Strangely enough, Lin Sanjiu had never thought deeply about the paper crane issue before, nor had she guessed who the person was who pretended to be a puppet master's subordinate and lured her to the palace to confuse her - after all, she encountered a dangerous situation at that time.
Crisis followed one after another, and she had no time to think about it - but when she saw these two people, the answer suddenly burst out of her mind, as if her subconscious had never given up on this idea during this period of time.
Mystery.
According to the taxi driver, confusing the Grand Palace would obviously disrupt the flight direction of the aircraft and the paper cranes; however, all the paper cranes she had seen had only one flight direction, which was the "hesitation zone" behind the gate.
"Let's start from the beginning," Lin Sanjiu ordered, "explain everything exactly."
She didn't say what would happen if she didn't explain it, and with the puppet master on her side, she didn't need it.
"I... our last world was called 'Signal Life'."
Seemingly realizing that she could no longer hide it, the woman smiled bitterly and spoke in a low voice. The man next to her immediately tensed up, as if he wanted to move for a moment, but was suppressed by the puppet master's gaze.
impulse.
"After we met, we have spent several worlds together. We were lucky. Not only did we always get visas, but the worlds we went to before were not particularly dangerous... 'Signal Life' is a new world that has not been classified yet, so
The price is not too expensive, but we have inquired and found that all the necessary conditions for survival in that world are closely related to the 'signal'. From the data, it does not seem to be particularly dangerous."
She paused for a moment as she said this, as if she suppressed something stuck in her chest to make way for words, and then continued: "...So I thought that all three of us could survive smoothly.
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"Why are you talking so much about this?" The man's face suddenly turned red, and the anger that came from nowhere made him temporarily forget his fear of the puppet master: "We are from 'Signal Life'
'I got an interception device and robbed your paper crane, that's enough!"
"I asked her to start from the beginning," Lin Sanjiu raised her chin and said, "If you have nothing to add, just shut up."
The woman lowered her eyes, not angry, as if her mind was no longer here, as if she was thinking about something else in the back of her mind.
"Yes... interception device. I don't know if you have experienced human society before the end of the world. Do you know about mobile phones?" After getting a positive answer, the woman continued: "There is a fraud method, which is to intercept the original sender.
The text messages sent to you, especially the text messages such as verification codes, I have forgotten the details of it, it has been many years, but anyway, you can use this method to steal your information and property."
"You are using a similar interception device that can intercept the paper cranes sent by others and pass them to you?" Lin Sanjiu asked.
She nodded. "Yes, in order to deceive people into the Grand Palace of Bewilderment, we have prepared a whole set of things... The first is to intercept paper cranes. The targets of the interception device are very random, but even so, we can do it every day
We received paper cranes ranging from dozens to hundreds. After we listened to the content one by one, we threw out the ones that were no longer needed and let them go wherever they wanted, and kept the ones that were useful..."
The woman smiled almost quietly and mockingly. "I still remember the day we received your paper crane... We were all surprised, because I didn't know before that the original person... The Puppet Master
People also have friends."
Even though his mind has been firmly occupied by other things, the puppet master still looked as if he was being roasted on a rack - but he has indeed improved a lot, and he didn't actually fall out on the spot.
"We had a few arguments at the time, remember," the man suddenly sighed and said, "I said it would be too dangerous if it involves people... the puppet master. But what you said makes sense.
Anyone who can be friends with him must be a very capable evolver, exactly the type we need."
The puppet master finally couldn't hold back his true nature and snorted a sneer from his nose.
Lin Sanjiu felt that she was pretty good - when it came to peaks, there were always mountains outside the mountains; but overall, when she was walking in the apocalyptic world, she felt that she was worried about whether she would die tomorrow or not.
Most of the fear and anxiety of life have been eliminated.
"Then what? Why are you looking for highly capable evolvers?" she asked.
"You borrowed a donkey to go downhill very quickly," the puppeteer interjected, but she pretended not to have heard.
"We will find ways to forge paper cranes," the woman said, looking a little surprised. She looked back and forth between the two of them before lowering her head again. "We have items that simulate sounds. Based on what we hear, we will create
Paper cranes with relatively high content credibility are sometimes sent to the original owner, sometimes to the original owner's recipients. Generally speaking, they try to prepare people as much as possible, purchase enough supplies, and then confuse the big palace..."
Lin Sanjiu frowned. "The one pretending to be his subordinates," she pointed at the puppet master, "is it really you?"
