The young man's temperament was so clean that it seemed as if there were no impurities in it. His gaze was as gentle as the ripples of water. His body was as straight as a bamboo, so much so that his arms, which hung below his knees, didn't look so out of place anymore.
Ji Shanqing raised his arm, which was as long as half his body, and pointed at the mirror on the other side.
"It's a good thing that you're here," he said in a gentle voice. His voice was gentle, and from one side of his face, he looked more like a delicate and pretty girl. "I suggest that we work together. What do you think?"
"How do we work together?" Lin Sanjiu looked at the mirrors on both sides.
She couldn't tell the shape of the previous mirror maze, but this one was different. It was a perfect triangle. Even without a rope, she could feel that the angles of the mirror walls on both sides were exactly the same.
"Now, we don't know which mirror is going along the outer edge of the building," Ji Shanqing said naturally. Having met Ji Shanqing once, it was easier for them to talk. "Since we have two helpers, why don't we each choose a mirror? What do you think?"
Even though they came out from the same mirror, Lin Sanjiu's reflection was different from his. Her reflection was in the shape of a pear. She glanced at her plump thighs and looked at the mirror on the left. She frowned, "Then what? There's always a possibility that one of us will get lost. "
"You should be the same as me. You must have left a mark along the way, right?" Ji Shanqing tilted his head and smiled. His smile was like a breeze caressing the clouds. "After we get out of here, we will leave a mark. After we memorize the shapes of the next few mirror mazes, we will return to this triangular room and draw the shape of the mirror maze we came across."
"What is he doing?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure it out. She frowned in confusion.
"Look," Ji Shanqing probably felt that he couldn't express himself clearly by talking, so he moved his long coat. Then, he took out a piece of paper and a pen from somewhere. "Our current location is an isosceles triangle. If we leave the two mirrors closest to the angle, we will land in the mirror maze on both sides of the triangle. Before you came here, I had already walked through the mirror wall on the right. From there, we will reach the next mirror maze. It's a shape like this … "
He stooped down, and with his long, ape-like arms pressed easily against the floor, he drew a heptagon on the paper. If anything, it vaguely resembled the shape of a chicken's heart, laid horizontally.
"I fell out from here. The opposite side is right here." Ji Shanqing was on the two 'waists' of the non-standard chicken heart. He pointed at each point. "So if I start from here, I can draw the next shape of this Chicken Heart House …" Sheyan muttered to himself.
Realization dawned on Lin Sanjiu, "You want to sort out the map of the mirror chambers around here?"
"Yes." Ji Shanqing nodded. His silky, short hair slid down from his ears. "Look, if we can draw the maps of the mirror chambers on both sides of the triangle, then put them together, we can deduce where the boundary line is."
Lin Sanjiu grew excited. With this small map as a starting point, it might not be difficult to figure out the internal structure of the entire mirror maze.
"I have another question," Lin Sanjiu said after thinking for a while. After some consideration, she asked Ji Shanqing, "Are you sure that there is no Mirror Maze behind the sharp corner of this triangle? After all, from an angle, this sharp corner is most likely to be on the boundary line. "
"Even though I can't be sure, I have a guess. If you don't mind, you can listen to it," Ji Shanqing smiled at her warmly and politely. Ji Shanqing smiled at her warmly and politely. "These mirror chambers have irregular shapes, and every one of them is different from each other. No matter how they are arranged, there will definitely be gaps in the middle. So when we go out from one mirror chamber, we have to go to the next one. I think this is why the number of mirrors in each chamber is the same. For example, if you go out from Mirror No.5 in this chamber, you will have to go out. He walked out of mirror number five in the next mirror chamber. As for how big the gaps are in the middle, it doesn't affect our progress. "
"The sharp corner of this triangular mirror maze is formed by the angle between two mirrors. It's not the mirror itself, so we can't go through it. In other words, there is no corresponding mirror maze. If there is a mirror maze behind the sharp corner, then that mirror maze must correspond to another mirror here or a mirror in the next mirror maze. "
As Lin Sanjiu traced the diagram in her mind, she understood what Ji Shanqing meant. She couldn't help admiring his quick thinking.
And it was also because of this that she realized something else at the same time.
