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Nie Zheng hesitated, not knowing whether he should answer this question, but within a short period of time, the tilted pendulum needle on the balance began to "tick" again.

He settled down and replied cautiously:

"No. 1 is telling the truth, so Ye Mingzhu is in room No. 3."

As soon as the voice fell, the ticking sound became louder and faster, and the pendulum needle returned to the horizontal position amidst the rain-like sound.

Immediately afterwards, the tray on which Blooming Bloom was located sank suddenly, and the balance that had been at the same height began to tilt.

During the turbulence, Nie Zheng looked at Shengkai complicatedly from a high place.

Needless to say, Nie Zheng's answer is correct.

If the high and low of the scales signify good and evil, then their life and death are determined by every question and answer.

The side that answered correctly was pushed to a high place by the gravity of the other side, and the other side seemed to be in a very passive situation.

So, will Goddess Asteria let a tie situation arise?

The lower you go, the darker it becomes, the more alive it becomes.

In the lightless space, it seems that countless devil claws can be seen protruding from the edge of the balance, waiting for one of them to throw himself into the net.

The light on the light curtain on the balance changed again, facing Blooming, a new problem emerged.

"Three missionaries and three savages are at the crossing of a small river, where there is only one small boat that can hold two people.

The object of the problem is to use this small boat to ferry all these six people to the opposite bank. The condition is that during the process of crossing the river, the number of missionaries on both sides of the river is kept at any time by no less than the number of savages, otherwise the savages will make the minority of missionaries eaten.

How can these six people get across safely?" [Note] The same type of question.

While heaving a sigh of relief, Shengkai and Nie Zheng looked at each other across Tianping.

But Nie Zheng's expression was very strange. When he first entered the secret room, Shengkai felt that his little boy was acting very strange at certain moments.

Blooming withdrew her gaze and let out a slow breath.

Compared with Nie Zheng's question, the second question is slightly more difficult. It's not that it can't be done, but it will take more time.

The pendulum of the balance ticked the time, and there was a suffocating silence in the darkness. After a while, Blossom replied:

"First, let a priest and a barbarian cross the river, and the priest returns; then let two barbarians cross the river a second time, and one of the barbarians returns; third time, let two priests cross the river, and a priest and One barbarian returns at the same time; the fourth time, two priests cross the river, and one barbarian returns; the fifth time, there are only four barbarians left on the original bank of the river, so two barbarians need to go past, and then return One; for the last time, the remaining two savages get into the boat and cross the river, and that's it."

Tick-tick-the same magnitude, the same bumps, the balance moved up and down slowly, the two stood in it, the tray on the side where the blooming place was raised to a certain height, and then stopped suddenly.

However, the height of the two is not equal.

Nie Zhengyi was slightly taller than Shengkai. He held onto the edge of the tray and blurted out:

"Why not?

Blooming's answer is obviously completely correct! "

Looking at this posture, Nie Zheng seemed to be terrified of being eliminated by Shengkai.

Shengkai raised her head, there seemed to be an artificial intelligence hidden in the light curtain, responding to Nie Zheng's question in the flashing blue light.

"He's been thinking too long."

"..."

Nie Zheng opened his mouth and subconsciously looked at Shengkai.

Bloom raised her hand reassuringly, and said:

"Don't worry, at least I'm not dead yet."

After this period of review, the various things displayed by the sky screen have always made Shengkai mistakenly think that it wants to kill itself.

But here, when Nie Zheng behaved so unusually, he vaguely felt that the sky might have another purpose.

For example, every time he encounters rule adjustments, every time the process that should have been traveling on the predetermined track, there will always be some small changes after he enters the secret room.

Andrew also said that Tianmu has been looking for him, as if...

After Tianmu found him, he had been guiding him to do something by cracking the secret room.

These things take far precedence over killing Blooms.

Coincidentally, he also wanted to see what kind of monsters and ghosts he was using to hide his animal skins from Paradise Lost.

A round of questions and answers came to an end, during which the light curtains were marked in rotation, and Shengkai took the opportunity to ask:

"How many rounds of questions are there?"

Nie Zheng was also taken aback for a moment, seeing the light curtain like a snowflake flicker, and replied in words:

"Three rounds."

actually answered...

Is this light curtain an NPC?

Blooming suddenly asked:

"Do you know the old man on the turntable?"

The light curtain seemed to be stuck, and there was a "Zi La" electric sound.

This time it ignored the question of blooming. After a while, the pendulum needle started ticking again, and blooming lost its voice again.

This time, the light curtain first played a video.

It was a very chaotic scene, but both of them could clearly understand the plot through the video.

Gods and humans live together, and the picture looks like the gods in religion are creating humans.

War and disease are raging in the human world, but human beings are also rampant and evil.

The gods who keep creating human beings have witnessed everything and are completely disappointed in human beings.

Only one goddess named Astria couldn't bear the suffering of human beings. She stayed in the human world and ran around, hoping that human beings would return to truth and goodness, and she took a scale to measure justice for the world.

Nevertheless, the inferiority of human beings is difficult to change since then.

They are still depraved, tossed in wars, and brought countless disasters to the world.

Frustrated, Astria returned to Heaven.

In the heavenly court, she met a god named Poseidon.

Poseidon laughed at Astoria's stupidity and naivety, thinking that gods should not have created humans, but Astoria still believed that one day humans would have an epiphany and regain their kind and pure nature.

Therefore, the two were invited to debate in Tianting Square. This debate was presided over by Zeus. Even when the galaxy was turned upside down and mountains and rivers became seas, no result could be reached.

