You guys kinda look like you're kissing.

The iodine touches the wound, sending a slight stinging sensation. Tang Mo doesn't take this pain seriously as he sits up in bed and stares straight ahead. He was facing a glass window, and outside the infirmary was the dark underground parking lot. When the lights in the room are turned on, the window becomes a mirror, reflecting the scene inside.

He saw Fu Wenduo medicating himself.

There was always something strange about it, and the touch on his back was uncomfortable.

Tang Mo breaks the silence, "That kid ...... I mean Fu Wen Sheng, is really your cousin?"

Fu Wenduo, tweezers in one hand, said, "Well, if you're right, it is indeed him."

Tang Mo: "He was very decisive when he denied he knew you." Doesn't seem like a lie at all, and by the way, acted very well to fool him and Bai Ruoyao.

"I don't know him very well, he's sixteen years younger than me. I went to see him when he was first born, then I went into the army and came home less often, so I haven't seen much of him since then." After a pause, Fu Wenduo's voice was calm, "It's understandable that he denies he knows me. If someone in the game asks about your relationship with me, Tang Mo ......" The voice stopped, Fu Wenduo lifted his head, looked towards the glass window that turned into a mirror, and hooked up the corner of his lips, "Will you admit it?"

I was surprised to be caught peeking.

Tang Mo immediately retracted her eyes and said without changing her face, "Of course I don't admit it."

Fu Wenduo let out a laugh and changed the subject, "This is the first time you've actually used an archiver. How does it feel?"

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo know each other from Huo Ji's egg, Mo Mo, and three months have passed since then. During these three months, Fu Wenduo used the archiver once. Fu Wenduo was forced to enter the second floor of the Black Tower for a tower attack game, and he had no choice but to confess to Tang Mo about the true function of the Huo Ji Eggs, because at that time he was unsure of how to attack the tower, and he had to use the archiver to ensure his safety. In the end, he reads the archive by killing himself and finds a way to leave the tower game for a while.

Tang Mo is different.

Tang Mo didn't need to read the archive to complete the game in Mario, and for the later Whack-A-Mole and Pinocchio games, Tang Mo didn't read the archive, but only used the archive feature.

This is the first time he's actually used an archiver.

Tang Mo grew serious, "It's marvelous. When I was communicating with you in my head, I had noticed that after reading the file, your time didn't change as a result. But when I was in the game, it was more like time had gone backwards. I went back to the archive and met two of my teammates from fifty minutes ago, including your cousin. They didn't seem to notice anything, only I knew what I had been through. The next thing that happened was exactly the same as it was before I read the archive, and I was able to avoid some of the risks quite easily." With that said, Tang Mo looked up and unapologetically at the man in the glass mirror, "Reading the file, it's back in time?"

Fu Wenduo's movements as he administers medicine to Tang Mo stop, and he too looks at Tang Mo in the mirror.

The two men's eyes met on the darkened glass window, and Fu Wenduo said, "Many possibilities, but the one I disagree with the most is going back in time."

"How?" Tang Mo thought about his "A Very Fast Man" ability. On the surface, this power appears to be the ability to stop time (in the Jeweled Castle, Bai Ruoyao also mistook Tang Mo's ability to stop time), but in fact, this power accelerates the user's speed. When your speed is many times faster than others, other people's movements are static in your eyes.

This ability doesn't really stand still in time, it's picking up speed.

"Human beings are three-dimensional beings who can visualize length, width and height, or space, with the naked eye. But the universe we live in is four-dimensional." Fu Wenduo said as he sterilized Tang Mo's wounds, "The fourth dimension of the universe is currently widely believed to be the dimension of time, and it is a pity that we can only perceive this dimension, but cannot manipulate it. The only thing we can do is to follow the axis of time clockwise."

Tang Mo still knew this kind of simple common sense, and he understood Fu Wenduo's meaning, "It's possible that the archiving function of the Huo Ji Egg is to leave a marker on the time coordinate axis at the moment of archiving, and directly return to this node when reading the archive in the future."

"But Tang Mo, he didn't backtrack me to that time node as well." Fu Wenduo said, "There was an intersection of my time node and yours, you went back to the archived node, and my time still kept going forward."

Tang Mo is deep in thought.

