Bad things are bound to happen if there is a certain chance that they will happen, no matter how small the chance is.
Tang Mo wrote down the shape of the middle-aged man's wound and the shape of his heart, picked up his backpack, and quietly left the mall. He left from the underground parking lot of the mall. He moved carefully and swiftly, leaving the mall in a few moves and drilling into the nearby shopping street.
The streets seem a little less crowded again.
When Tang Mo entered the Tower Attack game seven days ago, he could see one or two people on the street from time to time. Now, when I walk through a street, I often don't see a single person. I don't know if they're hiding, or if they've disappeared.
Tang Mo continues to walk west. He intends to go back to Suzhou.
This was Tang Mo's plan before she was forced into the tower game. His friend in Shanghai has disappeared, and another friend is far away in Beijing. Tang Mo is not prepared to travel to Beijing for the time being, he can first go to Suzhou, where he is familiar with the place to stabilize and improve his strength. He can go to Suzhou first to stabilize himself in a place he knows well and improve his strength. When he is sure that he can cope with any emergencies along the way, he can then go to Beijing to look for his friend.
After walking three blocks and passing through two neighborhoods, Tang Mo saw a white car across the street from a distance. He rushed up to it.
In today's world, the streets are cluttered with cars, but most of them have crashed into each other and can no longer be driven. A working car is rare, and Tang Mo had to walk several kilometers before she saw one.
The street is silent as Tang Mo pulls the front door of the car open and gets into the driver's seat. With the key still in the lock, Tang Mo twisted the key and prepared to start the car. But just as he clicked the key, he suddenly stopped.
Tang Mo slowly turned his head, looking into the back seat of the car.
This is an SUV-type business car, the trunk is very wide, sitting in the back seat and stretching out your arms to get to the things in the trunk. At this moment, a pale white hand rested gently on the back seat between the pillows and cushions. The wrist of this hand was propped up by the back of the seat, and the fingers hung down naturally. In the crevices of the fingernails, the blood coagulated into black, and the entire hand glowed with a deathly greenish-purple color.
Tang Mo steps out of the car and opens the trunk.
It was a young woman who had been dead for a long time. Her entire body was stuffed into the trunk, her legs curled up, her mouth slightly open, her eyes open and looking at the roof of the car, a trace of fear and panic still lingering in her dead eyes. But she had obviously died quickly, there were no signs of struggle on her body, and even her body had been stuffed into the trunk after death, long since stiffened.
Tang Mo's line of sight moved down and landed on the large hole in this woman's chest.
The heart is gone.
Tang Mo looks on in silence for a long time as he pulls the woman out and puts her in a small restaurant down the street. Covering the woman's body with a tablecloth from the diner, Tang Mo goes back to his car and drives it away.
He drove all the way west, sometimes getting down to push the car when the road was blocked.
Tang Mo is much stronger than at the beginning of the game. With a gentle push, the wheel rolls on the ground and the journey back to Suzhou is much smoother than it was on the way there.
Shanghai is really much less crowded.
In the past, I used to see groups of people in busy neighborhoods, but now it's so quiet that I can't see anything. Sometimes it is hard to see someone, but as soon as they hear the sound of Tang Mo's car, they seem like frightened Tu Zi, whooshing into a building to hide.
Tang Mo's frown became tighter and tighter as he drove the car to Changning District, and in front of the road, a corpse with its heart ripped out appeared. The car drove past the heartless body little by little, and when he was about to turn to the next intersection, suddenly, an ear-splitting sound of brakes rang out. The car made a 180° turn, turned around, and drove back.
The brilliant sunlight shone through the car windows, and the dark-haired young man in the driver's seat pursed his lips and looked ahead with a determined gaze.
The car drove steadily toward the Pudong district.
Two hours later, Tang Mo pulled up to the big mall. He got out with his backpack and walked straight into the mall.
When he had just walked into the mall, many of the players gathered here had tensed their bodies and eyed him cautiously. Half a month ago, Tang Mo had suffered from such a baptism of the eyes when he first came here, but this time was clearly different. These players were staring at him nakedly, as if they wanted to see right through him, and there was no way to hide the intense wariness and hostility that made Tang Mo feel like he was on the edge of his seat.
Such a change caused Tang Mo to accelerate his pace even more and walk to the stairwell at the end of the mall. When he pushed open the door of the stairwell, a big, strong hand suddenly grabbed his wrist. Tang Mo reacted very quickly and quickly retracted his right hand. Tang Mo's left leg is swept by his opponent. Tang Mo uses the door of the stairwell to stomp on it and jumps two steps backward to avoid the attack.
The visitor gave a surprised "eek" and emerged from behind the stairwell door.
It was a young, inch-haired man who stepped out of the stairwell and closed the door behind himself. His eyes were sharp as he scanned Tang Mo up and down for a moment before saying, "Friend or foe?"
This defense mechanism is much stricter than last time.
Tang Mo's heart gradually sank as he said, "I'm here to find Luo Feng Cheng."
