At 12 noon on the fourth day, "Contempt from a Famous Detective" flew to all the surviving players on the ground floor of The black tower on time. In the wooden hut by the dock, the five-man team had all gotten their props as well. They looked up in unison as they turned on the green light and saw the symbol on the map.
"Go!"
Five figures move quickly through the crowd, off the pier, towards the abandoned cottage.
At 12.02, the man with the glasses was the first to arrive. He hid behind a large rock, looking at the small building a hundred metres away. He held out his hand to block his teammates, lowering his voice: "It's really near a rocky road, but unfortunately we didn't check here. There must be eighteen players still alive, and we're not just facing Mr. A and Mr. B, but other players as well."
The young woman whispered, "Captain, my powers are better suited to scouting the environment, I'll go check if there are any other players nearby."
"Okay, be careful."
With these words, Lin Yi disappears behind the boulder with a single movement. Only four people were left. The man with the glasses stared at the building, and three seconds later he said, "There's no movement inside. We're still close enough to the building, and we've come fast enough that the other players might not have arrived yet. Little Chen, Mr. Li, you guys stay here and keep watch. Hao, let's switch positions."
Little Chen wondered, "Captain, why are you changing places?"
"To prevent being caught in a net." The man with the glasses finished quickly, and he and the middle-aged man got up to leave.
The team of five was divided into three groups, two in ambush at a distance and two approaching the building silently. Lin Yi, dressed in black, crosses the building with great speed. Most of the houses in the Kingdom of the Underlanders are small and dilapidated, each one close to the other. At this midday, the sun is hot and blinding, and the lazy underground people are asleep in their beds.
Lin Yi passed by many houses and heard the deafening grunts of the underground people coming from the windows. She was so athletic that she almost turned into a black shadow and soon left the confines of the small building and searched the surrounding area. She was light on her feet and moved so quickly that no one could see her movements, running out of range for kilometres at a time.
Suddenly, three men appeared in front of her on her left. Lin Yi turned and ran into an alleyway and hid in the darkness. She peeked out and stared at the three men. The three men were walking fast, dressed in the clothes of the Underlander kingdom, and they appeared to be walking casually, not deliberately hurrying in any particular direction, but their hands were tightly gripping their weapons and their eyes were looking around them warily.
Nearly in sight of the alley, Lin Yi's feet retreated and her back was pressed against the wall.
The three men took no notice of her and continued on their way.
Lin Yi was relieved. After the three men had gone, she quietly walked out of the alley. "Three men, and ten more. At least two more teams." As soon as the words left her mouth, she disappeared into the alleyway once more and looked in another direction.
The minutes ticked by. At 1:00 noon, an hour had passed since The black tower released its monster location. Finally, some players couldn't hold back.
Two figures swished through the flowers and flew into the small abandoned building. Hao's heart froze, and he raised his upper body to hurry up and follow them, when the man with the glasses pressed him down: "Don't move. This is the first group of people. There are two of them, and they've probably arranged for a teammate to spy outside, so we can't be careless."
Hao nodded and the two of them slumped back down into the grass and stopped moving.
As luck would have it, when the two men ran in, another figure scurried in. The sound of a fight then came from the small building, the sound was so soft that the man with the glasses closed his eyes and put his ear to the ground to hear it. After a while, a cursing voice came out of the small building: "Fuck, it's not here, it's too late. The monster has been moved by Mr. A and Mr. B!"
The man with the glasses froze.
Hao wondered, "Our dock is just a few kilometres from here, and it only took us two minutes to come over, and we purposely followed what you said, Captain, and came from a different stone path to surround Mr. B who might have sent the monster away from the small building. Could that Mr. B be so fast that he sent the monster away in two minutes?"
The man with the glasses frowned. If he doesn't speak, none of his team members will move. Whether it was Lin Yi, who didn't know if he had returned, or Mr. Li or Little Chen, who were lying in the distance. After a moment of contemplation, the man with the glasses said, "Don't worry, let's wait a little longer."
A minute later, three figures flew out from inside the small building. They waited for another five minutes before the man with glasses and Hao stood up and ran into the small building as fast as they could. When they entered the small building, they found blood all over the floor. The two touched it, "It hasn't solidified yet." It seemed that the blood was left by the three men from earlier.
"The two men in front are from the same team, I think, and the one at the back is from another team. The three of them got into a fight here." The man with the glasses analysed, "The battle ended in a lose-lose situation. The one who came in last must have been stronger to dare to come in alone. But unfortunately, none of them found the monster here, nor did they encounter Mr. A or Mr. B."
Hao said, "It's not a good idea to stay here for long, Captain, let's go too."
"Wait a minute." The man with the glasses frowned, his eyes wandering up and down the small, deserted and dilapidated building, "It's too close, it only took us two minutes to run over here, and there are only four stone paths leading to this building. The five of us have blocked all four roads, so what the hell did Mr B use to get the monster out. His car was gone, but the cage was still there. He left the cage behind ..."
