"Ding dong! Black tower's seventh floor main mission: Eliminate Inari from the black tower world! "
Tang Mo looked down at the huckster's right hand.
On the back of the hand,
The white angel wing pattern gradually turned black and became black demon wings.
Tang Mo's voice was very calm. "From the moment I saw you."
The huckster's eyes widened in disbelief. "How is it possible?"
The little girl was still sitting on the ground reading a book.
She didn't seem to hear their voices. The game ended here and Tang Mo and the huckster walked to the reading area of the library.
They pulled out a chair and sat down.
Tang Mo looked up at Mosaic in the distance.
In the entire library, she was probably the only one who was in the mood to read patiently. The huckster was no longer timid and afraid. He sat in front of Tang Mo and started to tell the truth. "I pulled you into this game."
This was beyond Tang Mo's expectations.
The huckster said, "Sneaking into the library was an accident. I sneaked in before you entered the library. You know that many unemployed people like us come to the library to waste time. Your security guards will find us before the library closes at night.
We will be driven out of the library. However, the security guards also made a mistake. Your library is too close to the tower.
Thus, after it said 'Earth is online,'
I chose to observe the tower here. Then on the third day,
When I was reading a book, I accidentally heard what it said to me. "
The huckster raised his head.
He looked at Tang Mo with a serious and fanatical gaze. He didn't seem to be looking at Tang Mo.
Instead, he saw a great existence.
"It said to me,
The game is about to begin. "The huckster looked at the air obsessively and repeated," I was chosen by it! "
Tang Mo didn't talk to him.
The huckster was just a crazy religious person.
He wasn't a psychopath.
All the library staff knew this. Thus, after a while,
The huckster calmed down, except for the sickly flush on his face. He said, "The game it chose for me was a 1v1 two-player game that I couldn't complete alone. I was thinking about leaving the library to find someone to start the game when you came in. I know you and I thought about it and deliberately made a sound to draw you over. Now it seems that was the worst decision I ever made. "
Tang Mo asked him, "What is the punishment for failing the game? What is elimination? "
The huckster shook his head. "I don't know. It didn't say. The voice I hear is the same as the voice you hear. It never says anything unnecessary. It tells me that I can choose who to play the game, but the content of the game is up to you. That was fair. Before the game started, I didn't know it was a book-finding game. Maybe it's because you're a librarian, which suits your identity, that's why this game appeared. " The huckster paused and looked seriously at Tang Mo. "How did you find me?"
In fact, the matter was very simple. "You aren't a madman or a fool. Your reason for sneaking into the library is very lame, and after we met, every action you showed was incomparable fear and terror. God … Mr. Chen, I also know a fanatical religious person. If that person said 'the black tower is God' to me three days ago, then I believe that when he was chosen by the black tower to open the game three days later, he wouldn't be panicked or afraid. Instead, he would be happy. "
The huckster's straight back fell heavily against the back of the chair. "It's like this …"
Tang Mo said, "It's just a suspicion. I can't be sure if you are a good dragon or not."
"Then how did you know it was me?"
"Because the game has to be fair."
The huckster looked at Tang Mo with a puzzled expression.
Tang Mo touched the angel wing pattern on the back of his hand. "I also like to play games. I often play a game that can be regarded as one of the fairest card games in the world. In a game, skills can be stronger than luck, such as bridge, which I often play. Luck can also be stronger than skills, such as stud. However, there was one thing about these games that was equivalent, and that was that they were absolutely fair to both players. After the game starts, luck is also a kind of strength. No matter who is lucky or unlucky, there is a gap in strength. The game itself is fair. "
The huckster understood his words. "What does this have to do with our game?"
Tang Mo looked up at him. "Don't you think this game is very unfair?"
"What?"
