The Nightingale in the Golden Cage (6)
If this were ordinary gold, it shouldn't be this hard.
Jian Tanxi tried several more times, but it still didn't work.
Qin Man said, "If it were gold from Earth, it probably wouldn't be able to withstand your triangular pyramid. However, the gold in City C is likely to be extremely hard and has undergone some special polishing and reinforcement processes, so your triangular pyramid won't work on it."
Since this triangular pyramid was given to you by aliens, it means their planet has a large amount of matter with similar or even greater hardness than a triangular pyramid, so this pyramid wouldn't be particularly valuable to them. Otherwise, they wouldn't have given it to the player so easily.
Jian Tanxi nodded: "That makes a lot of sense. This triangular pyramid can only pierce most objects on Earth, not most objects in the universe... What should we do now?"
Hong Zicheng: "Didn't you say that this Golden Cage is a fingerprint lock that requires the fingerprints of four servants to open? How about this, we knock out all the servants of the Rong family and then try their fingerprints one by one."
Professor Pan: "That shouldn't work. There are four fingerprint locks on this cage, and all four should be correct to open it. Moreover, it's very likely that there will be no indication when a fingerprint is correct. If one of the four fingerprints is incorrect, it won't open, but there will be no indication of which fingerprint(s) are incorrect."
In that case, we would have to try many possibilities to have a chance of success, but we don't have that much time.
We don't know which four servants opened the cage today, or which fingers they used. Even if we find the right four servants, we don't know the order in which they pressed their fingerprints. Each of them has ten fingers, which means there are 40 × 39 × 38 × 37 possibilities, resulting in nearly 2.2 million. We might not succeed even if we try until next year.
Du Jiaojiao: "Why don't we just go and ask Madam Rong? She should know."
Qin Man: "But didn't Mr. Rong say that we weren't allowed to disturb his wife, or he would ask us to leave immediately? Besides, what if Mrs. Rong and Mr. Rong are in cahoots? If Mrs. Rong finds out that we're letting Nightingale go, she'll immediately inform Mr. Rong. Moreover, Mrs. Rong might not even know."
Judging from Mr. Rong's attitude towards his wife, it seems he takes good care of her in daily life, but he doesn't allow her to interfere in many things. Therefore, Mrs. Rong may not even know how to open this golden cage.
Du Jiaojiao: "Then what should we do?"
Professor Pan said, "Don't rush. Let me talk to the cage first and ask if there's a nightingale inside. We don't want to end up wasting our time."
Everyone agreed that it made sense, so they handed the golden cage to Professor Pan.
Professor Pan activated his "Storyteller" ability.
Then, Professor Pan nodded and said, "That's right, the nightingale is in this cage. So, we need to find a way to open it."
Jian Tanxi continued rummaging through her bag and suddenly found something interesting.
She excitedly took out a talisman and said, "This item should work."
Qin Man asked, "What is this?"
Professor Pan asked with some surprise, "Is this a conversion symbol?"
Jian Tanxi nodded: "That's right. The transformation talisman can turn one thing into another. Before, in the dungeon of the 'Dark Version of the Beloved Daughter,' we saw a walnut tree that looked like a brain. It was this talisman that turned the brain into a walnut tree."
Jian Tanxi affixed the transformation talisman to the golden cage and said, "I want to transform this closed golden cage into an open golden cage."
As soon as he finished speaking, the golden cage was opened.
Sure enough, there was a nightingale inside. Jian Tanxi reached in and grabbed it.
Suddenly, Jian Tanxi froze.
She opened her palm and said to the crowd, "This nightingale... is dead..."
Everyone was startled and rushed forward to confirm. The nightingale was indeed dead.
Du Jiaojiao said, "Quickly feed it the Resurrection Pill."
Jian Tanxi shook her head: "It won't work anymore. It must have been dead for a long time. The Resurrection Pill is only effective on people who have been dead for less than five minutes. Besides, given the size of this nightingale, it can't swallow the Resurrection Pill."
Du Jiaojiao looked at Professor Pan anxiously: "Professor, you didn't say that the nightingale was dead."
Professor Pan: "I'm sorry, I was so focused on asking if there were any nightingales in the golden cage that I didn't think to ask if the nightingales were dead or alive."
Qin Man said, "We can't blame Professor Pan for this. Who could have imagined that Nightingale would die?"
Hong Zicheng asked, "How did the nightingale die?"
Qin Man: "How it died isn't important, what's important is how to bring it back to life. By the way, Tanxi, don't you have the ability to modify scripts? Can you change it to be alive?"
Jian Tanxi: "It seems like we can't change it like this... I'll try it first. Modify the script's ability activation: 'The nightingale died' to 'The nightingale came back to life'."
A sharp electronic voice rang in Jian Tanxi's mind: "Warning! This modification is not allowed! This modification is invalid!"
Jian Tanxi clutched her head and squatted down in pain.
The electronic voice gave her a headache; she needed to catch her breath.
She told the others that the changes were ineffective, and everyone was somewhat disappointed.
Du Jiaojiao suddenly said, "How about we release this dead nightingale into the wild? Would that count as completing the mission?"
Qin Man shook her head: "It shouldn't count. Our mission was to rescue Nightingale, and it's already dead, so how can we talk about rescuing it?"
