Chapter 332: What Number Is This?

After entering the seventh carriage, Su Xiao walked quietly to the carriage door and locked the door leading to the front and rear carriages.

Franky was already fast asleep. To ensure he wouldn't wake up suddenly, Su Xiao took out a syringe and injected it into Franky's back.

This cyborg Franky was a bit bizarre; the front of his body had been replaced by machinery, while his back was still flesh and blood.

After confirming that Franky wouldn't wake up for a while, Su Xiao untied the ropes and chains on Franky.

Tapping Franky's chest, the exterior was soft, but the interior texture was hard. There should be quite a bit of space inside.

Su Xiao was in a bit of a dilemma for a while. How to open Franky's chest? Should he use brute force to dismantle it?

After searching carefully, Su Xiao found a switch on Franky's side rib.

Pressing the switch, with a click, Franky's chest flipped open, and three bottles of cola came into view.

Su Xiao didn't touch those three bottles of cola, but searched inside Franky's chest cavity. After searching for a long time, Su Xiao didn't find anything suspicious.

Glug, glug.

The cola in Franky's chest cavity began to be consumed at an accelerated rate, seemingly triggering some kind of emergency measure.

Half a bottle of cola was soon consumed, and Franky's body trembled a few times, but he didn't stand up.

Su Xiao continued to search. Except for some major organs, other organs in Franky's chest cavity were all replaced by machinery.

He didn't find what he wanted in the chest cavity. Su Xiao's brow furrowed. The other party's body was only this big, so where could that thing be hidden?

Pointing his finger at Franky's arm to sense, he only sensed the steel structure, no suspicious things.

Head, chest, arms, legs, Su Xiao sensed them all, but found nothing.

This left Su Xiao very confused. Could it be that the thing wasn't in Franky's body? Unlikely. According to the original plot intelligence, Franky carried that thing with him.

Su Xiao fell into deep thought. If he were to hide something in his body, where would he choose to hide it?

First, the volume of the thing was neither big nor small. Second, because it had existed for a long time, it was easily damaged.

Volume not big, easily damaged, combining these two points, he ruled out the possibility of the thing being hidden in the arms and chest.

Where was the least likely to be injured during battle? Su Xiao's gaze turned to Franky's back.

Pointing his finger at Franky's back, Su Xiao sensed it inch by inch. When he sensed the area around Franky's lower back, his finger paused.

"This is?"

Su Xiao searched around there, and soon he found a piece of artificial skin disguised as skin.

Lifting the artificial skin, a combination lock the size of a palm appeared in his sight.

The password had three digits, combined from numbers 1 to 9. 'A(3, 9) = 9*8*7 = 504 combinations'. There were 504 combinations in total. It was obviously impossible to open it by luck. Su Xiao began to recall some intelligence.

Tang Mu the Fish-Man's birthday was March 16th.

Iceberg's birthday was January 3rd.

Franky's birthday was March 9th.

Three birthdays. Su Xiao first tried Tang Mu the Fish-Man's birthday, 316. After entering the password, the red light lit up, and a number 4 was displayed.

This combination lock could be cracked five times in total. After five times, it might lock or self-destruct.

Tang Mu the Fish-Man's birthday was wrong. Su Xiao pondered other possibilities.

If he wasn't wrong, this password was likely related to Tang Mu the Fish-Man. Tang Mu the Fish-Man's influence on Franky was too deep.

So the password Franky set, especially a three-digit password, was likely a birthday.

Su Xiao tried the second combination, 313, which was the combination of the three birthdays' months, with Tang Mu's month at the beginning.

The password was still wrong, with three chances remaining. Su Xiao tried 331 again, still wrong, with two chances remaining.

Three combinations were all wrong, and there were two chances left.

Su Xiao threw the three birthdays to the back of his mind. The password might not be a birthday, but perhaps a day more important than a birthday.

More important than a birthday was... the anniversary of death! The anniversary of Tang Mu the Fish-Man's death.

Su Xiao had a headache. Where the hell was he supposed to find Tang Mu's death anniversary? This was really dog-shit.

Since it had come to this, he had to do it. He began to recall everything about Tang Mu the Fish-Man quickly.

First, Tang Mu the Fish-Man was convicted for helping Luo Jie build a ship. After being convicted, Tang Mu the Fish-Man helped the World Government build the Sea Train to be pardoned, but the World Government broke its promise and used other excuses to execute Tang Mu.

Tang Mu was not executed on the spot, but was seriously injured by gunfire and then escorted to Enies Lobby to be executed.

When Tang Mu was executed, it was summer. One could judge this from the clothing of the citizens and CP departments at that time, and it was late summer.

Su Xiao had stayed in Water 7 for a period of time before and had a personal experience of Water 7's temperature and climate.

The time was late summer, and Tang Mu was sent to Enies Lobby for execution.

Tang Mu didn't belong to the category of heinous crimes; he only belonged to an accomplice. But helping Luo Jie build a ship was a major matter, so Tang Mu the Fish-Man would first be tried and would not be executed directly.

And the execution time at Enies Lobby wouldn't be chosen randomly, especially for executing a legendary shipwright like Tang Mu, and there was also the racial conflict between fish-men and humans.

There were already quite a few clues: late summer, Enies Lobby execution, specific execution date, Tang Mu's body sent back to Fish-Man Island for burial.

Su Xiao pondered quickly in his brain, and finally pressed 831 on the combination lock.

Click, the combination lock opened. Su Xiao took out a certain thing inside, checked the attributes of that item, nodded very satisfactorily, put a certain thing into the combination lock, locked the combination lock, and tied Franky back in his original posture.

Restoring the scene, Su Xiao returned to the top of the carriage from the window, and the cold rain hit him.

Su Xiao lay on the carriage, his upper body suspended, and reinstalled the glass window. Before installing it, he even wiped off the water stains on the glass window.

After doing all this, Su Xiao walked lightly on the top of the carriage to the fourth carriage and jumped into the compartment he had been in before. The heavy rain could clean the footprints he left on the top of the carriage.

First, he took off his wet clothes, wiped his whole body dry, threw the wet clothes and towel into the sea, and changed into a dry outfit identical to the previous one.

He not only wiped the rain off his body, but also wiped all the rain in the compartment clean, leaving no fingerprints or footprints.

After doing all this, Su Xiao installed the glass window of the compartment and let out a long sigh of relief.

Su Xiao suddenly discovered that Xiang Bubu Te Ni behind him was looking at him.

"What, hungry?"

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang wasn't hungry; he was lamenting that the human world was truly complex.

"Not hungry?"

Su Xiao looked at Xiang Bubu Te Ni in surprise. He had recently discovered that Xiang Bubu Te Ni's IQ had clearly improved a lot.

It wasn't so obvious when Xiang Bubu Te Ni was first synthesized, but as his experience gradually became richer, Xiang Bubu Te Ni showed wisdom that was completely different from a beast.

Although Xiang Bubu Te Ni still couldn't compare to human IQ, he was definitely not stupid, just a bit of an idiot.

"Xiang Bubu, what number is this?"

Su Xiao held up five fingers. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang lowered his dog head, seemingly not wanting to answer such a retarded question.

"Eh, it seems he's not too smart either."

Xiang Bubu Te Ni rolled his eyes. He felt his IQ had been insulted like never before. ===== CHAPTER 333 =====