Good luck in the New Year!

"After the sudden opening of the Christmas welfare copy, me, Shanshan, Liu Chen and Feifei went out to look for Christmas tree branches, and finally found two. Liu Chen and I decided to give the branches to Shanshan and Feifei, who used them to enter the copy." The little fat man has been much stronger than half a month ago, in the face of the disappearance of his companions, he tried his best to calmly say: "Originally I was thinking, Shanshan they are girls after all, fighting and so on is not as good as Liu Chen and I. Liu Chen and I may be able to cope with the danger without the tree branch, we can't let them two girls like this. But ...... but twelve o'clock has long passed, Brother Tang, they have not come back!"

Zhao Ziang eyes red, did not cry.

Tang Mo's fingers tightened as he analyzed, "Even if they enter the copy at the same time with a branch, they may not necessarily enter the same copy. It's like Jacks has a branch, you don't have a branch, but you're entering the same copy. The copies are completely randomized."

Zhao Ziang nodded his head.

Tang Mo looked towards Luo Feng Cheng, who also looked at him in silence.

Finally Tang Mo turned, walked over to the chubby little man and whispered, "Wait."

They knew this answer already, but Zhao Ziang couldn't help but run over and tell Tang Mo about it, and there was nothing they could do about it except wait. Tang Mo couldn't possibly know which copy Chen Shanshan was in, and now that the Christmas copy was closed, there was no way for him to get in.

The little fat man left with his head down.

Tang Mo looked at his sad back and pursed her lips.

"It's better not to tell him that those two little girls were most likely forced into the tower attack game." Luo Feng Cheng's voice rang out, Tang Mo turned to look at him. The young doctor in the white coat had his hands in his pockets, quietly looking at him, "There are many different kinds of Christmas copies, but eight out of ten|nine out of ten, all the Christmas copies in Huaxia end when Santa Claus sends out all the gifts at exactly twelve o'clock."

Tang Mo knows this.

Of the thirteen members of Atark, Tang Qiao was the one who was forcibly ejected from her copy. At exactly twelve o'clock, the large sixteen-player copy she was participating in had already lost three people to death and eliminated eight. The only five people left were vigilant against their opponents and continued to play the game. However, as soon as twelve o'clock rolled around, before the game ended, they were all ejected from their copies and returned to the real world.

The Christmas Benefit copy only exists on Christmas Eve, and it ends when Christmas Day arrives.

Chen Shanshan and Qiao Feifei haven't left Ben so far, so there's only one possibility: they've been eliminated from the tower attack game.

Tang Mo looked down at a small human sculpture on Luo Fengcheng's table for a long time before he said, "Immediately, the Black Tower will be updated with a new version, so I won't leave Shanghai for a while."

Luo Fengcheng: "How long are you going to wait?"

The new version of the Black Pagoda was just a reason to stay in Shanghai, as there was a Black Pagoda in Suzhou, there was no need to stay in Shanghai. He was trying to wait for Chen Shanshan to make sure the little girl was safe.

Tang Mo looked calm and gave the answer, "Ten days."

Leaving Luo Fengcheng's office, Tang Mo found a random car and lay down to rest.

The light in the silent and empty underground parking lot was dim, and the weak light shone through the dark windows into the car, only illuminating a vague silhouette. Tang Mo stretched out his right hand and held it in front of his eyes. He remembered that a month ago, a little girl had slipped a box of cookies into his hand, and he had gotten the other side's supernatural powers.

Even if he had the chance to enter the copy to save Chen Shanshan, Tang Mo would not go in right away. He would think for a long time before deciding to enter to look for someone, provided that he had the King's Gold. If he didn't have the King's Gold, he would never have entered the dangerous tower attack game for a little girl.

However, just like Luo Fengcheng said, he stayed and decided to wait for ten days.

Ten days later, Chen Shanshan hadn't shown up, he'd go back to Suzhou.

Time flowed like water, and seven days passed quickly. On the night of Christmas Eve, five members of Atark failed to come out of their copies. Seven days passed, and they still didn't show up. After the matter of the Stowaway Organization, the departure of the members didn't cause too many ripples in the organization, and everyone accepted this fact calmly.

On the eve of 2018, Tang Mo and Jacks and Luo Fengcheng quietly left the mall just as the night went on.

In the darkness of the night, the three of them were like black lightning, quickly passing through the factory and residential areas, crossing the Nanpu Bridge and sneaking into Puxi.

Five kilometers from the Black Tower, Tang Mo stopped and reached out in front of Jacks and Luo Fengcheng. The three of them hid in a dark alley, and Tang Mo lowered his voice: "Jacks has good skills, but he is too big and not agile enough. Luo Feng Cheng, you are a reservist, you will easily be discovered if you approach there. I'll go alone."

