"It's very obvious, it's related to the direction." Dong Zheng stood in the grid with We written on it, and said: "If the twenty-six letters are arranged according to the dial pattern it gives, they can be arranged in two full circles, and The remaining Y and Z correspond to the positions of twelve o'clock and one point, respectively.
"The 12 o'clock direction is marked with N representing north, so when the three letters AMY appear, they should move to the north, DP to the east, GS to the south, and VJ to the west, each two directions represent the letters between the letters. The number should represent the distance moved.
"If interpreted in this way, the meaning of the sentence should be North 5 South 7 East 1 South 6 North 31 West 5 North 1 East 1 North 3. In total, 27 units to the north and 3 units to the west is the position it implies. ."
Everyone understood what he meant. Cui Zuojing folded his arms and asked, "Then how do you determine the standard unit of each step?"
Dong Zheng obviously thought about it for a long time, and immediately said: "It is impossible for two children to use professional measuring tools here. I personally prefer them to use their own steps to count. A girl of about ten years old is probably... 40 to 50 centimeters, you will know the specifics after a try.”
According to his own step equal to two units, with we as the origin, Dong Zheng walked thirteen and a half steps north and one and a half steps west.
Lin Hai found a plastic shovel from the cabin and handed it to him.
Dong Zheng took his standing position as the center, and dug down about twenty centimeters. The shovel hit something hard.
After a while, he dug out the whole box, brushed off the soil on it, and opened it.
Inside were some small toys that little girls would love, sparkling glass flowers, a few newspaper clippings, and a thin storybook.
Dong Zheng directly took out a newspaper clipping, and the headline of the headline was bolded and read "On June 20, a serious collapse and flooding accident occurred in the mine north of the town".
The date of the newspaper was June 21, which just matched the news mentioned in the diary. Dong Zheng browsed it roughly. There is a coal mine in the north of this town. The coal mining industry is the economic pillar of this town. Sixty of the residents are engaged in related work.
This flooding is the worst accident the town has ever experienced, because the underground water flooded the mine, and the rescue is too difficult. It can be determined that the coal miners trapped in it have no hope of surviving.
Another newspaper clipping, three days later, listed the victims of the mine disaster, a long list.
The rest of the clippings are full of stories, jokes, and riddles that kids will love.
Cui Zuojing picked up the small book at the bottom of the box, which was Agatha's adoption certificate.
Lin Hangzhi: "Is she adopted? No wonder, I think almost everyone in this school looks like an oriental person, only she is blonde and blue-eyed."
Ellen: "It is precisely because of this difference that she is excluded. People will instinctively exclude themselves from the collective and their own individuals. Adults can control them consciously, while children never Take pains to hide your likes and dislikes."
A certain page in the middle of the storybook is marked by a corner, and the corresponding story is called "The Devil in the Mountain". It probably tells that a long, long time ago, there was an evil and terrifying demon on the mountain. It couldn't leave its lair for some reason. , so it called the children in their sleep to the mountain, gave them the blood of the devil, and let the children go back.
The children who return to town serve the demons, who gradually become evil, luring their friends and family to the mountains to feed the beings that give them their blood.
This story was probably written to keep the children from running around the mountain, but Dong Zheng noticed that the first person in the story to be seduced by the demon was a girl, and she had long blond hair.
"Will it be related to this? Because a character in a story has something in common with the little girl, do you really treat her as a demon?"
Dong Zheng shook his head: "I don't know, now we don't know whether the demon thing really happened, or it was just a simple story, but it is certain that Agatha must have suffered because of her unusual appearance."
There is no important information left, and they take everything they can put away with them. After defeating the doll, Dong Zheng picked up the toy teddy bear and was holding its intact arm in his hand.
A group of people lined up into the small wooden house and entered the "Eye of Heaven" with the door open. The stairs spiral downward, the plumb line is the central axis, the steps are very narrow, and they can only step on the most edge of the spiral.
They descended about six or seven meters, and the temperature around them obviously dropped a lot. Finally, they passed a small door and entered the underground courtyard.
This underground space is not large, and there are five doors on the wall, one of which has been opened, revealing the pink-hued room decoration inside.
Sure enough, someone came one step ahead of them.
When they first discovered that the door of the cabin and the Eye of Heaven were both open, everyone felt that there were other pilgrims in this box besides them, and now they can finally guess with certainty.
Before Dong Zheng felt a wave like an earthquake in the classroom, it must have been caused by those people.
Because when the task of collecting keys appeared, Dong Zheng had already obtained the key of the guard room from the guard, so he automatically regarded one of the two keys he had obtained as the other, ignoring the possibility that others had already obtained other keys.
The key that wasn't in his hand was the one marked in the manual, right in the equipment room.
Dong Zheng distributed the keys to Lin Hangzhi, Dong Linhai and Allen, each of whom happened to have one. After taking turns to try, they stood in front of the doors corresponding to their respective keys.
Dong Zheng instructed: "These doors may take us to different places. If they are separated, we must pay attention to safety."
