"Ding dong! The black tower's seventh floor main mission: Eliminate Inari from the black tower world! "
The clear child's voice echoed in the empty library and entered the ears of Tang Mo and the huckster. Generally, there would be rewards in games.
Even online card games could be rewarded with Happy Beans and the like.
Tang Mo had long guessed that this big match was probably his prize.
But what was the 'Mosaic's Contempt'?
Wasn't this a task clue? What kind of game reward was this?
Tang Mo's face turned white and blue.
His heart was complicated. Compared to him,
The huckster was in a trance.
The huckster was the loser of this game.
There was a reward and usually a punishment. Losing an ordinary game might mean losing money,
The black tower game was lost and no one knew what they would lose.
The black tower didn't clearly inform the punishment.
The huckster was stunned for a long time.
He slowly turned to look at Tang Mo. "… Will I die?"
Tang Mo couldn't answer this question. He comforted him. "It shouldn't be that serious."
The huckster suddenly gained confidence. "I believe you. You are so smart and your words make sense.
It won't be so cruel.
It is God. It will bring me hope and rebirth. It is my God … "
Tang Mo held the big match.
He calmly watched the huckster who was gradually going crazy.
He didn't immediately inform him of the game punishment.
This made him feel a little uneasy. It was like the calm before dawn.
This kind of behavior that didn't conform to the common sense of the game often represented more terrible and unpredictable results. At the same time, Tang Mo comforted himself in his heart. If the game failed and you really died, then at least half of the people in the world would die.
Billions of people would die.
How was this possible?
It shouldn't be possible.
It shouldn't be possible …
The confrontation game was over but the library didn't return to normal. Tang Mo and the huckster tried it.
They still couldn't go downstairs. At the same time,
The window on the third floor was also blank.
They hadn't returned to Suzhou yet.
Time ticked by.
Tang Mo and the huckster were still trapped on the third floor of the library.
The clock on the wall passed six o 'clock. Tang Mo's body suddenly tightened and an uncontrollable panic swept through his mind.
His heart started to race again.
His pounding heart seemed like it would fly out of his chest in the next second. Tang Mo held onto the bookshelf but his body couldn't stabilize at all. He collapsed to the ground along the bookshelf. The huckster ran over from a distance. "What's wrong with you?"
The excessive blood flow made Tang Mo's face turn red within a minute. Every inch of his skin was red like a cooked crab. The huckster took a step back in horror before summoning the courage to walk to Tang Mo's side. "Are you okay? Why are you so red, and your face is so hot … Are you having a fever?! "
Tang Mo's heartbeat was too fast but his mind was still clear. He struggled to say two words, "Heart …"
The huckster immediately understood and put his hand over it. "How can your heart beat so fast? That's 200 … no, 300 per minute, right?! "
Tang Mo couldn't speak and corrected himself in his mind. It was 394.
The library couldn't be left and only Tang Mo and the huckster were inside. Tang Mo suddenly became like this and the huckster couldn't do anything about it. He could only help Tang Mo to the help desk, push away all the things on the table and let Tang Mo lie down. After doing all this, the huckster ran into the bathroom and wet the toilet paper on Tang Mo's forehead, hoping it would work.
Tang Mo's heartbeat had reached 532 beats per minute. He didn't know how fast a human heartbeat could reach but he felt that his heart might explode in the next second. He didn't know why, but his heart didn't conform to medical common sense at all and persisted.
The huckster kept running to the bathroom, wet the toilet paper and put it on every inch of Tang Mo's exposed skin.
Tang Mo could feel that this kind of behavior didn't help at all but he was very grateful for the huckster's help. He couldn't speak and could only look at the huckster with red eyes. He saw that the huckster was busy and sweating.
After a full hour, Tang Mo silently counted his heartbeat and found that it had actually fallen.
The huckster thought that the cold compress was working and hurried to put wet tissue on Tang Mo's eyelids.
He didn't know how long it took before Tang Mo felt that his body could move. He took away the damp paper that was applied to his body and stood up from the table with trembling hands.
The huckster just came out of the bathroom and saw this scene. He immediately ran over. "Are you okay?"
