Day of Imprisonment

After a long while, Luo Xi shifted his gaze from the dead man's head and scanned the messy workstation at the front desk of the internet cafe. There were two computer towers under the desk and two monitors on top. One of them was clearly the internet cafe's management system, showing a map of all the machines and whether they were currently in use.

The other monitor displayed a game screen, the same game that young manager had been playing earlier.

"Invincible Hero 3? This looks familiar. I think I've played it before."

Luo Xi then looked at the cabinets and drawers below, which were filled with a jumble of things, including used instant noodle containers and unused ones, as well as a thermos.

Picking up a package of instant noodles, Luo Xi opened the thermos and checked inside.

The water was very hot.

So, he started making instant noodles.

While waiting, Luo Xi rummaged through the cabinets and drawers, eventually finding a telephone in a locked drawer.

A telephone without a connected phone line.

But this thing was usable.

Luo Xi had seen similar telephones several times before, once in Old Wang's security office and later in the Sega Apartment.

It was an 'old actor'.

However, the color of the telephone was different.

The telephones Luo Xi had seen before were white and black, while this one was green.

Very rustic, not good-looking.

"Does the telephone represent a position in the company?"

Luo Xi was very clear that this young manager was not the administrator of the Yongge Supermarket scenario.

Furthermore, was the scenario administrator aware of the situation currently unfolding in Yongge Supermarket?

Or were they still being kept in the dark?

Luo Xi felt that the latter was more likely.

Because this time, the [Paper Man] and the elementary school students were working together from both inside and outside, it was impossible that they hadn't made full preparations.

After thinking for a moment, he first used his own cell phone to make a call.

As he expected, the call couldn't go through. Because if the other party was in a certain level scenario, the signal would be blocked in most cases, preventing calls from going in or out.

So, Luo Xi tried using the green telephone he had found to make the same call.

Beep beep beep~~

The call connected. After a few rings, someone picked up on the other end.

"Hello?" Clearly, the person who answered the phone was very confused, with a serious tone and strong vigilance.

"It's me," Luo Xi said, secretly thinking that, as expected, this kind of 'telephone' could be used to make calls within a blocked level scenario.

It belonged to a higher-level line.

"Luo Xi? Aren't you with Lin Qiqi and that An Zhiyan... Oh boy, how did you get through? The caller ID you're using is all question marks. And why are you calling me at a time like this? Wait a minute, are you real or fake?" The other side was clearly suspicious.

Luo Xi continued to ask, "Are you with Qian Pangzi? Who else is there?"

"Brother Mao is also here... No, who are you...?"

"Ke Lan, immediately find a way to leave your scenario. At least one of you three has to get out quickly and do something for me." Luo Xi didn't have time to explain to the other party. He called Ke Lan because he knew this guy could tell if he was real or fake.

If he called Qian Pangzi, that guy would definitely ask endless questions, and Brother Mao, while he would believe him, definitely couldn't control Ke Lan and Qian Pangzi. So, calling Ke Lan was the most suitable.

A few seconds later, Ke Lan's lowered voice came again.

"Then I'll explain it simply. This scenario is called 'Ten Rooms'. As the name suggests, there are ten rooms, and each room has a blackboard. The blackboard has a question written on it, and you need to answer it with chalk below. If you answer correctly, another door in the room will open, allowing you to go to the next room. If you answer incorrectly, poisonous gas will pour out... I've already solved the problems in five rooms and am now in the sixth room. But according to previous experience, it will take at least half an hour, or even longer, to solve all the problems..."

"Just tell me the question."

"Okay, the question in the sixth room is: There are 10 eggs and 6 bags. You need to put all the eggs into the bags, with an even number of eggs in each bag. After filling the bags, there should be no leftover bags or eggs. I'm planning to try..."

"Put 2 eggs in each bag, then put those five bags into the sixth bag. Hurry up and go to the next room."

"..."

Ke Lan was also a smart man. He immediately realized that Luo Xi's answer was correct.

He immediately wrote it on the blackboard with chalk.

After writing, the locked door at the back of the room clicked open.

"We've reached the seventh room. The question is: There are four people, A, B, C, and D. They are in a room, and one of them stole something. During the police interrogation, they made the following statements: A said: B stole it. B said: D stole it. C said: I didn't steal it. D said: B is lying. Now it is known that only one of the four people is telling the truth, so who stole it?"

