Survivorship Bias

Chapter 95: Thanks for the invitation

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"It's been a long time since I heard such a sarcastic joke."

Yang Erci stared at the smile of the "businessman" on the screen, "The high price of buying baby girls is not out of liking girls, but because they don't like children born from artificial wombs and want women's natural wombs."

I don't know if it's because of this video or some other reason, Zhong Yirou felt a strong chill, as if being thrown into an ice well, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't arouse any heat. Her hands were almost stiff, and it was difficult to move her fingertips.

In the video, the hand of the man with a big belly slides flexibly, graciously introducing these "hot potatoes" to this rare guest.

[Needless to say. ] In the video, the voice of Josh, also known as D03, appeared again.

[I want all these children, I will pick them up tomorrow morning, please take care of them for another night tonight. ]

The other party said God bless you, smiling so much that his face was piled up, and he could hardly see those greedy eyes.

[If you still need baby girls, just ask me, I have been in this business for more than ten years, the first batch of little girls who went out are now all grown up and have children, and those children are very healthy. You know, those rich bastards only like babies who grow up in human stomachs, those fake stomachs and synthetic amniotic fluid, they are no different from taxidermy... ]

He is full of pride in the "products" he has exported, like a successful businessman in the industrial chain, who is only temporarily succumbing to this dirty and small subscription studio.

D03 didn't say anything, just silently paid the advance payment, agreed on a handover time, and left alone.

This video also ends like this.

There is only one last file left in the folder, which is an audio file named [(A02) Telephone Recording 11090].

Josh directly clicked play, but An Wujiu was very concerned about the naming method. A02 was written in brackets, which probably refers to the person who recorded the phone call. What about the 11090 behind it

If it is the serial number of the recording file...

There are two voices in the audio, the voice of D03 is very clear, it has not been filtered or compressed by other media, it is obviously recorded by him actively.

[I've already done it. It's a wise choice for you not to come here. It's really scary here. The smell of baby excrement and food is mixed when you enter. I don't know how the children live in it and how much they have to suffer. When the time comes, send it to us for more inspection. ]

Sure enough, An Wujiu's own voice appeared on the opposite side, and the caller was A02.

[I'm afraid I won't be able to bear seeing that kind of situation, please. ]

[Why are you talking so strangely? Aren't we best friends? Just buy me a drink when the time comes. You have been so busy that you pushed me twice recently, you can't push me back this time. ]

[No, I promise. ] The voice of A02 in the recording is not loud, but the tone is very gentle.

[How about this, I will take the wine that A01 gave me for my birthday before, and then we will meet at the circus on the second floor at X:X. ]

An Wujiu frowned, the time was silenced.

And it's a circus again.

Is it the children watching the circus performance tonight, or is it the agreement of the two employees.

A02's tone was full of emotion, [It's been a long time since I watched the performance, I still miss it when I think about it, we always sneaked in to watch it when we were young. ]

[yes. But you are willing to drink the wine that A01 gave you, I thought you would keep it as a collection forever. ]

A02 smiled softly.

I can't explain why, this voice is obviously his own, but An Wujiu feels that the state is very strange, just like this smile, like a person after falling in love, too sweet.

[He won't talk about me, wine is meant for people to drink. ]

[Okay, okay, this is what you asked me to drink. ]

Wu You heard something was wrong, turned to look at Shen Ti, his eyes fell on his front, and sighed before speaking, "You are A01."

Shen Ti raised his eyebrows, looking like a palace, but what he said was green tea, "What's wrong? I'm not good enough? You always have so many opinions on me."

Wu You felt that he should change his name to Wu Huake.

"The relationship between A01 and A02 seems to be unusual." Nanshan still smiled, but the speed of speaking slowed down a lot.

Zhong Yirou on the side wanted to laugh, but when he laughed, his neck hurt, so he held back.

In the recording, A02 and D03 chatted about the drug, most of which appeared in the previous video.

At a certain moment, An Wujiu discovered that this game was not as simple as imagined.

If it's just a simple escape game, it's nothing more than a confined space plus puzzles and distractions that hinder escape.

But these videos and phone recordings seem to be revealing some kind of plot to them, some stories about this detention center, and even the roles played by several of them.

A01 and A02 have some kind of close relationship, and A02 and D03 are close friends.

So what about the others.

Just as he was thinking, suddenly, he felt the sound outside gradually disappearing, so he took two steps towards the door, then walked back, and stood beside Shen Ti, very close.

As if he was afraid of disturbing other people listening to the recording, An Wujiu didn't say anything, but put his hand on Shen Ti's back lightly, almost only touching his fingertips, like a bird that has touched water but is unwilling to fly straight walking dragonfly.

Shen Ti crossed his arms and glanced at him, but he felt a slight sense of joy in his heart because of An Wujiu's action, but he didn't know the reason.

He raised his eyebrows at An Wujiu, saying [what's wrong].

In his eyes, An Wujiu is a strange person, beautiful but not gorgeous, with a contradictory sense of beauty that is both fragile and tough.

