Everything has two sides. Even if it is a one-sided thing in the philosophical or mathematical sense... it may not be seen completely because of people's perspective.
Alpha is that other side that cannot be erased.
The Heart of the World and the Heart of Rules, Bai Wu is still not sure how they are more powerful than Immortality, but now he has figured out some things.
In fact, the entire distortion... is a "pathology" of the world's will.
The well is what is left after the illness.
Everything in this world can be controlled by rules. There are objective laws. That’s why in Bai Wu’s previous life… someone could understand the beauty and severity of physics when being hit by an apple.
The entire history of human development is a process of gradually overcoming the "subjective" and following the objective.
But human hearts and emotions are not like that.
That is a realm that even God cannot estimate. From ancient times to the present, human hearts are not controlled by any rules.
What kind of world will it be after the distortion comes
Bai Wu now understood.
What Alpha pursues is an absolutely subjective world.
A world that changes with people's hearts. All objective rules are broken.
You can say that such a person is a real madman, but the crazier he is, the more terrifying his obsession with survival is.
Want to teach Alpha a lesson? I'm afraid there is no possibility.
Bai Wu thought for a while and looked at the two black shadows: "Can you create rules?"
"Yes, I can define the rules however I want."
"And I can create matter at will. Our existence is a contempt for all conservation laws... We are distortion itself."
The Heart of Rules and the Heart of the World answered Bai Wu's questions one after another.
Bai Wu said:
"With the combined abilities of both of you, in a sense, you are the true creator?"
“You can say that. I like this description.” The Heart of the World puffed up like a praised child.
Bai Wu frowned:
"I've experienced many situations where the Deprivation Sequence deprived me of my entries... I've even encountered situations where everything was reshaped and everything was decomposed, directly taking away the other party's abilities."
"And the Sequence 6 that I mastered, the Law of Order, allows me to learn other people's sequences and disrupt their sequences..."
"Just like when I entered the fifth floor, you directly suppressed the Eye of Prell. Is it impossible to suppress it in the same way..."
Before Bai Wu could finish, a voice came from the dark shadow representing the heart of the world:
"Tsk tsk tsk, you want to take a shortcut right from the start. But unfortunately, some sequences can be suppressed because there is a problem with the way they are bound to the user."
"Some sequences are different, and they require the user to pay a certain price. And once the user does pay the price, then they are mutually dependent."
"The Alpha you mentioned is immortality itself. Of course... there is another reason. Only those sequences below the fourth can be suppressed."
Bai Wu roughly understood that Sequence 4 was the rule seal, and Sequence 6 was the law of order.
One is absolute elimination, and the other is an attempt to master the laws of the forces of order.
But they all have one thing in common—they are only effective for sequences below the ranking.
In other words, immortality cannot be eliminated.
Moreover, Immortality and Rule Seal, these two sequences are very likely to be the same as Sequence 1 and Sequence 2...
Have autonomous consciousness.
"Alpha is immortality itself?"
"Yes, his will is almost perfectly aligned with the will of the Third Brother. He is immortality itself, so trying to deprive him of it is impossible, and neither can we."
The one who answered Bai Wu was the Heart of Rules.
Bai Wu frowned even deeper:
"So why is Immortal third and you guys are in the front?"
"He is mocking us, right? Right? Right? Tsk tsk tsk, you are blind... Well, you have very special eyes, so let's change the word, you arrogant brat, there are many things we can do."
Mo Ying, who represents the heart of the world, is obviously a hypocrite who only likes to mock others and doesn't like to be mocked. Bai Wu's words made him quite unhappy.
"Immortality means eternal existence. Even if the rules of life and death are twisted, it cannot be erased. The Alpha you mentioned is indeed very friendly to distortion. In addition to immortality, he also possesses a lot of powerful powers. Over the years, only the kid chosen by the fourth master can fight against it."
"So he is indeed a very troublesome kid. In another world, he can spread the distortion by himself and reversely affect the well world."
"But no matter how powerful he is, he can't stand up to us in my domain."
"It's a pity that he can't come to the fifth floor, otherwise I would play with it...if I want to play with it."
