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The pinnacle showdown, a challenge letter from a genius boy!

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April 1, 2022 at 10:21 a.m

In a dessert shop on the shopping street.

I watched Xiaoyu's classwork as usual, although it was only a primary school classwork, but it was enough to make me entangled, how many cubic meters of swimming pool at how much speed per second at the same time at the same time at how much speed per second in the water, ask how much time the pool will be full of water after ...

I really don't understand the meaning of such a question, and I can't find any other meaning than instilling it in children that water is wasted.

Finally, I did not hesitate to write at the bottom of the exercise: water is the source of life, please don't waste it!!

Xiaoyu was eating dessert and looking at me.

Char!! You're really here, I've been looking for you for a long time! "Suddenly, the appearance of a dwarf shatters the silence of the dessert shop.

Everyone turned their eyes to the dwarf who had just entered the door.

"What's the matter, Zhao Xie, there is obviously a problem with what you said, first, I am not really here, but really here, and second, you can't look for me for half a day, it's only ten o'clock in the morning, and there is still some time before half a day." I said jokingly as I deliberately looked at it.

"Char, when is it! You're still in the mood, but what kind of cold joke can I say. Char! Something is wrong! A big deal!! The dwarf said breathlessly.

I've never seen such a frightened look on a gnome's face, but today I saw him stumbling in like a panicked fawn.

"What's wrong? What the hell is going on? I anxiously asked him, "Zhao Xie, something is wrong?" What's wrong? ”

"I ...... I can't tell... You'll know for yourself..."The dwarf didn't have time to catch his breath, and he put a piece of letter paper in his pocket that had been folded into the shape of dried tofu in front of me. I read the letter carefully:

Dear Mr. Zhao Xie,

Hello, when you receive this letter, I must have taken one of the most important things from you. You must be in a hurry at this time, right? Frightened by this sudden surprise, are you restless?

Rest assured, your things appear to be in perfect condition at the moment. As long as you accept my challenge, follow the instructions on my letter to the address below, and clear the customs smoothly, I will return the goods to their original owners, and I guarantee that there will be no damage.

By the way, this challenge requires a team of three, which means that you will need to find two people to form a team with you in addition to you in order to meet the requirements of the challenge. Of course, if you can't find the other two team members, you can only announce that you are disqualified from the challenge, and your stuff will never appear in front of you.

Now that I've said all that I have to say, I'm here to congratulate you on your victory over me, a fledgling but invincible genius.

Sincerely.

Salute.

"I'm going to say it all, so I'm here to congratulate you on being able to defeat me, a fledgling but invincible genius boy?" I placed the letter on the table and repeated the last sentence of the letter.

"Shall I say that he is arrogant? Or is it modesty? I looked at the letter and asked the gnome, "What did you lose anything valuable?" No, it's the Queen's phone! My eyes widened suddenly.

"Char, what are you talking about? Didn't I deposit the Queen's phone in the safest bank? How could it be lost. The gnome's words dispelled my worries.

"It's not the queen's phone, so what makes you so flustered, it's us who don't see you, right? But we're all here. As I spoke, I glanced at Arthur and Xiaoyu who were sitting next to me.

Xiaoyu looked at me with a smile.

The dwarf slapped the table, and I could tell that he was really angry, "Char, I don't have time to joke with you!" It's Xie Wanying, I told you before! She's missing! No matter how I call her, she won't answer her phone! ”

When the dwarf said this, I remembered that he had indeed told me on the phone before, that he seemed to look the opposite of him, a woman as long as a telephone pole.

"Zhao Xie, don't worry, didn't the letter say that you want three people? With me and Arthur, we're exactly three of us and can form a team. So that we can at least participate in the so-called challenge. ”

The gnome looked at me, then at Arthur, his expression softened slightly, and thanked us, "Thank you, Arthur, Char. I knew you would help me. ”

"First of all, we had to find the exact address of the challenge." I looked back at the letter on the table, confused.

Although the address of the challenge is written on the letterhead, I searched every corner of the letterhead, but I couldn't see where the address below was...

"Char, could it be that the person who wrote the letter has forgotten some addresses?" Arthur said embarrassedly.

"How is this possible, it must be a test for me, to see if we can find a place for the challenge." The dwarf said earnestly.

At this time, Xiaoyu's drink cup overturned on the seat, and the spilled drink almost confused the letter paper on the table, but fortunately, I quickly got the letter there.

"Light rain!! What kind of mess are you messing with!! This piece of paper is our only clue. The dwarf said with some annoyance.

Xiaoyu didn't speak...

"Okay, Xiaoyu doesn't have a heart, and besides, the letter hasn't been touched by the drink, so don't be angry." Arthur said.

I looked at the letter paper in my hand, there were some traces of the drink on it, and I wondered how I picked it up before the drink touched the letter, so how could there still be traces of the drink? I touched it with my hand and did it. In this way, the traces of this drink were not just obtained, it is very likely that this so-called genius boy got it when he was writing a letter. I had a flash of inspiration.

"Arthur, hand me your coffee." I said to Arthur.

I ended up with the coffee that Arthur handed me, dipped a little with my hand and smeared it on the letterhead.

No... It's not coffee...

I smeared my own juice on the stationery again.

No... Not juice...

Just when I couldn't do anything, I dipped a little of the hot chocolate that I had knocked over on the table and smeared it on the letterhead.

