Black tower

Draw a circle to curse

When Alex woke up, he saw the little fatty using his special ability to set traps with others. Seeing him awake, Chen Shanshan ran over with food and detailed the abilities of the remaining three stowaways to Alex.

"I won't mention the two dead stowaways; their abilities were useless, so we killed them swiftly. There are three left, two of whom have dangerous abilities, while the other's is not very useful. Let me start with the less useful one. That stowaway's ability is... planting flowers. Mr. Li saw flowers blooming wherever he walked. Just ordinary roses and Chinese roses. We fought him twice, and he didn't show any special skills. But he's very fast and seems to know some combat techniques; he fights fiercely. He lost an arm; he's the stowaway who tried to take Wang Chao's matchstick in the Black Tower game."

Chen Shanshan continued, "The other two have dangerous abilities. One can shoot fire from his mouth. I observed carefully; he can shoot fire every three minutes. The flame temperature is high, not enough to melt steel but can melt marble. You might not have seen it because it was too dark last night. The words 'Shibei Middle School' at our school gate, two of the characters were melted by his fire. The melting point of steel is around 1500℃, and marble is about 800℃. The temperature of his flame is estimated to be below 1000℃."

"Another one... he has a g*n with infinite bullets. A regular police g*n has eight bullets, but that stowaway fired at least thirty bullets last night. He didn't change his gun."

After a long thought, Alex asked, "Can I use the big matchstick?" Upon hearing this, Qiao Feifei quickly brought the big matchstick over and handed it to Alex, "I've been waiting for you to say this. Our three official players have the best physical fitness, and I feel like you're stronger than me. Chen Shanshan said it would be best for you to use this."

Alex held the big matchstick and felt a strange power as expected. He walked to the corner and took out his ability book from the air.

[Ability: Find Friends]

[Owner: Qiao Feifei (Official Player)]

[Type: Special]

[Function: Query player identity]

[Level: 1]

[Limit: Can only query the identity of five players per day, and cannot directly query when the target's ability is significantly stronger than the user's]

[Alex's Version Instructions: Can query the identity of one player per day. This ability is too crappy. I can't say anything if Alex doesn't pay me.]

Chen Shanshan watched as she handed Alex a cookie, "Do you want to get something from someone? Is it related to your ability? Can I give you something so you'll become stronger? I'll give it to you, but you must kill them."

Alex was surprised. How could she be so smart and guess so accurately? Alex was about to refuse when he heard this. He shut his mouth, took the cookie from the little girl, and touched it with his fingers.

[Ability: Super Intelligence]

[Owner: Chen Shanshan (Child Soldier)]

[Type: Genetic]

[Function: Extremely developed brain, superior intelligence, superior sensitivity]

[Level: 3]

[Limit: Judgment accuracy up to 50%, physical strength improvement space is 0]

Bang! A deafening gunshot broke the silent night. Alex turned his head sideways and pushed Mr. Li, who was standing behind him. Alex crouched on the ground and drew a neat circle very quickly. It was too dark, and others only saw him crouch suddenly but didn't know what he was doing. Alex stood up and said calmly, "Drawing a circle to curse him."

"The range of a police handgun is generally within 50 meters, and at most, it doesn't exceed 100 meters," the little fatty said quickly. "Why didn't those stowaways make a sound when they stepped on the glass this time? Why didn't the traps at the door trigger?"

Alex lowered his voice, "They attacked twice last night. The second time, they were discovered because they stepped on the glass, so they were prepared ahead of time. They won't make the same mistake this time. They probably entered the school in some other way."

Bang bang bang!

Alex, holding a solid wooden stick, rushed into the nearest teaching building to the gymnasium at a very fast speed. Bullets kept shooting behind him, grazing his heels and piercing the ground. "Good dodging..." A hoarse laugh echoed with sarcastic tones, "But you're still going to die!"

Without saying a word, the attacker directly attacked. The man left b****y cuts on Alex's shoulder, waist, and elbow with a long knife. Alex was forced to keep retreating, clearly at a disadvantage.

