Gamers Are Fierce - Chapter 1092

[Chapter 91 Ants (4K)]

“So you made the second lap?” Xing

Hechou looked confused on the walkie-talkie communication channel. “Nothing happened?

”

, his eyes brightened, “To be precise, looking down from the sky, they walked through a total of seven rooms and circled a tiny 8-shaped symbol.

Moreover, during the detour, the conditions they encountered also changed. ——When they first arrived in the initial room, the candles were automatically lit from the extinguished state, and the back door was automatically opened,

and when they arrived at the initial room for the second time, the door on the right,

or the rear door from the initial angle, was also opened.

But the candles are automatically extinguished, which

means that after they left the original room again, the candles in the room were extinguished for some reason.”

“Candle extinguished?”

Xing He frowned and asked, “The change in the grotto also started from The candles in the room started to go out.

What does this mean?”

“I don’t know yet.”

Li Ang said with great interest in the communication channel: “But if I guess correctly, we will soon discover the pattern. Now …”

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After all, he threw the walkie-talkie to Hohenheim, opened the back door of the initial room by himself, and went to the ninth move, and walk into the (0, -1) room.

The furnishings in the room have not changed, but the candles are extinguished at first.

After the door is opened, the candles slowly ignite automatically, and the door on the right can be pushed open.

Cycle broken?

Li Ang strode into the room. The opening sequence of the room was a 8-shaped symbol, but now a new room has been opened.

He pushed open the door on the right,

made the tenth move, entered the room (-1, -1), the candle changed from light to dark, and the door on the left opened.

Move for the eleventh time, enter the room (-1, -2), the candle changes from light to dark, and the door on the left opens.

Move for the twelfth time, enter the room (0, -2), the candle changes from light to dark, and the door on the left opens.

Move for the thirteenth time, enter the room (0, -1), the candle changes from light to dark, and the door on the left opens.

Fourteenth, (-1, -1), the candle becomes darker and brighter, and the door on the right side opens.

Fifteen, (-1, 0), the candle becomes darker and brighter, and the door on the right opens.

Sixteen, (0, -1), the candle becomes darker and brighter, and the door on the right side opens.

Seventeen, (-1, -1), the candles are dimmed, and the door on the left is opened.

….

Li Ang moves very fast.

At the beginning, he will continue to try to push the four doors in each room. When he gets to the back, he seems to know how to walk

. To the right.

Along the way, the candles in the room changed from bright to dark, or from dark to bright, and the scene we saw did not change from beginning to end.

For the other players in the team, the atmosphere seemed depressed and silent.

tread.

While walking, Li Ang suddenly stopped, and everyone in the back hurriedly stopped moving to avoid collision.

“It doesn’t make sense to go on like this.”

Li Ang raised his arm, twisted the beard on the dragon’s head mask, and said, “I already know the next path,

(-1, -2), (-2, -2), (-3, -2), (-3, -1)…

If I’m not wrong, following the rules provided by the grotto, we’ll be in Been stuck here for a long time. ”

“…need support?” On the

communication channel, Nebula took a deep breath and asked, “Or do we call Michael? ”

“Support? Do not. We’re the only team moving right now, and if you all started moving, the result would probably be the same. Li Ang said indifferently: ”

Well, in order to verify it, in your initial room, choose a random direction, open the door,

and then walk through the only door you can pass, and move it eight times. ”

“Choose a random direction?” Nebula paused for

a while after hearing the words. It was impossible to detect the direction in the caves, and the south, south, and northwest of the various teams were disordered. There was no difference between choosing a direction and walking casually.

Therefore, except for Li Ang’s fifth team, the rest of the team , picked the direction, and made eight moves.

Like Li Ang, they also recorded the route of travel in the form of coordinate axes

and reported it on the communication channel.

The results of the eight moves were all seven rooms. And drew a figure-8 symbol in place.

“It seems that everyone is the same. ”

Li Ang said lightly: “No matter the orientation you choose at the beginning, front or back, left or right, the final result is the same.

The purpose of the Grotto Mystery Lock is indeed to use the rules to trap us here for a long time.

