Chapter 225: Enjoy the last game of Black Tower!

"Data readout complete ......"

"Loading ......"

"Loaded successfully ......"

"Ding Dong! June 19, 2018, Welcome Back to Earth."

The dazzling sunlight pierced Tang Mo's eyes, and he couldn't help but reach out his hand to block the light, his eyes squinting. Suddenly, he heard a familiar yet unfamiliar sound. It was a soft but heavy bird song, cooing, and it seemed to be a pigeon. With his extremely evolved hearing, Tang Mo clearly heard the fluttering of wings without opening his eyes.

The air is slapped away, and as if startled by something, it flies quickly into the sky.

He couldn't wait to open his eyes, and finally saw the bird--

It's a bead-necked turtledove.

One of the most common birds in Huaxia, it looked at these humans who suddenly appeared below the black tower in terror and flapped its wings to escape.

At this moment, more than three million human beings around the globe stopped in their tracks, stopped running towards the Black Tower.

There was uncertainty and bewilderment on their faces, gradually changing to shock and finally surprise.

Ruan Wangshu trembled and squatted down, looking at a group of ants carrying food on the ground. Chen Shanshan looked at a few sparrows on a tree not far away, his mouth grew wide and he could not utter a word.

Fu Wenduo, Mu Huixue, John Blues and Bale Fusco, who just returned to the U.S., and Takao Yamamoto, who couldn't wait to run to the edge of Osaka's Shinsaibashi Bridge under its black tower and look down at the fish swimming in the river.

Shanghai, China.

Luo Fengcheng's body stiffened, Jacks and Zhao Ziang both looked at the black tower with surprise and horror, after a long time, Luo Fengcheng came to his senses. He walked to the stone monument at the beginning of Nanjing Road, on which there were six gilt letters "Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street", and touched the intact stone monument.

"You're back too ......"

Jacks: "Doc, back?"

Little fat Zhao Ziang rubbed his head, "Back? What's back."

Luo Fengcheng smiled and did not reply.

Meanwhile, the Black Tower of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo realized what it meant to "return to the earth" when they saw the turtle dove flying to the sky.

Around the globe, part of the players had already comprehended what exactly had happened, and part of them were still in a daze. But the Black Tower did not give the humans a bit of time to be pleased and excited, Fu Wenduo reacted extremely quickly, as the bead-necked turtledove had just flown into the sky, he picked up a small stone, and with a flick of his wrist, he knocked the bird down.

The bead-necked turtledove crashed to the ground, fluttering its wings.

Mu Huixue A whip tied the bird back lightly, not harming the birdie. But immediately afterward, that clear childish voice rang out again, interrupting everyone's thoughts.

"Dingdong! Successfully opened the seventh floor of the Black Tower Attack Game-"

"Name of the game: the Black Tower Delightful Scavenger Hunt."

"Object of the game: all players."

The voice came to an abrupt end, and before the humans all over the world could recover from their surprise, they looked up in unison, at the black tower. Only to hear it say this in a calm voice-

"The Black Tower, as mankind's favorite gaming partner, has accompanied Earth's humans through countless wonderful and fun games. However happy times are always so short, and it's time to say goodbye again."

Every word spoken was filled with emotion, but it was the Black Tower that spoke.

It spoke in the coldest, most unfeeling tones full of emotion, the extreme contrasts making its words all irony.

"Ding Dong! Thanks to Huaxia 1 region players Fu Wenduo , Tang Mo , Mu Huixue ...... Huaxia 7 region player Li Xia, East Asia 2 region player Takao Yamamoto, and America 2 region players John Blues , Bale Fusco." The Black Tower once again repeated the names of the nine players who had raided the sixth floor of the Black Tower, and then it turned, its tone indifferent to the extreme: "Now open the seventh floor of the Black Tower to attack the tower game."

"Rules of the game--"

"First, excluding the skies over the oceans, the Earth has a total of fifteen thousand two hundred and nine Black Towers. For seven days, from 2:26 a.m. GMT on June 19th to 2:26 a.m. GMT on June 26th, the number of Black Towers on Earth will be reduced at the rate of two thousand one hundred and seventy-two per day, and the geographic area in which the Black Tower exists will be wiped out at the same time, including all human players on that area."