With a face like this, you might be able to enjoy yourself with the color of your face. Even if you are stupid, you will be taken care of if you are willing to flatter. Those guys who call themselves strong are idiots who like to be in control and have a good skin.

But An Wujiu is clever, and he is very stubborn.

Seeing Shen Ti's response, An Wujiu quickly put down his hand, and said in a low voice, "The rainbow herbicide spraying over there may have stopped." The angle of his slightly raised face showed a soft posture, but it was just that.

If another person spoke like this, and touched with such movements, Shen Ti would feel nothing, and even feel a little disgusted. But just because it is An Wujiu, his brains and that kind of stubborn kindness make this face no matter how beautiful it is, it is different from everyone Shen Ti meets.

So when he lowers his head occasionally, he looks extremely cute.

Shen Ti understood what he meant, but pretended not to understand, lowered his head to An Wujiu's ear, deliberately chose a word that he would definitely not accept, "You want to command me."

"No." An Wujiu denied it solemnly, his eyes were bright, "I want you to keep an eye on it for me, the rainbow jar may come out in a while, I always think the words printed on it are clues."

Shen Ti smiled in his ear, and quickly straightened up, "What about you?"

An Wujiu pointed to the screen, "The recording is a bit strange, I have to listen to it."

Shen Ti didn't say much, and compromised very quickly, he made an OK gesture very casually, wrapped his arms around Wu You's neck, wrapped his neck around his neck, and left.

"What are you doing!"

"Come with me over there to have a look."

"Go yourself!"

"People are afraid~"

The voices of the two gradually faded away, An Wujiu turned around and walked back to the screen.

The laugh just now was over, but his ears felt itchy after realizing it.

But this feeling only lasted for a moment, An Wujiu once again immersed his heart in the recorded conversation, these audio must have very important information.

In the conversation, after talking about the birth-changing medicine, their topic returned to the circus covenant again.

D03 asked: [When do you leave work? I'm going to find you. ]

On the other end of the phone, the sound environment of A02 became a little noisy, as if someone was calling him.

[How about this, see you at the circus on the second floor at X o'clock in the evening, two hours later. E06 came to see me, I'll go there first, she recently lost love, she seems not in a good mood. ]

The time he spoke was silenced again.

[Okay, push it for two hours, just push it for two hours, and only you can comfort her, I can't do this job. I'm on my way, see you at nine! ]

With a beep, the audio ended.

"E06 is Ms. Zhong." Nanshan said slowly, "I feel that the relationship between the employees here is very good, and they don't look like people who work in such a bad place with Feng Shui."

An Wujiu caught something from the last sentence.

The expression "the relationship is very good" is inaccurate. It should be that A01, D03 and E06 in the current dialogue all have a very good relationship with A02.

From several video records and audio information, it is not difficult to find that A02 is a kind and upright person, and it is a clue to connect other characters.

After the audio ended, nothing else popped up on the screen, and everyone thought it was over.

Unexpectedly, in the next second, a message like an electronic card popped up.

After clicking on it, there is such a text on it:

[Dear D03, A02 invites you to watch the circus show today!

Remember, the times are:

MLCRFPCC

RUMXCPM

Don't be late! ]

Immediately afterwards, a line of red words appeared below the text—

Fill in the correct time and you will get an e-invitation card.

___:___

It turns out that because of this, the time mentioned in the recording will be muted.

"What is this, it looks like a string of gibberish characters." Josh frowned, "Is it a number representing time?"

Yang Erci glanced at it and concluded that it was some kind of password, "I guess, these two strings of characters should be ciphertext obtained through some encryption method, converting numbers into letters."

"Then... can you process the muted file just now, and the result will come out?"

Yang Erci did not accept Josh's suggestion. She shook her head, "Given the ciphertext, the way to restore the audio is brute force. Besides, we don't have any tools to restore audio files now."

An Wujiu didn't say a word, his guess about Yang Erci's identity at the beginning seemed a little more certain now. Behavior can be concealed, but people's way of thinking and knowledge reserves are easily exposed.

Faced with such a ciphertext, Yang Erci used many classical cipher solutions, but found that none of them were correct, "...if letters correspond to numbers, it is usually in the order of the alphabet, but if this is the case...it is 131231861633, the following line It’s 2331613182113…”

Since there is no pen here, she can only calculate the results of each cracking method in her head. Just matching these letters one by one with the serial numbers on the alphabet so quickly, and then dictating them out, is enough to show her ability.

But after getting the numbers, Yang Erci felt a little doubtful again, and said to himself: "And then decipher the sequence of numbers? Isn't it too difficult..."

Josh could only express that she didn't understand what she said, and he tried to comfort, "Don't worry, you can definitely find it."

An Wujiu stood quietly at the back, he didn't calculate, but just repeated in his mind what he had just recorded.

Zhong Yirou was weak, felt very tired, and had a sore throat, so she had to drag the chair from before to sit on it, and said in a weak voice, "Could it be the block encryption password? Try to match the two sets of numbers, if it doesn't work You can try to move... "

"Your complexion is too bad." No matter how you look at her, Yang Erci feels that she is wrong, but now he can't care about it, so he took off his white coat and used it to wrap Zhong Yirou on the chair. Then go back and continue to decipher, "It seems that grouping is not very feasible."

