The staff member was silent for a moment.

He was still stuck in the secret passage, and now facing Jiang Ye's accusations, he, who was used to scaring players, felt a sense of helplessness and awkwardness.

Jiang Ye continued to focus on studying the oil painting.

But seeing that the staff member wasn't moving, she paused and asked, "Or are you here to help me?"

Her tone suddenly became more cheerful, "Then can you please help me hold the flashlight and shine it over there?"

Staff: "..."

Although her tone sounded innocent and natural.

But he felt like he was being played.

Jiang Ye: "It seems like you're not."

She smiled again and said, "Then you must have the clue, right? Thank you."

Jiang Ye said, and she naturally extended her hand.

Staff: "..."

In the dim light of the flashlight, you could see that her expression was innocent and pure.

But he felt like Jiang Ye's subtext was you can leave after you give me the clue, you're blocking my light, thank you.

It's true that he had the clue.

But his main task was to scare her.

According to his original plan, he should have scared her, then quietly crawled back into the secret passage, and at the same time, pretend to accidentally drop a clue card.

But she wasn't scared at all, how could he play the game?!

Do you have any escape room spirit! At least play along!

Ghosts need face too!

The teammates in the next room had been lying on the floor in the dark, quietly listening to the sounds from Jiang Ye's side.

When they heard Jiang Ye suddenly speak, they panicked.

Lin Zui patted the floor, "Are you okay?"

"What's wrong, Jiang Ye? Who are you talking to?"

"Did Jiang Ye go crazy?"

"Jiang Ye! It's just a game! You don't have to get too carried away! If it doesn't work, we can ask for a hint!"

Jiang Ye: "..."

Jiang Ye said, "I'm fine, I'm just chatting with Mr. Ghost, trying to get some clues."

Staff: "?"

Teammates: "?"

Of course, the staff member was still very responsible.

He forced a smile and continued to show a ferocious expression, scaring her a little, then he dropped the clue card and pretended to be careless.

But as he was crawling back, about to close the entrance to the secret passage, Jiang Ye reached out and stopped him from closing the door.

"Excuse me."

Jiang Ye said the most rude thing in the most polite tone, "This secret passage seems quite interesting, can I take a look?"

Staff: "..."

Jiang Ye was holding the flashlight, the light was shining on her face.

Even the most beautiful people, under the pale light of a flashlight, look extremely creepy.

The staff member instantly broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't even have time to close the entrance to the secret passage, he scrambled and crawled away.

Jiang Ye: "..."

No way.

How can you be so easily scared and still be an escape room NPC?

Jiang Ye smiled in her heart, then picked up the clue card and shone the flashlight on it.

It seemed to be a password table.

And it used a very old but very simple symmetric encryption method, using the letters in order and shifting them three places to encrypt them.

To put it simply, it's the order of the twenty-six English letters, shifted three places forward, a becomes d, b becomes e, and so on.

If she remembered correctly, this kind of puzzle-solving method was called Caesar cipher.

The flashlight's light was getting dimmer and dimmer.

Jiang Ye was slightly stunned, she calculated the time.

It had been about five minutes since she entered this room, and now the flashlight's light could only last two to three minutes.

Jiang Ye frowned.

Her speed shouldn't be considered slow among all the players who challenge escape rooms.

But if the flashlight goes out, it means they won't be able to find clues in the dark, which is equivalent to being trapped in this room and failing to complete the game.

But according to her original estimate, this escape room shouldn't be that difficult.

Was her method wrong?

Or was there another light source in this corridor?

Jiang Ye turned off the flashlight, ready to turn it on again to see the light, but she suddenly realized that if she turned it on again, the flashlight would switch to UV light mode.

Jiang Ye: "!!!"

This was the correct way to use the flashlight!

She had wasted all that time!

Jiang Ye immediately shone the UV light on the last painting.

A line of words appeared in the upper right corner of the painting.

【march 15, 44bc】

Jiang Ye instantly understood.

The protagonist of this painting died on March 15th, 44 BC.

She went over, tapped the floor, and said to her teammates, "44bc, try that."

Lin Zui felt around in the dark and entered the four-digit password.

The combination lock clicked and opened.

The lights in the corridor and room instantly turned on.

Jiang Ye was a little uncomfortable seeing the light again.

She shielded her eyes slightly, blinked, and then looked at her other teammates who were behind the open door.

"..."

Wow.

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Can you tell me, are you performing the skills of China's first acrobatic girl group?"

"..."

The four of them were practically tied together.

Lin Zui was the least scared.

But because she wasn't scared, she became the only pillar in the group after Jiang Ye, she was being held by her teammates, and now she felt like she had finally escaped and could breathe.

But the most exaggerated was Tan Meng.

She had been holding onto Cheng Zhen's arm the entire time, she had even left a red mark on her arm.

But the moment the lights came on, Tan Meng was quiet for a moment, then she quickly let go of Cheng Zhen and said as she walked forward, "I told you to stop hugging me so tightly."

Cheng Zhen: "?"

After reuniting with her teammates.

Jiang Ye briefly recounted her experience, then she said, "There shouldn't be anything else in this corridor besides those paintings and the password table in my hand."

"The lock in front seems to be a letter lock."

