Chapter 213: Fallacy, I refute it!
Tang Mo took out a large piece of white paper from his backpack, he used a pen to mark an asterisk in the upper right corner, and then started from the asterisk and drew a straight line downwards: "Assuming a scale of 1:50,000, roughly draw out the route we just took. I have a memory for about a five minute walk, don't you?"
Fu Wenduo took the pen and paper and continued to draw on the route Tang Mo had finished: "I can remember it for about five more minutes, too."
For ordinary people, a maze is a maze in which one cannot find one's way. But for Tang Mo, especially Fu Wenduo, who often goes out in the field and has an excellent sense of space, all mazes are just an overlap of angles and lengths.
Knowing the size of the angle of each turn, and memorizing the distance traveled, you can estimate the route you have traveled and draw a map of the labyrinth.
After Fu Wenduo finished his drawing, the two of them looked down at the white paper.
Tang Mo : "We haven't gone back so far, and common sense says that we should be moving away from the center of the maze and towards the exit."
Fu Wenduo looks at the diagram: "Every labyrinth has the characteristic that the closer you get to the center, the more corners there are, and the shorter the corridors are. Because the center of the circle radiates, the length outward is greater. So we are really moving away from the center of the maze."
Now Tang Mo is even more puzzled: "Then we are indeed heading for the exit."
Fu Wenduo looked at the diagram fixedly, and in the next second, he raised his head, "The exit of this labyrinth is on the outside?"
Tang Mo Body lurch: "You mean ......"
Fu Wenduo : "Is its exit perhaps in the center?"
The sound of the water became more and more urgent, from being barely audible in the beginning, to now haunting the ears of almost every player and the Black Tower Boss.
After Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo realized their position and situation, they didn't waste any time and picked up the box on the ground and turned around to go back. Halfway there, Tang Mo pulled Fu Wenduo back, and Fu Wenduo turned his head to look at him.
Tang Mo pondered, "If the exit of the maze is in the center, then why are there more and more of these chests the further out they are. It would be hard for players to get to these chests if they are intent on finding the exit. Then what is the purpose of these chests being placed here?" He raised his head and looked at Fu Wenduo.
For some reason, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo both felt that the situation was familiar.
The exit was in the center of the map, and all players converged towards the center. However, the props were like starburst radiation, the more outward there were, the more inward there were, the less there were instead. The more players inside, the more difficult it is to grab a chest from inside. This kind of game Tang Mo seems to have seen somewhere ......
Suddenly, the two looked at each other in surprise as the name of a very red-hot game appeared in their minds.
"...... eating chicken?!"
On the other side, the doll-faced youth fought his way forward, and behind him was a Wolf Granny wearing a small pink dress. The distance maintained by one person and one wolf was just too skillful, the speed of the Wolf Granny was the slowest amongst the First Stage Black Tower BOSSes, but her slowest was Bai Ruoyao's limit.
Bai Ruoyao tried his best to run away, and was indeed able to keep from being caught by the Wolf Granny, but at this time he suddenly wished that this Wolf Granny could run even faster and simply catch himself.
If the guy had been faster and pressed his hopes, he wouldn't have needed to run for as long as half an hour!
Physical exertion is inevitable, Bai Ruoyao's speed gradually decreases, but Granny Wolf is unaffected.
Seeing that Granny Wolf was about to catch up with Bai Ruoyao, the doll-faced young man had already turned his hand over and took out two silver butterfly | knives from his sleeve, when suddenly, the sound of two rapid footsteps came from a short distance away. Bai Ruoyao raised his head alertly and looked ahead with icy eyes. When he saw the comers clearly, his white doll face cut a huge angle, and he waved happily, "Hello, DEER, such a coincidence, bumping into yo."
Mu Huixue managed to shake off Santa Claus with great difficulty, and when she looked up and saw Bai Ruoyao, her brows furrowed slightly. When she saw Bai Ruoyao again, she saw Grandma Wolf chasing after her. ......
Mu Huixue : "...... Shit!"
Mu Huixue and Andre both know Granny Wolf, and the moment they see each other, they turn their heads and run.
