The Earth is Online Chapter 159-160

Chapter 159

It was the exact same appearance and the same attitude towards the truth. There had been a trace of suspicion when Tang Mo mett the truth clock (Mr. Rabbit said that he would give the truth clock to the Queen of Hearts, the clock shouldn't be here) but he couldn't find anything. This should be the truth clock but Tang Mo always felt that something wasn't right.

Tang Mo said, "If you are a failed invention then you are infinitely close to the real truth clock. The two of you are really similar." It was impossible for anyone to find the difference between them with one glance

The truth clock growled, "I am the truth clock!"

"It is a pity, great and poor truth clock. The black tower doesn't recognize your identity." Grecia spoke in a respectful tone. It was just that this situation made his words sound sarcastic. He laughed, "Maybe you really aren't the truth clock."

The truth clock cried out, "You…!"

Tang Mo glanced lightly at Grecia and turned to the truth clock. "When we first entered this room, you said you are the great truth clock and you tell the time for Schrodinger. Once you said this, you can no longer be the truth clock. In fact, I didn't find the mistake at first but you constantly repeated this sentence. You also said something else." Tang Mo paused and looked up. "You said that you hate the fallacy compass."

The truth clock was puzzled. "I do hate the fallacy compass. That hateful compass is the nastiest and most disgusting thing in the world. It denies all truths and seeks fallacies that transcend the truth. What is wrong with that sentence?"

Tang Mo replied, "There is nothing wrong with the sentence. The mistake is that you said it with your mouth."

The truth clock was angry and anxious. It kept refusing to admit that it wasn't the truth clock. "You are lying to me, shameless black tower intruder. Don't deceive the great truth clock with your clumsy lies."

“You are still saying that you are a great truth clock?" Tang Mo suddenly asked.

The clock of truth was stunned.

Tang Mo's eyes were calm. "If every word that comes from your mouth is the truth, then your greatness… how can it be proven as true?"

The truth clock stopped talking after hearing this.

Zhao Xiaofei nodded. "Yes! Whether it is the great truth clock or the great Schrodinger, it isn't the truth. The truth is objectively right. Anything that contains subjective feelings can't be the truth."

Li Miaomiao also realized, "Yes, you say you are great but nothing can prove your greatness. For example, I can say that I am beautiful. I might be beautiful in my eyes while ugly in other people's eyes. Anything that contains subjective feelings can't be the truth." Li Miaomiao was excited. "All subjective judgments aren't objective. They aren't truths! Thus, you aren't the truth clock!"

"It is a truth clock." A low voice was heard.

"Schrodinger's rooms are filled with successful and failed inventions."

Fu Wenduo looked calm. "It is a failed truth clock."

"I'm going to kill you!"  

The always stable female voice suddenly became violent, like a crazy jealous woman. Five blue tentacles emerged from the clock and grabbed at the five players in the room. However, its tentacles hadn't touched Tang Mo's clothes when he moved sideways to avoid it and grabbed at the tentacle.

Li Miaomiao and the others also escaped the surprise attack.

"Our feet can move?"

The truth was broken and the players were no longer restricted by the room.

The truth clock growled and waved more blue tentacles, attacking the players in the room. Li Miaomiao and Zhao Xiaofei's first reaction was to turn and ran out the door. Since they were able to move then they would naturally chose to leave. Grecia jumped away from the truth clock but didn't intend to fight. He picked up his cane and followed the women.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo glanced at each other and rushed in tandem. Tang Mo opened the small parasol and numerous blue tentacles bounced off the umbrella. Fu Wenduo grabbed Tang Mo's shoulder and jumped up. The black triangular weapon fell down and split the blue clock in half.

The beautiful blue clock scattered into countless points of light and the room shook. Soon, the dots of light came together again and turned into a clock. This time, the light dimmed a lot. Tang Mo's hands grasped the blue tentacles while Fu Wenduo took out a black dagger and planned to attack again.

The truth clock hurriedly begged for mercy. "Let me go, black tower intruders. You haven't lost anything and I gave you some information. What good is it for you to kill me? Everything I told you just now were true. I haven't done anything to harm you at all!"

