The Chosen System: Counterattack with Husband

Xu Yiyu looked down at the "copy" of the maze in his hand. His other hand was somewhat inconvenient to move due to the injury.

She simply didn't care about the dust on the ground or her image, she just sat down on the ground, took out a small stone from her pocket, and began to draw possible routes through the maze on the ground.

After hearing what Xu said, Lin Yi and Rong Yan also followed suit and sat on the ground. One of them held a pen, and the other drew lines on the photocopy with his finger, trying to find a way through the maze.

The black cat who led the three people here was not in a hurry. He just paced between the three people occasionally, as if checking their progress in solving the puzzle.

When concentrating on doing one thing, Xu Yiyu often unconsciously ignores everything around him.

After she scratched the ground with the tip of a small stone for half a minute, she quickly understood one thing.

——This maze, which looks quite complicated and difficult to solve, definitely has more than one way to pass it.

Just from the few strokes that Xu drew with the stone in half a minute, she was able to identify no less than four routes to pass the level.

After putting down the stone to rest his injured hand, Xu Yiyu raised his head and took another look at the huge circular maze.

She was originally thinking about the route to pass the level, but her eyes involuntarily drifted to the sixteen words in the upper left corner of the maze.

Depart in the morning and arrive in the evening, traveling from south to north.

The four directions gather together and the world becomes one.

She, Xu, is also a puzzle enthusiast in the general sense, but she felt that something was wrong with these sentences.

Generally speaking, the purpose of setting up a maze is to allow later comers to get out of the maze.

But the message conveyed by these sixteen words is that the builders do not want later generations to get out of the maze.

Xu Yi Yu, the little puzzle-solving expert, couldn't think of the answer for a moment, because in the mazes she had walked through before, it was not uncommon for her to use superficial clues to convey wrong information and confuse people.

At this time, Rong Yan also raised his head and began to observe the entity of the maze again.

Although he had never exchanged ideas with Xu Yiyu, as he looked at the maze, he had similar thoughts and ideas as the team leader.

All the mechanisms in the underground palace are set up not only to block people who have ulterior motives for something here, but also to protect some secrets that cannot be known to outsiders. From another perspective, it actually gives visitors the opportunity to explore here.

Moreover, the path that Xuanmao led them on should not be a mechanism built specifically to confuse them.

Only those who pass the test can know the secret.

This is the common understanding of puzzles among almost all puzzle lovers.

When Lin Yi raised his head to observe the maze, he saw Xu Yiyu and Rong Yan at first glance who were looking at the maze entity with similar expressions and perspectives.

Hmm… A rather inappropriate image suddenly popped up in his mind.

Why do these two companions look so much like the two cat emoticons on the Internet that look like they’re thinking seriously?

After Xu Yiyu had almost drawn a map of all the routes through the maze in his mind, he turned around and found that there was a hint of subtlety in the look in Lin Yi's eyes when he looked at him and Rong Yan.

It seems like I am reminded of something...an interesting picture?

"Ahem, Captain Lin, do you have an idea? Do you want to talk about it?"

She symbolically cleared her throat twice, as a reminder to Lin Yi.

Although the captain of the Anhui Province Criminal Police Team's personality is not as serious as he looks, under the current circumstances, the key point is for them to figure out the route to pass the maze first.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze almost a little embarrassed. Except for the previous times when his life was in danger, Xu Yiyu rarely saw such a human expression on his face.

"Well, this maze is actually not as difficult to walk through as it looks, but the actual difficulty lies in this point."

Lin Yi picked up a stone and started writing on the ground, unconsciously putting into practice the habit of analyzing cases with his teammates when they were solving cases in the team.

"We have just tried various ways to get through this maze. I believe both of you have come up with at least six routes. This probably means that the maze designer did not intend to make the complexity of the maze difficult for newcomers when designing it. Therefore, clearing the maze should not be the most difficult problem to solve."

After Lin Yi wrote a few key words on the dust on the ground with a stone, he circled the word "pass" and drew a question mark next to it.

"In the eyes of maze designers, the choice of how to pass a level is probably more important than passing the level itself."

As he said this, he also wrote the word "method" in big letters under the word "pass" and also circled it as an emphasis.

After Lin Yi finished speaking, Rong Yan also cleared his throat and politely interrupted.

"Sister Yi Yu, Captain Lin, I don't know if you have noticed that although it is true that there are patterns on the four exits of the maze, there is also a pattern drawn in the center of the maze."

When Rong Yan pointed to the center of the maze, Xu Yiyu curled the corners of his mouth slightly, but did not speak immediately.

In the center of the maze, a tree is carved with fine brushstrokes.

Judging from the degree of care and effort put into this work by the owner of the underground palace, this tree——

It is most likely the famous "Jianmu" in ancient Chinese legends.

According to legend, Jianmu was a sacred tree worshipped by ancient people and a bridge connecting the worlds of heaven, earth, humans and gods.

Placing this tree right in the center of the maze could not be random, nor could it be the misleading information that Xu had imagined before.

"You two should have heard of the name Jianmu in legends, right? Based on the current situation, the tree in the center of the maze is most likely the concrete image of Jianmu in the mind of the master of the underground palace at that time."

Rong Yan picked up the stone that Xu Yiyu had put aside and roughly drew the direction of the maze on the dust on the ground, and then drew two routes in a very simple and easy-to-understand way.

"Combined with the sixteen-word clue, we can come up with the two clearance routes I have drawn now."

"And the only intersection of these two routes is located on the Jianmu in the center of the maze."

Rong Yan circled the "Jianmu" in the center of the maze according to Lin Yi's method, and expressed his opinions in a resounding voice.

"This is in line with the meaning of the last eight words - the four directions gather together and the world becomes one."

Rong Yan put the stone back next to Xu Yiyu, but a distressed expression appeared on his face.

"Perhaps what we need to worry about now is the direction of the entrance and exit when walking through the maze. We need to make them match the first eight words."

Xu Yiyu waited quietly for Lin Yi and Rong Yan to finish expressing their ideas, then took another look at the four patterns drawn on the four directions of the maze. He already had an overall idea of ​​how to pass the level.

However, the two companions in front of her are both smart people, so she, Xu, does not need to do everything for them. With a little reminder, they will definitely be able to make the right decision.

So, she considered it carefully in her mind before speaking.

"You two, although the direction of the maze is somewhat different from what we know, is there a possibility?"

"These four patterns indicate the four directions of the maze?"