today's island

While everyone was discussing what Morse code was hidden in the city, Cheng Mo directed Ding Chenyu to park the car at an inconspicuous intersection on the outskirts of the island city. He pointed to the railway track hanging above the road in front of him: "Now It's not time yet, at four o'clock in the afternoon, there will be a train passing by here."

It is close to the sea-crossing bridge and is the last section of the road for the train to enter Daocheng Station.

The island city has only been developed in the past few years, and it is also an island city, so there are not too many trains arranged.It just so happened that there was only such a freight train arriving at the station around the hour in the afternoon, and each carriage could divide the sunshine into many sections.

"It's right to go in a flash, but..." Wan Yi looked at the railroad tracks blankly, "The train...isn't it too long, and it's still equidistant. Why is it Morse code?"

"The equidistance can also be Morse code, such as 0 and O." Lu Yuanzhe answered, and looked at Cheng Mo curiously, "But why would you think of this? Even if the train arrives on the hour, there is no need to look here , the station is also fine."

"It's not from the riddle." Cheng Mo pulled out the video for everyone to see, "It's the pattern on the notebook paper."

Although this is an ordinary loose-leaf notebook, it is not on a white background. There are light patterns printed on the back of each page.Cheng Mo didn't pay attention at first, but it was the tall office buildings and retro pedestrian street in the first two photos that made him take a second look.

Not only is the text part a puzzle, this is a loose-leaf notebook specially made by the young master, and even the patterns on it are specially designed with hints.

By analogy, every subsequent page should be the scenery of a certain place in the island city.

"Then it's past three o'clock, shall we wait until four o'clock?" Su Xiaozhi asked, "Time is life."

"But there is no suitable location for hiding clues around the level." Lu Yuanzhe rolled up the window and looked around. "The most important thing is that there is no place for hiding people to follow us."

The opponent not only left clues for the next level at a fixed location, but also continued to stare at them, posting new videos as soon as they got the clues.

They are now parked in this empty place. If the clue is something like a small ball of paper, even if the other party has a telescope, it will be difficult to see whether they have found the clue.

"If you don't know, you can just wait." Lu Yuanzhe took a deep breath and stretched himself in the second row, "Everyone, take a rest, who knows what will happen after six o'clock."

Everyone only slept for two or three hours last night, and now they have entered the fatigue period in the afternoon, and they didn't have a serious lunch.

"Why don't you guys rest for a while, and I'll go around the railroad tracks." Cheng Mo suggested, not wanting to give up looking for clues.

"Then I'll accompany you." Lu Yuanzhe immediately sat up straight.

"Then leave it to you." Ding Chenyu stretched his tired cervical and lumbar spine after driving for a long time, and put down his car seat.

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At 03:30 in the afternoon, Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo looked up at the railroad tracks at mid-air height, and walked along the trail at the entrance of the park next to it for a short period of time, without gaining anything.

Not only those in the car, they were also sleepy, Lu Yuanzhe was okay, he was also a short sleeper, Cheng Mo was much sleepier, keeping his eyes down, avoiding the glare of the sun.But it's useless to persuade Cheng Mo to go to sleep, as long as there is even the slightest worry that disturbs his sleep, he can't fall asleep.

So they walked the whole way in silence, from the nearest place where they could see the railway to the farthest place.

The Daocheng Railway Station is not too far from the sea-crossing bridge. You can clearly see the train passing by in such a short position. If you really guessed the answer correctly, you can only be at the station if you are not here.

After watching the eighth video, a small-scale discussion exploded on the Internet. It seems that for them, it is exhausting continuous work, but for ordinary people, it is just a six-hour heartbeat.

"If we can't catch their tails this time, it's really unreasonable." Lu Yuanzhe took a deep breath and glanced at the message from Sun Yan, "They seem to have made some progress."

No matter how well-prepared such a large-scale kidnapping demonstration is, there will be some traces left behind.Sun Yan checked until now, and finally found a suspicious driver. He left the community in a van last night and never answered the police's call.

"Think about how to rescue people first." Cheng Mo understood what he was thinking. The troubles got bigger and bigger. No matter how hard they tried, the pressure would eventually come to them and accuse them of not being responsible enough.

"En." Lu Yuanzhe nodded, and then glanced at Cheng Mo, "I'm afraid that things are not that simple. The other party's questions are not too difficult, and they continue to attract the attention of the public. I definitely don't want us to win a big victory in the end. "

These tests are like a series of marketing methods. If everyone wants to join, there may be a big difficulty waiting for them in the end.The other party will not take the initiative to break the rules. The worst result is that they will be forced to die on the penultimate question and get a corpse.

"So the previous part is really not important. He must have timed it well and wants to give us a lore on the last question." Cheng Mo thought so too.

"Young Master Yan is also an advertising genius. What do you think he is trying to do like this? Apart from revenge for something that happened 12 years ago, he also wants to be happy?" Lu Yuanzhe really found it difficult to understand such a pervert.

Cheng Mo shook his head: "If we can figure it out, it might not be so normal."

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At exactly four o'clock, they gathered at the intersection, watched the freight train pass in front of them, and recorded a video.

