For the NPCs of this dungeon, the Book of Traps of the Perfect item can only be regarded as an ornament at best, and the only function is the clock displayed in the upper left corner of the cover, which is the time signaling effect.

Maybe this is the legendary pearl cast, for a world without magic, no one can know the full value of the existence of the Book of Organs, although that thing is not much useful to An Yizhi.

So, Anasta only took the plastic ball that contained the puzzle, and did not move the Book of Tricks on the side of the single couch. By the way, he contributed a perfect-level strange object magic book to An Yizhi.

"Sounds like you want to know a lot about the secrets of this house, do you even know the mystery?"

Tu Hongyu asked in surprise.

"yes, I know."

"Why didn't you say it in the first place?"

Anasta covered her mouth and chuckled:

"That's not interesting, I'm just here to see if anyone can solve Mr. Edward's puzzle."

Like she used to say, she has no interest in treasure because she knows what it is and where to put it. And there are a lot of secrets in this girl Anasta. It's ridiculous that lawyer Abel and Countess Lydia still want to kill people, but they don't know that they made the biggest mistake.

But......

Lao Tzu has already unraveled them all!

Looking at the indifferent Anasta, An Yizhi knew that this girl probably didn't know all the secrets, and the good show was behind......

"The first one to unravel is Lawyer Abel, right?"

An asked, twisting open the two plastic balls with one finger.

"Yes, but he has the intelligence advantage and knows a lot of the mechanisms in this house, so he can't be the first to solve it."

"So I'm the first?"

"Of course"

Everyone can see the method of agitating so simply and rudely, but An Yizhi just eats this set:

"Haha, then let me see how difficult Mr. Edward's puzzle really is."

You can underestimate a secondary two disease, because most of them are paranoia living in their own 'settings', but never despise a secondary two disease with full mobility, especially the terminally ill type of An Yizhi.

The contents of both plastic balls are a slip of paper, and the puzzle written on them is exactly the same.

"When the time is in the right place, night falls, and through the starry gate, my treasure rests there, the brightest star."

An Yizhi read out the sentence on the note, and Tu Hongyu scratched his head:

"What does that mean? Nightfall? Need to wait until the evening? ”

"Let me think again"

“……”

Did this guy pinch him again?

An Yi pointed out the dungeon time and looked at it, it was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, because a lot of things had happened, and everyone was not in the mood to eat, but anyway, neither player needed to eat, and Anasta had no intention of eating.

The point is, the end time of this quest is 6 p.m., which means that there are still 5 hours left until the deadline, and it is impossible to wait until nightfall anyway.

Could it be that this puzzle can only be solved if it is discovered the day before and waited until the overnight stay?

No.

An Yizhi secretly vetoed in his heart.

The system doesn't schedule such a time-consuming and silent mission, and if that were the case, the quest would not be available until 6 p.m. the next day, but before sunrise the next day.

So, the so-called nightfall does not refer to 'night' in the true sense of the word, but to some kind of pronoun.

It's like the 'Starry Sky Gate' mentioned in the riddle, which must not be taken literally, otherwise it would be science fiction to actually go through the so-called Stargate......

Since it is a pronoun, what does it represent?

An Yizhi closed his eyes, with the previous experience of solving the board puzzle, he had already figured out the urine nature of this dungeon puzzle, the so-called starry sky gate must refer to something in the mansion.

As for what it is......

He recalled everything that had happened since he entered the dungeon, and everything he had seen was recalled in his mind, and the memories passed by as fast as flowing water, and eventually, he locked on to something, something that he thought was strange at first......

–‐‐——–‐‐——

The trio made their way to the main hall and questioned Charles and Mary as they passed by the restaurant, neither of whom had seen Lydia or Abel the lawyer appear.

"What are you doing here?"

Tu Hongyu asked, Anasta didn't say anything, and looked at An Yizhi with interest.

"Quite simply, this is where the Starry Sky Gate is."

An Yizhi said:

"Do you remember my speculation about Mr. Edward's character?"

"Of course I do, OCD."

"Yes, he has a very serious obsessive-compulsive disorder."

Looking around, An Yizhi continued:

"You can see it both on the shelves and in the symmetrical decorations, but look here."

He pointed to the large vertical bell not far away:

"Everything in this mansion is arranged in double portions, or symmetrically, but only in the corridor of the main hall is a large standing clock, and on the opposite side of him hangs an ordinary landscape painting."

"Really!"

Tu Hongyu was stunned, and then said:

"This only means that this place is very suspicious, how can you tell that the Starry Sky Gate is here?"

"It's simple."

An Yizhi smiled smugly:

"The reason is the painting."

The painting he was talking about was the one that hung in the middle of the Y-shaped staircase, and I heard that it would automatically change its pattern.

"In the early hours of this morning, we followed the Guardian here, but the Guardian suddenly disappeared, and then I suspected that there was a secret door, but I didn't know how to open it, and at that time, the pattern in the painting showed the dusk of the starry sky."

As he spoke, Ann pointed to the only vertical wall clock, reached for the dial, and quickly rotated the hands clockwise.

At the same time, Tu Hongyu saw that the painting hanging on the stairs was also changing rapidly, sometimes it was a portrait, sometimes it was a landscape pattern, and sometimes it would disappear directly.

