The Earth is Online - Chapter 7

[Chapter VII]

As if it was really just to express her contempt, after saying this, the mosaic on the little girl’s face returned to normal. She handed the giant match to Tang Mo, turned around and ran to the depths of the bookshelf. The long ponytail swayed from side to side with her bouncing movements, and the small figure disappeared into the shadows deep in the bookshelf.

“Ding Dong! The confrontation game ‘Who the hell stole my book’ is over.”

“Setting game rewards…”

“Player Tang Mo wins the mission and gets rewards ‘Giant Match’ and ‘Contempt from Mosaic’.”

“Player Chen Fangzhi failed the mission.”

The crisp children’s voice echoed in the empty library and entered the ears of Tang Mo and Shen Gong. There are usually rewards for games, even online card games can get some kind of rewards like Happy Beans. Tang Mo had guessed that this big match might be his prize.

But what is that “contempt from Mosaic”? !

Isn’t this a mission clue? Godly game bonus!

Tang Mo’s face turned green and white, and his heart was complicated. Compared to him, the god stick is even more in a trance.

The magic stick is the loser in this game, with rewards and generally punishments. If you lose an ordinary game, you may lose money. If you lose the black tower game, no one knows what to lose.

Heita didn’t clearly inform the punishment, the god stick was stunned for a long time, and turned his head slowly to look at Tang Mo: “…Am I going to die?”

Tang Mo couldn’t answer this question either. He comforted: “It shouldn’t be that serious.”

Shenbang gained confidence all of a sudden: “I believe in you. You are so smart, what you say makes sense, it will not be so cruel, it is a god, it will bring me hope and rebirth, it is my god…”

Tang Mo held the big match and looked calmly at the crazy stick.

He didn’t tell the game penalty in the first place, which made him a little uneasy. As if the calm before dawn, this kind of behavior that does not conform to the common sense of the game often represents a more terrible and unpredictable result. But Tang Mo also comforted himself in his heart: If the game fails, he will die, then at least half of the people in this world will die, right?

How is this possible with billions of people dying?

Shouldn’t be possible.

Shouldn’t be possible…

The confrontation game is over, but the library has not returned to normal. Tang Mo and Shen Gong tried it, but still couldn’t go downstairs. At the same time, the window on the third floor was blank.

They have not yet returned to Suzhou.

Time passed by, and Tang Mo and Shen Gong were still trapped on the third floor of the library.

The clock on the wall struck six o’clock, Tang Mo’s body suddenly became tense, and an unexplained panic swept his sanity.

His heart was beating fast again.

The thumping heart seemed to be able to fly out of his chest in the next second. Tang Mo grabbed the bookshelf, but his body couldn’t stabilize at all. He slumped on the ground along the bookshelf. The magic stick quickly ran over from a distance: “What happened to you?”

The excessive blood flow made Tang Mo’s face turn red within a minute, and every inch of his skin was scary red, like a cooked crab. The god stick fell back a step in horror, and soon he gathered up the courage to walk to Tang Mo’s side: “Are you all right? Why are you so red and your face is so hot… Are you having a fever?!”

Tang Mo’s heartbeat was just too fast, but his mind was still clear. He struggled to say two words: “Heart…”

The magic stick immediately understood and covered it with his hands: “Why is your heart beating so fast! This has to be 200 beats per minute… No, 300 beats, right?!”

Tang Mo could no longer speak, he corrected in his mind: it was 394 times.

There was no way to get out of the library, only Tang Mo and Shen Gong were inside. Tang Mo suddenly became like this, the magic stick had no choice but to help him onto the desk of the service desk, push everything on the table away, and let Tang Mo lie down. After doing all of this, the magic stick ran into the bathroom by himself, and dipped a piece of paper on Tang Mo’s forehead, hoping it would work.

Tang Mo’s heartbeat has reached 532 beats per minute. He doesn’t know how fast a human heartbeat can reach, but he feels that every next second, his heart may explode. But for some unknown reason, the heart did not conform to medical common sense at all, and persisted tenaciously.

The magic stick kept running to the bathroom, took toilet paper and dipped it in water, and then applied it to every inch of Tang Mo’s bare skin.

Tang Mo could feel that this kind of behavior didn’t help at all, but he was very grateful for the magic stick to help him in this way. He couldn’t speak, he could only look at the god stick with red eyes, and saw that the god stick was sweating profusely.

After a full hour, Tang Mo silently counted his heartbeats and found that the heartbeats actually dropped.

The magic stick thought that the cold compress was effective, so he hurriedly ran a few times and put a wet tissue on Tang Mo’s eyelids.

After an unknown amount of time, Tang Mo felt that his body could move. He took the wet paper that was on his body and got up from the table with trembling hands.

The magic stick just came out of the bathroom, and when he saw this scene, he immediately ran over: “How are you?!”

Tang Mo opened his mouth and found that his throat was frighteningly dry. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded with a smile: “Well, it seems to be better.”