As he spoke, the ink shadow twisted into a human shape.
Bai Wu's eyes were sharp. This human figure was very similar to a figure wrapped in yellow sand not far away from him.
Fifty-nine.
"Whether it's living things or dead things, I can create the objective materials that support this world. I'm already in a forbidden zone that God can't reach."
The Heart of the World still wanted to continue to show off, and planned to let the "Wujiu" it created fight against the white fog.
But the next second, it was instantly worn out by the Heart of Rules.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing! I'm showing off my magical powers!"
"We need him to strike a balance, and you, don't create things that shouldn't be created. This is what we agreed on in advance."
The "Five Nine" that had the power to create disappeared.
Bai Wu looked displeased, and his eyes were sharper than Wujiu's sword.
The subtext of the Heart of Rules is also very clear - "If you want to show off your ability, why not create someone else? Why did you create him?"
The Heart of the World calmed down immediately. It seemed to remember that this little dwarf was very important to the candidate in front of it.
This was also what they had agreed upon beforehand, to test Bai Wu's will but to keep Bai Wu's companions around him.
Although he felt somewhat unhappy inside, Bai Wu could still feel the horror of this sequence.
All things and living things can be destroyed and created in an instant.
There should be no Baichuan City on the fifth level of the Well World.
It is also impossible for there to be deeply distorted areas such as the Ninth Mental Hospital, Violet Manor, and the Zoo.
I shouldn't have met Yan Jiu, Dandelaire, Hong Yin and others.
But the Heart of the World can create everything in an instant. Even the world it creates is more difficult to deal with than the world you actually experience.
After creation, Sequence Two can also destroy everything in an instant. No matter how powerful a single creature is, even if it has already surpassed the limits of human beings and is as powerful as the captain... in front of such a huge force, it is no different from a grain of sand.
Rivers and oceans. Compared with the universe itself, the huge differences between rivers and oceans... are insignificant, like nothing.
This is the true power of creation.
To obtain this kind of power, one would naturally have to pay a huge price.
Bai Wu could feel one thing: the Heart of the World and the Heart of Rules wanted something from him.
"What do you mean by balance?" he asked directly to the point.
"Immortality is a terrifying sequence, and it has great growth potential." The Heart of Rules was responsible for answering Bai Wu's question:
“It is a sequence composed of the instinctive desire of all living beings in the world to survive.”
"The original purpose of this sequence is to represent immortality. In fact, you should understand that its power is still far behind ours."
"The World Heart and I can easily suppress it. Rankings are not absolute. The strength of many sequences depends on their users."
“But in a sense, the ranking of a small number of sequences does make sense.”
"We shouldn't have worried about anything. But after Alpha was sent out of the tower, I created rules to peek into the future world... and saw an absolute distortion, a world completely different from what we expected."
"The objective world is being eroded by the subjective distortion of living beings. The objectivity and subjectivity of this world should complement each other, but in the end, everything can be annihilated, and everything can be changed according to the subjective will of living beings..."
"But only immortality... it can never be changed or erased. So it becomes the only objective thing in the distorted world."
"And this... breaks a balance. It will cause some kind of untold catastrophe."
The Heart of Rules is actually very... abstract and obscure.
It was as if an old man was explaining some extremely difficult philosophical concepts.
But Bai Wu understood.
What is distorted is not the world, but the inner definition of the world of living beings.
That is, abstract things such as human heart, thoughts, and soul.
The so-called advent of distortion means that an objective materialistic world is changing towards an absolutely subjective idealistic world.
Just like Violet, she can rely on her obsession to twist others into her own parents. Objectively speaking, those people are just passers-by. But from Violet's subjective point of view: whoever I want them to be, they are whoever they are.
It's like Dendeler, who feels guilty about cannibalism but longs for friendship, so he directly and subjectively thinks that by eating the other person, he can gain the other person's bond.
For Sequence One and Sequence Two, or for the well, such a world is not scary.
But such a world...if the ratio between subjectivity and objectivity is always skewed, it can also be scary.
