Chapter 170: Welcome back to Earth, you guys.

The cold child's voice ends abruptly in the wind, and on the distant horizon, as if by illusion, a curved moon appears in the blinding sunlight. On second glance, the sun returns to normal. But the moment The black tower's announcement ends, a crisp click is heard and a series of bright red numbers suddenly appear on the black tower.

"12:00:00'

The bright red numbers resembled blood, cutting a hideous gash in the black tower. All over the world, everyone looked on in dismay at the scene.

This is a countdown.

The minutes ticked by, and the countdown was slowly getting shorter.

Shanghai, Nanjing Road.

As the red countdown numbers appeared, two black figures slowly emerged from the air in a dark alleyway. They were a man and a woman, both very young in appearance. They appeared completely out of thin air, both still looking up at The black tower as they did so. They were hidden in an excellent position, dimly lit and so hidden that it was difficult for others to spot their position, but they could see the black tower clearly.

The two men were stunned when they saw a countdown on The black tower. Then the young man turned his head and saw the sun setting just below the horizon. His eyes widened and his voice was hoarse: "...... is back?"

The young woman looked much calmer, squinting at the setting sun, and then at the moon in the eastern sky.

"O Moon ...... We're really back this time."

Even though they were calm on the surface, their rapid breathing revealed the excitement they were feeling in their hearts at the moment. The young man and woman looked at the sun with an almost greedy gaze, as if they wanted to take it into their bones. But after only a few seconds, as if they had seen enough, they withdrew their gaze and looked at each other.

The woman scratched the corner of her mouth with a meaningful smile, "Back ......"

The man stroked a sharp, slender ice pick: " Eve's game, that's a name I like."

Woman: "So, start the game? Ah, I think I hear a little kid breathing."

An odd low laugh escaped the throats of the two men, and in the next second, their figures suddenly disappeared into the alleyway, and when they reappeared, they had entered a three-storey residential building next to the alleyway. Only in the bedroom of this building, a middle-aged fat man stared in horror at these two young men and women who had suddenly appeared in front of him.

There were so many things he wanted to ask. He wanted to know exactly where these two people had appeared from and who they really were. Yet he couldn't ask any more. On the middle-aged fat man's forehead was a black, bloody hole, and in just a second he was stabbed through the head with an ice pick before he could even utter a single word.

With a loud thud, the fat man fell to the ground.

The young woman knelt down to rummage through his body and found a few props. She gave a disgusted chortle and tossed the props into the trash.

The man was also helpless, and he rubbed his neck. A golden four-digit number hovered next to his neck and he sighed, "What bad luck, it seems to be an official player. What a shame, I was going to try what it's like to be a stowaway."

The woman sarcastically said, "Didn't The black tower name some stowaways, one Fu Wenduo, who seems to be the strongest of the meat pigs. Go and kill him."

Instead, the man came to life and smiled excitedly, "Killing Fu Wenduo feels good ......"

The man and woman searched the hut and took a bottle of water from the cupboard. When they went out, the sky was completely dark and the moon was high in the sky. It seemed like a long time since they had seen the moon, and they stood in front of the small building, staring at the moon hanging over the top of The black tower. After a few moments, the two of them walked towards the Bund.

For them, it is as if there is no danger at all when walking along Nanjing Road at night.

As they walked calmly down this shopping street, the woman passed a shop and stopped, hiding her lips and giving a laugh. She smashed the glass of the shop window to take out a string of diamonds from inside, however she did not wear it around her neck. She ripped the necklace and took the diamonds, throwing them one by one for fun.

On the empty Nanjing road, this man and woman walk together in a very striking manner.

By the time they reached the bottom of The black tower, the woman had thrown the diamonds down to the largest pink diamond. Squinting with one eye, she aimed the diamond at the tip of The black tower and slammed it down. Unfortunately, The black tower was too high and the diamond fell halfway to the ground, falling in a straight pink line in the moonlight. Just as the diamond touched the ground -

Buzz!

