The two found a suspicious wooden box in the room where Yin Mu woke up, which was a four-digit password. There was a note on the box that read: Happy Birthday.
Zoe took the box and looked up and down. When it was shaken, there was a clanking sound inside: "There should be something inside. The birthday of the owner of the box is the password."
Yin Mu nodded, and Zoe added: "I don't see any clues about the date..."
"The calendar in your room." Yin Mu reminded.
Zoe stopped shaking the box, looked up at Yin Mu, took the box with her in surprise, climbed out of the window, and walked from the corridor to the room where she woke up.
Yin Mu followed Zoe, and both of them saw six numbers circled in different colors on the two calendars.
"With so many numbers, I guess this clue doesn't match the box, so take it with you." Zoe took the bag and put in all the things that looked like clues, and waited for the eight people to find most of the clues and solve them one by one.
When Yin Mu lay down to look for clues, he found two pieces of paper under the bed. He reached for the closer one, took it out and unfolded it, and found that it was a torn-out diary.
——March 7 Sunny——
[The osmanthus tree in front of my house was bought by a foreigner. For the money I got from selling the tree, my mother took me to the county to eat foreign food. My grandma said that my mother was unfilial and the tree has a spirit. If we don’t want it anymore, it will blame us.]
"Zoe, look, this should be written by the protagonist of this story." Yin Mu flattened the paper ball and placed it in Zoe's hand, then reached out from another direction and pulled out another paper ball under the bed.
Zoe saw the diary on the paper and was puzzled: "'Trees have spirits'? Could it be that the laurel tree turned into a fairy and came to find them?"
"I don't know." Yin Mu finally took out another paper ball, stood up, patted the dust on his body, unfolded the paper ball, and brought it to Zoe to look at it together.
——April 3 Cloud——
[I dreamed of a big sister. She wished me a happy 16th birthday and said that if I have time, I would go to the county to visit her. She lives in a hotel. Who is she? I don’t know, but she asked me
I feel very friendly.]
"Happy birthday, April 3rd? Let me see." Zoe took out the wooden box and entered 0403, which was wrong.
Yin Mu reached out and flipped the last digit of the combination lock: "Maybe April 2."
"Hey? Why?"
"I don't know, it's just that I prefer to add 'I dreamed about it last night' when describing dreams, so I guess his birthday is the day before."
Yin Mu dialed the code to 0402, and the code lock was opened. The two looked at each other in surprise. After opening the box, they found a round jade pendant with cyan tassels hanging inside.
Zoe took out the jade pendant and looked at it: "Is there any mystery behind this jade pendant?"
"Maybe a key to somewhere?"
"Bring them all with you. Useless things will not be locked."
Zoe put the wooden box aside, and Yin Mu suddenly noticed something carved inside the wooden box.
"Zoe, look here, it may be related to the place where the jade pendant is used." Yin Mu picked up the box and pointed out the clues to Zoe.
There is a picture engraved in the box, which is a round jade pendant hanging on a branch.
"That's really strange. Do we need to find this tree and hang the jade pendant on it? There is no rope to hang this jade pendant."
"Let's take a look again."
Nothing useful was found in the room, and the eight people still gathered in front of the safe passage door.
The existing clue items are: a yellowed diary with several torn pages, a tea cup that looks very dated, a osmanthus leaf, a longevity lock, a record from the Republic of China period, a password box, two
A wall calendar, a jade pendant and two torn-out diaries.
Put the torn off diary paper back into the diary according to the date, and everyone reads the diary carefully.
——February 14th ——
[My grandma told the story of the man who planted the osmanthus tree in front of his house. She said: When that man was very young, there was an osmanthus forest in his hometown. Every autumn, the fragrance of the osmanthus trees was fragrant.
When he moved here when he was a boy, there were no osmanthus trees here. He wanted to plant one because the osmanthus tree made him feel at ease. He planted it, and the osmanthus tree grew very well, and he could smell the fragrance of osmanthus flowers again every year.
Later, he went to distant places to fight, and it took several years to come back. When he was away, the osmanthus trees had fewer flowers and looked listless. Whenever he came back, the osmanthus trees were always blooming well, and his family said: The trees have spiritual powers.
, Guishu can’t bear to leave you.
Later, he left a jade pendant hanging on the branches of the osmanthus tree. That time, he was going to participate in what seemed like a big battle. Everyone was looking forward to his return from the battlefield, but he never came back. He stayed.
There, in that war.
The messenger brought the news of his death and a letter home, but the osmanthus tree stopped blooming.
Outsiders said, why keep the osmanthus tree if it doesn't bloom? Cut it down to burn firewood. The family didn't want to, saying that this osmanthus tree was their longing for him.
Grandma seemed very unhappy when she finished telling the story, but she smiled again when she saw me. She told me: On the day I was born, it was obviously not autumn, but the laurel tree was blooming, and it was more lush than all the laurel trees.
, blooming until winter, it seems to have finished blooming all the flowers in a hundred years, and it seems to be welcoming me.
I don’t know, I always don’t understand what grandma said. Mom said it was just an old tree, and grandma said it had spiritual energy and could understand our words.]
——March 10——
[I don’t know why, but when I see the empty pit in front of the door where the osmanthus trees were planted, I always feel empty inside. 】
——April 4——
[Grandma said she saw the tree spirit of the osmanthus tree. The tree spirit is a beautiful big sister. The tree spirit said she missed us. 】
——July 6——
[I went to the county town alone, and I saw the osmanthus tree! It was planted in front of a hotel. The sister in the dream must be the tree spirit, and she was well taken care of.]
"The tree spirit gave him a dream and hoped that he would come to see him?"
"It should be. There will probably be an NPC playing the role of a tree spirit later, and this jade pendant is for her."
The passwords in different positions on the lockbox have different colors, which correspond to the colors of the numbers circled on the wall calendar. The numbers can have two digits or one digit. For two digits, add the tens and ones digits. After inputting, unlock the password and take out a
Take the cross key.
Insert the key into the door lock of the safe passage, the door is opened, and the sensor light in the corridor lights up in response.
Everyone applauded to celebrate the passage of the first floor, boosting the atmosphere.
After going downstairs, I saw that the way down was blocked. Without a key, it should be impossible to pass. The security door was open.
Arriving on the fourth floor, the eight people saw that it was an entire venue with several pillars standing in the middle. At the end of their field of vision was the door to the safe passage.
There was a table in the middle of the venue with steaming food on it, which was their breakfast today.
"Great! I thought I couldn't eat if I didn't go out today."
There are a lot of unknown things piled around the site. If you are looking for clues, you should look inside.
But first, you have to eat enough. This chapter has been completed!