Looking at the disappearing Lin Rui, Wujiu was actually able to capture the trajectory of Lin Rui's movements after changing the time dimension. He didn't have any strong visual talent, but his dynamic vision was too strong.
During the Food Domain, as powerful characters appeared one after another, Wujiu was busy marveling at Baiwu's strong social skills outside the tower, as well as the shock of seeing three generations of the Survey Corps on the same stage, and did not think carefully about their respective strengths.
Especially Lin Rui's strength, which only showed a little clue. Judging from the words of Bai Wu and Lin Rui, the mask seems to be a legacy.
He was very curious, did Bai Wu find the mask in the Legion's treasury, or did the mask already choose Bai Wu
Wujiu didn't think much about this question. Finding Lin Rui was not his only goal, he also had to find Nie Chongshan.
Nie Chongshan, who was unable to provide timely support like Lin Rui, had a task in Bai Wu's plan that was no less important than Lin Rui's.
Baichuan Middle School is now full of strong people, but compared with big forces like the Mechanical City and Black Gold Island, it is still too weak.
We need more and more strong people here.
This trip to Shudu Prison may seem like torture to others, but in Bai Wu's eyes, it is a gift from fate.
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Outside Baichuan City, countless areas seemed to have turned into a draft of a painting. A golden light and shadow was like a rough line drawn by a painter that was not straight and continuous.
It quickly passes through many areas, and sometimes suddenly disappears, like the wind passing through the hall, but when people try to recall it, it is already at the other side of the world!
Lin Rui's speed is very fast, thanks to the change in the time dimension, which slows down the whole world.
On the other hand, it is a jump in space.
He ran frantically, and in a few breaths he crossed from Baichuan campus to the suburbs. Those powerful evil spirits could hardly detect his movement, and even if they occasionally caught him, they would classify it as an illusion because it disappeared too quickly.
The rapid running was not only because this was Bai Wu's mission, but also because this mission mentioned a doctor.
Lin Rui's acquaintance with the two masked men was actually very brief. Both of them appeared at the most critical time in his life.
His encounter with Shiragi led him to take on the mask, and thus began the cause and effect relationship between the most powerful heroes in seven hundred years.
What Bai Wu gave Lin Rui was faith and opportunity, but reality is not like a fairy tale. People meet heroes, but heroes can only save them temporarily, not forever.
Lin Rui longed to protect his companions, and he began to overcome his fear of evil and this world.
But it was of no avail, his companions did not really respect him, in everyone's eyes he had just gone from being a clown to being a lucky clown.
In the final incident, the children saved by the white mist died one by one, and some even became evil.
His old friends and the girl he once loved were all devoured by the apocalypse. He tried to save them, but facing the vast apocalypse, this young man was too insignificant.
He had also heard the legend of the tower, but it was not something that someone like him could enter. It was too late now.
Walking alone on the street where danger could occur at any time, Lin Rui was devastated. He might die in the next second, and he would never find a place to survive. It was as if he was facing this doomsday alone with no end in sight...
This made him feel unprecedented loneliness and despair.
Maybe I will become a monster too... I have already seen a true hero... I have promised my senior that I will take on this mask and live on...
He cried loudly, completely ignoring whether his crying, sadness, fear and self-blame would attract monsters.
After all, he is just a teenager who wants to survive in this world, but the cruelty of this world is beyond his imagination.
As if his life had come to an end, Lin Rui leaned against a stone slab in the ruins, hungry and cold, waiting for death to come.
Just as he was thinking this, he met the masked man.
It was like seeing an oasis suddenly in the desert. Lin Rui's eyes filled with tears. He used all his strength to shout "Senior" and took out the mask at the same time.
The masked man looked at the mask in surprise.
"Ah, this is strange. I remember that the mask was lost in Baichuan City. How come it appeared in Food City?"
"Eh, it feels like cause and effect. Hahahahaha… After traveling through time and space for so many years, we finally met. It's fate, fate!"
Finally, he met the first generation masked monster. Soon, Lin Rui found that this masked monster was very powerful, but his words and deeds did not show that he was a senior.
What happened next was the encounter and inheritance between the master and disciple, although it was so brief that Lin Rui was not aware of many things about this real masked monster.
He is always mysterious, even in death.
Lin Rui had already told Bai Wu about some of the conversations that ran throughout the whole story when he was in the Food Domain.
