Chapter 47: Clues

He swept with a shovel in the heavy rain, and finally found the key in the same direction as the last time, and when he got the key, he began to carefully bang on the surrounding walls, and after a circle, he was sure that each wall was at least ten feet thick, and there should be no dark room. That is, the gap to escape can only be under the feet.

After recognizing the reality, he quickly used a shovel to sweep the area that had not been cleaned up, and when he swept to the opposite corner, he found that there was actually a box under the ashes. He scooped the box out of the muddy water, wiped it with his sleeve, and realized that there was a keyhole in it.

I tried it with the key I had found earlier, and with a click, the box was opened. He quickly opened the lid of the box, only to find that it was not a clue to escape at all, but a small mirror, and when he took out the mirror, there was a candle underneath.

"Mirrors, candles, what is this for, and there is no fire, how can I light ......" Before he could finish speaking, a small flame appeared in front of him out of thin air. He immediately brought the candle up, and the flame came close to the wick, and it looked less like it had lit the candle than it had perched itself on the cotton thread of the candle.

Diarrando held a candle and lit it around

He still didn't see any change, but when he looked around through the mirror, he noticed that in the reflection of the mirror, faint lines began to appear on the walls that had been nothing. When he moves the position of the candle, the light casts on the gray rocks and causes a faint pattern on the faintly undulating rocks.

Dearlando looked at it carefully for a long time, and realized that it seemed to be a whirlpool. The center of the vortex seemed to be in the only corner of the whirlpool that he hadn't yet checked.

He shoved it into the box, tucked it under his armpit, held the candle in one hand, and shoveled it all the way with a shovel in the other. After temporarily waving away the muddy water around you, you can see a circular pattern under your feet.

Diarlando immediately crouched down, scrutinizing the pattern. It was six rings set together, but each ring was divided into several sections. He tried to touch it with his hand and found that all the rings could be pushed.

And when some parts of the ring are aligned, there will be a slight clicking sound underground, as if some mechanism has been opened.

He spun the disc a few times without a clue. Looking for a clue that resembles a cipher disk. After careful discernment. The ring on the disc has three different angles, which are thirty degrees, sixty degrees, and ninety degrees. When the 30 degrees and 30 degrees are lined up in a straight line, there will be a crisp clicking sound. When the 60 degrees and 60 degrees are arranged in a straight line, there will be a dull clicking sound. When the ring of 90 degrees is aligned. It will make a crisp tinkling sound like a wind chime.

He quickly tried how it would be to arrange all the same angles together, but because the number of segments divided by the rings of each layer was different, it was impossible to achieve the unity of all six layers inside and outside.

"Hell, there must be some other clues. Hint! Damn. Somebody give me a hint!" He pushed the disc cluelessly, listening to the constant clicking sound as he subconsciously searched around. The floor had been thoroughly inspected by him, and if there was anything he hadn't seen, it was the ceiling. But the ceiling was too high for me to get close to, if there was a ladder.

He subconsciously said what was in his mind, and then a ladder suddenly appeared and leaned against the wall.

"Hah! ladder!" Diarlando immediately jumped up and threw himself on the ladder, but he didn't expect that after taking two steps, it was dark in front of him, and the candle in his hand burned to the end and went out. And to make matters worse, the time has come.

This time not a dragon spoke, and the room shook, the ashes reappeared, and the room shrank ten feet again.

"It's raining, shovels, ladders!" said Dearlando, who had heard his request, and then felt the key from memory and found the box. Without relying on the reflection of candles and mirrors, he found the ring, but there was no clue to turn the disc at the moment, so he quickly climbed the ladder and tapped on the ceiling and the high walls.

While beating, he also used the mirror to shoot and look around, but there was no change. However, after a great deal of effort, he examined the entire ceiling and walls, and found nothing.

After searching the last small area, he made his way to the middle of the room under the passage where he had fallen.

Reaching out from the ladder, you can feel the passage, but now there is an invisible wall blocking it, and it is impossible to pass through it. In other words, if you can't find the clues, then you can't escape from this escape hatch that you can clearly see.

