The other world.
Bai Wu looked at this completely charred and distorted world and could probably understand the kind of environment Zero lived in.
Wujiu once said to Baiwu.
"Your otherworld is a town very much like the one before the tower. There are schools, hospitals, coffee shops, and many places I haven't been to. The people there seem to be very kind, although some faces appear more frequently than others. But it's a very clean otherworld."
Perhaps because the room that holds negative emotions is always closed, the inner world of the white fog does appear very clean.
Compared with the Lake God, there is almost no distortion. This is why Wujiu believes that the most real Bai Wu is actually a very kind person.
As for the degree of distortion in Zero's world, it is actually not as good as that of the Lake God.
But there is a big feature in Zero's world: countless negative emotions cover the sky, and the world under the sky is only pitch black.
The diversity of the world has never been shown to Zero.
When he was still a human teenager, that world was already black.
He is a pathetic mechanical evil. Mom and Dad don't love him. Some people like him, some people hate him, but in the end, no one will remember him anymore.
Bai Wu didn't know how to treat Zero. In the clouds formed by negative emotions, all living beings seemed to be cursing this silver-haired boy.
"I... don't know how to treat you."
Zero said:
"A woman once told me that when the Mechanical City faces its greatest catastrophe, there will be someone who can see through everything and save it."
"Jing Liu?" Bai Wu was surprised.
"It seems that you do know her. I don't believe that there is anyone in this world who knows everything. She could be wrong. Now it seems that she is indeed wrong."
"Did Jingliu tell you how I would save the Mechanical City?"
It is possible that Jingliu made a mistake, but the probability that she did not make a mistake is higher.
"I created a machine called the Apostle. This machine is very powerful and will give its owner a high combat power bonus. This is the machine I prepared for you."
"What's the meaning?"
Treasure from the sky? Finally? Zero's gift instantly made Bai Wu feel that the story finally made sense.
But soon Zero poured cold water on him:
"The Apostle is a Colonial Series machine, but it is different from all the machines I have designed before. The Apostle will fit in with the host and can provide targeted bonuses to the host's strength characteristics. But when the host has evil thoughts towards me, I will force the host into my inner world."
Bai Wu understood that accepting the gift meant that he would never be an enemy of the Mechanical City.
"But if nothing unexpected happens, the apostle will eventually fall into Jingwu's hands. Jingwu's strength is stronger than mine, at least stronger than my weak self. So I can only defeat it in the other world."
Zero's voice was without sadness or joy, his eyes were still fixed on the distorted clock:
"It has entered the Mechanical Temple. My main body is communicating with it, but in about twenty minutes, I will choose to refuse to cooperate with it, and it will choose to destroy me. The Mechanical City will also fall apart under the destruction of its three subordinates."
"And the apostle will force Jingwu to enter the other world. Because of the Rawu virus, the possibility of me losing to it in the other world is actually higher."
Zero looked at the white mist:
"Unless you can find a cure for the Rawu virus during this time."
"I… "
Suddenly, there was a feeling that the world would end in twenty minutes, and Bai Wu didn't know what to do for a moment.
"If we can't do it, we'll die together."
"Then I'll think about it..."
Bai Wu was scared, but the situation between life and death did stimulate him to think of many ways to break the impasse.
twenty minutes.
He had to find a way to cure the Raou virus within 1,200 seconds. Otherwise, not only himself but also the Mechanical City and his companions would die.
He once answered the teacher of Baichuan Middle School that once they have souls, they are human beings.
All the people struggling to survive in the Mechanical City are worth saving.
But how to save it
At this moment, Jing Wu had already dealt with several guards.
Its strength is only slightly weaker than Zero at its peak. Zero is already very weak now, and will be even weaker when the fury comes.
It's not just Zero, the Divine Guards and Akas created by Zero are all like this.
Standing in front of the door of the Mechanical Temple is Akass.
Jingwu looked at Akas with contempt:
"Have you made your choice? Cooperation, or death?"
…
…
Inner city.
The deafening roar resounded throughout the inner city! The entire auction site was shattered by the sound waves!
The sonic waves raged across the entire East City like a storm, and the glass windows of countless buildings shattered in an instant. The powerful sonic boomerang had a terrifying penetrating power.
At the same time, in front of the red colonial body, dozens of elite armed guards and a member of the Divine Guard were instantly killed by the blindfolded giant beast with its terrifying power.
Such a development was unexpected by people from the four major weapons companies.
