After recording the number of seeds within each differently colored lotus, she promptly returned to the formation pattern and started to relay the information to Chen Mo.
[I have seen clearly now; the number of seeds in the red, yellow, blue, and black lotuses are three, two, four, and one, respectively.]
[Well done.]
The room was now empty, save for four numbers in its corners. Chen Mo immediately followed the sequence of three, two, four, and one, stepping on the four corners of the walls, but nothing happened.
Doesn't work? Seems like it's not a conventional sequence.
He stroked his chin and started thinking.
The last passage I took was red, so should I step in the sequence of yellow, blue, black, red?
Upon this realization, Chen Mo immediately tried this sequence.
But he was still wrong.
Still wrong! This shouldn't be happening!
Chen Mo sat cross-legged, organizing his thoughts carefully.