Bai Ruoyao, you will be burned alive by it.

"Speaking of which, your name sounds a bit familiar." After the doll face had self-consciously labeled Tang Mo with the name "Zhao Zhao", he walked over to the little boy's side and looked at him with a smile, "Fu Wen Sheng ...... Fu Wen Sheng? Fu Wen Sheng? Which Fu, which Wen, which Sheng is your last name?"

The boy looked at him, calmly, and said, "Is this important?"

Dollface: "Is it important? It's important, eh, it doesn't seem very important. But you this name ...... ah, I remembered." He exaggeratedly clapped his hands, his eyes slightly narrowed, "The stowaway who was the first one in our China to break through the first floor of the Black Tower, what was his name? Zhao Zhao, do you still remember?" Doll face turned his head to Tang Mo , "That's the one who dragged everyone into the attack tower game, what was his name again."

Tang Mo coldly said, "Don't remember."

The doll face asked himself, "Yes, his name is Fu Wenduo, and he looks like you. What is your relationship? Look at your age, are you the son of ...... that stowaway?"

The grin on his face was as repulsive as ever, and he moved in beside the boy, looking as if he were flirting with him, making fun of him, but there was no trace of real mirth in his smiling eyes. He stared at the boy cautiously, his eyes like snakes, dangerous and treacherous.

"I don't know him." The little boy answered decisively, "I was dragged into the tower attack game two months ago by that same stowaway and almost died in it, and I hate him with a passion. You guys should be the same, right? If I was really related to him, would I have the audacity to tell you that my name is this one, this one that resembles him, and then make you suspect me?"

Fu Wen has a point.

In China, all the players hate Fu Wenduo, the smuggler who dragged everyone down. In the Atak organization, Luo Fengcheng had not told the other members that the "Mr. Fu" was Fu Wenduo, because he also thought that if he announced Fu Wenduo's identity, a mindless person like Jacks might really go to Fu Wenduo for a one-on-one fight and get beaten up by the other party.

If Fu Wen Sheng was really related to Fu Wenduo, would he have told the Tang Mo duo that his name was that? He would have hidden his real name so that Tang Mo and Dollface wouldn't have a problem with him.

Dollface looked at him for a moment and laughed, "Maybe you're taking advantage of our reverse psychology. Normal people wouldn't tell anyone even if they had a relationship with that stowaway, they would try to hide it as much as possible. If you say it out loud, we won't be suspicious instead?"

The little boy's face was serious as he defended himself, "I just want to tell you, please believe me. Fu Wen Sheng is my real name, and it's true that this name is a bit similar to a certain person, but I don't have any relationship with him. I told you my real name because I want you to believe me. I can't beat you, and if you don't believe me, you'll kill me anytime. I want to live, that's all."

Tang Mo watched the kid's mature and staid demeanor, and the doll face scowled meaningfully at him.

Soon, it was as if all three had forgotten the conversation and returned to the original topic.

"This moon flower is the same as the one we had before, and this corridor is exactly the same as the one on either side of us." Tang Mo looked down at the dark puddle of blood on the floor after placing the glass cover back on the raised platform, "The only thing that can be considered different is this puddle of blood."

The little boy said, "As far as I can surmise, there were once three players in this corridor as well, and their quest was the same as ours, to find the Moonflower who loves to lie. In the matter of choosing which way to enter the corridor, they must have broken out into an argument first, perhaps all three of them, who refused to be the first to go through." There were even incidents of forceful suppression and threats of teammates being mice.

The boy, Fu Wen Sheng (not necessarily his real name), tries very hard to join Tang Mo and Dollface's group, and Tang Mo looks at him. Tang Mo knew that for the moment, the boy really wanted to make himself and Dollface believe in him. Because that's the only way he has the best chance of surviving.

Tang Mo went on to say, "Assuming that there was actually a force suppression incident amongst the three of them players, then the first player to enter the trap, should be dead."

Boy: "Then the two players thought that the other path was the right one, and they walked up to it negligently, and I'm afraid they died in that bottomless pit as well." After a pause, he looks over at Tang Mo and Dollface, as if suddenly remembering something, and stares up at the green graphic above their heads.

Dollface smiled, "What are you looking at me for, little Sang Sang?"

This doll face who was skeptical of himself just now suddenly addressed himself with such a disgustingly intimate nickname, Fu Wen Sound did not react for a moment. He froze for a moment, stood up and walked over to Tang Mo, saying, "Zhao ...... Zhao brother, it just occurred to me that the graphic on top of my head is red, and the one on top of your head is green, could it be that the three players in this corridor, the color of the graphic on top of their heads is also different from us? For example ......"

"They're purple." Tang Mo said.

The little boy nodded vigorously, "I think it's purple too. Looks like you guys have been in that bedroom too?"

Tang Mo did not deny it.

The little boy thought, "So, from the beginning, something in this castle was hinting at the kind of people we'd meet next?" ......"

