After Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo have cleared the seven levels of The black tower, tens of thousands of The black tower have disappeared into the skies above the Earth, and most of the buildings of human civilisation have been destroyed. Every day for seven days, one in seven human cities has disappeared, and now, on the seventh day, the majority of human civilisation around the world has collapsed into rubble, with far fewer humans dying as a result of The black tower.
Tang Mo said, "There is an estimated one or two million left."
Fu Wenduo nodded, agreeing with him.
The black tower collapsed on the first day, but for the next six days they were prepared, for example by hiding in the rubble that had already collapsed. Most of the humans survived.
Cities will always rise again, but knowledge is drowned forever as buildings crumble and scientists die.
Since yesterday, Tang Mo has been using the Infinite Non-Probability Pocket Watch, in order to find certain probabilities and retrieve some of his lost wisdom. However, the pocket watch did not work when he wanted to use it, and when he did not want to use it, the probabilities were right. After a few more attempts, Tang Mo decided to give up. He stopped actively trying to use the pocket watch, but still set it to match the probability of "finding human intelligence".
Having done this, the two walked down to the Pearl River.
Looking back, I saw a half-collapsed tower being carried by a few strong Guangzhou players, who had managed to carry the collapsed Guangzhou tower into the spacious square.
In the square, some people are using their flaming powers to burn and calcine, while others have wires in their hands to move things out of the rubble.
Soon, it is getting dark.
Tang Mo looked up at the half-broken Guangzhou Tower and suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he stared and then smiled helplessly. He said to Fu Wenduo, "Maybe we don't need to retrieve those things after all."
Fu Wenduo looked in the direction Tang Mo's hand was pointing, and when he saw the girl sitting at the top of the Guangzhou Tower, his voice was low-pressure, with a hint of a smile: "Well, humanity is stronger than ever. Any civilisation, it will be created again and be even greater."
At the top of the Guangzhou Tower, on the broken level, a girl with short hair sits at the top, looking up at the light-coloured curved moon.
As the sky grew darker, the moon became clearer and clearer. Until the bright moonlight spilled onto the earth, and a player stared blankly at his shadow on the ground and muttered, "It's night." It was a returnee. "Can ... rest now?"
No one ever thinks about the word rest.
In the world of The black tower game, they spend every second in fear and dread.
When you're playing a game, you're worried that you'll die at any time. When you're not at game time, you're worried that you'll be assassinated by others to take the treasure. Now, however, it was all over. As the first person leaves to find a place to rest, more and more people leave the area. Recreating a new social order can take an awful lot of time. It may be harder than the game of Tower Attack, but this game already belongs to humanity worldwide, no longer to one person.
Chen Shanshan props himself up with his hands back and gazes silently at the moon.
After a long look, she whispered, "It doesn't seem to make any difference."
She has a lot of patience, so even if she gets bored, she doesn't give up easily. Because she had promised Mu Huixue that she would get more moonlight for her.
On the surface, Chen Shanshan appears to be just basking in the moonlight, but in reality, her mind is constantly wondering what Mu Huixue has been through.
Originally, the young girl had also thought about helping to rebuild the city and build the human social order again. But Luo Fengcheng laughed: "These things don't belong to children like you, nor to Tang Mo, Mr. Fu School who passed the seventh level, it belongs to all of humanity. It's up to all of humanity to decide where the future goes, and it's up to humanity to decide where humanity ends up."
Chen Shanshan knows what the teacher means.
Mankind has passed the test of The black tower, but the end of mankind has never been determined by The black tower. Their destiny is always in their own hands.
With little physical improvement, Chen Shanshan was unable to help build the city and was left bored with the moon.
The little girl reaches out and catches a ray of moonlight.
"... What the hell are you basking in."
A super-intelligent mind, too, cannot give its master an answer to a question it has no clue about.
At the same moment, however, an agile black figure moves swiftly across the floor to an office in the innermost part of an architectural firm in Guangzhou's Tianhe district.
