Bai Youwei chuckled and asked, "Tan Xiao, were you playing in the attic just now?"
Tan Xiao thought for a moment and replied seriously, "What I said earlier wasn't quite right. It should be 'researching'! We discovered this whale, and while studying it, we felt something was off, and then we found this ship!"
Bai Youwei wheeled herself over and carefully examined the model ship. "Hmm… it looks like a pirate ship laden with treasure that unfortunately sank to the bottom of the sea and ended up in the belly of a whale. If we understand it that way, it certainly fits the 'treasure' theme."
"Do you have any thoughts?" Yan Qingwen asked her.
Compared to the others, Yan Qingwen was more interested in Bai Youwei's reaction and attitude, not only because of the calmness she displayed during the Lucky Quiz, but also because of the trust Shen Mo, Tan Xiao, Cheng Weicai, and the others placed in her.
However, at this moment, Bai Youwei was languid and nonchalant. She gently shook her head and said, "No, I just feel… that nursery rhyme seems a bit too simple."
Yan Qingwen: "Simple?"
"It's like being given the answer directly during an exam. Wouldn't you consider that simple?" Bai Youwei rested her chin on her hand and looked out the window, murmuring, "That old man in grey robes brought us here with obvious vengeful intentions, so… there must be something wrong with this game."
There must be a trap… something she hadn't discovered, hadn't noticed yet.
Let's go over it from the beginning.
The bear woke up in the spring, and it was so worried about losing its two children…
Now they had found a pile of bear "children," but there was only one toy bear that resembled the mother bear outside. Why was that?
"Could it be this one?" Su Man picked out a bear from the pile of plush toys, took off its little boots, then its little hat, and placed it next to the bear Zhu Shu had found. They looked almost identical, both brownish-grey.
Teacher Cheng sighed, "But this toy bear doesn't have a bow."
Everyone was worried.
The silence lasted for a while, then Pan Xiaoxin hesitantly asked, "If… if we borrowed a bow from another toy… would that count?"
Everyone was taken aback, then looked at Pan Xiaoxin.
"Xiaoxin, have you seen any other toys with this kind of bow?"
Pan Xiaoxin pointed to the other side of the living room. "There's a plush monkey over there with a red bow tied to its tail. The style is similar to this one."
To prove he wasn't lying, Pan Xiaoxin ran to the corner and rummaged through a pile of plush toys, pulling out a plush monkey.
Hope flickered in everyone's hearts.
But when Pan Xiaoxin returned with the monkey, their faces fell with disappointment.
The bow on the monkey's tail wasn't red with black polka dots; it was solid red.
Zhu Shu placed the two bows close together and compared them. The size and style were indeed very similar; the only difference was the lack of black polka dots.
Just as they were at a loss, Pan Xiaoxin spoke again, "There are black markers in the small study upstairs. We can draw the dots ourselves."
Everyone fell silent after hearing this.
A child's solution was sometimes surprisingly straightforward.
Adults, on the other hand, had become accustomed to rules and regulations in the adult world, making it difficult to return to their most innocent state.
In fact, adults could come up with the same solution, but they didn't dare to think about it, or rather, they tried to avoid thinking about it. They were cautious and unwilling to defy the rules they were familiar with.
"Would that be considered cheating…?" Lü Ang frowned. "If the bear isn't satisfied, according to the Proctor, it will 'go berserk.'"
The indoor space was small. If a ferocious beast went wild, no matter how they hid, some of the ten of them would definitely get injured.