You Guessed That I Guessed You Guessed
Zhu Xingguo, built for stamina and combat, relied on his strong body. Though he was scared to death inside, he still followed Ren Ruanruan's instructions and attempted to solve the puzzle scientifically.
"The sequence for that nine-grid panel is bottom-left, top, right, bottom-right, left, top-left, top-right, bottom." Leaning against the wall, Ren Ruanruan carefully directed Zhu Xingguo. "Finally, replace the center piece with the panel at the end of the written clue."
Sweat ran over Zhu Xingguo's eyelids and stung his eyes as he followed Ren Ruanan's directions, fitting the final panel into the nine-grid.
"Click, clatter-clatter-clatter..."
The heavy sound of gears and chains slowly began to turn.
The sound startled Wang Wen, who was squatting on the ground like he was constipated, silently reading the written clues.
That wonderful sound of gears was the prompt indicating that a code had been unlocked.
Whenever that sound rang out, it meant someone had solved one of the codes in this damned time-limited escape room!
Who was it?
He, the master of scientific puzzle-solving, was still analyzing it. Who could be that fast?
He raised his head and searched for the source of the sound, only to discover a hulking bull of a man poking at a code with thick fingers, while a soft-looking girl leaned against the wall beside him and quietly directed him.
The thick fingers poked the code a few times.
The gears rang out again.
The two codes had been solved less than a dozen seconds apart!
Wang Wen's mouth fell open.
He watched helplessly as the soft girl directed the hulking brute to solve code after code, the wonderful sounds of gears ringing out again and again.
His mouth opened wider and wider.
The unreadable emotion in his eyes grew