"There are only three rules for the game. The first rule is that violence is prohibited. This also has a profound meaning and I won't talk about it for the time being. Second, the angel can get a message during the day. Third, the demon can burn a bookshelf at night. It seems that the angel has to find a book from hundreds of thousands of books and the game is very difficult. The demon has a 23/3 chance of winning the game. "
The huckster suddenly understood. "Are you saying that this game is unfair to the angel?"
"No." Tang Mo smiled and shook his head. "It is unfair to the demon."
The huckster was dumbfounded.
"For the angel, this game has a way to solve the problem. He just needs to follow the clues and find the book. But for the demon, he only does one thing and that is to burn the book. No one gave him any hints, and no one told him where the book was. Then the game becomes like this. The angel is playing a puzzle game while the demon is purely gambling. The angel can rely on skill and luck to complete the game while the demon can only rely on luck. "
The huckster argued, "But the probability of an angel finding the right book is much lower than that of a demon."
"As I said, after the game starts, luck becomes a kind of strength. If the demon doesn't burn the right book, his luck is 0 and he is no different from an angel. There is also the rule of the 'no violence' game. It completely kills the demon's way of getting clues. Then the demon must get the game clues from other places. "
The huckster didn't speak and his face turned white. After a long time, he sighed heavily and smiled helplessly. "I played too few games. Tang Mo, is the bridge game you often play fun? Maybe I should play it more in the future. "
Tang Mo said, "If there is a chance, I will take you to play together."
The huckster smiled and nodded.
Tang Mo's eyes narrowed. "If the person playing the game with me is him, perhaps the ending of the game will be completely rewritten."
"Who is he?"
Tang Mo smiled. "He is a friend I often play bridge with. He is very powerful. If it was him, he would definitely think of the things I am thinking about and then lie to me with perfect reasons. At least he wouldn't make the mistakes you made. "
The huckster didn't feel ashamed. Instead, he humbly asked, "I made a mistake? I thought I was pretty good at it. When I saw you, I deliberately pretended to be afraid that you would find my loopholes. Later, I took the opportunity to talk as little as possible and listened to you. "
"But you still made mistakes. For example, when I said that there was no one else in the library and that the demon didn't know where he was, you said, 'He is hiding.' If it was a normal reaction, the angel team would have two people and the demon team would also have two people. You would have used 'they' instead of 'he.' "
The huckster's mouth twitched. "I am suddenly very interested in bridge."
"I thought I could expose you on the first night but I didn't expect the bookshelf to burn. I thought you had companions. But this isn't realistic. There are two demons and only one angel. This isn't fair to the angel. "Unless the black tower thinks that the two of you are on the same level as me.
Tang Mo coughed twice and didn't finish his words. "The next day, I have been thinking about who helped you set the fire. There are two answers. First, you just need to think about it and you don't need others to help you control it. Second, someone helped you set the fire. Only you, me and the little girl appeared in this library. Apart from the black tower, she is the only one who can help you set the fire. "
The huckster said, "But I don't even know that she helped me set the fire."
"This is also understandable. Did you forget that the little girl hates reading books? If you want to burn a bookshelf, she will be happy to help you. This reason makes sense. By the way, when she came over, I looked at her hair. Unfortunately, the ends of her hair were a bit burnt. Maybe she accidentally touched it when she set the fire. "
The huckster slumped in his chair. "I am convinced of my loss."
Tang Mo originally wanted to say something but he shook his head and didn't say anything more when he saw the huckster's appearance.
There were many things that the huckster didn't notice, such as how he tested the huckster and tricked the huckster into burning the H bookshelf. For example, the little girl's three hints had long exposed the huckster's identity.
There was a lot of nonsense in the three hints but there were only three points.
First, the demon would lie.
This was a hint to the angel that the demon had hidden his identity and was hiding by your side.
Second, the angel knew about this book.
This hint seemed useless because Tang Mo knew too many books. There were at least a few hundred that he had an impression of recently.
Third, the demon knew about this book.
This was a book that both Tang Mo and the huckster knew.
