Chapter 155: Fu-weak- Wenduo .

In the red-bronze moonlight, a tiny black cat lies on Grea's shoulder and raises its big transparent green eyes to look at the human in front of him.

There was dead silence in the kitchen.

Li Miaomiao slowly opened her mouth and Zhao Xiaofei looked incredulously at the little black cat that had been lying on top of Grea, or rather had been wrapped around her for four hours.

Grea laughs: " Schrödinger's cat is a person, so the theory that Schrödinger is a cat ...... seems to make a lot of sense."

Tang Mo: "Since you're not a Schrödinger, it doesn't matter if we catch you now, does it?" At those words, Tang Mo didn't give the little black cat a chance to answer, and grabbed it directly. In a flash of light, the little black cat leapt over Grea's shoulder on its hind legs, and with a flash of black shadow, it flew over the middle-aged butler's head. It moved so fast, faster than Tang Mo, that even Fu Wenduo could not catch it.

The small black cat, the size of a palm, sat atop the butler's head and looked down at the five players in the kitchen. The pink nose twitched and Schrödinger let out a soft hum as he opened his mouth, "Hmph, you stupid humans!"

Tang Mo: "......"

Fu Wenduo: "......"

Crowd: "......"

The Schrödinger, unaware of the players' strange expressions, wagged its tail and continued: "You greedy, shameless and hateful humans, who have entered my Iron Forest without permission, and who dare to break into my Iron Fortress! That's how humans are, coveting my treasures without my permission and always coming in groups to steal."

The little black cat is so small that it can walk in circles above the middle-aged butler's head. As he strides on his short legs, he mutters a curse on all those treasure-stealing underground people who have turned into giant stinkers. It took a good five minutes before Schrödinger stopped. The little black cat stared at the group of odd-looking players with round green eyes: "What are you doing?"

A low laugh rang out.

Grea couldn't help but laugh.

Everyone in the kitchen looked at him in unison, and the pale blonde foreigner smiled brightly and without restraint.

Schrödinger exploded: "Don't laugh!"

The soft, sticky voice echoed longingly in the kitchen.

Tang Mo didn't think it was funny, just weird. A little ...... Schrödinger with a high strutting face, talking in such a sweet and soft voice. Tang Mo has never owned a cat and has not been exposed to them much. What he remembers is the sound of cats in heat that used to be heard under the university dormitory every spring. It was a bit like a baby's purr, but not as sweet and sticky as Schrödinger's voice.

Saying "stupid human beings" in such a voice and cursing all humans to die was not something players could relate to, but rather found it very funny.

Grea laughed for a moment, "Well, no more laughing."

Schrödinger: "......"

"Hahahahaha."

Schrödinger: "And you're laughing!!!"

The black cat was furious: "Damn The black tower, why did they send such bastards here too? I'll never be able to communicate with a species with a low IQ, this is an insult to my intelligence! What kind of a fucking game has The black tower released?"

The middle-aged butler licked his cat food, "Meow."

Schrödinger sounded a little surprised: "A game of hide-and-seek?" A moment later it bounced twice in delight, "Oh yes, my favourite game of hide and seek!" It looked up, "Yes, you bloody humans, start our game of hide-and-seek quickly. As long as you find me, you can take one of my inventions. If you haven't found me after three rounds of the game ......"

A huge dark cloud drifted in from the sky, covering half of the moon. The red-bronze moonlight shone through the window, illuminating half of the little black cat's face. With big green eyes that glowed an eerie red, Schrödinger snapped in a sweet, sticky voice: "I want you all to become my collectors' items!"

Tang Mo: "......"

Fu Wenduo: "......"

Crowd: "......"

Schrödinger: "...... You are not allowed to laugh!!!"

Grea laughed again, quite ungracefully.

The little black cat is furious and he lashes out at Grea, scolding him incessantly. But any word that comes out of his mouth becomes a pout. While they were arguing, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo looked at each other and instantly rose to the occasion. They pinned them down and grabbed the little black cat sitting on top of the butler's head. The middle-aged butler suddenly threw away the cat food and jumped backwards to avoid Tang Mo's and Fu Wenduo's attacks.

When the Tang Mo were ready to charge again, Schrödinger stood up straight and slapped his paw against the kitchen wall.

