Chapter 656 Another Possibility

Chapter 656: Another Possibility

When the Nightmare World becomes a battlefield, that battlefield can never be just a small skirmish between a few hundred "people."

Compared to humans, Eerie Entities in the Nightmare World number in the billions, and there are also many remnant groups lurking in the deep darkness, silently observing all these developments. They are mad and irrational, indifferent to everything around them, but at this moment, the violent fluctuations of power in the air, almost condensing into substance, are enough to jolt them awake.

The focus of the battlefield is locked on the Face Forest. The power fluctuations erupting from the clash between the two sides are like layers of giant waves, sweeping the nightmare beings in the area into unease and agitation.

The opposition forces pay no attention to the external commotion; all their focus is on the front line before them. But the Red Moon Association cannot afford to ignore them.

Especially at the moment when the high-ranking Eerie Entities realize that their connection to the Face Forest has been brutally severed, an indescribable anxiety and sense of crisis spread like a poison.

Then they hear a deafening roar from deep within the forest.

It is not an ordinary sound, but the deep rumble of a massive structure collapsing and falling apart, as if the very foundation of the entire Face Forest is shaking.

After all, Su Bai was extremely disgusted by the stench and decay of the Face Forest and the Red Moon Association's laboratory. So when, with the help of the Director, who arrived later, they found the lifeless body they had been looking for from the "system" and "umbilical cord" deep in the laboratory, Su Bai, for the first time, used his control over the puzzle to completely destroy a piece of it.

Every blade of grass, every tree, and every trace of life in the puzzle is powerless against its owner. Su Bai's will acted like a blade, severing the very foundation of their existence.

But this step only further enraged the Red Moon Association's high-ranking members on the battlefield.

Especially when they truly realized that the opposition's power was far more troublesome than imagined, their lofty gazes all turned toward the countless Eerie Entities outside the battlefield—those drawn by the commotion of battle, vast in number but of varying strength.

From the very beginning, the Red Moon Association's experiments were relatively secretive, or perhaps they looked down on the majority of Eerie Entities weaker than themselves under the Red Moon.

But at this moment, they no longer needed companions to complete experiments; they needed the possibility of overwhelming the enemy through sheer numbers. So, under the instructions of the high-ranking Eerie Entities, some Red Moon Association members infiltrated the edges of the battlefield and began preaching what the Red Moon Association had been doing all along.

The Red Moon is about to fall, and the entire world under it will truly perish. They, the Red Moon Association, are the only force desperately trying to stop it.

According to them, the Red Moon Association stands alone as the gatekeeper before the cliff of doom. Now, a group of mad opposition members, instead of helping, are trying to destroy their experiments. This is undoubtedly pushing down the last barrier, allowing the Red Moon's fall to become reality.

These opposition enemies want the Red Moon to fall—aren't they madmen?

With such deceptive claims, combined with the presence of high-ranking Red Moon Association members who are already infamous in the Nightmare World, more and more Eerie Entities and even remnant groups are easily swayed, joining the battlefield, joining the ranks to resist the foolish actions of the opposition.

Of course, the Red Moon Association hides the truth. They will never mention that even if the experiment actually succeeds in preventing the Red Moon's fall, time will endlessly cycle because of that fixed point. Everything under the Red Moon will repeat the same day over and over again, experiencing the agonizing death of their souls being annihilated again and again, endlessly, without end.

But for most weak Eerie Entities, time has never been the main measure of existence. Whether time moves forward or stops, their days are hardly any different.

Yet they still cling to their obsessive desire to exist, even if it means barely scraping by, merely struggling to stay in this world.

Thus, more shadows emerge from the mist, wrapped in chilling killing intent, surging toward the center of the battlefield.

Their power pours into the battlefield like a flood, mixing and merging with the Red Moon Association's original forces, instantly making the battlefield's atmosphere heavier and more suffocating.

At that moment, Su Bai, Wu Hang, and other members of the Nameless Society finally return from deep within the forest.

