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"Data readout complete ..."

"Loading ..."

"Loaded successfully ..."

"Ding Dong! June 19, 2018, Welcome back to Earth."

The dazzling sunlight pierced Tang Mo's eyes and he couldn't help but reach out his hand to block the light, squinting his eyes. Suddenly, he heard a familiar yet unfamiliar sound. It was a soft but heavy bird's song, a coo, and it seemed to be a pigeon. Tang Mo's evolved hearing allowed him to hear the fluttering of wings clearly without opening his eyes.

Slapping the air away, as if frightened by something, it flew rapidly skyward.

He couldn't wait to open his eyes, to finally see the bird -

It's a bead-necked turtledove.

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One of China's most common birds, it looks on in horror at the sudden appearance of these humans beneath The black tower and flaps its wings in fear.

In this moment, more than three million people around the world stopped in their tracks and stopped running towards The black tower.

Their faces were a mixture of uncertainty and bewilderment, which gradually changed to shock and finally surprise.

Ruan Wangshu shuddered and crouched down to look at a group of ants carrying food on the ground. Chen Shanshan looks at some sparrows in a tree not far away and his mouth grows, unable to utter a word.

There were Fu Wenduo, Mu Huixue, John Bruce and Bell-Fusco, who had just returned to the United States, and Takao Yamamoto, who couldn't wait to run to the edge of the bridge under The black tower at Shinsaibashi, Osaka, and look down at the fish swimming in the river.

China , Shanghai .

Luo Fengcheng's body stiffens, Jackass and Zhao Ziang both look at The black tower in surprise and horror, and it is only after a long time that Luo Fengcheng recovers. He walks up to the monument at the beginning of Nanjing Road, which bears the words 'Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street' in gilded letters, and touches the stone, which is in perfect condition.

"You're back too ..."

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Jackass : "Doctor, back?"

Little fatty Zhao Ziang rubbed his head, "Back? What's back."

Luo Fengcheng smiled and did not reply.

Meanwhile, The black tower at the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo understood what it meant to 'return to earth' when they saw the pearl-necked turtledove flying into the sky.

Around the world, some players already understood what was going on, others were still in a state of confusion. Fu Wenduo reacted quickly, picking up a small stone and, with a flick of his wrist, knocking the bird out of the sky just as the beaded dove was flying.

The bead-necked turtledove crashes to the ground, fluttering its wings.

Mu Huixue A whip tied the bird back lightly and did not hurt the little bird. But immediately afterwards, the clear, childlike voice rang out again, interrupting everyone's thoughts.

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"Dingdong! Successfully opened The black tower seven level tower attack game -"

"Game name: The black tower A delightful scavenger hunt."

"Game for: all players."

The sound stopped abruptly, and before the humans of the world could recover from their surprise, they all looked up at The black tower. They looked up at the black tower and heard it say, in a calm voice, the following

" The black tower has been mankind's favourite gaming companion for countless hours of fun and games. But the fun is always so short-lived and it's time to say goodbye again."

Every word spoken is full of emotion, but it is The black tower that speaks.

It speaks with emotion in the coldest of tones, the extreme contrast making its words all ironic.

"Dingdong! Thanks to Fu Wenduo, Tang Mo and Mu Huixue from China 1 ... Li Xia from China 7, Takao Yamamoto from East Asia 2 and John Bruce and Bell-Fosco from USA 2. " The black tower once again repeated the names of the nine players who raided the sixth floor of The black tower, and then it turned to a cold tone: "Now the seventh floor of The black tower is open for attack."

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"The rules of the game--"

"First, excluding the oceans, there are 15,209 The black towers on Earth. For seven days, from 2:26 a.m. GMT on June 19 to 2:26 a.m. GMT on June 26, the number of The black towers on Earth will be reduced at a rate of two thousand one hundred and seventy-two per day, and the territory in which that The black tower exists will be erased, including all human players on that territory."

"Second, the erased The black towers are completely random. Except for the five The black towers within the game content, which are deemed to be erased at the end of the game."

"Thirdly, each The black tower has a keeper, who is a man or a monster from the ground."

"Fourth, there are five special The black towers among the 15,000 The black towers, which contain special treasures. Find the five The black towers, raid them and defeat the tower guardians to obtain the treasures. Find all five treasures to pass the seven levels of The black tower."

"Fifth, effective immediately, all The black tower games are stopped and all players in the game are forced to eject from the game immediately."

"Sixth, all humans may attack the tower, not limited to the nine players on the sixth floor of The black tower."

"To reiterate The black tower's three iron rules -"

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"All explanations are the property of The black tower."

"6:00 - 18:00 is game time."

"Please ask players to work on attacking the tower!"

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"The Tower of the Beginning, the Tower of Parallel Convergence"

Tang Mo took the chalk and wrote these twelve words on the blackboard in the classroom.

This is the line written on the back of the red ticket of Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had not yet left Noah's Ark and were still in The black tower game. Without the sudden arrival of The black tower's seven-level scavenger hunt, the clue seemed strange and completely baffling. So Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were surprised to see it.

"Now it seems that this clue actually hints at the location of the hidden treasure, The black tower."

Lian Yuzheng : "What is the Tower of the Beginning of All Things?"

The beginning of all things, the origin of all things.

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A year ago, The black towers suddenly appeared over the world overnight. They appeared together, without the first tower and without the last tower. So which is the initial tower of all things?

Tang Mo pondered, "It cannot be that The black tower is the first to descend. There is no order to the descent of The black tower."

The crowd pondered for a moment, and soon Tang Mo, Chen Shanshan and Mu Huixue turned their heads towards Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo looked at the words on the blackboard, his voice calm: " There are two The black towers in Beijing, one above the Forbidden City and one in Changping. It was near the The black tower in Changping that I was told to prepare for the forced attack, the tower where everything began, the The black tower. Of course, later I entered the tower attack game near the Forbidden City. So I'm not sure which one it was."

The first meaning to emerge is that of the beginning of all things.

