Chapter 69
At noon on the fourth day, the Detectives’ Contempt activated and flew to the hands of all surviving black tower members. In the wooden cabin next to the pier, the five person squad also got the prop. They opened the green light and saw the mark on the map.
“Go!”
The five people quickly passed through the crowd, leaving the dock.
At 12:02, the glasses man arrived first. He hid behind a large stone and looked at the small building 100 metres away. He stretched out a hand to block his teammates and spoke in a low voice, “Sure enough, it was near a stone road. Unfortunately, we didn’t find this place. There are still 18 players who are alive. We have to face not only Mr. A and Mr. B but also the other players.”
The young woman whispered, “Captain, my abilities are suited for investigation. I will go and see if there are any other players nearby.”
“Good, be careful.”
Lin Yu’s body changed and she disappeared from behind the big stone. There were only four people left. The man stared at the small building. Three seconds later, he said, “There is no movement inside. We were close to this building and our speed is fast. The other players might not have arrived yet. Xiao Chen, Old Li, stay here. Brother Hao, let’s change positions.”
Xiao Chen asked, “Captain, why do you want to change positions?”
“It is to prevent being swept away.” He got up with the middle-aged man and left.
The five person squad was divided into three groups. Two people to ambush from a distance and two people who approached the small building. Lin Yu moved through the building at an extremely fast pace. The houses in the Underground Kingdom were mostly small and worn, each house being close to each other. This was noon. The sun was hot and glaring, while the lazy underground people were sleeping in bed.
Lin Yi passed a lot of houses and heard the deafening snoring of the underground people. She was physically strong and almost turned into a shadow. She quickly left the range of the small building and searched the surrounding areas. Her footsteps were light and her movements were too fast to be seen as she ran several kilometers.
Suddenly, there were three people to her left. Lin Yi turned and hid in a dark alley. She secretly stared at the three people. The three men walked very quickly, wearing the clothes of the Underground Kingdom. They seemed to be walking casually and deliberately not rushing in a certain directly. However, their hands were clasped on their weapons and they looked warily around them.
Once she saw them look at the alley, Lin Yi stepped back and pressed against the wall.
The three men didn’t notice her and kept moving.
Lin Yi sighed with relief. After the three men left, she quietly walked out of the alley. “Three people and 10 others. There are at least two teams. Once she finished speaking, she disappeared again to look in the other directions.
Time went by. One hour had passed since the black tower released the position of the monster. Finally, there were players who couldn’t hold back.
Two figures flew into the abandoned small building. Brother Hao’s heart became urgent and he wanted to raise his upper body. However, the glasses man held him back. “Don’t move. This is the first group of people. They probably have two teammates arranged outside. We can’t be careless.”
Brother Hao nodded and the two people once again lay in the grass, no longer moving.
Sure enough, when the two men ran in, another figure shot after them. The sound of fighting was immediately heard from the small building. The glasses man closed his eyes and put his ears on the ground to listen. After a while, a voice was heard from the small building. “Damn, it’s not here. We came late. The monster has been moved away by Mr. A and Mr. B!”
The glasses man was stunned.
Brother Hao asked in a strange manner, “Our dock is only a few kilometres from here. We arrived in just two minutes and took different roads according to Captain. We contained the small building in case Mr. B sent the monster away? Is Mr. B’s speed fast enough to send the monster away in two minutes?”
The brow of the glasses man also wrinkled. He didn’t talk and the players didn’t move. He didn’t know if Lin Yi came back yet or about Old Li and Xiao Chen in the distance. After a moment of contemplation, the glasses man said, “Don’t worry. We will wait.”
A minute later, three figures flew out of the small building. The glasses man and Brother Hao waited another five minutes before standing up and running towards the small building at the fastest speed. Once they entered the small building, they found that the ground was full of blood. The two people touched it and said, “It hasn’t solidified yet.” It seemed that the blood was left by the three people just now.
“The first two people should be on the same team and the latter person is on another team. The three of them were fighting here.” The glasses man analyzed. “The result of the battle is that they both lost. The last person who entered is relatively tall and dared to come alone. Unfortunately, they didn’t find the monster here, nor did they meet Mr. A and Mr. B.”
Brother Hao said, “It isn’t suitable to stay here for a long time. Captain, we should go.”
“Wait a minute.” The glasses man frowned as his eyes wandered this ruined and dilapidated building. “It is too close. We ran over in two minutes and there are four stone roads leading to this building. The five of us blocked these four roads. Then what method did Mr. B use to remove the monster? The carriage is gone but the cage is still there. The cage was left behind…”
Brother Hao asked with a strange expression, “Why does he want to change the cage? Is it because the cage isn’t good or because of another…”
The glasses man suddenly cried out, “Look around!”