Upon entering Queen Hong Tao's Jeweled Castle, Tang Mo receives his first side quest, "Enter the Glass House". In order to find the glass flower room, Tang Mo, Baby Face and White Collar Girl went through many rooms and corridors. In one of the bedrooms, Tang Mo saw a vase on the dresser with three feathers in it. One was red, one was green, and one was purple.

Since few feathers are dyed in such strange colors, Tang Mo took a closer look and made a note of it.

And now, he looked at the red graphic above the little boy's head, and then at the green graphic above the doll face's head. He says, "It seems like there are clues and hints hidden in many places after entering this castle." The three different colored feathers were hinting to the player that there were a total of three teams in the Jeweled Castle, "We can think more about the clues we've seen before, which might be useful in completing the main quest. Did you see any other clues?" Tang Mo looked to the little boy.

The little boy thought for a moment, "I was in a palace and I saw a very strange sculpture fountain. It was a very huge snake, it was very, very big, and that palace was huge, but its sculpture took up two-thirds of the space. Because it was so big, its body folded over in the palace just enough for it to bite its tail. Water squirted out from between its mouth and teeth and flowed out of the palace down a dark tunnel to who knows where."

Tang Mo frowns, "A giant snake that bites its own tail?"

"Yemengarde?" A doll-faced voice rang out, and both Tang Mo and the boy looked towards him. He was seen standing against the wall to one side, and when both of them looked at him, he laughed, "Norse mythology, haven't you heard of it? Loki's second child, a giant serpent that symbolized evil, was called Yemengarde. It ended up in the Twilight of the Gods with Thor, the God of Thunder. Thor the God of Thunder you know, is that ...... hammer to come, my hammer you can't hold Thor the God of Thunder. Hahahahaha ......"

Dollface's laugh was incredibly strange, and the jokes he told weren't funny at all; the entire jeweled corridor echoed only with the sound of his exaggerated, contrived laughter. He laughed for a while, but when he realized that Tang Mo and the little boy were staring at him expressionlessly, he shrugged his shoulders in bemusement and leaned against the wall, humming an unpleasant little song of his own.

Tang Mo paints a rough mental picture of the giant serpent fountain. The fountain could not provide any useful clues for the time being; perhaps the fountain was hinting at the guards' means of attack? Or perhaps hinting at the correct way out of the corridor?

Tang Mo was more convinced that the strange pattern of lines he saw on those fire pits was more likely to be the correct map out of the jeweled corridor than a giant articulated snake.

The three of them checked the corridors some more to make sure there weren't any clues, and then decided to set off and leave the place officially.

There were three corridors on three sides of the triangular room, belonging to the red, green and purple teams. Tang Mo knows that his luck has always been bad, and when he chooses a path, he can always choose the hardest one. If he were to be the one to decide which corridor to leave from, there would be problems. The doll face is not a problem, if you can not give him a chance to speak, do not give him a chance to speak.

Tang Mo looks to the little boy, "You pick a path and try it."

The little boy froze, "...... me?"

Tang Mo faintly said, "Three corridors with a total of three doors behind them. You pick one at random."

Dollface grinned at the scene.

The little boy pondered for a moment and said, "There's no one left in this purple team, and now we just happen to be three players, which is considered to make a new team. Let's just leave through this corridor of the purple team."

No objections are raised and the three walk to the end of the hallway in the purple line. Tang Mo turned his head to look at Dollface, "Mr. Blues, your favorite kick in the door." Said Tang Mo, gesturing with his eyes in the direction of the doorknob.

The smile on Dollface's lips froze for a moment, and halfway through, he smiled wider. He gives Tang Mo a deep look, walks over to the door, and kicks this door open.

There was a loud bang and the wooden gate was kicked in.

The three of them gripped their weapons warily, and after realizing that there was no danger whatsoever, Tang Mo walked out of this door first, followed by Dollface and the little boy. When they saw the scene behind the door, even Doll Face, who had always been a dandy, stopped smiling and showed a moment of dismay.

Only to see that behind this bright and gorgeous moonlight corridor was an even more magnificent and majestic world.

The whole world seems to be carved out of precious stones, the ceiling is azure blue Patois, the walls are bright red crystals, and the ground is orange amber stone. The sapphire is like an ocean, suspended above the player's head, blue and clear; the red walls and yellow earth are smooth and clean, reflecting the faces of Tang Mo's three men.

The yellow amber floor is so smooth that it looks as if you'll slip if you stand on it. But Tang Mo stepped on the floor twice, and the friction was still so strong that it didn't affect walking at all.

"It seems the friction here has little to do with the gems themselves. This one is a true gem corridor." Tang Mo said decisively, he quickly turned around, "The door isn't closing of its own accord, so it looks like we can try the other two ways."

The three men walked down two more hallways and opened the doors at the end of them.

Just like the magnificent and beautiful gemstone world just now, the two corridors are also narrow gemstone corridors after the door. After witnessing this unattainable beauty twice, Tang Mo was no longer shocked and analyzed, "When we entered this corridor just now, we opened the door from a room and came in. But now, that room has disappeared and turned into a jeweled corridor. It seems we can only choose to enter any of these three jeweled corridors."

The three of them went back to the corridor where they had started, stepped through the wooden door, and walked out.