Tang Mo opened his mouth and found that his throat was frighteningly dry. He swallowed and nodded with a smile. "Yes, it seems a little better."
"That's good. I was scared to death just now." The huckster sighed with relief.
Tang Mo looked seriously at the huckster. "Thank you."
The huckster shook his head. "It's okay. I can't just watch you fall there."
The relationship between the two of them was very awkward. On the one hand, the huckster pulled Tang Mo into an unknown game and brought him unclear danger. There should be a gap between the two of them and they needed to be wary of each other. On the other hand, the game was over and it really was just an ordinary game. Tang Mo's body suddenly had an accident and the huckster didn't abandon it. Even if he didn't do anything to help, Tang Mo couldn't help but be grateful.
After this incident, the relationship between the two people became closer.
The huckster asked, "What happened to you? Why did your heart suddenly beat so fast? My father is a doctor. If a normal person's heartbeat reaches 250, their heart won't be able to supply blood and they will die in a few minutes. "
Tang Mo thought about it and decided to tell the huckster. "Your heartbeat hasn't accelerated in the past few days?"
The huckster shook his head. "No."
Tang Mo frowned and patiently explained, "Since three days ago, my heartbeat has suddenly accelerated. It wasn't as fast as today but it still reached more than 300 times per minute. At the same time, I am very upset. My irritation might be because of the black tower incident. I wasn't part of the 'dangerous faction' of the black tower, but I also wasn't completely 'optimist faction' of the black tower. It was understandable for me to feel irritable when such a big thing happened to the black tower. However, I don't understand the heartbeat. "
"Are you sick?"
"The black tower incident happened in the past few days and I haven't been to the hospital."
The huckster thought about it. "Then you should go to the doctor early. I have never heard of your disease. I'm afraid you are the only one in the world with a heartbeat of more than 300 and not dying. "The huckster joked." Maybe you will be recruited by the country to be a lab rat. In that case, you shouldn't go to the doctor. "
Tang Mo smiled.
"Click."
In the silent library, there was the sound of a door opening.
Tang Mo and the huckster glanced at each other. This was the sound of the door on the first floor of the library being opened!
The two people quickly ran downstairs. The forces that prevented them from leaving the third floor of the library had disappeared. They ran to the tall mahogany door of the library at the fastest speed.
The key gently turned in the keyhole, and with a creak, the door was pushed open a crack. The long-lost sunlight passed through the small crack in the door and shone on Tang Mo and the huckster's faces. The warm feeling didn't belong to the 'angel daytime' in the game. It was the real sun.
Tang Mo's eyes narrowed and the warm temperature made his pores relax.
"Hey, Tang Mo, why are you here?" A clear female voice was heard. "Why did you come so early?"
Tang Mo opened his eyes. "Xiao Zhao?"
Tang Mo remembered that he came to the library yesterday evening to get something because Director Wang said that the library would be requisitioned by the government. He took a few seconds to sort out his thoughts. "Did you come to get something?"
Xiao Zhao smiled. "Yes. My parents think that the black tower is too strange and plan to go back to our hometown to avoid the limelight. We are leaving at 10 so I came to get something. Hey, didn't I ask you first? Why did you come so early? What are you holding in your hand, a match? Ah, the huckster … cough, why is he here? "
Xiao Zhao saw the huckster and the huckster gulped nervously.
Tang Mo calmly explained, "I met him when I was getting something and we chatted for a bit."
"You still have things to talk to him …" Xiao Zhao muttered a few words. She looked up and said, "Then I will come in to get something. I won't talk to you." The little girl prepared to enter the door.
Just as she was about to step through the door, Tang Mo's eyes widened and his pupils trembled.
"Zhao Yan!"
Zhao Yan was Xiao Zhao's name. She had been in the library for half a year and few people would call her by this name. Tang Mo suddenly shouted and Xiao Zhao looked at him strangely. "What's wrong?"
Tang Mo's lips opened slightly but he couldn't say a word. He just looked at Xiao Zhao's lower body with a strange expression. Xiao Zhao followed his gaze and looked down. Once she saw it clearly, she suddenly fell to the ground and crawled back a few steps.
