"Ah... it's locked..."

Although the Ghost Staff and Inaba had already tried it, Suo still came to the door in person and pulled the door handle a few times, confirming that the door really couldn't be opened.

"I have a suggestion." After Suzu finished checking, the ghost servant answered, "The three of us..." He said, his eyes swept across Suzu and Inaba's faces, "... Let's cooperate."

"Oh?" Suzu looked at the other party with great interest and replied, "What kind of cooperation method?"

"Yes~" Inaba said, "Now this is a game of competition, Ghost Master."

The ghost servant smiled indifferently and continued, "As you can see, this room has no windows, and the only exit is this door, but it is locked now; there are only two possibilities to escape through the form of "puzzle solving", one is: find a hidden exit, and the other is to find a way to open the door." He paused, "But this room is big, there are a lot of things, and twenty minutes are short... In fact, a minute has passed now. If we don't cooperate with each other and do our own things... Maybe in the end, someone can win, but the greater probability will be... all destroyed."

"Then what you mean..." Inaba continued, "The three of us searched together to share the clues we found, and see who can solve the puzzle first?" She picked up the cigarette pole in her hand and took a sip, "Furo - Ghost Master, it's not good to lie."

"Haha..." The ghost servant sneered, "Of course I know that making such a request... no matter how you look, it seems that you want to cheat the clues found by the other two, and then escape first." He continued, "So, I suggest that we make another agreement - for example... If anyone sees the clue and hides it and is discovered later, he will automatically lose the qualification of a 'winner'."

The Ghost Suspension's words are full of traps, and the most obvious one is the condition of "if you are discovered later", but even if you know this, his proposal is very tempting; because objectively speaking, even if you cooperate with them at the risk of being deceived, the probability of finally successfully solving the puzzle is higher than doing it alone.

"This proposal is OK. If Mr. Arai is willing to help us make notarization, it will be feasible." After thinking for a while, Shizuo continued.

He didn't know whether the other two had seen through Ah Xiu's identity, so he still called each other by "Arai".

"You should be able to hear our conversation, right? Mr. Arai." A second later, Suzu raised his voice and said again.

"Ah... I can hear it." Then, A Xiu's voice came from the ceiling. It seemed that there was a communicator with amplification function hidden on it. "Mr. Ghost servant's suggestion is, 'If you find someone saw a clue and concealed it, then this person will lose the qualification to win even if he wins.'... I can make a notarization for you." He paused, "Oh, by the way, this room is equipped with a lot of monitoring probes with a radio function. I hope you don't break it when searching."

"How is it?" After getting A Xiu's answer, the smile on the ghost servant's face became even stronger. "If you agree, the three of us will divide the room into three areas to search and share the clues they found... Of course, it is just a 'clue', and 'inference' does not need to be shared; in this form, who can find a way out, and the other two should be willing to accept the loss."

The Ghost Staff originally thought that the two of them would have to hesitate for at least a moment before giving a reply, but unexpectedly...

"I agree." The next second, Suzu agreed, "Then I'll be responsible for finding this part." As he said that, he turned around and searched.

"Hey... Jun Su, you are too hasty." Aunt Inaba saw this and immediately responded in an aunty voice, "You will be taken advantage of by some bad-hearted uncles."

"The time is too short and the space is too large. Compared to refusing to cooperate, the success rate of sharing clues is higher. Besides, Mr. Arai has already agreed to be fair. I think that's it." Shinoka explained the reason for his agreement to cooperate in a few very simple sentences, and added, "Senior Inaba, you can do it alone, but then... we will naturally not bring you when we exchange information. The two-on-one situation is even more unfavorable to you."

"Go..." Inaoba spat secretly and took a sip of cigarette, "Okay, okay~ I'll agree." After that, she moved to one side of the room and began to check.

Seeing that the situation was developing according to his own vision and was smoother than he expected, the ghost servant immediately smiled in his heart, "Hmph... Very good. Since I have all taken the bait, I have basically won. The boy named Suo was very quick-witted. As for the fact that I had finished speaking, he settled the accounts and had to keep an eye on him for a while... lest he would run out quickly after solving the puzzle; as for the old lady Inaba, it was not a threat at all, and I had already figured out the things that contained several hypnotic and toxic gases in her cigarette pole. As long as I was prepared, that kind of thing would be useless."

While thinking, he walked to the remaining area of ​​the room and searched.

When the game was still 16 minutes left, the three people who looked like a god were officially beginning to understand the mystery.

In less than two minutes, Suzu said loudly: "There are numbers on the furniture." He paused for half a second, "and there are every one."

"Ah~ After you said this." Inaba actually found a few numbers half a minute ago, but she didn't say it out. At this moment, Suo lifted it up, and then she pretended to continue, "It seems that there are also furniture on my side."

It was originally something that could not be hidden once it was made clear. Seeing that the other two said, the ghost servant himself did not need to hide it: "Well, I have it here too." He also pointed a few times while saying, "The lamp pole of this desk lamp is engraved with '5', and the corner of the slot machine is engraved with '67'... If nothing unexpected happens, there are other things."

