Four o'clock in the morning.
Countless black shadows once again swarmed out of the mirror like cockroaches.
When these dark shadows saw Jiang Yimi, although their expressions could not be seen, they were obviously surprised to see a large group of phantoms overlapping and stopping in front of Jiang Yimi.
What was even more unexpected was that Bai Wu opened the door.
There were no patrolling security guards or scary men holding lanterns outside the door. It was pitch black outside in the early hours of the morning, but for these people, the action of opening the door meant that a certain future was about to come.
The phantoms seemed to be moving very fast, and soon they arrived at the door. As one phantom leaned out, the other phantoms also ran out quickly.
All of a sudden, all the "cockroaches" that had gathered in the dormitory walked into the corridor and looked at the darkness in the distance.
Soon, the dark shadows returned to the dormitory.
Jiang Yimi and the souls she had saved seven hundred years ago looked at each other in silence. She was a little sad just watching these shadows waving at her.
The experiences of the past two days seemed like a dream. She held the lantern, as if she had become a new lantern bearer, watching the dark shadows return to the world in the mirror one by one.
Because of what Bai Wu said before, Jiang Yimi knew that it was not the time to release all these people yet.
They have to continue to stay in the mirror until one day, the white mist purifies the entire area and solves the problem of survival resources in this area.
And once a completely purified area actually appears, many causal gears begin to turn.
Bai Wu didn't know whether the tower would really take any response.
In the end, he could only make a compromise according to the original plan.
That is the "examination room" left for the twelve teachers, which is a place where the opponents are forced to be trapped.
As for other places, most of the physical rules that are uninhabitable are purified.
He is reckless in some things because he is confident, but he is also cautious because of his intuition.
The tragedy of Baichuan Middle School, the principal is not the most evil behind the scenes. This area cannot exist in the form of a pure land.
The real evil person is the doctor.
What exactly happened during the seven days of Baichuan City's destruction remains to be explored.
Fortunately, Jiang Yimi could understand.
The following work became very simple for Bai Wu. He was very efficient and took Jiang Yimi to various places in the school without any delay.
As long as we get the fragments, it will seem like everything in this area is under control.
All the weird rules and the origins of weird campus legends seemed to be known in an instant.
After collecting all four fragments, Bai Wu felt like the ruler of a region.
All kinds of strange objects in the cafeteria seem to become food as long as they are placed in a certain position due to certain rules.
There were not many students in the cafeteria, but each of them was miserable.
The fact that one cannot get what one wants is related to desire. Some students who have great resentment towards the food in the cafeteria are permanently kept in the cafeteria, eating even more disgusting food... or even food that cannot be considered food.
Now they are finally freed. If this were an RPG game, Bai Wu had no doubt that the evil people in the cafeteria would have a very positive impression of him.
Everyone is paying attention to the violence in the East District, the cursed woman entering the district, and the endless exams in the teaching building.
But no one realizes that the worst thing is the depravity in the cafeteria. Eating food that is darker than the nutritional meals for seven hundred years, what are the weird talks in the dormitory? What are the exams? If you have the guts, come to the cafeteria to fill your stomach!
Watching those evil people running out of the cafeteria hysterically and vomiting wildly... Bai Wu recalled the process of Lin Wurou dissecting Elijah.
The evil's stomach seems to be very special. The food it eats will flow through the body and become part of its power...
When you think about it this way, they are really miserable.
"Come to think of it, just like the people in the mirror, they won't turn back into humans, right..." Jiang Yimi said, looking at this group of evil creatures.
"Evil creatures won't starve to death, but humans will. You're the only one left in this place. They... will have to continue living as evil creatures for a while. But... it shouldn't be too long. At least compared to seven hundred years, it will be a very short time."
Jiang Yimi nodded. Since Bai Wu said so, she also believed that the day when this school would be "bustling with people" would not be far away.
After eliminating the weird rules in the cafeteria, Bai Wu went to the football field and the gymnasium.
When I got closer, I realized that the two teams on the football field were headless, and the baskets on the basketball court were filled with their heads.
There may be some thrilling and interesting stories here, but Bai Wu has no interest in knowing the past of these masters of division.
After he cancelled the prophetic rule and the curse of the stadium and the football field, the masters of head division began to play the Doomsday Head Matching Game, and one by one they began to search for their real heads.
