There are many important choices in life. Although some choices come from personal decisions, they are also influenced by the times and ultimately influence the times in turn.
Bai Wu discovered that the "autonomous action" that symbolized free choice was gone.
When he made his choice, a prompt appeared in his mind.
You have made your last choice. Since the free option was not used throughout the whole process, your failure will not result in death. Instead, it will make you leave the game and retain your qualification to challenge the magic tower.
Is this a... guaranteed reward for survival? A chance to start over
Yan Zizai saw that Bai Wu was a little distracted, thinking that Bai Wu still couldn't accept Gu Qingyu's situation:
"A lot of things have changed. Gu Qingyu's betrayal... No, he definitely didn't betray us. I don't believe that someone who held on to the end would betray us."
"Maybe his cognition was changed by some means, or his memory was erased by some means... But no matter what, he is no longer my teammate."
"The people of Shengguo were teleported to this city, and then turned into evil and killed the Menan people... The rest of the members of the Distorted Correction Team were scattered in the city, making a bet with the evil people from the farm..."
"These evil people will bet on which team will first find the Sheng countryman who has turned into an evil person."
"Just like the nobles in the tower used to play with the lower-class humans, the evil ones have taken control of the world. Without the protection of the tower, humans have completely become playthings and food."
"Gu Qingyu... is an important figure in the Distortion Correction Team. He has killed Sheng people who participated in the monster game several times..."
Yan Zizai's tone was already beginning to sound angry:
"Among these people are former soldiers of the Survey Corps, soldiers of the Suppression Corps, and...his former superior."
"His sword has no emotions. After defending the tower and being swallowed by the evil tide, he was taken to the farm. That period of time was probably the time when his thinking changed. At the same time, Gu Qingyu's strength... was also greatly improved."
Thinking of Gu Qingyu's powerful strength, even a proud person like Yan Zi had to admire him:
"He is now... invincible. I am no match for him. In fact, his strength had already reached an unfathomable level long before he was brought to the farm."
"You should know that after the shelter was established, he left the tower and embarked on the road of becoming stronger alone. This person... if he were a friend, he would definitely be the most reliable friend, but now he has become an enemy, the most terrible enemy."
"Maybe even you are no match for him."
After drinking the well water, Bai Wu's strength reached a level beyond that of human beings.
But for Wujiu, this has no other meaning except that he must work harder and become stronger in order to protect his subordinates.
The strength of others will only inspire him, but he will never become dependent on them.
Bai Wu made a choice about Wujiu. He also believed that since this choice was an important one, it must be closely related to the following scene.
Among Yan Zizai's intelligence, there were many things that even Bai Wu found unbelievable.
Jing Si unexpectedly became a sealed object in the tower...
Thinking of the words on the sixth floor of the tower - "You and I are of the same origin", Bai Wu suddenly got goose bumps.
At this time, Jing Si is actually of the same origin as Alpha.
It seems that these strongest people all have the same fate.
And how could Alpha in the Fall of Evil create the tower? It was probably because it had been sealed in the tower for seven hundred years and had comprehended some method.
However, the tower created by the monster should not be on the same level as the tower created by the tower maker.
Bai Wu asked the next question:
"Is Xu Wei still here? How's the shelter doing?"
Yan Zizai nodded:
"The shelter... is still a shelter. Although the area around the shelter has become extremely dangerous after the concentration of distortion in Baichuan City increased, the distortion within the shelter... has been cleared because Jiang Yimi holds the fragment of the doomsday puzzle."
"This is a double-edged sword. The evil surrounding the shelter has long since disappeared. The increased concentration of distortion means that the rules have become more distorted. This also makes it more difficult for other forces to break through the black areas and reach the shelter."
"But at the same time, it also makes it more difficult to find survival supplies in the shelter. The fallen ones are fine, because hunger will only cause hunger but will not weaken them. However, there are also some of your human friends in the shelter, and they are not doing well..."
Bai Wu didn't ask which human friends they were. Although their lives were not very good, it was better than being treated like livestock in this twisted city.
Giving the pieces of the doomsday puzzle to Jiang Yimi was indeed the right choice. Without this step, the life-and-death battle they experienced would have lost its meaning.
Thinking of this, Bai Wu felt relieved. The shelter was still there... and the countless black areas formed a natural protective barrier, which was good.
"As for Xu Wei... he is from the shelter. The shelter was not affected, so he should still be there."
Bai Wu understood, and began to analyze the current situation of this story timeline in his mind—
Xu Wei has a time to go back. He will never starve to death. When he is hungry, he will return to the time when he is not hungry.
Although the monsters in the tower have comprehended some of the power, they are obviously unable to resist Jing Si's reverse well field.
Unless it finds the owner of sequence 10 and sequence 12.
But now it has been severely damaged, and Xu Wei is in the shelter. The black areas make Xu Wei feel safe.
The situation has not yet reached the worst possible point, at least there is still a possibility of recovery.
But all of this has a prerequisite—the self in this timeline has not died!
Bai Wu suddenly reacted and seemed to have accepted this reality. Although he was extremely resistant to this future, deep down in his heart, he felt that all this was true.