Walking amongst such gems, there was no need for illuminants at all. The gems seemed to glow, a fluorescent light emanating from within the gems. The glow wasn't dazzling, but when thousands of gems were gathered together, it illuminated the entire corridor as if it were daytime.

Walking down the jeweled corridors, Tang Mo felt for the first time that she was playing a game.

This place is so beautiful it's like a fairy tale.

The three walked for half a minute to a fork in the road.

Dollface gave a deliberate "eek" and laughed, "There are 999 forks in the jeweled corridor, and you met one so quickly?"

Tang Mo gives him an unmoving look and concludes that the rules of Dollface's game also mention that there are 999 forks in the Jeweled Corridor.

Tang Mo said, "Which way?"

At this moment, what appeared in front of the Tang Mo trio were two divergent paths. The two paths looked exactly the same, without any difference. One pointed to the left and the other to the right.

Tang Mo threw the multiple choice question back to the little boy.

This time faced with a choice, beads of sweat gradually oozed from the little boy's forehead. He didn't say a word, his eyes moving back and forth between the left and right sides of the road. Finally he raised his head and looked at Tang Mo: "I'll make the choice this time?"

Tang Mo looked calm: "I'm very unlucky, so if I were to choose, there's an 80% chance that something would go wrong."

Dollface interjected, "Bad luck, so just follow the opposite direction you chose. Wherever you pick, we'll go the other way."

Tang Mo glanced at him, "Even if you choose the opposite direction, something might go wrong, because this opposite direction is also related to my choice." Tang Mo never held any hope for his poor to heavenly luck. He even had times when he wondered what kind of sins he had created in his past life, even if he had a book with such bitchy, alien powers that made cursing himself the goal of his struggle, he also had luck that was so bad that he was powerless to spit it out.

At Tang Mo's words, Dollface smiled, he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something again, but muttered "you guys can't catch my stunt anyway" and closed his mouth again.

The choice returns to the little boy.

Tang Mo and Dollface both looked at themselves, and the little boy was silent for a long time, pointing to the left, "I'll take this side."

Anyway, there were only two choices, either left or right. Tang Mo calmly said, "Then go this way." Saying that, he led the little boy into the left side of the corridor with great strides.

Dollface blurted out, "Hey, you didn't even ask my opinion, what if I don't want to go left?"

Tang Mo doesn't look back, "Then you can just go right."

Dollface: "......"

This very unpleasant fellow followed. The three of them walk down the left corridor, and Tang Mo, seemingly trusting the boy's choice, enters the left corridor without hesitation, but his hand remains on the handle of little Yang San's umbrella.

Rule number three of the game: in every dead end road, two of Queen Hong Tao's guards are patrolling.

If this is a dead end, then they will meet the Queen of Hong Tao's guards. In this tower attack game, Tang Mo only knows two important game characters, one is Queen Hong Tao and the other is the guards, the former is the big boss of the game. The former, needless to say, is the big boss of the game, and the latter is also not to be underestimated, as it can appear in the rules of the game, and is used by the Black Tower to warn the players to choose the right fork in the road, so it must be very powerful.

However, I don't know if it was because the little boy was so lucky, or if the two choices were more correct, but the three of them walked for half a minute and met another fork in the road.

Seeing this fork in the road, the three of them were first relieved. It meant that they hadn't chosen the wrong path just now, and that the path to the left wasn't a dead end. But soon the trio tensed up again.

Tang Mo silently looked at the little boy.

Little Boy: "......"

This kind of important choice about life, every time you make a decision, it's like consuming your life. Fu Wen Sheng had begun to wonder if he shouldn't have gone all the way with these two adults, or else if he really chose the wrong path one time, maybe these two people would even turn against each other. But under the pressure of Tang Mo's direct gaze, he had to make a choice.

Little Boy: "...... left, I think."

Tang Mo walks down the hallway to the left with the boy, and Dollface follows slowly.

This time, the little boy picked the right one again.

There were five forks in a row, and the boy, like a goddess of fortune possessing him, chose the right path every time. Each time the trio entered the fork in the road, they traveled forward as fast as they could while being careful of possible sneak attacks around them. This was because the Black Tower had said that every human who stayed in the Jeweled Corridor for more than three hours would find it almost impossible to get out of this corridor again.

It's not the formal rules of the game, and the Black Tower uses the adjective "allegedly" when talking about it. But Tang Mo doesn't dare take it lightly. The exact number of three hours must have some significance. It was very possible that after three hours, Tang Mo and his team would never be able to leave this corridor again.

When the trio made it through seven forks in the road and came to the eighth, Tang Mo's eyes widened in surprise, as did the little boy and Dollface.

Just in front of the three of them were three identical corridors.

Tang Mo was the first to react as he stepped forward and touched the entrances to the three corridors. He turned his head, "This time it's really three corridors. Three choices, now ...... which one do we choose." He looked at the little boy.

Little Boy: "......"

Rule #2 of the game: at every fork in the road, there must be at least one fork in the wrong direction, pointing to a dead end.