The scope was still very wide.
The huckster had been reading books in the library for a year and both he and Tang Mo knew at least a few thousand books. The game couldn't be so difficult. If this game couldn't be cleared, then it didn't need to open the game at the beginning and directly eliminate the two players. Therefore, this answer must be something that Tang Mo and the huckster could think of.
Tang Mo's first reaction was the book 'The Secret of the Mayan Civilization'.
This was a book that he and the huckster had talked about before the black tower incident. If both of them were asked which book left the deepest impression on them, it would definitely be this one.
The huckster wasn't stupid. In the case of the game suddenly starting, it was already very good that he could think of acting and act realistically.
Tang Mo suddenly thought that if it was Victor, the moment the two of them entered the game together, he would have taken the initiative. Victor would never be like the huckster and put himself in a weak position. The huckster's acting seemed to make Tang Mo ignore him and make fewer mistakes. However, he also lost the ability to reverse Tang Mo's thoughts and mislead him.
If it was Victor, what would he have done … ….
At the same time, in the distant capital, a tall and handsome man wearing a military uniform strode into the conference room. He pulled out a chair and sat on the edge of the conference table, his eyes like an eagle as he looked at the scientist who was giving a speech and the words on the big screen.
"Three days ago, the black tower was in a phantom state. We called it a type A mirage. In the past six months, we have done various experiments to test the relevant data of the black tower … "
In the conference room, the scientists discussed fiercely. Finally, the chief spoke in a loud voice, "So today is the third day. What conclusions have you come to? "
The scientists were all silent.
Fu Wenduo was the person with the lowest rank present and silently looked out the window.
In the dark night sky, there was a black tower, sharp like a knife, hanging above the 21.72 million people in Beijing.
It was 3: 42 a.m. on November 18th, 2017. There were still 4 hours and 18 minutes before the end of the three-day elimination period.
In the library.
The huckster was sweating profusely as he sat in a chair. He said he wasn't nervous but his trembling lips exposed his uneasy heart. Right now, no one knew what "elimination" meant. Perhaps they would just lose a game, or perhaps they would lose something more.
At this time, footsteps were heard from the depths of the bookshelf.
The little mosaic girl held the book and ran to Tang Mo's side. Her two ponytails swung in a beautiful arc in the air. Her small chest was raised and it was hard to hide the joy in her tone. She suddenly reached out and extended the giant match in front of Tang Mo.
"You're an angel after all, aren't you? Since you helped me find the book, I will give it to you. "
Tang Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he took the big match and subconsciously asked, "The little match girl?"
In an instant, a gap appeared in the thick mosaic on the little girl's face. Tang Mo's eyes widened as he saw that the mosaic disappeared from the little girl's eyes, revealing a pair of dead fish eyes. Everything else was still a mosaic, only the eyes were exposed!
Tang Mo held his breath and was alert to this strange change.
He saw the pair of dead fish eyes glancing at Tang Mo, the thick disdain turning into a solid substance.
"Uncle, you haven't grown up yet. Have you ever seen such a cute little girl who sells matches?"
Tang Mo, who had changed from a brother to an uncle, "…"
Did you make Mosaic disappear just to express your disdain?!!!
"Explain! Explain! "
"What is it? You must give an explanation!"
There were more and more people wandering around, blocking the city centre of Suzhou. There were also some people who wanted to fish in troubled waters, wanting to see if they could get some benefits. No matter how much the armed police warned them to drive them away, they refused to leave because they had the advantage in numbers. They surrounded the white wall and even had the tendency to break the wall.
Such scenes were happening all over the world.
China was considered very good. Before the black tower incident, the country was very stable and had strong cohesion and control. In some poor and weak countries, especially those with weak government deterrence, the 'dangerous black tower faction' occupied the government on the first day.
"The black tower is God. It will lead us to a new century. The black tower era is coming. My great and only Lord, please give us the power of new life! "
"Give us strength!"
