Chapter 11: You have a very smelly, smelly, smelly smell about you!

Tang Mo's body fell rapidly. The surroundings were dark, and he seemed to be falling along a hole in the ground, his body thumping against the walls of the hole in the ground. With Tang Mo's current physical qualities, he didn't feel any pain from hitting the dirt walls, only that the feeling of falling made him unable to control it.

It could have been a minute or an hour of falling downward.

Bang!

Tang Mo has finally landed on level ground.

The surrounding area was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything. Tang Mo touched the ground under his feet, and the feeling of moist soil let him know that he was probably really standing on a piece of land at the moment. He first settled down and listened carefully to the movements around him, and after making sure there were no sounds, he began to feel around with his hands, cautiously exploring the neighborhood.

Tang Mo touched it for three minutes and didn't touch anything.

Suddenly, a familiar crashing sound came from above his head. Tang Mo immediately withdrew his hand and paid alert attention to the movement above him. Half a minute later, a huge object slammed down hard on the ground, accompanied by a loud and agonizing male voice: "Ouch it hurts, where is this!"

Tang Mo's heart fluttered and she asked in a low voice, "Li Wen?"

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The male voice that kept calling stopped, and after a moment, "Tang Mo?"

Tang Mo settled down a little, but before he could say anything else, there was another thumping sound, and a man smashed down again. Immediately after that, there were four. One after another, they smashed to the ground, cursing and screaming.

Tang Mo counted seven people, including himself.

A dazzling light suddenly lit up, illuminating the dark place. The crowd brushed their heads and turned toward the light source. Only to see a junior high school student looking little girl timidly looking at them, her face is very bad, her body is thin, holding a flashlight in her hand, trembling, "I ...... I brought a flashlight, and seeing that it is too dark here, I turned it on."

A man in a suit with an elite look nodded and walked over, "Can you lend me your flashlight, I'll take a look at the surroundings and make sure we're where we are now."

The little girl handed over the flashlight.

The man looked around with a flashlight.

Tang Mo follows the spot where his light shines carefully, and soon the man has traveled all over the cave. He returned to his original position and thrust his flashlight hard upwards into the soil, the light shining straight upwards. This way illuminates the cave as much as possible and allows the seven men to see each other's faces.

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The man sat down around the flashlight and said, "First of all, let's all introduce ourselves. My name is Li Bin, I'm twenty-nine years old and I work for a PR firm. What's going on now is anyone's guess, and I'm guessing it has something to do with the Black Tower. The only thing we can do is to unite and use the power of the group to protect each of us before the Black Tower creates an unknown event."

The little girl had an exchange with Li Bin just now, and she seemed to trust this man a little, so the second one sat over and said in a trembling voice, "My name is Peng Yuwen, fifteen years old, and I am in my second year in the twelfth middle school. You ...... guys can call me Wen Wen."

Everyone else looked at each other, no one sat over first.

Tang Mo takes a step and sits down, and Li Bin and Peng Yuwen both look at him.

He smiled slightly, "Tang Mo, twenty-three, librarian."

Li Wen didn't quite understand why Tang Mo suddenly trusted those two people so much, but when he saw Tang Mo go over, he also ran over to them in a hurry: "Li Wen, twenty-five years old, is now a hobo gnawing on the old man."

Out of the seven, four of them all chose to hug the group, and the other three, with a clench of their teeth, all ran over as well.

"Lin Qiao, twenty years old, in college."

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"Zhao Xiang, thirty-two years old, I was a chef before that crappy tower showed up. After that thing came out, my boss ran away in fear, so I'm kind of jobless."

Lastly, there was a gentlemanly man wearing glasses, who slowly sat down and swept his eyes over the crowd, especially lingering on Li Bin and Tang Mo for a while before saying, "Luo Fengcheng, twenty-eight years old, game designer."

In this way, seven people are considered to know each other.

With the combination of five men and two women, the two girls couldn't help but hug each other. Lin Qiao sat next to Peng Yuwen at the beginning, and soon they got to know each other well, and the two of them talked in whispers.

Li Wen leaned over to Tang Mo: "What's going on, Tang Mo, do you know?"

Tang Mo shook his head, "It should be related to the Black Tower."

"Black Tower?" Li Wen shivered, "What the hell is this place, we shouldn't be locked up."

"This should be a hole in the ground." A calm voice rang out and everyone looked towards each other. Luo Fengcheng pushed his glasses and said with a cold expression, "Soil moisture will increase with the distance from the ground, the closer to the groundwater, the wetter the soil will be. Currently, the soil water potential of these soils under our feet is about 3 bar. Groundwater cannot cause such a large soil water potential. If we are still in Shanghai, we must be near a water source. This is an underground cave near a water source."

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Li Bin looked at him strangely, "You're a game designer?"

Luo Fengcheng: "The college major was in water conservancy."

But the suspicion in the eyes of the others was not dispelled, and Tang Mo looked at the man curiously for a few moments.

