The current time in Moon City is 14:00 sharp on Tuesday afternoon.
Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou directly drew the 8 of diamonds to start the next level. Their teammates were also very supportive of this decision. Anyway, the diamond level is usually a labyrinth of traps, and the time it takes is not as long as hearts and spades, usually less than
It was done in an hour.
In the previous Chamber of Diamonds, Xiao Lou set a new record by clearing the level in just a few minutes. Yu Hanjiang was very confident in Xiao Lou's ability to crack the mechanism. What's more, this time, Lao Mo, who has a strong sense of space, also drew some cards suitable for the maze.
A-level mazes should not be difficult for them.
With Professor Xiao and Lao Mo here, everyone is ready to win.
As the cards were drawn, a familiar red vortex appeared in the middle of the 8 of Diamonds playing card, and the countdown began in everyone's floating box.
Ten seconds later, everyone felt that everything went dark
Everyone was transported to a familiar and unfamiliar world at the same time.
The reason why we are familiar with it is because everyone has just left the world of 8 of Hearts. The streets, buildings, and the costumes of the people coming and going are very similar to the chaotic world of 8 of Hearts, and are in the style of the Qi Kingdom.
They actually came to ancient times again
And it was strange because the streets in front of us were filled with lanterns, and the countless red lanterns dazzled everyone.
Just as they were wondering what was going on, several lines of prompts appeared in the floating box in front of everyone.
Welcome to the Lantern Festival in the world of 8 Diamonds
The first lunar month is the "Yuan month" of the lunar calendar, and the ancients also called "night" "Xiao". Therefore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, and is called the "Lantern Festival".
Called "Shangyuan Festival"
Today is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of "watching lanterns" on the night of the Lantern Festival. The ten-mile long street in Kyoto is filled with all kinds of lanterns. Young men and women like to spend this day
When you go to a lantern festival, maybe when you look back, you will see the person you love on the other side of the lanterns.
The secret room in Diamond 8 is the "Lantern Festival Maze". Please look for the lantern mechanism hidden in it, and hang the lantern props you obtain on the lantern tree beside the stone bridge. The more lanterns you obtain, the higher your clearance score will be.
The lantern festival will last until 24:00 midnight. You can explore on your own before the lantern festival ends.
The moment they read the prompt, everyone was confused.
The ancient Lantern Festival is the modern Lantern Festival, right?
Ye Qi looked down at his "Tianxiang Loutou brand suit" and wished he could take it off on the spot. He tugged on the complicated skirt and couldn't help but complain, "I thought I would never use this suit again."
I was on it, but when I came to the Diamond Secret Room, I was asked to wear this again."
Shao Qingge glanced at the women's clothing Ye Qi in front of him, shook his fan, and commented with a smile, "You look good in this. You are worthy of being a top brand girl from Tianxiang House."
Ye Qi knew he was joking, so he rolled his eyes and ignored him.
Looking around, he found that his teammates were not there. Ye Qi couldn't help but wonder, "Where are the others? And this lantern market, why do I feel a little weird? Something seems wrong."
Shao Qingge said, "This is not like an ordinary Lantern Festival. There are many forks in the road. It should be a maze."
Ye Qi was stunned and quickly realized, "Yes. Most lantern festivals are filled with lanterns on one street for tourists to enjoy, but this lantern festival has already seen five streets from my perspective, and the roads are criss-crossing.
, they are all hung with lanterns, and there are so many pedestrians, it’s easy to get confused and lost while walking among them.”
Shao Qingge nodded, "It's not surprising that the diamond secret room is made into a maze. The key is where the mechanism is."
Ye Qi frowned and looked around, but didn't find any mechanism. Thinking back to the prompt just now, he couldn't help but wonder about looking for the lantern mechanism. Thousands of lanterns all looked similar in shape. What were the characteristics of the mechanism? Could the prompt be more vague?
Ye Qi couldn't understand, so he simply said, "Which lights do you think are mechanisms?"
Shao Qingge smiled and shook his fan. "Guessing puzzles is not suitable for me. If I were asked to clear this world, I would have to buy all the lanterns on this street and take them apart one by one to try them."
