The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

The current time in Moon City is 14:00 on Tuesday afternoon.

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou directly draw the 8 of squares to open the next level. The teammates are also very supportive of this decision. Anyway, the square level is usually a labyrinth of organs, and the time-consuming will not be as long as hearts and spades. Done in an hour.

In the previous square secret room, Xiao Lou broke the record by clearing the level in a few minutes. Yu Hanjiang is very confident in Xiao Lou's ability to crack the mechanism. What's more, this time there is Lao Mo who has a strong sense of space, and he also drew some cards suitable for the maze. The A-level maze shouldn't bother them.

With Professor Xiao and Lao Mo present, everyone is ready to lie down and win.

As the cards were drawn, a familiar red swirl appeared in the middle of the 8 of squares playing cards, and the countdown began in everyone's floating frame.

Ten seconds later, everyone felt that their eyes went dark——

Everyone was transported to a familiar and strange world at the same time.

The reason why you are familiar with it is because you have just left the world of 8 of Hearts. The streets, buildings, and the costumes of the pedestrians here are very similar to the world of 8 of Hearts [Troubled Times]. style of.

They actually came to ancient times again? !

But unfamiliar, because the street in front of you is full of lanterns, and the countless red lanterns dazzle everyone.

Just wondering what the situation is, several lines of prompts appeared in the floating box in front of everyone at the same time——

【Welcome to the World of Square 8: Shangyuan Lantern Festival】

[The first month is the "first month" of the lunar calendar, and the ancients also called "night" "Xiao". Therefore, the fifteenth day of the first month, as the first full moon night of the year, is called the "Lantern Festival". Also known as "Shangyuan Festival"]

[Today is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of "watching lanterns" on the night of the Lantern Festival. The ten-mile long street in the capital of Daqi is covered with all kinds of lanterns. Young men and women like to hang out here Going to the Lantern Festival one day, maybe, when you look back suddenly, you will be able to see your favorite person on the other side of the lantern]

[The secret room of 8 pieces of squares is a "lantern maze". Please look for the lantern mechanism hidden in it, and hang the lantern props you get on the lantern tree beside the stone bridge. The more lanterns you get, the higher the customs clearance score will be]

[The lantern festival will last until midnight (24:00 in the morning), you can explore by yourself before the lantern festival ends]

After reading the prompt, everyone was stunned.

The ancient Lantern Festival?This is the modern Lantern Festival!

Ye Qi looked down at his "Tianxiangloutou Brand Suit", wishing he could take off this suit on the spot. He tugged at the complicated hem of the skirt, and couldn't help complaining: "I thought this suit would never be used again. I can't, but I came to the square chamber and asked me to wear this again!"

Shao Qingge glanced at the women's dress Ye Qi in front of him, waved his fan, and commented with a smile: "You look pretty in this dress, you are indeed the top girl in Tianxiang Building."

Ye Qi knew he was joking, so he rolled his eyes and ignored him.

Looking around, Ye Qi found that his teammates were not there. Ye Qi couldn't help wondering: "Where are the others? And... Why do I feel a little weird in this light city? Something seems wrong?"

Shao Qingge said: "This is not like an ordinary Lantern Festival, there are many forks in the road, it should be a maze."

Ye Qi was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized: "That's right. Most of the lantern festivals are hung on a street full of lanterns for tourists to enjoy, but this lantern festival... from my perspective, I have already seen five streets. The roads are criss-crossed, all are covered with lanterns, and there are so many pedestrians, it is easy to get lost while walking in it, right?"

Shao Qingge nodded: "It's not surprising that the square secret room is made into a maze, the key is, where is the mechanism?"

Ye Qi frowned and looked around, but didn't find any mechanism.Thinking back to the reminder just now, he couldn't help wondering—looking for the lantern mechanism?These thousands of lanterns all look similar in shape. Are there any special features of the mechanism?Could the prompt be a little more vague?

Ye Qi couldn't figure it out, so he simply said, "Which lights do you think are mechanisms?"

Shao Qingge smiled and shook his fan: "Riddles are not for me. If I were to clear this world, I can only buy all the lanterns on this street, and take them apart one by one to try."