But the first of all, the one who started the tower attack game, was also the first to be informed by The black tower three times around the world, singing a special thank you.

China's number one player Fu Wenduo , the world's most powerful stowaway.

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On 23 November 2017, he became the first player in the world to tackle the tower by himself, dragging all the Chinese players down with him. On the same day, he became the first player in the world to clear the first level of The black tower by himself.

This is the beginning of all things.

Tang Mo muses, "Let's go to Changping District first and then go to the Forbidden City."

The crowd was in no hurry to find the first tower. They needed to get more information and could not act recklessly.

Chen Shanshan analyzed: "The initial of all things refers to the first pass The black tower a floor of that tower, very coincidentally, that tower is very close to us, just go and take a look at it to know if it is, it is easy to verify. That parallel intersection ..." before the words were finished, the young girl suddenly realized something and turned her head, looking at Mu Huixue.

The young woman with the high ponytail smiled faintly and said helplessly, " China Zone 3, Guangzhou ."

On March 27th, 2018, Mu Huixue, the first place finisher in the Time Rankings and a returnee from China 3, successfully cleared the fourth floor of The black tower, opening up The black tower version 4.0. At that moment, the two worlds met because she was able to return to Earth.

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If it all started with Fu Wenduo's attack on the tower, the fusion of the two worlds is Mu Huixue's attack on the tower.

This is parallel intersection.

Tang Mo: "No surprise, of the five The black towers, these two should be confirmed. If there is a mistake, we can always verify and correct it. Unfortunately, one of the three clues was given to Li Xia, and we don't know what she got. But there is one more clue." Tang Mo looked up at Mu Huixue and Andrei: "What clue did you get that also hinted at the location of The black tower?"

Andrei's eyes flickered as the big, rough, strong Russian man gave Mu Huixue a silent look and turned to leave the classroom without saying a word. He leaves so suddenly that Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo frown, sensing that something is wrong. When they looked at Mu Huixue again, they saw the cheerful woman with a helpless smile, "This is a bit complicated, I'm not at liberty to say, but I assure you it has nothing to do with the location of The black tower."

Fu Wenduo was silent and said, "No hint of where The black tower is located like our clues?"

Mu Huixue : "No."

Her tone was sure, her gaze calm.

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Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo stared at her in silence for a moment before Fu Wenduo turned his eyes away: "Okay. Let's go and see The black tower in Changping District."

Although they had only just met Mu Huixue, both Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo chose to trust her.

This powerful returnee has a special power of sorts, and after spending time with her you realise that she may not be a good person in the purest sense of the word, but she is certainly a good teammate, a trustworthy one. This is evident in the game of Noah's Ark.

With no time to lose, the group packed up and headed to Beijing Changping District to check out the area around The black tower.

Tang Mo says: "If there's still time, maybe we'll have to go to Guangzhou again. We already know that the second The black tower is in Guangzhou." He looked at Mu Huixue, who then said, "It's next to the centre of Guangzhou. Let's try to get to the black tower in Changping as early as possible. I don't know much about the average level of players in Guangzhou, I wasn't there for long, but when I was there, some of the most powerful player groups in Guangzhou had people secretly following me. I've fought them, and I'm not bad, but I'm at most on the fourth level of The black tower. I mean, now it's four or five at most."

The black tower's four or five levels are the absolute best among players worldwide. But this is The black tower seven levels of tower attack.

Not even Tang Mo can say he is sure of success, and the others are even less sure.

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Ruan Wangshu looked at the time: "To ensure the success of the tower attack, Fu Wenduo , Tang Mo , Mu Huixue , and ..." He was going to say Andrei but found that Andrei had long since walked out of the He was about to say Andrei, but found that Andrei had long since left the classroom and had not returned. After a pause in his voice, Ruan Wangshu continued, "You guys go to Changping District and have a look around, while I'll go to Guangzhou first with Chosen and I'll practice with Yu Zheng and Li Miaomiao. We'll both attack the tower together."

Tang Mo nodded and said, "You can go by way of Shanghai. The Shanghai Atak group is a friend of mine and Fu Wenduo's, and they have a few good players among them. You could work together and go to Guangzhou and see if you can raid The black tower."

Ruan Wangshu nodded in agreement.

The two sides discussed the matter and decided to split up.

Mu Huixue looked back: " Andrei, that guy finally left?"

Russian player Andrei has been stalking Mu Huixue since half a month ago and has been trying to kill her every now and then. But after working together on a few games of The black tower, Andrei stopped talking about killing Mu Huixue. Especially when he overheard from Tang Mo that Mu Huixue didn't become number one on the time chart because she had killed so many people, but because she had killed the previous number one and revived a man. He then said even less about it.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo wanted to raid the seventh floor of The black tower because they didn't want to sit around and wait for death.

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"The Tower of the Beginning, the Tower of Parallel Convergence"

Tang Mo took the chalk and wrote these twelve words on the blackboard in the classroom.

This is the line written on the back of the red ticket of Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had not yet left Noah's Ark and were still in The black tower game. Without the sudden arrival of The black tower's seven-level scavenger hunt, the clue seemed strange and completely baffling. So Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were surprised to see it.

"Now it seems that this clue actually hints at the location of the hidden treasure, The black tower."

Lian Yuzheng : "What is the Tower of the Beginning of All Things?"

The beginning of all things, the origin of all things.

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A year ago, The black towers suddenly appeared over the world overnight. They appeared together, without the first tower and without the last tower. So which is the initial tower of all things?

Tang Mo pondered, "It cannot be that The black tower is the first to descend. There is no order to the descent of The black tower."

The crowd pondered for a moment, and soon Tang Mo, Chen Shanshan and Mu Huixue turned their heads towards Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo looked at the words on the blackboard, his voice calm: " There are two The black towers in Beijing, one above the Forbidden City and one in Changping. It was near the The black tower in Changping that I was told to prepare for the forced attack, the tower where everything began, the The black tower. Of course, later I entered the tower attack game near the Forbidden City. So I'm not sure which one it was."

