Returning from the abyss

Chapter 315 Device
Shang Wenxue casually revealed the past, which made Lu Ning feel a little shocked and grateful.

What she met was Lu Lin, one of the mission targets that Lu Ning received this time.

"She made me fully appreciate the difference between me and her. I think since you are also a member of the Rosary Cross, you have also received the task of killing Lu Lin? I came here just to make an end to her." Yes." For the first time, Shang Wenxue's expression became very calm, even filled with nostalgia.

"Evil deeds are a matter of course for her. It's not like I do the next series of bad deeds for excitement and satisfaction. Lu Lin just treats them as trivial things. She doesn't regard them as glory or to satisfy her own needs. If someone drops money on the floor, we don't think it's particularly kind to help pick it up, and she doesn't think it's particularly malicious to step on someone's finger while they're picking it up."

Lu Ning felt a chill.

"But I still have to thank her for showing me what the most disgusting evil deeds look like at the very beginning of my choice. Lulin is my shackles, at least I have not started to let go Rancid knew where to stop before. But... I can only stop and can't turn back, do you understand?"

After Shang Wenxue finished speaking, the corners of her mouth curled up to show Lu Ning a bit of suppressed arrogance, then she restrained herself and resumed her polite posture.

"I see." Lu Ning nodded, and turned to look out the window, "But I can trust you, who is also a member of the Rosicrucian, right?"

"That would be really pleasing."

"Um……"

Lu Ning looked up at the marks she had carved on the window frame, and then looked down at her watch.

"Let's talk about the conclusion first. The time in this cold world is about three hours later than in the light world, which means that the current time should be around ten o'clock in the evening."

Hearing this, Zhou Weiyuan suddenly raised his head.

"What did you say?"

"I turned my watch back to dusk during the gradual change, which is 05:30, and now it is one o'clock in the morning. This is the timeline of the world of lights. And the moon can be seen in the sky here. I used two notches as a reference to calculate the displacement and angle change of the moon in just about 10 minutes, combined with some stars with obvious characteristics, I can roughly get the current time."

Zhou Weiyuan and monk Wenxue showed a cautious expression at the same time.

Time is always a big problem that tourists cannot avoid. They have never ruled out the existence of time tricks in the scene, but now this problem is gradually showing a hideous side.

"Time sequence...time sequence..." Zhou Weiyuan's pen stopped, and now he was repeating the word.What Shang Wenxue cared about was the time difference: "The difference between the two worlds is three hours, that's not right."

"We have to find out whether the device will change the time. If not, there may be logic to explain some of the problems."

Shang Wenxue knew exactly what Lu Ning meant.

Before that, Lu Ning and others came from the world of heavy rain, and Shang Wenxue came from the world of weathering. The two also entered the world of lights through gradual changes.

However, if there is a special time difference of three hours, it means that the connection between the worlds is not a perfect grouping and interleaving, but has a completely random characteristic.And in this way, if you can grasp the number of worlds and the time difference between them, you may be able to discover the secrets hidden in them.

"And starting from this time error, we still have two problems, that is, the two previous conjectures have been overturned and need to be resolved." Lu Ning stretched out two fingers.

The first one is that the previously guessed idea that "tourists are equally distributed to separate worlds" is obviously wrong. After all, the three of them have been here for a long time, and no one has come in contact with them so far, which means that at least this It is obviously unreasonable that the tourists from the world have not yet come to explore the A1 building, because the tourists who came to the same world are all idiots and have not yet been able to explore the location marked by the task. The probability of this happening is extremely low.

And the second question is "Whenever a world is about to usher in the dawn, it will force a jump to another world through gradients".But after learning about the incompatibility of time, Lu Ning also suspected that there is no world where the dawn comes.For example, if she jumps from the rainstorm world to the light world, the original rainstorm world should usher in dawn, and then daytime, let’s not talk about the daytime, at least it can’t prevent someone from passing the positioning beacon at this time. The possibility of entering the world of heavy rain, but such rumors have never appeared.

