Chapter Twelve Puzzle Solving
"What's the reaction?" I asked.
Uncle Zhong said: "The reaction in the dark. Lin Cong's main task now is to contact Wang Yue, help her pass the level in the bardo realm, and find her father. Hello, I, hello everyone, don't make any trouble."
I had to sit in front of the mirror again. Uncle Zhong was still writing behind my neck. After a sensation of itch, he once again entered a drowsy situation.
At this time, a voice came: "Lin Cong."
It was still what Wang Yue said. She said, "Lin Cong, I knew you could come, and you did not disappoint my expectations." I was shocked. I had heard this sentence for the second time. I immediately understood that what I heard now was indeed a recording. If I came in once, the whole process would start from the beginning.
"Lin Cong, don't blame me. It took me three years to find someone like you to choose you. You are kind, smart, and seem to have the opportunity..."
I listened patiently, until the end of the day, and she said, "I need your help. You stand up now."
This time I didn't dare to interrupt at will. If I went out and came in again, the entire recording would have to be started from the beginning. With my temper and patience, I couldn't stand it at all.
I stood up obediently, my head was still lowered and my eyes were difficult to open. Everything was dim and hazy when I arrived at Yujiao. One thing I can be quite sure is that the place I am now is definitely not the original room, but outdoors. As for where it is, I cannot explain it clearly.
Wang Yue's voice was guiding me: "You go forward and take ten steps forward."
I took a deep breath, tried to maintain my current state, and then began to raise my right foot, moved my foot with difficulty, and walked forward step by step. After about ten steps, I vaguely felt that there seemed to be a wall opposite, and I couldn't help but stop.
"You take off the bracelet," she said.
I gently pressed both sides of the bracelet, and the mechanism "gave" sounded softly, and the bracelet fell off my wrist. I held the bracelet and lifted it up. Wang Yue said: "Put the bracelet in the groove in front."
I groped, and there was a groove on the wall in front of me, and I gently put it in. As soon as I put it inside, Wang Yue's surprise voice came: "Lin Cong!"
I was shocked and immediately woke up. What I said now is not the recording, but Wang Yue himself!
"Wang Yue." I answered.
I couldn't raise my head, couldn't open my eyes, and could only rely on my ears to capture information about the outside environment. Wang Yue actually cried with joy, with a sob voice: "Lin Cong, you are really here."
"Where are you?" I asked in a deep voice.
"If you can get here, many things should be clear." Wang Yue said: "I am in the bardo realm now. I believe Uncle Zhong has explained what the bardo realm is."
"He didn't say clearly, he only said that it was neither Yin nor Yang, and that was under the jurisdiction of Meng Po, and also said that it was the bardo body," I said.
Wang Yue's voice came from the wall: "Just know this, don't dig deeper. I'm here now."
"What about me? I am also in the bardo realm?" I asked.
Wang Yue said: "No, you are in the mirror. This mirror is the magic weapon I have been looking for for many years, just for today's use. It is a transition station between the Yang world and the bardo realm. If you come out of your soul in the mirror, you can contact me. I will tell you the help you need in the bardo realm."
I asked in confusion: "Why don't you let me enter the bardo directly? Can't I get in?"
"No, you can come in." Wang Yue said: "The situation here is very complicated. Simply put, the bardo realm is such a space, which is related to the human state of mind and karma. Whenever everyone dies, they will enter the bardo realm for judgment. As for how to pass through this purgatory, it is not something that ordinary people can imagine. If you are involved in the bardo realm, the environment inside will change and variables will appear, which will only make the problem more and more complicated."
I couldn't listen to what she said, nor could I understand. I held back my anger and said, "I've let you kill me!"
"Don't worry," her voice softly: "I have the confidence to rescue my father. This is also the agreement between me and Meng Po. After returning to the sun, I will do what I say and be your best girlfriend!"
I sneered, "You are so amazing. You bet my soul to the ghost officer. If it weren't for Uncle Zhong, I'm afraid I'd become an idiot now."
Wang Yue paused, and did not continue the topic, but said softly: "I won't harm you. Come and help me pass this first hurdle."
I didn't say anything, she felt injustice and said slowly: "There is a string of numbers in front of me that need to be cracked. Now in this purgatory, I am also in a state of soul-lossing. Without the support of my physical body and brain, many memories and abilities have been stripped away. You must first help me solve the mystery of these numbers. You must remember the numbers, "612, 601, 620, the middle is empty, 529, 617... You must help me unlock the number empty in the middle..." Her voice suddenly began to float, sounding a bit cunning: "Now I have started the purgatory process, only seven days. Within seven days, if I can't get out, I will always be trapped in the bardo realm! Staying forever... The countdown has begun."
