- I feel the same way. It's clearly a system face, but I can see a mesmerizing soul inside that skin.
-Let's talk about this quietly at home, Tianlu is really rude...
-I don't understand why Shanyu wants to hang out with him. I've never really liked Tianlu...but I can't help it because I see straight men in Battle Royale like him!
Battle Royale is another combat shooting game, so it seems Xuan Yuan Tian Lu's live streams have a wide reach. Wen Zheng didn't know this before, but now he understands a little bit about the source of his arrogant attitude.
If you're unhappy, you resort to verbal sparring; that's a traditional trend in shooting games.
Without thinking much, he followed at the back of the group and watched Shan Yu open the door leading to the fifth floor.
What you see is a gloomy blue.
The lighting was a cold, pale white, with densely packed bulbs embedded in the ceiling, creating an effect similar to a shadowless lamp.
The walls were covered with messy dental advertisements and notices, among which an X-ray of a tooth stood out.
Wen Zheng walked over and saw a noticeable cavity on the fourth tooth from the left on the upper row of teeth, while the first tooth from the left was painted red with an oil-based marker.
"What is this?" Shan Yu walked behind him, looked over Wen Zheng's shoulder, and stared at the X-ray.
The simulated human body temperature caused Wen Zheng to unconsciously tense up.
Unaware of what was happening, Shan Yu continued her analysis: "It's clearly the fourth tooth that's damaged, but it's marked as the first one..."
With a ding-dong sound, all four looked at their own panels.
The map has been updated, and the starting room is now displayed. Updates will be shared in the future.
"The walkie-talkie is what we use now, right?" Shan Yu weighed the pink Kitty in her hand. "Shall we split up and look for clues?"
Everyone agrees.
The door to get in was locked; the only way forward was to proceed.
Outside this room was another corridor with countless rooms on both sides. Deng Puyue tried turning the handles first, and was able to open several in a row.
So the four of them each chose a direction and went to explore room by room.
Wen Zheng finally returned to single-threaded mode, looked at the comments, and realized he couldn't understand them anymore.
Nowadays, netizens love abbreviations, which are so difficult to understand that they're almost like passwords. Wen Zheng has gotten used to them and has learned to ignore them.
"The X-ray we just saw is a key clue. Let's look for any other similar ones."
Wen Zheng pushed open a door, and sure enough, there was a sign posted on the wall.
The comments section answered for him: Yes!
This time, the fourth tooth from the left was marked in red, and the seventh tooth had a hole.
Wen Zheng pondered silently, then roughly ripped the X-ray film off: "Hmm, take it with you."
Besides the X-ray films on the wall, the room, about half the size of a classroom, was piled with clutter in the center, reaching half a person's height, and was impossible to pass over unless it was specially cleaned.
Veteran players know that this means there will be a boss in the future.
Running around certain obstacles and using speed and time differences can help you outrun the boss; or you can hide in a cabinet by the wall to successfully avoid danger.
There was nothing else of significance in the room. Wen Zheng went into several more rooms and pulled out a stack of CDs.
As the shared map expanded, the walkie-talkie suddenly started crackling.
Tianlu said impatiently, "Hey? Can you hear me? Shanyu, come here. There's a cabinet in the northeast corner of the map that I can't open."
Deng Puyue joined in the fun: "What kind of cabinet is it? What does it look like?"
"Safe! Damn it, it needs a password, something like ABC."
"Don't rush," the storm seemed to be brewing, and the voice said gently, "I'm coming."
The walkie-talkie went silent, and Wen Zheng went to the next room. After searching around, he also found a safe embedded in the wall.
He leaned closer to the walkie-talkie: "I found one too."
"Little Z? Don't worry, I'll come help you in a bit."
Wen Zheng didn't need his help; he just wanted to report. But the walkie-talkie was already put down, and he was too lazy to pick it up and explain, so he started cracking the code hints first.
Wen Zheng solved a simple elementary school math problem in less than ten seconds, then entered the password by referring to the replacement password table.
The sound of mechanical rotation overlapped with the electrical hum from the walkie-talkie, distorting the imminent stormy tone of the voice.
"Little Z, I'm coming right now."
"No need, I've already unlocked it." Wen Zheng took out a gleaming diamond from the safe, stepped out of the room, and bumped into Shan Yu who was rushing over.
Unexpectedly, Shan Yu asked, "Is that all?"
"Hmm." Wen Zheng didn't say anything else, but pushed past him and opened the next door. Shan Yu behind him suddenly said, "This is the only one left in the east. Let's look for it together, hurry up."
"……good."
The moment the door opened, Deng Puyue yelled, "Holy crap, we think we've finished exploring the map!! A super, super, super huge door spawned in front of me!! What does it say on it, C, B, XO?... Wait, and then the monsters... came out too..."
"Ding-dong—" After the crisp ringing, the hospital's public address system suddenly started working.