When the red machine appeared, the first sound was the strange laughter of an octopus, followed by a powerful sonic shock that all the mechanical races were not expecting.
The members of the four major weapons companies, who had originally planned to use courtesy before force, were completely stunned.
By the time they realized someone was planning to rob them, it was too late.
The blacksmith took the Apostle and admired the greatness of technology.
The octopus gave his signature grin and danced around.
The blindfolded giant beast was full of murderous intent, and under the firepower siege of the four weapons companies, it displayed its terrifying strength.
Perfect distortion entry: Extreme temperature immunity.
The high temperature that is enough to melt everything or the cold that is enough to freeze everything cannot even leave any trace on the skin of the blindfolded monster.
This auction, which had been prepared for a long time by major companies, was suddenly disrupted because of three outsiders.
There were only three of them, but they were so powerful that they suppressed the top executives of four weapons companies.
With the apostle in hand, the four major weapons companies' hard work ultimately turned into empty joy.
It seemed that the strongest machine was no longer within reach, and everything at the auction seemed to have been settled.
But just as the blacksmith examined the apostle, confirmed that it was a treasure, and prepared to transfer it to Jingwu in the core city—
Two men, one tall and one short, appeared.
The top leaders of the Eye of Kuros, whose machines were still being smashed to pieces, were ecstatic.
Double Kill Supreme appears.
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…
Time passes by every second.
Bai Wu still couldn't think of a way to crack it.
Zero's Lau virus can never be eradicated, and both Bai Wu and Zero know this.
"There are some diseases in this world that are indeed incurable, but right now, I may not need to treat Zero... I just need to temporarily restore Zero... to its original state."
"How to do?"
The negative emotions floating everywhere accumulated into a thick sea of clouds. In this sea of clouds, countless faces carried expressions of being tortured by all kinds of human sufferings.
The sea of clouds seems to have no end.
When Zero infected the mechanical creatures, the mechanical creatures were also infected by Zero.
Over the past seven hundred years, this sea of clouds formed by countless negative emotions has become a burden, so much so that Zero needs to continuously expand his core.
Bai Wu suddenly said:
"I can't think of the answer to the question. Does that mean I will die?"
"Your consciousness will not leave here. After I die, this world will collapse and you will die too. Jingwu may be trapped for a while."
If they are trapped for a while, others may have a chance of survival.
But the Mechanical City and the Mechanical race created by Zero will be completely erased from history.
Although Bai Wu felt that there were many problems with the Mechanical City, at least this was Zero's way of fighting back. He used his own methods to create an ecological community outside the tower.
He didn't want them to be destroyed, but he couldn't think of any way to make the negative emotions that were plaguing Zero go away.
These huge amounts of negative emotions are overwhelming. They are the complex feelings that Zero and the mechanical beings have had towards this world and the world before it over the past seven hundred years.
Feeling the passage of time, Zero seemed to think that Bai Wu really couldn't think of a solution:
"I will hide you. But I am at a great disadvantage against Jingwu. The fight will not last long. I will die. Soon you will die too."
He was so calm, as if he was stating a fact that was not worth being moved by, a mathematical formula.
"There's no need to be so pessimistic."
This is a very anxious moment. The future of the entire Mechanical City and the Mechanical Clan seems to be in his hands, but Bai Wu always feels that... he has the ability to change all this.
He felt that he had overlooked something. As long as he remembered this, he would be able to solve Zero's dilemma.
In the final moments, Zero constructed a barrier that made the white fog seem to be non-existent. Or rather, the white fog had already merged into the charred city.
"It seems that my mission has failed... By the way, can you tell me, is there anything special about the chip that Xie Yingjie wants? Did Xie Yingjie and you reach any agreement?"
"You have not demonstrated anything worthy enough for me to tell you these things."
Zero ruthlessly rejected Bai Wu.
Bai Wu didn't care.
He watched the distorted clock ticking away minute by minute, and the expression on his face suddenly became calmer than ever before.
It wasn't calm, but he was trying to remember someone he hated.
He has no negative emotions, so when facing someone who should make him have negative emotions, he will appear extremely calm.
There are only about ten minutes left.
Zero walked to a nearby place, leaving Bai Wu alone in a certain area.
He was ready to fight Jingwu to the death in this charred city.
Jingwu's physical body is very strong, but his mental strength is even stronger. For Zero, the confrontation in the other world is actually a last resort.
Bai Wu didn't expect that Zero's trump card turned out to be himself.
He didn't know whether to say that Jing Liu had made a mistake or that Zero had just thrown in the towel.