Tang Mo kept holding the tentacles while Fu Wenduo put the dagger back in his pocket. He turned to look at Tang Mo and they both nodded.

Tang Mo gripped the tentacles and said coldly, "How will it benefit us?"

Truth clock, "…"

What was the benefit in destroying it?

The truth clock had never seen such aggressive humans. They were actually trying to negotiate with a black tower monster. Li Miaomiao and the others hadn't expected the seemingly powerful clock to be so vulnerable. In terms of force, Li Miaomiao muttered, "Why do I feel like I can beat it?"

Grecia answered her. "It is because it has lost the protection of the rules of truth, my lady. In the world of truth, it is invincible. However, we just asked a question that it can't answer. It told us to become the truth or defeat the truth. We have defeated the truth. Now it is just a common, failed invention created by Schrodinger."

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had seized the truth clock and it cursed the humans in its heart for a long time. Finally, it had to suppress its anger. "I am just an ordinary clock. I'm not the black tower and can't give you any rewards. Still, I know a vast majority of the truths in this world. I can give you a clue that will help you clear Schrodinger's hide-and-seek game."

"You damned, stinking clock!"  A soft kitten's voice filled the room. It sounded like his tail had been stepped on as Schrodinger roared angrily, "You must not say it, you can't! If you dare say it, I will make you into a stinking toilet for Santa Claus. You should know how much Santa's butt stinks. I'm really going to make you into his toilet!"

The truth clock heard this and its body shook violently. It was more miserable than when it had been attacked.

This sentence was more threatening than Fu Wenduo.

However, the truth clock was currently seized by Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo. It could only say, "Great Schrodinger, you heard the black tower blocking my words. I will just say something that is allowed by the black tower and doesn't tell them how to clear it."

Schrodinger screamed angrily and the truth clock quickly said, "Five black tower intruders, the clue I am giving you is that there are a total of three rounds of hide-and-seek. It is a pity that you are doomed to fail this first round of the game."

Schrodinger's hackles instantly raised. "Garbage clock!"  

The truth clock trembled with fright.

The five of them left the room where the truth clock was located and returned to the dark corridor. As they left the room, the fake clock hid itself in the corner like it had foreseen its own sad future.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo shone a flashlight onto the dark corridor. There were two paths in front of them, left or right.

Just now, the five people had come to the first floor from the stairs and went to the truth clock's room that was directly opposite the stairs. Schrodinger's complaints echoed in the steel fortress. It decided to divide the truth clock into three parts. One would be a stinky toilet for Santa Claus, one was a mirror for Grandmother Wolf and one was a ring of fire for the leader of the Strange Circus.

"I will never give you to the Queen of Hearts. You are a failed invention and you're not qualified to be with the true truth clock in the Queen of Hearts' collection." The vicious and angry words of the little black cat kept echoing in the hallway.

Tang Mo blinked at Fu Wenduo who shone the flashlight and said, "Go here."

There were two roads and Tang Mo chose to take the left road.

The group searched two more rooms along the corridor and found nothing inside. Zhao Xiaofei couldn't help saying, "Just now, the truth clock said that this round of the game is already failed. Judging by Schrodinger's reaction, it is telling the truth."

Li Miaomiao added, "There are three rounds to find him. We didn't intend to look for Schrodinger in the first round so isn't it normal to fail?"

Tang Mo said, "This isn't what she means."

Li Miaomiao was surprised.

"This round of the hide-and-seek game isn't over. We have just arrived at the first floor. We haven't looked in the vast majority of rooms on this floor but the truth clock said with great certainty that we have failed. There are only two possibilities." Tang Mo calmly analyzed, "The first possibility is that Schrodinger was well hidden in a world we searched and didn't find him."  

Li Miaomiao immediately said, "That's impossible. We carefully searched every room. I even searched the room with the terrible light spheres and there was no Schrodinger."

Tang Mo told her, "Then there is the second possibility."

"What is it?"

