Chapter 139: Oops, that's how fair the game is~
What Liu Wansheng thought of, Tang Mo thought of long ago.
If the players do move forward in "priority order", the only person who really controls the ending of the game is Tang Mo. Until then, no matter where Bai Ruoyao and Lin Qian go, even if they take up all the squares containing books, they will not be able to pass the game as long as Tang Mo puts out the mosaics at the end of the game. As long as Tang Mo extinguishes the mosaic, they will not be able to pass the level.
There's no point in playing a game like that that's even remotely fair.
Liu Wansheng's view of this "unfair game" is that the Black Tower wants the two teams to work together, and that's why they have set up such a visibly unfair game rule. His guess is not unreasonable. No one knows when the werewolf will come back, and both teams want to clear the level as fast as possible. Although Tang Mo is the key to the game, if Bai Ruoyao and Lin Qian want to cause trouble, they can occupy all the squares containing books or do other things to hinder Tang Mo's two teams from clearing the level.
So what Liu Wansheng is saying is: You have to plead with us, to cooperate with you.
Under the current rules of the game, Bai Ruoyao's side has no chance of passing the level alone, and the initiative is in Tang Mo's hands. If Tang Mo doesn't want to cooperate with them, they will definitely be eaten by the werewolves. Once Tang Mo and Liu Wansheng have a chance to pass the game alone, they will not care about Bai Ruoyao and Lin Qian, they will just pass the game.
However, Tang Mo did not think that the Black Tower would set up such an unfair game. He raised his head, and his eyes met Bai Ruoyao. The cold smile at the corner of the baby-faced youth's mouth had not yet been restrained, and when he realized Tang Mo was looking at him, he winked at Tang Mo. Bai Ruoyao then swept a glance at Liu Wansheng, let out an indistinct snort, and turned around to walk back to his own grid.
Lin Qian seemed to listen to Bai Ruoyao's words and returned to the lattice.
Liu Wansheng's face was ugly. His body stiffened, his hairs stood on end, and he felt as if he were on the back of his head in the blazing daytime sun. After a few moments, he regained his senses and turned his head to find Tang Mo looking at him calmly. Liu Wansheng could not bear it, and threw a "don't regret it" at Bai Ruoyao, then walked back to his own cell.
Once the two had walked back to the grid, the Black Tower beep sounded and a wall of light film stood between the two teams, and they couldn't hear each other again.
As soon as the voices separated, Liu Wansheng quickly said, "We don't need to cooperate with them to win. The rules of the game say that at least one book will appear in each round, two books appeared just now, and it is very likely that three or four books will appear underneath. As long as more than three books appear, we have a chance to win. There are only two of them, they can occupy at most two books, we can occupy the third book, while you decide the lightness or darkness of the final grid. In this way, we can pass the level." Liu Wansheng's eyes shook rapidly, as if he was silently calculating something, and he suddenly raised his head, "Three books are actually not enough insurance, it's still the position of the books that matters. But all in all, we have a chance of getting through, they definitely don't have a chance of getting through."
Liu Wansheng said a lot of things, only to look up and realize that Tang Mo's eyes must be fixed on the opposite side of the room. He followed Tang Mo's line of sight and his face immediately turned green. He understood that Tang Mo and that arrogant psychopath were not teammates, but the two obviously knew each other.
Liu Wansheng gritted his teeth, "You want to work with him?"
"He just said that you're dying."
Liu Wansheng immediately blackened his face, "That psycho!"
Tang Mo turned his head and looked steadily at Liu Wansheng.
Liu Wansheng: "What's wrong?"
Tang Mo hooked up the corner of her lips, "Although I don't like that psychopath either, but when he says you're going to die, you're really going to die eight out of ten times." Liu Wansheng's expression became extremely ugly as Tang Mo's words fell. Before he could say anything, Tang Mo added, "Moreover, I have no intention of begging them to cooperate with us. This game is not as simple as you think, it's not a mere math game. Bai Ruoyao isn't as kind as you think either, if he really wanted to kill you, it would probably be easier than a werewolf eating you."
"You ......"
"For a werewolf to eat you, it would have to swallow you bit by bit, taking at least ten seconds? For Bai Ruoyao to kill you, it would only take three seconds." The voice stops and Tang Mo puts his smile away and says coldly, "Don't go pissing off a stranger, before you're sure you can piss off the other person. Also, for the next round of the game, I'm going to control the light and dark of the grid, and you're going to occupy the book."
