A hunting adventure [unlimited]

The only door to the chamber is opposite the vent, between the warehouse area and the laboratory.

They went straight to the door. The red-painted iron door was thick and strong, but it had no lock holes and handles—it’s not difficult to understand if you imagine a safe. The design of this door is like this. Open outside.

If the people inside want to go out, someone must unlock the door for you outside.

A small rectangular window at the bottom of the door was used to bring in dishes and food, but it was also locked from the outside.

The carpet was stained with drips of oil and silver wet marks like slugs crawling over it. It must be the stain left by the monster who spilled the soup while serving the meal and then licked it with his tongue.

Yu Zhen originally took out the small silver key found under the bones, but now it seems that it is useless, maybe it is just the key of Irene's own house.

The only thing worth noting is the black paint on the top of the iron door with a row of scrawled words: SECRETDUNESHIP.

Du Yu took a close look at the row of letters, and asked in bewilderment, "...English?"

Whether in reality or in dreams, the most widely used language is the lingua franca, so the sudden appearance of pure English is special.

This reminded Yu Zhen, he asked: "How many languages ​​do you know?"

Du Yu looked up intently, and replied, "Five."

Yu Zhen counted: "Chinese, common language... what else?"

Du Yu: "English, Spanish, French."

Yu Zhen: "It's very mainstream, it's your family's style."

Then the meaning of the English sentence on the door is indeed worth pondering, although it does not seem to have any direct meaning.

Secretduneship. Secret dune ship.It does not belong to a complete and correct sentence pattern, and it is also far-fetched as an item name, more like three unrelated words put together at random.

... Could it be a code word?

"Think about it carefully, what do these three words mean." Yu Zhen patted Du Yu's shoulder, "It's up to you."

It's not that he is lazy, but if this is a code word, it must have been left by Du Yu for himself to read, and the person who untied the bell had to tie it.

Yu Zhen left the other party alone to think, then shifted direction and said, "I'll go to the side to have a look."

***

When Yu Zhen came to the laboratory area, the empty operating table was covered with a layer of yellow cloth covered with dark brown stains. He didn't touch it, and he knew it was blood.

There are two airtight glass cabinets next to the operating table. Some air-dried muscle tissues are hung on iron hooks inside. The flesh that has lost moisture is shrunk into a wrinkled ball, and it is difficult to distinguish the exact parts.

The most terrifying thing is the metal utensils on the workbench, knives and hooks of various shapes and lengths, with different purposes, but the same sharpness.

He lifted a corner of the yellow cloth, bent down to look at the bottom of the operating table, and accidentally picked up a tooth on the ground.

It was a human back molar. Yu Zhen picked it up and looked at it, then put it into a metal tray on the side.

The shower room was still in the same state as it was when someone was using it. There were a few finger prints on the dusty mirror, like that of the monster. Soap, cups, toothbrushes, and tooth cleaning powder were placed by the sink.

Open the shower curtain, the shower head is hanging high, there is a drain on the floor, and two towels are hanging on the shelf.

After visiting one-third of the secret room, Yu Zhen came to the study area, which is much more interesting than the laboratory.

He first focused on the manuscripts pasted all over the wall—mostly anatomical diagrams of the bones and tendons of some mermaids, their gills below the ribs, fins at the joints, and elegant and strong long tails... There are also a few more detailed pictures. The abdominal cavity structure of the mermaid, its uterine cavity, testis, ovaries and other internal organs, as well as the complex and delicate cloaca are drawn accurately.

The master of the manuscript has excellent sketching skills. Each drawing has precise lines, distinct shadows, and is full of artistry.

Yu Zhen took a few thick books from the bookshelf, opened them and glanced at them. They were all professional medical reference books, and he couldn't understand them.

After walking around enough, he sat in the leather chair behind the desk, not caring about the dust on the back of the chair.

The desk takes up some volume and has about six drawers, the far right of which is locked.Yu Zhen first opened the other five unlocked drawers, which contained some stationery such as ink, paper, rulers, and seals.