Tang Mo didn't realize until now what the rules of the game meant. Who said that a fork in the road had to be two forks in the road and couldn't be three or four? As they encountered today, there were three forks in total, and at least one of them was a dead end, leading to two guards. Or maybe two paths are dead ends and only one is the right one.

As the little boy felt pressurized, he took a deep breath to calm himself down. He chose a path first: "Or this one on the left."

Tang Mo looked at him steadily. He could see that the child had something more to say.

As expected, the little boy continued, "I don't know if I chose the right path, assuming that there are two roads here that are dead ends and one that is the right path, if I chose the right path, then we continue to go forward, and surely there is no mistake. Just be afraid ...... that there is only one road here that is a dead end, and both roads are the right road, leading to a new fork in the road. Brother Zhao, do you understand what I mean?"

Tang Mo looked at him quietly, and after a long time, he said, "Since you've chosen this path on the far left, let's just go."

The little boy was a bit anxious, "Brother Zhao!"

Tang Mo didn't answer him and walked into the road on the left.

Doll face was watching with interest. When he saw Tang Mo leaving, he walked up, came over to the anxious little kid, lowered his voice, and said in a very soft voice, "What are you so anxious about? He's ignoring you, and he's obviously thought of the problem too. He's not even anxious, what are you anxious about. Isn't it good to be alive anyway?"

Hearing this, the little boy's face changed. He looked up at the doll face, who gave him an impish smile. Then he put his hands in his pockets and quickly followed Tang Mo's footsteps.

The little boy followed suit.

Along the way, the boy thought Tang Mo would make some kind of special marking to record the path everyone had taken. Tang Mo, however, just kept on walking as usual. He didn't make any markings, and he looked calm, as if he really didn't realize what the multiple forks in the road meant and how much danger was hidden behind them.

The little boy looked at Tang Mo's back and hesitated for a long time, but still didn't say anything.

But soon, he didn't have the heart to think about it. When the three of them reached the end of this corridor, Doll Face had just taken a step forward when suddenly he stomped on the ground with his toes and flew backwards. Tang Mo also reacted in a split second as a sharp pointed spear stabbed straight from in front of him, he sidestepped and avoided it while pulling out the little Yang San.

A pitch-black spear slowly emerged from the air, while a humanoid playing card guard with a spear in each hand stepped out of the air with one foot on the ground. It was a jack, and the guard in the playing card saw Tang Mo dodge the spear before twisting his head and glaring at him with another spear that pierced through the air and stabbed him.

Tang Mo quickly recited the incantation and opened the small Yang San to block the blow. He was sent flying by the blow and stumbled backward three steps before stabilizing himself.

On the other side, Dollface pulled out his dagger and matched it with another poker guard.

These pokers were tall and terrifyingly powerful. They wielded their spears without any moves at all, simply stabbing, jerking, and picking, but because the spears were too hard and sharp, their strength was too great, and they also posed a threat to Tang Mo and Doll Face. Seizing an opportunity when the spear was empty, Tang Mo's eyes narrowed as he put away the little Yang San and thrust the tip of his umbrella hard into the center of the playing cards.

Only a crisp metallic clash was heard.

Tang Mo's eyes widened as he stomped on the jeweled wall, spun in the air, and yelled, "Look out!"

Dollface also instantly moved behind the other poker guard at that moment with a speed that was unattainable to the naked eye. He held a dagger in his left hand and looked at this card with a smile, "Go well." As the words fell, he slashed his dagger at the neck of the guard in this card, who knew that his dagger stabbed at the playing card and unexpectedly burst into dazzling metal sparks. The playing card did not have a single break.

Dollface blushed instantly as he jumped out of the way three times, dodging the guards' spears.

He craned his head to lock eyes with Tang Mo.

Both men said in unison, "Run!"

With that, Tang Mo and Dollface turned around at the same time and quickly ran back. While running, Tang Mo picked up the little boy with one hand, threw him onto his back, and ran without looking back. The guards were very fast, and after realizing that Tang Mo and the three of them had actually escaped, they hurriedly chased after them, but the three of them had already completely run out of the corridor.

The moment the trio's feet left the corridor, the movements of the two guards suddenly stopped. They stood in the corridor and mechanically turned their heads, returning to the depths of the corridor. They took one step on the ground, making a rumbling sound that shook the entire corridor with it.

Seeing that the two guards were no longer pursuing, Tang Mo gave a sigh of relief and placed the little boy on the ground. He looked to Dollface, "These two guards don't have much fighting skills, and their moves and speed aren't that fast, but they're too tough. I can't get any wounds on their poker cards, can you?"

Dollface: "No way."

Tang Mo took a moment to catch her breath, "So Queen Hong Tao's guards are playing card guards. Perhaps she herself is a playing card. Now anyways, we definitely can't beat those two guards. Moreover, they are hidden in the air, and only when we reach the end of the corridor will they suddenly appear. That's why their attack can be described as a sneak attack and cannot be defended against. This time it's also our luck that their sneak attack didn't block our way back." After a pause, Tang Mo looked at the little boy, "You choose another path."

