God does not love the world [unlimited]

The journey to the botanical garden was smooth.

After getting into the taxi, Shi Yu closed her eyes and went to sleep.

Ji Congyang sat in the back watching him, dreaming back to his experience outside the Zhaoyang Cemetery, and after a while he started to harass his companions: "Old Joe."

Qiao Yan was looking out the window.

Ji Congyang stabbed him on the arm and said in a low voice, "Little Qiao."

"..."

"Joe..."

"Ask if you have anything."

Ji Congyang asked, in a very sincere tone: "Did you understand what he said just now?"

Qiao Yan turned her head, with a paralyzed face on her face, and tried her best to lower her voice: "Don't ask me for your IQ."

Ji Congyang ignored his sarcasm: "Didn't you ask me in Wukou Street that my idol was rejected as a friend? Now look at it, people still have to be shameless. If we were stalking at that time, It is not possible to play games with him now."

Qiao Yan couldn't move his eyes, but moved his lips: "If you really dared to stalk you at that time, you would be more likely to be beaten to death directly by him."

Ji Congyang: "Don't just rely on my idol's good temper and speak ill of him behind his back."

Qiao Yan didn't know which one to complain about the other party's elbow turning outward or blindness: "He has a good temper? Who gave you the illusion?"

"We have known each other for so many years, I can tell what you are thinking at a glance, so don't pretend to be confused." Ji Congyang glanced at him, "If it were someone else, would you be able to pull people into the dinner regardless of their attitude? You and My idol puts on such a familiar attitude when we meet for the second time, what should I do if I take the initiative to share what I know and discuss, isn’t it just an idea to draw him over to help?”

"My idol is someone who pays back even a cup of cereal. He is so principled. Although he is not easy to get close to him on the inside, it is too easy on the outside. Just ask him to keep owing you."

Qiao Yan didn't deny it: "Don't you like him very much? Wouldn't it be nice to see him from such a close distance now?"

"Just because I like him doesn't mean I like to use him to get close to him."

"You took him to the infirmary before. Wasn't it sincere? Wasn't it true that all the money you earned from selling your body on the cruise ship ended up on him? Didn't it mean that you booked a room, bought something, and invited him to eat for him later? Is it good to help him? Or is it that your IQ realized so early that I had something for him and even helped me in turn?"

"...you just need the last sentence."

Ji Congyang sighed vicissitudes: "It's just this game. When this game is over and I go out smoothly, I can also worship the face of my idol in my memory."

Qiao Yan glanced at him: "It's hard for you to make a wish and directly let the system assign you to a game next time? Even if you really can't meet the requirement of entering nine days this time and he does, you didn't Did you paint eggs for four years in order to imitate Leonardo Da Vinci? It’s just worth accumulating points for another five months, so it’s useless?”

"It is obsolete, but not now."

"?"

"Before I was in the restaurant, I heard the player answer the phone."

Qiao Yan finally turned his attention away from the window pane.

"Obviously we heard the person talking on the phone together, but after listening to it, I don't know anything, but he knows everything." Ji Congyang rested his chin on his hand, looking at the shadow in the front seat, "Old Qiao, Have you ever experienced that feeling? It was the feeling that I didn’t have when I was still preparing for the make-up exam because I was still studying for the make-up exam because I had already received a national scholarship in our sophomore year.”

Joe didn't respond.

How could he not know, he had just experienced that sense of distance that he would never be able to catch up in a lifetime.

At first, he saw it on the live broadcast, then met him on the cruise ship, and then the conversation was smooth. It's not like he didn't feel that he was not much worse than the other party.

But after a long time, you will understand that sometimes, some people just exist to show that there is a real gap between people in this world.

■

The taxi stops at the entrance of the Botanic Gardens.

Shi Yu took off the hood on his head, got out of the car, and looked at the plants in sight.

Ji Congyang looked at him suspiciously: "Idol?"

Why did it stop?

Shi Yu paused for a few seconds, raised his foot and said, "Let's go."

During the gap between buying tickets, Ji Congyang didn't know where to go.When he came back after buying the tickets, Ji Congyang appeared out of nowhere and handed him a plastic bag.

Shi Yu was stunned for a moment: "You bought it just now?"

"That's right." Ji Congyang said, "I remember that you don't like the smell of herbs. Fortunately, this is a botanical garden, and there are masks for tourists with allergies in the nearby shops. I can't find a better one. Make do with it."

Shi Yu looked at the bag and didn't speak for a while.

He doesn't like the smell of herbs, but mainly he doesn't like the smell of medicine.

Although this is a botanical garden, most of them are shrubs and ornamental plants. The taste of plants specially cultivated for medicinal purposes is actually very different, and the medicines that can be used on the human body after treatment are even greater.

If he hadn't been so sensitive about it, he wouldn't have paused when he got out of the car.

Ji Congyang was still raising his hand, but he didn't see him answering: "Idol?"

Shi Yu recovered and took the mask: "Thank you."

The botanical garden is surrounded by a labyrinth. The palace walls are neatly trimmed bushes, more than two meters high by visual inspection, and the blue color meets the sky. It is difficult to distinguish the north, south, east, and west when walking in.