“Captain?”
“There is a 50% probability that Mr. B has taken away the monster. But I believe in our speed. We blocked every road in two minutes but we never encountered Mr. B and his carriage. So…there is a 50% possibility that he didn’t take the monster with him. The monster is still here, hidden somewhere.”
At this moment, there was a faint impact sound. The glasses man and Brother Hao immediately closed their mouths, listening carefully to the movement. A minute later, there was a light collision sound. The glasses man immediately turned to look at Brother Hao. The two people nodded. Brother Hao suddenly flew out of the window and landed in the courtyard of the small building. A silver playing card appeared in the hands of the glasses man. He hid in the darkness on the second floor of the building, not going out.
One person was outside, one person was in the dark.
The strong Brother Hao looked around vigilantly and found no abnormalities. He lifted his feet and walked into this small courtyard.
The small building had been abandoned for a long time. The flowers in the garden had already withered and fell to the ground. The path outside the flower garden was full of weeds. He took slow steps into the garden, his eyes fixed on the tree in the middle of the garden. However, he didn’t see any abnormalities. Then he headed to the small artificial lake in the garden.
It was a very small lake. The size wasn’t big and the water wasn’t deep. The murky black water was calm and there seemed to be no living creatures in the water. The lake’s surface was as smooth as a mirror. Brother Hao stared at the lake. He seemed to see something as he held a dagger. On the second floor, the glasses man was squeezing the card and ready to help.
The next moment, Brother Hao gave a thunderous shout and hit the lake.
Boom!
The dirty water was overturned by this powerful force and parted, like Moses splitting the sea. It revealed remnants of dead fish, dead branches and leaves at the bottom of the lake. Brother Hao was surprised by this scene and the glasses man also stared with amazement. Brother Hao examined it carefully. There was really nothing unusual under the lake. He looked at the second floor and signalled that he was going to leave.
The glasses man silently watched his teammate leave the small lake and prepared to retreat. His peripheral vision suddenly noticed something to the side and made a movement with his fingers. A playing quickly flew out, smashing through the soil and into the earth. Something seemed to be shot as a pained sound came from under the earth.
Brother Hao squinted and ran to the grass in the blink of an eye. He was as strong as an ox, digging up the soil twice to reveal two small cages and two people inside the cages. The two men were naked and they were painted with a shiny layer of light. One of the had a playing card in his shoulder. It was obviously the one that the glasses man had just shot.
Brother Hao continued to dig. He dug really quickly. It took him only two seconds from the time he started to dig up the two humans. Only three seconds had passed when he dug out a dazzling ‘A’ letter.
On the second floor, the man in glasses saw the letter and exclaimed, “Hey, be careful!”
Brother Hao hurriedly took a few steps back. The knight hiding in the dirty had already pulled out a knife. His wrist moved slightly and the knife was fired. The knife flew very quickly, scratching the arm of Brother Hao and hitting the big tree in the centre of the yard.
Boom—
The big tree collapsed.
Brother Hao’s face changed while the glasses man jumped from the second floor.
In the pit, the two players inside the cage were exhausted.
A tall knight in armor slowly emerged from the pit. There was a letter A above his head and he was carrying a huge sack on his shoulder. In the sack, a monster constantly twisting its body and made loud noises. Upon hearing the sound, Wang Yinggui and Old Niao shivered like it was the scariest thing in the world.
The glasses man and Brother Hao looked at each other. Then the glasses man took a white stone from his pocket and smashed it hard. The next moment, outside the small building, Old Li and Xiao Chen looked at each other with surprise. Then they got up and rushed to the small building.
In the overgrown courtyard, the glasses man’s group of four watched the strange knight in front of them. The armoured knight with the letter A watched the four people quietly. Then the five people rushed forward and attacked.
Meanwhile, Lin Yi had made three laps around the small building.
Lin Yi also saw the three players who left the small building. She thought for a moment before following the solo player. She quietly followed behind this player. This player was very strong but he was injured after fighting with the other two players. Blood ran down his arm and towards the ground.
Perhaps his alertness dropped due to his injury. Therefore, he didn’t find Lin Yi behind him.
Lin Yi secretly thought, ‘This is the fifth team. The three players who previous died were one team. The two players killed by Mr. A and Mr. B are another team. The three people I just saw on the street are another team. There is our team and the team this person belongs to.’ The task that the captain gave her today was to find as many of the 18 players as possible. All she needed to do was remember their faces.
