"I forgot. She's not in this photo. It's not my fault. You three should have taken some group photos or something."
Bai Wu's tone was still very calm. He pointed at Qu Li and said:
"Lin Wurou is indeed very good-looking, but he is a man after all, and his beauty cannot be reflected in the mask. You should change back to your own appearance. After all, all three of you are quite cute in my opinion."
Qu Li was still trembling slightly, and the emotions in her eyes became more and more complicated. As an acting talent, her instinct was to pull her emotions and facial expressions back to what they should be.
But the scene in this photo really made it impossible for her to calm down.
"How...how did you get this photo? It's impossible..."
Qu Li had actually never seen this photo. After all, the one she and Chen Shuyue took was a different picture.
But she recognized the scene in the photo instantly.
"I told you, it's only been three years, how could you have forgotten? As an intelligent species, your methods are much more sophisticated than the previous ones. Memory should be a very necessary basic quality for a spy-type evil like you."
Bai Wu frowned and said:
"Qu Li, if you continue to pretend to be Lin Wu Rou, it will be very distracting for me. It will feel like we are not talking to friends, but to father and daughter. You can, but it's not necessary."
Bai Wu even called out his name, and Qu Li had already guessed that his disguise had been completely exposed.
"How did you get this photo... and how did you see through me?"
A faint murderous aura permeates the air. A photo can explain a lot of things, but it can also explain a lot of things.
Qu Li even became hostile towards Bai Wu.
This process was within Bai Wu's expectations. His expression could not be seen under the mask, and he still spoke in a lifeless tone:
"A few years ago, three girls planned to open a clothing store in the lower class. They sold some old clothes that the nobles had worn for a few years and didn't want anymore. They altered them themselves, thinking that they might be able to create a new trend and make the lower class more colorful in some way."
Bai Wu took a step forward, but Qu Li subconsciously took a step back.
"Liu Chengzi thought he had forgotten about it. Well, that's not accurate. It's not that he had forgotten it, but that he had let it go."
"It has been almost four years since you and Chen Shuyue disappeared. When she talked about you, she always pretended to be calm, as if the tragedy that happened a few years ago was just a trivial accident."
"It's just that she's okay at lying to men, but she's very bad at lying to her friends. When she mentions your career, her eyes light up, but when she mentions your disappearance, her eyes turn dim."
"Some people who know her well think she has fallen, and is just a green tea who constantly clings to men and plays with their feelings. But the whole reason she does this is that she wants to find you one day. No one knows how many tears she has shed in private."
With every word, Bai Wu took a step forward. Although Qu Li was inexplicably retreating and resisting, Bai Wu finally came to her.
He handed the photo to Qu Li and said:
"A damaged camera, two friends who may never see each other again. There is obviously nothing in the camera, and the film has long been destroyed. So many women from the lower classes go missing every year. Even if the case is reported to the Investigation Corps, there is no way to solve it."
"But she still found it. After the camera was possessed by the spirit, it could take pictures of a scene from the past. It could only take pictures for one second at a time, and only three times a week. Over the past few months, she kept taking pictures and finally took this picture."
Qu Li has revealed her true form. Unlike most of the evil female bodies here, Qu Li's face has many straight red lines. These lines start from her eyes, spread to her neck, and begin to branch out.
This is the appearance change brought by the entry, just like the Demon Horn brings destructive power and defense to the White Mist, but the body will grow spike-like horns.
The Eye of Nightmare gives White Mist the ability to disrupt the opponent's attack, but it also makes it look more evil.
The entry for transmogrification will also have changes in appearance.
These lines constantly reminded her that she was no longer human and that she could never return to the tower. The red lines that affected her appearance should have caused her to be sent to the food realm and eaten as food by the evil or the rulers.
But the ability to transform allowed it to survive.
In the following years, she experienced inhumane torture with her beautiful body.
To the extent that now, she can accept all kinds of humiliation and torture with a smile in order to satisfy Zhong Xu's perverted and twisted desires.
During these nearly four years, Qu Li had thought about death many times.
But I always die without feeling relieved.
There is resentment and expectation in his heart. He knows clearly that the fat monster will rule the rest of his life, and what awaits him is only long-lasting torture and humiliation.
But I still want to live...
It seems that I have already given up hope for the future, but deep down in my heart, I still hope that one day I can see the orange and the little moon.
"She also asked me a very boring question. Brother, if they go outside the tower and I meet them in the future, will they eat me?"
Bai Wu's tone did not change from beginning to end, as if he was telling an irrelevant person an even more irrelevant story.
But Qu Li's expression gradually revealed a look of pain and reminiscence.
"My view on evil is different from that of others. I have many human friends who care about me, and I also have many evil friends who care about me. So I think that if you really become evil, you will definitely still remember Liu Chengzi."
"She may be the most greedy and the one with the least sense of justice among the three of you. When you were looking for clues for those missing girls, she just advised you to mind your own business."
"But can you say she's wrong? The environment at the bottom is dangerous. As a girl who has just come of age, how much can she hold in her world? Do you still expect her to hold in the hearts of all people in the world?"
Bai Wu smiled, a smile that was quite similar to his father's smile.
"She is a very vulgar little woman. Her heart only holds you two and an unattainable dream. After you disappeared, she did not become depressed. People always grow up overnight. Liu Chengzi is the same. She said that it would be better if you did not meddle in other people's business, but she started investigating your disappearance in private."
Hearing this, Qu Li could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes.
"She had unspeakable relationships with countless men, so much so that I initially thought that this woman was the kind of person who would never give her true heart, and everyone was just a tool for her to make money."
"But then I met a girl who didn't have any joyful emotions, and she showed her true self with reservations."
