The seven people except Lin Sanjiu obviously didn't understand why she suddenly became concerned about the previous group of seeds. They looked at each other a few times, and each other's faces were confused.`
It seemed that Lin Sanjiu had no intention of explaining anything. She just raised her head and waited for Harry's answer. After a few seconds, Harry sighed and sounded in the earthen chamber: "...that seed
, it was because it absorbed contaminated water droplets and failed to germinate, and eventually died of physical exhaustion."
"In their group, does the requirement for the buds also allow each person to absorb 40 clean water beads?"
"No," Harry replied, "As I said, the requirements and conditions of each group are different. The content of the previous group is to make clean water beads from water in the soil through connections... specifically you
There’s no need to know, anyway, the dead seed didn’t succeed.”
Lin Sanjiu nodded and stopped asking further questions; she glanced at the crowd behind her and asked with a smile: "So, where is the body of the seed?"
"Why does she care about the corpse?" No. 44's muttering voice came from behind, "...What does this have to do with us?"
Lin Sanjiu ignored him; seeing that Harry didn't answer for a while, everyone gradually became quiet.
When Harry spoke again, his answer surprised everyone - "...still in this earthen chamber."
"That's true." Lin Sanjiu smiled, "Thank you, Harry."
As soon as she finished speaking, someone immediately couldn't hold it back: "Hey, No. 49, what is going on? What do you know?"
Lin Sanjiu sat down cross-legged next to her "Water Drop Formation" - without energy replenishment, she refused to stand if she could sit now, trying to consume the least amount of energy - "I said,
Since you are all out, you might as well absorb the water drops together."
"I thought you had some good ideas." No. 47 frowned and closed his gown: "The result is still a matter of luck?"
"If I guess correctly, after we absorb these water drops, new water drops will appear." Lin Sanjiu nodded to him. Then he turned to No. 46 and asked: "...You think so too.
Yes, right?"
"Ah, yes, that's right." No. 46 obviously didn't expect that she would ask him coldly. He paused; after he brushed his moist and smooth head, he seemed to have thought about it quickly and nodded definitely.
Nodding: "I think this is the only possibility."
"But there is pollution in these water drops -" someone immediately objected. "What if you absorb too many contaminated water drops and directly weaken and die?"
"Do you have a better idea?" Lin Sanjiu followed the voice and looked. Seeing that the speaker was indeed No. 43, his tone became lighter: "...We have been underground for nearly two days.
I still have no clue. ‘Ten days will pass in the blink of an eye. If we don’t take risks now, everyone will just slowly rot in the ground.”
"There is still plenty of time now, maybe there is some way..." No. 45 murmured: "Is it really necessary to take risks so early?"
"It makes no difference whether the contaminated water drops are absorbed early or late," Lin Sanjiu said immediately: "...the physical strength during the seed period will not change with time."
"But--"
"Everyone, listen to me!" Seeing everyone insisting on their own opinions and the situation becoming more and more chaotic, No. 42 hurriedly spoke out. Seeing that everyone had calmed down, he slowly said: "What you said makes sense.
But since no one can convince anyone, how about we decide by secret ballot?"
This is not a bad idea - after all, when there are many people, this is the only way to ensure a certain degree of fairness.
Everyone discussed in a buzzing manner for a while, and quickly passed the proposal No. 42. After deciding on the voting method, everyone wrote their opinions on the small slips of paper assigned to each person one by one, and threw them into an unknown person.
Take it out of a box.
Lin Sanjiu breathed out silently and was the last one to vote.
She didn't even need to listen to the votes, she already knew the result——
The result must be "Agree to absorb water drops now".
"...So, the number of people who agree to absorb water drops now is 6, and the number of people who disagree is 2." After singing the votes, No. 42 showed the votes to everyone one by one, and said with a serious face: "According to everyone
Based on the results of the voting, we will start absorbing water droplets next.”
"Brother No. 42," as soon as he finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu smiled and said: "You are the first in terms of numbering, so you go first."
No. 42 was stunned, and his face turned red for a moment; but his expression returned to normal immediately, and he just wiped his forehead and said: "...You are right, then let me start the first drop of water.
.”
He bent down and picked up a drop of water from his place. He couldn't help but pause for a moment. Then he laughed to himself: "Hey, I didn't expect that I was a little nervous."
