(Foreword)

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

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 19:55 p.m

"This maze is not as simple as we think, we must not be careless, the details determine success or failure." Xia Cheng said.

All of us are getting nervous again, and we don't yet know the true strength of this labyrinth.

We walked down the walkway, carefully checking the walls around us to see if there were similar mechanisms.

"You've seen it, and that's what I saw in the labyrinth below." Cui Li shouted loudly in front.

We walked over, and sure enough, it was the 'linkage mechanism'. Cui Li spun the mechanism hard, but nothing happened.

I looked closely at this mechanism, and sure enough, it had a special text on it, just like the previous one.

"There's a 'no' on it." I prompted.

"What do you mean by the words on these organs?" Zhao Yuyu asked.

"We don't know what special connection it may have to do with the unraveling of this agency." Lin Yun looked at the mechanism and said helplessly.

Xia Cheng drew these on his drawings again.

"Alright, let's move on." Xia Cheng said.

We embarked on the road of finding the mechanism again, but I have been thinking about it, this maze is the most puzzling mechanism so far, except for the upper, middle and lower layers, but the maze designed by Murong Feng will be so simple, what are we ignoring.

June 2, 2022 at 20:05 p.m

We successfully found two linkage mechanisms in the middle labyrinth, with the words 'return' and 'turn' respectively.

"What the hell does this mean?" Cui Li tilted his head and looked at the text on it.

"Are you saying it's going to be a sentence?" Lin Yun's hint is very likely.

"It seems that there should be no such 'linkage mechanism' on this level, so let's go to the lower level to find out." I suggested.

In this way, our group went up the stairs to the labyrinth on the lower floor, which had no lights like the middle floor, and we had to rely on flashlights to find it.

"'Come', 'none', 'no', 'return' and 'turn' are also completely ungrouped into one sentence." Cui Li said from my side.

"Do you think this is not a sentence?" I thought about it differently.

"My future, whose future, I stand at the top, looking out at the sea........."

"My future, whose future is it, I stand at the apex, looking out at the sea..."

……

At this time, the lyrics in Zhang Han's headphones came to my ears.

"By the way, could it be a lyric?" I had a flash of inspiration.

"Possibly, but I can't really think of what the lyrics are?" Cui Li said.

We shook our flashlights and searched in the labyrinth below.

"I found !!" Zhao Yuyu shouted loudly.

"This is the one I saw before." Cui Li recognized the linkage mechanism.

"It says 'know'......" Lin Yunzhao said.

We continued walking, and soon found the next linkage mechanism, which said 'Medium'.

"What do you mean by the words on this machine, and how many more are like this? When are we going to find it again?" Cui Li said impatiently.

"And seven." Xia Cheng looked at the drawings in his hand and replied suddenly.

"Xia Cheng, how do you know that there are still seven mechanisms, have you already discovered something?" I asked.

"I already know what those words mean." Xia Cheng raised his head and looked at us: "We found one 'Lai' in the upper labyrinth, four 'Nothing', 'No', 'Return' and 'Turn' in the middle labyrinth, and two 'Zhi' and 'Zhong' in the lower labyrinth. Combine these words. ”

'Together?' Come', 'none', 'no', 'return', 'turn', 'know', 'in'? I can't guess what that means. Zhao Yuyu synthesized the words into a sentence according to what Xia Cheng said, but it didn't mean anything.

"If I reversed the order of these words, maybe it would be easier for you to find the connection." Xia Cheng wrote something on the paper and showed it to us.

I saw that it was written on the paper: return, none, no, know, turn, middle, come.

"Return, nothing, no, know, turn, middle, come? What does this mean exactly? Cui Li was puzzled.

"Well, it's not a complete sentence." Zhao Yuyu couldn't understand what Xia Cheng was trying to express.

"That's !! so" Lin Yun suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong? Can you understand the meaning?" I asked.

"Actually, this is not a sentence, but an ancient poem, but a few words are missing." Lin Yun is well-read, and I can't tell what kind of ancient poem this is.

"Verses?" Cui Li looked at those words.

That's right, this is the second half of the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's "Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple": The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple only bloom. There is nowhere to find the spring of long-hate, and I don't know how to turn into this. Lin Yun read with a blank look.