Ye Qi: "..."

The customs clearance thinking of local tyrants is incomprehensible.

Ye Qi thought about the hint just now, his eyes lit up, and said: "Let's meet up with your teammates first, didn't you say that you want to hang the lantern on the light tree outside the stone bridge? Let's go and see what the light tree looks like." .”

He ran forward in a hurry, because he was wearing women's clothing, and he accidentally stepped on the skirt under his feet, and almost fell to the ground.

Shao Qingge supported him with a light smile, and said in a low voice: "Slow down, you are Miss Ye now, don't be frizzy."

Ye Qi blushed: "It's so annoying to dress up as a woman, I'll burn this card when I go back!"

Seeing this scene, the guests walking around couldn't help whispering: "This girl is really pretty, with sparkling eyes." "That young master is also very handsome." "They must have met at the Lantern Festival together, right?" ..."

Ye Qi didn't hear it, he was still frantically adjusting the hem of his skirt with his head down.

Shao Qingge smiled slightly, covered Ye Qi's blushing face with a fan, and helped him walk towards the Lantern City.

***

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou also changed into 8-of-hearts costumes.

Looking at Xiao Lou who was wearing a long gown beside him, Yu Hanjiang was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion, "Why is it the ancient world again?"

Xiao Lou reacted immediately: "The 8 of diamonds and the 8 of hearts are linked, right?"

Yu Hanjiang looked at the long street in front of him and nodded: "The architectural style and the clothes of the pedestrians are indeed very similar to the Daqi we have experienced before. We were teleported to the scene of the Lantern Festival in Daqi ?”

Xiao Loudao: "It seems that Diamond A directly took the background setting from the heart, and made a maze of lights to come out."

Yu Hanjiang raised his head thoughtfully, and glanced at the nearby lanterns: "Let's find the lantern mechanism... Are we going to find it among the lanterns hanging on both sides of the street?"

——The street is hung with bright red round lanterns, all of which are made of traditional gauze. The warm candlelight illuminates the street through the red gauze. With a layer of festive red light.Some children are riding on their father's neck, holding delicate lanterns in their hands; there are also some young men giving lanterns to their beloved girls.

The ancient lantern festival was very lively, but Yu Hanjiang observed for a long time, but still didn't find any mechanism.

These lanterns all look exactly the same. There are at least hundreds of them on one street. How can I find them?

When he was at a loss, Xiao Lou suddenly said: "The theme of this secret room is probably a lantern riddle."

Yu Hanjiang looked back at him: "Lantern riddle?"

Xiao Lou explained: "In ancient times, the Shangyuan Lantern Festival often held some activities of 'guessing lantern riddles'. Some stall owners hung up their own lanterns. The riddles came in the form of patterns, poems, words, etc. Visitors can guess the riddles. If you guess the answer correctly, you can win this lantern, and the boss sends the lantern out as a good omen."

Yu Hanjiang suddenly realized: "I have heard of this tradition."

Xiao Lou observed the surroundings carefully, and said: "This is a maze of lantern festivals, with criss-crossing roads, which is very complicated. The one we are currently on is the main road, and there are round gauze lanterns on the side of the road, the shape is exactly the same, and there is no pattern on it. , these red lanterns are just decorations. The real lantern mechanism should be in another fork, most likely palace lanterns made of paper.”

He looked back at Yu Hanjiang, and said seriously: "The cuboid palace lantern made of paper can draw and write on it, so it is convenient to write riddles. Let's meet up with our teammates first, and then find out where the lantern riddles are."

Yu Hanjiang: "..."

Yu Hanjiang couldn't help but get a headache when he encountered a square piece of secret room.

Looking around, there were so many red lanterns and bustling crowds that he didn't know where to start.

Hearing Xiao Lou's words, he immediately understood.

Thinking of my own experience with Xiao Lou on Square 3 and Square 4—every time he was still reviewing the questions, Professor Xiao had already given the answer.Anyway, in the maze of squares, following Xiao Lou is always right.

