The Earth is Online - Chapter 90

[Chapter 90]

The sky was getting darker. At half past four in the afternoon, the sun has already set in the west. A shining white five-pointed star blooms in the western sky, blending in with the rounded sunset. Tang Mo stood in the small building, staring closely at this strange five-pointed star. Downstairs, several members of the Nanjing group have assembled.

“That’s Team Xiao’s signal.” Fu Wensheng’s startled voice sounded, Tang Mo turned his head to look, and the child ran out at some point, looking at the five-pointed star in the west. He explained: “There was a player in Nanjing who used a very tasteless prop as a reward and exchanged information with our Nanjing team. His prop was this flare. There are four in total, of which the two captains of the five-pointed star were given to Xiao. Team, let them contact the Raiders team directly if there is an emergency. This month, this is the first time Team Xiao has used this flare… He won’t have an accident, right?”

Fu Wenduo’s voice was calm: “There is time to send out a signal flare, which means that it can be delayed, and it is not fatal. And this is Nanjing.”

Hearing what his eldest brother said, Fu Wensheng nodded, like a reassurance pill.

Fu Wensheng quickly went downstairs to join his teammates. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo followed behind him, not completely walking over, but stood in the distance and looked at the dozen or so members of the Nanjing group. There were forty-three members of the Nanjing group, of which twenty-six were participating in the dungeon and did not return. The seventeen people in front of them are all the members of the Nanjing group.

Chai Rong said: “Xiao Jitong sent a signal, there must be something to call us to go. In this way, Xiao Rong and I will take a few people, and you can stay here.” He ordered ten players to stay in place, the others The six went with him to find Xiao Jitong.

The young woman standing beside Chai Rong pondered for a moment, then calmly said: “Xiao team can send a signal flare, which means that it has nothing to do with the black tower game, he has encountered something else. It is very likely that it is a stowaways. You guard the base, I Together with the captain, we will send someone back to report no matter what the situation is in an hour. Assuming no one comes back, run away.”

Fu Wensheng was one of the ten left behind. He wanted to say something after hearing this, but he opened his mouth and closed it.

Someone asked curiously: “Let’s run?”

The woman nodded: “The stowaways who can’t even handle the captain… It’s more practical for you to run quickly.”

The Nanjing team determined the next action with great speed. Within a minute, Chai Rong and other seven players set off in full gear and walked in the direction of the flare launch. The rest of the players were not idle either. They began to organize all the useful props in the organization. If a powerful enemy really appeared, they needed to respond immediately.

Fu Wensheng walked back and looked at Fu Wenduo: “There may be an accident. Two months ago, a group of stowaways attacked the base. At that time, we lost more than a dozen members before we drove the group of stowaways back. Big brother, Tang…” The voice stopped, Fu Wensheng didn’t know what to call Tang Mo, he blinked awkwardly, and finally gave up: “I plan to avoid the limelight first. Even Team Xiao finds something difficult, it must be very difficult. Trouble. This is about the Nanjing team, I don’t want to avoid it…”

The implication: Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo do not belong to the Nanjing group, they can leave now.

Fu Wensheng said so, but his eyes kept looking at Fu Wenduo expectantly. He looked at his elder brother seriously, and there was no doubt in his eyes. Although Fu Wensheng always bullied him when he was a child, and when he grew up, he couldn’t hold his head up because of Fu Wenduo’s name, but Fu Wenduo was not a person who ran away. His eldest brother is very reliable and responsible. It is absolutely impossible to leave him alone, not even the Nanjing team.

However, before Fu Wensheng spoke, he heard a male voice: “I’m going to have a look.”

When the words fell, Fu Wenduo and Fu Wensheng turned their heads together and looked at Tang Mo. Tang Mo said calmly: “Xiao Ji has been in contact with me and him. The big turkey game is already relatively critical, but he was not too nervous from the beginning to the end. He is a very calm person, and nothing very important happened. I won’t be in a hurry to release the flares.” After a pause, he looked at Fu Wensheng: “You said just now that you got the flares for a month. Is this the first time he has used them?”

