Chapter 144: Time Revolution~

"Who the hell are you guys!"

The roar echoed in the courtyard, a voice full of disbelief and panic. Li Chaocheng stared at the three people in front of him with wide eyes, as if he wanted to see through them. Tang Mo and Chen Shanshan, however, listened to his words with a calm expression, without a single change. Jacks, on the other hand, hadn't reacted to what the other party had said, and didn't give any particular reaction.

Tang Mo looked coldly at the frightened "Transparent Man" player, calm on the surface, but his mind had already flashed through countless thoughts.

Transparent people don't know the world is merging either!

From the very beginning, Tang Mo was a bit strange, the Black Tower has always been fair, this time the two worlds suddenly merged, the Black Tower did not inform, but the Transparent people can come and go freely in both worlds. This is really unfair to the surviving players.

It took half a month for even Tang Mo to learn the truth about the Time Rankings and the disappearing players from Bai Ruoyao, and it must have taken even longer for the unorganized players to find out the truth. These players didn't know anything, even the moment they met the Transparent Man, were called "meat pig" by the other side and killed, they didn't understand who killed them and why these people wanted to kill them.

Originally, Tang Mo thought that the Black Tower had deliberately created such unfairness.

Half a year ago, more than six billion human beings disappeared into thin air. Tang Mo doesn't know what happened to these human beings after they disappeared, and whether they have to keep challenging the Black Tower game and attacking the tower as well. But just by looking at the time charts, it's clear that the world these six billion people faced must have been far more brutal than the survivors.

They've survived for half a year in a brutal and horrible world, and now that the Black Tower 4.0 is about to be updated, the two worlds are merging and it seems that the Transparencies will be able to return to Earth. They have long suffered a great injustice (they did not succeed in loading the game because of bad luck), and now the Black Tower grants them another kind of fairness: the surviving players don't know about their existence, so it's a kind of compensation.

Turns out the Black Tower is still fair.

Tang Mo put his hands in his pockets and whispered, "Luck is still a form of strength, and it's never unfair."

Hearing these words, the middle-aged man quickly turned his head, looking towards Tang Mo. The brilliant sunlight shone on the youth's face, and there were no digits on his neck, yet Li Chaocheng felt a long-lost sense of oppression. This kind of feeling he had once experienced in a copy, when he encountered the madman at the 36th position of the time ranking.

Li Chaocheng's brain worked quickly, he was able to enter the time rankings, not only did he kill a lot of people, but he was not a fool. Almost instantly he understood what Tang Mo had said, yet the truth made him tremble with shock, surprise and panic in his eyes as he blurted out, "You ...... you're not the Returners! You are the 400 million lucky, damned people!"

Jacks: "Returnees?"

Li Chaocheng immediately shut his mouth as he looked at Tang Mo with a strange look before looking at Chen Shanshan and Jacks.

This middle-aged man suddenly laughed madly. His facial muscles trembled as if they were twitching, and because of this insane laughter, the scar over his eye seemed to come to life, twisting and writhing on his face. He laughed and said, "We're back? We're back already?" Before Tang Mo and the others could reply, Li Chaocheng's laughter came to an abrupt end, and he suddenly said, "No, surely we haven't come back yet, if we come back, the Black Tower will give us a notice, there will definitely be a notice. Now there is no notification, could it be ......"

Li Chaocheng opened his mouth wide, "Is it because of Mu Huixue?!"

Without the Tang Mo trio giving an answer, Li Chaocheng repeated to himself, ''Yes, it must be because of Mu Huixue.Half a month ago, the Black Tower gave her a briefing, and she went to clear the fourth floor of the Black Tower. It turned out to be the fourth floor of the Black Tower, and the fourth floor is the key to return. But that clearance didn't fully succeed, so ...... we haven't fully returned yet?"

After saying this, Li Chaocheng's eyes widened and he seemed to understand something.

He knew where he was now.

It was only a few short minutes, and the Tang Mo few had not told him any information at all, but with a little bit of minutiae, and the Tang Mo three's minuscule facial reactions, Li Chaocheng almost sensed the truth of the matter. When he realized the truth, he directly closed his mouth, and an extremely odd smile appeared on his face.

As he thought about the truth just now, Li Chaocheng kept trying hard to untie the rubber cord that bound him. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not untie it. After half a minute he simply gave up.

This short, thin, middle-aged man sat on the ground and smiled sinisterly as he looked at the three humans in front of him.