After confirming that Su Bai is safe, Wu Hang turns his gaze with Su Bai toward the battlefield. They exchange a glance, no words needed, and move with tacit understanding.

Su Bai raises a hand and waves, and the familiar outline of his shop slowly appears behind him. Almost at the same instant, the massive, towering phantom of Mist Mountain rises from the ruins of the Face Forest, enveloping the entire forest and even extending to the surroundings.

The puppet army, which originally had average combat ability, had been holding off the blood ghosts, but those damn blood ghosts, even when cut in half, would just turn into a pool of blood and then reform, attacking again. However, after Mist Mountain appeared, the puppets became wrapped in more mist, and that mist tinged faintly with red.

The next second, every swing and strike of the puppets carries traces of this mist. When a blood ghost is cut open, the mist seeps into the wound, like silent fire burning within the blood.

Heart-wrenching screams rise and fall across the battlefield. Those pools of blood that could originally regenerate endlessly, upon hitting the ground, are quickly corroded and evaporated, leaving not even a trace of residue, unable to reform.

Su Bai's puzzle pieces also join the battlefield.

With the support of so many puzzle piece areas, Su Bai seems to possess his own Red Moon, capable of sustaining the actions of all the puzzle pieces.

From the perspective of the puzzle pieces, Su Bai in a sense truly seems to have become a new Red Moon.

"After this war is over, where will everything here go?"

The Director appears beside Su Bai at some point, his coattails lightly fluttering in the mist and battlefire. He speaks while looking toward Su Xuan and Wu Hang, who have already charged into the center of the Red Moon Association's formation.

As Wu Hang said earlier, although the opposition alliance boasts some high-ranking Eerie Entities with widespread reputations, the Red Moon Association's camp also hides equally ferocious beings of the same level.

"I discussed this with Wu Hang." Su Bai sidesteps to dodge an Eerie Entity pouncing from the mist, his scythe whipping up to cleave its body in half with a single stroke, causing it to dissipate into blood mist. "He will try to open passages to other worlds—not just the human world, but some other unknown worlds as well."

"Maybe there exists a world that can accommodate the power within your bodies."

"What does the Director think?" Su Bai swings his scythe in a horizontal arc, driving back another sneaking blood ghost, his voice calm.

"I think... the human world is not bad." The Director's answer surprises Su Bai, since such a choice means that this high-ranking Eerie Entity is willing to voluntarily seal away, or even completely abandon, all the power within itself.

"I heard from Fish that the human world also has movies." The Director's voice comes slowly. "I wonder if the people of that world would like my screenplay style."

Su Bai recalls the "script" they experienced at Blood Moon Lake and can't help but smile. "If the Director's movie could really be screened, it would probably be very popular, right?"

"That's good..." The Director seems to murmur to himself, his gaze still fixed deep in the battlefield. "After all, I very much want to see with my own eyes—that world that person risked everything to protect."

"Also..." The Director's tone suddenly shifts, his voice lowering a few notes. "Although I believe in the Ghost Witch's ability to possibly find a world that can accommodate the Red Moon's power, I do not think sending Eerie Entities to other worlds is the right choice."

"Whether the Eerie Entities are currently on the Red Moon Association's side or the opposition's, to other worlds they will be unknown invaders." The Director's tone becomes serious. "No one can predict what the existence of Eerie will bring to those worlds."

"But this world..." Su Bai frowns slightly, twirling his scythe in his hand.

He had actually thought about this problem too, wondering if this seemingly "saving" approach might instead drag another unknown world into the same abyss.

At this moment, the Director suddenly looks up at the sky.

The thick, blood-colored clouds of mist churning above the battlefield, the blood-red full moon hanging high over the chaos, like an ancient and cold eye overlooking the entire battlefield.

"Mr. Su." The Director's voice at this moment is unusually steady and slow. "Have you ever considered... turning the Red Moon itself into a part of the puzzle?"