"Second, the black towers that were erased were completely randomized. The five Black Towers, except for those within the game content, are recognized as erased at the end of the game."

"Third, each black tower is equipped with a tower guardian, who is an underground man or monster."

"Fourth, there are five special black towers among the fifteen thousand black towers that harbor special treasures. Find the five black towers and raid that tower, defeating the tower guardians to obtain the treasures. Finding all five treasures will allow you to pass the seven levels of the black tower."

"Fifth, effective immediately, all Black Tower games are halted and all players in the game are immediately forced to eject from the game."

"Sixth, all humans may attack the tower, and are not limited to the nine Black Tower Level 6 players."

"Reaffirming the Three Iron Laws of the Black Tower-"

"All explanations belong to the Black Tower."

"6:00-18:00 is game time."

"Ask the players to work on attacking the tower!"

After a moment's pause, just when everyone thought it had finished announcing the rules of the game for this time, the Black Tower said softly in a mechanical child's voice -

"Last game of the Black Tower, enjoy the game!"

The sudden return to Earth of the seventh floor of the Black Tower, a collective tower attack game for players around the globe.

The Black Pagoda revealed a lot of unacceptable information at once, and Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were unable to react. A moment later, Fu Wenduo listened to the movements around him as he reached out and pressed his hand against the ground. Feeling the vibration of the ground, he turned his head and said, "There are many people coming towards the Black Tower."

Tang Mo : "With the Black Tower suddenly saying something like that, and us all suddenly back on the real Earth, it makes sense that the players would want to come and see the Black Tower and search the neighborhood for information."

Andre muffled, "Elbow?"

Crowd: "Go!"

Without wasting any time, the five of them immediately moved out from underneath the Black Tower to avoid being surrounded by the players coming over. Halfway there, Yu Zheng spotted Ruan Wangshu running over from the Beijing Railway Station. When they met, Ruan Wangshu said, "Let's go to the 80th grade school."

"Yes!"

Along the way, Tang Mo saw hundreds of players flocking to the Black Tower, and also saw many players looking at the various animals along the roadside with incredulous eyes. Whether it was flying birds, swimming fish, or even reptiles and ants, any non-human creature moved them to tears. It was as if they had returned home, as if they suddenly had roots and the motivation to live.

Tang Mo's heart pumped hard as he turned his head and entered the Chosen Base with the crowd.

Without further ado, Ruan Wangshu got right to the point: "This is Earth."

Tang Mo's fingers tightened slightly as he nodded, "Well, this is the real Earth."

Seeing the animals and the suddenly restored city, everyone realized that this was the real Earth they had lived on.

On November 18, 2017, Earth went live, animals disappeared all over the world, and players entered the game with only one group of humans left.

It's not that people back then weren't confused about where those animals went. But they didn't have time to think about that. They had to survive, and they faced one Black Tower game after another. The dangerous Black Tower games exhausted them, and they just had to accept the reality that they had been pulled into a game with no end in sight.

And only now do all understand ......

Tang Mo : "The Earth that the returnees were on was not the real Earth. But the truth is, the Earth we were on before wasn't really Earth either."

Tang Mo always felt that he had forgotten some information, but he couldn't remember.

At that moment, Chen Shanshan said, "There is something I have been neglecting, and I only remembered it today after the Black Tower announced the return of all humanity to Earth." The voice stopped, and the little girl looked up at Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo and said, "Brother Tang Mo, Major Fu, eight months ago, when the Black Tower announced that Earth had come online and forcibly drove the returnees to another world, what did it say, do you still remember?"

Eight months ago, Earth came online?

Fu Wenduo recalled, "As I recall, it was November 18th, the end of the three days of access to the game, and at 8:00 a.m. BST, which now seems to be 00:00 a.m. GMT, the Black Tower announced that more than 400 million players had successfully loaded into the game."

Chen Shanshan shook his head, "No. Before that, it said a word."

Fu Wenduo: "What?"

The little girl's voice was calm, "The game is archived."

The crowd was shocked in unison, and when someone brought it up, these senior players present finally remembered the words upon further reflection.

