(Foreword)

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

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 19:40 p.m

With that, I pressed the up button again, and the upward staircase appeared in front of us again.

In this way, we came to the upper layer of the labyrinth, which is not as dark as the middle labyrinth, but there is some light, and we are walking in the upper labyrinth, and we may soon meet Zhao Haoyu, who is also on the upper floor. Thinking of this, I quickened my pace.

Xia Cheng still looked at the surrounding situation very carefully, and any faint detail could be the key to getting out of this maze. No matter what, we can't give up.

"Zhao Yuyu, can you hear me? Where are you?" Lin Yun shouted in a low voice.

However, we were not able to find Zhao Yuyu, so we could only continue along the aisle.

"Look! There are buttons here too!" I said, pointing to the wall beside me.

This time, the buttons are not the same as the previous ones, there are no up or down markers, just something like a steering wheel.

"What's the use of that?" Lin Yun asked curiously.

"I don't know...... "I don't know what this mechanism does.

I spun around a little at random...... There was no movement around, nothing changed, as if nothing had happened.

"How so? Could it be that this mechanism is out of order? Lin Yun looked at me and asked.

"It could be a linkage mechanism." Xia Cheng said.

"Linkage mechanism?" It's the first time I've heard this term.

"The so-called linkage mechanism means that only these mechanisms themselves do not trigger any effect, but once one of the other mechanisms triggers first, pressing this linkage mechanism will trigger a new mechanism." Xia Chengzi explained carefully.

"First...... And then...... New traps? Lin Yun obviously didn't seem to understand.

"I think I understand what Xia Cheng means, that is to say, under the premise that the first mechanism is not triggered, the second mechanism is invalid, but once the first mechanism is triggered, the second mechanism is also equivalent to being activated." I said.

"That's right, it's understandable, but there's another problem, there are so many mechanisms here, it's impossible for us to know what the pre-mechanism of this mechanism is......" Xia Cheng said worriedly.

"Wait a minute!! I suddenly shouted, "Look there's a text on it. ”

On the ineffective mechanism was engraved a small text "come......

"What do you mean, and what kind of boring riddle?" Lin Yun looked at the text and said.

"I don't know...... But this text may be the key to finding the preemptive. "Xia Cheng's inference is very likely.

June 2, 2022 at 19:42 p.m

We continued to walk forward, and we didn't see Zhao Yuyu's shadow along the way, and I really wondered if she had returned to the middle labyrinth.

As we walked, we saw a downward button, and I pressed it without thinking, when suddenly the stone slab opened at our feet, and a staircase appeared at the same time.

"It seems that we can go down from here, and we haven't found anything up there anyway, so it's better to go back to the middle maze and make another plan." I suggested.

"Yes, maybe Cui Li and Zhao Haoyu have already found a way, and they are now waiting for us in the middle labyrinth." Lin Yun said.

Although I don't believe that Zhao Yuyu and Lin Yun have already thought of a way, return to the middle labyrinth, and wait to meet us. But there should still be good wishes.

"Okay, I've already checked it out here, let's go back to the middle maze first, and then make plans." Xia Cheng said with the drawings in his hand.

Just like that, we walked up the stairs back to the middle floor of the labyrinthine building, and it was as if everything was starting from scratch.

I took my flashlight and looked at the road ahead.

"Be careful, everyone." Xia Cheng was as cautious as ever.

Suddenly, there was a dazzling sun in front of us, and the sunlight was shining on the other side of the aisle.

"You see, it seems that there is sunshine there, which must be an exit." Zhang Han, who had been silent all along, said suddenly.

"Yes, there is really sunshine, have we found the exit unconsciously?" I asked, confused.

"That's a fake exit, let's go the other way." Xia Cheng said.

"Fake? But Xia Cheng, how do you know it's fake? I asked curiously.

"Actually, it's very simple, Cheng Yin, just look at the time." Xia Cheng prompted.

I looked at my watch and suddenly it dawned on me......

"What's going on?" Lin Yun asked inexplicably.

"We forgot a very simple thing, what time is Lin Yun now?" I asked.

"19:45, what's wrong...... Lin Yun suddenly stopped: "So that's the case, it's night now, how can there be such a dazzling sunshine."

"So there must be some mechanism there, let's go the other way." Xia Cheng commanded.

In this way, we changed the way forward and went the other way.

On the other side, instead of dazzling sunlight, it was pitch black, and each of us walked forward with a flashlight.

"We've been walking for a while, but we still haven't found Zhao Yuyu, it seems that she may still be in the maze above.

"Look, there's a mechanism like that just now!" I saw that next to me, there was the same linkage mechanism I found in the upper labyrinth.

I turned the mechanism again, and sure enough, nothing happened.

"Sure enough, it's useless, it seems that it's still the linkage mechanism that I just said in Xia Cheng." I said helplessly.

"And what's the other text on this?" Lin Yun reminded me at the right time, I almost forgot about such an important matter.

I took the flashlight in my hand and shone it on the location of the mechanism, and I saw a new text on it----- "None".

"I'm getting more and more incomprehensible about this, the front is a 'come' word, and now it's a 'none' word, what does this mean." Lin Yun couldn't see a reason.

Xia Cheng wrote down the location of the mechanism and the problems on it on his drawings.

"Let's go." Xia Cheng said.

June 2, 2022 at 19:49 p.m

I continued to walk through the maze, and we still saw a lot of up and down buttons along the way, but we didn't leave the middle maze, which we felt was very important to us. The exploration continues, and we don't stop, and maybe there are answers to these puzzles ahead.

(End of chapter)