The Game Show of Death: Demons of Reason

The new clue made them toss again, Nian Wei has finally opened the last locked drawer, and took out a mechanism box from it.There are 12 sides of the mechanism box, and each side has different puzzles. The complexity of the riddles and keyholes is staggering.Nian Wei has carried the mechanism box onto the table, and started to solve the puzzle calmly from the first side.

Wei Zixu took a few deep breaths, and the tension in his heart gradually faded away. He sat down with his back against the brick wall, staring at the back of the bookshelf worriedly.

"Hey, do you believe in the paranormal?"

Nian Wei had already concentrated on solving the riddle, and upon hearing Wei Zixu's question, he answered perfunctorily, "Which one do you mean? Ghosts and gods are still mysterious phenomena."

Wei Zixu: "Is there any difference to you?"

Nian Weiji said: "I don't believe in ghosts and gods, but I believe in supernatural power. When we study natural phenomena, we only understand a small part. Natural phenomena that we don't understand are called supernatural phenomena, but since they exist, they are all Naturally, nothing surprising."

Wei Zixu was still looking at the bookshelf in shock: "But..."

"The difficulty of this mechanism box is quite high." Nian Weiji interjected, "It's a pity that the puzzle-solving environment is set too comfortably, and there is not enough tension, so it is not exciting to play."

Wei Zixu's attention was attracted by Nian Weiji's comment. He looked at Nian Weiji and asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?"

Nian Wei had unlocked the first layer of mechanisms, the box opened, and a cylindrical box inside popped up.At the end of the year, he continued to work, and at the same time described to Wei Zixu: "Have you ever played 'Explosion-Proof Expert'? For example, we are trapped in two rooms, and the hints for solving puzzles are all on your side, but only I can operate , if the instructions you give are wrong, I will be blown to death, and you will not be able to escape even if I am dead, so you can only wait for death slowly."

Nian Wei: "It would be much more interesting to design this way. Since there are two people in our team, the secret room should be added to the cooperation mode, and the cooperation between the two should also be part of the game, so that both people are very nervous, and the nervousness will easily lead to blank minds." , and the longer it takes, the more unfavorable it will be, aggravating the tension and creating a vicious circle."

"Oh?" Wei Zixu laughed unconsciously after hearing what he said, "Do you have a tendency to be abused?"

Nian Weiji smiled back: "I'm just talking about the facts."

"I see that you have a lot of opinions on the director. If it were you, how would you design DEATHSHOW?" Wei Zixu asked.

"If it was me?" Nian Wei had thought about it seriously, his calm appearance was incompatible with the dark secret room.

"Then I probably don't have much motivation to design DEATHSHOW, so I might as well leave here and live a good life. As you can see, the players who are forced to participate in the game are ordinary people. What's the point of him using the death game to torture ordinary people? If he is not a A pervert who relies on sadism for pleasure will only feel more and more empty. Nervousness doesn't drive people crazy, but emptiness does."

Wei Zixu smiled and looked away: "I asked you how to design DEATHSHOW, but you gave me a lot of nonsense. Open the box, what's inside?"

"Is there a bottle of... lemonade?" Nian Wei has taken out a small bottle of liquid, opened the lid and smelled it, and there was a sour smell of lemon.

"Lemonade?" Wei Zixu walked over and took the bottle.

"Should we also drink this?" Nian Weiji said whimsically.

"The mechanism is not in your stomach, don't think about it. It should be a key item in such a complicated mechanism box."

At the end of the year: "Yes, and this is a consumable, you can't try too many times, if you use it in the wrong place, it will be wasted."

Compared with the virtual escape room, the biggest difficulty of this secret room is that there is no supply. All the props and potions in the secret room will be gone once they are consumed, so they can only be trapped here.But at the same time, it's a fun place, because you don't have to follow the programmed puzzle solving method, as long as the props are still there, you can try various combinations.

But what can lemonade do?At the end of the year, he looked at the small bottle in Wei Zixu's hand, the dosage was so small, it was enough for irrigation or as a reaction solvent, and there was no other clear reminder to use lemonade.

Wei Zi flicked the bottle: "When was the last time you used lemonade?"

"The last time?" Nian Weiji said, "Oh, it should be when I learned how to make cakes with Xu Qixiang, I added a few drops of lemonade to the egg whites to stabilize it."

