The first cancer in the world of immortality

Chapter 99 Ancient Ruins: Suspicious and Lonely Numbers

"Eh? Zijin, what's wrong with you?"

Mu Xiaoyu noticed Ye Zijin's melancholy face and couldn't help asking.

Ye Zijin burst into tears, Xiaoyu still cares about herself!
But when he turned his head, he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Hey, what are you doing there!" Ye Zijin said angrily.

Wen Liang raised his head, his face was covered with notes: "How about playing cards, didn't you teach us Zijin?"

Ye Zijin was startled: "I'm trying my best to find a way here, but you guys just sit there and play cards?!"

Wen Liang showed apology: "I'm sorry, we only brought a deck of cards, otherwise we can make an extra table."

Who asked you to apologize in this regard!

Ye Zijin covered her face and wept.

What kind of friends did I make?

……Um?

Wait, friend?
A flash of inspiration flashed in Ye Zijin's mind, and he turned his attention to the Chinese characters on the stone tablet again.

Suppressing the desire to complain, Ye Zijin fell into deep thought after reading this self-report again.

At that moment just now, he seemed to have caught some clue.But it was just a trance, and this clue was lost again.

After contemplating for a while, Ye Zijin walked to the checkered floor in front of her again, carefully studying the groups of numbers on the floor.

Unsurprisingly, the numbers engraved on these checkered floors are Arabic numerals.

"In other words, is it possible that the person who arranged this scene is someone who has been to Earth?"

"No, it's not just this scene. The previous scene was also arranged based on the principle of the Earth's Penrose Staircase."

"...Forget it, we'll think about it later."

Different numbers were engraved on the floor in front of Ye Zijin.The smallest of them is 1 and the largest is 100.

These one hundred numbers are randomly distributed on a large grid floor in front of them. At first glance, they are indeed dazzling, and I don't know where to start.

"There must be some clue hidden in that painful inscription. It's just that I really can't find it."

Ye Zijin scratched her head a little annoyed.

Since you can't find any clues, let's focus on the stone statue!
As long as the stone statue is destroyed in advance, even if the mechanism is triggered, there is probably no punishment, isn't it?
Just do it.Ye Zijin rolled up his sleeves and walked to the nearest stone statue.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, a terrifying cluster of spiritual light formed from his palm.

"Flame! Spirit! Explosion!"

boom----

The sudden explosion and strong shock wave directly knocked over the playing cards on the ground.

Wen Liang, Jiu Zhongyue, and Meng Zhongxian were excited together, subconsciously condensing their whole body's spiritual power, and entered a fighting state.

On the side, the little girl Xia Ying who was preparing the potion boredly also yelled in fright and hid behind everyone.

Only Mu Xiaoyu, who had been paying attention to Ye Zijin, was not frightened in the slightest.

"Hmm... There is no trace of damage at all." Ye Zijin shook her head in disappointment.

He turned around and was about to ask his companions for help.

Seeing them looking for cards all over the floor, Ye Zijin almost spat out another mouthful of old blood: "So you are still playing cards, right?!"

"Ah, ah, brother, don't be angry." Jiu Zhongyue waved his hand nonchalantly while cleaning up the cards on the ground: "You are so smart, you can definitely solve the puzzle here. We believe in you!"

"Yes, yes." The younger sister, Meng Zhongxian, rarely repeated the reading, but said by herself: "We can't even understand those words and symbols, how can we help you solve the puzzle."

"Alas..." Ye Zijin helplessly raised his forehead, what kind of pig teammate did he bring with him?

Well, they're not completely useless though.After a while, if the mechanism is accidentally triggered, we still have to rely on them to fight.

This can be regarded as another kind of cooperative puzzle solving.

……what?

Another flash of light flashed through Ye Zijin's mind.

Friends... Teammates... Collaborate... Believe...

hiss!
Ye Zijin hastily read the inscription again from beginning to end.

When he read the last sentence, he suddenly smiled.

"Understood, I understand!"

"The real clue to solving the mystery is not a specific piece of text, but the spirit hidden in this self-report!"

"The spirit hidden in the self-report?" Wen Liang was puzzled: "So what is the content of this self-report, we can't understand these words."

"Of course you don't understand, this is the text on my home planet Earth."

Ye Zijin briefly mentioned it without too much explanation.

After all, they didn't even understand the content of the self-report, and even if they explained it themselves, they would definitely not be able to understand it.

In fact, in this self-report, the protagonist who claims to be so handsome has been showing two emotions - suspicious and lonely.

Since childhood, he has always suspected that the classmates around him are actually greedy for his body.So he transferred schools first, then played truant, and rarely had normal contact with others.

This is his paranoia.

And because he is so handsome, no one will be friends with him.Everyone around him is deliberately showing some sand sculpture behavior in order to attract his attention.

He's never had a real friendship, it's his loneliness.

Suspicious and lonely, this is the emotion shown in this self-report.

And if this emotion is substituted into a number, only one number can match it.

— prime numbers!
Paolo Giordano once said that in the infinite sequence of natural numbers, like all other numbers, prime numbers are squeezed by two numbers.

But they are one step further away from each other than all other numbers.They are suspicious and lonely numbers.

In other words, the answer to this riddle is prime numbers!As long as you step on the grid floor printed with prime numbers, you will not trigger the trap mechanism!
"Stop, stop, stop, stop playing cards, this puzzle has been solved."

Ye Zijin said solemnly: "Listen up. After a while, you follow my footsteps. Wherever the floor I step on, you will follow the floor."

"You must remember to follow my steps accurately and never step on other floors."

"If you step on it randomly, the stone statues around will probably attack us. This is very dangerous!"

Seeing Ye Zijin's seriousness, the partners nodded hastily.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Zijin took her steps a little nervously.

His first foot stepped on the checkered floor with "3" printed on it.

No mechanism is triggered.

Become!

Ye Zijin was overjoyed, and stepped forward again, stepping on the floor with "7" printed on it.

In this way, step by step, he found the floor with prime numbers engraved on it, and kept moving forward.

In fact, he also thought about it at the beginning, whether he could directly use his kung fu to fly to the opposite side.

But since the designer has laid out such an exquisite mechanism, it should be possible to imagine the situation where someone tries to fly and jump over the floor.

So if you fly without authorization and want to skip the puzzle-solving step, some kind of mechanism should also be triggered.

Ye Zijin is not a masochist, he doesn't want to experience the punishment for triggering this mechanism for himself.So he solved the riddle honestly, and finally solved the riddle.

"The last step, 97!"

Stepping on the floor marked with "97", Ye Zijin jumped forward again.

The digital floor mechanism behind him was successfully cracked by him!

"It's really you, Zijin."

The partners followed his steps and came to the opposite side of the digital floor one after another.

"Hey hey, keep a low profile."

Ye Zijin chuckled.Just when he was about to pretend to be reserved and let everyone praise him more, a mysterious feeling suddenly arose deep in his heart.

He turned around and looked at the space channel in front of him.

The mysterious call that has always existed in my heart came from behind this door!

Where does this space channel connect to?
Who made the mysterious call in my heart?

Ye Zijin had a premonition.Stepping through this door, he will see the real... answer!
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