That's right!!! It's hot chocolate, and the colors of the two are very close, and it seems that the traces on the new paper are left by hot chocolate.

"Char, even if we know the traces of hot chocolate on this letterhead, it doesn't mean anything." The dwarf asked, puzzled.

"You don't know, our Xiaoyu is very fond of hot chocolate, and Xiaoyu and I have been to almost all the dessert shops in the city that sell hot chocolate. It only takes a few other clues that I can figure out where it is. I said.

"Any other clues? But there is hardly anything special about this letter. Arthur looked at the letter over and over again.

"That's right, it's just a very ordinary letter no matter how you look at it." The dwarf said disappointedly.

I looked at the letterhead, and suddenly I realized that we had overlooked one of the most important pieces of information. All along, we have been concerned about the content of the letterhead, but we have neglected the most important information, which is the letterhead. In this era of such vigorous technology, the traditional mail business has almost long been forgotten, so why bother to express what can be explained by a short message? So gradually people stopped writing letters. Because of this, it may not be easy to buy a piece of stationery.

"I know exactly where." I suddenly said out loud.

The volume was not well controlled, so that the customers of the dessert shop once again focused their attention on us. Arthur had to make a soft movement and said, "Char, what do you know?" Do you see the mystery in this letter? “

"Really? Say it. The dwarf asked impatiently. Obviously, Xie Wanying's disappearance has caused chaos among the dwarfs, and he has always been wise, but now he has no idea. This detail must have been easy for him to find out in his usual life.

"Stationery, hot chocolate, if the two are combined, then it's not hard to guess the exact location, right?" I said.

"Well, how could I not have found out? It's all because I'm too anxious. The gnome suddenly realized, and Arthur looked at us stupidly and asked, "What is the relationship between letter paper and hot chocolate?" Can you guess the exact location based on that? "Arthur clearly doesn't trust our judgment.

The gnome cleared his throat and said, "The hot chocolate on the letter paper indicates that the person who wrote the letter should have been in a dessert shop at the time, but this is just speculation. As Char just said, we need some other clues to verify, and that clue is precisely the letter itself. Although there are traces of hot chocolate on the letterhead, it is not very old from the paper, so it can be assumed that the person who wrote the letter must have come to the dessert shop shortly after buying the letter to write the letter. ”

"You've been talking for a long time, it sounds like there is some truth, but you still don't get to the point, where is this specific location?" Arthur couldn't wait to find out.

"The location is in the dessert shop next to Deres College." The dwarf said affirmatively.

"Wait...... With so many dessert shops in the city, how can you tell where to go? Xiaoyu suddenly interrupted our conversation.

"There aren't many places where you can buy stationery in this day and age, and the only place where there is a dessert shop nearby is DeLand College, and there is only a historic stationery store near it, and the dessert shop we are looking for." The dwarf said.

As the dwarf said, we have already identified the location of the challenge, and all we have to do now is to rush there without stopping for a moment to rescue Xie Wanying.

"Char, let's go quickly, I'm worried that Xie Wanying will be in danger." The dwarf urged anxiously.

I nodded, looked at Xiaoyu and said, "Xiaoyu, let's go and help the dwarf rescue Xie Wanying first, and you let Uncle De send you back first." “

"Oh." Xiaoyu put down the drink cup in her hand.

So, we left the dessert shop and drove to the dessert shop next to DeLand College.

April 1, 2022 at 11:01 a.m

We stopped in front of a cosy dessert shop and we walked into this dessert shop.

"Hello, here's the menu." The waiter handed us the menu.

There was nothing strange about me looking at the menu handed over by the waiter.

"Hello, do you know a genius boy, has he ever been here?" The dwarf asked, "By the way, his favorite is probably the hot chocolate here, do you have an impression?" “

"Genius boy?" The waiter looked at us suspiciously.

"Zhao Xie, calm down, there may be any clues that we haven't found." I said.

"Calm down? How to calm down? Char, we are not here to drink drinks, you must know that Xie Wanying will be in danger at any time. Do you understand how I feel right now? "The gnomes are about to thunder.

At this time, the manager of the dessert shop came to us, and it was obvious that my movement had affected the normal operation of the dessert shop, and it looked like we were going to be asked out...

"Hello." The store manager said politely, "Are you looking for a genius boy?" “

"What? You know him, where is he now? "The gnome seems to see hope again.

"Guys, since you're looking for a genius boy, please come with me. I can take you to find him. The store manager said.

"Really !!" The dwarf asked incredulously.

"Of course. This is all arranged by a genius boy, you and I can come. ”

The manager took one look at us, then led us through the crowd to the front of a staff passage. She opened the door to the staff passage and led us down the stairs, straight down the narrow, tunnel-like path.

After about five minutes of walking, we came to the front of a brightly lit room.

The store manager made a gesture of please, and the dwarf walked straight in. We followed the gnomes and walked in one by one.

The room is not very large, but it is very neat, there is not a lot of furniture in it, and it looks like a utility room.

In the middle of the room is a table, three chairs, and a row of bookshelves. There was a laptop on the table, and next to it was a device with two helmets connected by wires.

"Is this it? What about that genius boy? Where is he? The dwarf asked angrily.

"As long as you complete the challenge, you will naturally know who the genius boy is? The store manager said with a smile.

There seems to be an envelope next to the helmet. The dwarf caught a glimpse of the letter, walked briskly over there, and picked it up.