The Invisible Man~
Fu Wenduo checked his surroundings and returned to the abandoned building. At that moment, Tang Mo and Fu Wen Sheng had already packed up their things and were waiting for him to leave together. Fu Wenduo looked at Tang Mo, then looked at his stupid brother and said, "No problem, let's go."
The three men moved to leave the building.
Suddenly, Fu Wenduo turned his head and looked at Tang Mo. Tang Mo immediately withdrew his eyes.
Fu Wenduo raised an eyebrow.
Something seems wrong with ......?
The brilliant sunlight shone on the ground, illuminating the ground with a light golden color. This building was very close to the address of the laboratory given by Luo Feng Cheng. Fu Wenduo's home was known by the Chosen Organization, and Fu Wen Sheng's home was not safe either. Fu Xiaodi's father worked for the government and was well known in Beijing. Even if Chosen could not get Tang Mo's location coordinates, they could still find Fu Wen Sheng's home address from the government's information and ambush him there.
Therefore, the three of them planned to find the research materials from the United States as described by Luo Fengcheng before going to Fu Wen Sheng's house.
The three of them walk quickly through the streets, using the dense street trees to conceal their shapes. Tang Mo took out a few pieces of paper from his backpack and used the shapes and letters on them to identify the direction. This was the map that Luo Fengcheng had left for them before they left. There were two Black Tower Research Institutes in Beijing, one outside the 7th Ring Road and the other in Chaoyang District. Even Luo Fengcheng didn't know their specific addresses, but only knew that they were transformed from state-level top secret institutes. It is very likely that the institute that released the information is the one in Chaoyang District.
"There are seventeen Advanced Science Institutes in Beijing, two in the Chaoyang District." Tang Mo looked at the crude drawing on the paper for a long time and sighed softly, "With luck, we should be able to find the institutes in three days. With bad luck, it could take a long time to find it."
This map drawn by Luo Fengcheng was too abstract.
He roughly marked the location of several key scenic spots in Beijing, and then drew two dozen letters on the map. According to him, these twenty places could be the Institute. Luo Fengcheng had only been to the institute once, in a car. He was asleep at the time and had no memory of how he got into the institute. The reason why he was able to judge the location was based on the time he got off the plane and took the car to the institute, as well as the few places he visited during his stay in Beijing, where he was treated by the officials.
With more than two dozen locations, the farthest of which are tens of kilometers apart, finding them all must have been very time-consuming.
Fu Wenduo pointed to the map, "Find location C first." C was just three kilometers east of their location.
The man suddenly came over and pointed to the map, Tang Mo was stunned and couldn't help but look up at Fu Wenduo, their eyes met in the air. After a moment, Tang Mo calmly said, "Well, we'll go around here."
Among the skyscrapers, three black figures traveled through them at a very fast speed. When they passed by a building, Tang Mo suddenly stopped in his tracks, pressed his body against the wall, and stared vigilantly at the intersection not far away. Only to see two middle-aged men carefully crossing the street.
"Not the Chosen One." Fu Wen whispered.
Only when the two players were gone did the three move again.
Because the map of Luofeng City was drawn in an abstract manner, they used the Temple of Heaven as the center of the circle and drew a circle with a diameter of three kilometers, and searched for all of the suspected locations of the institute within the circle.
Fu Wenduo : "The Black Tower Institute usually disguises itself as an ordinary university experimental research institute to hide its true identity and protect the researchers inside, for example, the Black Tower Institute in Shanghai has been transformed into an ordinary marine biology laboratory. However, this kind of place is usually heavily guarded, and there is a clear separation zone from the surrounding area."
Tang Mo followed Fu Wenduo's lead and gave up ordinary office buildings first.
The great hidden, office building although very hidden, absolutely no one would think that the confidential Black Tower Institute would be set up in such a place. But there were too many people in the office building, and it was easy for people in the same building to discover the anomaly. His target was some isolated small buildings.