"Rumble-"

Violent sounds resounded throughout the steel forest. The earth trembled as if there had been an earthquake, the ceiling shook, the floor shook. All the dishes and pots in the kitchen fell out of the cupboards and crackled and scattered all over the floor. Immediately afterwards, a mechanical arm reached out from all corners of the walls and swept the scraps into the rubbish bin. Countless hard plates of steel were hidden inside the walls. They folded out and thumped and wrapped around the walls, the floor, the ceiling.

In the blink of an eye, the kitchen is transformed into a fortress of pure steel.

The middle-aged butler stood in the doorway of the kitchen with the little black cat in one hand, looking expressionlessly at the five humans in front of him. The little black cat's sweet voice was interspersed with an impish laugh that banged back and forth between the steel walls, creating an echo: "You stupid humans, wait until you become my collection, hahahahaha!"

No sooner had the words hit the ground than the middle-aged butler turned and jumped into a dark steel chute with the little black cat in his arms. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo wanted to give chase again, but the steel chute was closed as they ran in. The floor was still shaking, the kitchen seemed to be moved by something, and there was a crunching sound of steel in the castle.

Five minutes later, it was all finally over.

Tang Mo The five men stood in the brass-walled steel room and looked at each other. They waited for a while, but did not wait for any movement. Fu Wenduo nodded and walked with very light steps to the kitchen door. He pressed one hand against the doorknob, and with a slight movement of his other hand, a pitch-black dagger appeared in his palm.

There was a click and the door was pulled open.

The crowd grabbed their weapons, wary of enemies who might appear at any moment. The next moment, however, a clear nursery rhyme rang out in the crowd's ears -

"La la la la, Schrödinger has a forest of steel."

"La la la la, Schrödinger has a fortress of steel."

"La la la la, Schrödinger's castle is inhabited by Schrödinger and his cat."

"La la la la, another poor Underlander for Schrödinger's collection."

"Dingdong! Open the main quest 'Schrödinger's Game of Hide-and-Seek'."

"The rules of the game--"

"First, there are 108 rooms in Schrödinger's steel fortress, and Schrödinger is hiding in one of them."

"Secondly, the Iron Fortress is divided into two levels and all rooms are open to players, who are free to seek out Schrödinger."

"Third, the doors to the rooms are distributed on both sides of the corridor and each player can only walk through the same corridor once. When a player walks through a corridor it will leave human footprints in the corridor, and corridors with human footprints are banned from re-entry."

"Fourthly, there will be no human footprints in the room."

"Fifth, the player has a total of three chances to find Schrödinger. Each time the game is lost, a ten minute break is allowed."

"Sixthly, Schrödinger's room is likely to contain Schrödinger's inventions. There are successful inventions and there are failed inventions."

"Seventh, look in all the rooms and you're sure to find Schrödinger."

"Eighth, if the player does not find Schrödinger after three rounds, Schrödinger wins and the players all become Schrödinger's collectibles. If the player finds Schrödinger, the game ends and the player wins. The player may make a request to the Schrödinger which, within the Schrödinger's capabilities, cannot be refused."

"Ninth, Schrödinger's Iron Fortress is located in the clutches of time and cannot use any time effect props."

"The great Lord Schrödinger wants to catch a little friend for his stew today, which one is so lucky?"

In the darkness of the steel fortress, The black tower's loud voice ends, the aftermath still echoing between the steel walls. Tang Mo walks to the kitchen door and stands beside Fu Wenduo, observing the door beyond. The castle was nothing like what they had just seen, it had truly become a steel fortress, not a castle.

The paintings hanging on the walls and the gold leaf on the pillars have all disappeared, the furniture is nowhere to be seen and a dark corridor runs down both sides. There are no lights, and Tang Mo's range of vision is only five metres by the dim red moonlight. He switches on his torch to illuminate the corridor, and stops when his vision reaches the door directly opposite the kitchen.

Li Miaomiao also came up and stood in the kitchen doorway and saw where Tang Mo's torch light was shining.

"What is this?!"

This is a strange four forked corridor.

Like the refraction of light on water, Tang Mo's side of the corridor is a straight horizontal line, like a horizontal plane. A beam of light shines from the upper left and refracts out again. This light travels in two corridors. If the five Tang Mo people want to start from the kitchen door and look for Schrödinger, they have four paths to follow. To the left, to the right, and to the two strange corridors in front of them.

Tang Mo looks down at the ground.

They were currently standing in the kitchen, which was also the room. The castle had been completely transformed, the layout was very different from before. If they took a step forward, they would be entering the corridor. Entering the corridor would leave human footprints and there would be no turning back.

