The past that Shang Wenxue casually revealed made Lu Ning feel a little shocked and lucky.
What she met was Lu Lin, one of Lu Ning's mission targets.
"She made me fully realize the difference between me and her. I think since you are also a member of Rosicrucian, you have also received the task of killing Lu Lin, right? I came just to settle things with her. "." Shang Wenxue's expression became very calm for the first time, even with a sense of nostalgia.
"Evil deeds are natural to her. It's not like me doing a series of bad things to seek excitement and satisfaction. Lu Lin just regards these as trivial things. She doesn't regard them as glory or to satisfy her own needs. "If someone dropped money on the floor, we wouldn't think it was a particularly good intention to pick it up, and she wouldn't think it was a particularly malicious act to crush someone's finger while they were picking it up."
Lu Ning felt a chill.
"But I still have to thank her for showing me what the most disgusting evil looks like when I first made my choice. Lu Lin is a shackles for me, at least it has not started to spread on my body. Lu Xiang knew where he should stop before. But... I can only stop, I can't go back, do you understand? "
After Shang Wenxue finished speaking, she curved her lips and showed a hint of suppressed madness to Lu Ning, then restrained herself and returned to her polite posture.
"I know." Lu Ning nodded and turned to look out the window, "But I can trust you, who is also a member of Rosicrucian, right?"
"That would be really gratifying."
"Um……"
Lu Ning looked up at the mark she had carved on the window frame, then looked down at her watch.
"First let's talk about the conclusion. The time in this cold world is about three hours later than that in the light world, which means the current time should be around ten o'clock in the evening."
Hearing this, Zhou Weiyuan suddenly raised his head.
"What did you say?"
"I set the watch back to dusk during the gradient, which is half past five. Now its time is one o'clock in the morning. This is the timeline of the light world. And the moon can be seen in the sky here, so I I used two notches as reference objects to calculate the displacement and angle changes of the moon in about twenty minutes, and combined with some stars with obvious characteristics, I can roughly get the time now."
Zhou Weiyuan and Shang Wenxue both showed cautious expressions.
Time is always a big issue that tourists cannot avoid. They have never ruled out the possibility of time trickery in the scene, but now this problem is gradually showing its ferocious side.
"Timing... timing..." Zhou Weiyuan's pen stopped and he was repeating this word. What Shang Wenxue is concerned about is the time difference: "The two worlds are three hours apart. That's not right."
"We have to figure out whether that device will change time. If not, then some problems may be explained logically."
Shang Wenxue knew exactly what Lu Ning meant.
Prior to this, Lu Ning and others came from the world of heavy rain, and Shang Wenxue came from the world of weathering. The two parties also entered the world of lights through gradual transformation. It is easy to produce the idea that the worlds gradually transform into each other based on the cycle of day and night.
However, if there is a special time difference of three hours, it means that the connection between the worlds is not a perfect grouping and interleaving, but has completely random characteristics. In this way, if we can grasp the number of worlds and the time difference between them, we may be able to discover the secrets hidden in them.
"Starting from this error in time, we still have two problems to solve, that is, the two previous conjectures have been overturned." Lu Ning stretched out two fingers.
The first one is that the previously guessed idea of "the tourists are evenly distributed to various separated worlds" is obviously wrong. After all, the three of them have been here for a long time, and no one has come to contact them yet, which means that at least this Tourists from around the world haven't come to explore Building A1 yet, which is obviously unreasonable, because all the tourists who came to the same world are useless and still haven't been able to explore the location indicated in the mission. The probability of this happening is extremely low.
The second question is "Whenever a world is about to usher in dawn, it will be forced to jump to another world through gradients." But after learning about the non-correspondence of time, Lu Ning also suspected that there was no such thing as a world with dawn coming. For example, if she jumps from the world of heavy rain to the world of lights, the original heavy rain world should usher in dawn, and then it will be daytime. Not to mention what it is like during the day, at least there is no way to prevent someone from passing the positioning beacon at this time. It is possible to enter the world of heavy rain, but such rumors have not appeared.