“We no longer have a chance to enter the room Schrodinger is in."

The author has something to say:

Santa Claus: Hey, I do need a new toilet.

Grandmother Wolf: Can this mirror show my beauty?

Circus Leader: Hmm? I don't need this kind of thing.

Fake clock: Can't this day be over?

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Chapter 160

Previously, Zhao Xiaofei had used lipstick to draw a map on the ground. Before leaving, she had taken off her coat and drew a rough map on it. The calm female player spread out her coat on the ground, carefully counting every corridor they had been through. Finally she looked up and said, "Is it possible that Schrodinger is in a corridor we haven't been to and that we won't be able to enter later?"

The third rule: the doors of the room are spread across both sides of the corridor and each player can only walk once in the same corridor. Once a player walks through a corridor, human footprints will be left in the corridor. Any corridor with human footprints are forbidden to enter.

This rule seemed complicated but it actually limited a person from going back.

A corridor that they passed through couldn't be entered a second time. Thus, every choice might lead to a dead end in the future (all taken paths had footprints).  It was just the first round of the game and the map of the steel fortress was still unclear. It was inevitable that they would take a few wrong roads on the second floor and that some rooms were no longer accessible.

Li Miaomiao agreed. "It must in these few rooms. We've only just arrived on the first floor and walked in a line. We haven't encountered a fork in the road, which means we haven't made any choices on the first floor, let alone made the wrong choice. Since the truth clock says we can't find Schrodinger, it means that Schrodinger in hiding in a room upstairs."

There was still a problem.

Zhao Xiaofei's expression became difficult. "In fact, the roads were just walked… I don't remember them very well."

The rest of the group showed embarrassment at the words. Tang Mo licked his lips and turned to look at Tang Mo. Once he met the dark eyes, Tang Mo's heart immediately calmed down.

Fu Wenduo looked at him and then spoke in a low voice, "I remember."

The group turned to Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo took the lipstick from Zhao Xiaofei's hand and smoothly drew the curved route of the second floor.

He started from the apex of the sixth diamond, which was the kitchen. Then he calmly connected every corridor that the five people had walked upstairs and even marked the location of the more than 80 rooms they had entered with a small dot. Zhao Xiaofei was gobsmacked as Fu Wenduo drew to their currently location. She took back the lipstick from Fu Wenduo and asked skeptically, "…Are you sure that you didn't draw it wrongly?"

Fu Wenduo raised his eyebrows.

Tang Mo told her, "He drew it right."

Zhao Xiaofei looked at them suspiciously.

Zhao Xiaofei didn't know that Fu Wenduo had modified a few places on the map she drew and made it more accurate. In a dark room, there was a middle-aged housekeeper eating cat food in a corner of the room. Schrodinger stared at the map in Zhao Xiaofei's hand and wanted to scream.

This map was simply a smaller version of Schrodinger's steel fortress. Even Schrodinger himself might not be able to draw it so accurately!

After the earth went online, every player's physical fitness increased. However, it was one thing to remember the path you took. It was another thing to draw a map in this confined space and to have a keen sense of space and distance. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo walked at the rear of the group. Tang Mo whispered, "There are really only four corridors on the second floor that we didn't go into?"

Fu Wenduo looked at him.

Tang Mo had just said with certainty that Fu Wenduo was right and now he was questioning Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo showed an imperceptible smile. "Yes, there are only four."

Tang Mo explained, "I believe you. It is just that if there are only four corridors left, I feel that something is wrong."

"There is something wrong."

Tang Mo asked, "Do you think… Schrodinger is hiding in these four corridors?"

Fu Wenduo stopped moving while the three people in front kept walking. He stared at Tang Mo and whispered, "I don't think so."

Tang Mo suddenly smiled. "I don't think so either."

Tang Mo never doubted if Fu Wenduo's map was accurate or not. He had absolute trust in this person. Fu Wenduo didn't let him down. This type of map wasn't a challenge at all. He could draw it even if his physical fitness hadn't improved after the earth went online. In the past, Fu Wenduo had once entered a complicated secret military base. He only walked around once and could draw a detailed map of the base, accurately marking the laboratory and control room.

