Viewers in the live stream room have been switching between the five groups of guests' live streams, and have learned that the five groups of guests have been locked up in different places.

Hearing Qin Yuanyao's sarcastic remarks, netizens are now united in their indignation.

[Who can argue with that! The production team is a bunch of bastards! They deliberately broke up the five groups of guests!]

[Yao Yao was right before; Director Jiang wouldn't let them leave so quickly. This time, although Director Jiang didn't let them fall into the secret passage, he directly had the NP teachers capture them and lock them up in different places.]

Director Jiang has a knack for breaking up guests!

Director Jiang in the control room sneezed several times in a row.

He could see it clearly from the backstage monitor screen; several guests were calling him a dog.

Director Jiang, with a mixture of helplessness and excitement, took a tissue and wiped his nose, then sighed insincerely, "Sigh, I had no choice! If I had you all together, and the more people involved, the faster the decryption would be, what would the audience watch!"

At that time, Qin Yuanyao, Chi Baiyi, and Chi Naozi had already figured out the layout of the reading room.

The reading room is small, at most thirty square meters.

There were two long tables and four long benches in the reading room. There were no clues related to the code on or around the tables and benches.

There are two bookshelves, on which are placed books such as "Admonitions for Women", "Women's Education", and "Internal Training".

The three of them skimmed through the entire book but found no clues related to the password, such as notes or annotations.

There was a small wardrobe. The wardrobe was completely empty; there was nothing inside, and no clues related to the password.

A painting hangs on the wall, depicting a group of children with lifeless eyes staring blankly ahead.

Next to the painting was a calendar.

The date on the calendar is October 2004.

However, the dates 2, 8, 14, and 29 were circled in red.

Furthermore, a string of numbers was written below each of the four dates.

Qin Yuanyao read aloud, "The numbers written below number 2 are 978-7-3356-1345-3-132-4-8;

The numbers written below number 8 are 978-7-7637-8536-2-23-10-2;

The numbers written below number 14 are 978-7-3695-1235-2-59-11-10

The numbers written below number 29 are 978-7-7834-9346-6-145-7-19.

The viewers in the live stream were stunned.

[I'm completely baffled! What is this? Is this encrypted Morse code??]

[If these strings of numbers are a clue to a password, that's incredibly frustrating! How are Yao Yao and the others supposed to decipher it?!]

I just came out of the live streams of four families, and I found that Qin Yuanyao's group's password was the hardest! Just looking at that string of numbers made me dizzy, and it reminded me of the fear of being dominated by math when I was in school.

[Waaaaah, please stop talking, I'm being dominated by math right now, I'm getting dizzy just looking at these numbers.]

I believe Yao Yao and her team will definitely be able to crack the code this time! However, I'm just worried that it will take them a long time to do so.

[Hey, don't worry, upstairs sister, don't forget the key is still with Yao Yao. Even if the other guests manage to escape, they'll definitely come looking for Yao Yao and the others. With more people around, Yao Yao and the others might be able to crack the code even faster.]

Qin Yuanyao was stunned when she saw these numbers.

"The password is four digits, so the four dates circled in red—the 2nd, 8th, 14th, and 29th—shouldn't be related to the password. The key is the four strings of numbers under these four dates. What are these numbers?"

Qin Yuanyao asked Chi Baiyi, "Mr. Chi, have you ever seen a similar string of numbers? Is it Morse code, Hill cipher, or some other cipher system?"

“No,” Chi Baiyi said firmly. “I’ve never seen a similar string of numbers. These strings of numbers have nothing to do with any well-known password systems, and I don’t think the production team would set up such a complicated password.”

Qin Yuanyao felt that Chi Baiyi's words made sense.

Morse code and Hill code are too complicated for the average person. Besides, there are children in this game, so we need to get them involved too.

Setting such a complex password, if the guests can't decipher it, viewers will also get bored after watching for a while.

"Could the password be related to these four strings of numbers?" Qin Yuanyao was a little suspicious.

Chi Baiyi couldn't be 100% certain either, but he said, "There's a high probability that they're related."

"Sister Qin, Dad, look at this sister!" Chi Nao pointed at the painting and called out to Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi.

Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi went over and looked at the painting, asking, "Which sister?"

“This one!” Chi Nao pointed on tiptoe.

But because she was still very short and the painting was hung quite high, she couldn't reach it no matter how hard she pointed.

“The other older brothers and sisters all have their hands at their sides, but this older sister is secretly pointing in another direction,” Chi Nao said in a childish voice.

According to Chi Nao's description, Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi quickly discovered who the child Chi Nao was talking about was.

"Is the sister you're talking about her?" Qin Yuanyao asked Chi Naozi casually, pointing to a girl in the painting.

Chi Nai nodded emphatically, "Yes, that's her!"

As Chi Cheese said, the other children in the painting all had their hands neatly placed at their sides. Only this girl had her right index finger pointing to the right and her left index finger pointing to the left.

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