Chapter 646: Secret Door

Chapter 646: Secret Door

Chapter 646: Secret Door

Holmes swayed left and right as if playing. He casually glanced at the puzzle rule book beside him, then yawned. In less than a few seconds, he cracked the combination lock and pushed the door open.

This scene has happened many times in the past period of time.

This fictional world's greatest detective, even though he appears in the cocoon game as a comedian, his reasoning ability still reaches a level that is beyond the reach of others.

"I won't play this time. Let's get it over with quickly. I'm a little worried about other places."

Sherlock Holmes walked in front, his eyes quickly swept across the new mechanism room, then raised his eyebrows, as if he saw something interesting, and quickly went forward.

Nanatsuki Koshimizu walked into the room at this time. She glanced at the fast-moving Holmes and couldn't help but sigh.

The puzzles here cannot be said to be simple, but they are not difficult either. They are the type that an elementary school student can solve if he spends a little more time, but for a detective like her, they are a bit too simple.

As for Sherlock Holmes?
He solved a level in a few seconds, which was as fast as doing addition and subtraction on a first grader's math test. It was hard to evaluate.

"...Come to think of it, the Cocoon Game was originally a virtual game for elementary school students."

The female detective couldn't get over the fact that she had no gaming experience at all.

She muttered, and thought about the mechanical rooms in front of her after putting them into the context of the cocoon game.

All the mechanism rooms inside the Reichenbach Building are prepared for primary school students. No matter whether it is a puzzle, a mechanism, or a password unlocking, they are all simple to the point of being as simple as possible.

What's more, there is Sherlock Holmes, a great detective who seems to be hanging on the wall, to provide support.

It almost gave Nanatsuki Koshimizu a feeling that as long as the game player reaches this point, it will be like following the plot, and he can basically find Professor Moriarty directly, and then meet the prerequisites for the final perfect ending.

"Really? There's no gaming experience at all. If I were a game designer, I would definitely find a chance to ban Sherlock Holmes. Otherwise, a game that only follows the plot wouldn't be a game anymore."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki walked forward carelessly, muttering something to herself.

As for Sherlock Holmes?
He was already humming the same little tune "The Greatest Sherlock Holmes" that he had played in the dungeon as he solved a new puzzle. He pushed open the door and prepared to continue up the stairs to the next game room.

The female detective had no choice but to follow. After all, the secret door of the ladder had been automatically locked before they returned. Not everyone has the terrifying power like Hedgehog Head to break it down by force.

At least she and Sherlock Holmes don't have that kind of power.

At the beginning, they had just entered the Penrose Stairs, but before they had taken two steps, the door behind them automatically closed and turned into a wall. Then, a large group of men in black rushed out of the secret door and dispersed them.

At that time, Nanatsuki Koshimizu saw that Genmitsu Mukai had already entered another ladder behind the secret door. As Holmes looked eager to make a move, he simply followed him in.

When I got to another ladder, I found that it was just a projection of Xiang Yuanguang, not a real person at all.

Just when she was thinking about whether to find the secret door to return, she saw Sherlock Holmes groping on the wall with a relaxed look on his face, and then opened the secret door of the stairs going up——————

[I knew that if the original staircase didn't have an upward passage, then it must be here! ]

[This is the famous reasoning of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes! ]

An extremely stupid statement... but it was indeed said by the world's greatest detective in this instance.

While Nanatsuki Koshimizu was still recalling the situation, Holmes' voice was heard from above the stairs.

"Come up for a moment. This room requires pulling the switches on both sides at the same time to open the upward stairs. Unless I can accurately throw the pipe onto the switch over there while pressing the switch, one person can't do it!"... A room with a mechanism that requires at least two people to open?

The female detective narrowed her eyes. She felt something was wrong, nine out of ten times wrong.

Because the number of game players is constantly decreasing, if there are less than two game players coming here, then there is no way to open the secret door of this mechanism room, right?

There shouldn't be any levels in the Cocoon game that require cooperation to pass.

Feeling suspicious, Nanatsuki Koshimizu quickly walked up the stairs and entered the room.

She glanced at the wall and saw a screen with solved Sudoku puzzles, a button mechanism on each wall, and a fool trying hard to reach his hand to the other side of the wall.

...Sure enough, this guy's real name is actually Nag Sherlock Holmes, right?
"Holmes, don't you think there's something wrong with this room?"

"The previous rooms could be cleared by one person, but this room requires two people."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu slowly walked to the other side of the wall, put her hand next to the mechanism button, but still asked Holmes again, hoping to get new and useful information from the number one detective in this plot setting.

Holmes raised his head and looked at the ceiling, then he spoke.

"...It is true that you can clear this place by yourself, but you must have enough luck to clear it by yourself."

"My friend, there is a heavy iron door hidden in the gap in the ceiling. If you press the button, a door will open on each wall. Only one of these two doors leads to the upper level."

"Also, each button can only be pressed once, so...want to try your luck?"

If the mechanism door is correct, the passage behind it will lead to the next level.

If the trap door is wrong, there is no telling where the passage behind it will lead to...

Because it is unclear whether there is a peephole after the iron door is smashed down, there is actually no difference between two people pressing the button at the same time and one person pressing it first and the other pressing it later, because the final result is unknown.

One in two chances...

"Okay, that's decided then."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu pressed the button next to her without hesitation, and the mechanism door opened immediately.

The heavy iron door above fell directly down, forcing her to quickly dodge and roll into the passage of the mechanism door, thus avoiding the fate of changing from Koshimizu Nanatsuki to Koshimizu Nanatsuki-chan.

On the other side, Holmes also pressed the button. Holding his pipe, he stepped lightly into the passage and walked forward while thinking. There was a heavy sound of landing behind him, but he did not look back and did not care.

He just threw the pipe in his hand aside, scratched his head in annoyance, and said unhappily.

"…What the hell? Is it true that whichever door I choose will be a dead end?"

"Is this Schrodinger's cat? Wave-particle duality? Or some other weird psychology thing I don't know about?"

"How on earth was this done? What kind of place is this?"

(End of this chapter)