"In other words, Xueqin sensed that something was wrong?" Lin Sanjiu said with a bitter smile as she took a big stride forward.
"That's right! She started grumbling when we were halfway up the stairs. If she didn't need Bai Xiaoke for the mission, she would have come by herself. "Li Tao was small, so she had to hurry to catch up with Lin Sanjiu. Her sparkling puppy-like black eyes were filled with a relaxed smile, "Originally, she wanted me to bring you with me when I found you."
"Ahem!" Lin Sanjiu felt a lot more relieved after knowing that the mission outside had only started a few minutes ago. She used the sanding agent to illuminate the stairs in front of her. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she saw Xueqin at the other end of the Garden of Eden. "I've been through all the dangers that she mentioned. It's just a pocket dimension. Look, we've already gone up a few floors, but we're still safe."
It wasn't entirely accurate to say that they had gone up a few floors because the black tower only had the lowest and highest floors. The middle of the tower was just a series of stairs that seemed to spiral endlessly. If the energy hub was really in the black tower, then it must be at the top of the tower. Both of them had already climbed four to five winding staircases, but they still couldn't see the end of the staircase.
"Oh, right. What was the pocket dimension like? How did you get out? "
Even Lin Sanjiu didn't know how to answer that question. She pondered for a while and turned to look at Li Tao. Suddenly, she laughed, "Actually, I don't know either … Why don't I tell you the story of the pocket dimension and see if you can find the answer? Even if it's just one more cobbler, it's still better."
After that, she told Li Tao everything that happened in the pocket dimension in detail.
The storyline of the pocket dimension was intertwined with each other, and the timeline was a mess. Lin Sanjiu found it hard to narrate the story. However, to her surprise, Li Tao actually understood everything she said after she finished narrating the story.
"I was just lucky to be able to get out. I really couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I thought about it. What's going on with this pocket dimension … "
In the flickering silver light, Lin Sanjiu listened to the rhythmic footsteps of the two people as she voiced out the question that had been bothering her.
Li Tao, who was beside her, was silent for a while. Silver light illuminated the ascending stairs in front of him. On the contrary, Lin Sanjiu could not see her expression. After a long while, she said softly, "The ages of the three main characters do not match up. This is quite interesting …"
"What do you think?" Lin Sanjiu asked curiously.
There was still a long way to go before she reached the top of the tower. Out of caution, she did not speed up completely. During the journey to the top of the tower, she was willing to listen to Li Tao's opinion.
Li Tao's footsteps slowed down. She smiled hesitantly. "… It's just a thought. I don't know if it's right or not."
"What does that matter? Tell me. "
"… I think that if you think about it with the logic of 'because something happened in the past, something will happen in the future', you may be fundamentally wrong." Li Tao's first sentence caught Lin Sanjiu's attention, "I think that these three stories are actually independent and have nothing to do with each other."
"Eh? But the prince's death … and Lara's mirror … how do you explain it? "
Li Tao seemed to feel that expressing her thoughts was a difficult task. She thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have any toilet paper with you?"
Lin Sanjiu stopped and rummaged through her card library. Most of the supplies were found in Hyperthermal Hell. There were not many paper products left due to the high temperature. In the end, Lin Sanjiu tore a piece of toilet paper from a roll. She passed it to Li Tao.
"I want three," Li Tao took it and said.
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment. She seemed to have caught on to something, but she still could not figure it out. She passed another two pieces of toilet paper to Li Tao and turned the toilet paper back into a card. Just when she was about to keep it with the other items, she suddenly realized that there was still a Diary Card in the middle.
"Ah, isn't this my cute little beauty!" That was the only sentence on the card.
Before Li Tao saw the shameful card, Lin Sanjiu quickly kept it back into her body. Then, she raised her head as if nothing had happened. She saw Li Tao muttering to herself as she used her left hand to hold two pieces of toilet paper. She held the last one in her right hand and placed it below them.
Now, the three pieces of toilet paper appeared in the air in three layers: top, middle, and bottom.
"Each piece of toilet paper represents a story," Li Tao cleared her throat. There was a hint of excitement in her voice. She seemed to enjoy solving the mystery. "They are parallel and do not interfere with each other. Each of them has its own time flow."
"The story with the longest time span and the fastest time flow is Bluebeard's story," Li Tao said as she picked up the top piece of toilet paper. She took out the top card and drew a short bar and a dot with her fingernail. The short bar and the dot interacted several times, representing a high frequency. "Bluebeard met the fairy when he was seven. He married Lila when he was almost forty. There were almost thirty years in between."
Lin Sanjiu nodded to show that she understood.
"The next is Little Red Riding Hood," this time, Li Tao drew a slightly longer bar and the frequency of the bar and dot was lower. "From Emma to Little Red Riding Hood, about twenty years have passed."
"So, the story with the slowest time flow is Cinderella?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help asking.
"That's right. While the other two stories — oh, you can think of them as these two pieces of toilet paper — move forward a few decades, only a few months have passed in Cinderella's world. "Li Tao drew a long bar and a dot on the third piece of toilet paper. It was a short piece of toilet paper, so it only had room for two long bars.
Once again, she placed the three pieces of toilet paper parallel to each other. However, this time, Li Tao pulled out a hairpin from her hair and aimed it at the toilet paper.
