[Endless Staircase-04]
Yue Xingwen finally understood why this course is a credit sharing model. The fewer people there are, the easier it is to pass.
Assuming that all 11 of them came to the maze, the width of the stairs is limited, a row can squeeze 3-4 people at most, and 11 people are divided into 3 rows. When the stairs suddenly break, the team will be scattered and fall into other floors. space.
The connection mechanisms on different floors are hidden, and the floor must be cut to trigger. Without the excavator of the Architecture Department and the plate displacement skill of the Geography Department, then the teammates who fell down will not be able to get up, and the teammates of the Architecture Department have to go. respond.
The course requires them to leave the building within 1 hour, and all team members must leave to pass the test. Once the students in the Department of Architecture are busy looking for lost teammates in the maze, one hour is not enough.
The fewer people there are, the harder it is to be distracted by broken stairs.
Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen immediately looked at Lin Manluo and said, "Senior sister, do you have a time limit for this vine?"
Lin Manluo replied: "Each summon survives for 10 minutes. Currently, at Level 2, a maximum of 5 green vines with a length of 20 meters can be summoned."
Yue Xingwen thought for a few seconds and said, "So, Senior Sister, you summon a vine, and everyone grabs the vine with their left hands. Later, if the stairs suddenly break and someone falls accidentally, other students can use the vine to pull him. Come up."
Lin Manluo's eyes lit up: "Good way! In this way, everyone is connected, and it is not easy to be separated."
Jiang Pingce also praised: "It can save a lot of time by not having to go back to find those left behind."
Yue Xingwen said: "Senior sister, it's better to let the vines circle around everyone's wrists, so as to avoid slipping hands and unable to grasp."
Zhuo Feng suggested: "You tie the front end to my waist, I am strong, and then go to the front."
Lin Manluo nodded, raised her right hand, and immediately summoned a green vine about 20 meters long and the thickness of a baby's arm. The leaves on the vine were green and dripping. Under her control, the vine was as flexible as a snake with eyes. The ground wraps around Zhuo Feng's waist, then goes around Jiang Pingce's wrist, and then goes around Yue Xingwen's left wrist...
The classmates stood in line, and after the vine circled around everyone's wrists, it was finally tied to Lin Manluo's waist.
The 20-meter-long vine is enough to connect all seven of them.
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and commented, "It's like seven gourd babies strung together like this."
Everyone: "… "
In the past, Yue Xingwen and Ke Shaobin only had a working cooperative relationship with the student union. This time, when they formed a team together, they discovered that Xiao Ke's head really likes to have strange ideas.
Jiang Pingce automatically ignored his joke and said, "Keep going."
There are vines tied, and if it is dropped, everyone will drop it together, and everyone feels a lot more at ease.
Zhuo Feng burned a "4-1" mark on the stairs in front of him. After everyone walked four flights of stairs in a row, they returned to the place where the stairs broke. Zhang Xiaonian measured the distance and said, "The distance from the roof is 22.5 meters, and we are still on the fourth floor."
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and said, "The rules are the same?"
Jiang Pingce shook his head: "The location of the organs should be different. I will use the coordinate system to fly everyone over first, and Xiao Nian will cut the connection of the stairs to see."
Qin Lu's plate movement can only be used 6 times. Jiang Pingce directly used the coordinate system to let everyone fly to the opposite stairs. Zhang Xiaonian tried to use an excavator to dig out the connection points of 4-2 and 4-3. However, the stairs did not Variety.
Zhang Xiaonian looked at Jiang Pingce inquiringly: "Senior brother, will you start from the fourth floor, and the hidden organ is not between the stairs and the stairs, but in the middle of the stairs?"
Jiang Pingce nodded: "It's possible. The suddenly broken staircase is a hint. Dig the middle of the stairs."
Zhang Xiaonian used an excavator to forcibly cut off the middle of the stairs. To everyone's surprise, half of the stairs flew straight up as if they suddenly possessed magical skills!
Ke Shaobin said, "Did the step ladder become an elevator?"
