Belvoir Lodge & Control Room

"Da, da—"

The sound of keyboard tapping accompanied by the cacophony of electricity was the only sound in the monitoring room, and the occasional thunderstorm could be heard outside the castle, as if to tell that the eternal night would not end there.

Colin sat in front of the monitor, with a laptop in front of him, and behind the laptop, is the hotel's monitoring system, more than 30 monitoring screens are broadcasting in real time the wind and grass in any corner, as long as he needs, he can tune the monitoring he wants to see to the laptop, zoom in and watch.

In those black-and-white surveillance, some unknown creatures can occasionally be seen flashing through the screen, including four-legged crawling leather walkers, groups of wandering zombies, monsters with ghost faces, and ...... Other gamers.

He pushed his eyes and saw that the surveillance camera in the lobby filmed Caesar and Arthur walking out of the elevator one after the other, and in the elevator behind them, a strange monster corpse could be vaguely seen hanging upside down in the elevator.

"Perverted ......" Colin looked at Caesar carrying an axe under the surveillance camera, and felt a pang of fear in his heart.

He tapped on the keyboard, the screen of the laptop was everything, and switched the surveillance of the restaurant, and he could see the restaurant hallway, Arthur and Kai were walking towards the restaurant. Raising his hand and typing a string of code on the computer, he obtained the control of the surveillance, and was able to freely manipulate the surveillance camera to move left and right to facilitate his 270° field of view.

"Click"

The sound of a pistol loading was heard clearly in the quiet of the surveillance room.

Colin froze as he felt a slight cyclone blow through his sideburns, and he became aware that the door to the monitoring room had opened at some point.

He turned around slightly, and saw an "old friend" standing behind him on the right.

"Hmph, Glasses Boy, I underestimated you before."

A blonde man is standing by the door of the surveillance room, his hands clasped to his chest and his legs propped up. With his back against the door frame, a pair of sharp golden eyes were staring at him, and the bright light of the screen illuminated his side face in the unlit monitoring room.

"I, Icarus......" Colin's face turned pale, he subconsciously raised his hands above his head, and said tremblingly, "Don't, don't kill me......"

"Don't kill you?" Icarus smiled faintly, and his tone of voice was a bit of English gentleman's modesty, "I will never be merciful to people who have no use value. ”

"Oh? That's exactly what I want to say. ”

A familiar voice rang in Icarus's ears. The next moment he smelled the familiar scent of white jasmine perfume, and he was shocked, suddenly realizing that he had been ambushed. But the other party did not give him time to react further. A punch hit him in the abdomen, Icarus took a few steps back in pain, and then felt a whirlwind coming, he instinctively raised his left hand to block, blocked the opponent's high kick leg, held the opponent's ankle with his backhand, took advantage of the opponent's unstable center of gravity, leaned over to dodge the opponent's right hook, and turned around. Bend your elbow against the opponent's throat and instantly press the opponent against the wall.

"Oh, canary." Icarus looked at the Duke in front of him, who was being controlled by himself, and smiled, "Your white jasmine perfume exposes you, but I like the smell very much, it will make me excited." ”

The duke bit her lower lip and glared at Icarus, she didn't expect her preemptive self to actually fail in an ambush, the tip of Icarus's elbow was against her throat, stuck her trachea, feeling a slight difficulty breathing, she couldn't help coughing a few times.

“…… Since you have won, if you want to kill or chop, listen to it. ”

The duke looked away, his face full of disdain.

Like an unyielding war criminal, she would rather die generously than beg for life in humiliation.

Icarus hooked the corners of his mouth, he grabbed the duke's wrist, pulled her body to the edge of the table, and the other hand instantly clamped the duke's neck, slamming her head on Colin's notebook keyboard, and the notebook instantly had a string of chaotic code.

Colin sat in his chair with a pale face, looking at the two people beside him, too frightened to move.

"When did you discuss it?" Icarus looked condescendingly, calmly at the duke's side face pressed to the keyboard.

"......" Duke waited for him stubbornly, gritting his teeth and not saying a word.

Icarus glanced at Colin, his piercing golden eyes revealing an irresistible majesty.

“…… Half an hour earlier, the Duke had met me in the hallway. "I told her that I could hack into the hotel's security cameras so that she could see where Pandora's Box was in the first place, and in exchange, she couldn't kill me, and that she tried to protect me." ”

Oh, I see.

Icarus raised his eyes to look at the large and small surveillance footage, and smiled slightly: "It's indeed a good way to wait for work." ”

"......" Duke struggled to break free from Icarus's grasp, but the other man silently increased the strength of his hand, pressing her neck for a while.

Icarus looked at the flickering surveillance footage, and after a few seconds of silence, he spoke: "Lie." ”

"What?" Colin was stunned.

