Erosion

Another sixteen point six six six six six six seven, and the pointer moved back one space again.

Jiang Shan's eyes seemed to be filled with flowers again, and those words appeared and moved again.

"One thing I still don't understand...why, why can't I sleep?" Jiang Shan's upper and lower eyelids were now fighting, and her two eyeballs were so dry that they were on fire.

Wei Yuan said for a long time: "Time and space are unstable in this place. You can still feel the passage of time when you are awake. Once your senses are closed, you will be lost in the flow of time forever."

And Jiang Shan now holds a timer in his hand, which is equivalent to having coordinates in the vast sea, an eternal compass.

Jiang Shan couldn't help but stare at the skeleton on the chair again. She no longer had any fear or fear at all. All appearances were false. A dead person left strange marks in this way, leaving People's hope is accompanied by despair.

Which one will prevail among human beings when hope and despair are intertwined?

"You haven't told me where you are." Jiang Shan remembered that he had asked Wei Yuan before, but Wei Yuan did not answer directly.

If Jiang Shan could really go out, she would naturally go find other people as soon as possible. She hoped that Zhang Zheng and Gao Wenwu had not moved, and followed the agreement between the three of them and stayed in the previous classroom waiting for Jiang Shan to come back. While Zhao Ying and the two were in the same space at different times, Jiang Shan thought of the backpack he left on the door.

Like a bookmark stuck in the pages of a book.

Just find the bookmark and you can turn to a specific page.

"Why don't you speak?" Jiang Shan felt a little strange.

The intercom was obviously still talking, and she could hear Wei Yuan's breathing.

After a long time, Wei Yuan spoke: "I will go out by myself, you don't have to come to me. You just need to find someone else."

Jiang Shan was about to speak when suddenly another needle retreated. Another sixteen o'clock.

Jiang Shan's whole body was tense and her breathing was stagnant. She could only focus all her energy on the chronograph hand in her hand. Even if she noticed something strange about Wei Yuan, she could only ignore it for the time being. Things have their own priorities. As long as she can get out, there is still time for anything.

Jiang Shan looked at the "?" that had moved to the ceiling. At the same time, due to the adaptation of his vision, Jiang Shan captured more moving symbols.

"The ceiling... seems to be an 8?" Those symbols gathered into a vague shape, all on the surrounding walls and ceiling. Densely "flowing", the speed of these flows is very slow, but Jiang Shan's eyes can already see it completely, "What does this symbol mean? Why does this shape appear?"

8?

Jiang Shan tried hard to describe it more accurately: "It's like a - lying 8. Let me say one more thing, it's a lowercase number 8." Not a capital eight.

Lying 8?

Wei Yuan was stunned for a second and blurted out randomly: "Is it the infinity symbol ∞ (infinity)?!"

(Placing 8 horizontally as "∞" to represent the "infinity" symbol was first used in Englishman John Wallis's paper "Infinities in Arithmetic" (published in 1655).)

Jiang Shan paused, as if he had seen similar symbols in textbooks.

Wei Yuan murmured: "This is right... the cycle is endless. Time here becomes a complete closed-loop ball."

"∞" also means infinite loop, connected end to end. In Norse mythology, it is the "Ouroboros", symbolizing immortality and eternity.

A snake eating its own tail, constantly devouring itself and constantly regenerating itself. Wei Yuan looked at his trembling hands, devouring himself and regenerating himself. This place is devouring each of them. Those divisions, deterioration, and desires are all inspired by this place.

Wei Yuan clenched his trembling fingers tightly into a fist. He must, must speed up, speed up. Once you are completely swallowed by this place, if you are "reborn", will it still not be you?

Jiang Shan heard Wei Yuan's voice suddenly become shorter: "You have to get out of there before the 'circulation symbols' on all the walls are completed, Ashan."

Jiang Shan subconsciously looked around, before all the symbols were completed? With four walls and a ceiling, she was a little confused: "But, but, is it almost finished now?"

Door, where is the door? The promised door hasn't appeared yet, how can she leave?

Wei Yuan seemed to take a deep breath, "Look carefully, are there really only five symbols?"

Jiang Shan said: "I can still count the number five." One to one hundred is no problem for the time being.

Wei Yuan frowned: "No, no, there is also the ground under your feet."

Jiang Shanshi trembled slightly. What makes up the entire space is not just the entire wall and ceiling, but also the "land" standing under your feet.

Jiang Shan lowered her head suddenly. Since she entered this place, she had almost never lowered her head to look at the ground under her feet.

Under her feet, the giant "∞" was like an invisible tentacle, stretching into the darkness ahead. The air seemed to be exuding a cold and heavy breath, and the gloomy ground seemed to have swallowed up all the light. Up to this point, the sky and the earth were surrounded by walls. , all covered with infinite "∞".

Jiang Shan was completely shocked by the scene in front of her. She even subconsciously stepped back and moved away from the coverage of the giant symbol on the ground.

"But I still don't see the exit..." Jiang Shan's blood ran cold. She could see that half of the "∞" on the ground was still unfinished.

Wei Yuan said: "No! What did you miss?"

Jiang Shan is really irritable now, did she miss it? At this time, she wanted to go out more than anyone else. This space was so big. Unless she was blind, how could she miss such a big exit? !

Wei Yuan also seemed to be in doubt. It was impossible. All the factors and conditions were complete, and it was impossible for the movement of the exit not to follow the rules.

Suddenly Jiang Shan's eyes fell on the desk.

and many more?

ground?

Jiang Shan's expression changed: "There is a desk here. You just said... is it possible that the exit will be moved to the ground?"

All space, including the ground. No one said that the "exit" must still be on the "wall".

Jiang Shan rushed out quickly. She stretched out her hand to drag the desk, and the desk moved with a little effort. Thank God the table is not welded to the ground, the skeleton brother is still somewhat human.

The table squeaked on the ground. After Jiang Shan dragged the table more than half way, he finally saw a dark "pit" on the ground.

The edge of this pit is irregular, very similar to what Jiang Shan dug into the wall with his bare hands before.

With the exit of his dreams right in front of him, Jiang Shan took a deep breath. "I found it."

(The mythical snake Ouroboros is also known as ouroboros and tail-biting snake. In ancient Nordic mythology, it was a snake that surrounded the entire world, symbolizing the unity and eternity of the universe. Its wonderful posture symbolizes It represents immortality, the world, wisdom, etc.; alchemists in the European Middle Ages regarded it as the king of magic and represented volatile substances.)