"Wait a minute, I'll take a pen and paper and do some calculations. There happens to be draft paper here..." Zhang Kegang picked up the pens scattered on the table, but saw Han Gang suddenly reaching out and grabbing his arm, and said with a proud smile:
"Do you need to do special calculations for this small problem? Sure enough, your mediocre brain is still far inferior to mine."
"What are you doing? You've already figured it out?" Zhang Ke didn't quite believe it. After all, he had no memory of Han Gang's past, but from a common sense point of view, it was difficult to calculate a ten-digit base conversion problem without borrowing paper and pen.
Some are too difficult for others to do.
"Convert 3053 into binary, and the result is 101111101101, which is exactly twelve digits, not one more and not enough." Han Gang snorted lightly and said proudly, "Try it now.
, press the zero position and don’t move the one position to see if the box can be opened.”
He thought for a moment and then added: "If it is not turned on this time, it means that 1 means it is pressed and 0 means it stays above. You can just try the other way around. The third situation is impossible."
"Can you really determine twelve digits by just using mental arithmetic without relying on paper and pen?" Zhang Ke found it difficult to accept this. He was about to use pen and paper to calculate again, but he saw Han Gang's extremely firm and confident eyes.
"Do you still have doubts about my mental arithmetic ability?" Han Gang asked suspiciously and conceitedly, "I have already shown you many times in college."
"Oh, I was just wondering if your brain has become rusty after so many years of living in ecstasy." Zhang Ke saw him bringing up the past and thought that Han Gang did have such a talent, but he had already been involved in it.
Everything in the past has been completely forgotten.
He tried to adjust the positions of the buttons one by one according to the binary sequence given by Han Gang.
When he gently pressed the penultimate button down, he heard a "click" sound coming from inside the wooden box in his hand.
"The box is open!" Zhang Ke said excitedly, and the expression on Han Gang's face at this time was naturally more proud and conceited, but if you look closely, you can also see that he seemed to be quietly relieved.
"Are there any key props in the box?" Han Gang asked hurriedly, "Is it something like a key? Our ultimate goal is to leave this door."
"It doesn't look like a key... the box itself is quite heavy." Zhang Ke gently pushed open the loose top cover of the wooden box, only to see a thick and long cylindrical object exposed inside.
"It's actually..." Zhang Ke frowned slightly.
"Flashlight?? Is there anything else hidden inside???"
Although Han Gang was sitting on the ground and it was difficult to move his legs and feet, he still managed to raise his head and look into the box.
Unfortunately, the answer was far beyond his expectation, and even made him a little disappointed.
"At this point, what's the use of giving us a flashlight?" He said with some resentment, "The numbers on the wall can be seen clearly with emergency lights. For other things you want to observe, just bring them under the light and look carefully -
I finally cracked the code, but I didn’t expect that there was only one dispensable thing.”
"At least - it will be easier for us to search for details in every corner of the house." Zhang Ke was more optimistic, "Maybe there are some useful things hidden in some corners that cannot be illuminated by emergency lights."
Over the past few days, waking up next to corpses again and again, and encountering repeated reincarnations of violent deaths, made him much more nervous than ordinary people, and he was not at all as discouraged as Han Gang was now.
"It's just a flashlight, it's too funny... Are there any clues?"
Han Gang reluctantly held the flashlight in his hand, moved it up and down, and rubbed it repeatedly, as if he hoped to find some hidden buttons and mechanisms, and to find more critical props such as keys and blades.
But it turns out that this is really an extremely ordinary flashlight, so ordinary that there is nothing special about it. If there is anything special about it, it is quite bright and a little dazzling.
"Okay, no matter how you touch it, there will be no results. Give it to me."
Zhang Kepi took the flashlight and prepared to carefully look inside and outside the house. With the help of the mobile light source, many things that could not be seen clearly before could now be seen clearly.
But Han Gang was still sitting on the side angrily.
Because the flashlight was taken away by his companion, he had no choice but to hold the opened wooden box in his hands, dazedly, as if thinking about something.
He glanced at the jagged buttons and remembered the binary code he had cracked before. Then, a bright light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
It turned out that there was a very faint number [16] written vaguely on the ground inside the box.
Different from the letters on the surface of the box, this number seems to have been applied directly with a pencil or a carbon stick. Therefore, it becomes thinner and thinner as time goes by, especially in a room with insufficient light.
Difficult to find.
After Zhang Ke took out the flashlight just now, he only paid attention to whether there were other props in the box. Naturally, he didn't see the shallow 16. It wasn't until Han Gang held it in his hand and played with it carefully that he noticed this inadvertent detail.
Why would you write a 16 in a place like this?
Obviously this can't be a simple coincidence.
Since this number is placed inside the password box together with the flashlight, it means that it is also a clue to the next step.
Could it be said that this number should be used together with a flashlight?
But Han had just checked the flashlight carefully. It was really a very ordinary household model, with only two levels of light brightness and no more fancy functions.
It is really difficult to combine 16 with it.
Do you need to turn the flashlight on and off 16 times in a row? Or do you need to remove the battery inside 16 times? Or use the light of the flashlight to shine on a place in the room that says 16?
There were many hypotheses and conjectures, but basically they were not very reliable, so Han Gang rejected them in his heart without even saying them out loud.
Watching Zhang Ke jumping up and down, shining his flashlight here and there, Han Gang vaguely felt that there seemed to be an answer that seemed to be vague, and it was clearly right in front of him, but he could never break through the final veil.
He subconsciously glanced at the cipher box in his hand, scanning the scattered buttons, and suddenly felt like a clear and clear thunderbolt piercing the night sky of chaotic thoughts.
——Just now I converted the decimal number into a binary password, and then I got the flashlight and this strange number prompt.