Covering the water droplets with his hands up and down, No. 42 whispered "Absorb" - the next second, the water droplets disappeared from between his palms.
Everyone's breathing could not help but tighten at this moment; all seven pairs of eyes were fixed on the plain and serious face of No. 42, as if they could read the lottery number from his face - on tenterhooks.
After waiting for a few seconds, No. 42's face was still as rosy as before, but he suddenly breathed out: "It's okay... I'm okay, this is a clean one."
At this moment, even Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief; but then, she laughed loudly and said: "Brother No. 42 is really lucky! Then you should take the next one?"
The earthen hall suddenly became quiet. Even without turning her head, she could feel several eyes on her face.`
No. 42 did not move, nor did he bend down to get the water drops; he looked at Lin Sanjiu quietly, and after a while he whispered: "...Isn't this unfair?"
"I think this is quite fair." She seemed not to notice the suddenly subtle atmosphere at all, and her smile did not change at all: "After you have absorbed all 26 of your water drops, No. 43 will absorb his 27
Drops of water... one by one, what's wrong?"
No. 42 did not speak. From his serious and serious face, it was not clear what he meant at this time.
The remaining six people looked at me and I looked at you. They didn't seem to understand why the two people suddenly confronted each other. After a moment of hesitation, No. 48 said: "I said 49, one person sucks one person."
There's nothing wrong with it, I don't mind..."
"Of course you don't mind." Lin Sanjiu didn't even look back. He laughed coldly and still stared at No. 42. "If you don't mind, why don't you let me explain to you why No. 42 doesn't want to go first?
Just absorb all the water drops."
There was a low uproar among the people. But it did not affect her clear voice that spread throughout the hall; when they heard what she said clearly, everyone was quiet: "... He doesn't want to, that's because he has been
He was waiting for us to test the poison for him, and now he is asking him to test it for us first. Of course he is not happy."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" No. 42 suddenly yelled, with a look of disbelief on his face: "Are you stupid? Only after the water droplet is completely absorbed can we know whether it is contaminated; that is to say, wait until the water droplet is completely absorbed.
I know that when the water droplets are not contaminated, they have already been absorbed by people. There is no point in testing poisons here!"
"You are right. I originally thought so too. But after seeing your reaction just now, I am convinced that-" Lin Sanjiu smiled slightly, "You have known for a long time that this level must rely on
One has to test the poison to pass."
If there was just an uproar just now, now the hall has almost turned into a pot of boiling porridge - amidst the noisy voices of everyone. No. 42's face gradually cooled down, and there was a smile on the edge of his tightly pursed lips.
He gave a sarcastic smile.
"According to what you said, if I absorbed the water droplet first, it would be like testing the poison for you? I have already absorbed one, so tell me how you are going to find the next clean one based on this.
Water drops?”
Even without the whispers from the audience, Lin Sanjiu knew from the looks in her eyes that others probably thought she was crazy at this moment.
Oh, by the way, she is actually a schizophrenic now.
This sudden thought made Lin Sanjiu smile. Then she slowly stood up from the ground.
His eyes, as if they were real, passed over each person's body heavily; when the noise in the hall subsided, Lin Sanjiu said softly: "If you guessed it right, I already know the next pure heart."
Where are the water drops?"
"What?" "Don't make such a joke——"
Suddenly someone shouted.
"You have all been deceived." Lin Sanjiu turned a deaf ear and continued: "Let me explain from the beginning - Harry told us that pure water beads are definitely enough for eight people. This is absolutely true.
Indeed; moreover, these pure water drops have been placed in front of us from the beginning."
"Are these all pure?" No. 45 looked at the ground and raised an eyebrow: "That number is wrong..."
"No. That's not what I mean."
Lin Sanjiu smiled softly, then suddenly turned around and raised her hand to point not far away: "——The water droplets are there."
Following the direction of her finger, everyone's eyes fell on the other two tightly closed doors in the hall. They were stunned for a moment, as if they couldn't react at all.
"Let me ask you, why do everyone, including me, choose the first door on the left to go in after all the people are here?"
"Because Harry's reminder is posted on the door!" No. 43 frowned and replied, "The other two doors should be for other groups -"
"Yes, we will choose the first door on the left because the notice on the door says 'No. 42 to No. 49'." Lin Sanjiu glanced back and forth on everyone's faces and asked: "
...But, was that really done by Harry?"
