The Last Gentleman

Chapter 877 Puzzle and Answer

 The group of balloons that can block the moonlight, the smile on the doll's face and the beginning of this performance game form.

Perhaps Reagan and King still couldn't think of William. After all, in their impressions, William still remained the gentleman he had been before.

 But Yi Chen and Lorian are different. They have witnessed the completion and the integration of clown and actor.

Lorian looked up at the top of the mall, looking at the densely packed balloons stuck to the ceiling like abscesses, blocking the penetration of moonlight.

"Are you really here? William... can even completely block my Lunar Disease. You are worthy of being the master of the disease. What are you playing at? You have to make it so mysterious. Do you want to test us or avoid God? Surveillance, or are you really crazy?"

Just as Lorian slowly lowered his head and looked at the doll riding a children's bicycle in front of him, the tape in the other person's mouth continued to play and informed him of the rules of the game.

  “The name of the game is [findme].

I will give you a riddle. You can use the riddle to determine my situation and location, and finally find me in a certain area of ​​the mall.

However, this game has several hard requirements.

　　1. From the start of the game, you will no longer be able to cooperate, including the most basic conversation or information exchange between brains. You must remain [alone] to find my traces. Once I find someone communicating or cooperating in private, they will be kicked out of the game directly.

  2. I'm inside the mall and won't run around, but you only have one hour. If you cannot find me within the time limit, it means that the gap between you and me is too great and you are not qualified to meet me.

  3. It is prohibited to damage the shopping mall. If any items are destroyed, part of your body will also be destroyed.

  4. I am in a certain store, but you only have one choice. Once you enter a certain store, you cannot go to other stores.

alright! I will give a riddle now, please find me according to the clues of the riddle!

Hahahaha…hahahaha! ≯

  Tik~tak, time waits for no one! The game begins! "

 A series of laughter served as a riddle. Both Reagan, whose brain had soared, and Yi Chen, who knew William well, were confused, but they quickly made guesses in a certain direction.

 The puppet took out a timer from his hand, and the one-hour countdown officially began.

Jin listened to the puppet's speech with a displeased look on his face, "William seems to have looked down on us since he became the master of the epidemic... I must kick his **** hard when we meet."

Due to the restrictions of the rules, everyone did not go to receive the gold.

 Lorian flew straight away, planning to use the balloon floating on the top to try to locate William by analyzing the components inside the balloon.

Reagan still had his eyes closed, strolling towards the dark area of ​​the mall.

Jin Ze used the most barbaric method, directly letting the cancer cells spread, covering each floor in turn, trying to find William who was hiding.

 In her opinion, as long as William uses Art's malignant tumor to complete the disease, the cancer cells will inevitably produce homologous induction.

 In the group, only Yi Chen did not move, but stared at the doll riding a children's bicycle in front of him.

 In his opinion, the so-called game should not be as simple as it appears. After all, William's brain is not very easy to use. If you want to solve the so-called 'puzzle', you must think in conjunction with William himself.

“From the time I got the note at the door of the guest room, until we came to this world and took the bus to this comprehensive shopping mall, William was pulling me through every step of the process.

This guy has obviously been planning for a long time.

 But some of the things I saw were related to the ‘Joker’, including balloons, numbers, dolls with smiling faces and laughter puzzles, but I haven’t seen anything related to William himself.

 To solve the mystery and find William’s true location, you should find something related to William himself.

 What are the characteristics of William...』

 When Yi Chen thought about this, a black vortex immediately appeared in his mind.

 “Abyss, crazy brain... turn over!”

When thinking of this, Yi Chen suddenly looked at the puppet in front of him and the tape in his mouth! He had been exposed to this kind of technological products during his lifetime, and he knew very well that this kind of audio tape had a function - [reverse playback].

This function is closely related to turning over.

Yichen immediately installed the video tape reversely on the playback jack on the surface of the puppet's tongue.

  Reverse playback begins with a meaningless garbled audio, mainly composed of the syllables A, M, N, and S, without any meaning. However, when the playback came to the laughter riddle with unknown meaning, the garbled audio immediately became smoother, and the weird laughter actually turned into three accurate paragraphs of text when played backwards.

