Day of Imprisonment

If it were before, if anyone said that clearing the 'Tun Tun Bookstore' level by fulfilling condition one was a simple matter, that person would definitely be flamed to death.

Words like 'shameless boasting' and 'blowing your own horn without paying taxes' would be thrown around, and if you encountered someone with poor manners, it would be normal for them to insult your female relatives and eighteen generations of ancestors.

But now, no one thinks Luo Xi is showing off.

Everyone is listening attentively.

“First of all, the designer of the level is very attentive, really very attentive. This is the most attentive design I have experienced in several level scenarios.” At this time, Luo Xi looked at okra, who gave a sheepish smile, seeming to want to say something, but still held back.

Her reaction is normal, because Luo Xi's words are like a chess-winning party patting the shoulder of the losing party and saying, "Young man, you played well. Your chess skills are the best I've ever seen."

It's hard to tell whether it's praise or humiliation.

Or, both.

“Putting aside the roulette, is there anything wrong with the book list? In my opinion, it's chaotic.” An Zhiyan discussed the issue very seriously.

“Yes, the chaos itself is a hint. Observe all the rooms, the decoration style, the degree of cleanliness, the position of each bookshelf, the neatness of the books, the spotless tables, the almost perfectly aligned angles of the paper and pens, the position of the desk lamps like sentinels. By the way, I measured the distance between the desk lamps, and they are completely equal.”

Hearing Luo Xi's words, An Zhiyan's eyes lit up.

“A perfectionist's room suddenly has a chaotic book list... This, this is indeed very uncoordinated. If the person who designed the room is a perfectionist, then this kind of book list can drive him crazy, unless—”

“Yes, unless it was the designer's intention!” Luo Xi tapped the table with his finger.

“I also noticed this problem, but I have studied the book list. It is too chaotic and more like a trap to interfere with us.” An Zhiyan bit her lip and frowned. She looked at Luo Xi, waiting for the other party to continue deciphering.

Luo Xi shook his head: “It's just a mix of fact and fiction. The scene designer has created many traps and interferences, most of which are thinking traps, and all of this is just to cover up the real clues. So sometimes you can't be led astray by the designer. We must stick to our original intentions. For example, this is a bookstore. A bookstore can be associated with various books, and because the room number is implicit, starting with various books is the best route, and because there are many books, the importance of the book list becomes prominent.”

“First of all, the book lists in each room are different, so it gives people a chaotic illusion, but if you observe carefully, you will still find some interesting details. Of course, these details need to be viewed in conjunction with another setting in the scene.”

“What setting?” An Zhiyan asked immediately.

She felt that she had captured some key points, but this inspiration was erratic. She knew it was there, but it was difficult to grasp and she couldn't see the truth.

“Survival time!”

Luo Xi said four words.

“Survival time?” An Zhiyan didn't understand very well. Yu Xiaoru next to her held her head and analyzed carefully, while the others had given up and were just listening blankly.

“Yu Xiaoru said that you have been here before.” Luo Xi said.

“Yes.”

“So you know that there are only three types of survival time: demons, beasts, and angels.”

“That's right, including the optimal solution for each survival time...” An Zhiyan nodded, then asked doubtfully: “But what does this have to do with the book list?”

“The famous 19th-century British female poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning once said a famous saying: 'Books are higher humans, and the only humans who can send messages to the future.'” Luo Xi raised his head: “I agree with this sentence very much, so if demons, beasts, and angels are also regarded as books—”

“But is this meaningful?”

“Yes, if you make a little adjustment to these three types and extend them to 'Hell', 'Human World', and 'Heaven', it will be easy to understand. Moreover, you can find books that fit these three types in the book list. Of course, the premise is that they are obviously or implicitly marked with numbers, because ultimately, room 23 needs to be deciphered, which means that this is inherently an implicit mathematical game.”

At this time, Luo Xi sighed: “Originally, we had a good person in our team, Ma Ling. Although he was misled by the chaotic information in the scene and thought that the structure of the bookstore was a Rubik's Cube, I have to say that his previous work saved me some time and also provided some correct inspiration.”

Hearing this, An Zhiyan's expression was strange.

The Rubik's Cube theory is actually a wrong conclusion.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

She looked at Yu Xiaoru, who seemed to understand the question on An Zhiyan's face, hugged her head, leaned over and whispered: “His name is Luo Xi.”

An Zhiyan's pupils shrank.

She seemed to understand, but even bigger questions filled her mind.

