Color field, fifth floor of the fortress.
After not feeling any terrifying aura for three consecutive days, the female evil creatures finally believed Qu Li's words—this place was liberated.
They can't leave here, but at least they won't be bullied in the future.
After two days of peace, the area welcomed new guests today. These guests seemed to be more powerful than the previous batch of "guests", but they did not seem to have any interest in these low-level mutants.
Li Zi disguised herself as one of the female bodies and fell into the hot spring. She suppressed her inner fear.
Unlike low-level evil, Li Zi can sense the terror of those who come before him.
The fifth floor of the fortress welcomed three guests. To be precise, they were the masters of this place.
“Hohohohoho… I’m so angry.” The large black robe was clearly in the shape of a human, but tentacles extended from the cuffs.
"You're angry and yet you're smiling?" said the muscular, short and scruffy guy who was holding a hammer in his hand.
"I'm not laughing. I only have one way to express my happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy! Hohohohohoho! I'm angry, you know? The kind with serious consequences! This fat guy is a high-quality trading partner."
The casino represents gambling, which is used to obtain things such as sequence life memory.
Food represents poison. In many places, there are only evil creatures but no humans. The evil creatures cannot feel the negative emotions of humans, so they can only be comforted by food. This is also a means to control the evil creatures.
Beauty represents yellow. No matter whether it is evil or human, there is always something in the color domain that can satisfy them or their sexual fetishes.
But now, this creature that looks like an octopus is furious as it sees its three major businesses of prostitution, gambling and drugs all being destroyed.
Because he is the owner of Black Gold Island and the real owner of the pornography, gambling and drug industries - a businessman.
"Okay, what has happened is a cause and effect that cannot be changed. You two, report what you found. Can the food domain conversion device be repaired?" Behind the blacksmith and the merchant stood a young "human".
Jingwu, the most powerful backer behind the merchant and the blacksmith.
The three of them appeared here three days after Bai Wu and the others returned to the tower. This was because Black Gold Island had received a message that food supply in some areas had been cut off.
"It was completely destroyed. There is no way to repair it. These two places are considered ruined. There is the corrupted body of the human ruler and the corrupted corpses of his subordinates. Oh, and there is one survivor. It's a fox."
"What did you find out?" Jing Wu asked.
"It seemed to have gone through some terrible torture. Its spirit was in a state of collapse and its consciousness was completely shattered. I used the spirit detector to try to enter the depths of its consciousness, but all I saw was... a man in a white coat whose appearance I couldn't see clearly."
When the blacksmith said this, his expression looked a little strange.
"Go on."
"I didn't get anything out of my questions. The man used the fox's shattered memories to build a maze. I tried to ask for information, but I always felt like he was figuring it out."
The soul-detecting instrument, among the blacksmith's many works, in addition to converters and various powerful weapons, there are also props for interrogation.
The soul-detecting instrument can enter the inner world of humans and evil. The stronger the mental power, the more exaggerated the authority will be after using the soul-detecting instrument to invade other people's consciousness.
Jingwu sneered:
"It seems to be a human with good perception. I didn't expect the ruler to fall into the hands of a human. Take me to see the fox."
Although Zhong Xu's body was still there, not many clues could be found in three days, especially since he died from a chainsaw and was eventually dismembered by a filial daughter.
So in order to find the force that could kill Zhong Xu, the three of them could only start with the nine-tailed fox.
"This damn fat pig, if he had accepted our advice and the supervision of Black Gold Island, there wouldn't be so many problems, ha ha ha ha ha!"
Although Jingwu is the backer of the merchants and blacksmiths, the merchants are responsible for managing all the businesses of the forces outside the tower. It is very uncomfortable to see its own industry being taken away.
The three of them quickly arrived at the third floor.
The peacock and the mermaid are dead, but the demented fox has not woken up, otherwise it would definitely eat its former companions and gain greater power.
This also proves that the fox's spirit was indeed greatly traumatized.
Jing Wu was holding a spirit-detecting instrument, which was a dark blue bead, the size of a child's eye, or perhaps it was an eyeball. When it stared at the nine-tailed fox, the fox's eyes became even duller.
