“Everyone, don't touch anything in the room..." Feng Bujue turned back and said immediately after seeing the corpse, "Given the nature of this script, there might be a 'crime scene investigation' next, so... it's best if we keep the scene intact."

"I say... Brother Jue, do we even need to investigate?" Xiao Tan raised his flashlight and, looking at the body pinned under the bookshelf, continued, "It's obvious he was crushed to death by the bookshelf, right..."

"Heh heh... Brother Xiao Tan, you're making things too simple." Mr. Buu, who aspired to be a great detective, confidently said to Xiao Tan at this moment, "When examining a crime scene, the most important thing is not to be misled by superficial appearances..." He also shone his flashlight on the corpse and added, "Look closely... there are several books under the body..."

He was right. Several exposed corners of books indicated that there were at least two or three books under the corpse.

"If the bookshelf fell and killed him, how did the books get under his body?" Buu said, "Isn't that suspicious?"

"Of course, it isn't," Feng Bujue replied directly as soon as Buu finished speaking. "In a situation like this, I can immediately come up with two reasonable hypotheses..." He raised a finger and continued, "First, when the bookshelf fell, it's likely that some books fell from it. Since books fall faster than a bookshelf, a few of them might have landed right under the deceased." He paused for half a second and raised a second finger. "Second... as you can see, the corpse is face down, which means... when the bookshelf fell, she was facing away from it. Considering the deceased is female, we can easily make this assumption... right before her death, she had just taken a few books from the shelf, then held them in her arms, and turned to leave. At that moment, the bookshelf fell..."

"Wow! As expected of Teacher Jue, his examination of the crime scene is so profound..." The light of adoration burst forth again from Buu's bright eyes.

"Yeah... as expected of Teacher Jue, his deduction speed is also a little faster than average..." Oubu added from the side.

"Hey hey... I was the first to say 'crushed by the bookshelf', right..." Xiao Tan said with a dry laugh, "When I said it, it was 'making things too simple,' but when Brother Jue says it, it's profound..."

"Because you only saw the superficial." Feng Bujue replied in a deep voice, "While Buu saw the hidden information beneath the surface." He paused. "As for me... I saw the deeper truth that the hidden information beneath the surface revealed..."

"And that truth happens to coincide with the surface, right?" Xiao Ling interjected.

"Correct." Feng Bujue replied, "Xiao Tan and I seem to agree, but there is a difference. He 'knows what, but not why,' while I 'understand completely.'"

"Really knows how to pat himself on the back..." Ruoyu coldly added.

"Thank you for the compliment." Brother Jue shamelessly admitted and used the opportunity to change the subject with his next sentence, "In any case... let's focus our attention on the room in front of us..." As he guided everyone's gaze with the searchlight in his hand, he said, "Besides the furniture and the corpse, the most concerning thing should be..." The light circle of the searchlight shone on the other end of the room at this time, "that door..."

At this moment, Feng Bujue was shining the searchlight on a dark gray metal door, with a pirate symbol painted on it (a skull with two crossed sabers below).

"It feels a bit out of place..." Xiao Tan muttered, "The door is metal, but the walls on both sides are just wood..."

"That has nothing to do with the material..." Xiao Ling replied with a rather helpless tone, "Even if something is made of paper, we can't break it if the system doesn't allow us to."

"That's right." Feng Bujue added and walked toward the door, "Even if the wall is made of paper, you have to open this door to pass."

Before he finished speaking, he had already reached the door, reached out and tried the doorknob.

The system prompt [Please enter a six-digit password] immediately rang in his ear, and a "password input menu" popped up in front of him.

At the same instant, a strange thing happened... the corpse pinned under the bookshelf actually moved slightly.

This startled the others in the room, and Xiao Tan almost cried out again.

Just as everyone was still in shock, the corpse began to sing softly:

[One two three, start it off.

Four five six, walk vertically.

Let us sing the pirates' song.

Walk into the river that leads to treasure.]

After singing, the corpse began to rot rapidly and emit a nauseating stench...

Before long, a corpse that was still relatively intact became a puddle of pus wrapped in clothes.

"Ah, this is simple." Facing the still lingering stench, Feng Bujue didn't care. What he focused on was the puzzle. "I can open the door now." As he spoke, he entered the six letters [t][s][A][t][A][w] into the menu.