Ye Qi ""
The rich people’s customs clearance thinking is incomprehensible.
Ye Qi thought about the prompt just now, his eyes lit up, and said, "Let's meet up with our teammates first. Didn't we say that we want to hang the lanterns on the lantern tree outside the stone bridge? What exactly does the lantern tree look like? Let's go over and have a look."
He ran forward in a hurry, but because he was wearing women's clothing, he accidentally stepped on the skirt and almost fell down.
Shao Qingge chuckled, supported him, and whispered, "Slow down, you are Miss Ye now, don't be irritable."
Ye Qi blushed and said, "It's so annoying to dress up as a woman. I'll burn this card when I get back."
When the guests coming and going saw this scene, they couldn't help but whisper, "This girl is so pretty, with sparkling eyes." "That young man is also very handsome." "They must have made an appointment to go to the lantern festival together."
Ye Qi didn't hear it, he was still hurriedly lowering his head to adjust the hem of his skirt.
Shao Qingge smiled slightly, covered Ye Qi's red face with a fan, and helped him walk to the lantern market.
Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou also changed into 8 of Hearts costumes.
Looking at Xiao Lou, who was wearing a long gown next to him, Yu Hanjiang was stunned for a moment and wondered, "Why is it the ancient world again?"
Xiao Lou immediately reacted, "The 8 of Diamonds and the 8 of Hearts are linked, right?"
Yu Hanjiang looked at the long street in front of him and nodded, "The architectural style and the clothes of the pedestrians are indeed very similar to the Daqi we have experienced before. We were transported to the Lantern Festival of Daqi Lantern Festival."
Xiao Lou said, "It seems that the ace of diamonds took the background setting directly from the heart and made a lantern festival maze."
Yu Hanjiang raised his head thoughtfully and glanced at the nearby lanterns. "If we want to find the lantern mechanism, should we look for it among the lanterns hanging on both sides of the street?"
All the bright red round lanterns hanging on this street are made of traditional gauze. The warm candlelight shines through the red gauze and illuminates the street brightly. The faces of the pedestrians coming and going also have a pattern printed on their faces.
There was a layer of festive red light. Some children were riding on their father's neck, holding exquisite lanterns in their hands; there were also some young men sending lanterns to their beloved girls.
The ancient lantern festival was very lively, but after Yu Hanjiang observed it for a long time, he still couldn't find any traps.
These lanterns all look exactly the same. There are hundreds of them on a street. How to find them?
Just when he was confused, Xiao Lou suddenly said, "The theme of this secret room is probably a lantern riddle."
Yu Hanjiang turned around and looked at him "Riddles"
Xiao Lou explained, “In ancient times, the Lantern Festival often held lantern riddle guessing activities. Some stall owners hung up lanterns they made. The riddles were in the form of patterns, poems, words, etc. Visitors could guess the riddles. If they guessed correctly,
If you answer the riddle, you can win this lantern. The boss gave the lantern away as a good sign."
Yu Hanjiang suddenly realized, "I have heard of this tradition."
Xiao Lou carefully observed the surroundings and said, "This is a lantern festival maze with criss-crossing roads and is very complicated. The road we are currently on is the main road. There are round gauze lanterns on the side of the road, the shape is exactly the same, and there are no patterns on it.
These red lanterns are just decorations. The real lantern mechanism should be at another fork in the road, and it is most likely a palace lantern made of paper."
He looked back at Yu Hanjiang and said seriously, "It's a rectangular palace lantern made of paper. You can draw and write on it, so you can write riddles easily. Let's meet up with our teammates first, and then look for where the riddles are."
Yu Hanjiang ""
Yu Hanjiang couldn't help but have a headache when he encountered the square secret room.
Looking around, he saw the dense red lanterns and the bustling crowds, and he didn't know where to start.
After hearing Xiao Lou's words, he immediately understood.
I remembered my experience with Xiao Lou in Diamond 3 and Diamond 4. Every time he was reviewing the questions, Professor Xiao had already given the answer. Anyway, if you follow Xiao Lou in the Diamond maze, you will always be right.
