The cold child's voice stopped abruptly in the wind.
On the distant horizon,
It seemed like an illusion,
A crescent moon appeared in the dazzling sunlight. Looking closely,
The sun returned to normal. However, the moment the black tower's notification ended,
There was a crisp clicking sound.
A string of bright red numbers suddenly appeared on the pitch-black giant tower.
12: 00: 00
The bright red numbers looked like fresh blood, and they left a hideous gash on the black tower. Everyone around the world looked at this scene with astonishment.
This was a countdown.
Time ticked by, and the countdown was getting shorter.
Shanghai, Nanjing Road.
Once the string of red countdown numbers appeared,
In a dark alley, two black figures slowly emerged from the air. It was a man and a woman,
They looked very young. They appeared completely out of thin air and the two of them were still looking up at the black tower. They were hidden in an excellent position,
The light was dim,
It was very hidden and it was difficult for others to find their position. However, they could clearly see the black tower.
The two of them were stunned when they saw a countdown on the black tower. Then the young man turned his head and saw the sun that was about to sink below the horizon. His eyes widened and his voice was hoarse. "… We're back?"
The young woman seemed much calmer,
She narrowed her eyes at the setting sun,
And saw the moon in the eastern sky.
"Moon … we're really back this time."
On the surface, they were calm.
Their rapid breathing revealed the unsuppressable excitement in their hearts. The young man and woman looked at the sun with greedy eyes, seeming to remember it. But after a few seconds, they seemed to have seen enough. The two of them looked at each other.
The woman's lips curled into a meaningful smile. "You're back …"
The man stroked a sharp and slender icicle. "Eve's Game, I like the name of this game."
The woman asked, "So, let's start the game? Ah, I think I hear a child's breathing. "
A strange low laugh came from their throats. In the next second, their figures suddenly disappeared from the alley. When they reappeared, they were already in a three-story residential building next to the alley. In the bedroom of this building, a middle-aged fat man stared at the young man and woman who had suddenly appeared in front of him with his eyes wide open.
He had too many questions to ask. He wanted to know where these two people came from and who they were. However, he could no longer ask. There was a dark, bloody hole on the middle-aged fatty's forehead. In just one second, before he could even say a word, an icicle had pierced through his head.
With a loud bang, the fatty fell to the ground.
The young woman squatted down and rummaged through his body, finding a few props. She snorted in disgust and threw the props into the trash can.
The man was also helpless. He touched his neck. A golden four-digit number floated beside his neck. He sighed. "What bad luck. It seems to be an official player. It is a pity. I wanted to try what it feels like to be a stowaway. "
The woman mocked him. "The black tower said the names of a few stowaways. There is one called Fu Wenduo who seems to be the strongest among the pigs. Go and kill him. "
The man became interested and laughed excitedly. "It feels good to kill Fu Wenduo …"
The man and woman searched the house and took a bottle of water from the cupboard. By the time they went out, the sky was completely dark and the moon was hanging high. The two of them hadn't seen the moon for a long time. They stood in front of the small building and looked at the moon hanging at the top of the black tower. A moment later, the two of them walked towards the Bund.
For them, walking on Nanjing Road at night wasn't dangerous at all.
They walked calmly on the commercial street. The woman stopped at a shop and covered her lips with a smile. She smashed the window of the shop and took out a diamond necklace. However, she didn't wear it around her neck. She tore the necklace to pieces, took the diamonds, and played with them one by one.
On the empty Nanjing Road, the figure of the man and woman walking together was very dazzling.
By the time they reached the bottom of the black tower, the woman had thrown all the diamonds except for the largest pink diamond. She narrowed her eyes and aimed the diamond at the spire of the black tower. Unfortunately, the black tower was too high and the diamond flew halfway to the ground, falling in a pink straight line under the moonlight. Just as the diamond touched the ground — —
Om!
There was an almost inaudible noise. The young woman's expression changed slightly and the man turned his head.
