Chapter 651 Pre-War Preparations 6

Chapter 651 Preparations Before the War 6

The academy, the Mist Shop, and the Mist Mountain that had once seemed so distant but now felt within reach—all of them had been incorporated into the scope of the puzzle.

Su Bai could clearly sense every detail within the puzzle, whether it was the buildings, the plants, the soil, the air, or even the damp, blood-tinged atmosphere that permeated everything—a hallmark of the nightmare world.

Then, with Feng Ling's permission, Su Bai began to incorporate the humans in the puzzle area into the puzzle via transformation.

Su Bai was very familiar with how this transformation worked and fully understood that it was not an irreversible path. For both Eerie Entities and human players, this route was reversible.

Although no puzzle piece had ever chosen to leave, if one insisted on leaving, Su Bai could instantly sever their connection to the puzzle. After all, the puzzle pieces were part of Su Bai's body and spirit; forcibly retaining a puzzle piece with divergent thoughts would be like having a foreign body that wouldn't merge, causing only mild discomfort and disruption.

However, becoming a puzzle piece did not mean they could gain extra power from it, nor was it an easy shortcut to getting stronger.

Most of the time, it was the puzzle pieces that lent Su Bai their strength, not the other way around.

Su Bai was merely one piece among the puzzle pieces—the most crucial piece, the core that connected all the others. The puzzle pieces had been willing to stand with him for so long simply because of mutual trust, compatibility, and shared purpose.

So, after becoming a puzzle piece, the "benefits" Feng Ling could truly gain were actually few—perhaps just the ability to use the puzzle pieces' "public chat channel" and "private chat" functions, and if Su Bai were to be reborn again, she would undergo time reversal along with him. At that point, unless she chose to devour her past self like some puzzle pieces did, or unless the two versions of her agreed to merge, there would be two Feng Lings existing at the time point one year prior.

But as Su Bai had said before, reversing time by a year was not a good thing for the upcoming battlefield.

The fixed point on him affected both time and space: the temporal anchor was that rainy night one year ago, and the spatial fixed point was that commercial street in Honghuai City.

On the way here, Su Bai had already asked Su Xuan. Although Su Xuan was no longer a member of the mermaid race, because this fixed-point coordinate was also closely tied to him, he could try to place the spatial coordinate within the range of the puzzle pieces—for example, at Mist Mountain. This was not difficult.

The difficulty lay in how to make the fixed point, after a puzzle piece accidentally died, no longer reverse external time, but instead reverse the time of their individual physical bodies.

Simply put, after the puzzle pieces died on the battlefield, their "body time" would reverse to the moment just before death, and they would return to the fixed point at Mist Mountain.

Although it sounded pretty far-fetched, even Su Xuan himself admitted that it was a considerable challenge for him, but he just happened to like this kind of challenge.

He loved that feeling of trying even if it meant exhausting everything; he loved the process of exploring the unknown and pushing boundaries… Otherwise, he wouldn't have had the guts to sever his own tail back then to challenge something almost no one dared to attempt.

Especially under the gaze of his younger brother Su Bai, Su Xuan unhesitatingly thumped his chest, declaring that he would definitely make it happen.

In his previous life, Su Xuan had fought desperately for "family"; in this life, he was giving all his efforts to protect this "world where his family lives."

This way, even the human players remaining in the nightmare world could, after being transformed into puzzle pieces, join the battlefield without any worries about life or death.

If this war could ever truly end, then these human players would also break away from the puzzle pieces and choose a new path for themselves.

Similarly, those Eerie Entities on the opposing side could also avoid total annihilation by being transformed into puzzle pieces—as long as Su Bai's puzzle ability and the fixed-point mechanism remained, they would have a chance to start anew.

This was the plan Su Bai and the others had now formulated.

"It doesn't feel particularly special," Feng Ling said, closing her eyes and using the now-popular Meditation method among players to perceive her own changes. "I just feel a force, like a thread, tightly connecting me to somewhere."

Su Bai then explained in detail the role the "fixed point" might play in the future, and once again emphasized that this puzzle transformation process was reversible at any time and wouldn't have irreversible consequences for them.

Led by Feng Ling, the members of the Nameless Society actively joined with little hesitation. Their eyes showed not fear, but excitement and anticipation.

Indeed, the members of the Nameless Society weren't exactly what you'd call normal either.

Since the fixed point had not been modified yet, Su Bai had everyone stay in the base to meditate and increase their strength. Once the fixed point was modified, they could leave the base to travel across the nightmare world to find other human players and fight a guerrilla-style preliminary skirmish.

Next, Su Bai was going to transform…

Su Bai untied the key of "Honghuai City" that had been tied in his hair. According to the plan they had made together, the territories belonging to the opposition—including "Honghuai City" and the director's "set"—could all become part of the puzzle.

Perhaps at the end of the battlefield, Su Bai would become the largest "landlord" under the red moon.