Ji Shanqing was able to come up with this plan not long after they encountered the isosceles triangle mirror maze. It showed that he wasn't a slow thinker. Since he had just started walking along the boundary line, it meant that he entered the mirror maze at the same time as her. Even if there was a discrepancy, it couldn't be too far off.
However, before Lin Sanjiu entered the diamond building, she had never seen or heard of such a person at the final stop. It was not hard to imagine that Ji Shanqing must have come from another apocalyptic world.
This thought made her panic for a moment.
Since people from different apocalyptic worlds could enter this diamond building, it meant that there was more to this diamond building than met the eye. It was even possible that it had transcended time and space. "Will the plan that I came up with based on its location and boundary really work?"
In any case, Lin Sanjiu didn't have any other ideas apart from this.
After all, they were strangers that they had just met. After making their plans, they exchanged a few more pleasantries before they went their separate ways. Since Ji Shanqing had already gone through the mirror maze on the right, he would go through the mirror maze on the left. Lin Sanjiu would explore the second mirror maze on the right.
"This guy is really meticulous," Lin Sanjiu muttered as she descended from the mirror maze on the right.
Ji Shanqing probably didn't trust her completely and wanted to check out the mirror mazes on both sides for himself.
The shape of this mirror maze was exactly as Ji Shanqing had drawn it. It was in the shape of a chicken heart. Lin Sanjiu scanned the area and found the mirror that corresponded to the exit. She turned around and marked it. Then, she swayed her body like a gasoline barrel and walked toward the mirror maze.
Even though the shape of the mirror maze wasn't tricky, it was unusually narrow. It was difficult to even turn one's body.
The mirror in front of her was at an angle to the other mirror. Just when Lin Sanjiu was about to reach for it, her eyelids twitched and she froze in place.
Something slid down from the gap between the two mirrors. Lin Sanjiu squinted her eyes and took a closer look. Lin Sanjiu found that the thing was wet and slippery. It was a fleshy pink color. It looked like a piece of brain tissue.
Perhaps it was shaken by Lin Sanjiu's footsteps, the brain fragment slid down the gap and fell on the mirror on the ground.
"Did someone die in this mirror maze?"
Lin Sanjiu stared at it hesitantly for a moment. Lin Sanjiu walked through the mirror with doubt in her heart.
After going through so many mirror mazes, she didn't encounter any real danger. She guessed that the owner of the brain fragment was involved in a battle between posthumans.
The next few mirror mazes didn't have anything strange to her. After noting down the shapes and sizes of five mirror mazes, Lin Sanjiu felt that it was about time for her to return home. After all, she had never drawn a room like this before. She was afraid that she might make a mistake, so she checked every mirror maze several times before leaving. Perhaps, Ji Shanqing had already returned to the triangular mirror maze and was waiting for her.
Lin Sanjiu checked the shape of the mirror maze one last time and put away her pen and paper. Just when she was about to turn around, she felt a slight movement in the air in her hypersensory state. Then, she heard an object fall to the ground with a loud thud.
Lin Sanjiu quivered. She turned around and met the eyes of a man.
"How … How …" The man had a yellowish complexion and a face that Lin Sanjiu didn't recognize. He stared at Lin Sanjiu in disbelief. Lin Sanjiu had never seen him before, but the man seemed to know her. He stammered, "Why is it you again?"
"You've seen me before?" Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes. "This man does look familiar …"
Unexpectedly, the man didn't answer her. The man did not answer at all. Instead, he quickly turned around and reached out to the mirror that he had fallen from.
He was only a palm away from the mirror. Even if Lin Sanjiu reacted in time, she wouldn't be able to catch him before he touched the mirror. Immediately after, a foul stench of blood burst out of nowhere and drenched her face and hair, drenching her clothes and hair.
Even Lin Sanjiu spat out a mouthful of blood-red liquid. She couldn't care less about the slippery pieces of her internal organs. She quickly wiped her eyes and looked up. Then, she froze.
"That man has already been reduced to a pile of mush."
It was only now that Lin Sanjiu remembered who that man was. She almost couldn't recognize him after his horse-like face reverted to its original form.
"What … What's going on?" Lin Sanjiu asked Mrs. Manas in a daze.
"Wait, let me take a look," the latter replied. Then, he disappeared. After a while, he reappeared.
"I've checked the state of your particles when you passed through the mirror conductor. I found that the mirrors are only one-way."