Meeting Xiao Lou's clear eyes, Yu Hanjiang immediately said, "Okay, everything is up to you."
Xiao Lou said, "Then let's go to the lantern tree first. I guess Xiaoye and the others will also go to meet us near the lantern tree."
Yu Hanjiang nodded and walked forward behind Xiao Lou.
Along the way, a court official recognized them and greeted them with a smile, "Master Yu, are you going to the Lantern Festival with your wife?"
Yu Hanjiang said calmly, "Well, let's go out with my wife for a walk."
Xiao Lou smiled cooperatively and nodded politely to the other party. The passerby's question also confirmed their speculation that the secret room of the 8 Diamonds and the 8 Hearts were connected, sharing a set of backgrounds and settings.
In fact, the effect of putting this Lantern Festival in the real world is the same. Obviously, the guardian of the square piece was lazy and directly used the setting of Sister Heart to make the maze.
The crowds coming and going were so crowded that Xiao Lou was almost knocked down by a child. Yu Hanjiang immediately put his arms around Xiao Lou's waist gently, took him into his arms, and whispered, "Don't get separated."
Xiao Lou's heart skipped a beat, and he pretended to be calm, being protected by Yu Hanjiang in his arms, and walked forward.
This lantern market is too big
Walking along the main road, Xiao Lou saw at least eight forked roads, and each forked road was covered with lanterns. The crowds coming and going would seriously affect their judgment of the direction. In the maze of the lantern market where people are everywhere,
It’s really easy to get lost in China.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang kept walking forward, looking for the location of the lantern tree.
The lantern tree is not difficult to find. When you reach the end of this main road and pass a stone bridge, you can see an ancient tree with a height of 10 meters in the distance. It is covered with various red wishing charms and a lantern hanging on it.
Lanterns.
There were not many people around the big tree. Xiao Lou quickly glanced at the crowd and soon saw Ye Qi in a red dress and Shao Qingge dressed as a noble prince.
After a while, Long Sen, Qu Wanyue and his wife, Lao Mo, and Liu Qiao also came here.
Everyone who has gone all the way to diamond 8 knows to pay attention to the prompts when entering the secret room. The prompts point out the key location of the "Lamp Tree". Naturally, you must come here first to join your teammates.
None of the teammates wandered around, and they gathered quickly.
After the eight people arrived, Xiao Lou immediately called everyone to the side.
He found a place where no one was around and said softly, "Check the card pack and see which cards can be used."
Everyone checked, and Liu Qiao was the first to say, "My body is as light as a swallow and can still be used. The invisibility cloak and twin copy cards are invalid. The fairy tale cards such as Poison Queen and Little Red Riding Hood cannot be used."
Long Sen said, "You can't use football or badminton. You can't use chameleon. Only long jumpers can use it."
Lao Mo couldn't laugh or cry, "I can only use the perspective converter I just picked up."
Xiao Lou looked at Yu Hanjiang, who said, "All modern and high-tech cards are banned."
It seems that the banned items also include the S-class tool brand aerial camera that Mr. Tang just gave them.
Ye Qi said, "My teleportation card can still be used, but only the first skill can be used. In other words, I can only teleport myself. I can't teleport with a 200 kilogram object, and I can't teleport with others."
Xiao Lou checked Li Qingzhao's skills and said, "Fei Ge Chuan Shu could have carried objects, but this time it was banned. The skill of accidentally entering the depths of the lotus flower is also banned."
Ye Qi was stunned. "Li Qingzhao accidentally entered the depths of lotus flowers. Isn't this a maze magic skill? You can directly return to the designated maze mark location. Now it is a square maze. Why is it banned?"
Everyone is a little confused about the rules of banning cards in the Chamber of Diamonds. The a of diamonds seems to be very capricious, banning whatever they want. Some cards that could be used in the ancient world of Hearts are inexplicably unusable here.
Xiao Lou thought carefully for a moment and quickly figured out the pattern. He carefully analyzed: "Strictly speaking, this maze is not a pure maze of mechanisms, but a maze of lantern riddles. What we need to do is to try our best within the limited time."
