Chapter 148: Because, he didn't pass The black tower game.

In the darkness of the night, in the hazy moonlight, five figures move swiftly through the alleyways and roads, heading east.

Beijing Chaoyang District, 80th Middle School.

Practising Yu Zheng walked alone to the iron school gate, she knelt down and fiddled with something on the ground. After a few seconds, there was a clear "click", as if something had been opened. Yu Zheng turned to Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo, nodded and, as a gesture of good faith, entered the campus herself.

They were followed by Tang Mo, Fu Wenduo, Jackass and Chen Shanshan.

The next second the five of them stepped onto the campus, Tang Mo suddenly looked to his left and pressed his hand on the small parasol at the same time. Fu Wenduo also looked to his left, indifferent. There, under a tall, old tree near the school gate, was a pale young man standing there quietly, for who knows how long.

His black eyes stared straight at Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo as he wore some blood on the corners of his coat. Ruan Wangshu looked again at the unfamiliar Jackass and Chen Shanshan, and finally his eyes fell on Yu Zheng's body.

Practising Yu Zheng's beautiful face is expressionless as she looks at the skinny teenager with equal silence.

After a long time, Ruan Wangshu turned around and walked towards the school building. Practising Yu Zheng, he said, "Let's go."

Tang Mo raises an eyebrow and walks in calmly after practising Yu Zheng.

There are dozens of classes in this secondary school, and Ruan Wangshu walks to the third floor of the first building and enters one of the classes. Tang Mo walked in and noticed that the desks and chairs in this classroom were very messy. As soon as they entered, several people sitting on the desks immediately looked up at them warily.

In addition to Ruan Wangshu and Yu Zheng, there were three other people. One is a female doctor, Li Miaomiao, and two young men, Tang Mo, whom I have never met.

"Aren't you afraid it's a trap?"

Tang Mo turns his head, only to see Ruan Wangshu walking to the end of the classroom and sitting down, looking up at him.

Tang Mo said faintly, "So it's a trap?"

Ruan Wangshu lifted his hand and wiped the blood splattered on his face. There was no wound on his face and it was obviously someone else's blood. Tang Mo had noticed during Fu Wenduo's fight with Lian Yu Zheng that there were some freshly made wounds on her body, and the fact that Fu Wenduo had not injured her could only mean that she had fought with someone before the fight with Fu Wenduo.

A man who is already wounded, as long as he is not a fool, he would not run and sneak in at a time like this.

Tang Mo was immediately convinced that the purpose of Lian Yuzheng's visit was really not to get her hands dirty, she wanted to cooperate.

Everyone in this classroom is now injured, except for Yu Zheng and Ruan Wangshu. Li Miaomiao is the most seriously injured, her white coat stained red with blood, and she is lying on a long table made of two desks, her eyes staring straight up at the ceiling.

With everyone already here, Ruan Wangshu gets straight to the point and clears the four Tang Mo men of their doubts.

"Two days ago, Qi Heng, Li Miaomiao and I took on the third floor of The black tower together. We had witnessed the Transparent Man together, so you know what that is. Last month, Mu Huixue, the top timer on the leaderboard, almost started the update to The black tower version 4.0. So I decided to hurry up and attack the tower." Ruan Wangshu, while applying medicine to his hand, said, "The third level of The black tower was not particularly difficult for us, and we cleared the game this evening without any problems. At 6pm, Qi Heng, Li Miaomiao and I returned to school and were attacked by two transparent people at the school gate."

Tang Mo got straight to the point: "Two transparent people?"

Ruan Wangshu gave him a look: "Yes, two. It's hard for players in the Transparent camp to trust each other and form large organisations like we do. But that doesn't mean they won't team up. Those two appeared out of nowhere, were strong, and were in the same league as Yu Zheng in terms of close combat. Because they were sneaking up on us, they caught us off guard. By the time the others came out of the school to support us, Qi Heng was not breathing and Yu Zheng and I worked together to kill one of the transparent men."

Ruan Wangshu showed no signs of grief when he spoke of his companion's death. All the Chosen members sitting in this classroom also just listened quietly, no one was emotional.

Yu Zheng said, "The two players, one was Chinese and the other looked Japanese. The one I killed with the head was the Japanese, and the number on her neck was 3241. the other one had less numbers on her neck than the Japanese, but was stronger than her. The number on his neck was 3012."

Tang Mo had only thought there was one transparent person, but to his surprise there were two this time, and one was Japanese. His eyes lit up and he looked in his bag for the book where he had recorded the time list, opened it and looked through it: "61st, Shizuku Ogawa. Closer after her is the Chinese name ......" After a pause, Tang Mo looked at the name: " Su Xiao ."

Ruan Wangshu glanced at Tang Mo's book with surprise, but he did not say that he wished to see the information in it.