Alex stood up and wiped the bloodstains that seeped from his chin. He saw his enemy clearly for the first time. This was a tall and muscular man, at least 188 cm tall, with a shaved head and powerful muscles. There was a dark green tiger's head tattooed on his left arm.

The building nearest to the gymnasium was this teaching building. This stowaway had ambushed here early and almost killed Alex off guard. Alex couldn't let his guard down. Both official players and stowaways had extremely fast recovery abilities. The wounds Alex had been cut were already starting to itch, which meant they were scarring.

"f**k, hide your a*s!" The man suddenly threw down his long knife, put his hands on his waist, and faced Alex fearlessly. He took a deep breath, his eyes wide open, and roared with full force, "Kid, give me back my grandpa!" The muscular man opened his mouth wide, forming a circle, and a hot gas sprayed out of his mouth. The next second, it was a sea of flames.

The man's flames were faster than his speed, blocking directly in front of him, almost burning Alex's forehead hair. Alex bent down to dodge this flame, which burned on the wall. The white wall ash cracked and peeled off the wall continuously.

Bang! Just as Alex ran out of the teaching building, a bullet hit the ground at his feet.

The muscular man chased after Alex, with bullets exploding at Alex's feet. Alex barely dodged the bullets twice by turning his head aside. When the ninth bullet was fired, Alex and the muscular man had already run into the gymnasium.

Clang! The long knife broke, and the matchstick head hit the man's head fiercely. A crisp sound of skull cracking echoed, and the man collapsed with a loud thud. White brain matter and bright red blood soon flowed everywhere. His body was twitching, not completely dead yet. His eyes were fixed on Alex and the giant matchstick in his hand. His lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word.

"Why did you use your trump card only now and pretend to be in a miserable state? On the one hand, it was to trick out your ability. Chen Shanshan said your ability has a time limit of three minutes, and it's been exactly three minutes and two seconds now. On the other hand, it was to prevent you from being vigilant," Alex said in a cold and calm voice. "But the most important reason wasn't to kill you; it was to find that person."

The man's eyes were wet with blood, and his eyelids trembled, unable to open. But after Alex finished speaking, his body twitched violently with a strong reaction.

"Last night, that gunman only appeared once and kept shooting from a hidden place. His close combat ability should be very weak. If it was a regular ambush, he would move to a different position after firing one shot for caution. But just now, when you were chasing me, he needed to support you in time and wouldn't have time to change positions."

From the bell tower window, the little fatty excitedly shouted, "He's dead, he's dead!"

Alex nodded to him and turned to look at the muscular man lying on the ground. There was still a strange smile on his corpse.

Alex suddenly felt something was wrong. At this moment, two piercing screams sounded.

"Mr. Li!" Alex immediately ran out of the gymnasium.

On the athletic field, a one-armed man pulled out his knife and shook the blood on the blade onto the ground. In front of him, Mr. Li collapsed with a loud thud, and his chest was pierced through by the long knife.

Blood gushed from Mr. Li's mouth, flowing from his heart.

On the wide athletic field, more than ten flowers suddenly grew. But these flowers just grew out of the artificial turf without blooming; they were just buds, looking like ordinary Chinese roses and roses.

The one-armed man standing before the flowers was a short and lean man with a scar from his left eye to the corner of his mouth, ugly and terrifying. He had no right arm and held the knife in his left hand. The bright red blood dripped from the tip of the knife onto the ground, and he sneered with a cold glint in his eyes as he looked at Alex.

The little fatty, Zhao Ziang, ran back from the bell tower. As he entered the athletic field, his face was still filled with a joyful smile, but it suddenly vanished when he saw Mr. Li lying in a pool of blood.

ALEX, holding a giant matchstick, asked, "How did you get in here?"

A disgusting laugh emanated from the man's throat, "Get in? We've never left since the beginning! These two days, I've just been watching you set up those useless traps. I was planning to attack you last night, but unexpectedly, this kid suddenly appeared, so I let you live for one more day."

