Chapter 13: Three kinds of murderers.

"The stowaways all have a very, very bad smell. The black tower hates stowaways, and you get a lot of rewards for eating them and getting massive power. The stowaway's meat is also particularly tasty, something I didn't tell anyone."

The giant mole narrowed those tiny eyes and crushed the remains of a turkey on the ground with one foot. "Of the seven of you, there's an abominable stowaway. Hand him over and I'll eat him!"

The big mole is closing in step by step.

The cook woke up in a daze and looked up just in time to see the sharp claws of the big mole and screamed in terror. The mole let out a sharp hiss at him and the cook was so frightened that he almost passed out again.

Tang Mo touched his wrist, which no longer had the pattern of the big match on it. According to what Mole had just said, the match had accompanied Tang Mo through the second level, which meant that it must have had a strange use in the first level as well. Tang Mo could feel that he was not putting the match to good use, he was just waving it around blindly.

If he had been given a little more time to attack the tower later, he might have been able to make more foolproof preparations.

...... so why start attacking the tower early now!

Tang Mo's mind flashed to the name of the stowaway who had started the tower attack game, but he didn't have time to complain as he calmly asked, "Which one is the stowaway and how do we find him and hand him over to you?"

Li Wen and Lin Qiao's eyes widened at the same time as they looked at Tang Mo.

Luo Fengcheng looked at him without saying anything. The little girl Peng Liwen looked at Tang Mo with a blank face and twinkling eyes, as if she did not understand what he meant by this statement.

Lin Qiao couldn't resist saying, "Do we really have to hand it over? This mole says he wants to eat people ......"

Tang Mo, with a cold expression, asked rhetorically, "So you're its dinner instead of a stowaway?"

Lin Qiao chokes for a moment.

Luo Fengcheng's faint voice rang out: "The stowaway is a murderer, perhaps he killed someone out of necessity, perhaps in self-defence. In the outside world the law may not have sentenced him to death, but The black tower, disgusted by stowaways, has sentenced him to death. We just find the stowaways, the rest has nothing to do with us."

Li Bin paled and nodded, "Well, yeah ...... we're just trying to find out who the stowaways are."

The big mole gave a giggle, "How do I know which one the stowaway is. My burrow is not big enough for a group of you humans to get together and the smell of a stowaway is wafting all over the burrow to find out. I'll give you an hour to find the damned stowaway. If you can't find it, I'll eat one human an hour, and I'm sure I'll get the stowaway." The big mole looked to Tang Mo: "Oh yes, you and Mosaic are very close and lent me matches ...... then I'll eat you last."

Tang Mo did not react well to this gift.

The big mole gave another giggle at Tang Mo's impassive look and ran to the corner and started digging. It seemed to want to dig its burrow bigger, and after two pieces it turned its head again, "It's been two minutes, have you found the stowaways yet?"

Cold sweat broke out on the heads of the crowd as they listened to the words of the great mole.

Li Bin looked at all of them and asked through clenched teeth, "I'll just ask once, during those three days, did any of you ...... kill anyone?"

There is no doubt that everyone shook their heads.

"I guessed this would be it." From the moment he entered the cave, this white-collar elite was the picture of a leader, and now was no exception. Li Bin forced his composure and began to analyse the situation, "This mole said that the stowaway was the one who eliminated the players by killing them during those three days. The stowaway must have had psychic powers and a very foul smell on his body. I don't smell this smell, do you guys smell it?"

Lin Qiao shook his head, "No. I've always had a good sense of smell, and there's only the smell of earth here."

Everyone said no, and Li Bin's face hardened: "Then maybe we humans can't smell it, only they can. Shit, how are we going to find the stowaways?"

Luo Fengcheng: "Stowaways have killed people and have psychic powers."

The cook, having been in a coma for a long time, hadn't heard the big mole's sci-fi and couldn't keep up with everyone. "Murder?! Alien powers? Wait, what the hell is going on?"