A faint blue light connected Jingwu and Kyuubi.
At this moment, the scene from Kyuubi's past memories emerged in Jingwu's eyes.
During the lonely childhood of the Nine-Tailed Fox, she was ostracized because of her innate social barriers, and therefore she was wary of others.
In this maze of memories, Kyuubi seemed to have returned to his human days.
After the battle with the white mist, she was trapped in this maze.
This seemed like a game. Nine-Tailed Fox, who had a powerful mental strength, should have been able to crack the game quickly, but she couldn't. She gradually got lost in the cycle of memories.
The man in the white coat and with a gentle face seemed to have left countless multiple-choice questions.
Jiuwei seemed to have returned to the past and started her life again. She was no longer excluded and no longer had any obstacles.
But in the end, no matter how she started over, she found that in the process of communicating with humans, there would always be various deviations and misunderstandings. Even if they could understand occasionally... they would never be able to reach a perfect state due to various realistic factors.
The furthest she had ever gone in the maze was when she had experienced a complete relationship.
First, it was friendship, as she met three young girls who ran a clothing store. Secondly, it was family ties that were made up, and she reached a reconciliation with her parents.
Similarly, she also experienced love in the end. Although her husband had a vicious mouth, cursed people in a hurtful way, and was not very smart, and was particularly keen on leaving the tower and dismembering the evil, he was very handsome and had a soft heart.
This was the furthest she had ever walked in the maze, and she finally did not break with everyone because of her own personality. But she lost to the cruel fate again.
Her parents died of illness, her three sisters were kidnapped by the tower's higher-ups, and her husband died during a mission out of the tower with a captain who was not so lucky.
Finally, she returned to the starting point, began to be cautious and alert to everyone, and then started a new life...
The starting point of the maze is loneliness and despair, and the end point of the maze is happiness and satisfaction.
But she never reached the end.
The man in the white coat seemed to like watching the nine-tailed fox suffer. He had said a few days ago that he wanted to deal with it cleanly and not let it suffer too much, because it was just a miserable person.
But his actions were far crueler than his words.
As Jingwu walked in this maze, he felt that the person who created this maze had thrown him an impossible-to-solve problem.
Happiness and satisfaction are always being raised in the process of people's pursuit of happiness and satisfaction.
So the nine-tailed fox can never reach the end. The longer it walks, the longer the maze becomes.
Just like the happiness of the Gumiho before was not to be "played" by Zhong Xu, but if it really achieved that, it would think about the next goal. So there is no such thing as satisfaction.
This is the ultimate imprisonment.
Jingwu suddenly became very curious about who had set up such a maze. This trick had no effect on him.
The nine-tailed fox's mental power is very strong, but strength is relative. Under the influence of Jingwu's even more terrifying mental power, Jingwu quickly created an "end point".
At this end, the nine-tailed fox and the one he loves will be together for the rest of his life, and he even directly erased the concept of "dissatisfaction and unhappiness" for the nine-tailed fox.
So the whole maze...became a straight line.
At the other end of the straight line was a man in a white coat who seemed to be bathed in holy light.
Even though he had seen countless ants, Jing Wu had to admit that this ant had an almost perfect appearance.
"You killed Zhong Xu?"
"I really hate people who don't follow the rules of the game. What a wonderful maze, but it has become like this. If humans have no desires, no pursuits, and are always in a state of 'satisfaction', then what's the difference between them and being dead?"
"May I have your name?"
Jingwu ignored the complaints of the man in the white coat. He frowned. Although the man was playing tricks, he had seen through him when he asked the question.
"The aura on you is very similar to that of the Doomsday Fragment. It seems that you are an obsession, and just a clone of the obsession. How can the blacksmith not even be able to deal with a clone? You are becoming more and more useless."
The man in the white coat smiled and said, "It seems that you have a lot of information. Unfortunately, even if you are not a clone, I probably can't do anything to you."
"It's good for you to know. I can destroy you easily. You are not qualified to be my opponent."
"Destroy me? What's the point? Maybe you should try to get close to me, invade me, and see what I know."