Hearing the sound of someone taking a deep breath, Lin Sanjiu smiled slightly, raised her feet and walked towards the door on the far left.
"This is the earthen chamber that Harry dug out for the seeds. As a farmer, how could he get into the ground to stick a note? Well, maybe you will say that this is a copy, and he may not need to come down at all...
Yes, yes, it is possible." Arriving at the door with the notice, Lin Sanjiu pulled off the piece of paper and shook it gently: "...but on this piece of paper,
There is a most unreasonable place.”
"What is it?"
"Which of you still remembers the wooden sign in front of the entrance to the dungeon?" Lin Sanjiu changed her subject and suddenly mentioned an unrelated matter: "Do you still remember what is written on the wooden sign?"
"It says Harry's Farm on the front," No. 44 responded disapprovingly, "and on the back there's a bunch of advertisements from Rory Bars."
"Yes, but let me add something." Lin Sanjiu unfolded the notice in his hand: "Whether it's the words Harry Farm or the advertisement, they are all written in several languages. The only ones I can recognize are
'Harry's Farm', 'harry'sfarm'...the rest, except Japanese and French, are all words I have never seen before."
"Then when you look at this notice again, isn't it strange? There is only one type of text and Arabic numerals on it." Lin Sanjiu turned to look at No. 42 - he was still standing where he was just now, motionless:
"...That's because the person who wrote this notice just naturally used his own mother tongue; he didn't think of other words and couldn't write them at all. The only person who has the conditions to do this is
The first person to go down to the cave—that is, No. 42."
"As we all gathered in the earthen room, Harry sounded surprised; when he went on to describe the water droplets, he gave strange examples. He said at the time that the water droplets were like paper and pen,
You can carry it with you - but these water drops are obviously more like rubber balls." Seeing No. 42 open his mouth as if to say something, Lin Sanjiu quickly said first: "The reason why Harry didn't say it clearly is that
Because even if someone among the seeds acts to hinder others, he cannot interfere, and all he can do is give vague hints - I have proven this through experiments."
Suddenly someone made a sound of realization: "You - last night -"
"Yes." Lin Sanjiu nodded: "I blocked the only passage between you and Shuizhu, but Harry didn't say anything."
"Of course, in addition to this experiment, I have evidence." She folded her arms and leaned against the wall, looking at No. 42 not far away: "...The first one was when No. 42 recorded my water droplets.
, the handwriting left should be exactly the same as the one on this piece of paper. If I remember correctly, it seems that he even provided the pen and paper. The second thing - "
Under everyone's eager gazes, Lin Sanjiu waved towards the two doors not far away: "As long as you walk into the earthen chamber behind those two doors, I think you will naturally see the water droplets inside." (
To be continued.)
ps: Let me ask you, why did everyone suddenly mention the male protagonist again... They all said there won't be any emotional scenes, just watch the plot.
This is not for the book review section. Today, a reader read a post to me. I think it’s really bad when it comes to these things; for example, some people can’t accept that there are men who are stronger than the heroine, and the heroine looks for strong men to learn from, etc.
plot, or classify this article as a strong woman or something... I want to make a final statement that this article has nothing to do with it, I just want to tell a story; it is normal for the story to have choices, and what I left out is the emotional line, focusing on it.
It's the plot; although I can't write well, I still want to write about various characters, various personalities, appearances, pasts... instead of dividing them into two camps according to gender. I hope that when you read the article,
Can you forget the gender of the character - you see, wouldn't you forget it if you are 39? In addition to gender, there are so many things about a person. I hope that my character is a person first, and then becomes a man/woman after many characteristics.
/neither male nor female/genderless…
No more nonsense, thank you Straw Mushroom, Wandering Doge, Yan Yan is a Cat, Big Purple Mandarin, Hashimoto Hanzi, Shiliu Mi is the Great Lizard, Zuo Pingyi, Dragon and Carp, Squirrel's Egg Tart, Duck
Pear bea, Liu Zi Xunyi and other people's rewards, and Nausicaa, I am a tabby cat, there is a hot girl at home, Orange Baby, 1ora258, One Piece Frog, Feitian Wu xx, 1aozhen, Ling Xiaoyin, Nirvana Rebirth,
Bai Chajiang is waiting for everyone’s monthly tickets. I will look for Tencent’s monthly tickets next time and thank you! I don’t know if anyone is reading this article.