Of course, Lu Ning did not rule out that these means of spatial transfer also include the function of time positioning. If so, the biggest problem faced by tourists will become time paradox and the dawn that will never come.
"alright."
Zhou Weiyuan just finished the calculation in his hand after Lu Ning finished speaking these two questions.
"The questions you mentioned cannot be answered without evidence, and now that evidence is right in front of us, it's time to get in touch with it."
He checked the time, then clasped his fingers nervously and began to walk step by step into the corridor. The route he traveled was a very twisted one. Sometimes he had to take a few steps back and wait for a while before moving forward. It actually took him more than five minutes to walk through a short corridor.
"This is the inconvenience of borrowed models."
After he walked through the corridor that looked empty but was actually full of murderous intent, he stood in a corner and waved to the two people here: "Safety, then you two come one by one and strictly follow my instructions." directed actions.”
At this moment, Lu Ning hesitated a little, because it meant handing over her life to others. Although Zhou Weiyuan had been a very good teammate during this period of time together, Lu Ning was instinctively wary of this.
But Shang Wenxue just walked up so carelessly.
Because of her actions, Lu Ning's moment of hesitation was not noticed by anyone - maybe Shang Wenxue noticed it, but no one said it.
Following Zhou Weiyuan's instructions, Shang Wenxue passed the corridor very cooperatively. It was a completely different route from before, and the final landing point was two meters away from Zhou Weiyuan.
"Okay, Lu Ning, you are the third one."
Lu Ning nodded, walked to the position designated by Zhou Weiyuan, and began to move slowly.
During the action, she could feel some danger, just like her skin would feel tight when a sharp weapon was pointed at her face. Lu Ning even felt that some boundaries of space were passing by her, although it was indeed only the height. It's just an illusion caused by stress.
"Very well, stop."
Following Zhou Weiyuan's last instruction, Lu Ning stopped. At this moment, she felt that her feet were a little weak. The unpredictable and close death was really a great psychological test.
"The space here is relatively stable now, probably because the devices here are only operating but no one is controlling them." Zhou Weiyuan waved, "Just follow me. There is a lecture theater in front of you. "
Finally arrived at this destination.
As a classroom dedicated to providing large-scale teaching venues, the lecture theater in the A1 Annex is a huge room that can accommodate 500 students. The equipment is also very advanced, including projection equipment and touch-sensitive blackboards. By the way, projection equipment in this world has developed to the point where it can support holographic images, even if most professors don't particularly like to use this function.
In addition to these usual teaching supplies, this lecture theater is also equipped with a movable experimental bench and matching science experiment cabinet. If any teacher needs to conduct practical courses, they can also demonstrate it in class. But now, all these high-end educational resources that Lu Ning had no contact with were placed in the corner to collect dust. There was only a huge spherical device that looked like an armillary sphere slowly rotating on a platform.
The center of this device is a translucent hollow ball, surrounded by nine concentric rings from small to large, made of metal with a color like brass. The rings are engraved with runes and grooves of unknown meaning. The whole They are all suspended on the platform without any support in the middle. The nine rings rotate at different speeds and directions. Looking at them for a long time will even make people feel dizzy.
Compared to this sphere, which is full of mysterious feelings, the platform below is of normal technology. The simple and clear operation panel, multiple connected wires, and the surface of the platform that still glows even when it is semi-sleeping are completely in line with people's certain conception of the "future".
Zhou Weiyuan looked at the few buttons on the panel. Although he was an amateur in this area, he could still understand the instructions above.
"What technology brings is a series of simplifications from life to research and development. The most complex things are done by machines. This is probably the charm of technology scenes."
A start button, four control knobs, and a basic directional keyboard. This is an external operating system that can be used as long as you can use a TV remote control. Of course, after starting the machine, an interface for entering a password appears on the display. Zhou Weiyuan He shrugged and took a step back. He was good at various theories about magic, which was completely outside his professional scope.
