Chapter 1045: Oh my, the survival variety show runs into an ex! 15

No matter how bewildered, the mission still had to be completed.

The guests stared at each other for a while, then finally began searching inside the Jushizhen, hoping to find something that could break the formation.

Soon, everyone had gained different things.

What they all agreed could help escape the formation was discovering that these giant stones bore some chaotic symbols, not resembling Chinese characters nor any language.

The guests were puzzled and bewildered, but Yu Sui had already seen these symbols before.

The symbols on the giant stones were exactly the same as those on the earth mound where the first password was stored.

But the arrangement differed, and the symbols here appeared more numerous.

Yu Sui touched the engraved symbols, trying to decipher them, but truly did not know what they were.

Zhong He took off his headphones and, unintentionally, said, 'Like some kind of special script.'

Yu Sui looked at him, eyes slightly narrowed, 'Do you know it?'

Zhong He shrugged, 'I don't know, but my former specialty was archaeology; I've seen similar things.'

He casually leaned against a giant stone, writing with a twig all the symbols he could see on the ground; Yu Sui and Jin Chen also sat beside him.

Zhong He's voice was very soft; even while deciphering the symbols he seemed immersed in his own world, and unless one had good hearing, they probably couldn't hear him clearly.

"If it is ancient writing, even if unrecognizable, one can rely on pictographs to identify a few characters."

Jin Chen also didn't know it, but he had the 0731 super cheat.

0731 scanned all the symbols here and drew a conclusion.

"Host! Zhong He really was right—this is the writing of an ancient tribe, but according to this world's civil records, that tribe went extinct several hundred years ago."

"It is worth mentioning that records say this tribe was skilled at communicating with nature, an ability every tribe member possessed from birth."

Hearing this, Jin Chen couldn't help but recall what his organization had been researching before he left.

At that time, the Huaxia region received reports from all national zones and wanted to continually conduct human experiments via agents to obtain superior combat genes.

Could it be related to that unfinished experiment……

All the guests were serious, wanting to quickly solve the problem.

Meanwhile, outside the broadcast, many people recorded the symbols through the ultra‑clear broadcast feed.

In the laboratories of different national zones, with the broadcast playing, all kinds of white‑coated experimental staff and internal experts focused intently, each wanting to be ahead of the other zones.

And those wanting to decipher the symbols were not only these national zones' agents.

A certain underground laboratory.

Compared to other clean, sterile laboratories, this place really appeared shabby and dim.

Various harvested body parts were exposed in containers, and on the central operating table lay a headless corpse, more like a pig that had been slaughtered and gutted than a human.

Right next door in another room, the entire wall had become the broadcast screen.

The show's chief director and He Chao's people were all tied up in the room, with a squad of masked gunmen holding rifles behind them.

"Do you think these people can decipher the symbols?"

The man in a suit behind the sofa bowed respectfully and asked the person on the sofa.

After watching the broadcast, it seemed only Agent Yu Sui had any ability, and Jin Chen, whose strength far surpassed the host's.

"Hmph, don't underestimate them."

'The person on the sofa spoke with a laughing tone, "In here, there aren't many simple people."'

Each brings their own purpose; that makes it interesting.

——

Inside the Jushizhen.

Jin Chen 'guessed' a few of the simplest symbols, connected them into words, and headed toward a certain triangular giant stone.

In that small spot, Lin Gui found a stone tablet.

He moved the stone tablet over; to escape as quickly as possible, he could only temporarily set aside his estrangement and place it before Jin Chen.

"There is only this stone tablet in that patch of ground."

Jin Chen wiped the dirt off the stone tablet, discovering it was a movable block, with different symbols in each cell.

Yu Sui glanced at the deciphered symbols, her pale fingertips resting on Jin Chen's hand, and pressed one cell.

"So that's how it is!"

Su Nai sighed, 'The deciphered symbols correspond to the stone tablet.'

After nearly an hour of effort, hope finally appeared, and the guests couldn't help but feel uplifted.

Pressing each deciphered symbol in turn, they ultimately obtained a stone‑tablet picture pieced together from two small cells.

There were only two pictures, looking quite strange.

Zhong He watched silently, very seriously.

Xie Shao couldn't help but ask, 'Why are you looking so intently? Do you know what this picture is saying?'

"It's a comic strip."

Zhong He said, pointing to the first picture.

"In it stand ten people, three women and seven men, surrounded by something very tall."

He lifted his head and scanned the crowd, 'Like us.'

The surroundings suddenly fell silent for a moment.

"〖Holy shit, I got goosebumps!! 〗"

"〖So the stone tablet murals here must have anticipated their arrival??? 〗"

"〖Damn, this is so mystical! Wasn't this supposed to be a desert‑island survival show? How did things start heading in a strange direction? 〗"

"〖But this picture…… when you say that, it really does seem like that! Could there have been some prophets living here? 〗"

Xie Shao rubbed his chilly arm and coughed.

"What nonsense are you spouting? It's definitely just a coincidence! Who knew who the guests were before we came?"

Jin Chen didn't comment on this, pointing to the second painting, "As you say."

"Wouldn't this second picture mean someone will be hanged?"

The second picture shows nine people looking up, a girl hoisted high; oddly, among the nine, someone is holding a knife.

Shen Yi inhaled first.

"There are only three women, so wouldn't that mean we three each have a chance of being hanged later?"

Su Nai sighed, feeling uncomfortable all over.

"Now it's fine—not dying on the survival path, but dying in a mysterious prophecy?"

Bai Xuan panted heavily, nerves taut to the limit, originally weak body now struggling to breathe, face ashen as paper.

Jin Chen stood up, voice calm, "There are still undeciphered symbols; maybe the situation will turn."

"Yes, yes, let's quickly find other similar symbols and decode them following the earlier pattern."

Su Nai sat up straight, seizing the time to observe the giant stone.

While others searched for symbols, Yu Sui used the detector on his waist to silently sense the password, but with so many people he couldn't remain truly concealed.

At that moment, Jin Chen walked over, putting an arm around his shoulder to block the detector's direction.

Yu Sui saw his intention, lifted his gaze to lock eyes with Jin Chen, "Do you know?"

"Just focus on your own task."

Jin Chen ruffled his hair.

"... You don't ask?"

Yu Sui seemed stubbornly determined to get an answer.

Jin Chen lowered his eyes to meet his gaze, chuckling, "Anyway, my goal is to get the final 500 million; whatever happens along the way won't threaten me."

Yu Sui made an acknowledging sound, relaxed, and continued detecting, silently thinking he would help Jin Chen get the final prize.

Anyway, once the password is found, he can leave early… leave.

Yu Sui pressed his lips, closed his eyes briefly, not thinking further.