Fu Wenduo is right. One interesting thing about using Huo Ji Eggs Mo Mo is that once it's archived, information between the two players starts to be shared. It's a forced, non-closable sharing. This means that when Tang Mo chooses to archive, Fu Wenduo's mind inevitably hears his voice. You can't see the screen, but you can hear all the voices.

When Tang Mo spoke of the Möbius Ring and Queen Hong Tao's theory, Fu Wenduo was listening quietly. Even when he was attacked by Bai Ruoyao and robbed of the Moon Flower, all of this was heard by Fu Wenduo's ears. It was just that he could not participate in it, he could only listen and could not make any changes.

When Tang Mo reads the archive, he goes back fifty minutes. Fu Wenduo does not go back in time. He is on Earth, still traveling the normal time axis, and then he hears Tang Mo's side begin to repeat all of the actions from the previous round, and successfully counterattacks Bai Ruoyao, who had attacked him earlier.

Unless Mo Mo's time travel is limited to the game. This is highly unlikely, as Huo Ji Eggs are really only available in the Black Tower game as well, and have no real-world utility. But ......

Tang Mo's eyes widened as he remembered another possibility. He turned back quickly and said, "If what I have experienced since the archive is false, and the Black Tower alters the flow of time on both your side and mine, while using my consciousness and that of my other teammates to simulate and speculate on the most probable future ......," his voice came to a screeching halt.

The sudden movement of turning back caught the two men off guard.

Fu Wenduo is holding a cotton ball to sterilize a wound on Tang Mo's shoulder, his head lowered, his eyes locked on the bone-deep wound. Tang Mo suddenly turns around, and the distance suddenly closes. Only five centimeters away, the hot breaths of the two men intertwine. Tang Mo seemed to see the surprise in Fu Wenduo's eyes. He seldom saw this man's surprised look, but this time Tang Mo was also startled.

The pupils of Tang Mo's eyes fluttered, and he opened his mouth without uttering a word.

At this moment, Fu Wenduo clearly perceived a fresh and clean smell entering his nose. The smell was very faint, yet it smelled a little good. His hand holding the tweezers gradually tightened.

For a while, neither of them made a move, just gazing at each other from such a close distance.

It was so close that from a certain angle it appeared to be a kiss, and the next moment a voice containing a laugh rang out from the doorway at a very opportune moment, "Ah, interrupting?"

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo turned their heads in unison and looked toward the door.

Luo Fengcheng, wearing a white research suit, leaned against the door of the room and laughed, "Just kidding. It just so happens that from the angle I'm looking at now, it was quite like kissing just now." He said it very frankly, after all, in front of him were two big men and not a man and a woman, it was no big deal to joke about it. However, after he finished his sentence, Tang Mo's throat was jagged, and a strange feeling surged to his heart.

...... Fu Wenduo is not GAY, but he is.

Luo Fengcheng thought that it would be difficult to have any special relationship between two men, so he made a big joke about it, but Tang Mo knew that he liked men. Such a joke might really be just a joke to Fu Wenduo, but it was a bit awkward for him. Tang Mo deliberately sat a bit towards the edge of the bed, trying to be as far away from Fu Wenduo as possible.

At that moment, Fu Wenduo took the tweezers and pressed them on the deepest wound on Tang Mo's back. When the iodine touched the wound, Tang Mo was jolted and sat back. He almost jumped up, touching Fu Wenduo's chin, and leaned his back against Fu Wenduo's leg.

Fu Wenduo's voice was low, "This wound is next to the spine, it's better to be careful, you can't aggravate it until it heals. Another 2 centimeters to the side and it will pierce through your third lumbar vertebra. With your recovery ability, you shouldn't be paralyzed for the rest of your life, but at least you won't be able to stand up again for a short period of time without the ability to fight back." After a pause, he said, "When wrestling with others, you can try hitting at this kind of death point."

Tang Mo : "...... good."

This is the difference in fighting sense. Tang Mo seldom fought before, most people in Jiangnan were so peaceful that they rarely even had a chance to move their mouths. Now that he had to fight, he knew that hitting some places would be more effective, but when fighting was too hasty, he wouldn't have this subconscious reaction and would just attack randomly. It would take a long time of training.

Luo Feng Cheng also came over after hearing Fu Wenduo's words, "This injury is a bit heavy. It's rare for you to be so injured and still be so active, Tang Mo."

