“Everyone, don't touch anything in the room carelessly…” Feng Bujue said, immediately turning his head back after seeing the corpse, “Based on this script's nature, we might be heading into a 'crime scene investigation' type of puzzle, so… it's better if we keep the scene intact.”

“I say… Brother Jue, do we even need to investigate?” Xiao Tan said, holding up his flashlight and looking at the corpse pinned under the bookshelf, “It's obvious he was crushed to death by the fallen bookshelf…”

“Heh… Brother Xiao Tan, you're oversimplifying things.” Mr. Buu, who aimed to be a great detective, confidently said to Xiao Tan at this moment, “When investigating a crime scene, the most important thing is to not be misled by surface appearances…” He also shone his flashlight on the corpse and added, “Look closely… there are several books under the corpse too…”

He was right. Several exposed book corners showed that there were at least two or three books under the corpse.

“If the bookshelf fell and crushed him to death, how did the books get under his body?” Buu said, “Isn't that suspicious?”

“Of course it's not suspicious…” Before Buu could finish, Feng Bujue directly responded, “In this kind of situation, I can immediately come up with two reasonable hypotheses…” He held up one finger and continued, “First, when the bookshelf fell, it's very likely that some books fell from it. Since books fall faster than a bookshelf, a few of them just happened to land under the deceased.” He paused for half a second and held up a second finger, “Second… you also saw that the corpse is face down, which means… she was facing away from the bookshelf when it fell. Considering the deceased is a woman, we can completely assume that… before she died, she had just taken a few books from the shelf, then hugged the books to her chest and turned to leave. And just at that moment, the bookshelf fell…”

“Wow! As expected of Teacher Jue, his investigation of the crime scene is so profound…” The worshipful light shone in Buu's eyes once again.

“Mm… as expected of Teacher Jue, his reasoning speed is also a little faster than ordinary people…” Oub added from the side.

“Hey, hey… I was the first one to say 'crushed to death by the bookshelf'…” Xiao Tan said with a dry laugh, “When I said it, it was 'oversimplifying things,' but when Brother Jue says it, it's profound…”

“Because you only saw the surface.” Feng Bujue said in a deep voice, “While Buu saw the information hidden beneath the surface.” He paused, “As for me… I saw the deeper truth that the information hidden beneath the surface reflected…”

“And that truth happens to coincide with the surface, right?” Xiao Ling interjected.

“Correct.” Feng Bujue replied, “Xiao Tan's and my views seem consistent, but in reality, there's a difference. He 'knows what happened but doesn't know why,' while I am 'fully aware'.”

“So good at patting yourself on the back…” Ruo Yu said coldly.

“Thank you for the compliment.” Brother Jue shamelessly admitted and took the opportunity to change the subject as he said the next sentence, “In short… let's focus our attention on the room in front of us…” As he used the light in his hand to guide everyone's vision, he said, “Besides the furniture and the corpse, what's more concerning should be…” The light circle landed at the other end of the room, “That door…”

At this moment, what Feng Bujue was shining the light on was a deep gray metal door, with a pirate symbol painted on it (a skull with two crossed scimitars below).

“It feels a bit out of place…” Xiao Tan said, “The door is metal, but the walls on both sides are just wood…”

“This has nothing to do with the material…” Xiao Ling said in a rather helpless tone, “Anything the system doesn't want us to break, we can't break, even if it's made of paper.”

“That's right.” Feng Bujue added and walked toward the door, “Even if the wall is made of paper, you have to open this door to get through.”

Before he finished speaking, he had already reached the door, reached out and grabbed the doorknob to try it.

The system prompt \[Please enter a six-digit password] immediately rang in his ear, and a "password input menu" popped up in front of him.

At the same instant, a strange thing happened… the corpse pinned under the bookshelf suddenly moved.

This startled everyone else in the room, and Xiao Tan almost cried out again.

Just as everyone was still in shock, the corpse began to sing softly:

\[One, two, three, start it off.

Four, five, six, go vertically.

Let us sing the pirate's song.

Enter the river leading to treasure.]

After singing, the corpse began to rot rapidly and gave off a nauseating stench…

Before long, a corpse that was originally still relatively intact became a pool of pus wrapped in clothes.

“Ah, this is simple.” Facing the still lingering stench, Feng Bujue didn't care. All he was concerned about was the puzzle, “I can open the door now.” As he spoke, he entered the six letters \[t][s][A][t][A][w] in the menu.

