Snare - Island Escape

By the campfire, everyone casually settled their dinner with half a pack of compressed biscuits.Everyone's clothes are almost dry.

Team Li suggested: "Let's leave here and have a look, maybe we can find someone not far from here..." He also knows that this may be very remote, there are no sporadic lights as far as he can see, only darkness and eerie And gloomy woods.

Realizing this, he changed his words: "Or find a road, and if you are lucky, you will encounter passing vehicles."

Lin batian couldn't agree more: "Exactly! I should have left here long ago! Even sleeping in a garbage dump is better than here. I don't want to spend the night in this ghost place!" If it weren't for the crowds now, he wouldn't dare Imagine yourself in a cemetery at night!

Indeed, this is not a good place to spend the night.

"But..." Lin Meng hesitated, "Isn't it safe to walk in the woods in the dark?"

"It's okay, don't we have a flashlight?" Yin Xieyang comforted him: "And we have seen it when we were looking for people just now. Although the road in the forest is just a path stepped on by people, it is not too steep and the road conditions are not too steep. It’s not complicated. The temperature is too low in the woods at night, we don’t have any clothes to add, so it’s better to go out early.” Besides, this place... he glanced at the graves in front of him and shivered, this ghostly place is gloomy, Who can stay?

In fact, the vast majority agreed with him, and no one raised objections.After everyone's discussion, it was decided that Team Li would take the lead. Yin Xieyang led Situ Mobai to the rear, and the group carefully set foot on the path in the forest.

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However, the reality seems crueler than they imagined.There is not even a single house outside the forest. All you can see is a piece of abandoned unfinished buildings. The exposed steel and concrete, which are exposed due to the lack of time for construction, look like huge skeletons under the cover of night, which looks eerie. terror.Under the pale moonlight, it reflected the icy light.

Lin batian is timid, he always wonders if there is something terrible hidden in those invisible shadows.

This place is like an abandoned city, with weeds growing wildly all over the ground, some of which are even taller than a person.It took a lot of time and effort for them to walk here.You have to be careful at all times that some reptiles will come out of nowhere.

After walking for an hour, they still hadn't left the abandoned city.They seemed a little disoriented as the weeds blocked their view.

"Did we come here just now?" Li Xu couldn't help asking.

"Probably not? All unfinished buildings look similar, how can you tell if it's the one you just saw?" Yu Liyang retorted him.

Lin Meng said regretfully, "It would be great if I knew the latitude and longitude of this place."

Lin batian also felt very regretful and echoed: "Yes! If you know the latitude and longitude, you can know where this place is. You are a human GPS!"

That's right, the reason why Lin Meng was selected for the national team of mental elites is because he has a special skill - he can memorize satellite positioning maps of all regions on the earth.As long as he knows the coordinates, he can report the name of the place, and even draw a simple map, including some large buildings, roads, mountains, rivers and so on.This has some similarities with Yin Xieyang's photographic memory, both of which belong to image memory, but because he is a geographic information system major, he has a specialization in the field, and he only has expertise in satellite positioning maps. Other image memories are comparable weak.

It's a pity that their mobile phones are all gone, and there is only the simplest compass in the hiking bag, which makes it impossible to get specific coordinates at all.So what if it's a human GPS?It's completely useless!

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The power of the flashlight is limited, and the light of the flashlight in Li Dui's hand obviously weakened.Moreover, after experiencing the thrilling, near-death encounters during the day, and the aftereffects of inhaling ether, they were already in a state of exhaustion, and their legs were just moving numbly following their subconscious.

Seeing that there would be no one in front of him, Captain Li stopped in his tracks: "I think we should find a place to rest here tonight, everyone is tired."

No one raised any objections, and even most of them breathed a sigh of relief because of Team Li's proposal.They are really tired.

Someone found an unfinished building that was half renovated and the gate had been installed.We discussed it and decided to rest here tonight.

In order to ensure safety, they decided to take turns keeping vigil before dawn.Considering that Captain Li is getting old, he will not participate in the vigil.The rest are in pairs, each worth two hours.Situ Mobai was naturally assigned to the group with Yin Xieyang, and they were the night watchmen of the first group. After two hours, it was Lin Meng and Lin Batian's turn to be on duty before they could rest.

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This unfinished building has been half renovated, and the basic frame structure of the room, such as toilets, kitchens, rooms, etc., have been renovated.This is a three-bedroom apartment. Yin Xieyang, Situ Mobai, Lin Meng, and Lin Batian stayed in the lobby because they were on guard for the first two rounds, while Qin Ge and Li Xu, Meng Shaofeng and Yu Liyang Each team occupied a room, and Team Li slept in a single room.