He paused and explained in the communication channel: “Have you noticed the pattern of everyone’s travel? ”

The candles in the room were lit and extinguished, and only one of the four doors in the room could be opened. When someone in one room stayed in place and did not move, others could not go to the next room.

These three laws are essentially the same,

just to allow us to circle around a fixed area. ”

“In a circle?”

Xing Hechou asked: “No, the first eight moves are to draw a figure-8 shape on the spot. If

the Grottoes want us to circle around, we can only limit the death to reciprocating in these seven rooms.” , there

is no need to open up this new room (-1, -1).

Even the following paths (-1, -2), (-2, -2), (-3, -2), (-3, -1). ”

“Lao Xing, have you ever raised a hamster?” Li Ang smiled and said indifferently: ”

A domestic hamster can survive in a very small space,

but a space that is too narrow will make the hamster feel depressed and die soon, even running the hamster wheel all day will not help.

Animals in zoos will also suffer from stress diseases and

frenzied self-harm, such as hunger strikes and hitting cages, because of the narrow living space, too few elements they have been exposed to, and insufficient social interaction.

If you want the creatures in the cage to not feel pain and despair, naturally you have to expand the cage space, and let the creatures mistakenly think that they can walk out.

Of course, Grottoes can indeed go out, but to really break the cycle, or start another cycle to go out, I think it will be at step 10055. ”

“Step 10055?”

Xing Hechou’s heart skipped a beat and said solemnly, “So accurate? ” ”

The reason for his tone change is not only because the number is too large, but also because Li Ang’s tone is calm and calm, but also because he knows,

When Li Ang changed back to a frivolous attitude, it meant that this guy already knew the answer.

When the other parties in the communication channel heard Li Ang report 10055, their eyes lit up, thinking about it, as if they understood something.

“Yes, not 9999, not 10086, not 114514, but 10055.”

Li Ang smiled: “(0, 1), (-1, 1), (-1, 0), (0, 0), ( 0, -1), (1, -1), (1, 0), (0, 0)…

Every time we move, we can see the state of the candles in the room, because we push the door open, And the change occurs,

or from dark to bright, or from bright to dark.

When the candles in the room are kept burning at the beginning, when we open the door and walk in, the candles will go out, and the door on the left will open at the same time. .When

the candle in the room is extinguished at the beginning, when we open the door and walk in, the candle will burn automatically, and the door on the right will open at the same time.

That is to say, if the candle is burning at the beginning, turn left ,

if the candle is extinguished at first, turn right.

Along the way, we seem to be moving according to our own will, but in fact, we are completely under the restrictions of the rules of the cave, and

at first we feel that we are walking symmetrically or repetitively. shape,

but the further we go, the more chaotic and erratic the path becomes—because we’ll be walking back into the room we’ve been in before.

After the nameless gale hit, the candles in all the rooms were extinguished, and our passing , so that the candles in some rooms are lit, and when they pass again, the candles will be extinguished again, resulting in a chaotic random pattern

according to the state of the candles in the room and the law of opening the door .

However, this kind of chaotic randomness is essentially a pseudo-random with limited rules. No matter where our five teams are, or

which direction they choose,

if they do not interfere with each other, they will all be at about 10055 steps. Stop the chaotic pseudo-random, start a cycle with a period of 104 steps, and

move in a fixed direction.

Like… an ant. Nebula’s eyes lit up in the

communication channel, and he blurted out subconsciously, “Lanton Ant! ”

“That’s right. ”

Li Ang snapped his fingers with a smile,” The mysterious lock of the grotto constructed by King Shibi is the cage that binds Langton’s ants. ”

“Lanton what?” ”

Xing Hechou was stunned for a moment, his brain was running fast, retrieving relevant information.

“Ant.” Li Ang explained casually: ”

You don’t have to look for it in the database. It has nothing to do with the ant king or the extraordinary elements of the killing game.”

The Langton ant is a concept proposed by Christopher Langton in the mid-1980s. It is a classic example of cellular automata and belongs to a two-dimensional Turing machine.

