“... As long as you don't get caught, the game continues, right? ”

Hohenheim nodded, his expression calming down, "I see." So, I went ahead and voted. ”

He drove the hand of the spell and flicked the coin.

Second round, anti.

Third round, anti.

The results of the next two rounds are all snow-capped with one side facing up.

Claude grinned, his three arms hanging down, swaying gently as his chest breathed heaving, "This time, I won again."

Two to two. It's still match point. ”

“...”

Hohenheim was silent, his eyes fixed on the bronze coin held by the hand of the spell.

In these two rounds of throwing, he has used more than a dozen abilities such as speech, prophecy, prediction, prediction, and supersense.

You've calculated the density of the surrounding air, the direction of the wind, the speed of the wind, the strength of the spell hand, the point of contact between the spell hand and the coin, the trajectory of the coin's rotation, and the side when it falls.

No matter how you look at it, the coin is always face up, and it is definitely a predetermined ending.

However, it turned out to be three consecutive snow-capped mountains, and he didn't even know which link went wrong.

I just feel that after the coin flies up, it naturally produces a small and chaotic deviation from the predicted trajectory, and this insignificant deviation finally evolves into a completely different result.

What the hell is this, what's going on?

Hohenheim looked up, his brow furrowed, and looked at the unassuming three-armed monster in front of him.

The other party cheated, and this is a sure thing,

The only problem is how the other person cheats, and how can you find evidence...

"What's wrong?"

Claude laughed, "Do I have a pattern on my face?" ”

"Nothing,"

Hohenheim said lightly: "It's just that I found a way to win." ”

"Oh?"

Claude raised an eyebrow, "Sounds confident." Then please keep voting and let me see if you have what it takes to get out of this forest.

I still choose to be anti-anti. ”

"As before, both positive and negative."

Hohenheim's expression was calm, his heart was like water, and the opponent was three times in a row, and he had a seven-eighths win rate on paper.

But this round? He won't lose again.

Hohenheim gently closed the Book of Sand in his hand, canceled the spell hand, and touched the brass alloy coin with his palm? Place the coin flat on the tip of your right index finger and thumb from bottom up? Heavy pick.

Bell –

The sound of the nail cover hitting the brass is crisp and pleasant, the coin is churning and spinning, every line and stain on it? Under the watchful eye of magic? Subtle.

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Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

On the flat ground below the rock pillar where the coin duel is taking place,

Ding Shinji, who is in the cockpit of the Kui Niu mecha, is standing a little farther away? With some concern, he looked at the rock pillar platform, which had lost its sound and movement.

Around him,

Ambori boredly took the rag coated with a special ointment, gently tending to the Tidebringer Scimitar, cleaning the machete's blood groove.

Liu Wuxian stood in place with a bow and arrow? Close your eyes and gaze? Reducing the energy consumption of the body, the jade bracelet on the wrist emitted a warm light one after another - it should be some kind of prophecy type item that can detect danger? The price is extremely expensive.

David has finished dissecting the boar's carcass? Dismantling it into hundreds of parts, large and small? Placed on a transparent plastic sheet, he is now washing the blood stains on his hands with bottled water in the storage device.

From time to time, he raised his head and looked at the rock pillar platform with a deep gaze.

"They went, three minutes and fifty-four seconds,"

David used the last bottle of water to wash away all the blood, and while throwing the empty plastic bottle back into the promotion space, he said lightly to the other companions: "In another minute, I'll go up and have a look." ”

The top layer of the Pillar Platform is infinitely close to the height that will continuously trigger the Thunder, and if you try to climb it, you will be attacked by the Pillar itself, and if you fly up next to it, you will be hit by the Thunder.

"Mr. Hohenheim, he should be alright, right?"

Ding Shinji couldn't help but ask, "I haven't moved for so long." ”

"It should be fine."

David smiled, "After all, it's just a game of guessing the heads and tails of coins, and it's not a battle of life and death." ”

"Don't worry, that's the fourth place in the previous personal strength rankings,"

Amberi on the side said leisurely: "There is not a single soft-footed shrimp in the first twenty miles, and the top ten are even more monsters than the other."

