Gamers Are Fierce

Chapter 101 My Love (6)

Li Ang picked up the wooden box,

The wooden box itself is slightly larger than the palm of your hand, square, and the surface is coated with a layer of brown paint.

On the six sides, there are some colorful stars printed on them that look like kindergarten teachers sticking them on children’s foreheads.

At the bottom of the box, there is a note, which reads in slightly scrawled English:

[We were born, grew up, and went to school in the same place, but never knew each other’s name or existence until fate allowed us to meet each other. I made this box, which is a testimony of our first encounter, and I hope it's not too late. S]

Insert an app: a perfect replica of the old version of the book-chasing artifact and replaceable source app - Mimi Reading.

"Um?"

Li Ang frowned and checked the small piece of paper over and over under the light.

This note undoubtedly exists as a whole with the wooden box.

"Judging from the tone of the description, this should be a gift made by someone for his or her lover.

The S at the end may be some kind of password or the name of the person who made the gift.

S...

Samuel? Stephen? Stone? Sandy?

If the male owner of the house gave it to the female owner, it means that they are fellow villagers in the same place.

But what does the last sentence, ‘Hope it’s not too late’ mean?

Got caught cheating and want a divorce? "

Li Ang muttered to himself and turned his gaze to the wooden box. The six sides of the box were assembled tightly, but if you scratched along the edges with your fingernails, you could still touch the splicing marks.

Li Ang picked up the wooden box, weighed it gently in his hand and turned it around. He felt that the weight was wrong.

The square box is hollow inside.

Moreover, the center of gravity of the box is not exactly at the center—one surface weighs more than the other surfaces.

"Hidden something? Diamond ring? Earrings? Necklace? Jewelry? It can't be a divorce agreement, right?"

Li Ang squinted his eyes and groaned, put down the box and scanned the garage.

The Chevrolet SUV does not have a car key, and the garage door is also marked with [Unpassable] by the system, which means that even if Li Ang pries the car, he cannot drive through the garage door and forcefully break the situation.

While Li Ang was studying the box, he left the garage and walked back to the living room.

The wooden doll was still covered in the ceramic pot where the flowers were planted, with no trace of movement.

If the tattoo that suddenly appeared on his arm was true, the doll should have 16 minutes to wake up from the seal.

Li Ang carried the wooden box and a flashlight to the stairs leading to the second floor from the living room.

There is a silver-white steel gate running horizontally in the middle of the stairs. The upper part of the gate is a series of vertical dense solid iron pipes.

The lower part is a thick steel plate. The door handle should have been replaced by an LCD screen.

There is a pattern of black handprint outlines printed on the LCD screen, which looks like it is going to be scanned.

Li Ang stood in front of the gate. Through the iron pipe structure in the upper part that resembled a prison gate, he could see a small part of the steps behind the gate.

However, the iron pipe fences are placed so densely that they are indestructible, making it impossible for even a child's arms to pass through.

Li Ang reluctantly put the photo frame behind the fence. Through the mirror of the photo frame, he saw that behind the gate, there was also an LCD panel for fingerprint scanning.

This means that the gate can be passed in both directions.

"So what does this family do, Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Install such an exaggerated security door in their home."

Li Ang complained, "The fingerprint panel is dark and dull, and there is no response when I tap the corner. It looks like it is out of power or damaged.

This gate can be used as an explosion-proof shield without any problem, and there are no signs of damage, so it should not be broken.

Considering that the gate itself is bulky and difficult to disassemble, it is likely to use an external power supply instead of an internally installed battery...

Um? "

He looked up at the ceiling and found the gap between the ceiling and the wall.

There is a thin wire wrapped in white insulating rubber, extending from the crack in the wall and leading to the top of the iron gate. It should be the cable that supplies power to the metal gate.

However, the middle of the wire seemed to have been deliberately damaged, and a large section was missing out of thin air, almost three meters.

"The wires were damaged? Did you deliberately prevent me from going upstairs?"

Li Ang frowned and said: "The mission goal is to find a way to the second floor. Does it mean that I need to find a long enough wire?"

