The Earth is Online - Chapter 129

[Chapter 129]

Fu Wenduo put his ear against the metal wall of the safe, tapped the side of the box with one hand, and kept flipping the combination lock with the other hand, listening to the sounds inside. Tang Mo used a flashlight to illuminate. The three held their breaths softly, only to hear the sound of the lock and key turning clattering in the room.

Not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

It stands to reason that this Black Tower Research Institute is hidden underground, with a robot laboratory as a cover, and it is very safe. Such an inconspicuous black safe placed in a corner should not have any extra protection measures, just violently open the box. But Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo decided to try carefully.

The password for the safe has eight digits in total. An hour later, Fu Wenduo tried to find four numbers.

The three were very patient. After another half hour, Fu Wenduo raised his head to look at Tang Mo when he heard a crisp sound. The two nodded, and Fu Wenduo stood up straight and opened the heavy safe with a click.

The light of the flashlight went in without any measures to prevent violent demolition. Tang Mo took out a stack of thick documents, and the dense English immediately came into view.

“Texas Institute of Marine Biology

Experiment time: November 15, 2017

Subject: XX Jellyfish

…

A-level reaction: 141 experimental samples died…”

The thick materials were spread out on the table by Tang Mo for the three of them to read together. There are too many specific terms in this document. It is normal for Fu Wensheng to not understand at a young age. When Tang Mo was in college, his English was good, but he could only understand it roughly. He tried his best to read all the information, but this kind of whole-hearted view made him still bewildered.

Tang Mo turned the information back to the first page and looked at the line above.

“…is it a jellyfish?”

Fu Wenduo’s low voice sounded: “It’s the lighthouse jellyfish.”

Tang Mo turned to look at him.

Fu Wenduo: “This experiment is to study the lighthouse jellyfish. This type of jellyfish generally inhabits the waters of Central America, and has recently died in large numbers. The Black Tower Research Institute in the United States discovered this abnormality and brought the samples to China, where the two countries are together. Discussion. The experimental anomaly happened on November 15th, and the American researchers came on the 17th. Before the two sides could study it carefully, the earth went online.”

Tang Mo: “I seem to have heard of the lighthouse jellyfish somewhere.”

Fu Wenduo didn’t know this. What is written on the information is no longer easy to understand in English, and requires a certain knowledge reserve. This is not their specialty, maybe Luo Fengcheng can understand it, but unfortunately he is far away in Shanghai.

Since there was no other way, the three carefully checked the laboratory again. After confirming that there were no other abnormalities, they took the document and the blue glassware from the safe. The water in this vessel was left standing for five months, and it was already turbid. Tang Mo guessed that what was originally inside was probably a lighthouse jellyfish. Only when the earth goes online and all the animals in the world disappear, leaving only human beings, this vessel will be empty.

The three of them took the materials and quietly left the institute in the dark of night.

Tang Mo found a Xinhua Bookstore, and with his experience as a librarian, he easily found a thick English dictionary of marine life. The three of them looked at the book, which was thicker than Cihai.

The lighthouse jellyfish inhabits the Caribbean, and in recent years its growth range has spread to the waters of Spain and Japan.

This is a small jellyfish with a transparent body and a red digestive system on its head. The body is about 5 mm long, only the size of a human fingernail. Jellyfish are generally quite sensitive to various reactions in nature. Just like dragonflies will fly low before rainy days, earthworms will climb out of the soil, and jellyfish will react to nature much more sensitively than humans. Therefore, after the black tower was launched, the Texas Institute of Marine Biology collected more than 200 kinds of jellyfish around the world for research, including the lighthouse jellyfish.

“The lighthouse jellyfish is the only known creature in the world that can change from an adult to a juvenile…”

Tang Mo was shocked when he saw this introduction.

From an adult to a juvenile… This means that this creature can achieve rejuvenation. Tang Mo had a guess in his heart. He looked down, and sure enough, the lighthouse jellyfish was immortal!

After reaching the sexual maturity stage, the lighthouse jellyfish reverts back to its juvenile form when it reproduces, and then grows from the juvenile to sexually mature form. There is no limit to the number of times this change process, that is to say, if there is no external force to kill these jellyfish, they can reproduce again and again, become juveniles, and then grow into sexually mature bodies, truly achieving immortality.

Tang Mo looked at the empty blue vessel. The lighthouse jellyfish were originally placed here, but when the earth goes online, they will disappear. And before disappearing…they actually died.

The three have read all the information. The reason why the Black Tower Research Institute of the United States deliberately crossed the Pacific Ocean and came to Huaxia and Huaxia to discuss the experiment of lighthouse jellyfish is because these lighthouse jellyfish died in a safe environment. A total of 201 experimental samples, 141 died, nearly two-thirds died.

