When they pushed open the door of the ward, the atmosphere between Gu Moli and Hua Qiong was very awkward.
So the two of them tacitly avoided the question of how they got the title and quickly moved on to the next topic.
"What should we do next?"
"Where are you going?"
"Let's go see the ruins."
Gu Moli took out someone's notebook from his arms and threw it to Hua Qiong: "You should like this kind of puzzle. It took me five minutes to solve it. From where we are now to the gate of the ruins, I will give you ten minutes to solve it. The torn page can also be regarded as a clue."
“Ouch!”
Sure enough, when it came to things related to deducing and solving puzzles, Hua Qiong became very excited. He picked up his notebook and started to ponder while comparing the decryption cards.
And the other side.
After walking out of the ward, Gu Moli's vision suddenly broadened. The sun was high in the sky, and all around was the golden desert. Armored sand vehicles and teams of fully armed soldiers were moving around in the camp, and right in front of the camp was a magnificent gate.
"Dr. Heinerson?"
"Why did you come out? Is your injury healed?"
Looking in the direction of the voice, he saw General Rosas striding towards him with a serious look on his face: "But since you took the initiative to walk out of the ward, it seems that you have thought it through and decided to help us?"
"Yes."
Obviously, this so-called ancient ruins is the key point of the game process. The system will not give players the opportunity to avoid it, so Gu Moli no longer delays time, but nodded readily: "There is no time to lose, take me to the ruins, and I can go home as soon as possible if I can solve it as soon as possible."
"certainly."
Rosas said with a smile, but soon he frowned and looked behind Gu Moli: "... What happened to Corporal Lorena?"
"Nothing, she..."
“I figured it out!”
Before he finished speaking, Hua Qiong suddenly raised his head, his face flushed with confidence and said: "The key is binary! Then convert the binary system to octal, and the divided passwords correspond to the number of pages, rows, and columns. The blank one is the page you tore off. Just compare it again... ah."
Under Rosas's astonished and somewhat angry gaze, Hua Qiong's voice gradually became lower.
"Corporal Lorena?!"
"... .exist!"
"I asked you to protect the doctor, not to play a decryption game!"
"Yes, I'm sorry!"
"Alright, alright." Gu Moli interrupted Rosas who was about to continue scolding Hua Qiong, and whispered, "Compared to those, take me to the ruins first."
"Uh, I get it... Corporal Lorena! Don't let me see it again!"
"yes!"
Under the leadership of Rosas, Gu Moli and Hua Qiong walked out of the camp and came to the magnificent gate outside the camp. The structure of this relic was similar to a cave, and most of it was buried under the yellow sand. It seemed that being able to dig out this gate was already the limit of the military.
"We've reached the Doctor."
"We have also prepared your research materials. There are a large number of reliefs on this gate, which seem to describe some history. However, due to the long time, they are severely worn out and cannot be deciphered. We can only distinguish them through the remaining ancient characters. We also spent a lot of effort to distinguish the name of the Naberis gold treasure, but we can't do anything about the rest. The empire suspects that there may be a large amount of gold buried inside, so they want to explore it..."
“I see.”
"Doctor, you can do your research here. I have to go meet another expert..."
"Ah, General, go and do your work. Don't worry about me."
After Rosas left, Hua Qiong, who had been tense all the time, finally breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, the old-fashioned and serious Rosas reminded her of her father, so she instinctively felt a little scared of him... .
But now that person is gone.
Hua Qiong became proud again.
"By the way, boss, do you understand ancient writing?"
"nonsense."
Gu Moli smiled proudly: "Of course I don't understand, God knows what these ghostly drawings are."
"... What should we do then?"
Hua Qiong looked at Gu Moli, who was full of confidence even though he didn't understand, speechlessly, and curled his lips and said, "If you don't understand the ancient characters, you can't enter the ruins. The game is stuck, and the message hidden in this notebook doesn't seem to have anything to do with the ruins. Doesn't that mean there are no clues at all?"
"How could that be?"
Gu Moli looked around the gate of the ruins, occasionally touching it, and said to Hua Qiong, "If you want to get the truth, you can't just focus on one aspect. You must have divergent thinking and think from other angles. This is the basic quality of a detective."
"... Are you giving me a lesson?"
"Isn't this what you came here to intern with me for?"
"I hope that in reality... Well, this game is not too far from reality, but identifying ancient characters has nothing to do with reasoning."
"No, no, no."
Gu Moli shook his head: "The game system will not set you an impossible task. Even if it seems difficult and unsolvable, there must be an answer behind it. Just like there is only one truth, there is always a solution to the problem. Just because you haven't found it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
"Don't forget that this is a game. Although it is very real, it is still just a game. Since it is a game, there must be a way to pass it quickly. At first glance, it seems that we must decipher the ancient characters, but in fact it should not be that complicated, because deciphering the ancient characters is simply impossible. If you only focus on this point, you will get into a dead end. It's like a problem that looks like a geometry problem but is actually an algebra problem."
"Is that so?"
Hua Qiong was still very convinced of Gu Moli's reasoning ability, so she did not keep refuting him. Instead, she looked at the door in front of her and began to think seriously.
Boom boom boom.
As a result, just as she began to think, Gu Moli gently knocked on the relief on the gate of the ruins opposite her. It was a man holding a long sword raised above his head, and in front of him were countless soldiers crawling.
"Have you found any clues?"
"Just give it a try."
Gu Moli pointed to the relief in front of him of a man holding a sword high. The shape of the sword was very gorgeous, and it was obvious that a lot of effort had been put into the depiction technique.
"Does this look like a doorknob to you?"
“Huh?”
Hua Qiong looked at Gu Moli with an expression as if he was a psychopath, then helplessly held his forehead and said, "Boss, you reasoned for so long and this is all you came up with? This is an ancient relic, how could there be a door handle? Even if there is, it can't be so small for such a big door."
Gu Moli turned his head and looked at Hua Qiong: "Impossible?"
Hua Qiong nodded firmly: "Impossible."
"Give it a try."
Click.
Gu Moli pulled the handle of the sword-shaped relief downwards, and then a mechanical sound was heard. Then, with the sword-shaped relief as the center, a door about one person tall was pulled out by Gu Moli. The two stood in front of the dark cave entrance, with cold wind blowing in their faces.
Hua Qiong: “… … … ”
Gu Moli: “… ... ... ”