"C!"

"Okay, we've reached the eighth room. The question is: There are 16 playing cards on the table: Hearts A, Q, 4, Spades J, 8, 4, 2, 7, 3, Clubs K, Q, 5, 4, 6, Diamonds A, 5. Pick one card from these 16 cards and tell Mr. X the value of the card and Mr. Y the suit of the card. Then ask Mr. X and Mr. Y: Can you deduce what the card is from the known value or suit? Mr. X said: I don't know the card. Mr. Y said: I know you don't know the card. Mr. X said: Now I know the card. Mr. Y said: I know it too. Ask, what is the card?"

"Diamond 5!"

"Correct, phew, I can definitely confirm that you are Luo Xi. Damn it, you... are you a robot?" Ke Lan widened his eyes, looking at the question on the blackboard. To be honest, he knew he could solve it, but it would take some time to think.

But Luo Xi gave the answer almost without thinking.

It was simply like cheating.

But Ke Lan knew that Luo Xi was not cheating. The other party seemed to have a natural advantage in solving problems. That feeling could be understood as normal people being low-end CPUs with single cores and single threads, while Luo Xi was a high-end multi-core, multi-threaded CPU with a processing speed hundreds of times faster than ordinary people.

The question in the ninth room also did not stump Luo Xi. And in Ke Lan's view, starting from the eighth room, he would need to carefully consider the questions to solve them himself, and there was a high probability of answering incorrectly or running out of time.

Immediately afterward, they entered the tenth room.

"Now it's the tenth room, hey, why are there three people wearing masks in this room?" Ke Lan's voice had a hint of surprise.

Qian Pangzi raised his hand to signal not to approach first. He cautiously observed and slowly approached, while Brother Mao, who already had a lot of tacit understanding with Qian Pangzi and the others, planned to go around behind these three masked people from another direction to observe.

This way, even if they had to act, they could attack from both sides.

They had each already pinched some attack and defense-type cards in their hands, ready to use them at any time.

"Wait a minute, these three people don't seem to be moving. Are they dummies?" Qian Pangzi's voice came over.

"Pangzi, look at the blackboard," Ke Lan said at this time.

"Blackboard?" Qian Pangzi looked up. Sure enough, the blackboard in this room also had a question written on it. And after carefully reading it, he knew that the blackboard question in this tenth room was related to these three masked people.

"So, these three are NPCs," Qian Pangzi muttered, "You scared me!"

Ke Lan looked at the question on the blackboard, and his expression became much more serious.

He walked to a corner, turned his back to the three people, and said in a low voice to the phone, "Luo Xi..."

"I'm listening. Now tell me, what is the question in the tenth room?" Luo Xi's voice was as steady as ever.

"I feel like it's a bit difficult. Listen carefully. The question in this room is: There are three actors in the room, and they play 'Sincerity', 'Lies', and 'Cunning' respectively. It is known that they will only answer 'Woof woof' and 'Meow meow', and the meanings represented by these two words are 'Correct' and 'Wrong', but it is not known which one represents correct and wrong; it is known that 'Sincerity' will not lie, 'Lies' will definitely lie, and 'Cunning' may or may not lie. You can only ask each of them one question to distinguish who is 'Sincerity', who is 'Lies', and who is 'Cunning'."

After carefully thinking about this question, Ke Lan knew that this was by no means an easy problem to solve.

He didn't know the meanings represented by 'Woof woof' and 'Meow meow'.

And he could only ask each person one question to judge.

Anyway, as soon as he thought about it, his head was like a pot of burnt porridge, unable to be stirred open.

Luo Xi on the other end of the phone also didn't seem to answer immediately. Just when Ke Lan thought that Luo Xi might also need to think for a long time, the next second, Luo Xi's voice came from the receiver.

"It's very simple. Listen carefully. Just ask the questions according to what I say. However, for the second and third questions, you need to make choices based on the results of the first question."

Ke Lan listened carefully, his expression strange, because even if he listened to Luo Xi's instructions word by word, he found that he was still in a daze.

But that didn't matter.

What was important was that he only needed to follow Luo Xi's requirements to find the corresponding 'actors' to ask questions.

"I've written it down!" Ke Lan carefully wrote down Luo Xi's instructions, then put down the phone.

After all, making phone calls here was considered 'cheating', and he still needed to avoid others.