The Earth is Online - Chapter 152
[Chapter 152]
The sound of the black tower fell, and with a swoosh, the black cats all over the castle seemed to be greatly frightened and scattered in an instant. All this happened so suddenly that Tang Mo and the others had no time to stop it. These cats were like black torrents, rushing to all corners of the castle, one after another, the cat meowing formed a three-dimensional surround in the ears of everyone, stabbing people’s scalps.
The robot-like middle-aged butler bowed to the five players, then walked silently to the door, bowing his head and saying nothing.
Pairs of green eyes quietly looked over from the darkness, sizing up these five strange human beings. Tang Mo glanced at the entire castle, turned around and asked, “Can we just find cats in the castle?”
The housekeeper still lowered his head: “Where you are not allowed to enter, you cannot enter.”
Li Miaomiao rolled her eyes and asked a few more questions, hoping to learn more about Schrödinger and his cat from the housekeeper. However, the butler only repeated this sentence from beginning to end.
Tang Mo glanced at him and said, “Then let’s go find the cat now.”
The castle was dark, and the copper-colored moonlight shone through the high ceiling windows, barely illuminating the outline of a dim house. The butler stood still at the door, and the five of them had two flashlights in total. They were divided into two groups, one group was Tang Mo and Li Miaomiao, the other group was Fu Wenduo, Greya and Zhao Xiaofei, and they were looking for Schrödinger’s cat.
Tang Mo was in charge of the second floor of the castle, and Fu Wenduo was in charge of the first floor.
Tang Mo turned on the flashlight and walked to the second floor with a calm expression. What catches the eye are two long corridors, which meet at the entrance of the stairs, forming a ninety-degree angle and extending to both sides. The dense doors are symmetrically distributed on both sides of the corridor, and the red moonlight shines on the doors, making it quiet and eerie.
Li Miaomiao walked up and carefully pressed her hand on the door. Tang Mo held the handle of the small parasol, and Li Miaomiao was also ready. She pressed it down hard, but when she heard a click, Li Miaomiao was taken aback: “Hey, it’s locked?!”
Yes, the door is locked.
Tang Mo and Li Miaomiao split up to open these doors. There are a total of nineteen doors in the two corridors, ten of which are locked and nine doors can be opened. When Li Miaomiao tried to violently open the door lock, the crisp children’s voice of the black tower sounded in the castle——
“Ding dong! In Schrödinger’s steel fortress, the locked room is full of Lord Schrödinger’s treasures, which need a key to open.”
The black tower said that it could not be opened, so this door would definitely not be opened.
Li Miaomiao put down her hand angrily.
When the two tried to open the door, more than a dozen cats flashed past them. Li Miaomiao tried to catch these cats several times, but Tang Mo stopped her. The female doctor was puzzled and said, “We’re not looking for Schrödinger’s cats. Don’t we need to see these cats?”
Tang Mo didn’t answer. He entered an empty room, searched carefully, and found two thin little black cats in the corner. As soon as the two cats saw the human, they turned their heads and ran. Li Miaomiao’s speed is faster than that of a cat. She is not very strong, but she is also at the level of the second floor of the black tower. She easily grabbed the two cats, and when she saw the dirt on the two cats’ claws, she was disappointed: “The second rule of the game, Mr. Cat is very clean… These two should not be.”
Tang Mo looked at her: “These are two cats.”
Li Miaomiao didn’t understand what he meant: “what?”
“The first rule of the game is that Schrödinger has only one cat. The second one, this cat is very clean and very unsocial.”
After a few seconds, Li Miaomiao said: “Eh? You mean that as long as we see more than one cat, it is definitely not Schrödinger’s cat? But these cats all look exactly the same. Schrödinger only kept one cat. Could it be that his cat is different from other cats?”
Nobody knows the answer.
According to Tang Mo’s speculation, Schrödinger’s cat has two characteristics: first, it is not gregarious; second, it loves cleanliness. Also, after three hours, cat food will appear in the castle. Cats love cat food.
Li Miaomiao: “We can use cat food to lure this cat out.”
But until then, all they can do is find out as much as possible about the cat.
Tang Mo bent down and picked up a cat huddled in the corner, carefully observing the cat’s fur. When he saw a brown mark that looked like chocolate sauce on the cat’s paw, he put the cat gently on the ground and continued to look for the next one. The area of the second floor was twice as small as that of the first floor. An hour later, Tang Mo and Li Miaomiao had already checked the cats in the room, and there were more cats hiding in hidden corners.
Tang Mo was walking in the corridor with a flashlight, when suddenly he stopped, his right hand moved forward, and reached into a high-necked vase. Just hearing a sharp cry, a small black cat was caught by Tang Mo. The cat was caught by humans and kept screaming in fear, a piercing sound that echoed through the castle.
