Turning her head, Chi Naozi looked at Qin Yuanyao with an adorable, childlike expression and said, "Sister Qin, am I amazing?"

Qin Yuanyao gently pinched her delicate, porcelain-like face and sincerely praised, "Amazing! It's all thanks to you that the code was cracked!"

Chi Cheese smiled happily, completely satisfied.

Viewers in the live stream were shocked by Chi Nao's actions.

【Holy crap! This actually works??? Does "eight" mean press eight times???】

It seems like the clues the production team is giving us are getting more and more arbitrary.

I think the number eight has two meanings. First, eight o'clock precisely; second, press eight times. Yao Yao had Ye Rui set the pointer to eight o'clock precisely before the cheese's eight-press action worked.

I agree with the comment above; I think so too.

So all the other clues were just deliberately misleading?

[Definitely! If we don't confuse them, the guests should be able to solve the mystery much faster.]

Song Shangce, who was watching the live stream, was also astonished by Chi Nao's actions.

So, "eight" means to press eight times?!

Even he hadn't expected this.

That's all he could think of; the number eight might refer to eight o'clock.

Chi cheese is amazing.

He's not as good as Chi Nia.

He needs to study harder!

The utterly bewildered Chi Cheese left everyone utterly shocked...

She really just guessed randomly.

She was just very lucky...

...

Guo Zhuyan and his group came out of the classroom and joined Qin Yuanyao and her group of six in their search for guests.

Now there are only two groups of guests left: Feng Wenhe's family and Zhuo Ranjun's family.

I wonder if Feng Wenhe and Zhuo Ranjun have been released from where they were imprisoned.

I wonder if we'll miss each other now that they've been released from their confinement.

In short, they unanimously decided to find both families first.

As they passed an open space, Ye Rui suddenly pointed to the sycamore tree in the center and exclaimed, "Look at that sycamore tree! It's so tall and big!"

In the center of the open space stood a tall and lush sycamore tree, taller and more lush than any sycamore tree they had ever seen before.

"The poem isn't referring to this sycamore tree, is it?" Ye Rui said.

"Should we go and take a look first?" Guo Zhuyan asked for everyone's advice.

If they miss it, they'll have to turn back and look for the sycamore tree again.

This place is so big, even if they come back to look for it later, it will probably take them quite a while.

Go take a look now, it won't take long.

So everyone agreed.

A group of people went to the sycamore tree and circled around it.

"Our final resting place is under the tallest sycamore tree... Under the sycamore tree... Let's see if there's anything under the tree," Qin Yuanyao said.

Everyone squatted down and carefully examined the area around the sycamore tree.

Chi Nai exclaimed "Ah—" and pointed to a spot, saying, "There's a tree hole here!"

Everyone crowded around.

Beneath the sycamore tree, there is a narrow, elongated hole, about seven or eight centimeters wide and a dozen centimeters long.

The tree hole is naturally formed, but it was not deliberately created by humans.

"I wonder if there's anything inside?" Chi Naoqi wondered, as she reached her slender, delicate arm inside.

Guo Yicong grasped her arm, stopping her. "I'll do it."

Chi Nao looked at him blankly, not understanding.

Guo Yicong explained, "There might be bugs or other unclean things inside, so we can't let the girl get hurt."

Guo Zhuyan and Ye Rui, who were standing to the side, were very pleased.

“Yes, Cheese, let the boys handle this. Boys have thicker skin, so it won’t be a big deal if they get hurt. You little girls have delicate skin, it’s not good if you get scratched,” Guo Zhuyan said.

Ye Rui nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

Chi Cheese then asked Guo Yicong to come.

She wasn't afraid of insects, nor was she afraid of getting hurt.

If Congcong wants to dig into the tree hole, let him.

Song Shangce, who was waiting in the live stream, was speechless.

Hmph, he knows he has to take care of girls and not let them get hurt!

In the live stream room, Guo Yicong reached in and rummaged around for a while before pulling out a somewhat rusty iron box.

There is a keyhole on the metal box.

Qin Yuanyao took out the key and handed it to Guo Yicong.

The key and the lock matched, and the metal box was opened.

Everyone craned their necks expectantly to see what was inside the metal box, and then Guo Yicong took out a smaller metal box from the metal box.

The small metal box also has a combination lock.

Guo Zhuyan was speechless. "Not again?! How many more times does the production team want to play this nested doll game?!"

"Is there any hint? Is there a password hint?" Xing Yu asked.

Guo Yicong examined the two metal boxes thoroughly for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Nothing."

He handed both tin boxes to Xing Yu.

Xing Yu searched for a long time but found no clues.

"Inside the tree hole!" Xing Yu pointed to the tree hole and asked, "Is there anything else inside the tree hole?"

Guo Yicong reached his hand into the tree hole again.

He searched for a long time and said with certainty, "No, there's nothing there."

"Could the clue be in the tree?" Cao Feiyue asked.

Everyone searched the tree carefully, but still found nothing.

“That’s strange,” Xing Yu muttered to himself, “Isn’t there any hint? How are we supposed to guess the password if there’s no hint?”

Qin Yuanyao suddenly thought, "If there are no clues, does that mean we've seen the password to the metal box before?"

“Yes!” Guo Zhuyan agreed. “Because we’ve met before, we won’t give them any hints this time!”

The others nodded in agreement with Qin Yuanyao's idea.

"The password is four numbers. Think about what number passwords we've seen before!" Xing Yu muttered to himself.

"1104!" Guo Zhuyan thought first.

"1101," Ye Rui thought again.

Everyone came up with a number, but without exception, they all got the password wrong.

"Didn't you say before that Ni Yan and Li Xuan entered the school on the same day?" Qin Yuanyao vaguely remembered that Chi Baiyi seemed to have said something similar.

“Yes,” Chi Baiyi said, “they all enrolled on September 23, 2004.”

Qin Yuanyao nodded and said to Xing Yu, "0923! Try this password."

This time, the combination lock opened easily.

[666! Yao Yao is so awesome!]

How did Yao Yao figure out that the password was a number they had seen before? I definitely wouldn't have thought of that.

[Yaoyao is amazing! Her IQ is off the charts!]

[I suddenly realized the production team is pretty incompetent. Luckily, CEO Chi has a good memory; he glanced at the list and memorized all the students' arrival dates. If it were someone with a bad memory like me, even if I could guess that the password to the metal box might be Li Xuan and Ni Yan's arrival dates, I wouldn't remember those dates at all (facepalm)]

[Who can argue with that! Luckily, CEO Chi was there, and luckily, Yao Yao was there. In short, as I said before, the successful decryption is a collective achievement!]

The lady upstairs is right!

(End of this chapter)

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