Chapter 40 Who Saves Who

Hearing Zhou Ziheng's tone, Xia Xiqing's music was broken, and those who didn't know thought he had an affair with Shang Sirui. When it was broadcast, the two CP fans...

For a while, he really couldn't say which of the two CP fans was happier.

Anyway, [Xia Shangzhou]'s CP fans must be happy.

"Don't, I'll come back to you in a while." Xia Xiqing felt that he was now like a merciless son who was hanging around in a brothel.

"Do you think I'll still be waiting for you?" Zhou Ziheng's tone still didn't soften much. Xia Xiqing chuckled twice, walked to the radio and squatted down, gently tapped the radio twice, "I don't care, I'll wait until you come."

After finishing speaking, Xia Xiqing turned off the blue knob and turned on the red knob that had never been connected. He was not sure whether Shang Sirui's current signal was still connected to Ruan Xiao, and he was not sure about Shang Sirui's identity, but regardless of his Killer or not, you should know the plot of the male protagonist at this time.

Xia Xiqing stood up, walked back to the table, picked up the puzzle piece he found earlier, and placed it in the blank area behind the door. As Zhou Ziheng said before, there will be a magnetic attraction in the right position, and the puzzle will be firmly attracted to the door.

In this way, half of the blank area has been filled, and there should be only two puzzle pieces left.

At this moment, Xia Xiqing suddenly heard a voice. Looking back, the door of the wardrobe opened by itself, and a red laser appeared inside, hitting the opposite wall.

"Scared me..." Xia Xiqing said to himself as he walked to the cabinet, "The props team for this episode really made a lot of money..."

When you see a laser, you think of reflection, which is almost the subconsciousness of room escape regulars. He reached out and grabbed the door of the wardrobe, adjusted the angle of the wardrobe door, and found that the laser can automatically adjust the incident angle according to the change of the angle.

But there is no mirror in this room. At this point, the only way to go is to try it out. Xia Xiqing grabbed the wardrobe door, slowly adjusted the opening and closing angle of the wardrobe, and observed the change in the direction of the laser. At first, no matter how he adjusted, the light was shot straight out, until at a certain moment, the red light suddenly turned. , hit the wall on the right by the bed.

On the dark blue wallpaper, the red light converged into a single point, but there was no next change. Xia Xiqing waited for a while, but no other agencies appeared.

It seems that the red dot is a location indicator.

He walked to the bed, half-kneeled on the single bed, touched the red spot with his hand, and found a bump that seemed to be hidden under the wallpaper.

It turned out to be a reminder.

Xia Xiqing tore a hole in the wallpaper, and a third piece of the puzzle fell out, along with strange characters. He put away the puzzle and looked at the words on the wall.

In fact, if you look closely, you can tell that the word is mirror-finished, but if it's just that difficult, it's okay, you can barely identify one by one, but the program team doesn't plan to set such a simple level at all, this line of strange characters , in fact, the effect of two lines of mirror words overlapping together.

Mirror processing and separation, this task is really a bit difficult for the human eye, but now there is no mirror in the room.

"It can only be done in a stupid way..." Xia Xiqing took the diary that had been on the table before, tore off a page, and prepared to write down the words on the wall.

He didn't fully understand what was going on in the plot, and the killer's standard was out of the question. Xia Xiqing even suspected that the program team gave him the most difficult part.

At this time, a human voice finally appeared on the radio, which had been emitting a noisy current sound.

"Xi Qing?"

Xia Xiqing pressed his hand against the wall and replied, "Yes. You are finally here."

In the last episode of the show, Shang Sirui put it together. Xia Xiqing knew better than anyone how smart the person on the other side of the phone was. "How is your side? Do you have any clues?"

"You must know that our current identity is actually the identity of the room owner."

The trick of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger in the last episode is only valid once, this time Shang Sirui didn't hide it at all, and went straight to the point, "I had a call with Ruan Xiao just now, and found that the clues in my room are pitiful. "

This sounds like Shang Sirui's usual style of [showing weakness in advance].

"How to say?"

"I have organized almost all the plot lines that can be organized in my room, but there is only one. When we first talked to Ruan Xiao, we found that each other's plot lines were completely different. At that time, I guessed that it was a real and fake girlfriend. setting? Later we talked again, Ruan Xiao told me that she has a new plot line, but I still only have one. And the most annoying thing is that her new clues don’t match mine.”