The crowd nodded.
Dong Zheng took a deep breath, glanced at Cui Zuojing, and walked into the door.
There was no discomfort at the moment of passing through the door, but Dong Zheng knew that he had indeed crossed the space. He looked to the side, and Lin Hai also walked out of the other door.
Including the one that has been opened, all five doors lead to the same room, which makes Dong Zheng speechless. If so, why give five different keys and five doors
Is it possible that there will be a plot related to the key in the future? For example, the more doors you open, the more branch plots you can unlock later, and the more rewarding you get for the final customs clearance.
Seeing that everyone was together again, Dong Zheng couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, it seems that I said what I said a few seconds ago in vain."
"It's a good thing." Linhai observed the room, which looked like a toy room, with a pink tone as a whole, the floor was covered with colorful children's foam boards, and many toys and dolls were placed in the cupboards and open boxes. There are many scattered on the ground.
Allen picked up a screaming chicken by his feet and squeezed it hard, and the yellow long-necked chicken immediately let out a sharp scream.
Lin Hangzhi co-operated to beat him, and Allen started pinching the screaming chicken and pretending to mourn, making Cui Zuojing's head hurt.
"Uncle, did you see something similar to this when you got the fragments?" Dong Linhai asked.
Although it was said that it would not be of much help, Victor, who has always been a good man, still replied: "The style is almost the same, but it is not the same. I should have entered the center map of the box at that time."
"So the ones in the school are all foreshadowing?" Allen sighed, "As expected from the novice area, the script flow is very long."
Cui Zuojing said: "It will be more difficult to wait for the box in the back. It is not uncommon to stay in it for ten days and a half months. Now it is nothing."
After searching for some clues and props, they walked into the next room.
The floor of this room is spliced with black and white foam boards. The overall style is completely different from the previous one. It is simple and cold. The walls are painted with four colors of playing cards, the knight queen and the king, and the clown as the big and small king.
The Red Queen, a symbol of cruelty, is painted on the ceiling, wearing a crown, watching the pilgrims in the room indifferently.
Allen: "Speaking of which, I feel that the pilgrimage to the Pure White Territory seems a bit like a story."
Lin Hangzhi: "What?"
"Alice in Wonderland, you see, the highest ruler is the queen, and the queen controls her people brutally. We are like little Alice, who entered here by accident and went through various experiences on the way to find a way out. A strange, unheard of thing."
Lin Hangzhi was silent for a few seconds, then he couldn't help laughing: "As expected of a kindergarten teacher, your ability to associate is good."
"The style of this house is very Alice, so I naturally thought of it."
Dong Zheng looked up at the queen on the ceiling and frowned slightly. Cui Zuojing was beside him and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Is she the one we want to see on our pilgrimage?"
"It's not her." Cui Zuojing said softly, "In Alice's original book, there are eight kings and queens, corresponding to four suits respectively. The most famous is the queen of hearts, and in the future adventures in the mirror, they appear accordingly. The White Queen is generally regarded as a righteous existence who overthrew the tyranny of the Red Queen."
"And the Red Queen of the Pure White Realm has been dead for many years."
Dong Zheng looked at him in surprise, Cui Zuojing shrugged his shoulders at him, and said, "If you can see her successfully, let's talk about it, let's focus on the things in front of you first."
Several rooms in the back are similar toy rooms. Dong Zheng pushed open the door and entered the next room. When he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but catch his breath.
Thousands of dolls are stacked on the small high platforms on both sides of the room, all wearing gorgeous dresses, with various hair and eye colors, large and small, with different expressions and makeup. Some of them are very realistic, like the most exquisite SD dolls, and some are ordinary dolls for children to play with.
The spherical joints were exposed from the places where the clothes did not cover them, and the indifferent eyes stared in a certain direction, motionless.
They are very human-like, but not so human-like, so they succeeded in making even the most hearted Allen feel the influence of the Uncanny Valley Effect. The sense of potential threat made his scalp numb, and he quickly looked away.
Everyone was eager to leave the doll's house. At this time, Dong Linhai snorted and pointed to a corner that was hard to notice: "That's so realistic."
Cui Zuojing looked in the direction of his fingers, and a life-size girl doll about 1.6 meters was sitting in the corner, leaning against the wall. She is wearing a navy blue dress, her waist and legs are covered by other dolls, her black eyes are staring at the opposite wall, her long flaxen hair is slightly curled, and a thin strand of highlights around her ears is dyed dark blue, which makes her skin more beautiful. White hair.
She looked so realistic that Dong Linhai was taken aback when he saw it. If it wasn't for the baby's eyes not moving from beginning to end, he would have thought that someone was really sitting there.
Cui Zuojing frowned thoughtfully and said nothing. Lin Hangzhi urged: "Let's go quickly, the more you stay in this place, the more scary you feel."
A group of big men, who had no interest in what girls would like, quickly walked out of the doll's room.
No one noticed that, behind them, the eyelashes of the doll girl in the corner that Dong Linhai noticed just now trembled slightly.