Octavian: The first group of players

The hall on the second floor of the cruise ship is richly decorated, a large hanging chandelier hangs from the high ceiling, the height of a full floor, the hall is flanked by a golden spiral staircase, leading directly to the direction of the third floor, in the center of the hall is an open wooden door, the wooden door is facing a portrait of Gevis Octavian Augustus, in the painting Octavian in the ancient Roman robe, holding a sword, standing ambitiously on the hill, there seem to be thousands of soldiers in his chest, an oil painting depicts the eloquence of his life. The hall was covered with a red velvet carpet, and next to the four pillars of the hall was the service desk of the cruise ship, on which lay the bodies of three waiters, they were dead, and the death of the corpses showed that they had been shot to death, some of the bodies were shot in the head, some of them were shot in the chest, they fell crookedly in front of the service desk, and the blood coagulated on the service desk ledger under them.

One-Eye, Lorraine, and Colin descended down the golden spiral staircase to the center of the cruise ship's lobby, where Lorraine looked curiously at the giant oil painting, while One-Eye grabbed the corpses and threw them on the ground, leaning down to look for any weapons on them that could be recovered, while Colin's attention was drawn to the still-lit desktop computer at the service desk.

"Sorry, sorry, no offense......" Colin gently pushed away a corpse lying on the keyboard, moved a chair with less blood, and sat down in front of the computer.

"Da da da", he expertly tapped on the keyboard, some windows popped up on the computer screen that was originally standby, Colin put on his thick glasses, looked at the long list of English prompts, and fell silent.

"Cut, bad luck, these dead people don't have weapons." One-Eye kicked a corpse away, much dissatisfied.

"If there were weapons, probably wouldn't be dead." Lorraine rolled her eyes, but it was Colin's typing voice that caught her attention, "Colin, what are you doing?" ”

"Pull out the cruise ship's control system." Colin said without looking up, the blue light of the computer screen reflecting his face, and after thinking for a while, he typed in a string of codes and successfully gained access.

Control system?

Lorraine stepped forward curiously, watching Colin expertly open one complex page after another, the keyboard of his desktop computer as if it were his battlefield, allowing him to roam freely.

"Di-" Colin opened the cruise ship's back-end control system and successfully brought up the cruise ship's floor plan.

"Found it." He smiled.

"What did you find? Pistol? Or a dagger? One-Eye also walked over.

"No, I found the blueprint of the cruise ship on my computer." Colin turned the computer screen at an angle so that One-Eye and Lorraine could see the computer screen, "This computer was already logged in, and after I got the access, I opened the backend control system and found the encrypted cruise ship blueprint from the past files. The files were unlocked with the decryption program, and the floor plan was obtained. ”

Lorraine nodded incomprehensibly.

She saw Colin tap on the keyboard a few times, and then the cruise ship on the screen was layered like a multi-tiered cake, how many rooms and how many corridors on each floor were clearly visible.

"This picture ......"

"I opened this picture in the control room before, remember?" Colin looked at Lorraine, "But at the time I said that the ship looked like an empty shell, and that the interior of the cruise ship should still be a living labyrinth at that time, but now that the bearded captain is dead, there is no one to control the ghost ship, the maze is gone, and the interior map of the cruise ship can be opened normally." ”

One-eyed folded his hands in front of his chest, frowned incomprehensibly, and gestured his hand in front of the screen: "What are you doing with these pictures?" Can you find the location of the silver dagger? ”

"No, the floor plan is only the first step, the more valuable thing is the monitoring system." Colin turned his head and looked at the security camera in the corner, "If you can hack into the security camera, you can see all the corridors and all the rooms at once, and maybe you can find the silver dagger." ”

"Makes sense!" Lorraine clapped her hands, "Then let's do it." ”

"Okay." Colin lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the cruise ship's control system.

The control system inside the giant cruise ship is very complex, not only the passenger rating system, the cruise ship floor plan, the engine room operation system, and other supporting operating systems, it is really hard to imagine that such a high-tech thing can be linked to the ghost captain, the living maze and other nothingness things, as if the last second was still in the Middle Ages, this second has come to the high-tech 21st century.