[Note]

The video stops here.

The blue color of the light curtain was printed on the sides of the two people's faces, and then turned into a line of words.

"Choose, Poseidon or Astoria."

The active choice is still in the hands of Nie Zheng.

Only this time, it was no longer a question that needed to be solved.

The light curtain only explained a background story, then dropped a multiple-choice question, and said nothing else.

What to choose, and on what basis to choose, they have no idea.

Literally, Astoria should represent good, and Poseidon should represent evil.

In the same way, the former signifies life and the latter signifies death.

The chronograph's hand moved mercilessly, and the ticking sound disturbed the ears, but at this time, Blooming caught a rule secretly modified by the sky.

In terms of mutual generation of the five elements, gold can restrain wood. According to the first two groups, the gold that has the priority should be the blooming gold.

Seeing that Nie Zheng was only silent for a few seconds, Shengkai said:

"I choose Poseidon."

Blooming was taken aback.

If he chooses Poseidon, Blooming will default to Astoria, which represents goodness.

The two arms of the scale moved again—as expected, choosing Astria belonged to the relatively correct item, and the left and right heights of the scale changed again.

Shengkai was originally one level lower than Nie Zheng, but after this round, the two came to the same level again.

Nie Zheng waved towards Shengkai from a distance, and there seemed to be a smile in the corner of his eyes.

Bloom pursed his lips and sighed softly.

The second round of questions and answers was much faster than the first round. After changing the light curtain several times, the speed of the needle on the balance has slowed down a lot.

In the last round, the expressions of the two of them were much more dignified than before, and their eyes were fixed on the changing light and shadow.

However, this time, when the words on the light curtain appeared, Shengkai discovered that he hadn't been silenced.

His first reaction was:

What the hell is going on with the sky?

After reading the two paragraphs on the light curtain, Nie Zheng turned his head and took a look at Shengkai.

bloom:

"how?"

Nie Zheng paused:

"you……"

But in the end he didn't say much.

The two paragraphs are at both ends of the light curtain, as if they were deliberately separated.

On the side near the bloom it reads:

"Lie and sorrow are inseparable / What's the point of all clocks / without masks."

[Note] The other side is:

"I was born in sin karma, I have sin in the embryo."

[Note] And this time the question is - "Please tell me your number."

The tick countdown starts.

Perhaps it was due to the influence of the state of mind, this time the voice rang in the ears of the two of them, more like a reminder.

The two words given by Tianmu obviously want them to find clues, and the number corresponds to the password to get out of the secret room.

It turned out that after going round and round, I finally came to this step.

As if Nie Zheng was not in a hurry to solve the riddle, he sat down leaning on the rope on the tray, and said to Shengkai from a distance:

"It seems that we can't escape the choice, little Hua'er."

Sheng Kai smiled and raised his voice:

"I won't let you, my man is still waiting for me to go out."

Nie Zheng clicked his tongue and said:

"I can smell the sour smell of love on you from far away."

They joked about it, but the time was still ticking, and both knew what was going to happen next, but kept silent about it.

In fact, at a certain moment, blooming felt extremely absurd.

Obviously they are living well, but they insist on losing their lives for the advanced method set by Tianmu.

Therefore, if you do not resist, life is also equivalent to death.

The final puzzle-solving process is actually not too difficult. When the reminder mentions masks and clocks, it must be related to the items in their respective photos.

The blooming item is a pocket watch, which is equivalent to a clock. He believes that if he takes the pocket watch apart, he will be able to find the number that the light curtain said.

And Nie Zheng is even simpler, "I was born in sin karma, and I have sin in the embryo."

Through the context, it can be boldly guessed that this sentence comes from "Confessions", which is Nie Zheng's item.

He can easily find this sentence on a blank page, so the number is likely to be the page number of this page.

The answer was right in front of them, but no one moved.

At this moment, Shengkai put aside those suspicions, and smiled at Nie Zheng cleanly.

Separation is always sad and powerless.

But they shouldn't be treated like this.

Shengkai thought, if Nie Zheng really did something, it might not be a bad thing.

Who doesn't have a few unspeakable secrets?

But at this moment, the sadness in his heart was greater than the relief, he turned his head and stopped looking at Nie Zheng, but asked:

"Can I trust you?"

Nie Zheng said:

"You can have a try."

He seemed to have seen through what Shengkai was thinking, and he no longer concealed anything, lowering his eyes and showing a smile that made Shengkai very strange.

"We may...

Farewell. "

Nie Zheng said, "Goodbye, little Huaer."

The moment the voice fell, the countdown was approaching rapidly, Nie Zheng smiled lightly, and suddenly tore the "Confessions" to pieces, and the pages of the book fell into the boundless darkness like huge snowflakes in winter.

Bloom was stunned, then angrily said:

"What do you want to do?"

Nie Zheng stretched out his arms, like an eagle that just hatched out of its shell, and fell into the abyss without hesitation before the wings on its wings were formed.

The night completely engulfed his figure, the tray shook a few times due to the strength, and finally fell silent.

Note 1:

It is still a set of exercises on the Internet to exercise logic.

Note 2:

The story is the legend of Libra, which comes from Greek mythology. The first part is recorded, and the second half is a little bit adapted by myself.

Note 3:

Lies and sorrow are inseparable / What's the point of all clocks / without masks. ——Bei Dao's "Daydream" note 4:

I was born in sin karma, I had sin in the womb. - Augustine, The Confessions