"What is this, what is this … my legs! My legs!!! "
Tears overflowed her eyes in an instant.
This was just a young girl who had just graduated from college in 1996. She wailed and kept touching her lower body with both hands, but there was nothing there. There was nothing there.
In Tang Mo's eyes, there was an invisible line that was spreading from Xiao Zhao's thigh to her upper body. Wherever this line went, everything turned into nothingness, as if something had erased Xiao Zhao from this world.
He didn't know when this line appeared. By the time he found this line, Xiao Zhao's calf had disappeared. She was completely ignorant and was still standing and talking to Tang Mo.
Tears and snot flowed down her face and Xiao Zhao's waist had disappeared. She climbed to Tang Mo's legs and grabbed his trousers with both hands, crying bitterly. "Save me, Brother Tang, save me! What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? Brother Tang, save me! "
Tang Mo reached out and held Xiao Zhao's hand. But he only held it for two seconds before the line went to Xiao Zhao's arms and her hand disappeared.
The transparent line went to Xiao Zhao's neck.
Only her head was left lying on the ground, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at Tang Mo. It was a horrible and strange sight.
"I don't want to die … I don't want to die. I haven't been in love, I haven't met anyone I like. I want to go back and watch cartoons. I haven't finished the novel I read yesterday … Dad … Mom … I don't want to die, I don't want to die. Brother Tang, Tang … "
The mouth also disappeared.
The pair of eyes wet with tears watched Tang Mo until this person disappeared.
Within a minute, a living person had disappeared just like that.
Tang Mo's mind was blank. At this moment, what scared him the most was that he was actually very calm. He looked at the place where Xiao Zhao disappeared for half a minute. Then he suddenly thought of something and turned to look at the huckster behind him.
In the dark library, the part below the huckster's thigh had disappeared. He looked at Tang Mo with a pale face, revealing a scared and pitiful smile. "Tang … Tang Mo, is this the punishment for failing the game …"
"Huckster!"
Bang!
The huckster fell to the ground.
Tang Mo immediately rushed up and held the huckster's hand.
The huckster cried, his tears flowing down his face and his snot sticking to his lips. He held Tang Mo's hand and said over and over again, just like Xiao Zhao, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die … Tang Mo, save me, I don't want to die …"
Tang Mo was helpless. He used his hand to press the part of the stick that didn't disappear. But when the line came, what should have disappeared disappeared and he touched the air.
The huckster only had his upper body left.
Tang Mo said, "Don't be afraid, there must be a way."
The huckster cried, "What is the way? I don't want to die, I really don't want to die … Tang Mo, you save me! You eliminated me, you save me! You save me! "
Tang Mo couldn't say a word.
The huckster no longer spoke. He just kept crying and crying. Time became extremely slow. Just as his chest was about to disappear, he suddenly clenched Tang Mo's hand and stared at Tang Mo with bloodshot eyes. "I have a daughter. She is in Shanghai and her mother and I are divorced. Help me check on her and see if she's still alive. Her name is Shanshan, Chen Shanshan. She wants to live, she must live! Help me see her, just look at her! "
The huckster's hand disappeared.
"Help me, Tang Mo, I beg you, help me. She must be alive, she must be! "
Tang Mo asked, "Where does she live?"
"She is in the Jing 'an District, studying at Shibei Li. She … "
The huckster's mouth disappeared.
His eyes stared at Tang Mo.
The transparent thread went to his ear and he stared at Tang Mo without blinking. His eyes were frighteningly red, as if he had exhausted all his strength.
"I will find her. She must still be alive."
The thread completely erased the huckster's ear but the huckster's eyes relaxed. He was still crying and couldn't speak. He just looked at Tang Mo. Before his eyes disappeared, he blinked at Tang Mo and a tear fell to the ground.
Tang Mo knelt alone at the door of the library. Xiao Zhao outside the door was gone and the huckster inside the door was gone.
The eight o 'clock bell rang in the library and the pendulum clock struck eight times. Tang Mo was still kneeling on the cold ground.
"Sleep, sleep, my dear baby. Mother's hands will gently shake you … "
A gentle and kind female voice rang throughout Suzhou City.