"Damn, what else do you have?" he smacked the rock above his head in frustration, smashing the not-so-solid sandstone into a hole. The gray dust drifted down, mixed with the ashes below, and it was impossible to distinguish in the blink of an eye.

Dearrando stared at the quagmire for a moment, trying to calm himself down and think about what he had overlooked, and he thought back to every word the dragons had said, wondering if there was some hint in it.

"Challenger, we've opened the Ashes for you, it's a secret room where you need to collect enough clues to escape. The escape clues in this escape room change every 30 minutes, if you can't collect all the clues within the time limit......"

"It's already the easiest challenge mode. The normal challenge difficulty changes every five minutes......"

"If I were you, I'd be able to observe......"

"Finding rules is already within the scope of testing......

He whispered a few times of what the dragon had said, and then found the clue. The normal challenge time is five minutes, which means that it only takes five minutes from collecting all the clues to finally opening the way to escape.

He reflected on the fact that he had found the key, opened the box, and found the disc in a total of no more than three minutes, so that meant that the remaining clues should have been found in a very short time.

And according to the experience of the previous three times, the position of the key, box and disc is relatively fixed, and there is no such thing as changing every round. So what do the dragons mean when they say that the escape clues change every thirty minutes?

"What the hell keeps changing?" he asked softly, but couldn't figure it out after racking his brain. There is nothing but ashes here...... What the hell does this shit ash do except cause trouble for yourself to find something!

Just as he cursed the annoying ashes of the room, a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind.

"Ashes...... Land of Ashes?...... The Land of Ashes! There must be a reason why this room is so named. Damn, I've destroyed the clue myself!" he slammed his thigh, remembering that in this relatively fixed room, only the ashes that he had never been able to see the whole picture and had been cleared in the first place were constantly changing.

He looked down at the room from above, and now that the ash had mixed with the rain, he couldn't see anything. Only by waiting for the next round of challenges will I have a chance to verify my speculation. But if your guess is wrong, then your personal estimation will come to an end.

Taking out the mirror and the candle again, he lit the candle again, and then shone in all directions, and used the mirror to check from all angles for any other clues that could not be directly seen by the naked eye.

This time he saw very shallow and shallow rings in the four corners of the roof, and the rings at the four corners were of different sizes, and when he compared them with the discs on the ground, he could see that they corresponded to the discs on the ground. It seems that after turning the rings to the correct angle, you can take down the four rings except for the innermost center and the outermost border, and put them into those slots in time.

Dearlando estimated the height and distance, and if the room was reduced to ten feet square, he could place the rings in a matter of seconds. The only thing that doesn't matter for sure at the moment is whether the correct way to open the ring can be found in the refreshed ashes.

At this moment, the candle went out again, and with the candle extinguished, it was time for this round of challenges.

As soon as the room returned to its original state and shrunk by another ten feet, Dearlando immediately shouted, "Ladder!" and he carried the ladder to the center of the room with his breath, then climbed up, looking down at the ashes beneath his feet.

However, he was disappointed by the sight in front of him, which was a thick layer of gray dust. Except for the marks left by his own walking, the surroundings are flat, and there is no change in sight, let alone any hints.

"Holy, am I wrong?" he anxiously spun around the ladder to see if there were any overlooked clues. At this time, a very light voice sounded in his ears: "Wind." ”

When Diarrando heard that it was Ermenis's voice, questions immediately appeared in his head, "What does the wind do?" and "How can I make it?"

But he didn't delay for a moment, and shouted: "Big fan!"

Sure enough, a huge fan made of feathers appeared, and he immediately caught the fan, and there was a wild fan around him, blowing up the ashes all over the room.

The ashes filled the room, and it was like dripping ink into water. The ink forms a varied diffusion trajectory in the water, and now the ashes are gradually divided into different layers in the air, starting with chaotic patterns and eventually layering the ashes that look the same.

When they fell quietly, a pattern of concentric circles appeared on the ground. (To be continued......)