Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 146 Answer

"...In other words, Xue Que still sensed that something was wrong?" Lin Sanjiu took a big step and walked up two stairs, with a wry smile in his voice.

"Isn't it! She started muttering halfway through the walk, if Bai Xiaoke hadn't needed Bai Xiaoke to act, she would have come by herself." Li Tao is small, and she walked in a hurry to keep up with Lin Sanjiu. speed.Her shiny, puppy-like black eyes were filled with a relaxed smile: "... She meant that after I found you, I would take you away even if I dragged you to death."

"Cough!" Knowing that the outside operation had only started for a few minutes, Lin Sanjiu was much more relieved.She used polishing compound to illuminate the steps in front of her eyes, and was a little bit dumbfounded at Xue Que at the other end of the Garden of Eden. "I've experienced all the dangers she said. It's just a copy. You see, we've all gone up several floors now, aren't we okay?"

It is not necessarily true that there are several floors, because the black tower only has the bottom and the top; the middle is just one layer after another, which seems to be an endless spiral staircase.If the energy center is really in the black tower, then it must be at the top of the tower; at this moment, the two of them have already climbed four or five curved stairs, but the stairs above their heads still can't see the end.

"Oh, by the way, what is that copy like? How did you get out?"

Even Lin Sanjiu couldn't answer this question—she pondered for a while, then looked back at Li Tao, and suddenly smiled: "Actually, I don't know either... why don't I tell you the story in the dungeon, see See if you can find the answer, even if there is one more cobbler, it would be good."

After that, she told Li Tao what happened in the dungeon in as much detail as possible.

The story lines of the fairy tale dungeon are interspersed with each other, and the time is messed up again. Lin Sanjiu herself finds it difficult to tell it; but what she can't believe is that after she finished the messy narration, Li Tao actually understood it. .

"...It's all by luck that I can come out. Because I really can't figure out what is going on with this dungeon..."

In the flickering silver light, Lin Sanjiu listened to the regular footsteps of the two, and at the same time vomited out the confusion in his heart.

Li Tao beside her was silent for a while, as if she was also stumped.The silver light illuminated the ascending stairs in front of her, but she couldn't see her expression——after a long while, she said softly: "It's interesting that the ages of the three protagonists don't match up..."

"What do you think?" Lin Sanjiu asked with great interest.

There was still a long way to go from the top of the tower; out of caution, she didn't let go of the speed completely.During the journey before reaching the top of the tower, she was willing to listen to Li Tao's opinion.

Li Tao's footsteps unknowingly slowed down a bit, and she smiled hesitantly: "...It's just an idea, I don't know if it's right."

"What does that matter? You say."

"...I think that if you think about it with the logic of 'something happened in the past, so something happened in the future', it may be fundamentally wrong." Li Tao's first sentence caught her Lin Sanjiu's attention: "I think these three stories should be independent and irrelevant."

"Eh? But the death of the prince...and Lyra's mirror... how to explain it?"

Litao seemed to feel that expressing her thoughts correctly was a tricky task—after thinking about it, she asked, "Do you have any paper with you?"

Lin Sanjiu stopped and looked through his card library.Most of the materials were found in the extreme temperature hell, and there were not many paper products left under high temperature; she finally tore a piece from a roll of toilet paper and handed it to Litao.

"I want three." Li Tao took it and said.

Lin Sanjiu was taken aback for a moment, as if he had grasped something vaguely, but he still didn't figure it out.She handed over two more sheets of paper, turned the toilet paper back into a card, and was just about to put it away together with other things when she suddenly found a diary card in the middle.

"Ah, isn't this my cute little beauty!" - there is only such a sentence on the card.

Before Li Tao saw this embarrassing card, Lin Sanjiu quickly put it into her body—then raised her head as if nothing had happened, and found that Li Tao was groaning, holding two pieces of toilet paper with the fingers of her left hand and pinching them with her right hand. Take the last one, placed below them.

Now, three sheets of toilet paper appear in the air as upper, middle and lower layers.

"Every piece of paper represents a story." Li Tao cleared her throat with excitement in her voice, as if she liked to decipher. "They are parallel, do not interfere with each other, and each has its own time flow."

"The story with the largest time span and the fastest flow of time is the story of Bluebeard." She took out the top one and drew a dash and a dot with her fingernails—the dash and the dot. The dots interact repeatedly several times, representing high frequency. "Bluebeard met the fairy when he was seven years old, and married Lila when he was almost forty. There were nearly 30 years in between."

Lin Sanjiu nodded, indicating that he understood.

"The second is Little Red Riding Hood." This time, the bars drawn by Litao were slightly longer, and the frequency of bars and dots decreased. "From Emma to Little Red Riding Hood, almost twenty years have passed."

"Then, the one with the slowest time flow is Cinderella?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but interject.

"That's right. While the other two stories—oh, think of them as these two toilet papers—have moved forward by decades, Cinderella's world has only been a few months at most." After finishing speaking, Litao drew a long line and a dot on the third piece of paper.A short piece of toilet paper only accommodates two long bars to the end.

She placed the three pieces of paper in a parallel state again.The only difference this time is that Litao pulled a hairpin from her hair and pointed the tip at the toilet paper.