Tang Mo thought for a while: “According to the data, these lighthouse jellyfish did not die from external forces, but from their own reproduction. After each asexual reproduction, they should return to the form of polyps. But on November 15, this batch of jellyfish died. Two-thirds of the lighthouse jellyfish did not revert back to their polyp form after multiplying. Like other jellyfish, they just died.”

Fu Wen said: “November 15th was the day when the black tower made its first sound, and the earth went online three days later. The death of these jellyfish must have something to do with the black tower. Jellyfish are more likely to detect changes in nature than humans. Did they notice it? What is it that just died?”

There is some truth to this.

November 15th is so special that it’s hard not to think of the Black Tower. And jellyfish are very sensitive animals, these lighthouse jellyfish most likely perceive some changes before they die. Still can’t tell.

“These 141 lighthouse jellyfish should turn back into juveniles after asexual reproduction, but they didn’t change, instead they died.” Tang Mo frowned, and his brain started to work quickly. After a while, he suddenly raised his head to look at Fu Wenduo, and he remembered a word: “Isn’t this suicide?!”

Fu Wenduo’s brain has always been bigger than Tang Mo’s, but this time he was slightly taken aback when he heard Tang Mo’s words.

Fu Wenduo thought for a moment: “It’s not because of external forces, it’s really suicide.”

A flash of light suddenly flashed in Tang Mo’s mind.

He seemed to have seen something similar to a lighthouse jellyfish somewhere, not immortal, but very similar. He recalled for a long time, and finally found such a thing from the memory fragments. Tang Mo immediately said: “I have seen a lobster before, which is the product of genetic mutation. A lobster is a sexually reproducing creature, but that lobster can reproduce asexually, which means that it can continuously clone itself, all the The offspring are genetically identical to it. It is also considered immortal, and it has a slight resemblance to this lighthouse jellyfish.”

Fu Wenduo gradually understood what Tang Mo meant: “You mean, asexual reproduction, constant cloning of yourself, no genetic changes…”

Tang Mo suddenly caught the aura: “Genes will never change, which means that there will be no evolution.”

Fu Wenduo narrowed his eyes and grasped the key word: “…evolution.”

Yes, it’s evolution.

Tang Mo turned the information to dozens of pages. In the death experiment of the lighthouse jellyfish, the researchers gave eleven possible death possibilities. Three of them are the most likely. The first is external influence. Even if the researchers were sure that they had accurately controlled the external force elements of the experiment, they would not be 100% sure that they really allowed these jellyfish to reproduce in a completely safe state. The second is that the lighthouse jellyfish has a special way of dying, which humans have not yet discovered. And the third is species evolution.

Asexual reproduction is a low-level way of reproduction. The stability of genes makes it difficult for species that reproduce asexually to evolve, such as paramecia and jellyfish. Sexual reproduction is the mainstream of evolution.

Researchers in the United States don’t think these lighthouse jellyfish will suddenly evolve as a whole overnight, because this is too inconsistent with biological theory. However, they may never know that three days later, the global human beings were forced to enter the black tower game. Compared with the black tower, it is very normal for the creature to evolve suddenly.

“They guessed it was related to the black tower, but they didn’t guess that the black tower would end up like this.”

American researchers came across the ocean. They failed to come to a conclusion before they disappeared, but they passed on a guess to Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo five months later.

Everything Heita does is for the evolution of mankind.

No one can prove whether this conjecture is correct or not, and now there is no lighthouse jellyfish on the earth to support this theory. Tang Mo’s heart was beating fast. After a long time, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

This is just a guess after all.

Tang Mo read all the information again and remembered it in his mind. To be on the safe side, Fu Wenduo and Fu Wensheng also read it. Then, Tang Mo burned the document. Including those lighthouse jellyfish that disappeared in the blue vessel, which he also threw into the fire.

After doing all this, Tang Mo looked up and found Fu Wenduo looking at him.

The two looked at each other quietly.

After a long time, Tang Mo asked with a smile, “It doesn’t seem so strange. If the black tower is really pushing people to evolve, then it is only natural that it will act as a catalyst to stimulate human abilities. But why human?”

Lighthouse jellyfish have evolved, but after three days, they all disappear. In the end, only humans are left on earth.

In the quiet bookstore, Fu Wenduo asked, “What is the smartest creature in the world?”

Tang Mo didn’t understand why he asked this question, but he remembered a movie. Rarely in the mood to make a joke, Tang Mo said seriously, “Rat.”

Fu Wenduo: “…”

Fu Wenduo actually saw that movie, he said, “It’s all the Black Tower’s choice.”

Yes, everything is Black Tower’s choice.

Tang Mo didn’t know why the Black Tower chose humans, nor did it know whether its purpose was to force humans to evolve. But there is no doubt that if this game really continues, human beings will surely evolve when they reach the seventh floor of the black tower. Right now, the worst human players are smarter and more physically fit than they were half a year ago.