Fu Wensheng was stunned for a while, then nodded: “Yes, this is Team Xiao’s first use.”

“That’s very interesting. As your captain said, he can release the flare, which means that he is not in the dungeon now, and the troublesome thing has nothing to do with the Black Tower game. I don’t think he released the flare because of the stowaways.”

Fu Wensheng frowned: “Maybe you don’t know this, Team Xiao’s abilities are very useful, but his force is not high. If he encounters a powerful stowaways, he may not be able to defeat them, and he can only let them go at a critical moment. Flare, come to us.”

Before Tang Mo could answer, Fu Wenduo said, “Based on his level of prudence, his ability is not aggressive, and he doesn’t have a strong self-protection ability, so he will never act alone.”

Fu Wensheng: “Yes, Team Xiao has always acted with Sister Ning Ning. Sister Ning Ning is very powerful, only a little worse than the captain.”

“Then he can’t escape, won’t he let Ning Ning escape and come out to report?”

Fu Wensheng was stunned for a moment, and soon he thought: “What if even Sister Ning Ning can’t escape?”

Tang Mo smiled and said, “Then he won’t be able to set off signal flares. Ning Ning couldn’t even escape, which shows that the enemy’s strength is beyond everyone’s imagination. It may not be useful if the Nanjing team goes, on the contrary, it may bring himself to himself. Pull in. When Xiao Jitong encounters a powerful stowaways, he should choose to stand behind himself and let Ningning escape to report the letter. Then let the Nanjing team and the strategy team join hands to make a plan first, and then act. This is Something reckless and unplanned, he wouldn’t do.”

Fu Wensheng thought about Tang Mo’s words carefully, but he did not refute it. Tang Mo was right.

Tang Mo: “Let’s go and see what happened.”

Under the gradually sinking sunlight, Fu Wensheng just wanted to understand what happened, when he looked up, he saw Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo striding out of the base gate of the Nanjing team, heading towards the direction of the five-pointed star flare. He hurriedly followed: “Brother, take me one, I also want to see what happened.”

Fu Wenduo stopped and looked down at Fu Wensheng. Fu Wensheng took a look at him, his whole body straightened, and he walked forward seriously. Fu Wen stared at him for a while, the corners of his mouth twitched, but in the end he didn’t stop, and the three of them walked towards the place where the flare was fired.

There was one thing Tang Mo didn’t say, but he knew: Fu Wenduo understood what he meant.

If it was just because the person who fired the flare was Xiao Jitong and they had contact with Xiao Jitong, neither Tang Mo nor Fu Wenduo would choose to walk over for no reason and check the truth. Their curiosity is not so heavy. The real reason…

Tang Mo raised his head and stared solemnly at the huge black tower suspended in the sky.

“It’s too close…” Tang Mo whispered.

Fu Wensheng didn’t hear clearly for a while: “What did you say?”

Tang Mo shook his head: “Nothing.”

Fu Wensheng didn’t know Tang Mo very well, and his impression of Tang Mo was still “that powerful player who killed a lunatic and looked terrible and unfathomable”. He didn’t ask any more.

After Fu Wenduo heard this, he glanced at Tang Mo. He raised the corners of his lips and followed Tang Mo’s gaze to look at the black tower.

The place where Xiao Jitong fired the flare was too close to the black tower.

The dazzling five-pointed star is sandwiched between the red sunset and the black tower, with the sunset on the left and the black tower on the right. This position is very delicate, which makes people have to think about whether Xiao Jitong’s urgent matter is related to the black tower.

Best it doesn’t matter.

Tang Mo thought to himself in his heart.

The base of the Nanjing group was some distance away from Xinjiekou. After walking for half an hour, the three of them successfully arrived at the bottom of the black tower. Seeing Fu Wensheng, Chai Rong was full of surprise, and immediately went up and asked, “Small voice, why are you here?”

