Black Tower Selection.

Tang Mo had already guessed Fu Wenduo's identity, but when she really heard it, she couldn't help but sneak a few glances at the man beside her. Fu Wenduo's senses were sharp, and he quickly caught Tang Mo's gaze.

Caught peeking, Tang Mo nodded without changing his face. Fu Wenduo paused for a moment, looking at him with a more meaningful gaze.

Luo Fengcheng continued, "Since we all know each other, I'll explain what the 'Black Tower Selection' really is. But before that, Major Fu let me confirm, your stowaway status is ......"

Fu Wenduo's voice was calm: "On November 16th, I was on a secret mission at the border."

Tang Mo and Luo Feng Cheng understood his meaning at the first moment.

All those who kill to weed out players and get into the game, are stowaways by the Black Tower's definition. But there are many different reasons for killing. Some are actual murderous crimes, some are for other reasons. Tang Mo has long pondered why Fu Wenduo is a stowaway. Especially after they met in the Pinocchio copy, Tang Mo's mind had even more questions.

Fu Wenduo's behavior in the Pinocchio book doesn't make him seem like a vicious murderer. If the reason he became a stowaway was to fulfill a secret mission, then it makes sense. At the same time, it also explains why Tang Mo always felt different from other players in Pinocchio. It was a kind of soldier's demeanor that was as firm as stone, with a deep, hidden edge and a sheathed blade.

"Although I've heard of Major Fu's name long ago, but after all, this is the first time we've met, so there are still some things I need to ask in advance." After Luo Fengcheng received the answer, he did not feel ashamed of himself for doubting Fu Wenduo's actions, he frankly said, "In late November, after I left from the first level of the Black Tower game, I met the Atark organization. Through some means I got their approval and officially joined their ranks as a reservist. Then I discovered Nie Fei. Tang Mo , you've met with Nie Fei, you should have some impression of him."

Tang Mo recalled, "I did meet him once when I left Mario's copy, young but quite calm."

"Nie Fei's psychic ability is flight, to be precise, his psychic ability is not ordinary flight. He can walk in the air with the help of some kind of medium." Luo Fengcheng took out a piece of white paper and drew something on it with a water brush, "Air is something we can't see, and Nie Fei's alien ability doesn't allow him to walk on air. But other than air, which is an ethereal gas, there are many other things that he can borrow to walk on."

Luo Fengcheng drew many densely packed dots on the white paper and wrote two words next to it: sand.

"For example, if you scatter some sand into the air during a battle, Nie Fei can walk on that sand out of thin air." He drew a rough model on the paper, "The fine sand becomes solid ground under his feet. And stepping on the non-substantial ground, he can reach a speed of up to a hundred meters per second when he uses his supernatural ability. And the alien energy is not limited."

Fu Wenduo asked, "Only on things like sand?"

Luo Fengcheng shook his head, ''Sand is just an analogy. Other than that, what surprised me the most in Nie Fei's supernatural abilities is that they are constantly changing. When I first met him, he could only walk on some relatively large objects, such as rocks and wooden planks. But when he was killed by the Stowaway organization, he could already walk on sand. What does that mean? Perhaps when some more time passes, he will be able to walk on smaller substances without the help of sand. In the end, even just walk anywhere at will. That's spatial displacement."

Tang Mo immediately thought of Little Fatty's supernormal ability, "Zhao Ziang's supernormal ability is also similar to spatial movement, but he can only move other things, not himself. When I first met him, all he could move was something relatively small, and now he can already move something big very quickly."

"His rate of progress isn't as fast as Nie Fei's." Luo Fengcheng said, "Zhao Ziang hasn't experienced a change like a faster heartbeat."

Tang Mo closed his mouth and continued to listen.

