Chapter 24: Forbidden
"You...... Remember the other ciphers? β
"I don't remember it all." Li Weiyin shook his head and said:
"And it doesn't make sense."
"What do you mean by meaningless?"
"Because it's not really a cipher, it's just a form of cipher."
"I don't understand."
Li Weiyin sighed and followed the temptation:
"It's like Lan Si Lin created a whole new language, and as long as I had that book, I was able to translate that language word by word, and now there are no sentences that can be translated...... That is, there are no 'puzzles'. β
"Isn't that a waste of work? What about puzzles? β
"The puzzle is in the book."
"Are you sure?"
"I guess."
"Guess your mother?!" Instructor Wang was furious: "You just guess so casually, I have to get you that book, do you know how much effort it takes me?" β
"There's a good chance that the password is in the book." Li Weiyin put it bluntly: "Because he gave me the last page of the book and put the book back in its place, that should be a hint." Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to spend so much effort doing useless things. β
Instructor Wang groaned slightly, as if he was persuaded by Li Weiyin, and then clapped his hands again:
"By the way, I'll stun you! That Lan Silin, making so many bells and whistles, is nothing more than to take you out, since you said that there is a way to let you run out of the dragon in that book, won't it be over if I go and burn that thing? β
"That's not the point."
"What's the key?" Instructor Wang was stunned again.
Li Weiyin raised his head, looked at him, and said word by word:
"The point is: I have nothing to do with Lan Silin."
"What does that mean?"
"He didn't give me a reason to escape from the academy - in other words, I may just be his chosen target, and he may have told a lot of people about the meaning of the cipher - if you don't know the content of the cipher hidden in the book, you will always be passive."
The corners of Instructor Wang's mouth twitched for a while, pacing back and forth, as if he was recalling something, and at the end, he turned around again and asked cautiously:
He ...... Do you really know what loopholes there are in Kanglong Academy? β
"I don't know."
Li Weiyin said indifferently:
"I also don't know the process of him escaping from the boring room and attacking Instructor Liang. You should know a lot more about him than I do. β
Instructor Wang stopped talking, scratched his ears and cheeks, thought about it, and after a long while, finally made a decision. He gritted his teeth, said "You wait" to Li Weiyin, and ran to the teaching building, then paused, turned his head and shouted at Li Weiyin:
"I'll give you 20 laps! Someone asks you what's the matter, and you give me my name! Wait for me at the playground! β
Li Weiyin nodded. Looking at Instructor Wang's back gradually moving away, he breathed a sigh of relief without a trace.
He walked back to the playground and silently continued to run.
After running the remaining eight laps, Li Weiyin was called over by Instructor Wang, who hurried back.
Instructor Wang put one hand on his shoulder, led him to the teaching building, and admonished:
"Later, you will go up with me, don't ask, don't speak, do you hear?"
Li Weiyin glanced at the extra key on Instructor Wang's waist and nodded silently.
The two of them entered the teaching building together, went straight up several floors, and finally came directly to the mountain chief's office, although he had already prepared in his heart, Li Weiyin couldn't help but feel secretly frightened by the impenetrable airtightness of this personal belongings storage place.
Instructor Wang turned the doorknob and opened the door. The mountain chief disappeared somewhere, and the antique office was empty. He walked straight to a glass case, opened it with a key, and took out the copy of The Tin Man.
"You're here to watch, don't touch anything else, I'll search you when you come out. By the way, you only have twenty minutes, so you have to be fast! β
Li Weiyin nodded and said again:
"I want a pen."
Instructor Wang threw the pen on his chest on the table, hurriedly walked out the door, turned his head before going out, and added a sentence with a fierce face:
"You'll have to take it easy for me, if you fool me, you'll be finished!"
There was a dead silence in the chief's room. Li Weiyin sat on the sofa chair, looked down at the exquisitely framed fairy tale book, and his thoughts were divided for a while.
He slowly reached out and flipped it open.
On the title page, there is a string of handwriting left by Lan Silin.
As he expected, it was the cipher code that was created by numerical segmentation.
Li Weiyin took a deep breath and read the book intently.
Fifteen minutes later, the sound of the door shaft turning sounded outside the door, and Instructor Wang poked his head out of the crack in the door:
"Hey! Are you alright? β
"Give me a few more minutes." Li Weiyin had just flipped to three-quarters of the way, and his brows were furrowed.
"Hurry up! No time! β
"Wait...... There is one last point missing. β
"If I am seen by the mountain chief, I will have to walk around without eating, if something happens to me, it will definitely not make you feel better, do you know how serious the situation is?"
"I know. Just give me a few more minutes. Li Weiyin turned the next page without raising his head.
Seeing this, Instructor Wang exhaled anxiously, closed the door again, and looked at the watch in his hand over and over again.
Five minutes later, Instructor Wang opened the door again, and Li Weiyin was already standing in front of the door.
"Done?"
Li Weiyin nodded.
Instructor Wang hurriedly rushed in, locked the book back in the drawer, and made sure that everything around him had been restored to its original state, and then left the mountain chief's room with Li Weiyin.
The two of them went downstairs and walked straight to the path behind the teaching building, and when they reached an inaccessible place, Instructor Wang exhaled as if he had been pardoned and wiped the sweat stains on his forehead.
"How...... What do you think? Find out what you don't have? β
Li Weiyin was silent for a few seconds and said:
"The content of the code is probably: in the southeast corner of the landscape garden, there is a way to escape."
"Landscape Garden?"
Instructor Wang's voice was raised a few degrees, raised his eyebrows, and looked at him suspiciously. Then he grabbed his hair vigorously with both hands.
"Forget it, we'll talk about it later, you come with me first."
Li Weiyin had no choice, so he had to be dragged by Instructor Wang to continue walking.
The two followed the path, all the way through the school building and the playground, through the landscape garden, and finally came to the forbidden area that discouraged the studentsβthat is, the confinement building.
Instructor Wang brought Li Weiyin inside, and the sound of footsteps made a tooth-sour sound on the rotten wooden floor, and Instructor Wang's footsteps did not stop, leading him into an empty boring room.
As soon as I entered the boring room, I smelled a pungent stench.
The light here was very dark, and Li Weiyin's eyes couldn't adapt to it for a while.
He subconsciously turned around, and was met with a merciless elbow blow.
Li Weiyin flew upside down. Fell to the ground, dizzy. There was a buzzing sound in my ears.
In a trance, he seemed to be able to hear Instructor Wang's indifferent voice.
"You wait for me."