The Earth is Online - Chapter 173

[Chapter 173]

An hour later, Tang Mo gently closed the door. He turned his head and found that the other six were already waiting in the hall.

Tang Mo calmly walked to Fu Wenduo’s side. There is no furniture in the central hall, only a clock suspended in the air, but everyone’s room is fully furnished. I don’t know who took out the chair in the room, only the chair beside Fu Wenduo was empty, Tang Mo walked over and sat down.

The seven chairs sat in a circle, and it was clever that the three returnees sat together, and Tang Mo sat together with the four.

The game has just started, and the players have already formed their own groups.

The seven people looked at each other in silence. After a while, the young man among the returnees said: “Since we have entered the same game, we are considered teammates. This game is not a PK killing game, it should be better if we cooperate with each other. Clear the border. Let’s get to know you first, I’m Dude, the returnee.” He pointed to the golden number on his neck.

Time leaderboards don’t change anymore, but the numbers around their necks don’t go away. Unless it is the “meat pig” among the returnees, anyone can know that the other party is a returnee at a glance.

Some of the returnees have introduced themselves, and Tang Mo said, “Tang Mo.”

Female returnee: “Xing Siqi.”

Chen Shanshan: “Chen Shanshan.”

…

All seven introduced themselves. Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo did not hide their names, because their names were exposed by the black tower from the beginning. They are facing returnees, not Jakes. The returnees have gone through a lot of games, and there is no point in hiding, and the other party must have known their identities long ago. However, when they heard the names of Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo, the expressions of the three returnees changed.

In Eve’s game, if you eliminate Fu Wenduo and Tang Mo, you can directly open the rewards and gain the respect of the underground people and the circus leader, including but not limited to the game mode.

The young man took a deep breath and said, “Okay, everyone knows each other, so I’ll start by saying, I’m the top link of this food chain, no one has any doubts, right?” A number “4” was printed on his face. “, is the highest level among the players present. “This game is actually very simple. As Wang Xiaotian said, violence is prohibited and unnecessary. As long as we find our own complete food chain, we can win.”

simple?

Tang Mo: “How do you find the food chain?”

The young man stared at Tang Mo vigilantly: “Every one of us has a clue, and based on the clues above, I think we all have guesses about the food chain.”

Tang Mo had no guesses about the food chain, just what he said was not a clue at all. He pretended not to know anything and said lightly, “No one can eat you, so what do you want to do?”

Young man: “The best way to verify that the next level is your own food chain is to eat. My clues already tell me what my next level is, so I can eat each other’s balls.”

“Are you sure you know what your next level is?”

A low female voice sounded, and everyone turned to look at Chen Shanshan.

The young man didn’t notice Chen Shanshan at all, and was always on guard against Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo. Seeing this ordinary-looking little girl, he didn’t care: “I’m 100% sure who my next level is.”

“The percentage is certain…” Chen Shanshan’s voice was calm: “Do you know what a food chain is?”

The young man didn’t understand the meaning of Chen Shanshan’s words: “Of course I know, it’s a chain of prey, big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp.”

Chen Shanshan: “Eat the wrong object and you will die of food poisoning. Heita and Cinderella didn’t say what happened to the wrong object, but there is no doubt that you will die if you eat the wrong object. Everyone’s clues are I can’t explain it to the outside world, I have seen my clue, I’m pretty sure, I can’t find my food chain through this simple clue, and I don’t even know who my next level is, whether I have an upper level or not. Be sure. At the beginning of the game, the clues given by the black tower should not be so easy to find your next level.”

The young man’s face changed slightly: “What do you mean.”

Fu Wensheng whispered: “It means you are stupid. Sister Shanshan can’t find the food chain through clues, how can you find it?”

The children’s voices were so low that only Fu Wenduo could hear them. Fu Wenduo glanced at his younger brother, Fu Wensheng immediately closed his mouth, and sat obediently, not daring to speak.

Chen Shanshan: “I mean, is there something wrong with your so sure answer. Do you really know what a food chain is?”

Being refuted by such a small child, the young man couldn’t hold his face, and his expression was a bit ugly. He was about to scold “How come I don’t know” when he saw Chen Shanshan take out a small notebook from behind. On the cover of the book is a photo of Wang Xiaotian. Cinderella smiled sweetly at the camera. It was obvious that the book was taken directly from the room by the little girl.

Opening the book, Chen Shanshan said: “A food chain consists of at least two levels, producers and consumers. In other words, A→B, this is a complete food chain. There are seven of us, and there are four numbers on the ball. If the seven people are classified according to ABCD, it is A1, A2, B1, B2… and the last you, you are the only D.”