Lin Yi followed the player all the way to the outskirts.
They left the capital of the Underground Kingdom and there was no more houses on both sides of the road to hide in. Fortunately, the weeds flourished here. Every plant was as big as a tree, making it like like a country for giants. Lin Yi followed this player all the way to an abandoned small stone house.
“His team is here?”
After seeing that the man was about to enter the house, Lin Yi widened her eyes so she could see the other players in the house. But just as the man’s hand touched the doorknob, Lin Yi’s heart leapt wildly and she thought, ‘Not good!’
Clang!
As soon as the door opened, a silver light emerged from the house and shot straight at the man’s head. The man’s eyes opened with horror and he couldn’t see who the enemy was before he died. His body was thrown back and smashed into the ground.
Lin Yi turned and ran. But her speed was a bit slow and a surprised voice came from the house, “There was another one?”
Lin Yi’s scalp tingled and she ran at her fastest speed. Her ability wasn’t the combat type. She could only escape from fierce enemies. However, she didn’t expect that the enemies weren’t just in the stone house. There were two waiting to ambush people outside.
In front of her, a tall and mighty looking bald move passed through the huge weeds, staring at her with a sneer. On his left, a pretty teenager in a red coat looked at her curiously, eyes sliding from the top of her head to her toes, before finally looking at her face. After watching her for half a minute, the beautiful teenager cried out happily, “I want her head! Digging out her eyes and brain will certainly make the best nests for my bugs!”
Lin Yi used her feet to turn to the right.
The bald man shouted, “Do you still want to run?”
A middle-aged man rushed out of the small stone house and countless knives flew from his hands towards Lin Yi. The bald man roared and hit his chest. Thick brown bear fur soon grew on his head. He used his hands as feet as he fell on four limbs. Then he ran towards Lin Yi.
Lin Yi ran quickly, causing the knives to fly past her. However, the brown bear bald man was fast. The thousands of black bugs flying towards her were even faster. There was the buzzing of insects in the outskirts. In the places where the huge insects flew, the giant weed were completely eaten clean. No grass survived where the locusts flew.
The insects were just about to bite her hair. Lin Yi gritted her teeth and pulled out a knife while turning around, prepared to fight the insects.
The moment that the insects approached, a pink parasol blocked in front of Lin Yi. Lin Yi was frozen in place from shock. There was a strange word in her ear that seemed to be ‘transformation.’ She was still confused when the black insects ran into the small parasol.
It was like a heavy rain as the insects hit the parasol and fell down the sides of the parasol. After the crashing sound, the swarm flew into the air and rushed from another direction.
The sound of the insects caused Lin Yu to get tinnitus. She vaguely heard someone shouting behind her.
“…Yeye? What, yeye?”
There was no time for Lin Yi to understanding as a powerful fire rushed towards the huge swarm of insects.
The flames collided with the black insects, causing them to burn and fall to the ground. The beautiful boy screamed miserably while the knives from the middle-aged man already flew over again. Tang Mo raised the small parasol and blocked the knives. Then the bear man appeared. He hit the small parasol with his limbs.
The power was terrible. Tang Mo was blown back with the small parasol while Lin Yi coughed up blood as she was also knocked to the ground.
Tang Mo swallowed the bitter and sweet taste in his mouth. He looked up and watched the bald man who was like a brown bear in the distance.
The bald man let out a few roars while the pretty teenager behind him shouted, “Kill him! That motherf**** Mr. B killed my insects! I’ll kill him!”
The three people attacked together.
The middle-aged man’s silver knives were strong hidden weapons. He had countless knives that he fired at Tang Mo’s fatal spots. The beautiful youth’s insects constantly crawled onto Tang Mo from the ground, limiting Tang Mo’s positioning. Finally, the bald man was the most terrible.
He was the most powerful player that Tang Mo had ever seen. His body strength was higher than Fu Wenduo’s.
His speed wasn’t as fast as Fu Wenduo but his power was terrible. Countless cracks appeared in the ground when he punched it. Whenever his fist smashed against the small parasol, the small parasol shook slightly. Tang Mo’s jaw dropped open from shock and he retreated backwards. Fortunately, the bald man’s movements weren’t agile and were a bit cumbersome.
