The Ten of Spades' room grew quiet.
Ten of Spades was not very interested in what Bai Wu was thinking.
Bai Wu also asked about the things that interested him, but in front of Bai Wu, the Ten of Spades became more suspicious.
Jing Liu asked:
"What did you think of?"
Bai Wu did not answer the question immediately. He said to the Ten of Spades:
"You once said that you deceived Lao K. Can you tell me, Lao K...what exactly did you deceive him about?"
"How could a magician reveal his own magic?" Ten of Spades smiled and rejected Bai Wu's request.
Bai Wu didn't care and changed the question:
"If I want to leave here, can you do it?"
"I'm just an ordinary person."
The Ten of Spades still avoided the question. In that case, Bai Wu had nothing to say.
He looked at Spade Eleven meaningfully and asked the last question.
"Ten of Spades, if I consider the monsters sealed in the tower and Jingyi to be my enemies, are you my enemy or my friend?"
After saying this, Bai Wu added:
"I want to hear the truth about this question. I can't tell the truth from the previous series of answers you gave me, but in the end, I want to get the truth."
"I will find a way to leave this world by myself, but I need to know which side you are on."
Ten of Spades didn't expect Bai Wu to ask this.
"There's only one answer to this question, but you're making it seem like I have a choice."
Bai Wu nodded seriously:
"Of course you have a choice, because you have the right to lie at any time, but I hope you can not lie even once. You don't need to worry about what I will do, because when the future me finds you, I will be unable to do anything."
"And I cannot change the cause and effect before I found you."
“I come from the future and I know the past, but the more I explore it, the hazier it becomes.”
"I just want to know where you stand. If we are on the same side, I don't mind being deceived by my own people."
Bai Wu was ready to leave, and the question he asked before leaving was not a calculation.
He really wanted to know which side this person belonged to.
Among the four Ks of the golden generation, he has not yet come into contact with Xiao Yugan's true form.
But I always feel that the King of Spades is the most mysterious one.
He knew that he must have been deceived by the Ten of Spades at some point, but if it was one of his own, then he would be deceived.
The Ten of Spades felt a little bored, as if his image as a liar could no longer be shaken, so Bai Wu was too lazy to guess whether he was telling the truth or not, and directly appealed to his emotions, hoping that he would tell the truth:
"I thought Bai Yuan's son should be able to judge the truth of my words based on his own abilities."
"If I had enough time, I wouldn't mind spending time with you, but my time is very tight. The seal in the tower has been broken."
The Ten of Spades frowned.
The two fell silent again.
About half a minute later, the Ten of Spades said:
"The tea is cold. Since you have a plan, just go ahead and complete it. You have your plan, and I have mine."
"You are here because you know that your conversation with me will not change the cause and effect."
"And since your conversation with me won't change the cause and effect, even if a liar tells you that I didn't lie to you this time, you won't completely believe it, right?"
"So you have to think about whether you can survive and make it to this point today if I were your enemy."
The white fog suddenly cleared.
Ten of Spades was hiding in his own inner world, a place that even Bai Yuan couldn't detect.
This matter can be said to have happened since I entered the tower world.
At that time, he did not have the full moon fragment, and Bai Yuan was not yet the guardian of the inner world.
Therefore, the Ten of Spades is the ruler of his own inner world.
If the Ten of Spades wanted to do something, they could have done it a long time ago.
Thinking of this, Bai Wu stood up and said:
"I call you four the golden generation. It's a pity that you four can't truly join forces."
Bai Wu said this very sincerely, with respect and regret.
"Really? Who knows what will happen in the future?"
The Ten of Spades' smile was quite playful.
"I have to go now."
"Go ahead. As I said before, you do your thing and I do mine. We won't interfere with each other."
"It's a deal."
…
…
The white mist left.
After walking out of Spade Ten's house, each of his steps covered a very long distance as he walked towards the town.
Jing Liu knew very well that Bai Wu and Hei Tao Shi were two old riddlers, and their words always left people confused.
Along the way, she asked:
"You just said that you understood. What did you understand?"
Bai Wu answered very straightforwardly this time:
"Your causal telephone booth requires great obsession to activate, and it can even change time and space and history. This is also your greatest masterpiece in the past seven hundred years."
"Why are you saying this? Obviously, the cause and effect I see are not far-reaching enough." Jing Liu frowned slightly.
Bai Wu shook his head and said:
"I'm not trying to mock you for helping me, but I want you to recall something. The few calls I received later were all from the Tower World."
