(Foreword)

The road ahead was thorny and bumpy, but there was no turning back.

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 23:36 p.m

Murong Feng asked me to leave alone, but I refused, I didn't want to leave everyone alone, and all of us came to rescue Li Ruina, but we couldn't lose any of us in order to rescue Li Ruina.

In this way, I continued to look for new clues, if what Murong Feng said was true, then all the clues could only be on those calligraphy and paintings. I focused all my attention on the calligraphy, from which I hoped I had found a solution to the labyrinth.

I casually walked to one of the calligraphy and paintings, and looked carefully at the verses on it: The moon is falling and the sky is full of frost, and Jiang Feng is sleeping. Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship.

There is also no landscape on this calligraphy and painting, just a few simple verses, the brush strokes play softly, but the clouds flow smoothly, as if a puddle of clear water flying on the paper, flowing casually to form the calligraphy and painting in front of you. The power of this Fa is not something that could have been cultivated a few years ago.

We found that all calligraphy and painting have their own genres, and even if they write the same character, even if they are written in different schools, they will be completely different. And I noticed that all the verses here are of different schools, and the writers are very skillful.

From this we can tell that the writer has tried very hard to control his writing habits, but sometimes it is the small details that tell the big picture.

Just by the subtle differences in that stroke, you can guess this step of the field, which is really powerful. But what does the same person who wrote these verses say? And why did the writer take such pains to write these verses in different genres of script? Why is that? The questions in my mind grew more and more.

In retrospect, those calligraphy and paintings were really important, and they also played a very important role in the puzzles that followed, and I continued to think about them....

Just when we were still thinking about these calligraphy and paintings, Zhao Yuyu suddenly found a way to solve these mysteries, so I quickly stopped thinking and walked over quickly.

Zhao found that these calligraphy and paintings have a common feature, except for the first calligraphy and painting, which has both verses and landscapes, the rest of the calligraphy and paintings are either only landscape paintings or only verses. Of all the calligraphy and paintings in the hall, only this one has both landscapes and poems, which means that this calligraphy and painting is equivalent to a reference for us.

The so-called landscape calligraphy and painting with poems, the landscape needs to contain the artistic conception of the poem, and the poem needs to show the style of the landscape, and the two can only complement each other if they complement each other. So just like this Li Bai's "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall", the landscape he is paired with should be this majestic landscape and waterfall painting. I seemed to see hope in Zhao Yuyu's words, and maybe it was really as she said, at least at the time, I believed it too.

So everyone looked for the corresponding landscape painting according to the artistic conception of the poem, and then put the two calligraphy and paintings together. But soon we found out that this method doesn't hurt at all, a lot

The landscape looks like it's not much the same, so it's not easy to find a landscape painting that corresponds to the verse.

All of a sudden, the hope that had been found was shattered.

As far as the current situation is concerned, our situation is very dangerous, and Zhao Yuyu's method seemed to work, but in the end, it still failed.

Although everyone didn't react much on the surface, they definitely took a heavy blow inside. It's like when you see that you're about to succeed and suddenly you are told that you've failed, and it's really uncomfortable.

I didn't continue to look for clues, and the original calligraphy and paintings were put back in their original places as much as possible, and everyone also collected their own feelings.

Xia Cheng returned to his original position without saying a word, looking at the drawings in his hand and falling into deep thought. I can feel the pressure on him right now, and all the hopes are focused on him.

And my mind was messed up at the time. There are only countless questions in my mind, but there are no right answers. Murong Feng is indeed the same maze designer as Mr. Ouyang Yu, and the puzzles he designed make people even more headaches.

I blamed myself deeply for my own powerlessness, how small I was.

Just when we didn't have any clue, Murong Feng seemed to kindly remind us: This mechanism designed is extremely exquisite, and there are three major puzzles in it, so we can only analyze the situation you are facing from different angles, and finally add that only those who are good at mathematics are easier to solve.

I really don't know why Murong Feng is so kind.

However, after Murong Feng's prompt, everyone quickly changed their methods of finding clues, and seemed to be deliberately looking for any details related to numbers. For example, whether the "mountain" and the number "three" in landscape painting are similar, and how many paintings and words there are on the wall, all in all, everyone will never let go of any place that has something to do with numbers, and carefully figure out whether there are any important clues contained in it.

Just because Murong Feng's words disrupted all our rhythms, and we didn't even know if what he said was true or false. If you continue to search like this, you may get farther and farther away from the truth, and everyone seems to be happy with it.

However, after a few words, Cui Li seemed to have found an important clue.

I didn't expect that there would be such a mystery in these simple verses. I looked at the verses on the wall, and sure enough, just like Cui Li had discovered, it was just a coincidence, and it was really the solution to the puzzle. Almost every ancient poem on this wall contains a number.

The first sentence of the poem "Peach Blossoms of Dalin Temple" that we have been watching before, "The April flowers in the world contain a number, and almost every poem we see after that has a number." For example, "The 'three' in the three thousand feet of flying stream, Jiang Feng's 'right' to the sleepy one is the number 'two'." In this way, Cui Li seems to have found the key to the problem. But at that time, I still didn't think so, but what I didn't expect was that Cui Li's discovery was really important, and maybe even he didn't think of it.

