Gamers Are Fierce Chapter 101: My Love (6)
Li Ang picked up the wooden box,
The wooden box itself is slightly larger than a palm, boxy, and coated with a layer of brown paint,
Six faces are printed with colorful stars like kindergarten teachers sticking on the children's foreheads,
At the bottom of the box, there is a note that reads in slightly scribbled English:
【We were born, raised, and went to school in the same place, but we never knew each other's name and existence until fate made us meet each other. I made this box as a testimony to our first encounter, hopefully before it's too late. S]
Insert an app: a perfect replica of the old version of the book-chasing artifact, an app that can be sourced--Mimi Reading.
"Huh?"
Li Ang frowned, checking the small note over and over under the light.
This note undoubtedly exists as a whole with the wooden box.
"From the tone of the description, this should be a gift from someone to his or her lover.
The S at the back may be some kind of secret code, or the name of the person who made the gift.
S...
Samuel? Stephen? Stone? Sandy?
If it is the male owner of the house and it is given to the female owner, then it means that they are fellow villagers of a place.
But what does the last phrase 'hope it all in time' mean?
I was caught cheating and wanted a divorce? "
Li Ang muttered to himself, and turned his eyes to the wooden box. The six sides of the box were tightly assembled, but by scratching along the edges with his fingernails, the splicing marks could still be touched.
Li Ang picked up the wooden box, put it in his hand, and turned it over, feeling that the weight was wrong,
The inside of the box is hollow,
And the center of gravity of the box is not exactly in the center - one side weighs more than the other sides.
"Hidden things? Diamond rings? Earrings? Necklaces? Jewelry? It can't be a divorce agreement, right?"
Li Ang squinted and pondered, put down the box, and glanced at the garage.
The Chevrolet SUV does not have a car key, and the garage door also has a system marked [Cannot pass], which means that even if Li Ang pried the car, he can't drive through the garage door and forcibly break the game.
Li Ang left the garage and walked back to the living room while holding the box for research.
The wooden doll is still covered in the ceramic pot where the flowers are planted, and there is no trace of movement,
If the tattoo that popped up on the arm wasn't lying, the doll would have had 16 minutes to wake up from the seal.
Li Ang carried the wooden box and the flashlight to the stairs leading to the second floor in the living room.
In the middle of the stairs is a silver-white steel gate. The upper part of the gate is a vertical dense solid iron pipe.
The lower part is a whole thick steel plate, which should have been the position of the door handle, but was replaced by an LCD screen,
A pattern of black handprint outlines is printed on the LCD screen, which appears to be a fingerprint scan.
Li Ang stood in front of the gate, and through the upper part of the iron pipe structure similar to the gate of the prison gate, he could see a small part of the stairs behind the gate.
However, the iron pipe fences are so densely placed that they are so indestructible that even a child's arm cannot pass through them.
Li Ang reluctantly put the photo frame behind the fence, and through the mirror of the photo frame, he could see behind the gate, there is also an LCD panel for fingerprint scanning,
Means that the gate can be passed in both directions.
"So what the **** is this family doing, Mrs. Smith? Putting such an exaggerated security door in the house."
Li Ang complained, "The fingerprint panel is dark and dull, and there is no response when you tap the corner. It looks like it's out of power or damaged.
There is no problem using this gate as an explosion-proof shield, and there are no signs of damage. It should not be broken.
Considering the cumbersome nature of the gate itself and its difficulty in disassembly, it is likely to use an external power supply instead of an internal battery power supply...
Huh? "
He looked up at the ceiling and found that between the ceiling and the wall, there was a slender wire wrapped in white insulating rubber, extending out from the wall and leading to the top of the iron gate, which should be the power supply line for the metal gate cable,
However, the middle of the wire seems to have been deliberately damaged, and there is a large section missing out of thin air, which is almost more than three meters.
"Broken wires? Deliberately not letting me go upstairs?"
