Chapter 121
14 items were ced in the centre of the truth clock. A minuteter, Tang Mo said the names of 12 items and gave up on eliminating two items. A blue glow appeared on these 12 items. Tang Mo paused, raised his head and spoke in a calm voice. “The 15th and 16th items, the yers Tang Mo and ck rabbit. The individual truth between these two items is that they are human yers.”
On the truth clock, the blue glow became sharper.
The next second, the truth clock’s mechanical voice spoke. “You have sessfully eliminated the individual truth between yers and won’t advance a square.”
Tang Mo’s heart jumped and then he sighed, revealing a helpless smile.
The blue wall rose slowly and revealed the ck rabbit standing on the other side with an ugly expression. It couldn’t hear what Tang Mo had said to the truth clock but it could guess. The ck rabbit’s red eyes stared at Tang Mo with resentment, as well as a hint of hope and begging.
Tang Mo looked over the ck rabbit before sitting cross-legged and continuing to rest.
The hour and minute hands moved as Tang Mo recalled what the ck rabbit had said and nodded.
It was as the ck rabbit said. It wasn’t certain who would win the game.
There were three ways for Tang Mo to win the game: eliminate all items, catch the ck rabbit or have the ck rabbit die from the penalty game. The ck rabbit’s way of winning was unknown but it would certain that it would win if it caught Tang Mo, otherwise it wouldn’t mour to chase Tang Mo and eat him.
Tang Mo knew the truth between the ck rabbit and the two yers but as long as Tang Mo didn’t seed in eliminating all the items, the ck rabbit had hope. 2~58 items would appear on the truth clock. Basically, if more than 10 items appeared at once, it was unlikely that Tang Mo would eliminate all of them. If Tang Mo won, there was a 90% chance it was because he caught up with the ck rabbit.
Thus, this game was nowpletely fair.
Tang Mo wouldn’t be forced to retreat two squares and they both stood at the same starting line. Whoever removed more items and advanced more squares would win.
“yer 0 has moved back one square and yer 6 has advanced one square. yer 0 has triggered a level three grey facy and yer 6 has triggered a level three grey facy.”
The ck rabbit paled and Tang Mo calmly walked forward. At this moment, Tang Mo stood on the 23rd square while the ck rabbit stood on the 1st square, leaving 22 s.p.a.ces between them. They had just stood in the square when a violent storm appeared above their heads. Both of them were panting after enduring three minutes of the Schrodinger’s Box punishment.
It was the resting time and the ck rabbit looked at Tang Mo with aplicated gaze. Tang Mo thought it was going to say something but the ck rabbit just looked at him and didn’t open its mouth.
The next round started quickly with 16 items. Tang Mo advanced two squares and the ck rabbit advanced one square.
Then in the next round, 24 items appeared. Tang Mo advanced four squares and the ck rabbit advanced two squares.
The ck rabbit’s performance surprised Tang Mo. He thought that the other person wasn’t strong enough and could only y stably when there were less objects. He didn’t expect the ck rabbit to unexpectedly eliminate many items, so that Tang Mo was slowly to catch the ck rabbit.
Tang Mo thought, “Perhaps the human potential was stimted in a critical situation?”
This question couldn’t be answered by the ck rabbit.
The ck rabbit no longer cared about Tang Mo. It didn’t talk to him and ignored him. It stared at the truth clock with red eyes. Whenever a new item appeared, it stared without looking, trying to find out the individual truths. Even so, the distance between it and Tang Mo was shortening. Without the advantage of ‘forcing Tang Mo to retreat two squares’, the ck rabbit moved forward far less than Tang Mo.
Once the 23rd round finished, there were only six squares left between the two of them. The ck rabbit was in front and Tang Mo was behind it. Tang Mo only needed six squares to catch the ck rabbit and the ck rabbit would fall into the ck hole of truth.
The hope in the ck rabbit’s eyes dimmed as the distance between them shortened. It looked down at the ground and its thoughts were unknown. The voice of the truth clock was heard but the ck rabbit was no longer in the mood to listen. It quietly waited for its facy punishment to arrive.
“...yer 0 has triggered a level three grey facy and yer 6 has triggered a level one origin facy.”
The ck rabbit’s head jerked up and it looked at Tang Mo with disbelief. Tang Mo also looked at the truth clock beneath his feet with astonishment. Schrodinger’s Box was about to open and the two yers had a few seconds to prepare. The ck rabbit’s mouth became bigger as a crazy smile appeared on its ugly doll face. It yelled madly, “Yes! I haven’t lost yet! If you die then I will win! I won!”
As soon as its words finished, Schrodinger’s Box opened.
It was dark in front of Tang Mo. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the Spirit Prairie. The cold wind was like a knife scratching his face and his expression sank as soon as he looked up. He saw hundreds of ck bugs surrounding him on the dark and cold prairie. These disgusting bugs looked at Tang Mo. The next second, they all rushed at him.
On the truth clock, the ck rabbit jumped to cope with the sudden mes and eagerly watched Tang Mo’s situation. From its point of view, it saw Tang Mo constantly dodging and jumping inside the clock’s invisible cage. Tang Mo seemed to have encountered some enemies as his face was gloomy and he used the small parasol to defend and attack.
Suddenly, a deep and bleeding gash appeared on Tang Mo’s shoulder.
The ck rabbit’s eyes shone and it recited, “Death, death, death, death...”
The wounds on Tang Mo’s body increased and his evasive actions were bing slower. Hundreds of ck bugs forced him into a corner and spat venom at him. Tang Mo couldn’t help groaning. He used the small parasol to block the venom but it wasing from every direction and couldn’t all be stopped.