I don't know how many floors it flew, but half of the stairs stopped in the air and connected with the other half in front. Zhang Xiaonian hurriedly used a laser rangefinder to measure: "17.5 meters from the roof?"
Jiang Pingce calculated and said, "We are in the sixth floor space."
Ke Shaobin's laptop has already prepared a model diagram. The 30-meter-high building is divided into twelve floors. The first floor is 30 meters away from the roof, the second floor is 27.5 meters, the third floor is 25 meters, and the fourth floor is 22.5 meters... And so on.
They were still on the fourth floor just now, but they suddenly jumped to the sixth floor.
Yue Xingwen said, "Did you skip the fifth floor?"
Jiang Pingce guessed: "The 12-story tower, from the first floor to the third floor, follows one agency rule, and the fourth floor starts with another agency rule. The stairs here will break and go up and down."
Ke Shaobin suddenly realized: "That is to say, in this labyrinth, the first three floors have the stairs that rotate 180 degrees and are connected to the next stairs; starting from the fourth floor, the stairs become broken and straight up and down. Maybe later. Will it change?"
Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, let's go up first."
Everyone took a few steps forward. Just as Zhuo Feng marked 6-2, suddenly, there was a strange vibration under his feet, and Yue Xingwen immediately reminded: "Everyone be careful, hold on to the vines!"
With the sound of "boom", the stairs under everyone's feet instantly split in half!
I experienced the fear of a sudden fall just now. This time, everyone reacted very quickly. Almost at the moment when the feet shook, the classmates walking behind grabbed the vines and rushed forward a few steps. The broken stairs teleported into the distance. , the seven of them did not separate, all crowded on the other half of the stairs.
Ke Shaobin helped his glasses and said, "I almost fell again."
Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "This maze really reminds me of the course on the collapse of the city, the architecture department of the library, and the quality of the building is not good enough."
Zhang Xiaonian also whispered: "The bean curd slag project caused the entire city to collapse. There is a body hidden in the wall of the construction site, and the stairs are broken at every turn... The School of Architecture in the library is here to trick people."
Yue Xingwen was helpless: "Let's go, be careful with your steps."
Everyone continued to climb up. Zhang Xiaonian used an excavator to dig through the middle of the stairs. However, the broken stairs did not rise this time, but suddenly descended in weightlessness. Everyone hurriedly grabbed the handrail.
After waiting for the stairs to stabilize, Zhang Xiaonian measured the distance: "Have you returned to the fifth floor?"
Jiang Pingce said: "The mechanism of this space is the up/down of the stairs. The landing mechanism was triggered just now. Keep looking."
With Jiang Pingce leading the team, Yue Xingwen was at ease. Even if the stairs sometimes went up and down, the whole three-dimensional maze made people dizzy, but he believed that Jiang Pingce had a clear structure in his mind.
As long as Jiang Pingce is not panic, Yue Xingwen is not in a hurry - just follow Pingce.
Facts have also proved that Yue Xingwen's trust in Jiang Pingce is not blind.
Jiang Pingce did build a three-dimensional geometric figure in his mind. According to Zhang Xiaonian's height measurement, he could instantly calculate the current floor plan and the way to continue going up.
Even if he accidentally triggers the landing mechanism and falls back to a lower plane, he can find the fastest path to a higher plane based on his amazing memory.
"Disconnect 5-3, drop back to the fourth floor."
"Break 4-2 again and go to the sixth floor."
"6-3, go to the eighth floor."
The surroundings were very quiet, except for Jiang Pingce's faint commanding voice.
The floor numbers marked by Zhuo Feng became symbols representing the organs in Jiang Pingce's mind. Following his calm instructions, Zhang Xiaonian quickly used the excavator to trigger the organs, waiting for the broken stairs to connect with the lower half of the stairs again. , Zhang Xiaonian measured the distance and said excitedly: "There are only 7.5 meters left!"
The whole building is 30 meters high and 7.5 meters from the roof, indicating that they are in the tenth floor space. After walking through the eleventh and twelfth floors, you can go out.
