Chapter XVIII. A more reliable defense than a thug
"That's it?" When Li Mengzhu and I saw Xiao Qicai deciphering the last text in the document, we both felt a little unsatisfied.
Xiao Qicai said, "This is two-thirds of the content recorded in this Morse code. And the last paragraph, the encryption is very clever, and I think it's too difficult. Even I don't think I can completely unravel it. ”
"How about giving you more time?"
"It's hard!" Xiao Qicai said, "This Morse code mentions the 15th ~ 16th century Voynich manuscript, according to the last paragraph of the annotation, it seems that as long as you can unravel the Voynich manuscript, you can understand what Qian Long saw under the water at that time!" ”
"The Voynich manuscript? What is it? "I've never heard of this stuff.
Li Mengzhu frowned beside him and said, "For the Voynich manuscript, the super group has spent a lot of manpower to study it, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I've seen in some archives that Voynich's manuscripts date back to the 15th or 16th century in Italy. The language used is unintelligible, the subject matter is mysterious, and it involves illustrations of plants that do not exist in the world. In addition, the book includes zodiac symbols, astrological charts, illustrations of herbs, and unclothed women bathing. The indecent drawing of the water hose. ”
Xiao Qicai nodded, and said, "The Voynich manuscript covers 246 pages of vellum, I have actually done some research on it a long time ago, and I think this manuscript is dedicated to alchemy or medieval medicine, but I don't think it's clear. Because the real meaning of these clues is probably not what we imagined. "Macro name.
I thought about it. Asked, "Is Voynich a personal name?" A manuscript left by a person? ”
Xiao Qicai said, "No. The Voynich manuscript was originally written by a man called ...... I don't remember the exact name, but it was a bookseller, who found it in an Italian monastery. Earlier scholars who have studied the Voynich manuscript speculated that its origin was in Europe, but when the manuscript was discovered, it was mysterious. There are even many scholars who say that whoever can solve the secrets of the Voynich manuscript will be able to grasp a lot of truths that will shock the world! ”
I smiled bitterly and said, "But the problem is that after so many years, many people have studied that manuscript, and if they could solve it, they would probably have solved it a long time ago." Do you have to wait for us to figure it out? If there are so many predecessors and successors, scholars from various countries will not be able to solve them. Then I don't think there's much hope! ”
Little Colorful nodded, "So it's impossible to solve the mystery through the Voynich manuscript." But we now have other clues, and we can guess what he saw based on everything that happened to Qian Long at that time! ”
I muttered, "But I can't figure it out, how can what Qian Long saw be connected to the elevator!" Unidentified creatures on the bottom of the sea and elevators, these are clearly two different things! ”
Li Mengzhu said, "Rome was not built in a day. I think we should rest and recharge today. I'll be working on it tomorrow. ”
"Good!"
Then, the three of us went back to the accommodation arranged for us by Qian Yin with our hearts. With Li Mengzhu's and I understanding Xiao Qicai, she may not be able to sleep well for a while, and she will definitely continue to study the huge information brought by the Morse code.
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When I returned to my room, I saw that it was still early, and I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, so I walked around the building casually, intending to familiarize myself with the terrain.
Then I saw two young men patrolling the staircase in the corridor, these two young men were dressed very casually, but I could tell from their appearance that they must have been soldiers, and at first glance, they gave people a heroic momentum.
"Mr. Jiang, hello!" As soon as they saw me, one of them immediately greeted me with great excitement.
"Hello, handsome! Do you know me? ”
"I don't know, I've just heard of it. I finally saw it today, but Mr. Jiang seems to be a little more mature than rumored! ”
"You want to say I'm always, right? It's okay, let's get it straight! After all, I'm older, not as young as you. "I suddenly remembered that it had been seven or eight years since I had experienced the first strange incident, the Zhang Dawei incident. The years are green, and they are getting farther and farther away, no matter how much ability you have, you will never be able to resist the sigh of the years.
"No, no, no! It's either old, it's ......," said the young man, who thought very seriously, "just to make people feel very relieved to look at." Some men get older and smeller! Just like Tony Leung, to be honest, I think Tony Leung has more flavor when he is older than when he was younger! ”
"How can I compare with Tony Leung!" Although I casually spoke polite words to them, I already had a rough idea of the layout of the whole building.
There are corridors on both sides of this building. It can have a distance of more than 50 meters. There are patrol guards at the stairs on both sides of the corridor, this is the 5th floor, and it is estimated that there are also patrolmen on the 1st ~ 4th floors to protect our safety. But I think that from the perspective of equipment and personnel ratio, these people can deal with ordinary people, and if they deal with the people sent by Qian Long, it will not be safe at all.