"We just met and we're leaving, hee hee, DEER, wait for me." Bai Ruoyao didn't feel like trouble at all, and he happily led the Wolf Woman in the direction of Mu Huixue and Andre.
The three of them were being chased by Granny Wolf and kept running away. Suddenly, they ran into a dead corner, and Mu Huixue and Andre turned back in unison. Bai Ruoyao, seeing the two of them clearing the way for themselves, smiled and shouted, "Thank you, yo." Then he turned a corner and ran into another corridor.
Now Bai Ruoyao ran alone in the front, Mu Huixue and Andre ran in the second place. And finally, Granny Wolf.
The chase lasted ten minutes.
Originally, Mu Huixue and Andre thought that there was only one Wolf Witch, so if she chased after Bai Ruoyao, she couldn't chase after herself. However, Bai Ruoyao didn't give the two of them a chance to get rid of him, and he knew that if he ran into the Wolf Witch alone, he would only end up dead, so he frantically pestered Mu Huixue and wouldn't let her go.
Finally, the trio was cornered in a dead end by the Wolf Witch.
Biting hard on the broken arm of the human she was grasping in her hand, the wolf grandmother smiled sinisterly, "Still running?"
Mu Huixue untied the long whip at his waist and looked at the wolf grandmother, sighing helplessly. Andre clenched his fists, ready to attack. Bai Ruoyao ran to hide behind the two and was whipped out by Mu Huixue.
Bai Ruoyao blinked and was about to speak when Mu Huixue smiled slightly, "Fly, if you dare to run away and leave this game while we deal with Granny Wolf, I'll kill you."
Bai Ruoyao froze for a split second, looking at Mu Huixue's smiling face as he contemplated the consequences of being hunted by the other party and the consequences of being defeated by the Wolf Grandmother and giving up on this game. The doll-faced youth spread his hands aggressively, "Who said I'm running away."
Andre: "The nest will be silly too."
Bai Ruoyao snorted, "Learn your Chinese before you talk to me."
The three of them each grabbed their weapons, glanced at each other in silent agreement, and rushed together towards the Wolf Witch.
Granny Wolf gracefully pulls out her own little pink Yang San and blushes to cover her bloody mouth, "It's not gentlemanly behavior for so many people to come together to bully a lady." With soft words on her lips, this little Yang San opens up and slams into Mu Huixue's whip with a loud bang, slapping it against the wall.
Mu Huixue moves his wrist, retrieves his whip, and quickly gets back on.
Andre roared and swung his fists at Granny Wolf. Granny Wolf opened the small Yang San and rotated the umbrella, Andre's fists hit the umbrella, but the force was removed by the dancing umbrella. When the umbrella is open, the defense is like a rock; when the umbrella is closed, the attack is as strong as a tiger.
The same little Yang San, the one in Grandmother Wolf's hand, was clearly much tougher than Tang Mo's, or at least of rare quality.
Bai Ruoyao is dexterous, Mu Huixue is good at attacking from afar, and Andre fights in close quarters.
The three of them worked together, finally allowing Granny Wolf to reveal a crack. Bai Ruoyao's idea was to take advantage of the opportunity to escape, and he shouted, "Go!" Mu Huixue also had the same idea and ran away with him, but Andre honestly attacked the Wolf Witch's hole. Mu Huixue was stunned, but when she came back to her senses, she had already gritted her teeth and helped Andre to attack again.
Bai Ruoyao ran a dozen meters, his eyes narrowed at the sight, he chirped and returned his head to attack as well.
The three of them pinned Granny Wolf and forced her into a corner.
Granny Wolf roared, "You damned stinking humans!"
The three of them felt bad, only to see Granny Wolf violently throw away little Yang San and land on all fours. She roared with rage, letting out a piercing howl, her little pink dress cut off by rippling muscles.
Mu Huixue was alarmed, "No good, her strongest isn't that umbrella, it's her body!"
