Chapter 289 - You are Already Choosing a Guy Over Your Friends! (1/2)

“Brother Nan is right. There was still a big group of hotel guests left in the hotel after eleven o’clock last night. However, between eleven to six o’clock in the morning, a group of guests have already gone missing. Our priority should be to search for the missing group of guests right now. We have to find out if there is any common ground or any specific information contained within the missing guests, in order to figure out if there are any hints or anything that we can use as clues to find the password to escape from this hotel,” Jiang Yuning replied as soon as Xiao Chennan voiced his opinion.

At this time, the director sitting behind the camera screens had a very smug expression on his face.

This time, they had already concealed the hint very well. The production team did not believe that Jiang Yuning would be able to discover the hint so easily.

Hmph!

The ten participants then gathered all of the hotel guests in the lobby before they started to determine the identity of the missing guests from the hotel register.

After some time, they finally found out the identities of all the missing guests and Xu Beishen then decided to hand the hotel register over to Jiang Yuning instead. “Here, perhaps you can take a look at the information that we have gathered so far and see if you have any insight at all.”

“The eight missing people are all of different ages and sexes. Although most of them comprise of children, there are also several adults who have gone missing along with them. Moreover, just by looking at the hotel register, I do not think that the clues are hidden within their surnames, weights, heights, or any physical attributes of the guests,” Jiang Yuning concluded as she analyzed the information in a calm manner.

“Is the distribution of the missing guests random?” Jin Mingchen could not help but ask after listening to Jiang Yuning’s analysis. “Do you think that this is perhaps a prank that has been started by this group of missing people then?”

Jiang Yuning stared at Jin Mingchen with a profound expression on her face before she said, “There is definitely a hint hidden within this register.”

“Let me have a look at it,” Xiao Chennan replied as he took the hotel register from Jiang Yuning’s hand. “I think that the most useful information that we can obtain from this register is this,” Xiao Chennan said as he circled the ages of all the missing guests with a pen.

This was because numbers in general were usually the best clues.

“5/9/7/8/20/5/5/14. Do any of you have any idea what this could mean?”

As soon as Jin Mingchen heard the string of numbers, he immediately felt overwhelmed. Therefore, he started whining almost instantly, “Oh no! I feel dizzy just looking at all these numbers. Don’t be so cruel and hard on a young boy who only scored eight points in Mathematics for his college entrance examination…”

At this time, Jiang Yuning quickly hit Jin Mingchen on his head. “Hurry up and apologize too the audience immediately.”

“Ahh! But why?”

“Why are you so proud of yourself for scoring eight points in your examination? You are setting a bad example for the kids out there!”

“Oh, you are right. Director, please remember to edit this part out from the program,” Jin Mingchen quickly replied as he looked into one of the cameras installed within the five star hotel.

“Is there anything that we should be referring to? Or is there any way to find out what these clues could actually mean?” Xu Beishen could not help but sigh. “Everyone, let’s try our best to think of a solution.”

“Why don’t you show it to us too?” the guests at the hotel offered their help almost instantaneously.

Xu Beishen did not hesitate to hand the hotel register over to the hotel guests and everyone started circulating and passing the register book around, but it was seemingly useless to add, subtract, multiply, or divide those numbers.

“Do you think that perhaps this is not a mathematical formula, but these numbers could actually be referring to something else instead?”

This was one of the key points raised by one of the hotel guests.

“What can we compare these numbers to so that we can get an answer, then?”

“Oh, I know! I know! We can use the dictionary!” Jin Mingchen yelled excitedly.

Everyone was dumbstruck.

Xu Beishen could not stand it any longer and she replied Jin Mingchen sarcastically, “Oh, if your suggestion is right, then we could also compare the numbers to idioms or the periodic table, right?”

As soon as Xu Beishen reprimanded him, Jin Mingchen quickly made an okay gesture before he chose to keep his mouth shut.

However, Jiang Yuning suddenly thought of something else because of Jin Mingchen’s suggestion that they should use the dictionary.

When Xu Beishen saw the expression on Jiang Yuning’s face, she immediately knew that Jiang Yuning had already thought of something…

“What do you have in mind?”

Jiang Yuning tore out a clean blank page from the hotel register before she started writing down the twenty-six letters of the English alphabets on the piece of paper.

“What is the fifth letter in the English alphabet?”

“E.” Xu Beishen answered immediately.

“What about the ninth letter?”

“I.”

“List down all the other letters that corresponds with the numbers.”

“Eighteen! Eighteen!” Xu Beishen replied excitedly.