"In the tower world, distortions are everywhere, and anything that happens can be explained."
"Whether it's the Food City Harbor, the Blood Mist Zone of the Food City, or the Farm, strong obsessions can use your causal telephone booth to change cause and effect."
"But the first call, it was strange, wasn't it? This world is not twisted."
Jing Liu suddenly understood:
"You mean, as a child, it is impossible for you to express your own wishes in this isolated and distorted world."
Bai Wu nodded:
"You know, Yin Shuang, who answered the phone at that time, actually crossed time and space to meet Bai Yuan and me."
"Bai Yuan was one of my secrets at the time, and this secret was directly exposed to Yin Shuang."
"Although you are a Tic-Tac-toe level, and although you are the owner of the power of cause and effect, you don't think that your causal telephone booth can make a world without distortion... and allow me, a human child, to make such a call, right?"
Jing Liu was stunned.
Indeed, it's very strange here.
But she didn't think too much about it at the time. She just thought that maybe it was an accident. In the process of observing cause and effect, she would occasionally encounter some strange cause and effect.
It's hard to explain, as if there is some external force intervening.
But obviously, things are not that simple this time.
The phone call that Yin Shuang received did not just transcend time and space.
"The more I think about it, the more strange this call seems to me. It's as strange as Alpha being able to ignore the restrictions of the tower and communicate with people outside the tower."
Jing Liu found Bai Wu's metaphor very appropriate:
"You determined from your conversation with the Ten of Spades that this is a tower."
"Then you think that this tower, like the tall tower, holds someone."
"This person is likely to correspond to the Lord of Distortion?"
"And the call you received was from the person who corresponds to the Lord of Distortion, through you."
"The reason why he did it through you instead of directly doing it himself is because... his existence itself is a secret. Once it is known, it is very likely that it will completely change the distorted war situation in the Tower World."
Although Jing Liu is accustomed to the power of cause and effect and the method of directly copying answers to obtain information, her own thinking ability is not bad either.
Bai Wu nodded:
"That's absolutely correct. Now, all I have to do is find that person."
Jing Liu added:
"And this person is probably hiding in this town. Since he made this call, it is very likely that... he will contact you on his own initiative."
As they were talking, the white fog, moving at full speed, had already reached the outskirts of the town.
There are very few people in the town.
Almost 80 percent of them were listed on Bai Yuan's medical record file.
He lowered his head and walked on the streets of the town. After being disguised in the white mist, he would basically not be recognized.
But when he saw a familiar SUV driving out, Bai Wu still had some small emotional fluctuations.
The owner of this car is Bai Yuan.
Bai Yuan seemed to have received a call from someone and was planning to go somewhere.
This is not an uncommon occurrence. Bai Yuan likes to make home visits very much.
Generally speaking, after Bai Yuan's visit, the patient's home items would be arranged more neatly.
The patients’ illness will be cured, and the “cause of the illness” for a small number of patients may also disappear.
At least Bai Wu was familiar with it when he was a child. It often happened that after Bai Yuan went out to see a patient, a man or woman in a patient's family would mysteriously disappear.
But the police couldn't find out where Bai Yuan came from.
No one ever called the police, and no one would reveal that Bai Yuanlai had come to see a patient.
Maybe they were hypnotized, or maybe, like Li Xiaoxin, they really thought Bai Yuan was a god.
A god who brings them out of suffering.
God is just helping you and "cleaning out" the scum around you. You just need to thank him and don't need to remember other things.
In short, there is never a shortage of material in Bai Yuan’s morgue.
Bai Wu was not suspicious, but just guessed that Bai Yuan was probably visiting a doctor somewhere this time.
Bai Yuan in the car and Bai Wu on the sidewalk, their eyes made contact for a very brief moment.
The eyes met and then separated.
Bai Wu noticed that Bai Yuan's expression seemed a little strange, but he didn't think too much about it.
Then the SUV sped away, and Bai Wu walked into the town and began to look for the most important person.
The town is actually not small, but there are only a few buildings that Bai Wu is familiar with.
There are several grain and oil stores, two convenience stores, a small supermarket, four or five restaurants, a rural credit union, a post office, a gas station in the distance, a church, and a row of empty storefronts.
Of course, there is also a cafe. In the other world, Bai Yuan's favorite thing is to sit in the cafe and order a cup of coffee.
Chat with the waiter in the cafe.