As a lady, Granny Wolf's little Yang San is her strongest weapon. But every resident of the Black Tower knows that as long as Granny Wolf is a lady, she is safe. When she stops being a lady, not even Santa Claus dares to look at the scary she-wolf.
Grandmother Wolf roared and rushed up, attacking Bai Ruoyao with both claws.
This claw Bai Ruoyao simply could not avoid, the light in his eyes flashed, no one saw what he took out of his pocket. He bit down hard on this thing, and when Grandmother Wolf's claw fell, his body had already instantly moved ten paces away.
The Wolf Witch left him alone and attacked Mu Huixue and Andre, who was the closest to her.
The big strong Russian man stared silently at the Wolf Woman with sullen eyes, his best bet was to turn and run, but whether it was him or Mu Huixue, the Wolf Woman would always attack a man. Andre didn't think much of it, in his mind, if he was going to fight, he was going to fight head on, he never backed down, much less let a woman take a knife to the heart for him.
Andre clenched his hands into fists, a beastly roar emanating from his chest. His hands turned a blazing fiery red as he swung both fists forward, clashing with the claws of the wolf's grandmother.
The wolf grandmother's claws cracked and blood oozed out. Andre's hands were directly scrapped, the bones were broken from his little arms in a weird position, and the white bones were sticking out of his skin diagonally.
Mu Huixue had already run back a few steps, seeing this she cursed and turned around to run up again.
Granny Wolf, who rarely gets hurt, is furious and attacks Andre again.
A female hand appeared above Andre's head, the hand was palm up with a small compass in its palm. Mu Huixue looked up at Grandmother Wolf, her other hand raised and flicked the needle on the compass. Light flashed in her eyes as she said, word for word, "Fallacy, I refute!"
The small compass glowed brightly in red.
Bang!
Granny Wolf's body suddenly turned 180° backwards, her claws smashing against the labyrinth's walls.
Taking this opportunity, Mu Huixue grabbed Andre by the collar with one hand and dragged him away.
The three of them ran for a long time, and Granny Wolf completely disappeared. Andre's hands were broken in an odd position, and Bai Ruoyao was leaning against the wall, gasping for breath. Before the three of them could speak, they suddenly heard two faint footsteps from a short distance away.
Bai Ruoyao and Mu Huixue picked up their weapons and looked around the corner of the labyrinth warily.
The moment Tang Mo stepped out of the corner, the silver butterfly knife flew towards him. Fu Wenduo stretched out his hand in front of Tang Mo, the butterfly knife collided with the silver steel skin, and returned to Bai Ruoyao's hand.
Both sides saw the visitor clearly and breathed a sigh of relief in unison.
At times like this, players from the same district were always much more cordial than Black Tower monsters and players from other districts.
Tang Mo looked at Bai Ruoyao and both felt the psycho was less of an eyesore.
Fu Wenduo frowned when he saw Andre's arms that were almost broken in two, "Which Black Tower Boss did you guys run into?"
Mu Huixue: "Grandmother Wolf."
At the name, Tang Mo's scalp tingled. He looked around, "You guys dumped her?"
Bai Ruoyao wiped the corners of his eyes where tears were nonexistent, "Tangtang, I almost died at the paws of that she-wolf. She was so fierce."
Fu Wenduo looked at Mu Huixue and Andre and realized that there was no such thing as a life-and-death relationship between them. So he walked up, took a bottle of mineral water out of the chicken coop, and handed it to Andre, who realized that it must be a healing prop: "Shoeshine."
Fu Wenduo replied back in Russian, "No."
At a glance, Mu Huixue realized that Tang Mo was carrying a big black bag with a lot of things in it. Tang Mo did not have these things when she entered the game. She asked, "What is this?"
Tang Mo looked at the three of them with empty hands, "On the floor of the maze, there are often black chests where you can get props by saying the tongue twister on them. You guys didn't take it?"
Cantonese Mu Huixue doesn't want to talk.
Bai Ruoyao, who was chased by the wolf grandmother and didn't have time to get anything, didn't want to talk either.
Only Andre said, "The nest took three."