Jacks frowned, "We already found five people around when we came. Would it be too dangerous for you to go alone?"

Luo Fengcheng also asked, "In case of an emergency, how quickly can you time to come here and join us?"

They did not know that Tang Mo possessed the supernatural ability of divine speed, which could increase her speed to the speed of sound, the limit of escape. Tang Mo bent down slightly, "Very soon. Even if I can't beat them, I can still escape and join you guys."

Jacks was about to say something else when Luo Fengcheng murmured, "Okay, at 0:15, we'll wait for you here. If you don't come back, we'll find a place to hide first."

Tang Mo nodded his head. The next moment, he turned his head to look at Nanjing Road in the distance.

"Whoosh--"

An athletic figure pierced through the darkness of the night, breaking the sound of the wind, and heading towards the huge dark tower at an extremely fast speed.

Tang Mo's entire body was tense as he ran, always alert to the movements around him. He emptied his mind and magnified his senses infinitely. Because of the extremely fast speed, the sound of wind whistled in his ears. He clearly heard his pounding heartbeat, as well as at least ten equally cautious footsteps within a fifty meter radius.

This New Year's Eve, Shanghai was quiet, no wind, no rain, a quiet and beautiful night. And on this night, dozens of players quietly approached the Black Tower despite the danger. At the moment when the clock tower on the Bund, the sound of two o'clock rang out, the opposite side of the Huangpu River was not lit up with brilliant fireworks as it had been every year in the past, announcing the arrival of 2018 to the citizens of Shanghai.

At the junction of Nanjing Road and the Bund, more than fifty black figures arrived under the Black Tower at the same moment. They sensed each other's presence and immediately ran away, finding the nearest hidden location to hide.

Tang Mo panted heavily, his body pressed against the door of the Peace Hotel, and slowly sat down on the floor.

He met up with twelve players when he arrived under the Black Tower just now. They weren't able to see each other's looks in the darkness, but the dangerous aura emanated without a doubt. The twelve made an unanimous decision to turn away and find a location to hide.

Tang Mo ran into the first floor of the Peace Hotel, hid behind the door, and quietly turned his head to look through the window at the huge black tower outside.

Twelve o'clock arrived in the thick of the night, and the clock ticked away.

Tang Mo gazed carefully at the black tower as he locked his brows, "...... Nothing has moved?"

Seven days ago Black Tower made an announcement to all of China that on January 1, 2018, Black Tower version 2.0 would go live. Tang Mo and Luo Fengcheng discussed it and thought that the most likely time for the Black Tower to go live would be at zero hour on the same day, January 1st.

"It's not zero, is it six?" Tang Mo thought to himself.

Six o'clock is the second most likely time. The three iron laws of the Black Tower state that 6:00-18:00 is game time. So the new version is likely to go live at six o'clock. Other than that, the third most likely is eight o'clock. Because a month ago, the Black Tower was announcing that Earth went live at 8:00 on November 15th, and then announcing that the game officially started at 8:00 on November 18th.

"If it's not zero hour, then we can go back now and meet up with Rockwind City and Jacks. Wait six hours and check back." Tang Mo thought secretly. He looked at the giant tower again and prepared to quietly go back. But just as he saw the middle part of the black tower, his gaze abruptly lagged and he stared dead at the center of the black tower.

The huge black tower suspended a hundred meters in the sky was like a big black mountain in the night. But at this moment, in the center of it, a small white point of light was gently flickering. This small point of light was flickering in a certain characteristic rhythm, one after another.

Tang Mo mentally counted the seconds.

"Da, da, da--"

This small point of light flashed about once every second. When it flashed for the 62nd time, suddenly, a second small point of light lit up below it. This time, however, the second point of light only lit up halfway before it was silently extinguished and did not light up completely.

In the next moment, a cheerful piece of music suddenly rang out, and countless children's voices began to sing in a loud chorus. The children's songs came from all directions, suddenly resounding in the dark night, deceptively strange and piercing one's scalp.

"Happy New Year ah, Happy New Year ah, blessed New Year to you all."

"We sang, we danced, and wished everyone a good New Year."

"Happy New Year ah ......"

Tang Mo heard several inhaling sounds coming from around him. He pressed his body tightly against the edge of the window, hiding his form in the darkness, leaving only a pair of eyes to quietly peer at the black tower that was dozens of meters away.

In the darkness of the night, the huge black tower radiates colorful light, as if it were the light ball of an old-fashioned KTV of the last century, and it illuminates the whole of Shanghai, with colorful patches of light reflecting on the Huangpu River, illuminating the waves of the river. It sang this joyful song over and over again, as if there were really a group of children singing and dancing to celebrate the New Year.

More than fifty players hid in the darkness, staring at the black tower that sang the New Year with joy.

