You need a little green on your head to get through the day!

Dockside, wooden hut.

The moment the Black Tower prompt ended, all four people in the room stood in place in dismay, staring at each other. The four were just about to go out. It was dawn, and except for Lin Yi who had been lurking around the circus, keeping an eye on the movements inside at all times, the other four members of this team were going to split into two groups and search the place where Mr. B disappeared yesterday. But before they left the house, they received an alert from the Black Tower.

The leader of the glasses man calmed down, looked at his teammates: "Did you all hear the Black Tower's prompt just now?"

The three nodded in unison.

The man with the glasses said, "Today is the second day, and in six days it'll be the surprise night of the Circus of Wackiness. The Black Tower said that we triggered 'Disdain from the Famous Detectives', and that the location of the monster will be announced every three days, which means that in the next six days, it will announce the location of the monster twice."

Old Li immediately said, "Captain, in that case, do we still need to look for that monster today?"

The man with glasses pondered for a long time and said, "No. The Black Tower has given us this hint, which actually implies a total of three points. First, the reason why we can trigger this effect is because we players are currently at a disadvantage, unable to fight against the two Black Tower Bosses. In order for the game to be fair, it's giving players favorable treatment. And second, the Black Tower actively gives out the location of the monsters, which most likely means that ......"

The man with the glasses walked over to the sandbox in the center of the room. His three teammates came over to him. Only to see the man with the glasses hold out his hand and point to the circle he drew down himself last night. Last night when the five of them were discussing countermeasures, he drew two circles where Mr. B disappeared. The first circle was smaller, and considering that Mr. B might be incredibly strong, Glasses Man erased that circle and drew a second, larger one.

It was in this same circle that the four of them intended to look for Mr. A and Mr. B today.

The man with glasses pondered, "Since the Black Tower is taking the initiative to tell us the coordinates of the monster's location, that means one thing. Eighty percent probability, it's impossible for us to find the monster's location on our own initiative." Saying that, he slammed his fist on the circle he drew, "That monster isn't here at all.Mr. B's strength is beyond my imagination, he disappeared here not because he just hid the monster around here, but because this place was able to make him disappear."

The team looked at him blankly, "Captain, what does this mean?"

Glasses Man: "Old Li, you were the one who went with Xiao Yi to track down that Mr. B yesterday. All of us on the pier saw that the carriage holding the monster was very heavy, and Mr. B left deep footprints with every step, and the ruts of the car were embedded in the ground, so it was easy to spot at a glance. Right?"

Old Lee nodded, "That's right. That monster was really big and heavy, and the whole dock of underground people were watching at that time."

The man with glasses reached out and pointed to the pile of sand that he had just smashed into flat ground, "Mr. B left his footprints because he was pulling a very heavy car, causing all the force of the car to press down on him. As fast as he ran, the footprints and ruts on the ground wouldn't disappear. So all the way from the docks to here ......," he nodded his finger hard into the sand, "he didn't run. And the street where he disappeared is one of the few stone streets in Wang Guo, the Underground Man, not a dirt street."

Old Li instantly reacted, "Holy shit, he walked here before suddenly disappearing because he didn't want us to follow the footprints to find him."

In fact, they should have thought of this point, only because of the "Mr. B hiding place is in the vicinity of the smoke bomb", they ignored this key information.

"It was me who underestimated Mr. B's strength." Captain Glasses Man blamed himself, "If I guessed correctly, he can pull the monster wagon to any part of the Underground People's Capitol, that's why the Black Tower thought that we definitely wouldn't be able to locate him within three days. Of course, there's actually an upside to this; the place where Mr. B is currently hiding must be accessible all the way from here by taking only rocky roads. He hadn't taken any of the dirt roads that would otherwise have left footprints and ruts. Lao Li, Xiao Chen, Brother Hao, for the next three days let's just follow every stone road in the Capitol and look around, maybe there's a chance we can find Mr. A, Mr. B, and the monster."

"Yes!"

After explaining the tasks for the next three days, Xiao Chen curiously said, "Captain, you said that 'contempt from a famous detective' implied three points to us. You've only said two points here. The Black Tower believes that the players are at a disadvantage, and Mr. B probably hides monsters in every stone path accessible in the entire city....... What's the other point?"

