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Chapter 17 Penrose Ladder

Qin Anyi smoked a cigarette and blew out a circle of smoke.

He has traveled all over this alien space, and he is the only one in this ghost place.

The biggest pain for Qin Anyi, an old smoker, is that there are only four cigarettes left.

"Looks like I have to smoke less." Qin Anyi looked at the only four cigarettes left in the cigarette case and thought, "Forget it, four is unlucky, so I'd better smoke only three."

Qin Anyi thought about it, lit another cigarette, and puffed away happily.

"So far, I can't find a way out, and I can't find anyone here. It seems I can only backtrack." Qin Anyi thought, and started to backtrack.

Three minutes later, Qin Anyi's face looked complicated and ugly.

In the world he looked back on, he only saw one victim, that little gangster.

After the little gangster entered here by mistake, he was not attacked by any strange aliens. He was starved to death here.

Although he went crazy before starving to death.

And after the little gangster starved to death, his body was decomposed by this alien space.

And this alien space has also expanded a bit.

It's as if it has received nourishment and grown up.

In other words, this so-called alien space may be a living thing, but it only knows how to expand itself.

But what gives Qin Anyi a headache now is how to break through this alien space.

He is a ghost, but he is also a mortal body, and he also needs to eat and rest.

"What should we do?" Qin Anyi sat in the corridor and thought hard.

However, without any effective information at all, Qin Anyi was unable to find a way to break the situation.

"Since I got here because I counted thirteen, will it be effective if I go down to count thirteen?" Qin Anyi thought.

This is also a kind of gambling, in which the odds of failure and success are 50-50.

Either return to the original normal world, or go to another alien space.

What Qin Anyi faced were these two odds.

"If you hesitate, you will be defeated." Qin Anyi thought, stroking his chin, "And if you are decisive, you will be in vain."

What a mind-numbing choice.

So Qin Anyi stood up and walked towards the stairs.

He took a deep breath of cigarette, and the smoke circulated through his lungs, and then Qin Anyi spit it out.

Qin Anyi casually popped out the cigarette butt and walked down the stairs.

He counted silently in his heart.

"One, two, three...eleven, twelve." Qin Anyi walked down the stairs.

Then he walked to the corridor again and checked the situation on the playground.

There was still no one on the playground, which also meant that Qin Anyi still had not left this alien space.

So Qin Anyi returned to the stairs and started trying to go up the stairs.

However, this time the number of steps is still only twelve.

The extra thirteenth step seemed to not exist, and Qin Anyi was trapped in this place.

"Forget it, let me try and see if the phantom limb works." Qin Anyi punched the stairs with her phantom limb.

What is different from the real world is that this time the phantom limb actually penetrated this level of stairs, and the penetrated part showed a layer of distorted gray-white space.

Then the gray-white space healed quickly.

"It's OK to destroy it directly, but with this kind of recovery speed and the amount of work, I'll probably be exhausted here before I even get out. Unless I have the skills to blow up this damn place with one blow, pure violence and recklessness won't succeed.

"Qin Anyi rubbed her temples with her left hand.

"Perhaps, I should give it a try and do an operation like Number Thirteen." Qin Anyi thought, and came to the stairs again.

He walked straight to the stairs, and when he reached the last step, he silently counted thirteen in his mind.

The scene in front of him made Qin Anyi's face look very ugly.

Qin Anyi did not leave this alien space, but instead came to a place with a deeper level.

This is a triangle made of steps. Qin Anyi is standing at a certain point on the three-dimensional geometric steps of this triangle.

"This is... Penrose Stairs..." Qin Anyi thought with an ugly expression.

The Penrose Ladder is a famous geometric paradox, which refers to a staircase that always goes up or down but loops infinitely.

Either climbing up or going down. If you walk on this Penrose ladder, it will be an unsolvable cycle.

Unless he jumps, Qin Anyi is not sure what will happen if he jumps.

Perhaps it is to escape from here, or perhaps it is to fall into a more unsolvable alien space.

Qin Anyi doesn't dare to gamble now. Everyone will be happy if he wins the bet, but if he loses the bet, he may fall into another unsolvable situation.

Qin Anyi tried to insert his phantom limb at a certain point on the Penrose stairs.

Immerse yourself in the messy thoughts, give everything to the wolf intuition, and let this intuition tell you.

Where is that key position?

But Qin Anyi's intuition has always been hazy.

He couldn't find where the key point was, he could only feel that the key point existed in this world.

With no results, Qin Anyi gave up the search.