"Glasses, the monitoring room is so quiet, and the sound insulation is not good, there is no reason why you can't hear my footsteps. But you didn't rush to escape, except that you knew that the canary was lying in ambush nearby, and more importantly, you had to cover up a message......"

Icarus's face was a little gloomy, he grabbed the duke's head, and smashed the enter key on the keyboard, and with a "bang", the display screen of the notebook changed, returning to the original operation interface, which was the login screen of the Belvoir Hotel system.

Seeing that the concealment was exposed, Colin subconsciously lowered his head, avoiding Icarus' gaze.

"Your purpose in the monitoring room is not just to see where Pandora's Box appears, more importantly, you need to connect to the background control system of the Belvoir Hotel through the host system of the monitoring room, you want to find some information, some ...... You can deduce the next appearance of Pandora's Box, right? Icarus looked at the Duke,

"Canary. That's what you're for. ”

“…… How do you know. The duke, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

"There are more than 1,000 rooms in the Belvoir Hotel, and the monitoring room is on the first basement floor, so it takes at least a minute to check the monitoring on the negative first floor and arrive at a certain room in time, in addition to the fact that it may be delayed by the attacks of other players or unknown creatures on the way, it is difficult to find the magic box within three minutes. The odds of success are too small, and you don't look like someone who would take it all or nothing. ”

The bright light of the monitor screen illuminated the side of his face, and Icarus's deep voice sounded loud in the monitoring room.

Colin couldn't help but think of what Icarus had told him before-

……

[Looks like you're a sinister person too, Glasses Boy.] 】

[But remember, in front of me, no one should try to be careful.] 】

……

He shuddered.

What kind of monsters are the people here......

Colin looked at Icarus who was still holding on to the Duke in front of him, he knew that he and the Duke were at a disadvantage, not to mention that he didn't have any weapons on him now, even if he had a gun in his hand, Icarus could instantly snatch the pistol, shoot him, and then solve the Duke by the way.

Maybe they are just a living target for him to improve his blood score.

He is the third-ranked player.

There is no need for him to stay alive......

Unless......

Colin swallowed and steadied himself: "Yi, Icarus......"

Icarus heard Colin's voice and glanced at him with a "say it, fart" expression.

"Now that you know our intentions. Do you want to work with us? ”

"Cooperation?" Icarus narrowed his eyes and stared at Colin.

Uncomfortable by the look, Colin tugged at his collar and continued, "I don't think the box appeared in a room right away...... This hotel is full of irrationalities. Obviously, there are only seven floors, but the number of the room is four digits, from more than 1,000 to more than 7,000, and the total number of rooms is not the same as the total number of rooms, which is obvious. The room number hides a secret. ”

“……”

Icarus listened to Colin's words and was noncommittal.

The Duke glanced at the blonde man, and she knew that Colin's words had managed to get the other man's attention.

She looked at Colin and motioned for him to continue.

Colin was silent and continued, "The design of the corridors is also strange, each corridor has 14 doors, 7 doors on each side, no matter what floor it is. Some corridors are very long, but even if there is a surplus of space, they will never add any more rooms, on the contrary, some corridors are very short, and the length is obviously not enough for 7 rooms, and half a door will be added at the end of the corridor to serve as a room. ”

Colin leaned over the keyboard, and Icarus grabbed the duke's hair, removed the duke's head, and emptied the keyboard.

With a few taps of the keyboard, Colin's laptop screen jumps to several long hallways. As he said, these corridors, no matter how long or short, consist of 14 rooms, which seems to be set up by the system.

“…… In this [Minghe system], every scene is carefully designed, and if it is a [reincarnation] game, it is more inclined to a decryption game. Icarus looked at the surveillance footage and muttered, as if speaking to himself, "This hotel is a puzzle, and if you solve the puzzle, you can find Pandora's secret." ”

"What, are you interested too?" The Duke snorted.

"Of course, Canary, how could I be absent from such an interesting puzzle game."

Icarus smiled faintly, and in the next second, he let go of the duke.

The Duke rubbed his aching neck, straightened his messy hair, and stood firm on the table.

"To be clear in advance, you and I are still in a hostile relationship." She glared at Icarus, drawing the line mercilessly.

Icarus looked at the duke, a smile on his lips, and did not respond.

Seeing that the two men had finally taken a temporary truce, Colin breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down on his laptop, deleting a large string of messy code, tapping on the keyboard, and slightly adjusting the clarity of all the surveillance to make it clearer.

"So, where is the progress now?" Icarus asked.

"Smack." The Duke tossed a small notebook to Colin's keyboard.