He searched here and there, but couldn't find anything of value.

When he had nothing to look at, he had to look at the locked column of drawers. The size of the keyhole gave him a flash of inspiration—and took out Irene's key.

Yu Zhen poked the key in and tried to turn it, but unfortunately it was still wrong and couldn't be turned.

He played with the small silver key, and an idea popped into his head: This should be the key to open the secret room from the outside.

That's right, Eileen has to have a key to get in here.

She is the master of the Chamber of Secrets?Or does she have an unusual relationship with the owner of the Chamber of Secrets?

However, the drawings and books on the walls were not signed, so it is impossible to determine who lived here.

Yu Zhen leaned on the table, propped her chin in thought, and didn't notice that the dust from her fingertips smeared to the side of her face.

——The person who uses this secret room is a medical practitioner who is obsessed with the study of the physiological structure of mermaids, and may be the group of mad scientists who are committed to modifying the male genes of the empire as recorded in the book; she does not hesitate to lock herself in such a In a place where there is no light, like being in a prison, you study with great concentration day and night.

As long as the meal is delivered to the door, even the initiative to go in and out is also handed over. No one will be seen, no outside disturbances will be disturbed, and the whole body will be devoted to work.

—Is it possible that she was coerced and locked in?Yu Zhen believes that this possibility is very small, because there is no monitoring equipment installed in the secret room, and there are no preventive measures to prevent escape and suicide; there is a high probability that she stayed here voluntarily.

Conversely speaking, since this secret room is extremely functional, it is tailor-made for the user and must meet all the needs of the user; on the surface, it seems that living and working here is worry-free, but how about safety?

Thinking in another way, if he were to design and build such a secret room for retreat work for himself, would he feel at ease to hand over his wealth and life to others?After all, once an accident happened to the person responsible for opening the door and delivering the food, the people in the secret room would surely die.

The answer is that he is not at ease, and no one will be at ease.

So what to do?

Of course, it is to build another passage that can go out from the inside, or to design another method to open the door lock, so as to take the initiative of survival in one's own hands.

With such a simple truth, he believed that the owner of the secret room would not fail to understand.

So there must be some other way to open the red iron door, or there must be other exits from the chamber besides that door.

—The ventilation duct certainly wasn't.It's too passive, and it's sealed until Erin goes out.

If there is another exit, it must be hidden in a secret and unexpected place, so as to protect the owner of the secret room to the greatest extent.

For such a well-built basement, theoretically, even if the palace blows up, it will be safe and sound. Its service life is considered in the long run, that is to say, it will experience more than one owner and user.

The English written on one of the exits will not be useless information, it is very likely to be a reminder of another exit.

I don't know if Du Yu has solved the string of code words.Yu Zhen left the desk to look for someone.

***

Du Yu was no longer at the door, he went to the warehouse area.

Yu Zhen found someone beside a row of shelves, poked his finger on the shoulder blade and said, "Do you want to understand the meaning of that string of English?"

Du Yu was staring at a glass jar full of formalin, and when he was disturbed, he turned to look at him, and asked inappropriately, "It's a human leg inside."

Hearing this, Yu Zhen looked at the jar, and there was a human calf soaked in it. The length and bones belonged to a man; the skin of the leg was smooth and clean, wrapped with tight and slender muscles, the instep was thin, and the toes were round and delicate, it was The unisex beauty admired by the empire.

"Yes, it's a human leg. I even picked up a human tooth under the operating table over there. What's the matter?" Yu Zhen asked puzzled.

He was used to all kinds of brutal and frightening things in his dreams, and it was normal to have biological limb specimens in the laboratory.

Du Yu said: "The Royal Academy has set up a mermaid genetic engineering laboratory, and I have visited it; they use the stored remains of pure-blooded mermaids and human test-tube embryos for research."

Yu Zhen: "Oh, and then?"

Du Yu: "The male fertility modification surgery in the empire is also very mature."

Yu Zhen was confused when he heard it, "So...?"