Jian Tanxi said to Professor Pan, "Professor Pan, now that the Nightingale is a corpse, it should be considered an object. Can you use your animal-speaking ability to communicate with it? Just ask it how it can be resurrected?"
Professor Pan: "I'll give it a try."
Professor Pan placed his hand on Nightingale's body and then activated his "Storyteller" ability.
After a while, Professor Pan said, "The nightingale's corpse indicates that it cannot be revived. However, there is something very important inside its stomach, and we are advised to remove it."
Jian Tanxi gently pressed on the nightingale's abdomen. After a while, a blue gem emerged from the nightingale's beak.
Jian Tanxi picked up the gemstone and looked at it, saying, "This gemstone seems quite expensive, but I don't know what it's used for. I'll keep it for now."
She wiped the gem clean with a paper towel and put it in her bag.
Hong Zicheng said, "Could this gem be able to save our lives? That's why the nightingale's corpse said it was very important?"
Jian Tanxi asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"Perhaps the referee likes gems, and if we give him this gem, he will forgive us."
Jian Tanxi: "I think it's unlikely."
Qin Man: "I also think the probability is not high."
At this moment, Qu Chen suddenly ran over, took the dead nightingale, threw it back into the golden cage, and then pulled Qin Man and Jian Tanxi away.
Qin Man said, "Wait a minute, we must bring this nightingale with us."
Qin Man took the nightingale out again, but Qu Chen snatched it away and threw it back into the golden cage.
Helpless, Qin Man could only wink at the others, signaling them to go and get the Nightingale.
So, taking advantage of Qu Chen's inattention, Hong Zicheng took the Nightingale and stuffed it into his bag.
Then, everyone quickly left.
There's no point in delaying any longer, and the longer we stay in this secret room, the greater the chance of being discovered.
They ran as far as they could, and thankfully they didn't encounter anyone. The unconscious madmen, wolves, and dogs didn't wake up either.
Finally, they escaped the house, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, everyone hurried to their guest rooms. After all, as guests of the Rong family, they shouldn't be wandering around.
After finally getting back to the guest room, Qu Chen pulled Qin Man and Jian Tanxi upstairs.
Qin Man said, "Xiao Chen, we can't run around."
However, Qu Chen ignored Qin Man's advice and continued to pull the two of them up on his own.
Jian Tanxi said to the other players, "Let's go up and see what Xiao Chen is up to, then we'll come back later."
Qu Chen pulled Qin Man and Jian Tanxi up to the second floor.
Then, Qu Chen went from room to room, looking for something, though it was unclear what he was looking for.
On the way, they met several nannies who asked them what they were looking for and if they needed directions. Qin Man replied, "No, we're not looking for anything. The child is just curious about new places and wants to explore."
The nannies did not stop them.
After looking at the rooms on the second floor, Qu Chen went to the third floor.
Then he ran forward for a while and stopped at the door of a room.
The sound of a piano came from the room; it sounded like someone was playing the piano.
Qu Chen already knew how to open doors, so he simply turned the doorknob and ran inside.
Qin Man and Jian Tanxi were both startled and rushed inside, trying to drag him out.
At this moment, they saw that the person in the room was Mrs. Rong, Guan Jing, who had just been playing the piano.
Guan Jing smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything you need?"
Qin Man quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Rong, my child was being naughty and ran into your room. Please forgive him."
Guan Jing smiled and said, "It's okay, I think this child is very cute. His name is..."
Qin Man: "His name is Qu Chen."
"Okay, I got it. Qu Chen, would you like some candy?"
Qin Man: "That won't do, look at his teeth."
Qin Man pried open Qu Chen's mouth, revealing a mouthful of sparse teeth. Many of his teeth had been corroded to the point that only half of them remained.
Guan Jing laughed and said, "This is the first time I've ever seen teeth like these. In that case, Xiao Chen, you can't eat candy anymore."
However, Qu Chen did not ask for candy. Instead, he took Qin Man's hand and placed it on Guan Jing's hand.
Then, Qu Chen pulled Jian Tanxi and placed her hand on Guan Jing's other hand.
Guan Jing smiled and said, "Little friend, what do you want to do? Do you want me to shake hands with your mother and Sister Jian?"
Qu Chen didn't say anything, he just stared blankly at Guan Jing.
After a while, Qu Chen suddenly said to Guan Jing, "Let's go... let's go..."
Guan Jing was surprised, but she still walked out uncontrollably.
However, she didn't know where to go, so she stopped at the door.
Qu Chen grabbed Guan Jing's hand and led her down the stairs, all the way to the outside of the villa.
Then, Qu Chen released Guan Jing's hand.
Guan Jing, being good-tempered, wasn't angry. She simply smiled and asked Qu Chen, "Why did you bring me outside?"
Qu Chen did not answer, and Qin Man explained, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Rong, this child doesn't talk much, and even when he does, he only says one or two words. Moreover, it seems that he has gained a special ability, which is that what he says will come true. He just looked at you and said 'go,' and that's why you walked out involuntarily."
"I see. This ability is quite interesting."
With that, Guan Jing turned and walked back.
However, as soon as she entered the villa, Qu Chen anxiously grabbed Guan Jing's hand and said, "Let's go... let's go..."
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