Chapter 237: Puzzle solving
Met with Mindy's curious gaze, Gwen looked sideways at the heavy wooden table she had turned over. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Four of the six drawers are in the first row, while the remaining two larger cabinets are in the lower row, an archaic design that allows the table to be divided into categories for more things, but also makes its "top" appear thicker.
"I'll continue to reason from your train of thought......" Gwen's voice had a strong air that convinced the listener, "If this unturned missing Bible represents some kind of message, then the 'treasure chest' corresponding to this message should also be in this room, in the things that moved in at the same time as the bookcase." ā
"Hmmm! So, you think, the treasure chest is in this desk? Mindy followed Gwen's gaze and locked onto the oak desk, not too much doubt in her doubts, as she waited for Gwen to show her the truth.
Gwen nodded, and pulled out the six drawers one after another in turn, and in the friction of the brush, Gwen's voice had a more affirmation, "Now I can basically be sure, there is something hidden in this table, and one of its six drawers has a different weight, much lighter!" ā
Gwen pulled the second drawer on the left-hand side of the first row out with all her might.
"Sure enough, it's a lot shorter, because the files in it are all the same size, and they don't fill up, I haven't noticed that just now, but now...... Well, there's something in there. ā
Gwen reached inside and pulled out a small round box about the size of a large arm, shaped more like a kettle, but with a flat bottom on one side.
The whole box is made of dark gray pure steel, it looks a little old, so the color is a little dark, there is no ornate decoration on it, only a simple lock, which connects the opening and closing.
The shape of the lock is a very old kind of rotary mechanical lock, yellow-orange-orange, which seems to be copper-plated. It's been a while, and the lock is rusty, but of course, that's not the point, the most important thing is that the code only needs four digits - that is, it only needs to turn the four wheels in place to open it.
"It only takes four numbers, so the missing pages in the Bible don't look like any hints......" Gwen frowned under the mask, staring at the box in her hand with some confusion, but at this time, Mindy laughed out loud.
"Ha, Sister Gwen, even the safe has been found, so what else do you need for the password?"
āļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ā Gwen's gaze moved to the dashing and handsome big Lori, and she suddenly looked confused......
It turned out that in the blink of an eye, Mindy had untied the metal rod from her waist and activated the lightsaber from the heterotopic plane.
With the extension of the blue beam, a nice low humming sound resounded throughout the room, and Mindy smiled heartily under the blue light that rose upwards.
"Now that the box has been found, this kind of lock is just a matter of a sword!"
"This ...... It's a lightsaber, right!! Gwen exclaimed in surprise, "Isn't that something out of the movies?" ā
"Well, you have to ask Dave about the origin of the lightsaber~ However, I'm only responsible for chopping!" Mindy had already swung her lightsaber to her heart's content, blue bands of light slicing through the air, no strong winds, no heat waves, only the blue light that pointed precisely at the lock, which was aggressively swallowing energy.
Mindy's purple hair was flying, her sweet smile was already showing her teeth, obviously, this violent loli was already excited, and she desperately needed a sabotage to break the dull day, but ......
Gwen stopped her!
"Stop! Stop, stop! Mindy, don't, don't! Gwen hurriedly moved the small box in her hand behind her back, she pressed her palm against Mingdi, and nervously explained, "Although I want to get evidence of Vilon's crime by illegal trespass, but, because I still want to rely on the law to judge Vilon's guilt, I don't want my methods to become illegal, well, it may be hypocritical to say this, but ......"
"Well......" Mindy shrugged her shoulders and pulled a sword flower to turn off the lightsaber and hang the hilt back on her waist, "I probably see what you mean, that is, we try not to leave any traces, right?" ā
"Yes, that's it!" Gwen nodded, "If the police can't find evidence of our illegal break-in, then we don't have a crime, that's my insistence, to exercise justice, we must use the 'justice' way, cleverly use the loopholes in the rules, not completely ignore the rules." ā
"This kind of justice...... Is it justice for thieves? Pouting, Mindy spat and said, "Forget it, it's fun to be a thief!" Leave it to me, right? ā
"Huh?" Gwen was a little confused, but handed the small round box to Mindy.
"If it's that kind of electronic lock, I don't have a way yet, but if it's this old-fashioned mechanical lock, I can brute-force crack it with my stand-in ability alone!" Mindy flicked the wheel in one hand and turned into a shadow with the other, and disappeared eerily from the lock.
Here, Mindy uses the tactile sensation of her shadowed hand, which can be clearly tactile as long as her hand is at the junction of shadow and reality, and this tactile feedback helps her find the true code correctly.
ā3ā¦ā¦ Well, 8...... 0ā¦ā¦ 1ļ¼ ā
With a snap, the lock was unfastened, and Mindy opened the lid of the small box.
In the steel iron box, however, a thin layer of silk was padded, and in the remaining space, a roll of documents was tightly stuffed.
The pages were yellowed and tightly rolled together, tied firmly with a rope.
Mindy carefully took out the document, which was unknown to the age or fragility of the document.
"This is what Velen has worked so hard to hide?" Gwen sighed, as if remembering something again, and said, "By the way, Mindy, I probably know how Velon's password was set!" ā
"How is it set up?" Mindy was also a little curious, and looked up at Gwen.
Gwen flipped out the biblical table of contents and showed it to Minty, "On the missing pages 25, 26, 47, and 96, which are the first pages of 1 Corinthians, Hebrews, 3 John, and Acts, the first letters of these four chapters are C, H, J, A, and if you correspond them to numbers in order, and 10 as 0, then it is the password!" ā
"I see!" Mindy suddenly realized, she raised the document in her hand and asked Gwen, "What about this document?" ā
"Take it out and see it again!" "It's always uncomfortable here. ā