Pirate Vice-Captain Heart

Chapter 429 THE423 Zodiac Building-11-Water Bottle
The water bottle that can never be filled is human... it is human potential, human desire, and the horror that human beings don't even know about.
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Zodiac Building, fourth floor, Aquarius Palace.

As soon as Usopp came in, the first thing he did was to look at the venue.

The place looked about the same as the previous two floors, with gray floors, white walls, and windows on three sides except the one by the entrance.The windows are divided into upper and lower floors, a total of twelve.

The only difference is probably that the place is too empty.

Usopp and White wanted to remind Luffy that there might be some kind of trap here.

But when Luffy strode to the very center of the floor, crossed his hips, and yelled at the hanging screen, "You bastard, hurry up and explain", the two of them could only sigh, and came here .

The No. [-] prototype machine followed White obediently.

The screen lit up, and the familiar mask appeared on the screen again.

"The fourth floor, the Aquarius Palace. This floor is very similar to the first floor of the Capricorn Palace hall. It is all about solving puzzles, and there are three kinds of puzzles, which are the same as those in the Capricorn Palace."

"What, it turned out to be a puzzle..."

Luffy and Usopp said this in unison.

However, although the two spoke the same words, the emotions they could express were completely different.

The former is boring, while the latter is a trivial matter.

"If it's that kind of puzzle, I only need three points... No, it only takes three seconds to solve it!" Usopp said confidently, "This kind of thing is a small problem. It’s hard to beat my uncle!”

"Well, then I'm looking forward to it." Tarrance said, and then pressed the control button at hand.

In the center of this floor, three walls were instantly erected around the three of them, blocking the windows on three sides.The light in the whole room dimmed instantly.

There are different puzzles on each of the three walls.

The first side, is the puzzle.Puzzle pieces are placed on the small round table that rises with it.

The second side is the Rubik's Cube.In the middle of the wall several meters high, there is only a palm-sized Rubik's Cube inlaid. All they need is to match the colors of the six sides of the Rubik's Cube into one pattern, and then put the Rubik's Cube back into the slot.

The third side is Sudoku.This wall is a large touch screen, and all they have to do is to add the corresponding numbers with the touch pen on the side.

This screen is not the thermal capacitive screen that White often used later, but an earlier resistive screen that relies on pressure to sense.

Tarrance did not deceive them, the types of these three topics were indeed what they encountered in the lobby on the first floor.But... It seems that the difficulty of the two is not the same, right?
Usopp and White stared at the puzzle dumbfounded, unable to recover for a long time.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that the difficulty of the puzzle may have increased a little bit." Tarrance said, "The puzzle is 1000 yuan, the Rubik's Cube is of the seventeenth order, and the last one..."

Usopp looked at the last screen, the picture was no different from the Sudoku he saw, probably only a few numbers given had changed.

"The last... isn't Sudoku? What's the matter?" Usopp swallowed.

"This is not Sudoku. It is the predecessor of Sudoku, which originated from the nine-square grid in Hetu Luoshu. Sudoku only requires that the numbers in all spaces be deduced, and that each row and column, and the numbers in each thick-line palace are satisfied. All contain one to nine, without repeating. But the nine-square grid, on this condition, must also save the sum of the three numbers in the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal directions to be equal to fifteen. It is not a simple nine numbers that cannot be repeated." Talan S explained.

"Hey, hey... If it's such a puzzle, how long are we going to solve it!" Usopp protested.

"Well, of course I don't have such a bad heart. The puzzle is so difficult, of course I will give you some compensation."

"Oh, that's okay... what compensation?"

"This is it."

As soon as Tarrance finished speaking, another wall was erected from their last direction.

Usopp was about to go in and have a look, but was stopped abruptly by Tarrance.

"Wait, only Luffy can go to the entire wall. This compensation can only be used by him."

"Oh? I'll use it? Can you just give me the answer?" Luffy stepped forward curiously, carefully observing the mystery on the wall, but saw nothing except the two handprint-like things in the middle of the wall.

"Put your hands up."

"Um...is that so?"

Luffy accidentally covered his hands obediently, and the two handprint pits were bent to fit Luffy's hand shape.

However, at the moment when Luffy's hand was completely attached to the wall, shackles suddenly appeared in the wall, and Luffy's wrist was instantly bound.

"Hey! This is... what... what... ah..."

Luffy's words became smaller and smaller, and he simply lay powerlessly against the wall.

There is no doubt that the handcuffs that suddenly appeared from the wall were made of Hailou stone.

But before Usopp had time to scold the other party for being a villain, everyone heard clanging noises around them, and in the blink of an eye, their four directions fell down from the steel door a few feet behind, completely trapping them inside.At the same time, a water pipe as thick as one person protruded from the four corners of the room.

These water pipes were fully powered, and the turbulent water flowed down from the water pipes, and it covered the soles of the feet in the blink of an eye.While the few people were stunned, the water level was still rising.

Tarrance said, "This is a time limit. You have to solve the three puzzles before the room is completely filled with water... oh no, before you drown, otherwise, your lives will be given here. And, I also Kindly remind you, don't try to block the water pipe, otherwise, the wires hidden around the water pipe will be electrified, and none of you can stand it except that rubber boy."

"Is this what you call compensation?" White said angrily.

"That's right, it's compensation." Tarrance said boldly, "Don't you think that having these will better stimulate your potential? You must know that human potential is endless, as long as you want to , there is nothing that cannot be done. I have made such an arrangement, and I have no deep meaning. Maybe... you will also appreciate what I have done today in the future. "

"Bah! We won't appreciate you!" Usopp was extremely angry.

"Really? Let's talk about 'time' then. You'll know when the time comes."

Tarrance said, and his face disappeared from the screen.

But at this time the screen was not completely darkened, except for a red countdown.

00:58:18
Obviously, this countdown has already started since the water was released just now.

(End of this chapter)