Determining that this was a hole in the ground would be more in line with everyone's perceptions.

"These seven holes above our heads are presumably where the seven of us fell down." Li Bin pointed at the seven dark holes with a grave gaze, "I think all of you should have heard the words spoken by the Black Pagoda before you fell down, right?"

Lin Qiao nodded his head and repeated, "Fu Wenduo, the stowaway from Huaxia Zone 1, has successfully opened the first floor of the Black Tower, three minutes later, players from all Huaxia Zones will start attacking the tower."

Of the seven people, the little girl Peng Yuwen was the one who didn't talk much, and the cook Zhao Xiang just listened from the side, sometimes laboriously hoping that everyone would explain things to him. Luo Fengcheng also fell silent after finishing that paragraph, seemingly feeling that he had said too much.

Li Bin assumed the role of a guide among the seven: "There are many things in this sentence that I don't quite understand, so let's leave it aside for now. But you guys still remember the three iron laws of the Black Tower, don't you? Yesterday morning, it released the Three Iron Laws, the last of which requires us to work hard to attack the tower. So are we attacking the tower now?"

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Li Wen asked curiously, "So how do we attack the tower?"

"I don't know."

Tang Mo said, "What might be the hint? Why don't we look in this hole again?"

Li Bin shook his head, "I've just rummaged through this hole and didn't find anything."

It was at this moment that a clear child's voice rang out in the cavern.

"Ding Dong! The first level of the Black Tower (Retarded Mode) is open, the seven player survival game is starting to load ......"

"Sandbox Generation ......"

"Game data loaded ......"

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"Main quest released: O seven chosen by the gods, please try your best to live!"

The cave was silent.

After who knows how long, Li Wen asked nervously, "Game? That was the Black Tower's voice just now, I remember! What does it mean by game? What does it mean by a seven-player survival game ......"

Tang Mo gave him a look that only confirmed so far that Li Wen had truly never played a Black Tower game.

Chef Zhao Xiang deliberately pulled his voice to hide his nervousness, "We should be escaping from here, so let's hurry up."

Li Bin, however, calmly said, "Don't be anxious, since the Black Tower is going to release a game for us, it's definitely not possible for us to simply dig a hole and leave, perhaps there is some kind of trap." If you look closely, you can find that Li Bin's lips have been trembling, and he tried hard to show a calm demeanor, "Let's make sure we're in a good position first, and then we'll figure out what to do next ......"

"Shh!"

"Be quiet!"

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Tang Mo and Luo Feng Cheng spoke at the same time.

The two men looked at each other and Tang Mo tightened his brow, "Did you hear anything?"

The others held their breath and listened intently.

Suddenly, Lin Qiao, a female university student, opened her eyes wide and screamed. She immediately covered her mouth and whispered, "I hear it, I hear it. The sound of digging, that's the sound of digging! I like to play survival games, and this sound is the special effect sound when digging. There's something digging in the dirt!"

Li Bin stood up in a flash, "It's this direction."

The crowd all stood up and looked at a wall of soil.

Cook Zhao Xiang's face turned red and he clenched his fists, "Damn it, whatever he is, I'll hammer him to death with one punch."

Everyone's cold hairs stood up, looking fearfully at the direction from which the sound of digging came. That sound was getting closer and closer, Tang Mo was almost close to hearing his heartbeat pounding. The brushing sound of digging never stopped, and he had already taken a step to the side of the cave.

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Bang!

The last thin layer of earth was dug away.

Blood red light from the dark hole in the ground, a pair of small eyes in the seven people swept one by one, it stretched out its huge claws, the pile of soil in front of himself peeled away, the whole person ...... whole rat from the hole in the ground drilled out, into this huge underground lair.

Boom!

It was a huge mole rat. It stood over two meters tall, its massive body resembling a giant beast, and when it stood up, it seemed as if the entire sky could be crushed by it. It threw a Huo Ji the size of a half-man onto the ground, its tiny eyes staring at the seven, its sharp, knife-like teeth crunching and grinding, making a piercing sound.

Mole lifts his mouth and a strange laugh escapes his lips, then says, "Why is the Black Tower so nice today, I was just about to eat Huo Ji and it brought me fuel. Seven humans, just enough to roast this Huo Ji and sprinkle it with delicious cumin ...... Oh, and thanks to the Black Tower, Happy Thanksgiving!"

The cook, who had just said that he would hammer the other party to death, was so scared that he took three steps backwards when he saw this terrifying giant rat. In the next moment, he suddenly turned around and fled backward.

Tang Mo said sharply, "Don't move!"

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But it was too late, and the next moment the cook turned to flee, the huge mole, like a bolt of lightning, scurried swiftly past, and with one paw glued to the cook's body, hammered him against the wall.

The cook landed on the ground, coughing up blood and unable to move.