In the next second, the door with the pirate mark on it actually opened…

“What's going on?” Oub was stunned.

“Oh, this is how it is…” Feng Bujue explained, “When I touched the doorknob, the system voice told me that I needed to enter a six-digit password to open the door.” He glanced at the pus on the ground, “Then, the corpse gave a very obvious hint. So, I entered t, s, A, t, A, w… and then the door opened.”

“Huh?” Xiao Tan was still confused, “Where did these six letters come from?”

Feng Bujue turned to look at him and said, “Do you remember the pirate song from before?”

Hearing this, Xiao Ling was the first to react, “Oh! I know!” Her memory was very good. After Brother Jue reminded her, she realized the secret, “The clue to this puzzle was hidden in the previous pirate song. Leaving aside the yoho refrain… the first sentence 'the_king_and_his_men' starts with \[t], and the second sentence 'stole_the_queen_from_her_bed' starts with \[s], and so on… then it's \[A], \[t], \[A], until the sixth sentence 'where_we_will_well_roam' has \[w], then there are six letters.”

“Oh… no wonder that song was sung in English.” Buu said in realization.

Oub added, “As for 'One, two, three, start it off, four, five, six, go vertically,' it's telling us how to decipher that 'pirate song'.”

“And after deciphering it, we can reach…” As Feng Bujue said this, he leaned forward and pushed open the door, “…'the river leading to treasure'.”

Accompanied by his words, a golden light poured in from the doorway.

Outside this metal door with the pirate symbol… there was actually a three-meter-wide, golden river.

The river water flowed slowly, making a gurgling sound. The riverbed was covered with gold and silver jewelry, and the brilliance of the jewels dyed the originally transparent river water golden and emitted a dazzling light.

“Don't rush out, there's a hidden chest in this room, and there's a skill in the chest.” At this moment, Zhuan Jiezun's voice suddenly rang in Brother Jue's mind.

This was the first time he had heard Zun-ge’s voice since Jue-ge met up with his teammates.

“Hello? Can you hear me?” Feng Bujue immediately recited this sentence silently in his heart, wanting to try whether he could conduct "brain communication" with Zun-ge.

However, after he finished reciting, he waited for several seconds, and the other party did not answer. It seemed that the answer was no…

“Listen, Feng Bujue. I can’t talk to you like this for a long time, so I’ll tell you as much as I can while I can…” After more than ten seconds, Zun-ge said again, “My current state is like ‘struggling to maintain rational thought in a dream,’ as long as I relax a little, this state will be interrupted; I can’t hear the voices from your side, and even the images are very blurry; you don’t need to try to communicate with me, it’s a waste of effort… In short, at certain moments, I will actively contact you and give you some hints. And you… better not disappoint me…”

These words rang directly in Jue-ge’s brain, and only he could hear them.

Feng Bujue didn't plan to tell his teammates about his deal with Zhuan Jiezun, because he knew… there was another powerful existence in this "inner world." At this moment, "it" was definitely also observing the players' every move. If Jue-ge made it clear about his cooperation with Zhuan Jiezun, then that "it" would become alert, making Jue-ge's task even more difficult.

Therefore, after Zun-ge finished speaking, Feng Bujue turned around calmly, looked at his teammates, and said, “Well… judging from the current situation… there shouldn’t be any 'murder mystery' in this room, and that corpse… is just a hint prop.” His gaze swept around Room C again, “However, this room is so big and has so many things in it… maybe there are hidden items or something. How about we all search it?”

“I have no objection.” Ruo Yu immediately agreed to Jue-ge’s suggestion.

After Xiao Ling and Xiao Tan looked at each other for two seconds, the former shrugged and said, “There’s no time limit in this script, so let’s search.”

And Buu and Oub both followed Jue-ge's lead, so naturally they had no objections.

So… the six of them acted separately and launched a carpet search of Room C…

…………

Ten minutes passed quietly.

Just when everyone was gradually losing patience (only Feng Bujue knew that a skill card could be found 100% in this room, while for others, it was just aimless searching), Xiao Tan suddenly shouted loudly, “Hey! Everyone, I seem to have found something!”

Hearing this, the teammates were all energized. The five of them quickly gathered around Xiao Tan, wanting to see what he had found.