After singing three times, the light on the black tower suddenly stopped. Everyone stared warily at the scene, only to hear a clear child's voice ringing out in the next moment - the

"Ding Dong! One hundred and sixty-two million players successfully loaded into the game ......"

"Game archive in progress ......"

"Player data loading in progress ......"

"Game data loading ......"

"Archived successfully at ......"

"Loaded successfully ......"

"Loaded successfully ......"

"A copy of reality has opened ......"

"Rally copy completed ......"

"Dingdong! On January 1, 2018, the Black Tower 2.0 version is officially online, welcome players to the game."

"Please have all players work on attacking the tower."

"Ding Dong! Happy gaming!"

The sound traveled throughout Shanghai. The glow of the Black Tower dimmed, and the evening wind blew across the Huangpu River in a silence that was unchanged. Five minutes later, a black silhouette quickly ran under the Black Tower, looked up and scrutinized it for three seconds, then quickly left.

After that, another thirty or so people ran under the black tower in turn to observe the changes.

Tang Mo's fingers snapped hard into the edge of the hotel's marble window. The mottled marble slabs made five clear fingerprints as he snapped his fingers into them, and he stared expressionlessly at the huge black tower. When all forty or so men had run out to see what was happening, Tang Mo ran out of the Peace Hotel with a whoosh. Instead of running towards the Black Tower, he turned away and quickly found Luo Fengcheng and Jacks hiding in an alley.

Jacks whispered, "You're finally back, it's 0:14."

Tang Mo's face was very ugly as he turned his head to meet Luo Fengcheng.

Luo Fengcheng's face was also bad: "Just like a month ago, it played a 'Happy New Year' song this time and radiated colorful light. These we can see from a distance, did you see anything else up close?"

Tang Mo said, "Before the Black Tower announced that the new version was live, I saw a small white point of light blinking in the center of it."

"Little points of light?"

Tang Mo: "Yes. I counted it carefully and it pulsed 62 times in a row. On the 63rd time it would blink for double the time and then start blinking again. And on the 62nd time it flashed, a second small point of light appeared underneath it. This point of light didn't pulsate, it only lit up halfway and then dimmed. Then, that's what you see here as the new version goes live ......"

At that moment, a footstep came from the distance. Tang Mo was immediately silenced, and Jacks held his breath, not daring to gasp.

When the footsteps have passed, Tang Mo: "Find a place to hide first."

The three ran two kilometers away and found a deserted hotel to hide in.

Tang Mo carefully mapped out what he saw: "That point of light didn't seem to light up from the outside, it flashed from the center of the Black Tower, right in the center, glowing from the inside out. The first point of light flashed 62 times, that number definitely has a deep meaning. As for the second point of light, it is unknown for now."

"Regarding the new version, the Black Tower didn't announce it this time either. It seems like the detailed rules of the game still need us to slowly figure out later." Luo Fengcheng nodded, "That light point you mentioned is also important, it needs to be properly analyzed for what it represents."

Tang Mo : "That point of light was small and the flickering light was dim. A total of fifty-three people traveled under the Black Tower tonight to observe the new release, but at most ten people spotted that small point of light."

Luo Fengcheng: "Let's go back and analyze this."

"Good."

The figure of a little girl flashed before Tang Mo's eyes.

The ability "Super Intelligent Thinking" possesses an extraordinary intelligence, and has a certain degree of judgment accuracy for anything, with a maximum judgment accuracy of 50%. If Chen Shanshan was here, she might be able to guess something.

Seven days have passed since ......

Jacks Once he heard Luo Fengcheng say that he wanted to go back, he scratched his head and said, ''You want to go back now? That's fine too. The Black Tower's updated version didn't do anything, and it seems like we didn't get anything out of this trip. The things it said were said once seven days ago, and it didn't say as much as it did on Christmas. The Christmas one also said that every player had to participate in a tower attack game every three months, and it didn't even say that rule this time."

Hearing this, Tang Mo slowly turned her head and looked at Jacks.

Jacks was a bit confused, he didn't understand why Tang Mo was looking at him like that. But as soon as he turned his head, he realized that Luo Feng Cheng was actually looking at him with very strange eyes as well.

Jacks bemused, "Tang Mo, Dr. Lowe, did I say something wrong?"

Luo Fengcheng's voice held a hint of a sigh, "Jacks, did you pay attention to the first sentence of the Black Tower's announcement of the version update."

After all, Jacks is a psychic, his memory is very good. He quickly recalled and repeated, "Dingdong, one hundred and sixty-two million players successfully loaded into the tour ......" The sound abruptly ended, Jacks stared wide-eyed, all the large muscles in his body tensed up. He was shocked, "One hundred and sixty-two million? One hundred million ...... not, not four hundred million ...... more than four hundred million?"

Tang Mo faintly said, "...... Yes. Another 300 million dead in a month."