Of course he can insert it everywhere.

However, the Penrose ladder is an infinite loop. What if the key point is at a certain point in the infinite loop?

Maybe it’s the point where the cycle is infinitely close to the beginning, or maybe it’s the point where it’s infinitely close to the end?

At this moment, Qin Anyi was thinking in his heart, and he casually inserted his phantom limb into a certain point.

No miracle happened, the situation was the same as in the beginning, it was destroyed and then restored to its original state.

Qin Anyi was trapped in a situation where he couldn't do anything. He was not the kind of person who would do useless things.

He sat on the steps and lit the third to last cigarette.

After smoking until only the cigarette butt remained, he threw the cigarette butt outside the Penrose Steps.

Qin Anyi felt like she was hit by something, and then the cigarette butt fell down.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Well, it won't work if you jump now, you will only come back." Qin Anyi tried throwing the cigarette butt up again.

This time the cigarette butt popped up from underneath.

Qin Anyi frowned and threw the cigarette butt to the left again.

The cigarette butt bounced back from the right side.

The right side bounced back from the left side.

Qin Anyi tried many directions, but the cigarette butts bounced back from the opposite direction.

"It's like being teleported back from the opposite portal." Qin Anyi muttered to herself and jumped down.

Sure enough, he fell from above onto the stairs.

"So, can I understand that this is a closed space?" Qin Anyi thought.

He stretched out his phantom limb and used it to pound the space outside the Penrose stairs.

The feeling of the phantom limb is still there, and nothing has been destroyed.

In other words, even if something is damaged, it cannot be seen.

Qin Anyi stretched out her left hand again, which was still within sight.

"In this case, it should be that the limit has not yet been reached." Qin Anyi guessed, "Looking at it from another perspective, should I try to reach the thirteenth step? Anyway, no matter how bad the situation is, the final result will be the same.

of."

The worst outcome is either going crazy or dying first.

Qin Anyi gave it a try and started walking on the stairs.

"One, two, three..." After counting here, Qin Anyi suddenly remembered the days when she and Lan Qingzhi were together.

At that time, Lan Qingzhi liked to listen to a song.

That song is called "Saying Wild", and the singer is a girl named E-61. Lan Qingzhi likes that version very much.

At that time, Lan Qingzhi often stared into Qin Anyi's eyes and said something.

"Hopefully we can both be as brave as each other."

Qin Anyi has never understood what Lan Qingzhi meant by this sentence, and she still doesn't understand it even now.

He just suddenly thought of Lan Qingzhi at this moment.

"I want to run wild in your eyes..." Qin Anyi hummed.

"Everything starts from one, two, three, just like now, one, two, three, I like you."

In Qin Anyi's mind, the girl's expression when she said these words appeared again.

At this moment, he had already counted to the thirteenth step, and nothing had changed.

But Qin Anyi's lips already had a slight smile, and he wanted to take out the second to last cigarette from the cigarette case.

But the hand that had taken the cigarette case put it back again.

Then, with a faint smile on his face, he squatted down and inserted his phantom limb on the thirteenth step.

Qin Anyi never pulled out her phantom limb.

He has never figured out the nature of his phantom limb, let alone whether his phantom limb is related to the gift passed down to him by the previous generation of ghosts.

But he believed in one thing.

"Since I have used you before, you can also be used by me now." Qin Anyi said to herself, "If you can, then join me in destroying this place. You have been silent for a long time.

, you shouldn’t be willing to remain silent, right?”

As the words fell, black-red light burst out from the severed arm, and the light wrapped around the phantom limb.

A burst of colorless and invisible waves erupted from the black-red arm.

Qin Anyi could feel that the power of his phantom limb was fading rapidly.

In other words, that power was released from the phantom limb under the guidance of black and red light.

The black and red light is like a vent, venting the power accumulated in the phantom limb.

This power wiped out everything around him except Qin Anyi.

Everything turned into nothingness, and the Penrose Stairs where Qin Anyi was standing disappeared.

But the moment before it completely disappeared, the ghost card appeared, and it absorbed something invisible from Qin Anyi.

So Qin Anyi fell from the space of Penrose Stairs into the previous alien space.

But that power is still being released.

Everything he saw turned into nothingness, and the ghost card was also absorbing something.

finally……

"Where did you run?" Xi Ruixuan asked Qin Anyi behind him.

"Probably, it went into my heart." Qin Anyi said with a hint.

Xi Ruixuan looked at Qin Anyi with an unclear expression, and then started walking again.

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