"It was then that I realized that she was not heartless. She just longed for friendship more than love. After all, that was something she had lost."
"She came here just yesterday. This was probably the closest time you and her had met. Under the influence of the purple grass outside, she called out to Little Moon and Chestnut, completely forgetting that she was an ordinary person without a companion force, and rushed into the fortress without a care in the world."
Qu Li burst into tears:
"do not talk… "
"No, I want to say it. This place might be destroyed. We might die here today. If I die, no one will tell you this in the future. The girl living in the tower might become truly corrupt, and a cocoon will gradually grow in her heart, and no one will be able to enter it again."
"So I have to tell you here that she has been missing you day and night for the past four years. Although it is unlikely that you will have the chance to meet again, you are not without someone in this world who cares about you. Liu Chengzi has never forgotten you and Chen Shuyue."
"In her world, she never excluded herself from the three people back then."
Bai Wu's tone finally became slightly heavier. Looking at Li Zi crying, he was not as calm as he appeared to be.
Does evil represent "bad"? Do humans represent "good"
If one digs deeper into what he had experienced, Bai Wu is willing to admit that Cain had achieved his goal - now he is extremely disgusted with the rulers, and instead feels sympathy for many evil people.
"You guys go back... don't go up anymore... let's go!" Qu Li didn't ask about Liu Chengzi.
After completely believing that Bai Wu was really Liu Chengzi's friend, it no longer mattered how Bai Wu saw through him or how Liu Chengzi was doing now.
During more than three years of torture, she added a value to her life in order to survive.
That is to please Zhong Xu as much as possible, so that Zhong Xu will occasionally give some rewards after satisfying his desires, so that the evil people in the hot spring area on the bottom level can live a better life.
Although Zhong Xu had been torturing her constantly over the past three years, treating her like a toy and an object, he had also taken good care of her, and through the food in the food domain, he had cultivated her into a level nine mutant.
Qu Li once thought about becoming stronger slowly and then surpassing Zhong Xu.
But the stronger he became, the more desperate he felt.
"Don't go up anymore... Please... Go back and tell Orange that I'm dead. Don't let her know what I look like now."
Tears wet the dust, Qu Li curled up on the ground in pain, crying loudly.
The evil ones will have resentment.
They will distort some memories because of resentment. Just like Hong Yin, who is obviously kind-hearted, but occasionally reveals malice towards the people around him.
Qu Li also once thought, why is it that only he and the moon are suffering? What about Orange? Has she already forgotten me and is living a carefree life in the tower
This kind of thought would not appear when he was rational, but it would pop up again after being tortured by Zhong Xu and his resentment overflowed.
Three years is a short time, but also a long time. Gradually, the memories of the past are like the fourth level of the maze, twisting into a crux.
Now this problem has finally been solved.
Her crying also reflected her self-blame for some malicious thoughts, even though those thoughts were just the inevitable instincts of being evil.
Bai Wu knew very well that if he and his group went back, Qu Li would probably bear the wrath of the ruler and pay a very miserable price.
And if they really go back, it will be extremely difficult to come here again. The rulers will also know that the only way to get here is to pull the wheel. If we follow this line of investigation, it is possible that the High Tower Investigation Corps will face a major purge.
What Bai Wu didn't know was that this concept of a great purge had already been proposed by Zhong Xu, but was stopped by Xie Yingjie.
He looked at Qu Li and pulled the sobbing Qu Li up.
"So the ruler is in this area?"
"You have no idea what kind of monster you are facing... Stop asking and go back!"
"It seems that he is indeed here, at the top of the attic?"
Qu Li didn't say anything. As she recalled the ruler's past, fear appeared in her eyes.
Seeing this scene, Bai Wu said:
"Li Zi, if we go back, you may never see Liu Chengzi again. And no matter whether we can go back or not, the result will not change. We will be found by the rulers in the end. Since I came here with my companions, I have already made up my mind to sacrifice my life."
Qu Li looked up at Bai Wu, with astonishment in his eyes, because Bai Wu actually took off his mask.
That handsome face looked extremely serious and solemn. His tone was still calm, but it also showed a kind of sincerity:
"I heard that in the past seven hundred years, no one has ever shaken the ruler's position. People from the lower three levels have tried to overthrow the ruler countless times, but they all ended in failure."
"The longer this time goes, the greater the fear suppressed in people's hearts will be. But come to think of it... even in a strange world like the one outside the tower, there has never been a person like me in the past seven hundred years."
This was a sentence that sounded very arrogant, but under Bai Wu's gaze, Qu Li did not feel it was ridiculous.
"No matter how powerful and terrifying you think that ruler is, I want to kill him, more than ever before."
As a person who almost never gets angry, Bai Wu also felt for the first time a strong urge to want someone to die.
It seems that if I don’t get this thing done today, my already incomplete self will become even more incomplete.
"You, you... aren't you afraid of death..."
"Living in this dirty world, if there is no way to change it all, then death is just the beginning of the next journey for me."
The tone was extremely calm, but somehow it made Li Zi feel an extremely extravagant hope.
After putting on the mask again, Bai Wu said:
"Words are just statements of my stance. I don't want you to get involved. Just wait here. I will definitely kill him."
(I looked at the votes... The data of Bai's father is overwhelming. I saw that some book friends were worried that it would reduce the mystery and style of Bai's father. I will explain here. Don't worry, the reason why the extra is called extra is similar to the theater version. The mystery of the main storyline will not be reduced. Everyone will know when the time comes. In addition, the extra is a Qidian event in February, so it is not a waste of time. I just signed up to participate in it at the request of the editor.)