The three returnees looked at the contents of the book and looked up at Chen Shanshan in surprise.

In just an hour, how did this unremarkable little girl draw such a complex picture.

For a time, the three returnees did not dare to underestimate Chen Shanshan, and stared at her cautiously.

Chen Shanshan continued as if she didn’t notice it, and continued: “There is no doubt that you are the highest level D. The first rule of the game is that the number on each person’s ball is determined by the maximum food chain level of the other party. So me and that person…” After a pause, Chen Shanshan glanced at the middle-aged man, “Between me and Liao Feng, there must be someone who is your subordinate. But this does not mean that you are not in other food chains.”

Tang Mo had already thought of this question, but among the three returnees, the expressions of the young man and the middle-aged man changed, and Fu Wensheng was stunned.

Chen Shanshan: “It’s true that you are D-level, but you may also be in another food chain, the third-level C-level. In this way, your next level is Fu Wenduo or Xing Siqi, such as Tang Mo → Fu Wenduo →You. You may also be the second level B in another food chain. Your next level is Tang Mo or Fu Wensheng, such as Tang Mo→you. It is even possible that the six of us, each of us is your subordinate Level 1, you can eat every one of us. It’s a food chain game, but the food chain is never one, it’s a network.”

The young woman’s mouth grew, and he understood what Chen Shanshan meant. When he thought of his own clue again, his face suddenly became ugly. However, what he didn’t expect was that a calm female voice continued to speak: “Let me use an analogy, your clue is ‘your subordinate is a woman’.”

Du Deshua raised his head and looked at Chen Shanshan in shock.

In the center of the spacious room, the ordinary-looking little girl was sitting right next to the clock. She has been staring at Dude silently since she did not know when. Seeing that Du De looked up at her in astonishment, a rare smile flashed in those quiet and dark eyes, Chen Shanshan raised the corners of her mouth, and finally said like a child: “I’m just making an analogy, I haven’t seen your clues, You didn’t tell me either.”

Dude’s heart beat extremely fast, he calmed down his surging and complicated mood, and he heard himself say calmly: “…I know.”

Chen Shanshan smiled and continued: “This clue seems to tell you that I am your subordinate. Because in the C-level, only I am a girl. However, it does not tell you, the subordinate it said Refers to the third level or the second level. You may have two food chains, the first one: Tang Mo → Fu Wenduo → Liao Feng → you, and the second one Fu Wensheng → Xing Siqi → you. At this time, your next level is It’s not me, it’s her,” the little girl pointed to the young woman, “she’s also your subordinate, a woman. If you eat me, you’ll die of food poisoning. Now… you Are you sure you know who your subordinates are?”

Du De opened his mouth and seemed to want to speak, but didn’t say anything.

Tang Mo watched this scene quietly, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

The young woman watched for a long time and said, “We all understand what you mean, and I also thought about it. The number on each person’s ball does not mean that he only belongs to this level. Players above level three are all There may be other tiers of identities. I can’t see how to get through this game at the moment, but there’s no doubt that the clues in the ball are the key.”

Middle-aged man: “The black tower doesn’t allow us to tell others about the clues in the ball, and others can’t know it. Both the teller and the told will be obliterated.”

The young woman glanced at him: “I won’t tell the clues in the ball, but I can reveal some other things. I’ll come first, and my clues tell me that there is a high probability that my next level is this little boy.”

Fu Wenduo’s low voice sounded: “Is this secondary reasoning?”

The young woman did not deny it.

Fu Wenduo raised his eyebrows: “My next level is Tang Mo.” After a while, he added: “The probability is very high.”

The middle-aged man said honestly: “I am the third level. According to what you just said, the following four people may be my subordinates, so I can’t determine who my subordinates are.”

Chen Shanshan said: “The result of my clues reasoning is meaningless.”

The young man didn’t speak either.

Tang Mo said directly: “My clues don’t make any sense either.”

The three returnees glanced at Tang Mo vigilantly, and it was obvious that no one believed him.

Finally, it was Fu Wensheng’s turn.

The little boy looked at Fu Wenduo firmly, his fingers clenched and his lips were a little white: “I think my superior is the eldest brother.”

The next second, a female voice suddenly said: “You lie! Your superior is me!” The young woman’s eyes lit up, Fu Wensheng was startled by her voice, his lips trembled, and he directly retorted: “No, my superior It’s the big brother, that’s how the clues reminded me.”

The young woman licked her lower lip and said with a smile, “Children, don’t you know what my power is?”