A noise so subtle as to be barely audible rang out and the young woman blushed slightly as the man swiped his head.

In the darkness of the night, several shadows lurched out from all corners. At the same time, a large red web appeared at the feet of the young man and woman. Like a misshapen spider's web, the young man was entangled in the middle of the large web, and the woman tried to tug at her feet finding it difficult to move.

The tall, strong foreign man wielded a large kitchen knife and flung it hard at the pair. The young man calmly dodges backwards as he raises his hand and counters the chopper back with an ice pick.

Jackass grabbed the chopper and one by one the others who had been hiding in the darkness came out.

More than fifty players walked underneath The black tower, keeping a wary eye on the young man and woman trapped in the centre. The fifty or so players were not relaxed as they watched for an attack from the young man and woman, even though they were already trapped in a large net and there were many of them.

Surrounded by so many people, the young man and woman's faces showed little tension. The young woman picks up the pink diamond that has fallen to the ground, her eyes flashing and quickly hidden.

The young woman searched the crowd before finally fixing her eyes on a young man in a long white robe.

She gave a delicate laugh, "You're the head of this group?"

Luo Fengcheng pushed up his eyes: "You should have gathered intelligence long ago and know that there are many organisations in Shanghai, but no particularly large ones. The fifty or so high-level players who have cleared at least the first floor of The black tower cannot belong to the same organisation."

Instead of being embarrassed by the discovery of her own set-up, the young woman innocently threw a wink at Luo Fengcheng: "From what you say, young handsome, do you know who we are?"

Luo Fengcheng curled his lips: "The Lehart squad, which frequents Nanjing Road, has two members and celebrates with a bloody party on Nanjing Road after clearing the third level of The black tower a month ago. There are two members of the squad, who cleared the third level of The black tower a month ago, and like to celebrate with a bloody party on Nanjing Road after each tower attack game. on January 14, 2018, they slaughtered over two thousand ordinary players on Nanjing Road, and the two of them jumped into the time ranking." After a pause, Luo Fengcheng is still smiling, but his eyes are icy cold: "Transparent People, no, Returner World, members of the most powerful and disgusting Lehart squad in the Shanghai area, No. 53 Liu Xiao in the Time Rankings, No. 59 Yanagihara ...... "

Luo Fengcheng smiled faintly, "Welcome, back to Earth."

Things like this happen all over the world. But not every area has its share of arrogant returnees, and Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo hide patiently in an office building off Chang'an Street, on the lookout for possible enemies. But half an hour passes and the narrow street is empty.

Tang Mo did not let his guard down as he and Fu Wenduo exchanged glances.

Fu Wenduo nods and continues to keep watch at the window, eyes closed and ears tuned to the movements around him.

Tang Mo watches Chen Shanshan: "Although I was prepared, I never thought ...... transparent people would actually be left with only 320,000."

Six billion humans disappeared six months ago, and they were the transparent ones at the very beginning.

With a total population of six billion, it is surprising that after seven months, only 320,000 people remain. This is only one tenth of the number of players on Earth.

Not only Tang Mo, but when Fu Wenduo and Chen Shanshan heard The black tower announce that over 5 million players had successfully loaded the game, they too subconsciously thought that this was the number of transparent people, but when the next moment The black tower announced that 320,000 players had loaded the game, they instantly understood who the real number was. minority.

The only 320,000 left are not Earth players, they are transparent.

Tang Mo closes his eyes and muses, "It's not impossible that this number is not possible. They have been forced to play since November last year, with a ten-minute break between games, and they only had more time off in January when the Time Rankings appeared. Without the leaderboards, even a strong player like Mu Huixue could have died in a game. So most of the returnees were already eliminated before the Time Rankings came out."

Six billion, three hundred and twenty thousand.

A 1 in 20,000 chance.

Tang Mo was silent and did not speak again. In the room, Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng also looked down at the floor and did not speak.

The probability is so low that they understand that the chances of their loved ones surviving in it are close to zero.

A low voice rang out, breaking the silence, " The black tower put our name on global notice."