“That’s good, it scared me to death just now.” The magic stick heaved a sigh of relief.

Tang Mo looked at the magic stick seriously: “Thank you.”

The magic stick shook his head: “It’s okay, I can’t just watch you fall there and leave it alone.”

The relationship between the two of them is awkward now. On the one hand, the magic stick pulled Tang Mo into an unknown game, bringing him an unclear danger. At this point, the two of them should have a gap, and even need to beware of each other. But on the other hand, the game is over, as if it’s really just a normal game. Tang Mo’s body suddenly had an accident, and the magic stick didn’t abandon him. Even if he didn’t do anything to help, Tang Mo couldn’t help but be grateful.

After such a stubble, the relationship between the two has become closer.

God stick: “What happened to you just now, your heartbeat is so fast. My dad is a doctor, don’t say that it reaches your heartbeat. When a normal person’s heartbeat reaches 250, the heart can’t supply blood, and he will die within a few minutes.”

Tang Mo thought about it for a while and decided to tell the god stick: “You haven’t had a rapid heartbeat these days?”

The magic stick shook his head: “No.”

Tang Mo frowned and explained patiently, “Since I started three days ago, my heartbeat suddenly increased. It was not as fast as today, but it has reached more than 300 beats per minute. At the same time, I am very irritable. This irritability may be due to the dark The tower incident, I am not a ‘dangerous black tower’, but I am not a complete ‘black tower optimist’, I can understand the irritability of such a big event in the black tower. But I don’t understand the heartbeat.”

“Are you sick?”

“In the past few days, there has been a black tower incident, and I have never been to the hospital to see it.”

The god stick thought for a while: “Then you should go to see a doctor early. I have never heard of your disease. You have not died with a heartbeat of more than 300. I am afraid you are the only one in the world.” The god stick made a joke. : “Perhaps you will be recruited by the state to study it as a guinea pig. Hey, then you better not go to the doctor.”

Tang Mo smiled.

“Click-”

In the silent library, there was a sudden sound of the door opening.

Tang Mo and Shen Gong looked at each other: This is the sound of the door on the first floor of the library being opened!

The two quickly ran downstairs, the forces preventing them from leaving the third floor of the library disappeared at some point, and they ran to the tall mahogany gate of the library with the fastest speed in their lives.

The key turned gently in the keyhole, and with a creak, the door was pushed open a crack. The long-lost sunlight passed through the small crack in the door and shone on the faces of Tang Mo and Shenqiu. That warm feeling doesn’t belong to the “angel day” in the game, it’s the real sun.

Tang Mo narrowed his eyes, the warm temperature soothed the pores all over his body.

“Hey, Tang Mo, why are you here?” A clear female voice sounded, “You came so early to get something?”

Tang Mo opened his eyes: “Xiao Zhao?”

Only then did Tang Mo remember that he came to the library yesterday evening to get something, because Director Wang said that the library would be requisitioned by the government. It took him a few seconds to clear his mind: “Are you here to get something?”

Xiao Zhao smiled: “Yes. My parents think the black tower is too weird, and they plan to go back to their hometown to avoid the limelight. We’re leaving at ten o’clock, so I’ll get something. Hey, didn’t I ask you first? Why are you here so early? What are you holding in your hand, matches? Ah, the magic stick…ahem, why is he here?”

Xiao Zhao saw the magic stick, and the magic stick swallowed nervously.

Tang Mo explained calmly: “I bumped into him when I was picking up something, and we chatted a little.”

“You still have something to talk about with him…” Xiao Zhao muttered. She raised her head and said, “Then I’ll come in to get something, so I won’t chat with you.” With that, the little girl stepped forward to enter the door.

Just as she was about to step into the door with one leg, Tang Mo’s eyes widened and his pupils trembled.

“Zhao Yan!”

Zhao Yan is Xiao Zhao’s name. She came to the library for half a year, and few people would call this name. Tang Mo suddenly shouted loudly, and Xiao Zhao looked at him strangely: “What’s wrong?”

Tang Mo’s lips were slightly parted, and he couldn’t say a word. He just looked at Xiao Zhao’s lower body with a strange look. Xiao Zhao followed his gaze and looked down. When she saw it clearly, she suddenly fell to the ground and crawled back a few steps with both hands on the ground.

“What is this, what is this… my leg! My leg!!!”

Tears spilled out of his eyes in an instant.

This is just a little girl who just graduated from college in 1996. She was sobbing and touching her lower body with both hands, but there was nothing there.

In Tang Mo’s eyes, an invisible line was spreading from the base of Xiao Zhao’s thigh to her upper body. Where this thread passes, everything vanishes into nothing, as if something wiped Xiao Zhao from this world.

He didn’t know when the thread appeared, when he found it, Xiao Zhao’s calf had disappeared. She herself was completely ignorant, and she still stood talking to Tang Mo.