In the evening, Tang Mo walked through an alley and saw in the distance a small old three-story building bathed in the light of the setting sun. He said, "There?"
Fu Wenduo followed his gaze and nodded, "Most likely."
The three of them crossed the road together and walked towards the small building. Just as they were about to leave the intersection, Tang Mo's footsteps lurched and he slowly turned his head to look at the other end of the intersection. It was a very narrow area where two one-way roads met to form a small intersection. Both sides of the road are walled off, making it impossible for Tang Mo to see the other three directions as he walks from the south.
Fu Wenduo also turned his head to look east.
Fu Wen Sheng took two steps forward, realized that something was wrong, and followed the line of sight of Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo. After seeing the situation clearly, Fu Xiaodi's eyes widened and he hurried back to Tang Mo. Fu Wenduo stood ten meters away and waited for a moment, he listened carefully to the sounds in the air, and after determining that the person who fell to the ground was not in an ambush, he walked forward with great strides.
Checking the situation, Fu Wenduo looks up, "Dead."
On the side of the narrow road, a middle-aged woman fell headfirst to the ground without breathing. Bright red blood flowed out from under her body, flowing down the sloping road into the sewer tanks on both sides. In no time at all, the blood coagulated, leaving a dark brown trail on the ground.
Tang Mo crouched down and reached out to touch the woman's neck. The temperature had not completely faded. His face gradually sank as he looked up at Fu Wenduo, and the two immediately understood each other.
Fu Wenduo: "He died less than five minutes ago. It was a quick death, with a cut through the carotid artery and at the same time a cut through the vocal cords. The fatal wound was caused by a stab that came from the front of the forehead, which should have been stabbed first and then cut the neck in a very short period of time. The technique is very skillful and should have killed many people."
Fu Wen voice: "The Chosen One?"
Fu Wenduo shook his head, "Not sure, but it doesn't look like it."
Tang Mo : "The point is ...... she's only been dead for five minutes."
Five minutes ago, Tang Mo and his team came to this neighborhood, looking around for the location of the Black Tower Institute. When this middle-aged woman died, they were definitely not more than 200 meters away from here, but neither Tang Mo nor Fu Wenduo saw any suspicious silhouettes, which is why Tang Mo was so surprised when he suddenly saw this woman's body.
After the planet went online, even during the day, there were players who would randomly kill people on the road. There were many reasons for killing, most of the time it was to grab props and resources. Some perverted stowaways kill for even less reason, just to vent their emotions. This time, however, this woman died under the watchful eyes of Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, who have yet to find the murderer.
This murderer seems to have evaporated into thin air, without a sound.
After examining the body of the middle-aged woman, Tang Mo said, "Be careful."
The three of them were even more on guard, always on the lookout for a sneak attack from the Chosen Organization. If there was anyone who could manage to kill someone under Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's noses, it would most likely be the Chosen Organization. Half of the most powerful players in Beijing were in this organization, and there might be players with the ability to move instantly and kill people out of thin air before disappearing. Regardless, they had to be more careful.
Entering the small building without incident, Tang Mo searches for a while and realizes that this is just an ordinary art bookstore, not the Black Tower Institute. He crosses out location "C" on the map, and after making sure there are no enemies around, the three of them reappear and look for the next location.
Within three days, the Tang Mo trio traveled half of the Chaoyang District, looking for eleven locations. Without exception, none of them were the Black Tower Institute.
On the fourth day, they found a robotics lab. Tang Mo looks at the name outside the building and his eyes light up.
This robotics lab was located in a small, quiet courtyard surrounded by an ordinary bungalow residential area; such a small two-story building looked very old and would not attract attention at all when placed in one of these old houses. But its yard was big enough, big enough for people outside to not be able to see inside the building from outside the yard.
Tang Mo pushed the door in, and several robot models were placed in the hall of the small building. The entire first floor was a normal robotics research room, and on the second floor, the three of them searched for a while, eventually stopping at a small room in the innermost part of the corridor. Tang Mo reached out with the intention of opening the door, pressed it, and realized that it didn't actually open.
