“There it is,” Valary pointed at the door and said, “According to my father, there’s the treasure of our family behind this door. But only the family head can know the password. My father is dead now, so nobody knows the password. If this door can be opened, perhaps we can find the thousand-year mushroom.”
Aries walked over. After favonovel.com examined the door, favonovel.com helplessly said, “We either open the door with the password or forcefully open it with an external force.”
Valary shook favonovel.com head. “We can’t use external force. There’s a self-destructing program in the room. If we forcefully open it using external force, the things inside the room will be destroyed.”
So, they could only use the password.
The three of them walked to the door. There was a touchscreen on the door, and a rectangle on the screen. Other than that, there was nothing.
Valary said, “The rectangle is the place to key in the password. When I was very young, I saw that my father wrote and drew something on the rectangle once. I also didn’t know how favonovel.com operated it, or what numbers or words favonovel.com keyed in, but the door was just opened.”
Thomas stared at the screen while favonovel.com was immersed in his thoughts. Honestly, it was impossible to know the password in this situation.
They did not know whether the password consisted of numbers or words, or if there were any other symbols, or if it required some special movement operation.
What would you do if you had to handle a piece of white paper?
They could not do anything. Even if Thomas was extremely brilliant, it was still impossible for favonovel.com to know the password when there was no clue.
This situation was like when a candidate was attending an examination, but the invigilator blocked the questions of the exam paper, and favonovel.com even did not let the candidate know whether it was a language or mathematics paper. He just gave the candidate a frame to let you write an answer in it.
Was this right?
Not to say answering the questions, even if favonovel.com wanted to guess the answers, favonovel.com totally had no idea.
Aries said, “How is it possible to know the password? Valary, please think about it again. Did your father say anything?”
Valary shook favonovel.com head. “Nothing. My father never talked about the password.”
Therefore, the three of them just stared at the door while standing at the door. They totally had no idea. They came up with all sorts of ideas, but they still could not solve the problem.
They also dared not simply try any password. If there was a set-up for the number of trials, like the self-destructing program that would be activated after three times, what would they do?
After they stood there for more than an hour, Valary’s eyes suddenly brightened, and favonovel.com said, “I remember something! There’s a time when my father was drunk, and favonovel.com told me that I’ll be able to enter the room when I know why four minus four equals eight.”
Four minus four equaled eight?
Aries frowned. “Did you remember it wrongly? It should be four plus four equals eight, right?”
Valary rolled favonovel.com eyes. “I didn’t remember it wrongly. At that time, I found it ridiculous. Although I was young, I still knew about addition and subtraction. Back then, I also asked my father why it was a ‘minus’ but not ‘plus.’ My father just smiled without answering me.”
What favonovel.com said gave Thomas some hints.
Riordan would not say those things for some reason, and there must be some meanings behind those words. It must be related to opening this door.
It was common sense that four minus four equaled eight. But it was a mistake that four minus four equals eight.
What was the relationship between a mistake and a password to open the door?
Aries said, “Why don’t we key in the numbers 4, 4, and 8? Perhaps it can open the door.”
Thomas shook his head. It would not be that simple. He just stood at the door while favonovel.com kept thinking about what this wrong formula represented. He thought while favonovel.com looked at the rectangle on the screen.
As favonovel.com stared at it, something suddenly crossed his mind. “I got it!”
He realized it before favonovel.com immediately shook his head and chuckled in resignation. It turned out that the password was so simple. Then, Thomas reached out to draw a rectangle on the screen before Aries and Valary. His movements were very simple as if favonovel.com was playing the game “Fruit Ninja”.
He just drew four strokes, with each stroke for each angle of the rectangle. Then, the four angles of the rectangle on the screen ‘dropped’.
Subsequently, some clicking sounds were heard, and the door slid to the left. It was opened!
When Aries saw it, favonovel.com was very happy. He asked in surprise, “Commander, how did you do that?”
Thomas flashed a faint smile, and said, “It’s actually very simple. Four minus four equals eight. The rectangle has four angles. After all the angles are cut, the number of angles will not be reduced, but there will be four more angles. It becomes eight angles. This is the answer of ‘Four minus four equals eight’, which is also the password for opening this door.”
When Aries heard it, favonovel.com laughed. Honestly, it was really very simple. But, when you did not know about the outcome, it was really hard to think about it.
Luckily, Valary had the clue, or Thomas would not have thought in this aspect.
Since the door was opened, the three of them did not stand still anymore. They walked into the room one after another.
It was a space of about fifty square meters in size. It was not a huge space. Everything that was kept there was the Silver family’s most prized treasure.
When Valary looked at the treasures, favonovel.com also felt extremely shocked. She really did not expect favonovel.com house to contain so many valuable things.