Later, Bai Wu chatted with Yan Zizai for a while about Yan Jiu, Ruan Qingyun, Liu Chengzi, Bai Xiaoyu and others.
Most survived, but some... died in the battle to protect the tower, or disappeared.
There is not a single coward in the Survey Corps' Seventh Squad.
Gu Qingyu was not the only one who held on to the end. Wang Shi, Shang Xiaoyi, Yin Shuang, Qin Lin, Bai Xiaoyu and others also held on.
But the only one who survived to the end was Gu Qingyu.
Wang Shi and Shang Xiaoyi died at the hands of the evil doll, Qin Lin was still alive but in a broken state. Bai Xiaoyu was rescued by a huge monster with gastric juice flowing all over its body.
And Yin Shuang disappeared.
Yin Shuang was not on the kill list of the Twisted Correction Team. Yin Shuang, Bai Xiaoyu, and even Yan Jiu were on the bounty list.
This means that Yin Shuang is still alive, but it's very strange... Whether it's the Ark area where Yan Zizai and Wen Hao are, or the twisted city, or the shelter, or even the periphery controlled by the evil, there is no news of Yin Shuang.
It’s just that Bai Wu had no way of knowing the details of these things.
Things have their priorities, and he needs to know more about other things. As for the death of his former companions...
Bai Wu hopes that after this revelation, he can change all this.
In the end, Bai Wu asked Yan Zizai how to get to Menan's "ranch".
"After the tower appeared, everyone in the Ark, including Captain Wen Hao, became obsessed with it."
Bai Wu knew that, after all, the meaning of the Ark seven hundred years ago was to sail to the tower, although it was all a lie.
"They landed with their men and came to the outskirts of the tower, where they saw the teleportation stele. One of the boatmen on the boat actually understood how to build the stele... Although it is far less accurate than a real teleportation stele, the teleportation position is not very stable each time..."
"But the boatman's stone tablet does give us an opportunity to fight guerrilla warfare. Jing Yi and the tower monster are seriously injured. The biggest trouble right now is Gu Qingyu."
Bai Wu nodded, accepting this result.
Wen Hao's ship is full of talented people, and the strength of several core crew members is beyond doubt. It seems that there will be no problems in the short term.
Bai Wu said:
"Where's Zero? How's he doing?"
"Zero has been providing us with technological support. Jingwu and Huangquan Island joined forces, but they were defeated by Zero."
Bai Wu was happy. Jing Wu failed again
Although he thought it should be so, Bai Wu analyzed that Zero and Jingwu were on par with each other, and Zero was able to win, so he must have used some new tricks.
"I'm back to reality. I have to remind Zero... Let him prepare early, although I don't know how he defeated Jingwu and the forces of Huangquan Island."
Bai Wu thought about it and asked the question:
"Logically speaking, the Black Gold Island, which controls the reshaping and disassembly of all things, is unilaterally stronger than Zero. After the regional restrictions are removed, the growth rate of Black Gold Island is also accelerating. Why did Zero win? Although I hope he wins."
He originally thought that Yan Zizai didn't know how the Mechanical City repelled the enemy, but Yan Zizai actually knew and gave Bai Wu a very shocking answer.
Yan Zizai hesitated for a few seconds and said with a confused expression:
"You may... not believe it, but Zero was able to defeat Jingwu and the forces of Huangquan Island because of a powerful reinforcement."
"It seems that this reinforcement is someone I would never expect?"
"Yes, Hongyin, a white deer, and..."
Yan Zizai paused, a bit like he was keeping the secret, until Bai Wu's eyes indicated that he could speak, then Yan Zizai said:
"Jing Er."
"Jing Er?"
"Yes, your reaction is much calmer than I thought."
Bai Wu was not calm. When he learned that Jing Er was the reinforcement, he felt as if he had seen a group of sows falling into a ditch in a line. Although he did not understand it, he was greatly shocked.
"Hong Yin and Bai Lu..."
Bai Wu remembered that the people in Zaohu Village did say that the lake god was a white deer, so the white deer really existed.
Hong Yin and Bai Lu brought Jing Er to rescue Zero
Bai Wu smiled:
"It seems that the future is not all disaster..."
Yan Zizai nodded:
"The area outside the mechanical city has also turned into a black area. In the battle with Jingwu, it suffered heavy damage again. But Jingwu is not having an easy time either."
"Jingwu was defeated by Zero four times. As far as I know, Jingwu attacked the Mechanical City once before you met Zero."
"Later, during the trip to the Mechanical City, you and Zero defeated Jingwu again."
"Back in the shelter, Jingwu was pinned down by Zero and then defeated... and then this time."
It’s good that he never gives up and leads Feiwu. Bai Wu finally feels that the future is not too heavy.
But the situation is not too optimistic.
Jingwu has experienced failure again and again, but he still has to grow up.
Bai Wu still remembers that the monster in the tower said that Jingwu possessed the most powerful weapon...
This weapon is very likely to be able to disassemble and reshape everything. If these two abilities are fully mastered by Jingwu, Jingwu will also be a troublesome character.
Bai Wu and Yan Zizai chatted until the afternoon.