But there are some conversations that I didn't have time to mention to Bai Wu in detail.
"From now on, you will slowly become stronger, but you have to get used to loneliness."
"I should go now. I'm a little sleepy. I've wanted to take a nap for a long, long time."
“Don’t ask me where I’m going. I’m everywhere my heart desires.”
After saying these words, the masked man did not actually leave. Before that, he had understood the temperament of this cowardly boy through many conversations with Lin Rui.
In short... very tasty.
He even said:
"Time can change everything, but we are the ones who can change time. I hope you can always keep this mentality, hahahahahaha... Isn't this interesting? It's also good to be an old naughty boy who never grows old!"
Lin Rui didn't understand these words at that time. By the time he understood them, the masked man was already dead.
He often lamented his life.
He is sad to be born in such a world. But he is not the only one who is sad, there are so many people who are struggling hard.
They did not have the same opportunity as themselves, but met two great beings in succession.
Therefore, Lin Rui never dared to forget the words of the two masked weirdos. He had experienced many hardships and setbacks in the past seven hundred years, but no matter how desperate he was, he would always find that "youthful spirit" because of the two anchors.
"Ah... I fell asleep. How embarrassing! I actually fell asleep like this. Hahahahaha! I said such a cool farewell line and then collapsed from exhaustion!"
As he traveled through many areas like light, Lin Rui thought of the last separation. After saying such a cool line, "I am everywhere where my heart desires", the old masked man did not really disappear.
The inheritance of power made him weaker than ever before. This kind of weakness was not a new experience for him, as he had experienced it once before.
"Senior..."
"I really should go. I have some strength after a good night's sleep."
"I'll go with you!"
"I'm walking on a dead end. This world is big, and I've been to all the places I should go. I thought about making the world no longer get bigger, but I didn't do it. Cough cough cough cough... Damn, this old man is unrecognizable. You didn't take off my mask when I was asleep, did you?"
When Lin Rui recalled this place, he wanted to laugh. This was really an interesting senior.
But a feeling of sadness rose in his heart. Every time he recalled this, Lin Rui felt an indescribable sadness.
At that time, Lin Rui shook his head. He actually wanted to take off the mask.
"Senior... You seem to be seriously injured."
“Hahahahaha, no, this is not an ordinary injury. Even if I was hit by the God of Destruction, it wouldn’t be this exaggerated.”
"Who did you fight with to leave this behind?"
"A madman. I was returning some things to him. I had borrowed his knife before... But the guy's lucidity time was getting shorter and shorter. I got beaten up. Oh, I was almost beaten to death... Fortunately, he woke up in the end."
"Will you go to him again?"
At that time, Lin Rui had not yet realized how powerful this madman was. Only after he truly mastered the power of the masked monster did he realize that the world outside the tower really had many monsters that were beyond the reach of humans.
"Of course I won't look for him. I also hope that no one will find him, but you never know. Damn, it's really bad luck. Those guys are totally unpredictable."
After the masked man woke up, he did not start his journey immediately. Now that Lin Rui thought about it, this senior was really leaving his last words.
"Although I gave you the power just because I like you, whether you want to play a villain or a hero, it has nothing to do with me. But kid... you have to promise me one thing."
"Senior, I don't understand what you mean."
The masked man pointed his finger at Lin Rui's forehead:
"This guy has a key instruction in his hand. It is one of the keys to unlock a certain lock. If you encounter it in the future, kill it. Let the lock remain a lock forever. There are already many monsters in this world, and we don't need another one."
The image of the doctor emerged in his memory, and therefore, when Lin Rui heard Wujiu describe the doctor's characteristics, he immediately thought of this monster.
This may be one of the regrets of the predecessor. Lin Rui, who has received a huge gift, has already vowed to fulfill the predecessor's last wish.
The masked man left only after he had explained the matter.
"The new era is in your hands. People like me should find a corner and die before the era comes, and let death nourish the soil of the next era! Hahahahahaha, write it down, remember the cool lines I said before I die!"
The heroic laughter of the masked man from seven hundred years ago seemed to ring in my ears again.
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Outside the tower, Shudu Prison.
A few hours after the jailbreak, the prisoners on the bottom floor were being tortured by prison guards, while the four leaders were transferred to the second floor.
Although all the prisoners said that they only served to delay time, the prison people obviously would not evacuate the prison because of a mask symbol.
They could only try their best to get some information out of the four leaders.