Fu Wensheng said confidently, “I came with my brother.”

Fu Wenduo raised an eyebrow and glanced at Fu Wensheng. Fu Wensheng shrank his neck subconsciously, but soon he straightened his chest again.

Chai Rong: “…”

“It’s different if you have a brother.” After muttering, Chai Rong couldn’t reprimand Fu Wensheng in front of Fu Wenduo.

In the center of Xinjiekou Square is a tall statue of Sun Yat-sen. Above the statue, a dark tower-like object is suspended in the sky 100 meters high. Xiao Jitong and Ning Ning stood at the bottom of the black tower. Seeing Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, Ning Ning hugged the silver crossbow tightly in his arms. Xiao Jitong was surprised for a moment, then smiled, “Mr. Tang, Mr. Fu.”

Tang Mo walked over and said directly: “What happened. Is it related to the black tower?”

Xiao Jitong didn’t wonder why Tang Mo knew that the matter was related to the Black Tower. He took Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo outside the square. Standing on the road, looking up at the black tower. The bright sun shines on the black tower, all the light is absorbed by the tower body, and there is no light at all. Tang Mo carefully observed the black tower. After watching it for a long time, he was about to ask what was going on, when his eyes suddenly stopped.

His eyes slowly widened, and the next moment, Tang Mo said in surprise, “What is that?!”

Xiao Jitong smiled and nodded: “Yes, that’s it.”

I saw three tiny white light spots appear on the huge tower of the black tower. These three light spots are so small that if you don’t look carefully, you can’t see any abnormality at all. The black tower is 100 meters high and wide, and these three dots are only the size of a human fingernail. If Tang Mo’s eyesight hadn’t improved, it would have been impossible for him to see these three constantly flickering light spots.

Like half an ellipsis on a computer, from left to right, these three little white dots light up one after the other. When all are lit, then all are dimmed. Then light up in sequence from the far left, and so on.

Tang Mo observed for a while, then looked at Xiao Jitong solemnly: “What is that?” There was no surprise in his tone, all solemn.

The smile on Xiao Jitong’s face gradually faded: “I don’t know.”

The three little dots of light that keep shining on the black tower, what are they? Nobody knows. But this is more important than the arrival of stowaways.

Three months ago, the Black Tower suddenly announced that it would update version 2.0. Since then, there have been more assembly copies and reality copies, and each player must attack the tower once within three months. Now the black tower is abnormal again.

Tang Mo immediately thought: “Is it only the black tower in Nanjing, or does it have black towers in the whole world?” Tang Mo had carefully looked at the black towers in Shanghai before he came to Nanjing, and did not find such a strange light spot. There is a 90% chance that he really didn’t, and a 10% chance that he didn’t find it.

Chai Rong: “I have sent people to Zhenjiang to see the situation, and Xiao Jitong also suspects this problem.”

Everything that could be done was done, and everyone stood there, quietly watching the three dots of light that kept beating on the black tower.

“Why did you find it?” A deep voice suddenly sounded.

Xiao Jitong turned his head to look. He looked at Fu Wenduo and smiled after a while, “It’s a coincidence.”

“It’s because of me.”

Everyone turned their heads in unison and looked at Ning Ning.

When everyone was discussing just now, Ning Ning had been standing by the side without saying a word. Holding the bow and crossbow, she said coldly: “Every time I survive a black tower game, I will come here to see this black tower. Team Xiao came with me. The dungeon we cleared this time is from here. It’s very close, so I didn’t go back to the base, but came directly. I look at it very carefully, so I see those three points.”

“When was the last time you came to see the Black Tower?” Tang Mo suddenly asked.

Ningning was stunned for a moment: “About ten days ago. After we cleared the big turkey game, I came over at noon to see it myself.”

Tang Mo: “When you came to visit ten days ago, didn’t you see those three points?”