Little Boy: "...... And you're letting me choose my path?"

Tang Mo nodded, "You choose, there are two paths left."

The little boy clenched his fingers as he pointed to the middle path, "This one."

"Good."

Tang Mo The three of them went back into the middle of this road.

The trio didn't have time to make much of an analysis of the guards they had just encountered, as they had a three hour time limit. During these three hours, they must leave this jeweled corridor or they will never be able to leave and will be made into a statue of Queen Hong Tao.

This time, the middle path was the right one, and the trio came to another fork in the road. This time there were only two forks in the road, and the little boy chose the one on the left, and the trio walked in.

Tang Mo didn't say a word during the journey. He looked down at the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.

Time passed by, and the three had lost count of how many corridors they had traveled and how many forks in the road they had encountered. Among them, they went the wrong way thirty-six times. As soon as they realized they were going the wrong way, Tang Mo and Dollface would immediately retreat. The little boy was very sharp, he was not prepared for the first time when he met the guards, since then he had been following Tang Mo and Dollface, firstly, not to be a burden to them, and secondly, he could be the first to turn around and run away in case of danger.

But they eventually ran into two guards who would ambush them. One guard appears in front of Tang Mo and Dollface, and the other behind the little boy, surrounding the three of them front and back.

Tang Mo had no choice but to use "Swallow the Miles like a Tiger", and a powerful hurricane blew the two playing cards away. A road appeared in front of the three of them, and they took the opportunity to run out of the trap set by the two clever playing card guards.

After escaping, Dollface looks to Tang Mo : "So, props again? Or ...... is it an alien power this time?"

Tang Mo looks up at him, the doll face still with a smirk on his face.

Tang Mo said calmly, "Props."

Dollface gave a meaningful "Oh" and looked to the little boy, "Pick another path."

Just now, the guards sneak attacked from behind, Tang Mo and Doll Face couldn't possibly be the first to go to his rescue, the little boy himself pulled a gun out of nowhere and fended off the attack of the poker guards. Anyone who can get into a tower attack game is not an ordinary person. This little boy looked like he had no hands, but his gun had just shot out terrifying flaming bullets, and the bullets had exploded, all hitting the same part of the poker guard's forehead. Although it didn't penetrate the poker, it did make the poker take several steps backward, buying time for Tang Mo and Dollface.

The little boy calmly made his choice: "The one on the far right."

Tang Mo nods softly, "Okay, then go here ......"

"I'm not leaving." The doll-faced voice rang out, and both Tang Mo and the little boy looked toward him.

Only to see this tall and thin young man leaning against the red jeweled wall, with that disgusting smile still hanging on his lips, he pointed with his chin to the corridor where the three of them had gone wrong just now and said, "Those two guards, you saw them. More powerful than all the guards before. Guards have differences in strength, and if we choose the wrong path again next, the strength of the guards we encounter will most likely get stronger and stronger. So ...... I don t believe him, I don t go that way."

After a pause, the doll face laughed, "I think I said it before, well ...... everyone calls me Lucky Blues.Jo Jo, are you coming with me?"

Tang Mo's eyes stare strangely at the doll-faced face, and he just stares at it so silently that he can't keep the smile off the doll-face.

At this point, Tang Mo said, "...... Why did you pick this one in the middle."

"I'd love to." Dollface grinned, "Well, how about going?"

Tang Mo retracted his eyes, "I'll take the right one with him."

Dollface spread his hands without further discouragement.

The three of them split into two groups, with Dollface walking alone to the entrance of the center corridor, and Tang Mo and the little boy walking to the entrance of the right corridor. The little boy looked at Dollface hesitantly, and when Dollface waved at him, the little boy immediately withdrew his gaze and decided to follow Tang Mo.

Dollface said with great regret, "So, really, this is where we part ways?"

Tang Mo looked at him coldly without speaking.

The smile on his lips grew even wider as he sighed, "You're still quite funny, I hope to see you again in the future." Saying that, he raised his steps and was about to walk into the center corridor, when Tang Mo suddenly spoke up, "Do you have to walk down the center corridor?"

Dollface was on his feet as he turned his head to look at Tang Mo, his eyes measuring. He smiled, "What, decided to come with me again?"

Tang Mo: "The two of us will go down the right corridor, and you alone will go down the center. If you choose right, forget it. If you choose wrong, encounter two guards as powerful and clever as in the left corridor ...... Mr. Blues, your chance of escaping is less than fifty percent. With us, there is a care, even if the right corridor is wrong, three people are more likely to escape from the guards, and you have a better chance of surviving."

As if he hadn't heard Tang Mo, Dollface said nonchalantly, "So see you later."

Dollface stepped into the center hallway with one foot. He was humming a little tune and walking lightly with his hands in his pockets. It was then that he heard a footstep behind him. His off-key song stuttered for a beat and he turned his head to look.

Only in the sparkling and gorgeous jeweled corridor, a clean-cut youth and a little boy walked through the entrance of the corridor.

Dollface let out a low chuckle, "Jo Jo, you want to go with me again?"

