nChapter 245 – Existence is Reasonable (3)

nBai Ruoyao casually threw the three files to the ground and left the company with a smile.

nHe had just walked out of the office when a fire started.

nEverything in the office was burnt to ashes and the whole building burnt down. The nearby players used their abilities to fight it and the baby-faced youth casually left the building, as if the fire had nothing to do with him.

nA few more players found the fire and rushed to fight it.

nIn the crowd, only the tall youth walked in a different direction, leaving the building in flames.

nThe fire was extinguished and Bai Ruoyao turned his head to look at the dark building and the moon behind it.

nHe turned back around and waved his hand.

nIn the dark night, thick clouds were scattered by the wind and the bright moonlight shone. In this vast land, some people moved their tired bodies and rushed to the place they once called home, trying to find the ordinary and simple days before the earth went online. Other people hadn’t yet emerged from the joy of the nightmare ending and leaned back, looking at the moon.

nIt was just like four months ago when the black-haired returnee saw the long-lost moonlight. She covered her eyes and found that the moonlight was more dazzling tha the sun. She didn’t know why but she shed tears.

nPreviously, she had to participate in a new black tower game every 10 minutes and could hardly rest. She used these 10 minutes to drive back to Guangzhou from Myanmar.

nThe mother who she rarely met had begged her to find her sister and protect her. She looked at her dying mother and promised.

nShe didn’t hesitate to kill the first place in the time leaderboard and resurrect her sister.

nThe other person’s eyes were strange and surprised. There were thousands of emotions contained in them but no joy.

nFinally, the girl secretly wanted to kill Mu Huixue in a game and stabbed her knife from behind. Mu Huixue just said, “You are too weak.”

nMu Huixue grabbed the knife with her hand. She had given this knife to the girl and it was a good prop. Ordinary knives couldn’t pierce her skin at all and only props could make her bleed.

nBlood stained the knife and Mu Huixue looked down at the girl in front of her. She released her hand and asked, “We aren’t going back to see the moon together?”

nThe girl shivered with fear. “Yes, I’m sorry.” She couldn’t finish when the knife stabbed her.

nThe reaction of the body was greater than anything. Mu Huixue killed her sister with her own hand.

nThe sister, mother and child, this relationship was broken but everything was natural in the world of the returnees.

nEverything would end, whether it was hatred or tears. They would all be buried in the arrival of a new world.

nIn the gas station next to the Guangzhou high-speed toll station, Tang Mo used some oil drums to fill up a fuel canister and handed it to Fu Wenduo. Fu Wenduo leaned against the door of the car and received it. Then he refueled the car. The smell of gasoline filled the air.

nTang Mo rummaged through the gas station and found a local map. It would take half a day to drive from Guangzhou to Suzhou if there wasn’t any cars they had to clear up along the way.

nYes, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had decided to return to Suzhou or Beijing.

nOriginally, they wanted to take Chen Shanshan and Fu Wensheng with them. Then the former decided to go back to Shanghai with Luo Fengcheng. The other wanted to go to Nanjing first. Xiao Fu’s grandparents lived in Nanjing and the relatives on his mother’s side were also there. He wanted to go back and keep searching. Maybe he could find some loved ones.

nThe car slowly drove along the highway. Tang Mo sat next to the driver’s seat and looked out the window. He pressed a hand against the window and saw the sky in the east becoming brighter. The uppermost layer of the sky was still deep blue. The lower layer that was connected to the earth had a slight white colour.

nWind passed through the window and blew Tang Mo’s hair back.

nTang Mo asked, “Do you smoke?” He had never seen Fu Wenduo smoking before. Tang Mo picked up a cigarette from the car. The abandoned car still had some of the original owner’s belongings. Most of the items had been collected by Fu Wenduo and placed in the trunk. Only the half a box of cigarettes were left behind.

nFu Wenduo glanced at him. “Rarely. Do you?”

nTang Mo shook his head. “I tried it once during my rebellious period in high school.” He said this but Tang Mo still pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Sparks emerged from his fingers and the cigarette was quickly lit up. As soon as he took a breath, he frowned and threw it out the window.

n“I didn’t smoke in the army. I only tried it once after the earth went online.” Fu Wenduo turned to him and said, “I didn’t smoke after that.”

