The Earth is Online Chapter 233-234

Chapter 233

Earth rotated from west to east, rising above the horizon and falling below it.

At 18:00 on June 20th, the black tower's treasure hunting game's second day came to an end. The sun gradually sank and players from all over the world stared with horror at the black tower closest to them. Many smart players found the junction between two districts and waited for the world to collapse.

At this moment, the earth made a mournful cry and in a flash, one-seventh of the world's cities started to collapse.

Many players were prepared after the previous day. Once the black tower in their area started to disappear, they immediately ran into the adjacent areas to escape the disaster. However, some players stood at the junction of two districts and looked at the black towers to their left and right, their eyes desperately widening.

"No!!!"  

The two black towers started to collapse. On the left side, the tall buildings collapsed like an avalanche while the right side shook and erased all traces of humanity.

Tears instantly flowed from their eyes as they shouted desperately, trying to leave the two districts. Everything was too late.

One-seventh of the world had disappeared again and the black tower produced a global report.

"Ding dong! On June 20th, 2018, 2,118 black towers have randomly disappeared."

The sound suddenly stopped and the black tower continued, "2,118 black towers have disappeared." There was no chance for the surviving humans to react as the black tower continued, "Ding dong! At 18:01 on June 20th, 2018, players in District 1 of South Asia have successfully passed the second black tower."

"Ding dong! At 18:01 on June 20th…"

This was announced three times, like the hope of dawn after the end of the day. More than two million people heard the black tower's announcement. Tears of despair hadn't fallen yet when smiles of joy and excitement appeared on their faces.

"Won, we won! We won another black tower!"

"There are five days and three black towers left. Players, please attack the tower!"

At this moment, the victory of the South Asian players had become a victory for humans around the world.

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo were driving a car and struggling across the ruins of many cities to arrive in the Henan Province. Along the way, they also encountered an area that was collapsing. Fortunately, they responded quickly and Fu Wenduo drove everyone out of the area.

Fu Wenduo listened to the black tower and found something unusual. "The black tower didn't announce which players cleared the black tower."

Tang Mo thought about it. "South Asia District 1, it should be the black tower in New Delhi, India. There is no announcement about the people who cleared it… is it because there were many people?"

Chen Shanshan thought for a moment. They clearly didn't know what happened in India but a strange thought flashed in her mind. The little girl opened her mouth. "There is another possibility. All the players who attacked the tower are dead."

Tang Mo jerked and turned to look at Chen Shanshan.

Chen Shanshan was also frightened by what she had just said. She wanted to say that she didn't know why she said these words. However, both she and Tang Mo knew that the super intelligent thinking meant that her speculation had a 50% chance of being correct despite no evidence.

Chen Shanshan wouldn't say this speculation for no reason.

Tang Mo turned and looked forward, his voice calm. "The players who attacked the tower in South Asia District 1 are all dead."

India, New Delhi, the India Gate.

The pungent smell of blood filled the air and the city's air seemed to stop flowing. The warm setting sun illuminated the blood on the ground, reflecting a golden brilliance. The red blood dyed the splendid and towering New Delhi gate in bright colours while a small red figure was nailed to the Delhi door by a long spear.

The delicate little crown fell to the ground as the red-haired loli shivered and tried to pull the spear from her chest. She coughed up blood as she reached the end of her life.

There was a mountain of corpses at the bottom of her feet.

The South Asian players used their lives to build a high bridge, sacrificing them lives for this spear to hit. The spear penetrated deeply into the Queen of Hearts' chest and she no longer had the strength to resist.

In fact, Tang Mo and Chen Shanshan had guessed something wrong. The South Asian players suffered heavy losses but there were some survivors. After hearing the voice of the black tower, the players who fell among the mountain of corpses and survived were first stunned and then cried.

They burst out crying.

Half a month ago, the black tower forced them to attack the fifth floor. At that time, all senior players in South Asia were wiped out and no one had the opportunity to go to the sixth floor. Now they made it.

The Queen of Hearts' lips moved as she tried to say something, but the light in her eyes were almost gone.

The red-haired loli angrily wanted to tell these people that killing the tower guard wasn't the only way to attack the tower. There were still many ways for senior players to attack the tower. She suddenly remembered that the strongest of the group had only attacked the fourth floor of the black tower. She could only close her eyes and not say anything.

The red-haired loli couldn't open her eyes. The moment before her eyes closed completely she felt like she was caught in someone's arms. The man was very rough as he pulled the spear out of her chest without any gentleness. He smiled helplessly. "My lady, why didn't you let them attack the tower in other ways?"

Her mouth couldn't speak. The Queen of Hearts angrily cried out in her heart, 'The group of stinking humans has to be at least the fifth floor! They aren't even on the fifth floor. I can't play a game even if I want to.'

