Chapter 208: Forced to attack the tower~

Tang Mo quickly calmed down, looked up at The black tower and tried again.

However, the result was unchanged. Once again, the black tower refused Tang Mo's request to attack the tower, and when Tang Mo made his third attempt, the black tower's undulating mechanical voice rang out in their ears: "Ding-dong! The black tower's second iron rule: 6:00-18:00 is game time. Game time has expired, please come back tomorrow!"

Tang Mo narrows his eyes, glancing at Fu Wenduo.

The two men soon left the lower part of The black tower and found a safe place to rest their feet.

Tang Mo looked up and said, "There's no problem with time, we applied to attack the tower within the game time, we didn't exceed the time limit."

Fu Wenduo thought for a moment, and then decided: "Go back to Chosen."

Ten minutes later, the two arrived at the 80th Form.

When I met Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng, the two children were eating canned food. As the most powerful smugglers' organisation in Beijing, Chosen naturally has better resources than Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, who are unorganised freeloaders. Li Miaomiao was not above treating the two children, and when he saw Tang Mo and Fu Wensheng return, he was surprised: "Eh, no more tower attacks?" He didn't think Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had raided the sixth floor of The black tower so quickly, because The black tower didn't give any hints at all.

Chen Shanshan put the can down and came forward, looking serious: "What happened, was the tower not attacked?"

Tang Mo nodded heavily: " The black tower said that there was a data error, and that the tower could not be attacked."

Next, Tang Mo told Chen Shanshan about what had happened to them below The black tower.

The short-haired girl rubbed her chin, thinking for a moment and guessing the same as Tang Mo: "It has nothing to do with the timing of the game, you chose to attack the tower at the right time. Then there is something else wrong with The black tower itself." After a pause, Chen Shanshan asks, "Are all the games unplayable, or is it simply that only the tower attack game is unplayable?"

This is not a trivial matter.

The black tower has never banned players from the game.

The second of the three ironclad rules is the only restriction The black tower places on player access to the game. The time may seem strange, being 6:00 to 18:00, but in fact divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres. Twice a year, sunrise and sunset are at 6 o'clock and 18 o'clock in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Apart from this, sunrise and sunset times are always 6 and 18 o'clock in the equatorial region.

This means that The black tower starts at sunrise and ends at sunset, according to the local time of each region, e.g. Beijing time for China.

This is true all over the world.

Anyone can attack the tower as long as they don't break this rule.

Li Miaomiao also realised the seriousness of the situation and she immediately contacted the Chosen members. A short, thin man came into the classroom and whispered something in Li Miaomiao's ear. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had already heard the man's words, but the two children's ears were not that good. At five o'clock this afternoon, two of our outer members of Chosen got into a normal copy without being stopped in any way."

Tang Mo : "Maybe it was after five o'clock that the problem arose."

Li Miaomiao : "Then wait for tomorrow, we have a few more team members entering the replica separately tomorrow, we'll know the truth then."

The crowd agreed to this suggestion.

The next morning at 6am, Tang Mo opened his eyes on time. He didn't sleep, he just closed his eyes and rested. The moment he reached six o'clock, he turned his head to look through the classroom window at the huge black tower in the distance.

There is nothing unusual about The black tower.

But all over the world, a loud and clear child's voice was heard across the planet -

"Dingdong! As of June 10, 2018 at 6:00 pm, China zone confirmed clearance of The black tower level 5."

The same sound was heard an hour ago, and it said "East Asia confirmed to have cleared The black tower level 5". There are ten zones around the world, each with a local time of 6:00-18:00, so the time of the The black tower forced attack actually varies and is settled according to local time.

When it was time to play, the five Tang Mo members and two Chosen members arrived at the trigger point for a replica of the game. Chosen also has its own intelligence network and knows the trigger points for many of Beijing's replicas, and every day they arrange for their members to go in and play to improve their strength. The two members were seen walking up to a hot pot restaurant. They pushed open the door of the hot pot restaurant and put one hand into the large fish tank in front of the shop.

The next moment the two disappeared into the shop.

Li Miaomiao : "Going in!"

Chen Shanshan turned to Tang Mo and said, "Brother Tang, Mr. Fu school, this is also quite close to The black tower, why don't we go and try again?"

"Good."

This time, the five of them went to the lower part of The black tower in a group. As they walked up to Tiananmen Square, Tang Mo became aware of a few eyes staring at him from the shadows.

After that dodgeball game on the East Third Ring, he and Fu Wenduo became completely famous in Beijing. Not only were they famous, but most of the senior players in Beijing knew their faces. Even casual players who didn't recognise their faces could recognise the armband on Li Miaomiao's arm, which was emblazoned with a dark black "X" like symbol.

That is the sign of the Chosen One.

Tang Mo whispers, "Choose to open the sixth floor of The black tower and team up with player Fu Wenduo."

The cold mechanical alert sounded again, "Dingdong! Data abnormality, player application for tower attack failed."

The crowd was stunned, but a few more tries yielded exactly the same result.

The five returned to Chosen first.

