Reborn as a short-lived loli who can only live for three years

After searching all the areas on the floor they were responsible for, Wan Yexi took them to the central meeting room area of ​​the ghost cabin.

That is the gathering point for all the crew members who were pulled into the ghost ship illusion.

At this time, several people had been sitting there waiting for a long time. They found an empty seat and sat down. Not long after, the rest of the people arrived one after another.

Soon, everyone arrived.

Ivy counted the number of people, and including them, there were exactly ten.

The head of the logistics team stood up, walked to each group, counted all the candles they found, and simply marked the position of each candle on the white paper with a sketch of the ghost ship.

The final count was that there were nineteen candles.

"There are still two missing in the end..." Ying was a little frustrated again.

The interior of the ghost cabin was still too large. It was extremely difficult to search a second time in such a large area to find the last two candles.

Because they don't know in which range and which level the only two remaining ones are.

……

And this, perhaps, is the significance of marking the candle positions.

During the remaining time, some people continued to search outside, while others stayed behind to speculate on the possible locations of the remaining two teams based on the marked locations and the number of distributions on each floor.

The three of them chose to stay.

"Is there any pattern in the positions of these marks?" Ying had no idea at all.

The people in the logistics team tried to find a pattern in the number of candles and the floors, but to Ying Youyou, they were all placed in a messy manner, with no pattern at all.

“The items in a level 6 secret realm should have some profound meaning.” Ivy guessed casually.

But her brain seemed to be rusted and she had no idea what to do.

On the contrary, Wan Yexi looked at it for a long time and suddenly came up with a guess: "Can these marks be connected to form a special pattern?"

"Pattern..."

It's quite possible.

Ivy thought about it and found some old blank papers.

"Pattern? The pattern for each layer?" Ying didn't quite understand again, but she still connected the marks of each layer while referring to the overall sketch and drew several strange and different patterns.

They looked at these strange patterns and fell into deep thought.

"What the hell am I drawing?" Ying was the first to stop looking.

"It seems there is no connection. Am I wrong...?" Wan Yexi also couldn't see the connection and began to think about other possibilities.

The logistics team nearby stopped talking at some point and came over to study these strange patterns together.

Perhaps they also feel that "pattern" is a highly likely direction of reasoning.

Ivy also stared at the patterns for a long time. Perhaps the connected lines were too distracting, so she simply shifted her gaze to the overall sketch and silently connected those messy points in her mind.

Then, she discovered a pattern that couldn't really be described as a rule.

Almost every layer has several markers that are far apart and in different positions.

If you think in terms of a 'pattern', these very far points can be thought of as the outermost corners of the pattern.

But each floor...

Ivy unconsciously turned his gaze back to the pattern drawn by Ying Youyou, and drew the farthest corner on each layer.

In general, why is it necessary to find patterns through floors?

"Maybe it has nothing to do with the floor?" Ivy proposed her idea. "Why not try to connect the overall pattern?"

"The overall pattern?" Ying again seemed not to understand.

"Ignore their heights and place all points on a single plane."

They then stared at the general sketch.

There was a sloppy three-dimensional drawing of the ship on the sketch, and the positions were marked on the three-dimensional drawing. Trying to put them back on a plane really tested one's spatial imagination.

Before they knew it, several people in the logistics team had a piece of paper each, and were drawing black dots one after another on the blank paper, referring to the 3D sketch.

In the end, their assignments were all completed. There were some deviations in the patterns drawn by each person, but the general positions were almost the same.

"Looking at it this way, it seems to have a shape." Wan Yexi narrowed his eyes, "Like a multi-pointed star?"

"Ah!" Ying suddenly became excited, "I think it looks a lot like that... a seven-pointed star! A seven-pointed star has twenty-one intersections!"

She said, trying to connect the dots into the shape of a seven-pointed star.

But she soon discovered that she only had an impression of this pattern in the magic book, but had no specific memory of how to draw it. At this time, she didn't know where to start.

Finally, the people from the logistics team handed over the drawn patterns.

Comparing with the pattern of the seven-pointed star, two of the twenty-one points are missing, and the two missing corners happen to point in the same direction.

The bow of an ancient warship.

The direction and distance are roughly determined. Next, you just need to check each floor one by one to find the last two candles.

After the group of people who had gone out to search without success reunited, they temporarily discussed a battle plan and divided into two teams. They focused on looking for the candle that was a little farther away from the bow. One group went down from the highest floor, and the other group went up from the lowest floor, until they found the candle and finally met up and looked for the last candle together.

Ivy and the other two were assigned to a group that would explore from the highest level.

They arrived at the rooftop, and the thick fog outside almost swallowed up their figures in an instant, making it impossible to see anything beyond half a meter.

They held hands, connected to each other, and found the corresponding position of the pattern, looking for the candlelight of the silver candle.

The result was naturally no discovery.

During this time, they were careful to hold their breath and try not to inhale too much mist.

Ivy felt that the fog was hiding something. The harder and farther it was to see, the more likely it was that something was hidden.

So, even though her magic power was severely depleted, she still tried to use the remaining magic power to perform a long-distance magic perception.

"!"

The gray mist rose up without wind and almost rushed towards Ivy, suffocating her.

In an instant, Wan Yexi pulled Ivy under him and unfolded a hot and inviolable force field, evaporating and blocking all the mist that tried to rush in, keeping it outside.

Ivy took a few hard breaths, but his thoughts were confirmed.

Naturally, her remaining magic power could not detect anything, but the will of the secret realm was alive. It felt the detection, so it tried to stop it.

The will of the secret realm was the first to reveal itself.

Although they hadn't found the first candle yet, Evie had already located the last one.

It was on the front deck of the ancient warship, in the fog outside the cabin.