Li Ang frowned: "The goal of the mission is to find a way to the second floor, which means that I can find a long enough wire?"
He thought for a moment, then brought a chair from the dining room and put it on the stairs,
Step on the chair and pry the crippled wires from the ceiling at both ends.
The broken wire is relatively thin, and the word 12V is printed on the white insulating rubber.
The earliest voltage standard in the United States was 100V, which originated from Edison's personal hobby (the electric light he developed could work well at this voltage), and later changed it to 110V in order to save losses, and later for the convenience of calculation, based on this The voltage is increased by 10V and becomes the standard voltage of 120V.
The fingerprint unlocking gate is obviously not taken from the standard household electricity supply system, but installed by the owner of the house,
Li Ang looked at the wire for a moment, got up and went back to the living room to search for other wire materials.
He noticed just now that there are still a lot of electrical appliances in the room, such as TV sets and electric lights. It should be possible to cut off the wires, strip them and modify them.
However, when he used the insulating scissors in the kitchen to cut the wire, he found that it could not be cut,
After cutting for a long time, the insulation layer on the surface of the wire still does not break.
"Is the American technology tree in this world crooked? How much do you hate civilians who build wires privately?!"
Li Ang complained endlessly, but he was not too excited. This is obviously the underlying setting of this script task.
You can't pull the wire yourself, so how about using water to conduct electricity?
Li Ang jumped on the spot, and had no urge to urinate. There was no water coming out of the sink in the kitchen even after turning on the faucet.
"Is this road also blocked..."
Li Ang sighed, turned away without hesitation, and walked to the right side of the living room, which was the only door in the room that was unknown.
This door doesn't have a doorknob or keyhole, just a circular groove with a ring of iron around the edge that looks like it's going to put something in.
There are still 10 minutes before the puppet wakes up from the seal.
Li Ang calmly calculated the remaining time and looked down at the wooden box in his hand.
According to the convention of decryption games,
When all the items that can be collected in the level are collected, and the level is still stuck,
The solution to the puzzle must be in the collected items.
"Could it be that there is a long enough wire in the box?"
Li Ang groaned, carefully pierced the surface of the square box with a meat cleaver, turned the blade sideways, and tried to pry open the square box.
However, before he could exert his strength, there was an incomparably clear sound of slight glass shattering from the box, as if a container was cracking.
Li Ang hurriedly stopped the power in his hand,
Some classic secret boxes have the setting of [self-destruction when brute force cracking occurs]. For example, in "The Da Vinci Code", there is a papyrus with a secret written in it, and a Fragile glass bottle with vinegar
If someone does not know the password and forcibly opens it, it will destroy the glass bottle inside, causing the vinegar in the bottle to spill out and melt the papyrus next to it, ensuring that the secret will not be leaked.
If this wooden box is also designed in the same way, it cannot be forcibly destroyed.
"Are you hiding the secret box..."
Li Ang took a deep breath, calmed down his irritability, and carefully examined the box.
There is nothing strange about the box itself. There are some decorative star patterns on the six surfaces, and the patterns on each surface are different.
Li Ang took the box near and far, squinting and staring, but couldn't see the numbers, words, or patterns from the star pattern.
"Six sides... Could it be that I'm going to throw the box on the ground like a dice?"
Li Ang pondered, theoretically speaking, there is such a possibility - if the wooden box is made of a tenon-and-mortise structure, and there are several hidden bolts that can move on their respective planes, then it can indeed be achieved.
Rotate the box back and forth so that the thin wooden stick-shaped dowels move along the chute in their respective planes,
Because of the dark plugs on different planes, they will get stuck in the corners,
When the box is rotated according to the specified order, causing the last hidden bolt to return, one side of the box can be opened, so that the contents hidden in the box can be taken out.
Swipe and pull.
Li Ang picked up the box and shook it gently, listening carefully, there was no sound of the hidden bolt hitting the wooden block.
It's not a dark bolt, what is it?