Thousands of people knelt in front of the black tower, longing for a better new century.
Tang Mo didn't know about these things.
He held the black explosion-proof stick in his hand. Even though his clothes were thin, his forehead was covered with sweat. The treacherous and clear child's voice sang the nursery rhyme. When he finished, the ethereal and bright voice echoed in the empty library for a long time.
"Did you hear that?" Tang Mo gritted out a few words through his teeth.
The huckster was already paralyzed with fear, his messy hair blocking his eyes. When Tang Mo looked at him, he could only see a pair of eyes trembling with fear. The huckster was so scared that he couldn't speak. He crawled back to the wall, holding his head as he trembled. "What is that … what is it …"
Tang Mo didn't know.
After the nursery rhyme, there was no more sound in the library.
Gradually, Tang Mo calmed down.
Some people would be at a loss of what to do and panic when they encountered a major event. Tang Mo was the opposite.
Tang Mo was born a very rational person. Five years ago, his parents had a car accident. At the time, he had just gone to college. Others might feel like they were about to collapse. Tang Mo dealt with the funeral of the two people in an orderly manner. It wasn't until everything was over that he secretly cried and started to think about his future.
In addition, since his heartbeat increased and he felt anxious in the past two days, he found that he had become calmer than before.
Tang Mo held the explosion-proof stick in his right hand and took a thick book from the G bookshelf to use as a shield. Then he walked to the window.
Outside the window was a boundless white.
This was the window on the east side of the library. Normally, one could see the main street of downtown Suzhou and several famous ancient gardens from here.
Tang Mo tightened his grip on the explosion-proof stick. He seemed calm but he was always alert to the movements around him. Every time he passed a bookshelf, he was ready to fight back at any time.
He looked at all the windows on the third floor of the library before returning to his original place.
"We aren't in Suzhou anymore."
The huckster sat in the corner and looked at Tang Mo with a horrified expression.
Tang Mo didn't want to say this answer but he braced himself and said, "We are now surrounded by a blank space but this is indeed the library. It is probably similar to the library being moved into a large blank room. I have been working here for a year. I just looked at the service desk and my colleague's cup is still on the table. It is exactly the same as the library. "
After all, they weren't alone. The huckster heard Tang Mo say a lot and summoned the courage to stand up. He looked around and suddenly said, "Ah, this is the book I secretly put here last week!"
Tang Mo looked in the direction of his finger.
"I was afraid that this book would be borrowed by someone else so I hid it in the gap between the two bookshelves."
Tang Mo, "…"
So it was you who did it!
Tang Mo was the librarian of the library and the huckster was a frequent visitor. Both of them confirmed that this was the library.
Tang Mo took the huckster to the security cabinet and took another explosion-proof stick. Everything was unknown now. Letting the huckster take the explosion-proof stick could protect his own safety. Secondly, if the two of them encountered any danger, there would be one more helper.
The two of them had just walked to the service desk when footsteps were heard from the bookshelves deep on the third floor.
The huckster's eyes widened with fright and Tang Mo broke out in a cold sweat.
He had just checked and there was no one there! Who were these footsteps?
The two of them gripped the explosion-proof stick and carefully stared ahead, their backs against the wall. The sound was getting closer and closer. It was very irregular, like a child jumping on the ground. 30 seconds later, a small shadow appeared from the depths of the bookshelves. It was a little girl with two ponytails. Even though it was late November, she was still wearing a red dress and a pair of shiny red leather shoes.
The sound just now was the sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground.
"Ghost … ghost! Ghost! "
The huckster shrank behind Tang Mo in fear.
But Tang Mo was also afraid!
… This wasn't a question of being calm or not. What was wrong with a mosaic?
The little girl in the red dress looked like she was only seven or eight years old. She wore a delicate dress, small shoes and even the small schoolbag on her back was a Disney pink Minnie Mouse design. It was extremely delicate and looked no different from a real person. Only her face was covered in a thick layer of mosaic.