He just smiled and didn't say anything, and there was malice in that smile.

Jacks couldn't help but say angrily, "What are you looking at."

Li Chaocheng looked towards him and gave a cold smile without saying anything.

Jacks : "You ......!"

Jacks was furious, he couldn't understand how the man had changed so much in a matter of minutes. A few minutes ago he was very frustrated and panicked because he had been captured by the three Tang Mo's and was tied up and unable to escape. But a few minutes later, the expression on his face had changed, and by the end he actually looked like he didn't give a damn.

His ugly smile was blinding in the sunlight.

Tang Mo looked at him steadily for a while, and slowly squatted down, his eyes leveled with the man's. The two men stared at each other silently, neither speaking. The two men stared at each other silently, neither of them saying anything. After a minute, Tang Mo curled her lips, her voice calm, "So you are called the Returners. Is that the name given to you by the Black Tower, or did you call yourselves that?"

Li Chaocheng was shocked, but he instantly hid his emotions and asked rhetorically, "What Returner, I don't know what you're talking about."

Chen Shanshan's calm voice rang out from the side, "You're not a fool, and neither are we. You've said it all, the Time Ranking, the Returner, if he was the only one there, he might really be fooled by you." The little girl pointed at Jacks and then added, "What you can think of, we can also think of. Even though you know the truth, you are also caught by us now. We are very curious to know one thing ...... time charts what is really going on."

Li Chaocheng was actually not nervous when his own words were revealed. He laughed coldly and said: "Time ranking? You guys are smart, you are not stupid, you still need to ask me about this kind of thing. You guys already know about the Time Ranking, right? That's why you can ask me how many places I am on the ranking."

"You get ten minutes of base time for killing a person, and half of his extra time if the other person has extra time of his own."

Li Chaocheng turned his head and looked at Tang Mo.

Tang Mo raised an eyebrow, "All of this ordinary stuff has long been known to all of us Surviving Players ...... aka those damned lucky 400 million humanoids you speak of. It's a completely open secret on Earth."

Li Chaocheng's eyes narrowed: the surviving players actually all knew about their returnees?

But in the next second, he reacted, "No way, you lied to me! Even I only now know about our imminent return, how could you stupid humans living in the cradle of Mother Black Tower possibly know!"

Tang Mo faintly said, "This is indeed an open secret, you can choose to believe it or not." The voice stopped, and Tang Mo smiled, "So ...... you believe it?"

Li Chaocheng : "You ......!"

The middle-aged man clenched his teeth, looking as if he had been overwhelmed by Tang Mo's anger and lost his mind, his face reddened. In fact, his heart was clear and his mind was constantly thinking. Those damn 400 million idiots had actually discovered the information about the fusion of the two worlds before they, the Returners, did? These four hundred million people could be that smart?

No, the Earth has been online for half a year, and I'm afraid that these 400 million people have died to the tune of no more than a few tens of millions. The remaining tens of millions should all have passed at least one level of the Black Tower, and that would be considered to have a little bit of strength. Is their strength really that strong, and everyone who has discovered the truth ...... is stronger than him?

Li Chaocheng's reason told himself that this youth must be lying to himself, how could each of those 400 million humanoids be stronger than himself. However, he didn't dare to affirm his judgment. In the event that those four hundred million players were really that strong, it would be no less than an extinction for them Returners.

Li Chaocheng lowered his head, hiding his expression, and stopped talking.

Jacks was furious and annoyed when he suddenly wimped out. He was about to say a few words to scold this guy who was very arrogant just a moment ago, when Tang Mo stopped him, "What's with the time rankings."

Li Chaocheng immediately looked up and looked at Tang Mo : "Don't all you surviving idiots know what it is."

Tang Mo laughed, "Like I said, we know what it means and how to get the time. But how did it appear, was it given to you directly by the Black Tower, or was it some special prop? Or ...... psychic abilities?" Rare and strange supernormal abilities Tang Mo had seen a lot of them, and it wasn't impossible that the Time Ranking was a supernormal ability. There was once a teenager called Taotie who possessed an alien ability that could strengthen the physical qualities of others.

Li Chaocheng taunted, "Why should I tell you?"

Tang Mo pointed to the rubberized rope binding him, "You're tied to us now."

Li Chaocheng laughed, "Just because of that? I thought you were the best of those 400 million players and you were supposed to be smart, but it turns out to be nothing more than that."

