It can't really be your son!!!
From Bai Ruoyao's sudden sneak attack, to his falling into the bottomless pit with a severed arm, everything happened so fast, in only sixty seconds.
When Fu Wen reacted, the always-smiling doll-faced young man had already disappeared into the dark depths of the bottomless pit. He realized that the doll-face had tried to grab Tang Mo's Moon Flower, but Tang Mo had overpowered him. He looked at Tang Mo warily , and a question surfaced in his mind, "...... Aren't you on the first floor of the Black Tower of Passage?!"
Just now, the Black Tower informed Bai Ruoyao and Fu Wen Sheng that they had cleared the first floor of the Black Tower, but it didn't say Tang Mo's name. Fu Wen Sheng's first thought was that Tang Mo's mission was not the same as theirs, and it was very likely that he was not the one who was trying to get to the first floor of the Black Tower.
Tang Mo looked at Fu Wen Sheng. The boy looked relaxed, but his hand in his pocket was already holding a pistol. As soon as Tang Mo attacked, he would immediately counterattack.
But to his surprise, Tang Mo didn't attack him, but instead stepped aside, picking up the two Moon Flowers from the ground. He said frankly, "Yes. I raided the second floor of the Black Tower."
Fu Wen Sheng s face showed a moment of shock, but he quickly calmed down. This little boy who was only in his early teens said in a calm manner, "Then what ...... is your mission?"
Tang Mo: "Didn't you already guess?"
"You're going to put moon flowers in a vase in Queen Hong Tao's bedroom, off the jeweled corridor?"
"Do you know what your main quest is?"
Suddenly asked a question, Fu Wen sounded silent. Now that he had completed his mission, and Tang Mo had no intention of killing him, the clever boy thought for a moment, and decided to tell him his main mission: "Survive for three hours, and make it out of 100 forks in the road."
Just now, when the Black Tower notified of the success of the clearance, it said that there was a hint of surviving for three hours and clearing the 112 forks in the road. Tang Mo had already guessed Fu Wen Sheng and Bai Ruoyao's real mission, but this time, after hearing Fu Wen Sheng say it out loud, Tang Mo lifted up the corners of his lips and revealed a smile.
Tang Mo : "You didn't lie to me." The tone is sure.
Fu Wen sounded a bit confused, "The mission is over, why would I lie to you."
Tang Mo smiled slightly and did not say anything.
For the little boy did not realize that, fifty minutes earlier, he had said exactly the same thing, except that then, instead of staring at Tang Mo defensively as he was doing now, he had hesitated for a long time, and finally handed over the moonflower he held in his hand, "Your task is to put the moonflower into the vase in Queen Hong Tao's bedroom."
Without the Moon Flower, Tang Mo cannot complete the quest and pass the Tower Attack game.
So the boy, who had been wary of Tang Mo and Bai Ruoyao all the way, hesitated for a long time, and then handed the only remaining Moon Flower to Tang Mo. By that time, Bai Ruoyao had already succeeded in clearing the level, and left the game with two Moon Flowers (one of which was snatched from Tang Mo's hand). Fu Wen thought Tang Mo had no choice but to give away his Moon Flower, his reward, but Tang Mo looked at the child's expression of feigned generosity and laughed softly, "We haven't lost yet."
It's us, not me.
The little boy was surprised, "That Blues ...... that Bai Ruoyao has left the game, and he robbed your Moon Flower. Although I think he should have grabbed my Moon Flower more because it would have been better to grab mine than yours. But your Moon Flower is really gone. Doesn't your mission require you to insert the moon flower into a vase?"
"He's a psychopath." Tang Mo said bluntly, Fu Wen Sound didn't understand why he suddenly said that, "The reason he doesn't snatch your flower and only snatches mine is because he thinks snatching my Moon Flower is what makes it interesting and challenging. Other than that, by grabbing yours, you don't lose the game, you just don't get a reward."
The game Bai Ruoyao and Fu Wen are raiding is the Black Tower level, and they are rewarded with as many Moon Flowers as they have. This is what the Black Tower already hints at.
Tang Mo faintly said, "This flower of yours, perhaps he left it behind on purpose as well."
Fu Wen froze, "What?"
"It wasn't hard to snatch your flower, but he didn't because he knew about my game quest." This was Tang Mo's carelessness. As the three of them were walking out of the Jeweled Corridor, Bai Ruoyao said that next they had to insert the Moon Flower into the vase, which Tang Mo did not deny. From this point on, Bai Ruoyao knew that Tang Mo's game wasn't a "Jeweled Corridor Survival Game".
