On the other side of the corridor, in the room of the "sender".

Old Lv had already been beaten up badly, with a swollen and bruised face. Both of his nostrils were bleeding, and one of his fingers was broken.

"Please... please stop..." Old Lv begged for mercy. "If you kill me, there will be no one to deliver your messages... please spare me..."

"You old dog!!" Mu grabbed a handful of Old Lv's hair and said fiercely, "Have I not been good to you?! I gave you the 'way' and 'trust'! How dare you destroy my key?!"

"I'm really sorry..." Old Lv forced a bitter smile. "I had already delivered the box when I realized I forgot to send the key... I wanted to send it immediately, but there were only three seconds left on the three-minute countdown. If I didn't throw the key into the shredder, I would have died..."

"Do you think I would believe you?!" Mu grabbed Old Lv's hair and slammed him against the wall.

The impact hit his eye socket, causing blood to flow from Old Lv's eyebrow.

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"Ouch... please stop..." Old Lv cried on the ground, holding his forehead. "If you hit me again, I'll really die..."

Mu calmed his breathing slightly and slowly released his grip.

"You old dog... luckily I didn't fully trust you." He stood up slowly and took out a letter from his pocket.

"What...?" Old Lv saw the letter and instantly froze in place. "You didn't put the letter in?!"

"You guys and your tricks are like children in front of me." Mu squatted down next to Old Lv with an angry smile. "Old dog, I'll give you another chance. If this letter doesn't reach the 'receiver' this time, I don't care about any 'sanctions'. I will immediately come to the corridor, poke your eyes out, and bite your throat. Do you understand?"

Trembling, Old Lv nodded.

Mu was definitely capable of doing that.

He was a true desperado. Even if he lost the game, he would never let himself go.

"Qi Xia... this old bone of mine will help you until here." Old Lv muttered to himself.

On the other side, Jiang Ruoxue was buying time while holding the box.

She had no other options left.

She didn't expect that the young man would be unexpectedly clever.

The boxes with the locks in her hands would be cracked sooner or later. Now, the only thing she could do was to delay as much time as possible, hoping that her team could win the game with this extra time.

As time passed by, when there were only ten seconds left until the countdown ended, Jiang Ruoxue knocked on Lin Qin's door.

Lin Qin seemed surprised to receive a "reply" and looked puzzled.

She had just sent the locked box, hoping that Qi Xia would have a handy tool to open it. But now, not only was the box intact, but it also came back with two locks.

"Hurry, take it!" Jiang Ruoxue said.

Lin Qin was afraid that there would be no one to deliver the letter if the "spy" died, so she quickly took the box.

She looked at the two locks on the box and widened her eyes in surprise.

"So that's it... he has a second lock? I understand now!"

Lin Qin quickly took out her golden key and unlocked the golden lock.

Now, there was only a silver lock left on the box.

"Hurry!" Lin Qin handed the box back to Jiang Ruoxue. "Quickly deliver it to the 'receiver'!"

Jiang Ruoxue gritted her teeth as she looked at the box in her hand, knowing that things were not going well.

This woman in front of her saw through the tactic in just a few seconds. She was obviously not an ordinary person.

"Hey... let me join you..." Jiang Ruoxue said awkwardly. "Let's cooperate. Only through cooperation can you win."

Lin Qin stared at Jiang Ruoxue's eyes and soon smiled. "It's strange. If you really want to cooperate with us, Qi Xia wouldn't have come up with this plan."

"Qi Xia...?"

"Things have developed to this point. Even if you don't cooperate with us, we won't lose the game." Lin Qin smiled apologetically. "Sorry, it's not possible this time."

Jiang Ruoxue stared at Lin Qin, pondering something in her mind.

"The only thing you can do now is to delay time." Lin Qin slowly closed the door. "I'm sorry."

Jiang Ruoxue, who arrived in the corridor, no longer had the expression she had before. She slowly walked to the center of the corridor, murmuring to herself.

"So he is Qi Xia? It was so easy to find him."

After a few seconds, she seemed to be having a conversation with someone, nodding repeatedly.

"Yes, I can die. But what should I do next?"

"Okay." Jiang Ruoxue nodded. "Do you want me to leave him a little surprise?"

"Understood."

She walked forward slowly, holding the iron box in her hand, and went straight to Qi Xia's door.

Jiang Ruoxue closed her eyes slightly and knocked on the door.

As soon as Qi Xia opened the door, he looked at the box in her hand and smiled satisfactorily.

There was only a silver lock left on the box.

Everyone in this team was a "top-notch component" and could never create a "subpar fighter".

"What's the matter? Are you giving me the box now? Or do you want to delay a little longer?" Qi Xia asked.

Jiang Ruoxue slowly opened her eyes, but suddenly, a loud bell rang in the distance.

"Dang!!"

Qi Xia was startled, feeling a sense of foreboding. He quickly looked around but didn't see anything unusual.

"I'll give it to you now." Jiang Ruoxue said. "You should know that even if you get this thing, you can't open the door immediately, right?"

"Of course." Qi Xia cautiously reached out and took the box, still staring at Jiang Ruoxue. "The 'receiver' on the other side should have already received the letter. But we haven't lost yet, which means even if the 'receiver' sees the content of the letter, they can't open the door immediately."

"Let me see your skills." Jiang Ruoxue said.

Qi Xia looked at her suspiciously. "If you witness my skills, you might lose your life."

"It's okay." She smiled and said, "Who knows who will lose."

"That's true."Qi Xia took out his silver key and successfully unlocked the last remaining lock on the box.

He pulled out an envelope and opened it. His expression remained unchanged as he moved to stand in front of a large microwave oven, carefully observing the prompt on the display screen.

It was a high-end touch screen that supported handwriting input.

There were four blank spaces for Qi Xia to enter the password. The only uncertainty now was whether he needed to input four numbers, letters, or Chinese characters.

Qi Xia turned back and took out the encrypted letter.

The next thing to do was to crack the code.

He unfolded the letter, revealing a lone line of letters on it.

"MLGDRZDQVXL".

Aside from this line of letters, there were no other hints on the letter.

Jiang Ruoxue looked at the line of letters with some confusion, seemingly not understanding the principle of this password.

"Every game has a 'lifeline'," Qi Xia murmured to himself, "Setting a password that's too complex would deprive the players of this 'lifeline', so the method to crack this code won't be too difficult."

"Among the simple password cracking methods I know, there's only one that doesn't involve numbers."

"Caesar cipher."