clown game

Chapter 154 Elevator Puzzle
On the phone screen, in addition to the ever-decreasing time, there was another row of three-digit numbers.

From 298 at this moment to 297, it is decreasing at a constant speed at a rate of one per second.

It is easy to see that the three digits below are the seconds of the remaining 5 minutes above. But why it is converted into seconds and displayed again is unknown.

And apart from these two lines of numbers, the entire screen of the mobile phone is blank, with no words left.

Chen Xiao frowned. This inexplicable message didn't give him any hints, nor did he say what he was asked to do, and he didn't ask any questions or even say a single word. Just giving a "countdown" dryly like this is really annoying. People are confused.

"Yo Hou~~" Chen Xiao greeted the phone, but there was no response
Immediately afterwards, he poked the screen of the phone again, and threw it directly to the ground with a "slap", but then he found that he couldn't even cancel the interface.

This countdown has been reminding people what to do.

Chen Xiao licked his lips. It seems that the event that affects this time should not be the phone itself, so he gave up studying it and put it in his pocket.

As for checking how much time is left in the countdown, he has never needed any tools.

Then, Chen Xiao once again turned his gaze to his surroundings. Although Chen Xiao had habitually looked at the environment inside the elevator when he first entered the elevator, he felt that it was necessary to take a closer look. observe again,
One is that the scan was not performed when I first entered the elevator, and the other is that the countdown that had no prompts did not appear at that time.So maybe just now, something changed in this elevator.

So without further ado, let's take a look at this elevator.

Uh. To be honest, there is really nothing to see in such a small place.

The whole elevator has an area of ​​only 3 or 4 square meters, and it is all white. It is a very long space with a narrow space between left and right, only enough for two people to stand side by side. The wall next to the door is a mirror, only one-fifth of the size of the wall it hangs on, and it is placed at a height just above Chen Xiao's waist.On the two walls except for the "door" and "mirror", there are two "long stick"-shaped handrails inlaid on them, and the rest are bare and nothing is left. On the ceiling, the one that just emitted red light After the machine finished scanning, it retracted into the ceiling, and the window he emerged from was so seamlessly fitted with the surrounding ceiling that even a knife couldn't get in.Moreover, the source of light in the elevator basically comes from the special metal material of the roof itself, so there is no such thing as a "light".At the same time, the floor of the elevator is also made of the same material, which leads to the fact that in the entire elevator, except for the elevator door that can be opened and closed left and right, what is left is a closed space with almost no gaps. .

The door of the elevator is not decorated at all, and there are only two buttons beside the door, one with two arrows facing away from each other, which means "open", and the other with opposite arrows, which means "close".There isn't even a floor button.

Because Chen Xiao took 1 second to observe the structure of the elevator again.He then concluded that nothing had changed.
However, he didn't express any regrets, because it meant that the things that the countdown had made him do had always existed, rather than just appearing temporarily after the countdown started.

Immediately afterwards, he did something that was definitely useless. He pressed the two switches next to the elevator door.

"Well, nothing happened!" Chen Xiao said to himself.Although he had expected this result a long time ago, he always felt uncomfortable if he didn't try it.

Of course, even if he tried, he didn't waste even a second, because when he pressed the elevator switch with one hand, the other hand had already reached into his crotch and took out the silver revolver pistol. (You dirty bastards. What are you thinking?)
Immediately afterwards, he held the barrel of the pistol, and without hesitation, in a posture of swinging a hammer, he smashed the butt of the gun on the elevator door.

There was a loud "kuang", in this almost enclosed small space, it was like ringing a bronze bell, shaking Chen Xiao almost to the ground.

After he shook his head to get his eyes back, he found that the door of the elevator was indeed dented by a large piece, but there was no major damage on the whole. It is feasible to smash the door open, but when it is successful, it is estimated that dinner will be finished.

Seeing that the plan of "smashing the elevator door" was useless, Chen Xiao reached into his crotch again and took out a switchblade.

With a "crack", the switchblade came out of its sheath. Taking advantage of the vibration for a few seconds, Chen Xiao took a step and directly inserted the knife towards the elevator door.
Then there was a "dang". Uh... it didn't go in.

"Fuck?" Chen Xiao was a little shocked: "Is this door so tight?"

Immediately afterwards, he unbelievingly slashed the door with his knife a few times with all his might, and then inserted the knife into the gap between the doors that had just been smashed into the recess, back and forth lamely.

But in the end, he gave up the idea of ​​opening the elevator.

Because even the cutting ability of the vibration dagger can only leave a few scratches on it, that is to say, the material used in this elevator is extremely dense, and it is estimated that a direct laser aiming at it is enough to penetrate it. It is absolutely impossible to open it violently.

At this moment, 30 seconds have passed
And Chen Xiao quickly turned around and faced the mirror behind him.

Now that the idea of ​​"going out" has been temporarily denied, the most suspicious thing left is this mirror.

Chen Xiao quickly walked towards the mirror. Since the elevator door was far away from the mirror, Chen Xiao walked for nearly two seconds before arriving in front of the mirror. smiley.

After that, he seemed to be disgusted, so he quickly restrained his smile.

Afterwards, he moved closer to the mirror, took a breath first, wiped the "mist" with his sleeve, then brought his eyes close to the mirror, and looked in hard, as if he could see through the mirror. Same as before. A second later, he saw nothing unusual.

So Chen Xiao came to the side of the mirror again, put his face on the wall beside the mirror, closed the outer eye, and at the same time covered the light with his hand, carefully observed the surface of the mirror, and then found that the mirror surface There are no protruding or concave arcs.