Tang Mo turned his head stiffly and looked at the black tower 200 metres away from the library.
Colourful lights flashed on the black tower. One day ago, there were thousands of people around the tower. One day later, there were only seven or eight people sitting on the ground like Tang Mo, staring blankly at the black tower singing the 'Lullaby'.
The female voice finished singing and a group of children's voices followed.
"Sleep, sleep, my dear baby.
Mother's hands will gently shake you.
The cradle will shake you, sleep quickly.
The night is quiet and the quilt is warm … "
The voice sang over and over again. The wind blew over the earth, carrying the beautiful song further away.
The song finished and the familiar child's voice was heard.
"Ding dong! 498,160,000 players have successfully loaded into the game … "
"Game saving …"
"Game data loading …"
"Player information loading …"
"Save successful …"
"Loading successful …"
"Loading successful …"
"Ding dong! November 18th, 2017, players are welcome to the game. "
"Announcing the three iron-clad laws of the black tower —"
"First, all explanations belong to the black tower."
"Second, 6 o 'clock to 18 o' clock is the game time."
"Third, all players, please attack the tower."
"Ding dong! Happy playing! "
Yes, he pushed away all the cars by himself.
After the black tower incident, Tang Mo discovered that apart from his ability, his physical condition and psychological quality had greatly improved.
One was the change in his physical condition. His strength, eyesight, recovery ability and skin became as hard as iron.
When Tang Mo tricked Qian Sankun into letting him go to the trunk to get clothes, he deliberately tested the hardness of his skin with the trunk lock. The palm of the hand was one of the most delicate parts of the body. The sharp lock scratched the palm but didn't leave a wound. The pain wasn't even obvious. Thus, Tang Mo decisively fought back against Qian Sankun. It was also because of the improvement in his physical condition that Qian Sankun's knife couldn't penetrate his bones and only left a bloody mark.
The other was the improvement in his psychological quality.
Tang Mo hadn't won a certificate for being a good student since he was a child but he hadn't done anything bad. Petty theft, no; he didn't even bother to cheat on exams.
This was the first time he killed someone.
Even if it was a self-defense counterattack and he accidentally killed Qian Sankun, he still killed someone.
Apart from that moment of panic and helplessness, he quickly calmed down and thought about what to do next.
He didn't know if he had become cold-blooded because of the sudden change in his body or if he was like this.
Tang Mo glanced at the book on the passenger seat before turning his gaze away. He looked calmly ahead and continued to drive.
The one-hour drive was infinitely lengthened because they had to clear the road. The sky was white and Tang Mo had just entered the Shanghai boundary. He hadn't gotten off the highway yet. There were still two kilometres from the toll booth when seven cars collided and blocked the highway.
Tang Mo got out of the car and started pushing it.
Creak —
The sound of tires rubbing against the ground was clear and loud on the empty highway. The seven cars were seriously colliding. The four cars in front had been crushed and the fence in the middle of the highway was crooked. Tang Mo moved the cars from the back to the front. It took a long time before he finally moved to the first car.
"Is it a luxury car?" Tang Mo smiled.
The first car was a Maserati sports car. The red body of the car was smashed apart. After all, it was a luxury car. The tires were still embedded in the wheels and didn't roll around.
The cold autumn wind blew and Tang Mo pushed the Maserati away. Just as he was about to open his car door, he suddenly stopped, turned around and frowned. "Who is it?"
The answer was the rustling of the wind.
Tang Mo didn't open the door. He stood next to the car and pressed his finger against the match tattoo on his wrist. He asked coldly, "Who is there?"
Still, no one appeared.
Tang Mo wasn't in a hurry. He walked step by step towards the Maserati that had been pushed away. His footsteps were very light and his body was tense, alert for any changes that might happen. His hand was on the damaged body of the Maserati and he was about to open it when he heard a trembling voice. "Don't, I … I'll come out, I'll come out by myself. I mean no harm. "
Tang Mo raised his head and looked at the young man coming out from behind the Maserati.
