Chapter 443 - What to Enter on the Input Fields (1/2)

Chapter 443 What to Enter on the Input Fields

With everyone in the group putting their heads together, the code was cracked quickly.

The string of numbers was formed with the numbers 0, 1, and 2. What’s more, o did not appear more than once at a time. One could see it as a separator. Naturally, people thought of the Morse code.

Taking the o’s as the separators, the 1’s as dots, and the 2’s as dashes, one would be able to form a Morse code.

-.-..-…-….. -..-.-…

.-.-..-.-….. — …..-…-.-.-…

This could be converted to a string of English alphabets. GDBBEAICEADCECHCHBCB.

This could be converted to numbers, in the same way as the string of alphabets in The Lonely Desert Road.

74225193514353838232.

Compare those numbers to the keypad on a cell phone.

SBJYJILVUE.

Its double pinyin was ‘soujingjilvshe’. It didn’t take long for the gamers in the group to reach this stage because they had already gotten the right answer for the previous code. Moreover, the Morse code used for this string of alphabets was a common method of encryption. Thus, it had not been difficult.

Qiao Liang’s heart raced. It was very exciting to work on the riddle together with so many other people who were in the same situation as he was.

“There are only two additional steps for the second code. The other encryption methods did not change. You still have to convert the alphabets to numbers, use the cell phone keypad, and then derive the double pinyin.

“Why didn’t he try to use more encryption methods?

“Is it because Boss Pei has limited knowledge and he only knows about those few encryption methods? Or is it because he was lazy?

“Oh… no, no, no… it seems overboard to think that way. “Boss Pei must have shown everyone mercy by reducing the difficulty of this code, given that it was hard enough to obtain the code from Game Designer, right?

“Was this a form of grace towards gamers as they tried hard to crack the code?

“Yes! It must be!”

Qiao Liang did not overthink. He quickly opened TPDb and located the search bar.

Putting the two codes together, he got ‘pingfendewangzhan, soujinjilvshe’.

Thus, Qiao Liang typed ‘jingjilvshe’ in TPDb’s search bar, and then hit ‘enter’.

There were no results.

He typed ‘jyjilvue’ and still got no results.

“It looks like… I have to type the Mandarin characters.”

After some thought, Qiao Liang realized that the double pinyin could have been pointing to different Mandarin characters. Each one of them had the same double pinyin.

Of course, Qiao Liang could have tried all the possibilities, but that would have been stupid.

At that moment, Qiao Liang recalled the poster that he had seen earlier.

There was a special, red logo behind the bloody handprint. It was an obtuse, triangular steeple with the words ‘Thriller Hostel’ at the bottom!

‘Thriller’s double pinyin was ‘xinji’. That made the name of this hotel clear; its double pinyin would be jingjilyshe!

‘Thriller’ implied ‘being frightened without cause or reason’ or ‘a heart suddenly racing’. In other words, the fear might not come from jumpscares or a horrifying atmosphere. Instead, it would arise out of an unknown ominous feeling invoked by an ordinary-looking environment!

Qiao Liang was elated. He was a few steps away from cracking this code!

He quickly entered the Mandarin words for Thriller Hostel into the search bar. Indeed, the webpage changed at once!

All of the information that had been on TPDb’s website disappeared. Black circles appeared one by one… until the entire website was dyed black.

After that, two input fields appeared in the center of the screen, at eye-level.

There were no hints around the input fieldsjust two empty rectangles.

Qiao Liang typed both answers to the codes into the fields and then clicked ‘enter’. However, there was no reaction.

After some thought, he typed his Tengda account username and password and clicked ‘enter’ again.

Still no reaction!

Qiao Liang, “…”

He tried many other things such as the two earliest series of alphabets, the two double pinyin, the Mandarin words, and the like. Yet, nothing happened.

Thinking that he should not have clicked ‘enter’, he tried the spacebar, CTRL, Tab, Shift, and other keys… but to no avail!

He typed his account’s username and password in reverse, but that didn’t work either!

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After half an hour of trying, Qiao Liang felt lightheaded.

He had tried so many combinations, but the two input fields remained on the website. No matter how hard he tried, he could not get past them!