After repairing the central area, Bai Wu headed to the east area.
A certain sound that echoed in the old building in the East District completely dissipated under the influence of the doomsday fragments.
These violent elements finally no longer have to be in a rage every day. It was like someone suddenly shouted something, and then everyone woke up from a dream, and as if they had been hit hard, they put down their weapons.
Evil beings can also feel sad and grief-stricken, and they pursue their own desires more than humans.
At this moment, all the evil ones were stunned. This area had a strange rule that allowed the evil ones to be resurrected from the dead. Its purpose was to make the evil ones fight forever.
However, Bai Wu felt that this rule had other uses.
"Assuming that the evil ones are dead, as long as their bodies are transported here before they dissipate, wouldn't it be equivalent to... a hero altar?"
For this reason, Bai Wu retained the rules in the teaching building of the East Campus.
At this point, the entire Baichuan Middle School has been purified, but the evil ones are still evil, and some areas still have some strange rules.
There are only a few final steps to complete purification.
But Bai Wu didn't know when these steps would be completed.
Six o'clock.
The sky was a dark blue, and the streets outside the gate of Baichuan Middle School were dead silent and dilapidated, with no sign of life.
But no one knows how much evil is lurking here.
"Uncle, when will you come to see me next time?"
Jiang Yimi had already sensed the separation.
After thinking carefully, Bai Wu said:
"There are many places like this school, and my goal is to make these places as suitable for human habitation as possible. I will be very busy in the future, but I will be here for a while and make time to visit you."
Bai Wu took out the bird fragments, flower fragments, and fish fragments from the doomsday fragments.
"These three fragments respectively have the boundaries of the activation area, gain the awe of other evil, and the ability to purify evil. I will give them to you. You must keep them well. This is the area we are working together to purify. You and I are both guardians." Jiang Yimi nodded.
Bai Wu gave the three fragments to Jiang Yimi, but he also had his own concerns.
If there is an external enemy in this area, Jiang Yimi will be invincible with the three fragments, at least if the enemy is evil.
After giving all the instructions, Bai Wu started the return roulette.
The current area exploration degree is 97%. All the pieces of the doomsday puzzle in this area have been obtained. My evaluation: One begets two, two begets three, and three begets everything. However, as a philosopher, I must tell you a fact: not only the beginning of things is difficult, but also the middle, the end, and the end.
Everything is more difficult than just the beginning.
Riddle Eyes made it very clear this time. Human beings’ exploration outside the tower is actually the same as the souls in the mirror.
They live like cockroaches.
Even though he had the ability to build a shelter, Bai Wu did not dare to do it because the unknown power was too terrifying.
Jiang Yimi bids farewell to Bai Wu:
"I really want to go to the tower with uncle and meet more people. You must come to see me."
"Yes, next time I come, maybe I'll bring other people from the tower with me."
"Okay, it's a deal!"
"It's a deal."
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Tower, fifth floor.
After the Black Tower meeting ended, the ruler of the Xie family returned to his own residence.
Unlike several other families, the Xie family’s manor is not designed as a black tower or a garden.
According to the wishes of the ancestor of the Xie family, the Xie family's manor was designed as a high-tech building from the pre-tower era.
The ancestor of the Xie family, the real ruler, Xie Yingjie, lives on the 20th floor of this building.
Unlike other families, their ancestors were hiding like monsters, leaving behind only a manor legend.
The same is true for the other seven families. Their descendants all know one thing: there is a very scary existence in their manor, even scarier than the head of the family. But except for the head of the family, no one has ever seen it.
Xie Yingjie is different.
He did not hide behind the scenes, nor did he care about being visited by future generations. Instead, he served as an enlightener and was responsible for guiding his descendants on the 20th floor.
From the seventh generation onwards, the descendants no longer knew this ancestor. After all, the ancestor looked very young, which was completely different from their perception.
They only knew that on the 20th floor of the Xie family building lived a man of great knowledge and status.
But most people did not associate him with the real head of the Xie family. They just thought that the Xie family was engaged in scientific research and he was able to obtain a transcendent status because of his knowledge.
As for who he is, why he has such profound knowledge, and why he can live on the 20th floor? All of this is a secret known only to the head of the Xie family.