Tang Mo thinks about it, steps forward and stands in the middle of the four forks in the road.

The game had to start eventually, and the remaining four stepped forward and entered the corridor together. Fu Wenduo lifts his foot and a glowing blue footprint appears on the bottom of his foot.

Li Miaomiao: "This is the human footprint. Wherever we have walked, we cannot walk again."

Everyone lifted their feet up, and sure enough, they all had blue footprints underneath them. Li Miaomiao pondered which way to go when a voice rang out, "Wait, I've found a way to pass this game."

Zhao Xiaofei couldn't hide his excitement: "It was very simple! The black tower says that we can't go back where we've gone, so we can't go back. So when we're looking for Schrödinger, we're likely to miss some rooms and we won't be able to find them. But we could split up! There are five of us, and there are, for example, four corridors at this fork in the road. Each of us chooses one corridor, and the corridors that have been walked in will leave footprints anyway, so we look for as many rooms as possible. If we run out of space, we stop where we are and wait for our teammates to finish. This way we were sure to find Schrödinger."

At that, Li Miaomiao said, "That makes sense. Then we'll split into four groups and each find a Schrödinger. The rules of the game say that there may be Schrödinger inventions in the rooms, so I guess there will be a penalty in some of them. That way, our weakest and strongest players stay in one group, and the others each choose a path?"

As he spoke, Li Miaomiao quietly looked to Tang Mo for advice.

Tang Mo's brow tightens and he looks down without saying anything. Li Miaomiao gave him a half-hearted gesture, but Tang Mo did not respond. She was about to say more when Tang Mo looked up and said, "We can try it first, but it won't be that easy."

"I'm teamed up with him." Grea smiles and raises her hand, pointing at Tang Mo.

Li Miaomiao: "You ......?"

Grea winked, "I'm the weakest, he's the strongest."

Li Miaomiao: "......"

The weakest would be her and Zhao Xiaofei, with Fu Wenduo being the strongest, right?

Before Li Miaomiao could say anything, a low male voice rang out, "I'm even weaker." Fu Wenduo stood calmly beside Tang Mo, and deliberately pulled his collar, looking very weak.

Li Miaomiao who knows Fu Wenduo's identity: "......"

Zhao Xiaofei, who is not yet blind: "......"

Can't men behave nowadays!

Tang Mo was fine with the grouping, naturally he would have preferred to be in a group with Fu Wenduo. They didn't dwell on the matter for long, though, because as the five prepared to split up, they took a step in four directions together and all five were stopped by an invisible wall.

"You brazen humans!" A soft, sticky voice echoed through the castle, "Shame on you, shame on you, shame on you! No shame!!! I, the noble Schrödinger, put myself down to play games with you, and you try to split up and come after me. Shame on you, a bunch of you for bullying Schrödinger!"

The five men are back at square one.

"Humph, shameless humans, if you really want to split up, I won't disallow it. But I will release my most powerful invention. Heck, come to me, you will surely die in the room first! Die in the room! All of you, I swear!!!"

Tang Mo has long felt that this approach would not work. In the rules given by The black tower, it seems that the players are always treated as one, and that the game is a game between humans and Schrödinger. If it were that simple, it would be unfair to Schrödinger.

So the five players can only move in and out together, they cannot move separately.

In the corridor, Schrödinger kept repeating the word "shameless". Li Miaomiao pretended to be deaf as the kitten's slimy voice haunted everyone's ears, saying, "So we can't split up, so we have to choose a way out. ...... Which way?" She was asking Tang Mo.

Tang Mo used his torch to illuminate the corridors to the left and right, and then to the two strange corridors.

"The corridors on either side of this would have been a straight, long line, at least a hundred metres long each, judging by the reflection of the light. The two in front of us are not long, maybe ten metres each. Straight corridors are generally simpler and don't vary much. Let's take the other two first. Choose one." The voice stops and Tang Mo looks to Fu Wenduo.

Tang Mo never believes in himself when it comes to luck.

Fu Wenduo took the torch and walked towards the sloping corridor on the right: "This one."

The five men entered the corridor on the right diagonal side in turn.

With the sound of "shame" in the background, the five players entered the long corridor one after another. The red-bronze moonlight shone on the cold steel fortress, reflecting a cold glow.

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The author has something to say.

Fu - weak - Wenduo: I'm weak, I'm pathetic, I want Tangtang to protect me, ^_^

Tangtang: ...... slap you to death!