My failure is that I have feelings that are not part of the truth.

Before Zhao Xiaofei drew a map of the corridors and rooms on the second floor with her lipstick on the floor, before leaving, she took off her jacket and drew a rough map on it as well. This calm female player decided to spread her jacket on the ground and carefully counted every corridor she had just walked through, finally she raised her head: "These are the only corridors we haven't been to, and we won't be able to go to them later, and Schrödinger is in these corridors?"

Rule #3: The doors to the rooms are located on both sides of the corridors, and each player can only walk down the same corridor once. When a player walks through a corridor, they leave human footprints on the corridor, and the corridor with human footprints is off limits.

This rule may seem complicated, but it actually restricts the player from going backward.

Corridors traveled are not allowed to be traveled a second time, so every choice a player makes could lead their future self into a dead end (with footprints all along the way). Now it's only the first round of the game and the crowd doesn't yet know the map of this steel fortress. Inevitably, they take a few wrong turns on the second floor, and some of the rooms are impossible to reach ever again.

Li Miaomiao agrees: "It's definitely in these rooms. We've only just arrived at the first floor, where we walked in a single line and didn't encounter any fork in the road, which means we didn't make any choices on the first floor, much less the wrong ones. Since the Truth Clock says we're sure we won't find Schrödinger, that means Schrödinger is hiding in those upstairs corridors."

But there is another problem with this.

Zhao Xiaofei's face hardened, "Actually, I don't remember the road ...... we just walked through very well."

As the words fell out of his mouth, the rest of the group looked embarrassed. Tang Mo also pursed his lips, he turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo, when his eyes met those dark eyes, Tang Mo's heart immediately quieted down.

Fu Wenduo looked at him and his low voice rang out, "I remember."

The crowd brushed their heads and turned to look at Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo took the lipstick in Zhao Xiaofei's hand and smoothly drew a curved route on the map on the second floor.

He started at the apex of the sixth diamond, which was the kitchen. Then, with a calm expression, he connected each of the corridors the five had traveled through upstairs, and even marked the locations of the eighty rooms they had entered, placing a small red dot at the door of each room. Zhao Xiaofei was dumbfounded as she watched, and when Fu Wenduo drew to the place where they were currently standing, she took the lipstick Fu Wenduo handed over, and after a long moment of silence, she skeptically said, "...... Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"

Fu Wenduo raised an eyebrow.

Tang Mo : "He drew it right."

Zhao Xiaofei looked at them skeptically.

Unbeknownst to Zhao Xiaofei, Fu Wenduo had modified a few parts of the map she had drawn, making the crude map much more accurate. In a darkened room, in the corner of which squatted the middle-aged Guan Jia licking cat food, Schrödinger stared at the map in Zhao Xiaofei's hand, wide-eyed with anger, and let out a sweet hum of exasperation.

This map is a scaled-down version of Schrödinger's Iron Fortress, which even Schrödinger himself may not have drawn so accurately!

After Earth came online, every player's physical fitness improved day by day. However, remembering what kind of paths one had traveled was one thing, and to draw a map in this kind of confined space, it was more important to have a keen ability to recognize space and distance. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo walked at the end of the group, and Tang Mo whispered, "Is there really only four corridors on the second floor that we haven't walked through?"

Fu Wenduo looked down at him.

Tang Mo was so sure that what he drew was right, and now he's coming back to ask him about the correctness of it.

An imperceptible smile crossed Fu Wenduo's eyes, "Yes, there are only four."

Tang Mo explained, "I believe you, but something doesn't feel right to me if those are the only four."

"What's wrong."

Tang Mo: "Do you think ...... Schrödinger is hiding in those four corridors?"

Fu Wenduo's footsteps stopped, and the three people in front of him were still walking. He looked steadily at Tang Mo and said softly, "Don't feel it."

Tang Mo suddenly laughed, "I don't think so either."

Tang Mo never doubted the accuracy of Fu Wenduo's maps, and he had absolute faith in the man. Fu Wenduo did not let him down either. This kind of map was not a challenge for him at all, even without the physical enhancement he had gotten from being online on Earth, he was still able to draw it. Fu Wenduo had once entered a very complicated secret military base alone when he was on a mission before, and after just walking around inside, Fu Wenduo drew a detailed map of the base and marked the exact location of the labs and control rooms, the map was accurate to the meter.

However, if the map is really the way Fu Wenduo drew it, then everything becomes even stranger.

Tang Mo followed behind Zhao Xiaofei's trio, head bowed in contemplation.

