The Earth is Online - Chapter 2

[Chapter two]

worldwide.

All humans stopped at this moment and looked at the black tower closest to them.

They never felt that the black tower was so huge, no matter how far away from the tower, they could clearly see tiny blue light spots emerging from the dark tower. They hovered and flickered, and the blue dots formed a string of characters, like a dead old computer, slid quickly on the black tower, and finally converged into a line of blue words in the center of the black tower——

“Ding Dong! Within three days, please eliminate any player from all players, including but not limited to the game mode.”

The crisp child’s voice sounded at the same time.

Tang Mo stood on the balcony, staring at the tower without blinking. The cold autumn wind blew across his cheeks, but a drop of sweat fell from his forehead. He stared at the black tower, but the black tower returned to calm, the blue font disappeared, and the child’s voice disappeared, as if it was no different from before.

Half an hour later, Tang Mo rushed to the entrance of the library. Countless people crowded the vicinity of the black tower. The crowd was so crowded that they even blocked the road in front of the library.

The noisy crowd blocked the city center, Tang Mo watched for a while, then turned and walked into the library.

Ten minutes later, Director Wang walked to the service desk: “Go home today, don’t have to go to work, wait for the notice at home.”

Xiao Zhao approached excitedly and couldn’t help asking: “Director, is it related to the black tower? The black tower made a sound this morning, did you hear it? What the hell is going on? Where did this thing come from? Isn’t it really the end of the world?”

Director Wang immediately raised his face: “What is the end of the world, what nonsense. You young people don’t talk nonsense all day long and look at those messy things.”

Xiao Zhao is the youngest girl in the library, a 1996-year-old girl. There was a hint of fear in her round eyes, but more surprise and curiosity. As soon as Director Wang left, she said, “Tang Mo, you heard it too, Heita spoke, it said that it was online, and it said that it was eliminated.”

Tang Mo packed his things and went home, feeling restless, he casually said, “I didn’t pay attention.”

“Do you think this is the end of the world? I don’t think so. If it is the end of the world, where are the zombies. That black tower said that it wants to eliminate players. Shouldn’t it turn us into zombies? Is this a national thing? A conspiracy… that’s not right. It is said on the Internet that there are black towers appearing all over the world, and they all talked about it today. Which country can be so arrogant, and neither can the United States.”

Tang Mo really wasn’t in the mood to discuss this kind of thing. For some reason, after he heard the black tower speak and saw the line of words that appeared on the black tower, his heart began to beat very fast.

The normal heart rate of an adult is between 60 and 100 per minute. Tang Mo counted when Xiao Zhao was talking just now.

His heart rate is now 130.

But he didn’t feel any discomfort, just panicked, as if something wasn’t right.

Tang Mo raised his head and looked left and right. The service desk is in the center of the borrowing room, with bookshelves on the front, back, left, and right. Look to the left for humanities books and to the right for history books. He didn’t know what he was looking at. Wherever he looked, the sun shone through the window, and tiny particles of dust flew in the air.

“Tang Mo!” A loud female voice woke Tang Mo out of his lost state. There was some dissatisfaction in Xiao Zhao’s tone: “I called you several times just now, what’s wrong with you? What are you thinking, why don’t you speak?”

Tang Mo reached out and wiped his face, his palms were wet, he turned to look at his colleague: “…It’s okay.”

The heart beats faster.

Xiao Zhao picked up his bag: “I want to see the black tower. Do you want to go with me? When I entered the library, I saw a lot of people there. Let’s drop by anyway. Shall we go together?”

Tang Mo quickly shook his head: “I’m going home.”

Because of what happened just now, Xiao Zhao didn’t seem very happy, so he waved his hand and left the library first.

However, Xiao Zhao was not able to visit the black tower. When Tang Mo left the library, a group of armed police officers got out of the car and evacuated the crowd around the black tower. They surrounded the black tower with white plastic panels, and the white plastic wall surrounded the entrance of the library. The black tower is strictly blocked, and no one is allowed to enter.

Many people stood outside the wall and took pictures of the black tower with their mobile phones.

Tang Mo took a photo and got into a taxi to go home.

On the Internet, the Black Tower incident has become a hot topic all over the world.