Solve more lantern riddles and hang the lantern props on the tree. It can be regarded as a mini game of maze prop collection."
After hearing Xiao Lou's words, everyone couldn't help but look up at the big tree not far away.
There is a lantern hanging on the tree, which is a very obvious reminder that the collected lanterns will be hung up later. As Xiao Lou summed up, it is indeed a "maze prop collection game".
Xiao Lou continued, "If Ye Qi can use teleportation cards to move 200 kilograms of things, then we can solve dozens of lantern riddles in a row, put the lanterns together, and let Ye Qi move them all. This is probably all the moving things.
The reason why all the skills are banned.”
Ye Qi suddenly realized, "This is probably why Li Qingzhao's location marking skill is banned. If it can be used, just mark the tree as the target point. We can solve the riddle and teleport to the tree. It would be so easy."
Xiao Lou nodded, "Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring is also banned. For the same reason, we are prohibited from directly marking points and teleporting to the tree in groups to hang lanterns. However, displacement skills are not banned. Have you thought of anything?"
Liu Qiao thought about it carefully, she could still use her body as light as a swallow, and could continue to use light kung fu on buildings to leap; Long Sen could jump long, and Ye Qi could teleport. Her eyes suddenly lit up, "Shall we move quickly to relay?"
Xiao Lou glanced at her appreciatively and said, "That's right. Judging from the idea of the diamond gatekeeper banning cards, this secret room requires us to divide work and cooperate. Those who are good at solving puzzles should look for lantern riddles in the lantern market as soon as possible and put them into the lantern market as soon as possible.
Give the obtained lanterns to teammates; those with displacement cards must pass through the crowds as quickly as possible, take the obtained lanterns out of the lantern market, and hang them on this tree and this secret room, including solving puzzles, relay races, and hanging lanterns.
Three links.”
After hearing this, Yu Hanjiang finally understood the difficulty of this secret room.
The lantern market will be closed at midnight. No one knows whether it takes 50 lanterns to get an S score or 100 to get an S score. We can only solve as many puzzles as possible.
The current time is already midnight, which is around 21 o'clock, and there are still 3 hours before the lantern market closes.
If you want to bring the lantern out from the bustling crowd, you must use some displacement cards. Time is limited, Yu Hanjiang simply said, "Xiao Lou, please make arrangements, we will act as soon as possible."
Xiao Lou was not polite. He glanced at his teammates and quickly divided them into groups, "Old Mo and Xiao Liu. Old Mo is more familiar with the maze route. He passed the lantern with a card that is as light as a swallow. Liu Qiao is responsible for solving the puzzle."
The two nodded, and Liu Qiao immediately handed the card to Lao Mo.
Xiao Lou followed closely and said, "Long Sen and Teacher Qu are in a group. Teacher Qu is looking for lantern riddles, and Long Sen is responsible for taking away the lanterns."
The couple's party, Xiao Lou, didn't want to demolish it, Qu Wanyue was smart, and Long Sen had well-developed limbs and could run fast, so the two of them had no objections to this arrangement.
Xiao Lou looked at Shao Qingge and Ye Qi, "Let's work in pairs, Xiao Ye will solve the puzzle, and Mr. Shao will trouble you to run errands."
Shao Qingge smiled and said, "No problem."
In the end, the remaining two naturally formed a group, and the teammates seemed to have become accustomed to them working together.
Yu Hanjiang said consciously, "I'm here to run errands."
Xiao Lou took out the accelerator shoes from the card bag and handed it to him, "Here's this card for you."
After dividing the teams, Xiao Lou continued, "Now everyone enters the lantern market and splits up. First, find out the distribution of the roads in the lantern market. Remember, the road traveled is marked with four-way arrows. Lao Mo, you encounter a complicated road.
Just use the perspective converter to take a look at the place where you are, and meet back at Dashu in 15 minutes."
Everyone nodded and quickly entered the lantern market.