However, if the map was really like this then everyone became stranger.

Tang Mo followed the Zhao Xiaofei trio with his head bowed.

The corridors on the first floor were much simpler than the second floor. There weren't too many turns and forks and it was almost a neat rectangle. Rooms were distributed on both sides of the corridor. The five players walked half a lap and found 11 rooms. Zhao Xiaofei, who was walking in the lead, suddenly stopped. "There is another staircase here?"

The group took out the map and compared the position on the two floors.

Li Miaomiao concluded, "It is the first staircase that we saw."

On the second floor, the five players had seen two staircases leading to the first floor. Tang Mo made a decision and didn't choose the first staircase. Everyone came down the second staircase and found the truth clock in the first room.

Zhao Xiaofei said, "It is useless to go up. The corridors will be full of footprints and this round will be over. We haven't finished the corridors on the first floor yet. Let's go through all of it."

Everyone took a few steps when Tang Mo turned his head and asked, "Victor?"

In the dark steel corridor, a tall man stood upright. Fu Wenduo looked between the wall to the left and then the wall to the right. His brow wrinkled and he suddenly walked to Tang Mo's side. Tang Mo was stunned for a moment and didn't understand what he wanted to do. Fu Wenduo lowered his head, put his lips to Tang Mo's ears and whispered something that only the two of them could hear.

Tang Mo's body froze.

10 minutes later, the five players walked along the corridor and reached the room with the truth clock.

Zhao Xiaofei used the lipstick to fill up the map of the first floor and said, "The first floor is really much simpler than the second floor. It is an ordinary rectangular corridor. There are 29 rooms in total and we didn't find Schrodinger. Schrodinger is definitely on the second floor in one of the few corridors we didn't enter."

Grecia smiled. "My lady, I don't think it is that simple."

Forget Grecia, even Zhao Xiaofei felt that it was too simple. Could a tower attack game be this simple?

Of course, it wasn't impossible. If it wasn't for Fu Wenduo's strong scouting ability and the clue from the truth clock, they would never have all this information. In addition, they encountered very dangerous inventions in several rooms. They would've been killed by these inventions if they had been weaker.

Moreover, the map of the second floor was really complicated. Many people might walk around it and not get to the first floor. This would be wasting one round of the game.

Zhao Xiaofei thought for a moment before saying, "In any case, we have already found over 100 rooms and there are only a few left. We have two more chances. In the second round of the game, we will do directly to the rooms we haven't searched yet. There is always the third round of the game. We don't have to worry about failure."

The suggestion was very reasonable and Li Miaomiao nodded. She wanted to talk to Zhao Xiaofei when she suddenly remembered Ruan Wangshu's orders. She quietly turned to look at Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo. Then Li Miaomiao became stunned.

Tang Mo shook his head at her.

Li Miaomiao looked awkward.

Tang Mo sighed. Li Miaomiao wasn't Fu Wenduo. This was a complicated matter and Li Miaomiao couldn't understand his meaning with a few glances.

Zhao Xiaofei asked, "Should we go directly back to the second floor and look at the rooms we haven't been to?"

"I want to look at the truth clock again."

Zhao Xiaofei looked strangely at Tang Mo and asked with surprise, "You want to find the truth clock? What for?"

Tang Mo's expression was calm. "The door to the truth clock is facing the stairs. Since we have decided to start the second round of the game, we can use this room as a starting point. From this room, we can go directly to the second floor."

"…That isn't the point."

Li Miaomiao spoke up, "Let's go."

This round was already doomed to failure. It didn't matter where they started the second round from. Tang Mo held the flashlight and grasped the doorknob made of steel in his right hand. He pressed it softly and there was an immediately blue glow that enveloped the five players. Once they opened their eyes, they were stuck to the ground and couldn't move.

A calm female voice was heard. "Welcome to the world of the truth clock. I'm the gre… gre… great…"

Truth clock, "…"

Why did they come again?