The rules are also very simple, draw a square grid of the same size on the plane, fill in black or white to all the grids

, and place an ant in one of the square grids.

If the ant is in the black square, turn 90 degrees to the right to enter the next square, change the square to white, and move forward one step;

if the ant is in the white square, turn 90 degrees to the left and enter the next square, Change the grid to a black grid and move forward one step;

just like us, the ant will return to the initial grid

on the eighth move, and continue to draw chaotic shapes after the eighth move.

Until about 10,000 steps, start to draw a cycle of 104 steps, moving in a fixed direction, like building a highway, extending infinitely.

The example of Langton’s ant is to explain a point of view,

that is, very simple initial conditions and rule logic can also evolve into a random situation that seems to be chaotic and disorderly, and this chaos will change again after reaching a certain level. Gotta be regular.

become beautiful.

Just as the wild earth gave birth to the first life from the boiling hot soup. ”

…”

Xing Hechou digested this sentence in his mind and imagined the specific pattern of Langton’s ant, “From chaos to order.”

OK, I get it.

The ultimate purpose of the Grotto Mystery Lock is to protect King Shibi.

It knows that it cannot trap us and can only delay to a certain extent, so it sets up a seemingly simple, but in fact, complex logic to let us fall into a maze.

If the game is played according to its rules, it will take at least another 10,000 moves before it can move forward efficiently.

And this kind of high efficiency is still fixed in a certain direction, not necessarily leading to King Shibi. ”

“That’s right. Li Ang said with a smile: ”

Considering the upper limit of the energy of the grottoes, the entire maze will not extend indefinitely. That is to

say, as long as we walk more than 10,000 steps, it will not take too long, we will walk out of the maze and return to the outside world.

But King Shibi probably couldn’t get close.

And if we want to change our destiny and keep exploring in the checkerboard, there are only two ways.

One, demolish the walls with brute force.

Second, find a way to meet, let one team walk in front, and change the color of the square. When the other team arrives, because the color of the square changes in advance, the direction of the final path will also change.

Neither method is very reliable.

Relying on brute force, it is possible to demolish a dozen or even dozens of walls or doors, but it will soon run out of spiritual power and be in a dilemma.

It is possible to find a way to meet, but it is too time-consuming. After we have planned everything, it is estimated that the daylily will be cold –

the path of a Langton ant is easy to draw, and

many Langton ants are placed together. Then the path will become extremely chaotic and disordered,

and even because of the different speed of travel between each team, it is impossible to start painting at all, and it will fall into a dead end.

No matter from which angle you think about it, this grotto mystical lock is very delicate and ingenious. With only a few rules, it is almost within a square inch, and the complexity and chaos are deduced to the extreme.

From the perspective of an ancient superhuman, King Shibi was indeed very, very smart. ”

Wouldn’t you be smart enough to come up with the structure of a modern cellular automaton thousands of years in advance?

Xing Hechou took the walkie-talkie and listened to Li Ang’s sincere compliments,

but she smiled bitterly, but her heart became calm, a kind of Nobita saw Dora A Meng is taking out the magical props from the four-dimensional pocket with an inexplicable sense of relief, “So brother Li, how can we go out? ”

Dora Aang, hurry up and tell me the method.

“Go out?” Li Ang smiled when he heard the words, ”

No, no, no, if we follow the rules of the Grottoes, we will lose no matter what.

Either it consumes too much spiritual power, or it drags on for too long, in

any case, it can buy enough time for King Shibi to recover.

If you want to crack the mystery, you have to start from the initial positions of the five teams and find the rules. ”

As he spoke, he took out a large piece of metal from the backpack, released alchemy at will, transformed the iron block into a blackboard-like rectangle, and

drew squares on it, as well as the initial positions of the five teams. .

“Through the square walk activity before the Mystery Lock extinguished the candle, we already know where the other teams are currently and where they

started. Can draw a Langton ant route map for each team.

It is nothing more than upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right, four directions.

Five teams, twenty directions,

the island area on the whole map that is not covered by the route map , is the location where King Shibi might exist.”

[End of this Chapter]