Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 799 The Parade of Deep Dreams

Such a large amount of text in a regular pattern must be information left intentionally by someone.

As for why this information is presented in such an incomprehensible way, it is very likely that if the information is too straightforward, it will attract unexpected trouble.

So Wu Xian and Han Shuihe immediately began to work on deciphering the secrets of these characters.

To their surprise, the mystery of the characters was quite unexpected. They tried splitting the characters, skipping characters, and interpreting the characters as pictographs...

The two of them worked on it for quite a while, but still couldn't figure out what kind of message the characters were trying to convey.

Han Shuihe, who suggested relying on her teammates, was so anxious that she frantically grabbed her disheveled hair, which looked like a female ghost.

Wu Xian stared intently at the characters, frowning as he studied them. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he couldn't help but say in a low voice, "Do you think it's possible that the person who left this message simply has bad handwriting?"

"How is this possible? Whose handwriting is this bad?"

“I know someone whose handwriting looks like chicken claws crawling. She also participated in this blessed land. If it were her, plus the fact that the handwriting is reversed from the outside, it’s really possible to produce such an effect.”

Wu Xian selected a few characters with simple structures from the list, flipped and traced them, and it turned out that they could barely be recognized as characters.

After figuring out the solution, the two spent some time figuring out what was written on the glass.

'I tried using the God of Sleep's Blessing to "fish," but it happened to coincide with the moment of day-night transition, and I ended up fishing out a little girl.'

The little girl, with her hair in pigtails and dark circles under her eyes, claimed she hadn't slept for months and begged me to help her fall asleep.

'In the labyrinthine building, a young girl like her couldn't possibly survive long.'

"Therefore, I believe she is likely an important NPC in this blessed land. I placed 'Sleep God's Blessing' on her face, but she vanished in that instant."

'I continued exploring the mystery building, but felt inexplicably drowsy. An hour later, I fell asleep and entered a deep dream.'

'In a deep dream, I found myself in a bizarre and malevolent wasteland, bound by thick ropes. A little girl was pulling on the ropes, seemingly trying to take me somewhere.'

The evil spirits of the wasteland were all drawn to me, surrounding me, each staring at me with greedy and terrifying eyes.

'The two strongest evil spirits are dueling for the right to kill me.'

'I thought I was safe, at least for a while, but I never expected that during the duel between the two evil spirits, a smaller evil spirit would suddenly jump out and slit my throat.'

'After waking from a deep dream, I returned to the labyrinthine building, but felt as drowsy as before. This time, I only managed to stay awake for a little over half an hour before falling asleep again.'

'What would happen if that little girl dragged me to our destination?'

Will I die? Or will I be trapped in this nightmare forever?

This is my fourth time waking up, and I don't know how long I'll stay awake. I'm writing this down to warn others: if you encounter that little girl, please, please don't help her!

'I'm looking for a way to overcome drowsiness, and if I find one, I'll write it on this window.'

After reading the text, the two fell into a long silence.

The person who left the message was undoubtedly Du E; no one else could have written such illegible characters as a cipher.

There was no way to overcome drowsiness on the window, which shows that Du E ultimately couldn't outwit the little girl.

Han Shuihe sighed in disappointment. She had thought there would be information about the mystery of the building on the glass, but she didn't expect that the information on it was completely bad news.

Wu Xian felt even worse.

Du E was a close friend with whom he had collaborated many times. She had even saved Wu Xian's life once at the experience center. Now, her fate was unknown, leaving Wu Xian somewhat gloomy. However, under these circumstances, Wu Xian was powerless to help her; the mystery before him left him helpless.

"We can't let this continue. We need to end this blessed land quickly; maybe we can still save her life."

Perhaps it was because of Du E's predicament that Wu Xian was anxious, or perhaps it was because he had just been inspired by trying to crack the code, but Wu Xian suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

He looked at Han Shuihe with some excitement and said:

“You said before that the Twin Lotus Clan would not hold us back.”

"But the Mystery Tower is only so big, with four floors per group. We, the few of us, had already thoroughly investigated the fourth floor during our first two dream visits, but we have absolutely no way to cross the actual floors."

"This method is too well hidden; it's so well hidden it's unreasonable!"

Is it possible that we have already found a solution, or met certain conditions, but we just haven't noticed them?

"Pass, show me your pass!"

Wu Xian took the passes for the third and fifth floors from Han Shuihe, so he now had all the passes in his possession.

After looking through all the passes, Wu Xian's eyes widened in surprise.

The front of the pass has the text representing the floor, while the back has an irregular pattern. The passes for the second, third, and fourth floors have the numbers 2, 3, and 4 on them, while the number for the fifth floor is '伍'!
The way the numbers are written might be the key to unlocking a password!

Wu Xian turned all four passes upside down, like a jigsaw puzzle, and tried to piece them together. Soon, the irregular patterns were pieced together into a complex rune.

Once the runes were formed, the four passes stuck together and merged into a slightly larger rectangular pass.

Han Shuihe picked up the pass and turned it over, only to find that the four numbers on the front had been changed to calligraphy, and the writing style was very flamboyant and elegant, quite different from the original font.

The characters 2 and 3 form a modified '辶' (walking radical), the inverted and reversed vertical 4, and the modified '伍' (five radicals) together form a '甬' (yong radical).

When combined, they form the character "通" (tōng).

After checking the certificate, Han Shuihe smiled.

"With this pass, you can move freely throughout this building, and even walk from the fifth floor to the second floor. We've cracked the secret of the staircase sequence!"

"As a newcomer to the Twin Lotus Clan, you've really got some skills."

Wu Xian waved his hand:
"This is not really a difficult problem. If you are trapped on the same floor for too long, you will eventually find a way to get through the pass. Anyone can crack it given enough time."

This wasn't Wu Xian being modest. If he hadn't skipped class during the last dream and had obtained the fifth-floor pass in advance, he would have realized there was something to be done about the pass just from the unusual character "五" on it.

Last time I dreamt...

Skipping class...

Wu Xian suddenly shuddered.

"Oh no, I'm still being cursed by the evil spirit in room 509!"

On the cursed page of Wu Xian's ordination certificate, the following line was clearly written:

'The dependents are cursed by the tobacco and alcohol merchant; they cannot shop at the merchant's store until the end of the blessed land, and they cannot use other people's passes to pass through the fifth floor. Only by purchasing goods for the tobacco and alcohol merchant independently can they obtain the right to pass.'

(End of this chapter)