"On the night of November 17th, three hospitals in Shanghai received four patients, each with no obvious pathological features, just a continuously accelerated heart rate and irritability. Among them, the slowest patient's heart rate reached 119, and the fastest one had a heart rate of 136," Luo Fengcheng said. "At the time, this situation was not noticed, and it was only thought that there was some kind of condition that had not yet been identified. One of the experimenters in Shanghai's Group B ...... "After a pause, Luo Fengcheng said, "A young girl who had just graduated with a doctorate, she discovered the situation and reported it to the institute."

Luo Fengcheng recapitulated the matter roughly, "After I learned of the situation, I immediately received all four patients to the institute, and the three groups worked together to investigate the mutations that occurred in them. At the same time, I reported the situation to Beijing."

Fu Wenduo nodded, "That's what I saw in the Beijing Institute's database before I decided to come to Shanghai to check the situation." He paused for a moment and said, "No one from the Beijing Institute survived."

Luo Fengcheng: "Is it really like this ......"

All three were silent for a moment before Luo Fengcheng looked at Tang Mo : "Have you ever calculated your maximum heart rate?"

Tang Mo: "About 169, I didn't count."

Fu Wenduo: "171."

The numbers of the two were very close, Luo Fengcheng glanced at them and closed the folder on the table. He solemnly looked at the two players in front of him, one was an official player and the other was a stowaway, and after a long time, he smiled, "Then all that follows is my guess."

Half an hour later, Tang Mo left Luo Fengcheng's office. Fu Wenduo had come all the way from Beijing to Shanghai to look for information, and naturally he had some things to ask Luo Fengcheng. As both of them were state secret officers, Tang Mo had no interest in eavesdropping on this kind of conversation, and walked out of the office by himself, leaning against the wall and thinking.

The Black Tower Selection was a synonym given to this phenomenon by Luofeng City.

The black tower selection of the object is very random, their common performance is in those three days, the heart will continue to speed up, can not be relieved with drugs. And emotional irritability, psychological anxiety, serious cases will even have to resist the desire to commit a crime. Luo Fengcheng study of the four patients, the heartbeat reached 136 patients is because in the restaurant hurt people, before being sent to the hospital.

However he didn't manage to kill the man.

At the end of three days, all four patients, without exception, had disappeared.

It wasn't a given that the humans who gained the Black Tower selection would enter the game, and many of them didn't make it through those three days either. However, once they make it through those three days, their powers will be stronger. Fu Wenduo was the first player in the world to pass the first level of the Black Tower, and Tang Mo was the first player in the world to pass the hard mode of Tower Attack.

As for Nie Fei, he used to be the most powerful alien in the Atark organization (stronger than Jacks). If not for that accident, he might have made it through the first floor of the Black Tower as well.

Luo Fengcheng gave two guesses in the face of this completely random selection, "First, this mutation was given by the Black Tower, the Black Tower allows a portion of humans to produce different traits, and this selection affects the player's strength of their special ability in the following process. However many of the selected humans didn't even enter into the game, the Black Tower didn't exactly give these players privileges, so why give them this special change? So there's only a forty percent chance of this happening."

In the darkness of the parking lot, Tang Mo whispered Luo Fengcheng's second guess.

"Nothing to do with the Black Tower, just everyone for themselves? ......"

Just because this aberration is named Black Tower Selection doesn't mean it's necessarily given by the Black Tower. It's like psychic abilities. Before Earth came online, there were no real supernormal abilities in the world (Fu Wenduo and Luo Fengcheng both confirmed this with Tang Mo just now), and the emergence of supernormal abilities must have something to do with the Black Tower. However, everyone's psychic ability is different, with different strengths and weaknesses. Whether this psychic ability is given by the Black Tower, or whether it is possessed by the players themselves and inspired by the Black Tower, no one knows.

In all likelihood, the Black Tower acts as a catalyst, catalyzing the psychic abilities that humans themselves possess, latently.

Regular players and stowaways get a stronger catalytic effect from the Black Tower, so they're more likely to develop psychic powers. Reservists have a weaker presence, the Black Tower gives less of a catalytic effect, and they have a harder time acquiring psychic abilities.

This speculation has some feasibility.

