Chapter 1 Officer Wang Is the Final Boss

Of course, the guess that Officer Wang was the final boss was a joke.

“Crayon drawing, window, little girl...”

Li Ang stared at the painting, squinting as he pondered for a moment. “The window in the painting is a cross window, with a brown wooden frame and transparent glass.

“While the window in this room is a double casement window, with a silver metal frame and gray frosted glass.

“There’s only one place where the colors are the same…”

The bolt.

Li Ang returned to the window again. Each of the double casement windows had a bolt. The bolt on the left window was intact, while the bolt on the right was somewhat rusty, and the half that was missing was hidden too insidiously. The base was glued together.

“The shapes of the left and right bolts are different. The left bolt is an ordinary L-shaped metal cylinder.

“While the top of the right bolt is round on the outside, hollow on the inside, and shaped like a recessed hexagon.

“Like a hex screwdriver.”

Li Ang used a little force to pull out the L-shaped hex screwdriver disguised as a bolt, from the base of the bolt that was missing its upper half.

Li Ang tossed the somewhat weighty hex screwdriver in his hand, cursing inwardly, “Hidden too insidiously.

“The only light source in the room is the long strip light embedded in the plastic lampshade on the ceiling.

“The light is extremely dim here at the window.

“Unless you feel it carefully, you can’t find the difference at all.”

Okay, he got the hex screwdriver. Now what?

Li Ang tried to turn the screw at the sink,

But the top of that screw had long been broken in half,

And the hex screwdriver was a recessed hexagon, so the size and shape didn’t match. He couldn’t turn it at all.

“The screws on the exposed spring bed are too big, and there are no screws on the outside of the metal cabinet. The only place in the room where a screwdriver could be used is…”

He pondered, walking toward the metal door, and aimed the screwdriver at the hexagonal rivets on the door.

*Click.*

The screwdriver fit perfectly.

He turned it forcefully for a while, but it didn’t budge.

“As long as it fits. There are so many rivets on the door. It’s impossible for every single one to hide something.”

Li Ang stretched his fingers and tried the rivets one by one.

Finally, when he tried the seventeenth rivet from the left on the lower part of the door, he felt something different.

“It can be turned!”

Li Ang was overjoyed, and gripped the hex screwdriver tightly, slowly turning it, bit by bit, until the rivet was out.

After the rivet was unscrewed, there was a narrow hole in the door.

The light in this position was dim, and even if you lay on the ground, you couldn’t see what was inside.

Moreover, the gloves were too clumsy, and he couldn’t reach in at all.

“Let me think, the tip of the hex screwdriver is magnetic…”

Li Ang removed the rivet from the hex screwdriver, squatted on the ground, and stuck the screwdriver into the hole left by the rivet, turning it for a while.

*Clink.*

A crisp sound rang out from inside the door.

Li Ang’s heart pounded. He slowly pulled out the screwdriver, and sure enough, he saw a small key stuck to the tip of the screwdriver.

“Good.”

Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and said, “Judging from the shape, it corresponds to the keyhole in the front door.”

He walked to the door and inserted the key into the lock.

Before he could turn it, he heard a “click.”

The heavy metal door automatically slid to the left along the tracks on the ground.

It stopped moving after sliding to a certain position.

Li Ang didn’t rush to walk out the door. He supported the door with his hand and peeked his head out to look around.

The space outside the door was a very spacious stone passage.

The floor, walls, and ceiling were all made of cyan stone bricks. Embedded in the ceiling were long, white light strips of the same model as in the room. The passage was curved.

Li Ang looked around and found that the right side of the passage was a sealed stone wall.

On the left side of the passage, he could vaguely see another metal door of the same model. On the stone bricks above the door, a capital letter B was painted.

Above the door he was at was the letter A.

In the mission log, the words [Phase 2 Mission Objective: Leave Room A] slowly disappeared, replaced by:

[Phase 3 Mission Objective: Explore Rooms B, C, d, e, f in the passage]

“…There are still five rooms?!”

Li Ang narrowed his eyes and complained, “This time, you didn’t even write the mission rewards or time limit directly? Does that mean you want me to figure it out myself?”

Complaints aside, he still had to carry out the mission obediently.

Li Ang glanced at the energy battery on his left arm. The liquid in the battery was a little less than before.

“Gotta hurry…”

He sighed, reached out to pull the key from the door, but couldn’t pull it out.

“Once it’s used, it can’t be removed… Understandable. If one key could open all the doors, there would be no need to do the mission.”

Li Ang nodded, returned to the room, tore the bed sheet into strips of cloth and wrapped them around his waist.

He held the crayon drawing and letter in his left hand, and pinched the screwdriver in his right hand (this thing was at least made of metal, so it could barely be used as a weapon).

To prevent the door from suddenly closing, he also wedged the wooden chair against the door’s track – the wooden chair looked like it was made of wood, but it was very sturdy and couldn’t be smashed at all. It was probably a special item made with alchemy.

After confirming that nothing was left behind, Li Ang cautiously walked out of the room and slowly walked forward along the passage.

This was a circular passage, about four meters wide and three meters high.

The right side was a stone wall.

On the left side, every certain distance, there was a metal door, with the letters A, B, C, d, e, f painted on the stone bricks above the doors in sequence.

To the left of Room f, there was another stone wall.

The metal doors of each room were different.

Room B’s door had a combination lock made of numbers and letters.

Room C’s door had some bottomless triangle and square patterns. Below the patterns was a picture of an eye.

A part of Room d’s door had been hollowed out, and inside was a platform like a shrine. The words “Need 4L” were written on the platform.

The left side was empty, and the right side had a gold-inlaid cup, with the words “3L” engraved on the bottom of the cup.

Room e’s door had the letters 2f2s21m2m3s13t2 written on it, and below it was a row of twenty-four-letter combination locks.

Room f’s door was ordinary, with only a keyhole.

A part of the stone wall to the left of Room f was hollowed out, in a cylindrical shape, which looked like it could just fit an energy battery.

“…”

Li Ang stood at the door of Room f and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

“No matter what puzzles we face, don’t be afraid, face them with a smile. The best way to eliminate fear is to face fear… Bullshit!

“System, with so many puzzles, are you trying to kill me?

“I’m telling you, if it weren’t for the alchemy here,

“I would’ve,

“Force quit on the spot!”

Li Ang’s shout echoed in the passage, but no one responded – Miss Chai wasn’t by his side, and no one complained about him, “Why are you shouting so loudly!”