Eventually, the hour hand stops at 3 o'clock, and the picture changes to a starry sky at night.

Immediately, everyone heard a creaking sound, like the sound of metal activity.

Tu Hongyu was surprised to see that the back of the starry sky pattern painting was actually opened, and a soft ladder was lowered from behind the cracked doorway.

"When the hour hand moves normally, it needs to be opened in the presence of the guardian, and usually it can only be opened by rotating the hour hand, and I have to say that Mr. Edward's skill is really good."

"It's you, Mr. An."

Anasta clapped her hands and praised:

"It's the first time I've ever seen someone solve Mr. Edward's puzzle, and you're the first, worthy of being a detective."

"Haha, that's easy to say."

Then An Yi pointed and said:

"I've got something more surprising to you, I hope you don't get scared then."

Anasta was stunned for a moment, smiled and said:

"We'll see."

Climbing up via a soft ladder, the space behind the portrait is surprisingly large enough for two people to walk side by side.

When the three entered, the portrait automatically closed, and Anasta groped around the nearby doorway, as if a light door was opened, and the entire passage was instantly lit up.

This is a hidden passage hidden inside the mansion, and what appeared in front of An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu were two stairs, one down and one spiraling up.

Ann pointed to the way down, and there was a pile of signs hanging on the wall, which said, 'To the door,' 'To the garden,' and 'To the city'.

"Miss Anasta, this is the passage you used to get here from your home in the city."

Mary, the maid, once said that she did not hear any engine engine sounds, as if she had raised her eyes and saw Anasta already standing in the doorway.

"Well, that's right"

Anasta graciously admitted, saying:

"The entrance that just came in was only allowed to enter and not to exit, and the other entrances and exits were not so restricted. I got here from the secret passage below my house in the city and on an underground railcar. ”

"The secret passage leads directly to that harbor? Mr. Edward, how long has this been digging? ”

To be honest, a bit out of Ann's expectations, he thought that at most he would go down the mountain.

"Mr. Edward's invention of the automatic burrowing machine didn't take too long."

“……”

I feel that if this guy uses his invention in infrastructure, human civilization will make a lot of progress.

"If I'm not mistaken......"

An glanced at the surroundings and said firmly:

"Those rooms that can't be opened are actually the machinery that keeps the entire mansion running, including the mechanical swans and guardians in the concert hall, and other mechanical personnel, all rely on those rooms to maintain."

"Yes"

Anasta explains:

"Those rooms are not keyless, nor are they unopenable, but they can only be opened by Mr. Edward and his automatons."

She took out a bronze key with intricate workmanship from the pocket of her skirt and showed it to the two of them:

"This is the key that opens the doors to all rooms."

An Yizhi continued:

"All the rooms in the house, except for the ones that cannot be opened, are brand new, and have only been furnished in the last few weeks, because Mr. Edward does not intend to use these rooms to entertain guests, and they were all empty or even unfurnished houses before."

He touched his chin:

"It should be a spare room for some machines, like those that are locked"

Anasta clapped her hands:

"As you mentioned, those rooms were originally intended to be converted into rooms that would provide some kind of mechanical power, but Mr. Edward was only 30 years old when he designed this mansion, and by the time he started working on it, he was almost 50, and the new design was much better than the original design, so it freed up a lot of space."

Also explains why all the rooms are furnished as new.

In other words, this is the legendary 'occupying the building', right?

The three of them continued along the passage to a patio.

"The treasure you're looking for is up there."

Anasta pointed to the spiraling staircase:

"This staircase leads to the bell tower."

"After talking for a long time, what is the treasure?"

Tu Hongyu looked at the stairs on the steering side, a little painful, he didn't expect to climb the stairs crazily to play a game.

"Nothing, the most valuable thing is really this house."

Anasta shook her head and said, since she knew this path, she had naturally seen the so-called treasure, and it was really not something worth fighting for her life.

"Not necessarily."

Ann smiled mysteriously and took the lead up the stairs.

–‐‐——–‐‐——

The stairs are longer than expected, this is because the slope is not large, but it is precisely because the slope is not large, the three of them did not feel very tired when they climbed the stairs, just like the usual walk, all the way to the top floor.

At the end of the stairs was a wooden door, and the door was unlocked, and the three men pushed the door in.

The first thing that catches your eye is the large and small mechanical gears in motion, and the huge translucent dial behind them, where you can see the long metal hands turning in a regular way.

Although the machine was huge, it didn't make much sound, only a few subtle roars, which gave An Yizhi the illusion of entering the two-dimensional world.

It seems that Howl's Moving Castle is also in this tune......

However, there was no light in the room, and Anasta was obviously not here for the first time, she quickly found the light door and pressed it, but it didn't work properly, and the light bulb flickered and flickered.

"Something must have gone wrong with the wiring on the ceiling."

"It's okay, it's just bad contact, and some of us will fix it."

An pointed and looked at Tu Hongyu.

"How many times have I said that Lao Tzu studied welders, not electricians, let alone lathe fitters...... Well, I'll just check it out. ”

Looking left and right, Tu Hongyu found that there was a row of obvious protrusions on the wall next to the door, which were almost like ladders, and it seemed that he could go up from there.

He is the only one here who has experience in decorating a house, and it is more reliable to expect An Yi to repair the circuit in this dead house, than to expect him to be cured from his secondary two illness.