Forces of Temptation

Chapter 302: Ant (25)

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At this point, all of Nan Zhou's bizarre behaviors became reasonable.

Even his behavior of smashing the newsstand suddenly, even though he was sitting well, has a reasonable explanation.

Nan Zhou also admitted this: "When I was halfway through the painting, I found that I could understand most of the things on the car, except for the magazines, I couldn't figure out where they came from."

Before entering the dungeon, they took stock of all the props at hand and distributed them to everyone as needed.

The only magazine-like prop in their hands is the [Erotic and Erotic Magazine] that can attract attention.

But seals are completely different.

So Nan Zhou decided to go to the newsstand to find out.

But Yuan Ming and Qing clearly remembered that just now, when he was attracted to the newsstand by the sound of broken glass, Nan Zhou did not stand in front of the magazine rack.

In this regard, Nan Zhou's explanation is-

"I don't know the brands of beverages very well." Nan Zhou said, "I thought all the beverage bottles were sold in the system."

I didn't expect the colorful ones to look good.

… Although the time and place were wrong, after listening to Nan Zhou’s description, Li Yinhang couldn’t help but imagine a little wild cat aggressively jumping into the window for food, only to be attracted by a cat toy that he had never seen before. The look of sight.

But the next second, she couldn't be happy.

Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties: "... So, that magazine is... "

Nan Zhou looked at Yuan Mingqing, nodded, and agreed with his judgment: "Yes."

"The one I saw on the train was the one that you picked up when you came to see me."

Yuan Mingqing broke out in a cold sweat.

—He found that everything formed a strange closed loop.

Because Nan Zhou saw the magazines spread out in advance in the No. 3 carriage on the train, and did not understand the origin of the magazines, he forcibly opened the newsstand to check.

I was attracted by the noise, but I didn't want to appear too deliberate, so I picked up a magazine and looked at it.

Nan Zhou noticed that the magazine he was holding happened to be the one he had seen, so he inadvertently stared at it for a while.

And because of Nan Zhou's sight, he became suspicious of the magazine, and took it back to the car to read it.

This magazine appeared on the car and acted as part of the future of the car that Nanzhou saw.

Connected end to end, perfectly echoed.

As the flight attendant said, the terminal of this train is indeed "the future".

Possibly a bloody future.

It could also be a revised, infinitely bright future.

He murmured to himself: "...Mobius belt."

Li Yinhang had heard of this term.

It probably refers to a curved ring that twists a piece of paper 180 degrees and then glues the ends together.

If you put an ant on it, a strange phenomenon will appear:

The ants crawl around the paper ring in a circle, and can crawl both sides of the front of the note without crossing the edge of the paper.

Using ants as an example, this is a general example when explaining "Möbius strips" to help understand the concept.

So the teacher who taught her the concept joked with them that for every additional Mobius strip in the world, an ant was killed.

They are the ants that were unknowingly put on the Mobius belt.

This tape, which exists in nothingness, is about to lead them down the road of no return that the demonstration showed them.

But in Li Yinhang's view, the cycle is not difficult to solve.

As long as the ants are willing to jump off this tape, this never-ending cycle of hell can be ended.

The premise is that they must trust all the information given by Nanzhou.

Nan Zhou also made great efforts for this.

In order to gain trust, he even sat alone in the fog for hours.

Li Yinhang, who has always trusted Nanzhou unconditionally, secretly looked at Chen Sufeng and Yuan Mingqing from the corner of the flashlight, and found that they did not have any suspicious expressions, so he could not help secretly relieved.

What Nan Zhou took out can be regarded as a real hammer.

Even the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties had to believe it.

The paper is torn now, and there is no possibility of forgery in advance.

Nan Zhou's bizarre behavior made Yuan Mingqing pay close attention to his whereabouts, and kept peeping at him from the window; the compartments were even more transparent, so Nan Zhou had no time to sneak into the car and fake the scene.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Yinhang to cooperate with him.

Li Yinhang was the third to return to the station after him.

Her every move fell into Yuan Mingqing's eyes, and she didn't have time to discuss plans with Nanzhou.

Even in her rare alone time with Nan Zhou, Yuan Mingqing was eavesdropping on bugs.

All the random events in the car happened after Nan Zhou refused to board the car.

He can be sure that Li Yinhang did not tell Nanzhou the time and space of these small changes in the car.

Although the empty water bottle in the 1st car has not rolled down, the driving record table in the 2nd car has not been added, and the ballpoint pen is still clamped on the hard-shell pad, but the discrepancies in these details are understandable. .

What happened in the far future, Nan Zhou could not have expected, and it was forgivable.

After figuring out these joints, Yuan Mingqing's face didn't look any better, on the contrary, it was even more ugly.

In his hand he was holding a picture of the future in the second carriage.

It stands to reason that this painting is not as bloody as the last three carriages, nor is it as intuitive as the "future is happening" of the first and third carriages.

It can be said that everything in the second compartment has not happened yet.