"You guys can go and see how many digits it is."

Cheng Zhen took the lead, and she just randomly pressed a bunch of buttons.

Tan Meng said with a headache, "... You can't enter the wrong password more than five times, otherwise, you'll have to wait 24 hours to try again."

Cheng Zhen: "No, it's not a bank login system."

And Shen Zhiyi stood next to Jiang Ye and whispered, "Are there any other clues in the oil paintings?"

Jiang Ye held the UV flashlight and continued to search inch by inch, "I'm looking."

Her intuition told her that the first few paintings were probably just foreshadowing, the painting that appeared in both the puzzle and the corridor was the key.

Sure enough, at the end of that painting, Jiang Ye saw a line of words.

It was a string of jumbled letters.

Jiang Ye quickly flipped through the password table, matching each letter one by one.

"Z to c, d to a..."

Jiang Ye wrote down the translated content on the back of the password card.

【caesar's death】

Caesar's death.

Jiang Ye was slightly stunned.

She took a step back and looked at the entire painting.

March 15th, 44 BC.

This was the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated in ancient Rome.

The password table in her hand seemed to be more than just for translation, it was also a hint for the two words Caesar.

Jiang Ye said to Cheng Zhen, "Caesar, try Caesar."

Cheng Zhen quickly pressed the six letters.

The door in front of them slammed open.

Because the sound of the door opening was so loud, everyone instinctively gathered together.

This time, the lights didn't go out again, and they all entered the next room.

On the last door, there was a piece of paper.

【Congratulations on reaching the final room.】

【You who have reached here must have already learned of Caesar's death.】

【Do you want to hear Caesar's secret?】

【Solve the candle password on the table, and you will get the key to complete the game.】

Below the paper was a combination lock.

Next to the combination lock was a prompt.

【Why did Caesar die?】

They had already looked at all the paintings in the corridor.

So, Cheng Zhen was puzzled, "Didn't Caesar die from being assassinated?"

She guessed, "Murder? Assassinate?"

Lin Zui commented, "If we want to cater to the vocabulary of most ordinary people, would it be the pinyin cisha?"

Jiang Ye: "..."

Jiang Ye told them to stop those unreliable guesses, "Let's find the clue to unlock the candles first."

There were six white electronic candles on the table.

Jiang Ye had seen similar mechanisms when she was doing research and looking up strategies.

Players had to extinguish the electronic candles on the table in a fixed order to activate the new mechanism.

Jiang Ye first tried 315 and 44, but neither was correct.

She turned her head and looked at her teammates, "Do you guys have any clues?"

"There's a book in the cabinet over there."

Shen Zhiyi flipped through a few pages, "It's a description of Caesar's life."

She started to read, as serious as if she was reading a textbook, "Julius Caesar was an outstanding military leader and ruler in the late Roman Republic-"

Jiang Ye rubbed her temples, "Just find clues related to numbers."

"Oh!"

Shen Zhiyi flipped through the book quickly, and when she reached the last page, she said, "... It says, he was stabbed twenty-three times on his favorite golden throne."

Everyone said in unison, "23!"

Jiang Ye quickly pressed the candles in position 2 and position 3.

After the two candles were extinguished, the mirror behind the candles moved slightly.

The mirror they thought was a mirror was actually a projector.

The projector displayed an image and sound.

Everyone held their breath, ready to listen to the clue that they might only get to hear once.

The male voice from the projector said, "... Many people believe that Caesar died of arrogance-"

Cheng Zhen quickly tried the password, "I understand, arrogant."

"--But it's not actually true."

Beep, beep, twice, incorrect password.

Cheng Zhen: "..."

Can you please stop with the cliffhangers?

The projector objectively described Caesar's death, which was similar to the content of the notebook Shen Zhiyi had found.

Finally, he got to the point, "However, there are many mysteries surrounding this bizarre assassination. So, people in later generations have speculated that Caesar's assassination might have been a political conspiracy planned by himself in advance."

Everyone instantly became highly focused.

He cited a lot of materials, and the conclusion was that Caesar had epilepsy before his death, and he might have fallen into unconsciousness at the end of his life.

He didn't want to die like that, so he simply used his death as a tool, he used it to deceive and defeat his political enemies.

Cheng Zhen tested the password for the fifth time and failed, "But it's not suicide either."

She thought for a moment and asked, "Maybe one of you knows how to spell epilepsy?"

Everyone: "..."

Only the projector continued to play, "He deliberately let himself die at the hands of his political enemies, he chose his heir, Augustus, to inherit his position in his will, and he chose to distribute his property to all the Roman citizens."

"..."

Tan Meng whispered, "He's so generous."

Cheng Zhen muttered, "Did he consider how Augustus would feel?"

"..."

"He already has the throne, what else does he want?"

Amidst the chatter, Jiang Ye suddenly said, "Wait, you guys, what if the password is roman?"

Caesar, who stood at the pinnacle of power, didn't die of arrogance, he didn't die of illness, and he didn't die of assassination.

He was very smart, he anticipated everything, so he chose to die in a glorious assassination, which eliminated his political enemies and allowed him to hand over his position to someone he trusted.

He did this not only for himself, but also for his country.

He died for a better Roman Empire.