Ke Shaobin’s height was only 1.7 meters, and his feet were also small. Everyone he went to buy shoes, he bought the smallest size, which was also his most depressed place. His parents were short, and the genetic inheritance could not be helped. Therefore, many times, he would secretly buy shoes with inner height, so that he looked taller.
Of course, the pair of sneakers that Xin Yan took just now did not have an inner height, so the height gap between Ke Shaobin and him after wearing them was even greater. Ke Shaobin raised his head and looked at Xin Yan’s cold face with mixed emotions.
Most of his teammates were only thinking about meeting up with the others as soon as possible, who remembered details like he was covered in gravy and had to change his clothes? Xin Yan brought him clothes and shoes, and the size was so appropriate, it could be seen that Xin Yan was actually very considerate.
It was just that his mouth was too poisonous, and the words that came out were annoying.
Ke Shaobin patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, “Thank you brother, the clothes are fit.”
Xin Yan averted his eyes unnaturally and said, “Let’s go, everyone’s still waiting.”
The two walked side by side to the elevator.
Liu Zhaoqing looked at Ke Shaobin’s clothes up and down, and teased, “I finally don’t have to stay with the walking braised pork, otherwise, I’m afraid that everyone will be tempted to eat Xiao Ke.”
Ke Shaobin’s ears turned red, this was really his most embarrassing time. Turning back, he saw Liu Zhaoqing take out a roll of gauze and hand it to him, “Wipe it off, water is still dripping from your hair.”
He had just hurriedly rinsed the gravy out of his hair with the water Xin Yan had given him, and at this point, the ends of his hair were indeed still dripping. Ke Shaobin hurriedly took senior brother Liu’s gauze to dry his hair, and wiped his glasses clean by the way.
Finally able to see his teammates in front of him, Ke Shaobin breathed a sigh of relief and spat out, “Fortunately, there is no danger. If I was suffocated to death by braised pork, it would become an unprecedented and funny way to die.”
Zhang Xiaonian remembered the image of going to the back kitchen of the canteen just now to fish Ke Shaobin out of the pot, and wanted to laugh, but forced himself to hold it back, shrinking in the corner and desperately shaking his shoulders.
Yue Xingwen leaned over to Ke Shaobin’s side and inhaled, smiling, “The smell isn’t that heavy anymore, let’s go.”
Jiang Pingce raised his right hand and controlled the car to continue to rise.
Soon, the car stopped at the Student Dormitory Area on the -3rd floor. Xin Yan melted the elevator door according to the previous method, but, when he opened the door, he didn’t see the four girls.
Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message on the LAN: “Senior sister Lan, where are you guys?”
Lan Yarong, “I’m at the elevator entrance.”
Lin Manluo said: “I’m also at the elevator entrance, I didn’t see you guys?”
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Yue Xingwen reacted quickly, looked back at Jiang Pingce and said, “Oh no, there are eight areas from A to H in the dormitory area, and the elevator locations are scattered everywhere, so there’s no way to find them through the elevator.”
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If there were teammates from different dormitories in the elevator, the elevator would bring them to the Dormitory Management Center and have them walk through the corresponding corridor door by themselves.
The eight dormitory areas of A-H were not interconnected, just like there were walls between different servers. Usually, if they wanted to go to another dormitory area to find their teammates, they could find the corresponding corridor through the Dormitory Management Center, and those doors could be considered as teleportation points. But now, the elevator did not come to the Dormitory Management Center—— instead they came to area B.
Looking at the bright words ‘Student Dormitory in Area B’ in the corridor, everyone fell silent for a while.
Xu Yishen was puzzled. “This elevator isn’t quite right, is it? In the past, when there were many of us, it always sent us to the Dormitory Management Center, but this time, why did we go directly to Area B?”
Zhuo Feng guessed, “Could it be because we violently destroyed the elevator door, which is equivalent to a server portal? So…there’s a teleportation error?”
At this moment, Qin Miao suddenly said on the LAN: “I found the portal of the Dormitory Management Center in Area H, should I go to the Dormitory Management Center to wait for you?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The other three, can you look around and see if you can find the Dormitory Management Center?”
After a moment, Lan Yarong replied: “I entered the Dormitory Management Center, but I didn’t see Qin Miao.”
Lin Manluo: “I’m also in the Dormitory Management Center, but I didn’t see you ah?”
Qin Lu: “… Could it be that there are many Dormitory Management Centers in this library?”
Seeing this, a sudden chill ran down Yue Xingwen’s spine.
There were countless servers for online games, and this smart library could of course divide countless spaces! How could a one-story dormitory building accommodate more than 30,000 students? It was by constantly splitting up the space to spread out the flow of people.
The Dormitory Management Center had the largest number of students, so it was possible for the library to divide the space of several Dormitory Management Centers. But how could they find the four teammates scattered in the dormitory area?
After a while, Ke Shaobin lifted his glasses and said seriously, “Suppose that the dormitory area of the library is a blooming flower, the Dormitory Management Center was an infinite number of stamens in the middle of the petals, and the other 8 dormitory areas correspond to 8 petals. Every time the elevator is running, it will first teleport the students to the parts of the stamens, and the students will then go to the corresponding petal teleportation portals according to their dormitory numbers.”
He looked at everyone and said, “In this way, the system can adjust the number of stamens and petals at any time according to the flow of students in different locations.”