The corridor on the first floor was much simpler than the second, without many turns or forks in the road, almost a neat rectangle. Rooms were spread out on both sides of the corridor, and the five players walked halfway along the corridor, looking for eleven more rooms. Zhao Xiaofei, who was walking at the front, stopped in his tracks, "There's another staircase here?"

The crowd took out their maps and compared the locations of the two floors.

Li Miaomiao concludes, "This staircase is the staircase we first saw before, I think."

While on the second floor, the five players saw a total of two staircases leading to the first floor. Tang Mo makes the decision not to take the first staircase, and the group descends the second staircase and walks into the first floor and into the room of the Truth Clock.

Zhao Xiaofei: "It's useless for us to go up, the corridors above are full of footprints, go up and the game will be over. The first floor of the corridor is not finished, let's finish the first floor first."

Everyone followed a few more steps when Tang Mo turned her head and said curiously, "Victor?"

In the dark steel corridor, tall men stood with straight backs between the walls. Fu Wenduo looked at the wall to his left, then at the wall to his right. His frown grew tighter and tighter. Suddenly, he raised his head and walked over to Tang Mo. Tang Mo froze for a moment, not understanding what he wanted to do. Fu Wenduo, however, had already lowered his head, pressed his lips to his ear, and whispered in a voice that only the two could hear.

Tang Mo's body abruptly froze.

Ten minutes later, the five players were walking along the first floor corridor to reach the room of the Truth Clock again.

Zhao Xiaofei, while completing the map of the first floor with lipstick, said, "The first floor is really much simpler than the second floor, just a plain rectangular corridor. There are 29 rooms in total, and we looked in all of them and couldn't find Schrödinger. Schrödinger must be on the second floor, in the corridors we couldn't get into."

Grea laughed, "My lady, I don't think it's that simple."

Even Zhao Xiaofei, not to mention Grea, thought the answer was a bit too simple. How can a tower game be that simple?

Of course it is not impossible. Without Fu Wenduo's powerful reconnaissance skills, and without the "You're not going to find Schrödinger anymore" clue revealed by the Truth Clock, they would never have had the information they have now. In addition, they encountered very dangerous inventions in several rooms, which would have killed them if they were not strong enough.

And the map of the second floor of this fortress is so complicated that a normal person walking in it might not even make it to the first floor before they've wasted a round of gameplay.

Zhao Xiaofei thought for a moment, "Anyway, we've already searched over a hundred rooms, so we're still a few rooms short. There are still two more chances for the second round of the game, so we'll just look through the rooms we haven't found. There's always a third round of the game, so don't worry about failing."

This is a very reasonable suggestion, Li Miaomiao nodded her head. She was about to agree with Zhao Xiaofei, but then she suddenly remembered Ruan Wangshu's advice, and quietly looked at Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, and Li Miaomiao froze.

Tang Mo shook his head at her.

Li Miaomiao was confused.

Tang Mo sighed. Li Miaomiao is not Fu Wenduo, it is impossible for Li Miaomiao to understand him with just a few glances on such a complicated matter.

Zhao Xiaofei : "So we'll go straight back to the second floor now and go through those rooms we haven't been to?"

"I'd like to find the Truth Clock again."

Zhao Xiaofei looked strangely at Tang Mo and asked in surprise, "You're looking for the Truth Clock? What are you looking for it for."

Tang Mo looked calm: "The door to the room of the Truth Clock is facing the stairs, so since we have decided to start the second round of the game, we can use this room as a starting point. You can also go directly to the second floor from this room."

"...... is not out of the question."

Li Miaomiao hammered out, "Let's go."

This round was already doomed to failure, and it didn't seem to make any difference where the second round started. Tang Mo held a flashlight and stood in front of the group, his right hand gripping the doorknob made of steel. He gently pressed it, and in an instant, a blue glow lit up from the room, enveloping the five players in it. By the time they opened their eyes, they were already immobilized on the floor, unable to move their feet.

A calm female voice rang out calmly, "Welcome to the world of Truth Clock. I am the great ...... great ...... great ...... great ......"

Truth Clock: "......"

How the fuck is it you guys again ahhhhhhhh!!!!

The Truth Clock never expected the poisonous humans to come back to it before the second round of the hide-and-seek game had even begun. The corridor was not repeatable, but the room was. Truth Clock looked at the five players in front of it in silence, and all five players looked at it with their heads up, wide-eyed.

Five men and a clock stared at each other wordlessly.

Truth Clock: "......" makes the clock big!