Tang Mo’s heart froze.

The young woman laughed: “You’re lying, I know about it, I’m 100% sure. My clues don’t tell me exactly that you’re my subordinate. But obviously… your clues I told you that your superior is likely to be me, and the probability may exceed 70%. This probability is worth a try…”

The young woman smiled slightly. She took out her small ball from her pocket. The big “2” on the ball pierced Fu Wensheng’s eyes.

Just when she opened her mouth to say the second sentence, suddenly, a cold dagger touched her neck. The young woman was silent for a while, her eyes rolled, and she looked at the man in black beside her. She didn’t see when Fu Wenduo walked behind her from the opposite side. The dagger was firmly in front of her throat, and it could cut her throat with just a little movement.

The young woman tried her best to calmly say, “What are you doing!”

Chen Shanshan stood up: “You want to eat him?”

The young woman’s face changed: “I didn’t.”

Chen Shanshan: “You want to do this.”

“…”

After a long while, the young woman said angrily: “It was originally, if I don’t eat him, how can I be sure if he is my next level. Do you want me to tell my food chain directly? As long as there is something wrong in the food chain I said, Even if I fail. Don’t you plan to eat the next level after learning about the next level and determine the truth? Compared with many uncertain factors, there is only one uncertain factor, of course, it must be verified first. Otherwise, why is this game There is a rule of ‘eat’! And I just ate his ball to verify the answer, and I didn’t want to do anything to him.” Then she turned to Fu Wenduo and said, “You want to kill me? You do it. Ah, violence is forbidden in the game, you will be directly obliterated by the black tower!”

There are very few people who are not so afraid of death, Fu Wenduo seemed to find it interesting, and let out a low laugh.

The young woman sneered: “If you are not afraid of death, you can come. The moment you use violence against me, the black tower will obliterate you.”

Tang Mo suddenly understood: “Do you think he can’t kill you before being obliterated by the black tower?”

The young woman’s eyes moved, but she didn’t speak.

“There are at least nineteen ways to kill you in an instant.” The icy dagger touched the woman’s neck. Fu Wenduo’s distance was extremely well controlled. The neck was cut, but not punctured. She was so nervous that she held her breath, and then she heard the man chuckle in a low voice: “Want to try it?”,

After pulling the dagger away, the young woman still had lingering fears. She watched Fu Wenduo walk back to Tang Mo’s side step by step.

The moment Fu Wenduo drew the dagger, something was already revealed—

It is impossible for the four Earth players to let the returnees eat themselves at will, and the returnees will not let the Earth players eat themselves.

They split into two teams, guarding each other.

Things froze all of a sudden. There are very few clues, so few clues, even Chen Shanshan can’t find the correct food chain. Fu Wenduo lowered his head and asked in Tang Mo’s ear, “It doesn’t make sense?”

What he asked was what Tang Mo said before, and his clues were meaningless.

Tang Mo couldn’t tell Fu Wenduo the content of his clues, and he couldn’t be sure what he could say. He pondered for a moment and said, “God is very discriminatory, because it is 3NT, so the direct deduction is unknown.”

Fu Wenduo was slightly taken aback. He came back to his senses and probably understood what Tang Mo meant.

Fu Wenduo: “We rarely do 3NT.”

This time, it was Tang Mo’s turn to be stunned. Using bridge as an analogy, he gave a simple explanation of the clues he got.

Tang Mo recalled: “Well, we seem to have done 3NT three or four times in total… three times?”

Fu Wenduo said with certainty, “No, you did both times.”

Tang Mo smiled helplessly.

In the rules of bridge, 3NT is generally the smallest contract. Even if you win the game, if you make a 3NT contract, you will get fewer points. Fu Wenduo has great ambitions. He never does 3NT. He likes to do 4S with the most points, and sometimes pursues Grand Slams. Tang Mo strives for victory while maintaining stability. The two often play poker together, and they are also quite famous on a bridge website in China, but their points are not particularly high, because Fu Wenduo’s style of play either gets a lot of points or loses a lot of points.

At that time, through the computer, Tang Mo always felt that the person sitting on the other side of the screen was a very impulsive and arrogant guy. So when he met Fu Wenduo and formed a team together for a long time, he didn’t realize that Fu Wenduo would be Victor.

Fu Wenduo is not as ambitious as he is.

…Does it mean that people are not good-looking?

Tang Mo quietly looked at Fu Wenduo. This man may be really ambitious.

…he has ambitions? What are his ambitions?