The three of them walked along the bushes on the right hand side and turned around for nearly 10 minutes before they saw the normal-height grass.

The driver wasted a lot of time in the shrub maze, and when he approached the exit, he just met up with his companions who were spinning around inside.

Both of them have been sent here since the beginning of the game and have never left. They walked all the way from the exit of the maze and stopped all the way, tentatively guessing the center of the city where the exit of this space might be hidden.

Going further and further.

The driver was wondering if their guess was wrong, when he stepped on the short stone steps, he suddenly felt a slight vibration under his feet.

It seemed that the space that had been closed for a long time suddenly opened a crack.

The driver suddenly raised his head and saw the same look on his companion's face.

There was no time to communicate, and the scene in front of the two of them suddenly disappeared in the next second.

The severe pain of tearing came.

Shi Yu left the bush maze and recognized the silhouette of the driver who was about to walk up the stone steps in the distance.

After taking two steps, I saw the driver and the companion walking beside the driver stopped in place, and then a line of blood overflowed from the neck, and then spread down.

At this moment, the human body of flesh and blood seems to have become two pieces of paper, torn into two irregular halves from the center by an unknown existence. The bones and blood vessels are broken inch by inch, and the fractures are pitted, connecting with muscles and bones that cannot be dropped.

Blood splattered all over the floor.

Some passers-by screamed uncontrollably and fled in all directions.

The human torso that was torn into two fell to the ground, three were overlapped, and one rolled down the stone steps. The internal organs were missing and wrapped in a mess, and a sticky, greasy paste flowed out. , mixed with blood and scattered on the ground.

■

It rained in the Botanical Garden not long after, so the three of them could only temporarily move their positions and go to the park's transparent awning to hide from the rain.

Shi Yu sat on the public bench, looking at the two corpses in the distance, the rain outside was blown in by the wind, and fell on his eyelashes.

Until an umbrella suddenly opened above his head.

He turned his head and saw Ji Congyang trying to hold the handle of the umbrella without touching him, and leaning the umbrella over his head.

When Ji Congyang caught his gaze, he was taken aback for a moment, then grinned: "Idol, do you need an umbrella? I just bought it at the souvenir shop."

Shi Yu shook his head, then looked at the corpse in the rain.

The corpse was literally torn in half, and the death condition was too miserable. The blood on the section was washed away very quickly, and the scope spread wider and wider, but the color became lighter and lighter.

Ji Congyang deliberated for two seconds, and said, "Idol, you don't need to be so stressed."

The driver and his companion appeared in the botanical garden, which firstly proved that Shi Yu's guess was correct, and secondly proved that the two of them were indeed found in strict accordance with the requirements of the center of the circle.

If so, why did they die?

They have already reached the center of the closed center, and they can leave this space with just one step. What mistakes can they make to make them be torn in half and stay in this space forever?

If the center of this space is to stand on it and the result is death, it obviously contradicts their previous inference that the center of the circle is the exit. Everything before is wrong and must be overthrown.

Ji Congyang imagined a tragic case of a test paper that he had worked so hard to answer and thought that he could get a full score and found out that he failed. After a little empathy, he suddenly had a heart attack, and tried harder to search for words of comfort: "Idol , people will always take so many forked roads in life, do you see that old Joe has followed you all the way today and made a valid statement? You did it for us to get out of the cruise ship, and you gave all the guesses. Although now There is something wrong with the verification of the results, but at least you can’t find any faults in the front, and this alone is much better than many players.”

Joe is deadpan and plays many of the players in his words.

Ji Congyang was afraid that his idol would be hit by Waterloo because of this reasoning, so he worked hard to give people chicken soup for the soul.After a while, the other party suddenly turned his head.

Shi Yu: "Lend me an umbrella."

"Ah." Ji Congyang passed the umbrella in a daze.

It has been a while since the two players died, and the system knows that the setting of the traces of the dead players is in effect. The two corpses have disappeared, and the passers-by who were scattered because of fear have also returned one after another, as if they have long forgotten that they have been Witnessed such a tragedy.

Only the shallow bloody smell in the air has not completely dissipated, showing the bloody scene that happened here.

Shi Yu walked up to the stone steps with an umbrella in hand, and just about to continue to lift his feet, a force directly pulled him back.

Ji Congyang tugged on his hat, his voice stuttered in anxiety: "What are you doing in the past? Don't go, you will die!"

Shi Yu pulled back the hat: "I didn't think about it."

As he spoke, he bypassed the steps and walked to the left.

At the end of the stairs is the glass house of the botanical garden, and the plants kept in it are all delicate and weather-resistant plants.

Shi Yu walked around the steps outside the glass house, from the front door to the back door which was completely opposite to the front, stopped and looked at the house above.

The rain hit the glass and slid down one by one, as if crying.

There were no accidents all the way down the steps, neither leaving the space nor being torn in two.

If there is no accident, the center of this closed space is probably within the range of the glass room from the steps up.