Shortly after the meeting, Xie Yingjie returned to the 20th floor.
This was a level where many scientists once lived together, but now he was the only one here.
Recalling the purge plan in the meeting, Xie Yingjie wanted to refuse.
The tragedy ninety years ago directly brought human exploration of the outside of the tower back to the initial stage.
A large number of top combat forces died outside the tower, resulting in almost no blue areas in the tower's survey reports in the next few years.
It was not until more than ten years later that a group of experts gradually emerged and human exploration of the outside of the tower made some progress again.
But now, because "business" is affected, the other rulers have decided to start a purge. Once the purge is completed, it means that the combat power of the tower will decline significantly again.
Ninety years ago, Xie Yingjie spent too much energy on the research of a key device because of a "business".
As a result, he was not able to deal with the cleansing meeting in time, which led to the loss of the tower's combat power.
After more than a hundred years of debugging, research, and even "business", Xie Yingjie's works have reached the debugging stage.
It will be put into use soon, so facing the cleansing plan again, Xie Yingjie decided to try a change.
If there is really someone in the tower who can go to the red area and hinder the transactions between the forces outside the tower and the rulers, it means that human civilization has entered a new milestone, and it is absolutely impossible for him to purge it at this time.
So Xie Yingjie thought for a moment and made the first call.
The female ruler of the Wang family.
The call was answered quickly.
"When I saw the word 'thank you', I was wondering if I had read it wrong. It's really strange that a weapons research fanatic like you actually had time to call me."
The ruler of the Wang family, whose name is Jue, is the only one. Although she is a woman among the eight rulers, she has a very high say among the rulers.
In the survival battle of 72 to 8 that year, her methods frightened all the men.
"Is it because of the meeting?"
"Yes."
"If you have a different opinion in a meeting, why not speak up at that time?"
"It's not that we have different opinions, it's just that we have a more stable plan, but I didn't think of it at the time." Xie Yingjie's tone was steady.
Wang Jue asked:
"Why are you calling me?"
"I'm just calling you first because your opinion is more important."
"I heard that Professor Xie was a straight man back then, but it doesn't look like that."
"After seven hundred years, people are bound to change."
"Tell me, what's the plan?"
Xie Yingjie did not say it directly, but asked a question:
"Do you think trading with forces outside the tower is a win-win situation?"
"Not really. I just exchanged a part of what I already had for another part that I didn't have."
"I also think that each of us is making deals with forces outside the tower. The fat pig of the Zhong family likes wine, sex, money and power, the pervert of the Yan family likes human experiments, and I like weapons."
Before Xie Yingjie finished speaking, Wang Jue laughed:
"Fat pig? Pervert? Now I know why you called me first, because you know I hate them."
"I hate them, too. In fact, we don't need to clean up the tower's forces directly, because we all know that 99% of the tower's forces cannot interfere with our business. The forces outside the tower know that humans are weak, so every time they make an offer, it's a lion's mouth."
"That's true, but we can't do anything about it. They are the ones who are in control. We are the demanders and they are the suppliers. We don't have the leverage to improve our position."
"No, we do. If we insist on purging the tower's combat power, then we will never be able to obtain equal negotiation conditions with the forces outside the tower."
"So what you mean?"
"It's not difficult to find out who destroyed the casino's business, because those who have such strength must be the top of the two armies, and then recruit them."
Wang Jue was silent for a while. In fact, some parts of Xie Yingjie's proposal were unreasonable.
“What if we can’t recruit them?”
"Recruiting is just a cover. The real purpose is to hinder our business partners. Aren't you curious about how they destroyed the casino? Do they know some secrets? If we also know these secrets, it means that we have the opportunity to be on an equal footing with our business partners, and perhaps our business talks will go more smoothly."
Xie Yingjie's tone remained steady, as if he was saying something extremely ordinary yet extremely correct:
"We can even send out our own team to track and observe certain high tower forces. If we offend the forces outside the tower... Oh, who can prove it? They will only be angry at Lao Qin for not cleaning up his own forces. It will not affect our business. On the contrary, we can take this opportunity to get to know our business partners' 'weaknesses'."
(The next chapter is the last chapter of the volume, and after that is the second volume, but you can only read it tomorrow morning.)