Tang Mo was lying on the bed and surfing the circle of friends. His university classmates who studied in Japan and the United States sent photos. In the photos, the text on Heitata was no longer in Chinese, but in Japanese and English.

Tang Mo wouldn’t jump over the wall, but the classmate who was studying in the United States replied several times in the circle of friends.

[Yes, not Chinese, it speaks English! It scared me to death, our school has been closed, and now many people take to the streets to go to the gate of the White House to parade, asking the government to give an explanation. 】

[It’s too hard to buy a ticket at the airport now, I can’t buy a ticket back to China at all, my roommate will go back to China in the afternoon if he has money. 】

[We were still here at night when it spoke, and a nursery rhyme was also played. My friend had a video, and I uploaded the video. 】

Tang Mo clicked on the new video posted by this classmate. A familiar black tower was suspended beside the Lincoln Memorial. It shone with colorful lights and was particularly striking in the dark night. The song is not “Jingle Bells”, but it is clearly a nursery rhyme. After a song was played, the same clear and high children’s voice said it again in English——

“Ding dong! On November 15, 2017, Earth went online. 』

What is this all about!

Tang Mo anxiously threw the phone on the bed.

Officials have not announced the specific information of the black towers, but there are too many towers, and they can’t be hidden. Someone on the Internet has long sent data-on average, there will be a black tower on every 10,000 square kilometers of land.

Even on the ocean, there are countless black towers.

Tang Mo stood up and walked back and forth in the room irritably. His heart couldn’t stop at all, and his heart was beating so fast that it almost burst out of his chest. When Tang Mo reached the one hundred and sixtieth round, he stopped abruptly.

…it’s not like him!

Why was he suddenly so restless?

Tang Mo walked to the bathroom and put his head under the faucet. Not worried about catching a cold, he turned on the cold water and rushed it on his head. His mood seemed to calm down, he poured a glass of cold water and returned to the room, turned on the computer, and opened the bridge software.

He needs to be calm.

This sudden anxiety was out of his control at all.

Maybe it was because his heartbeat was too fast, affecting his judgment? It should now hit 150 beats per minute.

Tang Mo looked at the computer screen indifferently. Probably because of such a big event, there are too few people who want to play the game at such a time. He entered a room after matching for ten minutes and started a game of cards. As the poker game progressed, Tang Mo’s mind was spinning rapidly, Tang Mo’s heart gradually calmed down, and it seemed that his heart didn’t beat so fast.

He played from day to night until he was so sleepy that he fell into bed and fell asleep.

When I woke up the next day, the anxiety that was hard to ignore came back to my mind. Tang Mo opened the bridge software again and continued to play. After playing like this for another day, Tang Mo’s face was extremely ugly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his brain was so tired that he could fall asleep when he closed his eyes.

QQ’s prompt sounded.

【Victor: You played all day? 】

Tang Mo rubbed his dry eyes and replied: [Well, it’s a little uncomfortable. 】

[Victor: It must be uncomfortable after playing for so long, rest early. 】

[Grinding sugar: Mmmm. 】

[Victor: Stay away from the Black Tower. 】

Tang Mo was already lying in front of the computer desk and fell asleep.

When he woke up the next day, he saw the message sent by Victor and quickly replied to the other party, but Victor was offline. Tang Mo stretched and suddenly felt much better. His heartbeat was still fast, but the anxiety that came from nowhere disappeared without a trace.

The Black Tower incident is still being discussed on the Internet.

The government did not give a specific explanation, but it strongly suppressed public opinion. Many netizens can only discuss information about the black tower in private, and the discussions are all useless things, and sensitive words cannot be sent out.

Tang Mo clicked on several posts that speculated about the truth of the black tower. Most people think that the black tower is the research result of some top technology. There are also a small number of people who think it is the end of the world, but their tone is completely joking, so they have not been deleted, and these people are just talking nonsense in the post.

In the afternoon, Director Wang posted an announcement in the library group.

[Director Wang: Urgent notice! From the day after tomorrow, the library will be requisitioned as a temporary research center. Any personal belongings will be taken away today and tomorrow. Let me inform you again that the library will be requisitioned as… 】

The group suddenly exploded.