One-Eyed sniffed and took a chair aside: "I didn't expect this four-eyed imp to be quite useful sometimes." ”

As he spoke, he took out his precious explosives from his pocket and placed them on the table.

Colin was startled, and suddenly scrambled a string of code.

"Don't be afraid, I'm just going to check if there's any broken explosives and throw them away as soon as possible."

"Don't just throw away the explosives that are still available, and blow them up when the time comes." Lorraine teased.

"Heh, no one knows explosives better than I do." As he spoke, Single-Eyed fiddled with the brown cylindrical explosives, Colin noticed that due to the long-term production of explosives, One-Eye's nails were all black, and his fingers looked blue and purple, which was very disgusting.

He silently withdrew his gaze, and admonished himself in his heart not to look at it.

One-Eye is not a good talker, and if he is dissatisfied, he may lose his life.

"Da da da......" In the hall of Noda, only the sound of Colin tapping on the keyboard remained.

One-Eye fiddles with the precious explosives, while Lorraine watches around vigilantly to prevent other unidentified creatures from popping up.

After a few moments, Colin angrily threw the mouse.

This action caught the attention of One-Eye and Lorraine, who looked at each other, unaware of what was happening.

"Surveillance cameras, they're all bad." Colin explained.

"Bad?" Lorraine glanced at the panoramic camera on the wall.

"I thought it was just the monitoring system locked, but I searched all over the controller background and found that there was no monitoring system at all." Colin shook his head, "There's no way to know the location of the silver dagger without surveillance......"

"In other words, the [Minghe System] wants us to find it one room at a time." One-eyed summary simply.

Unable to refute, Colin lowered his head in frustration.

Lorraine patted Colin on the shoulder as she suddenly thought, if the previous cruise ship was a maze, would the exit of the maze be instructive?

"Colin, I have an idea."

"Huh?"

"Could it be that this cruise is also a big mystery?"

"What do you mean......"

"If the broken monitoring is arranged by the system, maybe the system wants us to find the hidden secrets in the cruise ship, solve puzzles or something, and maybe we can find the silver dagger."

One-Eye and Colin were silent, thinking about Lorraine's words.

In fact, her words are not unreasonable, there are so many floors on the cruise ship, and the functional areas of each floor are different, although there are already floor plans, it is not possible to solve them in a day or two to search for the past.

If it's not something that brute force can solve, then ingenuity is needed.

Suddenly, Colin seemed to remember something.

He took out the pen and paper he had brought with him in the captain's room, and wrote down a string of numbers 1 and 0 on the paper.

He remembered it was......

“110001000001001110。” Colin wrote down the numbers on a piece of paper, but he couldn't remember the numbers after that.

He grabbed his hair vigorously and closed his eyes to recall the numbers on the wallpaper, but except for the first few characters, the other numbers were long blurred in his memory.

"It's ...... Wallpaper? Lorraine saw the clue.

"I suspect the wallpaper is the prompt given by the system." Colin looked up at Lorraine, "Each corridor is decorated in the same way, carpets, doors, roses, background music, but the only difference is the digital ...... on the wallpaper."

"But these 1s and 0s don't seem to have a pattern." One-Eye put away the explosives, touched his chin and looked at the numbers on the paper.

"1 and 0 should represent binary, if I guess correctly, we need to convert binary into decimal, which may be a regular series of numbers, and then we just need to follow the instructions of the series to reach the final destination."

One-Eye nodded, "Well—it makes sense." ”

"But I forgot, the numbers on the wall." Colin sat down in his chair dejectedly.

Lorraine was silent for a long time, then she picked up a pen and paper and continued to write behind Colin's string of numbers—

【11000100000100111010000010001100100011010110110010111110001100001010】

【10111101110111001111110101100111000001000010000000111000100000000110】

【00111110100000100011001000110101101100101111100011000010101011110111】

【01110011111101011001110000010000100000001110001000000001100011111011】

The rough tip of the pen was written on the yellowed paper, and lines of numbers were silently written.

She occasionally frowned, occasionally tapped her head with a pen, and occasionally closed her eyes and thought back to the numbers written on the wall she had also seen.

