Chapter 42: Club Recruitment (XIX)
This is the truth!
Lu Chongnian simply classified the eight school newspapers. According to the different layout methods, they can be divided into three types in total.
One is the "center wrap" layout, that is, four news items are distributed in the four corners of the newspaper page, and the fifth news item is placed in the middle.
One is the "right-angle ladder" layout, with three news items on the left and two news items on the right. However, because the first and second news items on the left and right rows are horizontally aligned, only the third news item on the left row falls to the bottom, so these five news items are connected to form a right-angle ladder.
The other is the "isosceles ladder format", which still has three news items on the left and two news items on the right.
Different from the "right-angle ladder format", the positions of the two news items on the right side of this layout are staggered with the three news items on the left side, so when they are connected, they form an isosceles trapezoid.
Among the eight issues of school newspapers, three issues were in the "center-wrapped" layout, three issues were in the "isosceles ladder" layout, and two issues were in the "right-angle ladder" layout.
Jiang Shuyue compared the spatial distribution diagram of the five classrooms drawn by Mu Yuhua, pointed his finger at the three news issues in the "center-surround" layout, and said:
"We can exclude these three school newspapers first. This layout does not match the spatial location of our classrooms at all. The rest depends on how steep the slope is from classroom 203 to classroom 202!"
The spatial connection diagram of their five classrooms must be a trapezoid.
But they couldn't tell whether classroom 201 and classroom 205, classroom 204 and classroom 203 were horizontally aligned in space, so the only thing that could be used to distinguish whether the five classrooms were in the form of a "right-angle ladder" or an "isosceles ladder" was the angle formed by the slope!
Fortunately, Ye Sui had paid special attention to this when he was going down the slope just now.
At this moment, he said: "The bottom angle of that ramp is about 45 degrees, so it should be arranged in an 'isosceles trapezoid'."
This will narrow it down!
Mu Yu pushed aside the other five issues of the school newspaper and spread out the remaining three issues in the "isosceles ladder format".
The three issues of the school newspaper are February, April and July respectively.
He also pointed out: "The February issue can also be directly excluded. The three news items on the left correspond to the types of clubs for professional learning, entertainment and sports, and social practice, which do not match the location of our classroom space."
He threw away the school newspaper, and the scope was narrowed again.
At this moment, the only things left in front of everyone were the April and July school newspapers.
Victory seemed to be just around the corner, and everyone's heart was beating faster, but the two issues of the school newspaper in front of them made people feel confused.
The societies they report on are different, but the types of societies they layout are the same.
The categories from the left to the right are life interests, science and innovation, and culture, entertainment and sports.
The right row includes professional study and social practice categories.
This will match their classroom.
In terms of space, their classrooms are located on the vertical line of the left row, namely 201 (cosplay club, life interest category), 204 (handicraft club, science and innovation category), and 202 (basketball club, entertainment and sports category).
The two classrooms on the right row are 205 (Literature Society, professional study category) and 203 (Small Animal Protection Society, social practice category).
So, since they all match, which of these two issues of the school newspaper is correct?
In which newspaper's corresponding community office drawer is it likely that a monster generator would be found?
Were they missing a crucial clue that could distinguish the two papers?
"Time difference." Mu Yu uttered these three words and fell into deep thought.
The problem must be with the time displacement and time difference.
What do these two mean? What role do they play?
It’s like there is a big problem in front of you. It gives you the question stem and conditions, and all you have to do is solve the problem. But often the process of "solving the problem" is the most important and difficult.
For a moment, everyone was thinking frantically.
Everyone was a little anxious and wanted to solve the puzzle immediately and leave this dangerous copy.
Mu Yu also became a little anxious. After two or three seconds, he let out a long breath, calmed himself down, and said, "Let's sort it out!"
"So far we've only discovered the time displacement of the knocking sound once, right?"
Li Ke quickly said, "Yes, it was when you knocked on the door on the ceiling of our classroom at 8:54. Only that time the sound shifted to 8:12, and we heard it!"
After that, the small door they knocked on was either connected to 202 or 205.