People didn't have time to explain to him, and Li Bin asked, "Killed people and had psychic powers. So what?" As soon as the words left his mouth, Li Bin suddenly turned to Tang Mo: "You must have psychic powers!"

Tang Mo just turned into a big match out of thin air, that is definitely not humanly possible, it is psychic power.

Li Wen explains for Tang Mo: "Big Mole said there are two official players, four reserves and one stowaway among the seven of us. The official players are those who play in the official game of The black tower and are logged into The black tower, so Tang Mo must be an official player. He knows a guy called Mosaic, who knows Big Mole and must be involved with The black tower."

Tang Mo: "I did come in with The black tower game, which is considered an official player according to Big Mole."

Li Bin shakes his head: "You may have played The black tower before today, but no one can guarantee that you played The black tower within those three days. It's now been four days since The black tower issued its 'Earth Online' announcement. Who can be sure that you didn't play the game on the fourth day and kill someone during those three days?"

Tang Mo suddenly felt a bit funny and was about to retort when he heard Luo Fengcheng say, "He's an official player. The black tower hates stowaways, and stowaways smell. If he wasn't an official player, he would have been discovered by Mosaic, the big mole's companion, before he met the big mole. He wouldn't have survived to this day and gotten that Mosaic match just now."

Tang Mo looks in surprise at Luo Fengcheng, who also looks at him.

Neither of them said anything more, and the others understood. Li Bin said, "That makes sense, 90% chance that you are indeed an official player. There's also a 10% chance that you're a stowaway who used some means to hide your scent from that Mosaic."

After a pause, Li Bin suddenly walked to the centre of the seven and looked at the group seriously, "Now I confess that I am the second official player."

Tang Mo is somewhat surprised.

Li Bin smiled bitterly and held up his right hand, "My psychic powers are very weak, I don't want to reveal too much about my specific abilities, but in the current situation, they are not useful at all. I can disguise the effects of my psychic powers for you though."

Extraordinary abilities are everyone's secret and it's understandable that they don't want to reveal them.

Li Bin crouches on the ground, extends his right finger and begins to draw a circle on the ground. A smooth, rounded curve gradually appears on the ground, an extremely neat circle, with the last stroke falling exactly at the starting point, forming a perfect, closed circle from start to finish.

This is a circle drawn without tools, purely with the fingers.

Lin Qiao's eyes widened, "So round? Your ability is not 'able to draw a circle without a circle rule', is it?"

What kind of psychic ability is this?

Tang Mo frowned slightly, "Although the circle is too neat, it doesn't mean you have psychic powers; you probably learned to draw professionally."

Li Bin said, "Then look again."

Li Bin stretches out his finger and draws another circle next to the one he just made. Week after week, full and round, this circle is again an extremely perfect circle, and on closer inspection.

"Ah! Is this the exact same size as the circle just now? Lin Qiao exclaimed.

Li Bin looked hopeless: "What exactly my powers are, I don't want to say, but I guess you guys believe I have powers, right? I'm the official player that's left."

"You ...... have powers, so why can't you be a stowaway?" Peng Liwen, a young girl, stood behind Lin Qiao and spoke timidly, her face pale.

Li Bin: "I have come forward to say that I am an official player, could I still be a stowaway? Kids, if they were stowaways, they would definitely be hiding it now, not letting others know they have powers. Now of the seven of us, only this brother is the safest." He pointed to Tang Mo, "He's really an official player in all probability. Big Mole says that reserves can have powers too, but the odds are so low that we'll assume he doesn't. Then there's a 50/50 chance that the next person who shows up with psychic powers is a stowaway."

Li Bin seriously analyzed, "In this situation, I took the initiative to come forward and reveal to you that I have supernatural powers. This will prove that I am not afraid of the shadow, right?"

Li Wen, standing beside Tang Mo, interjected, "You could also be taking advantage of our reverse thinking."