The sunlight from the gaps in the carriage continued to dazzle their eyes. Although they couldn't see any Morse code, they all saw it. There was an advertisement on the container of the truck.

The video was sent on time, not only the hostage survival video at four o'clock, but also the mystery of the next question.

"Congratulations to the task force, let's usher in the finale." The young master still didn't look up in the video, but for some reason, they all read the smile under the young master's mask and cap, "Please see the question board."

The notebook turned to the fourth page, and everyone recognized the position hidden in the paper——

"Where does Lao Cheng stand in order to deliver the most noble hostage liberation declaration to me?" the young master asked.

This is probably the shortest time for everyone to solve the puzzle. You don't need to see the TV tower clearly on the paper, and you don't need to ponder the meaning of the sentences before and after. As long as you see "high", you can figure it out.

"Is it the TV Tower in Daocheng?" Wan Yi asked.

"Yes." Lu Yuanzhe nodded, showing no sign of happiness.

"Why are you so straightforward all of a sudden?" Su Xiaozhi didn't come to her senses all of a sudden, how could the question leading to the decisive battle be so simple.

"Frankness is not necessarily simple, what if the mystery is not in place?" Lu Yuanzhe sighed, "Let's go to the TV tower first."

After he finished speaking, Ding Chenyu and Ling Xi came back to their senses. Just now, because of the phrase "sublime", everyone was thinking of the TV tower, but now they realized the phrase "Old Cheng".

If according to the previous deduction, this old Cheng is also a part of the puzzle, just like the Lu team, then it is useless to have only them present.

"Old Cheng" is the easiest to think of - Cheng Song, there is no other more exciting alternative answer.

They went all the way back to the city center. The Daocheng TV Tower was even more lively than the previous No. [-] East Road. It was only after four o'clock, and most people didn't get off work. At night, it would only be more lively.

There is not much time left, and there is more than an hour left, which cannot be wasted in meaningless entanglements with passers-by.They quietly entered the TV tower through several doors, took the elevator all the way up to the 99th floor, arranged for the staff to clear the venue, and finally checked the top floor thoroughly.

The Daocheng TV Tower has a total of about 109 floors, but the upper floors are closed areas.They believed that since the other party named Cheng Song, they probably didn't expect him to climb into the workshops on those floors, so the destination should be the observation room on the 99th floor.

As a viewing room, there are no extra furnishings in the room, except for the glass plank road, there are only eight telescopes. They all looked at it one by one, but they didn't see any mystery.

In the end, they gathered at the only exit leading to the door. After hanging the safety rope here, they can experience walking outside the building. However, only an area the size of a grandstand is open, and it is estimated that it will be completed at the end of the year.

Standing in the stands, they didn't get any inspiration either. The sun was not on this side, so they could look straight ahead and look into the distance without finding anything.

Maybe only by coming in person can we get clues.

Wan Yi simply gave up on the search, asked the security guard for surveillance, and sat in front of the video with Ling Xi to play it backwards at double speed.Su Xiaozhi and Ding Chenyu were not reconciled, they were still walking around to have a look.

Lu Yuanzhe stood on the observation deck and blew the wind for a while, then looked at Cheng Mo: "Are you calling your dad, or should I invite him as the leader of the task force?"

"Let me call him." Cheng Mo took out his mobile phone, went back to the observation room with Lu Yuanzhe, shut the wind out, and made a shush gesture to everyone.

They were the only ones in the viewing room, all looking at Cheng Mo.

The phone was connected, and Cheng Song probably knew that he was going to call, so he just said "Hello" without asking him what's the matter.

"Hey, Dad, have you seen the video posted by Yan?" Cheng Mo asked, his voice was softer than talking to other elders, and there was a very strange sense of fear.

"I see." Cheng Song replied on the phone. Although Cheng Mo didn't play it, everyone could basically hear it because the room was quiet, "What's wrong?"

"The banquet may have named you to visit the TV Tower in Daocheng, are you free now?" Cheng Mo asked.

"I'm free, but I can't come." Cheng Song answered him bluntly, "As for the banquet, I can help you as much as I can, but I can't come."

"Why?" Cheng Mo asked, thinking that his father had never been to the TV Tower in Daocheng, he glanced at Lu Yuanzhe.

"What do you think will happen to Daocheng if I cooperate with criminals in playing house?" Cheng Song asked back.

Lu Yuanzhe heard it clearly, grabbed the phone, and pressed the speakerphone: "You can't think about the good, you are saving the children of martyrs."

"How can you be sure that if I come and show up at the TV tower in Daocheng, the other party will let me go?" Cheng Song was not angry, but his tone was a little more serious.

"I..." Lu Yuanzhe just said a word, and realized that he really couldn't prove Yan's intention.

This is like a farce, let them play such a popular detective game with everyone.They are the police, and they can investigate in a legitimate way, but Cheng Song is not, they come to play with them, and they can be interpreted maliciously.

"If you really want to know what I can find for you, why not take a video call." Cheng Song suggested, not intending to cooperate.

"I still suspect that you dare not come." Lu Yuanzhe complained amid everyone's surprise.

Cheng Song didn't even refute, so he made a note in his heart.Could it be that there is really a story between this TV tower and Cheng Song?