There had been no one in these two classrooms for a long time, so even if the sound had really moved, they would have been completely unaware of it.
It is because of this that the clues they have are greatly reduced.
What can a single 42-minute time difference clue bring them?
Jiang Shuyue suggested, "Or Lu Zhongnian and I should get ready right away and go up for the test?"
"As long as we can pass the test, we can knock on the door of classroom 203 in the opposite direction. As long as we can get another set of time displacement data, we may be able to determine what this time difference means!"
"No, there is a problem here," Mu Yu frowned, "If the knocking sound is shifted to the 'past', then this is actually a kind of predictive mechanism, right?"
Everyone was stunned.
"Suppose that the two of you passed the test in ten minutes and came back to knock on the door of classroom 203. The knocking sound moved forward - and this shift is definitely not a matter of seconds or minutes, but at least more than ten minutes, which is about now - but Ye Sui and his classmates haven't heard such a sound in their classroom so far, right?"
Ye Sui and Fu Xiaoju were also stunned.
The two looked at each other, then nodded to Jiang Shuyue. There was no such voice before.
Everyone gradually reacted——
Mu Yu: "So isn't this still the same thing?"
"Either you and Lu Chongnian didn't knock on the door of Room 203 in the end, or your knocking sound moved to a time when no one was in Room 203, which was when Ye Sui and Ma Er went up to take the test, or even earlier, when Ye Sui, Qi Shan, and Hao Jia went up to take the test."
Jiang Shuyue suddenly became depressed.
Mu Yu's words made sense, but why did it feel like they were in a dead end? ?
Ye Sui also felt that things seemed to be starting to become a little weird.
He glanced at the time and said, "It's 9:30 now. If the time shift is about 40 minutes, then if we knocked on a door again later, we should have heard the knocking sound after the shift."
"But no, we didn't hear any of them. So could it be that we didn't knock on any door afterwards and figured out what was going on?"
Li Ke said weakly: "It is also possible that no one among us has ever passed the club assessment..."
Everyone froze.
——It’s not impossible!
The club assessment in classroom 205 is extremely dangerous, and the assessment that classroom 202 will face is also unknown. If these two classrooms eventually face a dead end, then they will be stuck here!
But if no one can pass the club assessment again, it probably means that they have not been able to successfully leave this instance...
"Impossible," Mu Yu flatly rejected this speculation, "It's absolutely impossible. I don't believe that we can't clear classroom 202 and classroom 205. It's impossible for the copy to arrange two dead ends in five classrooms."
More importantly, he believed in Lu Chongnian and Jiang Shuyue.
He also believes in himself, Niao Ge, Yu Hui, Fu Xiaoju, Ye Sui, and Li Ke.
Even if passing the level means sacrifice, even if none of them want each other to die, when the critical moment comes, he believes that every one of them will be willing to sacrifice themselves to save the lives of their companions.
There is absolutely no way this copy is unsolvable.
"We don't hear any knocking sounds after the displacement now. I think it's more likely that we don't need to do this. We have already found the answer-"
Fu Xiaoju looked confused: "But we really don't have any clue at the moment..."
At this moment, Lu Zhongnian suddenly took out a pen from his trouser pocket and leaned over to write on the school newspaper.
His actions attracted everyone's attention and everyone looked over.
He first circled the date of the first news item on the left page of the April school newspaper: April 2nd.
Then he circled the date of the news below: April 9.
He wrote between the two pieces of news: 7 days.
Then he also circled the events that took place in the first and second news stories on the left page of the July school newspaper, which were July 5 and July 12 respectively.
Seven days also passed in between.
Mu Yu, Jiang Shuyue and Ye Sui were stunned, and immediately half-knelt down, scanning the two school newspapers intently.
Next, Lu Chongnian continued to circle the time and write down the time difference between the news.
Gradually, everyone opened their eyes wide in surprise.
They found that the time difference between each two news items in the two school newspapers was almost exactly the same.
In the April school newspaper, the third news item on the left was dated April 17, which is 8 days apart from the item above it (April 9).
