(Foreword)

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

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 23:52 p.m

"Huh? Cheng Yin, didn't you just say that Cui Li has rough skin and thick meat? Why are you going to help him so soon? ”

I glanced at Zhao Yuyu and said, "It's true that this guy has rough skin and thick meat, but it's a pity that his IQ is not enough, and it's a waste of time there, so it's better to let him come back early." ”

Zhao Yuyu couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.

"Don't laugh, what I say is true."

Zhao Yuyu nodded and did not speak.

With that, I took another step and walked towards the main body of the robotic arm.

This time I'm going to have to do everything I can to open the steel panel, and they're still waiting for us in the hall. As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but speed up my pace.

came to Cui Li's side, and this time I didn't say half a word to Cui Li, so I pushed him out hard. Cui Li looked at me blankly...

I pushed Cui Li away and continued to search.

I need to find a switch to turn on this rebar panel.

I kept fumbling around, and the switch I found earlier didn't turn on the rebar panel, it just reduced the level of noise around me. So this time I had to find the real switch.

The temperature of the main body of the robot arm is still very cold, and my hands will inevitably get a little frostbite after a long time of groping, but it gives me more headaches than this noise. While the switch I touched before was able to dampen the noise, being in this environment for long periods of time would cause lasting damage to my eardrums.

Just as I was struggling, I suddenly felt a nut, and I tried to turn it hard, but it seemed to be rusty and couldn't turn at all. You wouldn't be able to unscrew this nut without a wrench or something.

Speaking of wrenches, I suddenly thought of Cui Li's hiking bag, and it seemed that we could always find what we needed there.

I took a few steps back and slowly moved away from the main body of the robotic arm.

Seeing that I took the initiative to leave there, Cui Li hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Cheng Yin, what's wrong with you?" Is there something uncomfortable? If it doesn't work, we'll think of something else. ”

"No, it's just that I found a rusty nut there."

"Rusty nuts? Isn't it strange that such a large mechanism has one or two nuts?" Cui Li didn't look impressed when he heard the nut.

After all, this is also a very common thing in life, and it doesn't sound great at first glance, so it's no wonder that Cui Li shows a disdainful look.

"Cui Li, don't ignore these two nuts. You've been looking there for a long time, have you ever spotted another nut? I asked rhetorically.

Cui Li thought for a while and said, "This ...... I don't seem to find any other nuts. So ...... you mean? Cui Li looked at me.

"Yes, it's not unusual for such a large mechanism to have several nuts, but the problem is that we have never seen another nut other than this one. It's like there are countless sailboats, pleasure boats, and the like in a vast sea area, and there is nothing to make a fuss about, but the sudden appearance of a ship in an uninhabited sea area makes people suspicious. And that's exactly what we're in right now. ”

"Cheng Yin, it's really strange for you to say that. It stands to reason that screws and nuts should be everywhere on this machine, but in fact they are not, and if you hadn't found out, I wouldn't have noticed it. ”

"yes, so that nut must have something quirky. Cui Li, do you have any wrenches or anything like that in your backpack, I just said that the nut seems to be rusty, and we can't pull it with our strength alone. ”

Cui Li looked at me with embarrassed eyes and said: "Cheng Yin, I'm not omnipotent, this wrench really doesn't have it, after all, I'm a mountaineering bag and not a maintenance kit, who will bring a wrench if it's okay?" ”

Cui Li said the same, but he could always come up with the props we needed before, so I naturally thought that he would carry a wrench, but in fact he didn't.

Since he didn't have it, I had to find a tool from somewhere else that could unscrew the nut.

"Cheng Yin, then what should we do now? Without a wrench, we can't unscrew the nut, and if it's really the key to opening the rebar panel, then we can't get out of this maze, right? Cui Li said worriedly.

Although Cui Li's worries have some truth, it does not mean that we are at a loss, and I believe that the tool to unscrew this nut must be in this maze. Since Murong Feng designed this labyrinth, he would definitely leave the clues in this labyrinth, otherwise how would he brag about his talent?

"Then let's hurry up and find it." Cui Li urged.

Although this tool should be in this maze, this maze is also very large, and if you want to find it, you must have certain clues. I carefully remembered the shape of the nut, it was supposed to be a hexagon, so that we only needed to find a tool with a hexagonal shape, and we should be able to open the rebar panel.

"Cheng Yin, then why don't you and Cui Li go to find that wrench, and I'll go to the main body of the mechanical arm to see if there are any new clues? This way, you can maximize your efficiency and not waste too much time in case your guess is wrong. Zhao Yuyu thought very carefully.

"But...... You one, won't there be any problems? I asked, worried.

"Don't worry, I said before that I have my own measure. Besides, I'm not Cui Li, I know what I can do, so don't worry about me. Zhao Yuyu glanced at Cui Li beside him when he spoke.

"I said Zhao Haoyu, what you said is not right. Am I doing things in a way that is very impertinent? I've always been focused on the big picture. Zhao Yuyu's words were like setting Cui Li on fire, and Cui Li had to fight for who was right and who was wrong.

Seeing this, I hurriedly stopped: "Cui Li, Zhao Miyu didn't mean that, you thought too much." ”

"What doesn't mean this, I think that's what she means, and she said me in a different way, and I was really stupid."

