Chapter 22: The Ash Wood Blood Sacrifice (10)
Back in the cave, Trehack was still sweating profusely and running around, pressing the reliefs on the statue in turn. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info but looking at his appearance, he may have forgotten the last time he pressed the Shun Xu. If you don't use pen and paper to record this kind of thing, it will quickly become confusing from memory. Aluca believed that his teacher's memory was beyond the ordinary, but it was not that he had a high IQ, but that he had a developed brain. A well-developed brain does not mean that you are smart, but you will work less on the way to becoming a smart person. The reason why smart people are smart is actually because of the way they think.
No one wanted to remind him of Aluca's shenanigans, but Sinoon kindly asked Trihak to rest for a while.
Aluka asked Jofa to help him to the altar, cleared his throat, and said, "What I'm going to say next is all my inference, it doesn't matter if it's right or not, what we need to do now is to test all possibilities." This is called a bold assumption, carefully excluded. Of course, I've always thought I was right.
I still think the same as before, if a person wants to hide a treasure, he will not choose a puzzle with chance. Then there is no point in hiding treasures. Hidden treasures are either hidden for oneself or for others, in short, there will be a specific object, or even a specific group, not for those who are lucky enough to be destined. If you want to do good deeds and be a good person, just find a temple and donate your inheritance. So the key to finding the treasure is to find the clue left by Ainos, which must be discovered by a specific method.
We are not people of this world, and theoretically it is impossible to be a specific object and a specific group designated by Ainos, so it is impossible to know what the clue is, but it is not necessarily impossible to know what the clue points to. ”
Henry didn't figure out where the key point was, and asked unwillingly, "How do you know?"
"The point is that whatever the clue is, it has to be applied to the cave," Arouca explains. There are only two things that can move in this cave, one is the relief carved with the symbol of the god of truth, and the other is the pen and paper on the altar. ”
He pointed to the paper on the altar and asked, "Who knows what it is?"
"Paper made of a certain material is technically similar to papyrus. "This is the erudite Henry National Teacher.
"I think it's a magic scroll...... A magic scroll that hasn't been made yet. "Xinong, I don't see that he is quite interested in magic, but unfortunately his intelligence is too low, and he can't learn magic even if he has it.
"I can't read, don't ask me. "Jopha is honest.
"If this question of yours is trying to insult my IQ, I promise you'll be without IQ soon. "Well...... This is......
Ignoring Trihak's threat, Aluka's eyes lit up with a creepy smile, and the others who knew him well knew that this was Aluca's bad taste about to explode. The last time he showed this kind of smile, he put his underwear on the outside, put on a red cape, and hacked to death a homeless man who molested a young girl, shouting "I'm Superman!" as he chopped it.
"It's called ...... None, Words, Days, Books!"
National Master Henry covered his face and supported his forehead, and said in a low voice: "There is indeed no word...... We've all seen it. ”
Aluka shook her finger and snorted, "Wrong, very wrong. Your thoughts are as sweet as the little girl who was tricked into a lollipop by me and thought I would return it. Let me tell you a truth, all the wordless heavenly books...... It's all written in words!" is just like the Four Heavenly Kings must have five people, it is common sense in a certain world.
"You actually deceived the little girl's sugar ......," Henry decided to reconsider whether to recommend him to the royal family.
Aluka asked Jofa to take out the flint and hay from his mercenary's pouch, and asked Sinon to take the book from the front room, and then set it on fire with a combination of flint and hay.
Sinong looked at Aluca embarrassedly and said, "Are you really confident......?" It's hard for us to explain to the priest, and listening to him, it seems like he can beat all five of us at a time. And, don't you like to read?"
Aluka replied indifferently: "If I fail, we will die sooner or later, what if we are beaten." Just because I like to read doesn't mean I can't burn books, books are for reading, not for love. Books that I can't read are no different from waste paper. Now is not the time to criticize my values, so look at it. ”
As she spoke, Aluka placed the burning book close to the two sheets of paper on the altar. A moment later, lines after lines of text appeared on the piece of paper on the left. Aluka thought to herself, although I haven't been in the Boy Scouts of America, but I have "Storytelling" and "100,000 Whys"!
Of course, he wasn't 100% sure he would succeed. Ever since he began to believe that magic and gods exist in this world, he has been suspicious of everything. Aluca's strength is that he is never afraid of failure. Ordinary people always have to think about how others look at them before doing things, and Aluka doesn't care at all. Originally, the lower limit was very low, no matter how low it was, it couldn't be much lower, and there was no room for others to have a worse impression of him. This is the mentality of speculators, they don't care about small cost investment, if they are gone, they will be gone, and if they become them, they will have big returns. Aluka knows that he only has small wisdom and no great wisdom, so he should make good use of his small wisdom and not be arrogant. It is easy to kill with a pistol, but a nail clipper can kill like a fingerclipper, and a spoon can kill people, depending on how to use it.
However, the classic combination of lemonade and candlelight is still a relatively trendy and high-end gameplay in this world. Even Master Henry was stunned to see the words that appeared on the paper.
Trihak's eyes widened, and he was a little incoherent: "God...... Oh, my God...... Praise the sun god, I actually saw a magic with my own eyes!Wait, little wolf cub, when did you become a magician?"