The puppet master had a cold face and stabbed her finger back with the corner of his eye.
"We are not familiar with the puppet master's way of speaking. He is too special. If you pretend to be him, you may find something wrong." The woman smiled bitterly again and said, "But we know that the puppet master
The adults have subordinates."
"That's not right," Lin Sanjiu said, "I asked the old man at the door, and he clearly said that no one had entered the palace that day—"
The couple looked at each other.
"No," the man said, "We have come in a long time ago and we usually live here."
"Based on the person we deceived, we will make the necessary preparations one step ahead." The woman said, "I know you will definitely ask about the 'subordinate'... Because after all, it is not the person, it is not enough to dispel all doubts, so
We let a human-shaped object enter the palace in advance."
The combat power of these two people is not very high, but each item is better than the last, including human-shaped items. Also, I wonder how many people they have deceived before, so that they can make such thorough preparations?
Lin Sanjiu raised her eyebrows and asked: "Why? Why did you trick people into coming in? Why did you ask me to buy supplies and make preparations? It can't be out of good intentions, right?"
The woman's face turned a little pale, and she subconsciously twisted her fingers a few times.
"The first signal we intercepted... wasn't a paper crane." Her first sentence had almost nothing to do with Lin Sanjiu's question, but no one rushed her. "We didn't know we could use it at that time.
Paper crane... At that time, we were sitting on a rental spaceship, and we could only see a little shadow of the Grand Palace of Confusion in the distance. The message we intercepted for the first time sounded very strange, and it took us a long time to understand it.
It comes from...the King NPC deep in the Confused Palace."
The man also fell into memories and whispered: "It wasn't until the moment we received the signal that we realized that the King NPC was always talking even when there was no one around. He kept saying, 'Evolver, come
Try your luck, get the regret medicine in my hand, and change your life'... Over and over again, we became obsessed with it."
"But we know that we can't complete the task of bewitching the palace alive."
By this time, it almost didn't seem like they were explaining everything to Lin Sanjiu, but rather like they were telling each other about the past.
"We were originally going to go our separate ways, but we didn't break up for several days... We got together, discussed for who knows how many hours, talked for who knows how many words, and finally tried to use our signaling device to head towards the confusing palace.
A signal was sent," the woman murmured.
"...Is there a way to get the regret medicine without completing the dungeon?" the man said as if he was dreaming.
Lin Sanjiu understood.
"You deceived the evolved people into the Grand Palace of Bewilderment, and asked them to prepare supplies such as [Weaving Mother], firstly to ensure that they could complete the dungeon as much as possible, and secondly, after getting the regret medicine, they would still walk past you, right?
At that time, you will attack the winner." She said, "But how do you know that the winner will not use the regret medicine on the spot?"
"We made an agreement with the king's NPC." The woman said softly, "We are responsible for sending people to the Grand Palace of Confusion. He only needs to say a word and advise the evolved person to use the regret medicine after leaving. It's just that what we sent in
Almost none of them were able to complete the dungeon...some found a way to get out halfway through, and some never got out again."
"Why do you need regret medicine?" the puppet master asked abruptly.
The woman raised her eyes. She didn't shed any tears, as if there was no moisture between her eyeballs and eyelids. Years of dryness and friction made her eyes always red.
"You see, it's like this. In 'Signal Life', we have to pay attention to the signal strength at all times. Only in a grid with full signals can all of us live together. When the signal in a grid is not full,
At that time, the number of survivors in the grid can only be equal to the number of signal grids."
She said almost numbly: "For example, this desert is a grid; if the signal is full or four grids, then all four of us can survive. But if the signal becomes three grids, one of us will survive."
Die. One of the ways to decide a candidate is that whoever is voted by everyone will die. The signal strength will change at any time... That day, the signal strength in the grid where the three of us were located became two bars.
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"Obviously we have been paying attention to the signal change prompts, and it should not have happened..." She murmured, "Anyway, she died. She was less than two years old at the time. When she evolved, I remember I was so happy.
, I thought to myself at that time, I could take her with me."
This time I really squeezed out the outline of the last bit of transition plot. I was thinking that it would be okay to write a deeper story about Signal Life, but it would have to deviate from the main line for a while, so I was very reluctant...
There may be a few scattered questions that have not yet been answered. I don’t know if I can make it into a chapter. Anyway, I am no longer a cow, but an empty milk bag...