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Chapter 175 "The 6-Digit God Code.

"The door... the door opened?"

When they saw Chen Yi effortlessly push open the wooden door that had trapped them for half an hour, both Sword Without End and Tuberculosis Rabbit stood there, dumbfounded.

What's happening?

Was the door unlocked? Could it really be opened just by pushing?

Upon stepping outside the wooden door, Chen Yi couldn't help but twitch slightly at the corner of his mouth, feeling embarrassed.

He had searched every corner of the room but couldn't find the slightest clue about the wooden door.

Only after making sure nothing was overlooked did the possibility cross his mind that perhaps the wooden door was not locked at all.

Once all possibilities are excluded, the last one, however implausible, must be the truth.

They had assumed that leaving the room would require some mechanism to open the wooden door, but to their surprise, it just needed a simple push.

"Well..."

Sword Without End and Tuberculosis Rabbit, momentarily speechless, grimaced at each other in silence, grateful that no one had witnessed the scene, or they would have been utterly humiliated.

"Wait for me, I'll try the password."

Tuberculosis Rabbit immediately turned around and headed back toward the coded door inside the room. Originally, he did not plan to try entering the password because that ID card was too conspicuous and looked like a trap.

But now he wasn't so sure anymore.

Perhaps this map was really simple, and they had just overestimated it.

'989327'

'Ding, password incorrect, two attempts remaining, after three consecutive errors, the bomb will begin a 30-second countdown.'

"That's not right."

Tuberculosis Rabbit frowned, expressing disappointment.

At that moment, Sword Without End leaned in from behind and tentatively said, "Try reversing it to 327989."

"Reverse it?"

"Yeah, according to social engineering statistics, a significant portion of people use their birthdays as passwords, for instance, 989327. But since payment software and banking passwords can't be the same..."

"Many people's other common password is their birthday reversed, to make it easy to remember."

"Makes sense. I'll try again."

'327989'

'Ding, password incorrect, one attempt remaining, after three consecutive errors, the bomb will begin a 30-second countdown.'

"Still incorrect."

Tuberculosis Rabbit shook his head in disappointment, stood up, and quickened his pace to catch up with Chen Yi: "Let's go. There's no hope of passing the level by opening the coded door to leave the corridor; let's aim to clear the level normally."

The corridor was not short.

They reached the end after just a few steps.

At the end of the corridor was a small room with a sign hanging above it.

'Push open the wooden door to enter the first challenge, after clearing the sixth challenge, all players can leave the island safely.'

This glaring sentence virtually slapped each of the three onlookers in the face.

"..."

A blank-faced Tuberculosis Rabbit stared at the wooden sign and said, "So the three of us were searching the room for half an hour, but actually, there was nothing in that room, just a starting point for players, right?"

"The challenge officially begins after you push this wooden door open, right?"

"Interesting."

Chen Yi did not speak but simply pushed open the door in front of him.

A rather spacious room was revealed, with a wooden sign on the wall marking the first challenge.

Four display screens were hung on the wall, each with an English letter beneath it: A, B, C, D.

Each display screen showed a looping video.

On the first screen, a man was seen crying as he drank pesticide and lay down under the bed.

The second screen showed a man being suffocated to death by a figure in black covering his mouth and nose.

The third screen displayed a man being smothered to death with a pillow in bed by someone in black.

The fourth screen depicted a man being knocked out with a hammer and then forcibly poisoned with pesticide.

Another line of text was on the wall.

'Question: Which of the following death methods applies to the victim at the starting point? The captain must make a selection.'

'Answer correctly to proceed to the next challenge. Answer incorrectly, and the bomb countdown will be reduced by two hours.'

"Well, isn't this special?"

Tuberculosis Rabbit was momentarily taken aback before turning to look back and discovering that the wooden door through which they had entered the room had vanished. He then broke into a grin: "Looks like our time wasn't wasted at the starting point. The first challenge of this escape room fits right into our previous experience."

"Do we even need to ask? It's obviously C, smothered to death with a pillow."

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The escape room was a one-way trip.

That is to say, if they hadn't carefully searched the starting point and had just pushed open the wooden door to come to the first challenge and wanted to go back to check when they saw this question, they would have found no way back.

Then it would have been over; they would have had to make a wild guess.

It seemed that spending half an hour at the starting point wasn't such a dumb move after all; instead, it led them to stumble upon plenty of valuable information.

"Wait!"

Sword Without End interrupted, speaking seriously, "Tuberculosis Rabbit, you just deduced that the deceased didn't die from strangulation but from suffocation. Then option B could also be possible, after all, we can't tell whether they were smothered with a hand or a pillow."