It is a very ordinary looking construction company with a few large gilt letters on a sign at the front desk. The colour is a little dark, so I guess it has some years on it. There are about twenty desks and chairs in the company, and a separate meeting room. In addition to this, there are three separate offices.
It's not a patch on the build of any of Guangzhou's smaller companies, and the papers on the desk are unmistakably different. But when Bai Ruoyao enters the innermost office, he raises his hand with a smirk and the light of a silver blade flashes from his sleeve. The next moment, the bookshelf of the office cracked in half and collapsed to the ground.
A safe embedded in the wall is revealed.
The safe is the most common style, and can be opened by aligning both gears with the correct numbers. If that's not possible, it can also be dismantled by force - an easy task for an advanced player who has cleared all six floors of The black tower. Bai Ruoyao, however, did not do so.
He dropped to one knee, one ear pressed against the gears, the smile slowly fading from his face.
With 200 numbers in each of the two gears, he gently toggled them for half an hour and finally found the correct number. Upon opening the safe, however, there was actually a fingerprint code inside. The baby-faced youth tsked breathlessly and flipped his hand to take out a long white prop in the shape of a rice cake. He attached this to the fingerprint authentication film, only to see the white rice cake gently twist twice.
With a click, the safe opened down completely and the white rice cake was reduced to a puddle of white water.
Bai Ruoyao reached into the safe and took out the three files inside. He flipped through the first two files casually and tossed them aside. Finally looking at the third file, his eyes showed a hint of surprise, then a cheeky smile, "Aha, so that's it, deer."
On the yellowed file paper, a short letter Deer is reflected, followed by a detailed description of the identity.
Codename: Deer (Mu Huixue).
Date of birth: 16 December 1992.
Origin: Guangzhou.
Family relationship: father Mu X, mother Li XX, sister Mu XX.
This is followed by a more detailed description of the family members and Mu Huixue's biography from birth to the time he joined the organisation.
Mu Huixue killed the man who had come back from the top of the time rankings, and why she finally killed him herself. This is a question Chen Shanshan wants to know, and Bai Ruoyao wants to know as well. The former wants to know perhaps out of concern for Mu Huixue, while Bai Ruoyao wants to know ...
Pure curiosity.
His eyes gaze on Mu Huixue's own sister's profile.
Pulling up a chair and sitting down, Bai Ruoyao's fingers tapped on the arm of the chair and his mind went into overdrive.
"Saving my sister can be understood, if I had a sister, I might have the leisure to kill someone to save her when I'm in a good mood." The baby-faced youth's face was smiling, but his tone was quite serious, as if he really had no intention of saving his loved ones unless he was really in a good mood. "But kill her well ..."
On the Guangzhou tower, Chen Shanshan's voice calmly states his guess: "... because the man wants to kill you."
Yes, this is Chen Shanshan's speculation about the one who resurrected Mu Huixue.
She had no clue, nor did she know Mu Huixue's past experiences, but if someone had gone to all the trouble of saving a person's life, only to end up killing them herself. Then there was only one possibility, and that was that the person had tried to kill herself.
There are many possibilities for killing someone, such as this being an ungrateful villain who treats his saviour with vengeance. Another example is that Mu Huixue and the man entered the same game of The black tower and only one of them could survive, so Mu Huixue survived and the man died.
But of all the possibilities, the one with the highest probability, Chen Shanshan pursed his lips and did not speak.
Bai Ruoyao said the most disappointing and probable reason without a care in the world: "Hehehe, because killing you will bring someone back to life." As he said this, his finger clicked on the line "Deer" on the file paper.
Mu Huixue revived that person because that person was important to her.
Yet in that person's mind, she may not be the most important.
Kill the former number one, Mu Huixue is the number one on the time chart. Just kill her and you can resurrect someone. The offer is too tempting. It is like the serpent that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, or perhaps more simply, it does not need to say any fancy words to get people to fall for it willingly.