"Why does lemon water stabilize egg whites?"

"Because it's acidic, you can actually replace it with white vinegar—" Nian Weiji suddenly thought of something, took the bottle, dipped his finger in it, and said, "I have an idea, let me try it."

At the end of the year, dipped in lemon juice and scratched on the back of the yellow archive paper, the wetted part immediately showed a red mark.

"So it's for color development. You're such a genius." Nian Weiji rarely praised Wei Zixu, who smiled modestly and accompanied Nian Weiji to smear the back of the file with lemonade.

They scribbled over the archives, and the back of the paper showed pipes of different thicknesses, intermittent, like a crisscross water system diagram.At the end of the year, I looked over one by one and noticed that some patterns could be connected, so I patiently laid out hundreds of archive papers and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle.It took him a few minutes to put together the whole picture, and the completed red pattern spread out in circles like a spider web, with a cross marked in the center.

Nian Weiji squatted in the center of the spider web, carefully observed every detail, then pointed to the cross on the wall and said to Wei Zixu: "I think this sign should correspond to the cross. Look here, ten centimeters apart, there is a small The small 'drinkme!' corresponds to the position of the potion bottle. I think this cobweb is actually a plane coordinate map of this room. Now we have the origin and unit length, and we can calculate the actual position of each point."

In addition to these two marks on the spider web, there are also some scattered treasure chest marks. Nian Wei already planned to find those points and dig into the wall to have a look.The small shovel given at the beginning of the game came in handy. Nian Weixi used the shovel to dig down from the cracks in the masonry, and the digging loosened without much effort. It seems that there is indeed something hidden behind.At the end of the year, I dug up all the treasure chest signs, and dug out some wooden blocks and bolts.Wei Zixu assembled what he had dug up, and said happily: "We have a ladder!"

"Oh!" Nian Wei watched Wei Zixu assemble a ladder as tall as a person, and excitedly patted the lime on his body.

Wei Zixu stepped on the ladder to climb up to the cross, and inserted the pendant into the socket.There was a sound from the wall of the cross, and a door slowly opened in the middle.

"Okay, you go out first." Wei Zixu said to Nian Weiji.

Just as he was about to leave at the end of the year, he couldn't help but look back at the spider web.The coordinate map shows that there is still a space behind the "drinkme!" sign, which means that there is a dark room behind that wall, and the "Drinkme!" I was suffocating in my heart.

They walked into the door, only to find that there was another secret room behind the door.

This secret room is half smaller than the previous one, but several times higher in height. The colonnades meet in a line on the dome, and the overall style is Rococo.A fireplace had been installed in the wall directly opposite them, and it was burning brightly now.There is a round table in the middle of the secret room, and beside the round table is a reclining chair with a dark green blanket covering the back of the reclining chair.A door opened on the wall to the left of the fireplace. Nian Weiji went up and turned the handle, which was of course locked.

Leaning against the door at the end of the year, there is always a sense of disobedience.This door is decorated in an antique style, with a thin vaulted top, and a cross pendant inlaid in the center, and a round of cross ripples spread out from the pendant to the surroundings.

When Nian Wei had checked the door, Wei Zixu walked to the reclining chair.The recliner was still shaking slightly, as if not long ago someone was sitting by the fire reading a book.Wei Zi froze for a moment, stretched out his hand to hold the reclining chair to stop it from shaking, and at the same time saw a corner of paper protruding from under the blanket.

"Open your eyes, this is a brand new world. The new world is bathed in holy light, and all new and old worlds will be buried."

Wei Zi read out the contents of the paper.An envelope was pasted on the back of the paper. Wei Zixu tore open the envelope and found an eyepiece.

"Bring over the mirror tube." Wei Zixu greeted Nian Wei.They assembled the single-fold mirror, and Nian Wei held up the single-fold mirror to observe a circle of the secret room, and there was nothing abnormal.He held up the lens barrel and went back to the previous secret room, and he found many new hints.

"Interesting, look at these tips." Nian Wei has handed the lens barrel to Wei Zixu: "The original symbols have been redefined, which means that all combination lock passwords are invalid and need to be unlocked again. And the ones that have already been used Props—such as the tape with the tape stripped out, the archive paper that has been colored, and the messy brick wall that has been dug up—all have new uses, and all the puzzles we have solved have become new puzzles question."