Tang Mo frowned, "If I'm not wrong, these props are actually very useful for this game. The exit of the maze is in the center, but these props are placed far away from the center. This is a test to see if we can notice this, then grab more props and return to the center."
Mu Huixue understood his meaning in a flash, "Are you trying to say that in order to leave the labyrinth, you have to take the props?"
Tang Mo : "That's just my guess too."
Fu Wenduo: "We should be close to the center of the labyrinth now, have you encountered any players from other districts?"
Mu Huixue said, "Ran into two of them, one of them got away and the other one got run over by Santa's sleigh."
Bai Ruoyao: "There's a guy, I saw Granny Wolf eating his meat when I was walking. Looks like a foreigner, blonde hair, yo."
Tang Mo : "Then think it looks like at least two players have died."
Bai Ruoyao: "Hehehe, Tangtang, what do you think this game is all about. I feel like we're mice, put into a maze, and there are scary monsters like Granny Wolf everywhere. It's so scary, I'm so tender, the monsters won't want to eat me."
Tang Mo swept a glance at the doll-faced youth and was about to sarcastically retort to him when suddenly, the five men's faces changed.
Tang Mo: "The sound of water is gone?"
Fu Wenduo affirmed, "The sound of water is gone."
A sense of foreboding welled up in the hearts of the five.
At their level, this kind of bad premonition could no longer be fully considered a premonition, but also a subconscious speculation based on experience. Their subconscious sensed that something bad was about to happen.
Tang Mo: "Where we are now, in fact, may be a closed space. The air circulation isn't good and there isn't any light. And there's that sound of water ......"
Fu Wenduo: "The sound was very much like a closed pool. Its water sound is not only the water flow hit the water surface issued, there is also the sound of air column vibration. As the water flow increases, the vibration sound of the air column becomes more and more frequent....... The air column becomes smaller, and the pool, it's going to be filled up."
Tang Mo: "A pool that's been filled?"
The five were lost in thought.
A pool that's been filled with water, what the hell does that mean. Why would there be a pool that's been filled with water in a labyrinth?
"Noah ......" Tang Mo murmured the name, "Noah's candy ball, Noah's toothbrush, Noah's bubble bath, Noah's underwear... ..."
As the words fell out of his mouth, Tang Mo raised his head sharply and locked eyes with Fu Wenduo.
"Who is Noah?!"
Bai Ruoyao narrowed his eyes, "Noah's Ark?"
Tang Mo : "Where is that ship, the center of the maze? The exit of the maze?"
Andre's Chinese wasn't that good, and he couldn't understand Tang Mo when they were talking fast. But he could understand Noah's Ark, and the big Russian man said in a muffled voice, "What about the Great Flood."
The four men were silenced in unison.
The monsters in the silent and dark labyrinth were heading towards the exit in the center of the labyrinth. The players were also suspiciously listening to the sound of water as they approached the center of the maze. In the third minute after the strange sound of the water stopped, an eerily loud whistle sounded. It was loud and clear, as if a giant was singing at the top of his lungs in the room, except that every note was out of tune.
He hummed happily for a moment and then sang, "I am the great Noah, I am God's favorite. Noah's favorite thing to do is to take a bath and wash away the sludge and the stinking sweat. Ah, I love baths!"
The moment Noah sang the word "bath", Fu Wenduo grabbed Tang Mo's hand and frantically pulled him towards the center of the maze. On the other side, Bai Ruoyao and the three of them also ran as fast as they could towards the center of the maze.
In all corners of the maze, some players might react slower and some might react faster. But without exception, by the time Noah finished singing the last word, they had all run towards the center of the maze.
And after the difficult song, a sound of a heavy object falling into the water rang out.
In the next moment, countless amounts of water poured in from all sides of the labyrinth. The terrifying flood of water washed down the walls of the maze at an irresistible speed, heading towards the center. All the players and monsters were running towards the center of the labyrinth, while outside the labyrinth, a tall giant soaked into his bathtub beautifully and breathed an insatiable sigh of relief.
"Ah, the bath is so nice."
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
Published at: 10/26/2024 10:00