"Ding-dong! Four hundred and ninety-eight million players have successfully loaded into the game ......』.

"Game archive ......"

"Game data loading ......

"Player information is being loaded at ......"

『Successful archiving ......』.

『Loaded successfully ......』.

"Loading success ......

"『Dingdong! November 18, 2017, Welcome to the game.'

Tang Mo was shocked, "The game is archiving, the archive is successful ......" He raised his head, "That is to say, from the very beginning, the Black Tower has archived all the information of the Earth at that time, and just waiting for someone to clear the sixth floor of the Black Tower, it reads the archive and then all human beings will raid the seventh floor together. When someone passes the sixth floor of the Black Tower, it reads the archive, and then the whole human race raids the seventh floor of the Black Tower together?"

"...... Earth itself, the seventh level of the Black Tower?"

The crowd fell silent.

A few minutes later, Ruan Wangshu took a spreadsheet from one of the Chosen members and handed it to the group, "Maybe that's it."

The crowd took the table and looked at it.

Fittingly, it was November 18, 2017 that was displayed on this spreadsheet.

Mu Huixue : "No wonder, this explains why all the animals around the globe have disappeared and only humans are left. Because the Black Tower only needs humans to enter the game, no other animals. It also explains why the earth's ecosystem didn't collapse after all the animals disappeared. Because the place where we have survived for eight months is actually an environment created by the Black Tower, and all the ecosystems are under the Black Tower's control....... I didn't expect that it could create an Earth."

The crowd became even more secretive about the black tower, and Fu Wen said subconsciously, "But the black tower said that this is the last game."

Fu Wenduo : "Well, but it also said that from today onwards, every day over the Earth's landmass there will be a reduction of more than two thousand black towers. As soon as the black tower disappears, all humans and traces of humans in the area where it is located will also be wiped out. A total of fifteen thousand black towers, two thousand per day, which means that after seven days, if those five hidden black towers aren't found and raided, all traces of humans on Earth will disappear."

Ruan Wangshu frowned, "What about the other animals? What about other creatures when only humans are erased?"

Tang Mo said, "...... Isn't it true that from beginning to end, the only ones it tests are humans."

The people made a summary of the information they had each received. By this time, no one would hide anything. Tang Mo told everyone what had happened on the sixth floor of the Black Tower, and Ruan Wangshu realized why so many high-level players had died in the main game on the sixth floor.

It wasn't the Black Tower monsters that killed those players, but the humans themselves.

Only humans, can kill humans.

Chen Shanshan listened and summarized, "So now we are actually in a tower attack game on the seventh floor of the Black Tower. This game is a treasure hunt, and there are over fifteen thousand Black Towers around the world, and we have to find five of them. Luckily though, players from all over the world can participate, so it's not a lone game, it's more like a cooperative game."

Mu Huixue thought for a moment, "Just finding it isn't useful. Unsurprisingly, every black tower should have someone who will raid it, and those black towers that are hidden in places off the beaten path shouldn't be treasure black towers either. Otherwise deep mountains, old forests, deep deserts, black towers in such places were simply impossible for humans to raid. But the real dilemma is that after finding the Black Pagoda, it must also be captured."

Undoubtedly, with the normal formula of the Black Tower game, the Black Tower would never do anything in such a place as "placing the treasures of the Black Tower in a place where humans can't find them, so that humans can't get their hands on them". These five Black Pagodas must be within the reach of humans, and most likely, they are even in areas where the number of players is extremely high.

But finding it doesn't help, after you find it, you still have to raid the Black Tower and defeat the tower keeper.

Tang Mo : "That's why high-level players must raid the Black Tower as much as possible and find a way to find the true treasure, the Black Tower." After a pause, he said, "In this matter, I have a clue. In Raid Six Mode, as you all know, the Black Tower gave Fu Wenduo and I a clue about the seventh floor."

Tang Mo looked at Fu Wenduo, and the two of them exchanged glances. Fu Wenduo nodded his head gently and said, "The Tower of the Beginning of All Things, the Tower of Parallel Intersection. This is the clue that the Black Pagoda wrote to Tang Mo and I in that note."