He looks to Fu Wenduo.
Fu Wenduo's right hand flung out and turned into a pitch-black, three-pronged sharp weapon. The sharp weapon sliced through the thick iron door, and when he entered, he realized that it was still a robotics research lab! Tang Mo did not die, he had a hunch that something was not right here. His eyes swept through every corner of the room, and finally leaned against the wall on one of the bookshelves.
This shelf held many robotics-related books, and without exception, each book was very new, as if it had never been turned over.
The next second, Tang Mo said, "Push this bookshelf out of the way and look at it."
Fu Wenduo also noticed this, and he made a move to push away the bookshelf. Fu Xiaodi was shocked, "Could there be something behind the bookshelf?" Saying so, he also ran over to help.
With Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's current strength, they pushed the bookshelf with five minutes of force, and the bookshelf only moved five centimeters. This was more proof of the unusual nature of this bookshelf. When the bookshelf was pushed away little by little, a dark staircase hidden behind it was revealed. The bookshelf was completely pushed apart with a click, as if something had been crumbled by brute force.
Tang Mo intended to go down the stairs first, but Fu Wenduo stopped in front of him, "I'll go down first."
Tang Mo froze. Looking into the man's dark, sunken eyes, after a moment, he nodded, "...... Good."
The three of them descended the stairs one after the other. It was a long staircase, and they had already crossed the first floor to the ground floor. Tang Mo took out a flashlight to illuminate this strange place, and in front of them was a half-open door. Fu Wenduo pushed the door in, and a long-deserted laboratory appeared in front of the three of them.
Various models of the Black Tower, strange equations drawn on blackboards, all indicate the true identity of the place.
The three did not show any great surprise as they immediately searched through the Black Tower Institute. Most of the information in the institute was the same as what Fu Wenduo had seen in the Black Tower Institute in Shanghai, without too many discrepancies. It was obvious that there was an exchange of information between the two institutes. Tang Mo had also heard Luo Feng Cheng say that the vast majority of the information was wrong judgment.
In the past six months, all the major countries in the world had established research institutes for the Black Tower, tried their best to study it, and in the end, almost all of them came to nothing.
They made countless assumptions, multiple guesses from physical phenomena, optical reflections, and cosmological and particle doctrines. None of them could produce the Black Tower. It is like a civilization that does not belong to mankind, and with the present scientific means of mankind there is nothing that can be done about it, for it is far beyond the limits of science that mankind can understand.
After Tang Mo had searched for half a day, Fu Wen suddenly said loudly, "Eh, what's this?"
The crowd immediately turned their heads to look.
I saw the children take a black safe out of the corner, and on top of it was a blue glass vessel. The water in this glassware was cloudy, because it had been stored for five months, and the quality of the water had long been unclear. The black safe and the glassware were placed so abruptly in the corner, not at all conspicuous.
Tang Mo took the glassware and observed the marks inside. He was keenly aware of the many fingerprints on the outside of the glass, which were crisscrossed in layers. The glassware had obviously been picked up and observed regularly by more than one person, and Tang Mo could recognize more than a dozen different fingerprints alone.
Tang Mo had an answer in his mind, he used his flashlight to illuminate the black safe and looked at Fu Wenduo: "There must be something in this glassware. Open this box, the information should be inside."
Fu Wenduo had already taken out his dagger and was ready to open the safe. The dagger he took was the black one he had used against the Great Huo Ji, and just as it was about to reach the safe, Fu Wen said, "Is this really the precious research material we are looking for?"
Fu Wenduo's movements suddenly stopped.
Tang Mo was startled. After a long time, he quickly said, "If it is precious information, it should not be possible to just take an ordinary safe to contain it ...... There is a trap, there must be a trap."
Fu Wen sounded stunned, "Trap?" The child didn't expect that his casual words would actually be so important.
Tang Mo immediately looked to Fu Wenduo : "We can't use brute force, we have to open the box manually."
Published at: 08/02/2024 03:00