Tang Mo's gaze was fixed on the smiling doll-face, and he stared at him for a long time, watching the doll-face deliberately stare back at him, as if he wanted to stare back. Just when the little boy felt something strange and wanted to open his mouth to break the silence, Tang Mo smiled. He curled his lips, "Hello again, Mr. Blues. On second thought, three is better than two. Even if you choose the wrong one, at least the three of us have a better chance of surviving. So it's better to go together."

Dollface let out a chuckle through his nose as he didn't say a word, continuing to hum his off-key ditty as he walked forward.

For once, the center corridor is right.

After half a minute of walking, the three of them came to a fork in the road. This time there were four forks in the road, and the boy looked over at Tang Mo, who this time didn't look at him, but at the doll face, "I didn't think you'd get it right this time, Mr. Blues."

Dollface: "I told you I've always been lucky."

Tang Mo: "Why don't we let you decide where to go this time?"

Hearing this, the little boy sighed in relief. Dollface, however, narrowed his eyes and looked at Tang Mo : "You said let me decide?"

"If you don't want to, just let your little friend continue to choose the path." Tang Mo casually said, "Both of you are quite lucky, compared to me. Just whichever one of you comes and chooses the path, there's nothing wrong with it. Fu ...... "After a pause, Tang Mo said, "Little friend, which path do you choose?"

I didn't realize I'd have to pick my own path in the end. Little Boy: "Right it is ......"

Dollface laughed, "I'll take the right side too."

Tang Mo : "So coincidentally you guys picked the same one, so let's pick the right side."

Walking down the corridor to the right, Tang Mo and the little boy walk together, doll face walks alone on one side. As if he is used to this kind of being guarded by his teammates, he walks forward calmly, only his eyes glancing over to Tang Mo from time to time. he vaguely feels that something is not right, and he observes Tang Mo carefully, scanning over her from head to toe before retracting his eyes again.

There really isn't anything out of the ordinary, at most ...... just a slightly better attitude toward him?

Soon enough, though, Dollface is again ignored by Tang Mo. Tang Mo basically just asks the little boy where he is going and leaves him alone. It was only when there were a lot of diversions that he might "condescend" to consult the baby face. Every time Tang Mo asked him which way he wanted to go, the smile on his face would widen, as if he had seen something interesting.

The three of them then walked like this for more than two hours.

Upon coming to a fork in the road with seven switchbacks, all three stopped in their tracks and fell silent without speaking.

"Actually, from the first time we came across the fork in the three-way road, we both knew that this game couldn't just randomly let us go." Tang Mo suddenly spoke up, and both Dollface and the little boy looked at him. He looked at the seven identical corridors with a calm gaze, "There is a total time limit of three hours, and there are 999 forks in the jeweled corridors. On average it takes us 30 seconds to walk from one fork to another, that's 10,800 seconds in three hours. We don't waste a second and can walk up to 360 intersections."

Little Boy: "Yes, it's something I knew from the beginning, but more importantly is the question of multiple forks in the road."

More than two hours ago, the little boy wanted to remind Tang Mo about this, saying, "The rules of the game in the Black Tower say that for every fork in the road, there must be at least one that is a dead end. You all know this rule, right? If it's a fork in the road, then needless to say, it's either one or two, and even if we take the wrong path, as long as we go back and start over, it will definitely be the right path. But in case it's a fork in the road with multiple forks, assuming it's a three-way intersection, where we won't encounter guards on either road, and only one road has guards at the end, then we can easily choose the wrong one. Because if we follow one path, we might be right at first, but we'll probably run into a situation where all the forks are dead ends in the end." He looked up, "The Black Tower doesn't say that one of the forks in the road must be the right road."

Tang Mo looked at the calm, sensible little boy and said, "Yes. Perhaps there will come a time when we will come to a fork in the road, and all the forks in the road will be dead ends. Because we've been going the wrong way since long ago. At some multiple choice fork in the road, we chose a path that seemed right, but was actually wrong. Sooner or later, by taking this path, we run into a dead end. It's like a maze. Just because there is a short, clear section doesn't mean it's the path that connects to the end of the road. Most likely, after a long time we realize that it leads to a dead end."

Dollface held up his hand, "So, what's the point of talking about this now?"

Tang Mo gave him a look, "Of course it works. First of all, time-wise, there's no way we can make it through all 999 intersections. Secondly, the likelihood of us taking the wrong intersection is infinitely close to 1. Moreover, as long as we take the wrong path, we will encounter guards. If the guards could get progressively stronger, we would be killed by them sooner or later. In that case, I simply don't see how to get out of this corridor. No one should be able to walk out at all."

Dollface dropped in, "But someone walked out oh, didn't those two crows say that a little girl walked out of the magical jeweled corridor."

During the first side quest, Tang Mo, Dollface and White Collar Girl once heard two crows talking. They said that a little girl had left Queen Hong Tao's Jeweled Corridor, and that she was the only one to leave it.

Tang Mo faded, "Yes, I know, so there must be a way out of this corridor."

Dollface tightened his smile.

The boy also realized something and he looked at Tang Mo : "You found the right route?"