He thought for a moment, then brought a chair from the dining room and placed it on the steps.

Step on the chair and pry the broken wires at both ends from the ceiling.

The broken wire was relatively thin, and the words 12V were printed on the white insulating rubber.

The earliest voltage standard in the United States was 100V, which originated from Edison's personal hobby (the electric lamps he developed worked well at this voltage). Later, in order to save losses, it was changed to 110V. Later, in order to facilitate calculations, it continued to improve on this basis. 10V to the standard voltage of 120V.

The fingerprint unlocking gate is obviously not taken from the standard household power supply system, but installed by the owner of the house himself.

Li Ang held the wire and examined it for a moment, then got up and returned to the living room to search for other wire materials.

He had just noticed that there were many electrical appliances in the room, such as televisions and lamps. It should be possible to cut the wires and strip them and modify them yourself.

However, when he used the insulated scissors in the kitchen to cut the wires, he found that he couldn't cut them.

After cutting for a long time, the insulation layer on the surface of the wire still did not come off.

"Is the American technology tree in this world crooked? How much do you hate the civilians who build the wires privately when the wires are so strong?!"

Li Ang kept complaining, but he was not too excited. This was obviously the underlying setting of this script task.

If you can't hold the wire yourself, what about using water to conduct electricity?

Li Ang stood there and jumped. He had no need to urinate at all. There was no water flowing out of the sink in the kitchen after turning on the faucet.

"Is this road also closed..."

Li Ang sighed, turned and left without hesitation, and walked to the right side of the living room, the only door in the room whose purpose was unknown.

This door does not have a door handle or a keyhole. It only has a circular groove with a circle of retractable iron pieces on the edge. It looks like it needs to put something in.

There are still 10 minutes left before the doll breaks out of the seal and wakes up.

Li Ang calmly calculated the remaining time and looked down at the wooden square box in his hand.

According to the convention of decryption games,

When all the items that can be collected in the level have been collected and you are still stuck in the level,

The solution to the problem must be among the collected items.

"Could it be that there is a long enough wire in the box?"

Li Ang groaned, carefully inserted the meat cleaver into the gap on the surface of the square box, turned the blade sideways, and tried to pry open the square box.

However, before he could exert any force, there was an extremely clear and slight sound of glass breaking from the square box, as if some container was cracking.

Li Ang hurriedly stopped his strength,

Some classic secret boxes have a setting of "automatically self-destructing when encountering a violent attack". For example, in "The Da Vinci Code", the secret box contains a papyrus with secrets written on it, and a bottle filled with vinegar. fragile glass bottles

If someone does not know the password and opens it by force, the glass bottle inside will be damaged, causing the vinegar in the bottle to spill out and melt the papyrus next to it, ensuring that the secret will not be leaked.

If this wooden box has the same design idea, then it cannot be destroyed by force.

"Is there a secret box..."

Li Ang took a deep breath to calm down his irritability and looked at the box carefully.

There is nothing strange about the box itself. There are some decorative star patterns on the six surfaces, and the patterns on each surface are different.

Li Ang moved the box closer and further, squinting and staring, but he couldn't see the numbers, words, or patterns from the star pattern.

"Six sides...Do you want me to drop the box on the ground like a dice?"

Li Ang groaned. In theory, this is possible - if the wooden box is made of a mortise and tenon structure, with several hidden bolts hidden inside that can move on their respective planes, then it can indeed be achieved.

Rotate the box back and forth so that the thin wooden stick-shaped hidden pegs move along the chute on their respective planes.

Because the hidden bolts on different planes will get stuck with each other in the corners,

When the box is rotated in the prescribed sequence and the last hidden bolt is returned to its position, one side of the box can be opened, allowing the contents hidden in the box to be taken out.

Swipe and pull.

Li Ang picked up the box and shook it gently, listening carefully. There was no sound of the hidden bolt hitting the wood inside.

If it wasn't a hidden bolt, what could it be?

Li Ang placed the box on the ground, rotated all sides back and forth, and kept pushing and pulling the surface of the wooden box with his palms, but to no avail.