If Alpha continues to intensify this process, distortion will devour distortion, and a world so subjective that even the Well cannot control it will be born.
It's complicated, let me give you a simple example.
God has given a man absolute freedom of thought, and has given him the ability to transform his thoughts into reality. As his thoughts continue to break through constraints, reality becomes more and more abstract.
Finally, this man came up with a bold idea: God did not create me, but I created God.
Thus the origin was distorted and reversed, and the carefree gods became slaves.
There is no objectivity in this world, which means there is no matter, and the basic structure of the world will collapse.
But the immortal Alpha will not collapse; it is something that always exists and is indestructible.
This, in turn, becomes the only objective thing... and thus it becomes the world itself.
So it can destroy everything and eventually become the creature that survives after destroying everything.
This is the personified Sequence One and Sequence Two, the future glimpsed with special powers - the ultimate form of the world countless years after the distortion has come.
This is very similar to the battle between Alpha and the Lord of the Tower.
The Lord of the Tower was more powerful than Alpha, and he defeated Alpha, but the one who had the last laugh was the immortal Alpha.
Sequence One and Sequence Two foresee a certain period in the future when they will also experience such a situation.
So they need someone... to balance it all.
Bai Wu, who had figured out all this, asked another question:
"So how long will it take for the scene you foresaw to happen?"
"After Alpha kills your companion, he will obtain Sequence 10 and Sequence 12. At that time, he will use his amazing understanding of distortion to comprehend the true law of distortion."
No wonder Alpha had to collect Sequence 10 and Sequence 12 by himself...
It seems that Alpha is also collecting puzzle pieces. During the countless years trapped in the tower, Alpha has also been silently comprehending the twisted rules.
Although the rules were sealed and although it was hit by the reverse dimension, it still relied on its absolute affinity with distortion to master a lot.
And the final pieces of Alpha's puzzle... are Sequence 10 and Sequence 12.
"He is indeed a genius with twisted perceptions, just like you." said the Heart of Rules.
"But the gap between me and him is not small."
Even when White Mist and Tyrant joined forces, they couldn't defeat one of Alpha's clones.
Even the "deified" Jing Yi was extremely difficult to deal with.
Bai Wu was very clear that he had already reached the "peak".
In the real world, there are almost no rivals.
Even in the severely distorted world of the fifth level of the Well World, if a fight really broke out, he would hardly suffer any loss.
But even so, there is an insurmountable gap between him and Alpha.
"So, I'm the only hope?"
The situation was favorable to Bai Wu, but Bai Wu... was not happy.
"Yes, you are the only hope. You can be the second to last person to enter the fifth level of the Well World, or you can be the last one."
"If you are not the last one, then Alpha will be the last one. By then, he will live up to his name and become the true Lord of Distortion, the source of distortion."
The yellow sand began to fall off bit by bit.
This absolutely still world of sandbox seems to be losing its yellow color.
Baichuan City gradually revealed its original appearance. Not long ago, it seemed to be swept by a sandstorm.
But now, everything seems to be playing in reverse.
Time seems to be running backwards.
Time does not really go backwards, and Bai Wu knew very well that it was time for him to make a choice.
"So what you're saying is... Alpha can be defeated, but not killed? I have to do what the Lord of the Tower did back then?"
"No... What you have to do is what Qian Yixin wanted to do."
"Exile him to a world without distortion, and suppress him forever, while he can still be suppressed."
Bai Wu certainly understood what the Heart of Rules meant:
"He is already too powerful. To defeat him, I have to rely on your power? But this power... I'm afraid it will come at a high price, right?"
Sequence One and Sequence Two might be able to bring Bai Wu power close to Qian Yixin's.
Maybe even beyond that power
But Bai Wu was very clear about Qian Yixin's fate. That was not a power that any living creature could possess.
In a sense, Sequence 3 Immortality is the limit of power that a living being can obtain.
The two shadows were silent for a while.
"Yes, all of this has a price. To gain powerful strength, one must pay a price. I think the short human next to you knows this best. People lament his good luck, but the hardships he has endured are something that ordinary people cannot bear."
"And the power you are about to gain... is even greater."