The first meaning to emerge is that of the beginning of all things.

But the first of all, the one who started the tower attack game, was also the first to be informed by The black tower three times around the world, singing a special thank you.

China's number one player Fu Wenduo , the world's most powerful stowaway.

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On 23 November 2017, he became the first player in the world to tackle the tower by himself, dragging all the Chinese players down with him. On the same day, he became the first player in the world to clear the first level of The black tower by himself.

This is the beginning of all things.

Tang Mo muses, "Let's go to Changping District first and then go to the Forbidden City."

The crowd was in no hurry to find the first tower. They needed to get more information and could not act recklessly.

Chen Shanshan analyzed: "The initial of all things refers to the first pass The black tower a floor of that tower, very coincidentally, that tower is very close to us, just go and take a look at it to know if it is, it is easy to verify. That parallel intersection ..." before the words were finished, the young girl suddenly realized something and turned her head, looking at Mu Huixue.

The young woman with the high ponytail smiled faintly and said helplessly, " China Zone 3, Guangzhou ."

On March 27th, 2018, Mu Huixue, the first place finisher in the Time Rankings and a returnee from China 3, successfully cleared the fourth floor of The black tower, opening up The black tower version 4.0. At that moment, the two worlds met because she was able to return to Earth.

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If it all started with Fu Wenduo's attack on the tower, the fusion of the two worlds is Mu Huixue's attack on the tower.

This is parallel intersection.

Tang Mo: "No surprise, of the five The black towers, these two should be confirmed. If there is a mistake, we can always verify and correct it. Unfortunately, one of the three clues was given to Li Xia, and we don't know what she got. But there is one more clue." Tang Mo looked up at Mu Huixue and Andrei: "What clue did you get that also hinted at the location of The black tower?"

Andrei's eyes flickered as the big, rough, strong Russian man gave Mu Huixue a silent look and turned to leave the classroom without saying a word. He leaves so suddenly that Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo frown, sensing that something is wrong. When they looked at Mu Huixue again, they saw the cheerful woman with a helpless smile, "This is a bit complicated, I'm not at liberty to say, but I assure you it has nothing to do with the location of The black tower."

Fu Wenduo was silent and said, "No hint of where The black tower is located like our clues?"

Mu Huixue : "No."

Her tone was sure, her gaze calm.

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Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo stared at her in silence for a moment before Fu Wenduo turned his eyes away: "Okay. Let's go and see The black tower in Changping District."

Although they had only just met Mu Huixue, both Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo chose to trust her.

This powerful returnee has a special power of sorts, and after spending time with her you realise that she may not be a good person in the purest sense of the word, but she is certainly a good teammate, a trustworthy one. This is evident in the game of Noah's Ark.

With no time to lose, the group packed up and headed to Beijing Changping District to check out the area around The black tower.

Tang Mo says: "If there's still time, maybe we'll have to go to Guangzhou again. We already know that the second The black tower is in Guangzhou." He looked at Mu Huixue, who then said, "It's next to the centre of Guangzhou. Let's try to get to the black tower in Changping as early as possible. I don't know much about the average level of players in Guangzhou, I wasn't there for long, but when I was there, some of the most powerful player groups in Guangzhou had people secretly following me. I've fought them, and I'm not bad, but I'm at most on the fourth level of The black tower. I mean, now it's four or five at most."

The black tower's four or five levels are the absolute best among players worldwide. But this is The black tower seven levels of tower attack.

Not even Tang Mo can say he is sure of success, and the others are even less sure.

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Ruan Wangshu looked at the time: "To ensure the success of the tower attack, Fu Wenduo , Tang Mo , Mu Huixue , and ..." He was going to say Andrei but found that Andrei had long since walked out of the He was about to say Andrei, but found that Andrei had long since left the classroom and had not returned. After a pause in his voice, Ruan Wangshu continued, "You guys go to Changping District and have a look around, while I'll go to Guangzhou first with Chosen and I'll practice with Yu Zheng and Li Miaomiao. We'll both attack the tower together."

Tang Mo nodded and said, "You can go by way of Shanghai. The Shanghai Atak group is a friend of mine and Fu Wenduo's, and they have a few good players among them. You could work together and go to Guangzhou and see if you can raid The black tower."

Ruan Wangshu nodded in agreement.

The two sides discussed the matter and decided to split up.

Mu Huixue looked back: " Andrei, that guy finally left?"

Russian player Andrei has been stalking Mu Huixue since half a month ago and has been trying to kill her every now and then. But after working together on a few games of The black tower, Andrei stopped talking about killing Mu Huixue. Especially when he overheard from Tang Mo that Mu Huixue didn't become number one on the time chart because she had killed so many people, but because she had killed the previous number one and revived a man. He then said even less about it.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo wanted to raid the seventh floor of The black tower because they didn't want to sit around and wait for death.

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China , Shanghai , Nanjing Road.

The sound of heavy chains dragging along the long walkway creaked as if a giant was dragging something hard along the ground. As the iron cobbler passed a speciality shop with two players in iron chains, he turned his head with a brush and looked inside.

Inside, there is silence, no movement.

The cobbler looked suspiciously for a moment, before continuing to drag the two players in the direction of The black tower.

Behind him, in the souvenir shop, the chubby Zhao Ziang and Jackass, their backs pressed against the wall, sighed in relief when they heard the sound of the lock disappear.

Zhao Ziang said with a sense of relief, "Doctor, isn't that the Iron Shoemaker in the real-life replica we heard about, the Iron Shoemaker replica? I remember that Brother Tang and Mr. Fu School also entered the game and passed it. How did he appear? Is he the keeper of The black tower in Shanghai?"

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Luo Fengcheng said, "It looks like that's the case. We don't have any clues about The black tower, but fortunately Tang Mo and Mr. Fu have some clues on their side. Thinking for a moment, Luo Fengcheng said, "Jackass, you stay here and watch the Iron Shoemaker's movements. Little Fatty, you go to the base and get Tang Qiao. The four of us will raid the black tower together."