Passwords are not what Nanshan is good at, and his current condition is not very good. He is worried that it is a problem with his central nervous system, so he proposes to go to the Rainbow Corridor to find Shen Ti and Wu You.

After speaking, the person left.

"No, it's not grouping." After repeated calculations, Yang Erci confirmed that this method is not feasible.

what is that? Is it indeed the result of nesting multiple layers of encryption

"Could it be complicated?"

An Wujiu's calm voice appeared behind her.

Yang Erci turned his head and looked at An Wujiu's face, he was different from the people he met before, smart but not aggressive, and the way he raised opinions was also gentle.

"Have you figured out a way?"

"Indeed, letters correspond to numbers. Maybe the first reaction is to use letters instead of numbers. A is 1, B is 2, and C is 3. This is the most intuitive way to replace numbers." An Wujiu said in a light tone, "I am I also thought about it at first, but just now when Yirou said to move, I wondered if we were thinking too far."

"Shift?" Yang Erci felt that it was not feasible, "How much? Blind test in alphabetical order?"

An Wujiu shook his head lightly, "Do you remember? In the recording of the call between D03 and A02 just now, some content appeared several times - 'tweeted twice', 'tweeted for two hours', 'tweeted for two hours, then pushed twice hours'."

Yang Erci suddenly thought, "You mean, this is suggesting that we push back twice?"

An Wujiu stared at the cipher text on the screen, tried to push each number back in his mind, then he looked around, found the medicine jar that Yang Erci had just opened, and took out an orange Take the pill and show it to Josh.

"The first line of the ciphertext is MLCRFPCC... M pushes back two in order to get O, L pushes back two to get N, and C goes back two, which is E..."

As he spoke, he forcefully wrote this line of letters on the wall, which was not divided into upper and lower lines as in the title setting.

Instead of ONETHREE:TWOZERO

After finishing writing, An Wujiu found a place in the middle of the string and drew two vertical lines.

ONE|THREE: TWO|ZERO

"Ah, 13:20!" Josh was pleasantly surprised to find the correct answer.

"No." Yang Erci shook his head, "It's not night."

"Yeah." An Wujiu nodded, "Because it's not only the position of the letters, but also the numbers. The letters need to be pushed back twice to get the words with numbers, so the numbers also need to be pushed back two more times."

All the numbers start and end are pushed backwards by two spaces. The 1 originally in the first space is pushed to the third space, the 3 is pushed to the fourth space, the 2 is pushed twice to the first space, and the 0 is to the second space.

An Wujiu didn't continue to write the answer, and announced directly, "20:13, it should be the answer."

"I see." Josh immediately entered the four numbers in the final order.

The screen displays the result.

[The answer is correct, congratulations on successfully connecting to A02's small code. Please reach out and accept this invitation card. ]

Soon, several blue laser beams appeared, branding a square shape on Josh's palm.

"Is this the invitation card?"

He raised his hand and looked, and found that this square was not one, but many identical squares that overlapped but not completely.

A final prompt appears on the screen.

[Please find the rainbow key and come to the appointment on time. ]

According to the progress of the game, the mission of the double perfect angel seems to be over.

"The rainbow key should be the task of the half of the corridor. After getting it, I think it can open the door of the circus." In order to save time, Yang Erci suggested to solve the puzzle of the rainbow baby as soon as possible. Zhong Yirou also got up from the chair, An Wu Seeing that she seemed very weak, he wanted to carry her on his back, but was stopped by Yang Erci.

"Let me come." She half-kneeled with her back to Zhong Yirou, "Come up."

Zhong Yirou didn't have the strength to evade, so she had to follow Yang Erci's request. Her back was a little warmer than expected, and it was different from that cold face.

"Heavy."

"fine."

Everyone else left the room, An Wujiu finally turned his head and took a look.

The birth of children depends on these adults, but their lives are also ruined by these people.

It's just the world in the game. In reality, the real abandoned angel is not a "perfect" two sets of organs, nor is it double.

Just girls, that's all.

When passing by the mural, in a daze, Zhong Yirou once again saw the child behind the tree. Although he couldn't see the child's appearance and clothes clearly, he seemed to hear childish laughter.

When they walked along the angel corridor until they came to the place where they first entered the second floor, the rainbow corridor happened to have no medicine sprayed, An Wujiu saw Shen Ti's back.

"Shen Ti."

Hearing the sound, Shen Ti turned his head. The two people standing in different areas discovered at the same time that in an instant, at the junction of the Rainbow Corridor and the Angel Corridor, where there was originally a complete wall, a colorful door appeared.

The word circus is written on it.

At the same time, two lines of timing appeared in their normal field of vision.

The first line is the current time, displayed as: 07:55

The second line is a countdown, which keeps changing, and currently has about 64 hours left.

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The author has something to say:

The encryption method is the Caesar cipher, but the numbers behind have moved again