Doomsday Wonderland

Strangely enough, Lin Sanjiu had never thought deeply about the paper crane issue before, nor had she guessed who the person was who pretended to be a subordinate of the puppet master and lured her to confuse the palace - after all, she encountered a dangerous situation at that time. Crisis followed one after another, and she had no time to think about it - but when she saw these two people, the answer suddenly burst out of her mind, as if her subconscious had never given up on this question during this period of time. Mystery.

According to the taxi driver, confusing the Grand Palace would obviously disrupt the flight direction of the aircraft and the paper cranes; however, all the paper cranes she had seen had only one flight direction, which was the "hesitation zone" behind the gate.

"Let's start from the beginning," Lin Sanjiu ordered, "explain everything exactly."

She didn't say what would happen if she didn't explain it, and with the puppeteer on her side, she didn't need it.

"I...our last world was called 'Signal Life'."

As if realizing that she could no longer hide it, the woman smiled bitterly and spoke in a low voice. The man next to her suddenly tensed up, as if he wanted to move for a moment, but his impulse was suppressed by the puppet master's gaze.

"After we met, we have spent several worlds together. We were lucky. Not only did we always get visas, but the worlds we went to before were not particularly dangerous... 'Signal Life' is a new world that has not been classified yet, so The price is not too expensive, but we have heard that all the necessary conditions for survival in that world are closely linked to the 'signal'. From the data, it does not seem to be particularly dangerous."

She paused for a moment when she said this, as if she suppressed something stuck in her chest to make way for words, and then continued: "...So I thought that all three of us could survive smoothly. .”

"Why are you talking so much about this?" Blood suddenly appeared on the man's face. The anger that he didn't know came from made him temporarily forget about his fear of the puppet master: "We are from 'Signal Life' 'I got an interception device and robbed your paper crane, that's enough!"

"I asked her to start from the beginning," Lin Sanjiu raised her chin and said, "If you have nothing to add, just shut up."

The woman lowered her eyes, not angry, as if her mind was no longer here, as if she was thinking about something else in the back of her mind.

"Yes... interception device. I don't know if you have experienced the human society before the end of the world. Do you know about mobile phones?" After getting a positive answer, the woman continued: "There is a fraud method, which is to intercept the original sender. The text messages sent to you, especially the text messages such as verification codes, I have forgotten the details, it has been many years, but anyway, you can use this method to steal your information and property."

"You are using a similar interception device that can intercept the paper cranes sent by others and pass them to you?" Lin Sanjiu asked.

She nodded. "Yes, in order to deceive people into the Grand Palace of Confusion, we have prepared a whole set of things... The first is to intercept paper cranes. The targets of the interception device are very random, but even so, we can receive dozens of them every day There were hundreds of origami cranes. After we listened to the content one by one, we threw out the ones we didn’t need and let them go wherever they wanted, and kept the ones we needed..."

The woman smiled almost quietly and self-deprecatingly. "I still remember the day we received your paper crane... We were all surprised, because I didn't know before that it turns out that... the puppet master also has friends."

Even though his mind was always occupied by other things, the puppet master still looked as if he was being roasted on a rack - but he had indeed improved a lot, and he didn't even make a move on the spot.

"We had a few arguments at the time, remember," the man suddenly sighed and said, "I said it would be too dangerous if it involves people... the puppet master. But what you said makes sense, Anyone who can be friends with him must be a very capable evolver, exactly the type we need."

The puppet master finally couldn't hold back his true nature and snorted a sneer from his nose.

Lin Sanjiu felt that she was pretty good - when it came to peaks, there were always mountains outside the mountains; but overall, when she was walking in the apocalyptic world, she had a lingering concern about whether she would die tomorrow or not. Most of the fear and anxiety of life have been eliminated.

"Then what? Why are you looking for a highly capable evolver?" she asked.

"You borrowed the donkey down the hill very fast," the puppeteer interjected, but she pretended not to have heard.

"We will find a way to forge the paper crane," the woman said a little surprised, looking back and forth between the two of them before lowering her head again. "We have items that simulate sounds. Based on what we hear, we will create paper cranes with relatively high credibility. Sometimes they are sent to the original owner, and sometimes they are sent to the original owner's recipients. Generally speaking, we try to make it as accessible as possible. People make preparations, purchase enough supplies, and then come to confuse the big palace..."

Lin Sanjiu frowned. "The ones pretending to be his subordinates," she pointed at the puppet master, "are they really you?"

