Day of Imprisonment

This wall clock, with its obviously very special design and shape, is hard to ignore.

An Zhiyan looked at the clock face.

The clock had stopped, and had been stopped for a long time, the hands pointing to eight thirty.

But in reality, it was already past two in the afternoon when they entered the First Hospital.

"Is it a clue related to the scene?" An Zhiyan knew very well that this wall clock, which looked like an eye, was most likely some kind of hint in the scene.

Any encryption and hiding of prompt information, the mechanisms in each scene are different.

If it is a very obvious hint, then generally they will choose a more difficult to find way of hiding it; if the interpretation of the information itself is more cumbersome, then it will be displayed in a conspicuous place instead.

This is a rule and experience that senior Recollectors have 'explored' in many scenes.

The eye clock on the wall is very obvious, so does that mean that the hidden information on it is more difficult to discern?

Just at this moment, a strange sound came from the eye clock on the wall, like the strange sound of metal being forcibly twisted by a huge force. The next second, the eyes closed and the clock face disappeared.

This sudden scene made An Zhiyan couldn't help but be stunned.

Looking at the eye clock again, it seemed that there was a kind of mechanism, like an eyelid, closing from top to bottom, covering the clock face.

In this way, it is certainly impossible to see the clock face.

An Zhiyan tried to open the closed eyes, but failed.

The solidity of this thing is beyond imagination.

It should be some kind of special metal, it is impossible to tear it open forcibly.

"Will this thing open again?" An Zhiyan was not sure.

She preferred some not-so-good guesses.

This kind of eye clock will 'close' as long as it is seen by someone.

That is to say, the information on it can only be seen once.

No matter who it is, once they've seen it, it will close, and it won't open again on this loop day.

"If this is the case, the situation is a bit troublesome!"

An Zhiyan immediately figured out the general 'rules' of this scene.

But it was useless for her alone to figure it out. All the Recollectors trapped here had to understand this mechanism in order to pass the level.

At this moment, An Zhiyan's brain was running at high speed.

To be honest, she couldn't find a way to solve this problem.

If this time it was just her side of the people, then without a doubt, they would be trapped in this level scene as a high probability event, or even an inevitable event.

Fortunately, Luo Xi was also there this time.

In An Zhiyan's opinion, Luo Xi was the only variable.

An Zhiyan had self-knowledge, especially under [Absolute Rationality], which could also suppress a person's arrogance and conceit.

What's more, she was not an arrogant and conceited person in the first place.

So in terms of positioning, An Zhiyan regarded herself as a 'supporter'.

"I need to pass information to Luo Xi, and assume that he has already discerned the mechanism of this scene. I think, if it is him, to understand the rules of this scene is not a difficult task at all."

Almost in the blink of an eye, An Zhiyan had already made a decision.

She thought of the code they used to contact each other in Fairy Tale Town and Tree Sea Park, so she immediately used a sharp weapon to engrave some codes and numbers below the already closed clock.

The code represents who engraved it, and the number represents the time on the clock.

830!

In An Zhiyan's opinion, the key information on the eye clock is the time and the corresponding number.

At present, she cannot determine the correspondence between time and numbers and the entire scene, but she believes that as long as she finds more eye clocks, she can explore and deduce something.

This is called judging the time by a single leaf!

After engraving the information, An Zhiyan did not hesitate, but continued to move forward.

According to her previous calculations, the interval between each vibration is about 7 minutes, so now she still has some time to explore, maybe there will be new discoveries.

In addition, she was also very careful.

After all, the previous weird hand was really unforgettable.

Even now, An Zhiyan couldn't figure out how the other party replaced it. After all, she and Zhou Ji were holding hands before. If her side became a ghost hand, then what about Zhou Ji and Qi Yan's side?

What would happen to them in the face of the ghost hand?

After taking a few steps, An Zhiyan stopped.

The passage ahead was blocked.

Large collapsed buildings and broken cement slabs completely blocked the passage, and it was obvious that it could not be passed.

But in front of a distance, there are doors of two rooms that can be opened.

"It's another choice, the door on the left, the door on the right... No, there is also a choice, stay where you are!" An Zhiyan immediately thought of a possibility.

The 7-minute interval is actually the time left for the Recollectors to explore the current environment. At the same time, whether they can find the eye clock is also a key, and in each different environment, there must be some directional choices.

It was just like the fork in the road I saw before, where I could choose to go straight or turn left.

