“…… In other words, Xue Yu still sensed that something was wrong? Lin Sanjiu took a big step and walked up two stairs, with a wry smile in his voice.

"Isn't it! Halfway through, she began to mumble, if it weren't for the fact that Bai Xiaoke was needed for action, she would definitely come by herself. "Li Tao is small, and she has to take hurried steps to keep up with Lin Sanjiu's speed. Her sparkling, puppy-like black eyes were filled with a relaxed smile: "...... Originally, she meant that after I found you, I would take you away even if I dragged you alive. ”

"Ahem!" Knowing that the operation outside had just started for dozens of minutes, Lin Sanjiu was much more relieved. She lit up the steps in front of her with polish, and she couldn't help but laugh at Xue Shu on the other side of the Garden of Eden. "I've experienced all the dangers she said, it's just a copy, you see, we've all gone up several floors now, aren't we okay."

It is not necessarily true to say that there are several floors, because the Black Tower has only the lowest and the most top; In the middle, there is just a staircase that seems to spiral endlessly. If the energy center is really in the Black Tower, then it must be at the top of the tower; At this moment, the two of them had climbed four or five crooked stairs, and the stairs above their heads were still not in sight.

"Oh yes, what does that copy look like? How did you get out? ”

This is not easy for Lin Sanjiu herself to answer - she pondered for a while, looked back at Li Tao, and suddenly smiled: "Actually, I don't know either...... Let me tell you the story from the dungeon and see if you can find the answer, even if there is one more stooge. ”

After that, she told Li Tao what happened in the copy in as much detail as possible.

The storylines of the fairy tale copies are interspersed with each other, and the time is messed up, and Lin Sanjiu himself feels very laborious; But what made her unbelievable was that after she finished telling the nonsense, Li Tao actually understood.

“…… I was lucky to get out. Because I really can't figure out how this copy is......"

In the flickering silver light, Lin Sanjiu listened to the regular footsteps of the two, and spit out the confusion that was in his heart.

Li Tao beside her was silent for a while, and seemed to be stumped. The silver light illuminated the ascending staircase in front of her, but her expression was not visible - it was a long time before she said softly: "The age of the three protagonists is not the same, this is quite interesting......"

"What do you think?" Lin Sanjiu asked with interest.

There is still a long way to go from the top of the tower; Out of an abundance of caution, she didn't completely let go of the speed. During the journey to the top of the tower, she was eager to hear what Pear Tao had to say.

Li Tao's pace slowed down unconsciously, and she smiled a little hesitantly: "...... It's just an idea, I don't know if it's right. ”

"So what does it matter? You said. ”

“…… I think that if you think about it in terms of the logic that something happened in the past, it leads to something that will happen in the future, which is fundamentally wrong. Li Tao's first sentence grabbed Lin Sanjiu's attention: "I think these three stories should actually be independent and unrelated." ”

"Huh? But the death of the prince ...... And Leila's mirror...... How to explain it? ”

Rimo seemed to find it a bit tricky to get her thoughts right - after thinking about it, she asked, "Do you have any paper on you?" ”

Lin Sanjiu stopped and flipped through his card library. Most of the materials were found from the extreme temperature hell, and there were not many paper products left at high temperatures; She eventually ripped one out of a roll of toilet paper and handed it to Peach.

"I want three." Pear Tao took it and said.

Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, as if he had vaguely grasped something, but he still hadn't figured it out. She handed over two more pieces of paper, turned the toilet paper back into a card, and was about to put it away with some other things, when she suddenly noticed that there was a diary card in the middle.

"Ah, isn't this my cute little beauty!" -- There is only one sentence on the card.

Before Li Tao saw this embarrassing card, Lin Sanjiu quickly put it into his body - and then raised his head casually, and found Li Tao groaning, holding two pieces of toilet paper between the fingers of his left hand, and pinching the last one with his right hand and placing it under them.

Now, the three sheets of toilet paper appear in the air in the shape of three layers: upper, middle and lower.

"Every piece of paper represents a story." Rimo cleared her throat, her voice full of excitement, and she seemed to like decryption. "They are parallel, they don't interfere with each other, and each has its own flow of time."

"The one with the largest time span, and the fastest time flow, is Bluebeard's story." As she spoke, she took out the top one and drew a short bar and a dot with her fingernails - the short bar and the dot were repeated several times, representing high frequency. "Bluebeard met the fairy when he was seven years old, and married Laila when he was almost forty, and there were nearly thirty years in between."

Lin Sanjiu nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Then there's Little Red Riding Hood." This time, the bar drawn by the pear peach is slightly longer, and the frequency of the bar and the dots is lower. "From Emma to Little Red Riding Hood, more than 20 years have passed."

"So, the slowest time flow is Cinderella?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but ask.

"That's right. While the other two stories — oh, you think of them as these two pieces of toilet paper — go a few decades forward, Cinderella's world is only a few months past at best. After speaking, Li Tao drew a long bar and a dot on the third piece of paper. A short piece of toilet paper, with only two long bars, is at the end.