He guessed right, there was a number engraved on the edges and corners of furniture, accessories, etc. in this room. It would be difficult to find if it was not deliberately observed. Of course, if you didn't know that a "puzzle game" was being played here, even if someone accidentally found one or two numbers, it wouldn't take it seriously.

"Let's write down all the names of the objects that can be found, engraved with numbers, and the numbers." Suzu quickly made another suggestion, "and then put together the three pieces of information to see if we can draw any conclusions."

After saying this, he picked up the paper and pen placed on a gambling table and wrote it on his own.

Seeing that the boy was so active, Ghost Staff and Inaba were laughing at him innocence in their hearts, but they still remained silent on the surface and did as Suzu's suggestion.

Seven minutes later, the three of them took the names of the items they copied and their number tables and placed them on the same table and studied them together.

The number of items they finally listed was quite large, because everything from sofas and slot machines to small books to small ornaments… has numbers.

Those numbers do not exceed one hundred, and there are basically several numbers to jump between each, and there are many repetitions; for example, the desk lamp on the east side of the room and the ornaments on the west side of the room are all ‘5’, while the sofa on the west side of the room and the table on the south side of the room are all ‘41’, and there are several such repetitions.

As they think about the meaning of those numbers, time is also passing...

Although Gui Shi and Inaba tried their best to restrain themselves, their eyes still showed some anxiety. Only Suzu was focused on the message on the paper without saying a word.

"I said, Mr. Su..." With six minutes left, the ghost servant couldn't help it, "Do you have a clue?"

"What?" Suzu replied coldly, "The man who is very stubborn and has no choice but to face the real puzzle?"

"You..." The ghost servant was about to open his throat and became angry, and realized that the other party might be provoking. He quickly suppressed his anger and continued, "Hmph... I'm not clueless." He knew that at this point, he had to reveal his reasoning. If everyone was in a bad breath and couldn't solve the puzzle in the end, then his "layout" would be meaningless. "Just treat it as the special preferential treatment of your predecessors, I will remind you...those numbers, and heavy..."

"It's related to 'weight', right..." Before Suzu could finish his words, he snatched, "I've discovered this a long time ago. The numbers of objects with similar weights are the same." He paused, "By the way... I also found that Senior Inaba intentionally wrote a few numbers on the paper."

"Ah? What?" Hearing this, Inaha immediately started to pretend to be confused, "Ahhh... As soon as this person gets older, his eyes are not working well. It must be because he has read it wrong~ohohoho~"

Although the three have agreed to an agreement to "disqualify the winner by hiding information", Inaba still did such a thing and intends to use this reason to make excuses.

"Ji..." The ghost servant was too lazy to talk nonsense to this old fry. He didn't want to waste time, so he said to Suo, "Suo Jun... Since you have seen through it all, you are already very close to the answer, right?"

"Ah...probably." Suzu responded leisurely, then walked to the middle of the room and lifted a large carpet there.

Under the carpet, there is the floor, but not the ordinary floor.

The floor here is different from the rest of the room. It is made up of four metal plates with lighter colors, like sliders.

"Mr. Ghost Attendant has caught some tricks, but it's just a little bit." Suga said as he walked to a corner of the room and picked up a metronome on the piano. "The focus of this puzzle is on screening 'invalid information' or 'interference information', and those 'interference information' themselves can actually serve as a reminder."

He said this, and put the metronome on one of the four metal plates, looked up at Inaba and said, "This object with the number '2' is engraved, by chance... you 'wrongly' by Senior Inaba, you wrote it as 12, so it caused some interference to my reasoning. Fortunately, I realized this immediately, and then I straightened out my ideas."

"What did you do to sort out?" The ghost servant still couldn't understand, "What's going on with these four boards?"

"These four pieces are all pressure sensing boards." Suzu continued, "and the way to solve the puzzle is to put several specified items on these four pieces."

While explaining, his steps did not stop, and he kept walking in the room and moving things into the middle.

"After correcting the wrong information, it is actually not a difficult puzzle overall." When Shinobu moved a chair, he said, "We can regard the intersection of the four sensing boards on the ground as a dividing line and divide the room into four areas: southeast, west and north. In these four areas, all the "small items that belong to this room (the midnight snacks that Ah Xiu had and the things they brought in were not counted), and the whole thing that could be moved by weight over one kilogram and that could be moved (single mahjong cards, dice, cards, or coins, etc., naturally, they are not counted)'... all have numbers, even on the carpet; but... there are four things that are exceptions."

As soon as Suga said this, the expressions of Gui Shi and Inaba changed; their observation skills were also extraordinary. After Suga reminded him, some information was immediately reflected in his mind.

"You have undoubtedly noticed that in the four corners of this room, there are four animal specimens, namely "eagle", "duck", "dog" and "deer"; these four items are obviously moving, but there are no numbers on their surfaces." Suzu's narrative continues, "No gamblers today should know... In the era before the global language and text were not unified into Chinese and English bilingualism, the same gambling projects not only produced different rules due to different regions, but even had exactly the same rules, but the terms used were completely different."

