Day of Imprisonment

For the Reminiscents participating in the Tun Tun Bookstore level, time was of the essence.

Five minutes for automatic activity and clue gathering was clearly not enough.

"No, there's not nearly enough time!" Ma Ling was sweating profusely at this point. After entering the room, he was constantly looking for possible clues, checking the book catalog, recording books that seemed problematic, and even trying to find them to look through.

He also needed to check the details of the room.

But ultimately, he was still running around like a headless fly, and he knew very well that five minutes was simply not enough.

Seeing that more than half the time had passed, he ran back as quickly as possible with a few books in his arms.

"Luo Xi, I found some things, including books with numbers. Oh, and there's something in that room that we didn't have in the first room: a miniature building model, a model similar to an opera house."

Ma Ling dumped the things on the table and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Thanks for the hard work!"

Luo Xi's eyes scanned the books and the model on the table.

Then, his gaze locked onto the model. He picked it up and looked at it. The model was about the size of a shoebox. The raw material was wood. It seemed to have been made into components of different sizes first, and then assembled together.

It was a very interesting and exquisite architectural model.

It looked like it was indeed an opera house. Luo Xi then turned the model over and found a name inscribed on the bottom.

(Ern Rubik)

"That should be the maker of this model, but this isn't English, I don't recognize it!" Ma Ling said.

Luo Xi immediately said, "This is Hungarian, meaning Ernő Rubik, born on July 13, 1944, in Hungary, a Hungarian inventor, sculptor, and architect."

"Architect? So, this is his work, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the level scene."

"He has another identity: he is the inventor of the Rubik's Cube."

"The Rubik's Cube? This person invented it?" Ma Ling was stunned. He really didn't know that, it was a blind spot in his knowledge.

But he quickly realized a problem: why did Luo Xi know?

From what he had seen so far, Luo Xi had a very broad knowledge base, especially some knowledge that ordinary people were unlikely to know, yet he seemed to know it all too well.

"Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Cube, wait a minute, wait a minute..." Ma Ling suddenly thought of something. He slapped his forehead, and his whole person became excited like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and it was the kind of excitement that was difficult to suppress.

"Haha, Luo Xi, I know! Rubik's Cube, it's the Rubik's Cube! I know how to achieve the condition for clearing level one."

Ma Ling was so excited that he lost control of his expression.

The commotion here also attracted the attention of Qian Lejin and the other four people who were exploring in another room, and they all came back at this time.

Ma Ling had already found paper and pen and was quickly drawing on it, and because he was too excited, his fingers were trembling.

"Ma Ling, what did you just say? You know how to clear the level?" Qian Lejin asked at this time.

"Yes, that's right, I know," Ma Ling said without raising his head, his whole person in a state of excitement.

"Tell us quickly!"

"Think about it, what does the first condition for clearing the level in the contract say?" Ma Ling raised his hand and widened his eyes.

"It seems to be, enter Room 23, yes, that's it."

"So, why is it Room 23?"

"That's true, a completely cube-shaped room is indeed rare."

"So, if we regard the room as a block of the Rubik's Cube, then everything can be explained. What we just entered is only one of the three side-by-side blocks on one side of the bottom layer of the Rubik's Cube. The blue team entered another one. If all the rooms of the Rubik's Cube are numbered, there will be numbers 1 to 27. Then, as long as we find the room in the middle of the top layer in this Rubik's Cube structure, that is Room 23."

Ma Ling raised the drawing he had drawn at this time.

On it was an exploded view of a Rubik's Cube. Although it was very scribbled, it could be understood at a glance.

The other party even made annotations on it.

For example, he marked a corner block on the bottom of the Rubik's Cube as the initial room of the red team, and another corner block on the same side as the initial room of the blue team. In the 3x3x3 structure, the middle block on the top layer is marked as 23.

"As long as you count from the bottom, no matter which side you start from, number 23 is the middle block on the top. Now, do you understand?"

Ma Ling was very excited.

Because this was the conclusion he deduced based on various clues.

If he could clear the level, then he would undoubtedly be the biggest contributor. This was a very strong sense of accomplishment, and according to the scientific research results of some research institutions, the sense of accomplishment ranks second in all senses of pleasure.

In short, it's very satisfying!