After checking the marks on the cat, Tang Mo let it go and continued forward.
Li Miaomiao looked at the tall and thin back of the young man, and after a while, she couldn’t help but say, “…I thought you would be on the same team with Fu Wenduo, not with me?” With a woman’s keen sixth sense, Li Miaomiao could not help but say: Miaomiao noticed that Tang Mo seemed to have no intention of doing this. She looked at each other vigilantly and said, “Is something wrong?”
Tang Mo stopped and turned to look at her. Seeing Li Miaomiao’s alert look, Tang Mo raised his eyebrows: “You think I’m going to use this to get rid of you?”
Li Miaomiao did not say a word.
Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were teammates, but whether they were looking for the exit of the forest before, or teaming up to find Schrödinger’s cat, Tang Mo did not ask to be with Fu Wenduo, but instead joined her. Li Miaomiao had to be suspicious. She didn’t think Tang Mo would take the opportunity to get rid of herself, but she couldn’t think of other reasons.
“What do you think of Grea?”
Li Miaomiao was thinking about Tang Mo’s intentions, when she heard the words, she didn’t respond for a while: “Ah?” After a while, “You mean that mixed-race foreigner? There seems to be something abnormal about him. He dresses strangely and speaks strangely. , always saying some inexplicable things.” Such as a lady, a gentleman. Li Miaomiao immediately thought: “Wait, you suspect him wrong?!”
Tang Mo said, “His strength is very strong.”
Li Miaomiao pondered for a moment and understood what Tang Mo meant.
Gray’s strength is really strong.
When Zhao Xiaofei fell from the steel rod before, and even Fu Wenduo didn’t arrive to save the person, Grea quickly climbed up on the pole and hugged Zhao Xiaofei. Li Miaomiao didn’t see this scene, but she saw Greya holding the steel pole with one hand and holding Zhao Xiaofei with the other hand, and climbed dozens of meters very easily.
“In some respects, his strength is not worse than Victor, and he may even be stronger.” Tang Mo continued to call out the word “Victor”, even if there were only two of them, he did not reveal Fu Wenduo. The name, “Victor is a special soldier and is very good at climbing poles. After Grea went up, I deliberately padd back and observed the posture and speed of the two of them climbing the poles. Victor climbed up with skill and was very easy. But Greya seems…” Tang Mo found a description: “He doesn’t seem to be climbing a pole, he’s just walking.”
“walk?”
“For him, the gravity that binds us doesn’t seem to exist. Of course, it may just be his power.”
Tang Mo and Li Miaomiao have both seen the ability of gravity, and Ruan Wangshu’s ability is gravity suppression.
Li Miaomiao: “So you asked Fu… Victor to be with them to spy on Greya?”
Tang Mo continued to walk forward with a flashlight, and his tone was calm: “If the other party suddenly makes a move, Victor will be able to subdue him even more.”
After killing Greya, Fu Wenduo was more confident.
Li Miaomiao’s breath stagnated. She suddenly realized that when the Black Tower game reached this point, the relationship between players became more fragile. Especially in tower attack games. Each player does not necessarily have to attack the same number of layers, and the task of attacking towers may also be different. The same interests can drive players to cooperate, and different interests may lead to players killing each other.
Li Miaomiao stopped making a sound and kept grabbing the black cats. When they determined that a cat was not Schrödinger’s cat, they cut off a small tuft of hair on the cat’s hind legs as a marker.
Time passed slowly, and two hours later, everyone gathered in the lobby on the first floor of the castle. In the silent and empty castle, the regular metal crash of the steel forest could be heard outside the window. Tang Mo looked at Fu Wenduo, Fu Wenduo shook his head at him, and his eyes swept across Grea lightly.
In the center of the hall, a blond man in a dark red dress is leaning on a short staff in his right hand, and holds a small black cat in his left wrist and arm. Seeing that Tang Mo and Li Miaomiao were looking at him, Greya raised her head and smiled slightly: “This little cutie has been pestering me for some reason.” As he spoke, he stretched out his fingers, and the little black cat immediately opened his mouth Bitten weakly. Said to be biting, more like licking, the kitten squinted coquettishly. “As a gentleman, I would never turn down any invitation from a lady. Especially such a lovely little lady.”
Zhao Xiaofei ignored such a strange man. She told the situation of her team: “We searched for about ninety-seven cats, but we didn’t find Schrödinger’s cat.”
Li Miaomiao: “We found eighty-six.”
Zhao Xiaofei’s face was hard to look at.
In three hours, they found a total of 183 cats, none of which was Schrödinger’s cat. In the hall just now, they saw a total of four or five hundred cats. At this rate, they would have to search for at least another six hours. This is still a conservative estimate. The further back you go, the harder it will be to find new cats, and the longer it will take.