Hao also wondered, "Why does he need a different cage? Is it because the cage is not easy to hold, or because of other ..."
The man with the glasses suddenly said, "Let's find out too!"
Hao: "Captain?"
"There's a 50-50 chance that Mr B has transported the monster. But I trust our speed. Two minutes, blocking every road, and never getting to Mr B and his car. So ... there's a 50-50 chance that he hasn't transported the monster at all and that it's still here, hidden somewhere."
It was at this moment that a faint crashing sound came. The man with the glasses and Hao immediately shut their mouths and listened carefully to the movement. A minute later, there was another very light crashing sound. The spectacle man immediately turned his head to look at Hao. The two men nodded their heads. Hao suddenly flew out of the window and landed in the courtyard of the small building. A silver playing card appeared in the glasses man's hand, and he hid on the first floor of the small building, hiding in the darkness and not going out.
One in the light, one in the dark.
The strong Hao looked around warily, not finding anything unusual, he lifted his feet and walked around the small courtyard.
The small building has been abandoned for a long time and the flowers in the garden have long since withered and fallen to the ground. The path outside the flower garden was full of all kinds of weeds. Hao walked step by step through this garden, his eyes fixed on the tree in the middle of the garden, but he stared for a few seconds and saw nothing unusual. Then he walked over to a small artificial lake in the middle of the garden.
It is a very small lake, covering a small area, but the water is very deep. The murky black water was calm, there seemed to be no creatures in the water, and the surface of the lake was smooth as a mirror. Hao's gaze was fixed dead on this lake, and he seemed to see something, gripping the dagger at his waist with force. On the first floor, the man with glasses also squeezed his poker tightly, ready to help.
The next moment, Hao shouted angrily and slapped his palm on the lake.
Boom!
The dirty water was overturned by this powerful force, and the lake parted to either side like Moses parting the sea, revealing the remains of small fish and dead branches and leaves at the bottom of the lake. Seeing this scene, Hao was stunned, and the man with glasses also opened his eyes wide in surprise. Hao checked carefully. There was indeed nothing unusual under this lake bottom, and he turned his head to look at the first floor, signalling his intention to leave.
The spectacled man watched in silence as his teammates left the small lake and prepared to retreat. His afterimage suddenly caught sight of a patch of grass off to the side and his gaze flashed as his fingers moved. A playing card flew out quickly, swishing through the soil and shooting into the earth. It seemed to have shot something, and a grunt of pain came from beneath the land.
With a glare from his bull eyes, Hao's feet were hard and he ran to the patch of grass in the blink of an eye. He was as strong as an ox and in two strokes he dug the soil away, revealing two small cages inside and the two men locked in them. The two men were naked, stripped naked and coated in a shiny layer of by. One of them had a playing card stuck in his shoulder, obviously shot by the man with the glasses just now.
Hao continued to dig. He was digging so fast that it took only two seconds from the time he started digging to the time he unearthed two humans. And only three seconds had passed when he reached a dazzling "A" letter.
On the first floor, the man with glasses saw the letter and exclaimed, "Hao, watch out!"
Hao took two steps backwards as he stomped on the ground. But beneath the earth, the knight hiding in the dirt had already drawn his knife, and with a flick of his wrist, it shot out. The knife flew extremely fast, cutting through Hao's arm and shooting through a large tree in the middle of the courtyard.
Boom!
The big tree fell to the ground with a crash.
Hao's face turned pale as the man with glasses jumped from the first floor.
In that mound, the two players were exhausted and caged.
A tall knight in armour slowly emerged from the pit. He had an A on his head and a huge sack on his shoulder. Inside the sack, a huge creature keeps wriggling its body and making a "twittering" sound. At the sound, Wang Yinggui and the old bird in the cage curl up in fear, as if remembering something most horrific.
The man with glasses and Hao looked at each other. The man with glasses took out a white stone from his pocket and crushed it with force. The next moment, outside the small building, Mr. Li and Little Chen looked at each other in surprise, got up in unison and ran towards the small building with a whoosh.
In the overgrown courtyard, the four men with glasses stared warily at the odd knight in front of them. The armoured knight with the letter A on his head watched the four men silently and when he saw the last of the spectacled men, the five men rushed forward together and attacked.
Meanwhile, Lin Yi has already made three laps around the building.
As the three players emerged from the small building, Lin Yi saw them too. She thought for a long time and caught up with the lone player. She followed the player quietly. Although this player was very strong and had managed to get out of the fight with the other two players, he was also wounded. Blood left a little bit down his arm and flowed all over the ground.
Perhaps because of his injuries, he was less alert and did not notice Lin Yi trailing behind him.
