As if she really just wanted to express her contempt, the mosaic on the little girl's face returned to normal. She handed the giant match to Tang Mo and ran to the depths of the bookshelf. The long ponytail swayed as she jumped and her small figure disappeared into the shadows of the bookshelf.
"Ding dong! The confrontation game 'Who stole my book' has ended. "
"The game rewards are being calculated …"
"Player Tang Mo has won the mission and received the rewards' giant match 'and' Mosaic's Contempt. '"
"Player Chen Fangzhi has failed the mission."
The clear child's voice echoed in the empty library and entered the ears of Tang Mo and the huckster. Generally, games would have rewards. Even online card games could get rewards like happy beans. Tang Mo had long guessed that this big match was his reward.
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 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 generally a punishment. Losing an ordinary game might mean losing money. If he lost the black tower game, he didn't know what he would lose.
The black tower didn't clearly tell him the punishment. The huckster was stunned for a long time before slowly turning 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 a god, it will bring me hope and rebirth. It is my god … "
Tang Mo held the big match and looked calmly at the huckster who was gradually going crazy.
The fact that he wasn't informed of the game's punishment made him feel a little uneasy. It was like the calm before dawn. This kind of behavior that didn't conform to the game's common sense often represented more terrible and unpredictable results. At the same time, Tang Mo comforted himself in his heart. If the game failed and he really died, then at least half of the people in the world would die.
How could billions of people die?
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 and still couldn't go downstairs. At the same time, the window on the third floor was blank.
They had not yet returned to Suzhou.
Time passed and Tang Mo and the huckster were still trapped on the third floor of the library.
The clock on the wall crossed 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? It's at least 200 … no, 300 times a minute? "
Tang Mo couldn't speak and corrected himself in his mind. It was 394 times.
The library couldn't be left and there were only Tang Mo and the huckster inside. Tang Mo suddenly became like this and the huckster couldn't do anything about it. He could only help Tang Mo to the 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, dipped the toilet paper in water and placed it 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 ran to the bathroom, dipped the toilet paper in water and applied it to 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 had an effect and hurriedly ran a few more times to apply wet tissue to 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 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 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 of them became closer.
The huckster asked, "What happened to you? Why was your heartbeat so fast? My father is a doctor. Don't talk about your heartbeat. If a normal person's heartbeat reaches 250, the 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, "My heartbeat has been accelerating since three days ago. It wasn't as fast as today but it still reached more than 300 times per minute. At the same time, I am very annoyed. The annoyance might be because of the black tower incident. I'm not part of the 'black tower dangerous faction' but I'm also not completely 'black tower optimist.' The black tower has such a big event so it is understandable for me to feel annoyed. But 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. You aren't 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 for research. 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 of them quickly ran downstairs. The forces that prevented them from leaving the third floor of the library had disappeared and they ran to the tall mahogany door of the library at the fastest speed.
The key gently turned in the keyhole, and with a squeak, 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. "You came so early to get something?"
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. "You came 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 are you 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."
"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 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 spreading from Xiao Zhao's thigh to her upper body. Wherever this line went, everything turned into nothingness. It was as if something had erased Xiao Zhao from this world.
He didn't know when this line appeared. Once 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, "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. He had only held it for two seconds when 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 huckster's thighs 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, like Xiao Zhao, said over and over again, "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, save me! You eliminated me, save me! Save me! "
Tang Mo couldn't say a word.
The huckster no longer spoke. He just kept crying and crying. Time became extremely slow. Once 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 be alive! 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 line 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'll go find her. She must be alive."
The line 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 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, gently shake you … "
A gentle and kind female voice was heard throughout Suzhou City.
Tang Mo turned his head stiffly and looked at the black tower 200 metres away from the library.
A colourful light 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, looking 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, gently shake you.
The cradle shakes 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 farther 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 rules of the black tower —"
"First, all explanations belong to the black tower."
"Second, 6 to 18 o 'clock is the game time."
"Third, all players please attack the tower."
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