The two finally returned to the infirmary.
It took Shi Yu half an hour to finish a conversation with Chang Jue and get a general understanding of the other party's experience after entering this game.
According to Chang Jue, the place where he was first sent by the system was a forest. It had just rained in the forest, the air was humid and hot, and the ground was covered with mud.
Due to the environment and road conditions, it took Chang Jue most of the day to realize for the first time that there was a boundary line in the forest space. He quickly thought that the center of the space might be the exit. He wandered in the forest for a long time, found the exit, walked up, and then left the forest.
The second space he appeared in was a grassland. Chang Jue borrowed a horse from someone and used the same method he used in the previous space to find the boundary. Because riding a horse was fast, he found the center of the circle again without much effort.
And here is the third closed space that is often felt.
"I, I didn't start here, I was outside, in the mall. I'm still looking for the center of the circle, and then pass through, because I have to go in a straight line, just come in."
Chang Jue explained with difficulty why he came to the factory, and then said: "Master, I..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the door to the lounge was knocked open, and the doctor poked his head in: "Everyone, I'm going to close the door after get off work."
At the end of the workday, people started to walk out of the building, and the number of people on the ground gradually increased. The technician in charge of the raw material processing kept an eye on the time, ran out of the door on time, and came to the building where the medical office was located with a heroic and high-spirited manner, just in time to bump into someone coming out of the building.
He recognized the leader at a glance and stopped him immediately.
Shi Yu: “?”
The technician met his eyes, and his original momentum weakened. He only asked: "Why are you in the raw material processing workshop?"
Shi Yu looked at him for two seconds: "You sent me to the infirmary?"
The technician glared at him and said, "What else? If it was someone else, they would have just left you there. It's only thanks to me that I risked being blackmailed to save your life. Otherwise, who would care about you, a scammer?!"
Shi Yu: “I’m sorry.”
The technician wanted to say something else, but was stuck when he heard this sentence.
The other party said again: "Thank you."
The technician curled his lips: "I'm generous and won't bother with you."
As he spoke, he finally remembered the original question: "You haven't answered me yet, why are you in the workshop?"
Shi Yu pointed at the visitor pass in front of his neck.
The technician took a look and then looked at his face: "So what happened to you in the workshop before?"
Shi Yu made up an excuse: "Low blood sugar."
The technician, a layman in medicine, had no doubts at all. He thanked the man, accepted his apology, and asked the reason. He had no reason to stay any longer. He was about to say goodbye when the other party suddenly asked, "Excuse me."
"Um?"
"Do you know where I can find a layout of this factory?"
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Just as Qiao Yan had expected, the two people who went out to find the center of the circle finally returned before it was completely dark.
At that time, Shi Yu was sitting on a public chair outside the infirmary, flipping through the factory brochure in his hand.
Ji Congyang was the first to notice that there was someone beside his idol. He looked at him for a few times and was stunned: "It's you?"
Chang Jue was also stunned, and stood up and said, "Hello, hello."
Qiao Yan reached out from behind and pushed Ji Congyang onto the chair. He glanced at the stutterer, then withdrew his gaze as if he didn't recognize him. He handed over a folded map and said, "We can probably determine the center of this space."
Shi Yu looked up from the brochure.
"The direction can also be determined. The land runs from south to north from the front door." Qiao Yan rummaged in his pocket. "Do you want to leave now or stay here overnight?"
Shi Yu was silent for a moment: "You should ask this question to yourselves."
Qiao Yan paused, but before he could say anything, Ji Congyang's attention was instantly drawn to the conversation between the two people: "Idol, can we not leave?"
Shi Yu looked at him.
"We won't cause you any trouble. We'll do whatever you say." Ji Congyang said as he remembered something. "Didn't you say in the game that you have to pay a price for what you want? Look, didn't Old Qiao find the center of this space in just one afternoon? You don't even need to go out to know the destination. Although I'm not as smart as you, I'm lucky. I can get you whatever you need. It's convenient for you to do whatever you want, right?"
He said a lot, and finally looked at the other party eagerly: "So could you please take the trouble to let us follow you?"
Before he got a response, Chang Jue on the other end finally realized that his situation was not much better than theirs, and hurriedly said, "Great, Great God, if they can do it, I can do it too, can I..."
Ji Congyang stared at the poacher in amazement, and quickly tugged at his companion's clothes: "Old Qiao, say something!"
Qiao Yan didn't really want to pay attention to this idiot, so he took out a black bag from his pocket and said, "I saw it outside before, and I thought it might be useful to you."
Under the gazes of the three people, Shi Yu took the pocket and was startled when he opened it. He took out two gears of different sizes from it and put them together.
He twirled one of the gears with his finger and watched the other gear being driven to rotate. “When I said let you think about it yourself, I meant that you might not be willing to leave in the way I told you before.”
"Why?" Ji Congyang was at a loss. "Your previous speculations were all correct. Why wouldn't we do as you said?"
Shi Yu took out the axle and pointed at Chang Jue who was standing beside him: "Just ask him and you'll know."
So, the duo and Little Stutter spent another half an hour completing a heart-to-heart talk and figuring out all of Little Stutter's experiences since he entered the game.
"You said you first went to the rain forest, then to the grassland, and finally came here?" Qiao Yan asked.
Chang Jue nodded.
Qiao Yan was silent, and his brows furrowed a little.
Ji Congyang was watching from the side and was confused: "What happened?"
Qiao Yan didn't answer him, but asked, "Do you remember what the surrounding environment was like when you were in the forest?"