In the dark, several shadows rushed out from various corners. At the same time, a large red net appeared at the feet of the young man and woman. It was like a tangled spider web. The young man was entangled in the middle of the big net. The woman tried to pull her feet and found it difficult to move.
The tall and strong foreign man held a large kitchen knife and threw it at the man and woman. The young man calmly avoided it and raised his hand to use an icicle to counter the knife.
Jack grabbed the kitchen knife and the other people hiding in the darkness came out one by one.
More than 50 players walked to the bottom of the black tower and stared vigilantly at the young man and woman trapped in the middle. The other party was clearly trapped by the big net and they had a large number of people. However, the more than 50 players didn't relax and were always on guard against the attack of the young man and woman.
The young man and woman were surrounded by so many people but there was no nervousness on their faces. The young woman picked up the pink diamond that had fallen to the ground and her eyes flashed before quickly hiding it.
The young woman looked around the crowd and finally set her eyes on a young man in a white robe.
She smiled softly. "Are you the leader of this organization?"
Luo Fengcheng pushed up his glasses. "You should've collected information and know that there are many organizations in Shanghai. However, there are no particularly large organizations. More than 50 senior players who have cleared the black tower's second floor can't belong to the same organization. "
The young woman wasn't embarrassed that her words were discovered by the other party. Instead, she innocently winked at Luo Fengcheng. "Listening to you, handsome boy, do you know who we are?"
Luo Fengcheng's lips curved. "The Rayhart team often appears on Nanjing Road. The team has two members and cleared the black tower's third floor a month ago. Every time they clear the tower attack game, they like to hold a bloody party on Nanjing Road to celebrate. On January 14th, 2018, they slaughtered more than 2,000 ordinary players on Nanjing Road and jumped into the time leaderboard. " Luo Fengcheng was still smiling but his eyes were cold. "The invisible people, no, the returnees, the most powerful and disgusting members of the Rayhart team in Shanghai. The 53rd and 59th places on the time leaderboard are Liu Xiao and Liu Yuan …"
Luo Fengcheng smiled. "Welcome back to Earth."
Things like this were happening all over the world. However, not every area had arrogant returnees. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo patiently hid in an office building on Chang 'an Street, guarding against possible enemies. But after half an hour, there was no one on the narrow street.
Tang Mo didn't relax his vigilance and glanced at Fu Wenduo.
Fu Wenduo nodded and continued to stay by the window. He closed his eyes and listened to the movements around him.
Tang Mo looked at Chen Shanshan. "I was prepared but I never thought that … there are only 320,000 invisible people left."
Half a year ago, six billion humans disappeared, and they were the first invisible people.
There were a total of six billion people but after seven months, there were only 320,000 people left. This was only one-tenth of Earth's players.
It wasn't just Tang Mo. When Fu Wenduo and Chen Shanshan heard the black tower announce that more than five million players had successfully loaded the game, they subconsciously thought that this was the number of invisible people. However, the next second, the black tower announced that 320,000 players had loaded the game and they instantly understood who was the real minority.
The remaining 320,000 weren't Earth players but invisible people.
Tang Mo closed his eyes and thought, "This number isn't impossible. They were forced to participate in the game last November with only a 10-minute break between games. The time leaderboard appeared in January and they had more time to rest. Without the time leaderboard, even someone as strong as Mu Huixue is likely to die in a game. Therefore, most returnees were eliminated before the time leaderboard appeared. "
Six billion, 320,000.
The probability was one in 20,000.
Tang Mo was silent and no longer spoke. In the room, Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng also looked down at the ground and didn't speak.
This probability was so low that they understood that the possibility of their loved ones surviving was close to zero.
A low voice broke the silence. "The black tower made a global announcement of our names."
Tang Mo looked up at him. "Yes, the black tower announced a total of 45 names. Apart from Mu Huixue who is in the returnees camp, the other 44 people are all Earth players and have been announced globally by the black tower."