“The Black Tower didn’t set a time limit for this mission,” Zhao Xiaofei said solemnly, “but I feel that we can’t just look for it casually. We must hurry up and find the cat.”
Everyone agreed with her.
Tang Mo opened his mouth and was about to speak. Suddenly, he raised his head and looked out the window. At the same time, Fu Wenduo and Grea also raised their heads suddenly and stared out the window together. In the next second, a strange and rapid metal collision sounded from the window. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo looked at each other, and they quickly left the side door of the castle and entered the beautiful garden.
Li Miaomiao and others followed immediately, and when they saw the person coming from a distance, the five of them all stood still.
“Oh, did you eat stowaways today?”
“The hearts of stowaways are especially good for drinking.”
“The liver of stowaways is stir-fried and not greasy.”
“The stowaways’ thighs are chewy and powerful.”
“Oh! My respected Excellency Schrödinger, have you eaten stowaways today?”
A strange and out of tune nursery rhyme came from the far side of the platform. A thin old man in sloppy clothes held a pot of banana wine in his hand. He burped his wine and walked towards the steel castle with a smile. His iron shoes slammed hard against the floor of the steel platform, making that weird, rushing metal crash. He swayed left and right, his cloudy eyes full of greed and desire. When he entered the garden, he went straight to the middle of the garden and took out a broken bowl from his arms. Then he took out a dirty old plastic bag from his sleeve and poured all the black solids inside into a bowl.
In an instant, the stench of shit filled the garden.
The smell was so strong that it was disgusting, the smell of feces almost condensed into a solid body, and a yellow smell could be seen in the air. Zhao Xiaofei retched, Greya narrowed her eyes, and the smile disappeared from the corner of her mouth. It’s okay for Li Miaomiao, she was a doctor or a surgeon before the earth went online, and she was used to seeing these things.
The physiological nausea was uncontrollable, Tang Mo also pursed his lips and squeezed his fingers slowly. Suddenly, a warm hand stood in front of him. Tang Mo froze, turning his head to look at Fu Wenduo in astonishment. Fu Wenduo lowered his eyes and covered Tang Mo’s mouth and nose with his right hand. Tang Mo took a light breath and smelled a faint lemon odor.
Before attacking the tower game, they found a house to take a bath. The shower gel seems to be lemon-scented?
For some reason, this sentence flashed in Tang Mo’s mind.
The hot palms tightly covered Tang Mo’s face, skin touching. Tang Mo regained his senses, moved his fingers, raised and lowered his right hand, but did not pull Fu Wenduo’s hand away. Zhao Xiaofei and Grea stood in front of them, unable to see their movements. After a long time, Tang Mo quietly raised the corners of his lips on his covered face.
Fu Wenduo is exporting: how is it?
Tang Mo shook his head: “It’s okay.
As time passed, the stench became less and less. After three minutes, everyone got used to the smell.
Fu Wenduo took his hand away from Tang Mo’s mouth with regret.
The thin old man in tatters sat on the ground with his tattered bowl aside. The old beggar sang the “Smuggler’s Song” loudly again, and in the song he ate the heart and soul of the stowaways again. After singing, he smiled and moved his nose, sniffing the smell in the air.
The old man glanced at Fu Wenduo and Li Miaomiao with malicious eyes, and shouted: “Boutique cat food, the royal certification of the Underworld Kingdom, the delicious cat food that Schrodinger’s cat likes the most. Does anyone want to buy it?”
Zhao Xiaofei said loudly, “How to buy it?”
“How to buy it? Oh my respected Excellency Schrödinger, there are still people in this world who don’t know how to buy this bowl of cat food?” …Buy it with stowaways! A stowaways is worth a bowl of cat food!”
Tang Mo’s eyes turned cold and he said, “What if we don’t have to buy it from smugglers?”
“You don’t have to buy it from stowaways?” the old man said angrily, “You shameless human who doesn’t want to pay, but wants to get cat food, there are no stowaways, not even a bowl of cat food! I tell you, not a bowl! Now there are obviously two The stowaways are here, but you refuse to give me even a stowaways, so you want to buy me a bowl of cat food? I tell you, there is no door!”
There are two stowaways!
Zhao Xiaofei’s sharp eyes swept over and stared at the four Tang Mo.
Tang Mo: “Is there no other way?”
The thin old man got up from the ground and said angrily, “No!”
“have.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to Fu Wenduo.
Under the copper-colored moonlight, the tall and handsome man flicked his right hand, and a jet-black triangular sharp weapon appeared in his hand instantly. The corner of his mouth was slightly hooked, and his voice was low and magnetic: “Kill you… This bowl of cat food is also ours.”
The old man froze for a moment.
The third rule of the game: Defeat the greedy underground people who guard cat food to get cat food.
The next moment, Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo kicked the ground and rushed out.
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