Tang Mo constantly evaded him. Then Tang Mo’s eyes narrowed as he saw the pretty teenager turn to deal with Lin Yi on the ground. He opened his small parasol and threw it to Lin Yi. Lin Yi quickly caught it, learning from Tang Mo’s previous actions to use the small parasol and block the terrible insects, while turning to run at the same time.
Lin Yi ran away and the beautiful youth returned to deal with Tang Mo.
The three men joined hands. Tang Mo moved his head to the side to avoid the bald man’s fist, finding time to take out the big match and aiming it towards the bald man’s neck. The bald man hadn’t expected Tang Mo to have the big match. There was a hit and the bald man roared, his eyes red. Tang Mo took this opportunity to raise the big match, smashing it towards the bald man’s head. Just then, a cold female voice was heard from behind him.
“Checkmate!”
A sense of crisis swept over Tang Mo’s brain. He immediately gave up on killing the bald man, turning in the air and using the big match to block behind him. There was a bang and the bullet hit the head of the match. A thumb-sized hole was made in the match head and the bullet was deeply embedded.
There were actually four people!
Tang Mo turned to run. It was too sudden. He had just raised the match to take the bald man’s life and now he fled. His speed was a little slower than Lin Yi but he ran when the four people couldn’t react. By the time they thought of chasing him, Tang Mo’s figure had disappeared into the grass.
The bald man’s neck was hit by the match but he wasn’t dead. His head was twisted in an eccentric posture. The middle-aged man approached and forcefully twisted the head back. The brown bear fur gradually disappeared from the bald man’s face and he angrily yelled, “I must kill him, I must kill him!”
The short-haired woman came over this time and said coldly, “In fact, Mr. B almost killed you just now.’
The pretty boy cried out, “I’m going to kill him too! He killed more than 900 insects. I want to kill him! This time we weren’t prepared. Next time, I won’t give him a chance to escape. The three of us can kill him. His strength isn’t that high. Why did you underestimate him? You should’ve punched him in the head just now!”
The bald man was angry. “Then what were you doing? You should’ve made your insects bite his eyes out!”
“You…!”
Lin Yi ran for half an hour through the endless weeds in the outskirts before stopping and resting against a tree. After deciding it was safe, she started to think about what happened just now.
“…How could Mr. B save me?”
Lin Yi looked at the pink parasol in her hand. Her eyes flashed to the minstrel appearance, the grey feather on the hat and the mask that blocked Mr. B’s face. He was tall and thin. His eyes were composed and he calmly dealt with the thousands of black insects. Then… he gave this umbrella to her?
Lin Yi muttered, “Am I crazy or is Mr. B crazy…?”
“Hehe, are you crazy or is Mr. B crazy?”
She encountered too many incredible things today. Lin Yi subconsciously replied, “I’m not crazy, Mr. B is crazy…” Her voice suddenly stopped. She pulled out her knife and turned to look at the person. She froze once she saw the person’s face.
Under the sunlight, Mr. B was leaning against an orange tree and grinning at her. He was smiling but the smile didn’t reach his eyes. This bad smile caused a sense of disgust to form in Lin Yi. It was like this person saw her as a joke and was always taunting people. Yet he did so while smiling, making him seem like a crazy psycho.
Lin Yi don’t know how to face Mr. B. Just now, Mr. B saved her life and gave her the parasol. Lin Yi hesitated for a long time before decided to thank Mr. B first. But as soon as she bowed her head, she saw a pink thing stuck to Mr. B’s hand. A piece of silk was in the air and the other end was actually attached to her.
Lin Yo looked back with a startled expression. She didn’t know when but she had a pink thing stuck to her back!
“The sweet strawberry gum that can’t be removed.” Tang Mo smiled and looked at the young woman in front of him. He recalled Bai Ruoyao’s behavior and imitated his tone. “Once stuck on, you can never escape. This is… a love that will never end?”
At this moment, Lin Yi’s only good feelings for Mr. B vanished. The other person’s disgusting tone gave her goosebumps. At the same time, she realized. “You stuck this thing on me and always knew where I was?” This was how Mr. B found her despite her running for 30 minutes. Lin Yi felt cold.
Mr. B tilted his head and smiled. “I know.”
Lin Yi’s voice trembled. “What do you want to do? Didn’t you just save me…”
“If I save you, does that mean I can’t catch you?” Tang Mo smiled.
As soon as his words finished, Lin Yi saw Mr. B’s figure flash. Once she saw Mr. B again, this terrible black tower monster was already standing in front of her. He stretched out his hand and hit Lin Yi’s neck to knock her out. Before Lin Yi fainted, she heard herself say angrily, “…Fuck!”