After a long time, Truth Clock tried to make his voice sound very calm, "Black Tower intruders, what are you trying to do again. I've told you all I know, and I'm already going to be made into all sorts of things by the great Herr Schrödinger and given to several other Herrs. Must you all be so desperate?"

Why does this sound a bit like a grouch ......

Li Miaomiao said: "We just decided to end this round of the game with your room as the end point. And then we'll use this room as the starting point for the second round of the game. "Who's got nothing better to do than beat you up again?"......

Truth Clock was depressed, "Yes, you did lose the round the moment you walked into this room again."

The Black Tower beeped at the right time, "Ding-dong! The first round of ' Schrödinger's Hide-and-Seek Game' is over."

"The second round of the game begins!"

Sweet, glutinous cat calls mixed with gloating laughter echoed triumphantly in the steel room, "Hahaha, you stupid players! There's no way you'll ever find me, you'll all become of my collection! Trash Clock, you get these shameless humans out of here, I can't wait to put them in my warehouse, I'm going to make them all into stinky toilets for Santa Claus!"

The two female players' faces blackened in half.

Li Miaomiao squeezed her fingers together, intending to leave this room and go straight upstairs, rushing into the ones they hadn't entered.

The Truth Clock said good-naturedly, "Yes, Your Excellency the Great Schrödinger, I'll get this group of humans out of here."

However, in the next second, a voice rang out, "Who said we're going out?"

The truth clock froze violently.

In the darkened room, the little black cat blinked dully as well, staring blankly at the human.

In the closed steel room, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo stood at the forefront of the five. Tang Mo raised his head slightly, his gaze calmly looking at the huge clock, and asked decisively, "We have entered your world, is it possible to start another game of Truth Clock? Become the truth, or crush the truth."

Truth Clock: "But you already know the answer, Black Tower intruder."

Tang Mo asked again, "Can we play another game?"

Truth Clock didn't even understand what he was trying to do, "...... can."

Not only Truth Clock, Li Miaomiao and Zhao Xiaofei also did not understand why Tang Mo was wasting his time in this place. Grea looked at Tang Mo's back thoughtfully, and the little black cat, dragging its head with both paws, stared at the back of Tang Mo's head in a room, as if it wanted to see what was going on in his head.

Suddenly, Schrödinger caught a glimpse of Fu Wenduo s slightly hooked mouth. The little black cat's green eyes snapped open, and he said quickly, "Truth Clock, you get them out of here, and don't allow them to ask ......"

"My question is, the second round of the game began, and as of right now," Tang Mo's voice rang out along with the little black cat's as he stared calmly at the large clock in front of him, "Truth Clock ...... we've lost this round of the game?"

The air was quiet for a moment.

In the room of the Truth Clock, Zhao Xiaofei and Li Miaomiao looked at Tang Mo's back in dismay. Grea was also a bit surprised as he gently tapped the ground with his short staff. No one realized that his short staff was magically not restricted by the room, and could be moved on the floor at will.

But this time, the Truth Clock actually didn't answer.

For the first time the clock was silent for so long. Its blue clock body trembled slightly at an undetectable magnitude to the naked eye, and the little black cat's heartbreaking roar roared up, "No answering him! You failed piece of crap clock, you are not allowed to answer him! I won't allow you to answer him!!!"

If it had eyes, the Truth Clock would be looking at the sky right now, and it would see Schrödinger, the greatest inventor in the world of the Black Tower, through the heavy steel walls.

Three seconds later, the Truth Clock said, in a calm and undulating female voice, word for word: "Great Lord Schrödinger, I am a failure, but my failure is not in that I don't know all the truths of the world, I fail in that I possess feelings that don't conform to the truths. Whenever someone asks me a question, I will answer it. I can't lie, and he's asking a question of right and wrong. When I lied, these Black Tower intruders shot down the truth, and they would still know the right answer. You know, the fact that they asked the question means they already know how to get through this game."

The little black cat roared, "You useless piece of crap clock!!!"

The hour and minute and second hands on the huge dial of the Truth Clock clattered to a walk once more. As if it hadn't heard Schrödinger's growl, it said, word for word, in a smooth, emotionless voice -

"Welcome to the world of the Truth Clock. I am the great Truth Clock, chiming accurately for the great Herr Schrödinger. Trespassers of the Black Tower, you have a total of five times the right to ask questions. Become the truth, or crush the truth. The Truth Clock seemed to "look" at Tang Mo in response to the question you just asked, and it coldly replied, "My answer is, yes."

"At this moment, as of now, Black Tower intruders, you have lost the second round of the game of hide-and-seek."