Chapter 1201

Chapter 1201: Memories of summer (14)

Translator: 549690339 

“No need,” Xiao Ling denied Xiao Tan’s speculation without hesitation.

“Ha?” Xiao Tan was stunned when he heard that.

“Hehe … That’s for sure.” Feng bujue laughed.”As a drunkard who is eager to open the wine cellar to get rid of his addiction, I won’t use a complicated encryption method.”

“That’s right. ” Ling continued,”this … We’ll understand once we analyze the principal’s mentality … If possible, he’d love to write the eight-digit password on a piece of paper. That would be the most convenient.” As she spoke, she pointed at the remote control.”Look, he’s already put the remote control together with the two items needed for the decryption. This means that he knows very well that … When he’s addicted, he doesn’t have the time to do anything too complicated. All he can think about is to open the wine cellar as soon as possible.”

“Then why didn’t he just set a simple password, use his brain to remember it, or just write the eight-digit password on a piece of paper?” Ghost hunter added,”this way, even if he is drunk and not in his right mind, he can still open the wine cellar.”

“You’re right … But while he’s making things convenient for himself, he must also consider the issue of safety.” Ling replied,”after all, he’s the principal of a primary school. If the fact that he hid wine in the principal’s office is exposed, he’ll definitely lose his job. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have to build such a ‘secret wine cellar’ and install an entrance with a remote control.”

“Oh …” Ghost hunter understood.

“So …” Xiao Tan continued,”he came up with this ‘convenient and safe’ method. He placed all the items needed to open the wine cellar in the drawer and added some simple encryption to it. This way … Even if someone finds the thing in the drawer, they won’t be able to unlock it in a short time. ”

“Ha … It should be said that … Under normal circumstances, the person who discovered these three items wouldn’t even consider ‘decryption’, right?” Feng bujue smiled and continued,”we use the thinking and perspective of modern people and players to consider the problem … That’s why we thought of the use of these three items. However, what about from the perspective of the characters in this script?” He paused for a moment and continued,”you have to know that this script takes place in the 1970s. That era … Was only about ten years after the birth of the civilian wireless remote control in the true sense. It wasn’t until the 1980s that the infrared TV remote control we were familiar with began to become popular. So … Wireless remote control was obviously still a rare thing for people at that time. How many people in a primary school in a Japan Village could recognize a remote control? Even if someone knew that it was the remote control, so what? This person has to know at least two other things before he would consider the ‘decryption’ level. ”

At this point, brother Jue extended two fingers.””First of all, he has to know that the principal has a secret wine cellar. Only then will he be able to figure out what the remote control is used for. Secondly, he had to know how the remote worked and the exact location of the wine cellar’s entrance … Because the remote control back then used ultrasonic technology instead of infrared, and the wine cellar’s entrance didn’t have an obviously exposed infrared receiver. If the user doesn’t know where the entrance is, they won’t be able to open the wine cellar even if they crack the code. ”

“Oh right … I wanted to ask just now.” When Xiao Tan heard this, he turned to ask Xiao Ling,”how did you find the entrance?”

“I found it by looking at the texture of the floor.” Little spirit replied.

“The floor …” Xiao Tan mumbled as he lowered his head to look again.

Indeed, the wooden floor used in the principal’s office was better than any other area they had been to before. Not only was it thick and tight, but the wooden boards were also patterned.

“Oh! I understand. ” Two seconds later, an Yueqin suddenly came to a realization.”One of the three hints in the women’s washroom is used here.”

“Yes.” “Yes.” Ling nodded.”The seemingly random graffiti on the wall of the women’s bathroom matches the texture of the floor at the entrance of the wine cellar. When I was exploring this room, I felt that the floor patterns were a little familiar. When I heard the leader say that we have to knock on the walls and floor inch by inch to find the entrance, I realized the problem. ”

“Then … The question is back.” Two seconds later, Xiao Tan turned to Xiao Ling.”Then, what is the ‘not complicated encryption’ eight-digit password?”

“42561047.”The next second, Ling gave the answer.

“Ha?” This time, the other five … Including Feng bujue, had the same reaction.

“How did you solve it?” Brother Jue was the first to ask.

“It’s very easy. 231568 multiplied by 616512 gives a twelve-digit number, which is 142764450816 …” Ling replied.”The eight numbers in the middle refer to the eight positions of this twelve-digit number. The sixth is 4, the third is 2, the eighth is 5, the fifth is 6, the eleventh is 1, the ninth is 0, and the next is the sixth … 4, and the last is the fourth … 7. Other than the 6th digit, which has been repeated once, there are no repeated numbers in the 7 digits, which means that ‘there are no two different positions pointing to the same number’. This also conforms to the logic of the password. ”

When she finished speaking, the entire place fell silent …

“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey …” After about five seconds, ghost hunter finally reacted.”Sister … Let’s not talk about the pile at the back …” He paused for half a second and asked in surprise,”you haven’t even turned on your calculator. How did you solve the multiplication of two six-digit numbers?”

“Mental calculation.” Little spirit replied with two words.

These two words made ghost hunter silent for another five seconds. In these five seconds, he observed the other’s expression and found that it didn’t seem like he was joking. So, after five seconds, he replied with these three words: “You win …”

“Oh, by the way …” After ghost hunter finished, Ling picked up the calculator and shook it. “This calculator has no battery. When I checked it just now, I found that it can’t be opened.” After saying that, she threw the calculator on the table.”At that time, I understood … That this was not a ‘tool necessary for decryption’, but a ‘prop to hint’. So, what can a dead calculator tell us? After thinking about it for a while, he understood that the amount of money he earned was in the digits. It was a calculator with a maximum display of 12 digits, and the message it was hinting at couldn’t be more obvious. If you take into account the fact that ‘the principal won’t use overly complicated encryption’ and calculate the various situations of the numbers on the paper, you can easily come to the above conclusion. ”

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At that moment, ghost hunter didn’t want to speak anymore.