"Sigh."

Tuberculosis Rabbit sighed helplessly, "When I explore the map with Yi, he never asks me these questions. If someone was suffocated with a palm, there would be clear abrasions around the nose and mouth. Even killing a pig would involve some struggle, let alone a person."

"Only by smothering with a pillow could you avoid leaving abrasions around the nose and mouth."

At this point, Chen Yi had also made his choice.

'Ding, congratulations to the "Rabbits Do Not Kill" team for answering correctly. The correct answer is C, answer successively to enter the next round.'

A wooden door slowly appeared on a wall inside the room, indicating for people to enter.

Chen Yi and the others exchanged glances, and instead of entering immediately, they cautiously searched the room they were in for clues, in case there was no turning back.

The room was relatively empty, apart from a display on the wall, there wasn't much else.

In the corner of the wall, there was a homemade cross.

And in front of the cross, there were two distinctly pale marks.

"The victim must have often knelt here to pray in this house,"

Tuberculosis Rabbit mused aloud, "When I examined the body just now, I noticed that the knees were slightly deformed, a sign of prolonged kneeling."

"Such deformity couldn't have happened without a long accumulation of time."

Having found no other useful information, Chen Yi entered the wooden door to the next round, and as they entered the next room, the wooden door behind them also slowly disappeared.

There was no way back.

On the wall was an obvious bomb countdown timer.

'03:19:42'

With a little over three hours left, the bomb would explode, and if players couldn't successfully leave, they would have to spend Points to do so, or else, the price would be death by explosion.

This level also had four display screens.

On the wall hung a wooden sign with "Second Level" and a line of question written on it.

'Question: Why did the original victim confine themselves here?'

The display screens listed four answers.

1: To avoid debt collectors.

2: Committed something wrong years ago and fled to this small island.

3: Knew the depth of their sins and sought redemption here.

4: Asocial by nature, unwilling to deal with the outside world, preferring a reclusive life.

'Answer correctly to enter the next level, answer incorrectly and the bomb countdown decreases by 2 hours.'

"This answer is also very simple, pick C,"

Tuberculosis Rabbit spoke somewhat emotionally, "It seems the clues at the starting point are very important, but the mechanics of this map are quite interesting—the bomb countdown starts at 4 hours."

"Answer incorrectly once, and it decreases by 2 hours."

"It looks like there are two chances of making mistakes, but in reality, there's only one. Once you answer incorrectly, there's less than 2 hours left on the countdown."

"If you answer incorrectly again at this point, the bomb will explode immediately, leaving no chance to leave the map in advance."

"So after one incorrect answer, the second chance turns into a gamble. If you answer incorrectly, the bomb explodes right away, leaving no chance of escape. It's like betting your life for a chance."

"I just don't know if all six levels of this escape room are in the form of Q&A like this?"

Sword Without End looked around and picked up the conversation, "If that's the case, there could be a possibility of cheating, right? Just tell the answers for the six choices to others, then they can get through too, and the map rating would then just be about who runs faster."

"It's completely unrelated to the clues."

"That's true."

Chen Yi didn't join the conversation, calmly chose C, answered correctly, and smoothly moved on to the third level.

The third level's question—

'When is the victim's birthday?'

"March 27th, choose D."

Tuberculosis Rabbit quickly gave the answer, raising his eyebrows slightly with a touch of pride, "It's very simple, isn't it?"

Then he turned to Yi beside him, started to speak with some confusion, "Yi, what are you thinking about? Ever since we started at the initial point, I've felt that you haven't been quite right. Do you sense something off about this map?"

Chen Yi stared at the options on the wall in front of him silently for a while before speaking, "Do you remember when we entered the map, the rule mentioned that by inputting the correct starting point password, one could use the secret passageway at the starting point to leave the uninhabited island and pass the level successfully?"

"Of course, I remember."

Tuberculosis Rabbit shook his head helplessly, "But with a six-digit code, there are a million possible combinations. Without enough clues, there's no way to guess what the password is."

"I think I may have figured out the password to that door."

Tuberculosis Rabbit was stunned for a moment before speaking incredulously, "Yi, are you serious? How did you figure out that password? Sword Without End and I have already tried, it's not the birthday."

"It's normal that it's not the birthday."

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes calmly and continued, "Someone who drank themselves into a murderous rage, reincarnated to the past, found a small island for redemption, doesn't seem like someone who would care about their own birthday."

"Such a person naturally wouldn't use their own birthday as a password."