Mole stared at the other six with his small eyes, his eyes finally landing on Peng Yuwen, the short and thin fifteen year old girl, "This fuel is the thinnest, so I'll use you as the center of the fire. The fattest one will be the last, Huo Ji will be roasted in the fire at the end, this is a secret that I have not told anyone, this way Huo Ji is the most delicious."

"Ah!" Peng Yuwen was so scared that she turned pale and fled backward, but the mole flew in front of her, grabbed her head and yanked her backward. Peng Yuwen hissed in pain, Li Bin clenched his teeth and pulled the little girl's right foot as he roared, "We can't let it take this little girl, if she's taken, we'll be next!"

Tang Mo was not so cold-blooded as to watch a minor girl being taken away in front of him without doing anything. He grabbed the little girl's other leg, and Li Wen shakily grabbed the little girl's leg. Lin Qiao, a college girl, also plucked up courage and grabbed the little girl's other leg.

Luo Feng Cheng directly stepped on the mole's foot. His angle was very tricky and he stepped on the nail of the mole's last little toe. His kick with all his strength caused the mole to let out a roar of pain. But when he fixed his eyes on it, the nail was as hard as iron, and it didn't bleed at all, only causing the mole to let go of its grip on the little girl's head as the crowd pulled the little girl back.

The giant two-meter-tall mole snarled and roared, "I'm going to use all of you as fuel to roast my Huo Ji right now!"

"Dingdong! Side quest one triggered: bake a Huo Ji for the lovely Uncle Mole."

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The voice rang in the ears of all seven.

Is that a fucking cute mole?

Everyone was now itching to tear the Black Tower to pieces.

Tang Mo vaguely felt that these words seemed a bit familiar, but the current situation simply didn't give him time to think. The mole swung its giant claws and knocked Li Bin away. Seeing this, the college girl and the little girl were so scared that they fled to the side, Tang Mo quickly said, "Don't run! We must stay together, if we separate we will only be caught by it!"

The little girl ran away anyway, she was young after all, and it was understandable that she ran away in fear.

The college girl gathered her courage and ran back.

"Take it!" Luo Fengcheng plucked off Huo Ji's two chicken legs and threw one to Tang Mo, who unexpectedly failed to control the strength and smashed it at the college girl's feet.

This was a huge mole rat, and this Huo Ji was also a huge Huo Ji. its chicken leg seemed like a bat, hard and strong, and it could perfectly serve as a weapon. Luo Fengcheng took one chicken leg, the female college student hesitated for a split second and picked up the other chicken leg, and the two of them rushed towards the mole together.

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The mole was currently swinging a claw at Li Bin when it suddenly heard a sound, it stopped moving and turned to look.

Li Bin coughed out a mouthful of blood and grabbed one of the mole's legs with his shivering arms, "Hurry!"

Luo Feng Cheng and the college girl rushed up from the left and right sides at the same time, waving their chicken legs and smashing them at the mole. The mole rat was being held by Li Bin's dead body, so it was impossible to dodge, and the two steel-like Huo Ji legs just smashed straight down. However, at this instant, the mole rat raised both paws and blocked both sides of its head.

Huo Ji's leg crashed into the claw and sparked metal.

The mole moved his paws slowly, his long sharp teeth crunching and grinding, "Burn you, roast you all Huo Ji!"

Li Bin lay on the ground in despair, still trying to hold on to the mole's leg. Suddenly, his eyes widened and hope flared up in them. He saw Tang Mo coming up from behind and rushing towards the mole without a care in the world.

But he doesn't even have a Huo Ji leg on his hand!

With cold water poured over his head and his hopes dashed, Li Bin yelled, "Don't you die!"

In the blink of an eye, a giant match appears in Tang Mo's hand. No one knew when it appeared. The cook collapsed on the ground far away, not knowing whether he was alive or dead; the little girl ran away long ago, not knowing where she was; Li Bin, Luo Fengcheng, and the female college student all looked at the suddenly appearing large match in astonishment.

Giant matches broke the wind and slammed down, the hunting sound of the wind hinting at how violent the match was.

They looked excitedly at Tang Mo and the match in his hand and saw that it was about to strike the mole on the head.

Suddenly!

The mole reached out with both paws and caught the match firmly.

Not only them, but Tang Mo's heart also fell into the ice cellar at once. The rush of the match made the mole take two steps backward, but it still didn't hurt the mole anyway. It held the match and looked down at Tang Mo.

Tang Mo pursed his lips together as his brain raced to think of any other uses for that damned psychic ability of his.

Who expected that the mole didn't attack again, it turned its head sideways, holding the match in its left paw and holding its right paw to its big face, and made a cute gesture that many pet dogs would do, "Huh, why do you have mosaic matches?" The bright red nose moved twice in the air, and the mole sniffed, then opened its eyes again and said curiously, "Ah, you smell like mosaic, a very, very, very disgusting smell!"

Tang Mo: "......"

Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.

Published at: 04/07/2024 10:00

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