The other party could not have let him in just because Tang Mo named Luofengcheng, then Tang Mo named Jacks, Tang Qiao, Nie Fei and Ye Yuanze before the man finally believed him and took him into the underground parking lot himself. However, along the way, although he turned his back on Tang Mo, he never let his guard down. As soon as Tang Mo made a move, he was able to react as fast as he could.
Luo Fengcheng's room wasn't the same as the last one, this time they walked down to the third basement level, and raked around several more times before coming to a large iron door.
The young man first told Tang Mo to wait outside and went in to inform him. Half a minute later, he came out, "You can go in."
Tang Mo pushed open the door and saw Luo Feng Cheng who was waiting for him.
Luo Fengcheng was wearing a white coat, his face was a little pale, and his eyes were all bloodshot. When Tang Mo entered the door, he was standing leaning against the table. Their eyes met. Tang Mo's face was calm, Luo Feng Cheng slowly hooked up the corner of his lips, revealing a very faint smile: ''It's really you. When I heard Monsoon say it, I thought it was you. Mo Mo, you finally came ......"
The voice suddenly paused, and Luo Feng Cheng was slightly stunned.
Tang Mo understood the problem, he coughed, "Never mind my name, I'm Mo Mo now. you knew I was coming?"
Luo Fengcheng: "Hmm. The only thing I'm wondering is why you didn't come until now."
"I took care of a bit of business in private and was pulled into a copy in the process." Tang Mo did not disclose the information that he had cleared the first floor of the Black Tower, according to his speculation, when the Black Tower pulled him into attacking the Tower game he was only notified by one person, so the news that he had cleared the level should have been told to only one person as well. If Luo Feng Cheng didn't find out, he wouldn't say anything.
Luo Fengcheng nodded and didn't ask any more questions as he got right to the point, "So you came out of your copy of the game, found them, and decided to come find Atark."
Tang Mo frowned, "They?"
"You don't know them yet." Luo Fengcheng said, "Since you don't know them, are you because ...... you saw the corpses of the players who were killed by them?"
Tang Mo nodded his head and spoke of the several bodies he had seen today, "There was only one fatal wound, and they all died quickly without any signs of struggle. The hearts were all forcefully ripped out after death, and one of them, which I found, had only half of its heart left, and it looked ...... like it had been eaten."
Luo Fengcheng: "You're not wrong, it was eaten."
Tang Mo's heart gave a beat.
Even if you have prepared yourself for this, you will still be shocked when you actually learn the truth.
"We've seen a lot of killing, and we've seen monsters eat people. You know, I'm talking about the first time we met when that big mole ate that little girl's body in front of us." Luo Fengcheng calmly said, "But this time, the ones who ate people in Shanghai were not Black Tower monsters, they were humans. To be precise, it was a group of stowaways."
"Why Stowaways Eat People."
Luo Fengcheng corrected him, "It's not cannibalism, it's eating a human's heart. Eating a human's heart within three minutes of his fresh death." Saying this, Luo Fengcheng paused for a moment and looked up at Tang Mo, his voice calm, "Nie Fei died in their hands."
Tang Mo didn't say anything.
He remembered Nie Fei, a young man in a black trench coat. When Tang Mo first came out of Mario's Monopoly game, this was the first person he met. He was the first member of the Atak organization to come into contact with Tang Mo, and he took the initiative to lead the three of them to the base of the Atak organization. He doesn't have much interaction with Tang Mo, but he has a calm and steady personality, and acts as a leader with the other two members.
Tang Mo is silent for a moment, "His powers aren't attack oriented?"
Luo Fengcheng understood what he meant: ''No, Nie Fei's alien ability is attack oriented. He used to be just an ordinary college student, and after awakening his psychic ability, he mastered very strong fighting skills and flying ability. He plays with knives very well, and it's not impossible for him to leave if he wants to when he meets up with that group of stowaways, only that he told Tang Qiao to go first. By the time Tang Qiao went back again with the men, his heart had been ripped out."
"Where do those stowaways come from, why do they eat people, and what specific powers do they possess?" Tang Mo asked three questions in a row.
Luo Fengcheng explained very patiently, "There is still no concrete conclusion as to why they are eating people. According to my speculation, it might be related to their supernormal abilities. But in my observation, none of them have duplicate alien abilities. They are very obsessed with eating people, not only formal players, but regular players and stowaways, they eat them all. To make them so obsessed with cannibalism, I guess there are two possibilities. The first, they are all ogres, and with the collapse of the governmental system after Earth came online, they are no longer constrained to eat as many people as they want."
Tang Mo asked, "How many of them were there?"
"At least seven of them, and we've run into seven so far."
"Ogre is unlikely." Tang Mo calmly analyzed, "Cannibalism as a perverted psychology is rare, not so much so that seven appear at once, the probability is very low."
Luo Fengcheng: "So there is a second possibility."
Tang Mo looked up at Luo Fengcheng, and he thought of that answer as well.
"Eating people makes you stronger."
Shanghai, Fengxian District.
