Chapter 37

It was Zhou Ziheng's voice. Xia Xiqing, who was out of memory, wiped his face, walked to the previous carpet and sat down with his legs crossed. As he expected, the blue button he saw earlier represented Zhou Ziheng.

"I can hear it." The moment he responded to him, a conjecture popped up in Xia Xiqing's mind, and he immediately asked, "Did you turn the blue knob just now?"

"Yeah." Zhou Ziheng's affirmative answer came from the other end, "Does your radio also have three knobs? Two red and one blue?"

"Yes." Xia Xiqing stared at the knob, and his thoughts were verified, "I see, this radio actually functions as a walkie-talkie, but only if two people turn the knob representing each other at the same time, the signal will be connected. ." Xia Xiqing sighed, leaning on the small round table on his elbow, and said lazily to Zhou Ziheng on the other end of the walkie-talkie, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Zhou Ziheng on the other end heard this, and his heart was pounding, but he hadn't thought about what to say, Xia Xiqing turned the subject again, "What is your room like? My side seems to be a bedroom, I guess It's a boy's bedroom."

"It seems that my side is also the bedroom." Zhou Ziheng turned his head and looked around.

Are they all bedrooms? Such a coincidence.

While playing with the knobs on the radio, Xia Xiqing asked, "Does the red knob on your radio also have letters written under it?"

"That's right, one is marked with 0, and the other is not."

Is everyone set up like this? Xia Xiqing glanced at the row of knobs, stretched out his hand and tried to turn the red one next to it, but as soon as he turned it, the sound of the radio was blurred again, turning into a noise without human voices.

Signal cut off?

He immediately turned on the blue knob and turned off the red one, and Zhou Ziheng's voice reappeared: "What happened just now? Suddenly there is no sound."

"I just turned on the other knobs. It looks like this radio can only connect up to two rooms at a time, and if one of them selects the knob in the other room, the signal will be cut off."

"The threshold is really high." Zhou Ziheng teased.

Xia Xiqing almost without hesitation gave an inappropriate metaphor, "It's not like falling in love, you have to be happy with each other." As soon as he said this, he regretted it a little.

Zhou Ziheng didn't say anything for a long time, and Xia Xiqing didn't know if he thought of the bastard words he said when he forcibly kissed him that day.

But he didn't expect that Zhou Ziheng didn't want to go together with him. He was happy for a while for the word "love each other", and was a little embarrassed, so he didn't speak.

The atmosphere was a little awkward all of a sudden, Xia Xiqing stood up and walked around the room, trying to give each other some space.

Strangely, there is no door lock in this room, there is a square area on the door, only a small puzzle is embedded in the area, and the rest is blank. Xia Xiqing tried to take off the puzzle piece with his hands and found that it was fixed on it. But oddly, the edge of the fixed puzzle, like many objects in this room, has a ring of grooves that fit the shape of the puzzle.

"There should be other puzzles in this room. Is it possible to collect all the puzzles to open the room..." Xia Xiqing said to himself, but Zhou Ziheng said at the other end, "You mean puzzles? There are also puzzles in my room."

"Really?" Xia Xiqing was a little surprised. According to the setting of the secret room in the last show, it was not reasonable, because each secret room in the last episode had a completely different decryption method, and the props settings were also very different. of diversification. But this time is different, there are so many similarities.

"Well, I just found a puzzle in the book on the desk, but there is only this piece. I searched for a long time and couldn't find a suitable place to put the puzzle."

The more Xia Xiqing listened, the more strange it became. He walked to the desk in his room as Zhou Ziheng said, "Then what?"

"Then I found a square blank area on the door of the room, because the puzzle has two vertical sides, I tried to put it on and found it just fit, and it seemed to be magnetic again, so I put it there. "

Door?

On his door there was a puzzle that had been placed in advance, but Zhou Ziheng had to put the puzzle on it himself.

How is this going?

"Where did you put the puzzle? Top left?"

"Yes, the upper left corner is just fine to put it on."

"Does your puzzle have a ring of grooves there?"

"That's right, how do you know?"

"Mine has it too, and a lot of things in this room have grooves."

Xia Xiqing did not continue to ask questions. He felt that there was a clue in the matter, but only a little bit. He knew very well that he must not panic now. Such clues must be accumulated layer by layer to be completely understood. Zhou Ziheng just mentioned the desk. Xia Xiqing felt that there must be other clues on his desk. The strange thing is that when he came to the desk now, he found that there was also a butterfly specimen in the drawer of the desk.

Butterfly appeared for the second time, which means it was definitely no accident.

"Are there butterflies in your room?"

"Butterfly?" Zhou Ziheng's voice was obviously puzzled, "There are no butterflies."