Ningning: “No.”

Tang Mo: “Are you sure you didn’t read it wrong?”

Ningning said firmly: “I can’t read it wrong. Every time I sit here, I watch for an hour before leaving.”

Tang Mo noticed something was wrong, he looked at Xiao Jitong, Xiao Jitong smiled and shook his head at him. Tang Mo didn’t ask any more questions.

Everyone has their own hobbies, just like Tang Mo likes to kick the stone tablet under the black tower after being miserable by the black tower. It’s not impossible that Ning Ning likes to sit here and watch the black tower.

Things came to a deadlock again.

“Now we don’t know when these three points appeared, and whether they are only found in Nanjing.” Xiao Jitong analyzed, “But there is no doubt that these three points are definitely unusual. Chai Rong, find someone to Stop here, don’t let other players come in for the time being.”

Chai Rong nodded.

Tang Mo: “At least ten days ago, these three points haven’t appeared. That is, February 23, without these three points…”

The sun was slowly setting, and the sky darkened. When the sun sank into the horizon, the three small bright spots gradually became clear. Still hard to spot, but not entirely invisible.

Tang Mo: “Find someone! Determine when these three points will appear.”

Chai Rong was stunned: “Looking for someone?”

Xiao Jitong already understood what Tang Mo meant: “Yes, find someone! These three points are difficult to find during the day, but at night, it becomes much easier to see them. Chai Rong, find someone. Find a place to stay. Players around here. Nanjing is different from other places. Players live a relatively stable life. There must be players who have been living in the same place and do not change their bases. We can ask them if they have seen these three points and when are they? You can see it. In this way, you can know the specific appearance time of these three points.”

Without further ado, Chai Rong quickly arranged for the members of the Nanjing team to find players who lived near the black tower.

Xiao Jitong said it well, this method is not feasible for any other city. Because now players all over the world are like frightened birds, they have been running around in search of food and water resources. But Nanjing is different.

Players generally like to gather near the bases of large organizations, which is more secure. For example, in the large shopping malls where the Atak organization is located, there are many reservists. In addition, it is a city like Nanjing that is too stable. Players do not need to rely on a large organization, they can directly find a place to settle down.

The Nanjing group is very prestigious in Nanjing. After half an hour, they found more than 20 players who lived near the black tower.

Xiao Jitong briefly explained the matter to them, and they all shook their heads, saying that they had never seen those three points. They didn’t look so carefully at all.

After another ten minutes, Ning Ning brought back a fourteen-year-old junior high school girl. The girl was very short, and when she saw the members of the Nanjing team and the Raiders team, she was scared and curious. When Ning Ning told him the identities of Chai Rong and Xiao Jitong, her eyes lit up and she said, “…You are Team Chai and Team Xiao? I saw it!”

Xiao Jitong: “When did you see it?!”

The female junior high school student recalled: “I entered the dungeon No. 279 nine days ago, and I just came out. The night before I entered the dungeon, when I looked at the black tower, I seemed to have seen some bright spots. There were flashes on the black tower, But I’m not sure if it’s these three little spots… The community building where I live is a bit far from here.”

Everyone just ignited a little hope, but it was quickly shattered.

Xiao Jitong pulled the girl aside and carefully asked every detail she saw. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo walked into the distance and left the coverage area of the black tower. Because those three points were close to the apex of the black tower, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo found the tallest office building nearby, went to the rooftop, and observed the black tower from a closer position.

Tang Mo had seen three black towers in total.

The black tower in Suzhou, the black tower in Shanghai and this black tower in Nanjing.

Each black tower looks exactly the same from the outside, there is no difference.

Looking at this black tower, Tang Mo felt a strange feeling in his heart. It seems to be back to four months ago. In those six months, he had sat by the window of the library countless times. After finishing the work at hand, he turned his head boredly and looked at the black tower. At that time, the black tower was still a phantom and could not be touched.

