"Hey! Are you guys okay? "Two seconds after the entrance closed, Xiao Tan's voice came through the floorboards.
"So far, we're fine." Feng Bujue was quick to answer.
Actually, for the two who were in the wine cellar, the closing of the entrance did not bring much fear to them because the principal's office above them was similar to the one below. They were both lit up by flashlights. Therefore, even if the shutter was closed, from a visual point of view, they did not feel that the room had darkened that much. However, the sound of the bang was rather scary. Of course … that was not enough to scare Feng Bujue.
"Brother Jue! The next second, Xiao Tan yelled again. "The door has closed on its own!"
"Ah … I thought so," Feng Bujue replied weakly.
That was obvious. After all, the door could not have been closed by Xiao Tan's group.
"The remote control seems to have lost its function." Several seconds later, Xiao Ling's voice rang out.
She had tried to use the remote control to open the entrance again, and she had failed.
"Hmm …" Phantom Dawn, who squatted down to inspect the door, added, "If you touch this door with your hand, you'll get the hint that it is sealed by a dark force."
Everyone understood the meaning of this hint — the method to open the entrance had changed.
"Humph … Looks like we'll have to split up from here onwards." Feng Bujue smiled and told his teammates through the floorboards, "In any case … go and look around to see if there are any flags that can be triggered."
Speaking of which, the first thing that came to Xiao Tan's mind was the 'mysterious man on the field'.
Thus, the four of them quickly walked to the window and looked out again.
But …
"Brother Jue!" In less than ten seconds, Xiao Tan ran back to the top of the entrance and yelled down the stairs, "The man has disappeared!"
Almost at the same time as he shouted these words, suddenly, from the darkness outside the headmaster's office … came a "whoosh" sound.
"Eh? That … "Brother Jue naturally heard the sound as well." … Was it the sound of the door being pulled open? "
"Uh …" Xiao Tan froze for a second before replying, "I think so."
There was no doubt that the source of the noise was not on the second floor. There were only two rooms on the second floor, the principal's office and the warehouse opposite it. Both of them had flat doors. Therefore, the noise must have come from downstairs.
"What should we do? Should we go down and take a look? "An Yueqin asked after a short silence.
"Of course, this is obviously the main storyline." Feng Bujue, who was under the floor, continued, "Anyway, the four of you have already completed the puzzle that can only be solved by specific characters. It doesn't matter if you get a bento, so … you can go without worry."
"Then what are you going to do?" Xiao Tan asked again, "Do you want to … leave someone here to help you?"
"Absolutely not." Feng Bujue replied firmly, "Leaving someone here to wait for us is like leaving a flashlight here for nothing. How is that possible?" He paused for a moment, then said, "You should hurry up and explore. We'll be fine. When you're done with the plot outside, maybe we'll be able to get out."
He was right. At that moment, both teams had two flashlights. In the wine cellar, Feng Bujue was holding Xiao Tan's flashlight, and Ruo Yu was holding hers. Outside, Xiao Ling and An Yueqin were holding their own flashlights. Although the power of the four flashlights was different, they were all mostly depleted. If there were no accidents, the four flashlights would go out one by one in the next ten minutes.
"Okay … We understand." A few seconds later, Xiao Tan and the others came to a consensus. "Then … Brother Jue, you guys be careful. We'll go first."
"Let's go. Don't dawdle," Brother Jue replied. There was no sense of crisis in his tone. Instead, there was a hint of impatience in his tone.
With that, the four people outside felt relieved. They immediately left the principal's office and headed to the first floor.
And just like that, Feng Bujue and Li Ruoyu were trapped inside that narrow secret wine cellar …
"Are you sure this is okay?" About ten seconds later, Ruo Yu confirmed with her hearing that everyone had left. "You should've noticed … Since the moment the entrance was sealed, this place …"
"I know." Feng Bujue interrupted her. "But I don't think it's necessary to let them know …" He paused for half a second before continuing, "Even if I tell them that the air in the wine cellar is almost as strong as the gaseous alcohol, they can't do anything about it. It's better not to tell them … Otherwise, it'll only add to their stress."
