“A four-digit password…” Xing Yu immediately had a new idea.
He said smugly, "Halloween was just three days ago... Halloween is November 1st. Could the second password be 1101?"
Guo Zhuyan and the others had no better ideas, so they said to him, "Give it a try."
Xing Yu excitedly entered "1101" into the small metal box, and soon heard an error message indicating that the password was incorrect.
"The English word for Halloween is..." Ye Rui had a new idea.
Guo Yicong replied, "aaintday".
"Isn't it Haeen?" Guo Zhuyan asked in surprise.
"Halloween is Halloween Eve, which is October 31st. Halloween Eve is the most lively, but Halloween is actually November 1st. The correct English for Halloween is Halloween," Guo Yicong explained with a cool and serious expression.
Chi Nai didn't know much about foreign holidays. She looked at Guo Yicong with admiration and exclaimed in her childish voice, "Brother Congcong, you're so amazing! You know so much!"
Guo Yicong's face flushed slightly, and he dared not look directly into Chi Nao's star-like eyes.
He awkwardly wanted to look away, but he didn't really want to.
He said in a cold voice, "It's alright."
Song Shangce, who was watching the live stream with Grandpa Song and Grandma Song, felt a little uneasy when he saw this scene.
What's so great about that?
Even he knows this common sense, so why doesn't Chi Nao praise him for it?!
He's only five years old, while Guo Yicong is already nine.
He's younger than Guo Yicong and yet he knows all this; isn't he even more capable than Guo Yicong?!
Why don't you praise the little brat!
Of course, Chi Naozhi had no way of knowing what Song Shangce was thinking.
She counted on her fingers and said, "None of these English words are four digits."
Xing Yu thought again, "On Halloween, no, on Halloween Eve, children dress up as all sorts of ghosts and ask for candy. When they ask for candy, they say something, what's that thing again? 'If you don't give me candy, then...'"
“Trick or treat,” Guo Yicong chimed in.
“Yes, yes, tritreat! These words…” Xing Yu silently counted them in her mind and gave up.
Okay, these words are more than four digits long.
"What about candy?" Guo Zhuyan asked. "Halloween is all about kids asking for candy. The English word for candy is..."
“Andy,” Chi Nao Nao Nao Nao Mengmeng responded loudly.
She knows that.
“Andy’s isn’t a four-digit number either,” Chi Cheese said.
Guo Yicong nodded.
"And the child's English name?" Xing Yu asked again. "ID!! It has exactly four letters!"
Xing Yu said this and then went to try the password with great anticipation.
The combination lock emitted an incorrect password warning sound again.
“Try baby. Baby also means child, and it has four letters,” Guo Yicong said.
Xing Yu nodded emphatically and tried on the baby again.
It's still the wrong password notification sound.
“Let’s not dwell on Halloween anymore. Look at the poem below and try to find some clues,” Guo Zhuyan said. “The first clue is hidden in the first half of the poem. Could the second clue be hidden in the second half?”
Upon hearing this, everyone agreed that Guo Zhuyan's words made sense.
The group began to study the second half of the poem.
"We often dream that our final resting place is under the tallest sycamore tree..." Xing Yu read aloud, "What does 'final resting place' mean? Why would the sycamore tree be their final resting place?"
Guo Zhuyan shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand either.
Guo Yicong said, "The English word for sycamore tree is 'pne,' which has four letters."
Xing Yuli immediately entered "tree" on the combination lock.
It's that wrong password notification sound again.
"What's the English for 'home'?" Xing Yu asked, looking at everyone. "He?"
Guo Zhuyan said, "Give it a try."
However, the password error message still played.
[Ughhhhh, this is so hard! The production team is such idiots, why did they have to set two passwords?!]
The contents should ideally be valuable! Otherwise, the production team would be incredibly unfair and would be letting down the guests who spent so much time figuring out the password.
I've been watching this live stream the whole time, and I can't think of any other password that could be.
Are you all getting too hung up on English words? You've been thinking about words for so long and still haven't cracked the code. Maybe it's time to change your approach?
A viewer in the live stream raised this question.
Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi actually thought the same thing.
I've tried so many English words, but I still haven't guessed the password. Does this mean the password isn't an English word?
"I'm thinking..." Qin Yuanyao suddenly spoke up.
Guo Zhuyan and the others, along with Xing Yu, all turned to look at her.
They tried almost every English word they could think of, but still couldn't guess the password.
They are nearing the end of their rope and desperately need a different approach.
"What are you thinking about? Tell me quickly!" Xing Yu urged expectantly.
“I’m thinking, the first password is November 4th. November 4th is a very special and meaningful day for Ni Yan. Could the second password also be related to November 4th?” Qin Yuanyao asked.
"Is the second password also related to November 4th?" Xing Yu looked at the poem on the paper, puzzled. "How is it related?"
"I haven't figured it out either," Qin Yuanyao said frankly.
Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed in Chi Baiyi's mind.
He took the paper with the poem written on it, his voice deep and steady, “The 11th character of this poem is—just—three letters, and the 4th character is just—four letters, try gang.”
Upon hearing this, Xing Yu entered "gang" on the combination lock.
The combination lock opened immediately.
Everyone was both surprised and delighted, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The password was so simple?! It's the fourth character of this poem!
I'm tired of saying "Boss Chi is awesome!" In the end, we still had to rely on Boss Chi to crack the code.
[Yao Yao is amazing! Yao Yao gave President Chi a clue, and that's how he came up with the idea that it might be the fourth character.]
[Yaoyao and CEO Chi have teamed up again to crack the code! The two of them together are invincible!]
Actually, the other guests were also very capable. If they hadn't tried so many English words without figuring out the password, Qin Yuanyao wouldn't have thought about whether it was related to November 4th.
Yes, all the guests are incredibly talented; that's the advantage of teamwork!
[Quickly check if there's another tiny metal box inside the first one (laughing and crying). If there really is, I'm really going to yell at the production team.]
The guests shared a similar sentiment to the commenter.
They peered into the metal box and breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the production team wasn't so heartless as to set up a third layer of deception.
Ye Rui took out something from the iron box; it was a key.
"Where is this key from?" Xing Yu looked around. "There's nowhere here that needs a key to unlock things."
Others also searched around.
As Xing Yu said, there was indeed no other place in the room that required a key to unlock.
(End of this chapter)
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