The next second, the door with the pirate symbol really opened...

"What's going on?" Oubu was stunned.

"Oh, this is how it is..." Feng Bujue explained, "When I touched the doorknob, the system voice told me that I needed to enter a six-digit password to open the door." He glanced at the puddle of pus on the ground. "Then, the corpse gave a very obvious hint. So, I entered t, s, A, t, A, w... and then the door opened."

"Huh?" Xiao Tan still looked confused, "Where did those six letters come from?"

Feng Bujue turned to look at him and said, "Do you remember the pirate song from earlier?"

Hearing this, Xiao Ling was the first to react: "Oh! I know!" Her memory was very good. After Brother Jue reminded her, she understood the mystery: "The clue to this puzzle is hidden in the pirate song from before. Leaving aside the yoho refrain... the first line 'the king and his men' starts with [t], and the second line 'stole the queen from her bed' starts with [s], and so on... then it's [A], [t], [A], until the sixth line 'where we will well roam' has [w], and we have six letters."

"Oh... no wonder the song was sung in English." Buu suddenly realized.

Oubu then added, "As for 'One two three, start it off, four five six, walk vertically,' it was to prompt us on how to decipher that 'pirate song.'"

"And after solving it, we can arrive at..." Feng Bujue said as he leaned forward and pushed open the door, "...'the river that leads to treasure.'"

Accompanied by his words, a golden light poured in from the doorway.

Outside the metal door with the pirate symbol... lay a three-meter-wide golden river.

The river water flowed slowly, making a gurgling sound. The riverbed was covered with gold and silver jewelry, and the sparkling treasures dyed the originally transparent river water golden and emitted a dazzling light.

"Don't rush out. There's a hidden chest in this room, and there's a skill in the chest." At this moment, Zhuan Jiezun's voice suddenly sounded in Brother Jue's mind.

This was the first time he had heard Brother Zun's voice since Brother Jue reunited with his teammates.

"Hey? Can you hear me?" Feng Bujue immediately said silently in his heart, wanting to try whether he could communicate with Brother Zun through "brain-internal communication."

But after he finished speaking, he waited for several seconds, and the other party did not answer. It seemed the answer was no...

"Listen, Feng Bujue. I can't talk to you like this for a long time, so I will tell you as many things as possible while I can..." After more than ten seconds, Brother Zun said again, "My current state is like 'trying to maintain rational thinking in a dream.' As long as I relax a little, this state will be interrupted; I can't hear the sounds from your side, and even the images are very blurry; you don't need to try to communicate with me, it's a waste of effort... Anyway, at certain times, I will take the initiative to contact you and give you some hints. And you... better not disappoint me..."

These words rang directly in Brother Jue's mind, and only he could hear them.

Feng Bujue didn't intend to tell his teammates about his deal with Zhuan Jiezun, because he knew... there was another powerful presence in this "brain-internal world." At this moment, "it" must also be observing the players' every move. If Brother Jue made clear the situation of his cooperation with Zhuan Jiezun, "it" would be alert, making Brother Jue's task even more difficult.

Therefore, after Brother Zun finished speaking, Feng Bujue turned around calmly, looked at his teammates, and said, "Well... based on the current situation... there shouldn't be any 'murder mysteries' in this room. That corpse... was just a hint prop." His gaze swept around Room C again. "However, this room is so big and has so many things... maybe there are items hidden. How about we all search for a while?"

"I have no objection." Ruoyu immediately agreed to Brother Jue's proposal.

Xiao Ling and Xiao Tan looked at each other for two seconds, and the former shrugged and said, "There's no time limit in this script anyway, so let's search."

And Buu and Oubu followed Brother Jue's lead, so naturally they had no objections.

So... the six people acted separately and carried out a carpet search of Room C...

…………

Ten minutes passed quietly.

Just as everyone was gradually losing patience (only Feng Bujue knew that a skill card could be found 100% in this room, while for others, it was just aimless searching), Xiao Tan suddenly shouted, "Hey! Everyone, I seem to have found something!"

Hearing this, the teammates' spirits were all lifted. The five quickly gathered around Xiao Tan, wanting to see what he had found.