Having experienced so many The black tower games, and even being the first player in China to receive Eve's reward, Jackass knows a lot about the The black tower world. He said, "Doctor, the Iron Shoemaker is very strong, not quite at the level of Granny Wolf or Father Christmas, but we may have to work hard to deal with him. We don't have a clue about the seventh floor, are you sure that this tower in Shanghai is one of the hidden treasures of The black tower?"

Luo Fengcheng looked up at him, "Not sure."

Jackass stared, "Doctor?"

He is used to trusting Luo Fengcheng, so even if he says "no", he believes he must have his own reasons.

Zhao Ziang pondered for a while and surprisingly figured out a little bit of the truth: "Doctor, do you think that the five treasure towers that The black tower has chosen must be special? The black tower could not have chosen five towers for the player to raid. These five towers must be important to the players and even to The black tower. Eh, what is the special significance of our Shanghai tower?"

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Luo Fengcheng smiled, "There's one thing Tang Mo didn't say, but later on, through some means, I got this information: on December 7, 2017, China Zone 2 player Tang Mo successfully cleared The black tower level 1 hard mode. It's the first hard mode in the world, wouldn't you say, that's a bit special?"

Jackass and Zhao Ziang nodded their heads in unison.

Luo Fengcheng looks out of the window and in the distance, the back of the iron cobbler grows smaller and smaller.

"... Even if there is only a slight chance, we can't just let this The black tower go."

Meanwhile, China, Guangzhou.

When The black tower was announced as 'back on Earth', players in Guangzhou, like players from all over the world, were eager to get to The black tower, which is located in the centre of Guangzhou, above the small barbaric waist, as quickly as possible. When the pony-tailed girl with a giant match appeared at the top of the tower, the crowd didn't even react when she laughed and said "so much fuel to burn", then she flicked the match and the fire instantly burned the entire Guangzhou centre.

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The flames were bizarre, spreading extremely fast and impossible to extinguish.

The players fled, but many were too late to escape before they were surrounded by this flame, and some weaker players had their bodies set alight by the flames. They were unable to extinguish the flames and could only hack away at the parts ignited by the flames to prevent them from spreading.

Amongst the trapped players are the leaders and members of several high-ranking organisations in Guangzhou. When The black tower announced the rules of the seventh floor, they were already looking for a chance to raid Guangzhou's The black tower, not letting go of any The black tower that might become a treasure The black tower. Now it seems that this little girl is the guardian of The black tower in Guangzhou.

Several chiefs looked at each other and said in unison, "Go!"

In a flash, dozens of black figures whooshed through the air and rushed towards the little girl who was setting fires everywhere. A player muttered in a whisper, "Underground people who go around setting fires with big matches, I think I've heard of them somewhere." Before he could remember, several players had already subdued the little girl without incident.

This little girl is incredibly weak, at best The black tower tier 2 level, not even close to Guangzhou's elite players.

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The crowd grabbed the large matches she had set on fire and was about to tie her up when the little girl, with a thick layer of Mosaic on her face, suddenly ran off like a fish, slipping and sliding.

Probably never having been so aggrieved, the little girl with the twin ponytails cried out and ran further and further into the burning Guangzhou Centre.

Players want to chase it again, or give up.

One player frowned and said, "Where on earth have I heard of a girl who goes around setting fires with a big match and has a layer of Mosaic on her face. I've really heard of it ..."

The next moment, a gruff female voice answered his question directly: "Who is it! Who beat my daughter! A dog must be beaten by its master, don't you damned, filthy humans understand that!"

Mosaic was hiding behind her mother, making faces at the Guangzhou players. Suddenly she stiffens at these words, her Mosaic-covered face unreadable, but you can tell she's depressed: "Mum, I'm not a dog ..."

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Mum grunted, "A little girl who doesn't like to study, you might as well have had a dog! Even barbecued pork is better than you!"

Mosaic : "..."

Mama bully!!!

With the sight of this fierce and violent werewolf girl, players will finally remember who this Mosaic-wearing girl really is. This werewolf is the most common The black tower boss on the third and fourth floors of The black tower and is extremely powerful, but she is strong in terms of force.

But this female werewolf is really extremely high on the force scale.

Guangzhou The leader of a certain player group had been beaten to near death by his opponent, and it still hurts a little to think that he was almost cut in half. But now, they are not the same people they were back then, and are not at all intimidated by facing a female werewolf.

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The battle raged on, and it is not clear who started it, as dozens of Guangzhou players battled with the mother wolf. The werewolf woman was so ruthless that each claw cut the player's body almost in half. But her two fists were no match for her four hands, and soon her right arm was cut down to just a layer of skin stuck to it.

Mosaic saw the situation and turned and ran.

Dang, dang, dang, the game is on!"

As the upbeat, nervous music plays, Wang Xiaotian pulls a microphone out of her sleeve and smiles sweetly. With a microphone in one hand and a selfie stick in the other, no one could have imagined that The black tower BOSS would start her show live with such a fashionable selfie.

"Let me introduce to you all. We've just had some very famous guests on the show, and I'm sure you've all heard of them. Let me introduce them to you."

Wang Xiaotian, who has been standing in the yellow box with her name on it, turns around and turns the camera towards Fu Wenduo and the others.

While the other players were playing, Wang Xiaotian couldn't get up at all, sitting at the table eating snacks, chatting with Grea and drinking tea, ignoring the players. Now that Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo have arrived, she's up and about, happily broadcasting the show as if she's seen the ratings skyrocket.

Fu Wenduo, Tang Mo, Mu Huixue, Andrei.