In the rating of sports competitions, the lowest score must be removed, and then the highest score must be removed, and the average score must be taken.

Hohenheim was that top score.

His personal ability is definitely higher than the average difficulty of the script task that was formulated based on the strength of each of us.

If you die, he may not die.

What's more, each of us has the exit coupon that was rewarded in the last gate battle, and it really can't be done, and we can run away directly. ”

"Ahh

Ding Zhenji showed a strange expression on his face, isn't it, what is [he may not die if you die], is there such a comforting person...

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The dull and regular sound sounded again,

Everyone's eyes turned to Li Ang, who had been knocking on the trunks of trees in the vicinity since just now.

"Uh... Brother Li? ”

Ding Zhenji scratched his head and said uncertainly, "What are you doing?" ”

Li Ang, who was knocking on the tree with the overlord bar, turned his head and said casually: "Didn't I plant some trees in the Ant Forest before, let's see if there is any of my trees here." ”

Well, in fact, the ant forest is planted with a saxon tree that looks like grass...

Ding Zhenji resisted the urge to complain, but listened to Li Ang continue: "This forest is quite strange. ”

"Huh?" Ding Shinji subconsciously asked, "What's strange?" ”

"The kind of tree."

Leon held the overlord lance in one hand and tapped the trunk of a tall tree, "The bark is dark brown, with small longitudinal fissures, thick branches, and thick, papery leaves, oval or obovate."

This is a hairy-leaved purple tree of the family Myrtleaceae of the class Dicotyledonous plants. ”

"Huh?"

Ding Zhenji was stunned for a second or two, and immediately reacted, "This is a species that exists in the real world?" ”

"Hmm."

Li Ang nodded, "The hairy-leaved purple tree in the real world only exists in the depths of the dense forest of the valley at an altitude of 500-1100 meters in Xishuangbanna, which is quite rare and belongs to the critically endangered species. ”

"Isn't that right?"

Ding Zhenji pressed the control button and commanded the AI to search for information about [Maoye Purple Tree] in the database carried by the Kui Niu mecha, and said, "This mecha of mine, the sensor on it, has its own scanning function.

It can scan plants, animals, minerals, buildings, texts, paintings, and other carriers, and automatically report if there is information that matches the real world.

The scanner didn't see it..."

"That's because the tree has mutated."

Li Ang said casually: "The hairy leaf purple tree in the wild is 25 to 30 meters high, and this one is 40 meters high.

The shape of the male flowers and seeds is also quite different from that of the hairy-leaved purple tree that grows in the wild and is artificially raised. ”

Liu Wuxian frowned slightly, "Could it be that it looks more similar, but it's actually not the same plant?" ”

"I examined the cells of this tree, and there was very little difference from the modern Xishuangbanna hairy-leaved purple tree sample I got a long time ago."

Li Ang said lightly that when he was managing and building an automated pet breeding box before, he found those stores in the game square that could do anything as long as he gave enough money, bought quite a lot of rare animal and plant samples, and came into contact with a large number of endangered species.

"Also,"

Li Ang held the overlord lance and pointed to the surrounding woodland, "Kapok, magnolia, ginkgo, dove tree... It's all variations of real-world plant species.

In addition to that, if I'm not mistaken, there are seed ferns, tongue sheep's teeth, bennecycads... These are gymnosperms that have long since perished, and they were almost dead in the Permian-Triassic period. ”

"Ancient plants that have gone extinct?"

Ding Zhenji was stunned: "What is the situation? ”

"Too little intelligence, too many possibilities."

Li Ang withdrew the overlord horizontal lance and said casually: "It is possible that this script world takes place in an area where time and space are disordered.

It is possible that the entire script world is a confined space similar to an eco-box, specializing in collecting chaotic species - from the words of the three-armed monster Claude, it can be concluded that the worldview of this world is quite large, and the indigenous people living in it are not weak.

It's also possible that we are now in a worldview drawn by a third-rate cartoonist - for convenience, the creator simply picked up some random plant materials from the Internet and used them as backgrounds.