Seeing Xiao Lou calmly directing and arranging actions, Yu Hanjiang couldn't help but think that with such a smart partner by his side, he wouldn't have to worry about the diamond maze in the future and he could continue to win.
Chapter 191, Lantern Festival 2
This lantern market is terrifyingly big.
The eight people acted separately, using various displacement cards to shuttle and explore among the crowd. After returning to the tree, Xiao Lou drew an abbreviated version of the map on the ground based on everyone's description of the road and the arrow marks left behind.
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While drawing, he analyzed it for his teammates: "The entire lantern market looks like a Chinese character Shen. There is the longest main road in the middle. Both sides of the road are full of round red gauze lanterns. The end of this road connects to the stone bridge. After crossing the stone
The bridge is our destination, the light tree."
He drew an asterisk on the position of the lantern tree, followed by: "In the middle part, after excluding the main road without lantern riddles, what is left is a day, three horizontal streets, and two vertical streets. In order to facilitate the relay, we
"Divide the work"
"The two vertical streets are in charge of me and Captain Yu. The three horizontal streets are in charge of the farthest one, Lao Mo and Liu Qiao; the middle street, Mr. Shao and Ye Qi are in charge; the nearest street, Long Sen and Qu
The teacher is in charge. Everyone should remember their place clearly and don't mess up."
His arrangement was indeed very thoughtful. The light-as-a-yan card can leap in the air and is the fastest moving, so he asked Liu Qiao and Lao Mo to go to the farthest place. The teleporting card also moves very quickly.
, Mr. Shao and Ye Qi were arranged in the middle; because the jump card jumped 8 meters at a time, it was inconvenient to jump in the bustling crowd. Long Sen and Qu Wanyue were arranged in the street closest to the tree. After the two of them could walk out of the street, they
Activate the skill again near the stone bridge.
After everyone thought about it carefully, they all admired Professor Xiao's arrangement.
The seemingly extremely complicated lantern market was divided into groups like this. For each group, didn't it become a simple two-way road? No matter how crazy you are, you can never go wrong if you go in a straight line, right?
As for the most difficult part, the part where it is easy to get lost, the two vertical streets have been contracted by Professor Xiao.
After the work was divided, everyone entered the lantern market again.
In the square secret room attack, all control cards are disabled. Pedestrians coming and going will block their steps. There are always some people who accidentally bump into them. Yu Hanjiang has no choice but to continue to put his arms around Xiao Lou's waist to protect him. This
The intimate gesture made Xiao Lou's cheeks feel hot, but he was surrounded by red lanterns, and under the red light, his blush was not so obvious.
After walking through the main road and going to the vertical street on the side, there are obviously fewer pedestrians.
Xiao Lou soon saw a palace lantern hanging on a shelf. It had a classic shape with six sides and six corners. It was made of paper and had some beautiful patterns drawn on each side. The six corners below the palace lantern
There are also red silk threads hanging on it, which looks very delicate.
Under the illumination of warm candlelight, those patterns are lifelike. The lanterns are quite different in shape and exquisiteness compared with the identical red gauze lanterns on the main road.
Xiao Lou took a step forward and Wen Yan asked, "Is this a lantern riddle?"
The boss smiled and said, "Yes, as long as Madam can guess the answer to the riddle, I can give you a lantern."
Sure enough. In the ancient Lantern Festival, there were indeed many activities of "guessing lantern riddles and giving away lanterns". The lanterns were cheap and handmade, and they were given out to bring good omens. Unlike modern lantern markets, where
They were all selling colorful electronic lamps and playing various kinds of music. In comparison, Xiao Lou liked this antique Lantern Festival more.
Xiao Lou reached out and picked up the lantern hanging on the shelf and carefully observed the pattern on it.
On the first side of the lantern in hand is a scholar, holding a folding fan, looking majestic; on the second side is a rooster; on the third side are several gold ingots; then rotating back, there is another rooster.
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Yu Hanjiang frowned and thought about the relationship between the scholar and the rooster. What is the relationship between the rooster and the gold ingot?
As a result, before he could figure it out, Xiao Lou smiled and said, "There are so many talented people."