Xia Xiqing remembered the first time he talked to Ruan Xiao, Ruan Xiao hesitated, probably because of their different plot lines, and Xia Xiqing himself had "multiple plot lines" in Shang Sirui's mouth, just thinking about it now Only two were found.

He remembered the numbers on the clues he had found, so he tried to ask Shang Sirui, "Is there any markings on your clues? Like alphanumerics or something."

"You have it, too." Shang Sirui directly broke through, which was completely different from the style of his last show, but he immediately showed up in the next second, "My clues are indeed marked, every plot I found. There's a number on the lead, whether it's a memo or an email."

He deliberately avoided the question of what the number was. Xia Xiqing didn't want to ask directly. Shang Sirui obviously did not dispel his doubts about himself. Asking directly like this would make him more wary of himself. will lie.

It is better to have no clues if you have fake clues, so as not to disrupt your thinking.

"I also have numbers, but to be honest, like Ruan Xiao, I have two plot lines so far, but the difference is not big."

"Where is the difference?" Shang Sirui asked again.

Xia Xiqing hesitated for a moment, feeling that the information in his hand was really not that crucial, so he said calmly, "The timelines of the two sets of clues are different, the later one is written at 13:00, at that time, the boyfriend already knew that his girlfriend had a heart attack. Sudden death information. The other set is earlier, the male lead just turned off the phone, and the female lead didn't say whether she died or not."

He explained again, "It means that in the second episode, the male protagonist does not know the ending of the female protagonist."

Shang Sirui was silent for a while, "So, your two sets of plots have the same beginning and experience?"

"Yes, the hero and the heroine quarreled. The heroine took the train back to his parents' city. The hero shut down in anger. It's the same until here." Xia Xiqing Tuo finished the last part, got off the bed, and walked to the small round table. Sit down before.

Shang Sirui's tone changed, and he sighed, "Then ours are really completely different. Your plot is in line with the one in Ruan Xiao's hands."

Sure enough. Ruan Xiao really has clues that match his own plot, which makes Xia Xiqing relieved, which at least means that a certain plot in his hand can be completely restored.

But right away, Xia Xiqing discovered a problem, "Wait a minute, how can you be completely different from Ruan Xiao? If you both play the same role, at least there will be a temporal implication. Zhou Ziheng and I's room is In this way, in many cases, I have to move the things in the house before the props on the other side can work. It shows that the two rooms of the same character are related."

"What if you are not in the same time and space at the moment?"

Shang Sirui's sudden question made Xia Xiqing enlightened. That's right, if he and Zhou Ziheng were in the same time and space, there must be a temporal implication, otherwise it would be parallel.

He continued, "To be honest, as soon as I entered the room, the first signal I wanted to communicate with was Ziheng, but Ziheng's signal couldn't be connected. When I went to find Ruan Xiao later, we both had There are numbered clues.

Xia Xiqing understood what Shang Sirui meant. If no one found any numbered clues when he first entered the room, it meant that he had not entered the time and space, or was in the default time and space.

"So what you mean is that you and Ruan Xiao have never been able to get involved because she has never found a clue with the same number as yours."

Getting a new clue means switching a time and space.

"That's right, we missed the opportunity to communicate during initialization, because I was waiting for Ziheng, but he has been chatting with you for almost half an hour!"

These two are really more childish than the other.

Xia Xiqing suddenly thought of the changing time on the notebook. In fact, time is not important at all. What matters is that it represents that he has now entered a new time and space.

From the time-space 1 of the diary to the time-space 2 of the notebook.

So, the time and space that Ruan Xiao did not find is the time and space where Shang Sirui was?

Xia Xiqing, who had a clear mind, said again, "So, what kind of plot line did you get? Did the heroine finally die of a heart attack?"

"Probably only this ending is the same in our plot." Shang Sirui laughed at himself, "but there is no similarities other than that. In my plot line, I am the one who wants to save people. Man. It's the female lead who saves the male lead who committed suicide by shutting himself at home and turning on the gas, do you understand?"

"what?"

suicide?