Aluca just loves to play, but she doesn't plan to show it off. As mentioned earlier, he is a person with spiritual pursuits, and he disdains to use this kind of thing to show off, so he explained: "It's not magic, it's just a little trick, and seven or eight year olds in our hometown can play it." Lemon knows, you can write words on paper with lemon juice, and they will fade slowly after a while, but when you roast them over a fire, you can re-display them. My question now is why this lemon juice has such a long shelf life......"
Henry's face was a little complicated, and he muttered, "Young people still have a lot of ideas...... It's old, it's old. Let's look at what is written on the paper. ”
The content of the paper is not complicated, there is a line of numbers written on the left paper, and the alphabet of the St. Ainos language is written on the right paper.
Aluka looked at it for a while and said, "I've been asking this question for a long time, why does this world also use the St. Ainos language?
Henry's associative ability was still a little worse than that of Alucabi, and he didn't think that Ainos was the main god's doppelganger, so he said: "In my opinion, each plane is derived from the main world, and the culture is naturally the same, which can also explain why the legend of the sun god is also circulating here." As for the master of theology, I think it's just a coincidence, after all, I don't know how many thousands of years ago, our continent was called St. Ainos. Actually, I have seen many people named Ainos in the Rhine Kingdom, which is not an uncommon name.
One more thing, this alphabet is missing several letters that are not commonly used, belonging to the dialect of the Hill Empire. I don't think I'm mistaken, there are now dozens of variants of the St. Ainos language, and I know more than half of them. ”
Otherwise, if there is a treasure in the family, whether it is the symbol representing the god of truth or the dialect of the Hill Empire, it is something that Aluka is not familiar with. If it weren't for Henry, he would definitely be stuck here.
But what does a line of numbers and a neatly arranged alphabet mean? Aruka meditates, associates, ponders, associates......
"Ahh Aluka shouted briefly, "I remember!"
Xinong hurriedly asked, "What?"
"This is Caesar's phalanx. ”
Confused, Sinoon asked, "Who is Caesar?"
Aluka thought for a while and said seriously: "The iron striker in my hometown village, we all call him the Iron King. He has a famous saying...... Have you ever seen the Hill Empire at four o'clock in the morning?"
"What do you mean?" asked Sinon.
"It means that if you want to become an iron king, you have to get up at four o'clock in the morning every day and work hard. ”
"But normal people get up at 4 a.m. Xinong was even more puzzled.
Alouca was speechless, forgetting that the continent of San Ainos, still in the agrarian era, was fundamentally different from the twenty-first century. Working from 9 to 5 is impossible here, and even the princes and nobles get up early, and before entering the information age, the heavy workload of civil servants is unimaginable to modern people.
"It doesn't matter, I'll tell you about Caesar's phalanx, and some people call this thing Caesar's box. To put it simply, this is a relatively basic method of encryption. I think the Rhine Kingdom also has a similar method to transmit military information, of course I don't know, Henry National Teacher, please don't send me to court. ”
Caesar's phalanx is not a clever tool in the twenty-first century, but it is not without effect, and it is often simple and effective. One of the important things about encryption is that it has to be deciphered by something other than the ciphertext. If you can decipher the meaning of the ciphertext from the ciphertext itself, then the ciphertext is a failed product.
The original version of Caesar's phalanx was very simple, with an alphabet and an original ciphertext that could be deciphered. The method is to move the letters of the original ciphertext backwards one place on the alphabet, for example, A is actually B, and B is actually C. There are many variants of Caesar's phalanx, which is based on the encryption of the language itself, and it is not surprising that this side of the world will also appear, and there is always a striking similarity in history.
The ciphertext he saw today was obviously a variant of Caesar's phalanx. The number on the left represents moving the original ciphertext backwards on the alphabet, and the alphabet on the right is the tool needed to decipher. And this is the alphabet of the dialect of the Hill Empire, which makes Aluka even more suspicious of the identity of Ainos. Alucca doesn't believe in coincidences, and he is careful that he must have been to the Overworld. Theoretically, it is possible to turn a word into all the words needed by different numbers, but it takes an experienced person to make a subjective judgment when the number of tens appears.
The question now is where the original ciphertext is. After thinking for a while, Aluca asked Henry to use the method he said to decipher the original ciphertext in the name of the god of truth. The others didn't understand the changes in the dialect of the Hill Empire, so the job had to be handed over to Henry's national teacher.
Henry took a pen and paper from the Shinji's desk, wrote and drew for a while, and then said, "Aluca, you guessed it right, I translated the name of the sun god. ”
In other words, the answer to the mystery is indeed related to the narrative of pressing the relief...... "Alucca is confused, so why hasn't the priest been able to figure it out for so many years? It should be noted here that the order in which the relief is pressed is not only 1234, but also 1111, so there are more possibilities than just a simple order, but it can still be tried.
After all the translations of Henry's national teacher were completed, everyone suddenly realized that it was originally necessary to press the same relief eight times in order, and it also included the situation of pressing the same relief twice repeatedly, and this arrangement may be too much, and it is not something that people can try. Only Aluka still felt that something was wrong, and according to his thoughts, such a method could still be achieved by someone who was lucky enough to do it once. The probability can be negligible and does not mean that it does not exist. Ordinary people will ignore small probability events, just like you can't go out for the rest of your life because you may be stoned to death by a flower pot when you go out shopping. Not good in Aluca, he loves to drill the horns.