Chapter 63 (1/2)

There were a slight tingling sensation from when the iodine touched the wound. Tang Mo didn’t mind this type of pain and sat on the bed looking ahead. He was facing a glass window and outside the infirmary was a dark underground parking lot. Once the lights in the room were turned on, the window became a mirror, reflecting the scene inside the room.

He saw Fu Wenduo applying the medicine on him.

It felt strange and the touch on his back wasn’t very comfortable.

Tang Mo broke the silence. “That kid… I mean, Fu Wensheng, he is your cousin?”

Fu Wenduo held the tweezers in one hand and said, “Yes, if you didn’t make a mistake then it is indeed him.”

“He was very decisive when he denied knowing you.” He didn’t seem to be lying and was good enough to fool Tang Mo and Bai Ruoyao.

“I’m not very familiar with him. He is 16 years younger than me. I went to see him when he was born. Later, I entered the army and came home less so I didn’t see much of him.” Fu Wenduo spoke calmly. “It is understandable that he denies knowing me. If someone asked you about your relationship with me in the game, Tang Mo…” Fu Wenduo’s voice stopped and he raised his head, looking at the window that had turned into a mirror. “Would you admit it?”

Tang Mo’s peeking was discovered.

Tang Mo immediately withdrew his gaze and said, “I definitely wouldn’t admit it.”

Fu Wenduo laughed and changed the topic. “This is the first time you used the archiver. How does it feel?”

The reason why Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo knew each other was because of the turkey egg. It had now been three months. In these three months, Fu Wenduo had used the archiver. At that time, he was forcibly pulled into the black tower’s second floor attack game and could only choose to disclose the true function of the turkey egg to Tang Mo. It was because he didn’t have a grasp of the tower at that time and had to use the archiver to ensure his safety. Finally, he used suicide to load the file and found a way to temporarily leave the tower attack game.

Tang Mo was different.

Tang Mo didn’t need to read the file in the Mario game. Then in the Pinocchio game, Tang Mo also didn’t need to read the file and only used the save function.

This was his first real use of the archiver.

Tang Mo gradually became serious. “It is very wonderful. When I communicated with you in my mind after loading the file, I realized that your time hasn’t changed. But in the game, time flowed backwards. I returned to the save point and met my teammates from 50 minutes ago, including your cousin. They didn’t seem to notice anything. Only I knew what I had experienced. The things that happened next were the same, except I easily avoided some risks.” Tang Mo said this and raised his head, not shy about looking at the man in the glass mirror. “Loading the file, is time going backwards?”

Fu Wenduo stopped his actions and also looked at Tang Mo in the mirror.

The two people’s eyes met in the dark glass window and Fu Wenduo said, “There are many possibilities. However, the thing I most disagree with is time going back.”

“Why?” Tang Mo remembered his A Fast Man ability. This ability looked like paused time on the surface (In Gem Castle, Bai Ruoyao mistook Tang Mo’s ability as stopping time). In fact, this ability sped up the user. Once his speed became many times faster than other people, their movements became still in his eyes.

This ability wasn’t pausing time but speeding it up.

“Humans are three-dimensional beings that can visual a long and wide area, which is space. But the universe we live in is four-dimensional.” Fu Wenduo spoke while disinfecting Tang Mo’s wounds. “The fourth dimension in the universe is generally considered a time dimension. Unfortunately, we can only perceive this dimension but not control it. The only thing we can do is move clockwise along the axis of time.”

This simple common sense, Tang Mo also knew it. Therefore, he understood Fu Wenduo’s meaning. “The save function of the turkey egg might be at the moment it is saved, it leaves a mark on the time axis. We can return to this node directly after loading the file.”

“But Tang Mo, it didn’t take me back to that time node.” Fu Wenduo said. “I intersected with your time node. You returned to the saved node but my time still moved forward.”

Tang Mo fell into deep thoughts.

Fu Wenduo’s words were right. It was very interesting when using the turkey egg. Once saved, the two players would start to share information. It was a compulsive, unable to be closed sharing. This meant that when Tang Mo chose to save a file, Fu Wenduo would inevitably hear Tang Mo’s voice in his mind. Fu Wenduo couldn’t see any images but all sounds could be heard.

When Tang Mo was talking about the Möbius Ring and the Queen of Hearts’ theory, Fu Wenduo was listening quietly.When he was attacked by Bai Ruoyao and his moon flower snatched, Fu Wenduo heard all of this. It was just that he couldn’t get involved. He could only listen while unable to make any changes.

Once Tang Mo loaded the file, he returned to 50 minutes ago. Fu Wenduo’s time didn’t go back. On Earth, he still walked along the normal time axis. He heard Tang Mo start to repeat the actions of the previous round and successfully counter Bai Ruoyao.

This wasn’t possible unlike the time that Momo reversed was limited to the game. This was very likely because the turkey egg could only be used in the black tower games and there was no effect in the real world. However…

Tang Mo’s eyes widened as he thought of another possibility. He quickly looked back and said, “Perhaps after I turned on the archiver, everything I experienced was fake. The black tower changes the flow of time between you and me. Then it will use the consciousness of my teammates and I to speculate on the most probable future…” His voice stopped.

The sudden action of turning back caused the two people to look at each other in the eye.

Fu Wenduo was holding a cotton ball to help disinfect Tang Mo’s shoulder wound. He lowered his head to look at the deep wound where the bone was visible. Tang Mo suddenly turned back and the distance was narrowed. There was only a distance of five centimeters between them, causing the two people’s breaths to intertwine. Tang Mo seemed to see astonishment on Fu Wenduo’s face. He seldom saw this man looked surprise, but this time Tang Mo was also scared.

Tang Mo’s eyes trembled and he opened his mouth, but he couldn’t speak.

At this moment, Fu Wenduo clearly felt a fresh and clean scent enter his nose. This scent was very light but smelt good. His hand on the tweezers gradually tightened.