The discovery of the hidden chamber caused a huge stir and soon spread throughout Ruins of Alph Park. People stopped their work and gathered outside the stone chamber, craning their necks to peer inside, all eager to see what secrets lay hidden there!
Seeing the crowds gathering around, Satake hurriedly had the cordon moved forward to keep unrelated personnel outside, both to prevent a stampede and to protect the ruins. Only after that was done did he enter the hidden chamber with Xia You through the newly opened passage.
Compared with the stone chamber outside, this place was noticeably darker, but it was still empty and looked no different from the other rooms. On the innermost stone wall, however, they discovered a picture on a stone slab!
The design on the slab was clearly visible, but strangely, the slab had been cut into nine pieces and arranged in no particular order, making it impossible to tell what the picture depicted!
Satake walked closer and frowned in thought for a while before finally realizing what it was.
"This looks like some kind of puzzle!"
Xia You nodded.
Satake was right. Just as in the game, what stood before them was indeed a scrambled puzzle.
By modern standards, puzzles were merely brain-teasing toys, but in that bygone era, this would certainly have qualified as quite an ingenious mechanism.
Seeing a mechanism like this also made Xia You breathe a sigh of relief.
He had actually been afraid that after all this trouble, they would end up empty-handed. Now, it seemed they had finally found something; at least their effort had not been wasted.
Satake put on gloves and gave it a try. Since he could not remove the puzzle pieces, however, he could only slide them one by one, trying to move