That is to say, this is an ordinary mirror.

And after Chen Xiao confirmed this point, it was as if he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone in an instant, and smashed it with the butt of the gun.

There was a sound of "wow--".

The mirror was smashed into pieces and scattered on the ground.Only the four corners are still hanging on the wall, dangling, and it seems that it won't last long.

But following the sound of broken glass, what appeared before Chen Xiao's eyes was not passwords or button switches.

but a wall.

Yes, it is exactly the same as the surrounding walls, that is to say, there is nothing behind the mirror
"Huh?" Chen Xiao was puzzled again, and hurried forward, knocking up, down, left, and right like knocking on the door, and found that there was really no difference.

It seems that the wall and the mirror can't provide any clues.

At this time, according to the countdown in Chen Xiao's mind, the countdown had reached 3:40, and Chen Xiao didn't even have a clue what to do.

But
"Hey hey hey-"

Chen Xiao smiled with his throat and did not appear anxious.

After inquiring about "door" and "window", he shifted his sight to the ground
Then, relying on his keen observation ability, he determined that there was nothing on the ground.
Uh, this is not just a sentence to make up the number of words, but it shows that there are no gaps on the ground, and there are no piles of dust to judge whether there is an air outlet and its direction. When walking back and forth just now, Chen Xiao also intentionally moved in different positions. I stepped on it hard, and thus roughly confirmed that the material of the bottom plate is integrated with the surrounding walls. That is to say, there is no need to try methods such as smashing and chopping, which are guaranteed to be useless.

This process took less than a second!

A door, a wall, a mirror and a baseboard~
As for the remaining two walls, apart from each having a handrail, I have looked back and forth many times with my peripheral vision, and there are basically no clues.

In other words, what is associated with this countdown is on the roof of the elevator.

Chen Xiao raised his head and glanced at the ceiling above his head,
Licked his lips.

because
The ceiling is a bit high.It's so high that with Chen Xiao's current ability, even if he sucks his milk, he can't reach it.

But it's impossible to stop Chen Xiao
Since the handrails inside the elevator were only made of ordinary steel embedded on the elevator wall, Chen Xiao cut off one of the handrails with a vibrating dagger after only hearing "噗" and "噗".

Afterwards, he held the handrail like a stick, and "bang, bang, bang, bang" toward the roof of the elevator!The movement was so dense that it was like a sky monkey being released in the house. If it was in my own home, the neighbor upstairs would definitely report it. Then the landlady would probably hold our smiling little hand and have a long talk all night. .

Without further ado, under such high-frequency and rapid beating, Chen Xiao finally discovered that he was beating the ceiling with a stick, and there was a small area where the sound was different from other places.
"Hey - I found it!" Chen Xiao was overjoyed, and then he poked this place with a stick even more vigorously.

Soon, that different place was poked open by Chen Xiao.

With a "cracking" sound, the shattered materials fell to the ground one after another. It looked like some kind of tiles, which were also white, almost exactly the same as the ceiling, and couldn't be distinguished at all.

And behind this tile, a boxy window about 10 square centimeters appeared above Chen Xiao's head.

And it's so dark, I can't see what's inside

Chen Xiao didn't think too much, although he hardly wasted any time, but the countdown is still here

2:55, and the following number also changed to 175.Although I don't know what will happen after this countdown is over, it will definitely not be a good thing.

So Chen Xiao almost followed the force of poking the tile, and directly inserted the iron rod, that is, the handrail, into the window.

But then, the stick was blocked, and at a distance of about 20 centimeters from the dark window, there was a slanted baffle, which just formed a 60-degree arc with the wall next to the window, and the baffle was very sharp. Hard, should be the same material as the surrounding walls.

In other words, something that cannot be bent, such as an iron rod, will definitely not be able to reach in.

Moreover, this distance from the entrance of the hole is almost a full distance, and the included angle is not too large, as if to tell people that this hole is designed for people to stretch their arms in.

Chen Xiao thought for a while.
It is estimated that there should be a button or something in this hole. As long as you press it, the countdown should stop.

Although this is just a guess, no matter how you think about it, this hidden window must be the key to seeing the countdown.So already knowing what the goal is, the next step is much easier.

I saw Chen Xiao glanced at the distance between the walls on the left and right sides of the elevator, turned around, raised the knife and dropped it,
With two more "bass" and "bass", he also cut off the handrail on the other wall.

Now Chen Xiao has two steel pipes in his hand,
Then, he put the handrails on both sides side by side and placed them diagonally into the elevator, with one end touching the angle between the wall and the ground, and the other end leaning against the wall on the other side.After this, Chen Xiao began to undress
In order not to let everyone have any strange ideas, I want to emphasize here that he only took off his purple suit
After that, he tied the two sleeves of the suit to the two armrests respectively.And because there are several protrusions on the armrest when it is connected to the wall, clothes can be easily stuck on it without worrying about it slipping off.In addition, this suit can block bullets, not to mention Chen Xiao's small body.In this way, a small step similar to a "hammock" is ready.

And Chen Xiao didn't waste any time, he just stepped on his clothes and hung in mid-air.Due to gravity, the clothes have to sink about 10 centimeters, and this distance is just enough for Chen Xiao to put his body between the two iron rods, so that the rods will not be too close due to the pull of the clothes, so that maintain balance.

Then at this moment, his height is enough to put his elbows into that hidden window, and Chen Xiao did just that.

But just after he put his whole elbow in the window

Chen Xiao
just froze
Because, within the reach of my own hands, there is nothing but emptiness.

(End of this chapter)