"My game is 'Hide and Seek Game in the Jeweled Corridor'. By hide-and-seek, there must be humans who are hiding and ghosts who are trying to catch humans. In the Jeweled Corridor, only one person can be called a ghost."
Fu Wen reacted at once: "Queen Hong Tao's guards!"
The only other guards in the Jeweled Corridor besides their three players were the guards of Queen Hong Tao, and the ghosts could only be them.
Tang Mo : "Yes, ghosts are guards. If I want to pass this hide-and-seek game, I can't be caught by the ghosts. But the truth is, there are many ways not to get caught by them, and I've never been caught by them in the previous three hours, but I've never finished the game."
Fu Wen voiced, "Because until you leave the gem corridor, and close it forever, there is no guarantee that you will not be caught by the guards later." He looked up at Tang Mo, "You need to close the Jeweled Corridor forever so you never get caught by the guards and you win the game. So ...... you need the Moonflower."
The little boy looked down at this last moon flower in his hand, and he struggled for a split second, "You'd better take this moon flower of mine. Compared to that adult who is always smiling and oozing, you are still quite good to me ....... If you weren't there, maybe that psycho would have already made a move on me. He left this flower of mine probably to give you a chance to pass, so that you do not lose the game. He would love to see you rob my moon flower, I force is not as good as you, you want to really rob me certainly can not stop, so you take it."
Fu Wen had said these words before, but Tang Mo told him that he hadn't lost yet. He only thought that Tang Mo was unconvinced that he had been underhanded, but he didn't know that in Tang Mo's pocket, a white Huo Ji egg was emitting a faint glow. An "S" character was flashing on the Huo Ji egg.
Tang Mo looked steadily at the child who had voluntarily given up the Moonflower and said again with a smile, "Not lost yet."
Fu Wen sounded blankly at him, "How ...... do you do it?"
Tang Mo closed his mouth and smiled at him. At the same time, his finger gently draws an "L" on Huo Ji's egg.
Sa|ve and load.
The game reads the file.
Everything back to fifty minutes ago.
When Tang Mo opens his eyes again, he's standing in the middle of a narrow, jeweled corridor, followed by a little boy with no doll face.
Fu Wen voiced, "Are we really not going with him? He looks pretty sure." Certain that the center corridor is right.
Tang Mo turned his head to look at Fu Wen Sheng. He looked away for a moment, looked back, and said in a calm tone, "I also feel that he is very convinced that the path he has chosen is the right one."
Fu Wen sounded surprised that Tang Mo's attitude had changed so drastically, and he asked, "Then we turn back and take the middle path with him?"
Tang Mo smiled, "Good."
Re-entering the middle path, Tang Mo heard a familiar, very unpleasant ditty. Hearing their footsteps, the dangling, baby-faced youth turned around and smiled as he uttered a flower Tang Mo had heard over and over again long ago, "Zhao Zhao, you want to walk with me again?"
Tang Mo stares at him, for a long time. He smiled, "Hello again, Mr. Blues."
Hello again, Bai Ruoyao.
Yes, from this moment on, Tang Mo has read the file and started over and figured out how to backstab the devious babyface.
Tang Mo is not an actor, although he reads the file to know what will happen in the future, but he does not guarantee that he can completely deceive the cautious Bai Ruoyao, so he stares at Bai Ruoyao's eyes for ten seconds, and activates his "look at my pure eyes" ability to try to gain Bai Ruoyao's trust. Bai Ruoyao's trust.
Next, he started acting.
In fact, before reading the file, Tang Mo also turned back with the little boy and chose to walk down the center corridor with Bai Ruoyao. At that time, he didn't know what was going to happen in the future, and he didn't know that the middle path was indeed the right path, but he saw two things.
First, Bai Ruoyao was adamant about taking the center path. Before Tang Mo and the boy were ready to enter the corridor on the right, he reminded Bai Ruoyao that in case of a dead end, the survival rate of three people walking together is much higher than that of one person. So even if the right corridor is a dead end, the three of them together still have a chance to turn back. However, if Bai Ruoyao entered the center corridor alone and encountered the guards alone, the probability of his survival would not be more than 50%.
But Bai Ruoyao's response to his remark was, "So goodbye."
He still refuses to change his choice and must take the middle road.
Bai Ruoyao was an extremely cautious man, and a clever one at that. If he insisted on taking the center road, he must have had his reasons. And his choice of the middle road also meant another thing: he refused to take the right road.
"He knows there's something wrong with this road on the right, and it might even be dangerous." Without having to read the file, Tang Mo sensed the problem. So he only walked down this corridor on the right for ten seconds before returning to his head and rediscovering Bai Ruoyao with the little boy.
