"That 'formaldehyde' smell isn't coming from behind the door, but from the surface of the door itself." After about ten seconds, Xiao Ling relit the oil lamp (because there wasn't much information on the door; anyone could remember it after a few seconds) and said, "But... in normal light, we can't see these liquids painted on the door."

"That's not right... Formaldehyde is colorless," Xiao Tan replied, "and it wouldn't... in the dark..."

"There's nothing strange about it," Feng Bujue interrupted him. "This just shows that the liquid on the door isn't formaldehyde."

"No way... I'm familiar with this smell; I shouldn't... be wrong," Xiao Tan said, his confidence wavering.

"Because you have more experience with formaldehyde, when you smell a similar pungent odor, you subconsciously bring in that experience, leading to a wrong conclusion." As Feng Bujue spoke, he walked to the door and peered closely.

He faced away from his teammates, mainly to prevent them from seeing the "black flowing light" in his eyes.

"This liquid isn't a chemical agent but a bodily fluid of some kind of creature..." Brother Jue shared the information he obtained from the data level. "Hmm... It should be a reptile's venom... containing things like bee venom, which is why it turns green in the dark."

After saying this, he stopped observing and turned around. "Of course... that's not the main point." He paused. "The main point is... the information depicted by that venom—the meaning of [20] and [19.2766]."

"Could it be... coordinates?" Buu immediately asked.

"I considered that possibility, but there's a problem..." Feng Bujue replied. "Assuming these two numbers really represent a coordinate, why is one an integer while the other is accurate to four decimal places?" He scanned the room. "According to my observation, the length and width of this room are about six meters two and five meters one, respectively. If we express these measurements in centimeters, they would be roughly 620 and 510. Is it really necessary to use four decimal places to mark a coordinate within this range?"

"Hmm... you're right..." Buu nodded.

"Also..." Feng Bujue walked to a corner of the room. "Let's assume the coordinate theory is correct. Then, theoretically, the places indicated by 20, 19 could be four, namely, 'four areas half a step away from the four corners of the room.'" As he spoke, he stomped his foot hard, and the floor beneath him made a muffled "thud" sound. "Well... at least the section under my feet is solid."

Seeing this, Xiao Tan, Buu, and Ou Bu also walked to the other three corners of the room respectively, and stomped their feet in similar places to test, but nothing special happened.

"So... the coordinate theory is probably wrong," Feng Bujue shrugged. "Let's think about other possibilities, such as 20 minus 19.2766... equals 0.7234; maybe this number..."

"I know!" Suddenly, Xiao Ling interrupted Brother Jue. "It's the coordinates."

"Huh?" Feng Bujue was taken aback. "How do you explain that?"

"Simple, multiplication." Xiao Ling replied, "20 multiplied by 19.2766 equals 385.532. Since two sides of the room are less than 510, if we use a large number like 385,532 to mark the coordinates... there would theoretically only be two coordinate points." She stomped her foot. "One is under my feet, and the other..." She pointed to the other side of the room, the symmetrical point to where she was standing. "And the other point corresponds to those two doors..." As she spoke, she walked around the table. "Using the width of the bottom of those two doors as the base, extend a perpendicular line outward from the midpoint of each door. Those two lines will intersect at 385,532."

She stopped and looked at her teammates.

The five of them were silent...

After a long while, Buu said, "As expected of Brother Jue's companion... the methods of solving puzzles are so profound..."

Ou Bu responded, "As expected of Brother Jue's companion... the calculation ability is much stronger than ordinary people..."

"Hey! What does this have to do with him? I'm the one who solved the puzzle; do you have to bring him into it and praise him?" Xiao Ling shouted, "And when you praise him, it's always 'a little bit,' but when it comes to me, it becomes disgusting words like 'a lump'? This is just junior high school math! What's so profound about it? Where did the lump come from!"

"Okay... don't worry about those details." Feng Bujue walked over and stopped Xiao Ling from continuing to complain. "They're just saying that because they admire you." As he spoke, he knelt on one knee and took out the small knife from his waist. "Anyway... now that we've identified the target, things will be easier." He tapped the floor with the handle of the knife. "Hmm... listening to this sound... there's hope!"

In the next two minutes, Brother Jue took out the [wjQ-308 Military Shovel] and, together with [Bear's Everyday Knife], efficiently pried open the floor tile.

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Here's a digression: actually, it doesn't matter if you can't solve this puzzle. Theoretically, even if the players don't find the green words on the door, they can still get out of the room. The method is... a "carpet search."

This is a "stupid method," but undeniably, it works.

In Thriller Paradise's team survival (normal) mode, a situation often occurs... players come to a place where they need to solve a puzzle to pass, but the team member who is good at solving puzzles has already died. At this time, the remaining people will be in a difficult situation where they can't solve the puzzle...

Most friends who often play real-life escape rooms have similar experiences... as long as you get stuck on a certain puzzle, it's easy to lead to a situation where "a group of people sit in the room playing on their phones, waiting for the time to run out."

In Thriller Paradise, what should you do if you encounter this situation? Experienced players know that you can pass it with a "stupid method"...

For example: someone doesn't know how to use the "find and replace" function of a document, but they want to achieve this operation. What should they do? The answer is, of course, to use their eyes to find the content that needs to be replaced one by one and manually delete and re-enter it.

The final result is the same. To put it bluntly, it's just a little more tedious...

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"Okay, done." After prying open the floor tile, Feng Bujue saw a rectangular dark box. As expected... there was a key hidden inside.

This time, he picked up the key and walked towards the door without words. "I estimate... this one still can't be opened." As he said this, he tried it. The key and the keyhole did not match. "Hmm... as expected."

Then, Brother Jue walked towards the door with words, saying as he walked, "Since the clue was found on that door, then the prop found according to the clue is mostly used to open that door."

He came to the door and aimed the key at the keyhole again... This time, it went in smoothly.

Click—

Along with a light metallic sound, the door lock was opened, and the key immediately turned into white light and disappeared.

"Based on my experience, if the key is a 'consumable,' then the corresponding lock is mostly a one-time use." As Feng Bujue spoke, he slowly pushed the door open. "In other words, from this moment on, this door can be opened at will..."

"Wooo—"

At this moment, a strange moan came from Brother Jue's front.

He immediately looked up and stared... He saw a translucent white shadow in the dimly lit space behind the door... slowly walking from afar, and the moan was obviously made by "it."

"Hmm... this is probably a ghost..." Facing this terrifying scene, Feng Bujue calmly muttered and unhurriedly took out his [Composite Anti-Gravity Launcher] and stepped forward.

However, the moment he turned on the searchlight, the white shadow disappeared abruptly.

Under the light, the scenery behind the door was revealed—it was just a room about the same size as this one.

But the place where the white shadow stood just now was clearly more than ten meters away...

"Is it some kind of illusion?" Feng Bujue muttered as he walked forward into the room. "Or... does this 'space' change in some way due to light..."

The teammates behind Brother Jue did not see the white shadow clearly, but they all heard the moan. After hesitating for a few seconds, they went forward one after another, preparing to follow Brother Jue into the door.

But unexpectedly...

Bang—

At this moment, the door closed by itself.