The great swordsman smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, the people on the ship came yesterday to report the situation. The food on the ship has bottomed out, and it cannot be replenished near the island. With so many people, we must return to the shore to replenish food."
"Can't we let them leave on their own?"
"The fog outside this fairy island is extremely weird. It can make the fairy island hide and disappear. Once the fleet leaves, it will be difficult to find it again. In addition... the most critical point is... the return time agreed by His Majesty the Emperor is approaching.
If we don’t return, all the relatives of the entire fleet will face the crime of annihilating the nine tribes..."
Yu Fu shook his head and said in a low voice: "So, no matter what, we have no choice but to leave."
Cheng Lin was silent.
It seems that they really can't wait any longer.
Moreover, according to the current progress, I don’t know how many years or months it will take to wait for the fairy sword to be born.
Especially...according to the current experience, when it comes to acquiring spells, it seems that each person can only acquire them once. At the very least, Yu Fu and the great swordsman only acquired one spell during this period.
In other words, if they continue to decipher it, they won't be able to get anything anymore. Even if they wait for the Immortal Sword to be born, with Cheng Lin here, they probably won't have anything to do.
In a sense, they should have left three months ago.
"I'll give it to you."
Cheng Lin said.
"good."
Yu Fu did not refuse, and several people came to the beach again.
"Are you still going to stay to decipher?" Yu Fu looked at Cheng Lin, hesitated, and said, "According to our current progress, it is so difficult for three people. If you are the only one left... I'm afraid it will be even harder. I know you
There are many secrets in him, but it is probably not easy to solve the mystery of the Immortal. How about you leave with us? When you return to the capital, I will inform Your Majesty, and then gather the imperial alchemists and come here again, maybe you can succeed.
."
Cheng Lin shook his head and just said: "I'll stay here and continue."
"In that case...take care."
Yu Fu said no more, turned around and boarded the ship, stood on the deck, waved to Cheng Lin with the great swordsman, and then pulled up the sail, and the keeled ship slowly exited the white mist and disappeared from Cheng Lin's sight.
Cheng Lin waved his hands quietly and said goodbye to them.
After three months of living together, they are already considered friends.
So Cheng Lin didn't force them to stay.
When the big ship completely disappeared, Cheng Lin put down his hands, then turned around and looked at the silent island.
"Now, I'm the only one left."
He murmured, and went straight back to the mountain behind the sect, next to the island in the middle of the lake, sat on the muddy ground, and continued to work on deciphering.
Cheng Lin was a little uncomfortable with the absence of two people at first, but he quickly adapted.
Loneliness is not something too foreign to him.
However, this time the loneliness is a bit complete.
…
The sun rises and the moon sets.
Another month has passed.
Cheng Lin's deciphering was stuck in the quagmire.
The lack of two people does not simply reduce the deciphering speed by two-thirds.
Simply deciphering by one person without communication will have a huge impact.
Cheng Lin was not lazy, he meditated on the island in the lake every day, but the results were not optimistic.
A whole month.
He just pushed the progress from 54% to 56%.
Of course there is a reason for the lack of people, but there is also another more important factor, which is that the further you go, the more difficult it is to capture the flickering patterns of the field.
Cheng Lin had no assistance and could only rely on his own brain and marking and calculating on the ground with branches.
And lacking an effective method of deciphering, all he could do was keep trying and making mistakes. At first, he relied on his hard work to hold on, but slowly, he inevitably relaxed.
It’s not that he is lazy, but that he sent a signal to him clearly and rationally:
"This is simply an impossible task."
After another failed attempt, Cheng Lin withdrew his hand from the immortal stone, watched the field inside turn on and off, and said.
There was no frustration or madness on his face, he just stated the fact calmly and seriously.
"I can still advance 2% in a month, but the further it goes, the slower it will be. In the end, when my brain and computing speed reach the ceiling, the time spent will become useless, just like, let
If an ancient person with only an abacus tried to calculate pi, even if he spent his entire life, he would still be limited and could not even compare to the number of digits calculated by a supercomputer every minute."
"So, this is no longer a question of hard work, but this problem is beyond my ability."
Cheng Lin's tone was firm and serious. There was no one else on the island, and the remnant soul of He Xianren was not considered a human being, so his words were meant for the deduction program.
He didn't understand what happened this time.
According to past experience, the difficulty of the tasks given in the deduction is basically very low. In other words, when faced with tasks that are beyond his ability, the program will help him. For example, in the flood world, he was given an artifact to split the river, and to
His magical skills make billions of flowers bloom in the cold soil.
But this time it's different.
The total deduction time has passed for more than four months, and the deduction program still did not give him any additional help or tips.
It just gave him a basically impossible task.
Cheng Lin's reason told him that there was no point in persisting. It would have no effect other than dragging down his spirit.