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Of the six new players, all four are well-known in the Underlander Kingdom, except for the two children. As Wang Xiaotian spoke, she watched the ratings figures on the live stream. She smiled happily and said, "Wow, everyone seems to have welcomed our new guests. So without further ado, let's get to the game. Now, please grab your remote controls and take your votes. If you want me to ask Fu Wenduo first, please press 1; for Mu Huixue, please press 2 ... for Tang Mo, please press 4. Voting begins!"

Not taking the players seriously at all, Wang Xiaotian waited ten seconds to see the results of the game and was surprised when she said, "Oh, I can't believe she was asked first."

At these words, Cinderella turned to Mu Huixue and smiled, "So, let the game begin. The first player on the time chart, Mu Huixue, please listen to the question!"

"First question, wow, it's a fill-in-the-blank question with no options. What is the name of the first player in the world to clear the fifth floor of The black tower, and please answer in five seconds!"

Mu Huixue blurts out, " Lena Chopehos ."

Mu Huixue remembered the name of the woman who had killed her own hand in a tower attack game on the sixth floor of The black tower only a day earlier. The question is so simple that Wang Xiaotian seems to be using it as an appetiser. She smiles and says "correct answer" before asking Tang Mo, who came second in the voting.

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Cinderella stroked her chin in wonder, "You guys actually like this looking human? Oh oh, so it's because he's so tender and tasty looking. Hey, don't talk about the Wilderness show on my show, or you won't be allowed to watch it, yuck!"

After a bit of a ramble, Wang Xiaotian looks over at Tang Mo and smiles sweetly: "Your turn then. Please listen to the question!"

"First question, what bad luck, it's a calculation question eh. If a returnee has a hundred minutes of rest himself, and he kills three returnees with no rest, a returnee with two hundred and ten minutes of rest and a returnee with one thousand three hundred ... etc., can a guy with one hundred minutes kill a thousand three hundred minutes?" Spitting to himself, Wang Xiaotian continued, "He killed another regressor with thirteen hundred minutes. Excuse me! How much rest time does he have at the end? Please answer in ten seconds!"

A second later, Tang Mo said faintly, "Nine hundred and five minutes."

"The answer is correct."

It was as if the game was not being played, but rather a live show.

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Wang Xiaotian concentrates on interacting with the audience and asking questions of the players. In this game, the players answer the questions in turn. So after each of the six Tang Mo players had answered their first question, Wang Xiaotian came to a player who had already entered the show. She flips through her booklet.

When Tang Mo looked at the booklet earlier, he only saw some names written on it, not any titles at all. But now Wang Xiaotian opened the booklet and read out a list of titles.

She looked at the player's name and suddenly said in surprise, "Not bad, oh, you actually answered the fifth question. Congratulations, you've finally passed the halfway mark. You're the first player to pass the halfway mark, and I, Wang Xiaotian, am particularly generous. For you, the question you answered in this game is a multiple choice question, right? Please listen to the question!"

"Question five, who is the richest person in the Kingdom of the Underlanders?"

"A. The iron cobbler B. The circus master C. Father Christmas D. Peter Pan ."

"Please answer in five seconds!"

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The player was standing in the middle of a blossoming flower of blood, already pale with fear and trembling. Wang Xiaotian suddenly asked a question, and he could only barely hear the question and options clearly enough to think before Wang Xiaotian impatiently urged, "Answer quickly, there are three seconds left. 3, 2, 1 ..."

"The player subconsciously cried out as his eyes happened to catch sight of the circus leader sitting behind Wang Xiaotian.

Grea was lifting his cup of tea and drinking black tea when he suddenly heard this and he smiled slightly.

Wang Xiaotian smiled and said, "Not bad, you still have the presence of mind to listen to the questions, don't die of fright."

The player sighed with relief at these words and looked at Wang Xiaotian with hopeful eyes. The beautiful Cinderella flashed him a sweet smile and said in a beautiful voice: "Congratulations, wrong answer, go to hell."

The next moment, the player's eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at Wang Xiaotian. He didn't even have time to say a word as the huge exclamation mark hovering above him came crashing down with a loud bang, smashing him directly into mush.

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Grea said aggressively, "I must state that I am really, really, really broke. Don't accuse me wrongly, I don't have a penny."

Wang Xiaotian : "So you can't get a refund for the ticket either."

Grea winked, "The money is not going to be refunded, not a penny."

After a short chat between the two The black tower bosses, Wang Xiaotian moves on to the next player.

Many of these players have already answered the fifth question, and some have answered the fourth. If the first question answered by Tang Mo was something that could be reasoned or calculated, the fourth and fifth questions were beyond the realm of human analysis. Answering such questions depends on luck, and it is not always possible to get them right.

Tang Mo : "It looks like the questions will get harder as we go on, the beginning is just a warm up."

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Chen Shanshan : "So what you really need to pay attention to in this game is asking Wang Xiaotian what questions to ask."

At that moment, Wang Xiaotian questioned all the players, and three more were smashed to pieces. Under the black tower, only the six Tang Mo men and a drained, thin young man remained.

Wang Xiaotian: "Okay, now it's your turn to ask me. Who will ask me? Let me say in advance that I will only answer one question. Feel free to ask questions."

The young man was so pale with fear that he did not speak at all.

The crowd looked to Chen Shanshan and the young girl calmly stepped forward and said, "I ask the question."

Wang Xiaotian : "Oh? It's a very strange little girl. Go ahead, what question do you want to ask me."

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At the level of Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, they have been through too many The black tower games to waste their questions asking how to pass the game, even if The black tower didn't explicitly say so. Obviously, The black tower will not allow the bosses to answer such questions. Likewise, if you ask direct questions like "what is The black tower" or "how do I get to the seventh level", you are unlikely to get an answer.

Chen Shanshan thought for a long time, then looked up and asked, "I would like to ask what exactly is the grand unification formula proposed by Einstein."

At the sound of the words, there was a sudden dead silence under The black tower.

Even Tang Mo didn't expect Chen Shanshan to ask such a question, but then it dawned on him.