The first player in each region to clear the new tower attack game would receive a global announcement from the black tower. If someone cleared the tower attack game in hard mode, the black tower would only privately announce this information to the players in the world who had already cleared the floor. Thus, there were some names that ordinary players had never heard of but Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo knew.
Tang Mo thought for a moment before making a decision. "Go to Tian Xuan."
This update completely exceeded Tang Mo's expectations.
He originally imagined that the black tower would give the returnees a special reward because they were the first to clear the fourth floor. He didn't expect the black tower to open an extra game for the returnees and announce the coordinates and names of Earth players globally.
Chen Shanshan said, "Tian Xuan should choose to cooperate with us. There are four people in Beijing who have been announced by the black tower, including the two people from Tian Xuan. Eve's Game has a total of seven days and this is the first day. We don't know how to open Eve's Reward or what the attitude of the invisible people in Beijing is towards the Earth survivors. However, they are still in a state of restricted rest time. "
Tang Mo nodded. "Yes, the time leaderboard is no longer updated but they are still returnees and are restricted by rest time. If they want to get rid of the time limit and truly gain freedom, they can only eliminate Earth players, including but not limited to the game … "
This familiar statement made Tang Mo frown.
Fu Wenduo said, "They might only have 320,000 people left but we can't be careless."
The four people discussed future countermeasures and Tang Mo directly asked Chen Shanshan what she thought of Eve's Game. Without changing her expression, the little girl told them about the Bible, the story of Adam and Eve, and all the information she could think of about Eve. None of them found anything that matched Eve's Reward.
Chen Shanshan said, "Eve appears in different Western mythologies and images are different. The description of Eve in the Old Testament and New Testament is different. If we throw away the myths, there is also the Eve hypothesis … "
Xiao Fu thought about it. "Will the reward be an apple? Eve stole the forbidden fruit and gained wisdom. The forbidden fruit is the apple. "
Chen Shanshan said, "It doesn't matter what the carrier of the reward is. The important thing is the essence of the reward."
The night was like water and the invisible people were hiding in the dark. The four people decided to wait in this building for the night. Once the game time was over at 6 o 'clock the next morning, they would go to the Tian Xuan base. Suddenly, a sharp gunshot was heard in the quiet street.
Fu Wenduo's eyes were cold as he looked down the window.
He saw a middle-aged woman lying on the ground, staring at the sky with wide eyes. Blood flowed out from her body and soon stained the road red. On the other side of the street, a black shadow flashed and jumped into the grass. Tang Mo gripped the handle of the small parasol and stared at the back of the man jumping from the tall building.
The man shuttled back and forth between the dense trees like a black ghost. The moonlight shone through the gaps in the leaves, illuminating half of his chin and a line of golden numbers suspended around his neck.
Bang!
There was another gunshot. The bullet penetrated the wall and there was the sound of flesh entering flesh.
No one knew how the man saw the enemy through the wall. The number on the black shadow's neck changed from '341' to '351.' He laughed hoarsely and his laughter was drowned in the howling wind. The man ran further and further. He fired a total of three bullets along the way, each one hitting a person and increasing the number suspended around his neck.
He was just about to leave Tang Mo's field of vision when the man suddenly looked up and his eyes met Tang Mo's group of four on the roof.
The next moment, the black muzzle pointed straight at Fu Wenduo who was closest to the window. The man didn't hesitate to press the trigger. Fu Wenduo reacted very quickly and moved sideways to avoid the bullet. Then there were three consecutive gunshots. Only Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo stuck their heads out of the window. However, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's expressions changed when they saw the three bullets. One person picked up Chen Shanshan and the other picked up Fu Wensheng and quickly left the room.
The moment they left the room, the bullets entered the wall. One of the bullets was aimed at Tang Mo while the other two were aimed at Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng, who had never been seen.
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