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Chapter 113 - 111: The Escaper · Oct 11, 2026

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101 Chapter 101 - 99: There Is More Than One Way to Eternity 2026-10-11
102 Chapter 102 - 100: Unqualified Descendants 2026-10-11
103 Chapter 103 - 101: The Out-of-Control Signal 2026-10-11
104 Chapter 104 - 102: One Last Thing 2026-10-11
105 Chapter 105 - 103: Perfect Ending 2026-10-11
106 Chapter 106 - 104: Magnetar’s Price 2026-10-11
107 Chapter 107 - 105: Lone Survivor 2026-10-11
108 Chapter 108 - 106: Do You Believe in Gods? 2026-10-11
109 Chapter 109 - 107: The Forbidden Zone of Memory 2026-10-11
110 Chapter 110 - 108: The Hero and His Companions 2026-10-11
111 Chapter 111 - 109: Farewell Ceremony 2026-10-11
112 Chapter 112 - 110: Black Tower Monitoring Station 2026-10-11
113 Chapter 113 - 111: The Escaper 2026-10-11
114 Chapter 114 - 112: Language Confusion 2026-10-11
115 Chapter 115 - 113: Hieroglyphs 2026-10-11
116 Chapter 116 - 114: The Weird Black Tower 2026-10-11
117 Chapter 117 - 115: Dodging and Hiding 2026-10-11
118 Chapter 118 - 116: Bai Zhou the Diver 2026-10-11
119 Chapter 119 - 117: Omen of Chaos 2026-10-11
120 Chapter 120 - 118: The Spreading Error 2026-10-11
121 Chapter 121 - 119: Poor-Quality Animation 2026-10-11
122 Chapter 122 - 120: The Robed People’s Ritual 2026-10-11
123 Chapter 123 - 121: Ritual Manual 2026-10-11
124 Chapter 124 - 122: Blood Exchange Therapy 2026-10-11
125 Chapter 125 - 123: The Experiment Gone Wrong 2026-10-11
126 Chapter 126 - 124: Martin 2026-10-11
127 Chapter 127 - 125: Crooked Jungle 2026-10-11
128 Chapter 128 - 126: Degenerated Village 2026-10-11
129 Chapter 129 - 127: The Path to Promotion 2026-10-11
130 Chapter 130 - 128: The Changing Stone Gate 2026-10-11
131 Chapter 131 - 129: The Castle of Black Bricks 2026-10-11
132 Chapter 132 - 130: Sign Language 2026-10-11
133 Chapter 133 - 131: The Sea Siren’s Song 2026-10-11
134 Chapter 134 - 132: Cutting-edge Language Training Base 2026-10-11
135 Chapter 135 - 133: Figure in the Church 2026-10-11
136 Chapter 136 - 134: Master of Right Words 2026-10-11
137 Chapter 137 - 135: The Origin of Language 2026-10-11
138 Chapter 138 - 136: The Correction Plan 2026-10-11
139 Chapter 139 - 137: The Strange Core 2026-10-11
140 Chapter 140 - 138: Falling Inward 2026-10-11
141 Chapter 141 - 139: The World of Sound 2026-10-11
142 Chapter 142 - 140: Another Black Tower 2026-10-11
143 Chapter 143 - 141: Beauty and Ugliness 2026-10-11
144 Chapter 144 - 142: The Death of the Core 2026-10-11
145 Chapter 145 - 143: Beneath the Cornerstone 2026-10-11
146 Chapter 146 - 144: Keep Waking Up 2026-10-11
147 Chapter 147 - 145: Perpetual Slumber 2026-10-11
148 Chapter 148 - 146: The End of the Distortion 2026-10-11
149 Chapter 149 - 147: Martin the Fugitive 2026-10-11
150 Chapter 150 - 148: An Agreement with Myself 2026-10-11

Chapter 113: Chapter 111: The Escaper

”What a coincidence.”

Why this one?

Mo Ling didn’t understand either. He couldn’t see the connection between this title and what the Ancient Mine Race had talked about.

Li Luo was clearly just as confused by her own title. After a moment of scrutiny, she put the nameplate down, her face a mask of bewilderment.

The nameplate had been created by some relic. The titles Mo Ling had seen before were all related to their bearers’ abilities.

’Is it about more than just abilities?’ Mo Ling couldn’t figure it out.

But this wasn’t the time to dwell on the nameplate’s title. Mo Ling noticed a strange movement up ahead.

A figure was charging straight toward Li Luo. It was a Hunter!

The Hunter wore thick, windproof goggles and was bundled up from head to toe.

The Hunter rushed up to Li Luo, skidding to a halt. He glanced at her and the Block behind her, then asked hurriedly, ”New here?”

Li Luo nodded.

The Hunter didn’t linger. He tossed out two words and then charged past her.

”Run away!”

His hurried words echoed in Mo Ling’s ears.

What did that mean?

The Hunter had moved so fast that Mo Ling had barely heard him.

Only after a moment did he realize he hadn’t misheard.

’He’s telling Li Luo to run away? Is something chasing him?’

’Is it some powerful creature?’ Mo Ling waited a moment, but he saw no pursuers.

Li Luo also seemed baffled by the Hunter’s bizarre behavior, standing rooted to the spot, at a loss.

Worried there might actually be danger ahead, Li Luo took out a spherical observation drone and sent it flying forward. But even as it neared the black tower, it reported that everything was normal.