This made me vaguely worried.
Later, bidding farewell to the two young patrolmen, I returned to the house. Boredom walked to the bookshelf, which had some books on the cultivation techniques of wild herbs.
I pulled out a copy and flipped through it, the content was too professional and boring, so I planned to put it back. But when I was holding the book in my hand, and I was holding it up in the air, I saw that where I had just taken the book, behind the bookshelf, there was a small note pasted on it, on which someone wrote with a pen: There is a mechanism here, Mr. Bandit.
Seeing the last four words, I thought that this note should have been made when Qian Yin went out to change clothes before, and found the opportunity to get it. Could it be that the bookshelves in these rooms have organs?
However, I wandered around the bookshelves for the rest of the day and found nothing like pinholes, springs, or anything else.
The only thing that stands out is that there are pots of pothos above the bookshelf, which grow very thickly, and the long leaves hang down like a rope. It's like a very old kind of pull wire light switch.
Could it be that this pothos is weird?
I tentatively pulled the long vertical pothos leaf down gently, and the cabinet door on the edge of the bookshelf popped open with a "bang", and at that moment, I immediately rushed over, and found that there was a mezzanine that could be turned up and down hidden inside the wooden board of the bookshelf, and there was a mask in the mezzanine, and when I saw the mask, there seemed to be something behind the mezzanine, and instantly knocked the mask out, and the mask flew out directly, and I hurriedly took it with my hand.
Immediately afterward, I heard a very slight "gurgling" sound, and a small copper pipe came out of it clinging to the edge of the mezzanine.
I didn't think about it at the time, I just put the mask on.
After putting it on, I found that the nose of the mask had an isolation filter device, which was just enough to get stuck on the bridge of the nose. Because the mask is a clown pattern, so there are edges and corners, and there is a round ball about 3~5 cm protruding outward from the nose, and the filter device is just hidden in the ball, and no one would have thought that there is such a kind of Qiankun hidden in it.
A few seconds later, a puff of smoke erupted from the copper pipe!
I immediately understood the meaning of this mechanism.
Masks can protect themselves, and the smoke can numb the opponent's nerves or poison the opponent suddenly!
"What a set-up!"
I tried to walk back with my mask on, trying to pull the pothos leaves and restore it, but it didn't work. But after a few seconds of smoke, the copper pipe retracted automatically, and I opened the window, and then I saw a floor fan not far away, and when I turned on the fan, it was just enough to blow the toxic fog towards the window.
I see!
All the furnishings in this room seem ordinary, but in fact, there is a very powerful self-protection mechanism hidden in it. No wonder Qian Yin asked Li Mengzhu and Xiao Qicai to come here, even if the patrolmen outside were knocked down, as long as they were in this room, they should be safe.
With that in mind, I opened the window and checked the rest of the facility. Then, one after another, I found the notes that Qian Yin had left for me in my room. Some of these notes just tell me about the machine, and some are a little more complicated, telling me how the mechanism is turned on and off.
For example, there is a stepper in the corner, after the power is turned on, go up to the left and right to step to the end, the floor near the stepper, will be in a state of power, if someone comes to catch it, as long as you stand on the stepper and keep stepping, that person will always be in a state of power, very domineering and sharp.
There is also the headboard, leaning on the part of the bedside counter lamp, as long as you press a button on the lamp, the headboard will automatically open, and there are several small brackets hidden inside, which can shoot a certain number of steel needles at 45 angles to the air above the head. These needles cover a wide area, but as long as the launcher is lying on the bed, he will be unscathed and will not accidentally injure himself. This is just to prevent someone from suddenly attacking while you are sleeping, and you can immediately take emergency defense and paralyze the enemy in the first place.
Once I had figured out most of the mechanisms and put the mask back in its place, the planks that were hidden inside the bookshelf and could be turned up and down automatically closed automatically. The mask was hidden back in.
After more than an hour of blowing, the poisonous gas had almost dispersed, but I was still not very relieved, so I opened the window and tossed for a while. After I got to know everything about this room thoroughly, I couldn't help but admire Qian Yin's design.
If these mechanisms are all from this girl's hands, then the old Qian family is really full of talents, even Qian Yin, who doesn't know any fighting skills, is so powerful!
It seems that the anesthetic needle hidden in the group she sent in that place before was just a small test.
This place is her main battlefield!