Welcome, all of you, back to Earth.

The cold voice of a child ends abruptly in the wind, and on the distant horizon, as if in a hallucination, a curved moon appears out of the blinding sunlight. Upon further inspection, the sun returned to normal. However, at the next moment when the black tower's notification ended, only a crisp click was heard, and a string of bright red numbers suddenly appeared on the pitch-black giant tower.

"12:00:00"

The bright red numbers looked like blood, cutting a hideous gash in the black tower. Around the globe, everyone watched in dismay.

It's a countdown.

Time passes, and the countdown slowly dwindles.

Shanghai, Nanjing Road.

As the string of red countdown numbers appeared, two black figures slowly emerged from the air in a dark alley. They were a man and a woman, both looking very young. They appeared completely out of thin air, and when they appeared, they were still in the position of looking up at the black tower. They hid in an excellent position, the light was dim, very hidden, it was difficult for others to discover their position, but they could clearly see the black tower.

When the two men saw a countdown appear on the black tower, they too were stunned. Then, the young man turned his head and saw the setting sun that was about to disappear below the horizon. His eyes widened and his voice was hoarse, "...... back?"

The young woman appeared much calmer as she squinted her eyes at the setting sun and then at the moon in the eastern sky.

"The moon ah ...... we're really back this time."

Even if they were outwardly calm, their rapid breathing revealed the excitement they were feeling in their hearts at the moment. The young man and woman looked at the sun with almost greedy eyes, as if they wanted to memorize it to their bones. But after a few seconds, as if they had seen enough, they withdrew their eyes and looked at each other.

The woman scratched the corners of her mouth and gave a meaningful smile, "It's back ......"

The man stroked a sharp, slender ice pick, "Eve's game, that's a game name I like."

Woman: "So, start the game? Ah, I think I hear a little friend breathing."

An odd low laugh escaped from the two men's throats, and in the next second, their figures suddenly disappeared into the alley, and when they reappeared, they had already entered a three-story residential building next to the alley. Only in the bedroom of this building, a middle-aged fat man stared at these two young men and women who suddenly appeared in front of him with wide eyes, horrified.

There was so much he wanted to ask. He wanted to know where the hell these two had appeared from, who they really were. However, he could no longer ask. On the middle-aged fat man's forehead was a black, bloody hole, and in just a second, he was stabbed through the head with an ice pick without even uttering a single word.

With a rumble, the fat man fell to the ground.

The young woman knelt down to rummage through his body and found a couple of props. She chortled in disgust and casually tossed the props into the trash.

The man was also helpless as he rubbed his neck. A golden four-digit number was suspended next to his neck, and he sighed, "What bad luck, it seems like a full-fledged player. What a shame, I was going to try what it's like to be a stowaway."

The woman said sarcastically to him, "Didn't the Black Tower say the names of a few stowaways, and there's one named Fu Wenduo, who seems to be the strongest of the bunch of meat hogs. Just go kill him."

Instead, the man came to the mood and laughed excitedly, "Killing Fu Wenduo feels good ah ......"

The man and woman searched the cabin and took a bottle of water from the cupboard. When they went out, the sky was completely dark and the moon was high in the sky. It seemed like a long time since the two had seen the moon, and they stood in front of the small building, lost in thought as they looked at the moon hanging at the top of the black tower. After a few moments, the two raised their steps towards the Bund.

To them, it seems as if there is not even a hint of danger in walking on Nanking Road at night.

They walked calmly down this shopping street, the woman stopped by a store and hid a laugh from her lips. She smashed the window glass of the store with her fist to bring out a strand of diamond necklace inside, however she did not wear it around her neck. She tore the strand of necklace and took the diamonds, throwing them one by one for fun.

On the empty and deserted Nanjing Road, the figure of this man and woman walking together was very eye-catching.

By the time they got to the black tower directly below, the woman had thrown the diamonds down to one of the largest pink diamonds. Narrowing one eye, she aimed the diamond at the tip of the black tower and smashed it up. Unfortunately, the black tower was so high that the diamond flew halfway to the ground and fell in a straight pink line in the moonlight. Just as soon as the diamond touched the ground--

Buzz!

A noise so subtle as to be almost inaudible rang out, and the young woman blushed slightly as the man brushed and twisted his head.

