Chapter 399: The Location Where the Rules are Hidden!

First is Darkness Under the Lamp.

In the lower level of the Scrapyard, because the exit was covered by the board, there was no light inside.

Lin Xuan sat on the pile of remains, took out his cigarette case, and lit a cigarette. Soon, the board was lifted, and the Lin Xuan above threw down a few flashlights.

He used the flashlights to carefully examine every corner of the basement, searching for the rules.

He discovered...

On the four walls.

On the left wall, there was a very strange painting: if the painting was divided according to layers, it could be divided into three layers. The first layer was a square piece that looked like a blue rag; the second layer was a round ball, like a planet; the third layer was easier to judge, a small pool of water in the dark night.

After looking at this painting, Lin Xuan stroked his chin, not knowing what he was thinking.

Then he looked at the right wall.

'Hot and cold?'

He took a deep puff of his cigarette and couldn't help but look at the front wall. There were words on it:

【The dragon robe and golden crown reflect the sun's glory.】

【The benevolent are invincible, choosing heavy grace.】

Lin Xuan looked at these two seven-character lines, secretly thinking that from the perspective of Level and Oblique Tones, it was simply a mess. Therefore, he could rule out the possibility of him having to complete the poem.

He turned his head to look at the back wall.

There was only a graphic on the back wall, looking very much like a giant period.

Withdrawing his gaze.

Lin Xuan sat back down on the pile of remains, took out his cigarette case again, lit a cigarette, and smoked.

'In the mural on the left, the middle is a sphere similar to a planet, so the square pattern above that looks like a rag is...'

'The sky!'

'Namely: The sky is square, the earth is round.'

'And the painting below is a small pool of water in the night.'

'Therefore, the entire mural on the left can be summed up in four characters: Tian Fang Ye Tan (The Arabian Nights)!'

'The Arabian Nights, from the Arabic folk tales: "One Thousand and One Nights".'

'Then, from the left mural, the number can be deduced: 1001!'

Thinking this.

In the darkness, he looked again at the right wall, even though he couldn't see anything.

'The right mural, the weather is extremely hot, eight swords are suspended in mid-air, and the painting's name is Cold Glare Blade.'

'Cold Glare Blade is Guan Yu's weapon. The Green Dragon Crescent Blade is also called Cold Glare Blade, from the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".'

'The weather is hot, which is "Shu" (heat).'

'And the name of this painting is Cold Glare Blade, which is the weapon of Guan Yu of Shu Han.'

'Therefore, "Shu" (heat) means "Shu" (the State of Shu).'

'There are eight swords, suspended in mid-air.'

'Shu, eight swords...'

'Liu Bei's Eight Swords of the Shu Lord!'

'In the first year of Zhangwu, Liu Bei used iron ore from Mount Jinniu to forge eight precious swords, each three feet six inches long, commonly known as the Eight Swords of the Shu Lord.'

'The wearers of the Eight Swords of the Shu Lord: Liu Bei, Liu Shan, Liu Yong, Liu Li, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun.'

'This is a bit troublesome. Only Zhao Yun's and Zhuge Liang's Eight Swords of the Shu Lord were preserved.'

'Zhao Yun's sword was first obtained by Empress Dowager Cixi, who loved it so much she used it as a burial object. Sun Dianying blew open Cixi's tomb and obtained Zhao Yun's sword. Later, Sun Dianying was defeated and captured, and this sword seems to have been confiscated. Now, it should be on display in some museum.'

'Zhuge Liang's Eight Swords of the Shu Lord seems to have been obtained by a Tang Dynasty general, who renamed the sword to: Shigu Sword.'

Deducing to this point, Lin Xuan suddenly realized this was meant to make him continue deducing, thereby wasting time. He looked again at the painting on the right wall, and although he couldn't see anything, the entire painting had already appeared in his mind.

'Extract key information!'

'The historical figures involved in this painting definitely include Guan Yu and Liu Bei.'

'Cold Glare Blade is Guan Yu's weapon.'

