Chapter 015: Puzzles
Gaudus bit his fingertips and dripped some blood on the scroll.
This is the usual way to crack the hidden content of paper literature, and in the early days of the game, countless newbies have been able to get the abilities and skills they want.
Bright red blood beads flowed on the scroll pages, but instead of being absorbed by the pages as expected, they dripped directly to the feet of Gauldos, and it seemed that the handwriting hidden on the scroll did not react with the blood.
Is it water?
Gaudus dripped some more water, and it was... No response.
Is it to burn with fire?
Gaudus immediately rejected this idea, and the human skin is a typical carbon-based tissue, with weak fire being its greatest feature. Of course, it is not excluded that the human skin paper that has undergone special treatment and processing will react when burned with fire, so that there will be unexpected discoveries. Just, what if?
If it does burn to ashes, then the result is nothing.
Acid corrosion, cryogenic freezing, lightning overconduction... and so on, which were vetoed by Gaudus one by one.
What to do?
It seems that the experience in the game is not used here, and Gaudus begins to think back to the old necromancer Ray? Field's methods of deciphering various secret pages, scrolls, and books with magical texts.
First, it is soaked in the juice made from the petals of the Xilan flower for 6 hours to increase its sensitivity to various magical powers.
Finally, soak the sap from ground leaves for 6 hours to ensure that the magical power is stored on the scroll for a long time.
Finally, cast any sequence of spells on the target. Because of the soaking of broccoli juice, the sensitivity to magic is increased, so that the hidden text on it can be activated with the corresponding sequence of magic, and under the effect of the sap of the arrowroot, the magic power can be retained for a long time, and the magic text can continue to appear.
After recalling all the steps to crack the problem, Gaudus immediately left the crypt with the five skeletons and came to the Hengduan Mountains.
And Spider Queen was finally able to leave this small, closed, dark crypt and return to the vast land where the sun shines.
That's how Alice met Spider Queen. She curiously touched the sturdy, sharp ends of her arthropods, imagining if it was using this organ to hunt? And that pair of peculiar eyes, like hundreds of pairs of small eyes stacked on top of each other... That's a compound eye, could it be that there will be hundreds of Alices in front of its eyes?
The first time I saw such a hideous, beautiful line and full of strange evil beauty of the insect-like beast, the girl's curiosity was burning, and she circled around the spider queen, eager to see it all over her body.
It's not the first time she's seen a human, but it's the first time she's seen a woman, and her compound eyes are constantly moving, quietly observing the beautiful Alice.
His instincts told it it should be a tasty food, perhaps better than lamb.
"This is Spider, my old friend."
"This is Alice, a friend I met the other day."
Listening to the introduction made by Gao Duos for both parties, Alice's face bloomed into a beautiful smile, she touched the rough carapace of Spider Ji, her legs slightly bent her knees, and bowed seriously.
Spider was thoughtful, and it seemed that she should have treated this girl the same way she had treated Gauldos. So it blinked twice and gently waved its front leg twice to show its friendliness.
Seeing that the two sides got along so amicably, Gao Duos couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that Spider Ji is really wise, and she is also very good at figuring out people's emotions and intentions, and with it, Alice's safety is naturally guaranteed, and she can rest assured that she can go to collect Xilan flowers and ruined arrowroot grass.
It is a mountain flower that loves darkness and grows in the shade of the cliffs in the Hengduan Mountains.
As for the grass, it can be found in the plains at the foot of the Hengduan Mountains.
Although the Xilanhua is not rare, it grows on the cliff after all, even if it is a lower cliff, its relative height from the flat ground is at least 3 or 4 hundred feet.
Despite the risks associated with picking, Gaudus came up with a solution. One of the five dominant skeletons around him happened to be a hunter during his lifetime, often hunting in the Hengduan Mountains region, and his best skill was climbing mountains.
With his stabbing sword, Gaudus severed some of the vines and tied them together into a long rope that held the hunter's skeleton in place to prevent it from falling into a mountain stream.
After making his preparations, Gaudus lowered the ropes, and the hunter skeleton slowly descended into the depths of the mountain stream.
The skeleton had lost its flesh cover, and its weight was very light, and it felt easy for Gaudus to tug at its body.
In this way, it took him several more hours to gather enough Silan flowers. Looking at this large bundle of flowers, Gaudus expected that if he crushed them all into sap, he would probably only be able to hold such a small bottle.
