The Earth is Online - Chapter 38

[Chapter 38]

After a malicious “Merry Christmas” greeting, far in the west, the setting sun fell completely below the horizon, and the last ray of light disappeared in the sky.

Christmas Eve, start.

Tang Mo immediately began to check his belongings and confirmed that the small parasol and the big match were all on him. Then he quickly ran to a convenience store fifty meters away. The things in the store had already been turned over by people, and all the food and water on the shelves had been looted. Tang Mo found a utility knife for sharpening pencils in the clerk’s drawer, and then found two batteries.

The flashlight he got from Li Bin has been used for a long time, and he doesn’t know when it will run out. In order to prevent the next copy from being as dark and dark as the burrow of the Great Mole, a power source must be prepared.

When everything was ready, Tang Mo looked at the clock hanging on the wall of the convenience store.

The second hand darts and slides little by little to the “12” position. When the three minutes came, Tang Mo held his breath, ready to be pulled into the copy. However, the next moment, the second hand “clicks” to point to the next position.

Tang Mo was heartbroken. He stood in the dark and empty convenience store, his eyes focused on the clock on the wall.

The second hand keeps moving.

Tang Mo silently counted the time in his heart. He started the countdown three minutes after the announcement of the black tower when the player in China entered the dungeon. It took him a minute and a half to enter the convenience store, and another minute and a half to find something.

Until now, four minutes have passed.

He was not pulled into the game copy.

Tang Mo stood there and waited for a while. Another minute passed, and he still hadn’t been pulled into the copy. He took out the small parasol from his backpack and walked out of the convenience store.

Tang Mo started to walk back. It is only two kilometers away from the mall where the Atak organization is located. He wondered if everyone, like him, was not pulled into the dungeon, or if he was the only one who was left out of the dungeon.

Tang Mo walked quickly, holding the small parasol tightly in his hand, always beware of possible enemies around him.

Just as he walked to the previous intersection, suddenly, the sound of fireworks exploding came from the sky, and Tang Mo looked up.

A huge colorful fireworks exploded in the black night sky.

The firework appears to be made up of five different little ones that leap to the top of the sky like five meteors flying from the ground to the sky. They flew slower and slower, and when they flew to a position nearly a thousand meters from the ground, the five flowers suddenly exploded.

Gorgeous fireworks bloomed from the ***, using the dark night as the screen to outline a portrait of a big head.

A bushy white beard, a red cashmere pointed hat, and a small white ball embedded in the top of the hat. The fireworks drew a big head image of Santa Claus in the air. This scene was reflected in the eyes of every player in Shanghai. When the fireworks picture of Santa Claus gradually dissipated, a hearty and loud laughter came from the sky.

Tang Mo groaned in his heart.

He suddenly understood what the voice meant.

I saw four reindeer swiftly appearing from behind Santa’s fireworks portrait, and one of them smashed the fireworks that were about to dissipate.

“Hahaha, kids, Merry Christmas!”

Four reindeer pulled a golden red carriage, spread their hooves, and ran in the night sky. They ran over the city, and a white-bearded old man in a red Christmas suit stood on the carriage, pulling the reins with both hands, laughing loudly. He laughed and waved his arms, pouring a lot of dazzling light onto the ground.

Santa’s carriage was extremely fast, and in a short while, it crossed the whole of Pudong, crossed the Nanpu Bridge, and headed for Puxi.

In the sky, the light like tens of thousands of stars fell to the ground like snowflakes. The moment they fell to the ground, the starlight made a big splash, the dazzling light pierced the sky, and beams of white light rose from the ground and connected to the sky.

At the same time, a crisp child’s voice sounded throughout Shanghai——

“Ding dong! Trigger side mission 1: Find the Christmas tree branches left by Santa Claus, and within 30 minutes, enter the Christmas Eve surprise dungeon.”

This voice sounded all over China at the same time. Before that, a Santa Claus appeared near every black tower in the Huaxia district, and sprinkled white stars on the earth.

Almost as soon as Tang Mo heard the mission prompt, he turned around quickly and ran to the starlight falling point closest to him. But no matter how fast he was, he was still a beat slower. When he arrived at the scene, a 17- or 18-year-old boy with glasses picked up the small white star that had fallen on the ground.

When his hand touched the little star, the white light dissipated and turned into a small branch of a tree trunk.

When the boy saw Tang Mo, he looked at him vigilantly. But he didn’t need to do anything at all. After he got the branch, his body gradually faded and finally disappeared into the air.

This may be the successful entry into the copy.

Tang Mo didn’t look at it, turned around and ran to the place where another star fell.

Still being preempted.

He ran more than a dozen places in a row, and sometimes only halfway through the run, the white light soaring to the sky disappeared – this means that someone picked up a branch and successfully entered the dungeon. Sometimes when I ran there, I watched helplessly as another player entered the dungeon.

Time passed minute by minute, and only the last five minutes remained.

Tang Mo ran into a factory. On the ground in front of the factory, a small star lay quietly on the ground, with no other players around.

His eyes lit up and he ran over quickly. Just when Tang Mo’s hand was about to touch the star, he suddenly retracted his hand. A sharp iron boomerang appeared where he had just stretched out his hand. If Tang Mo hadn’t stopped immediately, his hand would have been cut off by this boomerang at this moment.

He turned his head and looked to the left.