This was something Tang Mo had thought about half an hour ago when he was treating Fu Wenduo's wound, and now that it was given to him by Luo Fengcheng, he said, "It's alright. The main thing is that that monster's weapon is unique, and the self-healing ability of wounds cut by it will be weakened."

The three didn't carry on the subject any further.

Luo Fengcheng: "What were you guys talking about just now?"

The timing of Luo Fengcheng's entry into the infirmary was rather coincidental; normally, Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo would have noticed his footsteps before he even approached. But at that time, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were in a rather awkward situation, and neither of them realized Luo Fengcheng's approach.

The problem of the archiver involved time and consciousness, and might even be related to the human brain. Professional problems needed to be solved by professionals, and Luo Feng Cheng was the best choice. Tang Mo looked at Luo Feng Cheng with a calm demeanor as he heard Fu Wenduo say, "It's nothing, just chatting about a game I participated in before."

Tang Mo said, "Well, that game is quite difficult, it's the Christmas Eve game I was in with Major Fu and mentioned to you."

Both men avoided the question of Huo Ji's egg very quietly.

Huo Ji Eggs are the most important props for Tang Mo , Fu Wenduo at the moment, bar none. They don't want to tell anyone else just yet, even if that person is Luo Feng Cheng.

Luo Fengcheng's gaze crossed over the two men's bodies as he retracted his eyes and said, "Just now in the office, I heard you guys say that Major Fu's cousin had also cleared the first floor of the Black Tower. Is he in Shanghai?"

Fu Wenduo has finished sterilizing Tang Mo and wrapping her in gauze. Tang Mo stood up, picked up his white shirt and put it back on. He said, "He should not be in Shanghai. When the Black Tower broadcast his clearance tips, it said that he was a player from Huaxia Zone 6. Huaxia Zone 2 is Shanghai, and I don't know where Huaxia Zone 6 is. But it's definitely not Shanghai."

Fu Wenduo : "Huaxia 1 should be Beijing."

When Fu Wenduo was still in Beijing, the Black Tower prompted "Fu Wenduo, a stowaway from Huaxia 1, has cleared the first floor of the Black Tower". A few days ago, Fu Wenduo cleared the second floor of the Black Tower in Shanghai, and the Black Tower said "Fu Wenduo, stowaway from Huaxia 2". Most players probably didn't notice the difference, but Tang Mo and Luo Feng Cheng did, and I'm sure many prepared players noticed this detail as well.

Luo Fengcheng said, "Huaxia Zone 1 is Beijing, and Huaxia Zone 2 is Shanghai. This is the Black Tower's regional distribution. Obviously, its regional division is according to each city. There is one Black Tower for every 10,000 square kilometers of land, and according to the urban planning of Huaxia, most cities are around 10,000 square kilometers. So it was also possible that the division of regions was according to the location of each black tower. A black tower is a region."

Tang Mo looked up at Luo Feng City as he realized, "Beijing is Zone 1 and Shanghai is Zone 2. Does it mean that it's zoned according to the ranking of cities in China?!"

Luo Feng Cheng nodded gently, but he spoke up about something else, "I noticed this matter a long time ago, or rather, I noticed something else at the same time. Tang Mo, Major Fu, the player who cleared the Black Tower for the first time in every region around the world would be globally broadcasted by the Black Tower. The exception is Major Fu, who is the first to pass, and is briefed three times each time. Players who pass in all other regions are only broadcasted once, such as the American region and the European region."

First place is always a privilege, and Tang Mo knows this, as he was the first player to pass the hard mode of Tower Attack and received "special treatment" from the Black Tower.

Fu Wenduo's voice was calm, "Why Europe."

Tang Mo was slightly stunned, then he realized the crux of the matter and his face sank.

Luo Feng Cheng looked at Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo's solemn expressions and smiled slightly. It was easy to talk to smart people, if the one standing in front of him right now was Jacks, without waiting for Luo Feng Cheng to say the last word, Jacks would not be able to understand what he meant. And now, he had only mentioned one sentence, and both Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo knew what he wanted to say.

"Yes. There is the American zone, the Chinese zone, why is it the European zone, not the British zone, the German zone, or the French zone. Or, if they belong to the same East Asian countries, why is the Huaxia zone separated out separately and not categorized as an East Asian zone, like Japan and South Korea. This is like Beijing is Huaxia Zone 1 and Shanghai is Huaxia Zone 2. Exactly what ...... makes the Black Tower have such a clear way of dividing the regions?"