There were no eyebrows, no eyes, no nose, no mouth.
There was only mosaic.
Tang Mo gritted his teeth and suppressed the desire to kill this little girl.
"Brother, have you seen my book?"
No matter how clear and pleasant the voice was, Tang Mo only felt creeped out by this face.
Tang Mo stared at the little girl with a cold expression and didn't answer.
The little girl asked again, "Brother, have you seen my book?"
The little girl looked very weak and it should be easy for Tang Mo to subdue her. But given that this place was too strange and the little girl's face was mosaic, it was obvious that she wasn't a real person. Tang Mo didn't dare move casually and could only cooperate. He pursed his lips. After a moment, he tried to put on a friendly smile. "Little friend, what book is it that's missing?"
"Brother, your smile is so ugly."
Tang Mo, "…"
The little girl said, "My book is missing. Brother, can you help me find it? Mother is so annoying. I hate reading but she bought me a lot of books. Those books are ugly but mother will be very angry if I lose them. Mother will kill me if the book is gone. Brother, can you help me find the book? "
Tang Mo no longer deliberately smiled. "Who is mother?"
"Mother is mother. Brother, you are strange."
The huckster's trembling voice came from behind. "If you can't find the book, mother … mother will kill you?"
"Yes, mother will be very angry. It is terrible for mother to be angry. "
The huckster asked again, "She won't kill me, right?"
The little girl tilted her head, and the right ponytail fell down and landed on the mosaic face. Tang Mo didn't know why but he felt that if there was no mosaic, the little girl would be smiling right now. She was looking at him and the huckster with a pair of dark eyes. Then she said, "Hehehe, if Brother doesn't help me find the book, I will also kill Brother."
A bucket of ice water was poured from head to toe. Tang Mo pursed his lips and stared at the mosaic girl.
A moment later, he asked lightly, "Do you remember what book it is? I will help you find it. "
"Um …" The little girl shook her head, her ponytail swaying from side to side. She seemed to be thinking hard. She said 'um' for a long time. "I can't remember!"
Tang Mo had long guessed this answer.
Suddenly, the little girl hurriedly said, "Ah, I have to go to school. If I am late, the teacher will kill me. I will go first. Brother, you have to help me find the book. "She carried her small schoolbag and ran into the depths of the bookshelf.
The little girl was gone, and this strange game had officially begun.
Tang Mo and the huckster were hiding at the service desk and didn't go out to contact the little girl. The moment the little girl disappeared, the computer belonging to Tang Mo at the service desk suddenly lit up and the two people walked over.
A paragraph of text appeared on the blue background of the computer. It was obviously a diary.
Tang Mo read it. "November 15th, sunny. I've lost the book my mother bought! Mother will kill me! "
The huckster cried out, "It changed! The words changed! November 16th, cloudy. I hid it from Mother and Mother doesn't know the book is missing. Where is the book, where is the book? Mother will really kill me! "
The text on the computer screen changed again.
Tang Mo read, "November 17th, cloudy. Mother seems to have found it. Did she find it? "The text changed and he continued to read," November 18th, rain. Hehehe … Mother really killed me. "
Tang Mo and the huckster were silent.
"… Are we really going to die?" The huckster muttered to himself.
Tang Mo looked at the huckster.
The work in the library was very boring and they had to receive all kinds of people every day. During the break, they would occasionally talk about the strange things they saw today. The huckster was a strange thing. He didn't seem to have a job and would come to the library every day to read books. Xiao Zhao said that the huckster was dumped by his girlfriend in the past and became psychopathic.
In the hearts of the staff, the huckster was a very strange person, funny and pitiful.
Now the huckster was looking at Tang Mo with a really pitiful expression.
Tang Mo could see that he was afraid. In fact, he was also afraid but this wasn't what they needed at this time. Tang Mo thought about it and answered honestly, "Maybe we really will die."