I saw a young woman in a camel trench coat staring at him coldly. When she raised her right hand, the boomerang embedded in the ground floated up and returned to the woman’s hand with a swoosh.

The two were ten meters apart, staring at each other.

The next second, the two act together. Tang Mo shouted out a spell, opened the small parasol with a click, and blocked it in front of him. The woman waved a sharp boomerang and drew a large arc of 180° in the air, attacking from Tang Mo’s back.

Tang Mo threw away the small parasol and blocked it behind him. The boomerang slammed into it with force, and Tang Mo fell back one step, farther from the Christmas tree branch.

The woman waved a boomerang in one hand and ran quickly to the little star.

Tang Mo grabbed the umbrella handle and kept blocking the boomerang’s attack. The small pink parasol collided with the fine iron boomerang, making a thumping sound. Tang Mo rested on the ground with one hand, sideways dodging the boomerang’s attack, and at the same time, he retracted his parasol and stabbed a carbine backward without turning his head.

The woman was about to get the little star. She didn’t expect Tang Mo to be able to use his energy to attack her while dealing with the boomerang. She couldn’t dodge for a while, and a bloody slit was drawn on her shoulder by the sharp umbrella tip. She was extremely annoyed and concentrated on using her powers, directing the boomerang to attack Tang Mo again.

Tang Mo rolled on the ground regardless of his image and grabbed Little Xingxing.

The woman said anxiously, “You…!”

boom!

Tang Mo opened the small parasol and blocked the boomerang that was flying towards him. He calmly put away the small parasol and looked at the woman in the trench coat who was standing not far away. The latter’s face flushed with anger, but time was waiting for no one, so she could only give Tang Mo a stern look, then turned and ran to the next point where the stars fell.

Tang Mo’s figure gradually dissipated, and he heard the sound of the black tower in his mind——

“Ding Dong! The first side mission has been completed, and successfully entered the Christmas Eve surprise copy of No. 419 in Huaxia District 2.”

“Player data loading completed…”

“The copy information is loaded…

A dazzling white light flashed in front of him, Tang Mo opened his eyes, and the whole world was surrounded by white light. The moment he opened his eyes, he grasped the handle of the small parasol, always beware of monsters like the big mole that suddenly rushed out to kill. But gradually, after the white light dissipated, Tang Mo could see the appearance of this dungeon world.

This is a white world about ten meters long and five meters wide. The ground is equally divided into four pieces, forming four blank lattices five meters long and 2.5 meters wide. Tang Mo was standing on the white grid on the far right. He looked around, and in the three grids on his left, there were also three people standing.

The four of them stood in a row, Tang Mo was on the far right, on his left was a young man about his age, and on the left was a woman who looked like a high school student. In the leftmost grid, stood a middle-aged man.

When the four saw each other, they all stared at the other three vigilantly and clenched their weapons.

At this moment, a rumbling sound rang out. The four of them all looked towards the place where the voice came from.

In front of them, it seemed that a white wall was rising, revealing the opposite scene. Tang Mo stared at the rising white wall carefully, and said to himself, “It turns out that it is not a white world, but a divided world. The other side of this wall…”

He secretly let out a bad cry and looked at the other side.

Sure enough, on the opposite side of the white wall, there were four people standing in the other four squares, opposite Tang Mo and the others.

This white world was finally revealed to the eight players.

This is a white map ten meters long and fifteen meters wide. Every four players stand on the same side, dividing four squares. In the middle of the players on both sides, is an area five meters wide. In the center of the area, a large golden star was suspended in mid-air, and a little golden starlight slowly sprinkled from its body.

Tang Mo looked at the four people on the opposite side. But he couldn’t see clearly, just listened—

“Boom–”

The white world seemed to have a big earthquake, and the whole world was shaking. Tang Mo quickly propped himself on the ground with a small parasol to stabilize his body. When he looked up, he saw eight huge iron cards falling from the sky, smashing in front of each player with a bang, just stuck on the edge of the white grid.

The big silver-white iron plate hit the ground and caused an earthquake. After a while, all eight talents stood firm.

Tang Mo had already raised his head and looked at the big iron plate placed in front of him. After carefully reading every corner of the iron card, he turned to look at the iron card of the man standing beside him.

The picture on this iron plate is different from my own!

After coming to this conclusion, before anyone else could react, Tang Mo calmly looked at the next person’s iron card. After reading all the iron cards of the three players on his side, he raised his head and looked towards the opposite side.

There are also four people on the opposite side. Standing directly opposite Tang Mo was a middle-aged woman, and counting to the left, there was a young woman and an old man with white hair.

From Tang Mo’s point of view, he couldn’t see the contents of their iron cards, only the exact same pattern on the back of the iron cards. Santa Claus drives a reindeer wagon, waving a big red sack, happily driving from the clouds to the earth.

The three people on the opposite side were also looking at the content on the iron plate. Tang Mo observed them for a while, then turned his gaze to the last person standing diagonally to him.

He looked at each other silently.

There was a distance of about ten meters between the two, and the man looked up at the content on the iron plate. From a distance, half of the person’s body was blocked by an iron card, and Tang Mo could only see that the person was wearing a black coat. He was clearly standing there quietly, but his standing posture was extremely straight, standing upright like a peak.

For some reason, Tang Mo looked at this man for two more seconds.

The next moment, a falcon-like gaze pierced directly at Tang Mo.