Although there is no furniture in the house, fortunately, this house has doors, even if they are of poor quality and can be broken with one foot, they can at least keep out the wind.Everyone was exhausted, and regardless of the cold and dirty floor, they fell asleep as soon as they lay down.

Lin Meng and Lin batian had already fallen unconscious.Yin Xieyang is considered to have the best physique among this group of intellectual elites (to put it bluntly, a group of frail scholars), but he can't stand up to a day's hard work.Being roasted by the warm fire in front of him, the upper eyelids couldn't resist the gravity several times and fell down, his head nodded, and he struggled to open his eyes quickly.So many times, it's painful.

But Situ Mobai kept staring at the faint crescent moon outside the window, wondering if his mind had wandered into the sky again.

"East longitude XX, north latitude YY (Note 1)."

In the ruins at night, everything is silent, only the occasional neighing of some night birds from a distance, mixed in with the continuous snoring.Suddenly such a sentence came, and the voice was soft and crisp, Yin Xieyang suddenly became jittery and became more awake.

"What?" He looked at the only person who could speak at the moment sitting directly opposite him.

However, Situ Mobai did not speak again.However, Yin Xieyang was suddenly blessed and understood the meaning of his words: "Are you talking about the coordinates here?"

"No, how is this possible?" Then he denied his own idea.how can that be possible?There is no GPS, no landmark buildings, not even the sun, even if Situ Mobai is really a human computer, without input reference objects, how can he judge where this is?What's more, it is necessary to obtain specific coordinates?You know, even Lin Meng, who claims to be a human GPS, can't do it.

However, for Yin Xieyang's negation, Situ Mobai made a rare excuse: "The moon phase method."

"Moon phase method?" No wonder he just kept staring at the moon outside the window?

I have heard about the moon phase and the setting sun.In the absence of tools, the determination of the latitude and longitude of the earth can generally only refer to other celestial bodies, such as the sun, constellations, moon phases, and so on.Among them, the moon phase method is the most difficult, because it requires a precise understanding of astronomy, solar terms, etc., and it also needs to go through very complicated reasoning and calculation.He doubted, could it be done with the human brain alone?

However, Situ Mobai behaved so calmly and resolutely, Yin Xieyang subconsciously believed... If it was a human computer, maybe it could be done, right?Didn't he also unlock the password in the secret room before?

"That's great, Situ! We'll know where this is by waking Lin Meng up later!" If it wasn't for the consideration that Lin Meng and the others would have to keep watch later and needed to rest now, he would have wanted to wake up Lin Meng immediately. .After experiencing the blow of this day, Yin Xieyang finally felt a little excited at this moment.Finally, he is no longer a blind man who touches the dark and can't figure out what's going on.They have a human computer and a human GPS, which are simply navigators for walking. Isn't victory in sight if they want to get out of this ruin?

However, Situ Mobai was not infected by his excitement at all, and his face remained calm.

Yin Xieyang's excitement cooled down a little. He looked at Situ Mobai's pale face, thinking that the other party was still injured during the day, so he should be more troubled than himself at this moment, right?Along the way today, he has become used to taking care of this "wounded Narcissus".Not to mention, the pale and sad face of the beautiful boy is really pitiful.Unconsciously, he whispered to Situ Mobai: "You should rest first, I'll just keep an eye on it."

However, the other party didn't seem to appreciate it, shaking his head and continuing to stare out the window.

Yin Xieyang could not help but look out of the window, but the moon could no longer be seen there, what was he looking at?After watching for about 1 minute, I really couldn't see any way out, Yin Xieyang suggested: "How about? Let's chat?"

Chatting between two people can pass the time, and it can also refresh your mind.And he found that as long as the two of them were alone, Situ Mobai seemed willing to talk to him.

Situ Mobai didn't answer, but Yin Xieyang didn't seem too resistant from his expression, so he tried to find a topic: "That... how did you come up with that password? It's the English sentence in the secret room, what lion and scale?"

"The middle of thelion and scale." Situ Mobai corrected him.

Received the other party's response, while Yin Xieyang breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt a little excited.It feels like a proud cat that has been teasing me for a long time and ignores me, and finally willing to show my white belly for him to stroke, so cute.

"That's right. How did you crack it?"

Situ Mobai finally shifted his gaze to Yin Xieyang: "scale should be translated as balance."

Yes, when scale is used as a noun, there are many translations, which can be scale, proportion, scale, scale, scale, numerical range, etc. In this context, scale, scale, and scale can all make sense, but If you think about it carefully, it doesn't make any practical sense.How did Situ Mobai judge that this place should be turned into a balance...

Yin Xieyang suddenly thought of something, and the light bulb in his brain lit up: "I understand!"

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Note 1: Because I don't want to involve specific locations, XX and YY are used here instead of specific latitude and longitude numbers.