When Tang Mo recalled the scene where the two played cards before, Fu Wenduo was also thinking about some issues. After thinking for a while, the two tacitly decided to put this matter aside for the time being. The players were obviously divided into two small teams, and Tang Mo didn’t shy away from it. The four of them got together and said their clues in a roundabout way.

Before Fu Wensheng was about to speak, Chen Shanshan said, “Silent, you don’t need to say anything. We can probably guess what your clue is, and secondly, to prevent you from accidentally saying too much.”

Fu Wensheng nodded obediently.

After the conversation just now, two of the seven players had very obvious clues. The young man thinks that his next level is Chen Shanshan, and it is very likely that his clue is “the next level is a woman”. Fu Wensheng’s clue means that his superior should be a young woman, namely “Fu Wensheng → Xing Siqi”. Of course, he may also be in two food chains, as well as “Fu Wensheng → Fu Wenduo”.

Chen Shanshan: “Seven players, four people in the first and second levels can determine their positions, there are nine orders in total. But the three players in the third and fourth levels can’t determine their positions. It depends on the situation, except for the return of the woman. “The other two returnees are not sure who their next level is.”

Tang Mo nodded and said, “Well, based on the information we have so far, it is impossible to clear the game.”

Too little information, too many possible sequences.

The food chain is not a single food chain, the seven people are divided into four grades ABCD, and the three people on the CD grade may have multiple positions. For example, Chen Shanshan, the number on her face is 3, but this does not mean that she must be the third level, she may be the second level.

Tang Mo thought: “After the food chain forms a food web, it will be very complicated. Now what we need most is to get clues from other people.”

Fu Wensheng: “But Heita said that he is not allowed to tell others about his clues.”

Tang Mo frowned.

This game shouldn’t be like this. If that’s the case, there’s almost no way to clear the game. If it really gets to that point, I am afraid there is only one last way to clear the customs. But that way…

Tang Mo raised his head and found that Fu Wenduo was looking at him. He turned his head again and met Chen Shanshan’s gaze again.

All three were silent.

Tang Mo sighed softly, he held the small parasol and stood up. Just as he was about to get up, a dull bell rang suddenly.

hum!

Twelve bells echoed in the room, and the seven immediately stood up vigilantly. The harsh sound of carriages came from outside the door, and Tang Mo looked at the clock in the center of the room in astonishment. I don’t know when, the clock has pointed to twelve o’clock.

Chen Shanshan said in surprise, “How could it be so fast?!”

Yes, how could it be so fast. They are all time-conscious people, and everyone understands what midnight means to Cinderella, so Chen Shanshan has been paying attention to time since the beginning. However, it was obvious that a few minutes had not passed, but the clock reached twelve o’clock in the blink of an eye.

Fu Wenduo’s face sank, staring at the huge door indifferently.

With a creak, the door slowly opened. A gorgeous pumpkin carriage slowly drove in from outside the door. Tang Mo was ready, the door opened, and a beautiful crystal slipper first caught everyone’s eyes. Tang Mo subconsciously realized that something was wrong, and when the beautiful girl in the car got out of the car, everyone was surprised for a moment.

Wearing a beautiful blue dress, Wang Xiaotian covered her lips with a smile and said, “Wow, I like the way you look now. Do you think I’ll come to see you in tattered clothes? Read more fairy tales! I’m underground. Wang Xiaotian, the most popular hostess in the Human Kingdom!” Cinderella walked to the center of the crowd with her skirt hem, she stretched out her hand and set the clock’s hour hand to eight o’clock again.

After doing all this, she scanned the audience for a week and smiled sweetly: “So you stinky humans, do you know your food chain now? This is the first night, and you have two more nights. Wait for my king. When Xiao Tian becomes a princess, she won’t have time to play such childish games with you, so you can just fend for yourself in the room.”

Chen Shanshan said directly: “This game is impossible to clear.”

Wang Xiaotian’s eyes widened: “What did you say?”

Chen Shanshan said calmly: “I said, based on the clues we have obtained so far, unless I’m lucky, I won’t be able to clear this game.”

Wang Xiaotian said angrily: “You human, you are stupid and blame my game! Of course my game can be cleared, and all the kingdoms of the underworld know that I, Wang Xiaotian, never lie!”

Fu Wensheng whispered, “Who knows if you’re lying.”

Tang Mo suddenly said, “How to clear customs.”

Wang Xiaotian reflexively said: “Find out the food chain you are in according to the clues, and you can clear the level…” Suddenly covering her mouth, the pretty girl blinked: “Hey, what did I just say.”

Fu Wenduo: “We can only know our own clues, not others’ clues. It is impossible to pass the customs.”