Tang Mo looked down at him, "You remember that sculpted fountain. It's not Yermengarde or any other mythological figure. It is the Articulated Serpent, and it is ...... infinity."

The doll-faced smile lurched as he seemed to understand something.

The little boy's eyes also slowly widened, and after a long time he exclaimed, "Infinity, Möbius' ring, only one surface forever?!"

Tang Mo : "Yes. You saw that sculpture fountain in the previous side quest, and I saw some very strange curves. I've always felt that these curves looked a bit familiar, but I couldn't remember what exactly was familiar about them and what they had in common. It wasn't until just now that it slowly dawned on me that your giant serpent sculpture means the infinity symbol, it means the head and the tail are connected, and it means a Möbius ring."

In the nineteenth century, the mathematician Möbius discovered that turning a strip of paper 180° and then gluing it end to end gave a magical ring band. This ring band had only one surface, and a pen was used to make a line on the ring band; no matter what, the line would return to its origin and form a closed circle.

This is the Möbius ring.

"Most of the lines on the fire pit are a closed figure, and there are even some infinity symbols tucked right into some of the twisted curves. I just didn't notice any of these." Tang Mo said.

Perhaps those three players on the purple team they had seen other hints as well, but unfortunately they hadn't survived to share the clues with the Tang Mo trio. So it wasn't until now that Tang Mo realized that the first two seemingly simple side quests of the Black Tower had in fact been giving the players hints on how to leave the Jeweled Corridor.

The Gem Corridor is a Mobius Ring.

Even if you take all 999 forks in the road, even if you go through every single intersection, you'll never get out. Because it's first and last.

Understanding this, the little boy added, "But what if we know, how the hell are we going to get out?"

Tang Mo looked at him and caught a glimpse of Dollface looking at himself with interest. He said calmly, "Have you seen Alice Sleepwalker in Wonderland?"

It was a well known children's book, remade in several movies and TV shows, and of course the little boy had read it. He nodded his head.

Tang Mo said, "There is also a Queen Hong Tao, and there is also a little girl, her name is Alice, and in that novel, the Queen Hong Tao says something to Alice that later gave rise to a very famous theory of knowledge."

The boy was in his early teens, and had never heard of any theories related to Alice's Sleepwalker's Wonderland.

Dollface suddenly spoke up, "Hong Tao Queen Theory."

Tang Mo looks to him, "Well, Queen Hong Tao theorized. Queen Hong Tao says to Alice that in her world, if you run hard enough, you won't necessarily move forward, you'll just stop where you are. Alice says that in her world, if you run in one direction for a while, you will definitely move forward. However, Queen Hong Tao told her that in Fairyland, you can only move forward if you run twice as fast."

Queen Hong Tao's theory is that hard work does not necessarily lead to progress, but only when the hard work reaches a certain level and makes radical innovations can the status quo be changed.

"Running at a certain speed only allows you to stay where you are, you can't leave ......" The little boy thought for a moment as he figured it out and realized, "What is considered double the speed?"

What constitutes a radical innovation, a sea change?

Tang Mo picks up little Yang San and he points the tip of his umbrella at the brightly colored ruby wall.

He smiled slightly, "Smash the wall."

Boom!

A minute later, with a deafening sound, a fist-sized hole is smashed through the ruby wall. Immediately after, Tang Mo, Dollface and Little Boy pick up the pace and make the hole bigger and bigger, finally allowing one person to pass through.

The three men crawled out of the hole in turn, and at this point it didn't matter if they crawled in a bit of a doggy style or not, the three of them stood up immediately after leaving the hole and looked around.

The little boy exclaimed, "Why is it still here?!"

Good, this was the same hallway they had left in the beginning, the one that belonged to the purple team.

The three walked up and noticed a pool of black blood on the ground. Little Boy: "This is really the same corridor we left in the beginning, so do we count as leaving the gem or not ......" The voice ended abruptly, and the little boy looked back, he was dismayed to find that the hole they had just drilled out had disappeared!

Not only the hole, but the jeweled corridor they had just drilled through turned into a black wall. The three of them went to check and realized that indeed the hole was gone, and so was the jeweled corridor. They turned their heads to look ahead again.

Only behind the raised platform where the moon flower was placed, the wall that had once risen high disappeared, and in its place was a tall, lofty door. The door was silently locked there, as if waiting for someone to push it open.

The little boy realized, "...... That's Queen Hong Tao's bedroom."

Tang Mo laughs, "Well, that's Queen Hong Tao's bedroom."

They walked out.

Queen Hong Tao's Jeweled Castle is a place of spatial disorganization. The Gem Corridor is a trap from the beginning, the 999 forks in the road make no sense, nor do the guards guarding the end of the dead-end road. To get out of the Gem Corridor, what is needed is not to pick the right path or defeat the guards, but to break this Mobius Ring and realize the theory of Queen Hong Tao and make a radical change.

The Tang Mo trio smashed through the walls of the jeweled corridor, and now they've managed to walk out.

While smashing the wall, Tang Mo then returns a Moon Flower to the little boy. Because of the fourth rule of the game: only the one with the Moon Flower can get out of the jeweled corridor.