Du Yu said with a stern look in his eyes, "So, none of the research projects they disclosed to the public required the use of living adult males."

"Live adult male?" Yu Zhen was puzzled.

"You don't think that the tools over there are all used on corpses, do you?" Du Yu glanced at the experimental area.

Yu Zhen remembered that there were hemostatic forceps in those tools, and the corpse didn't need to stop the bleeding.

"Uh... isn't it for mermaids?" After speaking, he himself realized that something was wrong.

The empire has only caught one pure-blooded mermaid in more than 100 years, and it was carefully raised in the palace; and those docile mermaids that have been selected are also extremely precious, and there are not many of them in total, so they will not be sent to such a place for live research.Moreover, this basement does not have the facilities and conditions to raise mermaids.

So to say……

"Someone is conducting human experiments in this place, using living people." Du Yu said first, "What kind of experiment can't be established in the research institute openly, but hide in the sewer and do it quietly?"

"I don't know." Yu Zhen's imagination was sealed.

Du Yu obviously didn't have a clear answer, so he put the topic aside for now, "What did you just ask me?"

Yu Zhen returned to God and said, "Ask you, have you thought of the meaning of those three English words?"

Du Yu: "Secrets, dunes, boats."

Yu Zhen: "Do you need to say that? I'm asking about the meaning behind them! Be serious!"

Du Yu lowered his head, seemed to think seriously for a few minutes, then raised his head again and said, "I don't know."

Yu Zhen broke down and said, "If you don't know, then no one really knows."

Du Yu said casually, "Maybe it doesn't make any sense."

Yu Zhen said quickly: "Don't, I just got a clue, think about it carefully, among the five languages ​​you can speak, is there anything special about English?"

The contents of the dream are all projections of the subconscious mind. Whether it is fabricated fantasies or memories, it is closely related to the cognitive level of the dreamer; Du Yu can speak two native languages ​​and three foreign languages. Why is this key reminder expressed in English? , there must be a reason for it.

He needs to help Du Yu find out that reason.

"For example, in your memory, who do you often communicate with in English? Have you ever experienced things related to secrets, sand dunes, and boats?"

Du Yu didn't think about the question he raised, but said, "You mean, that sentence is a riddle that hides information?"

Yu Zhen: "Yes!"

Du Yu: "It's an anagram."

Yu Zhen: "Huh?"

Du Yu's eyes were slightly red because he was sleepy.However, he still patiently explained: "A small game that forms new words and sentences by changing the order of letters in sentences or words; take English as an example, earth (earth) = heart (heart), evil (evil) = vile (vile), deer (deer) = reed (reed), and so on."

Yu Zhen immediately understood that he was only good at two native languages, and secondly English and some simple French; this caused him to have other doubts.

"But this kind of word transposition game can also be done in other languages, such as French: aube (dawn) = beau (beautiful), argent (money) = gérant (manager) and so on; Chinese: snow white little Cat = Bai Xiaoxue's cat. Is there anything special about English?"

Du Yu said: "Yes. French and Spanish letters have umlauts on the top of the head. For example, gérant in your example becomes argent, and the acute diacritic on the top of e disappears. Although Chinese can convey more information, the concealment of the inversion of Chinese characters Sex is not as good as letters, and it is more suitable for splitting words, such as splitting snow white into rainy day. I think it is difficult to achieve perfection in anagrams other than English; the person who left this code word seems to agree with me.”

"Then how to change the secret dune ship?" Yu Zhen quickly entered the state, using his memory advantage, "Secretduneship, including 3 Es, 2 Ss, and the remaining C, R, T, D, U, N, H, I , P each one; the new words that can be extracted at a glance include punch (punch), desire (desire), sheep (sheep), third (third), tune (tune)..."

Du Yu was amused by his concentration, "Your brain is really fast, but it shouldn't be that simple."

The author has something to say:

The anagram game mentioned in the article is called anagram in English and anagramme in French.

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If you are interested, try to solve the crossword puzzle with two yù (づ●─●)づ