The man with the glasses raised his hand to hold his own glasses, looking calm, "Didn't you hear the Black Tower say that Mr. A and Mr. B fooled 21 players?"

All three team members froze.

The man with glasses sighed, ''23 players, one night passed and only 21 people were left, two less. What does this mean? It means ...... that the man on the pier yesterday still has a teammate, and he, along with his teammate, has been killed by Mr. A and Mr. B."

Small abandoned building, second floor.

When Wang Yinggui woke up, he opened his eyes to darkness. Wang Yinggui was so scared that he tried to get up and run away, but just as he came to stand up with his hands on the floor, he suddenly hit his head on something. He let out an ouch and fell back. Soon, he remembered what happened before he fainted and died.

He was caught by Mr. A!

After a sudden glare from Mr. B on the pier yesterday, Wang Yinggui was so scared that he turned around and ran away, and he skulked around the pier for another five minutes before he went to look for his teammates. He thought Mr. B had forgotten about him, but no sooner had he met up with his teammates than Mr. A caught him.

Wang Yinggui couldn't figure out how Mr. A and Mr. B found out his identity at a glance when he hadn't done anything out of the ordinary at all. Could it be that they were also carrying their identities on their heads just like Mr. A and Mr. B? But there was nothing on their heads.

Wang Yinggui was puzzled. After being discovered by Mr. A, he and his teammates were unable to fight back, and in less than a minute they were overpowered by Mr. A and thrown here with their heads covered.

"No, Lao Niao and I have been pretending that we don't know who they are, and pretending that we can't see the letters above their heads, so how can they be so sure that we are players and thieves?" Wang Yinggui thought for half a day before suddenly realizing, "Wait, where is this place. Am I dead? No, I'm not dead, I'm still alive!"

Wang Yinggui groped his way through the darkness and soon he reached the end of the space. It was a very small cage, so small that it could only hold him alone, and he couldn't even stand up (he would hit his head). He was imprisoned here, completely unable to move. He hesitated and asked in a small voice, "Lao Niao?"

A silence answered him.

Wang Yinggui asked again, "Lao Niao, Lao Niao, are you there? Lao Niao ......"

After shouting for a long time, a dull hum sounded beside him. Wang Yinggui immediately went over to his teammate, who was blocked by the cage. He shouted "Lao Niao" several times before his teammate finally woke up. Wang Yinggui told his teammate about his current situation, and Lao Niao groped around for a while and said, "I'm also in a cage, a small cage, a sparrow-sized cage that I can't even stand up in."

Wang Yinggui: "What do you say, where the hell are we. why don't Mr. A and Mr. B kill us?"

"...... He didn't kill us, it must be because we are still useful!" Lao Niao racked his brain and analyzed, "Right, don't the underground people and monsters like to eat us players. They must be selling us and selling us for money! Last month, that Banana Tavern's assembly copy, that Banana Wine inside, wasn't it brewed from players' corpses. It's over. They're definitely going to sell us there. What can we do about this Lao Ying."

Wang Yinggui was so worried about himself that he was about to open his mouth to comfort his teammates when suddenly, he heard a strange sound. It seemed as if something thudded on the ground and came towards them. By the sound of it, it was definitely a behemoth, and its footsteps smashing on the ground actually caused the two men's cage to vibrate slightly.

Lao Ying swallowed, "Did you hear that?"

Lao Niao: "I hear you."

"What is it?"

Lao Niao : "I don't know, what's all this about ......"

"Kir!"

A surprised shout rang out in front of the two. The sound was too close, so close that it seemed as if the thing was already standing in front of them. But Wang Yinggui and his teammate's eyes were in darkness, their eyesight not yet evolved enough to see in the absence of any light source. The two men screamed in terror, and their voices agitated the thing even more as it began to treat the cage they were in like a fun toy ball, tossing it in mid-air and dropping it high into the air.

Inside the monster's cage, the screams of Wang Yinggui and his companions are endless.

Outside the cage, when Tang Mo heard Lao Niao say, "Mr. A and Mr. B didn't kill us because they wanted to sell us for money," an odd look appeared on his face. Later, when he heard the screams of the two men being toyed with by the monster, he shook his head helplessly.

"There are still such stupid ...... so naive players after the Earth went online, and they still cleared the first floor of the Black Tower. How good this luck has to be."