He carries a prop on his body that can hide cause and effect. Bai Wu believes that once cause and effect change, the future can also change.
But the key lies in how you operate, how to avoid "doomed failure", or to minimize the negative effects brought about by "doomed failure".
After understanding all aspects of the matter, Bai Wu knew that he had already understood all the revelations of this scene.
Next, it’s time for him to leave this magic tower.
This is also the result of Bai Wu's consideration.
The K of Clubs catalyzes this area, which is inevitable in cause and effect. A mysterious existence brings revelations about the future to itself through this area.
It also emphasized the importance of choice. This also made Bai Wu understand that there would be a series of important choices to be made. If he was not careful, the world would be destroyed and humans would become like livestock.
Time is running out. Next, he must return to reality and start from the first causal loop - Dong Nianyu's whereabouts.
The future has developed to this point, and Bai Wu noticed that—
The first step was for Jing Liu to instigate Dong Nianyu to rebel.
The second step is that the decision to go to Denglin City will lead to Jing Si killing himself.
In the third step, Jing Yi used himself as bait to lure Jing Si away from the tower.
Step 4: The tower fell, and Alpha, who was in the process of falling into evil, sealed Well Four.
The failure of any one of these four steps can prevent this cruel future from coming.
Bai Wu decided to start with the first step, finding Dong Nianyu.
The horror of the magic tower lies in the fear it brings to people. The method of the King of Clubs, or the first encounter with K, can be said to be the winner.
Because the zeroth step that Bai Wu is facing now is a trolley problem—
Time is running out, and he must stop this exploration. This means that the challenge to the magic tower by the surface light hero has failed. The magic tower will still exist without a challenger, and people will still die every day.
But if he didn't stop the magic tower and continued to explore in this scene, maybe the outside world... Jing Liu had already begun to seduce Dong Nianyu.
Either one hundred people die every day, or all human beings in the world become evil, Bai Wu chose to stop the latter without hesitation.
This is a multiple-choice question that is not obvious.
Finally, at Bai Wu's strong request, Bai Wu returned to the city where humans were kept in captivity through the transmission mechanism on the Ark.
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Menan, night is falling.
At one o'clock in the morning, the vortex appeared again. Relying on the Eye of Prell, Bai Wu quickly found the direction where the monster appeared.
Then he ran all the way and started towards the poor Sheng man.
According to Yan Zizai, this is the game of those evil people outside the city.
Let a Sheng person be teleported to this city before he turns evil, and kill people at will, and then bet on which team of the distortion and correction team can kill this Sheng person first.
Bai Wu now only wants to leave the magic tower, so his purpose is to seek death.
Because the free choice was never used, Bai Wu triggered a hidden easter egg.
Death does not make it truly dead, but it makes it leave the game.
Bai Wu ran all the way, and finally on a street full of clothing stores, he saw this Sheng man who had turned into a three-headed dog of hell, biting the neck of a Menan man.
He patiently waited for the Distortion Correction Team to arrive, ready to die with this Shengguo man.
The members of the Distortion Correction Team did arrive very quickly. Just when the Sheng people, who had transformed into the three-headed dog of hell after their evil transformation, were about to attack the white fog—
A flash of sword light, so fast that it seemed non-existent, put an end to this poor Sheng man.
Twist removal.
The three heads of the hellhound were all cut off. The huge body took a few crooked steps and fell beside the white mist.
Behind the three-headed dog, when Bai Wu looked at the member of the Distortion Correction Team... there was astonishment in his eyes.
Even though this person was no longer wearing the blue and white Survey Corps uniform, but a white combat uniform with a K logo, Shirogiri still recognized him at a glance—
Valley of green jade.
Bai Wu stood there in shock. He instinctively wanted to do something at this moment, but found that he could not move.
According to the Magic Tower rules - after selecting the option, no other actions can be taken during the period of selection triggering.
But Bai Wu didn't expect that the extremely important choice came earlier and was only triggered at this moment...
He chose B and chose to trust this person forever.
If you choose A, Bai Wu will gain enough power to kill Gu Qingyu, which will be very convenient in the next exploration.
But he chose B. Facing Gu Qingyu, he would have no ability to resist.
Unable to move, Bai Wu could only look in astonishment at the person in front of him who seemed to have been reborn but had no emotions at all.
Gu Qingyu now really has no emotions, and there is only absolute indifference in his eyes.
Even when he saw the white mist, his expression did not change in the slightest.
As if he was confirming whether the other party was a twisted existence that needed to be eliminated, Gu Qingyu did not move for a while.
It was not until the white mist seemed to break free from some kind of restraint and shouted out two extremely familiar words that Gu Qingyu finally took action.
"team leader… "
The complex emotions contained in the two words did not change anything.
Gu Qingyu's figure was like a ray of light, and the sword light appeared, instantly piercing through the white fog.
The enormous force made Bai Wu feel that his body had completely lost balance and his consciousness was becoming increasingly blurred.
This is what death feels like.
Time seems to have stopped, but time has never stopped.
The knife flashed, and the white sharp blade was stained with scarlet blood. Gu Qingyu wiped the blood off the sword and left without looking back.