The white fog spread from the edge to the center, and everyone and every store was observing carefully.
Everything that Bai Wu, Jing Liu, and Hei Tao Ten mentioned before—
These are all their guesses.
The Ten of Spades also has no irrefutable evidence that this world is a tower.
Everything is a reverse deduction based on the conclusion that "this world is a tower".
Now, as long as we find that person, the person that Bai Wu believes can correspond to Alpha in the well world and the real world, we can prove the previous speculation.
As he passed every place in the town, he observed the people around him.
At the same time, I was also thinking about who is most likely to face off against Alpha.
The people in the small town are all very ordinary.
Finally, he saw himself in the distance.
Bai Yuan went out to see a patient. Young Bai Wu temporarily forgot the torture of the previous night and started wandering around again.
People in the small town loved the white fog when they were children.
Bai Wu looked at his childhood self from afar - let's call him Xiaobai for now. He watched Xiaobai walking and stopping somewhat lonely, and his inner emotions were somewhat fluctuating.
"You as a child... were different from what I imagined." Jing Liu also looked at Xiaobai's figure.
"What do you think I should look like?" Bai Wu asked expressionlessly.
"It's hard to say, probably just... very cold and not interested in anything, especially these people."
Bai Wu paused and said indifferently:
"In the next few years, he will become what you said."
Jing Liu was slightly startled.
She had never seen such white fog before.
Although there was no emotion expressed, she could still feel lonely and sad.
Obviously, most people here like him very much.
"He looks lonely, and he shouldn't be."
Bai Wu still had that calm tone:
"Because his world is only as big as this small town. But in the eyes of the people in this town, his first identity is never Bai Wu, but Bai Yuan's son."
What kind of person is Bai Yuan
What exactly is he going to do
He is a perfect man in everyone's eyes, so why does he torture his own child so much
Jing Liu certainly knew that Bai Wu's emotions were wiped out, which had a lot to do with Bai Yuan's methods.
The existence of white fog is an anomaly in the world of towers.
But she had not felt the pain that Bai Wu had experienced in his childhood, and was not an eyewitness, so she naturally felt that everything Bai Yuan did had a deep meaning.
At this moment, Jing Liu, like countless other people in the town, unconsciously leaned towards Bai Yuan.
Even if Xiaobai complained that Bai Yuan was not good at all, everyone would take the initiative to find an excuse for Xiaobai.
It seems like that’s how it’s played out in all heroic movies, no matter how the father tortures his son, as long as the son later becomes a hero, all the father’s actions can be understood, even... full of foresight.
But people don’t think that more sons tortured by their fathers will be destroyed by this torture.
Xiaobai wandered around and finally stayed in the coffee shop.
The white fog followed Xiaobai from a distance all the way.
He has experienced everything that Xiaobai has experienced.
At this moment, it is like the memories from a passerby's perspective overlap with the memories from the first person's perspective.
Next, he knew very well that Xiaobai would approach the fast food area of the cafe. This cafe was called Freshness, but it did not only serve coffee.
There are also some fast food, fried chicken burgers and the like.
Xiaobai liked it very much, although he no longer liked it after a few years.
And today, Bai Wu remembered that as long as he bought the children's meal, he could get an Ultraman toy.
He got the toy.
Everything was the same as in Bai Wu's memory. Xiaobai got the toy. Although his intelligence was far superior to his peers, Ultraman was something that was still worth liking even in middle age.
So Xiaobai was very happy.
Bai Wu couldn't help but smile. Perhaps only the staff in this cafe could make him feel less lonely when he was young.
Because the clerk has a slight intellectual disability, he doesn't think Bai Yuan is perfect. On the contrary, he thinks Bai Wu is the one who understands him the best.
It’s hard to imagine that the smartest kid in a small town would have an imperceptible friendship with a somewhat “mentally retarded” adult.
Later, Xiaobai grew up and experienced more and more things, so he forgot about this clerk.
The small town and Baiyuan are both forbidden areas in Baiwu’s memory.
It was not until this moment that Bai Wu suddenly realized that he also had a friend at that time, although he was not the kind of person he could hang out with every day as a child.
But after all, he is an outsider in the small town, a person that he doesn't hate.
Bai Wu subconsciously glanced at the clerk, who was standing not far away and looking at Xiao Bai.
When Bai Wu looked at the clerk, the clerk actually turned his head and met Bai Wu's gaze.
At this moment, the hint in Bai Wu's eyes made Bai Wu stunned.