I have to say, these two players are getting really lucky.

Tang Mo heard Fu Wenduo say that the force of these two people was not strong, and they were only at the middle level in the Atark organization. Currently, only Chen Shanshan of the Atark Organization had cleared the first floor of the Black Tower, and the rest of the people (including Jacks and Tang Qiao) had been strictly requested by Luo Feng City to challenge the first floor of the Black Tower again in two months to prevent any accidents.

The force value wasn't high, and for that conversation just now, it didn't sound much smarter. Being able to clear the first floor of the Black Tower was most likely a mix-up. For example, if you came into the game and ran into a god teammate, and then got a bit more lucky and didn't die, you could follow your teammate all the way through.

In addition to this, they are even more fortunate that in this game, Mr. A and Mr. B are not real underground people, but Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo. If they were real underground people, they would not be able to lock up the two of them at all, but would kill and eat them directly.

Actually killing the two was the best solution. By killing them, there would be two less enemies to worry about. But instead of doing that, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo both knocked them out and put them in a cage, and now they have to spend their energy guarding them.

In the cage, there were still the miserable cries of the two men, and Tang Mo leaned against the pillar and pondered, "It's better to kill them." While saying this, Tang Mo still stood in the same place and did not move.

At noon, Fu Wenduo came back from outside, Tang Mo immediately went up to him.

"Well?"

Fu Wenduo's voice came from under the heavy helmet, "There are people, about three groups of people. Two of them are hiding so deep that they can't see their exact number or location, and one is a middle-aged man." Picking up a stone from the ground, he quickly drew a map on the wall. He drew very quickly, and although it was a simple map, he marked every location clearly.

This is a map of the area around Cirque du Freak.

"Here and here, there are two groups of people hiding." Fu Wenduo took a stone and pointed at a small three-story building behind the circus, "Here, that middle-aged man is hiding on the third floor."

Tang Mo said, "Did they see you?"

Fu Wenduo : "The person hiding in this place probably saw it." He points to a grassy area next to the plaza, "She tried to follow me when I left the circus and I shook her off."

Originally, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo planned to spend the first six days in peace and wait until the seventh day to deliver the earthworm to the circus. However, as fate would have it, the Black Pagoda gives the player "contempt from the famous detective" effect, which messes up Tang Mo's plan. Tang Mo changes his plan and asks Fu Wenduo to go to the circus to see if there is a player hiding there, watching every move of the circus.

"There are only three groups of people, excluding these two, there are already only 19 players left." Tang Mo spoke so softly that Wang Yinggui and Lao Niao, who were being kicked by the monsters in the cage as if they were small balls, couldn't possibly hear them, "Assuming that these three groups of people have an average of 3-4 people on each team, that would make them about ten people. That leaves nine people who didn't go near the circus to monitor it. What were they thinking?"

Fu Wenduo: "Maybe there was a team of more than four, a lot of people, up to five, six."

"Five people is possible, six people is a bit difficult. Those who can enter this copy are all players who have cleared the first level of the Black Tower, it would be too difficult to have six players form a team and clear the first level of the Black Tower all at once." Tang Mo pondered, "Maybe there are five-member teams, and maybe there are two other teams that have given up on monitoring near the circus."

Tang Mo picks up the stone and draws on the wall.

"Those three sets of people can be counted as eleven. There are eight left. There should be two to three teams that abandoned the circus and didn't bother to monitor it." Tang Mo looked at the numbers categorized on the wall and fell into deep thought. He slowly turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo wore thick armor and a silver helmet, Tang Mo could not see his expression at all, but he felt that the man was looking at himself at the moment as well. The two of them stared at each other for a moment before Tang Mo asked, "What circumstances would make them give up on monitoring a place that is so obvious."

Fu Wenduo's voice was calm, "Unable to move freely, or dead."

Tang Mo was silent.

"About two or three teams have given up monitoring the neighborhood of the circus, too many indeed. If it were me, I would definitely arrange for someone to head there early and lurk around overnight." Fu Wenduo raised his hand and drew a circle around a kilometer around the circus, "It's possible that one or two people didn't think of that, it's not normal that seven or eight people didn't do that."

Tang Mo said, "Do you think it's imprisoned, or dead?"