Tears and snot flowing on her face, Xiao Zhao’s waist has disappeared, she crawled to Tang Mo’s legs, grabbed his trousers with both hands, and cried bitterly: “Help me, Brother Tang, help me! What’s wrong with me, What the hell happened to me! Brother Tang, save me!”

Tang Mo reached out and held Xiao Zhao’s hand, but he just held it for two seconds when the thread reached Xiao Zhao’s arms, and her hand disappeared.

The transparent thread reached Xiao Zhao’s neck.

She only had one head lying on the ground, with tears in her eyes, looking at Tang Mo, it was terrifying and strange.

“I don’t want to die…I don’t want to die. I haven’t been in love yet, I haven’t had anyone I like. I want to go back to watching cartoons, the novel I was chasing yesterday is not over yet…Dad…Mom…I don’t want to. Die, I don’t want to die. Brother Tang, Tang…”

The mouth also disappeared.

Those eyes that were wet with tears kept looking at Tang Mo until the person disappeared.

Within a minute, a big living person was gone.

Tang Mo’s mind went blank, but at this moment, what frightened him the most was that at this time, he was actually very calm. He looked at the place where Xiao Zhao disappeared for half a minute, suddenly thought of something, and quickly turned to look at the magic stick behind him.

In the dark library, the part below the thigh of the god stick has disappeared. He looked at Tang Mo with a pale face, showing a frightened and pitiful smile: “Tang…Tang Mo, is this a punishment for losing the game…”

“God stick!”

boom!

The stick fell to the ground.

Tang Mo immediately rushed up and grabbed the hand of the stick.

The god stick cried, tears streaming down his face, his snot sticking to his lips. He held Tang Mo’s hand tightly, like Xiao Zhao, and said over and over again, “I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…Tang Mo, save me, I don’t want to die…”

Tang Mo was helpless. He pressed his hand on the part of the magic stick that didn’t disappear, but when the line came over, what should have disappeared disappeared. What he felt was a piece of air.

Only the upper body of the magic stick remains.

Tang Mo: “Don’t be afraid, there must be a way.”

A big man cried and said, “What can I do? I don’t want to die, I really don’t want to die…Tang Mo, save me! You eliminated me, save me! Save me!”

Tang Mo couldn’t say a word.

The magic stick didn’t speak anymore, he kept crying, and kept crying. Time became extremely slow, when his chest was about to disappear, he suddenly clenched Tang Mo’s hand, looked at Tang Mo with those bloodshot eyes, and roared, “I have a daughter. She is there Shanghai, her mother and I are divorced. You help me to see her and see if she is still alive. Her name is Shanshan, Chen Shanshan. She wants to live, she must live! You help me to see her, just see One look at her!”

The stick’s hand disappeared.

“Help me, Tang Mo, I beg you, help me. She must be alive, she must!”

Tang Mo: “Where does she live?”

“She is in Jing’an District, studying in Shibei University, and she is in the first year of junior high school. She…”

The stick’s mouth disappeared.

His eyes were fixed on Tang Mo.

The transparent thread reached his ear, and he stared at Tang Mo without blinking, his eyes were scary red, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

“I’ll go find her, she must be alive.”

The thread completely wiped off the stick’s ears, but the stick’s eyes suddenly relaxed. He was still crying, he was speechless, just looked at Tang Mo, and before his eyes disappeared, he blinked at him, a tear fell and fell to the ground.

Tang Mo knelt down at the door of the library by himself, Xiao Zhao outside the door disappeared, and the magic stick inside the door also disappeared.

The eight o’clock bell rang in the library, and the pendulum clock struck the eighth time. Tang Mo was still kneeling on the cold ground.

“Go to sleep, go to sleep, my dear baby. Mom’s hands, shaking you gently…”

A gentle and kind female voice sounded throughout the city of Suzhou.

Tang Mo turned his head stiffly and looked at the giant black tower 200 meters away from the library.

Colorful lights flickered on the black tower. A day ago, there were thousands of people around the tower; a day later, there are only seven or eight people left sitting on the ground like Tang Mo. Lullaby’s Black Tower.

After the female voice finished singing, a group of children’s voices followed the female voice.

“Sleep, sleep, my dear baby.

Mom’s hands gently shake you.

The cradle shakes you, and sleep fast.

The night is quiet, and the blanket is so warm…”

The voice sang over and over. The wind blows across the earth, carrying this wonderful song farther afield.

After a song was sung, the crisp and familiar children’s voice sounded.

“Ding Dong! 498.16 million players successfully loaded the game…”

“Game save…”

“Loading game data…”

“Player information loading…”

“Save successfully…”

“Successful loading…”

“Successful loading…”

“Ding Dong! On November 18, 2017, players are welcome to enter the game.”

“Announce the three iron laws of the Black Tower—”

“First, all explanations belong to the Black Tower.”

“Second, 6:00-18:00 is game time.”

“Third, please all players work hard to attack the tower.”

“Ding dong! Happy game!”