Ji Congyang and Qiao Yan huddled together under the same umbrella, and followed him step by step. Seeing that he was about to go up the steps again, he grabbed his hat again in a panic: "Wait!"

Shi Yu looked at him.

Ji Congyang let go of his hand: "You..."

After organizing the language for a long time, I didn't know what to say, and finally I just asked in a low voice: "Don't be too sad."

Shi Yu looked at him silently for a while: "I'm not sad."

"then you……"

"I was just wondering why they died."

Ji Congyang was at a loss.

"The exit of the closed space is at the center of the space circle. This inference has been verified twice. If this is wrong, then the first two successes cannot be explained. Pure luck is too random. If the first two times were not luck, this The center of the circle of the piece of space is indeed here, and the place is not wrong, so it can only be that the method used is wrong."

Shi Yu raised his hand and pulled the hat back again: "Do you remember what this dungeon is called?"

Qiao Yan: "Gears."

Shi Yu hummed lightly, and continued: "Have you ever seen the gears work? Two workpieces of different sizes mesh with each other, and one rotates to drive the other to rotate together."

Qiao Yan vaguely sensed something, but couldn't figure out what it was.

"There are three closed spaces, and there are five players who have seen it. According to this ratio, 370 nine players have at least 220 eight similar closed spaces. How are these spaces distributed?" Shi Yu said, "Or One space counts as one gear, and two hundred spaces are arranged together, maybe one row, maybe two rows and three rows, in addition to being arranged on a two-dimensional plane, there may also be an arrangement on a three-dimensional plane, and it can move the whole body.”

"Of course this is the most extreme situation. I'm actually not inclined towards this possibility. Because I never felt that the space was changed by external forces when I was in the first two closed spaces. More than 300 players, if every If one person's actions directly affect more than 300 other people, then no matter what the mission of the game is, the possibility of completing it is very slim."

"If this possibility is ruled out, there is one remaining."

The raindrops slid down the umbrella surface, splashed ripples, and spread out in circles, and his voice was mixed into the rain curtain, like an ancient clock in the empty mountains and secluded bamboos.

"Thinking about it more simply, these more than 200 closed spaces may all be distributed on the same gear, and each space represents a gear tooth. The player finds the center of the circle in the closed space, comes to the center of the circle, and then meshes with this space gear The gear will start to rotate, and the player at the center of the circle will be sucked into the teeth of the meshing gear and taken away from this space. Because the two gears are of different sizes and the number of teeth on them is also different, the meshing gear rolls over a circle, the gear teeth where the player is in contact with the space gear again, and are transported to the new closed space."

"I wasn't able to determine how these spaces were distributed before, because I couldn't find a pattern between these spaces. But now I can be sure."

Shi Yu looked at the glass flower room at the top of the steps again: "The outdoor temperature in this city is around fifteen or sixteen degrees Celsius. The outdoor temperature on the cruise ship can only be in single digits, and the snow that I first visited was at zero. above Celsius."

Qiao Yan said, "The temperature is getting higher and higher? Are these circular spaces arranged in this order?"

Shi Yu turned his gaze, his eyes were flat: "It's not that they are arranged according to the climate temperature, but their arrangement causes the temperature difference between spaces. Imagine if the tooth surface of this gear fits with the meridian of the earth? "

Qiao Yan's heart trembled violently.

"Of course, this is obviously not the earth, but the arrangement of the closed space just fits it. The snow field is at the southernmost part of the ring gear, the cruise ship, the city, and then northward, and the air temperature gradually increases."

Shi Yu said: "If this is the case, then the deaths of those two people just now can be explained."

Qiao Yan heard him mention this: "Why?"

"Do you still remember the sailing direction chosen when the cruise ship sailed to the center of the circle? It was north of the chord line, and the whole was from south to north."

"For a system to operate normally, the gear rotation in it is determined from the beginning and cannot be changed. From the cruise ship to the city, the player's forward direction in space is from south to north, and the force of the space gear follows It rotates from north to south, and the transmission gear that meshes with it rotates from south to north for a circle, and finally stops at the previous level of the player's original space, and the player is released."

Shi Yu said calmly: "Just now when the player went to the center of the closed space to meet his companions, the direction was from north to south, which is opposite to that of the meshing gears of the entire system."

What happens if the running gears of a machine suddenly rotate in reverse?

Of course it's a crash.

So they were torn apart causing the gears to reverse.

"It's not wrong that the exit of the space is at the center of the circle. What's wrong is the direction they entered the center of the circle. If the stone steps towards the front door don't work, then go up from the back door."

Qiao Yan reacted for a while, and after processing the information in his mind, he said, "But we are not sure the probability of success."

After all, there is no evidence, it is completely inference.

What if the deduction goes wrong, and people still die in the end, walking from the front door of the glass house to the back door, and walking into the center of the space from south to north?

Shi Yu didn't deny it: "So we need to verify."

Qiao Yan: "How to test..."

Before he could finish speaking, Shi Yu turned around and stepped up the stone steps.

The familiar spatial tremor came from under his feet.

The next moment, the field of vision changed.