Chapter 222: ...... Actually, he has returned the favor.
"No, this time the deaths are different from the ones sung in the nursery rhymes!"
As Mu Huixue and Andre opened the door, they heard a loud female voice. The two looked at each other and walked down the stairs together.
At the corner of the stairs on the first floor, Li Xia, a Chinese female player, and two European players were gathered around the handrail, not knowing what they were looking at.
Upon hearing this, Lena Chopphouse sneered, "This murderer has been so arrogant as to blatantly tell us that it's either the Black Tower, the Black Tower Monster, or human beings who are killing people? He doesn't even bother to hide it anymore."
Hearing their conversation, the rest of the players went downstairs one by one.
Two male American players went downstairs together, followed by Takao Yamamoto, an East Asian player, and then Qiao Zhi, an older white man. a few minutes later, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo went downstairs.
When the old white man saw Tang Mo, his body slightly stuttered, and soon he covered it up, as if he didn't recognize Tang Mo and hadn't left the room last night. Tang Mo's eyes were fixed on his body, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked.
Mu Huixue bends down to examine Abdullah's cause of death: "He was stabbed through the brain with a sharp object, so he must have fought for a long time, and there are a lot of marks on his body. Also, look at these walls and stairs around us."
The crowd followed Mu Huixue's line of sight.
Mu Huixue: "When Bai Ruoyao fought with the murderer yesterday, he didn't leave these claw marks and hole-shaped marks. So, these claw marks and small round holes should be left by Abdullah and his murderer last night. If I'm not wrong," Mu Huixue grabbed Abdullah's fingers and saw that the nails on his ten fingers were black, and three of the nails on his right hand were broken, dripping with blood. "The claw marks are from Abdullah, the others are from the murderer."
Takao Yamamoto thought for a moment, and said, "Abdullah's fingernails are clearly unusual, and it is highly likely that this is his ability."
Lena Chophos looked at everyone around her with disdain, "So, who killed him?"
Mu Huixue was about to open her mouth when suddenly, as if she had remembered something, she looked towards Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo.
The three men looked at each other.
Tang Mo nodded softly, and Mu Huixue was surprised for a moment, then changed the subject and said, "This is the only person who died last night?"
Abdullah's body was next to the stairs, and it was only then that the crowd remembered to look for another body.
They rummaged through the entire third floor of the castle and when they got to the attic, everyone realized that Bai Ruoyao's body was gone.
Li Xia clenched her fingers, "Sure enough, the murderer is taking everyone's bodies. What exactly does he want to do?"
"Wait, I think I found his body."
The crowd immediately looked toward the sound of the voice.
Takao Yamamoto was seen standing at the stairs outside the loft, looking down in the direction of the stair railing. "Is that one his body?"
Everyone walks down the stairs in unison again.
When they reached the corner of a flight of stairs, they walked further back, to the back of the stairs, where a fallen body immediately came into view.
Tang Mo's lips parted and closed.
He did not expect that the other party would hide Bai Ruoyao's body in such a place. At night, the light at the back of the stairs was dim, so it was impossible to see anything without taking a close look with a lamp. Moreover, Tang Mo had come here to search, so after killing Abdullah last night, he went to the second and third floors to look for the body, but did not find it, so he returned to his room. He did not expect Bai Ruoyao's body to be hidden here.
John, the American player, frowned, "What does this mean. Last night's killer didn't take this body?"
Why didn't you take the bodies last night and all the bodies from the first two days?
Does the killer even pick people?
Practicing Yu Zheng was about to speak when a low laugh rang out. European player Dond Saivik covered his lips and laughed a little, and when he saw the crowd looking at him strangely, he smiled gently and said, "There is something that actually concerns me very much. Before today, for three consecutive days, these two Chinese players ...... also known as Tang and Fu, you guys have always left the room very early in the morning, and even rushed to the scene of the crime in the first place. But today, you guys stayed in the room for a really long time ......"
Dond looks at them curiously and smiles, "I'm kind of curious, what are you guys doing in your room?"
As soon as these words were uttered, players had their faces changed.
A phrase that seems to have a peach|colored vibe, but at this point in time, no one will have any extra thoughts.
Dond added, "Could it be that one of you is injured and would like to take the time to heal?"
Practicing Yu Zheng also realized who Abdullah's murderer was at this point, and she immediately spoke up, "If I remember correctly, you three American players also came out very late, right?"
The two young players directly retorted, "What do you mean, we came out a little later, but not much later at all. Our room was already in the innermost part of the room, is it wrong to move a little slower than you guys?"
Practicing Yu Zheng : "What about him?" She refers to the old white man.