Jiang Pingce said: "There are still the last three floors, and the organization may change again."
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the flight of stairs where everyone was standing suddenly began to float into the air.
This time, not only did the stairs move and go up and down, but the stairs would also rotate. Everyone nervously grabbed the handrails of the stairs, their bodies were floating in the air, and their heads were going dizzy!
Jiang Pingce hurriedly said: "Brother marked, 10-1."
After the stair makes a circle, it connects to another stair, but it only takes less than 3 seconds to connect, and then it automatically floats to the distance, and then connects to the next stair. The connection time is also 3 seconds, and it leaves after one click.
The stairs that carried them were like spaceships, moving back and forth in the air.
Ke Shaobin's face was ugly: "Dynamic mechanism? Are we going to walk over immediately when the two flights of stairs are connected?"
Jiang Pingce frowned and thought for a few seconds, then made a bold decision: "Xiao Nian, Brother Zhuo, follow me, and the others will wait in place." He looked at Yue Xingwen and asked softly, "Trust me?"
Yue Xingwen smiled and patted his arm: "Bullshit. Go ahead and wait for your good news."
Jiang Pingce nodded, brought Zhang Xiaonian and Zhuo Feng, the three of them lightly packed into battle, and ran over quickly when the stairs connected to another section. As they ran past, the flight of stairs moved, swirled in the air, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Ke Shaobin nervously looked at the constantly moving stairs floating in the air, and said, "The space here is messy. If you go wrong, you might get lost, right?"
Yue Xingwen looked calm: "Don't worry, there is a peace plan, you can't get lost."
Lin Manluo teased: "You just trust Jiang Pingce?"
Yue Xingwen said seriously: "Pingce's computing ability and spatial thinking are at the top level among college students across the country. If he can't get out of this maze, the failure rate of this maze class will become 100. %."
Everyone: "… "
This means that no one can pass the maze that Jiang Pingce can't pass.
Lin Manluo smiled lightly and said, "If he hears you compliment him, he should be very happy?"
Yue Xingwen smiled, looked at the three people around him, and explained: "Pingce brought Xiaonian ranging and Zhuo brother to write a marker. The three people are more convenient to move and save a lot of time. Don't worry, after he finds the exit He will give us directions, and we just need to go out according to his instructions."
Qin Lu's mind was completely stunned. All the stairs around were moving, some spinning to the distance, and some appearing beside him inexplicably. It was like a magic castle made up of countless stairs. And the 10-1 stairs that carry them have been flying around in the air. People with acrophobia will probably vomit out of this maze.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the three of them gradually became anxious. Only Yue Xingwen always had a relaxed expression. He was indeed not good at mazes and spatial reasoning, but he believed that Pingce could find an exit.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Jiang Pingce to send a message on the research group channel: "I found the exit. You go 10-2, 11-4, 11-2, 12-3, 12-4."
The stairs carrying them happened to be connected to a marked 10-2, and Yue Xingwen immediately said, "Go!"
The three of them ran after him quickly, and the stairs under their feet began to move in the air again. Yue Xingwen stared intently ahead. The stairs connected two interference items in the middle, but they were ignored by Yue Xingwen until they connected. At the moment Jiang Pingce said 11-4, Yue Xingwen continued to rush to the next flight of stairs with his teammates!
3 seconds, the action must be fast.
After several consecutive space transitions, the stairs carrying Yue Xingwen finally reached the 12-4 steps after a flight.
Yue Xingwen saw that Jiang Pingce was waiting for him on the other side of the steps.
The eyes of the two met in the air, Jiang Pingce stretched out his hand and said, "Come here."
The moment the stairs were connected, Yue Xingwen immediately reached out, Jiang Pingce took his hand and pulled him gently, pulling him up the last step. Lin Manluo, Ke Shaobin and Qin Lu also quickly jumped over—
Everyone saw that at the end of the steps, an arched door appeared.
That is the exit of the maze!