The circus leader smiled softly and disappeared with the Queen of Hearts.

"My lady, I saved your life. You owe me 10 moon flowers now and you can't pay in installments."

Queen of Hearts, "…"

Go attack your mother's tower!

On the morning of June 21st, the third black tower was also broken.

Tang Mo's group of six had just reached the border of Chongqing and Bai Ruoyao smiled. "Wow, now only the towers in Guangzhou and Chongqing are left?"

Andrei glanced at him and said coldly, "Lead the way to the fifth tower."

The baby-faced youth laughed happily. "It has been so long yet your Chinese hasn't improved."

Andrei punched the tree behind Bai Ruoyao and threatened him to shut up. Bai Ruoyao seemed to not hear anything as he turned to smile at Tang Mo. "Tang Tang, Major Fu drives badly. How about I drive?"

Tang Mo stated coldly, "You give directions."

Bai Ruoyao could only helplessly spread open his hands.

At 16:58 on June 21st, a jeep passed through Fengjie's bridge and arrived at Fengjie County, Chongqing.

As the car drove over the bridge, Fu Wenduo suddenly stepped on the accelerator and everyone stared at him. They saw him turning swiftly while moving his wrist at the same time. A black dart flew through the air and towards an abandoned newsstand not far away.

There seemed to be something in front of the newsstand. The dart shot through the newsstand and it quickly became damaged.

Fu Wenduo declared, "There is something in this city."

Everyone saw it but the thing ran so fast they couldn't see what it was.

Andrei said, "It is very small and short. It shouldn't be human."

Bai Ruoyao raised his eyebrows."Big bear, why can't it be human? What it if is a child or dwarf?"

Tang Mo heard 'dwarf' and his heart jolted. "Dwarf?"

Bai Ruoyao smiled. "Yes, Snow White's story always has dwarves. Hehe, Snow White… and the Seven Dwarves."

Everyone, “…”

There were seven dwarves!

The unknown danger was always the scariest.

The group abandoned their cars and took the opportunity to carefully observe the city.

Sixth months ago, Bai Ruoyao was forcefully pulled into the tower attack game and attacked the second floor. However, he was only passing by and didn't live here. Chongqing Fengjie was one of the many counties in Chongqing and it was unremarkable. It was located in the embrace of a mountain and the Yangtze River passed through it. The river splashed against the river bank, creating a white foam and the loud sound of water.

Everything here was no different from before the earth went online.

A quiet town hidden in the mountains with a small population, green mountains and green hills. Apart from…

Tang Mo gripped his small parasol. "Do you see anybody?"

The group shook their heads.

The six people moved through every corner of the city but they didn't see any people.

Fu Wenduo came to a conclusion, "Apart from the one suspected of being a dwarf, there isn't anyone in this city." He glanced at Bai Ruoyao.

Bai Ruoyao raised his hands. "Don't look at me. When I was passing through here, it was no different from other districts. There were many players. Perhaps after half a year, they failed to attack the tower and died in the game."

This possibility wasn't impossible.

The black tower once opened the last person elimination game. If the players in Fengjie were weak, they might've been eliminated by the black tower. It wasn't impossible for an entire district to be wiped out. There might be some players who cleared it but they left the city for more resource-rich places.

Then Tang Mo said, "Something isn't right."

The six players were all senior players, with even Fu Wensheng clearing the fourth floor of the black tower. The whole city seemed frozen and there were no traces of fighting or blood. It shouldn't be like this if the last player elimination game had taken place here.

They walked cautiously towards the city centre.

Tang Mo suddenly turned his head and looked at a tea store on the street. His eyes stared at the door of the store which was wide open. The black painted store was like a monster, waiting for its prey to enter. Tang Mo stared at the store before exchanging looks with Fu Wenduo.

Fu Wenduo nodded. Tang Mo pulled out the small parasol and walked lightly into the store.

He was just about to enter the store when a black figure rushed out, waving a wooden stick and fiercely hitting Tang Mo. Fu Wenduo was faster than it. He moved his legs and the dark triangular weapon stopped the stick.

The skinny dwarf saw it was stopped and opened his mouth, grinning viciously. Then he was startled when he saw Fu Wenduo's face. In the same way, Fu Wenduo also frowned. He recalled where he had seen this face before.

Tang Mo also felt that he knew this dwarf.

A sharp scream was soon hard. "Damn Mr. A, you are the damn Mr. A and Mr. B! It's you. I will never forget such ugly faces in my life! You are the ones who got me fired by the circus leader. You made me lose me job and I had to go and wash the feet of that damn Snow White! I'm going to kill you!!!!"  

Sneeze shouted angrily and once again waved the big stick at Fu Wenduo.

