Chapter 55: Cracking the Code

(October 3) countdown to the 88th day

Yao Xiaoyi looked at these 24 letters, as if looking at an eternal mystery, knowing that there was an answer hidden, but there was no way to solve it. What did the original owner of this wooden building want to tell the newcomers?

She touched each of the conjecture letters with her fingers, but nothing happened.

Leonardo da Vinci was a diligent recorder throughout his life, writing tens of thousands of manuscripts on paper, of which only about 5,000 pages exist scattered around the world. It has been found that Leonardo da Vinci is like a child playing a joke on the world here, the manuscripts are written on messy manuscript paper, without a serial number, and without a date, in fact, people have become accustomed to calling Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts "pieces of paper with vague meanings". Manuscripts include not only unsent letters, forms, reading notes in different languages, mechanical and engineering sketches, etc., but also often have traces of different fields of study even on the same paper, an essay on optics may be next to a sketch of a human face, a method of preparing a special pigment, or a treatise on a certain pharmaceutical formula, and not forgetting to record the trivial events of life such as a child living with him stealing some of his gold coins. In this manuscript, he also analyzes why the sky is blue and why fossils have been found on the top of the mountain. He also succeeded in predicting the invention of the submarine and the steam engine on the manuscript. In short, this is a true genius whose talent manifests itself in multiple disciplines.

The question is, is this huge oil painting in the lobby of the wooden building being hung as a decoration, or is it deliberately hiding some secret?

Yao Xiaoyi is even more convinced that it is the latter, and the light emitted by touching the human eyeball in the painting is obviously carefully designed and must have its profound significance.

Through consulting materials, Yao Xiaoyi also learned that Leonardo da Vinci used to write with a pen with his left hand, so that the final text is completely opposite to the reading habits of ordinary people, that is, the so-called "mirror image", and the normal text presentation can only be seen through the reflection of a mirror.

Yao Xiaoyi thought to herself that the letters on the Mona Lisa's eyeball should perhaps be interpreted in reverse, for example, the L and V in the left eyeball should be seen as V and L; C and E, or B and S, or N and X, or N and S, or N and S, should be seen as E and C, or S and B, or X and N, or S and N, which is more in line with Leonardo da Vinci's writing habits.

LV is the initials of Leonardo da Vinci's name, so what does VL stand for? The American painter Ron Piccilino once found four hidden animals in the background of the oil painting: lions, apes, buffaloes and snakes, and deduced that Leonardo da Vinci's creation of the Mona Lisa was an expression of "jealousy", one of the "seven deadly sins". It is possible, then, that V is the word vice, or sin, which represents the seven major evils enumerated by Catholic doctrine. It is possible that L refers to the word lio

, the lion, represents the sin of envy among the seven deadly sins.

So what are the two letters of the right eyeball, and what do they represent?

Yao Xiaoyi thought of the possibility of the letters E and C, where E may refer to the word E

vious, i.e., jealous; C may refer to the word Ch

istia

, Christianity, the meaning of believers.

If the letters implied by the Mona Lisa's eyeballs are as Yao Xiaoyi guessed, then the background and significance of Leonardo da Vinci's creation of this masterpiece have a clear point. As many experts around the world have pointed out, it is in this way that Leonardo da Vinci implicitly challenged the Western male hegemony discourse represented by Christianity, and the Mona Lisa is both a woman seeking to paint and Leonardo da Vinci himself. There are also people who believe that the Mona Lisa is a combination of the painter's mother and himself, when Leonardo da Vinci made this painting for the wife of an Italian merchant, he thought of his mother who left him when he was young, and facing this woman who resembled his mother reminded him of his mother, and the person in the painting became the mother he missed.

The letters V, L, E, and C have a relatively reasonable explanation, but what does a famous oil painting from 500 years ago have to do with a small building in an old town west of City C? What does it mean for the beam of light from the Mona Lisa's eyes to hit this small board?

Yao Xiaoyi was puzzled.

She returned to the study on the second floor, turned on the computer, and followed her sister's prompts on the suicide note to start the surveillance video of the wooden building. In this way, she can sit in the study, she can see the entire wooden building inside and out, even if she leaves the room, she can also implement remote monitoring through her mobile phone.

When she pushed open the door of the wooden building, two empty wine bottles deliberately placed by her sister behind the door panel fell to the ground; According to her sister's prompt, she also got her wish in a book and found the hair left by her sister. This shows that the murderer behind the death of his sister did not find out about the existence of this wooden building, and the place is safe at least until now.

She did not follow her sister's advice and took the initiative to contact the police. The moment she saw her sister's body in the morgue, she was determined to kill the murderer.

Officer Xiao Feng of the Castle Peak Police Station did not fully tell her the truth about her sister's death, but it was very clear that her sister died because of her.

Before carrying out her revenge plan, she wants to crack the secrets of the letters V, L, E, and C. She is not sure whether the secret of the painting is directly related to her sister's death, but she is convinced that there must be something hidden in this wooden building.

She tried to make a variety of combinations of the four letters, but to no avail.

Just starting the computer gave her a little inspiration, when you warm start the computer, you need to press the CTRL, ALT, DEL keys at the same time. The opening of many mechanisms often requires several keys to be turned at the same time to be effective. Does the opening of the wooden building mechanism also need to perform the same operation?

Yao Xiaoyi rushed downstairs and found that the beam of light in the eyes of the person in the painting had disappeared. She touched the eyes of the animated man with her fingers, and two beams of light shot out again, eventually merging a point of light and hitting the opposite wooden block. She hurried to the opposite wall, found the letters V, L, E, and C on the wooden block, and used her left and right hands at the same time, touching the four letters with four fingers at the same time.

There was a crisp click from behind. She turned her head to see a slit in the middle of the chest, from the center of the eyebrows to the tip of the nose to the middle of the chest. When the slit slowly opens to both sides, enough for the next person to pass through, there is another crunch of a latch that stops opening.

Yao Xiaoyi walked quickly to the oil screen, and was about to drill through the seal, but was startled by a corpse.