The ck rabbit saw that Tang Mo’s body was suddenly being corroded at a speed visible to the naked eye. The muscles rotted, revealing white bone. Its heart thumped as it saw Tang Mo’s right hand was cleanly corroded, leaving only white bone. Then it happened to the arms and shoulders.
The corrosion continued!
“You are going to die!!”
The invisible venom was just about to corrode Tang Mo’s chest when it came to a halt.
Tang Mo’s body fell to the ground and a burning pain wasing from his right shoulder. He didn’t have to look to know that his arm was gone. Tang Mo used his other hand to pull out the earthworm’s tear and he ced it on the white bone of his arm. It lit up with a warm light and the flesh on the arm was gradually restored.
The ck rabbit looked at the scene with a dull expression. Its mouth was wide open and it couldn’t speak for a long time.
The wounds on Tang Mo’s body were healed and the earthworm’s tear became hard. The white stone became smaller and weaker, eventually bing the size of a thumb. It shrank to the smallest size and split into two halves, turning into yellow sand and flowing away from Tang Mo’s fingers.
Tang Mo got up from the ground and nced between the desperate ck rabbit and then the centre of the truth clock.
One minute pa.s.sed and four items appeared in the centre of the clock.
This was the 24th round and this time there were only four items, so the truth would be particrly difficult.
The ck rabbit stared at Tang Mo and seemed to suddenly think of something. It said, “At least you won’t dare to casually eliminate items. You are afraid to trigger a level one facy and will give up on the elimination of undetermined items.” The ck rabbit said this like it would sure its victory. However, it didn’t see the strange expression on Tang Mo’s face when he saw these four items.
The second hand started to move as the yers prepared to eliminate the items. Once the blue wall rose again, the ck rabbit waited for the truth clock to announce the number of squares they would move. Yet something seemed different this time. It waited for 10 seconds and didn’t hear the voice of the truth clock.
The ck rabbit stared strangely at the truth clock. Suddenly, its eyes widened and it stared at Tang Mo with horror.
“No, you can’t, you can’t...”
The next second, a child’s voice filled the dark s.p.a.ce.
“Ding dong! yer Tang Mo haspleted the main mission ‘Mr. Rabbit’s Truth Clock Game’ and eliminated all items.”
Snap.
The moment the ck tower stopped speaking, there was a cracking sound from the ck rabbit’s head. Tang Mo looked at the other side with surprise. There was a crack in the outer sh.e.l.l of this Russian rabbit doll. The crack becamerger and wider until it waspletely broken and the man hidden inside revealed.
Tang Mo clearly saw the other person. The man who had been hiding inside the Russian dill felt like his brain was dull and the world seemed blurred.
His name was Li Siqi.
Six hours ago, when Tang Mo was still running away from the fire on the Spirit Prairie, Li Siqi had fallen into this dark s.p.a.ce.
Today was March 25th and there were still a few days left until the three months yers had to attack the tower. He was a cautious person. His ability might be very weak and tasteless but he was careful enough to survive to the present after the earth went online. He knew that it was better to attack the tower in advance than to be forced to attack the tower with other yers around the world in a few days. The difficulty of the game now might be lower.
He believed that the ck tower was also human. At the very least, the ck tower liked yers to attack the tower.
There must be some differences between actively attacking the tower and pa.s.sively attacking it. Even if it was only a slight difference, he wasn’t willing to give up on the possibility of reducing the difficulty of the game.
Thus, he attacked the tower early and opened the tower attack game. He was attacking the ck tower’s first floor.
Hepleted two strange side missions. Once he finished the second task, he fell into this ck s.p.a.ce. Then he heard the ck tower constantly repeating.
“Ding dong! Data error, data error! Instances ovepping, instances ovepping.”
He listened to these unclear sentences. The ck tower repeated it for 10 minutes before suddenly stopping. Once it spoke again, the ck tower’s words had be, “The data is correct, the data is correct! yer Li Siqi haspleted the side missions ‘delicious carrot’ and ‘breakfast for Mr. Rabbit’ and sessfully opened the ck tower’s first floor (hard mode). yer Tang Mo has opened the ck tower’s third floor (normal mode). In three hours, the main mission ‘Mr. Rabbit’s Truth Clock Game’ will be opened. yer Li Siqi has triggered the low level protection and received the ‘Russian ck Rabbit Matryoshka Doll’ prop, and will be given priority information about the game. The ck tower will hide the ident.i.ty of yer Li Siqi and give the two squares retreat advantage.”
Li Siqie was stunned and couldn’t understand anything when he heard the ck tower say,
“Ding dong! You have three hours to meet the boss of the ck tower’s first floor (hard mode), yer Tang Mo.”
“Friendly tip: yer Tang Mo is the first person in the world to clear the ck tower’s first floor (hard mode) and cleared it four months ago. The probability of yer Li Siqi smoothly pa.s.sing through the ck tower’s first floor (hard mode) is 1%. Please try to attack the tower...”
The ck rabbit’s wooden body crumbled to pieces and the revealed Li Siqi kept shaking. It seemed like he wasughing and crying. Tang Mo looked at this crazy yer and then raised his gaze above the yer’s head.
[Stowaway]
The blue light on the truth clock was getting darker and darker as footsteps came from the depths of the darkness. Li Siqiughed and cried while Tang Mo stood still. The next moment, a hoa.r.s.e voice filled with hate was heard. “The strategy to clear the instance is to be strong. Be strong! I haven’t lost yet, I haven’t lost!”
Boom!
Li Siqi’s body shot forward like a rocket towards Tang Mo.
The author has something to say:
ck Tower: Brother, I can only do so much for you. It’s not my fault if you lose.
Author: In fact, Tang Tang has always been the ck tower boss in this game~ I don’t know if it is better for the ck tower to meet an ordinary ck tower boss or Tang Tang. Encountering Tang Tang... is he lucky or unlucky.
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