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Chapter 15: Second inning

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So far, Lu Chu has correctly recognized every item in front of him, which makes him wonder whether the many trainings from his parents since he was a child have long expected that he will recover his eyesight one day. Take pains to teach him human characters, learn a variety of different subjects, make him walk and habitually walk down the streets of the town every month, let him touch every object until he can draw them blindly...

Except for "color", which really couldn't be instilled in his mind, everything else seemed to be preparing for his present.

Perhaps "7" knew the reason, so Lu Chu temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart and started to deal with the problem in front of him.

He has already figured out the layout and structure here, but he feels even more depressed. The shape of the building and the interior layout can have a great impact on people's emotions.

Suppressing the uncomfortable feeling, Lu Chu thought, which of the four doors against the wall is the real way to escape from here

Lu Chu has checked that room several times, but found nothing but a flashlight and a working knife. Maybe there are some clues in the corridor. Thinking of this, Lu Chu went back to the door of the small room, and decided to start from here and check all the items in the "back" shaped corridor.

There were few things placed in the corridor, and Lu Chu was very concerned about the trembling clock hanging on the wall outside the door of the small room, but the hands never moved.

Because Lu Chu has not yet been able to make a good one-to-one correspondence between what he sees with his eyes and what his parents described and engraved in his mind since he was a child, so until now he has realized something unusual: the hour and minute hands of this watch Both the second hand and the second hand are pointing in the direction of "3". This kind of pointing is impossible under normal circumstances. As we all know, the three points will only coincide when they all point to "12", that is, zero and twelve noon. "3".

So, what does this "3" want to tell the people who come here

There was a dead potted plant right under the clock. Lu Chu bent down and lifted the potted plant to check it back and forth. He only found a piece of yellow colored paper for children to play with stacking paper at the bottom of the potted plant tray. On the paper was written: "6" word.

Lu Chu put the note into his pocket, wondering if there was any connection between this number and the number pointed on the clock.

Fortunately, he found some clues. Lu Chu put the potted plants back in place, stood up, and prepared to continue searching other places.

The design of this "back"-shaped corridor is very interesting. If it wasn't for the slightly different things in each corridor, Lu Chu might not even be able to figure out the direction if he turned around a little more.

and many more!

As if thinking of something, Lu Chu stopped in his tracks.

Direction, direction... So, is it possible that the "3" on that clock is telling the direction in which something exists

The position where the watch is installed is not high enough for Lu Chu to touch with his hand, and the "3" is due east. Realizing this, Lu Chu knocked along the wall along the direction parallel to the due east of the hands of the watch, and pricked up his ears while knocking. To judge by himself, when the sound of hitting the wall changed from thick to clear, Lu Chu was overjoyed: he guessed right.

The wall here is obviously empty. Lu Chu picked up the knife in his hand, cut off the outer layer of the wall, and took out an iron lockbox from inside.

The password requires four numbers, and each place where the password is entered is a different color—yellow, red, green, and pink. Almost at the same time, Lu Chu remembered the colored paper with numbers written on it that he found. He tried to forcibly pry open the box with a knife, but to no avail, he turned to look for other numbers throughout the corridor.

After searching the corridors and rooms several times, Lu Chu only found two other colored papers with numbers written on them, plus the first one, corresponding to the three positions one, three and four on the lockbox, belonging to number two No bit of confetti could be found anyway.

In the absence of equipment to know the exact time of the day and the need to escape before "dawn", there is obviously not much time left for Lu Chu.

At this moment, faint songs came from the outside, intermittent and ethereal, echoing through the outer wall in the dark and quiet "back" shaped corridor, at the same time, there were light and crisp footsteps sounding, and The singing sounds are different when they are far and near, and the sound of stepping is close to his ears, which makes Lu Chu feel a chill for no reason, and dare not turn his head easily.

Lu Chu quickly picked up the lockbox, calmed down quickly, and observed the box more carefully.

Then he discovered that the lockbox did not have a "confirm" button, and the number of the password was scrolling like a normal suitcase. In other words, there is a great possibility that after he has entered all the correct passwords, the box will open by itself.

Assume first that there is the possibility of "entering the wrong password will lead to destruction".

The rolling of the password is irreversible in the order of "0-9", and when it reaches "9", it will return to "0". This means that if one of the correct number codes you solve is "9", then you need to start from "0" and scroll through all the numbers to get the correct "9".

In this way, the assumption does not hold, because all the processes you go through in the process of rolling to "9" are wrong answers.

"It's very simple." Lu Chu sighed.

Enter the three numbers that have been solved, and the remaining one can start from scratch with confidence. Fortunately, only one password is unknown, which saves the trouble of too many results after permutation and combination. You only need to try ten numbers from "0-9" in sequence, and the box will be automatically unlocked when you reach the correct number.

So he slowly rolled up the second number.

0—

1-

2-

7—

"Batt—"

The lock is open.

There was a key lying in the box, and a piece of blood-stained letter paper was placed under the key. The words on the paper were scrawled and distorted, making it hard to read.

Lu Chu read it over and over several times before he recognized the two lines above:

— “The way to go is the way to go.”

— "I'm coming to you, guess where I'll show up."

Lu Chu pondered whether the "I" on the paper is the "it" in the reminder.

At this moment, the sound of the singing outside suddenly became louder, as if lingering in the ear, sharp and piercing, lingering.

"Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom!"

As the song approached, the four doors in the corridor were knocked at the same time.