Beneath his helmet, Fu Wenduo's stoic face did not show a single fluctuation in expression, and the words he spoke were just like the color of his face at the moment.

His voice was low and his tone was sure, "Dead."

The glasses man and Lao Li searched carefully along every stone path in Wang Guo's capital city and found nothing.

Most of the roads in Wang Guo are dirt roads, and there are only eighteen stone roads. However, these roads are the main roads of Wang Guo, and it is difficult to find any abnormality because people come and go on both sides of the roads. After a long day of searching, the man with glasses and his companions returned to the hut by the pier, and after waiting for half an hour, Xiao Chen and Brother Hao also returned. After another half hour, the dusty young woman jumped in through the window.

The five exchanged information.

Old Li: "The captain and I searched three ways and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Although we are now participating in the game, those underground people didn't recognize us and eat us. But we didn't dare to get too close to them and ask them for information. So nothing was found. What about you guys?"

Chen shook his head, "No."

A young female voice rang out, "I see Mr. A."

The eyes of all four men turned toward her in unison.

Lin Yi calmly said, ''Mr. A, wearing a suit of armor and a helmet on his head, can't see his face. He went to the circus this morning and quietly entered through the back door, there shouldn't be much to notice, at least the players monitoring the other two places probably didn't notice him. It was only by coincidence that I saw him. My psychic ability is more on the side of stealth, so I followed him up to see where the hell he was going. But Mr. A spotted me and he quickly shook me off."

Eyes Man asked, "What was he trying to do at the circus, where's the monster?"

Lin Yi : "I didn't see the monster, he went alone."

The spectacled man's fingers tapped lightly on the table.

After thinking for a while, Old Li turned his head and asked, "Captain, since Mr. A didn't send the monster to the circus, what was he doing there? He had such an obvious letter on his head, didn't he know that we players could see that letter and wanted to sneak into the circus and do something?"

Glasses Guy: "If he really didn't know, he wouldn't have snuck in quietly through the back door, out of sight."

"So what does he want?"

The man with the glasses tapped the table faster and faster.

The sound of tapping softly echoed in the room, and all four team members held their breath as they waited for the captain's answer. Three minutes later, the man with the glasses heaved a sigh of relief and looked over at the young woman, ''Xiao Yi, you don't have to go tomorrow. mr. A has already found out about you. He went to the circus today to see how many waves were trying to steal monsters. They're gathering information about the players."

Lin Yi was shocked, "So Captain, I've been exposed?"

Glasses Guy: "Yes, so you'll stop spying at the circus. Tomorrow we'll continue to go to every rocky road and see if we can find anything. The day after tomorrow is the day the Black Tower informs the players of the monsters' locations, so we'll build up our strength for the next two days, and the day after that should be a big battle."

Lin Yi said, "That Mr. A is indeed very strong, he spotted my trail and was very fast when he shook me off. It's a very powerful enemy."

"I'm talking about enemies, maybe not just Mr. A and Mr. B."

The crowd looked at the man with the glasses.

The glasses man's hand tapping on the desktop suddenly stopped as he said, ''Including us, if there are only a total of three groups of people monitoring the circus, the number of people is too few. There were a total of four groups of people who followed Mr. B on the first day, and now there are only three groups of people left. There are still at least ten people who didn't go to monitor the circus. The number of people who didn't go to monitor the circus is too high, something must have happened to warrant only three groups of people to monitor the circus."

Xiao Chen nervously asked, "Captain, what can happen?"

"I don't know. But it doesn't feel ...... good."

The third day into the replica is four days before the surprise night at the Circus of Wacky.

As the man with the glasses and Old Lee came to the seventh rocky road they had to search, they stopped and looked at the crowd gathered in the distance. The two looked at each other and quietly walked over to see what was going on. Surrounded by Undergrounders, they had to hide their identities and pretend to be their Undergrounder counterparts. This time, however, the glasses man and Old Li hadn't even begun to act, they had already seen something like that.

The man with the glasses looked up and slowly opened his mouth wide when he saw the three humans hanging from the roof.

Old Li also looked at the three corpses with disbelief. When he saw the dissected stomachs of the three and the internal organs inside, his face changed. Immediately afterward, he saw the intestines of one of them dangling down and falling all the way to the ground, with only one section left attached to the stomach, and when the wind blew, the intestines floated intermittently in the air.