This new plot came too suddenly, and Xia Xiqing was a little confused for a while, but he immediately thought of the last sentence in the previous diary. The male protagonist did have thoughts of dying after knowing the death of the female protagonist. But he didn't think about that at all.

"Wait a minute, this plot is too far from mine, then what? The heroine went to save the hero?"

"In this plot line, the female protagonist was already at the bus stop near the train station. He knew that the male protagonist would commit suicide in an hour, so he took the No. 420 bus in the opposite direction."

"But there was a traffic accident on the way to the man's house, and the bus was stuck on the road, so she finally got out of the car. She couldn't stop the car halfway, so she had to run out of the blocked road and take a taxi at the next intersection. But because of the intense exercise, the heart was overloaded, and the disease occurred before the car was stopped."

This set of plots simply subverts all previous plots of Xia Xiqing.

He seemed to understand something, "The number of all your clues, is it the number 3?"

"That's right."

So, there are three parallel universes in this story. Xia Xiqing looked at the knobs on the radio, only Ruan Xiao had written 0 under the knobs, neither Zhou Ziheng nor Shang Sirui.

What does this 0 mean? If it is just to distinguish, there are so many ways, why do you choose 0? And the other one has nothing and is not marked with any number other than 0.

"Do you have any clues about the number 3?" Shang Sirui asked.

"No, not so far."

"Really?" Shang Sirui's tone was skeptical, "There is one more thing I think is very suspicious. Why are your two clues so similar? Even Ruan Xiao has changed, and you are almost the same."

Xia Xiqing laughed twice, "To be honest, I'm also very surprised. It's also the effect of the butterfly effect. Why is Ruan Xiao affected so much."

Xia Xiqing couldn't guess whether Shang Sirui could accept such a statement, but he took the initiative to give Shang Sirui an idea, "Your plot line is too small, let's spread the word, if you are not a killer, you are now There are two ways. Either, escape from your room first and leave the plot alone."

"Either you can connect to Zhou Ziheng's signal and get more plot lines from him that Ruan Xiao and I don't have. Neither you nor him have numbers on the radio, which means that there will always be a matching plot line between yours. "

Shang Sirui was silent for a while, then gave a headache to the radio, and told the truth as if giving up on himself, "I'll be honest with you, I've already unlocked my door."

"But this program team is too perverted. The clues given to me after escaping from the room are actually incomplete. They also told me that the final door decryption requires splicing the clues of the two rooms to get the final password, so how can I get the final password? I have to cooperate with others, the key point is that I still don’t know who is my partner.”

Hearing Shang Sirui saying this, Xia Xiqing was dubious. Shang Sirui's tactics were too similar. This seemingly bottom-up method was the fastest way to gain trust. Even if the other party didn't believe it, it would confuse the audience.

"So you are hiding in the room now?"

"Yeah." Shang Sirui let out a long sigh of relief. He seemed to think that he had said too much, "I won't tell you, I'm going to try the second way you said now, and I'll cherish it for a while."

Xia Xiqing laughed, "Look at what you said, it's like he's a killer."

However, Shang Sirui used his usual cute tone to hold back Xia Xiqing's words, "Why do I feel that your vigilance against him is very low in this issue?"

what.

After hearing this, Xia Xiqing's first reaction was that he felt a little guilty. He concealed his emotions and asked, "What do you mean? So you think I should doubt him?"

Shang Sirui laughed, "You are so smart, shouldn't you doubt everyone?"

His ending was full of hints, and Xia Xiqing guessed that Shang Sirui had discovered the ambiguous relationship between him and Zhou Ziheng, so he made such a joke on the killer.

"Okay, go find him quickly. If you find out that he is a killer, remember to come back and let me know."

"No, no, I've changed~ I seriously doubt that you are now, and I'm going to tell him." Shang Sirui had a sloppy attitude, Xia Xiqing's mouth was fierce, but a gentle smile was on his face, "Believe it or not, I'll kill you now?"

"Hey. I really don't believe it."

After saying this, Shang Sirui disconnected the signal. Xia Xiqing knew that Shang Sirui didn't feel his doubts about Zhou Ziheng in his words, but to be honest, the person Xia Xiqing suspected the most was Zhou Ziheng, but he really didn't have any evidence.