An inexplicable sense of defeat continued to expand in his heart and gradually suppressed his fear, causing him to be upset.

Before arranging this script, MA junzhu felt that he was a talent; While his peers were still studying hard in high school to prepare for the college entrance examination, he was already earning a salary that others couldn’t even earn after graduating from their undergraduate studies.

However, when he was going through the script with the people from underworld frontline, Phantom Dawn’s sense of superiority that he had built up after he started working was completely obliterated.

He couldn’t help but start to think … Think about a question that all professional players, e-sports players, or all people who “made a living by playing games” had thought about and should think about.

Apart from playing games, what else did Yingying know how to do? Or rather … What else could he do?

There was a limit to the popularity of any game. No matter how high the quality of the game was, it could not remain popular forever. Eventually, they would be replaced by more advanced and more modern games. However, some games would still be called ‘classics’ after ten or twenty years, while others would fade out of people’s sight after one or two years of popularity, never to be seen again.

The career of any professional player was limited. No matter how much glory he had achieved and how many fans he was pursued by, he would still have to retire one day. This was because people would grow old, and they aged faster than in games … And were easier to be replaced.

However, people were not games. Games that were no longer popular could be taken down and closed, but players who could no longer make money from the game could not be buried on the spot, right?

They still had a long life ahead of them, and they still had to continue …

After entering the game industry, MA junzhe was naturally influenced by such things. He found that many star players, who were like “legends” in the eyes of the players, after years of being out of the public’s sight … Their lives were actually very ordinary, or even bleak. Of course, there were also those who were doing well, such as those who used the money they earned when they were young to start a new business, or those who found a more stable behind-the-scenes job in the game industry, but the proportion of these people was not high.

Ghost hunter was a sensible child. After seeing and hearing so much, he also understood that Wanwan could play games for a lifetime, but it was very difficult to support herself by playing games for a lifetime. It was not a matter of effort or talent, but something that was physically impossible to achieve.

There were many people like him who gave up their studies to enter this industry at a young age. Indeed, before the age of 30, even if they were just blue-collar players, they could still have a good income … But what would happen after the age of 30? What should he do? Most of them had never considered it, or rather … They did not dare to think about it.

It would be best if he could stay in the game industry, but there were conditions to stay … Capital, technology, ability … At least one of them had to be there. It was useless to only know how to play games.

As for switching careers … That was difficult. Even if some people finished college before becoming professional gamers, it was easy to imagine how difficult it was to enter a completely unfamiliar field and start from the bottom after more than ten years of blank space. Of course, this group of people was still okay … There were many practitioners like Ghost hunter who didn’t even finish high school. The situation of them changing careers was even more worrying.

After saying so much, he still had to say something objectively … People at ghost Hunter’s age didn’t need to consider all these concerns and thoughts. With his qualifications, he could at least stay at the top of the gaming industry for another ten years, or even longer.

However, ghost hunter had been thinking about this for more than one or two days.

He didn’t think about that because he was provoked by those people at the frontline of hell today, even though he had suffered quite a bit today …

In fact, he had thought about a lot of things about the “future” before, and what he thought about about his “future”… Was far more than these “realistic problems.” There were also many strange ideas, including doubts about the world, that would always involuntarily appear in his mind …

The reason for this was that MA junzhuo wasn’t an “ordinary” person, so he was a candidate.

His will, talent, and potential … Were all different from others. However … The “current” him had yet to realize this.

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Two minutes later.

The wine cellar’s door was already open, and the password Xiao Ling had guessed was correct.

Feng bujue took the responsibility and led the way into the space under the floor with the flashlight.

“I say …” As brother Jue walked down the stairs, he glanced at the structure of the panel at the entrance and said,”this Mr. Principal of Chong Jiu elementary school, I’m 80% sure he’s an engineering student.” As he said this, he had already walked down the not-so-long flight of stairs and entered a very narrow space below the principal’s office.”The entrance mechanism of this wine cellar and the remote control that comes with it were obviously made by him … Perhaps he dug the entire wine cellar himself.” He stood there for a few seconds and suddenly said,”wait … Is it possible that … The principal directly participated in the construction of this primary school?”

“Hmm …” RUO Yu, who had followed brother Jue down to the wine cellar, quickly replied,”in a small town like this, it’s normal for the project to be handed over to the local Enterprise or relevant people.” She pondered and said,”assuming that the principal is really an engineering student, your speculation is indeed possible.”

As they spoke, the two of them stood still in the wine cellar.

The space was rather narrow, like a compressed subway car. In terms of height, brother Jue could not even straighten his back when he stood inside, and as for width … They could not even stand side by side. If they wanted to switch positions, they would have to turn to the side. As for its length … At a glance, it was a wall five meters away.

When they were observing from above, brother Jue had told them that there was no need for six people to go down together, so only he and RUO Yu came down. The rest of them stayed in the principal’s office to wait.

“I think this speculation is reliable.” As Feng bujue walked forward, he said,”for a space like this, there’s a ninety percent chance that it was set aside before the construction was completed … If he was one of the people in charge of the project, he could easily find an excuse to build a secret room like this.”

“Speaking of which … This place is really small. It’s a little hard to turn around even when the two of us came down.” At this moment, RUO Yu said,”how about … I go up first?”

The moment she asked this question …

A loud bang was heard! The exit of the wine cellar behind them suddenly closed.