Title: The Earth is Online
Type: Chinese web-novel
Author: Mo Chen Huan (莫晨歡)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Psychological, Shounen Ai, Supernatural,
Length: 245 Chapters (Complete)
English status: Translated

Summary:

A six months ago, tens of thousands of black phantom towers appeared all over the world, floating above the cities. Chemists, physicists, religious people… all of them could do nothing.

Six months later, people became used to the towers and no longer paid them attention.

One day, Tang Mo saw a flying insect crash into it instead of going through it. The next day, a sharp and clear child-like voice issued an announcement to all humans.

“Ding dong! November 15th, 2017. The earth is online.”

The black tower’s three iron-clad rules:

1. Everything is explained by the black tower.

2. From 6 o’clock to 18 o’clock is the game time.

3. All players, please strive to attack the tower.

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My impression

This is survival, life or death kind of story, the romance is almost non-existent for a good amount of the chapters, or you could say, very subtle. The MC and ML don't really meet until 1/3 in but they do know about the other. It's a very thrilling novel and since the romance is rather little and slow, I would recommend it even to people who don't generally enjoy BL, if you do like action-packed stories, then be sure to check it out. It's very bloody and has a lot of death so beware of that if you don't like such stuff. Oh, and it's a lot about mind-games so if you enjoy figuring things like that out, this could be a good brain workout because they're very complicated and hard to understand sometimes. :D