Now, it weighed heavily on the ground, and three tiny dots of light flickered on its spire.

After making up his mind, Tang Mo said, “There is a 70% chance, that girl is not mistaken. She is an ordinary reservist. At this time, she thinks more about how to live, and doesn’t feel in the mood to see the black tower. But she He is the only person who said that he has seen the light spot on the black tower. Ning Ning came ten days ago and did not see the light spot. She also saw these three spots in the evening ten days ago.” After a while, Tang Mo said the number: “February 23.”

Tang Mo frowned, thinking about what was so special about this day. At this moment, Fu Wenduo whispered, “Earth will be online for 100 days.”

Tang Mo was stunned for a moment, then he quickly turned his head to look at Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo said lightly: “On November 15th, the earth went online. By February 23rd, it will be exactly one hundred days.”

Tang Mo suddenly became enlightened.

Yes, on February 23, it was exactly 100 days after the Black Tower announced that the Earth was online. It must be said that there is something special about this day, it should be this. but……

“Is there also a special game in 100 days?” Tang Mo looked at Fu Wenduo, “There is a Christmas Eve game at Christmas. After the New Year and Spring Festival, the Black Tower did not respond at all. Assuming that these three light spots are really compatible with each other. It’s related to the 100 days that the earth went online, now it’s March 5th, and ten days have passed. Ten days… So, why ten days?” After ten days passed, the Black Tower did not respond.

Fu Wenduo curled the corners of his lips and looked at Tang Mo fixedly.

Tang Mo looked at him, wanting to hear the answer from his mouth. But after a long time, Fu Wenduo still smiled and looked at him without answering.

Tang Mo: “…Fu Wenduo?”

Fu Wenduo: “I don’t know.”

Tang Mo: “…”

It seems that the teacher is staring at the students eagerly during the class, waiting for the students to give answers. But I didn’t expect students to say “I don’t know” so bluntly. Although there was nothing wrong with Fu Wenduo saying that, Tang Mo just thought it was strange. Having been with this person for a long time, I always feel that this person knows everything. At least on some questions, Fu Wenduo can always give a different answer.

When Tang Mo thinks about things, his thinking is generally neat, orderly, and logical. Fu Wenduo is different, he can always think of and do something unexpected. This open and close way of thinking is extremely aggressive, sharp and full of impact. So he and Fu Wenduo also had a tacit understanding on this point: the two could complement each other, taking into account what the other didn’t expect.

Just like him and Victor, they have very different styles when it comes to playing bridge. Tang Mo is more orthodox and straightforward, and Victor is more treacherous. The two cooperated, but they were meticulous and made up for every deficiency.

Inexplicably thinking of that name in his mind, Tang Mo’s heart moved slightly.

“Tang Mo?”

Suddenly being called by someone’s name, Tang Mo shook his head and put the strange feeling aside. He said: “Perhaps Xiao Jitong has already thought of the connection with the Earth for 100 days on February 23. Let’s go down and exchange information with them, and then think about these three points together…” What’s going on .

The sound stopped abruptly.

Fu Wenduo suddenly stretched out his hand, went around Tang Mo’s shoulder, and hugged his face from behind him. With his hot palm on his face, Tang Mo froze in place in astonishment, his breathing stagnant. At this moment, he felt Fu Wenduo pulling his face to the side.

As if giving way to something.

Tang Mo came back to his senses: “What’s wrong?”

Fu Wenduo’s eyes were fixed on Tang Mo’s back. Tang Mo noticed something was wrong. He was about to turn his head to check the situation when Fu Wenduo’s other hand was already on his shoulder. Fu Wenduo touched Tang Mo’s right face with one hand, and the other on his shoulder. With a slight force with both hands, Tang Mo turned around.

“Stopped.”