“. From the book list of known rooms, you can find books about Hell, Human World, and Heaven. Here, Heaven and Hell are closely linked, so let's talk about them together. They are "The Bible Code: The Bridge Between Heaven and Hell", "The Secret Language of Revelation: Interpreting Human Suffering and Hope", "The Ladder to Heaven: The Path to the Sublimation of the Soul", "The Poems of Hell: Dirges of Sin and Punishment".”

“These are all the books about Heaven and Hell in several book lists. In addition, there are many books about the Human World in essence, but if you simply classify them as 'Mathematics', then there are not many, namely "A Mathematical Journey: Exploring from 1 to ∞", "The Mystery of the Binary World", "From 0 to 1".”

“Wait a minute, you, you have memorized all of these?” An Zhiyan waved her hand wildly, and her speech seemed a little stuttering.

Luo Xi frowned, obviously dissatisfied with this way of interrupting him, but still nodded: “Yes, but sometimes if I can't remember, I will write it on paper. What's wrong?”

“Heh! Heh heh!” An Zhiyan gave two dry laughs, her throat feeling like it was blocked by a burning coal: “No, you continue!”

Luo Xi thought for a while, seeming to be sorting out his messy thoughts. He found a piece of paper and a pen, quickly drew on it, then connected the lines, and finally said: “According to mathematics and numbers, and after selecting books that meet the three types of Hell, Human World, and Heaven, you will get a very interesting thing.”

Everyone else looked at the piece of paper. There were large squares and small rectangles on it. The large squares seemed to be rooms, and the small rectangles were book lists. He wrote some numbers in a certain position on the book list, and then connected the numbers to each other.

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The pattern connected by several numbers is obviously a hexagon.

Luo Xi wrote a number on each corner of the hexagon.

They are 1, 2, 3, 2, 7, π respectively

A hexagon, six corners, marked clockwise, starting from the first corner on the left, forming a ring.

Everyone in the room seemed to have a question mark on their foreheads. Qian Lejin's eyes widened. He was so nervous that he started biting his fingers, but he still couldn't understand it at all. Finally, he gave up and said: “That, Luo Ju, my math is not good, it has never been good since I was a child. Can you tell me what this means?”

Aunt Qin on the other side interjected excitedly at this time: “Fatty, so your math is not good either? Me too, I have never scored more than 20 points since I was a child. No wonder you know how to box, so do I. We are quite destined. The punch I gave you just now didn't hurt, right?”

“Also, what is that person babbling about? What hell, what heaven? And numbers, the last thing he wrote is obviously not a number, it's a symbol, right? Just tell me if it's a symbol.”

Qian Lejin ignored her.

Even An Zhiyan and Yu Xiaoru moved to the side.

Luo Xi also looked at Aunt Qin in surprise and asked: “Auntie, what do you do?”

“I used to farm, and I practiced boxing when I was free. I like watching Mike Tyson box the most. Now I am Xiao An's bodyguard.” Aunt Qin replied straightforwardly.

“Did you bring it to deal with the beast time?” After Luo Xi finished speaking, he refocused his attention on the paper on the table, then pointed to the numbers on it and said: “Why it is a hexagon, I will talk about it later, let's talk about the source of the numbers first. In fact, it is the few books I mentioned before.”

“The first is "A Mathematical Journey: Exploring from 1 to ∞". This book exists in both the red team's and the blue team's initial rooms, while the other books do not. This book directly gives the clue of the number 1 from the title, because it mentions 'Starting from 1'. And 1 is often regarded as the beginning of a journey, it itself represents 'the starting point'.”

“So, the initial room number is 1.”

An Zhiyan's eyes lit up, and so did Yu Xiaoru's.

“The second number is 2, derived from a book in the second room, "The Mystery of the Binary World", but the similar books in the second-layer rooms of the red team and the blue team are different. Strictly speaking, the book on the red team's side is "From 0 to 1", while the book on the blue team's side is "The Mystery of the Binary World", but in fact these two books are the same thing, they are both binary in computer science, so the number 2 is obtained.”

“These two books can deduce the numbers from the titles, which is still very easy. The next few books are a little bit more troublesome, such as the third number, 3.”

“The number 3 comes from "The Bible Code: The Bridge Between Heaven and Hell". Of course, the room where this book exists is the third-layer room after the end of the second survival time, which happens to correspond to the heaven corresponding to the 'angel' in the third survival time. This book implies the duality of theology, heaven and hell. In the "Bible", the concept of "Trinity" is often mentioned. We can cleverly borrow the number "three", but in order to maintain uniqueness, we take one of its prime factors, namely 3; we can also infer that it is understood as the Christian "Father, Son, Holy Spirit", and then associate it with their numerical symbols. Although it does not directly correspond to the number, combined with the previous reasoning, we can basically determine this number.”

“Then, there is the fourth number, the number 2.”

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