Chapter 695 Walking in front of you
Seven curves, twisting and turning like ocean waves, but meaningless.
But when Ji Li looked at it sideways, he suddenly realized the solution to the problem.
Perhaps his perspective on things is too conventional.
There is indeed no melody or rhythm to the knock on the door, and there is no meaning behind it.
But this is because the visitor did not directly convey the revealed information, but deliberately tampered with it.
The real version of this series of knocking sounds should require secondary processing to break the secret.
Ji Li walked to the bedside and held the piece of paper sideways in his hand again. A series of signals echoed in his mind.
This time, he did not arrange the strokes of each section horizontally.
Instead, turn it ninety degrees and arrange it vertically.
He tore off the original piece of paper, recalled the knocking sounds while comparing them, and recorded them again on the second piece of paper.
Within a few minutes of silence, a new, reverse version appeared on the page.
But this time, when Ji Li looked at it, he finally understood what the knock on the door meant.
There are still twists and turns on the paper, but there is one big difference from the horizontal version.
After converting to vertical version, the curve is not coherent at first, and there are intervals in the series of signals.
These interval points have changed the seven curves into just three.
But this time, Ji Li suddenly discovered that these curves were continuous and would converge into a "music score."
And it was a familiar piece of music that even he could hum.
"Twinkle and twinkle, the sky is full of little stars, hanging in the sky to shine brightly..."
This is a very classic and easy-to-understand children's song.
Ji Li slowly put down the score, and he couldn't help but turn his head and look at the door.
After Ji Li recorded the signals and plotted them into curves, the visitors had disappeared.
Maybe that's the purpose of its existence.
"Mind games..."
Ji Li had not experienced such a purely intellectual task for a long time.
Too often, the timeline for leading tasks is very long, which results in the main task line being extremely rich and complex.
He hadn't seen a thinking-testing problem like this one for a long time.
The knocking on the door continued for half an hour, but he couldn't hear any melody at all, let alone a children's song.
That's because the guest deliberately tampered with the way the notes continued in the opposite direction.
Under conventional thinking, the recorder will subconsciously regard the knocking on the door as a continuous and uninterrupted signal.
But this kind of thinking will be completely unclear.
If Ji Li hadn't changed the direction when he read his notes again, he would have gotten some mental clues.
He would never have imagined that a piece of music score would involve a thinking trick in the opposite direction.
After sorting out the correct thinking and solving the problem correctly, things will be simple.
The real clues are out there.
Ji Li looked at the new version of the music score in the palm of his hand, put it in his arms, looked at the old version of the music score again, put it in his notes and put it back in his bag.
He squatted next to the second suitcase and began to pick up the first music book.
What is certain is that the books and the broken bamboo flute in this suitcase are what Ruru wants in item B.
When everything comes to light, it becomes clear what Ruru fears and must hide.
This suitcase satisfied the two points that Ji Li had thought about before.
First of all, it is something that was hidden by Ruru, although it was a bit clumsy;
Secondly, judging from the broken bamboo flute, Ruru’s mother did not want Ruru to learn these things.
Ruru's mother, judging from her previous job as store manager, is a very controlling and possessive person.
It has even reached the level of perversion.
Then, it is understandable that Ruru hides her favorite things.
What he was afraid of was not these things, but what he was afraid of was being discovered by his mother.
After Ji Li opened the stack of dusty books one by one, he finally found what he wanted on the third to last one.
There are only a dozen pages in this volume, but most of them have been torn, and the few remaining pages are also yellowed and very wrinkled. Judging from this situation, Ruru was able to save these things with a lot of thought and tears.
This shows what a terrible mother Ruru is.
And in one of the torn pages, he finally found the children's song.
The font is very wide and the handwriting is not legible. Most of the information has been torn out.
However, Ji Li saw a few lines of small words on the damaged paper.
"Ruru, this is your most proficient song.
If you can play for your parents during the Mid-Autumn Festival, I believe they will support you in continuing your studies.
Don't be discouraged, what parent doesn't love their child?
If anything happens, remember to come downstairs and find me at any time.
——Teacher Liu.”
Fortunately, this outdated information was not ruined by Ruru’s mother’s actions.
However, there is nothing noteworthy about these simple words.
The only function was to reveal the next course of action to Ji Li.
The person knocking on the door was probably Teacher Liu.
He will definitely look for Teacher Liu next.
Perhaps from there, Ji Li can get more detailed clues.
From the description, this teacher Liu should live downstairs, but there is no clear address.
Ji Li looked at the suitcase and hesitated, then finally took away the children's song sheet music and half of the bamboo flute.
After nearly an hour of searching, it was time for him to leave Ruru's house and enter the next act of the game.
Before opening the door, he turned back and glanced at the portrait on the altar table.
Judging from the handwriting left by Teacher Liu, the current timeline should not be in the past.
In other words, Ruru's father must be dead, but what does the scene of a family of three eating on the balcony mean?
Ji Li glanced at the kitchen and finally opened the door.
There is only one household, Ruru, on the 18th floor, which makes the corridor here look particularly desolate.
In the corridor in the normal world, there is no darkness, only flashing emergency lights.
In the dark and quiet environment, Ji Li carried his backpack and gradually walked towards the stairs.
And when he was walking in the corridor for the first time, he finally noticed an unusual change.
Since the last time he went out was in the supernatural world, his trajectory does not appear in the normal world.
But now, there are indeed two lines of footprints in front of him.
The row on the left is very ordinary, nothing special about it.
The footprints are evenly spaced, as if the person is extremely leisurely, as relaxed as strolling in a garden.
Something is wrong with the row on the right.
It is better to say that it is a footprint, and each footprint is incomplete.
The man should be barefoot, with only the second half of the footprints and no five toes.
Ji Li frowned and stood between the two lines of footprints, looking left and right.
The footprints on the right may be a ghost, or the visitor outside the door, or maybe it is Teacher Liu.
And the person on the left...
Ji Li leaned down and carefully observed the footprints on the left side, and found that a thin layer of dust had fallen into the depression.
This means that the person has been gone for a long time.
This shows that a certain store manager has already walked in front of Ji Li.
As stated in the mission summary, game participants will be in the same world.
Ji Li thought that although the three choices he made in the first act took an hour, each step went extremely smoothly.
Every decision, including action, is extremely clean and neat, without any lag.
So, if there is one person who really walks in front of him, among the ten players today.
Perhaps only Gu Xingjian has this ability.
But judging from the dusty condition of the footprints, Gu Xingjian walked at least half an hour ahead of him.
But how did he do it?