But he has never killed himself, which is very suspicious. According to common sense, if Zhou Ziheng is really a killer, he will definitely kill himself before the first vote, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

too messy. Xia Xiqing was too lazy to think about it. He first took the puzzle piece he found from the wallpaper to the door, and the magnetic attraction sucked the puzzle piece up, but there was no reaction.

Could it be that there is no mechanism to trigger this puzzle?

Xia Xiqing stared at the butterfly pattern on the puzzle that was about to be restored, and thought of the butterfly effect on the book. If that's the theme of this show, why are the two plot lines of yours so similar, with almost no changes?

Just when he was puzzled, the laptop on the desk suddenly made a sound, and he received an email.

[Excuse me, what does the "0" on the red and blue knobs mean? Please reply to the email to get the answer. ]

"If only I knew..." Xia Xiqing, who had not yet sorted out his thoughts, licked the corners of his mouth irritably, ignoring the prompt, but walked back to the round table and flipped over the small piece of paper he had developed. Raise overhead lights aimed at the ceiling.

Under the illumination of the light, the paper turned into a translucent form, and the traces left by the black pen on it were mapped into correct handwriting. There were only two overlapping lines, but the words were barely recognizable.

"When you... shut down all information from the outside world..." Xia Xiqing identified word by word and read it out softly, "The other you appeared, trying to save everything."

another me?

When the first line was over, his eyes returned to the beginning again.

"You are... the originator of the time and space you are in... not the savior... whether it is 1, 2 or 3."

Xia Xiqing slowly put down the hand holding the note and fell into deep thought.

I am the Initiator, not the Savior. No matter which one of the three time and space.

He suddenly thought of the words Ruan Xiao asked him at first, but he stopped talking.

[Have you ever gone out? ]

Xia Xiqing finally understood that he was the male protagonist who was initialized in every parallel time and space. He was doing the same thing all the time. Time and space travel did not happen to him at all. Mobile phone, staying at home alone, so the butterfly effect in many processes did not affect him.

Then Ruan Xiao, who matches him, should be the original heroine in the three time and space. She has not traveled, but she is affected by the butterfly effect of the traveler, so she has different plot copies.

The thought suddenly became clear, and Xia Xiqing finally understood why there was a 0 on the knob of himself and Ruan Xiao. This number does not represent a distinction in a simple sense, but tells them that the number of times he and Ruan Xiao have crossed is 0, and they are the hero and heroine who originally existed in each time and space!

He quickly stood up, walked to the desk and clicked to reply to the email.

[The number of crossings is 0]

Soon, Xia Xiqing received a reply.

[Congratulations, you answered correctly, I will give you a small reward. ]

The next moment, the bed that Xia Xiqing had checked countless times without finding any clues suddenly pushed out a hidden drawer from the side.

Xia Xiqing walked over and took out the contents in the drawer. It was a fax machine with a number on it - 3

The plot line in Shang Sirui's hands!

There are many cameras on the desk. In order to facilitate the recording of the program, Xia Xiqing put the fax machine on the desk. This fax machine is different from the old antiques have seen before. There is no numeric keypad on it for dialing. A small led screen. Xia Xiqing touched it and found that the screen was a touch screen.

How can make the fax machine work?

At this moment, a sentence appeared on the screen.

[Excuse me, how many times has your girlfriend who is the same as you have died? There is only one chance, so be sure to confirm your answer. ]

"I am afraid that only Ruan Xiao who has collected all the plot copies can answer you..."

Xia Xiqing walked to the radio and turned the red knob belonging to Ruan Xiao.

At this time, the familiar voice of the program team also appeared again.

"Players, please note that the first vote will start in five minutes."

The author has something to say:

Zhou Ziheng: Chapter 40, I hope everyone can write my name correctly.

Xia Xiqing: What was the experience of naming with uncommon characters? 【Smile

There are still two chapters (at most) in the reality show, and there will be no more photo-person shows in the future, and the drama within the drama will start. I read the comments every day to see my score.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the reality show. When everyone watches Conan (at least I am), you should be immersed in the atmosphere of stripping the cocoon, but you are ignorant. It is impossible to know everything from the perspective of God, which means that the script is a failure. right? It's a good feeling to realize when you're about to unravel.

I will write an analysis after the reality show is over. This is actually a very complete plot that can even be used to write a short story.