Bai Ruoyao smiled and reached out to block the blow. He pretended to be surprised. "Hey, you are weak, much weaker than I imagined."

Sneeze tried to pull the stick from Bai Ruoyao's hand but his strength wasn't higher than the other person.

At this time, Tang Mo finally remembered and he stared at Fu Wenduo with surprise. "The Strange Circus instance, isn't he the circus employee who paid us silver coins to transport the big earthworm?"

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Chapter 234

Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo recognized Sneeze. They glanced at each other and didn't hesitate to reach out to the dwarf. However, Sneeze slipped away at a very fast speed. He abandoned his stick and turned to run. The dwarf wasn't very strong but his speed was extremely fast. In just a few minutes, he disappeared into the deserted city.

The next moment, the whole city was filled with a song, as if hundreds of children were singing in unison. The song rang through the area.

"Mirror Mirror, her skin is as white as snow."

"Mirror Mirror, her lips are as red as blood."

"Mirror Mirror, her hair is as black as ebony."

……

“Mirror Mirror,who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"

The song started from the west and reached the east in an instant. The song abruptly came to an end and seven pairs of eyes poked out from the bushes on either side of the street. A heavy male voice was heard. "It isn't that bad woman."

The second voice was slightly sharper. "No one can be that bad woman."

The third voice was puzzled. "That damned woman, how can she not die?"

The fourth voice spoke, "Stupid, who can kill her?"

Then it was the fifth voice. "The humans didn't come back with the poisonous apple."

The sixth voice seemed to see something and his voice became louder. "Ah, bastard, I see those two bastard players! They are the ones who caused me to lose my job as a customs officer of the Underground Kingdom!"

The seventh voice was much more familiar and belonged to Sneeze. "Damn confused egg, you have a grudge against them as well? Kill them. We can't let them wake up that bad woman. She has to sleep for the rest of his life!"

The moment the first voice was heard, the six people gripped their weapons and were ready to attack. The dwarfs were tricky with their whereabouts and their voices came from all directions. Fu Wenduo found a direction when the sixth dwarf spoke. The moment the last dwarf finished speaking, Fu Wenduo, Tang Mo, Bai Ruoyao and Andrei rushed out.

Screams pierced the sky. "Ah, they found us. Kill them!"

"Kill them!"  

Fu Wensheng took Chen Shanshan to hide in a restaurant and pulled a pistol from his backpack. The 12 year old boy hid behind a table in the restaurant, protecting the short-haired girl who couldn't evolve. He held the gun and fired at a dwarf. The dwarf was forced to expose his body due to the bullets.

As the dwarf slowed down, the attacks of Tang Mo's group followed.

The dark triangular weapon smashed down a sturdy tree, scaring the sleepy dwarf to wake up and no longer doze off. Tang Mo's small parasol was sharp. He opened it and pushed two dwarves to Bai Ruoyao. His silver knives shone. The two dwarves touched their hair and panicked. "I don't want my hair to be cut off. I only have a bit of hair left."

Andrei punched a dwarf.

The seven dwarves were astonishingly weak but their speed was inversely proportional to their strength. They were very weak and weren't a match for Tang Mo's group of six. In terms of physical strength, perhaps Chen Shanshan could beat them.

However, they were extremely fast.

Tang Mo's group of four glanced at each other and Andrei punched a giant billboard. The billboard fell to the ground, blocking the way of the four dwarves.

Bai Ruoyao blocked the road while Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo each blocked an exit. The seven dwarves were blocked and the smartest dwarf Know-it-all rolled his eyes. "I'm going to find that stinking woman. Just you wait."

The other dwarves weren't happy. "You clearly want to run away!"

Know-it-all was extremely insidious. Despite his purpose being revealed, his face didn't turn red and he could say with confidence, "If I can escape then I won't die with you!" He just finished talking when a rubber rope tied around his arm. Know-it-all looked over with astonishment.

He saw a rubber rope emerge from Tang Mo's palm and wrap around the dwarf's arm. No matter how hard Know-it-all struggled, he couldn't untie the rope.

Andrei stepped forward and tied the seven dwarves together.

The seven dwarves seemed like they had been printed out of a mold. They were short, thin and withered. After being tied together, they started to blame each other.

"I blame you. I said that we can't handle these bad guys. They are strong."

"How could I know they were this strong when the previous humans weren't?"

“Of course they're amazing. Those two bastards were the ones who caused me to lose my Strange Circus job. They dared to offend the honourable Lord Grecia!"

Tang Mo looked at the talking dwarves and recognized one. He was a customs officer of the Underground Kingdom?

"I know that big guy. I hate him. At the Banana Pub, he stole the bottle of banana wine that I hid!"

A dwarf in green glared angrily at Andrei. Andrei thought for a moment and spoke to the dwarf in English. "It was a single-player game last year that required me to steal a bottle of wine from the Banana Pub. It has been almost a year."

