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"Do you have a hunch?" I said, staring into Jack's eyes.

"Yes. I warned you that we were lost. ”

"Isn't that the same as getting lost?" The fat man was disgusted by Jack's disorientation theory, which negated his lost theory.

"There is an essential difference between the two." Jack looked at me and responded to the fat man's displeasure. "We're lost. Do you have a deeper understanding of this sentence now? ”

Like lovers, Jack and I looked at each other. But I wasn't embarrassed, my brain was running at high speed like a CPU, and there were no concrete objects in my field of vision.

Using my right shoulder as the axis, I drew an imaginary circle in the air. "We went around it?"

Jack nodded. "I had this guess the second time I threw the flare, and the last time I threw the flare, I had to identify the guess. Keep walking, just to know the extent and area of this circle. Yes, we've been going around it. It's an endless loop. ”

The fat man was very dissatisfied that I agreed with Jack's point of view, but he couldn't come up with strong rebuttal evidence, so he was so anxious to stand up and circle around us, and kept making comparisons, as if looking for a reason to refute Jack.

Except for the fat man, all three of us sat on the ground and looked at the double-arrow mark. No one spoke. The fat man waved his hands and glow sticks, and slowly circled around us, the light of the glow sticks made our faces sometimes glow like zombies, and sometimes fell into dark shadows. The light is unpredictable. The scene is getting weirder and weirder.

The heavy and fatal blow made me not even have the strength to stand up, and in the same way, there was no need to go forward, the straight direction became a circle, and it was just a circle to go down. The fat man's constantly circling figure and flickering light. It made me so confused that I couldn't concentrate on my thoughts.

"How can you be sure that we are going in circles around it, not the other way around." Suddenly, the fat man's words broke the silence. "Isn't it allowed to be outside the circle?"

My gaze looked at him questioningly. I think the fat man's thinking is too inhuman, and his IQ is comparable to that of a giraffe.

No one answers the fat man's question, perhaps feeling that it is too embarrassing to answer this question and lowers the IQ. But I know that the fat man will not give up if he doesn't get an answer, and he will definitely keep pestering, and even mad about it.

I cleared my throat. "Fat brother. Isn't that clear? We threw three flares in different positions and directions, and the distance of the bulge did not change. The circle we are circling is large, and if the bulge is not in the center of the circle we are circling, its size and clarity will change significantly. ”

"Your IQ, I didn't say you." When I got my response, the fat man was not grateful at all, but found an outlet to vent.

I immediately lowered my head. That's what you said about me.

"Don't take common sense as you can do for now. We saw the bulge as soon as we came out of the passage, and we had been heading towards it. But do you see our passage into here and the wall of the mountain where there is no end in sight? We can go back to the place where we drew the marker, and it doesn't have to be a circle. ”

The fat man said. Draw a zigzag and irregular closure in front of your eyes with a glow stick.

"Maybe we're going down this route, and the bulge is an illusion, and its purpose is to lead us astray."

Once again, I was struck down by the fat man's unbridled stupidity, and his rhetoric was clearly about to plunge us deeper into despair.

"It's a possibility, too." I didn't expect Jack to actually fight the stupidity of the fat man. "But we now have to find a way out of the possibility of a more regular pattern, which is to think that we are walking in a circle. If there are no rules to the line we take, then the best way to break the game is to split the four people. Go in four directions, and in this way, at least increase the likelihood of finding the door to eternal life or the way out. ”

I shook my head. "I don't agree with separation."

No need to ask, the fat man at least won't agree to separate from me, as for getting rid of Jack and Tang Yumo. I don't think he'll object.

"Okay, I'll tell you what I think." Jack pulled a magazine out of my backpack and drew a circle on the ground and a cross in the center of the circle. He pointed to the fork in the center of the circle and said, "We are walking towards it, but we are actually going around a circle." We need a tangent out of the circle, and the ultimate goal is still the protrusion, but the reference must not be it. The tangent I calculated is here. ”

Instead of drawing a tangent line on that circle, Jack pointed his right hand in a certain direction. That direction is not the direction we have been traveling, but the direction that has an angle of nearly forty degrees to the bulge.

"To execute this plan, you need someone with a strong sense of direction to lead the way. Try not to reorient yourself on the way, you know, it's probably more misleading. Jack nodded silently at me.

Originally, I was very confident in my sense of direction, but this time I led the way and walked in a straight line into a circle, which gave me a great sense of frustration. Looking at Jack's trusting eyes, I was a little embarrassed.

"Can you reach the target along this tangent?" I asked, pointing to the tangent that Jack was sure of.

Jack shook his head. "The circle we're walking in is too big, of course, if it's a circle. I could only guess at the diameter of the circle, and based on my guess I drew the tangent, and I didn't expect to walk up to the protrusion, and the best result was a smaller circle. We can see the protrusions more clearly on a smaller circle. If this experiment succeeds, I think I'll get to the bulge. ”

"What if it fails?" The fat man had the patience to listen to Jack, and it already surprised me. I'm not surprised by his skepticism right now.

"Even if it fails, the worst outcome is the current one. I don't think it could have been worse. ”

The fat man rolled his big eyes and didn't speak. I know that he can't find a reason to refute it, and he has no better idea, otherwise, he would never be a quiet fat man.

"It's a new starting point." I said, pointing to the circle that Jack had drawn on the ground. "In order to avoid duplication with the previous markings and to make it easier to distinguish, we use the new markings as markings. Let's use Jack's circle, leave a mark in a thousand steps, count in the circle, and use an arrow to indicate the direction outside. ”

Jack thought for a moment and said, "That's a good idea. To do this at the beginning, my tangents will be more accurate. ”

"Let's go, I don't think everyone is in the mood to rest." I stood up and picked up my backpack.

I'm actually worried about my sense of direction, and I want to take steps and actions before I completely lose confidence, which will reduce the impact of negative emotions on my self-confidence.

"Follow me, brother will take you to explore the unknown." I squeezed my eyes at the fat man with a bad face.

The fat man didn't respond to me, but looked back at the circle on the ground. (To be continued......)