But he still aimed the flashlight firmly at a corner of the picture, his face was extremely poor.

With the fog blocking, Li Yinhang certainly couldn't capture everyone's micro-expressions in real time.

She didn't notice Yuan Mingqing's tenseness, and said lightly, "Then what should we do?"

"Everything we are doing now is promoting the future." Nan Zhou said, "If we want to get rid of the future, we only need to make the future impossible at this stage."

This is exactly the same as Li Yinhang's vision.

Just cut the paper loop and the Möbius strip will naturally unravel.

But Li Yinhang always felt that something was not right.

She remembered that the number of people displayed on the driving record was "4".

That is to say, among the 5 people in the "Cube Ark", 4 people got on the bus, and 1 person is destined to be alone

Did Brother Fang not come back

Or did they have a fight long before they boarded the car, killed a person, and planted the seeds of some hidden danger

As a result, just as she was thinking about it, Yuan Mingqing, who was on the side, started to attack.

He gritted his back teeth and said, "So, how do you plan to make this future 'impossible' to happen?"

"I haven't quite figured it out yet."

Nan Zhou stared at Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties with his wet black eyes covered in fog and dew, and he saw that he was furious.

Yuan Mingqing said angrily, "You still don't plan to get in the car, do you?!"

After listening to the words of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Li Yinhang was at a loss.

She didn't have time to think about what "yet" meant, she shook her head and said, "...No, no, no."

She looked around with a flashlight and found that the painting of the second carriage was on Yuan Mingqing's hands, so she swept a flashlight over and aimed it at the location of the driving record.

"Look, it's not like there are four people—"

Chen Sufeng added lightly beside him: "The flight attendant also got on the bus."

Li Yinhang was stunned for a moment, and then there was a buzzing sound in his eardrums.

…Yeah, 4 passengers, not "4 passengers".

Her inertial thinking made her think that in the end, there were 4 people who could successfully get on the bus.

On the third hour after Nanzhou returned, he asked the flight attendant who would drive the car later.

The flight attendant's answer was that he came to drive.

At that time, Li Yinhang could hear clearly in the train, but did not think deeply.

Until now, she didn't understand the intention of Nan Zhou's inquiry.

Li Yinhang thought about this idea all the way, and the blood of his brothers and feet condensed little by little.

- She finally understood why Nan Zhou called all this a "time trap".

Her blood flowed back, her palms were numb, and she whispered, "There are four time traps in total, aren't they?"

Hearing her say this, Nan Zhou finally turned to her, nodding silently and approvingly.

Chen Sufeng was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

It's normal that he can't understand.

When the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties surrendered, they told Jiang Fang, Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang the truth about the existence of "Universal Gravity".

Earth is a separate replica world.

In order to better enjoy the game, the high-dimensional people once adjusted the time of the earth's relative high-dimensional time extremely fast. In their opinion, the earth's 10,000 years is only one day.

They do this just to make the evolution of species faster and to experience the occasional beauty that data collides with in the evolution of light speed.

Later, because the calculation was too real, the dinosaurs on the earth became extinct, and the high-dimensional people lost interest in the earth, so they abandoned the copy of the earth.

- This fact shows that they can adjust the time difference between replicas.

This is the reason for the high-dimensional people to divide them into 5 small copies in the last copy, and fight for their own reasons.

This is also the first real time trap that was ignored by Li Yinhang.

With a pale face, she analyzed to Chen Sufeng to clarify her own thoughts.

She said: "Gaowei people can show us the 'future'. First, they know that each of us will come back; second, he knows in advance the order in which we will come back."

Chen Sufeng was astonished, pondered for a while, and asserted, "It is impossible to do both of these things."

Yes, in theory, it is impossible.

Whether it was Chen Sufeng's on-the-spot sacrifice to his teammates, or Li Yinhang going out to fight in place of Nanji Xing, it was a flash of personal behavior.

What if Li Yinhang had no intention of sacrificing himself at all, and worked hard to the end, and ended up missing the train altogether

What if Chen Sufeng didn't resist successfully, was sacrificed by his teammates, or stepped on a trap in the tomb, and was not counted as "self-sacrifice", what if he fell into it in vain

Not to mention them, even Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, who seemed to be sure of the dungeon, could not rule out the possibility of being killed by stray bullets in the dungeon.

Assuming that the station time and the copy time are synchronized, how can the high-dimensional people calculate their future and show it to the first Nan Zhou to come back

Li Yinhang made the decision to sacrifice himself, but when the dungeon game advanced to the 14th hour.

At that time, Nan Zhou had already seen the future in the carriage.

However, as Chen Sufeng said, high-dimensional people cannot predict the future.

If they could predict the future, they would not have agreed to exchange wishes with Jiang Fang because of their arrogance, nor would they choose to gamble with Jiang Fang to decide who is the team leader.

but if…

She asked Chen Sufeng in a trembling voice, "What if the Gaowei people had a time lag?"

"What if, this isn't our... first meeting at the station?"