“During the day, when everyone goes to other floors to break through, the dormitory area has the least carrying pressure, only one stamen and 8 petals, and the dormitory area at this time, just like the flower skeleton that doesn’t need to open, has its petals wrapped around the stamen and enter a state similar to ‘standy’.”
“At noon and evening, when the students finish the exam and go back to the dormitory to rest, tens of thousands of people pour into the elevator at the same time, the carrying pressure increases sharply, and the flower’s skeleton will bloom immediately. The stamens quickly replicate, generating countless teleportation points in the Dormitory Management Center, and the petals around the cascade and unfold layer upon layer, appearing as countless replicated A-H corridors.”
Everyone listened quietly, and no one interrupted him.
Ke Shaobin usually liked to talk about delicious food, and he also carried Xiao Tu to take pictures and videos for everyone every day, and he, like Xiao Tu, almost became the mascot of the Research Group 183.
But at this moment, his expression was extremely serious. As he analyzed and described, a petal appeared in everyone’s mind, sometimes shrinking into the shape of a flower skeleton, and sometimes blooming in layers.
If they interpreted the dormitory area as a petal-shaped network of servers, it did explain the well-organized daily operation of the library.
Liu Zhaoqing patted his head and said, “Xiao Ke has a point! No wonder we rarely meet other students in the dormitory, I told you, more than 30,000 people crowded on one floor, but the number of students we see every day in a corridor can be counted, it seems that the library has generated countless replicated spaces!”
Xu Yishen said, “So, senior sister Lan and the other girls should be in the stamen area right now, and in different stamens. Even if they come to Area B to find us, they may not be able to meet us, because the dormitory area at this time is already in full bloom, and the Area B they go to is not necessarily our petals?”
Ke Shaobin nodded. “Yes. This is a very complex server network, assuming that there are 10 servers in the stamen part, and each server is randomly connected to 8 petal dormitory areas, then the probability of going to the same area is only 1 in 10 million.”
Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “10 servers, randomly connected to 8 service areas, there are 16.77 million connection possibilities, the more servers in the flower stamen area, the probability will also increase by a multiple of 8.”
Everyone: “……”
In other words, they were like ants trapped on top of a blooming flower with countless stamens and petals, connected to each other by rules that they could not know.
They did not know which petal they were on, and they didn’t know which direction to go to join up with the rest of their teammates. The consequences of wandering around was complete disorientation.
Yue Xingwen never imagined that the dormitory area, where they usually went back to sleep everyday, would become such a huge maze of servers?
He looked at Ke Shaobin and asked, “Is there a solution?”
Ke Shaobin thought about it carefully, took a deep breath, and said, “Find the load bearing that carries this flower.”
Yue Xingwen quickly reacted and said, “I understand what you mean. No matter how complicated the -3rd floor is, it’s just a dormitory platform, and we don’t have to go around in circles in the maze on the -3rd floor to find our teammates, we’ll just get completely lost that way. The requirement for this course is to escape from the library, it’s easy for us to get lost on the -3rd floor, we can go to the other floors.”
Ke Shaobin nodded and said, “That’s right, as long as you find a way to other floors, that is, the stem of the flower petals that connects to the outside world, and go to the other planes, we will be able to leave this level of the dormitory maze!”
Xin Yan glanced sideways at him and met Ke Shaobin’s bright gaze.
Obviously, Ke Shaobin was very excited now, he regarded this escape as a dungeon of the game, and also analyzed the mystery of the dungeon. With a smug expression, it seemed that he was expecting praise from his teammates.
Xin Yan turned his head and did not open his mouth to praise.
On the contrary, it was Liu Zhaoqing who generously praised, “I didn’t expect Xiao Ke’s head to be so flexible!”
Ke Shaobin smiled and said, “My brain isn’t all about food.”
Liu Zhaoqing stretched out his hand and touched his head and said, “Go back and add chicken legs for you.”
Yue Xingwen put forward the key: “Leaving the dormitory maze network on the -3rd floor is very simple for us, just go directly from the elevator passage opened by Xin Yan and go to the other floors…”
AS soon as the words fell, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in their ears——
[Di-di-di! A virus has been detected invading the elevator car and the self-destruct system is being activated!]
[3, 2, 1]
Along with the sound of the alarm, the originally dark elevator car suddenly lit up with dazzling lights, and immediately after, a cluster of red flames instantly pounced down from the top of the elevator car!
——Boom!
The moment the deafening explosion sounded, Yue Xingwen opened the <Modern Idiom Dictionary> almost reflexively, and directly used the ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ skill!
The next moment, the flames that almost burned everything burst out of the narrow elevator entrance!
The thick smoke billowed from the entire corridor, and the vicinity of the elevator entrance was instantly swept by tongues of fire.
If they had been a few seconds slower, they would have been burned to ashes by now.
Everyone looked back at the exploded elevator car with palpitations. Ke Shaobin adjusted his crooked glasses, and said with a wry smile, “It seems that the library is going against us at every turn.”
The elevator was only used twice before the library noticed it, and it simply cut off their retreat.
Now, the elevator car had been completely blown up, and it was utterly hopeless for them to rely on Jiang Pingce’s coordinate system to artificially control the lift of the car and reach to another floor.
Were they going to be trapped in this Dormitory Maze?
Welp that’s the end of that. Also, look at you Young Ke, stepping up and showing out! Thanks for the chapter.
Pork flavour smart boy
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Congratulations with 300 (!) chapters!!!!!! Thank you for your hard work with translation and edit ❤️❤️❤️
Yes Ke Shaobin this is your arc!! Also Xin Yan please praise the boy 😭