'The eight swords are Liu Bei's weapons.'

'Therefore, the overall meaning expressed by this painting is, Guan Yu's Cold Glare Blade, and Liu Bei's Eight Swords of the Shu Lord.'

'Can it be interpreted this way...'

'Guan Yu weapon: About weapons (Guan Yu sounds like 'about' in Chinese).'

'Liu Bei: Keep it as a spare (Liu Bei sounds like 'keep spare' in Chinese).'

'How should the Eight Swords of the Shu Lord be explained?'

Lin Xuan had no clue. He felt this painting should have other unknown information, such as a scene in a room upstairs that would immediately make him deduce the meaning of the Eight Swords of the Shu Lord.

'I will temporarily not deduce the right mural. The answer most likely requires going upstairs to be deduced.'

He secretly gave himself a psychological suggestion, ensuring that when needed, he would immediately remember this mural that hadn't been cracked yet.

He looked at the front wall again.

【The dragon robe and golden crown reflect the sun's glory.】

【The benevolent are invincible, choosing heavy grace.】

'The first line is very easy to understand. I can derive the two characters 【Emperor】.'

'The key is the second line!'

'The benevolent are invincible, choosing heavy grace.'

Lin Xuan took a puff of his cigarette, his expression slightly impatient. He hurriedly suppressed his Mental State, and only after his Mental State calmed down did he cancel the suppression of his Mental State.

He didn't dare to choose to suppress his Mental State when facing Shu Renjun's traps.

'Judging from the Laboratory Building, Shu Renjun's design here is either a brain teaser like the password exam Secret Room at the entrance, or a test of the player's knowledge reserve like this basement with the murals on the left and right walls.'

'So, the information hidden in the sentence 'The benevolent are invincible, choosing heavy grace' is either a brain teaser or a test of knowledge reserve.'

'First, rule out the brain teaser. The reason is simple, I can't think of one.'

'Therefore, these four characters are most likely testing the player's knowledge reserve.'

'The benevolent are invincible seems to have been proposed by Mencius; choosing heavy grace, the grace chosen is very, very heavy, but here, it's not clear whether it's Mencius' choice or Mencius being chosen?'

'Wait!'

'It's Mencius' mother moving three times!'

'Of the two sentences on the wall, the first sentence is Emperor, and the second sentence is Mencius' mother moving three times.'

'Emperor, three moves.'

'Third? It's ambiguous!'

As for the period on the back wall, he directly chose to ignore it, simply because no matter how much he deduced, he wouldn't be able to deduce it.

'In other words, from the four walls, I can only derive the number 【1001】.'

'1001 could be a secret, could be the number of a certain cabinet, and most likely the number of a certain room, but I'm afraid...'

'It's the number of a certain robot!'

According to Murphy's Law, Lin Xuan knew clearly that the more he feared something, the more it would turn out to be true. For Shu Renjun to hide the rules in a place Lin Xuan could never find, the simplest method was to hide the rules...

On the body of a certain robot.

Moreover, the danger factor of this robot must be very high, and it must be able to walk around.

'This is really infuriating!'

'An Instance of this intensity should have a time limit. Shu Renjun is forcing us to wait until the time ends and leave with zero points.'

'I'm very curious, with so many chances to start over, it's this difficult for me. How are Chen Ran and the others supposed to clear this?'

'Could it be that my entry point is wrong?'

'The plot is already very obvious. The laboratory is manufacturing and modifying robots.'

'Then, the Laboratory Building should have related plotlines, such as why the school is doing this, and how to destroy the Laboratory Building.'

'To find this information, one must know the rules of the laboratory in the Laboratory Building, otherwise, even a thousand lives wouldn't be enough.'

'Of course, the Principal's Private Residence might have some more intuitive clues, but looking at it now, to clear the Instance, there's a high probability that we have to destroy the Laboratory Building, or use the robots in the Laboratory Building to control the entire school. Therefore, we will eventually return here, once again facing the problem I am facing now.'