In the darkness of the night, several shadows snapped out from all corners. At the same time, a large red web appeared at the feet of the young man and woman. Seeming like misplaced cobwebs, the pair of young men were entangled right in the center of the large web, and the woman tried tugging at her feet finding it difficult to move.

The tall, strong foreign man wielded a large kitchen knife and flung it hard at the pair. The young man calmly dodged backwards as he raised his hand and countered the cleaver back with an ice pick.

Jacks grabs the chopper and one by one the others hiding in the darkness come out.

More than fifty players walked to the bottom of the black tower, vigilantly staring at the young man and woman trapped in the center. Obviously, the other party was already trapped by the large net, and they were also outnumbered, but these fifty-odd players did not let up, always on guard against the young man and woman's attacks.

Surrounded by so many people, the faces of the young man and woman actually did not look nervous. The young woman picked up the pink diamond that had fallen to the ground, her eyes flickered and quickly hid them.

The young woman looked around the crowd and finally set her eyes on a young man in a white robe.

She gave a delicate laugh, "You're the leader of this organization?"

Luo Fengcheng pushed his eyes, "You guys should have collected intelligence long ago and know that there are many organizations in Shanghai, but there is no particularly large organization. More than fifty high-level players who have cleared at least the second level of the Black Tower cannot possibly belong to the same organization."

Her own condescension was discovered by the other party, the young woman was not embarrassed, instead she innocently threw a wink towards Luo Fengcheng: "Listening to you, little handsome, do you know who we are?"

Luo Fengcheng hooked his lips: ''Leihart Squad, often frequents Nanjing Road. There are two members in the squad, who cleared the third floor of the Black Tower a month ago, and like to celebrate with a bloody party on Nanjing Road after each Tower Attack game.On January 14th, 2018, after slaughtering more than two thousand ordinary players on Nanjing Road, the two jumped into the time rankings." After a pause, Luo Fengcheng was still smiling, but his eyes were icy cold, "Transparent Man, no, Returner World, member of the most powerful and loathsome Reichardt Squad in the Shanghai region, 53rd Liu Xiao in the Time Ranking, 59th Liu Yuan ......"

Luo Fengcheng smiled faintly, "Welcome, all of you, back to Earth."

Things like this happen all over the globe. But not every region is full of arrogant returnees. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo patiently hide in an office building along Chang'an Street, on the lookout for possible enemies. But after half an hour, the narrow street is empty.

Tang Mo did not let his guard down as he and Fu Wenduo exchanged glances.

Fu Wenduo nodded and continued to guard the window, his eyes closed and his ears listening to the movements around him.

Tang Mo looks at Chen Shanshan : "Although prepared, I never thought ...... transparent people would actually be down to 320,000."

Six billion humans disappeared six months ago, and they were the transparent ones in the beginning.

A total of six billion people, seven months had passed, and surprisingly, only 320,000 people were left. That's only one-tenth of Earth's players.

Not only Tang Mo, when Fu Wenduo and Chen Shanshan heard the Black Tower announce that more than 5 million players had successfully loaded into the game, they also subconsciously thought that this was the number of transparent people, however, when the Black Tower announced that 320,000 players had loaded into the game in the next second, they instantly realized who was the real minority.

The only three hundred and twenty thousand remaining were not Earth players, they were Transparent.

Tang Mo closed his eyes and pondered, "This number is not impossible. They have been forced to participate in the games since November last year, with only ten minutes of rest between every two games, and it was only in January that the time rankings appeared and they had more rest time. Without the leaderboards, even a strong player like Mu Huixue would have died in one of the games. So most of the returnees were eliminated before the time leaderboards appeared."

Six billion, three hundred and twenty thousand.

1 in 20,000 odds.

Tang Mo was silent and stopped talking. In the room, Chen Shanshan and Fu Wen sounded also looked down at the ground without opening their mouths.

The probability is so low that they understand that the chances of their loved ones surviving one of these are close to zero.

A low voice rang out, breaking the silence, "The Black Tower has put us on global notice."

Tang Mo looked up at him, "Well, the Black Tower has reported a total of forty-five names, and except for Mu Huixue who is in the Returners' camp that doesn't count for the moment, the other forty-four are all Earth players and were once globally announced by the Black Tower."