Wang Xiaotian replied confidently: “You guys are so reluctant to make progress, can’t you work hard to pass the Darwin test and get clues about other food chain positions!”

Tang Mo’s eyes widened: “Darwin’s test?”

Wang Xiaotian laughed, revealing two small tiger teeth: “Ah, did I forget to tell you. Every night you can take the Darwin test to improve your position in the food chain. The food chain has been set and will not change again. But the person in each position can be changed. The mouse eats the tiger, and it becomes a tiger, and the tiger becomes a mouse. You get the first place in the Darwin test,” Wang Xiaotian pointed at Tang Mo, “you can Evolve to the highest level, get his ball and the clues inside. Didn’t I say it? Ah, I must be too busy to forget it.”

Saying so, Wang Xiaotian’s schadenfreude smile hinted that she had never forgotten about this matter, but deliberately didn’t say it, admiring the surprised expressions of these humans.

The young woman said, “What is the Darwin test?”

Wang Xiaotian stuck out her tongue: “Are you sure you want to participate?”

The seven nodded without hesitation.

The game has been suspended, and without participating in this Darwin test, it is impossible for them to obtain other clues and clear the game.

Wang Xiaotian laughed strangely, she was very excited. The familiar smile made Fu Wenduo’s eyelids jump, and then saw Wang Xiaotian clapping her hands, and a huge camera suddenly fell from the ceiling. No one knew when it was there, and there were three more thumping lights, and the dazzling spotlight shone on the seven players in the center of the room.

Wang Xiaotian moved her right hand, and a diamond microphone appeared in her hand. She jumped to the roof of the pumpkin carriage. Instead of looking at the seven players, she looked up at the giant camera.

“What are the nine unsolved mysteries of the Underworld Kingdom?”

“Is the circus head really bankrupt?”

“Is the Eve that all the monsters in the Dark Tower are looking for, a returner or a survivor of Earth?”

“Deng deng deng deng, everything is in “Happy Questions and Answers”! Hello everyone, everyone, I am your favorite King Kong TV gold medal host Wang Xiaotian. Today is another happy time for answering questions, “Happy Questions and Answers” episode 8341 , we have come to ‘Cinderella’s Food Chain Game’. Let’s see, which lucky ones have successfully entered our game today?”

Wang Xiaotian looked at the camera and smiled sweetly: “”Happy Questions and Answers”, there are a total of twelve rush questions. The correct answer will get points, and the wrong answer will not get points.”

Wang Xiaotian pointed, and the camera aimed at the seven players in the center of the room.

Except for Fu Wenduo, the other six were dumbfounded. Tang Mo quickly regained his senses and narrowed his eyes. In front of each player, he saw a red quick answer question rising from the floor. A total of seven answering questions were suspended in front of the players side by side.

Wang Xiaotian laughed, she sat on the roof of the pumpkin carriage, shook her legs, and said happily: “Today’s program is a special location program of “Happy Questions and Answers”, and I, Wang Xiaotian, are the gold medal host. , every time something good happens, I will think of my cutest audiences. I don’t want to make money from a show. Two of these seven players must be known to the audience in front of the TV. Their fame is not small. As for who are they……”

“I won’t tell you if I sell it.”

Although Wang Xiaotian still wanted to talk a little more nonsense about the duration of the show, she looked at the clock and said regretfully, “The time is limited, so let’s officially start~”

It all happened so suddenly. Wang Xiaotian who appeared out of nowhere, the camera that suddenly fell from the sky, and the never-before-heard “Happy Questions and Answers” program. But Wang Xiaotian didn’t give them time to react at all, and the players were still bewildered. Wang Xiaotian said, “Dangdangdangdang, please listen to the question! The first question, underground…”

“Clang!”

Wang Xiaotian was startled suddenly: “So fast!” She looked up at Tang Mo in surprise.

Even Fu Wenduo didn’t respond, Tang Mo actually pressed the answering device before Wang Xiaotian could answer the question.

Wang Xiaotian was also a little confused: “Guest Tang Mo, I haven’t asked the question yet. Why are you pressing the answering machine? Do you know what question I want to ask?”

Tang Mo said confidently, “I don’t know.”

Wang Xiaotian: “Huh?”

Tang Mo: “You said just now that there are points for correct answers, but no points for wrong answers. You didn’t say that there are penalties for wrong answers… Is there a penalty for wrong answers?”

Wang Xiaotian: “…No.”

Tang Mo said lightly, “Then let’s grab a question first.”

The three returnees who just reacted: “…”

Do you still have this! ! !