In the July school newspaper, the third news item on the left was published on July 20, which is also 8 days away from the news item above it (July 12).
Then we came to two news items on the right page of the two school newspapers.
In the April school newspaper, the first news item on the right is dated April 8, and the one below it is dated April 12.
In the July school newspaper, the first news item on the right is dated July 10th, and the one below it is dated July 15th.
There is a difference of 5 days between April 12 and April 17 (third news on the left).
There is also a difference of 5 days between July 15 and July 20 (the third news on the left).
The only difference between the two school newspapers is the first news item on the right page.
In the April school newspaper, the first news on the right row occurred on April 8, four days apart from the news below it.
In the July school newspaper, the news on these two positions were reported five days apart.
That's the only difference between them!
Mu Yu converted the date difference and the time difference of the knocking sound in his mind, and understood everything in an instant!
Ye Sui and Jiang Shuyue also understood!
After Lu Zhongnian finished marking, he said, "The only displaced sound we have heard so far occurs between classrooms 201 and 204, which corresponds to the Life Interest Club and the Science and Technology Innovation Club. In these two school newspapers, they are the first and second news items on the left row."
"The dates of these two news items in the two school newspapers are seven days apart."
Lu Zhongnian raised his head and said to the others who had not yet reacted, "The school newspaper is published once a month. Assuming a month is 30 days, the total time limit for our copy is three hours. In other words, one day of the school newspaper corresponds to six minutes in our copy."
"Seven days corresponds to 42 minutes."
Fu Xiaoju, Li Ke, Niao Ge and Yu Hui were all shocked.
"——The date difference in the news is the time difference of the knocking sound in each of our classrooms?!"
It’s actually like this!
The answer is actually like this!
Everyone suddenly became excited, and Mu Yu used his brain and found another clue!
He said quickly, "Look, in these two school newspapers, the news reports on the life interest clubs on the left row one are earlier than the news reports on the science and technology innovation clubs on the left row two. Could this be related to the direction of time displacement? So when we arrived at classroom 201 and arrived at classroom 204, the knocking sound would be pushed to an earlier time, shifting to the past?"
"Ah, so that's how it is!" Bird Brother exclaimed, "Then Yu, you just climbed down from 204 and knocked on the door of 202. That knocking sound was indeed pushed back to an earlier time, right?"
"The news in the two newspapers and the two locations were eight days apart, or 48 minutes. You knocked on the door at 9 o'clock, and 48 minutes earlier is 8:12 - the same time when the sound of displacement was heard in classroom 204! At that time, there was indeed no one in classroom 202!"
Everything makes sense!
Mu Yu pointed this out, but what he wanted to say was something else——
"If the relative time of each pair of news pieces determines whether the one-way knocking sound moves forward or backward, then you see—"
"Will the news about the social practice clubs corresponding to classroom 203 be published later in both newspapers than the news about the professional learning clubs above them?"
In the April school newspaper, this time was 4 days late, corresponding to 24 minutes.
In the July school newspaper, this time was 5 days late, corresponding to 30 minutes.
"Right!" Yu Hui followed Mu Yu's train of thought. "I understand. What you mean is that if the relative time of the news is later, will the time displacement be pushed back? Then the knock on the door of classroom 205 when Ye climbed up from 203 just now is likely to be pushed into the 'future'?"
Ye Sui knocked on the door just now at 9:22.
If it was the April school newspaper, then the knock on the door was most likely moved to 9:46, 24 minutes later.
If it was the July school newspaper, then the knock on the door might have been moved to 9:52, 30 minutes later!
——Then, as long as they determine this time difference, they can immediately determine whether they are looking for the April school newspaper or the July school newspaper? !
Everything suddenly became clear, and everyone's heart was filled with excitement.
"Then, then what do we do next? Wait for this voice from classroom 205?" Li Ke was so excited that he stuttered for a moment.
Lu Zhongnian said, "No, we can't wait."
When these words came out, everyone was stunned again.
Yu Hui was puzzled and asked, "Why? We wait until there's a knock on the door and determine which newspaper it is. Then you two can go up and pass the test and get the master key, right?"