The first player in each region to pass the new Tower Attack game will get a global announcement from the Black Tower. If someone passes a hard mode tower game, the Black Tower will only announce this information privately to players around the world who have already passed that level. So there are names that the average player has never heard of, but Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo know.

Tang Mo pondered for a moment and made a decision, "Go to Chosen."

This update is completely beyond Tang Mo's expectations.

He had originally envisioned that the Black Tower would give the returnees special rewards for being the first to clear the four levels. However, he didn't expect that the Black Tower would open an extra game for the returnees, and at the same time make a global announcement of the coordinates and names of them, the Earth players.

Chen Shanshan: "Chosen should choose to cooperate with us. Beijing has announced that four people have been hacked by the Black Tower, including two from Chosen. The Eve game has a total of seven days, and this is the first day, and while none of us know at this point how Eve's rewards are supposed to be opened, and what the Beijing region's Transparent's attitude is towards Earth's survivors, they are still in a state of being restricted from resting time."

Tang Mo nodded, "Well, the time leaderboards are no longer updated, but they are still returnee status and subject to rest time restrictions. The only way to get rid of the time restrictions and truly be free is to eliminate Earth players, including and not limited to the way they play ......"

Tang Mo frowned at the familiar remark.

Fu Wenduo : "Although they only have 320,000 people left, they cannot be careless."

The four of them discussed the future countermeasures, and Tang Mo directly asked Chen Shanshan what she thought about Eve's game. Without changing her color, the little girl told all the Bible stories, the story of Adam and Eve, and all the information she could think of about Eve, but the four of them couldn't find anything that fit the "Eve's Reward".

Chen Shanshan : "Eve appears in different mythological texts in the West and is portrayed in different ways, with different descriptions of Eve in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Leaving aside the myths, there is the Eve hypothesis ......"

Fu Xiaodi mused, "Could that reward be an apple? Eve gained wisdom by stealing the forbidden fruit, and the forbidden fruit is an apple."

Chen Shanshan : "It doesn't matter what the vehicle of the reward is, what matters is the nature of the reward."

The night was like water, and the Transparent Man was hiding in the shadows without knowing where he was. The four of them decided to wait in this building for the night first, and when the game time ended at six o'clock the next morning, they would go to the Chosen Base. Suddenly, a sharp gunshot sounded in the silent street.

Fu Wenduo's eyes turned cold as he looked down along the window.

Only to see a middle-aged woman lying on the ground staring at the sky with her eyes wide open, blood gurgling out from underneath her, quickly staining the road. On the other side of the street, a black shadow flashed and jumped into the grass. Tang Mo gripped the handle of Yang San's umbrella tightly and stared at the leaping back of the man from a high building.

The man weaved back and forth through the dense street trees as if he were a black ghost. Moonlight shone through the gaps in the leaves, illuminating half of his chin and a line of golden numbers suspended from his neck.

"341"

Bang!

Another shot rang out, and the bullet penetrated the wall with a sound that didn't go into the flesh.

No one knew exactly how the man saw through the wall to the enemy, and the number on the black shadow's neck changed from "341" to "351". He laughed hoarsely, and the sound of his laughter was drowned out by the whistling wind. The man ran farther and farther away, firing three rounds along the way, each one hitting someone and adding to the number hovering around his neck.

Just as he was about to leave Tang Mo's field of vision, the man suddenly looked up and his eyes met with the four Tang Mo's on the roof of the building.

The next moment, the black muzzle of the gun was pointed straight at Fu Wenduo, who was closest to the window, and the man did not hesitate to press the trigger. Fu Wenduo reacted very quickly, side-stepping the bullet. Then there were three consecutive gunshots, only Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo showed their heads at the window. However, when Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo saw the three bullets, both of them changed in color, one of them picked up Chen Shanshan, and the other picked up Fu Wen Sheng, and quickly left the room.

At the same moment they leave the room, bullets are fired into the wall. One of the bullets was fired at Tang Mo, and two others were fired at Chen Shanshan and Fu Wen, who were never seen.

This alien power is so weird that Tang Mo is carrying Chen Shanshan on his back, panting slightly. However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, another ear-piercing gunshot rang out.