There are two reasons for asking this question. The first is that it is an extremely difficult question, and the physics community is in doubt as to whether the formula exists, let alone what it is. If Wang Xiaotian couldn't answer it, then they would just pass the game. Secondly, if Wang Xiaotian could answer it, the whole thing would be a bit scary.

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Although not all information on the remaining four towers was available, Guangzhou, New Delhi and Berlin were unexpectedly revealed. It was a pleasant surprise that the locations of these three towers were revealed.

Andrei whispered in Russian: "The furthest away is Berlin. I'm leaving for Berlin as soon as I leave this game."

Mu Huixue : "Is it too late?"

Andrei: "We have to go even if it's too late. The two most powerful players in Europe, Lena Chopehos and Donde-Sevco, are all dead, and if no one takes the Berlin tower, it won't matter if we take the others."

Mu Huixue thought for a moment, "I'm with you."

Andrei froze, and after a long moment, he looked at Mu Huixue: "I thought you had something to do."

Mu Huixue : "... Maybe I can go too."

The two men did not speak again.

On the other hand, Wang Xiaotian may feel that she has been tricked by Chen Shanshan, and the young girl's second question makes her feel that she is at a great disadvantage. The black tower has five hidden treasures, and the first challenge for the players is not to raid the black tower, but to find the five The black towers.

Now, as soon as she opens her mouth, she reveals the location of the four The black towers.

Beijing Changping , Guangzhou , New Delhi and Berlin.

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"It's a good thing no one knows where the last tower is, otherwise it would be really annoying, humans are so annoying." Wang Xiaotian mumbles glumly to herself. When the camera caught up with her, she instantly turned into a happy woman again. She waved happily at the audience and said, "So, here's the third question. As regular viewers of Happy Quiz know, the third question is the last easy one. Hey, I wonder how these six guests will answer it?"

With that, Cinderella's eyes swept over to the six men.

She licked her lips, gritted her teeth and stared at Chen Shanshan, finally grunting and averting her eyes. Her face was smiling, but she was secretly determined to get rid of these human bastards.

Wang Xiaotian flipped through the booklet quickly, as if trying to find a puzzle to puzzle Tang Mo's men.

The questions she asks are one more difficult than the other, but not completely insurmountable. It was as if she was bound by something that prevented her from asking questions that were impossible for the players to answer. Wang Xiaotian was in a bad mood when she didn't get the player. When she saw the third question, and it was Chen Shanshan who came up to her, her mouth twitched and she suddenly regretted coming here to help Grea guard the tower.

But then she seemed to think of something and bristled with disdain.

"Ask away, little one, feel free to ask whatever you want."

Chen Shanshan looked at her steadily and after a long moment she asked, "Third question, please, how do you defeat the circus master, Glea Sykes?"

Wang Xiaotian froze, then she turned to Grea.

Like her, Grea froze for a moment when he heard the question. He slowly turned his gaze to look at Chen Shanshan with a soft, sticky gaze, and after a long moment he laughed, "Did Tang Mo or Fu Wenduo tell you to ask that question, my lovely little lady, hmm?"

Chen Shanshan's face did not change, as if he did not notice the murderous aura that was so strong that it almost became a substance. "I asked for it myself."

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Fu Wenduo stares at Chen Shanshan with rapt attention, as if trying to find traces of her lies in the child. But in vain he returns. Grea smiles, tapping his fingers on the small round table and propping his chin up with one hand as he watches Wang Xiaotian and Chen Shanshan with great interest.

Wang Xiaotian spreads his hands helplessly: " Sir Grea, that's not what I wanted to say, she asked the question." The implication is that I'm not to blame, it's these damn humans who are counting on you.

Wang Xiaotian replied: "It's very easy to beat Glea Sykes, you just have to be better than him. But in The black tower world, there are only no more than three people stronger than him, so it's very difficult to really beat him. But if it's the four of you - Fu Wenduo, Mu Huixue, Andrei and Tang Mo - you have a 70% chance of defeating him with the props you have. Just watch out for his walking stick, it's a very magical and rare item. No one in the world of The black tower knows what it can do, because no one can make him use it to its true effect."

Grea laughed, "Should I thank you for at least not spilling the beans on what my crutches actually do?"

No sooner had this been said than another round of questions ended and Chen Shanshan stepped forward again. She looked at Wang Xiaotian and said, word for word, "Fourth question, what exactly is the effect of circus leader Glea Sykes' walking stick."

Wang Xiaotian : "..."

Grea : "..."

Wang Xiaotian replied through gritted teeth: "When his cane touches an enemy, Grea himself can instantly move to any position of that enemy with the enemy as the centre of the circle and the cane as the radius. The prerequisite is that the cane always touches the enemy and that he keeps it in his hand."

Chen Shanshan nodded, "Thank you."

Wang Xiaotian : "..."

I thank Nima!!!

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Wang Xiaotian suddenly felt that in all the episodes of Happy Quiz he had recorded, he had never been so frustrated. It was Grea who was at a disadvantage, as his cards were known to Tang Mo. With the strength of the four Tang Mo players, his chances of winning against him were low. Now that Fangzhi has been told what his weapon does, his chances of stopping Tang Mo from raiding The black tower are even slimmer.

Grea shakes his head helplessly as he gracefully lifts his cup of tea and takes a gentle sip of black tea.

On the other hand, Wang Xiaotian was furious.

She struggled through her booklet to find the hardest questions that The black tower would allow. But even if she did ask a question, one of the six players would always be able to give her the answer.

This time, Wang Xiaotian asked Fu Wensheng a very difficult question, and it looked like Fu Xiaodi was about to fail to answer it. At this point, Tang Mo said softly, "Choose C."

Fu Wensheng, without hesitation: "I choose C!"

Wang Xiaotian : "..."

"Wait, that's a question I asked him, who are you to answer it!"

Tang Mo curled his lips and looked at Fu Wenduo: "I remember the rules of the game given by The black tower, did it say that bystanders cannot speak?"

Fu Wenduo gave a low chuckle at the dark-haired young man's sly look, "Well, no."

