Abnormal Museum Pokédex

Countdown to 52 hours.

There is still a small half of the Ring of Time left, and the fine sand is falling silently on the half arc.

The merman sat on an overturned boulder on the top of the mountain, half-squinting his eyes to look at the kaleidoscope, countless fragments of light and shadow swirled in his field of vision, brown, green, and red, interlaced and overlapping, without a clue.

what exactly is it?Xiao Su put the kaleidoscope horizontally on his knees, looking at the swirling river below the mountain, frowning and thinking.The clear river rushes down the rift, and the roar of the waterfall can be faintly heard in the distance.

The longer he stayed in this dungeon, the more he felt a sense of déjà vu, split rivers, winding canyons, stalagmites... It was clearly just a digital modeling of the virtual world, but it always gave people a sense of uncanny reality, and The exquisite perfection of "The Wilderness" is completely different.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, the entire valley becomes a flat top view. The towering stalagmites in the river are like irregular ink blobs, and the river flows between the ink blobs, forming eddies and turbulence.

top view?Xiao Su's heart suddenly moved, and he placed the kaleidoscope on his eyes. In his field of vision, the nearest brown fragments were the farthest red fragments, and the green fragments were sandwiched between the two, making a mess.

From this angle, the pieces of the three colors are stacked together, just like the top view.Then, if the angle of view is shifted [-] degrees to the side to become a head-up view, will these fragments show another arrangement?

With this in mind, Xiao Su immediately froze his field of vision, took a 3D screenshot, then called up the image on the control panel, and rotated the viewing angle 90 degrees to one side.

A complete plant appeared in front of my eyes, the top was a relatively rare heather, the stigma was slightly larger than the common heather, red and purple; the middle part was green leaves covered with curved thorns, and each thorn had a spherical root The spiny sac; the end part is the root hair of some kind of shrub, thin and short, but very luxuriant.

Obviously, the flowers, stems and roots of three different plants were combined. Xiao Su thought for a while, and suddenly understood the meaning of the puzzle. He put away the panel, opened the kaleidoscope again, and placed ten Take screenshots of the two combinations one by one, rotate the angle of view, and quickly assemble the misplaced roots, leaves, and flowers in the correct pairing like a puzzle.

The first one to be restored is the triple-arm heather, a rhododendron that grows in Africa.The ball-based curved thorny stems and leaves that are put together with it in the first screenshot belong to Acacia falciparum, which also grows in East Africa.

There are several other plants, such as bougainvillea and gladiolus, etc. Although they are planted in many regions of the world, they are all common plants in East Africa.

Everything points to East Africa.

Xiao Su quit "Hongmeng", logged into the school's digital library, opened a map of the world's biological distribution, and displayed the common distribution positions of the six plants he spelled out from the kaleidoscope in color blocks, and calculated the intersection.

Soon, a red area appeared on the world map.

East Africa, the Great Rift Valley, Kili.

Suddenly, he understood where his deja vu these days came from - the valleys cut by knives and axes in "Hongmeng", the rivers with rushing water, the wide waterfalls, the large calm lake...all of these , isn't it just a miniature and abbreviated version of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa?

"Hongmeng" has never been drawn from "Shan Hai Jing", not from ancient Chinese legends, it is Fang Huize's virtual sand table based on the Great Rift Valley in East Africa!

Or, more boldly, it is a virtual sand table made by Fang Huize based on ELYsion!

The reason why it is the parent book of "The Great Wilderness" is not because the world of the Great Wilderness was born out of it, but because the real map it targets is Fang Huize's secret empire, which he devoted his whole life to!

Puzzle solved.

Xiao Su put on the gear again, entered the copy of "Hongmeng", took out the kaleidoscope, rotated the wall of the tube to spell out the six correct plants, and the kaleidoscope would make a slight "ding—"

In the end, all six answers were spelled out, and the looming light on the kaleidoscope suddenly exploded. Xiao Su quickly moved it away from his eyes, only to see the bronze kaleidoscope suddenly burst in the light, turned into countless fragments, and then turned into gravel and disappeared in all directions.

In the upper right corner of the panel, the ring of time is perfectly closed, indicating that the timer has ended, and the account of "Farmer" is safe and sound.

Standing on the top of Wanren, Xiao Su overlooked the river valley. He saw numerous stalagmites and thousands of ravines, which made him more sure of what he was thinking, but... the Great East African Rift Valley runs through the territory of East Africa, and the Kili Kingdom alone covers an area of ​​tens of thousands. With such a large area of ​​square kilometers, where did Fang Huize hide his secret empire?

Footsteps came slowly, Xiao Su turned his head, and saw Wen Sen's mermaid quietly appearing from the forest, and said in a shy electronic voice: "You really unlocked it, and I know that what he said never fails."