A deep male voice rang out: "Susan... my sweet baby... where did you... hide my tools..."
Before they could react, the zombie dentist emerged from the black hole and suddenly appeared a dozen meters away, staring at them with venomous eyes!
"Hehe..."
It twisted its neck, bared its teeth, and bulged its eyes, as if the two people in front of it were accomplices of the brat Susan, the culprits who caused his hospital to go bankrupt—
The screen was flooded with "Ahhh!" comments, with many saying they had manually turned on the tense and exciting background music for this moment!
Wen Zheng was afraid it would affect his performance, so he turned off the bullet screen.
The next moment, he raised his hand and summoned his exclusive item, the measuring ruler.
Silver light gathered in his palm, condensing into a ruler that emitted a soft white light. It wasn't a weapon, but Wen Zheng always used it as one, and it was invincible against bosses.
All of this happened in an instant.
He had just shifted his body to lift his leg forward when a large hand grabbed his forearm!
"What are you standing there for? Run!" Shan Yu pulled him suddenly, and Wen Zheng almost stumbled. He followed Shan Yu into the room he had just been in, completely bewildered.
The door slammed shut, and Shan Yu quickly moved a table to block it, looking around: "Don't be afraid, don't be nervous, just get past it—there."
A broom cabinet, the kind found in every room, stands against the wall; it's clearly a place to hide someone.
Shan Yu pushed Wen Zhengxian in first: "You go first."
He had a comforting smile on his face, which made Wen Zheng a little dazed. After a moment, he realized that Shan Yu's tall body had also squeezed in, almost pressed tightly against him.
The cabinet door was closed, and it was both dark and hot.
It's really hot.
Wen Zheng's ears turned red involuntarily, and after a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "What are you doing?"
"Shh—" Shan Yu held up a finger, then lowered her voice: "Keep your voice down. When it comes in, just breathe softly and the system will determine that you are in the silent range."
"…………"
No, I don't care about those things.
Wen Zheng thought angrily, "Am I being treated like a young lady and being hit on?"
The door was banged on loudly, whether it was because the table was blocking it too well or because of the system's judgment, the debris on the wall fell down, but the door was not even opened a crack.
Shan Yu relaxed a bit and was in the mood to joke around. He pressed himself close to Wen Zheng and even breathed into his ear.
"I roughly know how to use the X-ray. It's the key to unlocking the final door."
Wen Zheng paused slightly as he tried to move away, his attention drawn to the word "key".
Unbeknownst to him, his red ears were being gazed at tenderly by Shan Yu, and all of this was being shown to the viewers in both live stream rooms.
"The so-called code is simply taking simple words or numbers, scrambling or replacing them in a certain order, and rearranging them into symbols that are difficult for ordinary people to understand."
"Those X-rays are constantly telling us how the original text was disrupted."
Do you know the Caesar cipher?
The zombies pounded on the door, but the voices in my ears spoke softly and gently.
Wen Zheng was momentarily confused.
Long ago, amidst the summer cicadas' chirping, a gentle voice spoke to him in a similar way...
"Xiao Zheng, do you know the Caesar cipher?"
"The Caesar cipher is a code used by a man named Caesar in ancient times. Initially, codes were mostly used to transmit information during wars. Even if an encrypted letter was intercepted, the enemy, who did not know how to decipher it, would not understand its meaning."
"Caesar and his men agreed that all the letters in their letters should be moved three places forward before being read together."
"The original D was written as A. The original E was written as B. When the loop reaches the last position, the original A is written as X."
The zombies pounded on the door, making the sounds of impending doom grow even quieter.
"In this way, a simple English word can become a completely meaningless string..."
The teeth on the X-ray: the fourth cavity is highlighted in red, the first one is shown. The seventh cavity is highlighted in red, the fourth one is shown. This perfectly matches the deciphering method of the Caesar cipher.
CBXO, move three positions to the right.
—Fear.
The zombie entered the room, and a storm was brewing. It grabbed him tightly from behind, and Wen Zheng felt his heart pounding in his throat.
Author's Note: Big Black is jumping around: What the hell?! What's going on?! Does this person want to die?!
(I wonder if everyone understood! The Caesar cipher is very simple; you just need to replace the letters according to the rules~ Interested little ones can try it out manually and encrypt the notes passed in class (???). In the next chapter, I'll make sure this dungeon is finished, otherwise Big Black will bite... After that, I'll be playing with Big Black all the time!)
(P.S. I drew a new cover, do you guys like it?)
(Quickly say you like it!)
(...Okay, actually quite a few little angels said it was scary, but how is our big black guy scary when he yawns!? But if everyone thinks it's scary, I'll censor it [slide kneeling and fists])
(Last random sentence: Seeing that my classmates have left so many comments, Yuanyuan wants to too QAQ, so I'm bringing out Dahei for everyone to pet—)