The sky was dark, and the icy wind blew from a distance and rolled over the ground of the rooftop. Fu Wenduo’s voice rang in Tang Mo’s ears, and he was heartbroken. Immediately, Tang Mo followed the direction of Fu Wenduo’s body, and after seeing it clearly, his lips parted slightly.

“…stop?!”

Below the black tower, Ning Ning suddenly stood up and said coldly, “Stop.”

Xiao Jitong was inquiring about the female junior high school student. Hearing this, he quickly looked at Ning Ning, and then he ran out of the square at the fastest speed and looked up at the three small white light spots. I saw that at the highest point of the black tower, the three little white dots that had been flickering suddenly stopped, no longer flickering.

Three small white dots were fixed on the pitch-black black tower, no longer beating, just abruptly above.

A strong sense of danger surged in Tang Mo’s heart, and his gaze swept across a western bell on the bell tower in the distance. On the clock dial, the hour hand points to the 6 position, and the minute hand is about to reach 12, only one small grid away.

17:59.

“Hurry up and leave Nanjing!” Tang Mo said loudly. This idea popped up in his mind inexplicably. He didn’t know why he suddenly thought of this, but he vaguely felt that his judgment was correct. This is the power of Chen Shanshan’s super-intelligent thinking. Every time he judges something, there is about a 10% probability of correct judgment.

Fu Wenduo let go of the hand on Tang Mo’s face. He planned to ask Tang Mo why, but seeing Tang Mo’s solemn expression, he did not ask.

“Okay.”

Tang Mo immediately turned around and planned to run downstairs, but Fu Wenduo directly took his hand: “Go directly.”

Tang Mo looked at him in astonishment, and soon he saw Fu Wenduo hugging his waist, almost carrying him on his shoulders. Tang Mo didn’t react to anything, Fu Wenduo had already jumped over three skyscrapers with him, keeping away from the black tower.

Tang Mo was stunned by this lifeless behavior flying around in the air. When he reacted, he was about to break away when suddenly, a child’s voice sounded over Nanjing. At the same time, this voice also sounded on the land of China. Hundreds of crisp children’s voices hummed a familiar melody in unison. It didn’t sing the lyrics, but after listening to it for a while, Tang Mo realized, “The Painter?”

It’s the melody of “The Painter”.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo stopped on the roof of a building not far away, and they stared at the dark giant tower. I saw a white light flickering on the tower of the black tower, like a small star, constantly flickering. This light is not very dazzling, but it makes people feel very strange, with the overwhelming singing children’s voice. The cold night wind blew through, and Tang Mo clenched his fingers.

After humming “The Painter” once, Bai Guang stopped abruptly.

“Ding Dong! On March 5, 2018, the tenth district of China decided to start the extra dungeon ‘Last One’s Garbage Cleaning Game’.”

“game rules–”

“First, from 18:00 on March 5, 2018 to 6:00 on March 6, 2018, all players who have set foot in Huaxia District 6, Huaxia District 49, Huaxia District 194… Huaxia District 1002 are regarded as Players in the region, participate in the game.”

“Second, the game time is from 18:00 to 6:00 the next day, and the game location is the above ten districts.”

“Third, there will be a batch of bunny heads every hour. Kill a bunny head to get a badge.”

“Fourth, there are 11 garbage disposal stations in Huaxia District 6, 5 garbage disposal stations in Huaxia District 49… 6 garbage disposal stations in Huaxia District 1002.”

“Fifth, send your surprise to the garbage disposal station to clear the game.”

“Sixth, each player can only enter the garbage disposal station once.”

“Seventh, players who clear the game can get a rest right, and within half a year from now, they can only attack the tower once.”

“Eighth, the loser immediately enters the tower attack game, and the game difficulty is hard mode.”

“Ninth, announce the list of ten districts. Huaxia District 6: Nanjing, Huaxia District 49: Dongying… Huaxia District 1002: Guyuan.”

“Ding dong! Forgive Heita, I’m not targeting anyone, I mean everyone in the above ten districts, they are all garbage.”