Icarus glanced at the small notebook and saw that the words "Belvoir Hotel" were written on the cover of the notebook. The dark green seal covered the palm-sized notebook, and he felt a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"If you want to get more information, you have to log in to the back-end control system of the Belvoir Hotel." Colin shrunk the monitoring screen on the notebook and re-called the manager login interface of the Belvoir Hotel, "But without the manager account and password, it is difficult to break through the system's defense system in a short time, so I asked the Duke to bring the notebook at the front desk." I replayed the surveillance and found that the front desk reception staff used a few notebooks and ledgers on the desktop, but only this small notebook was locked in a drawer, so this notebook must have the password information of the hotel on it...... The beauty doesn't understand computers.,So I've never used a book with a hotel login password.。 ”

Icarus glanced at the Duke, and she had a "yes, that's it" expression.

Colin lowered his head and opened the small notebook.

He pushed his glasses and quickly scanned the lines of small words, sifting through exactly what he needed.

The Duke and Icarus stayed on the sidelines, watching Colin sift through the barrage of passwords.

This seems to be Colin's greatest usefulness.

At this point, they seem useless and superfluous.

"So...... Did you pick the lock at the front desk of your hotel just now? Icarus looked at the Duke and raised an eyebrow, "I didn't know you had the skills. ”

"I was going to do that." The Duke walked to the other side of Colin, clasped his hands over his chest, leaned against the edge of the table, and replied a little lazily, "But when I went to the first floor, I happened to meet the reborn Beauty and Mars, and it happened that they had hit, so I took a bargain." ”

"You besieged Beauty and Mars?"

"No, Beauty killed Mars, but she was also injured, I just got rid of Beauty and got the key to the front drawer." The Duke took out a bunch of keys from his pocket and threw them on the table, "I didn't expect to see you coming when I came back here." ”

"Hmph, the beauty is a femme fatale, and the score is positive."

"You have to be careful, once her score surpasses you, she will be the top three."

"Then she has to live until then." Icarus scoffed.

"Found it." Colin muttered, putting down the small notebook in his hand.

He looked up, pulled up his chair, and tapped the keyboard again with both hands.

"Da Da Da" crisp keyboard tapping sound like the sound of silver beads falling to the ground, round thick lenses reflecting the light, Colin sat in front of the computer screen, his expression was focused, and his lower lip was pursed, like a, a professional hacker.

"The rooms where Pandora's Box has appeared are: 6212, 2656...... The occupants of these two rooms are also just ordinary NPCs, and there is nothing special about them. Colin shook his head, "The number of rooms is too small, and I can't find any pattern based on these two numbers alone." ”

“…… Then add some numbers. Icarus put his hands in his pockets and said in a deep voice, "I remember that every player here has a unique identity. That is, each player has their own room in the hotel. ”

Hearing this, Colin looked back at Icarus in surprise.

"What do you mean...... Find out all the player's room numbers and arrange them, maybe you can find a certain pattern? ”

Icarus nodded.

"Is there a way to do it, Glasses Boy."

"Hmm......" Colin turned his head, scratched his head, and tapped the keyboard again: "As Icarus said, no matter what his identity is in the game, each player has a room in the hotel, 12 players, a total of 12 room numbers, namely: 7434, 2434, 7656, 3656, 1323, 1434, 7217, 1323, 7323, 6434, 1656, 2656, plus the room where the magic box appears: 1767, 1343 out of 14 numbers"

Hearing this, Icarus and the Duke fell silent at the same time.

“…… There are 6 rooms starting with 1, 2 rooms starting with 2, 1 room starting with 3, rooms without 4 and 5, 1 room starting with 6, and 4 rooms starting with 7. Colin leaned back in his chair and stared at the string of numbers, "6, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 4...... Unlike the law of the number series, there is neither increasing or decreasing, nor power-to-power relationship. ”

For a time, the declassification work reached an impasse.

"What if you sort all the numbers?" The duke looked at the string of numbers: "Could it be some circular decimal number?" ”

Colin shook his head.

"If there is a pattern to be found, there should generally be a cycle, otherwise the irrational number of numbers will appear immediately, and it is difficult to finalize the location of the next appearance of the magic box, and these numbers are not regularly arranged sequences from large to small, or from small to large."

"Is there a law of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?" The Duke asked.

"I've used a calculator to do the calculations, and there is no difference or ratio to these numbers, and I've even tried to multiply, square, and synthesize...... I can't find a pattern. ”

"How much can you calculate with a computer in such a short period of time?" The Duke was a little surprised.

"It's actually very simple, you just need to program, write a program, bring in the numbers, and the system will automatically give the answer. I opened the laptop and found that it came with an advanced calculator, so I reprogrammed it. ”

Icarus fell silent as he looked at the two people who were talking about it in front of the screen.

The simple arrangement of numbers has no regularity.

There is no pattern in the comprehensive operation of numbers.

Isn't it, what details they overlooked?

