I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 658 2.5 3 The Silk House and the Dollhouse (Easter Egg & Riddle)

The place she was in was a maze of dimly lit, narrow passageways, and the so-called rooms were extremely hidden; one might easily miss them if they looked closely.

Based on Mu Yegui's conjecture, she was probably not even at the main building yet, and it was hard to say whether she could be considered on the first floor. After all, from a puppeteer's perspective, anything outside the main building, even if it was on the first floor, couldn't be considered part of the first floor because it didn't qualify.

Mu Yegui paused slightly, raising his eyes to look at the white bag wriggling in the corner. It was undoubtedly a spider's egg sac, and one that had already hatched and was about to emerge.

Generally, a mother spider carries her eggs around, but if she loses them, she'll forget about it completely within a day. Therefore, spider egg sacs containing only eggs and no mother spider are almost certainly lost by the mother spider.

Mu Yegui slowly drew his short sword from the scabbard at his waist.

Just then, the egg sac burst open, and countless tiny black spiders crawled out.

While newly hatched spiders generally lack offensive capabilities, this doesn't mean Joan's spiders are like that. Her spiders are specially bred for attack, having sacrificed many instincts and retaining only their sharpest offensive abilities. Therefore, they move immediately after hatching and instinctively attack nearby living creatures, then share and absorb nutrients. Once they have absorbed enough nutrients, they grow rapidly.

Mu Yegui swung her short sword and easily killed the little spider that attacked her.

Lifting up a hidden door in a certain direction, he gently kicked it, and with a loud 'bang,' the door crashed to the ground.

This is a cubic room, dark and empty, with almost no furnishings. The only thing that exists is a clock hanging on the wall, which is ticking away.

On the other side of the wall is a curtain and a pull cord that can be pulled up.

Besides the ticking of the clock, all that could be heard was the rustling sound.

Mu Yegui walked towards the curtain and reached out to tug at the cord.

The next second, the curtain slowly rose, revealing the mysterious pattern painted on the wall.

The drowning rabbit is struggling and calling for help, but no creature pays it any attention.

A monster with a human face and a sheep's body was fast asleep by the river, half of its body hidden by the shade of the tree.

The fox standing alone on the other side of the river watching the rabbits in the river and the crows flying in the air seem noisy, but in fact they are shrewdly observing the situation on the other side.

A phoenix, perched on a branch preening its magnificent feathers, inadvertently kicked an apple off the tree.

In the distance, a colossal dragon, resembling a mountain in the background, stood with its back to everything. A snake, strikingly similar in appearance to the dragon, coiled around a tree trunk, its eyes fixed on a bright red apple on the ground, attempting to swallow it whole.

The outline of a winged sea serpent, faintly visible in the river, was staring intently at the rabbit, seemingly wanting to swallow it whole.

The lion, standing atop a distant mountain, looked down upon everything with an arrogant and disdainful expression.

At the lion's feet, a scorpion that had only hatched halfway had one eye closed, while the other eye was already open.

"Illustrated guide?" Mu Yegui murmured.

As soon as he finished speaking, the image on the wall changed.

A jet-black circle '●' appeared in the very center of the wall, while at the same time, a pillar carved with a spider slowly rose from the floor in each corner of the room. The center of the room was a large square divided into four smaller squares.

If you look closely, they are all made of rock.

Mu Yegui first looked down at the large square in the center of the room, then walked to the corner to observe the pillars.

If we take the wall marked with '●' as the front, the spider on the bottom left pillar has only one leg, the spider on the top right has two legs, the spider on the top left has three legs, and the spider on the bottom right has four legs. Only the spider on the top left, the three-legged spider, has its eyes lit up. Bottom left: 1
Top right corner: 2
Top left corner: 3
Bottom right corner: 4
Mu Yegui pondered, "Should we go through it in order?"

She first stepped on the square in the bottom left corner, then the top right corner, then the top left corner, and finally the bottom right corner. After stepping on all four squares, nothing happened. On the third time, the square in the top left corner lit up, but it went out when she stepped on the square in the bottom right corner.

Was some other condition overlooked?
Her cool gaze suddenly fell on the '●' on the wall. She slowly walked forward and approached, then reached out and placed her hand down.

It appears to be movable, moving in a fan-shaped pattern.

As the '●' rotates, more and more of the white side appears, and at the same time, the room becomes brighter and brighter. The color of the circle seems to be related to the brightness of the room; when it is completely white, it is basically the brightest time of day.

She observed the four pillars while turning in circles. When the white pillar occupied a quarter of the area, the spider eye on the upper left pillar was lit up; when the white pillar occupied a third of the area, the upper right pillar was lit up; when the white pillar occupied a half of the area, the lower left pillar was lit up; and when the pillar was completely white, the lower right pillar was lit up.

White - one-quarter: top left corner (3)

White - one-third: top right corner (2)

White - Half: Bottom left corner (1)

All white: bottom right corner (4)

If you follow the order from black to white, it forms a 'Z', and the number is 3214.
3 · 2
·Z·
1 · 4
What about turning from white to black?
Mu Yegui looked at the circle on the wall and tried to turn it clockwise again, but it wouldn't turn. So she had to turn it counterclockwise to go back.

When black occupies a quarter of the space, the spider's eye in the lower right corner goes out; when black occupies a third of the space, the eye in the lower left corner goes out; when black occupies a half of the space, the upper right corner is black; and when black occupies the entire space, the upper left corner is completely black.

Black - Quarter: Bottom right corner (4)

Black - One-third: Bottom left corner (1)

Black · Half: Top right corner (2)

All black: top left corner (3)

An inverted 'Z' converted to a regular 'Z' would be 4123.
4 · 1
·Z·
2 · 3
The two orders are exactly opposite, and together they look more like an '8', or an hourglass pattern.

So how should this clock be interpreted?
Mu Yegui walked to the bottom of the clock and examined it carefully. He found that it had nothing but an hour and minute hand, with only a second hand that kept turning.

Mu Yegui tried to reach the clock hanging high on the wall by standing on tiptoe, but unfortunately he was not tall enough and could not reach it no matter how he stood on tiptoe.

Mu Yegui: "..." There was an inexplicable sense of mockery directed at her height.

Left with no other option, she jumped up to grab it and finally managed to take the clock off.

This clock is so strange; it's made of crystal and completely transparent. But does such a clock even exist? It doesn't even have gears; how does it work?

Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something.

His cool, aloof eyes swept silently over the four pillars in the corner of the room, finally settling on the '●' on the wall.

This is a puzzle, but it shouldn't be too difficult. The answer will be given in the next chapter, although the process is a bit complicated.

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