Tang Mo didn't change his expression, "I've only cleared the first floor of the Black Tower, and I'm considered to be at the bottom of the list among the 400 million players."

At those words, Jacks eyelids jumped. Chen Shanshan, after all, was young enough to understand that Tang Mo was putting psychological pressure on the man, but she wasn't thick-skinned enough to resist giving Tang Mo a look.

Li Chaocheng : "I don't believe it! How can you be the bottom of that 400 million idiots!"

Tang Mo smiled slightly, "You can choose to believe, or not. So ...... you believe?"

"You ......!" Li Chaocheng was once again left speechless with anger.

Tang Mo asked Li Chaocheng two questions in a row. Although Li Chaocheng didn't really believe what he said, he was worried that Tang Mo was telling the truth. He kept his mouth shut and refused to answer Tang Mo's questions. Tang Mo asked him two more times, but Li Chaocheng was still holding on and refusing to talk. As time passed, Tang Mo sighed softly and stood up, "You think that sooner or later, you will disappear and return to the world where you returnees are from, so you can escape without compromising with us."

The statement is an affirmative, without a hint of doubt.

Li Chaocheng looked up incredulously at Tang Mo, who hurriedly retorted, "I don't know what you're talking about!"

Tang Mo : "You guessed correctly, you Returners did suddenly appear on Earth and suddenly disappeared. The speed of your disappearance was fast, and there were no signs before you disappeared." Li Chaocheng was after all a person on the Time Ranking List, he could actually guess this himself, at the same time he could still be calm enough to act after knowing this condition in his favor, it also reflected the depth of this person's mind, which made Tang Mo a bit surprised as well. However ......

"Don't worry, I'm sure I can kill you the moment you disappear."

Li Chaocheng clenched his teeth and did not speak.

Tang Mo : "I'm telling the truth but you can also choose to believe it or not, so ...... do you believe it?"

Li Chaocheng didn't want to deal with this unfathomable youth any further, he never wanted to hear those words again, he directly said, "Yes, I am indeed waiting for myself to return to that world. Now that we haven't fully returned and the Black Tower version 4.0 hasn't been updated, I can definitely go back. It doesn't matter if I believe you or not, I thought you were smart, don't you realize that after you said that, there's even less of a reason for me to have to tell you the information I know?"

Tang Mo raised one eyebrow.

Li Chaocheng : "You have said that you will definitely kill me before I disappear. I will definitely die anyway, so why should I tell you the information I know?"

Tang Mo pretended to be surprised, "I can't believe I didn't think of that? It was an oversight on my part."

Li Chaocheng suddenly realized that something was wrong. His heart trembled violently, and a sense of foreboding surged through him. Only to see this handsome young man turn his head and look at the foreign strong man beside him. He raised his right hand and waved it towards the foreign strong man. On that slender right hand, the index finger was almost completely chopped off, leaving only a layer of skin stuck to it.

Ten fingers connected to the heart, Li Chaocheng only then remembered that he seemed to have just shot through this young man's fingers, but he actually didn't show any pain at all when he spoke just now.

The uneasiness in Li Chaocheng's heart intensified.

Then he heard the young man chuckle, "Jacks, we can't kill him now, but we still have to pry some useful information out of him. You help me hold down his right hand." As the words fell, Tang Mo's fingers moved and a small silver knife appeared between his palms, and he had a wide smile on his face, "I'll chop off his fingers one by one, maybe then he'll be willing to talk?"

Li Chaocheng's scalp went numb and cold sweat brushed down.

Jacks nodded and helped Tang Mo hold down Li Chaocheng's right hand. Tang Mo's first choice was Li Chaocheng's index finger. Tang Mo's hand had gradually grown a layer of pink flesh, and blood flowed all over his hand, which had long since solidified into a bloody scar that looked hideous. He pressed the sharp blade against Li Chaocheng's index finger. Although Li Chaocheng's face was pale, he laughed coldly, "Is that the only thing you can do? So that's all you 400 million idiots have, you even think it's important to break a few fingers, isn't it just to cut my finger, feel free to do so."

"Who said anything about cutting off your fingers?"

Li Chaocheng froze.

Tang Mo looks up at him, "I am going to, little by little, slice."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Tang Mo sliced down with a knife and blood splattered out. The knife cut the meat like mud, directly slicing off a thin layer of meat. Li Chaocheng's body trembled, and a beastly roar escaped from his throat. Tang Mo had actually sliced down a layer of meat that was only one millimeter thick! Before Li Chaocheng could react from the intense pain, Tang Mo sliced down a second time.

