Ji Lin'an waved to Chen Hu, who walked towards us still a little sleepy. We told him about our discovery, and Chen Hu lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "Could it be that there are some numbers that require us to go to the correct location based on the specified number?"
I shook my head: "It doesn't seem like it. Look, there are only two separate areas. If there really were any numbers, we would have no way of knowing which plot of land has which number."
Chen Hu frowned and pursed his lips: "You just said it looked like a chessboard, is there some kind of code that we need to decipher?"
I shook my head helplessly: "Then that's even more impossible. The chessboard is so clear that you can see exactly where everything is. Look at this endless pattern in all directions..."
Chen Hu shut up speechlessly and took a few steps forward, ending up on the stone slope I had marked. I immediately frowned: "Have you been using skills to explore this area all this time?"
Chen Hu and Ji Lin nodded, and I continued, "I remember that you both jumped 5 meters, right?"
The two nodded again, and I asked, "Do you jump randomly each time, or do you jump according to the longest possible distance?"
Both answered simultaneously, "The furthest distance."
I looked around and said, "If we consider the furthest distance, each time we landed, it was in a stone pit, and after the pit came a stone slope. I calculated that the distance to the next stone slope is exactly 5 meters. Can you remember where we landed each time?"
Ji Lin'an said, "I always jump on the stone slope so that I can get to the next stone slope. Standing higher allows me to see further."
Chen Hu nodded: "Me too."
I squinted at the location of the round stone: "If the stone slope is the black square on the chessboard, then the round stone is the white square. You've never walked on the white square section, have you?"
The two nodded, and Ji Lin'an spoke first: "Do you think this Rock Desert will be like the Misty Forest, where you can only get out by taking the right path?"
I nodded: "Well, that's all I can think of for now. Why don't we try jumping on the path of the round stones today and see if we can find a way out?"
Ji Lin'an and Chen Hu nodded, and we hurried back to the stone pit. Xiao Dian was still sleeping. He was a young man, so he was a sleepyhead. The three of us ate breakfast first, and after breakfast we woke Xiao Dian up, quickly stuffed some bread into his mouth, and then we set off.
We walked a few steps forward and reached the round stone. Ji Lin'an led Chen Hu, and Xiao Dian led me. We jumped forward, but after jumping for a day, we still couldn't see the exit. We sat down on the rock in frustration. Xiao Dian said, "This is too tiring. Sister Su Yi, you should lose some weight. It's really hard to jump with you."
My eyes widened immediately: "I weigh less than 100 pounds in total!! How am I heavy?"
Ji Lin'an laughed and said, "The little one only looks to be seventy or eighty pounds. It is indeed a bit difficult for me to carry you. You are very light. It is the little one who is too thin."
I pouted at Xiao Dian, unconvinced. Chen Hu laughed and said, "Little one, you dare to complain that girls are heavy? Do you even want to find a girlfriend in the future?"
Upon hearing Chen Hu's words, Xiao Dian's expression changed instantly, and the atmosphere plummeted to freezing point. Xiao Dian was perhaps concerned about our current predicament and whether we could get out alive, or about his burned body. Xiao Dian lowered his head and stopped speaking.
Not knowing what to say, I looked into the distance and suddenly saw something familiar. I quickly pointed to it and said, "Look ahead, it's near that pit."
Everyone looked in the direction I was pointing, and Chen Hu said excitedly, "Isn't that the packaging box of the instant porridge I gave to the little one the other day?"
I immediately nodded: "Yes! That's it."
Ji Lin'an stared at the instant porridge packaging in thought, glancing occasionally in the direction we had come from: "We were clearly heading straight ahead, so how did we end up back where we started?"
I excitedly grabbed Ji Lin'an's arm: "Could it be that this road is actually the opposite of where we came from? If we go back the way we came, we might find the exit."
I felt inexplicably excited; my woman's intuition told me that we would definitely be able to get out of here this time.
Chen Hu waved his hand: "Let's hurry up and go, it's getting dark."
Once our skills had cooled down, we turned around and headed back the way we came. After walking for fifteen minutes, we saw the entrance to the Rocky Desert in the distance. We looked at each other, each with a different expression.
After the skills were off cooldown, Zhu Chen and his two companions suddenly appeared in front of us, heading straight towards us. Yuan Rui suddenly activated his jump skill, carrying Zhang Funan as he leaped towards us at lightning speed, while Zhu Chen activated his flash skill, closing in on us at light speed.
Ji Lin'an said, "Let's not lose our composure. Let's land wherever we're supposed to and avoid them for now."
We nodded and set off again, soon colliding with Yuan Rui and his group. I activated my control skill, sending all the rubble on the ground flying into the air and hurtling towards them, but they all dodged it. I continued my attack, and we passed each other. They immediately turned around and continued to chase us, so I controlled more and bigger pebbles to attack them.
When it was about the size of a palm, it hit Zhang Funan. Zhang Funan fell backward and instantly slipped from Yuan Rui's hands, falling from the air. Yuan Rui did not stop. Without Zhang Funan as a burden, Yuan Rui jumped faster and farther. We could only quicken our pace and continue to move forward in a regular manner.
Just as Yuan Rui was about to catch up with us, we reached the entrance. We all rushed towards the entrance. As soon as we landed, Xiao Dian and I bumped into Ji Lin'an and Chen Hu. I sat down on the ground in pain, and Ji Lin'an reached out to help me up.
The sight before me left me stunned. There was no fork in the road, no safe house, but a building that resembled a supply center. Chen Hu excitedly took a few steps forward: "We're out! We're out!"
I slowly walked forward, feeling a sudden urge to cry; I couldn't describe whether I was happy or sad. Before my skill had even cooled down, Xiao Dian leaped to the building's entrance and turned back, saying, "Sister Ji, come quick! There's a door here!"
We quickly followed Xiao Dian to the building entrance. A discreet sign at the door read: Control Center. My eyes widened immediately. Control Center? What's that for? Why would there be a control center here? Could it be the control center for Zombie Island?
With these questions in mind, we hurried to the entrance. The control center's main door was tightly closed, and there was a card reader at the entrance, indicating that an access card was required to enter...
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