The boss nodded like a fool, "That's right, Madam can guess it so quickly, I'll give you a lantern."
Xiao Lou thanked him, took the lantern, and handed it to Yu Hanjiang beside him.
Yu Hanjiang took the lantern and carefully considered the painting on it, and finally figured it out.
The two of them continued walking forward and saw another palace lantern hanging on the shelf with some patterns painted on it.
The first side is painted with a simple brush; the second side is a pair of colorful butterfly wings; the third side is a young man and woman holding hands and looking at each other affectionately, both characters are painted vividly; the third side is a pair of young men and women holding hands and looking at each other affectionately.
On all sides, a flock of wild geese flew across the sky.
Xiao Lou said, "Are we flying together?"
The boss was a young girl. When Xiao Lou guessed the lantern riddle, he immediately handed him the lantern and said, "Madam, you guessed it right."
Only then did Yu Hanjiang realize that some graphic lantern riddles were actually based on the idea of "stream of consciousness". For example, a writing brush was homophonic for "bi", butterfly wings were "wings", men and women holding hands were "double", and a group of
Bird means "flying", which together means "flying together".
Those who have never played lantern riddles will be confused when they see these messy patterns.
But for Xiao Lou, these lantern riddles are not difficult.
After guessing two correctly, Xiao Lou turned around and said, "Hanjiang, you go hang up the lanterns first, and I'll keep looking. If you take too many, you won't be able to leave, so hang these two first."
Yu Hanjiang nodded, put on his accelerating shoes and quickly headed to the tree outside the lantern market.
When he came near the big tree, he found that there were still only some wishing charms hanging on the tree, and there was also a colorful lantern that was originally hung on the tree. His teammates had not returned yet. It seemed that Xiao Lou was the fastest.
of.
Yu Hanjiang hung two lanterns on the tree.
A prompt pops up in the floating box in front of everyone that 2 lantern riddles have been collected.
Ye Qi was thinking about the answer to the riddle with a lantern. What he got was a crossword puzzle. There was a line of words written on the round lantern: "Drawing time is round, writing time is square, winter time is short, summer time is long." Before he could think of the answer, the result was
Seeing this line of prompts, Ye Qi couldn't help but said, "Who is so fast? Two lanterns have already been hung up."
Shao Qingge smiled slightly, "Who else can we have is our witty Mrs. Yu?"
Ye Qi realized that the "Mrs. Yu" he was talking about was Xiao Lou, and immediately nodded in agreement, "It must be him. We were still looking at the questions, and he had already thought of the answer. He is indeed a top student."
Qu Wanyue also just found her first lantern riddle. What she found was a poetic riddle, an exquisite red lantern, with a line of poem written in meaningful black small letters: "There is no way out after mountains and rivers, and there is a village with dark willows and bright flowers." She just thought
What on earth were you trying to guess? When she saw the floating box prompt, Qu Wanyue couldn't help but smile, "It must be Professor Xiao."
Long Sen scratched his head and said, "He is really good at solving puzzles like this. I think it might be faster if the seven of us help him get the lantern and let him guess the lantern riddles alone."
Qu Wanyue agreed, "I think so too."
The two looked at each other and continued to think about the lantern riddles in their hands.
What Liu Qiao found was also a crossword puzzle. It seemed simple, but it was not easy to guess. The puzzle was "a group of wild geese chasing a boat".
She was thinking carefully when she saw the prompt of the floating box. Liu Qiao said with admiration, "We just found one, and they actually guessed two and hung up the lanterns. It seems that we need to speed up before the time comes."
We haven’t even finished searching one street, but Professor Xiao has already searched both streets.”
Mo Xuemin looked melancholy, "I think this possibility is very high."
Liu Qiao ""
So what on earth is Qunyan Zhuizhou? Should we just ask Professor Xiao for help?
Yu Hanjiang quickly returned to the lantern market, and when he found Xiao Lou, he found that he was holding two more lanterns in his hands.
Seeing Yu Hanjiang, Xiao Lou smiled shyly and said, "Hanjiang, I guessed two more correctly. Could you please send them off again?"