Wang Xiaotian : "... damn damn damn damn, starting today, I'm adding a rule to my show! No off-court help!"

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However, the players managed to get through the fifth question without any problems. It was Wang Xiaotian's turn to be asked.

Cinderella suddenly calmed down when she saw Chen Shanshan come forward again. She touched her microphone and smiled, "What would you like to ask?"

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The long red whip, like a soft snake, wraps lightly around the thin staff.

Grea raised an eyebrow in surprise. He was using the special effect of his short staff at the moment, constantly shifting his position. While he was teleporting, his walking stick was actually shifting 360°. Mu Huixue's ability to bind a moving walking stick is a testament to her strength.

Mu Huixue shouted, "I've tied him up!"

Tying up the short staff is the same as tying up the circus master.

Mu Huixue stomped to the ground, his hands gripping the whip with a firm grip as he fought against Grea. On the other side, Andrei roared and slammed down on Grea with his fists in both hands.

Grea was unable to move instantly because his cane was tied by a long whip. But this did not limit his strength and he was helpless, holding his staff in one hand and his bowler hat in the other as he dodged from side to side through Andrei's punches with agility. Andrei's fists were so fast that they exceeded Tang Mo's dynamic vision, and in the same way Grea's dodging speed created an illusion that even he could not see.

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Mu Huixue is holding on and Andrei is attacking strongly from the front.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo looked at each other, and they attacked directly from the left and right.

As the four of them work together, Grea's eyes narrow and she suddenly releases her grip on the staff. Mu Huixue took the thin staff and threw it directly at Tang Mo, trying to get him to use it. But Tang Mo said the incantation to use the staff, just as Grea had done, but saw no effect.

Grea smiled and said, "My lady, there is only one circus master in the world."

The staff is unusable, but an extremely powerful and rare item. Not a wholesale mass-produced parasol, Tang Mo simply tosses it aside and uses the staff as a weapon to attack Grea.

Fu Wenduo and Andrei were the main attackers, while Tang Mo and Mu Huixue kept sneaking in with light moves.

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Soon all four men had wounds on their bodies. Grea side-steps Fu Wenduo's attack and on the other side Andrei's fist comes at him. He dodged the blow deftly and was met by the weapons of Tang Mo and Mu Huixue.

If this continues, the result will be obvious.

Unlike the strong, purely violent The black tower monsters such as Granny Wolf and Father Christmas, the Circus Master and the Queen of Hearts are both athletic The black tower bosses that are not necessarily stronger than the former two, but are able to stall for time in a group battle and keep their enemies from hitting them.

Fu Wenduo cornered Grea and Tang Mo immediately crossed his arms and shouted, "Give back my grandfather!"

The blazing flames instantly pounced on Grea and engulfed her.

In the midst of the fire, a black figure lumbered to the ground with one foot and leapt into the air. Mu Huixue swung her whip to bind Grea's legs, and as it wrapped around her ankles, she saw the red-haired gentleman lower his head and flash her an elegant smile.

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Mu Huixue thought badly and immediately let go of his grip on the whip. Unfortunately, he was too late. Grea grabbed the whip with one hand and the lightning traveled down his palm to Mu Huixue's body. Mu Huixue was knocked backwards by the violent lightning strike and fell to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Tang Mo and the others look up at Grea.

The circus master took Mu Huixue's whip and landed it firmly on the ground. He laughed, "You took my weapon, so of course I had to get one back. This one seems good?"

Mu Huixue's whip was also a rare prop, and it finally dawned on the crowd that the circus master had the special ability to manipulate lightning.

With each swing of his whip, the ground splits into a deep crack and lightning scorches the earth with a black trail.

The four kept dodging his whip, when they realised that it was perhaps a better use for Grea than a short staff. The staff was too short and, unlike the whip, had a wide range of attack and now none of them could get close to Grea.

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Fu Wenduo's eyes narrowed as he turned his head and said, "Together, I will cleave a path."

"Yes!"

All three men chose to trust Fu Wenduo.

When he found an opportunity, Fu Wenduo flung his hands together and a black, three-pronged sharpened weapon appeared on both his arms. Grea sees him and throws a long whip straight at him. Fu Wenduo swung his arms and the black metal sharpshooter collided with the red whip with a fierce metallic clash.

Fu Wenduo's whip was so thick that it cleared a path, and Tang Mo rushed forward.

Grea's mouth curled slightly as he saw what was happening. His next strike tied Fu Wenduo's left arm, and Fu Wenduo frowned as he dodged away. A violent bolt of lightning struck Fu Wenduo's left arm with a long whip, severing the black weapon in its tracks.

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Fu Wenduo let out a stifled grunt and jumped backwards three steps, bracing himself on the ground with one hand to stabilise himself.

His left arm was severed and blood ran down the ground. But on the other side, the Tang Mo trio were already in front of Grea. Grea had no choice but to retreat, almost certain defeat. At this point, he let out a low laugh: "One of you has to die, or The black tower will think I'm letting you off the hook."

With that, he flipped his hand and took out a small, seven-coloured ball.

The ball was a smaller version of the kind often used in circuses, a balancing ball, and when it appeared in the air, everyone's hearts fluttered and a sense of foreboding gripped their bodies. Tang Mo shouted, "Back!" But there was no time.

The head of the Strange Circus is a man with a very small heart. His heart was divided into three pieces, two for Tang Mo and one for Fu Wenduo.

Of the four, Tang Mo is the one with whom Grea has the deepest grudge.

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He turned his head towards Tang Mo and crushed the seven-coloured ball, a dazzling coloured light slipping out of his hand. It turned into a rope and wrapped itself around Tang Mo with incredible speed and grabbed him in front of Grea. Grea grabbed Tang Mo's neck with one hand and took the staff from his hand with the other.