Just as he was puzzling over this, a figure reappeared in Mo Ling’s field of vision. It was the same Hunter, running back from the direction he had just fled.

Now what?

The Hunter was clearly shocked to find Li Luo still there. He stumbled to a stop in front of her again, panting, and gasped, ”I told you to run away! I’m not kidding!”

He was breathing so hard that his words were slightly slurred.

Then, before Li Luo could ask a question, he took off running toward the black tower again.

He ran a few steps, caught sight of the black tower ahead, and promptly spun around to run in a different direction.

”...”

’Where is he trying to go?’ Watching the Hunter run around like a headless chicken, Mo Ling was utterly confused.

Li Luo’s observation drone circled the area once more. Everything was still normal. No sign of danger.

’He’s not going to come running back again, is he?’

Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the Hunter came running back from the direction he had just disappeared in.

He looked exhausted. He stopped in front of Li Luo, gritting his teeth as he gasped for air, his goggles completely fogged over.

”What are you running from?” Li Luo asked, seizing the opportunity while he caught his breath.

The Hunter was panting too hard to speak. He just raised a hand and pointed at the black tower.

Li Luo followed his finger with her gaze and asked in disbelief, ”The black tower?”

Hearing this, the Hunter nodded vigorously.

When he finally caught his breath, he started talking again in a rush, but his speech was laced with strange words.

”There’s a mango inside the zebra, it will change your radar. If you don’t run, you’ll find this mango soon. It must be an area-of-effect mango. Ugh, anyway, just run!”

After saying this, he scanned his surroundings, picked a direction, and hastily fled.

Now, Mo Ling was even more confused.

Zebra?

Mango?

Radar?

Were these some kind of relics?

Li Luo brought up her electronic screen and ran a search, but she found no relics matching those terms.

The search came up empty.

Just then, the Hunter appeared yet again. This time, he seemed too exhausted to run, sweat pouring down his face as he staggered forward with his arms hanging limply.

The sight of Li Luo made his face fall into despair. Seeing her still searching on her electronic screen, he shook his head and approached.

But this time, the Hunter’s words were even stranger, like a random jumble of words.

”Stop singing, there’s no such thing as a mouse mango. Just learn it, a pile of cardboard boxes inside the zebra won’t help...”

As he spoke, Li Luo backed away from the strange Hunter.

Finally, the Hunter seemed to realize something was wrong. He abruptly stopped his bizarre rambling, swung his backpack around to his front, and began to rummage frantically through it.

The Hunter pulled out an electronic screen and began to draw on it.

His drawing skills were terrible, but it was just possible to make out a stick figure. The figure was running as fast as it could away from the black tower, with long speed lines trailing behind it.

The Hunter then held the screen up for Li Luo to see, pointing at the drawing, then at her, and miming the act of running.

As if worried she still wouldn’t understand, he rummaged through his pack again and found a tattered piece of white paper.

He hurriedly unfolded the paper, gave the words on it a strange look, but after a moment’s hesitation, he resolutely held it up for Li Luo to see.

He jabbed his finger frantically at the paper. On it were the same two familiar words:

”Run away!”

Finally, Li Luo nodded.

Seeing that Li Luo finally understood, the Hunter was ecstatic. He carefully put his piece of paper away, zipped up his backpack, and resumed his flight.

It seemed there really was some kind of danger in the black tower. That must be what had made the Hunter so strange.

Was it some kind of distortion?

Better safe than sorry. Li Luo didn’t hesitate. She immediately changed direction and moved away from the black tower.

But after walking for some time, Li Luo stopped in her tracks.

The icon on her map was spinning wildly.

Mo Ling hadn’t felt anything unusual, but with his limited vision and the repetitive scenery of sand dunes, he could only follow along as Li Luo kept changing her course.

But the map’s orientation on the electronic screen kept shifting, and the observation drone’s feed would suddenly jump. It was as if they were trapped in this area.

No matter which way they went, they were always heading toward the black tower.

No wonder the Hunter had been running back and forth. It seemed he couldn’t find a way out either, trapped by the same disorienting effect.

’When did we enter this area?’

Mo Ling tried to recall their journey, but he couldn’t pinpoint anything out of the ordinary. They had been methodically following the route on the official map the whole time.

All the landmarks and topography had matched the map perfectly.

It seemed the effect had already enveloped the area without them realizing it, trapping anyone within a certain radius.

’What a powerful distortion.’

Li Luo’s expression was grave. She stared at the black tower in the distance, her thoughts unreadable.

Perhaps the black tower’s distortion had been active for a long time, but because of this inescapable trap, the outside world remained oblivious.

The distortion within might be far more severe than they imagined.

Was it caused by some kind of relic?

Recalling the Hunter’s bizarre sentences, Mo Ling had a theory. ’It’s a distortion targeting language, or perhaps cognition.’

With this thought, he immediately flew in front of Li Luo, typed a message on the electronic screen, and sent it to her.

”Can you understand what I’m writing? I’m going to give you a small test. One of the answers will be obviously strange. I need you to pick it.”

”A. Strawberry, red.”

”B. Grape, Purple.”

”C. Orange, orange.”

”D. Obtuse angle.”

Li Luo stared at the screen for a long time, her expression growing stranger and stranger, as if the question was incredibly difficult. After a while, she replied with a serious look:

”I don’t understand.”

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