This was originally what Liu Wansheng wanted to say, that they were going to change the person who occupied the book. However Tang Mo's tone displeased him as he said, "I know, but he may not be able to kill me."
"That's another way of putting it."
Liu Wansheng froze at his words.
He raised his head, only to see this handsome young man tilting his head in the brilliant sunlight, smiling faintly at him, "It will only take me a second to kill you."
Liu Wansheng's heart sank, and his whole body was like falling into an ice cellar.
Before the second round of the game began, Tang Mo stood in the grid, thinking intently, and Liu Wansheng also bowed his head in silence. The five minutes of discussion passed quickly, and Mosaic got impatient, calling out the Black Tower's name as soon as the time was up, telling it to hurry up and start the game. The blue film of light gradually dissipated, and both teams were close to hearing the voices from the opposite side, when a scowling male voice rang out, "I remember ...... your name is Tang Mo?"
Tang Mo's thoughts were interrupted as he looked sideways at Liu Wansheng, who had spoken out, without admitting or denying it.
"...... Are you the Tang Mo?"
Tang Mo looked at the cautious Liu Wansheng with a calm expression, and after two seconds, he moved his eyes away.
Liu Wansheng pursed his lips and did not speak.
He's really Tang Mo!
If he was that Tang Mo, then what he said had 70% credibility. The Tang Mo who was the first person in all of China to clear the third floor of the Black Tower could indeed kill him, a player who had only cleared the first floor of the Black Tower, within a second, and that psychopath on the opposite side could most likely kill him within three seconds as well.
Liu Wansheng cursed in the bottom of his heart, overturning many of his previous strategies.
The same applies to this situation. No wonder that woman didn't dare to question the words of the psychopath, she had already guessed that this Tang Mo was the same Tang Mo. The one who could recognize Tang Mo and still pester her and make her helpless is definitely a pervert.
Why are these perverts coming together for this copy of reality?
This copy isn't important enough for all these people to enter, is it?
Liu Wansheng had a hundred thoughts running through his head.
Soon, the film of light dissipated completely, and the black tower prompted the start of the second round of the game. Twenty items slowly appeared in the light film.
The light disappeared, and Tang Mo stared at it, but this time there was only a book!
The book is coincidentally located in the A4 compartment, right in front of Liu Wansheng.
"Ding Dong! In the second game, the number of players who can advance forward: 7."
"Players are asked to advance the squares in order of priority."
Bai Ruoyao gave a cheeky laugh, "Seven steps." With that, he took a big stride and walked into the grid in front of him.
Liu Wansheng's face lit up with joy. He looked at Tang Mo, nodded, and then took a big step forward into compartment A4. Lin Qian was the third, and she walked into compartment A2.
This is a good opportunity that even Liu Wansheng didn't think of. As long as he holds A4 and keeps moving back and forth between A4 and the adjacent squares, he is likely to keep the priority possession of A4.
Lin Qian is one step behind him every time. Bai Ruoyao It takes seven steps to get here. Bai Ruoyao can only prioritize this grid if he keeps moving forward. But they still won't win, Liu Wansheng has a chance to win. Once Bai Ruoyao doesn't notice, they win.
Liu Wansheng hid the joy in his heart and kept wandering in the neighborhood of the A4 frame.
As he suspected, Bai Ruoyao found this out and kept moving towards the A4 frame.
Liu Wansheng was a little disappointed: this psychopath was really smart.
Bai Ruoyao is approaching step by step, and Lin Qian is hovering around square A4. By the end of Step 5, Bai Ruoyao is standing on square B3, Liu Wansheng, Lin Qian and Tang Mo are all standing on square A4. The four of them are almost standing together. It was Bai Ruoyao's turn to take the sixth step, and he walked one square forward to square A3. Liu Wansheng sighed mentally and walked to cell A5.
Step 6, Bai Ruoyao A3, Liu Wansheng A5, Lin Qian A3, Tang Mo B4.
On the seventh step, Bai Ruoyao rightfully walked into cell A4 and took the priority of cell A4. Liu Wansheng did not even think about it and was ready to walk into cell A4 as well. Suddenly, Tang Mo said, "You go to cell B5."
Liu Wansheng froze. Seeing Tang Mo s calm eyes, he quickly realized, and fearfully glanced at the doll face that was still laughing and smiling, and hurried into the B5 compartment.