My head was covered in sweat and I had no time to solve any number mystery. I didn't remember those numbers.
"Will you help me solve it now?" I asked anxiously.
"You have to go out and find Uncle Zhong, and you can crack it together." Wang Yue said: "After cracking, come in again, and then come here, I'll wait for you! Here you are just in a state of soul-extending, and you must combine soul-resurrect and physical body. Go out quickly, the time will be less and less."
I quickly said, you can say the numbers again.
Wang Yue repeated it again, this time I kept it in my heart, suddenly looked up and opened my eyes, and returned to the bedroom.
My head was heavy and my feet were light, and my feet were falling and almost fell. Uncle Zhong and Li Damin quickly supported me. My feet were a little weak and my head was covered in sweat. They helped me sit down.
I looked around and saw that the bedroom was filled with deep black smoke, and my eyes could only be around my body. I couldn't see my fingers. Then I realized that the bracelet had been left in the groove on the wall in the mirror. Without the bracelet, I fell into the black smoke again.
Uncle Zhong held the candle and squatted beside me. His old face was revealed in the black smoke. The flames were swinging faintly, as if there was wind, but I couldn't feel it.
"How is it?" he asked in a deep voice.
I took a deep breath and said the process just now. Uncle Zhong pondered for a moment, "The trial has begun, only seven days."
"Cracking these numbers in seven days?" Li Damin said next to him, "It's not difficult."
Uncle Zhong shook his head gently: "There is more than one level in the trial, there are seven levels in total, which is related to everyone's karma. Therefore, we must hurry up every minute and a second, because we really don't know how difficult it is after the level that Wang Yue is facing, and it only takes seven days!"
Li Damin seemed a little excited and tsk a few times.
Uncle Zhong asked me, what can you think of about numbers?
I shook my head and wiped the sweat off my head, indicating that I knew nothing.
Uncle Zhong looked at the surrounding environment: "This is not a good way to think about it, let's talk about it later when we go out."
The three of us came out of the bedroom and went to the living room outside. We looked at our watch. It was one o'clock in the middle of the night. We had been tossing for more than an hour, and the three of us were not sleepy.
Li Damin rummages through boxes and cabinets in the living room.
I sat on the sofa, hugged my shoulders and asked, "What are you doing?"
Li Damin took out a stack of A4 paper from a cabinet, took it over and said, "Since you want to crack the numbers, you can't think about it with your brain. A good memory is not as good as a bad pen."
The three of us took the paper and pen, and I repeated the string of numbers again, and Li Damin and Uncle Zhong both wrote them on the paper.
I also wrote down a series of numbers on the paper one by one: 612, 601, 620, XX, 529, 617.
Li Damin said strangely that it seems that they all start with six characters.
"There is a 529 inside." I reminded him.
"I don't think it's difficult," said Li Damin.
Uncle Zhong rubbed his chin with a few strands of whiskers and said, "Don't underestimate the state of the bardo. It's strange and unpredictable. You can't use the thinking of the world to cover it. The space there is different from what you imagined."
Li Damin blinked and said, "Is there any solution?"
Uncle Zhong looked at him with appreciation and nodded: "It may be."
Li Damin looked at me: "Lin Cong, can you do your brain?"
"Don't underestimate people." I said, "I also graduated from 211."
Li Damin smiled and said nothing. The three of us looked for places and started to look at them with paper. What's the difficulty of just a few numbers? I looked at the two people and wanted to show their skills and crack them as soon as possible. But when I started this, I realized that it was really not simple. First of all, these numbers are not arranged in size, so will there be an aberration in the middle? 612 minus 601 is equal to 11, while 620 minus 601 is equal to 19, and finally 617 minus 529 is equal to... I raised my eyebrows, and it seemed that I couldn't see the rules.
Their performance was different. Li Damin used his mobile phone calculator to calculate, while Uncle Zhong sat in the corner, looking at the numbers, murmured as if he was chanting scriptures, not knowing what he was thinking about.
The paper is covered with numbers, and it feels more and more complicated as I calculate. I intuitively know that I have calculated it wrong, so there must be an unexpected trick here.
Chapter completed!