After all the other people were teamed up, the team organizing treasure hunt, read out the rules aloud:

1)    Every participant will be given a small kit bag which might or might not be useful while solving the clues. You people can keep this kit bag with you and there is no need to return it back.

2)    There are limited clues which are placed all over the amusement park but none of the clues are outside the main gate, so whoever steps out will automatically get disqualified as the bands on their hand will notify the employees.

3)    The pair should always be together and not go looking for the clues individually.

4)    There can be some secret activities that one needs to do to find their clues.

5)    After finding a clue, the pair needs to show the clue to any of the employees wearing the black uniform, who would make a note of which clue they found as every clue has a unique number written on it.

6)    All clues are unique and different but they are planned in a way that it will take one of the pairs towards the treasure for sure and it depends on the pairs if they are able to solve these tough puzzles or not.

7)    The main event will start at 3 pm and will end at sharp 6 pm. If none of the pairs make it to the final treasure before 6 pm, then they need not bother continue as the event will be declared complete.

8)    The winner who finishes all clues successfully will get a big prize which will be declared at the end, and this prize would be worth all your efforts.

At sharp 3 pm, all the pairs were given different clues and the treasure hunt event officially started.

Song Ji Hun and Kiaraa received a small scroll with an orange ribbon neatly tied around it.

"Let's go somewhere else and open it" Song Ji Hun declared and Kiaraa agreed with him as she too doesn't wish for their competitors to eavesdrop on them.

Kiaraa and Song Ji Hun went to a small garden and saw a small bench. They sat on their knees touching the grass on either side of the bench facing each other.

Kiaraa carefully untied the ribbon and neatly placed the scroll on the bench. The two people leaned down to read the puzzle only to get confused.

5-7-14-1-18 7-14-9-20-15-15-8-19

"What the…" Kiaraa almost cursed before clicking on her tongue, realizing she is with Song Ji Hun and not Ian.

Song Ji Hun didn't mind her and narrowed his eyes seriously studying the piece of good quality paper to understand the meaning behind this puzzle.

"5 + 7 is 12 and not 14 and 14 + 1 is 15 not 18. Is there some mistake with this puzzle?" Kiaraa voiced her thoughts.

"No, it can't be addition as that won't take us anywhere. What if we get coordinates of the location to our next clue if we somehow rearrange these numbers?" Song Ji Hun tried to break this clue.

"No, it can't be coordinates. We don't have a map" Kiaraa countered.

"Yeah, but at the middle of the amusement park there is a huge map with coordinates on it, so if we crack this code, we can search the location using that billboard map" Song Ji Hun informed her.

"Oh yeah, there was a map but I didn't notice the coordinates" Kiaraa said.

"Hmm, it's okay"

Both the people were again seriously studying the puzzle to make some sense out of it.

"Oh wait. None of these numbers are more than 20, what if each number corresponds to an alphabet?" Kiaraa suddenly thought of this and took out a pen and a notepad from the small kit.

Given her habit, she wrote the Korean alphabets corresponding to the number but the word formed out of it didn't make any sense to her.

"Let's try English alphabets" Song Ji Hun suggested.

"I don't think they would make it so tough that they will use English language" 

Kiaraa believed so as English was not very commonly spoken in Korea.

"Yeah, but if you have noticed there are many foreign tourists here. So, they won't make the puzzles Korean based as it would be too difficult for the tourists. Let's try English language"

Song Ji Hun started writing English alphabet corresponding to the numbers on the puzzle.

"That would be so unfair to people who don't know English" Kiaraa muttered but Song Ji Hun ignored her.

Song Ji Hun and Kiaraa's elite school gives options to children from a young age to register themselves in additional classes to learn other languages and therefore these two and the other kids who studied there, know multiple languages.

EGNAR GNITOOHS was the word that was formed after Song Ji Hun wrote the corresponding alphabet to the number in the puzzle.

Number 5 became E as E is the 5th alphabet in the English Alphabets, similarly number 7 became G and so on.

"This does not make any sense" Song Ji Hun looked disappointed that he failed.

"Wait" Kiaraa, who was sitting facing him read the letters in reverse and excitedly exclaimed, "Read it backwards, it says – SHOOTING RANGE" 

Song Ji Hun then noticed it and a wide smile was spread across his face.

"Let's go" He forwarded his hand towards Kiaraa, who didn't hesitate in holding it and the two people with the help of basic maps placed at every corner of the park, reached the shooting range.

The shooting range was a big area with a shooting range, surrounded by three temporary walls and a big slab stopping one from entering the place. Two big rifles were placed on this slab.

Kiaraa and Song Ji Hun were confused as to where to go as they couldn't see their next clue anywhere.

"Want to try shooting?" An employee asked the two kids.

"No, we are playing treasure hunt game and shooting range is our first clue" Kiaraa informed the employee and kept looking around her surroundings to find the clue.

"Oh, you guys figured out the clue very fast, seems like you two are smart" The employee smiled at them but these two kids were busy looking for clues and didn't respond to the praise.

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