Tang Mo said, "It's the tower attack game that's been banned, it has nothing to do with the regular game." Something occurred to him: "Something to do with forced tower attacks? Yesterday, Fu Wenduo and I couldn't attack the tower until we had cleared five levels. Players in China won't be forced to attack towers anymore, so all China players won't be allowed to attack towers during the time when other zones are forced to do so?"

This is a possibility.

Chen Shanshan said, "One thing is still undecided, Brother Tang Mo, have you ever thought that ...... might be disallowing raiding the six floors of The black tower and allowing raiding of other floors?"

The words hit the floor and everyone froze. Tang Mo's mind was quickly racing: "In the Sixth Floor Rush mode, the first three teams or players to raid the sixth floor of The black tower will receive a clue to the seventh floor. Does it mean that the sixth floor will be allowed only after every region in the world has had players pass the fifth floor? That would be considered fair, no one would be raiding the sixth level early." But it was also considered unfair, why should the players who had cleared the fifth level first have to go and wait for those who hadn't passed the fifth level?

This speculation is more likely.

Chen Shanshan said, "Tomorrow, me, Xiao Sheng and Sister Li ...... will go to the fourth floor of The black tower to find out whether it is the tower attack game that is banned or the sixth floor of The black tower six floors."

Tang Mo nodded and was about to say something more when suddenly a strange sound rang out over the globe. It sounded like the rustling of a broken blower, hoarse and unpleasant. After the rattling sound, a cold mechanical voice said without emotion, "Dingdong! No one in South Asia has cleared the fifth floor of The black tower, forcing the tower to be attacked!"

At this moment, all players around the world were stunned in unison.

All the players in the South Asia zone were frozen, some were pale and some were trembling with fear. A female Indian player in a red sari had been kneeling on the ground praying that someone would get through the fifth floor before the final moment came and save them, the ordinary players. When she heard the sound of The black tower, she cried out in pain, her eyes red with anguish, "Why, why has no one cleared the fifth floor of The black tower! Why!"

However The black tower did not give these players a chance to object, or rather they were not qualified to make any comments at all. A blinding white light flashed past the eyes of all the players in the South Asia zone, and in the blink of an eye, the whole of South Asia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh ...... became one empty city after another. All humans disappeared, leaving only empty streets and cities.

This was the first area to be forced to attack the tower.

After a full day, there are four zones in the world where no one has cleared all five levels of The black tower and all players have been forced to attack the tower. They are South Asia, Russia, West Asia and the Americas.

Every forced attack on the tower means a large number of players die.

Late at night, Tang Mo sits with his eyes closed, resting against a wall on a desk. In the classroom, Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng prepare props and mineral water for the next day's attack. They show little sympathy for the players from the four zones who have been forced to attack the tower.

Fu Wenduo was sitting next to Tang Mo, who had found a set of Go from the library of the eightieth form. He originally asked Tang Mo to play with him, but Tang Mo was not familiar with Go, so they ended up playing five pieces.

Fu Wenduo's eyes were closed and his voice was low: "On November 13, 2017, I entered Myanmar from India and returned home that night. If I had stayed in India, I would now be a South Asian player."

Tang Mo understands what he means.

Whichever region you are in, you are a player of that region.

He remembered something: "That Andrei who tried to kill Mu Huixue, he was the first player in the world to clear the fourth floor of The black tower, wasn't he, he was from Russia. After he left Russia ...... it's a shame that nobody cleared level five in the time limit."

Fu Wenduo opened his eyes, looked at Tang Mo and then withdrew them.

He whispered in response, "Hmm."

This is fate.

If Andrei hadn't left Russia, he probably would have cleared all five levels of The black tower and the Russian players would not have been forced to attack the tower. Strength is the basis of survival, and Tang Mo's mind is filled with all the previous The black tower games he has played and all the The black tower bosses he has seen, trying to remember as much information as possible to increase his chances of getting through The black tower level six, first and foremost.

The next morning, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo accompanied the two children to the lower part of The black tower.

As Chen Shanshan applied for the fourth floor of The black tower, a white glow enveloped the trio. Before it disappeared Chen Shanshan turned his head quickly and exchanged glances with Tang Mo.

'Nothing to do with the tower attack game, just no raiding the sixth floor!

Both men realised this at the same time.

The children left Earth and began to raid the fourth floor of The black tower, but Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo didn't stay long. They rushed back to the Eightieth Form, where they planned to wait for the return of Chen Shanshan. Just as they were about to enter the gates of the 80th, Fu Wenduo suddenly stopped in his tracks, took a black dart from his pocket and with a flick of his wrist, shot it to the right.

There was a stomping sound and the black figure popped out from behind the roadside trees with a brush.

The doll-faced youth in the white jacket caught the dart in his fingers and the corners of his mouth twitched, a smile surprisingly failing to hold on to his face. Slowly, he put the dart into his pocket very smoothly and then looked up with a soft grin, "Hee hee, Mr. Fu School, Tangtang, hello again ...... Wow, why are you looking at me like that, I'm not here for trouble. Don't you guys notice that we can't raid the sixth floor of The black tower?"

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