Chapter 574: Failure
His voice echoed through the corridor, and then he heard a noise that didn't belong to him.
Click, click, click.
It's like countless masonry rubbing against each other, creating countless stone chips.
Li Ang's face changed sharply, and he turned his head to look, but saw a faint light flickering at the end of the corridor, projecting a huge figure on the stone wall.
He had already written down the topographical map of the entire corridor, and the location of the sound should be....
That stone wall next to room F!
Li Ang made a quick decision, directly adjusted the fire of the kerosene lamp to the darkest, and stretched out his hand to cover the light,
Pinch the screwdriver,
Hunched over, slowed his steps, and silently walked against the wall, rushing towards the end of the corridor.
When he rushed around the corner,
I only saw the masonry on the wall next to room F, which was rapidly rearranging and combining.
Through the gap between two palm-wide stone walls,
I can vaguely see a figure wearing the same rubber suit as him, carrying a lantern,
Slowly walked towards a white-haired woman standing on the edge of the corridor, wearing a gorgeous gothic black dress and a white cloth blindfold.
"Wait!"
Leon galloped wildly and shouted,
However, with a "click", the stone wall closed completely, leaving no gaps.
“...”
Leon stood in front of the stone wall, holding a lamp, panting,
He was out of breath from running that part of the road just now, and his limbs were numb and painful like squeezed sugar cane.
But what he cared more about was the rubber figure that disappeared behind the stone wall, and the white-haired woman standing behind the stone wall waiting.
"What the hell is going on... Why is that person wearing the same clothes as me? Is he a contestant like me, or is he the dungeon designer himself..."
The tunnel gradually returned to darkness, and Leang, who was muttering against the wall, realized that
The kerosene lamp, which had been turned to the lowest gear, had been quietly extinguished during the running just now.
Leon subconsciously reached for the envelope
When his fingers touched the matchbox he had hidden in the envelope, his hand moved inexplicably.
"There are two matches in the matchbox in room B, do you mean that the dungeon designers know that I will turn down the fire and chase it out, causing the kerosene lamp to go out..."
Leon pursed his lips, struck a match, and re-lit the kerosene lamp,
Under the illumination, revisit the stone walls.
He had checked before, there were no dark tiles on the walls, and he would not react to slogans like "open sesame".
"The cylindrical groove just seems to have been used... There are residual water stains in it..."
Leon reached out and wiped the grooves in the stone wall, and after hesitating for a moment, he reached for the glove to his mouth and licked the fingertips of the glove.
"It's kind of sweet... Still a little rusty? Could it be..."
Li Ang's complexion changed slightly,
wiped his gloves with the remaining strips of rag and glanced at the stone wall,
He turned and walked away, returning to the door of Room C.
"If I hadn't cracked the code on the C door before,
Now, then, I should have to install kerosene lamps in the dark and decipher the code against the letters.
Now that I know that the password is to have light, combined with the scene where the corridor is all black, it means that I can use a kerosene lamp now..."
Leon muttered to himself, holding up the kerosene lamp and approaching the eye pattern on the door of room C.
The lights illuminate the pattern, and nothing happens.
"Huh? No response? ”
He frowned, and reached out to spin the button, adjusting the length of the wick to make the light brighter.
Finally, when the light reaches a certain threshold, the metal gate begins to slide to the right.
Like room B, room C has two doors.
He stood in the middle of the circle, waited for the inner door to open, and stepped into it, and the inner door closed at the same time.
Maybe it's to synchronize with the corridor, there is no light in the house,
Leon held the kerosene lamp and walked cautiously,
found room C empty,
There is a big red button on the wall.
There are three things on the floor,
A gold-encrusted water cup with the word "5L" engraved on the bottom of the cup
A plastic pipe with a diameter of five centimeters, and a letter.
The envelope was opened as before, and the contents of the letter inside were:
"Aha, Morgan, you made it to the third room!
Should I congratulate you on making good progress, or should I reprimand you for being too slow?
Given that you've barely cracked my code (though it's really easy), I'm kind enough to give you some hints.
The button on the wall is associated with the water supply system in the entire corridor.
You have to press a button to open the inside door of room C and let the water supply start for 2 minutes.
You'll also need a few extra actions to get the water to the door in room D – you know how.
A final word of caution, listen carefully. ”
Almost as soon as Leon finished reading the last word, there was a sound of the door opening above the ceiling.
The footsteps of men's leather shoes and the sound of women's high heels, one after the other, came to the center of the ceiling.
"Failed, failed, failed"
The man's soulless voice sounded, "Failure, failure, failure..."
"Father, please cheer up."
A clear female voice sounded, more immature than the woman's voice she had heard in room B before, "Mother and sister, they all need you to save you."
If you give up, there will be no one in this world who can save them. ”
"Save..."
The man's voice sounded like a dream, "I've tried everything, but I still can't make the right potion...
I need more time... Time..."
After a long silence, the man spoke again, "Alice." ”
"I'm here."
"It's time now."
"9:30 p.m. on the 7th."
"Is it still too late?"
"Do you mean that? Just in time. ”
“... I'm going to go down into the well. ”
"yes, I'll get ready right away."
"You don't have to come along..."
"What are you talking about, if it weren't for me, you'd have made a mess of the lab, and you wouldn't even be able to remember where the test tubes and beakers were."
“... Thank you. ”
The footsteps faded away in Leon's shouting.
"It's the same as before."
Leon took a deep breath, "Okay, this time another female voice appeared,
For the time being, it can be considered that she is the eldest daughter of an alchemist.
She said it was 9:30 p.m. on the 7th, and based on the battery consumption on my left arm, I should have woken up at 9:30 p.m. on the 7th.
At 9:10, I left room A,
At 9:15, I entered room B and heard a conversation between the husband and wife upstairs.
Wait, the alchemist and his wife were still discussing what would happen after the problem was solved,
How could it be that after only 15 minutes, he decided that he had failed?
He also said that he would go down to the well and save his wife and little daughter..."