Chapter 1127 Summer Memories (XIV)

"No need." Xiao Ling rejected Xiao Tan's reasoning without thinking.

"Huh?" Xiaotan was stunned after hearing this.

"Haha... that's for sure." Feng Bujue said with a smile, "As an alcoholic who is eager to open the wine cellar to get some wine to relieve his addiction, he will not use too complicated encryption methods."

"That's right." Xiao Ling continued, "This matter... you will understand if you analyze the principal's mentality... If possible, he would like to write the eight-digit password directly on the paper. That would be the best way. It's convenient." She said, pointing to the remote control. "Look, he has neatly put the remote control and the two things needed for decryption together, which shows that he knows very well... When I'm addicted, I don't have time to do anything too complicated, and all I can think about is opening the wine cellar."

"Then why doesn't he just set a simpler password and remember it in his head, or copy the eight-digit password directly on paper?" Gui Xiao added at this time, "In this case, even if he is drunk, He can also open the wine cellar when he is dazed and confused."

"What he said is correct...but while making it convenient for himself, he must also consider safety issues." Xiao Ling replied, "After all, he is also a primary school principal. If the matter of hiding alcohol in the principal's office is completely exposed, Then he would definitely lose his job, otherwise there would be no need for him to have such a 'secret wine cellar' and install an entrance with a remote control."

"Oh..." Gui Xiao understood.

Xiaotan then continued: "So...he came up with this 'convenient and safe' method - he put all the items needed to open the wine cellar in the drawer and checked them. Some kind of simple encryption. In this way...even if someone discovers the contents of the drawer, others will not be able to decipher the password in a short period of time. "

"Ha... It should be said... Under normal circumstances, the people who discovered these three things would not consider 'decryption' at all, right?" Feng Bujue continued with a smile, "We use modern people, players Only when you think about the problem with your own thinking and perspective can you immediately think of the uses of these three things. But what about looking at it from the perspective of the characters in this script?" He paused and then said, "You guys. You must know that the era when this script took place was the 1970s. At that time... it was only more than ten years since the birth of the real wireless remote control for civilian use; it was not until the 1980s that the infrared TV remote control we are familiar with began. Popularity. So... wireless remote control was obviously still a rare thing for people at that time. How many people in a rural elementary school in Japan could recognize the remote control? Knowing that this is the remote control, so what? This person needs to know at least two other things before he can consider the 'decryption' level."

At this point, Jue Ge stretched out two fingers: "First, he has to know that the principal has a secret wine cellar, so that he can think of what this remote control is used to control; second, he also has to know this remote control The working principle and the exact location of the wine cellar entrance... Because the remote controls of that era still used ultrasonic technology, not infrared, and there was no obvious exposed infrared receiver at the wine cellar entrance. If the user did not know where the entrance was. There, even if the code is deciphered, the wine cellar cannot be opened."

"By the way... I just wanted to ask." When Xiao Tan heard this, he turned to look at Xiao Ling and said, "How did you find the entrance?"

"I found it based on the texture on the floor." Xiao Ling replied.

"It's on the floor..." Xiaotan muttered, looking down again.

Indeed, the wooden floor used in the principal's office was better than any other area they had visited before. Not only was it thick and dense, but the wooden boards were all patterned.

"Oh! I understand." Two seconds later, An Yueqin suddenly realized, "One of the three reminders in the women's restroom is used here."

"Yes." Xiao Ling nodded in response, "The seemingly irregular graffiti on the wall of the women's restroom exactly matches the texture of the floor at the entrance of the wine cellar; when I explored this room before, I had a vague feeling that it was The floor pattern seemed a bit familiar, and when I heard the group leader saying that I had to knock on the walls and floors inch by inch to find the entrance, I realized the problem. "

"Then... the question comes back again." Two seconds later, Xiao Tan said to Xiao Ling again, "Then what is the eight-digit password that 'the encryption method is not complicated'?"

"42561047." The next second, Xiaoling reported the answer.

"Huh?" This time, the other five people... including Feng Bujue had the same reaction.

"How did you figure it out?" Brother Jue was the first to ask.

"It's easy. Multiply 231568 by 616512, and you get exactly a twelve-digit number, that is, 142764450816..." Xiao Ling replied, "And the eight numbers in the middle refer to eight of the twelve digits. position, the 6th position is 4, the 3rd position is 2, the 8th position is 5, the 5th position is 6, the 11th position is 1, the 9th position is 0, the next position is 6th... 4, and finally Position 4...7; Except for position 6, which is repeated once, there are no repetitions of numbers in the 7 positions listed in total, that is, there is no situation where two different positions point to the same number. , which is also consistent with the logic of passwords.”

When she finished speaking, the entire audience fell silent...

"Hey, hey, hey, hey..." After about five seconds, Gui Xiao finally responded, "Sister... let's not talk about the whole bunch of stuff behind..." He paused for half a second and asked in surprise, "You haven't even opened the calculator yet, how did you do the multiplication between two six-digit numbers?"

"Mental arithmetic." Xiao Ling replied with two words.

These two words made Gui Xiao silent for another five seconds. During these five seconds, he observed the other party's expression and found that this did not seem to be a joke, so after five seconds, he replied with these three words: "You are so cruel..."