It was certain that after making a choice, the mechanism of scene vibration would shift my position and lead me to a new and completely different area.

An Zhiyan could only think that the 'vibration' and 'position conversion' were forced mechanisms to advance the progress of the entire scene. The Memory Retriever needed to find the eye clocks in different areas to obtain the corresponding time digits.

However, An Zhiyan had not yet deciphered the time digits; she needed more samples.

So at this stage, whatever choice she made was actually similar.

"In short, I need to leave behind a code and numbers, so that if Luo Xi sees it, he can obtain some fragmented information. After all, the person most likely to decipher it in the end is him."

Thinking of this, An Zhiyan didn't hesitate. She chose the door on the right, opened it, and walked in.

Inside was a messy room, which should have been a medical room. Some medical equipment and cabinets could be seen, but due to the vibration, they were scattered all over the floor, which was full of various metal trays, disposable syringes, gauze, and alcohol.

The cabinet was broken, and many white coats were scattered inside.

An Zhiyan thought for a while, walked over and took a set. If she needed to transform again, this white coat could also come in handy.

However, there was no other exit in this room.

An Zhiyan was not in a hurry.

She had roughly understood part of the mechanism of this scene. Each vibration would cause the scene to shift and change.

Moreover, the changes were different in different areas.

Sure enough, after waiting here for a while, the vibration came again.

The rumbling loud noise and the sound of metal twisting seemed to pierce the eardrums, causing headaches and irritability.

When the vibration disappeared and everything returned to calm, An Zhiyan looked up.

The scene had changed. Her location was no longer the previous medical room, but another corridor. However, this corridor was a bit different. It didn't seem to be severely damaged. Even the emergency lights on the wall were...

On.

So the narrow passage was also fully visible.

An Zhiyan immediately began to look for the eye clock here. Soon, she found it. Like before, the very conspicuous eye clock hanging on the wall closed directly after a few seconds. An Zhiyan immediately engraved the code and the corresponding number, 615, on the adjacent wall.

Then she continued forward, found the fork in the road, and made a choice.

Before this, An Zhiyan had compared the time digits from the previous time with the time digits from this time.

In addition, she had confirmed one thing.

The clock hands on the eye clock did not have a second hand.

That is to say, there were only hour and minute hands.

However, comparing the two sets of numbers, An Zhiyan still found it difficult to draw any definite conclusions.

She still needed more clues.

Soon, the next vibration arrived as scheduled.

An Zhiyan's face was pale. At this moment, she was in a place that looked like a morgue, and she had a large wound on her stomach.

Next to her were several strange corpses that she had killed, which had crawled out of the morgue cabinets.

These corpses were extremely powerful. Even after transforming into a werewolf, An Zhiyan paid a heavy price of serious injuries to kill these corpses.

On the wall, the metallic eye clock had already closed.

However, An Zhiyan had already remembered the time on it.

"Eleven o'clock, that is 1100."

An Zhiyan knew that her current situation was not optimistic. The corpses' attacks carried some kind of terrible toxin. If she hadn't used 【Antidote】 and 【Adrenaline】, she would have died.

She persevered and engraved a series of numbers on the wall.

830, 615, 744, 920, 955, 1100

These were all the numbers converted from the time on the eye clocks that An Zhiyan had found.

The sudden attack occurred in the 1100 area. To be honest, she was a little careless at the time, but even if it happened again, the result would not change. The attacks here were too strong. It was only her who could withstand it; anyone else would not be able to withstand the first round.

The reason for saying the first round was that An Zhiyan immediately discovered that a second wave of terrifying corpses had crawled out of those morgue cabinets.

This time, there were more corpses.

She had no chance of winning.

It could be said that death was inevitable.

"I haven't found the pattern of the numbers. Does that mean that these numbers are actually without any pattern? The only thing that can be determined is that when choosing a fork in the road, the time on the clock face discovered after entering different areas will not differ too much from the time on the clock face in the previous area. Basically, it can be determined that one is time moving forward and the other is backward. This is more like a game of turning the clock hands..."

The surrounding corpses had already pounced over.

An Zhiyan knew that this cycle day could only end here.

But before being overwhelmed by the many terrifying corpses, she suddenly stared at the numbers she had engraved on the wall and revealed a hint of understanding.

"I know, these numbers are actually..."

She tried to reach out and engrave some more information on the wall.

But the next moment, she was overwhelmed by many terrifying corpses.