Chapter 159
It was the exact same appearance and the same att.i.tude towards the truth. There had been a trace of suspicion when Tang Mo mett the truth clock (Mr. Rabbit said that he would give the truth clock to the Queen of Hearts, the clock shouldn’t be here) but he couldn’t find anything. This should be the truth clock but Tang Mo always felt that something wasn’t right.
Tang Mo said, “If you are a failed invention then you are infinitely close to the real truth clock. The two of you are really similar.” It was impossible for anyone to find the difference between them with one glance
The truth clock growled, “I am the truth clock!”
“It is a pity, great and poor truth clock. The black tower doesn’t recognize your ident.i.ty.” Grecia spoke in a respectful tone. It was just that this situation made his words sound sarcastic. He laughed, “Maybe you really aren’t the truth clock.”
The truth clock cried out, “You…!”
Tang Mo glanced lightly at Grecia and turned to the truth clock. “When we first entered this room, you said you are the great truth clock and you tell the time for Schrodinger. Once you said this, you can no longer be the truth clock. In fact, I didn’t find the mistake at first but you constantly repeated this sentence. You also said something else.” Tang Mo paused and looked up. “You said that you hate the fallacy compa.s.s.”
The truth clock was puzzled. “I do hate the fallacy compa.s.s. That hateful compa.s.s is the nastiest and most disgusting thing in the world. It denies all truths and seeks fallacies that transcend the truth. What is wrong with that sentence?”
Tang Mo replied, “There is nothing wrong with the sentence. The mistake is that you said it with your mouth.”
The truth clock was angry and anxious. It kept refusing to admit that it wasn’t the truth clock. “You are lying to me, shameless black tower intruder. Don’t deceive the great truth clock with your clumsy lies.”
“You are still saying that you are a great truth clock?” Tang Mo suddenly asked.
The clock of truth was stunned.
Tang Mo’s eyes were calm. “If every word that comes from your mouth is the truth, then your greatness… how can it be proven as true?”
The truth clock stopped talking after hearing this.
Zhao Xiaofei nodded. “Yes! Whether it is the great truth clock or the great Schrodinger, it isn’t the truth. The truth is objectively right. Anything that contains subjective feelings can’t be the truth.”
Li Miaomiao also realized, “Yes, you say you are great but nothing can prove your greatness. For example, I can say that I am beautiful. I might be beautiful in my eyes while ugly in other people’s eyes. Anything that contains subjective feelings can’t be the truth.” Li Miaomiao was excited. “All subjective judgments aren’t objective. They aren’t truths! Thus, you aren’t the truth clock!”
“It is a truth clock.” A low voice was heard.
“Schrodinger’s rooms are filled with successful and failed inventions.”
Fu Wenduo looked calm. “It is a failed truth clock.”
“I’m going to kill you!”
The always stable female voice suddenly became violent, like a crazy jealous woman. Five blue tentacles emerged from the clock and grabbed at the five players in the room. However, its tentacles hadn’t touched Tang Mo’s clothes when he moved sideways to avoid it and grabbed at the tentacle.
Li Miaomiao and the others also escaped the surprise attack.
“Our feet can move?”
The truth was broken and the players were no longer restricted by the room.
The truth clock growled and waved more blue tentacles, attacking the players in the room. Li Miaomiao and Zhao Xiaofei’s first reaction was to turn and ran out the door. Since they were able to move then they would naturally chose to leave. Grecia jumped away from the truth clock but didn’t intend to fight. He picked up his cane and followed the women.
Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo glanced at each other and rushed in tandem. Tang Mo opened the small parasol and numerous blue tentacles bounced off the umbrella. Fu Wenduo grabbed Tang Mo’s shoulder and jumped up. The black triangular weapon fell down and split the blue clock in half.
The beautiful blue clock scattered into countless points of light and the room shook. Soon, the dots of light came together again and turned into a clock. This time, the light dimmed a lot. Tang Mo’s hands grasped the blue tentacles while Fu Wenduo took out a black dagger and planned to attack again.
The truth clock hurriedly begged for mercy. “Let me go, black tower intruders. You haven’t lost anything and I gave you some information. What good is it for you to kill me? Everything I told you just now were true. I haven’t done anything to harm you at all!”