Wei Zixu: "This is the 'new world' suggested. When you don't use this lens tube to observe, the secret room is a 'blind world', and it becomes a 'new world' when viewed from the lens tube, just like the world inside and outside. Looks like we'll have to crack it all over again."

At the end of the year, he rolled up his sleeves: "Then don't be idle, let's work separately."

This time the cracking was more difficult, and Wei Zixu felt that they took longer than the first time because the number of clues had doubled. Fortunately, there was no jam this time, and the last drawer was opened smoothly.In the drawer is still a mechanism box.After Nian Wei successfully unlocked the lock, he took out a key.

"Key? How could it be a key?"

Wei Zixu looked at the brass key and asked him in confusion: "Why can't it be the key? Isn't that the only door left locked?" Wei Zixu took the key and inserted it into the pointed arched door. I heard the lock cylinder turning, and with a click, the door opened.

Outside the door is a long dark tunnel with a faint light at the end.Wei Zixu estimated that they were about [-] meters away from the light, and said, "If you run hard, it will take about ten seconds to rush over. Are you ready?"

Nian Weiji suddenly called out "Wait!", and stretched out his hand to block Wei Zixu.

"That's not right." Nian Weiji frowned: "Isn't there a sentence after 'New World' on that piece of paper? Say it again."

Wei Zixu: "'The new world will be bathed in holy light, and all new and old worlds will be buried.' What, what did you think of?"

"We just finished deciphering the 'new world' mentioned in the previous sentence, and we haven't deciphered the latter sentence, so how can we leave?" Nian Weiyi said, looking suspiciously at the end of the tunnel.

"Maybe you have to go to the opposite side to understand the last sentence." Wei Zixu said uncertainly, looking at the end of the year.

"No...no."

Nian Weiji's eyes were empty, and he rubbed his chin unconsciously: "The cross pendant we inserted in the last secret room appeared on this door. What does the cross mean? Does it have anything to do with the last sentence of the prompt... .Holy Light...Buried..."

At this time, Wei Zixu also said: "If the cross is related to the reminder of 'holy light', can it be done from the perspective of faith. It is a Christian habit to hang crosses in churches. What do you think about Christianity?"

A series of descriptions in the Bible, such as Muhammad, bread and wine, and seraphs, flashed through his mind at the end of the year, but he felt that the cross should represent a more direct meaning. The only god of Christianity is God, but the incarnation of God There are many.The first sentence of the prompt implies the duality of the chamber of secrets, is the latter sentence an expansion of the duality?If there is one of the most well-known teachings about numbers in Christianity...

"Trinity!"

Nian Weiji said confidently: "Sure enough, we can't leave here now, there is still a round of puzzles here, and we have to solve this 'triple world' to be considered a successful escape."

"But there's no other way here—"

Before Wei Zixu finished speaking, a stone wall fell down from the tunnel, filling the tunnel instantly, and now there is only a thick wall outside the door.

"Only ten seconds." Nian Wei has touched the wall: "There are only ten seconds to pass through the tunnel. Fortunately, I didn't go in, otherwise I would have been crushed into meatloaf by now."

Wei Zixu looked at him and just sighed, without any fear at all. Infected by him, Wei Zixu didn't have much sense of the crisis just now.When a door is opened, the trapped people will go in with inertia, but the tunnel itself is a mechanism, and people will be crushed into meat before they can run to the end. This is a trap that uses hope as bait, full of malice .

The door was blocked, so they had to find another way.Wei Zixu noticed that there was a real fire in the fireplace, and a few pieces of burning charcoal were piled on the wire mesh.He took off the blanket on the back of the chair and weighed it. If it was dense enough, he directly covered the charcoal with the blanket, and the fire went out immediately.Wei Zixu fanned away the smoke, put his head into the fireplace to look around, and found that the chimney was so wide that it was more than enough for him to climb up it alone.

Wei Zixu had disappeared when Nian Wei came back to his senses, and Nian Wei could not find him, so he yelled a few words.

"Here I am! Come up, there's another room up the chimney!"

Wei Zixu's voice came from the fireplace.