Hei Deng Xia Huo
Chapter 572 Black Shop
Li Ang glanced at the letter, and when he looked up again, he already had the answer in his mind.
"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."
"That's 1:3 from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Does the Otherworld also have the Bible?"
Li Ang frowned slightly and looked at the light strips at the top of the tunnel. "There's light in the corridor. Does that mean I need to find other light sources, like infrared or ultraviolet lights? Or should I find the light switch, turn off the lights, and then turn them back on?"
The tunnel was three meters high, and even if he brought a stool, it wouldn't be enough. The spring bed in Room A was also too large to move out of the door.
After thinking fruitlessly, Li Ang had no choice but to temporarily put aside the door of Room C and come to the door of the last room, Room B.
Like Room E, the door of Room B also had a combination lock.
The words above the combination lock read:
BAse+BALL=gAmes
Below the words were the seven letters A, B, e, g, L, m, and s.
Each letter had a dial below it, with the numbers 0-9 marked on the dial.
"All the other room doors have been tried and failed, leaving only this door..."
Li Ang's first thought was to use the answer he got from the pigpen cipher in Room C, and apply the line numbers where the letters ABegLms appeared on the letter to the combination lock dials.
However, some of these letters appeared on the tenth-something line, and if the answer was the password for Room C, the words BAse+BALL=gAmes wouldn't need to be written on the door of Room B.
"Baseball, ball... Battle of Balls, Qiu Qianren, armadillo, I begged bitterly before the Buddha for thousands of years..."
All sorts of massive amounts of information kept pouring into Li Ang's mind.
It felt like when you're taking an exam, and you're working hard to solve a problem, but your brain keeps looping some brainwashing song, and you can't stop it at all.
"Wait, maybe it's not that troublesome..."
Li Ang's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his clumsy glove, slowly rotating the dial. "Just treat this password as a mathematical addition formula."
A=4, B=7, e=3, g=1, L=5, m=9...
When the dial below s was aligned with 8,
The metal door of Room B trembled slightly, and the entire door silently slid to the right along the track.
The smile on Li Ang's face disappeared quickly before it even had time to spread.
After this door opened, there was another door...
"Are you kidding me?!"
Li Ang glared at the sky and said, "Come on, dungeon designer, come down here. I have to rip off your headgear and slap your face. When I get out of here, I'll make sure you don't get any good juice, you remember that."
After venting his anger and letting off steam, Li Ang still honestly went forward, held onto the door frame, and looked into the door.
The two metal doors of Room B were one meter apart, and there was a spray-painted circle on the floor in between.
There was a footprint pattern in the middle of the circle.
It looked like the place in a high-speed rail station where you scan metal objects.
"Is this telling me to stand inside the circle?"
To be honest, Li Ang didn't want to go in. If he was directly locked between the two doors, he would have no way to go to heaven or earth, and he would have to forcibly quit the game.
He thought for a while, then walked around the tunnel again, confirming that there were no hidden elements,
He took out the wooden chair wedged in the front door of Room A and placed it on the track of the first door of Room B.
Holding a screwdriver, he carefully walked into the door, watching in all directions and listening to everything, ready to retreat at any time.
No hidden arrows or poison shot out of the wall, and Li Ang stood on the footprint pattern very smoothly.
"What now?"
Li Ang maintained his standing posture, looked around for a while, and rubbed his chin uncertainly. "Could it be that I have to make a specific action?"
Before he could do a Thomas Flair on the spot, the door behind him closed directly.
The seemingly sturdy wooden chair didn't even last half a second.
With a "crack," it was crushed into two pieces and fell inside and outside the door respectively.
"?!"
Li Ang was shocked, but he saw red lights light up in the narrow space, illuminating everything as red as blood.
After the red light flickered three times, the door in front of him slowly opened, revealing another room.
Room B was the same size as Room A.
But there was no spring bed or sink in it.
On the empty ceramic floor, there was an envelope, a kerosene lamp, and a box of matches.
The red light gradually dimmed, replaced by the white light from the ceiling of Room B.
Li Ang first stood in place and watched for a while.
Then he tiptoed forward and picked up the envelope from the ground.
He opened the envelope skillfully, took out the letter from inside. The content of the letter was much briefer, and there were no stains or water marks.
"Congratulations, Morgan, on successfully breaking through yourself and coming to the second level!
Okay, just kidding.
Although you're as foolish and stupid as an ape,
You can still solve the puzzle on the door if you spend enough time, right?
In that case, I don't mind giving you some hints:
Don't speak, listen carefully."
Listen to what?
A doubt welled up in Li Ang's heart, and then he heard a noise coming from above the ceiling of the room.
Creak.
First, there was the sound of a door opening, followed by two sets of footsteps.
The image of a man wearing leather shoes and a woman wearing cotton slippers instantly appeared in Li Ang's mind.
They opened the door, entered the room, and stood in the center of the room.
The woman spoke first, "Honey, you just..."
"I'm sorry, it was my fault."
The man's tone was a bit gloomy. "I shouldn't have yelled at you. I lost control.
The experiment hasn't made any progress,
And the remaining samples were all destroyed because of the damn weather last night..."
"It's okay, you're so smart, you'll always solve the problem, won't you?"
The woman comforted him gently. "When it's all over,
You can play baseball with her on the grass for an afternoon, just like before, and then lie on the roof, teaching her to identify the stars in the sky."
The man was silent for a moment, then sighed heavily. "Maybe..."
"It will always get better."
The woman said gently, "Oh, the water in the kitchen is boiling. I'm going to get some hot water."
"I'll go with you."
The man said, following the woman's footsteps towards the door.
Seeing that things were not good, Li Ang, who was still digesting the information, directly tore open his throat and shouted loudly, "Hey!!! Help! There's someone locked up downstairs!
Hello! Is anyone there?!"
He ran to the wall and slammed on it, but he still couldn't stop the sound of the door closing from above the ceiling.
Bang.
Everything returned to silence.
"They're gone?"
Li Ang looked at the corner of the ceiling with a dumbfounded expression. "What's going on? Is this a black shop run by a couple? Specializing in imprisoning prisoners and taking pleasure in torturing unlucky people?"