The old white man said, "I had some personal business to take care of and tried my powers in my room to see if they worked properly, that's why I'm late."
Lena : "All good reasons, what about you guys?"
The cold, short-haired woman looked at Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo with a sneer, her tone extremely impulsive, as if she had seen them kill someone with her own eyes.
The three Mu Huixue's faces were displeased, however, to their surprise, Tang Mo smiled slightly, "Yes, I left the room last night."
What?
All the players looked at Tang Mo in dismay.
Dond Saivik's smile fades from his face as if he senses something is wrong.
And the next second, Tang Mo said in a calm tone, "I killed him, by the way."
Mu Huixue: "Tang Mo?!"
The two American players immediately drew their weapons and watched Tang Mo warily. Lena and Dond were also serious.
Tang Mo walked over to Abdullah's body and said, "We started the fight from the attic. I jumped down from the stairs," he gestured, "and he came down after me. Then we fought from the dining room table to the fireplace, which he kicked and shattered, and then I stabbed him through the head with my weapon. You guys should be able to find a complete line that proves I'm right if you're looking for traces."
Lena : "So you're admitting that you killed all of them? Where did you put the three bodies from before."
Tang Mo: "Did I say I killed all the people before? Last night, he was the one who attacked me first, and I fought back. At that time I thought he had killed the other man and that's why I attacked. But I soon realized that I was wrong. Abdullah didn't kill the other one, and Bai Ruoyao's body was hidden by that man. His purpose was simple, to mislead me, or to mislead Abdullah, so that we would suspect each other and thus have a big fight and end up with one dead man."
Andre: "Who's the other guy."
Tang Mo points directly at the old white man: "Him."
The old white man looked calm, "I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't go out last night."
Tang Mo smiled, "You got that blood on the attic door, didn't you."
The old white man's eyes flickered and he asked rhetorically, "What blood."
Tang Mo led the crowd upstairs, where he crouched his body down and touched a completely dried reddish-brown bloodstain on the attic door panel. "You did an ingenious job of staging the blood in such an unobtrusive place, so that when the blood was discovered, it could be completely disguised as the murderer not noticing it before leaving this bloodstain. But you knew deep down, or rather you believed in the strength of Abdullah and me, and you knew that whichever one of us was the first to go up to the attic was sure to find this bloodstain, thinking that you had been killed by the other side, and that the other side had stolen Bai Ruoyao's body."
Old white man: "I can indeed do all that you say, and your reasoning seems seamless. But the fact is, I don't go out, and I don't have to do so much, so what good does that do me?"
Tang Mo: "The benefits have come out, Abdullah is dead."
The old white man frowned, "What kind of favor is that, and what business is it of mine if he dies?"
Tang Mo : "You have one less competitor."
The crowd's eyes wander back and forth between Tang Mo and the old white man.
The old white man stared intently at Tang Mo, and after a long moment, he laughed, "While you're right about everything, I really didn't go out."
Tang Mo did not contradict him, but took a bottle of reddish-brown liquid from his pocket. He opens it and hands it to Fu Wenduo, who sniffs it once and hands it to Mu Huixue, and everyone passes it on in turn.
Seeing Tang Mo take out such a bottle, the old white man gave a skeptical look. He took the bottle of brown liquid and sniffed down, "Red wine?!"
"Yes, just red wine." Tang Mo's tone was light, "The first day I poured some out of the bottle of red wine on the table and put it in a small bottle I had with me. The flavor of red wine fades when it sits in the air for a long time. The flavor of this small bottle of red wine was already so faint that none of us could smell it unless we got close enough to smell it. That's why I took it with me when I went out last night, and by the way, I found a chance to sprinkle a little bit of it on the bodies of both players I ran into."
The old white man's eyes widened in shock and he looked down at himself.
Tang Mo laughed, "Don't look for it, it's behind you. I touched you last night when I closed the attic door."
Bale immediately went to the back of the old white man, and as expected, found a finger-sized brown mark on the back of the beige suit jacket he was wearing. Bale sniffed it and sneered, "It's really red wine. Last night, you were one of the three players who came out!"
The old white man was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again there was no panic at being exposed, "I didn't realize that you had prepared so much. Yes, I went out last night, but I didn't do anything last night. The reason I denied it before was because I didn't want to cause trouble and make you guys suspect me. And as you all heard, he also admitted just now that it was him who killed Abdullah and it had nothing to do with me. You guys know very well, in fact, I've always known that in terms of fighting ability, I'm the weakest of these seventeen players. That's why I returned to my room last night after searching around the castle. I was afraid of being killed by him," he pointed at Tang Mo, "Luckily I came back, otherwise I would have been a corpse like Abdullah."