The realization that the bad guys had been with them all the time made all the students feel creeped out.

ALEX tightened his grip on the matchstick in his hand, and the sense of unease in his heart grew stronger. He turned his head to look at the more than ten flowers nearby and shouted, "Go and destroy those flowers!"

The one-armed man shouted coldly, "In your dreams!" Saying that, he waved his broken knife to stop the students who wanted to destroy the flowers.

"Quickly go and destroy the flowers!" ALEX shouted loudly. Except for two Boy Scout students who were still hugging Mr. Li's body in a daze, the other four all rushed into the flower bed. The little fatty grasped the stem of a rose with both hands and pulled it hard. He exclaimed, "I can't pull it! This thing is harder than steel!"

"Use your special ability, you must destroy those flowers!"

Sweat appeared on the little fatty's forehead. He responded and a thin long nail appeared in front of him. He concentrated and aimed the long nail at the thin stem of the rose. Whoosh! The long nail turned into a silver shadow in the air and pierced through the stem. When the nail collided with the stem, it sparked like metal clashing.

"I'll kill you!!!" The man suddenly looked up at the sky and laughed wildly, "You're all going to die! Only I will survive, only me!!!" In the vast night sky, the moonlight was dim, and there were no stars around. A large black cloud slowly drifted in from the distance, covering half of the moon, leaving only a small, sharp hook of the moon visible.

"Do you know what my special ability is? Do you think they're just ordinary flowers? Just wait for this cloud to cover the moonlight completely, and my flowers will bloom! Then you will die. It's highly poisonous! Once the poisonous gas spreads, only I will survive, only me!" The one-armed man, who had lost an arm and a hand, had fallen into madness.

At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew across the flat ground. Before everyone could react, the faint moonlight once again shone on the ground.

The smile on the one-armed man's face suddenly froze. He lifted his head and opened his eyes in disbelief, "No! This can't be! How could this happen!" When ALEX looked again, the black mist beside the man's head had already dispersed. But the sudden wind had just blown away the dark clouds that had obscured the moon.

Seeing this, the one-armed man took to his heels, but a thin nail pierced through the back of his head and exited through his forehead. He collapsed with a loud thud.

No one knew how the dark clouds that obscured the moon suddenly dispersed. But ALEX knew that before the battle began, he had drawn a circle. Instead of cursing the powerful fire-breathing man and the gunman, he had cursed this one-armed man.

With the enemy dead, the students instantly relaxed and collapsed on the ground. ALEX looked at the fatty with a calm voice and said, "When I first killed someone, I was a bit scared. But compared to fear, I was more worried about being killed by someone else." The little fatty nodded in a dazed manner.

ALEX walked alone to the pond in front of the gymnasium, stretched out his hand, and pulled out a book from the air. As he opened the book, ALEX's gaze froze when it reached the first line of text.

[Special Ability: Goblin, Return My Grandfather!]

[Owner: Xu Qiang (Illegal Immigrant)]

[Type: Atomic]

[Function: Can spit out scorching flames from the mouth, lasting for 30 seconds, with a temperature up to 961℃]

[Level: Second-tier]

[Limitation: Three minutes of cooldown time, requires hands on hips and shouting "Return My Grandfather" before use.]

"...This time, thank you really. Chen Shanshan's gaze was firm and calm, "Not just for this, but also thank you for remembering my father's last wish and coming to see me in his stead. Next, I want to stay with my classmates. We will leave the school and go outside to see what the world is like."

ALEX raised his eyebrows, hearing the girl's underlying message, "You know I originally wanted to take you with me?"

"Yes, I can guess," Chen Shanshan's face was expressionless, mature beyond her thirteen or fourteen years. "But now Mr. Li is gone, I don't want to leave anymore." However, with Mr. Li's death, Chen Shanshan seemed to have made a firm decision to stay. Although ALEX felt regret, he didn't try to persuade her.