Time passed bit by bit, Li Ang pressed the wooden box gently, and unconsciously scratched the decorative star stickers on the surface of the box with his fingers.

"Wait, these stickers..."

Li Ang's eyes lit up, he took the wooden box, rushed to the floor-to-ceiling window in the side hall, and pulled open the floor-to-ceiling window with his palm.

The bright starlight from the outside world shines in through the glass,

Li Ang raised the wooden box and compared it with the stars in the sky.

"Oh, these star stickers on the box correspond to the star map in the sky."

Li Ang rotated the wooden box and said softly: "The four sides around it are Ursa Major, Libra, Pisces Australis, and Aries.

The two sides at the top and bottom are Cygnus and Puppis.

These star patterns vary in size, indicating the magnitude of the stars themselves..."

Li Ang ran back and forth between the side hall and the living room, matching all five star charts - the constellation Puppis at the bottom cannot be seen, but it should be far away from the constellation Cygnus.

"But it's a little strange."

Li Ang frowned and said to himself: "At this moment, the general directions of these constellations in the sky do correspond to the positions on the wooden box.

The star map I observed is almost what you can see at night in California in the real world.

The question is, how did the maker of the box make it so precise?

If the time and season were changed, the star map on the box would not correspond to the scene in the real world.

The star stickers on the surface of the box stick very firmly and are not easy to remove.

So to say,

There is only one possibility - the maker of the box wants to give the box to his lover at a specific time, right now. "

I have to say that this concept is indeed very romantic. Under the witness of the stars, open the box and take out love tokens such as rings or roses.

But knowing this is not of much help to Li Ang's decryption.

"Now that I know the design idea of ​​the box is correct, how should I open it?"

Li Ang thought about it and once again took out the note posted under the box.

【We were born in the same place...

But never knew the other person...

Until fate brings us together...

I made this box, which is a testimony of our first encounter, and I hope it's not too late. S]

"The star map on this box roughly matches the nebula pattern in the sky in the real world,"

Li Ang pondered: "No matter where the box maker made the box, he definitely wants to open it at this moment.

You may also be asked to open the box at a specific location, such as the place where the box maker and his/her lover first met.

Could it be that there is a GPS positioning device inside the box?

No, not likely.

Even if I install a GPS device, I can't even leave the house now and it's impossible to explore outside.

And if the location is in a house, I have just walked through every corner of the house and can open it early.

Eliminate these possibilities, what is left..."

He was immersed in the idea of ​​​​solving the problem, and possibilities kept popping up in his mind, and then they were overturned and rejected by reason and logic.

"Wait, S? Could it be that..."

As if realizing something, Li Ang placed the box on the ground, with the side with the Cygnus nebula pattern facing up and the side with the Puppis facing down.

Hold the side of the box with your left hand and rotate it gently.

The right hand presses and pushes the front of the box.

Click.

Finally, when the box was turned to a certain angle, the upper wooden block with the Cygnus pattern printed on it was pushed away, revealing the structure inside.

Attached to the back of the lid on the front of the box is a fragile square glass bottle containing some gravel.

There is a compass glued to the bottom of the box under the glass bottle.

Li Ang gently took out the glass bottle and compass inside, and looked at the outline of the circular compass. It just matched the circular groove on the surface of the wooden door of the room on the right side of the living room.

He already understood the working principle of this box,

The S written at the end of the note was not a person's name, but the south of the compass.

There is a compass glued to the bottom of the box.

First of all, the box needs to be placed in the correct posture with "Cygnus facing up and Poop facing down".

Then, continue rotating the box.

Because the compass in the box will continue to point in the north and south directions,

When the pointer rotates to a certain angle, it will trigger the magnetic mechanism connected to the compass at the bottom of the box, causing the single hidden bolt hidden at the bottom of the box to move away, allowing the box to be opened.

And because the hidden bolt was stuck by the magnetic mechanism, and there was only one, even if Li Ang shook the box before, he did not hear the obvious sound of the hidden bolt.

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