So the Black Tower selections may not necessarily have as much to do with the Black Tower as they do with the powers, it's the players who get the selections who themselves qualify to be selected.

Tang Mo was standing against the wall when the door to the room beside him creaked open. He turned his head to look.

Fu Wenduo walks out of the room and looks at him as well.

The two of them stared at each other for a moment, Fu Wenduo smiled and said, "Want to know more information?" Just now in the room, the reason why Fu Wenduo stayed was because he wanted to learn more about the Black Tower's research information from Luo Fengcheng's mouth, and Luo Fengcheng similarly wanted to get more information from the outside world.

Tang Mo did not deny it. He looked at the tall and handsome man in front of him, and his mind inexplicably recalled that slightly middle-aged code name.

...... lords ah.

As if sensing Tang Mo's thoughts, Fu Wenduo closed the door to the room and the two of them walked into the darkness together. Fu Wenduo said, "Dragon is not my code name, it is the code name of the whole unit. Every secret unit in China does not have an official number, only a code name. The Southwest Military Region's Special A-Team is codenamed Dragon."

With that explanation, Tang Mo coughed, "Major Fu, I do want to know some information about other places. You came from Beijing and traveled through three provinces and two cities along the way, so you should have seen more things and know more outside news."

"When I came from Beijing, I was in a hurry all the way, and it only took me about four days. The stopover was too short to know the full extent of the news. But it is true that there is much more than you guys." After a pause, Fu Wenduo's voice was low: "Just call me Fu Wenduo."

Tang Mo didn't call out the name, he was direct: "What's the price in exchange for the information?"

Tang Mo knew that Fu Wenduo must have gotten a lot of information from Luo Feng Cheng just now. What he knew, Luo Feng Cheng basically knew, and Fu Wenduo also knew almost everything. He didn't have much information here that could make Fu Wenduo's heart skip a beat, but he desperately wanted to know what was going on in the outside world.

Especially the news from Beijing.

Tang Mo's last best friend is in Beijing.

Tang Mo had already made plans to tell Fu Wenduo what he knew about the underground man Wang Guo and the Monster World, only to hear a low, slow laugh coming from the darkness, Tang Mo turned his head to look. Tang Mo turned his head to look. The light was so dim that he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but only a rough outline.

Fu Wenduo said, "No, just tell you directly."

Tang Mo's footsteps lurched, "Mr. Fu?"

Fu Wenduo: "Like you said in the Pinocchio copy, we've known each other for a long time, Tang Mo, no need to be so rusty."

Tang Mo was silent for a moment, "...... Why, Fu Wenduo?"

Why not give anything to get valuable information. He admitted to himself that his relationship with the man was not good enough for the other man to be selfless.

Fu Wenduo's voice was calm, but with a meaningful feeling, "Before I came to Shanghai, I went to Suzhou. There, killed three stowaways."

Tang Mo suddenly understood what he was trying to say.

"Luo Fengcheng said that seven people from this organization once came to Shanghai and killed many people. And in Suzhou, they killed even more people. When I just arrived in Suzhou, it was almost an empty city. It's not that there aren't any players, it's that everyone is hiding, and even in the daytime, you can't see any people on the streets."

Tang Mo said, "You killed the last three people in that organization?"

"Yes."

A long time, Tang Mo : "...... Thanks, that's where I'm from."

Fu Wenduo smiled, ''No need to say thank you, it's all the same. Some things seem important, but in fact, compared to other things, they are not as precious as one would think. What do you want to know, if I know and it doesn't touch my bottom line, maybe I can say a little bit out. After all, you are the other owner of Mo Mo."

Tang Mo didn't hesitate any longer and spoke directly, "How's Beijing?"

The capital of China before the Earth came online, the political center, Beijing.

How's Beijing?

Fu Wenduo stops dead in his tracks, and in the darkness Tang Mo realizes that the man seems to be looking at him.

"It's about the same as Shanghai. It's not going to get better, it's only going to get worse."