It was a black-haired young man who was about 180 centimeters tall. He wore a thin white shirt and a pair of jeans. His clothes were torn and stained with a lot of blood. There were several scars on his body but they were all scarred and no longer bleeding.
In the cold wind, the man's lips were cold and purple. He raised his hands and walked out from behind the car, looking at Tang Mo with horror.
"I'm the owner of this car. I mean no harm. I just saw you push the car. If I wanted to attack you, I would have done it while you were pushing the car. "
Tang Mo looked at him for a moment before asking, "Why didn't I find you when I was pushing the car?"
The young man said, "I just hid under the highway. It is too cold here. There is a lot of grass there and it is a little warmer. I was driving from Nanjing to Shanghai yesterday morning. As I approached Shanghai, the cars behind me hit me for some reason. When I woke up, I found that I was thrown out the window but I didn't die. Then I found … "There was a trace of fear on his face." I found that there was no one in the cars that rear-ended me. There wasn't even a drop of blood! "
Tang Mo looked at him lightly and didn't relax his vigilance. "They disappeared. When the black tower announced the start of the game, you might have been in a coma because of the car accident. Now there are less than 500 million people left in the world. The others … "Tang Mo pointed to the rear-ended cars." They disappeared inexplicably like them. "
The young man's eyes widened with fright and he shivered in the cold wind. He looked at the cars that rear-ended him and then at Tang Mo, whispering, "My home is in Shanghai. You are going to Shanghai. You … can you take me with you? I just saw that you are very strong and can push these cars away. Take me with you. I will give you money when I go back. I will give you as much as you want. "
Tang Mo listened to this and smiled softly.
The young man looked at him with a bewildered expression.
Tang Mo said, "I am going to Shanghai. It is fine to take you with me. But do you think money is still useful in this world? "
The young man was startled and his face gradually turned pale. It seemed that he understood what kind of world he was about to face.
Tang Mo got in the car and the young man sat in the front passenger seat. Tang Mo quietly took the book from the car seat and put it on the inside of his seat. He had just put the book away when it slowly disappeared. Tang Mo was slightly surprised but quickly calmed down and drove to Shanghai with the young man.
"My name is Li Wen." The young man wrapped a coat that Tang Mo lent him and shivered. "Thank you very much. I woke up less than two hours ago and ran to the toll booth in front of me. There was no one there. I didn't know what to do and returned to my car. It didn't take long for me to see you. You are really strong. My trench coat was in the car but the car was crushed and I couldn't take it out. I almost froze to death. "
"My name is Tang Mo." Tang Mo asked casually, "Aren't you strong?"
Li Wen shook his head. "It shouldn't be very strong. In any case, I couldn't push away those cars and couldn't take out my trench coat."
"But you didn't die, right?"
Li Wen stared blankly at Tang Mo.
Tang Mo drove with one hand and said lightly, "You survived such a big car accident and didn't lose an arm or a leg … don't you think something is wrong?"
Li Wen was stunned.
Tang Mo didn't say anything more and Li Wen lowered his head, thinking about something. However, his expression was revealed on his face. Tang Mo glanced at him and knew that this person must be thinking about what happened to his body. How could he have such a strong recovery ability and not die?
Tang Mo seemed to be driving easily but his attention was on Li Wen.
At this time, it was safest to be alone but it was better to have a companion. Li Wen should be like him, participating in a black tower game and surviving to win. Tang Mo didn't dare take such a person lightly. However, based on his observation, Li Wen seemed to be a silly rich second generation and wasn't a threat.
In addition, if he really let the other person continue to foolishly stay on the highway, Tang Mo really felt that … this person might die.
Li Wen asked, "Tang Mo, can you tell me what the black tower announced when I was unconscious?"
Tang Mo briefly explained the black tower incident.
"Are you going to Shanghai to find relatives? I am very familiar with Shanghai. Do you need help? "Li Wen asked.
Tang Mo had been to Shanghai several times but he wasn't a local and it was difficult to find people. He said, "I am going to Shibei Li to find a student. I only know her name and plan to go to the school to find her file. If she isn't at school then I will go to her home. "If she wasn't at either place then there was nothing he could do. This was the only thing he could do for the huckster.