Ruan Wangshu had already told Tang Mo the details of what had happened, Tang Mo put away the book. He lowered his head and looked steadily at the sickly teenager, his voice calm: "Now that the situation is known to us, so what will you give us if we cooperate ......?"

There was a moment of silence in the spacious classroom.

After a long time, Ruan Wangshu smiled and said, "Let's share information with each other first. You guys know more information than I thought, and there are some things that even we Chosen don't know. Indeed, there are not many members of Chosen, only about twenty besides the seven of us. Four of them were even killed by you last month. But even so, we certainly know more than you do. What I can provide here at the moment is information on the major organisations in Beijing, a few of the more famous and powerful players, and, of the Transparent People, information on three Time Ranking players, all three of whom are in Beijing, not including Su Xiao."

Tang Mo was unmoved when he heard the first part, but at the end, he smiled slightly: "Okay, exchange of information."

Next, Tang Mo and Ruan Wangshu told us all that they had gathered. Tang Mo kept some of Chen Shanshan's personal speculations to himself, and Ruan Wangshu may have kept a few things to himself.

They had been talking for half an hour and the situation was pretty much covered when a raspy voice rang out, " Qi Heng the bastard ......"

Ruan Wangshu's voice stops abruptly as he looks over at the female doctor lying on the table.

The female doctor, who had somehow managed to move her body, raised her hand to shield her eyes, her voice low, "Head, how do we find that Su Xiao. How ...... can we find him?"

Practising Yu Zheng also looks expectantly at Ruan Wangshu.

Ruan Wangshu looked bemused: "This time, our cooperation is not about killing Su Xiao."

"Head?!"

Li Miaomiao stiffened and struggled to get up from the table. Several of the other Chosen members also looked at Ruan Wangshu in dismay. Practising Yu Zheng was the first to realise, her face sinking and her mouth opening, but she did not speak.

A low female voice rang out, "One by one?"

The sickly teenager turned his head to look at the little girl who had been standing behind Tang Mo without speaking. After a long time, he spoke calmly: "Well. Killing one Su Xiao won't do much good. He should still be in Beijing, but no one knows when or where he will appear. Our bigger enemy at the moment is the Transparent Man. I'm not inclined to work with several other organisations in Beijing myself, they have a large and mixed membership, and there are more problems within the organisation."

Suddenly, Ruan Wangshu seemed to remember something and he looked up, "Oh yeah, there's something. A month ago, Mu Huixue almost triggered the new version of The black tower update. Tang Mo, Fu Wenduo, I think you all think she cleared the fourth level of The black tower to cause this, right?"

Tang Mo realised what he might be about to say, "Yes, why?"

Ruan Wangshu: "It is logical to say that Mu Huixue has cleared the fourth level of The black tower before The black tower will announce an update. But the update was discontinued. Last month, Qi Heng and Li Miaomiao entered a copy of reality, and in that copy they got a message that might explain the unexpected suspension."

Tang Mo frowned, not having thought for a moment which copy Ruan Wangshu was referring to.

Fu Wenduo suddenly understood and looked at Tang Mo. After a few seconds, Tang Mo also slowed down, his eyes slightly opened and he looked at the female doctor lying on the table in surprise. The female doctor said in a hoarse voice, "The copy is called 'The Day Before Wang Zexin Died', it seems to be a friend of Mr. Tang ....... That copy was actually quite simple, nothing difficult, but Qi Heng and I were trapped in it for days because we didn't figure out what the copy was trying to do."

"What does it want to do?!" Tang Mo's tone had a rare hint of urgency.

Li Miaomiao doesn't make a fuss either: "Wang Zexin is a half-regular player. He was lucky enough to get into one of the The black tower games during the three days he was online on Earth, and he got through it and returned to Earth. When he got back, he wanted to call some of his friends to give them some clues about The black tower game, because he sensed that there was something more to Earth Online and that this mysterious game was real, but he couldn't make the call. He returns home and finds that the phone, the internet, everything is unreachable. Nor could he get out of the house. He was locked in that house."

Tang Mo's fingers tightened abruptly and one hand pressed gently against his tense shoulder.

Tang Mo didn't notice Fu Wenduo's movements as his lips pursed up, "...... And then what?"

It was one of his best friends for over twenty years.

Not someone else.

The day he returned to the house was the evening of 17 November," says Li Miaomiao. The next morning, 18 November, at 8am, he tried his best to leave the house. But whether it was jumping, breaking down walls, breaking down doors, he tried everything, but he couldn't do any of it. In the end he had to write down what he knew on a piece of paper and leave it in the living room. at 8 o'clock he was erased from the world, like the rest of the transparent people, by The black tower."

"Because ...... he didn't pass that The black tower game."