The mountain wind blows the gauze clothes, and he looks a little lonely. The VR equipment captures his expression very delicately.Looking at the face similar to his own, Xiao Su felt a strange sense of familiarity, paused, and then said: "You said that there is an answer I want to solve the puzzle, but is this answer right? A little too vague?"

The administrator smiled and said, "Why do you want to know his whereabouts so desperately?"

Xiao Su folded his arms and refused to answer.He continued: "Is it for revenge? Yes, he killed your mother and almost took you out of China... But have you ever thought that it was a last resort for him to do this? An adopted son who was dependent on someone else, made a mistake because of a sudden impulse. Do you want to spend your whole life in repentance and redemption? Do you even want to be deprived of the right to love? He has no choice, he just wants to fight and get the rights of ordinary people."

Xiao Su didn't smile, nor was he angry. He listened to him expressionlessly, and said: "He opened the copy, he gave me the puzzle, and he wanted me to find him. So, my thoughts are for him. It's not important."

The administrator froze for a moment, and said in a low voice, "No, it's very important. To him, you have always been very important."

"I'm not interested in his mental journey." Xiao Su said flatly, "I want to find him, and he also wants me to find him, that's all."

The administrator was silent for a moment, then raised his hand, and a sheepskin scroll appeared in his hand: "It's for you."

Xiao Su took the sheepskin scroll, he turned and left, and his back disappeared into the misty woods in an instant.

Opening the scroll, I saw the panoramic map of "Hongmeng" drawn with rough brushstrokes, mountains, rivers, canyons... In the middle of the river bed, a small whirlpool was drawn with a thin light red line, which was the entrance of the dungeon map.The sheepskin roll feels very real, the fiber texture is looming, and you can smell the faint smell of antiseptic spices.

What's the meaning?Xiao Su was baffled, he thought he could get the exact address by solving the kaleidoscope puzzle, but unexpectedly he also made a second-level puzzle!

Enough!

Xiao Su was so tired that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he quit the game and prepared to rest.The hour hand was already pointing to midnight, Rong Rui didn't seem to come back, and there was no movement next door, so he had to wait on the king by himself.

The green iguana still showed no pretense to his master, disliked Bala and took two vegetable leaves in his mouth, rolling his eyes while eating, as if Cindy Leila saw the stepmother.

Xiao Su couldn't help but also rolled his eyes at it—they are all alone in the vacant room, and I'm still as lonely as snow!

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Rong Rui opened the door lightly and came in, seeing him squatting in front of the glass tank, his face immediately darkened: "What time is it, why haven't you slept yet? Wu Xingyu said that you fell asleep in the meeting this afternoon, and you were caught The head of the department has called the roll call!"

"...Why does he tell you everything?" Xiao Su took out his mobile phone and clicked, and found that Wu Xingyu hadn't sent him a message for several days. A gay friend who wore a pair of trousers too big also defected?

Is my personality so bad?

Wanting to stand up and complain, he got up too violently for a moment, and was hugged by someone when he fell back. Rong Rui said: "Slow down... He told Lao Sun that he told me because he was worried about you. That Kaleidoscope, don't get too angry, if you can't solve it, you can't solve it. There are new clues in the 408 case. Our colleagues found an informant in East Africa and confirmed that the two deceased had hiked in the northern valley of Kili. Expedition, now our people are reviewing the route of their expedition locally, I believe ELYsion is on that route.”

Rong Rui put Xiao Su on the bed, took off his shoes and socks, and said, "Don't let Fang Huize lead you around, he has no good intentions. As long as he is related to ELYsion and Bobcats, we will definitely find a way to find him."

"That kaleidoscope, I solved it." Xiao Su finally took a breath and found a chance to interrupt, so he briefly told him about his progress tonight, "So, "Hongmeng" was actually born out of East Africa. The Rift Valley was taken from a certain section of the Kili Kingdom, and Fang Huize was telling me that he was hiding there."

"Where's the parchment?" Rong Rui asked, "Can you forward it to me or take a screenshot?"

"I'll try." Xiao Su put on the VR helmet, took out the sheepskin scroll from the backpack on the main panel, and found that it could be given as a gift, probably because it was just a floor plan, so he gave it to Rongrui.

"Let me study it." Rong Rui took the parchment and said, "Go to bed early, don't fall asleep again during class tomorrow."

Xiao Su stayed up for three days, but he was too tired. He yawned and nodded, got into the quilt, closed his eyes, and fell asleep within 2 minutes.

After a good night's sleep, Xiao Su opened his eyes the next morning, and saw Rong Rui sitting cross-legged on his chair, with several sketches drawn on top of each other on the computer desktop.

