Gu Liang couldn't figure out what all this was going on for the time being.
He can only deduce that this photo was taken a long time ago from the fact that the wedding photo is black and white and the faces of the two people on it are somewhat blurred.
Therefore, the woman in this photo is likely to be the original wife of the village chief.
Perhaps, Boss Hong is the son of the village chief and his wife.
And Xiaotao, who is now Li Wanghong, was born to the village chief and the "female ghost".
But there are only two wedding photos of the original wife and the village head, and the village flower and the village head in this room.
Then, I don't know what happened to that "female ghost".
From this, he could only sort out a rough timeline of the village head.
The village head first had a first wife, and the first wife gave birth to the red boss.
Later, probably because the original partner died, he took the "female ghost" by force and let her give birth to Xiaotao.
Xiaotao was sent away by the "female ghost" when she was about 7 or 8 years old.
After that, the "female ghost" was locked up.
After all, the photo album related to the "female ghost" recorded when Xiaotao was 7 or 8 years old, and there were no new photos after that.
Finally, the village head married the village flower. Village flower gave birth to the second red child.
And ten years ago, the "female ghost" died, and finally became a real female ghost.
At noon, everyone went directly to the kitchen to eat. Each person only had a bowl of fried rice with eggs and soy sauce, and they could only make do with it.
During the process, Gu Liang first asked Li Xiaoyu: "Have you found any clues?"
Li Xiaoyu nodded: "I found it. It's just a string of codes, and I haven't been able to solve it yet."
Gu Liang: "Then take me to have a look after dinner."
Li Xiaoyu: "OK."
Gu Liang turned to ask again: "Is your character the village chief's daughter?"
"Huh?" Li Xiaoyu was surprised, "I really don't know."
Gu Liang reckoned that there were a lot of people here, maybe for some reason, Li Xiaoyu didn't want to talk too much.
So Gu Liang didn't ask any more questions, and when Li Xiaoyu took him to decrypt the code in the afternoon, he asked a few more questions: "I suspect that your character was born of the 'female ghost' before she was alive, and it was her and Born to the village head."
At this point, Gu Liang told Li Xiaoyu all the clues he found in the morning and the current speculation.
When Li Xiaoyu heard this, she was inevitably a little angry. "If that's the case... then the village chief is too hateful!"
"So your side—" Gu Liang asked.
Li Xiaoyu shook her head: "I don't know. I can only say that it is possible. My current father's surname is Li, so I am called Li Wanghong. But I am not their biological child."
"Before I came to this village, I actually had a car accident. Of course, the car accident was not serious. However, I was hospitalized and had a blood test. I found out that my blood type is different from that of my parents. I asked What the hell happened to them."
"My parents just said that they picked me up near this village. The two of them couldn't have a child, so they took me away."
"Son patriarchy is very serious in this village. They thought I was an abandoned child."
"And I did have a lot of injuries on my body, and my head was broken. So, although my adoptive parents picked me up, I was probably 8 or 9 years old. But how old am I, what is my birthday, and 8 or 9 years old? I don't have any memories of the past."
"This time is just right. As an Internet celebrity, I received suggestions from netizens to come here to broadcast live, and they would give me a reward. I just thought, why don't I stop by to see who my biological parents are."
"They abandoned me, and of course I don't want to go back to them. But I'm curious after all, so I want to find out."
Gu Liang asked her: "How old are you this year?"
Li Xiaoyu said: "I can only say that I guess I am 25 or 26 years old."
Gu Liang couldn't help but said: "So, at least 25 or 26 years ago, the 'ghost' was forced to give birth to the village chief's child, which is you. She named you Xiaotao and made you grow up to be 8 or 9 years old. That is, about 17 years ago, she tried to get you to leave, and she was imprisoned herself. She was imprisoned for 7 years, tortured, and died 10 years ago."
Li Xiaoyu frowned: "It's too hateful. I can't believe that if this kind of thing happened in reality—"
Gu Liang thought for a while, then said seriously: "It happened. I've seen such reports."
Li Xiaoyu: "Then the village head, he can't repay his sins. If he comes to this game, I wish he had tortured girls in real life before, and he will suffer a lot every day here." Thousands of times!"