Lin Yi secretly thought, "This is the fifth team. The three players who died earlier were on one team, the two players killed by Mr. A and Mr. B were on one team, and the three people we met on the street just now were on one team. Apart from our team, he belongs to another team." Today the captain had given her the task of finding all 18 surviving players if possible, and all she needed to do was to memorise the faces of each player.
Lin Yi followed this player all the way to the countryside.
Fortunately, the weeds were so thick that each one resembled a large tree, huge like the grasses of the land of giants. Lin Yi followed the player all the way to a small, abandoned stone house.
"They team landed here?"
As she watched the man enter the room, Lin Yi's eyes widened to get a better look at the other players in the room. But just as the man's hand touched the door handle, Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat and she said, "No!"
Clang!
As the door opened, a silver light shot out of the room and straight through the man's skull. The man's eyes widened in horror and he didn't even get a good look at his enemy who killed him before he died. His body leaned back and smashed to the ground.
Lin Yi turned and ran. But she was a little too slow when a surprised voice came from the room, "There's actually another one?"
Lin Yi's scalp tingled and she ran as fast as she could. Her powers were not combat-oriented, so she had no choice but to run away if she encountered a powerful enemy. However, she did not expect that the enemy was not only inside the small stone hut, but there were also two ambushers outside.
Ahead, a tall, imposing, bald man came from a distance, staring at her with a sneer through the huge weeds. To her left, a pretty teenager in a red jacket looked at her curiously, his eyes sliding from the top of her head to the soles of her feet and finally back to her face. After looking at her for a full half minute, the pretty teenager said happily, "I want her head! Gouge her eyes and brain out and it will surely make the best nest for my worms!"
Lin Yi gets his feet under him and runs to his right.
The bald man bellowed, "You want to run away after giving yourself away?!"
The middle-aged man in the small stone hut rushed out, numerous small silver knives flying out of his hands and shooting straight at Lin Yi. The bald man roared, his hands pounding his chest, and soon a thick layer of brown bear fur grew over his face and head. He ran towards Lin Yi on all fours, using his hands instead of his feet.
Lin Yi couldn't run as fast as the knife flew and the bald brown bear ran. And faster still, were the thousands of tiny black insects that flew towards her. The buzzing sound of insects roared through the countryside, and wherever the huge black swarm flew, the giant weeds were gnawed clean away by them. Like locusts in transit, not an inch of grass grew.
The bugs were about to bite into her hair. Lin Yi gritted her teeth and turned to draw her knife, ready to fight the bugs.
The insects were approaching and at that very moment a small pink parasol came in Lin Yi's way. Lin Yi is stunned and frozen in place. Strange words rang in her ears, something about "transforming". Before she could hear it, the black insects crashed into the parasol.
As if it were pouring rain, the insects hit the small parasol and slashed away to the sides of it. After a crackling crash, the swarm flew into the air and came at them again from the other direction.
The rumbling of insects caused a ringing in Lin Yi's ears, and she faintly heard someone shout a word behind her.
"... Yeah yeah yeah? What yeah yeah?"
Before Lin Yi knew it, the next moment, an overwhelming fire rushed towards the huge swarm of insects.
The fiery flames collided with the black swarm of insects, which were scorched and rained down to the ground. The pretty boy screamed miserably, and the middle-aged man's silver knife was already flying. Tang Mo raised his small parasol to block the stormy knife, and then the brown bear bald man arrived. He slammed his head into the parasol.
The force was so terrifying that Tang Mo was knocked out with her parasol, and Lin Yi was knocked to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Tang Mo swallowed the fishy sweetness in his throat as he lifted his head and looked warily at the bald man who had transformed into a brown bear in the distance.
A few roars of anger escaped the bald man's lips as the pretty teenager growled from behind him, "Kill him! I don't give a fuck about Mr. B. You fucking killed my bug! I'll kill you!"
All three attacked up together.
The middle-aged man's silver dagger is the most powerful concealed weapon of all, and he has countless daggers that shoot out, each one at Tang Mo's dead center. The pretty teenager's insects kept crawling towards Tang Mo on the ground, blocking Tang Mo's position. And the bald man was the most fearsome of all.
He is the most physically powerful player Tang Mo has ever seen, and his physical strength is greater than Fu Wenduo's.
His speed was not as fast as Fu Wenduo's, but his strength was terrifying to astonishing. When he punched the ground, countless cracks were opened. His fist smashed into the small parasol, which trembled slightly, and Tang Mo's tiger mouth was numbed and he stumbled backwards. Fortunately, the bald man was not agile enough and was slightly unwieldy.
Tang Mo kept moving out of the way. Tang Mo narrowed his eyes and threw the open parasol at Lin Yi as he watched the pretty boy turn to deal with the fallen Lin Yi. Lin Yi hurriedly caught it and used it to block the scary black insects, just like Tang Mo had just done, and turned and ran away as fast as he could.
