Actually, without the bald man looking at me with such hesitation now, I understood what he wanted to say to me;

To put it simply, this is indeed a mechanism that I cannot fathom, but this mechanism is a bit ridiculously large, and from the experience of being here for more than a month, it is like a compass that has been encased three times, and each circle is moving clockwise or counterclockwise around a center according to its own rules;

If it is not appropriate to interpret it as a "compass", it will be easier to understand if we compare it to the various loops of the imperial capital;

The endless low mountains are the second ring, and the never-ending and dangerous woodlands made of ancient trees and shrubs are the third ring, and the waterholes where the flesh and insects thrive, the bottomless cliffs, the steaming hot springs, the swamps that trap people in the invisible, and those dangers that we have not yet encountered and may encounter, are the fourth ring;

I sketched a general image on the ground with a branch to show the bald man, and the dumb monk Zhanger did not understand what we were discussing, so he found a wooden stick a few meters away from us and acted as a guard;

A stands for the jungle we have just escaped, and we use it as the center;

F represents the other stretches of woodland;

M represents the low mountains we have encountered and those we have not yet encountered;

？ Represents those perils in the outermost rings;

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...... F................ F......... F........... F.......

............. F......................... F.............

........................... A.........................

............. M............. M........... M.............

............. F............. F........... F.............

...... F............. F............ F........... F.......

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When I sketched this picture with a tree branch, I couldn't help but feel desperate even myself;

Because the people who designed all this have only one purpose, and that is to make everyone who enters here have no return!

Although I don't understand the encirclement mechanism of the second, third, and fourth rings, and I can't even figure out how they are surrounding, it is clear that every time they move, the people who are trapped in them turn back to face a completely new world, the low mountains are new, the woodlands are new, the dangers are new, even if they are lucky enough to rush to the question mark of the outermost ring, which is definitely the most dangerous place in this mechanism!

I can even conclude that the designer's original intention must have been to use the most dangerous and ruthless means in the outermost circle, so that all intruders could not survive without guidance;

In other words, even if someone is lucky enough to understand the designer's mechanism and understand the principle of matching between low mountains and dense forests, the other party will never give him a chance to escape!

"What do you think?" , I pointed to the sketches on the ground that even I couldn't distinguish, and asked the bald man;

"Is this us?" The bald man asked, pointing to the position of A, and I nodded, and explained the meaning of each symbol in detail by the way;

"This is not right," the bald man glanced at the tiger girl, and hurried back to sit beside me;

"Wu, if you follow what you said, then the low mountain should be surrounded by a circle, and the same is true of the woodland, they should all be surrounded by a circle, and when the fog clears, you will understand, looking around from the top of the mountain, this mountain is straight! Every mountain I have ever experienced is straight, they are not fenced";

The bald man spoke very quickly, and even because he spoke too quickly, I repeated with him several times to understand what he meant;

"Bald, I know you don't understand what general relativity is, but simply put, if the place we are in is big enough, then when you stand on the low hill that forms this circle and look around, the low mountain is straight to you, and you can never see the low mountain in other directions around you, can you understand that?" , I said;

I have never seen a bald man fall into contemplation like now, in my impression, he will always be a cynical and smiling bald tiger who doesn't care about anything, but at this time, he frowned and looked down and thought for a long time before he said to me: "Wu, I seem to understand a little, but how much of a place does this situation you are talking about?" ”；

"I don't know, maybe you need a place the size of the island of Ireland to ......," I replied vaguely, for I couldn't really find any other adjective to describe the area;

"The island of Ireland? Is Ireland the word you use to describe size? The bald man looked at me suspiciously;

"Well, almost, in that island from sunrise to sunset, we will walk for about seven days with the tiger on our backs", I was a little depressed, but the reason for my frustration was not because of the puzzle here;

"Seven days? That's okay, that's okay, if we follow these circles on your ground, if we just stay here for seven days and keep releasing wolf smoke, won't we be able to find all our teammates? ”；

The bald man apparently did not understand my assumptions, and when he heard that it had only been seven days, he became happy, and the rare evil smile came back to his face;

"You're right, but only if we find the center of the island in order to do what you say";

I looked up at the sky, but I was thinking about something else, something that sent chills to my heart;

"The heart of the island? What's it like there? The bald man asked, still tirelessly;

"How do I know!";

Simply ignore the bald man, and look up at the direction of the sky through the fading fog, although there is any sky out there? But at the moment, I really don't know what to do, and my heart is full of mixed tastes, sourness and bitterness;

Because I suddenly realized one thing, what if... I mean, if the theory of the circle mechanism that I have deduced is true, the island will be much larger than the desert island in which I was originally located, and even almost the same size as the whole of "Ireland";

How, then, could a satellite in the sky keep such a vast expanse of tropical or subtropical land off the world map?

So, there is only one possibility...... I'm not on Earth...... Or it can be understood as "I'm still on Earth, but I'm no longer in the plane I'm familiar with!" ”。