She again arranged the three sheets of paper in a parallel state. Only this time the difference is that Pear Peach pulled a hairpin from her hair and aimed the tip at the toilet paper.

"Now I'm the old man's fairy, and I've tricked Cinderella into agreeing to pierce a few holes in her layer of paper."

Lin Sanjiu vaguely realized something, and felt a piece of hair standing on his back.

"This dot is like the time period when the prince is looking for Cinderella." The tip of the hairpin in Litao's hand pierced a hole from the dot of the third piece of toilet paper, pierced it, and reached the second layer, and the hairpin changed direction. "In this layer of Little Red Riding Hood, the point in time when Little Red Riding Hood is pierced and encounters werewolves."

"Now, countless fine bacterial dust on the toilet paper has come to a new layer of paper with the holes. Whether it's the 'Werewolf' germ on Cinderella's paper, or the 'Prince' germ on Little Red Riding Hood's paper...... Anyway, at this point, the characters and stories on two different levels of time flow are blended. ”

"I'm also a ...... who goes back and forth between three sheets of paper. Bacteria. Lin Sanjiu stared at the toilet paper and smiled softly bitterly. Because the toilet paper was torn up, it was not straight up and down, so it was a little distorted, and in the dim silver light, it seemed to float in the air as if it were alive.

Ri Tao nodded earnestly with a look in her eyes. "If you do this, if you put a few more holes, you'll see the strange phenomenon you've seen. For example, Bluebeard, both the past and the future, are stored in the royal palace at the same time. ”

She plucked one of her own hairs, chose two distant dots on the bluebeard paper, pierced two holes, and strung her hair in. The ends of the hair hung down on the Cinderella paper, and with a slight pull, the bluebeard paper immediately crumpled, and the two dots were tightly attached to a certain point of the toilet paper below.

"That's why the old man said to Bluebeard, 'Eighteen years is much shorter than you think'!" Lin Sanjiu muttered half amazed, half dazed.

Li Tao smiled slightly: "That's right." Once you realize that the essence of the three stories is actually a 'three-tiered' story, you will realize that none of them can be sure to save three people at the same time - because you are only an outsider, and you can't pierce the story level like the old man and the fairy. The existing 'convergence point', let's call it that, does not connect the three levels at the same time. ”

"Could it be...... Copies can also deceive? ”

"No, the stele didn't lie to you." Li Tao stretched out a finger and swung it, crumpled the three pieces of paper, and threw them away. "That's a narrative ruse."

“…… Narrative trickery? Lin Sanjiu repeated softly and walked slowly up behind her.

"It's very simple - the protagonist of Little Red Riding Hood's story is Little Red Riding Hood, and the protagonist of Cinderella's story is Cinderella. So why is the protagonist of Bluebeard's story Leila? ”

Li Tao's soft and tranquil voice spread softly in the dimness, like a wave hitting the stone wall—but in Lin Sanjiu's ears, it was like thunder.

"Because, because ......" she wanted to say something, but she got stuck. Because she suddenly realized that even she didn't know why she thought Layla was the main character-

"Shouldn't Bluebeard be the protagonist of Bluebeard's story?" Rimo laughed.

"However, the stele says that the three protagonists are in a life-and-death situation and need to be rescued by me-and that when Lyra saw Bluebeard, her life was in danger-"

"What were you going to do at that time?" In the dim silver light, Pear Tao glanced back at her.

"I was going to ...... Kill Bluebeard. Lin Sanjiu was stunned and understood.

Speaking of which, it is already clear - as long as Lin Sanjiu does not kill Bluebeard, it is equivalent to saving his life. However, I am afraid that no one who was caught in it could have figured this out at the time.

"Although the whole copy is a ruse, it's useless to meet you." Ri Tao smiled lightly, "No matter who it is, as long as you think about it, you will definitely not let Bluebeard go—after all, he has the most doubts on his face." Once the mind is trapped, it will be difficult to make the right decision...... But the good thing is that you're a person whose muscles act before your brain, and you can fix the copy cleanly. ”

Lin Sanjiu really didn't know if he was praising her.

After a while, she said in a low voice, "No, aren't you very powerful?" Just listening to my retelling, I have already analyzed everything...... If it were you, you would be able to see through it quickly. ”

Li Tao suddenly felt a little embarrassed and said "ha": "What, I'm just a bystander...... If it were me, I'm afraid I might not be able to get out. ”

"I have two last questions for you." Lin Sanjiu said suddenly.

"What?"

"The first question is, what is the content of the copy you broke into in the Black Tower at that time?" Lin Sanjiu's attitude was not strong, as if he was just doing a homely job.

Rimo, who had been climbing the stairs in front of her, suddenly stopped. In the darkness, her figure stood straight, but never looked back.

"The second problem is, your name is not Pear. Who are you? ”R1152