What happened at the bottom was exactly the same as after reading the file. They go through many more forks and corridors, and as the three hour time limit approaches, Tang Mo realizes more and more that "choosing the right path all the time" is not the true way out of the jeweled corridors. He thinks of the Möbius Ring, then the Hong Tao Queen's Theory, and finally breaks through the wall and the three of them walk out of the corridor together.
On that occasion, Bai Ruoyao succeeded in sneaking up on Tang Mo and took away Tang Mo's Moon Flower. Tang Mo could have used Fu Wen's Moon Flower to pass the game, but he didn't want to. He chooses to read the file and start over again to kill that cunning and treacherous baby-faced psychopath.
What happens after reading the file never changes, except that when Bai Ruoyao sneaks up on Tang Mo again and steals his Moon Flower, Tang Mo is prepared for it. He pushes Bai Ruoyao backward into the bottomless pit and lights his arm on fire with a large match, forcing Bai Ruoyao to break his arm and fall into the bottomless pit.
Bai Ruoyao could never have imagined that Tang Mo possessed a rare quality cheating artifact, the Huo Ji Egg, nor could he have imagined that Tang Mo would begin to archive it as soon as he chose that he must enter the center corridor.
There are two reasons for archiving. One is that there is less than an hour left in the three-hour time limit, and Huo Ji's egg can be archived for an hour, which is just the right amount of time for archiving. Secondly, Tang Mo saw something on Bai Ruoyao's face--
"Draw a circle and curse you" black breath.
When Bai Ruoyao insisted on walking down the center corridor, a familiar layer of black aura lingered between his eyebrows. Tang Mo thought he was mistaken, but after half a day's reading, that familiar layer of black aura was clearly a sign that the Cursed Ability was working. But at this time Bai Ruoyao was not unlucky, unless he would be unlucky after choosing this path in the middle?
That was Tang Mo's guess at the time.
Between the probability of the curse working and Bai Ruoyao's cunning, Tang Mo chose to believe in the latter.
He believed that Bai Ruoyao's insistence must be justified, so he still decided to join him and take the middle path. Only he turned on the archiver by the way, just in case the middle path was really a desperate dead end. Looking back now ......
"The unlucky effect of the Curse Ability, it couldn't be saying that that psychopath is especially unlucky because I turned on the archiver." Tang Mo thought secretly.
The archive has passed, and Bai Ruoyao has fallen into a bottomless pit. No longer thinking about it, Tang Mo takes two Moon Flowers and looks at his little friend, "Isn't it time for you to exchange the Moon Flowers for a reward and leave the game?" Same doll-faced psycho as before reading the file.
Fu Wen sounded guardedly looked at Tang Mo, who was a little surprised, "...... you do not rob my moon flower?"
Fu Wen Sheng and Bai Ruoyao's quests were related to Moon Flowers, and the number of Moon Flowers they possessed could be exchanged for the number of rewards. He didn't know if Tang Mo's quest rewards had anything to do with Moon Flowers, but as they were carrying out similar quests, it was likely that Tang Mo's quest rewards were also related to Moon Flowers.
However, Tang Mo said, "Sort of pay you back."
Fu Wen voice froze, "What?"
Looking at the children's dumbfounded look, Tang Mo couldn't help but laugh, "Let's go, I'm going to finish my task."
Fu Wen Sheng had wanted to ask something more, but this kind of place should not stay for long. He was no match for Tang Mo, but in order to prevent Tang Mo from backing out, he exchanged the Moon Flower for the Black Tower's game reward as quickly as he could. Tang Mo didn't know what reward he got, but when the Moon Flower disappeared into his hand, the child couldn't hide the joy in his eyes. Soon, Fu Wen Sound's figure disappeared into the narrow corridor.
In the starlit gallery, Tang Mo stands alone by the bottomless pit, holding two moon flowers.
With the kids gone, Tang Mo finally had a chance to look at his book of powers. He took out a thin book from the air and flipped it open to the last page. When Tang Mo saw the name of his Altered Ability on the last page, his eyes widened in dismay, but soon he laughed helplessly and cried, "So that's it."
[Alien Power: Mortal Termination]
[Owner: Bai Ruoyao (official player)]
[Type: Special]
[Function: Eyes can see the black death aura that haunts others. Through some behaviors and words, you can change the dead aura of others. The heavier the aura of death, the greater the likelihood of that person's death.]
[Level: V]
[Restriction: Cannot see your own dead aura.]
[Remarks: Please don't be afraid when you see a black ball, maybe he's just going to die next.]
