Players Please Get In the Car

  Chapter 85 The puzzle at twelve o'clock at night

   It wasn't until late at night that the bus returned to the town.

  The mayor’s office building is just to the west of the town. It is a small two-story building. The second floor is the mayor’s office, and the first floor is the exhibition hall, which contains a sand table model of the town and some exhibits.

   It was Lin Pei who accompanied Xu Huo this time. He fumbled to turn on the main switch of the office building, and the small second floor lit up.

   "The electricity is still on here?" Xu Huo paused when he took out the lighter.

"In the whole town, except for the riddle mechanism that sounds from time to time, only this office building has electricity, and these places should be routed separately." Lin Pei explained, and walked to the sand table, "We have already seen this sand table. Many times."

  The above model is exactly the same as the town, and the size is scaled according to a certain ratio. Just looking at this sand table can roughly outline the structure of the town.

   "There are puzzles in all the places where the small flags are planted?" Xu Huo paid attention. There are too many puzzles in this small town, almost half of the buildings have them.

   "That's right." Lin Pei nodded, "Nise, the watch master in the background of the game, is the mayor of this town. He was obsessed with solving puzzle games in his later years, and puzzle pieces of paper can be seen everywhere in the town."

   "But to be honest, those puzzles are not puzzles at all. They are just some common sense questions that should be very simple for the NPC in the game, such as how many clocks Nisai has made in his life, Nisai's favorite flower or color."

   "There are some more strange ones, such as whether Nisse is wearing reading glasses or short-sighted glasses, there are several potted plants in the mayor's office, what time Nise went to bed yesterday, and he ate some pies for breakfast."

  Xu Huo was matching the model with the buildings he saw in the town today in his mind, when he suddenly raised his head, "These are not riddles."

   "Of course not." Lin Pei smiled and said, "It's probably the childlike innocence of a master."

   "These questions are aimed at children." Xu Huo thought for a while and said, "They are not real puzzles, they are just used to make children happy."

  Lin Pei opened his mouth and said in retrospect: "So that's the case. No wonder you will be rewarded with chocolate candies for wrong answers."

   He once guessed that Nisai was an overly narcissistic person, or that the residents of the whole town were fanatical fans of Nisai, who even paid attention to such trivial things as eating and sleeping.

"These puzzles are fixed, but the content is the details of life. You should not have come to settle in the small town of Nisai alone, at least with a child." Xu Huo asked: "Have you seen Master Nisai's work?" Is there a place to live? Not on the sand table."

  Lin Pei shook his head, "There is a residential area in the center of the town, but we haven't searched deeply."

   "Do you want to find it now?"

  The bus has already gone far, and it is inconvenient to move at night. When they got off the bus, they had already planned to spend the night in the office building.

   "Let's go tomorrow." Xu Huo said: "See if there is any clue to open the door of Nisai's residence. If people in the small town want to go in and out, there is always a way to open the door."

From the window of the office building, you can see the gate on the west wall. Lin Pei shook his head and said, "You can't speak loudly, and you can't go out in groups. To put it bluntly, babies can't cry when they are born, and the gate is also closed. Death, it's not like spending your old age peacefully, but like going to jail."

Xu Huo's eyes moved slightly. Before returning to the sand table, he carefully looked at the photos marked on the model. Apart from the basic needs of life, the audiences of other stores were generally young, such as children's clothing stores, doll stores, handicraft stores, picture galleries, crayon stores, etc. Add to that the riddles that are ubiquitous in this town, and it seems like this town was built for little ones.

And just looking at these, this town should be full of childishness, but there is a wall outside, and there are such strange rules in the town, hiring security guards at a high price... If you equate aliens with security, this is not at all for maintaining the small town. There is no order in the town, but the massacre of those who do not follow the rules.

  Master Nisai is not in harmony with the residents of the town.

  The town was built for children, and a group of Nisai masters lived here who didn't care about their lives or deaths. With such strict rules, even life could be risked if you are not careful, and some people choose to live here.

  This town is full of contradictions.

   But the more contradictory the place, the more likely it is the key to solving the problem.

  Xu Huo casually tore off the puzzle pasted on the handrail of the stairs, looked at it and stuffed it into his pocket, before walking up to the second floor with ease.

  Putting aside the toys all over the floor, he entered the mayor's office.

  Like a watch shop, the walls here are covered with all kinds of clocks, the potted plants in the corner are dead, and some books about clocks and watches, as well as some picture books and fairy tales are randomly placed on the bookshelves.

There is an unfinished clock on the desk, some working tools are scattered on the desktop and the floor, all the drawers are opened, empty, except for the bookshelf, there are no other paper items in this office, and there is no white paper, like been ransacked.

   "After all, he is a master watchmaker. The manuscripts he left behind during his lifetime must be very valuable. It's normal for town residents to move away and steal something." Lin Pei said.

  Xu Huo nodded slightly, walked to the window sill behind the desk, looked around, and happened to see Ximen in his eyes.

  By the faint moonlight, he saw a little light reflected on the wall, and the light spot was still moving.

   "It's the reflection of the second hand of the big clock on the top of the building." Lin Pei noticed his gaze, "The tip of the second hand of the clock on the top of the building is a reflective bright surface."

When the second hand circled to the position of twelve, the doll hanging behind the office door suddenly played music, "It's twelve o'clock, it's twelve o'clock, a happy night is coming, this is the favorite time of clock master Nissey .”

   "Today's question is, how many watches did Master Nise, who loves watches and clocks, make in his life?"

  Xu Huo picked up the picture book on the shelf and found the largest number inside, "20001."

   "Beep! Correct answer!"

   "The puzzle solver gave the correct answer, and Master Nisai decided to reward you with a small hand-folded star."

  Xu Huo reached out to catch it. It was a paper-folded five-pointed star the size of a thumb, the kind children like.

   "It seems that this is also used to amuse children." Lin Pei couldn't help feeling disappointed.

  But the doll did not announce the end of the answer, but continued to ask: "Smart puzzle solver, the second question is, what flavor of pie does Master Nisse like best?"

   "Strawberry flavor." Xu Huo glanced at the strawberry graffiti next to the picture book.

   "Beep! Correct answer!"

   "The puzzle solver gave the correct answer, and Master Nisai decided to reward you with a small strawberry mirror."

  The mirror is held in the hand, it is half a palm-sized strawberry-shaped cosmetic mirror with strawberry pattern.

  Then there is a third question: "What is Master Nisai's favorite game?"

   "Solving a puzzle."

   "DiDi! Wrong answer!"

  (end of this chapter)