Seeing that his teammates had all arrived, Wang Tanzhi took out the hidden blade on the \[Touch of Altair] and quickly cut open the television in front of him…

Under the light of several flashlights, the players suddenly discovered… that the so-called "television" was actually just an empty shell. Inside that realistic shell… was a safe.

“Well… this kind of anti-theft method is really the first time I’ve seen it.” Feng Bujue stroked his chin and said, “Compared to the form of 'hiding it in the wall and hanging a painting in front of it'… this method of 'hiding it inside an old-fashioned television' is obviously more clever…”

“Brother Xiao Tan, you were able to discover this, you’re amazing.” Buu said to Xiao Tan from the side.

“Hehe… just lucky.” Xiao Tan replied honestly, “Just now I just wanted to move this television away to see if there were any clues on the surface of the coffee table. I didn’t expect such a small television… to be so ridiculously heavy, almost smashing my own foot. I felt something was wrong, so I carefully observed it… and then I realized that this television was very abnormal. Logically speaking… old-fashioned Crt television shells would have some vents for heat dissipation, but this television shell was airtight. I immediately thought… is there something hidden inside? So I cut a small hole with the hidden blade and shined a flashlight inside…”

“After playing for so long, I finally saw you solve a puzzle.” At this time, Xiao Ling took half a step forward, patted Xiao Tan's shoulder, and revealed a very gratified expression, “Well… keep up the good work.”

“Hey! Don’t make me sound so miserable, okay…” Xiao Tan replied with squinted eyes, “It’s because I’m always in scripts with you god-like people that I don’t have a chance to solve puzzles!” He was telling the truth. It wasn’t that he couldn’t solve puzzles, it’s just that… every time he solved half of a puzzle (sometimes not even half), a teammate like Brother Jue or Xiao Ling would jump out and directly announce the correct answer and the puzzle-solving process… In this situation, he really didn’t have any opportunity or need to perform.

“Okay, okay… I’ll let you play next time, be good~” Xiao Ling simply put her hand on Xiao Tan's head, and said it like she was coaxing a pet.

“Ahem!” Seeing someone flaunting their relationship in front of him, how could Oub, who was still single, sit idly by and go blind?

He cleared his throat, took two steps forward, and squatted in front of the safe, staring at the safe intently… This series of actions allowed him to successfully drive the couple out of his sight…

Immediately afterwards, Oub said in a deep voice, “Leave the job of opening the safe to me…” As he spoke, he took out a hearing aid from his knapsack, “I’m already familiar with it.”

“Ah, good luck.” With these words, Feng Bujue declared his determination to stand idly by.

What his teammates didn’t know was… just seconds ago, Zhuan Jiezun had already explained the method of opening the box in Jue-ge’s brain: the password to the safe was hidden in a book on the bookshelf that was slightly different in size; and the key to the safe was divided into two parts, which were buried in the two withered potted plants respectively.

However, Feng Bujue did not use the method provided by Zun-ge to unlock it, but chose to play dumb…

There were two reasons why he did this: first, it was to show "it" and let it lower its guard. Second… these reward-type props can indeed be unlocked using methods other than the script settings. If Oub can really open the safe without the help of keys and passwords, then let him open it… What's wrong with letting his teammates get more skill points?

Click, click—

After working for about three minutes, with the help of the medical tool \[Hearing Aid] and the title ability \[Magnetic Fingers], Oub successfully opened the safe.

“Aha! Done!” Oub wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood up.

He didn't reach out to take the skill card in the box, but instead took two steps back as a matter of course, letting his teammates inspect the attributes of the card first. This alone showed that… Oub was a very high-quality player.

\[Name: Cell Enhancement Surgery]

\[Skill Card Attributes: Active Skill, Permanently Mastered]

\[Skill Category: Medical]

\[Effect: Increases the physical skill ability of a teammate (excluding yourself) to twice the original (cooldown time three hours, duration five minutes)]

\[Consumption: 20% of the stamina value limit, ten milliliters of physiological saline (injected with a syringe)]

\[Learning Condition: Medical Specialization A]

\[Remarks: Don't worry, we don't need you to cut open your teammates, nor do we need you to do this in some strictly disinfected place. The person who designed this skill is just a programmer, not a doctor, so… you just need to grab a syringe and symbolically inject your teammate's arm, that's the beauty of the game, isn't it?]