Several old employees have asked about the library being requisitioned and where they will go to work in the future. There are also several young employees who joked: [This is the end of the world, so what are you working on? 】

Tang Mo raised his head and glanced at the black tower in the distance. He picked up his bag and got on the bus to the library.

I have to say that Huaxia has done a very good job in maintaining social stability. Except for those who work too close to the black tower and have to go home for vacation, other public facilities are running very smoothly as usual.

However, when he got into the car and swiped his card, Tang Mo saw an ashtray in front of the driver. It was full of ashes, and there was a cigarette in his mouth.

A middle-aged woman complained, “Master, why are you still smoking while driving? Isn’t it a smoking ban?”

“It’s so annoying, I don’t even want to drive the car if I don’t smoke, why don’t you drive?”

“Hey, why are you talking like that? It’s your bus company’s own regulations not to smoke. It’s not right for you to smoke. You still haven’t let people tell you?”

The driver and the woman quarreled, and the two female college students sitting next to Tang Mo hurriedly tried to persuade them. After finally persuading them to leave, the two girls sat back in their seats, and one said, “Is it the third day?”

“Oh, you said that, it’s really the third day.”

The girl said while playing with her mobile phone: “What does it mean to eliminate players? It’s not limited to the game method. What does this mean? It’s been three days and there’s no movement. What does it look like to be a game? Are we two rock-paper-scissors a game?”

“Hee hee, do you want to try it?”

“rock-paper-scissors!”

“Ah, I lost. Did I get knocked out by you?”

The two girls looked at each other and laughed together.

Those who are in the mood to take the bus and continue their daily life are all people who don’t care much about the Black Tower incident. When Tang Mo arrived at the library, he saw thousands of people holding signs blocking the road and confronting the armed police officers. These are the people who are very concerned about the Black Tower incident, and those who really think the Black Tower will bring about the end of the world.

Tang Mo took a detour and entered the library through the back door. It seemed that he was the only one in a hurry to come back to get things. There was no one else in the empty library. The slogans of the marchers came from outside the door, and their shouts echoed in the library. Tang Mo found his cabinet and took out several books inside.

He was about to leave when he heard a dull sound from the southeast corner.

Tang Mo stopped and looked there. After a while, he took out a black explosion-proof stick from the security guard’s cabinet, stood on tiptoe, and walked cautiously to the corner.

“Who’s there?”

No echo.

I could vaguely hear the sound of someone picking up books in the corner. The other party stuffed the book back into the bookshelf, and lost another book when he was in a hurry.

Tang Mo walked to the bookshelf in the corner, turned around, and shouted, “Who’s there!”

An ordinary-looking young man with messy hair looked at Tang Mo in a panic, holding a book in his hand.

Tang Mo relaxed his hand holding the explosion-proof stick, and said in surprise, “God stick…cough, Mr. Chen? Why are you here?”

The magic stick looked at Tang Mo stiffly, laughed twice, and stuffed the fallen book back into the bookshelf.

Tang Mo frowned, “How did you get in?”

“There’s a window on the east side that’s not closed… I just came in and have a look, see…”

Tang Mo recalled that there was indeed a window on the east side of the library, but that window was attached to the ground and connected to the basement, mainly for ventilation. How the hell did this magic stick get in? Did he really climb in through the window?

Tang Mo: “Mr. Chen, we will be embarrassed if you do this. This is considered stealing.”

“I didn’t steal anything!” said the magic stick hastily.

Tang Mo glanced at him up and down, holding the explosion-proof stick tightly in his hand, walked to the bookshelf in front of the god stick, and took a closer look.

There are indeed no less books, the same as when he left three days ago.

“Then why do you want to come in this time…”

“Ding Dong! The confrontation game ‘who stole my book’ has been triggered. At 17:52 on November 17, 2017, players Tang Mo and Chen Fangzhi entered the game time safely. The player has entered the sandbox, and the game map is created. Done, the data loading is complete…”

In an instant, the roaring slogans outside the library vanished cleanly.

In the empty library, a creepy and crisp children’s voice sounded out of thin air, reciting a nursery rhyme that no one had ever heard before.

“La la la, la la la.

A stick hits lightly,

Two players play house.

Three days and three nights without speaking,

Angels and demons want it.

Shh… Who the hell stole my book? “