Tang Mo didn't say that he was going to find a friend. Everyone had to be reserved and he hadn't confided in Li Wen yet.
Li Wen said, "Shibei Li? It is in the Jing 'an District. My home is in the Jing' an District and I went to junior high school there. I will accompany you. It will be convenient. "
Tang Mo looked at Li Wen with a strange expression.
Was he really stupid or was he so deep that people couldn't figure out what he was thinking?
Tang Mo thought about it and felt that it was likely the former.
Li Wen put on his coat and his body warmed up. He spoke more.
"We will get off the highway and pass through Shibei Li first. We will go in and find someone. Do you know which class the child is in? It will be easier to find the file if you know the class. "
Tang Mo replied, "I only know her name. Yes, she is in the first grade. "
Li Wen nodded. "It will be easier to find if she is in the first grade."
After a few more words, Li Wen hesitated for a moment and couldn't help asking, "Can I ask Tang Mo, do you know … what is going on with the black tower? Why did some people disappear and others didn't? "
He said so much but in the end, he just wanted to ask this question.
Li Wen had been in a coma since the car accident. He had lost a lot of information compared to Tang Mo. He helped Tang Mo to thank the other party for bringing him back to Shanghai. On the other hand, he wanted to obtain information and know his current situation.
However, since he asked this, it meant that he probably hadn't participated in the black tower game.
Tang Mo frowned slightly.
Could people who hadn't participated in the game survive? He licked his lips and thought for a moment, thinking about how to answer Li Wen. He was just about to open his mouth when a loud and cheerful song rang through Shanghai.
“Thank-you，
thank-you，
Let’s
day！”
The cheerful and joyful song was out of place in the dead city but it still kept singing. Tang Mo braked directly. Li Wen raised his head in panic and looked at the huge black tower suspended over the centre of Shanghai. Tang Mo braked directly and Li Wen raised his head in panic, looking at the huge black tower suspended over the center of Shanghai.
Tang Mo directly braked and Li Wen looked up in panic at the huge black tower suspended over the centre of Shanghai. Tang Mo held his breath and looked at the black tower.
Then he heard —
"Ding dong! China District 1's stowaway, Fu Wenduo, has successfully opened the black tower's first floor. In three minutes, all players in China will start to attack the tower! "
"Ding dong! China District 1's stowaway, Fu Wenduo, has successfully opened … "
"Ding dong! China District 1's stowaway, Fu Wenduo … "
The black tower broadcasted the information three times for the first time.
Tang Mo's eyes widened as the words' start to attack the tower 'echoed in his ears. The next moment, his eyes went black and he fell.
Tang Mo didn't have time to be sad or afraid.
The huckster and Xiao Zhao disappeared completely, leaving no clothes or belongings behind. He didn't need to help pack up anything.
Tang Mo closed the door and left the library.
Under the black tower in the city center, there were seven or eight people gathered. Some of them sat on the ground in a daze, not understanding what had just happened. Why did their companions, who had been shouting and swimming with them, disappear in just a few minutes? There were also two middle-aged men dressed like elites tearing down the white wall.
The white plastic wall was built by the armed police three days ago, surrounding the black tower and preventing ordinary citizens from approaching.
Now the armed police had disappeared and the scientists doing research in the white wall had also disappeared. The two men tore a big hole in the white wall and approached the black tower. Tang Mo didn't follow them. He looked from a distance and continued to move forward.
So many scientists had studied it for half a year and hadn't found any clues. He didn't think he could figure out what the black tower was.
The first problem Tang Mo had to face was that there was no car.
It was 8: 15 and at 8: 00, the huckster and Xiao Zhao had disappeared. Like them, most of the people in the city had disappeared. Without a driver, the bus and subway couldn't go home. In addition, many people were still driving when they disappeared. Now the cars were crashing into each other, blocking most of the roads.
Tang Mo walked half a kilometer and saw a yellow car that had fallen to the ground.
He took out his phone and scanned the QR code.
"Sure enough, it can't be used …"
Tang Mo frowned and crouched down to observe the lock structure of the yellow car. After looking at it for two minutes, he picked up a stone from the ground and started hitting the lock.
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