"AHHHH!!!"

Even Jacks can't watch this scene.

Tang Mo lowered his head, pressed Li Chaocheng's right index finger without expression, and sliced off layers of thinly sliced meat with a knife. It was as if he was chopping vegetables, concentrating carefully. There was no expression on his face, and only he knew what was going on in his mind.

Jacks finally relented, "No, Don, I can't take it anymore."

A hand pressed on Li Chaocheng's wrist, Jacks looked surprised, and Chen Shanshan calmly said, "I'll do it."

Jacks : "...... good."

Who would have thought that Jacks would be the first of the three to lose his nerve, but instead it was Chen Shanshan and Tang Mo, one holding down the hand, the other slicing the meat. By the time Tang Mo reached the middle of Li Chaocheng's index finger, the middle-aged man was already in a cold sweat, gasping for air, his face pale, as if he was drowning, hissing in agony, "I'll say it, I'll say it! I'll say it all!"

Tang Mo's meat slicing stopped, he looked up at Li Chaocheng, and the knife moved, this time directly cutting off his index finger.

Tang Mo : "It would have been better if it had been like this."

Chen Shanshan nodded and wiped the blood splattered on his hand, "It would have been better if it hadn't been like this."

Jacks: "......"

Li Chaocheng: "......"

He was now kind of convinced that those 400 million players were really scary as hell!!!!

Next, Li Chaocheng reluctantly told Tang Mo what he knew.

"Three months ago, January 12, 2018, at that time, I had just cleared the second floor of the Black Tower and was resting during my break time. I rested until the eighth minute when the Black Tower suddenly made an announcement ...... "With a somewhat hoarse voice, Li Chaocheng seemed to be recalling the scene at that time.

"Dingdong! South Asia Region 1 player Di Jean Galava has successfully cleared the replica 'Back of the Truth Clock', opening the time leaderboards."

"Ding Dong! South Asia 1 player Dijangarawa ......"

The clear child's voice rang loudly in the ears of more than two billion humans. There were three times in total, and when the sound rang out, the people's expressions were numb, their bodies all covered in wounds, their faces were blood, their clothes were blood. Stains rubbed against their entire cheeks, as if they hadn't bathed or rested properly once in three months, and their eyes were all bloodshot. Even when this voice rang out, they all just heard it and didn't make any reaction.

After hearing the Black Tower's announcement clearly, they dragged their walking bodies slowly through the game again, lying on the ground staring at the sky with open eyes and resting greedily.

This time, however, after three broadcasts, the Black Tower's voice did not stop. It rang out with a cheerful musical sound.

On that day, January 12th, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were fighting against twenty-one Black Tower Tier 1 players in the rally copy 'Circus Surprise Night'. On that day, January 12th, the 100 million or so surviving players on Earth hadn't yet realized that a reform was about to begin in another world.

If it was on Earth, and the Black Tower broadcasted whoever's name three times, and played up a song just for them, all the players would definitely stop what they were doing and listen carefully to the Black Tower's broadcast. However, in that world, the players indifferently remained doing their own things, and it seemed like they couldn't hear the Black Tower's voice or the cheerful and pleasant music.

Half a minute later, the music came to a screeching halt, and the Black Tower's loud voice rang out -

"Ding Dong! The rules of the Time Rankings are as follows-"

"First, consistent with the present, each player has a ten-minute break as an initial time after each round of play."

"Second, killing a player who has the initial time captures ten minutes of the other player's time as an additional rest period."

"Third, the extra rest time will show a specific number on the neck."

"Fourth, killing a player who has extra rest time grants the player half of the opponent's extra rest time in addition to the opponent's initial ten minutes."

"Fifth, before each new game, players can view instant information about the time leaderboard."

"Sixth, there are a total of one hundred spots in the time ranking. Killing the first hundred players will earn you fifty minutes of rest time; killing the first fifty players will earn you one hundred minutes of rest time; killing the first twenty players will earn you five hundred minutes of rest time; killing the first ten players will earn you a fine-quality prop; killing the third player will earn you the privilege of abstaining from any one of the Black Tower games; killing the second player will earn you a rare-quality prop. "

"Seventh, killing the first player grants a chance to respawn. This opportunity resurrects any player who dies in the Black Tower game."

"Dingdong! Players please work hard to attack the tower and return to Earth!"

This is the time revolution for returnees.