Seeing that his teammates had all come over, Wang Tanzhi extended the hidden blade on the Touch of Altair and quickly cut open the television in front of him...

Under the illumination of several flashlights, the players discovered that the so-called "television" was just an empty shell. Inside the realistic shell... was a safe.

"Well... this kind of anti-theft method is really the first time I've seen it." Feng Bujue stroked his chin and said, "Compared to the form of 'hiding it in the wall and hanging a painting in front'... this method of 'hiding it inside an old-fashioned television' is obviously more clever..."

"Brother Xiao Tan, you were able to find this, that's amazing." Buu said to Xiao Tan from the side.

"Heh heh... just good luck." Xiao Tan replied honestly, "I just wanted to move this TV away to see if there were any clues on the surface of the coffee table. I didn't expect such a small TV... to be so heavy, almost smashing my foot. I felt something was wrong, so I observed it carefully... and then I found that this TV was very abnormal. Logically speaking... old-fashioned Crt TVs would have some vents for heat dissipation on the shell, but the shell of this TV was airtight. I immediately thought... is there something hidden inside? So I cut a small hole with the hidden blade and shone a flashlight inside..."

"After playing for so long, I finally see you kid solve a puzzle." At this time, Xiao Ling took half a step forward, patted Xiao Tan on the shoulder, and showed a very gratified expression, "Well... keep up the good work."

"Hey! Don't make me sound so tragic, okay..." Xiao Tan replied with a squint, "It's because I'm always queuing up in scripts with you guys who are like gods, so I don't have the opportunity to solve puzzles!" What he said was true. It wasn't that he couldn't solve puzzles, but... every time he solved a puzzle halfway (sometimes not even halfway), a teammate like Brother Jue or Xiao Ling would jump out and directly announce the correct answer and the solution process... In this case, he really didn't have any opportunity or need to perform.

"Okay, okay... I'll let you play next time, be good~" Xiao Ling simply put her hand on Xiao Tan's head and said it like she was coaxing a pet.

"Ahem!" Seeing someone showing off their affection in front of him, how could the still single young man Oubu sit still and be blinded?

He cleared his throat, took two steps forward, and squatted in front of the safe, staring at the box intently... This series of actions allowed him to successfully drive the couple out of his sight...

Then, Oubu said in a deep voice, "Leave the work of opening the safe to me..." As he spoke, he took out a hearing aid from his inventory. "I'm already familiar with it."

"Ah, good luck." With these words, Feng Bujue declared his determination to stand aside.

The teammates didn't know that... just a few seconds ago, Zhuan Jiezun had explained the method of opening the safe in Brother Jue's mind: the password of the safe was hidden in a book on the bookshelf that was slightly different in size; and the key to the safe was divided into two parts, buried in the two withered potted plants.

However, Feng Bujue did not use the method provided by Brother Zun to unlock the lock, but chose to play dumb...

There were two reasons for him to do this: first, it was to show "it" and let it lower its guard. Second... this kind of reward prop can indeed be unlocked by methods other than the script setting. If Oubu can really open the safe without the key and password, then let him open it... What's wrong with letting his teammates get more skill points?

Click clack—

After working busily for about three minutes, with the help of the medical tool [Hearing Aid] and the title ability [Magnetic Finger], Oubu successfully opened the safe.

"Aha! It's done!" Oubu wiped the sweat from his head and stood up.

He didn't reach out to take the skill card in the box, but took two steps back as if it were natural, letting his teammates check the attributes of the card first. From this alone, it could be seen that... Oubu was a very quality player.

[Name: Cell Enhancement Surgery]

[Skill Card Attributes: Active Skill, Permanently Mastered]

[Skill Category: Medical]

[Effect: Increases the physical ability of a teammate (excluding yourself) to twice its original strength (cooldown time of three hours, duration of five minutes)]

[Consumption: 20% of the maximum Stamina Value, ten milliliters of physiological saline (injected with a syringe)]

[Learning Conditions: Medical Specialization A]

[Remarks: Don't worry, we don't need you to cut your teammates open, and we don't need you to do this in a strictly disinfected place. The person who designed this skill is just a programmer, not a doctor, so... you just need to grab a syringe and symbolically inject it into your teammate's arm, that's the benefit of the game, isn't it?]