Xia Xiqing wondered, "Does your desk have drawers, and are there butterflies on or near the drawers?"

Zhou Ziheng lowered his head to check, "There are drawers, but no butterflies. But there is a four-digit combination lock."

password? Xia Xiqing checked his drawer again and found no combination lock. He tried to open it and found that the drawer was indeed locked, but there was no keyhole or lock. He looked at the butterfly specimen attached to the drawer and wondered if the keyhole was hidden with the specimen, so he took the butterfly off and found that there was no keyhole, but a small number of them were written on it. Character.

[the last one]

Xia Xiqing looked down at his dark blue shirt, thinking of the idea that he had rejected before, maybe he and Zhou Ziheng were really grouped by the show, so their rooms would have some very similar arrangements, but not completely The same, in this case two people may need to cooperate with each other to unlock some passwords in the room.

He tried to verify his conjecture.

"Are there any books on your desk?"

Zhou Ziheng's answer came quickly, "Well, there are three copies."

Xia Xiqing counted his books, and sure enough, there were three books, which seemed to be closer to his idea, "What's the name of the first book?"

"The Study of Chaos." Zhou Ziheng also realized something, "Yours too?"

"Yes, that's right." This "Chaos" is the book that Xia Xiqing unearthed the first butterfly. Fortunately, when he just took out the bookmark, he buckled the book upside down on the table, so that the one holding the butterfly specimen The page was preserved, "I also have this book on my desk, and it has a butterfly bookmark in it, and I just took it out."

"Bookmarks?" Zhou Ziheng flipped through the book "Chaos Studies" in his hand, and he didn't find any bookmarks from beginning to end, "I don't have any bookmarks in this book. Did you see it on that page?"

Xia Xiqing turned the book over and looked at the page number, "Page 377."

"Page 377..." Zhou Ziheng murmured and repeated the page number that Xia Xiqing said. He found that this chapter was about the butterfly effect, "Butterfly effect?"

"Yes, it's about the butterfly effect. It seems that our books are exactly the same." Xia Xiqing felt a little strange, "Is Chaos (chaos) a part of physics? I don't know much about this."

Zhou Ziheng gave a positive answer, "Well, it is more accurate to say it belongs to deterministic dynamics. The concept of chaos means that the overall evolution of a system is largely determined by the initial state, or is sensitive to the initial state."

Although Xia Xiqing is good at mathematics, he is still an art student studying liberal arts. He leaned back on his chair, flipping through the book while laughing and teasing, "Speak human words."

Zhou Ziheng gave a low laugh, and then explained patiently, "The 'system' we are talking about here has a wide range, such as sequential events in sequence. Black shirt, then you choose the white you like, usually after you go out, you want to buy a cup of coffee and drop by to work, but today you are afraid of getting your clothes dirty, so you give up the coffee and drive directly to work as soon as you go out.”

Zhou Ziheng tried to explain this complex and mysterious concept in the most simple and easy-to-understand language, "Usually the time you buy coffee will cause you to miss the best time to avoid the morning rush hour, so you often encounter traffic jams. And I didn't buy coffee today. You just avoided the coffee, and the green light drove all the way to the downstairs of the company. You became the first person to work in the company. It happened that the boss had an urgent meeting and had to bring an assistant. He chose you, so you and the boss We were on a plane to Brazil together, and the plane landed in an accident, and you were one of the passengers who died."

Xia Xiqing, who was listening to the story earnestly, heard the end of the mystery, and laughed angrily, "You really know how to make up the passengers who were killed."

Zhou Ziheng on the other end also laughed, his slightly low laughter sounded particularly nice in the sizzling electrical signal, "It's just an analogy, because I'm too lazy to make it up." After he finished, he asked again , "So, have you ever considered what would have happened if you had chosen a black shirt that morning?"

If I choose a black shirt...

"I will still go to the coffee shop as usual, get stuck in traffic as usual, be late for work, and I won't be specially promoted by my boss to take me to a meeting, so I won't get on that flight." Xia Xiqing continued following Zhou Ziheng's train of thought. .

"There is a high probability. This is what I said, in the chaos theory, the evolution of the system is very sensitive to the initial state. You can think of 'wearing a white shirt' and 'wearing a black shirt' as two different initial states. They may affect the development of a series of subsequent events." Zhou Ziheng added, "The butterfly effect is an important part of chaos."

Unprepared, the two of them blurted out for a while, citing the most famous saying about the butterfly effect, "A butterfly's wings in the Amazon rainforest occasionally vibrate, and maybe two weeks later, it will cause a tornado in Texas, USA."

After speaking, the two were stunned for a moment, then laughed again.

Zhou Ziheng said with a slight sigh, "So, the choice of which time point will make irreversible changes in our life."

