Judgment Game Survival Guide

"...It's okay," Shi Qi comforted him, "There's no rush, there are still four rations left."

Xuan Mu exhaled lightly, calmed down, and fiddled with the walkie-talkie on the table, "Are there really other players? Why is there no movement at all..."

"It should be," Shi Qi said, trying to twist the antenna on the top of the machine, and shouted into the microphone. After waiting for a while, the loudspeaker finally released a small voice intermittently, "It seems to be there?"

Xuanmu put his ear close to the loudspeaker, trying to hear the voice from the other side of the walkie-talkie.

"Yes, yes, it's lit up."

The voice that came over seemed to have been processed to give it a mechanical feel. After listening carefully, the tone was different from the previous broadcast. It was indeed from a living person.

Xuan Mu mouthed to Shi Qibi, "There is a voice."

"Let me just say that the battery is not installed," a thinner female voice rang out from the speaker, "Dial the one on the right to turn up the volume."

"Adjusted it... What is this thing for?"

"I don't know, broadcast broadcast?"

The man hesitated for a while, then suddenly yelled at the walkie-talkie, "Hello—is anyone there!!"

"Hiss—" Xuan Mu hurriedly took the walkie-talkie away, and couldn't help shouting, "Damn... I'm going deaf!"

"...What the hell?" The man's voice stopped immediately.

He hesitated for a long time, then turned his head nervously and asked the people around him, "My mother... is this alive?"

"Live," Shi Qi replied for the other party, "Player."

The high-pitched female voice immediately understood, and she said "oh" with a drawn out tone, "I see, is it okay to cooperate to clear the level?"

"Yes," Xuan Mu explained, "We have encountered a combination lock here, and we probably need clues from your side to get through."

"Well," said the other side of the intercom, "we are here too."

The number of food supplies is limited, and there is not much time for them to waste. Xuan Mu and Qi looked at each other, and directly proposed, "Exchange clues?"

The other party discussed in a low voice, and quickly agreed to the decision. According to memory, Xuan Mu first described the layout of the dark room to them.

"This is supposed to be a women's room," said a slightly thicker male voice, "the walls are covered with pink wallpaper, and there is a big princess bed in the middle, and pink rose petals are spread on the floor."

Another voice added, "I found a diary in the bookcase in the room, and there are many toys of that kind in the closet."

Listening to the description on the other side, Shi Qi seemed to think of something, "Do you have the equipment?"

"Equipment?" the male voice asked, "What equipment?"

"A flashlight or something." Shi Qi said.

"No," the man paused, and asked with some doubts, "Why do you need to equip it?"

Shi Qi got up from the armchair and came to the small door, "Check if there is a switch on the wall."

The opposite side walked quickly to the side of the wall according to the words, "Yes, there is a switch."

Shi Qi said, "Press it."

"Okay." The other side of the walkie-talkie replied, and then there was a "click", and the light tube on the ceiling of the room flickered, emitting bright light, and the whole room became brightly lit.

Xuan Mu immediately understood that if the two hadn't bought flashlights in the waiting area, they probably wouldn't know how long they'd be stuck at the moment.

Shi Qi said to the walkie-talkie, "Go ahead."

"Wait..." Xuan Mu noticed a certain word in the words on the other side, "Toy? What toy?"

"Uh...that's it, that's it," the male voice faltered for a long while, "it's that kind of toy."

Shi Qi and Xuan Mu explained, "Sex toys."

"Oh, oh..." Xuan Mu was stunned for a moment, then nodded in embarrassment, "Okay, you guys continue."

"Uh...the content of the diary is also a bit..."

"Tsk," the shrill female voice interrupted him impatiently, and snatched the walkie-talkie over, "Momojiji...let me talk."

The female voice cleared her throat and said: "It's a little yellow article that the diary owner and her adoptive father made. It's all kinds of tricks. It's pretty well written. There's a date at the end, March 1890, 3."

"What's more," the male voice added, "the owner of the diary enjoys the feeling of being admired by all the stars, loves her adoptive father very much... and so on."

Xuan Mu: "..."

Inexplicably wondering what's going on...

He noticed the date mentioned in it, took a pen and paper to write it down, turned his head and looked at Qi at the same time.

Shi Qi hummed, put the walkie-talkie in his pocket, "Let's go, try it."

Xuan Mu nodded, followed Shi Qi across the room and climbed into the long pipe again, tried to input '318' on the display screen, and the door immediately opened with a "click".

The two successfully climbed out of the long pipe and entered a slightly larger room. Xuan Mu patted the ashes on his pants and said to the intercom, "Try to see if 819 can be turned on."

The other side responded, and after a while, he sighed helplessly, "It can't be opened."

Shi Qi thought for a while, looked at the new room, and took out a piece of paper from the Xuanmu bag, "Is there any day of the week in the diary?"

"Ah?" The person on the other side was stunned, and asked for a while, "Yes, Tuesday."

