Chapter 1208: The Golden Trail (4)
The pattern is so cleverly made that it blends in with the pattern of the bed itself, and if you don't look closely, you won't be able to tell that it was deliberately made.
If this does not mean that the bed corresponds to the watch, then the other side of the bed does not have this pattern.
This is not just a hint, but basically a clear indication that the bed and the watch have something to do with it.
So, what's the use of this clue?
"Mr. Jonathan, I have to say that the detective you were looking for before is really a waste."
Very immoral arrangement of peers who will only appear in the background of the story, An Yi pointed and said:
"Since the back cover of the watch can be opened, and you can get a note and a key that I don't know what to do, and the bed that corresponds to the watch, it is natural that there will be a hint."
It is estimated that what Jonathan's uncle wanted to say before he died was to suggest that he was in this house, or simply the bed under him, but because he was too sick, he didn't come to speak out at all.
So the three of them worked together to turn the bed, which might be hiding clues, over and leaned against the wall on one side, revealing the dusty planks under the bed.
Yumeko Mizushima looked at it and said:
"Like, nothing."
Indeed, the plank under the bed looks like an ordinary plank, and there are no clues written on it.
An Yizhi approached the bed board, reached out and rubbed it on the board, and found that it was stained with a very light layer of something similar to nail polish, which was almost impossible to find if he didn't reach out and touch it.
"No, there are still clues, it's just that we can't see it now, do you remember the tip of the note in the watch?"
"What the eye sees is not the real ......"
"That's right, the hint is that what the eyes see is not real, put the curtains down first"
Yumeko Mizushima and Jonathan lowered the heavy, almost opaque curtains under Yasuchi's instructions, and the room was pitch black, and they could only see through the light coming through the gaps.
"It's not glowing, so it's not fluorescent paint."
"Of course it's not fluorescent paint, that thing is a radioactive thing, and the longer it passes, the weaker the light becomes, and it's not qualified to be used as a hint."
An Yizhi continued:
"What the eye sees is not real. It can be understood literally, and what the human eye cannot recognize is naturally ultraviolet and infrared, in which ultraviolet rays can react with a certain paint...... Which of you brought purple lights? ”
It was only after loading that he remembered this, but fortunately, Mizushima Yumeko was really qualified as an assistant, and there was almost everything in the lady's bag she was carrying, and she soon turned out a small purple light and turned it on.
With the purple light, a large number of 0s and 1s appeared on the bed board, and at the end it was written, 'Sometimes the world will be completely different if you look at it in a different way'.
This method is the same as the anti-counterfeiting mark on the currency, as long as it is illuminated with a purple light, the anti-counterfeiting mark on it can emit a light green fluorescence.
By the way, it's not the purple light that plays a role, it's the ultraviolet light emitted by the violet lamp that is useful, and the two are different.
Although one puzzle was solved, the next puzzle was soon laid out again in front of Ann Yizhi.
A large string of numbers made up of 0 and 1, and a hint.
"Is this binary code? But what does that mean, exactly? ”
Yumeko Mizushima looked at it twice and said she couldn't understand it, and Jonathan said:
"Doesn't it take someone who knows programming to understand it?"
Of course, An Yizhi can't understand it, let alone binary, even the C language, which is relatively easy to use, is also ignorant.
- After all, with his level of English......
However, binary is not only computer language, and Jonathan's uncle is a treasure hunter, and he is not a hard programmer, so it is impossible to leave such a professional puzzle.
Other words......
He cast his gaze on the last sentence.
"Sometimes if you look at it in a different way, the world will be completely different. To put it another way...... Ha! It was that simple. ”
Suddenly, it felt like the puzzle wasn't too difficult compared to the previous one.
Ann dropped the two people in the puzzle, fumbled to the bookshelf, caught the faint light through the gap in the curtains, rummaged for a while, and found a reference book related to Morse signals from the pile of reference books.
Morse signals are a fairly reliable way to convey binary messages, which convey different messages through different points arranged horizontally.
Morse signals are the most widely used, and are still used today, by sea.
Jonathan's uncle used to be a treasure hunter who floated around the sea all day long, so he was naturally no stranger to Morse signals, and the crew at least knew 'SOS', which is three short, three long and three short.
A professional telegraph operator could listen to the telegram and dictate its contents, but the layman would have to use a cipher book to decipher it. Because it was too troublesome, Ann was too lazy to look at it, so he decided to hand it over to Yumeko Mizushima.
