Chapter 1700 Bruce Wayne and the Sorcerer's Stone (XVI)

The door of the room had been blown down as expected. After Harley rushed in excitedly, little Bruce looked back at the locked door handle. The lock on it was very ordinary, just like the metal lock on the iron gate on the outer wall of the yard. It seemed that a suitable key was needed.

But the door was not even made of steel, but just a common wooden door in the castle. Little Bruce had no doubt that a trained agent could knock the door open with all his strength.

This made little Bruce understand the difficulty of this trial.

The tree demon in the first level seemed very dangerous, but it really had too many weaknesses. He would only attack people who wanted to break in without a key. In other words, as long as you can find the key, you can skip the level. It seems that the key should be hidden somewhere in the school, and the process of obtaining the key is not dangerous.

Either use force to overcome cleverness, find something to knock the door open, or simply blow the door open with explosives like Harley, or respond with flexibility and agility, relying on the advantage of children's smaller size, get under the tree demon's arm, lure him to attack the wooden door, and still be able to smash the door open.

Just as Bruce was thinking and walking into the house, he heard Barry exclaim. Turning his head, Barry grabbed the excited Harley and said, "Take your box of explosives away. This is full of glassware. If it explodes, it will be a disaster!"

Bruce stepped over the wreckage of the wooden door and really walked into the room. Then he found that it was a room full of bottles and jars.

Tall shelves that reached the ceiling were embedded in the four walls. Glass jars of different heights were neatly placed on the shelves. Some were wide-mouthed bottles, some were narrow-mouthed bottles, some were like round-bottomed flasks, and some were more like small basins. But in short, they were all made of exquisite and fragile glass.

Bruce rushed forward and grabbed Harley's other arm to stop her from pulling the grenade, because there was no other door in the room except the one they came in.

"What if there is something behind the wall?" Harley said unwillingly.

"What if there isn't?" Barry grabbed her tightly to prevent the crazy girl who was particularly excited by the violent explosion from destroying everything in the room with explosives.

"It seems to be a puzzle." Bruce looked up at the glassware on the wall and said, "Someone has long thought that you would use explosives to break in. If you really mess up this place, the door may never be opened."

"Is this why you insisted that I put those plants in glass jars?" Pamela behind the screen turned to Schiller and said, "You guessed that some of them must want to resort to violence, and you don't want them to crack every level in this way."

"I hope to save the school some money for repairing the building." Schiller shook his head slightly and said, "Let a real Gotham lunatic bombard here, we Even if there is another richest man in the world, it is not enough to compensate. "

"In fact, it is enough." Bruce said, but soon he shook his head and said: "It's just that the elves in the Maya world need to rest, otherwise they will be exhausted to death."

"So what kind of puzzle is this?" Constantine asked: "Do they need to identify the properties of these plants?"

"Yes, and the rest is a simple arrangement puzzle." Pamela nodded and said calmly: "All the knowledge I taught in class, as long as one person listens carefully, they will be able to do it."

"It looks like an arrangement and classification puzzle." Little Bruce turned the four sides After looking through all the glass jars on the shelves on the wall, he said, "If I remember correctly, the plants in the whole room should be divided into four categories, namely potion raw materials, alchemical catalyst raw materials, ritual raw materials and non-reactive raw materials."

"I remember talking about it in the magical botany class." Barry touched his cheek, and he looked around, and then said, "But there are not so many plants mentioned at all. I don't know most of them. Maybe they were mentioned in the senior class."

He turned to look at Harry, Harry blinked, walked past the four walls, and then said, "About half of these plants were mentioned in class, and the other half were also mentioned in class. Not involved. "

"But we can infer it." Bruce sighed softly and said, "Professor Pamela once mentioned in class that plants growing in a certain world have similar properties and appearances, and can be regarded as plants of the same genus."

"Based on the appearance, color and magic performance of the plants, we can also see their approximate effects. Let's take down the bottles first."

There are two ladders in the corner of the room, which are obviously convenient for students who come here to take down all the jars for inspection. The three of them took all the glass jars off the shelves and put them on the ground one after another, and Harry began to classify them preliminarily.

Harry is in a higher grade and has more class hours. The magic botany class took nearly two months of class hours to teach students to identify the plants that often appear in the magic world and understand their effects. Harley classified all the plants she knew, and the next thing was very simple.