Li Bin, however, said, "In that case, you ask the third person with psychic powers to come forward. If he dares to come forward, he must be a stowaway. Because I know that I have not killed anyone, I have participated in the game. This little brother is also an official player. Then the third one with psychic powers is definitely a stowaway!"

Tang Mo: "I believe in you."

Li Bin had been acting calmly just now, but in fact his lips had been trembling slightly. Now suddenly hearing Tang Mo's words, he shivered with excitement and went straight to Tang Mo: "Brother, thank you. I'm really an official player, I can tell you all about the games I've played, I'll tell you how I won that game, all that."

Tang Mo laughed and shook his head, "You don't have to say it specifically, every one of us has to say it."

In the dimly lit underground burrow, the large mole crunches and digs, whistling a delightful tune from its mouth.

Seven people gathered before telling what each person had experienced in three days.

Luo Fengcheng scanned each face carefully and said, "Of all the killings in this world, I roughly divide them into three."

"The first type, the accidental type. This is the most common reason for killing. Many times a person gets emotional and can't control himself, he may kill someone by mistake; or he may kill someone by over-defense or a careless accident. It is thoughtlessness. If the stowaway among us had killed someone because of an accidental and careless killing, he would have been emotionally disturbed and felt exposed by a weak heart when the big mole made clear the definition of a stowaway."

Li Wen exclaimed, "Ah, so you didn't tell me earlier. It's been so long now, who knows how people reacted then."

Tang Mo said, "I paid attention. Everyone's reaction at the time was pretty normal, not too excited."

Luo Fengcheng looked at Tang Mo for a moment: "He's right."

Since entering the cave, Tang Mo has never let his guard down. Having experienced a two-player game of "death or death", Tang Mo doesn't trust these strange "teammates".

Luo Fengcheng continued: "So there is an 80 per cent chance that the stowaway in our midst did not commit the crime by accident, he knew he was killing and did it deliberately. The second type of killing pattern is the murderous type. It's simply to kill, and the reason is usually to satisfy various perverted psychological or physical needs of their own."

Everyone touched their necks, it was a bit cold.

This type of murderer is also not uncommon, and serial killers basically fall into this category.

Tang Mo, however, frowned.

I think the stowaway among us belongs to the third category. He killed deliberately, but without the intention to kill. He knows he is killing, but he is not a murderous person. He had his own reasons for killing. So he won't be surprised when it's revealed, because he already knew what he had done and why he did it."

Li Wen swallowed hard: "...... I also think there should be less sociopathic crazy murderers among us."

Lin Qiao felt a little cold: "I agree. It should be the third one."

Tang Mo listened very quietly to all that Luo Fengcheng had to say. He walked up to Luo Fengcheng and said with a smile: "What you said really makes sense. So can we now continue where we left off? Let's start with you. Mr. Luo, what did you do in those three days? Are you really a game designer? Where do you work?"

Luo Fengcheng looks up slightly at the dark-haired young man in front of him.

Tang Mo's expression is not overly aggressive, but there is a hint of suspicion and questioning in his gaze.

The two men looked at each other for a long time.

Luo Fengcheng took out a piece of identification from his pocket and handed it over, "For those three days, I was conducting The black tower research experiments under The black tower. I'd like to formally meet Luo Fengcheng, the leader of the A-team of The black tower research institute in Shanghai."

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Author's Comment.

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The black tower casino is a great place to bet on who the stowaways are.

Tang Mo [the main character], odds: 10000000000.5 (friend, are you really going to bet on him?)

Luo Fengcheng [suspected The black tower researcher], odds: 1.9

Li Bin [White collar elite male, with psychic powers, suspected second official player], odds: 2.1

Li Wen [Mysterious, white, rich kid, doesn't die in a car accident, has a perfect luck score], Odds: 1.5

Peng Liwen [15 year old junior girl with a torch, very low presence], Odds: 1.9

Lin Qiao [College girl who loves to play games and is a little brave], Odds: 1.8

Chef [even the author forgot his name, a tall, strong man with a low presence who sleeps and follows the big team to win], odds: 1.7

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