Chapter 35
“Is this a password box?”
When he saw something coming out, Ai Qingyuan immediately forgot about the fright he had just had.
Yun Pan, who was not far away, hesitated for a moment.
Xie Xichao looked up and called him: "Panpan, come here too."
So he ran over immediately.
Three people gathered around a small password box. Jie Xichao tried to turn it and found that the combination lock on it was indeed not a prop and everyone could turn it.
Right now, all four digits are at zero.
Ai Qingyuan twitched his lips: "Four of you, how do you guess this?"
"It's definitely not a guess." Yun Pan whispered, "We should look for clues in the inn."
Xie Xichao didn't say anything.
He stared at the combination lock and thought for a while, then tried four digits first.
The gears turn, making a crisp sound.
Ai Qingyuan was stunned for a moment, then his eyes showed excitement and disbelief: "You guessed it?"
After he finished speaking, Jie Xichao finished turning around four people.
The combination lock didn't budge.
Only then did he speak: "No."
"Let's try it first," he explained. "Just in case."
Ai Qingyuan: “…”
He was a little disappointed.
Then I was horrified.
He found that he didn't know when, Jie Xichao had become synonymous with omnipotence in his heart.
...This matter is even more terrifying than this shabby inn.
Xie Xichao had no idea that the people around him were starting to think and fantasize again; he was concentrating on guessing the password.
The first thing he lost was the show’s launch date. But the combination lock did not respond. He thought about it and changed another string of numbers, this time entering the date of the first recording.
Not really.
The third time, the fourth time.
Ai Qingyuan was gloomy at first, but then he was shocked: "What day is this? Why don't I have any impression of it?"
"Director's birthday." Xie Xichao typed the number calmly.
Ai Qingyuan:? ? ?
Yun Pan, who was standing by, opened his mouth into an "O" shape again.
"No." Ai Qingyuan came back to his senses, "You remember this too, are you secretly in love with the director?"
Xie Xichao:.
"Don't say such horrific things," he commented.
Then he explained, "I've heard people talk about it occasionally."
It wasn't that he guessed that this kind of number would be used now, he was just used to collecting and recording information. Of course, his good memory is also his usual advantage. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get into a top university to study mathematics after taking the college entrance examination.
Unfortunately, his wish to take a shortcut and get off work early was shattered.
This set of passwords still failed.
He tried a few more times and then put the code box back.
It doesn't make sense.
If the password is related to the program, then it is most likely not unfamiliar. He tried every date he could think of, but none of them worked. That could only mean one thing: the code needed to be cracked by looking for clues on the spot.
He said: "What Panpan said should be right."
He paused: "Did you find anything just now?"
Having said this, Ai Qingyuan turned his eyes away feeling guilty.
He was timid to begin with, and the horror details of this inn were so realistic that he didn't dare to reach out and look through anything, and he had just been slacking off with little interest.
He began to think about the wording, but he didn't expect Yun Pan to raise his hand on the other side.
“I found this,” he said.
He handed a letter to Jie Xichao.
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While Xie Xichao and the other two were working inside to unlock the password box, there was total silence outside the inn.
Joining the crew today is assistant director Lv Yan.
Before coming, the director team of the spin-off program discussed the content of this episode with her.
Compared with the previous episodes, this time the program is a bit more difficult.
Spin-off programs are also a good tool to maintain the popularity of a program. Horror elements can easily produce classic scenes, such as the prop head just now. At the same time, they chose to add a moderate amount of puzzle-solving content to the show.
This is not directed at any particular contestant. It's just that with too many entertainment-oriented episodes, the audience will inevitably get tired of it, so there has to be a change of pace.
But no one expected that even in a program like this, the best performance would be Jie Xichao.
In order to facilitate monitoring of the progress, the program team installed a considerable number of surveillance cameras inside, and the scene of Jie Xichao entering the password just now was seen clearly by everyone.
As an old partner, Lu Yan also knows Ma Hongping's birthday very well.