But in the last ten minutes, the person that Bai Wu hated finally appeared.
The dark surroundings seemed to become a little brighter. A clean breath appeared, which made Bai Wu feel ironic.
"I thought it would take a long time for me to come back, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. Tsk tsk. No one knows a son better than his father, and no one misses a father more than his son."
Looking at the smiling face of the owner of this breath, although he was not angry, afraid or sad, he definitely could not be happy.
Bai Yuan appeared.
He looked at Bai Wu's calm face and smiled even brighter:
"This time the enemy is quite powerful. According to the current odds, you will definitely lose. But what does this have to do with me? Don't be so stern, smile. Meeting your father in a foreign land, isn't it worth smiling?"
Bai Yuan's smile is definitely refreshing, but in Bai Wu's eyes, this smile is disgusting no matter how you look at it.
"I need to know what you did to me the last time I was in the Lake God's world."
Bai Wu ignored Bai Yuan and went straight to the point.
In the last few tens of seconds, Bai Yuan was still the same. He did not tell Bai Wu the answer, but just looked at Bai Wu with a gentle expression.
"When no one in this world remembers you, you are truly dead. The full moon fragment allows you to exist in the form of obsession, but if I die, you will not live either." Bai Wu warned Bai Yuan.
"Well, what you said makes sense, but it's meaningless to threaten a dead person with death. You still need to improve your ability to threaten people. Your threats can't convince me, can you make up a new one?"
In the dark inner world, many cracks suddenly appeared. This was a sign.
It also implies that in the real world, the mechanical city is being constantly destroyed in the confrontation between several monsters.
Bai Wu said:
"If you want me to open my heart, at least you have to be sincere."
Bai Yuan then nodded and said:
"The threat turned into a deal, but it still didn't convince me. I'm not interested in your deal. But this time, my opponent is someone who hates me and I hate him, so I'll tell you."
Bai Yuan's expression was somewhat smug:
"When you were fighting the Lake God, you should have discovered that you were able to absorb the Lake God's negative emotions, so that the red lotus fire outside your bones would never go out."
"Humans have a limit to how much negative emotions they can bear. Even a being like Zero will be troubled by these emotions and gradually become weak."
"Look at the negative emotions all over the sky. They have even taken shape as a sea of clouds, covering the sky. This means that Zero's heart is always dark. No light has ever shone on it. The world is already extremely dark, and it is the only one like an alien. The so-called sun is nothing more than a distorted clock, swinging between the past and the future."
"Tsk tsk, my heart is hurting. What a poor love-deprived child. He wants to abandon these feelings, but he can't do it."
"It would be nice if I could absorb these negative emotions, but who can absorb them?"
Bai Yuan's eyes had already given the answer. The only person who could absorb negative emotions was Bai Wu.
"You already know that there are three rooms in your inner world. These three rooms can absorb endless negative emotions."
Bai Wu understood:
"So, we want to make the other world... merge?"
If these negative emotions, so huge that they piled up into a sea of clouds, appeared in Bai Wu's world, if these negative emotions of Zero were transferred to Bai Wu, a person without negative emotions...
Bai Wu suddenly understood, but Bai Yuan quickly warned:
"But doing so is very dangerous. It means that all information between you and Zero will be completely exchanged."
"Whether it's me, your friends, or even your past, everything about you will be known by it, and vice versa, everything about it will also be known by you. You will no longer have any secrets."
"In a sense, you and Zero have become one. You are Zero, and Zero has become you."
Bai Yuan's expression rarely became serious:
"No one knows if there will be any accidents. Maybe after you absorb all the negative emotions of Zero, you will undo the fusion, but find that some things can no longer be reversed."
"It's possible that he will know everything you do in the future. Of course, this is just a possibility. There will be better or worse things. Who knows?"
In the other world, the cracks in the mechanical city are increasing, and some buildings are even disappearing.
Zero, which is connected to the entire mechanical city, has already felt the strong impact on the inner city. The East City District in the real world has been shrouded by terrifying energy fluctuations.
At the same time, the battle between Xie Xingzhi, Wujiu, Zheng Yue, Bai Xiaoyu and Yan Zizai has also begun.
The moment the raging tide hits, the city will be doomed.
Or... Rebirth from the ashes!
(Okay, I've added two more chapters to lay the groundwork. I can't go fast. If I go fast, many things won't be explained clearly. Well, tomorrow should be the highlight moment. I hope it can offset the sluggish data. See you all tomorrow.)