Alice misA--白色城堡桌

Chapter 10, Five Dust Escape Room★Part 4

Part 4. Second Dust - Ear dropping the keys

"Are we saved?" Amisa knelt on the ground, struggling to catch her breath.

"Huff... huff... I think so," Jasky replied, gasping for air. His top hat had fallen to the ground.

"In the end, we were just drawing a bunch of things that were visible but invisible, haha!" Toosb lay on the ground, laughing uncontrollably as she thought about the experience they just had.

"By the way, where are we... Whoa!" Amisa attempted to stand up but was startled as the canvas suddenly stood up, causing her to quickly back away. The painted images inside seemed to come to life, dancing and moving.

"I... I'm moving!" Toosb pointed at her dancing image with joy.

Watching all the paintings happily dance, Jasky suddenly had a thought, "Could the correct answer to the riddle have been 'imagination'? It would make more sense in relation to what we were doing earlier."

"Wow! Shy guy, you're making sense!" Toosb joined in the dancing.

"Imagination..." Amisa's mind flashed back to a scene from her childhood. Besides singing, she always loved doodling and drawing all sorts of imaginative and whimsical things.

"Hmm?" At that moment, Amisa noticed that the painted characters were singing. Although there was no sound, she could decipher the lip movements and recognize a familiar song. She inadvertently started singing along, "On the grassy field... by the big tree... I want to sing out loud..."

"You know this song too!" Toosb exclaimed in surprise.

"Huh? I used to sing this song with my parents when I was little."

"I used to sing it with my parents too!"

"You did too?"

"Let's talk about it later. I think we've ended up in another strange place," Jasky said cautiously, squinting his eyes. The feast of paintings had vanished without a trace, replaced by a towering forest of gigantic audio equipment from the 90s: turntables, radios, headphones, microphones. The road ahead clearly split into three paths. The left path was filled with enormous record players and radios, the right path with giant mobile phones and telephones, and the middle path with various oversized headphones and microphones. In the heart of the audio equipment forest stood a colossal combination speaker, with a sign on top that read "Between Ears."

"Between Ears... Are we going to face another challenge? This cleverbug is so troublesome..." Amisa pinched her earlobe, furrowing her brow in annoyance.

Jasky approached the audio equipment forest and examined it closely, "There doesn't seem to be a door here either. Looks like we'll have to... just as I thought."

Beep beep beep beep beep beep─────────────────────

Second Dust - Ear dropping the keys: Please listen to the sounds beyond the three measures. The door to understanding will open for you. The room will collapse in 10 minutes.

Then, the countdown began.

"The riddle has arrived. Let's continue to pass the test..." Jasky picked up his fallen top hat.

"The sounds beyond the three measures? Do we have to catch the rhythm or melody?" Amisa furrowed her brow.

"I think the 'three measures' might not necessarily refer to musical measures but rather keys," Jasky pointed at "Ears of Perception" and "Door to Understanding." "The title mentioned keys, and the latter mentions a door." He then gestured towards the audio equipment in front. "Perhaps we need to listen to those giant devices and find key parts, and the door will appear for us to open once we've collected all the parts."