Tang Mo kept holding the tentacles while Fu Wenduo put the dagger back in his pocket. He turned to look at Tang Mo and they both nodded.
Tang Mo gripped the tentacles and said coldly, “How will it benefit us?”
Truth clock, “…”
What was the benefit in destroying it?
The truth clock had never seen such aggressive humans. They were actually trying to negotiate with a black tower monster. Li Miaomiao and the others hadn’t expected the seemingly powerful clock to be so vulnerable. In terms of force, Li Miaomiao muttered, “Why do I feel like I can beat it?”
Grecia answered her. “It is because it has lost the protection of the rules of truth, my lady. In the world of truth, it is invincible. However, we just asked a question that it can’t answer. It told us to become the truth or defeat the truth. We have defeated the truth. Now it is just a common, failed invention created by Schrodinger.”
Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had seized the truth clock and it cursed the humans in its heart for a long time. Finally, it had to suppress its anger. “I am just an ordinary clock. I’m not the black tower and can’t give you any rewards. Still, I know a vast majority of the truths in this world. I can give you a clue that will help you clear Schrodinger’s hide-and-seek game.”
“You d.a.m.ned, stinking clock!” A soft kitten’s voice filled the room. It sounded like his tail had been stepped on as Schrodinger roared angrily, “You must not say it, you can’t! If you dare say it, I will make you into a stinking toilet for Santa Claus. You should know how much Santa’s b.u.t.t stinks. I’m really going to make you into his toilet!”
The truth clock heard this and its body shook violently. It was more miserable than when it had been attacked.
This sentence was more threatening than Fu Wenduo.
However, the truth clock was currently seized by Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo. It could only say, “Great Schrodinger, you heard the black tower blocking my words. I will just say something that is allowed by the black tower and doesn’t tell them how to clear it.”
Schrodinger screamed angrily and the truth clock quickly said, “Five black tower intruders, the clue I am giving you is that there are a total of three rounds of hide-and-seek. It is a pity that you are doomed to fail this first round of the game.”
Schrodinger’s hackles instantly raised. “Garbage clock!”
The truth clock trembled with fright.
The five of them left the room where the truth clock was located and returned to the dark corridor. As they left the room, the fake clock hid itself in the corner like it had foreseen its own sad future.
Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo shone a flashlight onto the dark corridor. There were two paths in front of them, left or right.
Just now, the five people had come to the first floor from the stairs and went to the truth clock’s room that was directly opposite the stairs. Schrodinger’s complaints echoed in the steel fortress. It decided to divide the truth clock into three parts. One would be a stinky toilet for Santa Claus, one was a mirror for Grandmother Wolf and one was a ring of fire for the leader of the Strange Circus.
“I will never give you to the Queen of Hearts. You are a failed invention and you’re not qualified to be with the true truth clock in the Queen of Hearts’ collection.” The vicious and angry words of the little black cat kept echoing in the hallway.
Tang Mo blinked at Fu Wenduo who shone the flashlight and said, “Go here.”
There were two roads and Tang Mo chose to take the left road.
The group searched two more rooms along the corridor and found nothing inside. Zhao Xiaofei couldn’t help saying, “Just now, the truth clock said that this round of the game is already failed. Judging by Schrodinger’s reaction, it is telling the truth.”
Li Miaomiao added, “There are three rounds to find him. We didn’t intend to look for Schrodinger in the first round so isn’t it normal to fail?”
Tang Mo said, “This isn’t what she means.”
Li Miaomiao was surprised.
“This round of the hide-and-seek game isn’t over. We have just arrived at the first floor. We haven’t looked in the vast majority of rooms on this floor but the truth clock said with great certainty that we have failed. There are only two possibilities.” Tang Mo calmly a.n.a.lyzed, “The first possibility is that Schrodinger was well hidden in a world we searched and didn’t find him.”
Li Miaomiao immediately said, “That’s impossible. We carefully searched every room. I even searched the room with the terrible light spheres and there was no Schrodinger.”
Tang Mo told her, “Then there is the second possibility.”
“What is it?”
“We no longer have a chance to enter the room Schrodinger is in.”
The author has something to say:
Santa Claus: Hey, I do need a new toilet.
Grandmother Wolf: Can this mirror show my beauty?
Circus Leader: Hmm? I don’t need this kind of thing.
Fake clock: Can’t this day be over?
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