"Oh, by the way..." After Gui Xiao finished speaking, Xiao Ling picked up the calculator again and shook it casually, "This calculator has no power at all. When I checked it just now, I found that it could not be opened." After that, she threw the calculator on the table, "Then I understood... This is not a 'necessary tool for decryption', but a 'prop that serves as a prompt'; then, what can a dead calculator prompt us? Just think about it and you will understand - it is the number of digits. This is a calculator that can display up to twelve digits, and the information it implies is obvious. Taking into account the fact that 'the principal will not use overly complex encryption', it is easy to get the above conclusion by mentally calculating the various situations of the numbers on the paper."

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At this moment, Gui Xiao no longer wanted to speak.

An inexplicable sense of frustration continued to expand in his heart and gradually suppressed his fear, making him upset.

Before rehearsing this script, Ma Junxiao felt that he was a talent in every way; when his peers were still studying hard in high school to prepare for the college entrance examination, he was already earning a salary that was far less than that of undergraduate graduates.

However, rehearsing a script with these people from the Hell Front completely destroyed the sense of superiority that Gui Xiao had built up after he started working.

He couldn't help but start thinking... thinking about a question that all professional players, e-sports players, or all those who "make a living by playing games" have thought about and should think about.

That is - what else can I do besides playing games? Or... what else can I do?

The popularity period of any game is limited. No matter how high the quality of the game is, it is impossible to remain popular forever; there will eventually be more advanced and more adaptable games to replace them. However, some games will still be called "classics" more than ten or twenty years after their birth, and some will fade out of people's sight and no one will care about them after being popular for one or two years.

The career of any professional player is also limited. No matter how many honors he has achieved and how many fans he has been sought after, he will eventually retire one day. Because people grow old, and they grow old faster than games... and are more likely to be replaced.

However, people are not games. Games that are no longer popular can be removed from the shelves and shut down, but players who can no longer make money from games can't be buried on the spot, right?

They still have a long life, and they have to go on...

After entering the game industry, Ma Junxiao was naturally exposed to similar things. He found that many star players who seemed to be "legends" in the minds of players, after fading from the public eye for several years... actually lived a very ordinary life, or even bleak. Of course, there are also some who have a good life, such as starting a business with the money they earned when they were young, or finding a more stable behind-the-scenes job in the game industry, but the proportion of these people is not high.

Gui Xiao is a sensible child. After seeing and hearing a lot, he also understands that games can be played for a lifetime, but it is probably very difficult to support yourself for a lifetime by playing games. That is not a problem of effort or talent, but something that is physically impossible.

There are many people like him who gave up their studies at a young age to enter this industry. Indeed, before the age of 30, even if they are just blue-collar players, they can have a good income... But what will happen after the age of 30? What should they do? Most of them have not considered it, or... dare not think about it.

If they can stay in the game industry, it would be the best, but staying is also conditional... capital, technology, ability... at least one must be available, just knowing how to play games... is useless.

As for changing careers... that is difficult. Even if some people become professional players after graduating from college, after a gap of more than ten years, they enter a completely unfamiliar field and start from the bottom. The hardship can be imagined. Of course, this group of people is still good... There are many practitioners like Gui Xiao who have not even finished high school, and their situation of changing careers is even more worrying.

Having said so much, I still have to say objectively... These kinds of concerns and ideas are not something that people of Gui Xiao's age need to consider at all; with his conditions, he can at least be at the top of the game industry for ten years, or even longer.

However, Gui Xiao has been thinking about this kind of thing for more than one or two days.

It is not that he was stimulated by the people on the front line of hell today, although he was stimulated today...

In fact, he had thought about many things about the "future" before, and what he thought about, about his own "future"... is far more than these "real problems", and there are many strange ideas, including doubts about this world, which always appear in his mind involuntarily...

The reason is that Ma Junxiao is not an "ordinary person" - he is a candidate.

His will, talent, potential... are all unique. It's just that... "now" he hasn't realized this.

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Two minutes later.

The door of the wine cellar has been opened, and the password Xiao Ling guessed is undoubtedly correct.

And Feng Bujue took the lead in holding a flashlight and entered the space under the floor.

"I say..." As Jue Ge walked down the stairs, he glanced at the structure of the baffle at the entrance and said, "This principal of Chongjiu Primary School is probably an engineering major." When he said this, he had already walked down the not-too-long stairs and entered a very narrow space below the principal's office. "The entrance mechanism of this wine cellar and the matching remote control were obviously made by him... Maybe he dug the entire wine cellar himself." He stood there for a few seconds and suddenly said, "Wait... Is it possible... that the principal directly participated in the construction of this primary school?"

"Well..." Ruoyu, who followed Jue Ge down the wine cellar, quickly responded, "In a small town like this, it is common to hand over the project to enterprises or relevant people in the village." She pondered, "Assuming that the principal is really an engineering major, your speculation is indeed possible."

As they spoke, the two had already stood still in the wine cellar.

This space is quite narrow, just like a compressed subway car; in terms of height, Jue Ge can't even stand up straight inside, and as for width... they can't even stand side by side, if they want to switch positions, they have to turn sideways. As for the length... at a glance, there is a wall five meters away.

When observing from above, Jue Ge said that there is no need for six people to go down here together, so now only he and Ruoyu went down, and the others stayed in the principal's office waiting.

"I think this speculation is reliable." Feng Bujue said as he walked forward, "There is a 90% chance that a space like this was reserved in advance when the building was built... If he is one of the project leaders, it is easy for him to find an excuse to build such a dark room here."

"Speaking of which... this place is really small, and the two of us can't turn around when we go down." Ruoyu said at this time, "How about... I go up first?"

Just as she asked this question...

There was a "bang"! The exit of the wine cellar behind the two of them was suddenly closed. (To be continued ~^~)