Li Ang put the box on the ground, rotated all sides back and forth, and kept pushing and pulling the surface of the wooden box with his palms, without any gain.
As time passed, Li Ang gently pressed the wooden box, and his fingers scratched the decorative star stickers on the surface of the box unconsciously.
"Wait, these stickers..."
Li Ang's eyes lit up. He took the wooden box and quickly rushed to the floor-to-ceiling window in the side hall. He pulled his palm and opened the floor-to-ceiling window.
The bright starlight from the outside shines through the glass,
Li Ang lifted the wooden box to compare the stars in the sky.
"Oh, these star stickers on the box correspond to the star map in the sky."
Li Ang rotated the wooden box and said softly: "The four surrounding faces are Ursa Major, Libra, Pisces South, and Aries.
The top and bottom faces are the Cygnus and the Stern.
These star patterns vary in size, marking the magnitude of the stars themselves..."
Li Ang ran back and forth in the side hall and the living room, matching all the five-sided star maps - the **** at the bottom can't be seen, but it should be far away from the constellation Cygnus.
"It's a little weird though."
Li Ang frowned and said to himself: "At this moment, the general directions of these constellations in the sky do correspond to the positions on the wooden box.
The star map I've seen is pretty much what the real world sees at night in California.
The question is, how did the maker of the box do it with such precision?
If you change the time and season, the star map on the box will not correspond to the real world scene.
And the star sticker on the surface of the box sticks very firmly and is not easy to tear off.
So,
There is only one possibility - the maker of the box wants to give the box to his lover at a certain time, that is, right now. "
I have to say, this idea is really very romantic, open the box under the witness of the stars, and take out a love token such as a ring or rose from the inside,
But knowing this didn't help Li Ang's decryption much.
"Knowing that the design of the box is correct, how can I open it?"
Li Ang thought about it, and once again took out the note that was attached to the bottom of the box,
【We were born in one place...
I never knew each other...
Until fate makes us meet...
I made this box as a testimony to our first encounter, hopefully before it's too late. S]
"The star map on this box roughly matches the nebula pattern in the real world sky,"
Li Ang pondered: "No matter where the maker of the box made the box, he definitely wants to open it at this moment.
May also ask to open the box at a specific location, such as where the box maker and his lover first met.
Could there be a GPS device inside the box?
No, not likely.
Even with the GPS device installed, I can't even get out of the house right now, and it's impossible to explore outside.
And if the location is in the house, I just walked through every corner of the house, can open early ~IndoMTL.com~ eliminate these possibilities, what is left..."
He was immersed in the idea of solving the problem, and the possibilities kept popping up in his mind, and then they were overturned and rejected by reason and logic.
"Wait, S? Could it be..."
As if realizing something, Li Ang placed the box on the ground with the side of the Cygnus nebula up and the side of the **** down,
Pinch the side of the box with your left hand and rotate it gently,
The right hand pushes against the front of the box.
Click.
Finally, when the box was turned to a certain angle, the wooden block directly above the Cygnus pattern was pushed away, revealing the structure inside.
On the back of the lid on the front of the box is a flimsy square glass bottle containing some rubble.
A compass is affixed to the bottom of the box below the glass bottle.
Li Ang gently took out the glass bottle and compass inside, and looked at the outline of the circular compass, which just matched the circular groove on the surface of the wooden door of the room on the right side of the living room.
He already understands how the box works,
The S at the end of the note is not the name of the person, but the south of the compass.
A compass is glued to the bottom of the box,
First, the box needs to be placed in the correct "cygnus up, **** down" position,
Then, continue to rotate the box.
Because of the compass in the box, it will continue to point north and south,
When the pointer rotates to a certain angle, it triggers the magnetic mechanism attached to the compass at the bottom of the box, causing a single dark bolt hidden at the bottom of the box to move away, allowing the box to open.
Because the secret bolt was stuck by the magnetic mechanism, and there was only one, so even if Li Ang shook the box before, he did not hear the obvious sound of the secret bolt.