Strangely, her memory was so vivid that it was as if she were playing back a movie in her head, and she could remember the corridors she had walked, every detail she had seen when she looked up, every number on that wall......

【00000000100010101001001111101011000101001110110111110111001101011000】

【11001101100100010111000000111110100111010011100001111001011011011110】

【01111100001101101001110011101001100001010011010111111110000111011000】

In the end, she actually wrote it in full.

"It's—this is ......" Colin's eyes widened in disbelief.

Lorraine put down the pen and handed the paper to Colin: "Do you look at this string of numbers?" ”

Colin tapped on the keyboard and converted the binary code into decimal and found that it was: 2718281828459045235360287471352...... It is true that the first six or seven digits are consistent with the numbers he had calculated before, that is, Lorraine's memory should be correct!

"Y-How do you remember this?!" Colin looked at Lorraine in surprise, "It takes at least half a day for a normal person to memorize this string of numbers, have you stood in front of that wall for half a day?!" ”

Lorraine smiled embarrassedly: "I don't know why, I think back to that wall, and naturally I remember these numbers." It's strange that I remember not only these numbers, but even details like how many flowers, how many leaves...... It's like, it's like my memory is a camera, taking pictures of everything I've seen and storing it in my head. ”

One-eyed sighed, "What a pervert. ”

Lorraine gave him a blank look, ignored him, and only looked at Colin: "And then?" What is the pattern of this string of numbers? ”

"Hmm......" Colin propped his chin and looked at the string of numbers.

He used the computer of a desktop computer to calculate these numbers, and found that there was no such thing as addition and subtraction, nor did it conform to the law of power operation sequences.

These numbers also do not correspond to each player as they do in Pandora's Secrets.

So......

(Could it be that the sequence itself is seen as a whole?) ）

Colin stood up, took a few steps back and looked at the screen, pulling away a little and seeming to feel something.

(The order in which the numbers are arranged is familiar, as if you've seen them somewhere...... ）

"If you want to be able to show directions, the numbers have to be regular." Colin muttered, "If it's not the law of cycles, if it's not the law of operations, it must be infinitely cyclic decimals......"

As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly realized!

"I see! It's e! ”

"Huh?" One-eyed looked at him with a bewildered expression.

“ｅ！ e=2.7182818284590452353602874713526624977572…… I can't remember the rest of the day, but the numbers are e! ”

"What the hell is E?" One-Eye continued to be confused.

"e, as a mathematical constant, is the base number of the natural logarithmic function. It is sometimes called the Euler number, named after the Swiss mathematician Euler; There is also a less common name, Napier's constant, in honor of the introduction of logarithms by the Scottish mathematician John Napier, which is one of the most important constants in mathematics, like the π of pi and the imaginary unit i. Colin explained, sitting back down in front of the computer, tapping on his keyboard, connecting to the LAN through the computer, and finding the exact value of e on the Internet.

"That's a lot of numbers...... Lorraine sighed in surprise as she looked at the numbers tables.

"It's not enough, we need to convert them all to binary 1s and 0s, and after that, it's the wallpaper we see." Colin nodded, "This is the key to unlocking the labyrinth, as long as you follow the order of E, you will be able to find the right way and find the silver dagger." ”

"But...... With so many numbers, how do you take them with you? Lorraine looked at the numbers and was worried, "It's not difficult for me to remember these, but the difficulty is that I need to compare the wallpaper while walking, and I need to calculate while walking." ”

"I can do the swap between decimal and binary, but if I can go with a computer, it will indeed be faster, because some corridors have forked roads, which requires calculating all the forks in the road to know the correct direction, and if you calculate it manually, it will be a bit time-consuming." Colin frowned, "The computer is a desktop, not a notebook, and there is no way to take it with you, which is very ......"

"Then you stay." One-Eye finally spoke.

Colin and Lorraine turned their heads and looked at One-Eye.

One-eyed snorted, got up from his seat, walked over to the cold corpses, fumbled around, and finally took out a few walkie-talkies.

Oh, and that's a way to do it.