All the materials taken out of the laboratory were burned, and the sky was about to darken. The three planned to rest in the Xinhua Bookstore.

Suddenly, Fu Wenduo’s eyes turned cold. He got up quickly and ran outside the bookstore at great speed. Tang Mo was startled and put his hand on the small parasol. I saw Fu Wenduo flickered and walked outside the door. After waiting ten seconds, Tang Mo didn’t wait for the other party to come back.

Fu Wensheng: “Big Brother should have found something, but it’s not dangerous.”

Tang Mo looked at the child. Indeed, with Fu Wenduo’s caution, it was impossible to leave casually. There must be something wrong with him and he went out suddenly, but it was not an enemy attack, otherwise he would definitely tell Tang Mo.

Tang Mo thought about it and went out with Fu Wensheng.

The two walked around the intersection and saw Fu Wenduo at once. Fu Wenduo had also turned around at this moment, as if he wanted to turn back and call for Tang Mo to come over. Seeing Tang Mo, he stopped. Tang Mo’s face gradually darkened, he had already seen the corpse lying behind Fu Wenduo.

Blood gurgled from the opponent’s chest.

This is a young girl, lying on the ground, looking at the sky, her eyes widened unwillingly. Half of her heart was gouged out, and her flesh and blood fell next to her body, which could be described as a one-shot death. Before the blood had completely solidified, the thick blood flowed to Fu Wenduo’s feet and wet the soles of his shoes.

According to the time, it should be when Fu Wen took it out, the girl had just died. If others saw this scene, they would naturally think that Fu Wenduo killed her, just as Fu Wenduo’s hands were still stained with blood. However, Tang Mo walked over calmly, checked it, and asked, “Have you seen the murderer?”

Fu Wenduo: “No. When I arrived, her body hadn’t collapsed yet, and she was standing here. But her chest had been torn open, and half of her heart and ribs fell to the ground. It couldn’t be saved. I treated it with mineral water, but still Dead. The injuries are too serious, and her physique is not good enough.”

This should be just a low-strength reserve, even if Fu Wenduo used the fastest speed, he couldn’t save her.

Fu Wenduo’s physical fitness is better than Tang Mo’s. He should have suddenly heard the girl being attacked in the bookstore. It is also possible that he has been doing tasks all year round and is more sensitive to this kind of thing. Girl, so he didn’t have time to say hello to Tang Mo, so he ran over, trying to rush over as quickly as possible. Too bad it’s still a step too late. He didn’t see the murderer, and he couldn’t save the girl.

Tang Mo stretched out his hand and closed the girl’s dead eyes.

“The last time I could consider whether it was thrown out of the dungeon or not, this time it’s even more strange.” Tang Mo looked cold and rationally analyzed, “First of all, they must have all been killed by humans, and they were all killed in one hit. , the means are cruel. This is the same point. There is also a common point, we have not seen the people who killed them.”

Fu Wenduo knew that Tang Mo was talking about a body they suddenly saw on the road three days ago. Like this time, it seems that they were killed by a transparent person. The two died in different ways, but neither of them could find the murderer. Last time, it could be said that it might have something to do with the copy of the Black Tower, but this time Fu Wenduo saw the girl fall down with his own eyes, but he still couldn’t see the murderer.

It’s not like the style of the Black Tower game.

The night gradually fell, there was no electricity, the street lights on both sides of the road would not turn on on time, and the world fell into darkness. The three of them stood beside the already cold corpse, and the icy cold wind penetrated into Tang Mo’s sleeves, and the sound of the wind seemed to whimper. The girl’s blood slowly solidified, turning dark brown and scorched on the ground.

Tang Mo said: “It’s getting dark, first find a place, take her, and take a closer look at the situation.”

The three set off to leave.

Suddenly, a cheerful music sounded. The lively and joyful music sounded in the sky above the world. Tang Mo quickly turned his head to look at the black tower, and saw that on the dark tower, one after another, bright white lines rolled from bottom to top. The white light continued to flicker, and the music of the black tower did not end.

When the time came to six o’clock, the music stopped abruptly, and the bright line was frozen into the middle row.

Players all over the world stopped and looked at the black tower. Ninety percent of the players had a look of fear on their faces, and they trembled in horror. Some knelt down crying, begging God to save them. However, what they were waiting for was not God, but the extremely excited prompt from the Black Tower——

“Ding Dong! On March 31, 2018, the first compulsory tower attack game started.”

hum!

After a dull voice, Tang Mo saw that on the tower of the black tower, the line of white bright lines slowly changed, and finally turned into an eight-digit number——

“28315123”

As if he suddenly understood something, he turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo.

Just as they were about to carry the girl’s body away within ten seconds, the numbers on the black tower had changed——

“28315019”

Tang Mo’s eyes widened.

…It’s only been ten seconds!

On the dark tower, the numbers are still changing.