Chapter 4: Murder in a Closed Room
Ace looked at the things drawn on the paper and fell into thought, since he had already arrived here, then the nautical chart could be ignored, and the other map of the palace, the door had not even been opened, was it too early to talk about this?
Sketching & Lettering!!!!
"No, no, no!" Ace began to go crazy, "The pictures and words don't make sense at all!
With Ace's impatience, the originally quiet cave slowly became lively. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Did he really untie that square box in the time of a cup of tea?
"Hmph, I didn't agree to come at first, you said you wanted to give it a try, what was the result?"
"If you want me to say, it's a waste of time to keep waiting, is there anyone going to try their luck with me at the other entrance?"
In this way, some people chose to leave, and some people began to attack Shimen, although they knew that it was futile, but the taste of entering Baoshan empty-handed, if they didn't vent, they would suffocate people.
The wait was always long, and I don't know how long it took for half of the people in the cave to be gone, the captain handed Ace a piece of food, and said meaningfully: "Although it's not early, you shouldn't have had lunch! Don't say that the captain is unkind, this meal can be considered lunch, as for dinner-"
Ace only realized at this time that the captain had always had a relaxed expression, as if he didn't pay attention to the problem in front of him, but was more concerned about the situation behind the door.
Looking around, the cave, which had quieted down for some time, fell into another strange atmosphere. The fat pirate protects his crew, but in Ace's eyes there is a sense of surveillance, the thin man doesn't care about his dead-faced servant, leaning against the wall and not knowing what to think, a bearded man holding a ring-headed knife with his eyes slightly closed, and it is not difficult to tell from his fluttering eyelashes and rolling eyes that he is also paying attention to everyone, and a man with a hooked nose is quietly eating his food, with a smile on the corner of his mouth......
"Judging by the current situation, no one will leave!" Hook Nose wiped his mouth and pulled out a piece of sapphire and said, "Then don't waste time." ”
Several water arrows suddenly appeared and shot in the direction of the fat man, who let them have the most such a target! Seeing that someone was the first to strike, the thin man did not dare to slack off, and slapped his palm at his servant, and the man only came and opened his mouth to whine twice, and it turned out that his tongue was long gone.
The bearded man was not idle, and alone, he joined the hooknose side, and while the hooknose restrained the fat man, he and his companion, the blue-haired boy, launched a massacre of the pirates.
The captain sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, drinking with the left guard and watching the tiger fight, Luo Qi said to Ace in confusion: "What's going on!
Ace spread his hands, and let the paper fall to the ground and replied: "I was misled! The key is these words, 'IQ is insufficient, take your life to make up for it' what a simple and direct hint, but I was surrounded by sketches, I originally thought it was quite interesting A mystery I didn't expect, Khan-"
"Take your life to make amends, so the captain brought us—"
"Probably not, otherwise why wouldn't the captain bring everyone in? Presumably the captain was planning something, and we wouldn't be in danger,—— at least for now. ”
Soon the superfluous people were almost killed, and their blood seemed to be attracted in some way, and gradually absorbed from the ground and then through the stone wall to the words on the side of the stone door, although the stone door was still unmoving, but the stone wall produced some cracks, and then a lot of ink flowed out, and then the words fell.
Everyone looked at the twelve stone slabs on the ground, as well as the four stone troughs in the original horizontal batch, and looked at each other.
Luo Qi said suspiciously: "This, this is the end!! what about opening the door?"
"You, go and put the slate on it!" the bearded man saw that he hesitated, and with a knife he pointed at the other pirate and said, "Then you go!"
The pirate looked at the fat man, and picked up a stone slab and put it in the stone trough, and the ink on the ground flew to him as if it were alive, and after a few moments the slate fell, and the ink fell back on the ground, and the pirate was devoured cleanly, leaving only a set of clothes in place.
The bearded man patted his chest in fear and muttered, "Fortunately, I didn't act rashly, but found someone to test the waters." ”
"Could it be that the life of the supplement is not enough!" Hooked Nose showed a wicked smile, "Do you want to try again?"
"No, the mystery of the stone gate has been solved. ”
Ace came out of the crowd, picked up the slate and explained as he walked:
"First of all, the simplest thing is the words on the paper, which everyone knows and I won't go into details, and then everyone will see if these tablets have thought of something? I thought this couplet was strange before, and the current situation is not very similar to the words on the paper? That's right! It is necessary to rearrange it, so that we can get 'the knots are more than the real gold and the stones, and the heart is like the autumn moon and spring clouds';
The next step is an important step, the words on the paper are matched next to the sketch drawing, since this couplet has something in common with those words, then the sketch must also have something to do with the couplet!
Knowing that the couplet is related to numbers, I finally found a breakthrough, and then it is a stone pile composed of thirty-five stones,—— don't ask why, just put it out and see for yourself! There are only three sections of bamboo in three plates, and eighteen qiongbei......
You replace the text with numbers, there are four stone troughs, that is, there are only four stone slabs that can be embedded, and they are combined with at least five digits and up to eight digits, so you can rule out the possibility of 'multiplication, subtraction, and division', so you can add the numbers separately according to the upper and lower links......
With all that said, let's actually verify it!!"
Although everyone listened to what Ace said, there was a lesson from the past, and when they saw Ace holding the stone slab and putting it in the stone trough, they still couldn't help but be scared - especially Luo Qi.
When "Truth, Section, Shimmer, and Heart" were put in turn, a black light in the shape of a "ten" flashed on the stone gate after a few seconds, and then the entire stone gate magically turned into ink and flowed all over the ground.
The door opened, everyone was overjoyed, the thin man rushed in first, the bearded man flew to grab the second, the fat man looked at the captain and the two walked together, and the hooked nose stopped for a moment before stepping into the door.