The huckster's eyes widened in despair.
Tang Mo said, "Wait a minute, the words on the computer changed again. As a obedient and sensible little girl, Mosaic … "Tang Mo's expression twisted as he continued to read," Mosaic only has one shortcoming. She doesn't like to read. Mother hates little girls who don't like to read, especially little girls who throw away the book and lie that it was stolen. But Mother doesn't know that Mosaic didn't lie. She didn't throw away the book and the demon stole it. "
Tang Mo frowned when he saw the word 'demon'.
"Demons hate books the most. Demons are illiterate. Why do they need to read? Only those birds with wings know how to read. The unlucky demon stole the book and was discovered by the angel. He didn't burn the evil book and secretly hid it in a library. However, the bookshelves in the library looked exactly the same. After the angel left, the stupid demon was dumbfounded and let out an angry roar — "
"These damn books!"
As Tang Mo finished reading the text, a clear child's voice was suddenly heard in the library.
"Ding dong! The game 'Who Stole My Book' has officially started. During the game — "
"First, violence is prohibited."
"Second, the angel can get information about the book during the day."
"Third, the demon can burn any bookshelf at night."
"Clever and kind angel, in three days, Mosaic will be killed by an angry mother. Can you bear to watch such a lovely little girl die? "
Tang Mo, "…"
She was cute!
The huckster and Xiao Zhao disappeared completely, leaving no clothes or belongings behind. He didn't need to help clean up anything.
Tang Mo closed the door and left the library.
There were seven or eight people gathered under the black tower in the city center. 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 the huckster and Xiao Zhao had disappeared at 8: 00 sharp. 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 had crashed into each other, blocking most of the roads.
Tang Mo walked half a kilometer and saw a yellow car on 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 to smash the lock.
The huge shock made Tang Mo's wrist hurt but his strength was much greater than before. He smashed it twice and the steel lock was broken.
Tang Mo looked thoughtfully at the iron lock that he had smashed and rode home on the little yellow cart.
40 minutes later, he entered the community and parked the yellow car downstairs.
In the quiet community, there was no one around. There was only the sound of the wind rustling the leaves. Tang Mo went home and simply packed some clothes. Tang Mo's parents were only children and his grandparents died when he was a child. His parents died in a car accident when he was in college and he had little contact with his relatives after that.
Tang Mo's close friends didn't stay in Suzhou after graduating from college. One went to Beijing and one was in Shanghai.
The huckster's daughter was also in Shanghai and he could go find his friend.
Tang Mo was trapped in the library yesterday evening. Once he returned home, he first filled his stomach and then packed a few clothes into his suitcase. His things were packed but there was a more serious problem.
He didn't have a car.
From Suzhou to Shanghai, it took only half an hour to take the high-speed train and one hour to drive.
The high-speed train definitely couldn't operate now. Tang Mo didn't dare imagine the current situation on the railway. If it was like the streets, the driver would suddenly disappear and countless cars would crash. If it was on the railway, the unmanned train would have crashed into each other as well.
He needed a car.
Tang Mo went upstairs and knocked on the landlord's door. After three minutes, there was no response from the door. He picked up the iron wrench he brought from home and smashed through the lock.
He smelled a strong smell of gas as soon as he entered.
Tang Mo's eyes narrowed as he ran to the kitchen to turn off the gas stove and open the windows.
There were cut vegetables on the kitchen table. It was clear that the owner of the house was preparing a delicious breakfast before disappearing. Tang Mo left school a year ago and rented this house. The landlord was a very good old couple who lived upstairs. The old couple retired and had nothing to do at home. Sometimes they would invite Tang Mo upstairs to eat.
Tang Mo didn't have a car and often borrowed one from the landlord.
He took the car key from the drawer under the TV cabinet and checked around. Once he found that there was really no one in the house, he opened the door and left.
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