nTang Mo didn’t speak and put the box of cigarettes away.

nFu Wenduo didn’t say that the first time he smoked was the day after the earth went online. He rushed to a secret office in the country as quickly as possible and found there was no one inside. Not only that, it was the entire building. Only one young soldier trembling on the ground remained. Everyone else disappeared.

nThe sudden end of the world gave Fu Wenduo tremendous pressure.

nTang Mo had quietly gone home and decided to go to his friends to determine their safety. Fu Wenduo’s thoughts were, ‘It is really over.’ He shouldered the worries of the whole country and knew the seriousness of this matter. Thus, at that time, he stood silently in place. Then he walked to the only remaining young soldier, took out cigarettes skillfully hidden by an officer friend and handed one to the soldier.

nThe bitter, dry smell of smoke filled his nose and Fu Wenduo slightly coughed.

nThe more truth a person knew, the more facts they could see and the more pressure they would suffer.

nThus, Fu Wenduo eagerly searched for all possible information. He wanted to know the truth of the black tower, crossing half of China to find clues in Shanghai. Then he happened to meet Tang Mo.

nStill, these things had passed.

nFu Wenduo declared, “i’m tired.”

nTang Mo turned to him, not understanding his meaning.

nTired?

nTo them, going three days and nights without sleeping were nothing.

nTang Mo put his foot on the brakes and undid his seat belt. “Tang Mo, you drive.”

nTang Mo, “…”

nTang Mo felt strange but he got out of the car to switch positions. He had been driving for a while when he heard steady breathing. He quietly glanced over and saw Fu Wenduo sleeping in the passenger’s seat. He didn’t sleep very well and his hands were slightly hugging his chest. However, his expression was very calm.

nTang Mo’s heart was slightly moved. He slowed down and pulled up the window.

nFu Wenduo was really tired and could finally rest.

nThe next morning, the two of them returned to Suzhou.

nThis was the first time Fu Wenduo came to Tang Mo’s home. He didn’t walk around randomly and stood at the door, changing shoes. Tang Mo himself felt funny changing his shoes. “I haven’t been back in so long that the ground is grey.” Then he turned and was surprised when he saw the man changing his shoes. “You move really fast.”

nUnder Tang Mo’s leadership, the two people cleaned the house.

nThere were very few people in Suzhou. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo carefully observed that there were only two other people in the same community.

nIn the empty city, everything looked desolate and strange.

nTang Mo wiped a window and thought about using an ability. Then he realized… he didn’t have an ability to clean the house. “When we go to Beijing in a few days,do we have to clean your house?”

nFu Wenduo’s house was several times bigger than Tang Mo’s house. It would take a lot of time if it really had to be cleaned up.

n“Should we decide if we will live in Beijing or Suzhou?”

n“Okay.”

nAnywhere they lived was the same but this was an important issue.

nFu Wenduo asked, “What do you want to do in the future?”

nTang Mo was startled. “Eh?”

nFu Wenduo explained. “Your occupation.”

nTang Mo, “…”

nHe was speechless.

nAfter a long time, Tang Mo replied hesitantly, “…Librarian?”

nFu Wenduo laughed.

nTang Mo, “…”

nBooks were the ladder of human progress! Don’t talk about before. Now and in the future, librarians would be a secure employment!

nFu Wenduo told him, “It is better to live in Suzhou.”

n“Why?”

nFu Wenduo thought for a moment. “The pressure of employment competition is smaller?”

nTang Mo, “…”

nHe wasn’t eaten by Grandmother Wolf, he wasn’t crushed by Santa Claus, he wasn’t made into flower fertilizer by the Queen of Hearts and he wasn’t taken by the circus leader as a pet.

nTang Mo, one of the world’s most powerful players, never imagined that he would need to face job competition in this new world.

n“Do you think there will be a civil service exam? I am pretty good at exams.”

nFu Wenduo stared at this young man’s serious expression and couldn’t hold back his kiss.

n“The future will be better.”

n“Yes.”

nThe existence of human beings was reasonable.

nAs Tang Mo faced the black tower and declared this, he had already seen the brightest future of humanity. The darkness that once shrouded this land wasn’t the darkest of human nature but the most brilliant glory.

n-【 The End 】-

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