Obviously, both of them had noticed that the situation after the entrance was sealed was not a "change in light" but a "change in air". The former would at most make people feel a little scared, but the latter … was a physiological effect.
"So … What should we do now?" Ruo Yu asked. "Are we just going to wait for the entrance to open by itself?"
"It's rare that we have such an opportunity. Why don't we flirt while we're still drunk?" At that moment, Feng Bujue turned his head and shone the flashlight on his face from top to bottom. He revealed a … hmm … How should he describe it … A "perverted smile" seemed to be more appropriate.
"Okay ~ You can start ~" Unexpectedly, Ruo Yu gave an affirmative answer. However, her expression was dead fish eyes and a stoic face. Her tone was sarcastic.
"Haha … No problem ~" Feng Bujue chuckled again. Then, he used the tone of a ruffian in a TV series who flirted with an innocent woman on the street and said, "Hey beautiful, are you alone?"
"Yeah," Ruo Yu replied.
"Hehe …" Feng Bujue continued, "Do you want to find a place where there's no one around to talk about life?"
"Are you talking about what we're doing right now?" Ruo Yu continued.
"Uh …" Brother Jue couldn't take it anymore. Whenever he was in danger, he would instinctively use a method to deal with it — to lower his bottom line. "Haha … About that, why don't we … do something dirty?"
"Spit in your mouth?" Ruo Yu continued to use her cold tone and sharp reaction to attack Brother Jue's immoral behavior.
"Ha —" Finally, Brother Jue sighed. "Okay okay, I won't joke with you anymore …" When he said this, he finally recovered his serious (relatively speaking) attitude. "Let's continue moving forward."
After that, he didn't wait for Ruo Yu's response. He turned around and continued moving forward. In a few steps, he reached the wall on the other side.
"There's a path over there?" Ruo Yu asked as she followed.
"There's no path, but there's an obvious puzzle …" Brother Jue said as he turned slightly to the side, revealing a row of wine racks in front of him.
The wine racks had three levels, and each level had five wooden troughs. At this moment, there were five bottles of wine in the fifteen troughs. The two bottles in the first row were on the leftmost side; the one bottle in the second row was on the fourth shelf; and the two bottles in the third row were on the first and fifth shelves.
"This …" Ruo Yu reacted quickly. "It's related to the 'Graffiti of the Tower of Hanor' hint in the women's washroom, right?"
"It should be." Feng Bujue replied.
"But … you can solve this puzzle as well," Ruo Yu continued. "Could it be that Momo is a girl in the setting?"
"How can that be … Then there should only be two hints in the men's washroom," Feng Bujue replied. "In my opinion … it's because the hint itself is the same no matter who solves it." He paused for a second and said, "The Enneagram hint of TIC _ TACO _ TOE, and the hint of 'watch your step' … Aren't they all solved by me?"
"So?" Ruo Yu motioned for him to continue.
"So … a hint is a hint. It doesn't matter who discovers the connection." Feng Bujue said, "The point is … there should be some kind of problem that can only be solved by a specific character in the place indicated by the hint." He immediately gave an example. "For example … where the hint of TIC _ TACO _ TOE is used, it needs a person who can play the piano; where the hint of 'watch your step' is used, it needs a person who can dissect; and where the hint of 'watch your step' is used, it needs a person who is 1.6 meters tall …"
"Hmm …" Ruo Yu heard this and said thoughtfully, "It makes sense … where the hint of 'pattern pattern' is used, it needs a person with great mathematical ability."
"Yes." Feng Bujue nodded and continued, "The thing indicated by the hint may not necessarily be something that requires a specific skill to solve, but … when such a thing appears, it means that the puzzle that requires a specific skill to solve is nearby."
"Understood." Ruo Yu said and glanced at the wine rack again. "In that case, I'll leave this' Tower of Hanor 'puzzle to you."
