evil Fallen can’t. What we saw must be a mechanized Evil Fallen."
(More to come later, still writing)