Everyone was silent. Those with slower brains were still thinking about the ins and outs of the matter, while those with better brains had already revealed surprised and joyful expressions.

"Damn, Ma Ling, you're really something. I feel like what you said makes sense. So, Room 23 actually came about like this," Liu Hao obviously also understood the principle here. It can be said that, based on the current understanding, Ma Ling's speculation is very likely to be the truth.

"That is to say, from the beginning, this level scene gave some important hints, such as three side-by-side, almost completely identical rooms, as well as the rare cube-shaped room interior, the room numbered 23, and the architectural model with the name of the Rubik's Cube inventor. Gosh, this is not something ordinary people can deduce..." Qian Lejin was also speechless.

"So, to achieve the condition of clearing level one, there will be a reward of card number 077, because it is difficult, so the reward will be so high," Ma Ling was extremely proud.

It was as if he had already understood the rules of the game and could clear the level immediately.

At this time, Ma Ling looked at Luo Xi.

He knew that Luo Xi was very powerful, so at this time he wanted to get Luo Xi's 'affirmation' even more, but he found that Luo Xi did not show any surprise or excitement.

From the beginning, the other party's expression was the same.

Calm, and even sometimes, there was a kind of inexplicable gloom that made people feel chills.

This kind of temperament is indeed rare.

This kind of person is either an absolutely introverted mediocrity plus a mental illness, or a top genius. Ma Ling himself was a top student. He was at the top of his class from elementary school, junior high school, high school to university.

He was a 'genius' in the eyes of others. He didn't even need to work very hard to crush other peers who seemed more diligent than him in terms of learning ability and grades.

During college, Ma Ling participated in an 'elite club' organization, whose members were all geniuses with IQs far exceeding ordinary people.

In their eyes, ordinary people are actually like cats and dogs, which is an absolute crushing in terms of 'intelligence', a sense of superiority when a higher biological species faces a lower biological species.

So Ma Ling is essentially a proud person.

In his eyes, Luo Xi was undoubtedly a powerful veteran, and Ma Ling believed that fools and mediocrities could not survive for too long in the Day of Imprisonment, so Luo Xi must be an existence of the same level as him.

For example, in the first round of survival time just now, the evil ghost's temptation strategy, although Luo Xi's methods were somewhat extreme, but in terms of results, it was undoubtedly successful.

Because he cracked the other party's plan.

Ma Ling had carefully analyzed that it was impossible to escape from the Day of Imprisonment by relying on personal strength alone. It was necessary to gather the real elite class among the Reminiscents, especially the kind of elite that was reflected in intelligence.

"Luo Xi also definitely needs a partner and ally with comparable intelligence to him. I am his best choice, because only I am a human being of the same level as him." At this moment, Ma Ling's eyes showed strong confidence.

"In the other rooms, did you find a wheel?" Luo Xi asked at this time.

"Wheel? Uh, yes, so I speculate that there should be one in every room," Ma Ling said.

"Can it be turned?"

"No, it feels very heavy. Either the turning force is not enough, or there is a mechanism inside that needs to be opened with some kind of locking device to turn it."

"You go to the other two rooms and take pictures of the book catalogs." Luo Xi looked at the time: "The second round of survival time is about to begin."

"Ah, okay, okay!" Ma Ling and Qian Lejin reacted and hurriedly ran over to take pictures, but Ma Ling was obviously a little annoyed.

"He doesn't seem to have listened to my analysis at all... Why? Does he think my analysis is wrong, or does he simply look down on me?" Ma Ling frowned, his eyes showing anger.

And the more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

"If what I said is wrong, we can discuss it, what's the point of ignoring people? What's so great about you... Why look down on people?"

Ma Ling had a gloomy face, and the little bit of goodwill he had originally had for Luo Xi had vanished.

A proud and conceited person hates the most that the people he thinks are inferior to him actually look down on him.

"Doesn't he know that this kind of behavior is very stupid? So, he is not a wise man, but a pretentious ordinary person!"

Ma Ling finished taking the photos and returned to the initial room almost at the same time as Qian Lejin.

Luo Xi took their two phones and looked at them separately.

"So that's how it is!"

And at this moment, the five-minute rest and exploration time began to count down.

Three

Two

One

The second round of survival time begins!