Lu Zhongnian: "Whether the answer is the April school newspaper or the July school newspaper, if we have to wait until it is confirmed before taking the test, the remaining time may not be enough."
Everyone suddenly reacted.
That's right, no matter whether the knock on the door after the shift sounded at 9:46 or 9:52, they had too little time left.
What if something goes wrong in the assessment?
What if Lu Chongnian and Jiang Shuyue really failed again and couldn't get the master key?
Do they still have a chance to continue?
Mu Yu frowned and thought about this question, then said, "If we want to judge which issue of the school newspaper it is based on the knock on the door, then someone must stay in your classroom 205. But the club assessment must be done by the whole group, which means that neither of you can go up to take the assessment."
"Either we can send someone to re-establish the basketball club, and we won't prepare, we can just go in for the assessment first. If you pass the assessment, then you can also determine which issue of the school newspaper it is, and we will open the door of the club office to discuss, and then we can open the drawer with the master key."
"If we fail the test, you will come in and take the test again. We must always try to leave a way out."
Of course, if the newly formed basketball club fails the assessment, it may very likely mean that there will be casualties among them again.
It is even possible that both groups will be wiped out in the end, but there is nothing they can do; they cannot preset the outcome.
At every moment, the only thing they can do is to try their best to ensure that one of their friends can leave the copy alive.
Mu Yu looked at everyone, his eyes sweeping over each one: "Does everyone agree with this plan?"
"agree!"
Ye Sui then said, "If you want to form a basketball club, it's better to send three people. The club's goal can be similar to the last time you set the basketball club. These three people must be good at basketball. I can be one of them. What about the rest of you?"
Fu Xiaoju gritted his teeth and said, "Then count me in as one!"
Brother Bird and Li Ke looked at each other. One of them was clumsy and the other was weak. They usually didn't play basketball at all. If they went, they would just be a drag. They were both a little embarrassed at this moment.
Mu Yu doesn't play basketball normally. The only time he has ever been in touch with basketball is when he secretly watched Lu Zhongnian play basketball...
He pursed his lips and looked at Lu Zhongnian: "How about you change your application. Jiang Shuyue and I will form a literature club, and you and the two of them will form a basketball club?"
Lu Zhongnian agreed decisively: "Okay."
Mu Yu paused and asked him in a low voice: "Are you confident in the assessment?"
"Because like you, I don't think the dungeon will set up two deadlocks for five classrooms. The Literature Club will most likely need a mentor to pass the assessment, but the Basketball Club may not. The Basketball Club's assessment is likely to be less difficult than the Literature Club's."
There was extreme calmness in Lu Zhongnian's voice.
"The problem is that at this point, if we want to set up a new club group, it will inevitably mean that more than one player who has already passed the assessment will have to re-enter the game - how many people are willing to do this?"
The being who created the copy likes to destroy the beautiful things in the world.
It is sinister, vicious and terrifying.
Sometimes, all it takes is one, two, or three people - as long as they are willing to take the initiative to do so, everyone can walk out of the fog together.
But the problem often lies in the fact that someone has to be willing to do so.
Fortunately, every one of them here is someone who is willing to do it.
Lu Zhongnian pressed Mu Yu's head and said, "Jiang Shuyue will stay in Room 205. You don't need to change your club application yet. If the three of us haven't opened the door of the club office by 9:53, you can go and fill out the application form again."
Mu Yu hesitated and said, "If we want to ask for a 'tutor', won't 9:53 be too late?"
"No, it's still in time," Lu Zhongnian said. He suddenly tilted his head, glanced at him, then looked away and said casually, "I won't let you get to this point."
Mu Yu was startled.
The words were spoken quietly, so that only the two of them could hear them.
Mu Yu's heart suddenly felt warm.
He blinked and looked at Lu Chongnian with a fast heartbeat. When Lu Chongnian felt his gaze and looked back at him, the two looked at each other, and then they both pretended to look away as if nothing had happened.
If the two teams can't clear this instance by relaying like this -
No, they will do everything in their power to prevent that from happening.
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