SFS Chapter 398 Avoiding Treatment for Illness
Chapter 398 Avoiding Treatment for Illness
"Brother Yan Xun?" Sun Zhao looked down at the message, then looked up at Gu Jia. "Why are you calling him so affectionately?"
Gu Jia ignored him and simply scrolled through her text messages with Yan Xun.
They didn't chat much; he did most of the messaging.
This includes, but is not limited to, notifying Yan Xun to check the group chat for recent course changes, etc.
"Are you two roommates?" Sun Zhao analyzed as he read the message.
Yan Xun's replies were all very brief, either "ok" or "thanks, bro," occasionally interspersed with "Are you in xx? You can bring something to Li Wu for me."
"Looks like it's one of my roommates who usually lives off-campus," Sun Zhao said, stroking his chin as he continued his analysis.
"Look at this Polaroid camera, I guess the four of you are in the same dorm. Yan Xun lives off-campus, and you and Li Wu should both live in the dorm," Sun Zhao said, pointing to the message Yan Xun asked Gu Jia to bring something.
“There’s no Lou Yanchuan,” Gu Jia suddenly said.
Sun Zhaoxian didn't understand what he meant, and it took her a few seconds to realize, "You mean Lou Yanchuan has never appeared in your conversations?"
"Hmm." Gu Jia scrolled through her messages with Yan Xun, then opened other message lists.
His message to Li Wu was brief, suggesting they were just ordinary roommates.
"Could it be that you two have a bad relationship?" Sun Zhao guessed, after all, Lou Yanchuan usually seemed quite annoying.
Gu Jia didn't say anything, but took out the Polaroid photo again and examined it carefully.
The four people in the photo all looked somewhat distracted, and none of them had a smile on their faces. Lou Yanchuan was a little distance away from them, and it was unclear whether it was because of the Polaroid camera or something else—Lou Yanchuan in the photo not only looked distracted, but his overall condition was also not very good.
“That’s a bit strange,” Gu Jia said, pointing to Lou Yanchuan on the Polaroid camera.
“That’s true to some extent,” Sun Zhao agreed after looking at it for a while.
"But what does it mean that Yan Xun said he took on an order?" Sun Zhao asked curiously. "What kind of order did he take on?"
"It's probably related to this amusement park," Gu Jia said. "Haunted? Or something else happened?"
If Yan Xun is a professional at taking orders, then my coming here probably means I accepted Yan Xun's invitation and went to the amusement park with her.
Strangely, he didn't reply to Yan Xun in the message, so it's unclear whether he agreed in some other way or if there was another reason.
Gu Jia started browsing the messages on her phone again, and finally found some clues in her chat with Li Wu.
[Gu Jia: Where is he?]
[Li Wu: Something bad happened.]
This message was sent in February, before that Polaroid photo was taken.
[Li Wu: Never mind, it's hard to explain in a message. Let's talk about it when we meet today.]
Gu Jia tapped on the message on the screen, "This one should be about Lou Yanchuan."
"Something bad happened?" Sun Zhao looked at the keyword. "That's why you look so listless in the photo?"
But here's the question: what exactly is the bad thing?
Sun Zhao wanted to shake Li Wu on the other end of the phone, telling him to stop being a riddle-maker. If you think it's too much trouble to talk about it, just send a voice message! What's the point of talking in person?
Although he thought this way, he also knew that the dungeon was deliberately making things difficult for them, so he could only curse inwardly.
Gu Jia flipped through her photo album again. There weren't many photos in the album, only a few pictures of basketball courts, including the one of Yan Xun that she used as her screensaver.
Sun Zhao, who witnessed the whole thing: "..."
What could he say? He could only pretend he didn't see it.
"Why did I take pictures of Yan Xun?" Gu Jia muttered to herself as she looked at the photo album on her phone.
"..." What else could it be? Sun Zhao felt embarrassed just thinking about it. Wasn't it because you had a crush on someone?
"Haha, I don't know," Sun Zhao laughed it off. "Maybe you just think this picture is really cool!"
Sun Zhao was still holding the cell phone hidden in the stove. He fiddled with it for a moment. "This cell phone doesn't belong to either of us, nor to Yan Xun and Gao Wen."
"It seems it can only be Lou Yanchuan, Chi Yuan, and Li Wu..."
Thinking about it this way, Sun Zhao felt that the scope had narrowed down considerably, and perhaps they could find the truth about this instance tomorrow.
Gu Jia looked at her phone, "What if that person didn't set up facial recognition?"
"...Huh?" Sun Zhao paused in his phone-playing. "No way!!!"
None of them knew the password, so they were hoping that facial recognition could unlock the phone hidden in the woodshed.
"I'll give it a try." Gu Jia reached out to Sun Zhao.
Sun Zhao was puzzled. "Are you planning to try six sixes or eight eights?"
"This isn't a WiFi password."
He said that, and then watched as Gu Jia quickly entered a string of numbers, and then, as if by magic—the phone unlocked.
“Huh?” Sun Zhao looked at Gu Jia. “Where did you get the password?”
Gu Jia pursed her lips, "Let's give it a try."
He pointed to the Polaroid camera on the back of his phone, which showed the date: March 2, 2025.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the password for the phone in the stove is the time displayed on the Polaroid camera—it just happens to be such a coincidence that the two phones ended up in the same place.
Gu Jia felt that some of the levels in this instance were similar to escape rooms. He happened to have a clue that represented a number, so he thought he would give it a try. Unexpectedly, the password was actually the date on a Polaroid camera.
Upon seeing the unlocked phone in the stove, Gu Jia immediately confirmed the phone's owner.
"Yan Xun".
Gu Jia checked the Alipay information on the phone and confirmed the phone owner's identity.
Sun Zhao clicked his tongue in amazement. The phone was found by Gao Wen and Yan Xun, and they must have tried facial recognition unlocking—but they never expected that the phone in the stove had no facial recognition set up at all, only a password unlocking.
"Why go to such lengths..." Sun Zhao sensed something was wrong.
The time was even set specifically to match the time shown on the Polaroid photo, which must have been intentionally set.
"A code?" Sun Zhao guessed. There were only four people at the Polaroid camera, so this code should only be known to the four people who took the photos together that day.
But then another question arises: why set up this code? And why specifically disable face unlock to keep the phone's owner out as well?
Gu Jia scrolled through the messages on Yan Xun's phone. The last message he sent to her was—
[This is a bit strange; we'll have to play it by ear.]
Gu Jia pondered those words, "He's worried..."
"Could someone unlock this phone using his face?"
Or perhaps someone did this without his knowledge?
That's why they removed facial recognition unlock and only allow unlocking with a password?
Gu Jia wasn't worried. He knew Yan Xun could recall the phone password, just as Gu Jia could from the date on the Polaroid camera. Previously, it was just because there weren't enough clues. Once it was discovered that no one could unlock the phone with their face, Yan Xun would definitely understand that the password was related to the Polaroid camera.
Yan Xun's phone does contain a conversation with Lou Yanchuan.
[Yan Xun: You've been acting a bit strange lately.]
Lou Yanchuan: ?
[Yan Xun: You were banging your head against the wall in the middle of the night.]
[Yan Xun: As your roommate, I feel it's necessary for me to remind you.]
[Yan Xun: Avoiding treatment for fear of misunderstanding :)]