Higher Human Advancement Regulations

Tick.

Blooming is awakened by the sound of water drops.

He subconsciously bent his knees and backed away, opened his hands quickly, and straightened his back at the same time, intending to turn over in the darkness.

Then his head hit a hard object with a "boom".

Shengkai grinned his teeth in pain, covered his head and sat up cursing.

It was pitch black in front of his eyes, and the only sense he could use was hearing.

Leaning against a certain place, Shengkai slowly remembered that yesterday, he had just drank wine with Fa Xiao Nie Zheng all night, and called a valet driver back to the apartment when it was about to dawn. Woke up, went to the bathroom in the dark.

When he woke up again, he was in a place so dark that even his mother couldn't recognize him.

Could it be that that kid Nie Zheng retaliated against him because he added 16 to UNO?

While thinking, Shengkai fumbled and stood up.

However, I don't know how short the roof here is. Shengkai is 1.8 meters tall. As soon as he straightened his waist slightly, he felt that his head had already touched the top.

In the darkness, his expression became a little dignified.

When I got up just now, Blooming's hand touched something cold.

In order to verify his conjecture, he hurriedly landed on his knees, and with this as the center of the circle, he stretched out his arms and made a full circle.

This turn completely made Blooming's heart sink.

If he guessed right, he is now imprisoned in a huge cage like a canary bird that cannot fly.

Obviously Nie Zheng would not make such a joke.

Although Shengkai is a racing driver, he is a substitute in the team.

What's more, he is a loose person, even the coach can't find him in a slightly smaller competition, and he is usually not happy to deal with his colleagues, so the possibility of enmity is naturally even smaller.

But there was no time for Shenghua to think too much.

The sound of water that woke him up just now was still slowly ringing not far away, as if water was coming in through the iron cage.

He squatted down cautiously, slid his hand across the ground, and the wet touch immediately soaked his hand.

The doubts in his heart were infinitely enlarged in the darkness, Shengkai grabbed the iron cage and shouted in a moderate voice:

"anyone there?"

His answer was a long wind.

Just when Shenghua thought that this ghostly place would not give him any response, there was a faint sound of electric current in a corner in the darkness, and then, lights suddenly lit up in the four corners of the room.

The shadow of the lamp shines on Shengkai's face through the iron cage, and shines on a pair of upturned eyes.

Red light and shadows projected down one after another, like a hand suddenly stretched out in the darkness.

Blooming was blinded by the glare.

After a while, he looked out through his fingers.

The color of the lights in the room is like a warning light that suddenly lights up in the dark night, with a bit of stern color in the weirdness.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked around, his face became more and more ugly.

As expected, Shengkai is indeed locked in a cage, but this cage is not made of iron, but decorated with gold lacquer. The entire cage is about 1.7 meters high. Tongue-core black snake.

Blooming took a closer look and found that it was just a realistic carved flower.

The only exit to the entire cage was a door on the side of Shengkai. He shook it twice, and the iron chain on the door rattled with his movements, and a coded lock was hanging brightly at the end of the chain.

Very good, I don't know which grandson dragged him into this cage when he was so drunk that he planned to let him perform a live-action escape room.

If you let him know who it is, he won't be called Shengkai if he doesn't beat him to the point of autism.

When he was irritable, Shengkai wanted to light a cigarette and hold it in his mouth, but when he touched his pocket, he couldn't find the cigarette, but he found that he was still wearing pajamas.

The water level had reached Blooming's knees at this time, and the wide-leg pajama pants were wet and sticky to the legs.

While enduring her obsession with cleanliness, Shengkai rolled up her trouser legs, but found something was wrong.

When he woke up just now, Shengkai remembered that he had just kicked into the water, and the water had reached the back of his feet at that time. How did the water reach his knees in less than 10 minutes?

He didn't care about his wet clothes, so he quickly lowered his body, and through the dim light, he found several pipes that were continuously discharging water under the red lights at the four corners of the room.

Water from nowhere is passing through the pipes and flowing into this sealed space.

According to the speed of the water flow, within half an hour, if Shengkai didn't open the lock, he would be drowned in the cage.

This time, Shengkai finally believed that what she met was not a boring prank.

He held the cage and found that each tube of this golden cage was very thin, only about the width of a finger.

But I don't know what kind of material is used, it is so hard that it cannot be broken out by violence.

Then you can only unlock the password lock.

Blossom reluctantly approached the door of the cage.

The combination lock is just an ordinary lock. There are four codes that can be scrolled up and down inlaid on the golden lock surface, and there is a keyhole on the other side. Apart from that, there is nothing else.

Turn it over a few times before and after blooming, then set it aside.

He didn't want to make random guesses without any purpose. What if the number of trials and errors increased and the water poured faster?

However, looking up and down, apart from the closed blooming cages in the whole room, there are only four lamps in the corner.

But the lamp was too far away from him. If he could touch it, he would have escaped from this ghost cage long ago.