Of course, Lu Ning did not rule out that these spatial transfer methods also include the function of time positioning, and if that is the case, the biggest problem faced by tourists will become the time paradox and the dawn that will never come.

"All right."

After Lu Ning finished speaking these two questions, Zhou Weiyuan just finished the calculation in his hand.

"If there is no evidence, there will be no answer to the questions you said, and now a piece of evidence is in front of us, and it is time to get in touch."

He checked the time, then pinched his fingers in a daze, and began to walk into the corridor step by step.The route he traveled was a very twisted route, and sometimes he had to take a few steps back and wait for a while before continuing forward. It took more than five minutes to walk through a short corridor.

"That's the inconvenience of borrowed models."

After he walked through the seemingly empty corridor, which was actually full of murderous intentions, he stood in a corner and waved to the two people here: "It's safe, then you two come one by one, strictly follow my instructions. instructions to act."

At this moment, Lu Ning hesitated a little, because it meant giving her life to others. Although Zhou Weiyuan had been a very good teammate during this period of time, Lu Ning was instinctively a little wary of this.

But Shang Wenxue walked up so carelessly.

Because of her actions, Lu Ning's momentary hesitation was not noticed by anyone—maybe Shang Wenxue noticed it, but no one said anything.

According to Zhou Weiyuan's instructions, Shang Wenxue passed the corridor very cooperatively, which was a completely different route from before, and the final stable point was also two meters away from Zhou Weiyuan.

"Okay, Lu Ning, you are the third."

Lu Ning nodded, walked to the location designated by Zhou Weiyuan, and began to move slowly.

During the action, she could feel some danger, as if her skin would feel tight when a sharp object was pointed at the door. Lu Ning even felt that some space boundaries brushed past her, although it was indeed only a height Just a nervous illusion.

"Very well, stop."

Following Zhou Weiyuan's last instruction, Lu Ning stopped, and it was only at this moment that she felt that her feet were a little weak. The unpredictable and imminent death was really a great psychological test.

"Now the space here is relatively stable, probably because the device here is only in operation, but no one is controlling it." Zhou Weiyuan waved his hand, "Just follow me, the lecture hall is in front. "

Finally came to this destination.

As a classroom dedicated to providing large-scale teaching places, the lecture theater in the A1 sub-building is a huge room that can accommodate [-] students, and the equipment is also very advanced, whether it is a projection device or a touch-control blackboard.By the way, projection equipment in this world has developed to the point where it can support holograms, even if most professors don't particularly like to use this feature.

In addition to these usual teaching supplies, this lecture theater is also equipped with a movable experiment table and matching science experiment cabinets, which can be displayed in class if any teacher needs to conduct practical courses.Now, these advanced educational resources that Lu Ning has never been exposed to are all put in the corner to eat ashes. There is only a huge spherical device that looks like an armillary sphere slowly rotating on a platform.

The center of this device is a translucent hollow sphere, surrounded by nine concentric rings from small to large, made of metal that looks like brass, with runes and grooves of unknown meaning engraved on the rings, the whole They are all suspended on the platform without any support in the middle, and the nine rings rotate at different speeds and directions, which may even make people feel dizzy after a long time.

Compared with this mysterious sphere, the platform below is normal technology.The simple and clear operation panel, the multi-connected wires, and the surface of the platform that still shines even when it is in a semi-dormant state are completely in line with people's vision of the "future".

Zhou Weiyuan looked at the few buttons on the panel. Although he was an amateur in this area, he still understood the instructions above.

"What technology brings is a series of simplifications from life to research and development, and the most complicated things are done by machines. This is probably the charm of technology scenes."

A start button, four control knobs, and a basic directional pad. This is an external operating system that can be used as long as you know how to use the TV remote control. Of course, after starting the machine, an interface for entering a password appears on the screen. Zhou Weiyuan Shrugging his shoulders, he took a step back. He is good at various theories of magic, which are completely outside his professional scope.