To everyone's surprise, she was not surprised at all. She was even amused and shook her head: "This child."
"That's quite clever." She sighed.
"Then Sister Yan, do you want us to go in and give some hints?" asked the staff member next to her.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. People from other groups helped give prompts to avoid delaying the recording progress. Xie Xichao's group has made the fastest progress, but considering the difficulty ahead, they are still a little worried.
"Wait a moment." Lu Yan said.
Then she thought for a moment, "Did Lao Ma go to meet Li Xichao's agent today? Did he finish the meeting?"
"It seems to be over." said the staff.
"I'm going to call him." Lu Yan said, "You guys stay here for a while. If you have any questions, just come to me."
The people around him responded hurriedly.
Lu Yan looked at the surveillance camera again and then left the door of the inn.
At this moment, there has been new progress in the room.
*
Yun Pan found the letter in a drawer. The process is not easy.
The drawer is locked. The key is in the vase on top of the cabinet. There was a layer of "blood" on the top of the vase, which was actually a sponge. The child bravely lifted the sponge and took the key from inside.
The clues obtained are relatively obvious because they are hard to come by.
The content of the letter is not important. What is important is that the letter mentions only one number, 5.
Xie Xichao did not immediately substitute the numbers into the password. Instead, he took the two of them around the room again, and then found another letter on the corner of the wine table nearby. This is a letter from a foreign friend - at least that's what the signature on the letter indicates.
In this letter, he got a letter: a.
So far, they have found all the places with cameras in the house.
Jie Xichao stared at the two combinations for a while, then turned his attention to the only condition that had not been used: the low cabinet behind the counter.
There is also a camera next to the bookcase.
As a science student, he is extremely sensitive to numbers.
Letters obviously can't fit into a combination lock, but letters + numbers can be used well as coordinates to indicate direction.
He thought for a moment, walked to the low cabinet, and took out the fifth book from the first layer.
This is a very strange book.
Unlike other prop books, this one only has a thin book cover. When I opened it, I found that there were only four pages that could be pulled out, and these four pages happened to have four detailed paintings on them.
Jie Xichao lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the content on the painting.
"What is this?" Ai Qingyuan came closer. "What is this painting about? It seems to be all girls. I'm not saying anything, there's not a single word on it, how can it be considered a clue?"
Xie Xichao paused and asked: "Are you a liberal arts student or a science student?"
"Liberal arts." Ai Qingyuan said.
Xie Xichao did not make a comment and asked Yun Pan who was standing beside him, "Where's Pan Pan?"
Yun Pan looked a little embarrassed: "...I didn't go to high school."
Jie Xichao was stunned for a moment.
In fact, there are still a few people in the entertainment industry who are highly educated, but there are not many who have only completed nine years of compulsory education. He just said that because he saw that Yun Pan was introverted and wanted to cue him a topic, but he didn't expect the child to be so honest, nor did he expect that he only finished junior high school.
The words have been spoken and cannot be taken back.
He sighed in his heart and changed the subject directly: "It's okay."
"This is a little historical knowledge," he said, "In fact, these four pictures are already a hint."
He paused, "See the fish in the river in the first picture?"
Yun Pan blinked his eyes: "I see, it seems that it can't swim."
The fish in the picture are sinking to the bottom of the river, and some of them do not look like fish.
Xie Xichao was amused by his somewhat cute description, and then explained: "It's not that they can't swim, it's because the girl washing clothes on the shore is too pretty, the fish in the water were too fascinated by her and forgot to swim, so they sank to the bottom of the water."
Yun Pan widened his eyes.
At this time, Ai Qingyuan on the side had already reacted: "The four great beauties of ancient times."
"Yes." Xie Xichao said, "She can sink fish, fall geese, hide the moon, and shame flowers. If I'm not mistaken, one word corresponds to one clue, and one clue corresponds to one password. If we find these four numbers, we can get out."
As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere in the air suddenly relaxed.
