Chapter 183 Dream Serpent
"All three of them are like this, so we can infer that there is a safe layer every six steps on that staircase."
Qiao Yan stared without blinking.
“Then there’s the arrangement.”
Shi Yu first wrote the word "starting point" on the ground and marked the Arabic numeral zero: "From my perspective, if you throw a dot in the first round, you walk up one step, and the first step is the safe layer; if you throw a dot in the second round, you walk up one step, encounter a swarm of insects, and the second layer is the swarm layer; if you throw a six in the third round, you encounter a lion, and the eighth level is the lion layer; if you throw a four in the fourth round, the twelfth level is the wasp layer."
The branch changed direction: "Ji Congyang threw out a six in the fourth round, and went back six levels, so the sixth level is the Bison Layer; he threw out a five in the third round, and went back five levels, so the first level is the Safety Layer, which happens to correspond to my first round result. In addition, the corpse of the player who died because of the wasp violation appeared on this layer, so level zero is the Wasp Layer."
"But if level zero is a wasp, and the first level is removed as a safety layer, and the six animals are arranged in order, the eighth level should also be a wasp layer, not a lion." Qiao Yan looked at his landing point, "Going further, the third wasp layer should be at the thirteenth level, but according to the rule of six levels and one safety layer, the thirteenth level should be a safety layer. If the six animals are really arranged in order as you said, your points and the steps you have experienced are incompatible with his."
Shi Yu raised her eyelashes and asked, "What if they are not arranged in order?"
"In reverse order?" Qiao Yan said, "But on the stairs, the player himself does not have any similar marks or maps. Without known conditions, whether it is in order or in reverse order, the result will not be any different."
Shi Yu said calmly: "What if we arrange them by number of times?"
Qiao Yan stood still, his palms gradually becoming wet with sweat.
"Starting from the swarm of insects and ending at the lion, the six animals are arranged in order of number of times. The third level is the wasp, and the ninth level is the bison."
Shi Yu spoke slowly, his movements unhurried: "You said that when you threw out three points, you went from the safe layer to the Goshawk layer. According to the rule that there is a safe layer every six levels, one and seven are both safe layers, so the Goshawk is on the fourth or tenth layer."
"Luo Huai walked seven steps from the bison to the goshawk, and threw four points at a time and three points at a time. When he threw four points, he reached the safe level. He was either at the third level or the negative third level when he met the bison, or at the thirteenth level when he met the goshawk. If it was the former, it obviously contradicted the third level being the wasp level; if it was the latter, it contradicted the thirteenth level being the safe level. In this way, only the fourth level was the goshawk level, and the negative third level was the bison level."
The words on the ground danced with the movement of the branches, completing the stairs bit by bit: "Arrange them according to the number of steps. The ninth step corresponds to the sixth step, which is the bison. The eleventh step corresponds to the fourth step, which is the goshawk."
"With all the layers of security removed, the order of the animals is swarm, wasp, hawk, vacancy, bison, lion; then reversed, bison, vacancy, hawk, wasp, and finally swarm."
"The only vacancies are the fifth and tenth levels."
Qiao Yan clearly heard himself opening his mouth: "So there must be a sixth animal to fill the gap."
Shi Yu finished the last few strokes on the ground, and then he heard the other party speak again: "Why must the swarm of insects be the beginning and the lion be the end?"
He lowered his eyelashes. “You can actually try using other animals as the starting point, but only when the insect swarm and the lion are the two ends can the law explain it.”
Qiao Yan listened: "Isn't this just like making up the numbers when solving an equation? What if there is a second solution? What if there is no necessary connection between the location of the steps and the animals, and it is just random? What if the two swarms of bees that appeared when you and Ji Congyang met in the wasp layer were just coincidence?"
Shi Yu did not deny it: "But what if we add the known condition that the insect swarm layer is the starting point?"
Qiao Yan glanced at it and said, "Is it because the safety layers are all in front of the insect swarm and the lion? But if that's the only reason, I don't think it's sufficient. If we ignore the number of animals and only look at the safety layers, there are only five levels between safety layers. Generally speaking, we should think there are only five kinds of animals."
Shi Yu looked at him calmly: "Didn't you go through the starting point again in the third round?"
Qiao Yan took a few seconds to react, his heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat, and then suddenly quickened.
"After throwing out three points in the third round, you turned left once at the beginning of the second step. Counting two levels below the Goshawk, it is the Insect Swarm." Shi Yu's eyes were calm. "If you add this condition and put the Insect Swarm at the starting point of the animal sequence, is the reason sufficient?"
Qiao Yan couldn't find any loopholes in the logical chain. He was silent for a while. When he opened his mouth again, the scene in front of him changed.
Shi Yu sat on the steps and turned his head: "Are you okay?"
[Help, I'm not well]
[My heart really stopped beating. This is so embarrassing]
[I'll say I'm not well-educated, what is the number of times? ]
[The class representative here is a number that has no difference when read from the front to the back or from the back to the front, such as 12321, 99999]
[Although the teacher obviously slowed down her speech to take care of others, I still couldn’t keep up. I burst into tears.]
