Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 818 The Puzzle of the Pattern

There was a clue in the window.

However, what's making the family members somewhat devastated is that no one can understand these clues!

It's not text, not even numbers, but abstract patterns. What's the point of conveying information this way?
The patterns on the window consist of six rows and twenty-three designs.

These patterns are:
Kidneys, clams, bells, feathers.

Key, tail, number 7, lotus.

Question mark, cloth, spitting, tail.

Neck, messy lines, tomatoes, ID cards.

Flowers, fluff, and a knife.

A closed door, a fox, a huge circle, an open door.

Lingji, Wanjue, Han Shuihe, and Hawke were scratching their heads and making faces, their brains almost overloaded, still unable to understand what the patterns were trying to express.

But after Wu Xian finished reading it, his eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Du E is imprisoned somewhere here, which may be the location of the Sleeping Maiden. This is the only way she can communicate with us and beg us to save her."

"The room numbers in these rooms are currently incorrect. To rescue her, we need to restore the correct room numbers in these apartments. Once restored, we can use the location of the missing stairwell to move the other rooms, allowing the correct rooms to be moved to the correct floors. Then, the door leading to the sleeping woman's location will open!"

After Wu Xian finished speaking, the four relatives were stunned.

"Are you kidding me?" Hawke's eyes widened.

Lingji poked Wu Xian with her finger: "It's not that we don't believe you, but how did you manage to understand such a long passage from such an abstract string of words?"

Han Shuihe and Wan Jue also shook their heads, not quite believing Wu Xian's reasoning.

But right after they raised their questions, a big checkmark appeared on the window, which meant that the person who wrote the message agreed with what Wu Xian said!
It's actually quite normal that Wu Xian was able to solve this mystery.

When he first collaborated with Du E, they played a game of charades. These nineteen patterns are simply a replica of that game.

The six rows of patterns each represent one of the six words:

Imprisoned,

Wagging its tail and begging for mercy,
His virtue was not commensurate with his position.

To set things right,

Huarong Road,
The door is wide open.

Furthermore, when Wu Xian first opened that door, the evil spirit inside was an old woman who scavenged for scraps. However, the old woman Wu Xian encountered in the Mystery Building was in apartment 202, which does not match the room number. In addition, considering the gap in the stairwell, a little association can lead to the conclusion that Du E wanted to convey.

However, there's no need to explain these details to the family members.

Lingji pinched her chin and frowned: "I won't ask how you cracked the code, but if the other side is Du E, if she wants to pass on a message to us, why not just write it down? Why bother writing a code? Is Du E's environment not safe, so she can only use codes to pass on information?"

Upon hearing her question, Han Shuihe burst out laughing.

Wu Xian also had a strange expression.

If Du E had actually written the words meticulously outside the window, he might still not have deciphered the meaning she was trying to convey...

In short, the message conveyed by Du E gave everyone a direction for action.

According to the information conveyed by Du E.

The four-story building in the deep dream is a double-layered puzzle.

They first need to restore the room number, and then sort them correctly according to the number.

Some room numbers are easy to decipher. For example, the room where the old woman scavenging for scraps appeared should be apartment 202, the apartment with many cabinets should be 406, and the apartment with the hanging rope should be…

These rooms, where the spirits once fought against evil spirits, all have distinct characteristics, so you can know the correct room number just by opening the door and taking a look.

The problem is that even in the Mystery Building, not every room is haunted by evil spirits; most rooms have the same layout.

Even though the family members had experienced it several times in person, they still couldn't give the correct room number from memory.

Therefore, how to obtain the room numbers for the remaining rooms is the problem that the family members need to solve at this stage.

Everyone dispersed and went to find their own familiar rooms.

Wu Xian pushed open the doors of the rooms one by one, and suddenly smelled a bloody odor in one of the hallways.

This should be the first apartment Wu Xian entered. The evil spirit in apartment 404 is the Upside-Down Ghost, because the toilet is full of blood, which is why there is a strong smell of blood in the lobby.

All Wu Xian needs to do is remove the doorplate from this apartment and then find the doorplate for apartment 404 and stick it on. That will complete the task for this room.

After a moment's thought, Wu Xian walked into the room.

Compared to other evil spirits, the upside-down ghost in room 404 is relatively easier to deal with. Perhaps we can figure out the key to the room number from this evil spirit.

The room was very quiet, and the foyer was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

When Wu Xian first came here, he was on tenterhooks, afraid that something might suddenly appear, but now he couldn't wait for that thing to appear.

He pushed open the door, entered the bedroom, and after walking around, he suddenly felt a breeze and then a hand was placed on his shoulder.

call!
Wu Xian was hung upside down.

At the other end of the roof beam, a strange man, also hanging upside down and covered in blood, was swinging a large axe toward Wu Xian.

Those slow movements can put enormous pressure on ordinary people.

But Wu Xian was getting impatient, so he also crawled around and took the initiative to approach the upside-down ghost.

If it were an ordinary evil spirit, seeing the victim not flee but instead approaching, it would probably realize something was wrong. But the upside-down evil spirit remained excited and showed no fear whatsoever.

When Wu Xian got close enough, he swung his axe at Wu Xian.

However, Wu Xian was faster. With a flick of his finger, a blue crescent moon was released, severing the evil spirit's arm and causing the huge axe to fall to the ground.

Wu Xian had a stern face, and his body exuded a chilling ghostly aura.

"Tell me, how can I find out the correct room number, or are there any places marked 404 in each room?"

Wu Xian had just displayed absolute martial prowess, and as an evil spirit, his rank as a powerful ghost of the Great Evil level was also above this mere Upside-Down Evil Spirit.

But the upside-down demon, facing Wu Xian, showed no sign of being frightened and continued to sway its body, attempting to attack Wu Xian.

Wu Xian sighed.

It seems that the things in this apartment are more like some kind of mechanism than evil spirits. Even Wu Xian, who is also an evil spirit, cannot communicate with them to extract information.

In that case, the upside-down evil spirit is useless.

call!
Flames erupted from Wu Xian's feet, instantly burning through the rope, and his body vanished like a ghost.

The next second he appeared under the hanging monster, then did a handstand support, releasing dark green flames from his feet, which directly set the hanging monster ablaze!
The upside-down demon quickly died from being burned by the will-o'-the-wisps.

He fell to the ground, and dark red flames began to burn on his body.

In the mystery building, after the evil spirit in the apartment dies, nightmare seeds will appear in the ashes, but this time, what appears is a small card with a house number on it.

(End of this chapter)