The Ghost Staff and Inaba listened to Suzu's explanation, their faces were gloomy and clear; it was obvious that they knew nothing about this part of knowledge, so they could not tell whether Suzu was telling the truth or fooling them.

"For example, in Blackhawk County in the fifteenth century, there was a card game called Stuttgart Poker. Although there were 13 cards per suit, the colors used were not the familiar 'spades, hearts, squares, plum blossoms', but the 'falcon, wild ducks, hounds and stags'." When Suo said this, he had moved five things to the middle. "After knowing this, the four specimens were placed in four areas of the room, and there was no meaning of engraving numbers... You can roughly guess it, right?"

Before he finished speaking, Gui Shi and Inaba rushed to the table, staring at the three comparison tables that copied the items and numbers.

"Don't look for it, there is no item in the whole room with 13." Suzu looked at their reaction and said with a smile, "Since we only have three people and divided the room into three areas to search, the information was finally found a bit messy, but if we divided it into four pieces, the situation would be very clear...

"In the four areas of east, west, south, north, the number of objects engraved with numbers in each area is the same - nineteen items, that is, there are 76 available items in the room; all the numbers engraved on these items are prime numbers in the s1 interval, namely, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 17, 19 numbers, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 17, 19 numbers, 2, 3, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, and one of the nineteen numbers is missing.

"And this point... is not only a supplement to the clue of 'falcon, wild duck, hunting dog and hart', but also a hint that our answer is to 'complement the number 13'...or in other words, it is to add this 'weight', but if there is no '13', how should we make up for it? There is only one solution..."

Puff——dong!

As the last few words of Juan were heard, accompanied by a muffled sound, the rice leaves had fallen to the ground.

In those two seconds, the ghost servant took advantage of Inao's gaze still on the paper and smashed the back of her head with an ashtray.

"Oh..." Suka looked at the ghost servant with a disappointed look and sighed, "Is this the so-called 'invincible man' approach?"

"Hmph... Stop talking nonsense." The ghost servant said, slowly approaching Suo. "In the world of gambling, in addition to the strength of 'winning', the force of 'taking away what you won' is also necessary; you cannot escape with what you win... Such a person is still a loser."

"Well... it makes sense." Suzuka continued, "Mr. Arai, you should agree with this, right?"

"Of course." A Xiu's response immediately sounded from the ceiling, "You had only agreed to "conceal information and lose the qualification to win", but they did not agree to "use violence and lose the qualification to win", so the current behavior of Mr. Guishou is completely allowed by the rules; in short, there is still more than one minute left, and I hope you can solve it as soon as possible."

"Tsk... I've been doing it for a long time, and it turned out to be this kind of situation." Suo showed an unhappy look and muttered.

"Brother, you and I have no grudges and no grudges, so why don't I give you a clear way." The ghost servant said with murderous aura as he approached, "Anyway, everyone already knows the answer to the mystery - that is, put eight items engraved with the numbers '2' and '11' on four sensors, and I see... you have already put seven of them... As long as you put the vase in your hand now and let me go out first when the exit is opened, I will let you have a way out."

"Ha..." Suo sneered when he heard this, and then...

Pong chang chang...

In the shocked eyes of the ghost servant, Saka threw the vase on his hand and threw it into pieces... and it broke.

"You...you are such a bastard!" The ghost servant shouted loudly, swung the ashtray and rushed towards Shou.

But what he didn't expect was that in the blink of an eye, a pattern on the soles of the shoe appeared in front of him, and then his eyes turned black and he lost consciousness.

"It's you who can't figure out the situation, Mr. Ghost Assistant..." Suo looked at the Ghost Assistant who was easily kicked out by him with condescending eyes. "Even if you are quite strong and have the experience and courage to kill, this is not the reason you will definitely be able to beat me."

"Jiangjun." At this time, A Xiu's voice came from the communicator again, "Although I really want to congratulate you on your safety, there are only a dozen seconds left. If I were you, I will take the fragments of those vases as soon as possible..."

"Ah~ah~I know." Suka responded in an impatient tone, leaned over and picked up a piece of the vase, and squatted beside the ghost servant.

"Hey...Su Jun, what are you doing?" Ah Xiu saw this scene through the monitor and was a little shocked at the time, "I didn't let you..."

"It seems that Inaba is almost dead." Suo interrupted before he finished speaking, "If I put some blood on the ghost servant here... then he probably won't be able to catch up with the 'gambling' in two weeks, right?"

Ah Xiu was silent.

About twenty seconds later, that is, after the "time limit" had arrived, he spoke: "Okay, I understand." He paused, "June Su, you are not a man who is bound to 'victory within the rules'... There is no doubt that this game is your complete victory. You don't have to do extra things, lest..."

"Stop falling to the level of ghost servant?" Suzu took his words and smiled, "Ha... you are really a good person, Ah Xiu."

Ah Xiu didn't say anything more.

In less than a minute, the door of the room was unlocked. Several men in suits and medical staff who were on standby rushed in and carried Gui Shi and Inaba away respectively.

The night when Suzu and Ah Xiu met ended here.
Chapter completed!