Hearing what he said, Xia Xiqing had such an idea in his mind, if Xu Qichen hadn't given him the VIP ticket for the movie conference, and he hadn't really been there, would everything have started?

No, why should I feel emotional.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Xia Xiqing came back to his senses, "It's nothing, I just don't think it's necessary to think about this kind of thing."

"Of course there is." Zhou Ziheng's tone clearly showed his opposition to this assertion, although he didn't know that Xia Xiqing's words were just used to cover up his mind wandering, "Chaos theory is the third physics theory after relativity and quantum mechanics. These three can be called the three major sciences of the 20th century. The emergence of chaos theory has also subverted people’s relatively narrow linear concept in the past. After all, there are countless things in this world that cannot be explained by linear correlation, no ?"

Hearing what he said, the corners of Xia Xiqing's mouth turned up slightly. For some reason, he suddenly felt that Zhou Ziheng was particularly charming at the moment, whether it was him explaining abstract concepts with easy-to-understand examples, or for scientific evidence at the moment. He seemed so attractive despite his hard work.

Smart is the new sexy. This phrase, which has been popular for so long, got the best proof from Zhou Ziheng at this moment.

"You're right." There was a soft smile in Xia Xiqing's voice.

Such emotions were obviously weakened by the signal, but they still fell heavily into Zhou Ziheng's ears.

It is always a joy to be affirmed at any time. Zhou Ziheng tried to use such rhetoric to persuade the increasingly happy mood at the moment.

"We seem to be getting farther and farther away." Xia Xiqing couldn't help laughing at himself. It was obviously an escape room game. How could it feel like he was on the phone with Zhou Ziheng. He lowered his head and took the other two books from the corner of the table, turning the pages carefully with his fingers.

Sure enough, there is also a specimen of a small butterfly in this book.

"I found another butterfly specimen, in the second book."

After a while, Zhou Ziheng's voice came from there, "I still haven't seen any butterflies in my book. What is the page number of the second book, and what is the content of the book?"

Xia Xiqing glanced at it, "The page number is 610. It's about the Big Bang Theory." After speaking, he put the butterfly in again and picked up the last and thickest book. Sure enough, this one There is also a butterfly in it.

"There is also a butterfly bookmark in the third book, which is on page 987. The content of the book is... Hypoplastic left heart syndrome? Strange, this person's reading range is really wide, from chaos to universe, from universe to human beings pathology."

Zhou Ziheng's intuition told him that it should be related to numbers, "These page numbers may be related, the first book is page 377, the second book is page 610, and the third book is page 987. There are other A place for butterfly specimens?"

Xia Xiqing rummaged through the desk, and there were no other books on the desk besides these books, and there were no bookcases in this room.

"Butterfly... Butterfly..."

He suddenly thought of the butterfly specimen he had just seen on the drawer.

"The last butterfly specimen is directly above the desk drawer." Xia Xiqing's mind came up with a bold guess, "Is the combination lock of your desk also directly above the drawer?"

"That's right."

That's right.

The first butterfly corresponds to the first book, the second butterfly corresponds to the second book, and the third butterfly corresponds to the third book, so the place next to the last butterfly says [last], does this mean At the same time, this butterfly represents the four-digit password that Zhou Ziheng needs to find.

"So, the four-digit password for your drawer may need to be deduced from the clues suggested by the three butterflies in my room."

If the two of them don't have the same signal, wouldn't it be impossible to unlock the password all the time?

This is probably a new way for the director to hype CP. As long as they choose each other, they can have the opportunity to unlock the password, which forces the two to cooperate in different rooms.

This program group is really perverted as always.

The author has something to say:

Program director: Two handsome guys, we invited you to come here to record and decrypt the program, not to talk on the phone and fall in love? There is no tension at all.

Recently, the exam week is approaching, and I have also started to get busy (yes, graduate students can't escape the final exam, although they are all doing projects and pres), old readers should all know that I am a naked person, and the pressure is relatively high these two days, but in We are trying our best to adjust, so there may be some reduction in word count (only temporarily).

As for the character of Xia Xiqing: I don't want to whitewash the fact that his previous life style was that of a playboy, but this doesn't prevent the little cutie in the comment area from feeling sorry for him. I don't think the two are in conflict. Of course, if there is a little cutie who really can't stand his previous love history, it doesn't matter if you can abandon the article.

Also, whether it's Zhou Ziheng or Xia Xiqing, I feel sorry for my son, and so do everyone. I also often play a miserable contest with readers in the reader group to see which of the current four sons is the worse.

My consistent character setting style is to favor flawed characters, Xia Xiqing and Xu Qichen are typical representatives. And to be honest, Xia Xiqing didn't really hurt Zhou Ziheng, and he stopped gracefully when he was rejected, and there was no overlord to force the bow [Definitely fail.