Chapter 287 (1/2)

Chapter 287

The five gift boxes found in the storage room all had a combination lock and the countdown of the labyrinth challenge showed only 10 minutes remaining . Everyone couldn’t help being nervous when they saw the countdown floating in front of them .

Xiao Lou took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions and quickly scanned the five boxes on the ground . The five boxes had different colors: white, blue, purple, green and red .

Apart from the different colors, the size and shape of the box were exactly the same . There were no pa.s.sword hints written on them . How to unlock the five boxes? The teammates were all in deep thought .

Xiao Lou quickly judged, “Since these five boxes are Christmas gifts brought by those invited to the Christmas Eve party, the boxes of different colors must correspond to their ident.i.ty or hobbies…” He picked up the white box and declared confidently, “The white one was sent by Dr Simon . ”

He was a doctor and the most representative color was white . This box must come from Dr Simon .

The teammates got Xiao Lou’s tip and suddenly became cheerful .

Yu Hanjiang followed up by saying, “The blue box was given by Jack . In the photo of him and Wells at university, the color of their team uniform was blue . The color of the box is exactly the same as the team uniform . It is a very special lake blue . ” He found the photo and compared it . The color was exactly the same .

Qu Wanyue followed next . “The purple gift box is from Miss Susan . It is difficult for ordinary women to control this glamorous dark purple but in the photo, her heels are this color . She should like dark purple very much . ”

The remaining ones were green and red . Yu Hanjiang turned back to the photo of the best friends .

In this photo, the three friends were standing side by side . They wore the same white dress and held bags of the same style but in different colors . s.h.i.+rley was holding a cute pink handbag, Martha with her long straight hair was holding a dark green bag and the blonde curly haired Karen was holding a red bag . Obviously, Martha liked green and Karen liked red . The two boxes left were their Christmas presents .

After locking onto the owner of each box according to the photos, Xiao Lou started a.n.a.lyzing the pa.s.sword .

Yu Hanjiang pulled out several related photos in the alb.u.m . “Will the clues to the pa.s.swords be in the photos?”

Xiao Lou nodded . “Let’s take a closer look . ”

There were no clues in the storage room and the five guests weren’t present . Only the photos were related to them . There was a photo of Jack and Wells, both wearing jerseys . On the left, Jack had the number ‘12’ while on the right, Wells had the number ‘08 . ’

This box was the simplest . Xiao Lou handed it to Ye Qi and Chief Shao . “1208, open it and look for clues . ”

Time was limited and they had to all act together . Xiao Lou was responsible for cracking the code while finding clues was left to his teammates .

He followed up with the white box . In the photo with Simon, Wells should’ve gone to the hospital because of something . Simon was wearing a white coat with a stethoscope around his neck while Wells held a medical record in his hand .

Xiao Lou moved the photo closer and examined it carefully . The patient’s name was written in the medical record: Wells . Height: 180 cm . Age: 21 years old . BP: 98/70 mmHg . Among these data, only the last blood pressure item was a set of numbers that could form a pa.s.sword . High blood pressure came first and low blood pressure came after . It happened to be a four digit code .

Wljb Obe tjcvfv atf ybz ab Ole Hljb jcv rjlv, “9870 . ”

Ole Hljb lwwfvljafis fcafgfv atf qjrrkbgv ab bqfc atf ybz jcv obecv j ifaafg lcrlvf . Vtf gfjv la mjgfoeiis .

Ktf qegqif ybz mjwf ogbw Verjc, j mijrrwjaf klat j ubbv gfijalbcrtlq klat Qfiir . Pc atf qtbab, atf akb qfbqif iloafv eq atf agbqts bo atf jgmtlafmaegji vfrluc mbwqfalalbc abufatfg . Ktf agbqts kjr vlralcmalnf jcv kjr mbwqbrfv bo rfnfgji wfaji ilcfr lcafgkbnfc jcv jggjcufv . Cqjga ogbw atf agbqts, ybat qfbqif kfgf kfjglcu relar jcv atfgf kjr cbatlcu bc atflg mibatfr bg lc atf yjmxugbecv gfijafv ab cewyfgr .

Xiao Lou looked at the trophy and didn’t see anything special . He handed the photo to Old Mo . “Old Mo, look at this trophy?”

Mo Xuemin had studied design . After seeing the trophy, he immediately realized the answer . “The lines of the trophy make up a number . You have to cover up the gold part to see the silver .

The trophy had a large silver area as the base color while the s.h.i.+ning gold was used as embellishment . If people looked at the trophy then they were often attracted by the golden embellished . For example, if a few black lines were drawn on a white wall then people would first notice what the black lines expressed, not the below white wall .

Xiao Lou was also looking at the golden embellishment and didn’t see it clearly, but he reacted the moment he heard Old Mo’s words . This was the commonly used anti-color treatment from escape rooms .

On puzzles, walls and other places that were easy to confuse people, the creators would paint some colors on a large area of the background to make the players think about what these colors represented . In fact, the painted color was the distracting item . They should be looking at the background color instead .

Old Mo soon saw the code . “The background color around the cup forms the number 1989 . ”

Xiao Lou nodded . “Look for clues . ”

Old Mo opened the box and looked through it carefully . There were two boxes left, the green and red boxes from the best friends .

In the group photo of the three friends, Martha wore a necklace around her neck . There were four small pendants with diamonds strung on the silver chain that looked very delicate . The four numbers were 7679 . This clue was very obvious .

Xiao Lou handed the green box to Qu Wanyue and Long Sen .

The clue for Karen was a bit hard to find . She didn’t have anything symbolic on her body . Aside from carrying a bag, she was also holding a small doll . The background of the photo was an amus.e.m.e.nt park and there were many children taken in the background .

Not far behind the three friends was a group of small children gathered together . Everyone was holding cute dolls in their hands and had their parents accompanying them in a line at the gate of the amus.e.m.e.nt park . The doll in their hand looked like the one in Karen’s hand .