Tang Mo looked up at him, "Well, The black tower gave a total of forty-five names, and apart from Mu Huixue, who is from the Returnee camp for now, the other forty-four were all Earth players and had been globally announced by The black tower."

The first player in each region to clear the new tower game will receive a global announcement from The black tower. If someone clears a hard mode tower game, The black tower will only announce this information privately to players around the world who have already cleared that level. So while some names are unheard of to the average player, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo know them all.

Tang Mo pondered for a moment and made his decision, "Go to Chosen."

This update was completely beyond Tang Mo's expectations.

He had originally thought that The black tower would give returnees a special reward for being the first to pass the four levels. Instead, he had not expected The black tower to open an extra game for the returnees, and to announce the coordinates and names of the Earth players worldwide.

Chen Shanshan: "Chosen should choose to work with us. A total of four people have been announced in Beijing by The black tower, including two of Chosen's people. There are seven days of Eve and it's day one, and while we don't know how the Eve rewards will kick in and what the Transparent People in Beijing will do to the Earth survivors, they're still on a restricted break."

Tang Mo nodded, "Well, the time charts are no longer updated, but they are still returnee status and subject to the rest time restrictions. The only way to get rid of the time limit and truly gain freedom is to eliminate Earth players, including and not limited to the game style ......"

Tang Mo frowned at the familiarity of this statement.

Fu Wenduo: "Although they only have 320,000 people left, they cannot be careless."

Tang Mo asked Chen Shanshan directly what she thought of Eve's game. The young girl, without changing her expression, went through all the biblical references, the story of Adam and Eve, and everything else she could think of about Eve, but none of the four of them could find anything that matched "Eve's reward".

Chen Shanshan: " Eve appears in different Western mythological texts and is portrayed differently, the Old Testament and the New Testament describe Eve differently. Myths aside, there is the Eve hypothesis ......"

Fu Xiaodi pondered, "Could that reward be an apple? Eve gained wisdom by stealing the forbidden fruit, and the forbidden fruit was an apple."

Chen Shanshan: "It doesn't matter what the vehicle of the reward is, what matters is the nature of the reward."

The night was like water, and the transparent man was hiding in the shadows without knowing where he was. The four of them decided to wait in the building for the night and wait until the game time ended at six the next morning, then they would go to the Chosen Base. Suddenly, a sharp gunshot sounded in the silent street.

Fu Wenduo's eyes went cold as he looked down the window.

A middle-aged woman was seen lying on the ground staring up at the sky with her eyes wide open, blood gurgling from beneath her and soon staining the pavement. On the other side of the street, a black shadow flickered into the grass. Tang Mo gripped the handle of her small parasol and stared up at the man's leaping back from a high building.

The man weaves back and forth through the dense row of trees as if he were a black ghost. Moonlight shone through the gaps in the foliage, illuminating a line of golden numbers suspended halfway down his chin and around his neck.

"341"

Bang!

Another shot rang out and the bullet penetrated the wall with the sound of flesh being missed.

Who knows exactly how the man saw the enemy through the wall, the number on the black shadow's neck changing from "341" to "351". He gave a hoarse laugh, which was drowned out by the whistling wind. The man ran further and further away, firing three rounds along the way, each one hitting a man and increasing the number suspended around his neck.

Just as he was about to leave Tang Mo's field of vision, the man suddenly looked up and his eyes locked with the four Tang Mo's on the roof.

The next moment, the black gun was pointed straight at Fu Wenduo, who was closest to the window, and the man did not hesitate to press the trigger. Fu Wenduo reacted quickly and turned sideways to avoid the bullet. Only Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were exposed at the window, but when they saw the three bullets, they both turned pale, one picked up Chen Shanshan and the other Fu Wensheng, and quickly left the room.

At the same moment as they left the room, bullets were fired into the wall. One of the bullets was fired at Tang Mo, while two others were fired at Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng, who had never been seen before.

Tang Mo gasped slightly as he carried Chen Shanshan on his back. Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, however, another piercing shot rang out.