The second round of the game ended with no one from either team winning.
The Black Tower announced that the game was over and all players returned to their original squares. Liu Wansheng raised his step and prepared to walk back to grid A5, Lin Qian also turned around and walked towards grid A1. The moment they raised their steps, a white shadow suddenly moved, stepped on the ground, and ran towards Liu Wansheng, and at the same time, a black shadow also ran towards Lin Qian. Tang Mo and Bai Ruoyao grabbed each other's teammates at almost the same time, stopping their movements.
Liu Wansheng reacted quite quickly and took out a strange red apron to shield himself. When the red apron touched the air, it immediately hardened like iron, turning into an unexpected shield. However, Bai Ruoyao's Butterfly Blade cuts through the air in a silver flash, and the apron is cut into three pieces and falls to the ground.
Butterfly knife against Liu Wansheng's neck at the same time Tang Mo's small Yang San against Lin Qian's throat.
The two players who had just cleared the first floor of the Black Tower all froze in place, not daring to move. Bai Ruoyao heard the sound behind him and slowly turned around, just in time to see Tang Mo lifting up little Yang San and choking Lin Qian's neck with the tip of his umbrella. His eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, then he deliberately said, "Ah, Tangtang, what are you doing, you're actually bullying a girl?" A look of disbelief was all over his face.
Tang Mo held the handle of his umbrella in his right hand and said faintly, "You're doing what I'm doing."
Bai Ruoyao said, "I'm just talking to this little kid, right", but the butterfly knife in his hand did not let go, the sharp blade slightly sliding, Liu Wansheng's neck separated a shallow blood gap.
Liu Wansheng's body stiffened, he was too scared to speak, the last of his senses kept him calm, he couldn't afford to fall into a corner.
Tang Mo laughed at that but smiled, "Then I'm talking to your teammates too. Right, Ms. Lin."
Clearly questioning Lin Qian, Tang Mo didn't even look back, still sneering at Bai Ruoyao.
On the crisscrossing grid, Mosaic looks on excitedly at the scene of human conflict, mumbling "fight, fight, fight". Tang Mo and Bai Ruoyao stare silently at each other amidst the excited cheering of the little girl. Strangely enough, as they stare at each other for a long time, Bai Ruoyao's smile fades while Tang Mo's grows wider.
After a long time, Bai Ruoyao said, "Tangtang, you won't kill her. I know, you are not the kind of person who kills innocent people."
Tang Mo : "You can try."
Bai Ruoyao raised an eyebrow as he replied by making a cut in Liu Wansheng's neck.
Hiss!
Blood immediately spattered out, this kind of injury on the earth before the online absolutely fatal, to be immediately sent to the hospital. But now, Liu Wansheng's face just turned white, the wound will heal soon. After Liu Wansheng's wound healed, Bai Ruoyao smiled provocatively at Tang Mo, who expected that the next second, Tang Mo's right hand moved, small Yang San slid downward and pierced Lin Qian's chest.
Blood instantly stained his clothes.
Bai Ruoyao's smile ends abruptly.
Tang Mo drew out the small Yang San and pressed it against Lin Qian's throat again. After the wound that pierced his chest healed, Tang Mo smiled and said, "I told you, you can try."
Bai Ruoyao stared quietly at Tang Mo.
A moment later, he said again, "You won't kill ......"
The sound came to an abrupt end, and in answer to Bai Ruoyao, Tang Mo did not hesitate to throw out the little Yang San, leaving a shallow bloody gash on Lin Qian's neck.
Neither spoke, just staring at each other in silence.
Three minutes later, the Black Tower beep sounded, asking the players to return to their respective grids and prepare for the third round of the game. None of the four made a move. After another ten seconds, Bai Ruoyao suddenly withdrew his hand when the Black Tower was about to be prompted for the second time, and his beautiful butterfly | knife spun in the air, which he took back to his sleeve. With his hands in his pockets, he walked back to his grid with a big smile on his face, while walking he also said innocently, "Tangtang, you're so boring, you don't even allow people to make jokes."
After Bai Ruoyao returned to the E1 grid, Tang Mo also put away Little Yang San and returned to his own grid. After he stood firmly, he looked up at Bai Ruoyao, his voice calm: "If you want to kill him, I will definitely kill her."
Bai Ruoyao's smile froze for a moment, he shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything else.