"Now I'm that old fairy, and I tricked Cinderella into agreeing to pierce a few holes in her layer of paper."

Lin Sanjiu vaguely realized something, and felt a piece of hair stand up on his back.

"This dot is like the time when the prince was looking for Cinderella." The tip of the hairpin in Li Tao's hand pierced a hole from the dot on the third piece of toilet paper, pierced it, and reached the second layer. The hairpin changed direction. "In this layer of Little Red Riding Hood, break through the point in time when Little Red Riding Hood encounters a werewolf."

"Now, the countless microscopic bacteria dust on the toilet paper has come to a new layer of paper along with the holes. Whether it is the 'Werewolf' bacteria on Cinderella's paper, or the 'Prince' bacteria on Little Red Riding Hood's paper. On paper... Anyway, at this point, the characters and stories on the two layers of different time flows blend together."

"I'm also a... bacteria that shuttles back and forth among the three sheets of paper." Lin Sanjiu stared at the toilet paper and gave a soft smile.Because the place where the toilet paper was pierced was not straight up and down, it was a little distorted, floating in the air as if alive in the dim silver light.

Li Tao nodded seriously. "Continue to do the same, if you wear a few more holes, the strange phenomenon you have seen will appear. For example, the past and future Blue Beards exist in the palace at the same time."

She pulled out one of her own hairs, chose two points far apart on the blue beard paper, pierced two holes, and put the hair in.The two ends of the hair hung on the Cinderella paper, pierced a dot, pulled it lightly, and the bluebeard paper immediately wrinkled, and the two dots were tightly attached to a certain point of the toilet paper below.

"That's why the old man said to Blue Beard, '18 years is much shorter than you imagined'!" Lin Sanjiu murmured half amazed and half blankly.

Li Tao smiled slightly: "Exactly. Once you realize the essence of the three stories, which are actually 'three layers' stories, you will find that nothing is certain and can save three people at the same time—because You're just an outsider, and you can't penetrate the story plane like that old fairy. There's a 'fusion point'—let's call it that—that doesn't connect all three planes at the same time."

"Could it be... the dungeon can also deceive people?"

"No, that stele didn't lie to you." Li Tao stretched out a finger and waved it, crumpled up the three pieces of paper, and threw them away. "That was a narrative ruse."

"...A narrative trick?" Lin Sanjiu repeated softly, and walked up slowly behind her.

"It's very simple - the protagonist of the story of Little Red Riding Hood is Little Red Riding Hood, and the protagonist of the story of Cinderella is Cinderella. Then why is the protagonist of the story of Blue Beard, Lyra?"

Li Tao's soft and quiet voice spread gently in the darkness, like a wave hitting a stone wall—but to Lin Sanjiu's ears, it sounded like thunder.

"Because, because..." She wanted to say something, but got stuck.Because she suddenly realized that even she didn't know why she thought Lila was the main character——

"Shouldn't the protagonist of Bluebeard's story be Bluebeard?" Li Tao laughed.

"However, the stele said that the three protagonists were all in a life-or-death situation and needed my rescue—and after seeing Blue Beard, Laila was indeed in danger—"

"Then what were you planning to do at that time?" In the dim silver light, Li Tao looked back at her.

"At that time, I planned... to kill Blue Beard." Lin Sanjiu replied blankly, understanding.

Speaking of this, it is already very clear - as long as Lin Sanjiu doesn't kill Blue Beard, it is equivalent to saving his life.However, at this point, I am afraid that no one who was caught in it could figure it out at that time.

"Although the entire dungeon is a trick, it's useless when I meet you." Li Tao smiled softly, "No matter who it is, as long as you think about it, you will definitely not let Bluebeard go - after all He showed the most doubts. As long as the mind is stuck, it may be difficult to make the right decision... But fortunately, you are a person whose muscles act before the brain, so you can solve the copy cleanly."

Lin Sanjiu really didn't know if this was a compliment to her.

After a while, she said in a low voice: "No, aren't you very powerful? Just listening to my retelling, you have already analyzed it... If it were you, you would be able to see through it very quickly. .”

Li Tao immediately let out a "ha" in embarrassment: "What, I'm just a bystander... If it were me, I'm afraid I might not be able to get out."

"I still have two last questions, and I want to ask you for advice." Lin Sanjiu said suddenly.

"what?"

"The first question is, what is the content of the dungeon you broke through in the black tower at that time?" Lin Sanjiu's attitude was not serious, as if he was just making a joke.

Li Tao, who had been climbing the stairs in front of her, stopped suddenly.In the darkness, her figure stood upright, but she never looked back.

"The second question is, your name is not Litao. Who are you?"

　In order to be a man who speaks his promises and is mighty and majestic, I stayed up until almost three o'clock, finished writing and added updates...

I owed a total of three chapters and more, and today I finally repaid the earliest debt... Concubine Ni, come and check it!It's not easy, tears are coming down!Next, there are Douguan and tohfrs Heshibi to conquer! (fog)

Thank you Mirror v Balance for the evaluation vote and 2 safety symbols, and thank you Baiqiang for the safety symbol!

I feel that this three-layer setting is very painful to explain, the space is not enough, and I don’t know if the explanation is clear before entering the next plot. I always feel like I will be bombarded by the comment area...

Ah, let it go
　
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