The dwarf shouted angrily, "You haven't paid me back for the banana wine in this year!"

Andrei, "…"

The six people were senior players who had experienced countless black tower games. Their names were broadcasted loudly in the black tower world. Similarly, because they participated in many black tower games, they had a lot of black tower bosses as their enemies.

The seven dwarves were tied up and the six people gathered together to discuss how to deal with them.

Tang Mo said, "They are seven dwarves. Their actual strength means they can't be the black tower guards. The real tower guard is Snow White. If we use them, we can find Snow White and even threaten her."

Fu Wenduo had the opposite opinion of Tang Mo. He pointed to one of the dwarves. "He just said that he really wanted to kill Snow White. This is the black tower world, not a fairy tale. Snow White is a dangerous black tower boss and her relationship with the dwarves obviously isn't good."

Bai Ruoyao asked, "Then do you want to let them go? If we let them go then they might go report to Snow White."

Tang Mo looked over at him. "Didn't you say Snow White is asleep?"

Bai Ruoyao gave a mysterious smile and showed his backpack to Tang Mo.

Tang Mo looked inside. "What is it?"

Bai Ruoyao wondered, "Tang Tang, isn't something missing?"

Missing?

Tang Mo looked at the backpack again.

A second later, his eyes widened and he exclaimed, "Where is the apple?"

Bai Ruoyao smiled. "After entering the city, the apply disappeared from my backpack. Perhaps it discovered its owner and moved back to Snow White's body? If that happened, Snow White is now awake."

Everyone, “…”

Tang Mo wanted to raise his feet and kick this bastard into the river!

Such an important message, he was only saying it now?

Bai Ruoyao seemed to read Tang Mo's heard and made a wronged expression. "I just discovered it."

His words weren't believed at all, just like the story of the wolf. They had been fooled so many times that they didn't believe Bai Ruoyao's words.

The six people hadn't made up their minds when a dwarf shouted.

"Ahhh, she's awake?"

"You bastard, you bastard, that ugly woman really woke up!"

"I don't want to wash her feet, I don't want to wash her stockings. She has to die quickly."

Chen Shanshan grabbed this point and asked, "The ugly woman is Snow White? Do you want her dead?"

The seven dwarves nodded their movement uniform. They unexpectedly had a special feeling of joy.

“Of course, who wants to meet that stinky woman? She has nothing but her face!"

Chen Shanshan said, "In this case, the enemy of an enemy is a friend. Which one of you knows how to kill Snow White?"

Chen Shanshan just finished speaking while a child's voice was heard.

"Ding dong! The single player challenge 'Snow White and the Poison Apple' has been triggered."

"In the dense black tower forest, there lived a beautiful and kind princess. She has skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony. All the animals in the forest love her and the birds are willing to sing for her…"

As these words were heard, the sound of crows filled the city.

"Flowers are willing to blossom for her."

On the sides of the room, the newly planted flower buds suddenly withered.

"The seven little dwarves are willing to be her servants."

The dwarves shouted, "Bah!"

The black tower continued speaking, "Snow White is the most popular woman in the forest. As the most beautiful woman in the Underground Kingdom, she suffers from constant threatening attacks every day. If beauty is a sin, she has sinned. Beautiful things are always stopped at the peak. That is what makes them more touching. The circus leader said so."

"Ding dong! The rules of the game—"

"First, the only thing that can kill Snow White is a poisonous apple."

“Second, during the daytime, players will have a chance to poison Snow White. The poisoning method is optional and users are given a free choice. When poisoning, the player can automatically change into the appearance they want. Note: only one player can change their appearance."

"Third, players have a total of three opportunities. They have three days and knights to find a way to kill Snow White."

"Fourth, daytime is the time for players to poison Snow White. Night is when Snow White goes out to hunt players."

"…The whole world is jealous of my beauty!" Snow White shouted."

The black tower announced all the rules and big trees suddenly rose from the ground. The huge trees magically rose from the concrete. Some trees grew on the road while some grew between two buildings, squeezing the buildings to the side.

Trees, grass, flowers and birds.

Three seconds later, a quiet forest emerged in front of everyone. Who would've thought this forest was a human city a few seconds ago?

The forest still had the remnants of the city but there were too many trees. The entire Fengjie County was covered by the forest. In the middle of the group of trees, a huge black tower was suspended in midair.

At this time, a wonderful song was heard in the distance.

The sweet singing was like a nightingale. Tang Mo's group of six were moved by the perfect song and lost their spirits for a while. The next moment, the song stopped and the other person laughed. "Look at what I found, an injured rabbit! Good, let's have spicy rabbit head tonight."

Everyone, “…”

This definitely wasn't Snow White!

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