I looked at the words on the drawing of Xia Cheng, and sure enough, it was very similar to this poem.

"So it looks like we're going to have to find seven more of these mechanisms before we can get out of here?" Cui Li said happily.

Cui Li is not wrong, but I always feel that it is not so easy.

"That's how it should be, we just need to find all the linkage mechanisms, and then turn the mechanisms in the order of the second half of this verse, and we can get out of here." Xia Cheng said.

"Great!! Fortunately, this Murong Feng is not very clever, isn't it a bit naïve to use a poetic puzzle like trapping us all here? The more Cui Li spoke, the more energetic he became, as if we had all left this labyrinth safely.

"Then let's hurry up and find other mechanisms." Zhao Yuyu couldn't wait to get out of here.

We walked through the labyrinth, looking for the linkage mechanism.

June 2, 2022 at 20:19 p.m

Soon we have found the remaining six linkage mechanisms, and the only one left is the last linkage mechanism --- "Spring".

"You say, we've all searched this labyrinth almost all over, why don't we have this last mechanism?" Cui Li said a little discouraged.

It's really easy to find these mechanisms at first, this steering wheel-like mechanism is actually obvious, and you can easily find it with a little bit of care, but this last mechanism just can't be found.

"yes, just this last mechanism, or we would have been able to get out by now." It seems that Zhao Yuyu has identified all the mechanisms, and we will definitely be able to leave here.

"The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple only bloom. There is nowhere to find the spring of long-hate, and I don't know how to turn into this. Xia Cheng recited these lines repeatedly, hoping that there would be some new revelations, but no, the mechanism seemed to have disappeared in a labyrinth.

"How so!! I thought this maze would be easy, but I didn't expect it to reach the last step, but it failed. ”

“………”

Everyone's mood was very low, but it was not surprising that we managed to find a glimmer of hope, but now it is good, there is nothing.

"Xia Cheng, what time is it?" Zhang Han asked suddenly.

"I said we can't get out, and you're still in the mood to care about what time it is." Cui Li said.

Xia Cheng still looked at his watch and said, "It's almost half past eight in the evening." ”

Suddenly, Xia Cheng took out the drawings and said happily, I know what happened to the last mechanism.

"Really?" Zhao Yuyu asked with some disbelieving.

"You look at a verse: The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple only bloom. There is nowhere to find the spring of long-hate, and I don't know how to turn into this. The last sentence: I don't know how to turn into this. I think this last trap is in the middle labyrinth. Xia Cheng said confidently.

"Xia Cheng, even if your guess is right, it's useless, this mid-level labyrinth is so big, we didn't find it when we searched so carefully just now, and it's even more impossible to find it now." Cui Li's words undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water.

"yes, how do we find it?"

Xia Cheng took out a previous drawing and said, "All the answers are here." ”

"Isn't this the blueprint of the seven entrances just now? What's the use of taking it out now? Zhao Haoyu asked.

"What we're looking for now is the last organ of the word 'spring'. Have you forgotten that these seven entrances just form a Big Dipper? Xia Cheng's words were not finished yet.

"The Big Dipper appears in different directions in the sky at different times in different seasons and nights, so the ancients decided the season according to the direction of the bucket handle at dawn and dusk: the bucket handle points to the east, and the world is spring. Bucket handle guide, the world is summer. The bucket handle points to the west, and the world is autumn. The bucket handle points to the north, and the world is east. "I've heard Lin Yun's words before.

"Lin Yun is right, since we could use the direction of the entrance to find the summer lotus flowers before, then now we can also use 'spring' to determine that the direction of this mechanism is east." Xia Cheng said.

"yes, why didn't we forget this, we were able to use the direction of the Big Dipper to find the entrance to the labyrinth before, and now we can also use this to find the location of the mechanism." Lin Yun suddenly realized.

In this way, we determined the general direction of the mechanism, and then through Xia Cheng's watch, we can easily distinguish the direction of the east, all that remains is to find out the location of this mechanism, and then activate the mechanism in the order in the poem, we can leave this labyrinth, but will it really be as simple as we think?

(End of chapter)