"What do you mean by one-way?"
"That is to say, you can only enter or exit from the same mirror. No matter which mirror you came out from, you will never be able to enter from that mirror. Because of the one-way setting, your decomposed particles will not be able to pass through it. My guess is that they will be treated as impurities or invading substances. In other words, you can't go back. "
Lin Sanjiu froze for half a second. Then, she sucked in a breath of cold air. "Oh, no. That's not right. He told me that he had already returned to the same place once …"
"Impossible," Mrs. Manas insisted. "Either he went the wrong way or he lied to you."
Lin Sanjiu frowned. She thought for a while and felt that her mind was in a mess. She quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down her thoughts.
First of all, Ji Shanqing had accurately described the shape of the heart-shaped mirror chamber. Lin Sanjiu had verified it with her own eyes, so it couldn't be wrong. However, he couldn't go back, and he didn't seem like a careless person who would make a mistake about the exit. So, how did he know?
If the mirrors on both sides of the triangle were arranged in a row, it was indeed possible to exit from the right. However, the shape of the next mirror chamber was irregular. It was highly possible that the mirror next to the exit corresponded to another mirror chamber that was wedged in between the gaps. If Lin Sanjiu was not careful, she would get lost. Therefore, this hypothesis was not valid.
Lin Sanjiu exhaled. The brain fragment in the heart-shaped chamber suddenly appeared in front of her. For no reason, it appeared in front of Lin Sanjiu.
Unless …
Unless, when Ji Shanqing reached the triangle chamber, another person walked into the triangle chamber from the heart-shaped chamber at the same time.
That person must have told Ji Shanqing about the heart-shaped chamber — no, he might have even told him the shapes of the other mirror chambers after the heart-shaped chamber. That was the only way he could describe the heart-shaped chamber as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
The reason why he insisted on taking the left path was probably because he already knew the right path like the back of his hand...
Did that brain fragment belong to "another person"? What happened between him and Ji Shanqing? Did Ji Shanqing realize that he would die if he turned back?
Even though Lin Sanjiu couldn't be sure, she could guess most of it with her imagination.
"That doesn't make sense," Mrs. Manas was a little confused. "Under such circumstances, one more person means more help. He could have invited you to take the left path. Why would he lie to you?"
"If he only wanted to find the outer boundary and move forward," Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips, her face gradually turning cold, "... he definitely wouldn't harm me. Ji Shanqing was different from the horse-faced guy. Before he found the mirror chamber where the grand prize was, Smart people know the principle of mutual benefit. Since he has dug such a pit for me, he must fulfill two conditions. "
"First, he must be very sure that the grand prize isn't on the right path. Perhaps, the information was given to him by the dead person. Come to think of it, the dead person might be Ji Shanqing's true partner. Second, I think he has already guessed the location of the grand prize. He doesn't want me to take the left path because he doesn't want anyone other than himself to get close to the grand prize. "
"But it's not enough to mislead you. He also wants to kill you," Mrs. Manas sighed after a long while. "I remember that the young girl was pretty, but I didn't expect her to be so cunning and vicious."
"I thought he was a man," Lin Sanjiu replied casually. She calculated that it was about time and walked to the next mirror chamber.
When she opened her eyes in the next mirror chamber, she knew that she had three minutes. She knew that she now had another three minutes.
"Everything just now is just our conjecture," Lin Sanjiu sighed, "If I want to know how true my conjecture is and how I should find the grand prize … I think there is only one way."
"Hey, wait a minute. You can't be —"
Before Mrs. Manas could finish her sentence, Lin Sanjiu activated her [Consciousness Mimicry] in a low voice.
"Simulated object. Nuwa. "(To be continued.)
PS:
I have to criticize you guys seriously. Some of the girls in the book review and comment section said that they want to give birth to my monkey, become my concubine, and even fight for my affections. How dare you! The moral degeneration of the world is getting worse and worse! All talk and no action. Why don't you guys take action!
→ Shangguan Feizhu, I'm talking about you … Thank you for your support. I have already accepted a piece of Heshibi. Do you want to wait (a long time) for it to be updated, or do you want to give birth to the monkey? I don't know how much it costs to make monkey milk powder … Fine, fine, I'm going to put up a front. Thank you for your love! I hope you will continue to like it ~
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