I was locked in a dark room, and I could only see what I looked like if I found the corresponding key and turned on the power supply≯

　　　My body is rolled up into a ball, but not restrained≯

  ≮I can become young or I can become old≯

After getting the text of the riddle, Yi Chen roughly had the answer in his mind, but he did not immediately go to the mall to look for it. Instead, he came to the entrance of the mall.

Since it is related to flipping, he also chose to walk into the mall in a backwards way, and then based on the content mentioned in the riddle to find the store in the supermarket that sells a certain product.

“This world is not much different from the timeline of my lifetime. The ‘thing’ corresponding to the riddle should be out of date... Are there any that can be sold in the mall?”

Yichen could only search layer by layer.

The little grape inside the skull did not provide any assistance, because the rules of the game clearly stated that one person must be active throughout the whole process. Once the little grape provided visual assistance, he was likely to be ruled out.

Each floor is thoughtfully equipped with a timer to remind everyone of the remaining time.

Yichen wandered in front of some special stores several times, such as video game stores, escape rooms, and digital stores, but in the end he did not enter the store to search.

Among them, Jin seemed to have noticed something and entered a large escape room alone to search for traces of William.

Yichen continued to go up the stairwell and walked backwards to find a small shop in the corner of the fourth floor of the shopping mall - [Brother Zhang Recycling].

There is also a handwritten wooden sign at the door - 'Recycle old mobile phones, old refrigerators, and old TVs. ’

Not only that.

Reagan, with his eyes closed, also arrived at the door of the store at this moment. But he didn't mean to seize the priority. Instead, he made an inviting gesture like a gentleman and asked Yi Chen to go in and check.

 Hold open the rolling shutter door,

An antique store filled with outdated digital products appears in front of you.

After Yi Chen quickly scanned the front desk without finding anything corresponding to the riddle, he immediately went to the compartment at the back of the store.

 Creak!

When the old wooden door was pushed open, Yi Chen was slightly startled by the sight in front of him.

 The interior room without any window structure is slightly illuminated by an old-fashioned TV set covered with snowflakes.

The store owner was actually inside, sitting on a rocking chair that was shaking violently and watching TV. The large bag of potato chips in his hand was mostly spilled on the ground due to the violent shaking.

When Yi Chen came to the TV in a backwards manner, he found that although his boss's eyes were wide open, his pupils were completely dull, and his face was painted with a chilling smile, and he was already dead.

At the same time, the boss’s hand, which looked like he was eating potato chips, was actually pointing towards the back of his throat.

Yi Chen originally wanted to have a caesarean section, but the relevant rules of the game suddenly flashed through his head.

One of them prohibits damaging anything in the mall, probably including the boss who stayed in the shop.

 Hand into the boss’s slippery throat, he really felt something between his stomach pouch. The elasticity of the boss's esophagus is extremely good, and it can actually accommodate such a large foreign object.

As Yi Chen pulled things out of his body, a 'square box' stained with gastric juice was held in his hand. This was the answer to the riddle - [Video Tape].

 Attention is no longer on the boss, but on the old-fashioned player on the TV.

 Wipe the slime off the video tape, put it on the player on the TV, sizzle! After a colorful strip, bright red text appeared on the TV screen.

  【missme?】

 As the font slowly shrinks, snap! A ball of ribbons sprayed out from both sides of the screen. William, who had not seen him for two years, appeared between the TV screens wearing a gold suit and a black suit, and bowed and saluted like an actor.

"I knew it was Mr. Yi who found me first... Hahaha! It's so funny~ Things are not as complicated as you think. Seeing Mr. Yi that you were looking for me backwards the whole time, I almost laughed several times .

Ha ha!

As you can see, I went deep into evil, I completed the [transformation]. "

Snapped!

William on the TV suddenly leaned over the TV screen and stared straight at Yi Chen.

“After two years of not seeing each other, Mr. Yi has indeed become a lot stronger! Little Grape, Huangpi is also thanks to your care!”

 (End of this chapter)