People are gambling crazily, their charm is super S

Naoki didn't think much of it. It seemed this game was guiding players through the controls while issuing quests. Unlike previous games, which would immediately teach players how to use all the moves and items, leaving them to digest them before proceeding.

There is a combination lock on the door, so the first task is to decrypt it.

I guess this game is about who can beat the game the fastest. There may be other games later, but if you fall behind in the first game, you will be at a disadvantage.

Naoki began to search the room for clues to the code.

……

At the same time, at the headquarters of the virtual reality game cabin R&D company.

The dozen or so technicians sitting in front of the monitors operating the systems looked solemn.

"Oh no, Minister, the server has been hacked by an unknown program, and all players' game data has been transformed into a game they've never seen before."

The minister frowned. "Issue an emergency maintenance notice immediately and force all players to log off."

Another technician shook his head helplessly: "No, the emergency logout function has been controlled. Now all players can't log off."

The minister widened his eyes. The server being hacked was a small matter, with only a few hundred million in losses, but if it involved the personal safety of the players, it would be a big deal.

You know, their current game cabins are very expensive and are almost all provided to the rich and high-ranking officials' families across the country to experience. If something happens to them or their children in them.

Not only him, but their company will face a devastating disaster.

“How many players are online right now?”

The Director of Technology R&D forced himself to calm down.

"Two hundred and thirty-one."

Because it is the prime gaming time at 7 o'clock in the evening, there are quite a lot of people trying out their virtual reality games.

With this number of players, even if only a dozen or so got into trouble, it would be the end of them.

"Has the source of the program been traced?"

The technicians were typing away on their keyboards.

"We can only detect phenomena that appear from the inside, no intrusion from the outside."

Is there a mole?

If it was an internal incident, then it would be understandable.

But why would this person do this?

The minister lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and mentally counted the people in the company with whom he had conflicts.

Although there are people who may even have the ability to destroy the server, it will not do him any good.

Hijacking players from playing the game and not allowing them to log off? This would definitely be exposed as soon as it was done, and there was no profit at all. If the rich and high-ranking officials knew about this, they would definitely eat him alive.

Is the direction of my thinking wrong?

He's not in it for the money?

"What's that game?"

The technician said: "We captured some data. It seems like an escape room game."

Is this person's goal to get these players to play the game he designed?

But, is it necessary to use such means?

Their company is not closed to outside ideas. They even plan to use the game cabin as a platform to welcome other creators to design virtual reality games.

……

There was no furniture in the room. After searching the table and finding nothing else, a few minutes later, Naoki found a small square piece of paper under the bed board of the tattered iron bed. There was only a capital letter D on the paper. ???

Is this the hint?

I can't think of any key that can be linked to the password.

Naoki couldn't help but sigh that her logical puzzle-solving ability was really zero.

One D, and the pronunciation is just one syllable.

The combination lock is a six-digit code.

The simplest logic is that D is the fourth letter of the English alphabet, so the password is 000004?

That's unlikely. If that were the case, why would you use a six-digit combination lock?

However, since the rules of the game didn't specify what would happen if the wrong password was entered, Naoki simply entered it and tried.

click!

The combination lock didn't move.

Okay, that’s not right.

Think about other logics, could it be binary?

The binary number of 4 is 100, which is represented by six digits as 000100.

Naoki tried the new password again, but the combination lock still didn't respond.

wrong again.

If it's not binary, then what is it?

Naoki stared at the white paper in front of him, thinking hard.

Ah, this is too difficult.

You can only see that the D is printed, which takes up about 75% of the white paper. This size is quite comfortable.

Wait a minute, D is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet on the keyboard in vertical order. Could it be thirteen?

Naoki tried the decimal and binary numbers of 13 again, 001101, but they were still wrong.

Hiss, it needs to be related to the six-digit number of the password. How can D become a six-digit number?

As time passed, Naoki felt a sense of unease growing inside.

It seems like something terrible will happen if you can't solve this puzzle.

Tsk, Naoki instinctively wanted to take out his phone to see how much time had passed, but then he suddenly remembered that he was in a virtual reality game and couldn't take out his phone at all.

However, when he thought of the mobile phone screen, a light bulb went off in Naoki's mind.

Mobile phones generally have screen passwords set, and passwords can be fingerprints, numbers, or patterns.

