Christmas tree branches?

Shanghai, Nanjing Road.

Blood flowed along the cracks of the ground's bricks to the sides of the road, quickly outlining a dark brown mark. Some of the blood had long since dried up, while others were still warm, and a dozen or so corpses lay on the ground staring at the sky with wide eyes.

On the second floor of a certain store on the side of the road, when the Black Tower's beeping sound ended, the tall foreign strong man first looked confused, and then he seemed to have been suddenly hit by something fierce, and his whole eyes were wide open.

Luo Fengcheng exclaimed, "Jacks!"

Tang Qiao quickly runs up to catch Jacks falling backward, and because her opponent is too strong, she falls half a step backward.

The several members of the Atark Organization all looked blankly at Luo Fengcheng. Luo Fengcheng narrowed his eyes as he looked out the window at the calm Nanjing Road and quickly said, "Go, go back to the base first!"

At the same time, the "earthquake" that shook the whole city of Beijing gradually subsided as Xu Yunsheng stopped talking. Not knowing if there will be another earthquake, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo look at each other and decide not to enter the building.

The same applies to Ruan Wangshu.

The group met in the shade of the playground, and Ruan Wangshu said directly, "May 25th at 5:00 AM, that's the last hour of playtime for 'Eve's Game'. Xu Yunsheng looked arrogant and didn't take us seriously, and directly issued a challenge letter to us." It's a letter of notification, but it's really a challenge. "In fact, she's got plans."

Being able to rank ninth in the time charts, Xu Yunsheng was never likely to be stupid.

Tang Mo nods, "Yes, one hour, and if she eliminates us, she can open the reward. If we kill her, we may not be able to open the reward."

"Xu Yunsheng is the one who gave you the challenge, it sounds like it has nothing to do with us people." An underhanded voice rang out.

Tang Mo followed the sound and saw that it was the young man with a flat head who had dodged Fu Wenduo's flying dagger.

Ruan Wangshu stared at him grimly and let out a sneer from his throat, "You don't want Eve's reward?"

The flat-headed youth lost his smile, "What do you mean?"

Ruan Wangshu scanned the other Beijing players present, "Isn't the reason why you agreed to cooperate and came here for Eve's reward? In the whole of Beijing, the only way to get Eve's reward is to eliminate Xu Yunsheng and Ning Zheng. With just two people, we only have two chances. Six days later, we want to kill Xu Yunsheng, and Xu Yunsheng wants to kill us." He pointed at himself and the three Tang Mo, "But there must be many Returners who will also take advantage of the chaos to look for opportunities to kill us. This has nothing to do with you guys?...... The other returnees can take advantage of the chaos to kill us, and you guys can also look for opportunities to kill Xu Yunsheng."

The flat-headed youth's expression was unchanged, this was originally the idea in his heart, it was just being pointed out.

Until now, no one expected Xu Yunsheng to issue such a challenge. She appeared to be challenging the Tang Mo four by herself, but in fact, her voice spread throughout Beijing. Countless returnees heard her words and would jump at the chance to ambush her at the East 3rd Ring elevated on that day.

Xu Yunsheng used himself as bait to lure out the Tang Mo four. Then using the Tang Mo four, he hooked all the returnees in Beijing who wanted to open the rewards. At the same time, ambitious Beijing players will definitely go. In the midst of a chaotic battle, Xu Yunsheng has a better chance of winning.

Chen Shanshan's voice was calm, "This duel is Xu Yunsheng against us, but in reality, it's simply a battle between Earth players and Returners. To be honest, there are more than five million Earth survivors and only three hundred and twenty thousand Returners, but I don't think we're stronger than them."

No one has refuted Chen Shanshan's words.

Tang Mo : "Xu Yunsheng set a time limit of one hour and is actually protecting himself. An hour of fighting is still manageable, any longer and this war between returnees and survivors will be unmanageable."

Practicing Yu Zheng, who had been watching coldly, said, "There really are no fools among the returnees."

Xu Yunsheng is not stupid. She used to only kill meat pigs, and now she is so arrogant to lay down a challenge. It's not that she's crazy, everything is under her control.