Old Li felt his stomach turn over and he almost threw up, but he hurriedly held it back.

The underground people swallowed their saliva as they looked at the three corpses.

"Three human players, sadly dead, the meat is not fresh."

"Don't eat it if it's not fresh, I'm the first one to see it and I'm going to eat it first!"

In a few moments, though, a flurry of subterranean men ripped the three bodies from the roof. They plucked the limbs of the three men and crunched on them. Old Li recoiled so much that he stepped aside not to look, and the man with the glasses wanted to go up and inspect the bodies, but his face turned slightly white as he looked at the devoured corpses, so he turned away anyway.

Old Lee said with difficulty, "Captain, don't you want to throw up?"

The glasses man didn't say anything and continued to walk forward. When he left the street and came to a remote alley, Glasses Man spat it all out in one mouthful.

Old Li also threw up a bunch of vomit, and in the end, only sour water was left. He said angrily, "Fuck, those underground people can kill if they want to, and eat if they want to, why do they have to cut open people's stomachs and hang them up there for public display! These underground people just look like people, they're not people at all, they're all monsters!"

"It's not the Underground."

Old Lee froze, "What?"

The man with glasses wiped his mouth and narrowed his eyes, "I have long since realized that although the Undergrounders eat humans just like monsters, they seldom take the initiative to attack humans. Especially now that we are players participating in the game, the five of us have encountered a lot of Undergrounders in Wang Guo Capital City, but none of them have discovered our identities and actively attacked us."

Old Lee: "Captain, what do you mean?"

"It's the players, kill them."

On the fourth day, at 12:00 noon, Wang Guo, the underground man.

The hot sun hangs high in the sky, and Tang Mo stands by the window of the small abandoned building, looking up at the blinding sun. A bright child's voice rang in his ears -

"Ding Dong! Turn on 'Disdain from Famous Detectives'."

A green ray of light shot out from the center of the sun, splitting into eighteen parts and shooting towards the earth. This light flew extremely fast, and even with Tang Mo's dynamic vision, he was unable to see where the other sixteen rays of light were shooting to, obviously the Black Tower was hiding where the other players were.

Tang Mo turned and asked, "Do you see it?"

Fu Wenduo: "No."

Without further ado, two green lights shot into the small abandoned building they were in. Among them, two rays of light shot into the cage holding the monster. A whimpering sound came from inside. Two days had passed, the two players had already been exhausted by the monster, they couldn't even shout, they could only grunt in pain, they didn't have the strength to look at the so-called "contempt from the famous detective" prompt.

Before they could enter the cage, the two green lights were caught by Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo.

Tang Mo looked down at the green light that flew into his palm, he scrutinized it for a moment, raised his head and met Fu Wenduo's eyes in the air. Then, the two of them opened the green light together.

In a flash, two green lights flew to the tops of the two men's heads, enveloping their heads. Tang Mo's mind froze as he looked at the appearance of the green lights above Fu Wenduo's head, and vaguely sensed that something was wrong. Before he realized what was wrong, a map soon appeared in front of their eyes, with a green heart in the center of the map, drawn on the abandoned building where Tang Mo and his team were at the moment.

A small line of text slowly emerged alongside the map--

[props: contempt from a famous detective]

[Owner: Wang Yinggui]

[Quality: None]

[Rank: None]

[Attack power: none]

[Function: Shows the location of the big circus monster.]

Restrictions: Disposable props, only display for three seconds, then the map disappears. Please remember the detailed location carefully.]

[Remarks: You want information without paying for it? Little man, you need a little green on your head if you want to get by.]

Three seconds later, the green light above Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's heads disappeared. Tang Mo looked at Fu Wenduo: "Are you ready?"

Fu Wenduo seemed to be still reeling from the fact that he had just been forced to go green, and did not reply.

Tang Mo asked again, "Fu ...... Don?"

Fu Wenduo looked up at him, "Good."

Tang Mo clenched his fingers and curled his lips. He put his mask back on and smiled, "Then let's follow our plan ...... Don, see you in three hours."

In the next moment, the two turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the house in two separate directions. In the center of the house, a large cage stood silently in place, unattended.