Tang Mo's eyes twinkled as he planned to use his powers to escape as "a very fast man". But Grea squeezed his hand and leaned down and whispered in his ear, "My lady, Cinderella only said you could beat me, not what it would c

ost you to beat me. Only one death means you are strong. Don't waste your props ..." After a pause, he smiled a deep smile, "Or powers."

Tang Mo's eyes fluttered, and Grea had no hesitation in tightening his grip on his neck. In just one moment, Tang Mo's neck would be crushed alive. There was no time to save him, Fu Wenduo rushed straight to his aid. But at that moment, Mu Huixue took out a small compass with his hand and held it in his palm while his other hand swiftly fluctuated the pointer.

"Fallacy, there is no such thing as an insoluble rope, I refute!"

In a flash, as if the sound of glass shattering, the colourful rope holding Tang Mo in place shattered all over the floor.

Grea gave a rare look of surprise when Tang Mo took out a large match and, with a cry of anger, set his right hand alight. Grea knew the match, of course, and while Mosaic was not very powerful, her props were interesting. He cut his right hand away without blinking, and as Tang Mo fled, he looked up at Mu Huixue, amazed, "How did the human get it?"

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Tang Mo wiped the blood from her lips and turned her head towards Mu Huixue.

This is the same question he wanted to ask.

The Fallacy Compass, a rare prop in the same class as the Truth Clock.

There are also highs and lows between rare props.

The king's gold coin is no match for Grea's staff, and Grea's staff is no match for Santa's giant lollipop. And above that is the clock of truth and the compass of falsehood.

When Tang Mo first tried to take the fake clock from Schrödinger's Iron Fortress, he was ridiculed by Schrödinger as a fool's errand. But now Mu Huixue is in possession of a fallacious compass, the genuine article.

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Mu Huixue puts away the fallacious compass: "There is no prop in the world that cannot be possessed, and I contradict you on this point."

Grea looked at her steadily for a long time, and then he laughed helplessly.

The circus master stepped aside and picked up the bowler hat he had dropped on the floor while dodging Tang Mo's large match. He put the hat back on and smiled gently, "I concede defeat and congratulate you on passing The black tower, which I guard. The black tower did not tell me that you also possessed a fallacious compass." He looked to Mu Huixue, as if observing something, and then said, "My lady, you have long been one with it. With it, no creature in the world can kill you. It's a dangerous thing to have a prop of this level, you've broken the fairness of the game, and The black tower will hold a grudge against you, and something bad will happen."

At that, Mu Huixue's body lurched, and then she said calmly, "Then I will wait slowly for The black tower's revenge."

Grea spreads her hands.

Despite the words of defeat, all four players did not let their guard down.

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With his crutches on his good hand, Grea turns towards The black tower. Halfway to the tower, he stops and looks up at the sun slowly setting in the sky. There is no sunset in the world of The black tower, only a red-bronze body of light. He stared at it for a moment, as if he would never see such a beautiful sight again.

Grea gave a low chuckle as he lowered his head, pressed his bowler hat down and continued his walk towards The black tower.

"Welcome to the Cirque du Freak and a successful conclusion to tonight's show."

The figure of the circus master faded below The black tower, and it was only when he had disappeared that Tang Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

At the moment Grea disappeared, the black tower above the crowd burst into a seven-coloured light. A cheerful nursery rhyme plays and players all over the world stop moving and listen in amazement to the song.

As the song ends, The black tower's crisp, childlike voices make a global announcement...

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"At 17:14 on June 19, 2018, official players Fu Wenduo, Tang Mo, Mu Huixue, Andrey Petrov, Fu Wensheng and Chen Shanshan from China 58 have successfully cleared the first The black tower. "

"Ding Dong! June 2018 ..."

Three times in a row, The black tower concludes: "Six days to go, four The black tower's left in total, please work hard to attack the tower!"

Tang Mo looked up at The black tower and breathed a sigh of relief.

The black tower said that there were five The black tower on the seventh floor and now only four remain.

Grea disappears and Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng rush up to heal everyone.

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The most seriously injured of these was Fu Wenduo. His left arm was severed and his body was covered in gruesome wounds as he fought off Grea's whip alone. But thanks to his genetic restructuring powers, he recovered so quickly that it wasn't long before Andrei was the most severely injured.

The crowd left first and found a place to settle down.

Tucked away in an abandoned office building, Tang Mo is about to ask Mu Huixue about the fallacious compass. Suddenly, a dull boom sounded from outside the window. It sounded like tens of thousands of tall buildings collapsing in unison, and the earth let out a wail. The crowd shuddered and quickly ran to the window and looked to the south.

Standing at the height of the 31st floor, Tang Mo's six eyes slowly widened as they looked out over the city not far away.

A skyscraper was seen collapsing across the vast expanse of land, divided by the junction of the two districts.

As if dissolved, human civilization was all but shattered in front of all the players.

Buildings high into the sky, long bridges and high towers, overpasses ...

The old and vicissitudes of historic buildings in the former cross streets of traffic ...

In the city, all memories of humanity disintegrated. The view was magnificent, like the last glory of the end of days, as tens of thousands of humans ran frantically out of the city, bathed in the last rays of the setting sun.

As the city crumbled to its last brick, the huge black tower that hovered directly above the city flashed a white light. In a calm voice it said indifferently, "Dingdong! China Zone 1 disappeared."

With those words, it was as if the pause button had been pressed on everything.

All the players who had not yet left the China 1 area stopped where they were, some of them still in a fleeing stance, some of them only a few metres from the Beijing line. But they stopped.

Fu Wensheng sees a young woman running through the rubble at the border between Changping District and Haidian District, and stops suddenly. Just half a metre in front of her, a white wall of glowing light rises, enveloping her and the entire city of Beijing in this curtain of light.

There was a crisp crumbling sound and over 10,000 players shattered with a bang and disappeared into the earth.

The black tower above the city also emits a soft clang and dissipates into a dazzling white light.

It all happened in just five minutes.

"Ding Dong! 19 June 2018, 2118 The black tower has randomly disappeared."

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