When all the plants with identifiable properties were put together according to the four categories, anyone could see the similarities between them.

Potion ingredients are usually closer to the stems of herbs, such as the spiral grass that Barry and his friends saw in the first class. It is one of the most typical potion ingredients, with soft and small features and weak magic light.

Alchemical catalyst ingredients usually have extremely strong magic performance, with magic light filling the entire bottle. They are mostly in the form of flowers and soft leaves, and their appearance is more similar to ordinary plants in the non-magical world.

The shapes of ritual ingredients are extremely strange, either like dry fingers, or like eyeballs or animal claws, and they often have tumors and pustules on the surface, just like the plants that appear in the dark swamps in horror novels.

Non-reactive ingredients refer to plants that will not react with anything made by any of the above plants. They can be used as containers, stirring rods and other utensils that need to be in frequent contact with potion liquids. Naturally, most of them are cut pieces or branches of woody plants, which are hard, dry and dark in color.

"There's only one question left." Harley looked down at the bottles and jars and said, "Which wall should the four plants be placed on?"

"The least amount should definitely be placed on the wall with the door, because there are the least number of shelves on that wall." Barry suggested.

Bruce snorted coldly and said, "Your brain is working for a while."

The least amount of the four materials is the non-reactive raw material, so the three of them used a ladder to place this part of the plants on the wall near the door. After that, Barry exhaled, looked at Harley and said, "Fortunately, you didn't blow up the shelves on this wall, otherwise we would have failed before we even started."

Harley smiled, shook her head and said, "It's not that simple. Obviously there is another solution to the puzzle in this room."

Harley folded her arms, looked back at the bottles and jars on the ground, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, some of the plant materials here can be combined into a special liquid medicine, which should also make the exit visible."

"But this is very risky . "Little Bruce said, "Because you don't know if the raw materials in the bottle can return to the bottle and trigger the mechanism of arranging the puzzle after pouring them out, so if there is no clue at all or the shelf is damaged, we don't need to use this method. "

Harry nodded and said, "Although I do like to make a lot of noise, I am not without measure. I guessed that there might be something important in the room, so I deliberately avoided the wall when throwing the grenade. This worked. If we make medicine here, all of our clothes will be stained with strange smells."

After that, the three began to study the remaining three walls, and then Harley found a rune in the bottom corner of each shelf. There was no puzzle to solve. The rune meant the type of plant.

It took a little time to put all the bottles and jars in different categories. The center of the floor bloomed with magical light, and a door slowly opened. There was a dark tunnel below, and it was not clear where it led.

"Well, it seems that I can't take all these big treasures with me." Harley looked at her cart of ammunition with some regret, and said: "If we are not sure how deep it is, we can't pour all these things down at once. Once the safety is triggered, there will be a series of explosions, and it would be a pity if they were broken."

Harley picked out three pistols from the cart, handed two of them to the other two, and took out a few grenades and put them in her pocket. Finally, she took a shotgun and put it on her back, and shook her head towards the door in the middle of the floor.

Bruce looked down, but Barry said, "I'll jump first. If there's any danger below, I can warn you." Bruce opened his mouth, as if he wanted to refute, but Barry interrupted him and said, "You are right about one thing at least. Your two brains are precious treasures. It's not good to break them." Barry jumped directly. Harley gave Bruce a slightly neurotic smile and said, "This group of idiots is like this, right? They always feel guilty for not contributing to the team. They are soft and hard, like a sponge full of tears." "I reserve my opinion. They are like stones, hard, stupid, and can do nothing. It's just that Mr. Allen has just been washed up on the river beach and doesn't know that his life will continue like this. "I will continue to be stubborn until I become as annoying as those stubborn adults."

After saying that, little Bruce also jumped down. Harley shrugged her shoulders, looked at the empty air, and then said, "I don't know who will eventually become the stubborn adult."

When Harley's figure also disappeared in the door on the floor, Constantine smiled and looked at Bruce and said, "Yes, who is it? I agree with both hands that it is definitely not Batman."

And Bruce turned his head to look at Schiller. Schiller tilted his head slightly and looked at Bruce, and said, "But too many strange ideas are not necessarily better."

"Some people's strange ideas are easy to see, while some people's are always carried out silently. Except for themselves, no one can see where the happiness is, right? Professor?"