He then returned to the plains at the foot of the Hengduan Mountains to pick the grass of the arrowroot. It is a very bitter herb, so it can thrive in large numbers without the patronage of herbivores.
With the help of five dominant skeletons, it didn't take him much time to pick enough of the Corrupt Grass.
Upon returning to the lab, Gaudus found two sets of old grinding tools from the ruins, similar to miniature hand mills, made of rough iron. Gaudus gave the order to grind, and the two dominant skeletons acted like perpetual puppets, slowly and mechanically manipulating the grinding tools, grinding the arrowroot grass and the Silanhua into sap.
Finally, it took a few more hours, about the time Alice fell asleep and woke up, to use the skeleton to grind out about 1 pint of kudzu sap and Silan flower sap. Gauldos put them into two separate bottles and poured them onto the scroll of parchment.
This time, the sap of the Xilan flower and the sap of the sap of the spp. were no longer as impermeable as before, like a sponge absorbing water, and the pages easily absorbed the sap, and became like a baby's skin, full of delicate and moist luster.
Gadoth's fingers touched the parchment pages, and then infused them with the magical power of a sequence of the undead.
Void.
Well, it can only be the soul.
Gaudus tried to inject a wisp of the magical power of the soul sequence.
After that wisp of magical power was annihilated, a faint ripple of magic was stirred up on the human skin page!
As he continued to inject soul magic power, the pages reacted, and blood-red lines gradually appeared, and these curved or straight lines were combined to form a six-pointed star pattern.
And in the center of the six-pointed star pattern, there is a graffiti of a spider.
Gaudus looked at the scroll and thought to himself that it must be a puzzle recorded with the magical power of the soul sequence, and as long as this puzzle is solved, then the treasure of the dungeon will be at his fingertips.
It's just, how to crack it?
Gaudus stared at the pages of the scroll, especially the spider's graffiti. Obviously, this should have something to do with Spider Queen.
So, what exactly does it have to do with Spider Hime? And how to explain this blood-red six-pointed star?
However, one thing is for sure, since the scrolls are found in the dungeon, the puzzles of the scrolls may be answered in the dungeon hall.
Gauldos returned to the hall.
He looked up at the high ceiling to see if it had a six-pointed star, but unfortunately, there was nothing on the ceiling except for a large number of broken cobwebs and a broken cage hanging in the center.
Wait a minute...
This cage, as it looks, looks familiar.
Gaudus recalls a memory of Spider Queen, who seemed to have been kept in captivity in her cage when she was feeding her as a juvenile spider in her infancy.
The cage obviously showed signs of corrosion and destruction, which should be that Spider Ji destroyed the cage with Black Widow's poison after ending her juvenile period and entered a larger space.
Could it be that this cage corresponds to the spider graffiti on the scroll?
Gaudos glanced at his feet again, and the hidden grid of the scroll and the cage hanging from the ceiling were in a vertical line.
This should not be a coincidence.
He looked around the ground again, and the floor was made of stone bricks of the same shape, and the dark grid was in the very center of the ground.
Gaudos glanced at the scroll again, and had a new guess.
He whistled, and in less than 7 seconds, Spider appeared in front of him. Gaudus pointed to a stone brick and asked Spider to spray Black Widow poison at it, and Spider did so.
Gaudus then pried open the brick, and sure enough, there was a groove hidden under the stone brick.
This groove confirmed Gadors's suspicions, and he did so, priing open brick after brick, and the groove hidden under the bricks was unveiled one after another.
Finally, after a long period of busyness, at the feet of Gaurdos, countless grooves reappeared, and they formed a majestic pattern... A six-pointed star that covers the entire hall.
As Gaudos judged, the spider graffiti refers to the cage in which the spider is kept in captivity, and from this point of view, the relative position of the hexagram can be determined, and then the excavation begins, so that the groove that makes up the hexagram comes to the surface.
Finally, there is the six-pointed star on this scroll, the color of the pattern is bright red, what does this mean?
There were only two answers that Gaudus could think of, one was to cover the six-pointed star with flames, and the other was to fill the grooves of the six-pointed star with blood.
The answer is already obvious, the old necromancer built this dungeon, he hates fire and light the most, and with his style of conduct, it is more likely that the grooves will be filled with blood. page