Chapter 30: A Scene of the Encrypted Village
"From here, this is the path."
Sharp Horn walked briskly towards the village with Andy and Kurisu.
Andy looked back, the farther end of the path extended into the canyon, and it was estimated that he would eventually reach the area where the poisonous snakes were stationed, and he had copied a tunnel shortcut, but I have to say that this shortcut was almost impossible for people to walk.
Not far away, a large piece of top-heavy rock towers over the edge of the canyon to form a cliff that doesn't look very stable.
Sharp angles beckon ahead.
"Come on, come on, just turn a corner."
Andy led the demon with him, and after turning a valley pass, he was suddenly shocked by the scene in front of him.
Surrounded by the canyon, there is a mediocre mountain of medium height, with a sloping slope below, and at the top is a huge square rock, the top of which is covered with green plants, and the surrounding scene is like a god has placed a green square table here.
Staring at this strange scene for a while, Andy couldn't help but sigh.
"I know what this place looks like, but it's still different when I see it with my own eyes..... It's much, much bigger than I thought. ”
A few people walked along the narrow path inside the canyon, which became narrower and narrower on both sides, until finally a wooden hanging door appeared in front of them.
On the observation platform high up next to him sat an old man in high spirits.
"Hey! Who are you? What does it have to do with poisonous snakes? ”
The old man held up a strange-looking gun, and Andy noticed that there was still an electric light floating on it.
Sharp Angle raised his hands and waved at the old man.
"It's me! Acute angle! Here are two of my friends! ”
The old man looked at the sharp angle, was very happy, and immediately opened the door.
Andy waited for the door to open before entering, and was surprised to find that the inconspicuous-looking wooden hanging door was actually electrically powered.
"Where did you get the call?"
Sharp Angle looked at Andy proudly and said, "Our ancestors taught us how to make a wind turbine, and it's right on the top of a mountain, where there are strong winds all year round. ”
Andy looked at the top of the hill in amazement, where there was a huge windmill spinning in the wind.
"Awesome...."
Sharp Angle led Andy to a long staircase.
"We haven't gotten to the outside of the village yet, so we'll have to climb a ladder to the top of this cliff and then take a drawbridge."
He looked at Andy's dog.
"Your dog isn't small, so it's better to..."
Andy grabbed the reluctant demon and forcibly clipped it to his side with one arm.
"No need, I can make it fly, obedient, if you don't move around in mid-air, you'll fall free."
The demon struggled at first, but as it rose in height, it seemed to stiffen and remain motionless due to its fear of heights.
With a lot of effort, Andy finally climbed to the top of the canyon a few meters high, and the old man who opened the door for Andy and the others just now hugged with an acute angle, and the two of them chatted in encrypted words for a long time.
Andy looked at the cliff below, no wonder those poisonous snakes chose to besiege the encrypted village because the terrain here is too easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as the gate is lowered and the ladder is removed, it is only the share of the encrypted snake, and there is no poisonous snake to fight the encryption.....
Sharp Angle finally finished his work, and continued to move forward with Andy and Kurissu, and in a short time came to a wooden suspension bridge, which was about six meters long, made entirely of rope and wood, and less than a meter wide.... There was a terrible canyon outside on the left and right, and Andy didn't want to tell how deep it was, and it would be fine to fall to death anyway.
A few people swayed left and right on the suspension bridge of questionable quality, Andy thought to himself, even if the poisonous snake climbed the canyon, as long as the wooden bridge was cut off, they would not be allowed to enter...
But the demon rallied again, and was almost dragged forward by Andy, his body stiff as a big rock just now, and now his limbs as soft as boneless.
It didn't take long to cross the suspension bridge, and the crypto village appeared in front of Andy's eyes.
"Good fellows."
Andy looked around, now he was on a very high canyon top platform, roughly located in the top part of the mountain, and the part on the right side of the mountain was carved out of stone houses, some encrypted villagers were doing their own things there, and there were also people who looked at Andy with curiosity.
These people live on cliffs.
"You're welcome to my house Andy, if you don't mind, can you come with me and talk to our Azqi?"
Sharp Horn utters a strange word that catches Andy's attention.
"What is Azqi, forgive me for presumptuousness, is that a person's name or what?"
Acute Angle sighed and realized that he had forgotten to explain.
"That's right, Azqi means the Counter in our cryptographic terms, and his position in our village is the equivalent of the chieftain of other villages, and he is responsible for managing all the affairs of the village, including who should stay in the village and who should go outside."
Andy finds it funny that everything in this village seems to have a subtle connection to numbers, they will tattoo a number on their body, and they will even call their chief the counter..... It's simply too special in the wasteland.
"Alright, let's go together."
Sharp Angle then takes the protagonist all the way to one of those stone houses or neat stone caves, and it is almost impossible to see any difference between this room and the others from the outside, except that some complex numbers marked at the door are different, and if Andy is asked to distinguish them, it will not be distinguishable at all.
The group walked in, and the sharp angle saluted respectfully to a person sitting on the stone bed in the room.
"Dear Azqi, I'm ...... this time"
The latter words sounded to Andy's ears, it was like a book from heaven, a large number of complicated mathematical expressions came out of his mouth, but the bald head of the crypto village who was sitting opposite him listened to it with a serious face, and couldn't stop nodding, Andy felt that he was not a creature with the other party.....
Eventually, the leader stood up and hugged the sharp horns, comforting him, and seemingly telling him to back down for a while.
He turned to look at Andy calmly with a hint of interest.
Andy noticed that the native's chest was tattooed with a 1, and it was unclear what the difference in their numbers meant, but even more uniquely, Andy also saw a small mechatronic device hanging from the native's neck with a rope. This little thing is thin and light, the size of a human hand, with a small rectangular display on it, and the rest of the place is densely packed with rows of buttons, and the buttons are marked with numbers and symbols....
Something came flooding back in his memory, and Andy blurted out a word as he looked at the gadget.
"Calculator?"
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