When Ace and the others crossed a small corridor, they came to a large hall. At the far end of the hall stood a large ice wall, through which a pitch-black coffin was placed with three things on it, and on the top of the hall hung a large crystal - the pearl of the night?
At this time, the thin man was sitting in front of the black line, and the bearded man was looking at the black line, and when he heard the footsteps, the bearded man turned around, and said to Ace with an embarrassed smile: "I'm afraid, I'll have to trouble you! ”
When he got closer, the thin man was wet with blood, and there was a trouser leg and a shoe lying not far away. But the strange thing is that the pirate died very quickly because of the "ink", and the thin man only lost a leg because of the black fog, isn't the trap in the secret room more dangerous the further you go?
Ace looked at the hall carefully, and then thought of the words on the stone tablet in front of the cave, it seemed that the puzzle of this level should be the floor plan.
Take out the paper handed to him by the captain, the above three contents have been used twice, one to find here and one to open the door, then the effect of the rest of this is self-evident.
"Is there only one way? Not to mention how many combinations there are in a hundred grids, even the most basic starting point doesn't make people choose!" Ace was also drunk, "Even if there is a thin man who is lucky, he only lacks an arm and a leg when he takes a wrong step, but he can't afford to hurt such a long distance." Hehe, it's really not enough IQ to make up for it!"
Hooknose came to Ace and said with a meaningful smile, "I've heard about it, I just found some words on the road, I wonder if it will help you?"
Ace thanked him and hurriedly ran back, this corridor is not dark, and people passing by can find something on the wall when they turn their heads slightly, so it's not surprising that Hooknose can find these!?
The inscription on the wall seems to be an article, telling the story of a general who met the emperor. Such an article was engraved here, and along with the floor plan, Ace extracted two sentences from which he was now missing.
...... The general entered the ...... from the side hall Meet the Emperor in the Imperial Garden............
"All the puzzles are solved—— hehe, even I am starting to admire myself. ”
There are so many gimmicks, in fact, it's a path logic problem, which is a piece of cake for Ace, a Sudoku master!
Of course, Ace will not share it stupidly, this time he will "open the way" in front, and the position of the others is roughly the same as when he entered the Yongdao - the thin man fell last with one leg lame.
Suddenly, the thin man exclaimed, and everyone turned their heads to look, but there was no thin man at the end of the line, only a cloud of black smoke flew in the air, and then fell to the ground with a "bang".
"What's going on?"
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the hooked nose innocently spread his hands and said, "I—I don't know!"
Ace keenly noticed the smile on the corner of the hooked nose and mouth, and secretly kept a heart in his heart, and said: "It is very clear on the paper, there is only one way! So it is better for everyone to follow me with peace of mind, if you want to copy any shortcuts, it will end up - No, that's it!"
The fat man looked at Hooknose and narrowed the distance between him and the captain slightly, the bearded man glanced at it, and he distanced himself from Hooknose but didn't dare to approach Ace and them, and Hooknose looked funny, and made a gesture of please and stayed with the blue-haired boy.
In this way, everyone followed Ace with different hearts and continued to advance. If it is divided according to the upper grid of the paper, after walking for another six squares, looking at the hooked nose that is still not moving, the fat man gives the captain a look, and outflanks the bearded man one by one.
The bearded man was always paying attention to them, and the fat man's rolling eyes when he turned back were keenly noticed by him, as the so-called good man does not eat the loss in front of him, the bearded man turned around and ran!
The fat man threw his hands on the ground and shouted, and four walls suddenly appeared in front of the bearded man to surround him, but he was not surprised and split the wall in two, which made the fat man startled.
A trace of doubt flashed in the captain's eyes, but his hand was not slow, and he took advantage of this gap to send three fireballs in a row and flew towards the bearded man.
The bearded man hurriedly gathered his mind and raised his knife to block, but looking at the menacing fireball was easily blocked, the fat man and the captain had a slight understanding at the same time.
And the bearded man also changed his attitude, turned around and met the captain head-on, and the captain reacted quickly, immediately switched to a trick with less elemental power consumption, and then cooperated with physical skills to fight with him.
The fat man sat weakly on the ground, the move just now consumed a lot of elemental power in his body, although it was not affected, it would take time! Zuo Wei saw that the captain had fallen into the disadvantage and also joined the battle, while the right door stared at the hook nose vigilantly.
I'm afraid that the captain relied too much on elemental power before, and his physical skills were obviously not as good as the bearded man, and with the help of the left guard, the captain simply stepped aside and used the fire element to assist the attack.
As a result, the bearded man's pressure soared, and he shouted: "Are you still going to watch the show? If I die, are you sure that you will win?"
The hooked nose fell on deaf ears, whispered to the blue-haired boy, and laughed from time to time.
The bearded man was gradually cornered, glanced around, gritted his teeth, slashed back the left guard with a knife, and then rushed towards the danger area with the captain in his arms.
The captain was stunned, and did not care about the many flames coming out of his body, and took advantage of the pain caused by the bearded man's heart, and struggled to break free of his embrace, and then kicked him farther away, while he returned to the safe area by the force of the reaction.
It all happened quickly, so fast that the black smoke consumed the flames and left the captain with only a "little" wound. The bearded man was not so relaxed, although the smoke quickly dissipated after landing, but passing through the dangerous area, the black smoke still corroded him a lot, but fortunately, his fate was temporarily saved.
Ace looked at the drop point of the bearded man, and sighed in his heart: "The people who can come here are really not stupid!"
That's right, the bearded man's drop point is one of the safe areas!Judging from Ace's move, you have to turn another corner to reach the end, and the bearded man will act like that when he sees through this, and holding the captain just wants him to block the black mist in front of him for himself, if he is lucky enough to survive, it is better to face a limited elemental power user than to face a physical magician.