The film of light slowly appeared, blocking the sound on both sides. Liu Wansheng's scalp, which was so tight that it was about to explode, completely relaxed at this moment. He panted heavily, as if he had almost drowned. After a long time of slowing down, he gratefully looked at Tang Mo : "Tang ...... Tang Mo, thank you for saving me."
Tang Mo took little Yang San back to his waist, "I didn't save you."
Liu Wansheng was dismayed.
Tang Mo : "I'm not going to kill her, if you die, I'll be 1v2. The situation is so bad for me that it's almost impossible for me to win."
Liu Wansheng's expression instantly became very wonderful, but he knew that Tang Mo was telling the truth. Ninety percent of the time, his teammates didn't want to save him at all, they were only saving him by the way, and clearing the level was what Tang Mo really wanted.
On the opposite side of the light film, Bai Ruoyao gestures to Tang Mo.
"You're bad."
Tang Mo doesn't care about him.
Bai Ruoyao said to Liu Wansheng again, "You are so stupid.
Liu Wansheng clenched his fingers and looked away.
Bai Ruoyao laughed.
Ever since Bai Ruoyao said to Liu Wansheng, "I declare you dead," Tang Mo has been thinking about whether Bai Ruoyao saw the aura of death on Liu Wansheng's body, or whether he would definitely kill Liu Wansheng.
In fact, Liu Wansheng is wrong about one thing: it's not impossible for the team that goes first to get through the game. They don't need to plead with the team that goes after them, begging them to cooperate. All they need to do is kill all the other teams, leaving only their own team to win.
Once the game starts, each player is confined to a grid and cannot walk around. As long as they pay attention to their position and don't walk into the same grid they can avoid their opponent's poisonous hand. The only time the grid is not confined is the few minutes between rounds and when players return to their grids.
Many people will overlook this and take for granted that "players need to go back to their grids, and of course there should be no confinement between grids". However, this is the only chance to kill someone.
If Bai Ruoyao wants to kill Liu Wansheng, he can only seize this opportunity.
So Tang Mo didn't even think about it, as soon as the lattice confinement was lifted, he immediately grabbed Lin Qian.
You want to kill my teammates? Fine, then I'll kill your teammates too!
Tang Mo put the choice in front of Bai Ruoyao, who in the end chose to spare Liu Wansheng.
Fu Wenduo would never kill an innocent person, but Bai Ruoyao doesn't dare to bet on whether Tang Mo will kill an innocent person. He thinks Tang Mo will not, but as long as there is a one-in-a-million chance, he dares not do it and has to give up.
Liu Wansheng buried himself in his thoughts about his next strategy. The most important point in front of him was that he could not walk into the same cell with the doll-faced psycho. If they were in the same cell, it would be easy for the psycho to kill him, Tang Mo couldn't save him, and he wouldn't kill Lin Qian at all.
A fine layer of sweat gradually broke out on Liu Wansheng's forehead.
It was at this point that the film of light dissipated and the Black Tower beep sounded-
"Ding Dong! In the third game, number of advances available to player #1: 4, number of advances available to player #2: 3, number of advances available to player #3: 3, number of advances available to player #4: 2."
Liu Wansheng bristled and looked up at the little girl in the center of the grid in shock. In his afterglow, he noticed that Tang Mo's eyes were also wide open, as if she hadn't expected this result.
On the other side of the grid, Bai Ruoyao froze for a moment, then smiled cheekily, "Ah ah, so that's how it is. That's how fair the game is."
Liu Wansheng was furious: "You didn't say that each player can take a different number of steps!"
Mosaic was angrier than he was, "Then you didn't ask me, huh? Besides, did you beg me? It was Tang Mo and that white boy who begged me, who are you, I don't know."
"You ......!"
"Ding Dong! Due to the varying number of squares players can advance, other than the player who advances the most squares, the rest of the players can choose to advance any number of rounds. If player #2 can advance a total of 3 squares, after player #1 advances the first square, player #2 can choose to give up this one chance to advance, and then continue to advance three times afterward."
The Black Tower's crisp, childlike voice ended, and there was a moment of silence for all four players, each pondering the meaning of the passage.
That's what they say about peaks and valleys.
Looking at the comical appearance of the four humans concentrating on their thoughts, Mosaic held his chin and shook his head in Bai Ruoyao's tone of voice, "Aiyaaaa, that's the fairness of the game~"
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Published at: 08/13/2024 10:00