Shang Wenxue also looked at Lu Ning and smiled softly, meaning that there was nothing he could do.
Lu Ning stepped forward, took out her mobile phone and a small card from her pocket, checked around the device, and then returned to the display screen.
Since there was no touch panel, Lu Ning could not judge which numbers were possible keys based on the traces left on the screen. However, this did not make her embarrassed for long. After thinking for a while, she began to use the direction keys and OK Buttons were used to enter numbers, and after trying two, the third one produced a pleasant beep.
Zhou Weiyuan and Shang Wenxue were both a little surprised.
"Can you really crack it? This machine..."
Lu Ning glanced at the changed interface, nodded slightly, and said, "It's just as I thought."
Shang Wenxue hurriedly came closer and saw a form file on Lu Ning's phone, but there was a lot of data on the form, and it would not be that fast even if he tried one by one.
"I'll explain later. Let me take a look at the functions of this machine." Lu Ning put her hands on the four knobs and started debugging. Numbers and curves appeared on the screen, which can be regarded as an abstract description of the state of the space. While Lu Ning turned the knob, the sphere above and the surrounding rings began to rotate differently.
Shang Wenxue also focused on the changes in the sphere, but Lu Ning ultimately lacked the necessary knowledge and data. At most, he could understand how the device worked, but he could not use it to interfere with the space.
"Can you pause the rotation of these rings?"
Zhou Weiyuan suddenly asked.
"No, even if you adjust all the knobs to zero, they will still keep turning at the lowest speed. I've tried it."
"Then turn it down to the lowest level first."
Lu Ning did as she was told, and Zhou Weiyuan got closer to the rings and began to study the runes on them carefully. Shang Wenxue took the opportunity to ask Lu Ning about the password.
"First of all... you should also notice that this machine does not have any external ports. All wires are extended from inside the machine, and it can still operate in this abandoned environment. In other words, it does not use external power supply. Yes. After I noticed this, I went around to verify it." Lu Ning stared at the ball in the middle and explained to Shang Wenxue casually, "In other words, the password setting should be done during assembly. Determined, at least there is an initial password. According to the work log written by someone I saw before, the so-called password refers to a pass authority. The question is whether this authority is given to the entire group or to an individual. So I compared I accidentally obtained an identity card and a list of the team's personnel. After excluding employee numbers with poor confidentiality, I selected the remaining numbers with higher probability for testing. The next problem is to screen among so many numbers."
When Lu Ning said this, she stopped and pointed at the buttons and knobs of the machine.
"These buttons have graphic and text instructions for use. I can see that the confirmation key and the up, down, and right buttons on the directional keyboard are severely worn, while the knob contains four functions: frequency, amplitude, speed, and scroll direction. They provide the basic conditions for machine control, so I boldly assume that the direction buttons are specially set up for entering passwords.”
"Just for this function——"
"Just for this function. Because the touch screen makes it easy to find commonly used keys based on screen traces, and the wear and tear of the numeric keyboard for a long time will also cause the same problem. I'm afraid it will be more troublesome to replace parts for this one-piece machine, so the direction A key is a good choice because even if it's worn, you can't confirm what the password is."
"But you have a list."
"Yes, we can proceed with this list, because the main wear is on the upper, lower and right sides. According to the password disk on the screen, it is displayed in the form of a mobile phone numeric keyboard. It is initially located at the '1' position in the upper left corner. According to 1, 4, Sort by groups such as 7; 2, 5, 8, 0; 3, 6, 9, and look for number combinations that conform to this sorting method as much as possible. Among the many numbers that are likely to be random, the number that can meet this condition The number is not large. In addition to the exclusion of countries through language, there are not many remaining targets. Generally speaking, this is just a question that tests your eyesight and quick search skills. Those in the previous Light World can start the device soon after entering. From the looks of it, it’s probably not a problem.”
