Phew... This room is a little difficult."
Yu Jing now had five shriveled eyeballs in his possession. During all the previous puzzle-solving sessions, he had made at most two consecutive mistakes, causing a large number of eyeballs to spill out of the bathtub in the bathroom, but this had not brought out any troublesome ghost. He estimated that making three consecutive mistakes during a single puzzle-solving session would trigger an attack from the woman in the kimono.
At present, Yu Jing and Bai Jingjing were in the sixth secret room.
They searched the entire room but could not find a corpse, and Bai Jingjing could not smell anything either.
Since they were not allowed to damage the structure of the house, Yu Jing did not dare release plants at random to search... Soon, Yu Jing found a diary on the bedside table.
After quickly reading fifty lines at a glance, he relied on the information recorded inside.
Yu Jing immediately noticed a floorboard that had long since come loose. Inside, he found a badly rotten abandoned infant. It had been there for many years, and part of its body had even fused with the floor.
The cloth wrapping the baby contained a blood letter from its mother. By taking a rubbing, they obtained the two key numbers, '2' and '7.' Combined with the month of the baby's birth recorded in the diary, the child would have been seventeen this year if it had not died.
"Password: 2717."
"Okay." Bai Jingjing nodded. She had been responsible only for entering the password from start to finish.
Everything went smoothly. The iron lock on the secret room opened in a single attempt, taking thirty-seven seconds. It was the longest puzzle-solving time among all these secret rooms.
Bai Jingjing was overwhelmed with excitement, once