Facing Shang Xiaolou's clear eyes, Yu Hanjiang immediately said with his lips: "Okay, everything is up to your arrangement."

Xiao Lou said: "Then let's go to the Lantern Tree first, I guess, Xiaoye and the others should also go to the Lantern Tree to meet us."

Yu Hanjiang nodded, and walked forward together behind Xiao Lou.

Court officials along the road recognized them and greeted them with a smile: "Master Yu, are you visiting the Lantern Festival with your wife?"

Yu Hanjiang said calmly: "Well, come out with Madam for a walk."

Xiao Lou smiled cooperatively, and nodded politely to the other party. The passer-by's questioning also confirmed their speculation—the linkage between the 8-of-squares secret room and the 8-of-hearts shared a set of background and settings.

In fact, the effect of putting this Lantern Festival in the real world is the same. Obviously, the gatekeeper of the square piece was lazy and directly took the setting of Sister Heart to make the maze.

The crowd coming and going was too crowded, Xiao Lou was almost knocked down by a child, Yu Hanjiang immediately put his arms around Xiao Lou's waist gently, took him into his arms, and whispered: "Don't get lost."

Xiao Lou's heart skipped a beat, he pretended to be peacefully protected by Yu Hanjiang in his arms, and walked all the way forward.

This city of lights is too big...

Going forward along the main road, Xiao Lou saw at least eight fork roads, and each fork road was also covered with lanterns. The crowds coming and going would seriously affect their judgment on the direction. It's really easy to get lost in China.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang walked straight ahead, looking for the location of the lamp tree.

The tree of lights is not difficult to find. When you go to the end of this main road and pass a stone bridge, you can see an ancient tree with a height of 10 meters in the distance. colorful lights.

There were not many people around the big tree, Xiao Lou quickly glanced at the crowd, and soon saw Ye Qi in a red dress, and Shao Qingge dressed as a nobleman.

A while later, Long Sen, Qu Wanyue, Lao Mo and Liu Qiao also came here.

Everyone went all the way to square 8, and they all knew to carefully read the prompt when entering the secret room. The prompt pointed out the key location of "Light Tree", so naturally they had to come here first to meet up with their teammates.

None of the teammates wandered around, and the assembly speed was very fast.

After the eight people arrived, Xiao Lou immediately called everyone to the side.

He found a place where no one was around, and said softly, "Everyone check the card bag to see which cards can be used."

Everyone checked one after another, and Liu Qiao took the lead and said: "My [Body Light as a Swallow] can still be used, but the invisibility cloak and twin copy cards are invalid, and fairy tale cards such as Poison Queen and Little Red Riding Hood are all unusable."

Long Sen said: "Football and badminton are useless, chameleons are useless, only long jumpers can use it!"

Lao Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I can only use the [View Changer] I just drew."

Xiao Lou looked at Yu Hanjiang, who said, "All modern and high-tech cards are banned."

It seems that the banned ones also include the S-level tool card [Aerial Camera] that Mr. Tang just gave them.

Ye Qi said: "My teleportation card can still be used, but only the first skill can be used, that is to say, I can only teleport by myself, I can't teleport with 200 kg objects, and I can't carry others."

Xiao Lou checked Li Qingzhao's skills, and said: "Flying pigeons can carry objects, but this time they are banned. The skills that stray into the depths of lotus flowers are also banned."

Ye Qi was stunned: "Li Qingzhao's 'Staying Into the Deep of the Lotus Flower', isn't this a magic maze skill? You can go directly to the designated maze marker. Now it's a square maze, why is it banned?"

Everyone was a little confused about the law of banning cards in the secret room of the diamond - the A of the diamond seems very capricious?Ban whatever you want.Some cards that can be used in the ancient world of Hearts are somehow unusable here?

Xiao Lou thought about it carefully for a while, and soon found out the pattern. He analyzed seriously: "Strictly speaking, this maze is not a maze of pure mechanisms, but a maze of lantern riddles. What we need to do is to do it within a limited time. Solve as many lantern riddles as possible, and hang the lantern props you get on this tree, which is a small game of collecting maze props.”