"You haven't slept all night?" Xiao Su slowly moved his hands and feet to get up, and wiped his messy hair, "Did you see anything?"

Rong Rui picked up the cold coffee and took a sip. His young face showed no trace of fatigue, and he was so energetic that he was enviable. He turned his head and grinned at him, saying, "I have a clue."

Xiao Su walked over slowly, and after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't see why: "What is this? A map? It's from "Hongmeng"?"

Did he stay up all night to digitize the parchment map of "Hongmeng"?

What's the use of this!

"Hmm, it's the map on the parchment scroll." Rong Rui said, "I looked at it for a long time, and found that it is not a purely virtual map, and the outlines of many places match the real world map."

"Isn't it? Why can't I see it." Xiao Su frowned and looked carefully. The sheepskin scroll is narrow and long, and the plates on it follow the valley, winding and winding like snakes.

But he is very familiar with the real world map, and he used it to calculate the intersection of those plant distributions last night, which is more than twice as short as this parchment.

"Wait... I understand what you mean, it's the outline!" Xiao Su suddenly noticed something, "Although the continental plate arrangement is different from the real world map, these mountains, rivers, grasslands, forests... are abstracted into lines The outlined outline is very similar to the outline of the continental plates of the seven continents!"

Rong Rui nodded, and said, "It took me a long time to find out. For example, is this mountain similar to Latin America? There is also this lake, which has the same shape as Oceania."

"Why is it arranged like this?" Xiao Su was puzzled. "Why do you want to change the position of the continental plates and arrange them along the river valley? Is there any deep meaning? He wants to tell me that ELYsion is the center of the world? It's too boring." ?”

"It hasn't changed, the seven continents were originally arranged like this." Rong Rui said, "Brother, do you know that 'Buckminster Fuller' unfolds?"

Xiao Su shook his head blankly.Rong Rui said: "The earth is a three-dimensional sphere, while the map is a two-dimensional plane, so if you want to convert the former into the latter, you need to unfold it in a specific way. Our most common world map is the one invented by the Germans in 1921. The Winkle expansion, but the world map abstracted from this parchment uses the Buckminster Fuller expansion invented by the Americans in 1943."

Xiao Su understood a bit, but was still a little confused: "So, the world map obtained is actually completely different with different unfolding methods?"

"No, the contours of the continents are roughly the same, but the arrangement and size will change a lot." Rong Rui explained, "Buckminster Fuller unfolds the earth as an icosahedron, which expands into 20 A plane composed of triangles, this is how this parchment unfolds, do you remember that there are many rough textures on it? I rubbed those textures, checked them carefully, and found that they are actually Buckminster Fuller Expand the latitude and longitude lines below."

Xiao Su was amazed that such an uncommon way of unfolding could be thought of by him, but... "Even if you discover this, what's the use? Could it be that the parchment that Fang Huize gave me is just a Buckminster Fuller unfolding method?" world map?"

"Look here." Rong Rui pointed to a sketch, on which a circle was specially drawn with a red marker, "This is the location of the entrance of the dungeon on the original picture, the vortex in the center of the river."

Xiao Su understood after a short observation: "It's on the African plate!"

"Yes, East Africa, the northern part of Kili, the area of ​​the Great Rift Valley." Rong Rui snapped the computer shut, "Now that the two puzzles have been merged, the scope of the target location has become relatively clear. If there is no mistake, Fang Huize is in the East Africa, in the mountainous valleys of northern Kili."

Xiao Su suddenly remembered the progress of the 408 case he said last night: "The two agents who were killed last year also went to the northern mountainous area of ​​Kili State before their death!"

"That's right." Rong Rui yawned and drank the rest of the cold coffee, "I'm going to the bureau to report this to Lao Sun, you send my sketch to Vincent, see Does he have a third puzzle for you. Although the target range has been narrowed to the northern mountainous area, it is still very large, and it would be better if it could be accurate to the latitude and longitude.”

Xiao Su nodded, but he vaguely had an idea in his heart - Fang Huize probably wouldn't tell himself the address with such precise latitude and longitude.

In fact, his purpose has always been very clear, he wants to hook himself to find him, leave China, leave the sphere of influence of the Fang family, and even leave the sphere of influence of the Chinese police.

If he really told himself the exact address, then he might not be waiting for him, but the special police.

He's not that stupid.

Even so, Xiao Su still sent the sketch to the administrator before going to work.

For a whole day, the game account did not receive any feedback. When I returned home at night and logged in with the VR device, the entrance to the copy of "Hongmeng" disappeared. The note showed that the task of the copy had been completed, and the entrance was permanently closed.

There was an email lying in the inbox, which was sent by the administrator No. [-]—"Virtual world exploration is over, if you still want to know the exact answer to that question, the next clue, see you in the real world."

