(Foreword)

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

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 20:40 p.m

But this time all the mechanisms still didn't turn, and suddenly the stone wall in front of us began to slowly open, and we succeeded!! My eyes were filled with joy.

"Zhang Han, we succeeded!" Before I could finish my sentence, the half-open stone wall suddenly closed again.

All of a sudden, hope vanished in front of me...... What's going on? I looked at the closed stone door, and it looked like it was going to succeed, how could this be? Am I mistaken?

"Cheng Yin, it doesn't seem to work......" Zhang Han said.

At this time, I suddenly felt the ground under my feet begin to shake: "Zhang Han, what's going on?" Could it be an earthquake? ”

"I don't know ......" just when we didn't know the situation, suddenly the ground under my feet began to sink rapidly, I didn't stand firm, suddenly fell to the ground, the ground under my feet fell directly to the ground, fortunately I was quick, quickly grabbed the ground next to me that had not fallen.

It turned out that not all the ground under our feet began to fall, but only most of it, Zhang Han stood tremblingly on a small stone crevice, and the ground on the left and right sides had already fallen, as long as Zhang Han did not stand firm, he was in danger of falling at will, let alone come to help me.

"Cheng Yin!! How are you? Zhang Han shouted.

"I'm fine...... I used all my strength to hold on to the stone wall, and suddenly my right hand didn't grasp it steadily, and I almost fell down, but fortunately my left hand didn't let go, I looked down, it looked bottomless, and if I fell, it was not enough to have a few lives. I pulled upwards hard, grabbed back the rock wall with my right hand, and finally climbed up again.

"Cheng Yin, what now? I can't move anymore. Zhang Han looked left and right and said.

The only thing I'm lucky for now is that I can barely move to the front of the traps, but I still don't know how to activate them properly, and if I get it wrong again, chances we'll never have a chance again.

"If it's not the word count of a verse, what would it be?" I can't think of any other place in this maze where numbers have ever appeared.

"Is it possible that we are thinking in the wrong direction, you can try to think differently."

It was quiet, and I could hear the sound of falling rubble.

I couldn't think of any answers, I kept searching my head for numbers, but no matter how hard I tried, it didn't work.

"Peach Blossoms of Dalin Temple": The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are only blooming. There is nowhere to find the spring of long-hate, and I don't know how to turn into this. My mind somehow returned to this verse.

"It's still the same poem, it's just that I didn't find the right way just now." I pondered.

Wait, no, we had seen this verse on the stone wall of the entrance before I entered here, but strangely enough, only the first two verses were engraved on it, not all of them, why is that?

The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are only blooming.

………

What is this verse trying to tell me? I closed my eyes, carefully searching for the answer, and suddenly I opened my eyes: "Zhang Han, I may know the answer." I said confidently.

"Are you sure? If it's wrong this time, it's ......" Zhang Han didn't continue, but I knew what he meant, this time it must not fail.

"Don't worry, this time it will be successful." I cautiously thought about the mechanism and walked down, and there were a lot of stones falling along the way.

If this verse is the answer, then why is only the first half of the poem engraved? Not all the verses were engraved on it. That's probably all there is to it.

The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are only blooming.

There is a clue to the activation mechanism in this verse. There are two sentences in the whole sentence, the four in the first sentence is the first number, and the second number is in the second half of the sentence.

I put my hands on top of the fourth trap, and this time it was right anyway.

"Zhang Han, it's on." I turned the mechanism hard.

This time is different from the previous ones, there is no change in the surroundings, and it is uncomfortably quiet.

"Cheng Yin, there doesn't seem to be any change this time." Zhang Han said.

Nothing has changed, and it seems that everything is on the second mechanism that I am about to turn.

"Cheng Yin, what is this second number?" Zhang Han confirmed.

"Actually, I've always been very concerned about why only the first half of the poem is engraved on the wall, in fact, this is the answer we are looking for, there is an obvious four in the first sentence, so the first mechanism is more than four." I explained.

"But Cheng Yin, are you mistaken, there are no numbers in the second sentence." Zhang Han was not wrong, there were no obvious numbers in the second game, but the real numbers were contained in them, but we didn't notice them. "I took a few more steps forward.

"I don't really understand the real numbers, but since you've decided, I choose to trust you." Zhang Han cast an affirmative look.

"The second sentence: The peach blossoms in the mountain temple have only bloomed. The beginning of the middle is the beginning of all things, and if I guess correctly, it should refer to the beginning of these organs. "I walked to the front of the first mechanism.

"So that's the case, Cheng Yin, it seems that what you said is not wrong." Zhang Han said approvingly.

"However, we all ignore one thing, that is, 1 is not the beginning of everything, the real beginning should be from 0!!" I picked up the escape hammer that Cui Li had given me earlier, and slammed it hard into the stone wall in front of the first mechanism.

"Cheng Yin, what are you doing, what if this road collapses?" Zhang Han said nervously.

"Don't worry, we should have been out by then." I slammed all my strength into the stone wall, and suddenly a new mechanism appeared inside the stone wall, but there was no vertical line on it, and it seemed that this was the number 0 mechanism I was looking for.

I clasped it with both hands, and then turned the mechanism vigorously, and suddenly the door that had been closed in front of me opened slowly again, but this time the door was not suddenly closed, and it seemed that my judgment was correct.

This time, the ground that had fallen had become flat again, and Zhang Han could finally move his feet, hoping to appear in front of us again.

(End of chapter)