[Tang Mo version of the instructions for use: can be used three times a day, and can only be used on the same object. After using it, it will be entangled in the dead qi of the target, sharing 1% of the opponent's dead qi. In Bai Ruoyao's eyes, Tang Mo has long been a black ball full of FLAGs, but this black ball just can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die.
"It was because of this ability that he had a strange attitude when he first saw me. Perhaps at that time, my death aura was much heavier than the white-collar woman." Tang Mo thought, "Then he was so surprised when I successfully survived the Black Panther's hands. Because he thought for sure I wouldn't survive."
This ability looked like a cockamamie ability with no attack power, on par with the name change ability that sucked. However, in the Jeweled Corridor, this ability was a top-notch treasure. Tang Mo had only now realized why Bai Ruoyao had insisted on refusing to go down the right corridor.
According to Bai Ruoyao's prudent attitude, he would not easily reveal his preferences or reveal some of his cards. He refused to go to the right corridor, probably because he saw the dead qi wrapped around Tang Mo and Fu Wen's voices. The dead qi was too heavy, and he realized that the corridor on the right was an extremely dangerous dead end, which is why he was unwilling to go there.
In fact, Tang Mo had thought about it, they had traveled a total of more than a hundred forks in the road, in which they had encountered many multi-forked forks in the road, and had also encountered guards many times, but none of the guards they had encountered were particularly strong, and only once, they had encountered guards who would ambush them, and had almost not been able to escape.
This kind of luck was indeed amazingly good, in those hundred or so forks in the road, they didn't come across any guards that could have annihilated them all. Thinking about it now, it was not because they were lucky, but because they had been traveling with Bai Ruoyao. With Bai Ruoyao around, he could tell which cave was not dangerous and they could go in by looking at the dead qi; which cave was generally dangerous, and even if they met guards, the three of them could escape without any problem. And the kind of hole that was too dangerous and almost impossible to escape, he would avoid. For example, he chooses the middle path and refuses to go to the right with Tang Mo and the little boy.
"He's still a lucky remote." Tang Mo muttered.
"Lucky Yao?" A low voice rang out in Tang Mo's mind.
Tang Mo then remembered that Fu Wenduo had been hearing him here after opening the archive. He said, "Well, it's one of my teammates I ran into in the tower attack game this time, a very psychotic person who always did weird things. But he was subdued by my counterattack when he sneaked up on me, and may or may not be dead now."
Bai Ruoyao fell into a bottomless pit, but he successfully completed the main quest and was likely transported back to Earth by the Black Tower.
Fu Wenduo didn't ask any more questions about the man, "Finished the game on the second floor of the Black Tower?"
Tang Mo laughed, "No, it's still a bit short. No surprise, it'll be done soon."
While communicating with Fu Wenduo, Tang Mo raised his palm. Knowing what the trap of the bottomless pit was, it became very easy to break through it. Whoosh! A rubber rope sprang out from Tang Mo's palm, swung twice in the air, and firmly bound the wooden platform at the other end of the bottomless pit.
Tang Mo took a deep breath as he glared hard at the ground with one foot while utilizing the elasticity of the rope, and in the blink of an eye he was on the opposite side of the bottomless pit. Tang Mo puts away the rubber rope, takes the two Moon Flowers, and walks to the majestic door. By entering the door and inserting the Moon Flowers into the vase, Tang Mo can close the Gem Corridor forever, completing the "Gem Corridor Hide and Seek Game".
Tang Mo's hand gripped the handle of the small Yang San umbrella, wary of opening the door and bumping into the guards, or even the Queen of Hong Tao. However, the moment his hand touched the doorknob, Fu Wenduo's magnetic voice sounded in his head.
"By the way, I didn't bother you before because I kept seeing you carrying on with the game. Just now, I think I heard you mention my name there. Did I hear it wrong, the Black Tower prompted me to pass the first floor of the Black Tower?"
Tang Mo froze as his hand pressed against the cold gate, his movements halting. He recalled and realized what Fu Wenduo meant, he laughed, "It's not your name, it's a name much like yours. He is another teammate of mine, a young boy in his early teens, and his name is not Fu Wenduo, it is Fu Wen Sound."
Huo Ji At the other end of the egg, Fu Wenduo is suddenly silent.
Tang Mo sensed something was wrong.
Fu Wenduo whispered, "About eleven years old, with a mole under his right eye, quite a smart little boy?"
Tang Mo : "...... you recognize?"
"...... hmmm."
Tang Mo: "......" is not really your son, is it?
Fu Wenduo : "He is my cousin, the son of my second uncle, Fu Wen Sheng."
Published at: 05/27/2024 03:00