The walls on all sides have no way out, so what about underwater?

Shengkai supported the cage with one hand, frowned and looked at the dark water on the ground. After a long time of mental construction, he put his other hand into it and stirred the bottom of the cage twice.

Got nothing.

Reluctantly, Shengkai stretched out his hand to stick out of the cage, and finally groped for a long thing near a wall.

He took out the water and saw that it was a long knife.

It looks a bit like a Tang knife in appearance, the blade and the handle are square, but I don't know if it has been soaked in water for a long time, and the blade has begun to rust.

Holding the handle of the knife, Shengkai immediately laughed angrily.

Was it because he was worried that drowning would be too ugly, so he would be given a knife to kill himself?

Time is still moving forward.

After coming and going, the water level has reached the waist of blooming flowers.

Where the bottom of the water is within reach, Shengkai has already touched it, but found nothing.

The lack of progress in the decryption process made him feel a little uneasy.

The red light was like the eyes of some kind of beast, as if it was dormant in the darkness, staring at him.

But at this time, Blossom was not too flustered, but desperately wanted to smoke a cigarette to calm down.

He was addicted to cigarettes, and he didn't have anything to relieve his addiction at hand, so he had to cross his arms and tap his fingers one after another.

The lamp in the corner seemed to become brighter as the water level rose. Sheng Kai's upturned eyes fixedly stared at the lamp closest to him until a double image appeared in front of him.

But he seemed to be frozen, staring at the lamp without blinking, as if the password was hidden under the lampshade.

Not long after, his bright eyes lit up slightly, he turned his head suddenly, and lightly pressed on a wall panel on the left side of the cage, and saw that the light just now went out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Under the four equally dazzling lights, Rang Shengkai didn't notice at first that there was a small infrared-like light next to the light closest to him.

Although the small light is small, its range is very far, and it can directly shine on the wall on the left side of the cage.

After the light went out, a paragraph of words lit up.

"Two things, the more deeply and persistently I meditate on them, the wonder and awe they evoke in my soul grow and grow with each passing day: the stars above my head and the moral law within me."

This is a passage inscribed on a Goethe inscription, which Blossom has seen somewhere.

starry sky.

Bloom was in a trance for a while, as if at a certain moment, he had witnessed the starry sky that these great men had longed for.

Shengkai squeezed the space between her brows, calming down a little.

With the passage of time, the rising speed of the water level has accelerated a lot. Shengkai squinted at the water that filled his chest, stepped on the horizontal bar in the cage, and used his strength to reach the highest level.

The ceiling is not a single piece, but is made up of many small squares glued together.

He raised the Tang Dao and inserted it into a glued gap on the ceiling. With a twist of his wrist, the vulnerable blocks on the ceiling fell into the water at a rapid speed.

In the middle of the cage roof, in the dark compartment of the ceiling, there is a small square box hidden.

Shengkai bent the corner of his mouth, picked up the box with one hand, bit the Tang Dao into his mouth, and wanted to open it with one hand - but there was no way, the water had already flooded up, and if he went down, he would only be drowned.

The headband that tied the hair at the back of the head was washed away by the water at some point, and the hair that was too long for a man floated above the water.

Shengkai wiped the hair on the back of her head indiscriminately, and opened the box with one hand—it was empty.

"how come?"

Shengkai searched the box up and down, but did not find a clue about the password.

But there are obvious traces of things being left behind in this box, the key-shaped groove is still there, but the key that should have been placed inside has disappeared.

Who took it?

Shengkai frowned, looked around, and when he raised his eyes, he met the eyes of the snake on the top of the cage.

The light inlaid with red gemstones is like the devil that tempted Adam and Eve to swallow the forbidden fruit recorded in Genesis, vicious and vicious.

The water has quietly overflowed, and Blooming's weak breath, he struggled unconsciously twice, trying to get close to the ceiling, but there seemed to be an unknown object at the bottom of the water pulling his legs and falling down.

There was the sound of rumbling water in my ears, and even my own heartbeat could not be heard.

Shengkai finally moved her fingers, and slowly closed her eyes.

In a daze, he seemed to be aware of someone pulling him up from the bottom of the water, with his hands wrapped around his waist, the heat was familiar yet unfamiliar.

Before his consciousness sank, he heard a voice say:

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

All the darkness faded away like a tide, and there was a slightly open door not far from the memory.

Brilliant.

When he woke up again, Shengkai only felt that the sky was bright, and before he opened his eyes, he felt a strong light trying to penetrate his eyelids and go straight into them.

It took him a long time to open his eyes with difficulty. Before he regained consciousness, he saw a person whispering in his ear and asking him:

"How did you die?"

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ "There are two things, the more deeply and persistently I meditate on them, the more amazement and awe they evoke in my mind with each passing day , growing, such is the starry sky above my head and the moral law in my heart." - Kant, "Critique of Practical Reason"