In the dim basement, Sabrina drank the fruit wine in front of her in one gulp by the faint candlelight, and said self-deprecatingly: "What is the third in line, now I am just a lost dog." ”

Todd glanced quietly at Rachel, who gave him a reassuring look.

Sabrina continued: "When Lawrence was alive, I had a decent life, and now I can only hide underground and live like a mouse!"

Rachel explained to Todd at this time: "For Sabrina, Eleanor has specially issued a bounty in the alien race, and whoever catches her can get a large bounty, whether she lives or dies. ”

Todd asked, "Why did Eleanor target her like this?"

Sabrina pointed to her head, her immature little face full of vicissitudes of helplessness: "Because of my ability...... I can lodge my soul in the blood of my body, and through the blood possession, I can give up my old body and obtain a new body. In this way, I was able to indirectly gain infinite life. ”

Todd somewhat understood her situation: "That's why Eleanor, who is seeking eternal life, is so desperate to catch you because she has made your abilities a target. ”

Rachel nodded, "This time I was able to enter Eliad's library and transcribe the book I wanted, thanks to Sabrina's ability. She took possession of the body of a masked servant and opened the way for me to dive in. ”

Speaking of which, Richer stretched out her palm to Sabrina, "What about the things I asked you to keep?"

Sabrina didn't move, but turned to Richer and asked, "What did you promise me?"

Rachel tilted her head sideways, looked at the girl in front of her, and said funny: "The king of Dusk West did not hesitate to be in danger and came here to meet you and me, don't you still believe my promise?"

Sabrina hung her head for a moment, then gritted her teeth and made up her mind, leaving her seat and walking to the corner of the basement, where she lifted a piece of floor tiles and pulled out a heavy wooden box.

Placing it on the table, Sabrina opened the box, pointed to the pile of notes inside, and said to Richel, "It's all here." ”

Todd pulled his notebook out of the wooden box and flipped through it.

Dozens of notebooks copied a large number of words and drawings, and to Todd's headache, the text part was some in lingua franca, some in imperial Chinese, but more in a completely incomprehensible language.

"These are ancient Taylor languages, translations of ancient scrolls. Rachel looked at Todd's eyes, quickly raised his hands and said, "Don't look at me like that, although I know more than a dozen languages, I can't understand this kind of writing at all." ”

In desperation, Todd skipped the text and began to focus on the drawing.

Huge black towers, glittering underground passages, and mysterious inverted pyramid patterns......

The notes are all depictions of the Crystal House and the Beacon Tower, and it seems that these things were circulated among the people long before the birth of writing.

Todd flipped to one of the pages of his notes and abruptly stopped what he was doing.

It was full of strange words copied on it, the same symbols that Meredith had shown him in the soul space.

One horizontal circle and then one horizontal, the upper and middle two circles are the lowest and then one horizontal, and the upper and middle two horizontal circles are the next circle...... There are dozens of such strange symbols, all of which are randomly arranged in horizontal and circled circles.

Todd clenched his hand into a fist to support his chin as he pondered and said to himself, could it be that these regular symbols were a kind of password?

Rachel leaned over to look at the note and whispered, "These symbols are from thousands of years ago, the only person who entered the chamber of the Beacon Tower. According to his description, these symbols fill the crystal screen, jumping, changing, and floating. Maybe...... These are the languages of the Absolute Will?"

"I always felt that this kind of symbol was familiar, where I should have seen it. Todd scratched his head: "But I can't remember it for a while." ”

Sabrina, who was sitting next to Todd, leaned her head over, rotated the notes on the table 90 degrees, and placed them in front of her eyes, looking at them curiously.

Looking at the notebook in front of him that was rotated 90 degrees, the original horizontal line became a vertical line, and all the symbols became a three-digit number string, Todd was like a lightning strike, and he forgot to breathe for a moment.

“1010011100101101......”

Todd's unconscious silence caught Richell's attention.

"What's wrong? What did you find?"

Todd pointed to the notebook and said in a trembling voice: "Thousands of years ago, those ancient Taylor people, when transcribing and translating ancient scrolls, may have misdirected the paper......

"Misorienting the paper?"

"The typography that was supposed to be transcribed horizontally turned out to be a vertical ......," Todd said, pointing to his notes, "So, these bars should be vertical, and these symbols are actually numbers, a bunch of numbers made up of 0s and 1s." ”

Rachel looked closely and muttered, "That's right, these symbols, when viewed backwards, do look a lot like the numbers used by the Empire, 0 and 1...... So, what does this mean?"

Todd rubbed his temples vigorously with his fingers: "In my hometown, 0 and 1 are used as the most basic computing language, and their arrangement and variation can be used to store information, embody logic and formula calculations...... Therefore, it is widely used in the program assembly of intelligent machines. ”

The more Richer listened, the more confused she became: "What do you mean is that the symbols displayed in the Beacon Tower's control room are actually a kind of machine language in Heaven?"

"This language is called a binary language, and it is seen as a way of computation that can achieve the results of everything, but ...... Why? Why is it in the beacon tower?"

Todd crossed his arms over his chest and pondered, "Could it be that both the Beacon Tower and the Crystal House are artificially created products? Plane experiments, the War of the Chosen One, and the Race Choice are actually related to future humans?"

Todd, who couldn't think of an answer even if he couldn't think of an answer, sighed at the roof, his face full of bitterness.

Rachel reassured him, "We still have too little information at hand, and if we can translate these Taylor texts and study them carefully, we may have more answers." ”

Todd nodded, placed the notebook in the wooden case, motioned for Rachel to put it away, and asked, "When will the ship return to Twilight?"

"I've already sent someone to get in touch. Rachel locked the crate and replied, "A brig will arrive at the port the evening after tomorrow." Once on board, we headed west to bypass the Imperial Maritime Patrol and then north to Dusk West. ”