The truth clock hadn't expected this group of poisonous humans to run here again before even starting the second round of the hide-and-seek game. The corridors couldn't be repeated but the rooms were okay. The truth clock looked silently at the five players in front of it and the five players stared back.

They looked at each other in silence.

Truth clock, "…" Look at these people!

After a long time, the truth clock tried to maintain a calm voice. "Black tower intruders, what do you want? I have told you everything that I know. I will be made into all types of items to be sent to several other people. Do you have to want to kill me?"

Why did it sound like this voice was holding a grudge…

Li Miaomiao said, "We just decided to use this room as the point to end this round.  We will start the second round from here." It had nothing to do with killing the clock.

The truth clock was depressed. "Yes, you lost this round the moment you entered this room again."

The black tower's prompt came at this time. "Ding dong! The first round of Schrodinger's hide-and-seek game is over."

"The second round of the game has begun!"

The sweet cat's gloating laughter filled the room. "Hahaha, stupid players! You can't find me! You will all join my collection! Garbage clock, drive these players out. I can't wait to put them into my warehouse and make them into stinky toilets for Santa!"

The faces of the two female players darkened.

Li Miaomiao wanted to leave this room and go straight upstairs to the room they haven't entered yet.

The truth clock quickly said, "Yes Great Schrodinger, I will drive them out."

Then a voice was heard. "Who said that we will leave?"

The truth clock was stunned.

In the dark room, the small black cat stared blankly at the humans.

In the truth clock's room, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo stood at the front of their group. Tang Mo raised his head and watched the huge clock calmly. He asked, "We have entered your world. Can't we open the truth clock's game? Become the truth or defeat the truth."

The truth clock answered, "But you already know the answer."

Tang Mo asked again, "Can't we play another game?"

The truth clock didn't understand what Tang Mo wanted. "…You can."

It wasn't just the truth clock. Li Miaomiao and Zhao Xiaofei didn't understand why Tang Mo wanted to waste time in this place. Grecia stared thoughtfully at Tang Mo's back while the black cat touched his head with his claws, wanting to know what Tang Mo was thinking.

Then Schrodinger saw the smile on Fu Wenduo's face. The black cat's green eyes suddenly widened. It quickly said, "Truth clock, drive them out. Don't let them ask…"

"My question is that the second round has now started." Tang Mo's voice interrupted the black cat. He stared calmly at the big clock in front of him. "Truth clock… have we already lost this round?"

The air stilled for a moment.

In the room of the truth clock, Zhao Xiaofei and Li Miaomiao stared at Tang Mo's back. Grecia was also a bit surprised and he tapped his short cane on the ground. No one discovered that his cane wasn't restrained by this room and that it could move as it wanted.

This time, the truth clock didn't answer.

The clock was silent for the first time. The blue clock body shook in an invisible manner and the black cat's distressed roar was heard, "Don't answer him! Fake garbage clock, you aren't allowed to answer him! I won't allow it!!"  

If it had eyes, the truth clock would be looking at the sky at this moment. Through the  heavy steel walls, it watched Schrodinger, the greatest inventor in the black tower world.

Three seconds later, the truth clock spoke in the calm female voice. "Great Schrodinger, I am a failure but I didn't fail because I couldn't understand all the truths in the room. I have feelings that don't conform to the truth. As long as someone asks me a question, I will definitely answer. I can't lie and he asked a right or wrong answer. If I lie, the black tower intruders will have defeated the truth and they will still know the correct answer. The fact that they asked this question shows that they already know how to pass the game."

The black cat screamed, "Useless garbage clock!"  

On the huge truth clock, the hour and minute hands started moving again. It spoke in a steady and unfeeling voice, as if it hadn't heard Schrodinger's screams.

"Welcome to the world of the truth clock. I am the great truth clock and I tell the accurate time for the great Lord Schrodinger. You can ask a total of five questions. Become the truth or defeat the truth." For the question you just asked…" The truth clock seemed to 'look' at Tang Mo and replied coldly, "My answer is yes."

"Black tower intruders, at this moment you have lost the second round of the hide-and-seek game."

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