You'll become a god, you'll create Earth ONLINE

"Report what? What are you going to do with your head?"

Chen Fei looked at him like he was an idiot, and held up his phone.

"Check if your phone still has a signal?"

The fat man quickly pulled out his phone, and the 5G signal that was originally full bars had now turned into a glaring red "X".

"No internet?"

"Not only is there no internet, but I just tried calling my counselor, and it was always busy."

Chen Fei scratched his hair in frustration.

"Our university town might have been physically isolated by the system, or even... the whole Earth might have become like this."

……

At the same time.

A higher-dimensional astral realm, an abandoned divine domain.

"Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!"

Lin Xian sat on the throne, holding a glass of iced cola conjured with a little bit of divine power, watching the four male college students on the screen, and slapped his thighs with joy.

Just moments ago, the four boys were overwhelmed with shock and disbelief as the boy named Zhao Lei drank the healing potion and his wounds instantly healed.

The beeping sounds from the control panel were as pleasant as those from a cash register.

[Received a profound emotional shock from Su Hao, Source Power +2.5!]

[Received a message from Zhao Lei expressing relief and shock; Source Power +3.0!]

[Received extremely excited messages from Wang Qiang and Chen Fei, Source Power +2.2!]

"Calculate the cost, system."

Lin Xian took a sip of cola with great satisfaction.

【drop.】

【支出：製造一只Lv.1变异蜚蠊耗费0.001点神力；凝聚一瓶『初级治疗药水』和两块压缩饼乾耗费0.005点神力。总计成本：0.006点神力（约等于0.06源力）。】

[Income: A total of 11.5 points of Emotional Energy were collected during this event.]

[Net profit: Nearly 200 times the initial investment.]

"Listen to that, now that's what business is all about!"

Lin Xian raised an eyebrow smugly.

"Those old-fashioned gods, all they do is perform miracles and preach in dreams. The faith they harvest after a year of hard work is not as much as I make from my micro-transaction blind box system."

Earthlings experience an incredibly rich range of emotions.

Fear can generate source energy, shock can generate source energy, and even the anticipation of opening a treasure chest and the ecstasy of getting good stuff can all be transformed into pure source energy.

This is practically a perpetual motion machine!

"but……"

Lin Xian put down her Coke cup, stroked her chin, and looked at the four boys on the screen who had gradually calmed down.

"Human adaptability is terrifying. Especially for these college students who read a lot of online novels and play a lot of games."

"Once they accept the premise of the 'Fourth Calamity' and discover that monsters can drop equipment, their sense of fear will decrease significantly."

If you stop being afraid, the production of fear energy will decrease sharply.

"Workers can't be idle; they need to be given some intensity to keep them feeling a sense of urgency."

Lin Xian shifted his gaze from dormitory 404 to overlook the entire No. 7 male dormitory building of Jiangcheng University from a god-like perspective.

This building is shaped like the Chinese character "回" and houses nearly two thousand energetic male college students.

Since it was already late at night, most people were asleep, except for a few who were staying up late playing games. Only a few windows in the entire dormitory building were still lit.

"We've accumulated 11 points of source energy; we can start something a little bigger now."

Lin Xian's fingers flew across the control panel, bringing up a 3D map of the entire Building 7.

He selected the sewer network on the ground floor of the dormitory building, the garbage station, and several patches of grass outside the dormitory building.

"System, consume 8 points of source energy to cut off the main power switch for this building. Then spawn a wave of monsters at these coordinates."

"It doesn't need to be too strong, just follow the template of those mutated cockroaches and mutated rats from before."

"As for the quantity... let's start with five hundred. Distribute them throughout the corridors on each floor."

"This is called a 'stress test.' Earth Online, Jiangcheng University's newbie village, open beta, officially launched!"

Lin Xian pressed the Enter key heavily.

A microwave, imperceptible to the naked eye, pierced through the barrier of the higher dimension and instantly enveloped the entire No. 7 boys' dormitory building.

……

Earth.

Room 404, Building 7, Jiangcheng University.

Su Hao and his three companions were discussing countermeasures.

"The balcony door is broken. We need to push the desk over to block it. It would be troublesome if one of those big cockroaches flew in."

Boss Zhao Lei gave the order.

"Third brother, Fatty, you two come over and give me a hand!"

"One, two, three! Push!"

The three of them were working together to push a heavy metal desk toward the balcony.

Just then.

"Clatter".

All the fluorescent lights on the dormitory ceiling, along with the game screen on the fat man's computer, went out instantly!

Even the motion-activated light outside the corridor, which had been flashing all year round, went completely dark.

In that instant, the entire Building 7 was plunged into a deathly silence and darkness.

"Damn! The power's off?"

Fatty Wang cursed loudly.

"What the hell time is it? The power's been cut off! Didn't we just pay the electricity bill this month?!"

Something's not right.

Su Hao stood on the balcony, the beam of his flashlight sweeping across to the No. 8 girls' dormitory building across the street, and the teaching building in the distance.

Everything is black.

The entire vast university town was as if an invisible giant hand had instantly wiped out all light, leaving it deathly silent.

Even on the usually bustling streets, not a single car had its headlights on.

An extremely oppressive and chilling coldness crept up the spines of the four people.

"Boss..."

Chen Fei's voice trembled slightly in the darkness.

"Don't you think... it's too quiet outside?"

He hadn't finished speaking.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

A piercing, extremely sharp scream suddenly came from the fifth floor above them, as ear-piercing as fingernails scraping a blackboard in the silent night.

Then, it was like dominoes were being toppled.

"Help! There's a rat! A huge rat!"

"Damn it! What the hell is this thing?! It bites! It's biting me!"

"Open the door! Close the door quickly!"

"Bang! Bang bang bang!"

The entire Building 7 instantly erupted in chaos.

The sounds of frantic screams, the thuds of tables and chairs crashing to the floor, the cracking of glass, and the guttural sounds of tearing and gnashing all mingled together.

It erupted from the dormitories upstairs, downstairs, and in the neighboring dormitories.

The eerie silence just now was merely the final pause before the storm.

Su Hao suddenly turned around, the beam of his flashlight fixed on the tightly closed wooden door of their dormitory.

"Squeak—squeak—"

Outside the corridor, a series of extremely dense and chilling claw-like sounds came from the ground, as if countless fingernails were frantically scraping against the concrete floor.

"Gulp."

Fatty Wang swallowed hard, his legs went weak, and he gripped the empty bottle of Six God Floral Water tightly in his hand.

"Is something coming through the hallway outside?"