Tang Mo: "Are you denying that you removed Bai Ruoyao's body and deliberately left bloodstains?"
The old white man asked rhetorically, "Why would I do that, and what good would it do me? Even if all of you die, I won't be able to get through."
A low male voice rang out, "Didn't you just say why."
The old white man turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo.
Fu Wenduo The corners of his mouth quirked, "Because you're weak."
Tang Mo : "Mr. Takao Yamamoto, can you now please tell us exactly what that method was that you were talking about yesterday during the day when Mu Huixue asked everyone if they had thought of a way to pass the level."
Takao Yamamoto fell silent as he looked at Tang Mo, and finally decided to speak up, "When the day comes for Noah to come, it's not really necessary to find the monster and barbecue it to give it to Noah. We just need to live longer than the other players. The Black Tower said that if Noah couldn't eat the barbecued monster, he would eat all the players. Then ...... if that day, when Noah eats someone we set that person on fire, there will always be one, he will eat the real monster."
He summarized, "So, the only thing I have to do is to live, and live as long as possible. But that would only be living, through the game, and none of us have found the monster, can't write our names on the red ticket, or complete the grab-six mode to get the clues to the seventh level." But more than clues, he wanted to live.
Takao Yamamoto closed his mouth on the last word.
Andre looks at the old white man, "This method, all of us actually know. So you must be the first human to be eaten by Noah."
The white old man's face darkened as he quickly regained his composure. He laughed coldly, ''Perhaps what you all say is right, but I am the weakest, I can't kill anyone. Last night, I didn't participate in your fight, and that was the first time I was given the opportunity to go out. The five players that have died, none of them were killed by me."
John mused, "He's right. Not to mention David and Anatoly, who were killed on the second day, but even Lena Chokoru, who died on the first day, he shouldn't have been able to kill."
Mu Huixue suddenly smiled, "Indeed he didn't kill him."
John turned his head to look at her.
Mu Huixue wrapped his hands around his chest, seemingly helplessly let out a low laugh, and said softly, ''Perverts' brain circuits are sometimes very different. This is what that companion of mine who died said. Although he was a very psychopathic person, he wasn't actually considered a pervert, so he guessed some things but not enough. For example, there were a couple of people in this castle who thought of a way to actually get through Rob Six Mode from the very beginning."
Li Xia was surprised, "What way?!"
Mu Huixue : "It was impossible to write names on the red tickets because there was no way to know who the monster was. Even if you end up letting the Black Tower eat the monster, it's too late. So ...... suppose it kills everyone but itself? A monster is always different from a human, no matter how well it hides and disguises itself. The moment you kill it with your own hands you will realize whether it is a human or a monster." After a pause, Mu Huixue's voice was calm, "This, is the real way for perverts to pass this game."
As Mu Huixue's words fell, Li Xia and the others revealed expressions of sudden realization.
Takao Yamamoto also furrowed his brow as he pondered the feasibility of this method before finally sighing, "So it can still be like this."
The day Bai Ruoyao died, the Tang Mo five gathered together. It was only then that they realized the meaning of the last words spoken by the baby-faced youth.
Perverted brain circuits are really different sometimes.
Bai Ruoyao vaguely guessed this method, but he was not that perverted after all to kill all the players in the same game to gain his victory. So he ended up dying at the hands of a real pervert and didn't make it back to the room.
John : "You just said that there are a few people who have thought of this method for a long time, so they killed other players ...... Who are they?"
Qiao Zhi Ansoni stood aside indifferently and did not say anything.
Tang Mo looked at him, and everyone knew that the oldest white man who looked the weakest was actually a player of the Murder Faction. But besides him?
Tang Mo let out a laugh from his nose: "To be able to find a way to steal the body without being discovered by us, this kind of magical method, it is very rare for someone to think of it, it is impossible for two groups of people to think of it together, it can only be the same group of people. The person who stole Lena's body, and the person who stole David and Anatoly, it definitely wasn't him." He pointed at the old white man, "If he thought of that method, he wouldn't have left Bai Ruoyao's body behind."
Li Xia gripped his dagger tightly, "Who is it?"
"Yes ......"
In the next moment, there was a flash of silver, Fu Wenduo raised his wrist, and a small dart came out of his hand and shot straight at Lena Chocoroux. The powerful European female player turned her head sideways and stretched out her fingers, firmly catching the dart with her fingers.
Dond Saivik laughed, "What do you mean, Fu Wenduo?"