Tang Mo wasn't sure if the little boy could get out of the hole he had just made without the moon flower, so just in case, he returned it.

Today, each of the three men is holding a moonflower.

Tang Mo said, "Come on, go to her bedroom."

The little boy nodded and followed Tang Mo's lead.

Dollface's voice rang out behind the two, "So now all you have to do is stick the moon flower in a vase and the jeweled corridor will be closed forever?" He said as he walked up to keep pace with the two, "Ah, then won't this game be over soon? How pointless is this, I want to play a little longer. Why don't we go back to the Jeweled Corridor and play for a little while longer? It's not like it's been three hours anyway."

Tang Mo coldly swept him a glance, "You could have just come over here without drilling holes with us if you wanted to keep playing."

Dollface spread his hands and still had that smirk on his face.

The three walked toward Queen Hong Tao's bedroom, and the little boy said, "Be careful, maybe there is a trap in that bedroom, or maybe Queen Hong Tao ......"

Whoosh!

A sharp dagger flew past Tang Mo's eyes, almost grazing his eyelashes, and with a clang, nailed itself to the wall. Tang Mo reacted quickly and stepped back, yet another silver knife brushed past his eyes. This person's sneak attack came so suddenly that the little boy didn't even let out a cry of surprise, and Tang Mo barely managed to avoid it twice before he stumbled and fell backward.

Dollface let out a laugh, his fingers deftly flipping a silver butterfly | knife. The sharp edge of the blade grazed his fingers every time, and kept attacking Tang Mo's eyes as he kept leaning back, and finally he braced himself on the ground with one hand.

Taking advantage of the situation, Dollface reached out and grabbed the Moonflower in Tang Mo's other hand.

Everything happened so fast that the little boy could only see the approximation, and the doll face's right hand had already grasped the root stem of Tang Mo's moon flower. However, at this moment, Tang Mo was prepared for this, he supported himself on the ground with one palm and stood up straight again, at the same time, his other hand pressed down on the doll face's wrist, preventing him from grabbing the flower.

The doll-faced youth's smile disappeared as he looked up at Tang Mo in dismay.

Tang Mo flipped his palm and a huge match appeared in his palm. He aimed the red match head of the large match at Doll Face's right arm and rammed it hard, and at the same moment, a hot flame burned up from Tang Mo's palm.

The flames of up to 1,535 degrees Celsius with ignite the matches and also the right arm of the doll face.

Tang Mo waved the giant match and made a perfect arc in the air, the flames dissipated after the burning match head rubbed against the ground, only the match head was blackened. On the other hand, Dollface took three steps backward, he looked up at Tang Mo, and just shouted "You!", suddenly, his feet were empty.

Dollface reacted quickly by reaching out and grabbing Tang Mo's pant leg.

A black bottomless pit appeared in the middle of the corridor unexpectedly, this bottomless pit was exactly the same as the one Tang Mo had encountered before, and it was even still in the same location. Three hours ago, the white-collar woman fell into the same bottomless pit, and when she was three hours old, the doll-face pulled Tang Mo's pants leg, and was also sucked downward by this suction force in the hole.

But doll faces are ultimately too much better than white-collar women. He tugged on Tang Mo's pant leg with one hand, and his other arm was ablaze with fire. As if he didn't feel any pain, he tugged on Tang Mo's pants leg, and without Tang Mo's help, he was about to come up.

At that moment, Tang Mo hammered the giant match hard on the ground. He looked at the doll-faced youth who was about to climb up and smiled, "Thanks to you, I realized what the real function of this match is. Only a high-temperature flame of more than 1500°C can ignite this match, and the flame will never go out until everything that is ignited by this match is burned out."

Dollface's tugging at Tang Mo's pant leg gave way, and he raised his head, staring at Tang Mo dead in the face.

Tang Mo : "Now cut off your arm and you can still live. Otherwise ...... Bai Ruoyao, you will be burned alive by it."

Bai Ruoyao's eyes opened as wide as they could go at that moment, and he stared intently at Tang Mo. The flames crackled, and he looked at Tang Mo as if he were trying to memorize the man in his heart. Then the next moment, he suddenly smiled. Without hesitation, he let go of his hand on Tang Mo's pants, flung his silver butterfly | knife, and cut off his right arm, which was on fire.

The doll face fell down the bottomless pit. His voice mixed with laughter came out of the bottomless pit and echoed in the hallway, "Surname Zhao, I'm looking forward to our next meeting. You should never, ever run into me again ......"

At the same time, a clear child's voice rang out in the hallway.

"Dingdong! Huaxia Zone 7 player Bai Ruoyao and Huaxia Zone 6 player Fu Wen Sheng successfully cleared the first floor of the Black Tower (Normal Mode), completing the main quest 'Desperate Survival Game in the Jeweled Corridor', successfully surviving for three hours and passing through a total of 112 forks in the road. Player Bai Ruoyao received 0 Moon Flowers and 0 Rewards. Player Fu Wen Sheng obtains 1 Moon Flower and receives one reward."