Gu Liang said: "He will. This kind of person will definitely go to hell."
After walking for about 15 minutes, Gu Liang and Li Xiaoyu walked through the fruit forest and came to a small river behind the fruit forest.
There are countless pebbles by the river, and the code Li Xiaoyu mentioned was written on one of the pebbles.
Others had already memorized that string of codes, and they were currently deciphering them at the village chief's house, so they didn't follow them.
Gu Liang felt that it was best to come and see the scene, so he asked Li Xiaoyu to lead the way.
On the stone is a string of English characters - "YLHEGOLETHUNAOTWORNITMI".
At first glance, it is really confusing.
"What the hell does this mean? Is it in English?"
Li Xiaoyu asked Gu Liang, "It took us a long time to find this stone, and we haven't had time to decipher it. We can only feel that a string of English words has been disrupted. How can we restore it?"
Gu Liang: "This is not difficult."
Li Xiaoyu: "!!!"
Gu Liangdao: "It should be the fence password. This is a very classic type of password."
Li Xiaoyu: "Fence? What do you mean?"
Gu Liangdao: "Actually, it's what you said. Shuffle the order of the sentence and recombine it to form a sentence that people can't understand at first glance. But the order is not random, it is regular."
"For example, there is a sentence ABCDEF. We divide every two characters of this sentence into a group and arrange them two by two to form three lines. We can write it like this—"
"AB"
"CD"
"EF".
Gu Liang took out a notebook and wrote down these three lines of characters for Li Xiaoyu as an example.
"Finally, we took the initials of these three lines and turned them into ACE and BDF. The password formed by combining them is ACEBDF. Isn't it very simple?"
Li Xiaoyu clapped her hands. "Understood, it's simple! Let's go backwards. We can get the original word order!"
Gu Liang nodded: "Yes. The only difficulty in decrypting is that we don't know how many characters it is grouped into, and whether it has only been encrypted by one layer. We can use the spelling rules of English, such as vowels and consonants Let’s speculate, it won’t be hard.”
Gu Liang picked up the stone. "I'll go back and decipher. But what I find strange now is—"
"This password is simple, but the meaning behind it may be more than that simple."
Li Xiaoyu quietly listened to Gu Liang's analysis: "All the clues given by the system are based on evidence."
"For example, the phrase 'I want to know what I look like' last night. I took a selfie for the female ghost, and the answer was passed. At first glance, this seems to be a brain teaser, an opportunistic answer. But when I analyze it, it is a bit It’s frightening to think about it carefully. Because this is not a brain teaser, this is a question asked by the female ghost from the perspective of the perpetrator.”
"Someone blinded her to prevent her from seeing him. 'You can't see me', 'You can't hear me', these are the tone of the assailant."
"Today, I don't think the system is really going to test our ability to decrypt. The password must have other intentions."
Gu Liang slowed down and walked slowly into the fruit forest.
The rancid smell mixed with the apple aroma formed a very strange smell.
Gu Liang frowned, in front of him was the fruit forest, in the distance was the village chief's house, and further away was the barren tomb and the homes of the rest of the villagers.
This is an ignorant, backward, patriarchal village. The culture of the whole village is feudal, decadent, and full of stench, just like the land of the fruit forest.
The women here are especially pitiful, and have never received any higher education.
Yes... yes, that's it.
uneducated. This is so important.
The question asked by the "female ghost" has never been unconstrained.
Then the so-called fence password did not come out of thin air.
The original sentence of the password must be an English sentence.
How could a woman who grew up in this village know English without even going to school
—Could it be that she was a highly educated woman who came to travel nearby, and was forcibly taken back to the village by the village chief? Or, was she kidnapped and sold here
correct. It should be like this.
Gu Liang suddenly figured out why she asked "Where is the post office?"
— She wants to ask the outside world for help.
There is no signal in this village, and Li Wanghong's mobile phone proves it.
When the female ghost was alive, she wanted to seek help from the outside world, but she could only go through the post office.
She is not from this village, she was brought here by force, and may even be related to human trafficking.
So she spent her whole life trying to escape from here.