An ear-piercing scream cut through the street, and a short-haired girl hurriedly covered her companion's mouth, saying, "Feifei, don't scream, the others will notice."
The frightened little girl nodded her head hurriedly, and Chen Shanshan then loosened the hand covering her.
Qiao Feifei's eyes couldn't help but stare at the body that had its heart ripped out. She obviously didn't want to look at it, but she couldn't help but look at it, then move away, and so on and so forth. After looking at it three times, she finally couldn't control herself and turned around, running to the edge of the tree and vomiting.
Chen Shanshan gave her a look and walked over to the body himself, knelt down and began to examine it.
When the murderer ripped out the heart of this corpse, he was obviously too violent, and ripped out the victim's other internal organs and intestines as well, which flowed out all over the place in white. So even though Qiao Feifei had seen a similar body before, she still screamed and vomited everything she had eaten in the past two days.
Even after vomiting the bile, Qiao Feifei covered her eyes, moved step by step to Chen Shanshan s side, and said timidly: "Shan ...... Shanshan, we better hurry to go. This is the second body to be dug out of the heart, we quickly run to my hometown, to the countryside to take refuge. Let's run to the countryside, that group of murderous devils will definitely not be able to find us."
Chen Shanshan is still examining the body.
A fifteen year old girl with a face that was still childish, but at this moment, she was expressionless as she used her hands to peel open the wounds of the corpses, scrutinizing each and every trace inside one by one. While doing such a horrible thing, she faintly said, ''We still need to find more supplies, and it's best to buy some more seeds. You can grow your own land in the countryside, or else you'll soon be sitting on your ass if you eat what's readily available."
Qiao Feifei hurriedly said, "Then let's go!"
Chen Shanshan stood up, "Those two people yesterday were saying that the murderer ...... came from the west?"
Qiao Feifei didn't understand why her companion suddenly asked this question, she thought for a while, "Well, it seems like that's what they said. They just fled from the west, a lot of people in the west ran to the east, and it's rumored that those murderous fiends came from Suzhou."
"Zhao Ziang and Liu Chen are heading west."
Qiao Feifei froze and muttered, "It s not that coincidental ...... Even we know about the murderer, Zhao Ziang They must have known about it long ago. They must have fled long ago just like those people."
Chen Shanshan silently turned his head to look at his companion, "If there is a certain chance that something bad will happen, then no matter how small that chance is, it is bound to happen."
Qiao Feifei : "Ah, what did you say?"
Chen Shanshan bit his lower lip and looked down for a long time.
"Go, go back to Zhao Ziang."
Pudong District, third floor of underground parking lot.
Tang Mo's face was grave as he said, "Last night, a shopping mall I was hiding in had a stowaway cannibalism incident inside. Before I infiltrated the mall, the middle-aged man was not dead. But from the time after I went to bed until I woke up the next morning, a total of six hours, he died, right at a place less than a hundred meters away from me in a straight line."
Luo Fengcheng: "Those stowaways are very strong, and when they face ordinary reservists, they've always been one-hit kills with very little movement."
Tang Mo shook his head, "But he was less than a hundred meters from me when he killed." And he didn't hear any sound.
Luo Fengcheng did not know how strong Tang Mo was right now, but his expression became even more serious after hearing Tang Mo's words.
The two men pondered each other without speaking. But how long before the office door is pushed open and Tang Mo looks up.
It's Jacks.
At some point, the burly foreign man had an additional scar on his right eye socket. He was also stunned when he saw Tang Mo, but didn't have time for pleasantries. He looked towards Luo Feng Cheng, "Dr. Luo, when we were looking for those bastards this time, we rescued two little boys. One of the boys is an official player, and his special ability is very good and promising. Do you want to go take a look?"
Luo Fengcheng came to be interested, he was always very welcoming to good reserve members, "Where are they?"
Jacks hesitated, "Let's wait a little. Doctor, that boy's friend is dying, Tang Qiao and Liz are trying hard to save him, but there is little hope. Let the little fat boy and his friend say their goodbyes, and I'll bring him to you later in the evening."
Tang Mo reads, "Little fat guy ......"
Luo Fengcheng said, "What kind of special ability does that reserve member have?"
Jacks had a gleam in his eye, "Very impressive! When we found them, they seemed to have been chased by Electric Man for two hours. The electric man also realized that this little fat man's psychic ability was very powerful, so he was in hot pursuit to eat his heart. We almost didn't have time to save them. Luckily, that little fat man suddenly used his psychic ability to move a large sharp knife, which quickly split the electric man's arm, so we had the chance to save them. His psychic ability is very strong, he can move a lot of things and is very fast."
Luo Fengcheng was pleasantly surprised, "Spatial movement?!"
Tang Mo, however, took a step forward and looked at Jacks: "Wasn't that little fat guy about 5'6", with short hair and a very small red birthmark under his left eyebrow?"
Jacks surprised, "How did you know?"
Tang Mo blushed, "Take me to them!"
Published at: 04/30/2024 03:00