Lin Yi ran away and the pretty boy returned to deal with Tang Mo.
Tang Mo sidestepped the bald man's punch as the three of them struck together, and he found the right moment to flip his hand over and take out a large match, smashing it against the bald man's neck. The bald man didn't expect him to have a match and there was a crisp click as the bald man glared at him, his eyes red with rage. Tang Mo took the opportunity to raise the large match and smashed it straight at the bald man's head. But just then, an icy female voice rang out from behind him -
"Checkmate!"
A slight sense of mortal danger swept through Tang Mo's brain and he immediately gave up on killing the bald man, turning his hand in the air to hold the large match behind his head. There was a clink as a bullet impacted on the match head, grinding a thumb-sized crater into the red match head, the bullet embedded deep inside.
So there were four of them!
Tang Mo turns and runs, too suddenly, having just raised a match to kill the bald man, and now suddenly running away. Although his speed was slightly slower than Lin Yi's, none of the four men reacted when he ran, and by the time they thought to chase him, Tang Mo's figure had already disappeared into the grass.
The bald man's neck was broken by Tang Mo a match, and surprisingly he did not die, his head twisted in an odd position on his shoulder. The middle-aged man approached and wrenched his head with great force. The bald man's head rested limply on his shoulder and the brown bear hair on his face slowly disappeared as he roared in anger, "I'm going to kill that man, kill him!"
The short-haired woman came over at that moment, she put the pistol away in her pocket and said coldly, "As a matter of fact, Mr B almost killed you just now."
Pretty Boy: "I'm going to kill him too! He's killed over 900 of my bugs, I'm going to kill him! This time it was because we were unprepared, next time, I'll never give him a chance to escape. The three of us who could have killed him would have been able to, he's not strong enough to be that strong. Why did you take the enemy lightly, you should have just smashed his head in with one punch!"
The bald man said angrily, "Then what are you doing and why didn't you let your bugs bite his eyes out!"
"You ...!"
In the endless weedy grassland of the countryside, Lin Yi runs for half an hour before stopping to rest against a tree. Only after she was sure she was safe did she start to think back on what had just happened.
"... How is it possible, how can Mr B save me?"
Lin Yi stared blankly at the little pink parasol in her palm. Her eyes flashed back to the bard's appearance, a white feather on a grey puffy hat, and Mr B wearing a mask that blocked his face. He was tall and thin, with a calm gaze, and even when he saw the swarm of thousands of black insects, he handled them with ease. And then ... gave her this umbrella?
Lin Yi muttered, "Am I crazy or is Mr B crazy ..."
"Hee hee, are you crazy, or is Mr B crazy?"
Lin Yi didn't react for a moment and subconsciously said, "I'm not crazy, it's Mr. B who's crazy ..." Her voice stopped abruptly and she turned around abruptly, pulled out her knife and looked at the person coming. After seeing the other person's face, she froze for a moment.
In the sunlight, Mr B leaned against an orange tree and looked at her with a smile. He seemed to be smiling, but the smile didn't even reach the bottom of his eyes. That nasty smile created a sense of disgust in Lin Yi, as if the man was watching her laugh, taunting people at all times, but he kept on laughing just like that, like a psychopath.
Lin Yi didn't know how to face Mr. B. Mr B had just saved her life and had given her the umbrella. Lin Yi hesitated for a long time and decided that she should thank Mr B first. When she looked down, she saw a sticky pink object stuck to Mr. B's hand, which was stuck to a thread in the air, and the other end was actually attached to her body.
Lin Yi whipped her head around in dismay to see that she had somehow managed to get a piece of pink on her rear end too!
"Strawberry gum that can't be shovelled off." Tang Mo smiled at the dumbfounded young woman in front of him as he recalled Bai Ruoyao's demeanor and studied his tone, "When it sticks, it can never run away oh. Do you think ... this means a love that will never end?"
In this moment, Lin Yi's only good feeling towards Mr. B vanished into thin air. The other person's disgusted tone gave her goosebumps, while she realised, "You've had this thing glued to me for a long time, and you knew where I was all along?" So she ran for half an hour and still Mr B found her quickly. Lin Yi went cold.
Mr. B cocked his head and gave a laugh, "I know."
Lin Yi heard her voice trembling, "What do you want, didn't you just save me ..."
"Can't I catch you again if I save you?" Tang Mo said with a smile.
As soon as the words left her mouth, Lin Yi saw Mr. B's form flicker. By the time she saw Mr. B again, the terrifying The black tower monster was already standing in front of her. He reached out and slashed Lin Yi's neck with one hand, knocking her unconscious. Before she fainted Lin Yi heard herself cursing under her breath, "... fuck!!!"
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Tangtang: Can't I catch you again after saving you, naive [She Huiyao style smile
She Huiyao:Friend, I smile like this, hehehehehehe ...