Under the torture of the "Spirit Bed Experiment", Cole, Qian Yixin, Yuan Ye, and Lu Yan were all almost collapsed by the tremendous pain.
But the situation this time was too serious. They were facing not only doctors, but also foreign aid who had just arrived at the prison not long ago - the judge.
Amid the melodious flute music, the four leaders on the second floor recalled their past events.
Perfect Distortion Entry: Death Cult.
When there is nothing left in the heart, death will no longer be painful. Unlike the annihilation of humanity in the Nightmare Roulette, the ultimate direction of the Nightmare Roulette is evil, while the ultimate direction of death worship is absolute negativity.
Once they have given up all thoughts of life, the Judge's other ability is to turn them into puppets, obeying his orders, even if it means welcoming death with a smile.
The doctor and the judge did not have the ability to see through people's hearts like Bai Yuan, but they could see that these four people had expectations for the jailbreaker.
The great pain caused by the flute sound and the spirit bed experiment was enough to make them erase this fantasy.
The wills of the four leaders were indeed strong, but faced with this situation, everyone's consciousness had been shattered, their eyes had become unfocused, and occasionally their bodies would twitch instinctively due to extreme pain.
Yuan Ye whispered the child's name softly.
She seemed to have returned to seven hundred years ago.
Before the end of the world, she had a lawsuit with her ex-husband over child custody. Due to her hot temper and her weak financial situation, the court eventually awarded custody of the child to her ex-husband.
The end of the world has come and everyone is fleeing. Yuan Ye is worried about her children. When she arrives at her ex-husband's house, she dramatically sees her ex-husband lying in a pool of blood.
Not dying from evil, but from robbery.
Survival requires material supplies. The ex-husband has a kind and timid character, which makes him suitable for living in a peaceful and prosperous era. The child was awarded to him. Although Yuan Ye was unwilling, she knew in her heart that this was a reasonable arrangement.
But the end of the world is different. Survival in troubled times requires toughness and dominance. Yuan Ye watched her ex-husband dying, and all the previous grudges were let go at this moment.
It was also here that her soul found its own anchor.
The child did not die, he just left because he was afraid that his mother would have no one to protect her.
I wonder if this last word was the husband’s last kindness to his wife, a couple who had long lost their love.
The child disappeared, and Yuan Ye never found the child, but because of her obsession with finding the child, she survived no matter what kind of pain she encountered in the apocalypse.
But this time... she really couldn't hold on any longer.
After searching for her child for seven hundred years, she finally gave up. At the other side of the underworld, Yuan Ye saw the face that she had been dreaming about, waving at her.
The persistence of seven hundred years seemed to collapse in an instant. Yuan Ye suddenly felt a little tired. The child was already dead... She had thought about this possibility over the years and had been thinking about it, preparing for the worst possibility.
But when she saw the other person standing at the other end of the underworld, she still felt that all her stubbornness was drained away bit by bit.
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Not only Yuan Ye, the other three were also on the verge of collapse.
Cole once again came to the memory he was most reluctant to face.
People around him died one after another. He wanted to protect them, but all he could do was listen to his parents and cover his mouth tightly.
Until later it became evil, it seemed to be confessing that it could only escape silently... It was clearly a species of wisdom, but it had lost the ability to speak. This was his silent persistence and self-blame.
Now, in those memories, all the people he once wanted to protect reappeared. They told Cole not to feel guilty, not to be sad, to forget the past, let it go, and leave everything to the sound of the flute.
Cole's eyes became more and more distracted... He really wanted to fall into a deep sleep, no longer resisting anything... nor carrying anything. He had been walking forward with pain for seven hundred years, and he was really too tired.
Lu Yan and Qian Yixin also returned to their most painful memories. These pains were the injections that kept their souls awake when they were lost again and again.
But now, they will forget these memories forever in the sound of the flute, as if there is a gentle voice telling them to stop carrying the heaviness of living.
Yan Zizai, Qian Yixin, Yuan Ye, Lu Yan, Cole... These people who are waiting for salvation are like drowning people struggling to survive. They try hard to grab something, but they can only feel that some extremely important things are getting farther and farther away from them.
The doctor and the judge were very satisfied with this scene and were already waiting for the moment when they would become puppets.
But at this moment, these people who had fought for seven hundred years had a final struggle in their hearts!