Could it be that Pandora's Box appeared randomly?

But if that's the case, what's the deal with all the irrational details in Belvoir?

Icarus' face was a little gloomy, he closed his eyes, and his fingertips tapped on the table.

The train of thought stretched little by little with the rhythm of his beating......

If......

There is no clue from the numbers alone.

Could it be that some detail has been overlooked?

What is it......

……

[The details are the devil.] 】

[A good trapper is always able to pour more attention into the details.] 】

Only perfectionists can win. 】

……

Suddenly, a voice sounded in the depths of his mind, and he was stunned for a moment and opened his eyes.

An idea crashed into my head.

"What if...... The judge has already hinted us about the order of the numbers? ”

Colin and the Duke looked at him at the same time.

"You...... What do you mean? The Duke looked at him puzzled.

"Glasses boy, whose rooms are these room numbers?"

"This ......," Colin turned and pulled up the guest profile of the hotel system, "1323 is Caesar's room, 1434 is Blackblade's room, 7212 is your room, 7323 is the beauty's room, 1323 is the duke's room, 6434 is the one-eyed room, 7434 is my room, 2434 is Arthur's room, 7656 is Mars's room, 3656 is Lorraine's room, 1656 is Ogar's room, 2656 is J's room." ”

"What do you mean...... Need to tie a room number to a player? The Duke looked at Icarus and deduced what he meant.

"Not bad." Icarus looked at the Duke, "Do you remember the order of the judges in the banquet hall for all of us?" The seating of old and new players is not a simple arrangement, and it is likely that we need to arrange the room number according to the seat number. ”

The duke suddenly realized: "It turns out that from the beginning of the game, the judge has already buried clues. ”

Colin turned around and rearranged everyone's room numbers: 1323, 1434, 7212, 7323, 1323, 6434, 7434, 2434, 7656, 3656, 1656, 2656. In addition, the rooms where the magic box appears are: 1767, 1343, a total of 14 numbers.

What will be the pattern of this string of numbers?

Looking at the fourteen numbers on the computer screen, the three people fell silent at the same time.

“…… In each hallway, there are seven rooms. Icarus frowned and muttered, "This number can't be accidental......"

"Seven?" Colin sat with his chin in thought, "The cycle of the moon is 28 days, with a 7-day phase, and there are 4 phases...... There are 7 wonders of the world...... 7 is a prime number, and multiples of it cannot produce any number before the number 10...... There are 7 days in a week. In ancient legends, 7 is the 'key to the universe', the number of days of the week in the earthly world, belonging to the world of change...... 7 can also represent the realm of Saturn, which is ruled by Saturn, who is the god of old age, time, and change...... The ancient Greeks believed that the basic shapes of the world were squares, triangles, and the most perfect circles, and the number of these figures added up to 7 ......"

The more the Duke listened, the more confused he became, and he shook his head silently.

“…… The seventh digit in the alphabet...... A、B、C、D、E、F、G…… It's G. Icarus muttered.

“G？” Colin looked at Icarus, "Could it be a name that starts with G?" ”

"No, it's not. If it's a person's name, it's hard to associate it with that string of numbers. Icarus shook his head, "1323, 1434, 7212, 7323, 1323, 6434, 7434, 2434, 7656, 3656, 1656, 2656, 1767, 1343." If you look at seven or seven, it will become: 1323143, 4721273, 2313236, 4347434, 2434765, 6365616, 5626561, 7671343. ”

"It's just enough to break into 8 sets of numbers...... "Colin returned to the keyboard, typing a string of code in front of the keyboard, "try to do the math, maybe there will be a pattern." ”

But after a few seconds, he shook his head in frustration.

"It's not regular." Colin denied, "Neither addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, nor compound operations are regular sequences." ”

Could it be that Pandora's Box really appeared randomly......

Little by little, time passed.

Pandora's Box could reappear at any time.

And this time, will someone find it, open it?

Icarus frowned, his face gloomy and ugly.

"No, it should still be four or four."

The duke, who had not spoken, spoke.

Icarus and Colin looked at her at the same time.

"Canary, can you find a pattern?"

The Duke turned around and leaned down slightly, her left hand propped up the table, her right hand gently clasped together, making a gesture to play the piano, and once, suddenly, her fingertips struck on the table, as if falling on the black and white keys, and a single note was playing.

She looked at the string of numbers and repeated her movements.

Until the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and the movements of her right hand became skillful from the initial stuttering.

She finally found Pandora's secret.

Icarus is right, 7 refers to G, and these room numbers can be played in the order of the players suggested by the judge, and the first part of a piece can be played - Bach Mean Variations in G minor. Do you remember the piano piece played in the lobby of the Belvoir Hotel at the beginning, which was the Bach Mean Variations in G minor? ”