"I think so too." Feng Bujue said, "Help me keep an eye on it. If any monsters emerge from the surrounding walls, ceiling, floor, or even the wine bottles when I move the wine bottles, help me slap them."
"Okay." Ruo Yu calmly agreed to this request.
Then, Feng Bujue prepared to move the wine bottles.
However …
"Huh?" He had just picked up the first bottle when he was stunned with a puzzled expression.
"What's the matter?" Ruo Yu asked.
Feng Bujue did not answer. He just silently turned the wine bottle in his hand and showed the wrapping paper on the bottle to Ruo Yu.
"This is …" Ruo Yu looked at the wrapping paper, but there was not a single word on it. Brand, name, description, year … there was nothing on it. What was printed on the wrapping paper was a picture.
"Heh …" After thinking for a while, Ruo Yu sneered, "So that's how it is."
"Looks like that's how it is." Feng Bujue shrugged and put the wine bottles back on the wine rack. He then walked around Ruo Yu and gave up the position in front of the wine rack.
Ruo Yu did not waste any time. After two steps, she picked up the five bottles of wine one by one and began to identify the pictures printed on the wine bottles.
…
Now, let's talk about the rules of the so-called "Tower of Hanoi Game".
The game originated from an ancient Indian legend. I won't go into details about the legend here … To put it simply, the rules were to first set up three pillars and put a number of discs on one of the pillars. The size of the discs had to be from top to bottom, from small to big. The goal of the game was to move all the discs from one pillar to another pillar, under the premise that only one disc could be moved at a time, and the smaller disc could not be placed on top of the bigger disc.
This was not a complicated game. Most people could quickly find the rules of the movement and complete the movement in the shortest time possible.
For example, the three floors of the wine cellar were equivalent to three pillars, and the five bottles of wine were equivalent to five discs from small to big. The problem was … How to differentiate the sizes?
Brother Jue thought that he could solve this puzzle because he thought that he could easily distinguish the sizes of the five bottles of wine.
However, as mentioned above, when he saw the bottles, he realized that he could not decipher the information recorded on the bottles.
If the information given here was words, numbers, code, or something like that, or if there was a slight difference in the size and shape of the bottles, Brother Jue would definitely be able to decipher it. Unfortunately, there were five paintings printed on the five bottles of wine.
Needless to say, in the team, only Ruo Yu, who owned an art gallery at home, could sort the five bottles of wine in front of such a prompt.
…
"Okay, it's confirmed." In less than two minutes, Ruo Yu opened her mouth again. She stretched out her slender finger and gently pointed at the wine bottles in front of her. "There are a few small traps in here … At first, I thought they were arranged according to the year of the painting. But soon, I found out that Doucet's' Beauty of the Harem 'was painted in the latter half of the 19th century. This has a certain conflict with the' Alyoonushka ', which was published in 1881. I can't tell which came first, which came later …"
As she explained to Brother Jue, she was already moving the five bottles of wine.
"After that, I considered the size of the painting, the genre, the style, and even the situation of the painter at that time … but some of the information was already beyond my knowledge. So, I changed my mind and finally found the problem … "
At this point, she had already placed the five bottles of wine in the five slots at the top of the wine rack.
Just as her hand left the mouth of the bottle, there was a click, and the sound of some kind of mechanism being activated came from the wine rack.
Then, the system prompt came: [Transfer the five bottles of wine to the bottom of the wine rack in the correct order.]
"It seems that I was right …" Ruo Yu heard the prompt and continued, "The original position and distance of the five bottles of wine implied that the five painters were from three different eras, and the order of their deaths. So … the basis of the five bottles of wine was the 'lifespan' of the five painters."
After saying that, she did not wait for Brother Jue, who was still in a daze, to say anything. She began to move the wine bottles according to the rules of the Tower of Hanor.
In fact, Ruo Yu was also a little anxious because … after staying in this place full of "wine" for a while, she was indeed a little drunk. Her cheeks were red, and even her head was a little dizzy … This was not a good sign.
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