The Death Knell

A lighthouse made of lines stands on a pale seabed, but the death knell that enters this building seems to have disappeared from the outside world.

However, he didn't care what the painting would become in the future, but continued to concentrate on his puzzle-solving activities. What he just said was literal and very easy to understand.

No matter how many times the internal structure of this lighthouse has changed, how many times it will change in the future, or whether it is subject to the subjective influence of the observer, it will still be a lighthouse from beginning to end.

It has not turned into a water tower, a blast furnace, or a large chimney, and that is enough.

A characteristic of a building like a lighthouse is that its top can emit light and has a light source structure, so Su Ming determined that the answer to the mystery he was looking for was at the top of the lighthouse.

So he is climbing the stairs now.

Because the lighthouse he saw this time was almost in ruins, the wooden stairs made an overwhelming squeaking sound when he stepped on them. However, this was only a small problem. He specifically chose such a broken lighthouse and did not go out to replace it. There is a reason for the scene.

The interior environment of the two previous lighthouses is certainly beautiful, but there are too many scattered decorations. I don’t know how many trinkets there are on the first floor alone.

This is the most annoying scene in point-and-click puzzle games. The more information there is on the screen, the harder it is to find the props needed to solve the puzzle.

And what about now? There are not so many distractions. Apart from broken furniture, a skeleton, and a pistol, there is nothing else on the first floor. If this is a puzzle game, it will be a novice difficulty at first glance, right?

Su Ming is not the kind of person who likes to challenge himself. He prefers things to be done safely, so if he can choose the simple mode, he will definitely choose the simple one.

After just a quick glance, he determined that there were no clues he needed to solve the puzzle on the first floor, because the scene was too simple and there was no room for puzzles.

Unless the skeleton sat up and danced a dance, it might have hidden some information, but not now. He was about to go up to the second floor, and the skeleton behind him still didn't move. There was a high probability that it wasn't. Will move again.

"Fu~~~" Su Ming exhaled a puff of smoke as he climbed up to the second floor. He looked around and said, "Yes, there is nothing worth noting on the second floor. There is just a broken bed, and even the sheets are weathered."

The symbiote, which was still grinding the black line, opened its mouth and nodded: "Hey."

What it means is that although there is dust and cobwebs everywhere on the second floor, and there is a bat in the corner for some reason, there is no emergency exit here. Let's continue going upstairs.

So the host took it with him and continued to climb the stairs at the other end of the room, with the destination being the third floor.

It's hard to say how many floors this lighthouse has. After all, it looks like a linear lighthouse from the outside, and it's impossible to judge the internal environment.

But it doesn't matter, there is no danger in this tower, and it doesn't take much effort to climb the stairs. It just wastes some time.

If each floor is as clean as the first two, it won't waste time, because there is no need to dig through the garbage pile.

Yes, even the two lighthouses he saw before, the furnishings inside were just garbage to the death knell and had no use value at all.

There is no need to look at the third floor. The entire first floor is empty, the wooden floor is warped, and there is not even a window here. If there is anything on this floor, then there is only darkness.

Su Ming didn't stop and went straight to the fourth floor.

This time, I arrived at the top of the lighthouse and saw the huge copper basin in the center of the room that looked like a glass greenhouse, as well as the dark and unknown environment outside the window.

There is some dark liquid in the copper basin. After a slight sniff, it seems to be petroleum. Obviously this is the light source here, a retro flame lighthouse type.

"The last time I saw such a backward lighthouse was on Paradise Island." As Su Ming spoke, he took out the cigarette from his mouth, cut off the filter and put it away. The end of the burning tobacco was covered by his It bounced into the oil basin.

"boom!"

With such a muffled sound, flames burned in the brazier, and the whole room suddenly became brighter, even dispelling some of the darkness outside the window.

At this time, just adjust the concave lens on the side of the brazier and let it rotate to provide direction for passing ships.

If there is a ship at the bottom of the sea.

"Hey."

The symbiote was still filing its rations, but it also observed the surrounding environment. Now that there was light, the only thing missing was the warning light box with the escaping villain painted on it.

"I already have a rough idea of ​​how it works." Su Ming walked to the window with a smile and looked at the thick dusty glass: "Don't you think this kind of fuel lighthouse seems a bit inconsistent with glass? ?”

"Hey?"

"Yes, that's what this third level means."

As Deathstroke spoke, he drew on the glass with his fingers. First he drew a running little man, then a door frame, and then he wrote the English word EXIT.

When the thick dust was wiped away like this, paintings naturally appeared, which looked a bit like sand paintings.

Hints to solve the puzzle appear from the beginning. This is a world of paintings, and there are also strange creatures that are not here physically, but their spirits can be projected here.

Therefore, this is all a hint - if you want to find the exit, you need to draw it yourself.

What Su Ming did was actually looking for a 'light source'. The emergency exit indicator light was composed of a panel and a light source.

The sun, no, it only emits lines made of color blocks.

That lighthouse on the island in the sea? No, it will only produce color block lines.

So he jumped into the sea, figuring from the start that he needed to work where there were no patches of color.

So he found a hidden lighthouse made of lines under the water, and also found a glass curtain wall that did not match the background of the times. This basically confirmed that this dusty glass was the canvas he was ready to paint.

What needs to be done next is to cut off all perceptions of the outside world, and then acquire these perceptions again. As the saying goes, that is to close and open the eyes again.

The escape light box I drew just now has become a real thing in front of me, as if it has always been growing on this piece of glass.

At this time, the concave mirror next to the brazier rotated on its own, concentrating the light of the flame and shining it on the new light box, making it suddenly glow with a bright green light, as if it was powered on.

"Oh? That's okay. I finally saw something automatic in this level."

After lighting up a cigarette, Su Ming praised the fact that the concave mirror does not need to be adjusted manually. After all, there are some mindless steps. It is better to save them. He raised his hand and patted the escape indicator light on the glass:

"Then let's go to the next level. If my judgment is correct, the fourth level should be the last level in the world of divine travel."

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