The puppet master had a cold face and stabbed her finger back with the corner of his eye.

"We are not familiar with the puppet master's way of speaking. He is too special. If you pretend to be him, you may find something wrong." The woman smiled bitterly again and said, "But we know that the puppet master The adults have subordinates.”

"That's not right," Lin Sanjiu said, "I asked the old man at the door, and he clearly said that no one entered the palace that day—"

The couple looked at each other.

"No," the man said, "We have come in a long time ago and we usually live here."

"Based on the people we deceive, we will make the necessary preparations one step in advance." The woman said, "I know you will definitely ask about the 'subordinate'... Because after all, it is not the person, it is not enough to dispel all doubts, so We let a human-shaped object enter the palace in advance."

The combat power of these two people is not high, but each item is better than the last, including humanoid items. Also, I wonder how many people they had deceived before so that they could make such thorough preparations?

Lin Sanjiu raised her eyebrows and asked, "Why? Why did you trick people into coming in? Why did you ask me to buy supplies and make preparations? It can't be out of good intentions, right?"

The woman's face turned a little pale, and she subconsciously twisted her fingers a few times.

"The first signal we intercepted... wasn't a paper crane." Her first sentence had almost nothing to do with Lin Sanjiu's question, but no one rushed her. "We didn't know at that time that we could use it to stop paper cranes... At that time, we were sitting on a rental spaceship, and we could only see a little shadow of the Grand Palace of Confusion in the distance. The message we intercepted for the first time sounded like It’s strange, it took us a long time to understand that it came from... the king’s NPC deep in the palace of confusion.”

The man also fell into memories and whispered: "It wasn't until the moment we received the signal that we realized that the King NPC was always talking even when there was no one around. He kept saying, 'Evolver, come Try your luck, get the regret medicine in my hand, and change your life'... Over and over again, we became obsessed with it."

"But we know that we can't complete the task of bewitching the palace alive."

By this time, it almost didn't seem like they were explaining everything to Lin Sanjiu. Instead, it seemed like they were telling each other about the past.

"We were originally going to go our separate ways, but we didn't break up for several days... We got together, discussed for countless hours, and talked for countless words, and finally tried to use our signaling device to head in the direction of the Grand Palace of Confusion. A signal was sent," the woman murmured.

"...Is there a way to get the regret medicine without completing the dungeon?" the man said as if he was dreaming.

Lin Sanjiu understood.

"You deceived the evolved people into the Grand Palace of Bewilderment, and asked them to prepare supplies such as [Weaving Mother], firstly, to ensure that they could complete the dungeon as much as possible, and secondly, after getting the regret medicine, they would still walk past you, right? At that time, you will attack the winner." She said, "But how do you know that the winner will not use the regret medicine on the spot?"

"We made an agreement with the King NPC." The woman said softly, "We are responsible for sending people to the Grand Palace of Confusion. He only needs to say a word and advise the evolved person to use the regret medicine after leaving. It's just that what we sent in Almost none of them were able to complete the dungeon...some found a way out halfway through, and some never came out again."

"Why do you need regret medicine?" the puppet master asked abruptly.

The woman raised her eyes. She didn't shed any tears, as if there was no moisture between her eyeballs and eyelids. Year-round dryness and friction made her eyes always red.

"You see, it's like this. In 'Signal Life', UU Reading www.uukaｎｓ.net We have to pay attention to the signal strength at all times. Only in a grid with full signals can all of us live together. When a grid When the signal in the grid is not full, the number of survivors in the grid can only be equal to the number of signal grids."

She said almost numbly: "For example, this desert is a grid; if the signal is full or four grids, then all four of us can survive. But if the signal becomes three grids, one of us will survive." Die. One of the ways to decide candidates is that whoever is voted by everyone will die. The signal strength will change at any time... That day, the signal strength in the grid where the three of us were located became two bars. .

"Obviously we have been paying attention to the signal change prompts. It should not have happened..." she murmured, "Anyway, she died. She was less than two years old at the time. When she evolved, I remember I was so happy. , I thought at that time, I could take her with me."

This time I really squeezed out the outline of the last transitional plot. I was thinking that it would be okay to write a deeper story about Signal Life, but it would deviate from the main line for a while, and I was very reluctant... There may be a few scattered questions that have not yet been answered, and I don’t know if they can be put together into a chapter. Anyway, I am no longer a cow, I am an empty milk bag...