Chapter 192: 119: From Nothing to Something in a Desperate Situation_6
Apart from Yun Duo, Xinkui, Wu Xin, and Luo Hui, they all had the mutated prison uniforms with the same tags.
But here's where things got weird, Xinkui had received his prison uniform, so he didn't have to carefully hide his inner hope anymore, yet he found out that Jiang Xianwu hadn't given the prison uniforms to Wu Xin and Luo Hui.
"Because for them, they need to see greater odds of victory. Otherwise, the hope before their eyes is still false hope,"
Zhou Baiyu simply explained a few sentences.
In the following month, although there was continuous mutation, he fundamentally did not ask other people from the Land of No Light for prison uniforms.
Jiang Xianwu just kept on mutating the uniforms by himself, and the probability of positive mutations left Xinkui speechless in astonishment.
With the auspicious fate given by Wu Xin, they would often get a guaranteed result after just four or five tries...
But Xinkui grew increasingly puzzled— even when positive items were mutated, Jiang Xianwu acted as if the items did not exist at all.
For two months, Jiang Xianwu functioned like a relentless mutation machine.
He mutated, exhausted his physical strength, rested until he could endure one more session of mutation, then mutated again, and again exhausted his physical strength...
The number of mutations each day was limited, and when he couldn't mutate, Zhou Baiyu would spend as much time as possible with Yun Duo, getting to know every person here.
Two months naturally weren't enough for Zhou Baiyu to meet the thousands of people here.
But with Yun Duo's help, at least Zhou Baiyu got to know some of the most influential people here.
Zhou Baiyu was very clear that he couldn't possibly mutate thousands of prison uniforms, he could only utilize the herd effect to make the most influential and vocal group of people in the Land of No Light speak out for him on a certain day.
People are emotional, the deeper the relationship, the more fervent the emotions are at the moment of entrusting one's life.
In the history of the Long Xia Kingdom, countless experiences have shown that when despair tries to destroy a person, humans can always turn the tide by shedding their heads and spilling their blood.
Of course, senseless bravery is nothing more than adding a tinge of tragic heroism to failure.
What Zhou Baiyu wanted was victory. And the arrival of light seemed to be still very far away.
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Monotony, exhaustion, even pain, such days with no end in sight.
Xinkui remembered clearly that there were several times when positive items had been mutated, but Zhou Baiyu didn't even look at them, as if he didn't care about what was mutated at all.
Unable to contain his curiosity, he asked Zhou Baiyu, "Jiang Xianwu... what on earth are you doing?"
Xinkui realized that Jiang Xianwu seemed to be waiting for something, yet this something seemed unrelated to the mutated items.
Zhou Baiyu just shook his head and didn't answer Xinkui. Because he was afraid, afraid that he couldn't do it.
Such endless days of self-inflicted torment continued until one day at the end of the second month...
When Xinkui thought that maybe Jiang Xianwu felt disheartened and resigned himself to his fate because the task of mutating the prison uniforms was too vast—
Zhou Baiyu suddenly burst into exhilarating laughter.
"Hahaha... Fantastic! I did it! I did it!"
The sudden laughter startled Xinkui. It was also at this moment that Zhou Baiyu truly had a light in his eyes:
"Finally... it has appeared! Xinkui! The second creation from nothing, I did it!"
Even when he mutated prison uniforms that could block out the light, even when he convinced Yun Duo, Xinkui had never seen Jiang Xianwu so excited.
What he had seen these days seemed like deliberate self-torture by Jiang Xianwu, Xinkui asked in a trembling voice:
"What did you do?"
Zhou Baiyu closed his eyes, seemingly immersed in the bliss of the moment, his excitement was unprecedented, his life had never been so exhilarated:
"Indeed, mutation gave us the possibility of creating something from nothing, but just one possibility isn't enough, I also had to master another possibility. Before it emerged, I didn't think we were qualified to challenge the Night Demons."
"If it didn't appear, even more successful mutations of prison uniforms would be meaningless. Jin Yi's failure has proven that merely escaping this layer of dreams isn't enough."
"But under the compressive emotions of a desperate situation, with the help of Wu Xin's fate, I finally succeeded!"
Xinkui didn't understand:
"I don't get it, what exactly... are you trying?"
The emaciated Zhou Baiyu, with his gaunt eyes, looked towards where Xinkui was standing.
In this moment, he was clearly exhausted, yet seemingly reborn, his excitement overwhelming, he said word by word:
"Initiating Absolute Moment!"
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