Hearing Xiao Lou's words, everyone couldn't help but look up at the big tree not far away.

There is a lamp hanging on the tree, and the reminder is quite obvious. The collected lanterns will be hung up later. As Xiao Lou summed it up, it is indeed a "maze prop collection game".

Xiao Lou continued: "If Ye Qi can use the teleportation card to move 200 kilograms of things, then we can solve dozens of lantern riddles in a row, put the lanterns together, and let Ye Qi move them all... probably this is The reason why all the skills that move things are banned."

Ye Qi suddenly realized: "This is probably the reason why Li Qingzhao's location marking skill was banned. If it can be used, just mark this tree as the target point, and we can teleport to the tree after solving the lantern riddle. It's too troublesome." !"

Xiao Lou nodded: "Tao Yuanming's Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring is also banned. For the same reason, we are forbidden to directly or even mark points, and the group teleports to hang lanterns under the tree. However, the skills of displacement are not banned. What do you think of? ?”

Liu Qiao thought about it carefully, and her [Body Light as a Swallow] is still usable, and she can continue to leap with the help of buildings; Long Sen can jump long, and Ye Qi can teleport... Her eyes suddenly lit up: "Let's quickly move to Relay?"

Xiao Lou glanced at her appreciatively, and said, "That's right, judging from the thinking of the square gatekeepers to ban cards, this secret room requires us to divide and cooperate. Those who are good at solving riddles should find lantern riddles in the Lantern Market as soon as possible. Hand over the obtained lanterns to your teammates; those with displacement cards, pass through the crowd as quickly as possible, take the obtained lanterns out of the Lantern City, and hang them on this tree—this secret room includes solving puzzles and relay races and hanging lanterns.”

After hearing this, Yu Hanjiang finally understood the difficulty of this secret room.

The Lantern Market will be closed at 【Zi Shi】. Does it take 50 lanterns to get an S score, or 100 to get an S score?No one knows the scoring rules, so they can only solve as many puzzles as possible.

The current time is already at night, that is, around 21:3, and there are still [-] hours before the closure of the lamp market.

If you want to bring the lantern out from the bustling crowd, you must use some displacement cards.The time was limited, Yu Hanjiang simply said: "Xiao Lou, you can arrange it, we will act as soon as possible."

Xiao Lou was not polite, glanced at his teammates, and quickly divided into groups: "Lao Mo and Xiao Liu are in a group. Lao Mo is more familiar with the maze route, so he takes the card of [Body Light as a Swallow] to pass the lantern, and Liu Qiao is in charge. Solve the riddle."

The two nodded, and Liu Qiao immediately handed the card to Lao Mo.

Xiao Lou followed closely and said, "Long Sen and Teacher Qu are in a group. Teacher Qu is looking for lantern riddles, and Long Sen is responsible for taking away the lanterns."

Husband and wife Party Xiaolou didn't want to tear it down, Qu Wanyue was smart, and Long Sen had well-developed limbs, which happened to run fast, and the two of them had no objection to this arrangement.

Xiao Lou looked at Shao Qingge and Ye Qi: "Let's make a team of two, Xiaoye solves the riddle, and Mr. Shao will trouble you to run errands."

Shao Qingge smiled and said, "No problem."

In the end, the remaining two naturally formed a team, and the teammates seemed to have gotten used to them being in a team.

Yu Hanjiang said consciously, "I'm here to run errands."

Xiao Lou took out the speed shoes from the card bag and handed them to him: "This card is for you."

After dividing into teams, Xiao Lou went on to say: "Now, everyone enters the Lantern City and splits up. First, find out the distribution of the roads in the Lantern City. Remember to mark the roads you have traveled with [four-way arrows]. When you get to the complicated part of the fork, use the perspective converter to take a look, and after 15 minutes, go back to the big tree to meet."

Everyone nodded and quickly entered the lamp market.

Seeing Xiao Lou commanding and arranging actions calmly, Yu Hanjiang couldn't help thinking that with such a smart partner by his side, he wouldn't have to worry about the square maze in the future, and he could continue to lie down and win.