The people discussed the matter for a while longer, and arranged to meet at the Eastern Third Ring Road six days later. They tacitly didn't ask each other where they were planning to hide, every extra word they said could potentially give away their lives. They were only forming an alliance for the time being, they were never friends.

Tang Mo Before leaving, Ruan Wangshu suddenly asked, "Tang Mo, in the past, when you cleared the Black Tower's first tier difficulty mode, the Black Tower said that you were in Huaxia 2. Huaxia 2 area official player Jacks opening Eve's reward ...... Do you recognize him?"

Tang Mo faded, "Don't know."

Ruan Wangshu looked at him slyly and hooked the corner of his mouth, "...... Good."

The four of them immediately left the eightieth center.

Ruan Wangshu did not know that the strong foreign man following Tang Mo was Jacks, but he sensed that Tang Mo must know Jacks.

Finding a hidden residential building, Tang Mo looked directly at Chen Shanshan and got right to the point: "Jacks Crown, is that Jacks' full name? Is there a second player with that name in Shanghai?"

Chen Shanshan shook his head, "That's Jacks... I didn't expect Jacks to be the first player in China to open the reward. Brother Tang Mo, it's now 13:51 PM, and the time communicated by the Black Tower just now was 13:19 PM. This is not Eve's game time."

Fu Wenduo : "Eliminating returnees outside of game time also earns them rewards from each other?"

Chen Shanshan hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know. But my intuition tells me that it's best not to try."

This is a quiet old neighborhood, Tang Mo four people found a house without people, after going inside, Fu Wen sound took out the mineral water and handed it to Tang Mo. Tang Mo poured the water on his wrist wound, which was cut by the debris on the ground when he jumped from the building carrying Chen Shanshan.

The four sat down around the dining table, which happened to be a table for four in this household.

Tang Mo's fingers clattered against the desktop, and after a moment, he looked up and said, "Eve's Reward, does this sudden game feel similar to that surprise copy of Santa Claus, half a year ago, don't you guys think?"

Fu Wen Sheng recalled, "Santa's surprise copy, I remember that copy didn't give us any extra rewards at all. Everyone was forced to enter the copy, and at the end of the game, the players who grabbed the Christmas branch at the beginning would get a reward, and those who couldn't would get no reward. Tang, are you trying to say that Eve's game could be just like this one?"

Tang Mo nodded his head and shook it again, "That's not what I meant. I'm just wondering what happens if the Returners can't open the rewards, and what happens if the Earth players can't get the rewards ......?"

Fu Wen Sheng: "What will happen?"

Fu Wenduo faintly said, "Not good."

Tang Mo subconsciously glanced at him.

Chen Shanshan pursed her lips, "Well, it's not great. Perhaps this Eve's reward is like a Christmas branch, not forcing every player to have it. In fact, it was impossible for players to have them all. The returnees only have a chance to open the reward by eliminating 45 Earth players, in addition to finding the correct way to open the reward. This probability was low, but maybe they could find the correct method. Yet on the other side ...... Earth players only have 100 chances."

Fu Wen Sheng: "I know, there are only a hundred players on the time chart."

Tang Mo added, "And the time leaderboards are fixed and no longer changing. In other words, Earth players want to win this game and open Eve's reward, provided we have it. All over the world, with more than five million Earth survivors, even if we kill all the returnees on the time leaderboard, only one hundred players will get the reward."

In fact, Tang Mo has long realized that Eve's game is not a punishment game.

There is no penalty for failing to pass the game, just a loss of rewards. Just like "Cinderella's Food Chain Game", the game called "Eve's Game Copy 315" keeps reminding the player that there is no penalty for failing to pass the game, and there is a reward for succeeding. However, ......

"I want this reward."

Chen Shanshan looked at Tang Mo with surprise.

Fu Wenduo's lips curled up, "Well, I want that reward too."

Tang Mo raised an eyebrow at him, "There are only two chances in all of Beijing, one for Xu Yunsheng and one for Ning Zheng."

Fu Wenduo: "Exactly two."

Tang Mo didn't say another word.