Shang Wenxue also glanced at Lu Ning, and smiled slightly, implying that there was nothing she could do.

Lu Ning stepped forward, took out the mobile phone and a small card from her pocket, checked around the device, and then returned to the display screen.

Since there is no touch panel, Lu Ning can't judge which numbers are possible keys based on the traces left on the screen, but this doesn't make her difficult for too long. After thinking for a while, she began to use the arrow keys and the OK Press the button to enter a number, and after trying two, the third made a pleasant beep.

Both Zhou Weiyuan and Shang Wenxue were a little surprised.

"Can you really crack it? This machine..."

Lu Ning glanced at the transformed interface, nodded slightly, and said, "It's the same as I thought."

Shang Wenxue hurriedly approached, and saw a form file on Lu Ning's mobile phone, but the form contained a lot of data, even trying one by one would not be so fast.

"I'll explain later, let me see the function of this machine." Lu Ning put his hands on the four knobs and started debugging. Numbers and graphs appeared on the screen, which can be regarded as an abstract description of the state of space.While Lu Ning turned the knob, the upper sphere and the surrounding ring began to rotate differently.

Shang Wenxue also focused on the changes of the sphere, but after all, Lu Ning lacked the necessary knowledge and data, so at most he could understand how the device works, but he couldn't use it to interfere with the space.

"Can you stop the rotation of these rings?"

Zhou Weiyuan asked suddenly.

"No, even if all the knobs are turned to zero, they will still turn at the lowest speed. I have tried it."

"Then turn it down to the lowest level first."

Lu Ning followed suit, and Zhou Weiyuan moved closer to the rings and began to study the runes on them carefully.Shang Wenxue took the opportunity to ask Lu Ning about the password.

"First of all... you should also notice that this machine does not have any external ports, all the wires are extended from the inside of the machine, and it can still operate in this abandoned environment, that is to say, it does not use external power supply. Yes. After I noticed this, I went around to verify it." Lu Ning stared at the ball in the middle, and explained to Shang Wenxue casually, "In other words, the password setting should be set during assembly. It is determined that there is at least one initial password. According to the work log written by a person I read before, the so-called password refers to a pass permission. The question is whether the permission is delivered to the entire group or an individual. So I compared An identity card and the list of personnel of the group obtained by chance before, after excluding the employee numbers with poor confidentiality, select the remaining numbers with higher probability for experimentation. The next problem is to screen among so many numbers."

When Lu Ning said this, she stopped and pointed to the buttons and knobs of the machine.

"There are graphics and text instructions on these buttons. I can see that the confirmation key and the up, down, and right on the directional pad are severely worn, while the knob has four functions: frequency, amplitude, speed, and scrolling direction. They provide the basic conditions for machine control, so I boldly assume that the direction buttons are specially set up for entering passwords."

"Just for this function—"

"It's just for such a function. Because the touch screen can easily find the frequently used keys according to the traces on the screen, and the long-term wear and tear of the numeric keypad will also cause the same problem. I'm afraid it will be troublesome to replace the parts of this one-piece assembled machine, so the direction key is a good choice, even if it is found to be worn, there is no way to confirm what the password is."

"But you have a list."

"Yes, we can only proceed by relying on this list, because the main wear is up, down, and right. According to the combination disk on the screen, it is displayed in the form of a mobile phone number keypad. It is initially located at the '1' position in the upper left corner. 1; 4, 7, 2, 5; 8, 0, 3 grouping sorting, looking for the number combination that matches this sorting method as much as possible. Among the many numbers that are likely to be random, the number that can meet this condition The number is not large. Coupled with the exclusion of countries through language, there are not many remaining targets. Generally speaking, this is just a question of eyesight and quick search skills. Those who entered the world of lights before can start the device soon Come to think of it, it might not be a problem.”

(End of this chapter)