Chang Jue stuttered back, "It's just the normal forest look. The rain had just stopped, there's a lot of mud on the ground, and it's hot and stuffy."
Qiao Yan: "On the grassland?"
Chang Jue: "There are a lot of grasses, the wind is strong, it's cool and comfortable."
Ji Congyang vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but he couldn't catch the tail of the spiritual light for a while.
Until the companion hit the nail on the head: "The temperature of the space."
According to previous speculation, more than 200 closed spaces are arranged in order of temperature. Because they are distributed in a closed ring similar to a gear, the temperature of the space distributed on the entire gear should be low and high. The two spaces with low temperatures should fit together, and different spaces can be connected end to end.
They jumped from low-temperature space to high-temperature space, and the temperature in the space went from low to high.
It is true that when Chang Jue went from the high-temperature space to the ground-temperature space, the temperature in the adjacent space decreased, but the problem is that if the space gear really rotates in one direction, then the low-temperature space that Chang Jue should have reached should be the other side of the entire space gear, and he should not encounter them.
But the other party just ran into them.
This obviously contradicts the conclusion that gears rotate in one direction.
Qiao Yan frowned fiercely.
If this is the case, is the previous conclusion of entering the center of the space from south to north still worth believing?
It was dead silent.
Ji Congyang simply didn't react, and Chang Jue didn't know about their previous experience, so the two looked at each other.
Only Shi Yu was unaffected and continued to fiddle with the gears.
The sky outside the window gradually darkened, and a small crescent moon could be faintly seen among the clouds.
Shi Yu inserted the axle into the foam board.
The ornaments in the bag were small but finely crafted, with five gears of different sizes. Two of them were used as space gears and meshing gears, and he rubbed the remaining gears with his fingertips.
"Why?" Qiao Yan turned his head and looked at him. "Chang Jue is now in this space, which means that he jumped from high temperature to low temperature on the space gear. He met us here without passing through the polar snowfield, which means that he and we are moving in opposite directions. When he jumped, the direction of the meshing gear was from north to south. You said before that the gears in the space we are in rotate from south to north, so the direction of the meshing gear should be opposite to his. Since he came from the opposite direction, why wasn't he torn apart by the space?"
Chang Jue listened with a bewildered look on his face until the last sentence, when his face turned pale.
Shi Yu looked at the gears in front of him and said nothing.
Qiao Yan asked again: "Is it possible that the two players who were torn in half as soon as they entered the center of the circle in the previous space did not die because they were in the wrong direction, but because they broke some other taboos of this game without our knowledge?"
Ji Congyang poked him on the back: "Old Joe."
Signal him not to ask anymore.
Qiao Yan didn't respond: "Is it possible that the gears don't have the constraint of one-way rotation at all?"
Is it possible that your previous speculation was wrong?
Shi Yu lowered his eyes: "Yes."
Qiao Yan: "Then what taboos might they have violated?"
Shi Yu: “I don’t know.”
Qiao Yan paused.
He actually never thought that he would hear the three words "I don't know" from him. Perhaps it was because the previous impression label was too strong. He knew that he believed that the other party was powerful enough, but it was not until now that he realized that he had placed the other party under the aura of omniscience, so he would ask the other party first no matter what happened.
Once you find out it’s not the case, it’s as if the image of the other person has collapsed.
He suddenly understood why people in the divine realm always said that if you like someone, don't deify him.
"But I'm still leaning towards the wrong direction that they're going to die."
Qiao Yan's thoughts were just wandering when he was pulled back by his words: "What?"
"Because if they died from some unspoken taboo in this game, let's not talk about what this taboo is, but at least this taboo should apply to everyone in the game."
Shi Yu rotated the gears in his hand from time to time: "If that's the case, then why are they the only ones who broke the rules? When I entered the game, there were six players including me. Assuming that this taboo really exists, with a 50% probability, three people should die. Why are only the two of them affected? Even if they are the only ones who are unlucky, why do they have to die when they walk into the center of the circle? Instead of dying directly when they break the rules?"
Qiao Yan couldn't answer.
"If this so-called taboo does not exist, let's go back to the gear itself. The snowfield, cruise ship, city, suburbs, this route is indeed on the same gear. Using the prime meridian as an example, from below zero degrees, to above zero degrees, to more than ten degrees, to twenty degrees Celsius. The temperature of the adjacent space rises too fast."
"Six players have four closed spaces. At this ratio, three hundred and seventy-nine players can have a maximum of two hundred and fifty-three closed spaces. Assuming that these are arranged on the cylindrical surface of the same gear, according to this arithmetic progression, the temperature difference between different spaces can reach up to one thousand and eight degrees Celsius. Regardless of whether it is high or low, it is impossible for a player to survive in it."
Shi Yu raised his eyes and said, "At first, I thought that the spaces before and after the space jump were not adjacent, but three, five, or even dozens of spaces apart. The distribution of spaces is actually very, very dense, but the player will enter a loop as soon as he reaches the boundary of the space, so he doesn't notice it. But now, we can change our thinking."
Qiao Yan's heartbeat was getting faster and faster: "For example?"
Shi Yu: "For example, these two hundred closed spaces are not all distributed on the same gear."
"But you mentioned this possibility before, and you also said that if there is more than one gear, and if one gear is interlocked with each other, it would be almost impossible to complete the task." Qiao Yan said, "Because no matter how you jump in space, as long as one of the others changes position, the entire system will change accordingly."
“So it’s not chimera.”
Shi Yu pinched the gear and superimposed it on the gear fixed to the foam board, like a double-layer cake, with the large gear at the bottom and the small one at the top.
His voice was calm: "We share the same aspirations."
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