This guy is really arrogant, Xu Yunsheng is not one tenth as arrogant as him.

In her heart, Tang Mo had a smile on her face.

No ambitious player who wants to attack the tower and become more powerful can pass up Eve's reward. This is not a Christmas twig, this is a rare reward. Open the reward and get something that must be much more powerful than a Christmas twig.

The crowd discussed this for a while longer, returning to the topic of the beginning.

Tang Mo : "How in the world did Jacks get Eve's reward and still open it?"

Both Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were completely clueless about the matter, and they turned their attention to the short-haired girl.

Chen Shanshan looked calmly at the table, she closed her eyes as if she was thinking about something. Tang Mo quietly waited for her to answer.

Within this short minute, countless fragments flashed through Chen Shanshan's brain. She kept deducing, imagining herself as Luo Fengcheng, and according to her own teacher's character, and then linking it to her teacher's usual strategy style, imagining what he would do if she was Luo Fengcheng, in the face of the upcoming opening of the Black Tower 4.0 version, as well as the information that Jacks had brought back from Beijing.

Chen Shanshan suddenly opened his eyes, "I'll join up with the other Shanghai players and just ambush them."

Chen Shanshan pulled a map out of her backpack and flipped it over to a map of Shanghai. With her eyes like a torch, she stared at several districts in the center of Shanghai. Finally, she took a pen and drew a circle on Nanjing Road. She said, "My teacher had captured a Transparent before I left Shanghai, and the other person had said that Nanjing Road was a forbidden area that most Transparent people didn't dare to enter, but that person disappeared without having a chance to say why."

Having left Shanghai for more than a month, Chen Shanshan knew more and more about Transparent Man. She quickly analyzed, "The forbidden area, because there are powerful players here! Just like Xu Yunsheng, most of the Returners who saw her were killed by her, so there must be a powerful Returner who uses Nanjing Road as a stronghold!"

Tang Mo said directly, "Liu Xiao, Liu Yuan! 53rd and 59th on the time charts."

Chen Shanshan : "That's them!" She drew a small circle on the map, circling the black tower suspended over Nanjing Road, "Returners who can use Nanjing Road as a stronghold must be very arrogant and have no one in sight. When the Black Tower updated its version, they must have been at Nanjing Road, or even right below the Black Tower. Teacher would do an ambush here and attack them. Jacks is the one who killed one person in this battle and gained his reward."

"How Jacks turn on the rewards."

Chen Shanshan : "I don't know."

The four of them deliberated for a while longer, and still didn't come up with an answer. But they did discover another important thing.

Tang Mo laughed, "All other copies of Eve games should be as safe as the Cinderella copy. There's no punishment for failing, and there's a reward for passing. Although the rewards aren't always very good ...... " Tang Mo thought of the small and broken pumpkin, "but it's better than nothing. We can do some preparation in these six days while engaging in some games."

As Tang Mo had guessed, the four of them entered two more copies after that. Once they ran into a team of all Earth players, and once they ran into a Returner who had very little time to rest.

There are rewards for passing the game and no penalties for failing.

Tang Mo gets two very useless looking props.

Fu Wenduo : "This is also the convenience that the Black Tower gives to the returnees. This game, which prohibits violence, is the only way for weak returnees to eliminate us and open up rewards."

Tang Mo : "But they didn't eliminate us."

The Black Tower gives the opportunity, it's up to the individual to take it.

Soon, six days passed.

At 00:00 on the night of May 24, Tang Mo's four men ambushed the top floor of a high-rise building next to the East Third Ring Road elevated road. The view from here was wide enough to take in the elevated road, which stretches for more than ten kilometers. They had been waiting upstairs for twenty-eight hours, and the earlier they arrived, the less they had to worry about being ambushed.

At 4:00 a.m. on May 25, Beijing's East Third Ring elevated, dark.

The chilly evening breeze blew across the road, and the elevated road was littered with crashed and abandoned vehicles. The smell of abandonment and desolation permeated the darkness of the night, and Tang Mo was patient as he stared unblinkingly down the long stretch of elevated road, waiting for the first person to appear.