"Are you provoking me?"
Jingwu appeared in front of the man in the white coat in an instant and put his hand on his forehead.
But at the same time, the man in the white coat, as if he had anticipated this, stabbed Jingwu's temple with his right hand holding the needle at an extremely fast speed.
But this movement eventually stopped.
"Destroy."
With the word written lightly by Jingwu, the white coat, which was the body of obsession, began to dissipate like dust...
At the same time, Jingwu began to read memories.
But what he didn't expect was that the needle was just a cover, and the real acupuncture was hidden in his memory.
"My memory is very painful. Although I can't fight against you, maybe I can make you remember me." The man in the white coat smiled gently. The pain of his body being disintegrated was as warm as the sunshine to him.
He was clearly about to die, but he was calm as if he had won.
The obsession completely dissipated.
Jingwu looked at the drifting smoke angrily, he felt humiliated.
There is no useful information in this obsession body. Its memory is filled with all kinds of violence and torture.
The moment he read the memory, he "felt the same" as the pain brought by these tortures.
Although the pain would not cause any substantial harm to him, this action was far more insulting than harmful.
This obsession body in a white coat is just a clone of a more powerful obsession body. Not to mention that this clone is far from being a match for Jing Wu, even the obsession body itself can do nothing to Jing Wu.
In just a moment, Jingwu destroyed it.
But inexplicably, Jingwu couldn't feel any joy of "winning".
There are such disgusting opponents in this world. Their disgustingness does not lie in how strong they are, but in the fact that you, as the winner, cannot feel the joy of victory.
Jingwu had clearly won easily, but when he saw the mocking expression on the man in the white coat's face, he was instantly filled with anger.
"We will meet again. Next time, I will make you unable to laugh!"
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High tower.
After Bai Wu returned to the tower, he quickly fabricated an investigation report using his clever lies.
This time when he left the tower, he deeply realized how powerful the rulers were. All his "backers" combined could beat Zhong Xu, but they might not be able to beat the Zhong family.
Zhong Xu was defeated because he underestimated his enemy and because of the arrogance in his mind that “No one has defeated me in seven hundred years, how can you defeat me?”
The mask is no longer usable, the archiver that allowed him to transform back into a human after his transformation from evil is gone, and the replica of Original Sin is also gone.
Although almost all his cards had been used up, Bai Wu did not feel discouraged. After all, he had only been in the tower for less than half a year.
In his opinion, outside the tower is a huge treasure house, and the new cannot come unless the old goes away.
It was just that he did make some mistakes this time when he left the tower. For example, he underestimated the enemy. The many battles before had made him have a certain deviation in his understanding of humans. He made the mistake that the captain mentioned - using past experience to measure the next crisis.
Experience is indeed useful, but this time he made the mistake of relying too much on it. Because he had never seen any mutants above level nine, he took it for granted that humans would not exist above level nine.
But in fact, humans have the concept of twelve levels. Fortunately, Wujiu is strong enough, otherwise he would never come back this time.
Bai Wu took this as a warning.
Another mistake was not bringing along some weaker teammates. Bai Wu's rapid progress made him overlook one thing...
Wu Rou, Wang Shi, Shang Xiaoyi, Yin Shuang and the others... were completely unable to keep up with himself and the captain in terms of growth in strength.
As the danger of going to the area becomes higher and higher, the risk will be greater if they continue to accompany themselves and the captain.
The huge gap in strength forced Bai Wu to develop a more feasible "improvement plan" for the remaining members of the vanguard group, including Qin Lin and Bai Xiaoyu, and Bai Wu already had some ideas about this plan.
But to realize this idea, you need to take some risks.
And he is waiting for an invitation to take an adventure, because even if you want to take an adventure, you must be qualified to take the adventure, and it depends on whether others are willing to give you the opportunity to take the adventure.
It was not until the fourth day after returning to the tower with Wujiu that Bai Wu finally received a call from Wujiu:
"The team leader has persuaded the Xie family. Tomorrow, he will arrange for you to go to the fifth floor. You will go to the fourth floor later. There will be some precautions for you."