Shi Qi quickly returned to the previous room, took out the eraser from the drawer, and tried to wipe the date on the paper. The edge of the number '8' on the paper gradually blurred, and finally turned into a '3'.

"319," Shi Qi said, "try."

After a while, there was a 'click' from the intercom, "It's really on!"

Shi Qi hummed lightly, followed Xuan Mu to start exploring in the new room, and noticed the small safe on the floor by the door, on which there seemed to be a piece of light yellow paper lying.

He bent down and picked up the paper, looked at it a few times, "Staff."

"Huh?" Xuan Mu leaned forward and glanced at him in bewilderment.

"Staff?" Footsteps came from the intercom, "We have a piano here."

Xuan Mu had some guesses, and turned to ask Shi Qi, "Can you read music?"

Shi Qi shook his head.

"No need," a female voice rang through the intercom, "you don't need to play it yourself, there is a small groove here, you should just put the sheet music in it."

"Oh," Xuan Mu asked, "but how do we pass the score over?"

Shi Qi took a look at the safe. There was a traditional four-digit combination lock on it. He tried to turn the gear, but it seemed to be stuck, and it didn't move.

He put away the staff, and then walked a few steps forward, "Let's check other things first."

Xuan Mu nodded "Oh".

There was a single bed in the center of the room with a thick quilt on it. The two searched in a counterclockwise direction and came to the low cabinet in the corner of the room.

Xuan Mu stretched out his hand and opened the drawer, and there was a bloody skull in it, and a strong fishy smell came out from the cabinet.

"..." Xuan Mu hesitated for a while, then looked at Shi Qi, "Have you bought white rubber gloves?"

"Forgot." Shi Qi glanced at him in disgust, frowned and shook his head.

He looked around for a while, reached out and took the iron rod leaning against the wall, stabbed decisively into the eye socket of the skull, picked it up and threw it aside, made a "clang" sound, and rolled on the ground.

"There is a piece of paper on the piano," followed the voice on the other side of the intercom, "No, half a piece of paper."

"What is it written?" Xuan Mu communicated with the opposite side, while Shi Qi used an iron rod to flip through the drawer. There seemed to be nothing special in it, only some sundries and blank paper.

"Two numbers, 61," said the other party. "There are traces of tearing on the right side of the piece of paper, which should be the first half of the password."

Xuan Mu snorted, "It should be the password of my safe."

He briefly described the layout of the new room, and at the same time noticed that the red light on the walkie-talkie indicator seemed to be a little dimmer, and frowned.

"Why do you feel that the battery is not enough?" He pointed to the walkie-talkie in his hand, and turned to ask Shi Qi.

"Ah," the other side of the walkie-talkie seemed to find something, and suddenly shouted, "Why is there 80.00% of the battery left??!"

"???" Xuan Mu was stunned when he heard the words, and looked back and forth at the walkie-talkie in his hand, and then there were rustling voices from the opposite side, as if he was also fiddling with the walkie-talkie.

The female voice gave an irritated "tsk", "What kind of shit?"

"It's okay to forcibly increase the difficulty," the male voice comforted, "Don't! Don't twist it! It will break in a while."

"What a broken battery... just this thing cost me [-] points?" the female voice said.

"?" Xuan Mu was a little confused, "How can it show 80.00%?"

"Oh," the man explained, "it's probably because I bought the privilege and upgraded all the equipment in the venue."

???

What is this familiar operation?

Originally, Xuan Mu thought that it would be more time-saving to simply keep the walkie-talkie on and exchange clues in real time. Now it seems that the game mechanism does not allow players to pass the level so easily.

"Let's hang up first," Shi Qi closed the drawer and stood up and said, "We'll exchange clues together at noon."

Xuan Mu nodded, it's important to concentrate on exploring this room first.

After talking with the other side, Xuan Mu turned off the power of the walkie-talkie and continued to walk a few steps forward.

The two came to the huge closet on the other side of the room, and carefully searched through it according to the procedure. There were still some circus performance equipment inside, and there was nothing special about it.

There is a small iron door with a display screen on the side of the wall. Xuan Mu raised his hand and touched the screen, and a three-digit password box appeared.

Shi Qi looked around, found nothing useful, raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's almost lunch time, let's go back and have something to eat first?"

"Okay," Xuan Mu rubbed his stomach, "Let's wait for the clue from the other side first."

"Come over and search carefully after eating, I guess there is something missing." Shi Qi said.

Xuan Mu nodded.

The two returned to the original room and pressed the food supply button twice in a row. After dozens of seconds, two corn ribs meals were slowly handed out from the window.

It wasn't until the two of them were full and put the bowls and chopsticks back to the food supply window to prepare for the second round of exploration that the walkie-talkie slowly flashed red.

"We have an iron cage here, and there seem to be two people in it. It's too dark to see clearly," the other party's voice paused, "...but they seem to be muttering something."