Chapter 119 - Intense Shock (1/2)
Within the inheritance of Area 52.
”Inheritor, here is your 10th and final instruction,” the voice from the inheritance resounded while Aurus was regaining his mental energy, as well as his mental composure.
Thankfully, he was able to regain enough to clearly hear the voice, putting his mind at full capacity. ”Let's start the final question!”
As if the inheritance was answering Aurus' request, the voice from the inheritance replied with, ”In this instruction, you will have to choose 10 blocks from the 440 total blocks available to you in order to finish the trial.”
At that instant...
Aurus' mind went blank.
”...” He was utterly speechless. Of course, he knew that for every consecutive instruction, the amount of the blocks he had to choose, as well as the total amount of blocks he could choose from increased after every instruction. That was why his mental energy was sapped dry after clearing the 9th question.
But right now, he had barely recovered enough mental energy to understand what the voice was saying. Out of rage, he muttered, ”Fuck my life.”
Not long after that, Aurus started to scream and vent his anger by saying some very mean words that should not be stated because it would definitely hurt people. Then again, this novel has shown some curse words, so think curse words, but on the level of cursing the inheritance creator's ancestor's ancestor's ancestor.
After venting out all of his anger, he started to breathe deeply and steadily, gradually regaining his usual composure as he let his mental energy reach its peak before starting to tackle this final instruction.
He looked at the amount of blocks he could choose from in order to move before letting out a sigh.
”Ahhh fuck it. Let's get this over with.”
And with that, the 10th and final instruction...question, ah whatever works in this case, by the inheritance now comes to a start.
”Listen carefully to my words, inheritor, for I'll say it just once.” As usual, the voice reminded Aurus to listen attentively to every word it said.
”For your 10th and final instruction, you are an archaeologist that has discovered a special trap in a certain tomb. It seems that this trap consists of large blocks where one wrong move can lead to imminent death at anytime.”
”Thankfully, you were able to recover an artifact before entering the special trap, coincidentally obtaining the knowledge needed to pass through the trap without any problems.”
”The alphabet used on the artifact was a language decoded by linguists multiple years ago already, allowing you to know the writing on the artifact very well. Only six characters could be seen on the artifact, all pertaining to directions.”
”Oh?” Hearing the last statement said by the voice, Aurus' sense of hearing could not help but perk up, knowing very well that the method to clear the final instruction was in this part.
”The first character looked similar to the letter V, and according to what you learned, it pertained to the direction up. The second character looked like a combination of S and D, pertaining to the direction of down according to what you learned.”
”As for the third and fourth character, the third character was an P with a curve at the end, while the fourth character was a mirrored version. According to the linguists, the third character means left while the fourth means right.”
”As for the fifth and sixth character, they were more abstruse than the first four characters, with the fifth character looking like a mix between X, C, and R. As for the sixth character, it was even worse, being a mix between B, F, K, and Y. As for their meanings, it was just the secondary directions northwest and northeast respectively.”
”The pattern on the artifact was written from top to bottom, using the pattern 5,6,4,3,4,3,2,2,1,1. Of course, changing it for the characters.”
”While looking at it, you know for a fact that your translation was correct as you've learned the alphabet on the artifact for many years. But there was a nagging feeling in your mind that something was off.”
”You had a feeling that the artifact was misleading you to follow the pattern on the special trap in order to trap you forever. After pondering over it for a bit, you decided to follow your gut feeling and look at the pattern from another angle.”
”You flipped the artifact, giving you the pattern 1,1,2,2,3,4,3,4,6,5. You think about the pattern for a bit and have doubts as to whether this pattern would allow you to cross the special trap safely as well. In the end, you have two patterns to choose from.”
”Which one will you choose?”
After the voice was finished explaining the situation, Aurus started to ponder on the two patterns given to him.
”The first pattern is 5,6,4,3,4,3,2,2,1,1, while the other one is the reversed version of it,” Aurus muttered as his brain started turning its gears, working on making a solution to this 10th question.