Fu Wenduo: "They don't know, but we know Bai Ruoyao's strength. That person is very powerful, and with the restriction of everyone's powers, he is especially terrifying. If I were to kill him without mercy, the chance of him dying would only be 30%. Mu Huixue's hand, the probability is also less than thirty percent. Whoever in this castle, whoever fights him alone, wants to kill him, the probability is less than half. But he died, so ...... besides him that night, it was two other players who teamed up to kill him."
Dond defended himself helplessly, "My friend, Lena and I aren't the only ones in this castle who are teammates. Those two friends of yours are too oh and besides, what about these two Yanks?"
"Damn you guys, don't you dare try to bullshit me!" John and Bale retorted in displeased outbursts.
Mu Huixue : "Why do you think I suddenly took a shot at them yesterday."
Dond's eyes narrowed and the smile disappeared from his face.
Mu Huixue : "Because I want to verify that they have the strength to kill Fox or not!"
As the words fell, Mu Huixue suddenly rose up, his red whip pierced through the air like a ferocious cheetah, pouncing on Lena Chokoru. On the other side, Tang Mo and his men also attacked Dond Saivik.
Li Xia, Takao Yamamoto and the two American players hesitated for a few moments before making a move.
At one point, Mu Huixue and Andre were up against Lena, and Tang Mo, Fu Wenduo and practicing Yu Zheng were up against Dond.
The seven were entangled on the first floor of the castle, splintering tables, chairs, and tiles.
It was only when Tang Mo got his hands dirty that he realized why Bai Ruoyao died at the hands of these two men, and why these two men were the first players in the world to clear the fifth floor of the Black Tower.
Their close combat ability is extremely strong, no weaker than Fu Wenduo!
These two people were also very tacitly coordinated, even if the Tang Mo few people deliberately separated the two people, wanting to break them down one by one. The two of them were always able to join hands and help each other, creating a one plus one effect. However, there were only two of them in the end, and they soon fell into a disadvantage.
At that moment, Lena turned back to the other players and shouted angrily, "Damn it, why don't you guys come up here and help. Qiao Zhi you old fart, don't you want to win! There are three spots in total, and Dond and I only have one. Right now we have three corpses in our hands, if the monster is among those three and we two die, will you guys be able to find the corpses and still pass the level!"
Li Xia The four of them heard this, their faces flickered with expressions, and in the end, they did not make a move.
The old white man weighed his options and suddenly had a hard heart.
Without that, there's no way he could have gotten the reward for the steal six mode!
The old white man shouted angrily and suddenly slapped the ground with both palms. A marvelous wave traveled through the air and spread around, rippling through the bodies of Tang Mo and the others in the castle.
Old white man: "My powers are restricted by the Black Tower for only three minutes!"
All the players in the room wondered what this old man's special ability was that allowed him to get through to the sixth floor of the Black Tower. But then, Tang Mo raises the small Yang San, trying to block Dond's sudden attack. He couldn't open the little Yang San to use it, but the umbrella was a fine item after all, and it worked well as a shield.
But as Tang Mo lifted up little Yang San, he watched Dond's knife slice right into the handle of his umbrella, but his shoulder suddenly hurt.
Tang Mo, sensing something was wrong, kicked Dond in the face and backed himself up. He touched his shoulder, blood staining his palm.
The same thing happened with Mu Huixue.
Mu Huixue's whip clearly wrapped around Lena's arm with precision, but a second later she watched as Lena failed to tie her up.
After exchanging a few rounds, Fu Wenduo exclaimed, "His psychic ability is to hypnotize your vision, causing a delay in your visual presentation that is within 0.3 seconds!"
The crowd's faces sank.
That's right, this old man's supernatural power is exposed at this moment: visual hypnosis on the enemy.
In Tang Mo's eyes, he clearly saw Dond's knife slashing at his chest, but in fact, what he saw was 0.3 seconds later than what really happened. In a battle between masters, a millimeter's difference is a thousand miles of error. The old man himself doesn't have much combat strength, but his psychic ability is an auxiliary combat ability that is even more terrifying than Ruan Wangshu's Gravity Suppression.
Three minutes seems like a short amount of time, but it's enough to change the tide of battle.
In the first minute, Dond and Lena seize the opportunity to fight back. But in the second minute, Fu Wenduo is the first to adapt. His horrific combat experience has caused him to quickly hypnotize himself, delaying the scene in front of him for 0.3 seconds, so that he can roughly keep up with Dond's movements.
However, in a short while, Mu Huixue, Tang Mo and the others had also adapted to this horrifying supernormal ability and began to counterattack.
If they hadn't been up against Dond and Lena at this very moment, two more opponents, or even one, the outcome would have been very different.