Yuan Ye looked at the figure of her child on the other side of the underworld. She gritted her teeth, tears streaming down her face. It seemed as if something in her heart was trying to resist the negative feeling:
"You are not my child! You are not my child! I don't want him to die, I don't accept his death!
I have been looking for him for seven hundred years! I must find him alive or dead! Even if I have to search the whole world, even if the world is destroyed! I will keep looking!
”
The angry mother was roaring. She didn't know if she would still be so angry the next time the flute sounded, or if she would still be so persistent in finding her child.
She only knew that if she compromised on even this matter, then she would have been living a joke for the past seven hundred years!
Cole, who had not spoken for seven hundred years, finally spoke in his hallucination.
"Get out of here! I know that no matter what I do, you can't come back, but if I die here... how should I face you in the underworld? Carrying the pain of revenge or enduring the torture of guilt, this is my own choice! You dead people, get out of here and go back to your world! I just want to live with the guilt I have for you! I just don't want to forgive myself for being like this!"
Angry and negative emotions instantly filled the entire prison.
The seven hundred years of persistence in my heart seemed like the final resistance, resisting the double erosion of the flute sound and pain.
Yan Zizai opened his eyes, and in his blood-red vision, he saw his sister's old face, as well as Yan Jiu's helpless request for help.
He clearly had no strength left, but his hands were still clenched into fists in humiliation.
This painful imprisonment made him finally understand the role he had played in the Yan family over the years.
It's not just me. How many tragedies like this have happened to the Yan family in the past seven hundred years
Prison is a place where kind people are imprisoned. Now that Yan Chao can get out of this prison... everything is clear.
It's all fake... The so-called great future of mankind, the great experiment in studying evil, it's all fake!
Yan Zizai didn't want to die, and he didn't want his death to encourage these people with bad character to do more evil!
The five people seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding with each other. Qian Yixin, Yuan Ye, Cole, Yan Zizai, and Lu Yan all let out angry roars at this time.
The sound was like the roar of thunder falling from the human world to the underworld!
"What's going on? What happened to them?" asked the doctor.
The judge said:
"I can only say that the people you found are all stubborn. The power of the terms will make them slowly give up their inner obsessions, and their wills are resisting the terms. But as time goes by, they will eventually succumb."
"This kind of resistance will have an explosive performance, which you can understand as a last gasp. The strong will to survive will struggle a few times before being completely submerged."
It's not like the judge hasn't encountered this kind of situation before. In fact, he was surprised that these people could persist for so long under the double torture of doctors and themselves.
But something even stranger is about to happen.
When the judge was about to play the flute again, playing the song that would send people rushing to death, he suddenly realized... his movements had slowed down.
Not only myself, the doctor's eyes also changed as if they were played frame by frame at this moment.
Alarm bells rang outside the prison!
But the voice was like that of several prisoners and patients, slow and drawn out.
This moment only lasted for a short time. When everything around him returned to normal, the doctor's eyes were filled with horror and the judge also looked at the scene in disbelief.
“For seven hundred years, this person has kept moving forward and kept his original intention to live. No matter how many times I see it, I find it adorable. This anger when resisting death is really touching, hahahaha… Great!”
"Me too."
"Senior, thank you for letting me come here. It's not just to fulfill my master's last wish. It's really worth it to meet so many interesting people! Even if it costs my life, I will bring them out!"
"You should be happy that you are not late. You are so fast, but you are a road idiot. You almost missed something important."
“Hahahahahaha… It’s inappropriate to say this after such a handsome appearance, Senior.”
The golden light rolled around the two figures like the air flow when a tornado appeared.
The terrifying golden energy started from the laboratory and instantly spread like a storm, filling the entire prison!
At this moment, the prison guard's hand swinging the baton seemed to be frozen! Even the doctor and the judge felt the powerful force that made them appear in another time dimension!
Two men wearing the same mask appeared in the eye of the storm.
It was as if responding to the determination to survive no matter what, and the pure anger at the encroachment of death.
A few people who were struggling in despair let out thunderous roars in order to keep the anchor in their souls.
And justice also came like thunder, reinforcements from the shelter—
Lin Rui and Bai Wu finally arrived at the prison!
(I haven't finished writing it yet. Oh, it's still hard to write later. My mind is in a mess. I'll post it first and continue tomorrow. This chapter has a lot of words, but it doesn't meet my own standards for a long chapter. Please make do with it. It's not easy to write at the end. Please subscribe.)