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In fact, it’s not just Ai Qingyuan and Yun Pan. Jie Xichao also feels uncomfortable staying here.
It's not that I'm afraid, it's just simple depression. He prefers sunny and dry places, and usually doesn't like playing games with horror elements.
At the same time, he felt that the program team had put a lot of effort into the clues.
Using the Four Beauties as the main clue, on the one hand, this allusion is not known to everyone, but most people have heard of it to some extent. On the other hand, there are still many articles that can be written based on these four images.
Half an hour later, the three found two clues on the first floor.
The same beauty is stunning.
There is a well in the backyard of the inn, which is the only place related to water in the entire inn.
There was a pole hanging by the well, with a row of dried fish hanging on it.
The quantity is 7.
Xie Xichao took out the numbers from his notebook, and Ai Qingyuan looked at Xiao Yugan: "Well, this time he is not stunned, he is completely asleep."
Yun Pan shuddered at the joke.
Another is shy flower.
An indoor ornamental flower is hidden under the stairs leading to the second floor. There are exactly six flower buds on it.
At this point, two of the four digits of the combination lock have been found.
At this moment, only more than fifty minutes had passed since they were locked in this secret room.
Jie Xichao breathed a sigh of relief towards them, but the production crew waiting outside were really annoyed.
As the question setters, the program crew would find people to test the clues in advance when setting them. It’s not that difficult, but it’s definitely not that easy either. The most important thing is the ability to associate.
But they didn't expect that the most difficult level seemed to be of no difficulty at all for Jie Xichao.
His mind was really fast.
Know a lot and dare to think.
From the very beginning a5 representing direction to the following four images, everything came out of his mouth easily and smoothly like a certain chocolate brand, but I don't know how many brain cells the program crew wasted behind the scenes.
If the entire spin-off program's director team had not been meeting Jie Xichao for the first time, they would have suspected that someone had leaked the topic.
The director stared at the screen with a deathly pale face, having completely lost any sense of accomplishment.
Inside the house, Xie Xichao's eyes were on the stairs.
He stated a fact in a very calm tone: "The images of falling geese and closed moon are both in the sky. I think they should be on the second floor. Let's go up and take a look."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two people behind him took a step back at the same time.
Xie Xichao:.
*
There was a momentary stagnation in the air.
After a moment, Xie Xichao spoke first: "Then I'll go."
Ai Qingyuan: “…”
He thought so, but after Jie Xichao said that, he felt like a coward.
So cowardly.
Seeing Jie Xichao about to go upstairs, he gritted his teeth:
"I'll go with you."
Yun Pan also followed him silently.
Xie Xichao paused: "Are you sure?"
He paused, and continued to calmly elaborate on his speculation, "There may be real NPCs."
Ai Qingyuan: “…”
The foot that was stretched out wanted to be retracted again.
"It's okay." Xie Xichao sighed, "Don't force yourself, I can do it alone. You and Panpan just wait for me downstairs."
After he said that, Ai Qingyuan no longer insisted.
"Come on," he said, "Call us if you need anything. We'll be waiting for you at the stairs."
This was the best balance he could achieve between loyalty and fear.
Jie Xichao smiled.
Yun Pan was still a little bit persistent, but Ai Qingyuan coaxed him back with one sentence: "Don't go. Your brother Xichao will have to drag us back when our legs get weak. There's no need to hold him back."
This was a very self-aware statement, and Jie Xichao walked upstairs with satisfaction.
He walked all the way to the second floor and paused for two seconds.
The long-haired woman in red looked into his eyes, only ten centimeters apart. After a moment, tears of blood flowed from those ghostly eyes, and underneath the tears was an exaggerated and weird smile.
Downstairs, Ai Qingyuan's voice came over: "What's wrong?"
He was very nervous now and almost immediately noticed Xichao's pause.
Xie Xichao looked at the "female ghost" in front of him, thought for two seconds, and replied: "Nothing."
"I just suddenly felt that," he said thoughtfully, "after we get out, you two should really treat me to a meal."
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