Doomsday Wonderland Chapter 1929: Signal life

Oddly 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 subordinate of the puppet master and lured her to confuse the palace - after all, she met her at that time The dangers and crises came one after another, and she didn't have 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 been there during this time. Give up on this 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'."

As if realizing that she could no longer hide it, the woman smiled bitterly and spoke in a low voice. The man next to her suddenly tensed up, as if he wanted to move for a moment, but his impulse was suppressed by the puppet master's gaze.

"After we met, we have spent several worlds together. We are lucky. Not only have we always obtained visas, but the worlds we have been to before are not particularly dangerous...'Signal Life' is a new world that has not yet appeared. It is graded, so the price is not too expensive, but we have inquired that all the necessary conditions for survival in that world are closely linked to the 'signal'. From the data, it does not seem to be particularly dangerous. ”

She paused for a moment, as if she suppressed something stuck in her chest to make way for words, and then continued: "...So I thought that the three of us could Survive successfully."

"Why are you talking about this?" The man's face suddenly turned red, and the anger that came from unknown sources made him temporarily forget his fear of the puppet master: "We are from In 'Signal Life' I got an interception device and robbed your paper cranes, that's enough!"

"I asked her to say it 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 ever 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 kind of fraud, that is Intercept the text messages originally sent to you, especially 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 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 Confusion, 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 receive dozens of them every day There were hundreds of paper cranes. 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 should, and kept the ones that were useful..."

The woman smiled almost quietly and self-deprecatingly. "I still remember the day we received your paper crane... We were all surprised, because I didn't know before that it turns out that... the puppet master also has friends."

Even though his mind has been firmly occupied by other things, the puppet master still showed an expression as if he was being roasted on a rack - but he has indeed improved a lot, and he didn't even 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 It makes sense. Anyone who can be friends with him must be a very capable evolver, just the type we need."

The puppet master finally couldn't hold back his true nature and snorted a sneer from his nose.

Lin Sanjiu feels that she is pretty good - when it comes to peaks, there are always mountains outside the mountains; but overall, when she is walking in the apocalyptic world, she has a feeling about her future that lingers in her head. The fear and anxiety of life or death have been mostly eliminated.

"Then what? Why are you looking for highly capable evolvers?" she asked.

"It's really fast for you to borrow a donkey down the slope," the puppeteer interjected, but she pretended not to hear.

"We will find a way to forge the paper crane." The woman seemed 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 credibility. Sometimes they are sent to the original owner, and sometimes they are sent to the original owner's recipients. Generally speaking, we try to make it as accessible as possible. People make preparations, purchase enough supplies, and then come to confuse the big palace..."

Lin Sanjiu frowned. "The ones pretending to be his subordinates," she pointed at the puppet master, "are they 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, The puppet master has subordinates."

“That’s not right,” Lin Sanjiu said, “I asked the old man at the door, and he clearly said that no one 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 people we deceive, we will make the necessary preparations one step in advance." The woman said, "I know you will definitely ask about the 'subordinate'... because after all, it is not the person, which is not enough to dispel all the questions. We had doubts, so we let a humanoid object enter the palace in advance."

The combat power of these two people is not high, but each item is better than the last, including humanoid items. Also, I wonder how many people they had deceived before so that they could 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 couldn'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 at that time that we could use it to stop paper cranes... 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 like It’s very strange. After listening for a long time, we realized that it came from... the King NPC deep in the Confusion 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, 'Evolution' Come and try your luck, get the regret medicine in my hand and change your life'... Over and over again, we are 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. Instead, it seemed 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 countless hours, and talked for countless words, and finally tried to use our signaling device to signal the direction of confusion. A signal was sent in the direction of the palace," 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 tricked the evolved people into the Grand Palace of Bewilderment, and asked them to prepare supplies such as [Mother of Weavers], firstly, to ensure that they could complete the dungeon as much as possible, and secondly, after getting the regret medicine, they still walked away from you. Go ahead, right? Then you will attack the overcomers." She said, "But how do you know that the overcomers will not use the regret medicine on the spot?"

"We made an agreement with the king 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 we Almost none of the people who were sent in were able to complete the copy... Some found a way to come out halfway, and some never came 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. Year-round dryness and friction made her eyes always red.

"You see, it's like this. In 'Signal Life'~IndoMTL.com~ we have to pay attention to the signal strength at all times. Only in a grid with full signal, can all of us live together. When a grid When the signal in the grid is not full, 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 the four of us can survive. But if the signal becomes three grids, then none of us will survive. One person will die. One of the ways to decide the candidate is whoever is voted by everyone will die. The signal strength will change at any time... That day, in the grid where the three of us were, the signal strength became Two spaces.

"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 that I I'm so happy, I thought to myself, I can take her with me."

This time I really squeezed out the last bit of the outline of the transitional 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, and I was very unhappy. I'd rather... there may be a few scattered questions that haven't been answered yet. I don't know if I can make it into a chapter. Anyway, I am no longer a cow, I am an empty milk bag...

(End of this chapter)