"He wants me to go to East Africa to find him in person." At 09:30 in the evening, Rong Rui returned home in a hurry, and Xiao Su told him the result, "He knows me well, and he knows that once I get his specific address, I will never go there If you look for him in person, you will only tell the police, so he kept a hand."

After reading the email, Rong Rui's face was a little gloomy: "I told Lao Sun the clues we got, and he has reported to the Sang Bureau today, applying to lead the team to Kiliguo himself, and meet with local colleagues, and go deep into the north together Mission in the mountains."

After a pause, he said, "I'll go with him."

Xiao Su said "Oh", thought for a while, and said, "I'll go too."

Rong Rui hesitated to speak, and after a long time, he said: "Your body is really not suitable for going abroad at this time, especially in places like the northern mountains of Kili. I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

Xiao Su also knew very well that his illness had entered the acute stage for a year, and his health was deteriorating. Even if he lives in such a comfortable and peaceful life, he only has to attend classes and do courseware every day. It's just a fantasy.

But he has to go.

Only when he goes, Fang Huize will take the initiative to show his flaws.

Fang Huize has been entrenched in East Africa for so many years. He has his own base, his own organization, and even his own armed force. If he doesn't take the initiative to show up, Lao Sun's people may not find him so easily.

If one person's adventure can enable the entire task force to find ELYsion smoothly, then it is worthwhile to throw his bones in a foreign country.

"Hold on, take whatever step you can go." Xiao Su said carefully, "The purpose of my going is just to draw Fang Huize, or at least draw out his so-called 'clues to the real world'. You and Lao Sun try to fight for a little chance. In a foreign country, your police actions are restricted, so I will go and get the most information at the least cost."

Rong Rui remained silent, as if he had suddenly returned to the day when they had just met again, deep and serious.

After a long time, I slowly said: "I thought about it all afternoon, and I was still hesitating when I parked the car just now. Brother, I don't want you to be in danger, but I also feel that you must go with me."

"Maybe he can really save you." He looked up at Xiao Su and said, "Yager, Wang Guiyu, anti-aging needles, mysterious ancient creatures, viruses that can regenerate dead cells...Fang Huize worked hard to achieve the plan For so long, removing the obstacles that stand between you may really be to save you."

"I don't want to lose you." He slowly opened his arms, hugged Xiao Su, and whispered in his ear, "Let's go together, I will do my best to protect you, if a miracle happens, we will come back together, if If something unexpected happens, I will die without..."

"Shut up!" Xiao Su interrupted him, "What the hell, how old are you! Listen to me tell you again - in case something happens, you will avenge my mother and me, and do well with the old grandson, Take down ELYsion, arrest Fang Huize, extradite him and bring him to justice!"

Rong Rui pursed his lips, Xiao Su pinched his face, and reprimanded: "Say it!"

Rong Rui was so pinched that his saliva flowed out, and he reluctantly said: "Got it!"

"Speak well!"

"...accident...revenge...arrest...bring to justice!" Rong Rui drooled.

Xiao Su couldn't help laughing, let go of his hand, and rubbed his head: "Wu Xingyu urged me to go with him to the East African Comic Exhibition to help Peppa Pig sell the book. It just so happens that I will discuss this matter with him tomorrow. I It’s too eye-catching for an ordinary person to act together with your police, it’s better to pretend to be a broker or a patron reader.”

"Sell the book?" Rong Rui was thoughtful, "That's good, why don't Lao Sun and I go sell the book with you? Didn't Rongzhen help her cosplay last time? Let him continue to cosplay this time." That's enough, this deputy is very disguised!"

Xiao Su looked at his handsome face that was pinched red by himself, and suddenly thought: "Yeah, let's cosplay together, your appearance suits you very well, Lao Sun has become a lot handsome recently, and the makeup is seven or eight, not as good as the three of you Let's have a COS group exhibition!"

"..." Rong Rui's eyelids trembled, and he said resistingly, "No! I don't want to be like that GAY in GAY!"

Xiao Su couldn't help laughing: "You sleep with me every day, why do you care about being GAY in GAY! You are straight GAY, you?!"

Rong Rui's face darkened, he looked left and right, picked up the king's vegetable leaf and threw it on the ground: "Anyway, don't even think about it!" After speaking, he rushed to the bathroom to take a shower.

Xiao Su picked up the vegetable leaves and put them away, sat on the edge of the bed and kept laughing, remembering what he said just now with a smile - "If a miracle happens, we will come back together, if anything happens, I will die ..."

It turns out that this silly boy really thought about dying for love...

I can't tell whether I'm angry or sad in my heart, and after thousands of thoughts, it's a little sweet.