One thing is certain, though. ”

He paused and swept the ground with a lance to remove the litter that had accumulated on the flat ground, revealing the soil of different colors, "This forest is indeed modular, and every once in a while the areas change position. ”

Drops –

In the cockpit of the Kui Niu mecha, a prompt sound sounded, indicating that the intelligent AI had scanned mutant species that were close to the real world under the premise of relaxing the conditions.

Ancient plants that have perished...

Liu Wuxian on the side frowned slightly, looked at Ding Zhenji, and asked, "Your mecha should be loaded with a processor, right?"

Has the position of the sun changed since we entered the script? ”

"Where is the sun?"

Ding Zhenji's brows furrowed deeply, countless possibilities quickly flashed through his mind, and he raised his head sharply, controlling the sensor scanner and observing the sky.

The sensor directly locks the position of the sun in less than a second, and calculates the trajectory of the sun, corresponding to the time flow rate.

"It's been almost thirty minutes since we teleported into the script."

Ding Shinji looked at Liu Wuxian and replied, "The magnitude of the sun's decline and the change in the angle of our shadows are the same as the spring equinox in the real world. ”

"Is that so..."

Liu Wuxian turned his head to look at Li Ang, "These extinct plants, the sunlight, rain, temperature, humidity, soil conditions,

It's different, isn't it? ”

"Of course."

Li Ang smiled and nodded: "Gymnosperms such as seed ferns, tongue sheep's teeth, and bennecycads are the victims of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

They have long been eliminated by angiosperms, and if they do not continue to evolve, the required environment can be said to be very different from that of modern plants. ”

"If there is a difference..."

Liu Wuxian said slowly: "According to Claude, the location of different areas of this forest changes, and the growth of plants is strangely not so bad.

This means that it will not take long for different locations to change,

Otherwise, different species of plants will die one after another due to long-term environmental differences, and no matter how poor they are, they will grow slowly, wilt and weaken..."

"Hmm."

Leon nodded, "I see what you mean.

Since the plants are growing well, it is very likely that the location of the various areas of the forest will change continuously from day to day.

But in a special, longer period of time, the change stops,

That is, all the plants and the soil beneath them, returning to where they were.

Specifically, these different colors of the soil will be reunited at that moment. ”

"That is,"

David, who had been listening next to him, suddenly said: "We can act at that moment without worrying about the change of forest location, causing us to keep going around in circles in one place?" ”

"That's right."

Leon nodded, "Considering the environment required by these extinct gymnosperms, it is very different from other plants.

The size of this forest may still be larger than we imagined.

What Claude said just now that we will never be able to get out after getting lost is not because there is no purpose, but because there is a real possibility.

But if our conclusions are correct, then we can get along without relying on his guidance..."

“...”

Ding Zhenji on the side opened his mouth, but he still didn't react, how did Li Ang jump from looking for a tree in the ant forest to discovering the secret of the location change of this huge forest.

What happened in between?

Why do you feel like you didn't listen to a math class in your freshman year of high school, and the whole world has changed after waking up?

"So, isn't that in vain?"

Ding Shinji's Kui Niu Mecha raised his arm and pointed to the rock pillar platform, "The killing game system has placed an NPC at the entrance to our forest,

deliberately set up a gambling game to bet on our way out,

As a result, we can actually get out without NPCs.

Wouldn't that be an extra part of the system? ”

"It's not like it's going to be too much."

Leon smiled: "If you think about it, it was Claude who appeared and dragged us back, so that we had the patience to carefully observe the surrounding environment and find out what the problem was.

And the system is set to five hours, which is actually a very subtle hint - if in addition to winning the game, we can find a way to escape the forest by looking around,

It means that the [land re-return time in each area of the forest] that we guess must occur within 1-4 hours.

By the way, after the player finds a way to crack it, reserve another hour or two of rush time.

One puzzle, multiple solutions.

Whether Hohenheim wins or not, we can get out. Of course, it's best to win, we can not be enemies with NPCs, and by the way, we can also get three tips-

Judging from the puzzle rules of finding a way in the forest, these three tips are estimated to be the key props that can alleviate the trouble we encounter in the follow-up mission....

Ah, the gamble is over. ”

The platform of rock pillars, which carried Claude and Hohenheim, was slowly descending, accompanied by a loud sound.