Card Room Book 2

CR: Chapter 281

The group heard Xiao Lou's words and examined the wall together. They carefully observed the arrangement and distribution of the bloody handprints.

The messy array of bloody handprints covered the entire wall and they couldn't see any clues for a long time. They weren't numbers or images. What did these handprints mean? In order to better observe the layout of these bloody handprints, Xiao Lou took a few steps back. He leaned against the wall behind him and observed the handprints on the front wall at the furthest distance.

Gradually, he found that the bloody handprints on the wall had different shades. There were a lot of lighter handprints and after removing the interference of these light colored handprints, he could find that the darker handprints were arranged in five straight lines. Some of the handprints moved between these straight lines to form notes. Counting the straight lines carefully from top to bottom, there were exactly five.

At the same time, Ye Qi called out excitedly. "I understand, this is a music staff! The light colored handprints are just distractions. You can ignore them and only look at the deepest colored handprints. He took a step forward and pointed at one of the walls. "These bloody handprints make up the five lines of the staff and the handprints in the middle are connected in the shape of a note. This one represents the 'mi' sound in the C key."

Their teammates, "......"

Staves were drawn on the four walls with bloody handprints. It was worthy of the A of Diamonds.

Xiao Lou glanced at Ye Qi with relief. "Fortunately, there is Xiao Ye. Otherwise, we would be eliminated in this music secret room."

Yu Hanjiang seriously nodded. "I don't understand staves so I will leave it to Xiao Ye."

Long Sen, Old Mo and Shao Qingge exchanged looks and also said they couldn't understand.

Qu Wanyue had been dancing since elementary school and she also dabbled in music. She might not be as professional as Ye Qi but she could understand simple staves. She listened to Ye Qi's words, turned to examine the other walls and agreed. "Excluding the light colored fingerprints, the dark ones are indeed musical notation. The notes on the left wall are so, mi, re, do and la."

Ye Qi's eyes swept over the remaining three walls. "The notes on the other three walls are la, fa, mi, ti, so, so, fa, re, mi and so, mi, re, do, so..."

He connected the notes of the four walls, adjusted the order and sang softly.

Then Ye Qi's eyes lit up. "This is the score for a Christmas song!"

So, mi, re, do, so.

So, mi, re, do, la.

La, fa, mi, re, ti.

So, so, fa, re, mi.

It was a classic Christmas song melody.

Xiao Lou couldn't read the staves but he could hear the Christmas song when Ye Qi hummed it. Xiao Lou became puzzled. "We can convert the notes of the staves into the number it represents. Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti represents 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively. The code of the wooden box is seven numbers while the melody of the Christmas song is 20 notes."

The notes of the Christmas song were changed into numbers.

53215, 53216, 64327, 55423.

Ye Qi scratched his head in a puzzled manner. "There are 20 numbers. How do we pick our seven numbers to form a password?"

Xiao Lou thought about it carefully. "We have to pick 7 numbers out of 20. It is likely that the rule of 'superimposition' is used. Stack the four sets of numbers together and eliminate a number once it appears again. This will leave a final number without any repetitions. Then the order of these four sets of numbers after superimposition is 5321647."