"Shut up, you're all the same."
"Look up," Qi Xu shouted, and everyone fell silent instantly.
Above was a huge, fiery red sphere, and the flames attached to it were the source of the ever-increasing temperature inside the iron cage.
As the fireball slowly sank, the temperature inside the cage rose sharply. In no time, cold sweat beaded on everyone's foreheads, burning hot from the heat, and their breath was scorching.
The black waters outside also brought a faint chill, creating a conflicting sensation of cold above and heat below, making it very uncomfortable.
Just then, a new announcement came on.
No one died in the last level, so what about this one? It seems the only safe spots are in the four corners. Hurry and grab those spots! The cage will automatically open three seconds after the iron ball touches the ground.
Indeed, the cage is square, so even if the red sphere falls completely to the bottom, standing in one of the four corners will generally ensure safety.
But the chaos I had imagined didn't happen, and no one rushed to grab a spot in the four corners. Everyone was watching and observing their surroundings.
Three Kings was the first to notice the anomaly.
"There are black puzzle pieces outside in my direction!"
Qi Xu immediately looked outside and found that there were also some in his direction.
"I have some here too, but I can't reach them!"
Although there was a distance between each iron pillar of the cage, the black puzzle pieces were also quite far apart, and you couldn't reach them at all if you squatted down and reached out.
"Make way, make way, I have a 191cm wingspan, let me do it!"
Seeing that everyone had stepped back and cleared a space, Xie Shaoning lay down on the spot, pressed himself against the edge of the cage, and stretched out his arms to reach out.
His fingertips were still a tiny distance from the floating black puzzle piece. The black map piece was hovering at just the right distance, an awkward "almost reachable" position. No matter how much he jumped and pulled, his fingertips couldn't even touch the edge of the piece.
"Wow, this is insane! So annoying! I was so close!"
“Yes, we can get there.” After saying that, Qi Xu first looked at the tonsils that never speak, who must have also figured out how to get the fragment.
But she showed no intention of speaking, and instead said, "Then tell me quickly."
The others also turned to look at Qi Xu.
Qi Xu didn't rush to reach out. His gaze swept over the ground where Xie Shaoning had been lying, then he looked up at the height of the black fragments floating in the air, and gently tapped the iron pillar in front of him with his fingertips.
“The fragments weren’t fixed in place. When Xie Shaoning lay down and we retreated, I saw that its position shifted slightly.”
Qi Xu squatted down and pointed to the gap between the bottom of the iron cage and the ground, where a layer of fine silver-gray patterns was laid, like some kind of special material.
"This cage is square, and the load-bearing capacity of the four corners is different from that of the edges. You were lying in the middle just now, so the fragments were evenly distributed and you couldn't reach them. But if someone presses down on the opposite corners, causing the cage to tilt slightly, the fragments will slide to the lower side."
Xie Shaoning frowned: "No, can you explain it more clearly? What do you mean by force equilibrium diagonal position? Can you just tell me how to do it?"
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