But what do these numbers really say? At this point, we are at a loss again. The clues that were finally found became useless again. It's like a long marathon, it feels like you're about to reach the finish line after every turn, but there's nothing in reality. It's like exploring in the dark, but it's hard to find that ray of light. At this time, it is often accompanied by despair and sighs, and I often can't help but ask myself if it's time to give up. But I know that it is far from time to give up, the real challenge has just begun, even the darkest sky will appear at the moment of dawn, but if you give up, it is equivalent to accepting the eternal darkness.

Just when everyone was still puzzled by the numbers on the poem, I suddenly thought of something: Murong Feng said in the hint that only by finding the problem from different angles can this puzzle be solved. What exactly is this different perspective? It seems that no one has ever thought about the problem from this sentence, but the knowledge is stuck to the sentence: only someone who is good at mathematics can solve this puzzle.

Many times, the truth of the truth will always be unintentionally ignored, and at this time, I need to grasp this clue and find a way to leave.

I began to ponder, what exactly do different perspectives mean? I tried to move myself to observe everything in the hall, but I found that no matter how much I moved it, it didn't change. The landscape paintings on the wall, no matter how far and near, or from near to far, move from side to side, but there is still no change. Am I being too careful? Murong Feng's words actually didn't have much deep meaning.

I felt my head hurt more and more, I couldn't find my direction, and my mind started to stop.

But at this moment, I suddenly remembered what Cui Li once said—why do these landscape paintings look so similar?

Yes, it is clear that the person who writes or paints is the same person, but he keeps changing his style in order not to be discovered that these calligraphy and paintings are from the same person. But in that case, why do these calligraphy and paintings look so similar? Isn't that trying to cover it up? Or am I overlooking something?

I walked over to one of the landscape paintings and carefully studied every detail on it.

It was at this time that I suddenly discovered a problem that we had been overlooking all along. Thinking of this, I quickly walked a few steps to the side and observed another landscape painting. In this way, I kept going back and forth between these landscape paintings, looking for the subtle differences on them.

Through several repeated comparisons and analyses, I magically discovered a place, a place that was overlooked by all of us. And that's the crux of all the questions.

At this time, I realized that Xia Cheng had stayed in his previous position and had not moved, and the only thing he had done was to keep drawing something on the paper, as if this was important to him.

In fact, the sentence added by Murong Feng before: Only good mathematics can solve it, not referring to the operation of numbers. Rather, it is the most important category in mathematics - solid geometry. The so-called solid geometry is to present a three-dimensional model in the mind, and the situation is the same now, to combine these paintings in the mind and present a real mountain, the answer lies in it.

Xia Cheng presented us with the drawings that he had drawn there before, and it turned out that he had already discovered this clue, combined these different landscape paintings on the drawings, and had already drawn a three-dimensional figure of this mountain peak.

Everyone looked at the drawings drawn by Xia Cheng, and it didn't take long for new questions to arise. Although Xia Cheng drew the whole picture of the mountain peaks on paper, we didn't find any useful clues in it. In other words, after a long day's work, nothing new was discovered.

Lin Yun seemed to have discovered something. She spread the drawings on the table and pointed to them, saying that there was a continuous path on this peak, and because it had been divided into different landscape paintings, this path was divided into many paths, which did not attract our attention. However, after being combined by Xia Cheng to draw a three-dimensional figure, this path was also connected and ran through the entire mountain.

I looked at the drawings on the table and began to ponder: all the landscape paintings did not seem to have any connection on the surface, or even any repetition, but it was the path that Lin Yun found that connected all the landscape paintings here. Wait a minute...... Something suddenly occurred to me.

From the very beginning when we saw these landscape calligraphy and paintings, we tried to find some order to arrange them, but we never found the right way. Originally, I thought that the content of the poem and the landscape painting would be combined and then arranged, but it was not successful. The path that Lin Yun has discovered now may be the path to our success, so we have to try it no matter what.

In this way, we found the corresponding calligraphy and paintings, and arranged them in order.

Xia Cheng slowly hung the last landscape painting on the wall.

We didn't speak, the hall became very quiet, no mechanism activated, no other movement, as if nothing had happened.

Just when we thought we hadn't succeeded, suddenly there was a loud bang and a door slowly opened to us.

It was supposed to be something that made all of us happy, but the moment the door opened, all of us smiled and disappeared at the same time.

We were all shocked by the scene before us, the door that slowly opened to us was not the exit from the labyrinth, but the entrance to the labyrinth that we had entered before.

Everyone was hesitating whether to walk out of this door, and Murong Feng gave a second hint: many times the original things are not as you imagined, once you stick to the old ways now, then you will never be able to leave here.

Although Murong Feng gave us the first hint before and let us solve the first mystery, it doesn't mean that the second hint he gave is also true. In the art of war, it is said that if it is false, it is real, and if it is false, it can be taken by surprise and unprepared. Just like now, Murong Feng gave a correct hint first, and if he gave another wrong hint, it would be difficult for us to distinguish the authenticity from the false. But we don't have much else to do now.

We decided to face the challenge in front of us, and Xia Cheng and Lin Yun and I resolutely walked out.

(End of chapter)