"Now, I am that old man's fairy. I have tricked Cinderella into agreeing to make a few holes in this layer of toilet paper."
Lin Sanjiu vaguely realized something. She felt goosebumps on her back.
"This dot is like the time when the prince was looking for Cinderella." The hairpin in Li Tao's hand pierced through the dot on the third piece of toilet paper. It pierced through the toilet paper and reached the second layer. Then, the hairpin changed its direction. "In Little Red Riding Hood's level, at the time when Little Red Riding Hood encountered the werewolf."
"Now, the countless fine bacteria dust on the toilet paper has followed the hole to the new layer of paper. It didn't matter if it was the werewolf bacteria that landed on Cinderella's paper. Or did the 'Prince' bacteria come to Little Red Riding Hood's paper … Anyway, at this point, the characters and stories from two different timelines have merged. "
"I'm also a germ that shuttles between three pieces of toilet paper," Lin Sanjiu laughed bitterly as she stared at the toilet paper. Because the place where the toilet paper was pierced was not straight up and down. In the dim silver light, it seemed to have a life of its own as it floated in the air.
Li Tao nodded with a serious look in her eyes. "Do the same thing. If you make a few more holes, you'll see the strange phenomenon you're seeing. For example. The past and future Bluebeard exist in the palace at the same time. "
Li Tao plucked out a strand of her hair and chose two distant points on Bluebeard's paper. She pierced two holes and threaded her hair through them. The two ends of her hair hung on Cinderella's paper and pierced a point. She pulled it gently and Bluebeard's paper immediately wrinkled. The two points were tightly attached to a certain point on the toilet paper.
"That's why the old man told Bluebeard, 'Eighteen years is much shorter than you think!'" Lin Sanjiu mumbled in a daze.
Li Tao smiled, "That's right. Once he realized the nature of the three stories. In fact, when it comes to the 'three-level' story, you will find that nothing is certain and can save three people at the same time. Because you are just an outsider, you can't pierce through the story like the old man fairy. The existing 'merging point' — let's call it that for now — does not connect all three layers at the same time. "
"Could it be … that the pocket dimension can lie?"
"No, that stone tablet didn't lie to you." Li Tao waved her finger and crumpled the three pieces of paper into a ball before throwing them away. "That is a narrative trick."
"A narrative trick?" Lin Sanjiu repeated softly as she followed behind Li Tao.
"It's simple. The main character of Little Red Riding Hood is Little Red Riding Hood, and the main character of Cinderella is Cinderella. So, why is Lila the main character of Bluebeard's story? "
Li Tao's gentle voice echoed in the dark. His voice echoed softly in the dark, like a wave hitting a stone wall. However, in Lin Sanjiu's ears, it was like a clap of thunder.
"Because … because …" She wanted to say something, but she was stuck. She suddenly realized something. She didn't know why she thought that Lila was the main character.
"Shouldn't Bluebeard be the main character of Bluebeard's story?" Li Tao laughed.
"But, the stone tablet said that the three main characters were in a life and death situation and needed me to save them. When Lila met Bluebeard, her life was indeed in danger —"
"So, what did you plan to do at that time?" Li Tao turned to look at her.
"At that time, I planned to … kill Bluebeard," Lin Sanjiu replied blankly. She understood now.
When she said that, it was very clear. If Lin Sanjiu didn't kill Bluebeard, she would have saved his life. However, no one who was trapped in the Pocket Dimension could understand this point.
"Even though the entire Pocket Dimension is a trick, it's useless against you," Li Tao laughed softly. "No matter who it is, as long as they think about it, they will definitely not let Bluebeard go. After all, he is the most suspicious person. Once one's mind is trapped in the Pocket Dimension, it would be very difficult to make the right decision … Fortunately, you are a person who acts before your brain, so you solved the Pocket Dimension cleanly. "
Lin Sanjiu really didn't know if Li Tao was praising her.
After a while, she said softly, "No, aren't you very good? Just by listening to me retelling the story, you have already analyzed most of it … If it was you, you would have seen through it very quickly. "
Li Tao was a little embarrassed and replied, "What? I'm just a bystander … If it was me, I might not have been able to come out."
"I still have two questions that I would like to ask you," Lin Sanjiu suddenly said.
"What is it?"
"The first question is, what was the content of the Pocket Dimension that you completed in the black tower?" Lin Sanjiu's attitude wasn't harsh. It was as if she was just having a casual conversation.
Li Tao, who was climbing up the stairs, suddenly stopped. In the darkness, her figure stood ramrod straight, but she did not turn around to look.
"The second question is, your name isn't Li Tao. Who are you? "(To be continued.)
PS:
In order to be a man of his word, I stayed up until almost three o 'clock. I finished writing and added chapters …
I owe a total of three chapters. Today, I finally paid off the debt of the first chapter … My dear concubine, come and check! It wasn't easy, I'm in tears! I still have to conquer Dou Guan and TOHFRS 'Wall! (Fog)
Thank you for the Mirror v Balance review votes and 2 Protective Amulets. Thank you to White Wall (Huh? Did I miss a word?) My Protective Amulet!
Lin Sanjiu felt that it was a pain in the ass to explain these three levels of settings. There wasn't enough space and she didn't know if she had explained everything clearly before she moved on to the next plot. She had a feeling that she would be bombarded by the comments section …
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