"0 represents the point, 1 represents the horizontal, so as to bring in the Morse signal, according to the information in this book to translate, you should be able to get a hint of the next step."
An Yizhi said confidently, which made Jonathan feel that he should not be looking for the wrong person.
He would never have thought that in addition to being lazy, it was more because An felt a headache when he pointed at the English letters......
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Yumeko Mizushima may have some talent as a telegraph operator, and with the reference book, the Morse signal on the bed board was quickly translated, and as a result, they got a string of numbers that looked like coordinates.
55°66, 47 east longitude, 32°88, 36 south latitude
An Yizhi's geography results are good, but he can't directly figure out where this coordinate is on the earth in his mind.
He could only roughly judge that it should be near Africa in the southern hemisphere, and the prime meridian is 0° from the Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom, and 30° to the right splits Egypt in half, so 55° east longitude should be the African side.
"Mr. Jonathan, do you have a world map or a globe or anything like that?"
It is unlikely that this string of coordinates is the burial place of gold, but it is a key clue, so it is likely that the coordinates it represents are not actually referring to a real location.
"Yes, there's a globe in my uncle's study."
Jonathan said he seemed happy too, especially as it seemed to be going very well.
At least so far.
He then took Yumeko Mizushima and Yasuchi back to the front hall and went up the stairs to the second floor.
When passing by Jonathan's eldest brother who eats fasting and recites Buddha, An Yizhi still glanced inside, he is still playing with the rosary in a low voice, An Yizhi, who has lived a wine-colored and wealthy life all his life, may never be able to understand the spiritual height pursued by these people, and An Yizhi, who is a carnivore, will probably go crazy if he doesn't let him eat meat.
I went down the stairs to the second floor, but I didn't see Jonathan's second brother this time...... Uh, the original match? Widow?
It doesn't seem to be very accurate, anyway, I haven't met the woman who is still envious and jealous of the little girl about twenty years old in middle age.
Jonathan led Ann and pointed them through the hallway, and when they came to the end of the hallway, they took out the key and opened the door, which was naturally his uncle's study.
Of course, the most abundant of them are books, a lot of books.
It's not as big as a library, but all the blank walls are covered with shelves full of books, and it's not easy to go through them all.
Considering the consistent style of the system, I always feel that there are unlikely to be too important clues on the bookshelf, and the repeated mechanical flipping of books to find the clues does not conform to the routine of the system.
In the study, the most eye-catching thing is the huge globe placed on the side of the desk.
It's about the size of a coffee table, it's made of all metal, and it feels like it's made of brass.
"That's it, it's the only thing in this house that's a world map."
An Yizhi walked over, not polite at all, and reached out to turn the globe to find the area marked by latitude and longitude.
"Near the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, not far from Madagascar...... Mr. Jonathan, I think your uncle should have told you about this place. ”
Jonathan thought for a moment:
"I don't have any impressions......"
"I guess he didn't say exactly where this place was, but told you and your brother about the story of his salvage of the shipwreck."
Jonathan suddenly realized.
The reason for Anyi's judgment is very simple, the location of the coordinates is one of the important shipping routes to Europe during the Age of Discovery, and wealth such as tea, porcelain, gold and silver from Asia must pass through here before it can be transported to Europe.
The famous and much closer Suez Canal was built in the mid-19th century, before the Cape of Good Hope was the golden route to Asia.
Since it is a golden route, there are also many shipwrecks near this route, and Jonathan's uncle probably found the shipwreck at this nearby location and fished out enough gold to last a lifetime.
But then again, although Jonathan remembered the story that his uncle used to tell him when he was a child, he obviously didn't realize the deep meaning of Ann's words.
The latter did not mean to continue reminding, but stretched out his finger and pressed it at the position specified by the coordinates.
I only heard a soft click, and the place where my fingers touched it collapsed neatly, revealing a square hole about a centimeter long and wide under the action of the mechanism.
Ann reached out and took out the folded note inside the hole and unfolded it, with the next hint on it.
'People always follow the rules, but sometimes you need a little adventure to find scenery that is usually overlooked'
Yumeko Mizushima looked at it and said:
"Another hint, as if alluding to something."
"That's right, but it refers to a place, and it can be said that all the hints I have received so far are this routine."
It's interesting for An Yizhi, the temporary copy of the so-called treasure hunt last time ended up developing into the killing mode of Blizzard Villa, which is honestly very crooked.
Rather than murder, Ann is more interested in this mode of chasing treasure bit by bit according to clues, thanks to a series of similar stories such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Da Vinci Code.