"Okay, okay, let's hurry up and find the tools to unscrew the nuts, they are still waiting for us in Xia Cheng." I signaled Cui Li not to continue to waste time on this matter, who is right and who is wrong in this matter is of no meaning to us at all.

"But Cheng Yin...... It's so annoying......" Cui Li said as he and the two of us went to find the tool to open the nut.

I looked around and wondered: where would be the best place to hide the tool that opened the nut? It should be a place that is not very noticeable......

Hidden with virtual light? I guessed casually. It's a pity that until the tool for unscrewing the nut is actually found, all the guesses are not answered.

"Cheng Yin, where do we look for such a small tool? There are a lot of parts on the ground here, could it be in this pile of parts? ”

I looked at the parts on the ground, and it was not easy to find the tools to unscrew the nuts from them, and it was not necessarily in this pile of parts, as Cui Li said.

I thought about it repeatedly, and through the long exploration of this labyrinth, I found that Murong Feng had always designed puzzles according to common sense, and the puzzles he designed often ended up with unexpected answers, and he was very happy to appreciate the anxious expressions of people who were unable to solve his puzzles.

If you think about it this way, this tool shouldn't be in this pile of parts. Otherwise, even if there are a lot of parts, it will only be a matter of time before we find them. This does not show his talent, and a person with such a conceit would never do such a thing.

"Cui Li, I don't think we should waste time, there shouldn't be the tools we are looking for in this pile of parts on the ground."

"What? Cheng Yin, how can you be so sure? I didn't look for it, what if it was inside? Cui Li didn't stop because of my words, he was still looking for the pile of parts on the ground. Since he was so stubborn, I couldn't convince him, so I had to let him go, and I continued to look for other places on my own.

As far as I can tell, Murong Feng will definitely hide this tool in a place that we can't think of and is close to us, and only in this way can we satisfy his childish vanity to the greatest extent. Thinking of this, I suddenly thought of a place that had been overlooked by us all along, but it did just appear in front of us.

I walked briskly over to the fake console. The existence of this console has always puzzled me, it seems useless on the surface, but it is so noticeable, but anyone who is looking for it in this square will definitely look for this fake console and return to nothing, so this is what I am most curious about.

I carefully explored the fake console again, and it didn't look very big, but there were quite a few switches on it. All kinds of switches can be said to be dazzling, I have turned and pressed the switches on it at will before, but it has no use, and then Zhang Han and Cui Li have also tried, but it is still useless.

This time I pressed all the switches on it one by one, and I was afraid that there was something we had missed before, but to my regret, nothing happened.

Could it be that I'm wrong? Is this really just an ornament? Doesn't work? I asked myself again and again, but the answer was clear - nothing worked, nothing happened.

I slapped the fake console hard, which scared Cui Li, who was looking for a large number of mechanical parts.

"Cheng Yin, what's wrong with you? Didn't you tell me that console was fake?"

I looked at Cui Li and didn't know how to explain my behavior to him.

"It's okay, I'm just a little upset." I stopped the slapping of my hands, and Cui Li let out an "oh" and continued to work through his pile of mechanical parts.

Looking at Cui Li's appearance, he is like a hard-working farmer plowing in the field, but there is no harvest.

I looked at the fake console and always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't tell. As I thought about it, I was amazed to find that the console in front of me looked the same as the one I had seen at first, but it was fundamentally different.

The switch buttons on this console are actually the same color, and the buttons on the console I saw before are clearly colorful.

But the position of this console shouldn't have changed, right? Why are the buttons on the top different?

I looked at the console in front of me in confusion, but I couldn't say why.

"Cui Li, come here." I shouted to Cui Li, who was there looking for tools.

Cui Li walked over slowly and said, "What's the matter, Cheng Yin, I haven't finished looking for the parts there, and I forgot which ones I have found and which ones I haven't found when you shout like this." ”

"I said Cui Li, you don't care about those mechanical parts first. Why don't you come and see what makes this console different from what you've seen before? ”

Cui Li looked at it and said perfunctorily: "Isn't this the console I just saw?" It's no different. What's wrong Cheng Yin, mysterious. ”

I repeatedly confirmed with Cui Li, "Are you sure that the console you see is exactly the same as the current one?" ”

Cui Li was not so confident when I asked this, and asked rhetorically, "Poor...... Pretty much. Does it matter? ”

I looked at Cui Li with very serious eyes, and said word by word: "Very important." ”

Cui Li was carefully watched by me as soon as I said this, and this time he seemed a little hesitant and said, "It looks a little the same, but it seems to be a little different." When you say that, I'm really a little unsure. ”

"It's the color, did you notice that the color on it is different from what you saw before?" I focused on prompting Cui Li to look at the color of the buttons on this fake console, Cui Li looked at it for a while and said in surprise: "Yes, don't you say that I haven't found out that the button colors on this console are actually the same color, it wasn't like this before, it was still different before, why did it change in a blink of an eye?" I see, you must have just slapped it hard and broke it! ”

I looked at Cui Li with contempt and said, "Your joke is not funny, but this console doesn't seem to be so simple, it's not a useless ornament. ”

I looked at the fake console in front of me, and I was sure there must be some other clue in it.

(End of chapter)