[Just draw a picture during playback and you can follow along. In fact, this kind of player suffers because they are blind to the map. If they have a map, it is actually very easy to understand.]
[If I had a map in front of me, I could understand it. The problem is that I can’t do it by myself based on the information. Is this the speed at which a normal person can solve a problem? ? ]
【Master, my superman!!!】
[Shh, I know our teacher is not a normal person, so keep a low profile]
[Low-key and low-key]
Ji Congyang's eyes were filled with chaos. From the moment the other party picked up the branch and started writing, the questions he was thinking about had drifted from the arrangement patterns of animals to why humans need brains, and wouldn't it be good to be a happy planet without a brain?
Shi Yu didn't get the answer, but he got the dice that floated over first, so the waiting time was almost negligible.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the dice in his hand: "How many players do you think are left now?"
Ji Congyang said "Ah" in confusion: "You ask me?"
Shi Yu didn't say anything, just looked at the other person.
Ji Congyang tugged at the corner of his clothes uncomfortably: "I think... there are probably seven or eight... nine more?"
"Too many." Shi Yu recalled the brief meeting in front of the mountain spring. "After this round, there will be at most five left."
Ji Congyang swallowed his saliva and said carefully: "Then do you have me... or Lao Qiao among the five candidates in your mind?"
"I don't know." Shi Yu said, "But your chances of surviving should be higher than others."
Ji Congyang didn't dare to say a word.
"It's not difficult to just avoid animals, but the premise is that you know what kind of animals are going to appear. If you are caught off guard, you can't prepare in advance. Whether it's the specific steps that summon animals, or the rule that you can't leave the fixed range after throwing the dice to the point, the system doesn't give players any hints, or even much time to explore and verify. These two points alone are enough to wipe out more than half of the players." Shi Yu lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting shadows, "And in this game, except for Luo Huai, who is not afraid of any sneak attacks, no one else is 100% sure that they can avoid the attacks of animals and survive without leaving the range of the steps."
Ji Congyang thought about it and raised his hand: "What about you?"
"What?"
"Aren't you completely confident you can survive an animal attack?"
Shi Yu looked at him with a confused look: "There is always a chance of accidents."
For the first time, Ji Congyang disagreed with his conclusion: "Then why is that person... called Luo Huai, right? Why can that person definitely survive in this game?"
"Because he can't die."
A question mark popped up above Ji Congyang’s head.
"He is a god. He must suppress most of his divine power before entering the divine realm. His true body is not in the dungeon at all." Shi Yu said, "Even if he died in the game, he would only be injured at most when he returned to the temple, and his life would not be in danger."
Ji Congyang was shocked by this style of immortality.
How can God have such a powerful plug-in?
Why can't they have it?
Why...wait a minute.
He went over the content of the other party's words in his mind. The address that was so weak that it was faint as dust when Luo Huaishen knelt down in front of the castle gate echoed clearly in his ears at this moment.
Lord God.
Ji Congyang was stunned as if he was struck by lightning.
Shi Yu threw the dice in his hand away.
Gurgle gurgle.
Five o'clock.
Shi Yu stood up and walked straight up.
According to the arrangement pattern of the animals on the stairs, five steps up from the wasp layer is the sixth animal that has never appeared from beginning to end.
The moment he stood on the steps, a very slight hissing sound was heard in the air.
It was like some kind of cold-blooded animal crawling across the grass, swimming over the sand and rocks, approaching with its blood-red tongue spitting out, and its fangs flashing coldly when it opened its mouth.
Shi Yu turned around suddenly and saw a snake as thick as a human's forearm, covered with extremely gorgeous patterns, shooting towards him like a cannon barrel!
There was a flash of light on the bracelet.
At the critical moment, Shi Yu grabbed something from the storage compartment and threw it over.
"Bang--!!"
A full kilogram of metal collided head-on with the venomous snake's head. The powerful impact force directly knocked the iron pot several meters away. However, the snake's head only fell back a few feet due to the reaction force, and its body had already expanded and contracted like a spring, and shot over again.
The moment he bent down to avoid the snake, Shi Yu supported himself on the steps with one hand and grabbed the snake's vital point with the other hand.
The snake's head was larger than its body, its skin was too thick and slippery, and its struggle was incredibly powerful. His hands could hardly hold the snake's vital points, and his joints turned white from clenching so hard.
But at this moment, the triangular head above the tiger's mouth suddenly opened, and the venom in the gland suddenly splashed towards him.
One by one, the silk threads climbed from his hand to the snake's head and body, and the golden color managed to pull the snake's angle away by an inch. However, the snake, which had only half of its body exposed, had now completely climbed onto the steps, and its tail slashed in the air like a long whip, and suddenly hit his right shoulder blade.
The bloody wound was torn apart in an instant.
Shi Yu's shoulder lost all feeling for a moment, and the snake's head slipped right out of his hand.
The next second, the poisonous fangs pierced directly into the back of his right hand.
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