Yes, he is indeed more adaptable to loneliness than others, but this is also limited. If he is asked to decipher on this island for a few years, more than ten years... Cheng Lin is not sure whether he will have a mental breakdown and commit suicide.
This is extremely possible.
so……
"I admit defeat. Whether it's a failure of my mission or a failure of this deduction, it doesn't matter. Let's end it."
Cheng Lin said.
This was the first time he took the initiative to ask for the end of the deduction, and he was very unwilling to do so. After all, he had put in so much effort. It was never Cheng Lin's habit to give up halfway. But the problem was that doing something knowing that it couldn't be done was not courage, but stupidity.
Instead of procrastinating, admit failure.
[After careful consideration, you feel that you cannot complete He Xianren’s puzzle. You have the intention to give up, but once you give up, all your previous efforts will be in vain]
Information comes to mind.
Cheng Lin was unmoved: "I choose to give up."
[You still persist, but when you think about it, you always feel that you may have missed something. You decide to think about the entire process of the deduction. Maybe a certain detail holds the key to solving the puzzle]
"?!"
Cheng Lin was suddenly shocked.
What does this mean?
Reminder? Tip?
This couldn't be more obvious. Cheng Linxin said, do you want to give me a hint that it's so obscure?
Then he suddenly became angry: "So, there is a hint in this? Why didn't you tell me earlier? It took me four months of hard work to tell you?!"
[You didn’t ask before]
Cheng Lin: "..."
"Click."
Veins appeared in his hands and he broke the bare tree next to him. It seemed that this was the only way to vent the depression in his heart.
Ahhhhhh!
What is this thing!!!
Cheng Lin was immediately furious, so furious!
Four months!
It took four full months of hard work, but now you tell me there is a shortcut. You didn’t tell me before because you didn’t ask...
Cheng Lin's body trembled, he looked up at the sky, and took a deep breath. It took him a long time to finally suppress the feeling of collapse in his heart.
"Calm down! Calm down!"
Cheng Lin kept hypnotizing himself. After all, he was in a deduction. On the territory of the program, it was useless for him to be angry. At this moment, he suddenly understood the mentality of Yu Fu and the Great Sword Master when they faced him before. They were exactly the same!
People under the eaves have to bow their heads!
Cheng Lin was extremely angry, but fortunately he finally calmed down quickly.
At this point, nothing else matters anymore. The key is how to find the "key" to solve the puzzle.
"Key? Details? Sorting out the entire deduction?"
Cheng Lin forced himself to calm down, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to recall all the processes of this deduction.
Heavy fog in Fairy Island?
That pile of broken magic weapons that I picked up?
Yu Fu and the Great Sword Master?
Broken mountain gate?
The projection of He Xianren?
…
In the past few months, the scenes he had experienced were fast-forwarding in his mind like a movie. Cheng Lin kept recalling the entire process and looking for clues, but he still found nothing.
At this time, it was night, and the moonlight penetrated through the fog above the head, illuminating the valley.
The night was thick, and the valley was also shrouded in rich night.
There was a small fire burning in front of Cheng Lin, and the wood burned into red charcoal, which was very beautiful.
There were unknown mosquitoes flying around the fire.
The fairy stone above the ancient well exudes a soft glow, which illuminates the nearby island in the middle of the lake and a river, making the scenery quiet and beautiful.
Cheng Lin only felt that his head was as big as a bucket.
It was the details that were most easily overlooked, and he was completely clueless for a moment.
"Or it wasn't after landing on the Immortal Island at all? According to the program, the key may be hidden somewhere. Could it be the changes in the tens of thousands of years before? Master He ascended? Time stopped for five hundred years? Or even further forward...
…”
Cheng Lin murmured, having no clue.
He raised his head, subconsciously looked at the sky, and his thoughts spread to the universe.
Unfortunately, heavy fog covered the sky of Fairy Island, so even if the night was very good tonight, he could still barely see the blurry moon, but as for the starlight, he could not see it.
Starlight…
Starlight?
Starlight!
Suddenly, Cheng Lin had a flash of inspiration in his mind and caught the fleeting inspiration!
His breathing suddenly tightened, and the "movie" playing in his mind replayed to the very beginning, before the deduction began.
He stood up suddenly, took out his mobile phone in his pocket, pressed it, and found that there was no battery. He jumped up quickly, returned to the safe house, and found a power bank in his backpack.
Fortunately, in the past few months, in order to concentrate on deciphering, he did not play with his mobile phone at all.
The power bank still has power!
Plugging in the phone, Cheng Lin nervously pressed the power button. After entering the desktop, he quickly clicked on the icon of the deduction program!
The moment you enter, the familiar red button is gray and unclickable.
Cheng Lin ignored it at all and just stared at the background image of the software.
That piece of sky is dynamic, constantly moving, and the stars are constantly twinkling!
He raised his head and looked at the sparkling aura field on the fairy stone.
Cheng Lin was silent for a long time, then suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed.