Chapter 8 (1/2)

Tang Mo didn’t have time to grieve or feel fear.

The huckster and Xiao Zhao had disappeared completely, leaving no clothes or belongings behind. Therefore, he didn’t need to clean up anything.

Tang Mo closed the door and left the library.

There were seven or eight people gathered under the black tower. Some of them were sitting on the ground, not understanding what had just happened. Why did the companions they had been marching and shouting with disappear in a matter of minutes?

In addition to those people, there were also the two middle-aged elite men at the white wall.

The white plastic wall was put up three days ago by the armed police. The black tower was enclosed inside and the wall stopped ordinary citizens from approaching.

Now the armed police and scientists working at the white wall had disappeared. The two men created a large hole in the white wall and approached the tower. Tang Mo didn’t follow them. He watched from a distance before moving forward.

Many scientists had studied the tower for half a year without a clue. Tang Mo didn’t think he could figure out what the black tower was.

The first problem Tang Mo encountered was that he didn’t have a car.

It was 8:15. At 8 o’clock, the huckster and Xiao Zhao had disappeared. Like them, most people in the city were gone. Without a driver, the buses and subways couldn’t move. In addition, many people were driving when they disappeared. Now those cars crashed into one another, blocking the road.

Tang Mo walked half a kilometre and found a yellow bicycle.

He took out his phone and scanned the QR code.

“It is useless…”

Tang Mo frowned before kneeling down to observe the structure of the yellow bicycle. After two minutes, he picked up a stone from the ground and started to bang it against the lock.

The huge shock made Tang Mo’s wrist feel uncomfortable, but his strength was much higher than before. The steel lock was smashed with two hits.

Tang Mo looked thoughtfully at the lock he had broken and rode the yellow bicycle home.

40 minutes later, he entered his community and parked the yellow bicycle downstairs.

The community was silent, with no one around. Only the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves was heard. Tang Mo arrived home and packed some clothing. Tang Mo was his parent’s only child and his grandparents had passed away when he was a child. After his parents died in the car accident, he lost contact with his relatives.

Tang Mo had a few good friends who didn’t stay in Suzhou after graduation. One went to Beijing while the other went to Shanghai.

The huckster’s daughter was also in Shanghai, so he could go and find his friend.

Tang Mo had been trapped in the library since yesterday morning. At home, he filled up his stomach and packed a few more clothes.His things were packed but there was a serious problem.

He didn’t have a car.

From Suzhou to Shanghai, it took half an hour by a high-speed train and one hour by car.

The high-speed train was certainly not operational now and Tang Mo didn’t dare imagine the situation on the railway lines. If it was like the streets where countless drivers disappeared, there would be many accidents. On the railroads, the unmanned trains probably all crashed into each other.

He needed a car.

Tang Mo went upstairs and knocked on his landlord’s door. There was no reaction so after three minutes, he raised the iron bar he brought from his home and broke open the door.

The heavy smell of gas was heard as soon as he entered.

Tang Mo hurriedly ran to the kitchen to turn off the gas stove and opened the window for ventilation.

There were still chopped vegetables on the kitchen table. The owner of this house was preparing to cook a delicious breakfast before they disappeared. Tang Mo had left his school a year ago and rented a house. The landlord was a very good old couple who lived upstairs. The old husband and wife were retired and had nothing to do. They sometimes invited Tang Mo upstairs to eat with them.

Tang Mo didn’t have a car and used to borrow the landlord’s.

He took the car key from the drawer under the TV cabinet and looked around. He found there was really no one in the house and left.

Shanghai was close to Suzhou and wouldn’t consume much fuel. However, Tang Mo discovered that the landlord’s car really had no fuel left. The pointer was approaching the red line. Based on this amount, the car would stop halfway to his destination.

He could only go refuel first.

Tang Mo inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it to the right. As soon as he started the car, there was a sharp burst of pain from his heart. It was like a big hand was pressing hard on his heart. Tang Mo paled in an instant and his heart throbbed, the blood in his body flowing at an extreme rate.

His temperature soared at an unimaginable rate.