Lena and Dond were pinned back and the old white man was nearing the end of his powers. He was sweating profusely and suddenly felt like he had picked the wrong teammates to do what he did, and shouldn't have trusted these two damn Europeans.
From the beginning to the end, neither Lena nor Dond used any of their powers. Perhaps their powers, like Fu Wenduo's, had been used once two days ago, when they killed Bai Ruoyao, and were now on cooldown.
Finally, the old white man withdrew his hands on the ground with a pale expression, and collapsed on the ground in a state of exhaustion, with his supernormal abilities suddenly terminated. Fu Wenduo seized an opportunity, flipped his right hand, and stabbed a black, three-pronged weapon straight at Dond's heart. On the other hand, Andre's fists were like tigers, violently blocking Lena's way, and Mu Huixue tied her neck with a whip, dragging her to his body.
Dond reveals his heart to Tang Mo to avoid Fu Wenduo's black sharp weapon.
Tang Mo's eyes narrowed as she flipped her hand over and pulled out a small silver butterfly|knife, stabbing it at Dond's chest. But at that very moment, a sinister smile appears on Dond and Lena's faces.
Time suddenly stood still in this moment, Tang Mo's hand holding the butterfly knife stopped in mid-air, and Mu Huixue's whip pulling back Lena froze in the air.
It's just Lena and Dond, both of their bodies moving quickly. With time running out, sweat drips from Dond's head and lands with a snapping sound. He circled around behind Tang Mo, raised his knife, and slashed down.
The still river of time flows again, but Dond and Lena have circled back and are about to kill Tang Mo and Mu Huixue.
Bang!
Bang!
Two piercing shots rang out, and Lena and Dond lowered their heads in unison, looking incredulously into their chests.
Only in front of their chest, a huge black bloody hole crossed the entire body. As blood spurts out, Tang Mo, still with his back to Dond, holds a silver butterfly knife in his left hand, while his right hand quietly reaches behind him, gripping a handgun, hidden behind his waist, and pulls the trigger. Again, Fu Wenduo's gun shoots Lena through the heart with unerring accuracy.
Dond opens his mouth and blood spurts out of his mouth.
"For ...... why, you know, early defense ......"
Tang Mo put away his hand|gun, he looked down at the silver butterfly|knife and said, "When this guy and I first met, I forced him to cut off his right arm, and he's been trying to kill me ever since. He knows what my powers are, but he doesn't know exactly why I was able to kill him back in the first place and still know his name." The secret of Huo Ji's egg was only known within the squad, and Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo kept it extremely well, never revealing it to anyone.
Tang Mo put the silver butterfly|knife away and turned his head to look at the desperate Dond Saivik, his voice was calm, "But he's very smart, he must have known that I'm in possession of some kind of ability that can go back in time. So, before he died, he suddenly cut off his right arm, none of you actually understand why, right? "
Two days ago, Noah's Ark Castle.
Lena and Dond have never met such a powerful enemy.
They were lucky this night, three qualifications that allowed them to go out, and both of them were among them. With the two of them teaming up, killing a player was easy as pie. However, they didn't expect that they would actually almost roll over.
Luckily for Lena, her powers are similar to standing still in time.
Originally, that doll-faced young man almost killed Lena and was able to escape, but at that very moment, Lena unleashed her powers. A knife stabbed into the guy's chest, the other party's stunned look Lena had seen countless times on the faces of other players, but every time she felt incredibly delicious.
She licked the blood from her lips and drew her own knife.
"Stupid, die."
The moment luck always runs out, whoever it is can see that she and Dond have won, and this Chinese player who claims to be very lucky and can't be killed by anyone, is definitely dead.
However, in the moment before the other party's death, he suddenly got strength from nowhere and slashed his right arm.
Lena couldn't stop it, but neither she nor Dond felt anything wrong, and thought that the other party had something that could get rid of Ben. After waiting for a while and confirming that the other party is really dead, the two of them are about to pack up the body, but daytime is coming soon.
There was no time to dispose of the body, so the two could only hurry back to their rooms and attend to their wounds.
That right arm fell behind them down the stairs to the floor, and the dull landing sounded like the two gunshots that were shooting through Lena's and Dond's chests at the moment.
"'The high|tide always comes fast', I believe that guy, so I purposely left this ability for you guys."
Putting the Butterfly|Knife into his pocket, Tang Mo put his hands in his pockets and raised his head to the corner of the staircase, looking at the spot where the doll-faced youth had died.
"...... Actually, he's already returned the favor."
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
Published at: 11/04/2024 10:00