Card Room Book 2

CR: Chapter 288

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou exchanged looks after hearing the prompt and entered the villa's back garden through the glass door with their teammates following behind. Originally after the end of the secret room, everyone should go directly to their personal space to find the keeper and receive rewards. Yet this time, everyone walked into a garden?

This garden had a large area and there were many tall trees blocking the view. The cobblestone path was winding and crisscrossing like another maze. In the floating boxes above everyone's heads, the reminder of [Countdown 5:00] appeared.

The group looked at each other.

Old Mo wondered, "The path in this garden looks very complicated. It should be a small maze. Didn't we successfully solve the mystery and escaped from the secret room? Why is there a five minute countdown? Do we have to escape from this garden?"

Xiao Lou thought carefully about the hint received before leaving the villa: the truth was about to be revealed.

He thought about the words the keeper said when entering 9 of Diamonds. The reward method for this secret room was related to the mechanisms they unlocked. If they unlocked the mechanism of the reward room, they could get rare cards.

Xiao Lou thought up to here and immediately opened his mouth. "This is the rewards labyrinth."

Ye Qi was excited after hearing this. "I see. This is the same as the treasure chest maze in stand-alone RPG games. At the end of every forked road is either a treasure chest or monsters that are hard to deal with.

Xiao Lou nodded. "The rewards labyrinth is limited to five minutes. Everyone needs to find treasure chests and get cards as soon as possible. We will act in groups and use the Four-way Arrow to mark the forks in the road.

Everyone agreed with Xiao Lou's arrangement. They were still grouped like before. Xiao Lou was with the Long Qu couple and Old Mo. Yu Hanjiang took Chief Shao, Ye Qi and Liu Qiao. At the first fork in the road, one group went to the left and the other to the right.

Xiao Lou's group went to the left. It didn't take long for them to see a square grid path. The grid was painted in different colors. In the first three rows, each row had one red square. The fourth row had two blue squares side by side, the fifth row was one red square, the sixth row was two blue squares and the seventh row was a semicircle in green. This part of the road was all connected by such grids and looked like one house after another.

Xiao Lou looked at the colored grids on the ground in a puzzled manner. "Three single red squares, two blue squares side by side, another red square, two blue squares and the last green semicircle... what does this mean?"

Qu Wanyue chuckled. "Professor Xiao, haven't you ever played hopscotch as a child?"

Xiao Lou touched his nose in an embarrassed manner. "I haven't played it."

He liked being quiet since he was a child and wasn't as naughty as a boy. The game he played most often at home was piling up blocks. He had never played the game hopscotch.

Long Sen pointed to the grids on the ground. "This is a kid's hopscotch ground. The first three grids need to be hopped with one foot and you can stand on both feet in the two grids. The last grid is a semi-circular one called a 'house.' You can stay there for a few seconds to rest. You can't stay for long in any of the previous grids."

Xiao Lou understood. "The single grid is one foot, the two grids side by side are two feet and the last house is for rest. In this section of the road, we need to jump over according to the rules or a punishment will be triggered?"

Qu Wanyue replied, "Yes, this section of the path is full of hopscotch games and we have to follow the rules."

Long Sen took the lead followed by Qu Wanyue, Old Mo and then Xiao Lou. Xiao Lou copied everyone and jumped according to the rule one foot, one foot, one foot, two feet, one foot, two feet and rest. They hopped all the way forward.