The pattern is made up of the numeric keypad on the screen.

If you want to draw the number D, the line must pass through 1, 4, 7, 2, 6, and 8, which are exactly six numbers.

Arranging the numbers from top to bottom, it is 124678.

It must be this one.

Naoki quickly entered the password.

Sure enough, with a click, the combination lock opened.

Although the logic of this decryption is not difficult, there are so many ways to explain graphical reasoning.

It takes trial and error, and the correct solution cannot be confirmed immediately.

Walking out of the small dark room, I saw a brightly lit and gorgeous corridor outside, which was in stark contrast to the dim environment just now.

What kind of place is this? Anyway, let’s go to the lobby where the game prompts.

Naoki didn't think much about it and walked all the way to the end of the corridor. Sure enough, she saw the stairs leading to the lower floor. There were already many people gathered in the spacious hall, and she saw a familiar figure at a glance.

"Kirori!"

Naoki pounced over. Whenever she saw someone she knew, she liked to pounce like this, especially in an unfamiliar and uneasy environment.

In the past, whether it was Sakura, Sachiko or even Qinghua, they would be gentle or smile. Even if they were reserved towards her like Qinghua in the previous devil's gambling game, they would not push her away directly.

But this time...

Before Naoki could pounce on Kirari, she held his forehead and prevented him from moving forward.

So cold!

Just as Naoki was about to complain, she saw Kirari turn around, her eyes flickering slightly, and she said to her, "Wait, something's wrong."

"Eh?"

Naoki looked around and said, "Oh, yes."

Aren't you playing in a team with Qi Luoli? Why are there so many players here?

"I just didn't adjust the settings correctly and entered the team game? But there is only the start game button to select."

Kirari looked at Naoki as if he were a fool, her gaze paused slightly, but she still maintained the elegance of the student council president and the head of the Hyakuha, without too much emotional ups and downs.

"It's worse than that. The option to exit the game is no longer available."

To wake up from the immersive gaming mode, you must give yourself physical stimulation by exiting the gaming device and then detaching from the device before you can wake up.

If you can't exit the game, it's like being stuck in the game cabin forever.

"Hey! So, the machine you bought, Kirari, had a problem, so we're trapped inside, right?"

Naoki exclaimed.

"It could be a lot worse than that."

Kirari said it was terrible, but her expression was as calm as usual, which made Naoki feel inexplicably safe.

An unexpected incident, could it be that the marriage card has taken effect? ​​Naoki thought to himself.

Why does this marriage card always like to cause such weird events? The first time was to drag people into the devil's casino and supernatural powers.

The second time, there was no supernatural power, but members of the Fff group who hated the world suddenly appeared, caught couples and played death games with them, and shot a bunch of couples to death.

That time, without the demon potion, I almost died.

What is it this time?

"System, is this your fault?"

Naoki asked in his mind.

"Host, you must believe that everything you experience is a logical consequence of the operation of this world."

By the way, these players gathered in the hall next door are probably from wealthy families like Qi Luoli, you can tell from their clothes.

Perhaps they had discovered what Kirori had said about not being able to quit the game, and everyone seemed a little restless.

Not long after Naoki arrived at the hall, the electronic screen in the hall lit up and a masked face appeared on it, accompanied by human voices.

I don't know whose voice AI was used to synthesize it, but the sound is a bit hoarse and not very pleasant to listen to.

"Congratulations to everyone present for following the instructions and arriving at the lobby. Without further ado, let's begin the next game."

At this time, someone raised an objection.

"I want to quit the game!"

"Why is the function to exit the game no longer working? I want to complain!"

"Yeah, there's something wrong with the game. This isn't the game I wanted to play."

The hall was noisy.

However, the masked man did not react at all, and Naoki could even sense a hint of cold sarcasm on the other person's virtual masked face.

"If anyone wants to quit the game now, I won't stop them. They'll just be disqualified. They'll sleep forever, just like those who didn't come to the lobby."

The message revealed by the cold voice left the rich kids present speechless for a moment.

They wanted to seek help from the outside world as they had done before, but at this moment, it was impossible to contact their parents, relatives, friends, or the police.

If you can't exit the game.

Then they can only wait for their families to rescue them.

As long as they stay in the game cabin all night, they will be discovered sooner or later.

Of course, this is indeed the case.

……