Originally, there were only 9,000 copies of the "Seaside Magazine" supplement on Monday, and the discussion was not too wide.

But as soon as the Manchester Guardian stirred up, the whole world knew.

People are all curious about what the book review edition is all about.

"What's this book review?"

"You don't know? Dr. Doyle's new short story, "The Dancing Man," challenges people all over London with this code. ”

"Ah, could it be that someone cracked it?"

"It looks like that's true, but I just don't know who it is."

"There's no signature in the newspaper."

……

All kinds of talk is in the dust.

That's it, another day passed, and the time came to Wednesday, and the secret chapter of "The Dancing Villain" was finally released.

……

Early morning.

University College London,

Library.

The students were all uninterested in studying, and gathered in twos and threes to chat quietly.

Although the dancing villain in the Manchester Guardian was not signed, they had a vague sense that the peculiar book review was from Professor Luk.

An atmosphere of impetuousness and anxiety brewed in the air.

Nikolić and Solomon are also there,

The two of them participated in Professor Lu's poll project, so others envy and respect them.

Sticking to Professor Lu, I am afraid that he will soar in the future.

Nikolic whispered, "I can't stand the stares of my classmates. ”

Solomon said, "I enjoyed it." You're not jealous of your French roommate before......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted:

"I didn't! I'm not! Don't talk nonsense! ”

Nikolić refused a triple set.

Solomon gave him a blank look,

"I don't know who used to mutter, 'How are the Spaniards worse than the French?'. It's true that you're no worse than him now, and in the last few days, haven't you received a lot of love poems? The students at those girls' schools were all ...... Not! @#*￥%……”

Solomon was covered in the mouth.

Nikolic again denied: "No! ”

Seeing his nervous appearance, Solomon's eyes couldn't help but widen,

!

Are serious friends really in love?

The world is crazy!

Solomon grabbed the other's wrist that was covering his mouth and tried to break it open.

At this moment, a sudden shout came from the door:

"Got it!"

And the people went according to their prestige,

I saw a student panting and rushing through the door, shouting, "I bought it, I ......"

Before the words fell, he was interrupted by the librarian: "Quiet! ”

Slightly embarrassed, the student lowered his voice and said, "I bought the Seaside Magazine." ”

The entire library was silent.

“……”

“……”

“……”

Suddenly, the librarian cleared his throat and said, "I'll take a look too." ”

As soon as these words came out, I heard all kinds of "bang-bang-bang" sounds, and the students all moved chairs and sat around, with three floors inside and three floors outside, and the library was turned into a lecture hall.

The student was a little embarrassed,

"I ...... That ......"

Seems a little shy.

Solomon said, "What are you rubbing? Forget it, I'll do it. ”

He walked to the middle of the crowd, took the "Seaside Magazine", flipped to the "Dancing Little Man" revealing chapter, cleared his throat, and began to read the original text:

“

'Of the English alphabet, E is the most common, appearing so often that it must be the most common even in a short sentence. Of the fifteen symbols on the first slip of paper, four of them are exactly the same, so it makes sense to estimate it as an E. ’

”

Everyone present nodded,

Indeed, Holmes's reasoning is quite sound.

Someone took out a piece of paper, drew all the dancing figures on it, and then wrote "E" on the small side of one of them.

Nikolic urged: "Go on. ”

Solomon went on to read:

“

With the exception of E, the letters are listed in the order of occurrence: T, A, O, I, N, S...... However, T, A, O, I occur almost as many times. If you try every combination until you come up with a meaning, it's endless work. ’

”

……

As Solomon recites the original text of "The Dancing Little Man", more and more letters are cracked.

Suddenly, someone whispered, "I, space, C, A, R, ......"

Solomon was interrupted, but he was not annoyed: "What's the matter?" ”

The student frowned slightly and said, "I'm reading yesterday's Manchester Guardian book review edition, don't worry." ”

Then everyone suddenly realized,

Right!

There is also a book review edition!

Everyone began to rummage through the frenzy.

Solomon deciphered it against "The Dancing Man" in Seaside Magazine.

However, someone is faster than him,

Nikolic suddenly said loudly: "Deciphered! I deciphered it! Yesterday's book review page said, 'I cracked the code. Your faithful friend, Lu. ’”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other,

"Is it really Professor Lu!?"

"It was ...... yesterday Hiss...... Terrifying! ”

In it, Holmes lures the murderer with a line of dancing villains to reveal his true identity and throw himself into the net; In reality, Professor Lu tells Dr. Doyle in a line of dancing villains that the code trick he constructed is nothing more than pediatrics. ”

……

Students whispered.

Suddenly, Solomon slapped his forehead as if he remembered something: "You say, will Professor Lu continue to post book reviews today?" ”

This reminds others,

Nikolic asked: "What about the Manchester Guardian today?" ”

……

"What about the Manchester Guardian today?"

Cavendish put down the Waterfront Magazine in his hand and asked James beside him.

The two of them were now in the courtyard of King's College, Cambridge, looking for a bench to sit and read at the same time.

The cold morning breeze blows,

Silence crossed between the two.

Seeing that James did not answer, Cavendish asked again: "What about the Manchester Guardian today?" ”

Only then did James come back to his senses, looked at Cavendish and said, "Mr. Inspector, this Lu Shi is really an all-rounder, not only in literary creation, but also in ......."

This is where the conversation comes to an abrupt end.

Cavendish urged: "What else is there?" ”

James shook his head,

"That's it. See for yourself. ”

As he spoke, he handed over the Manchester Guardian in his hand.

Cavendish went directly to the book review page and found that it was an article called "The Design and Decipherment of Ciphers".

The author, of course, is Lu.

At the beginning of the article, Lu tells a little story:

The protagonist of the story is Caesar,

Caesar needed to encrypt important military information, so he developed a cipher that made it impossible for outsiders to form a word by changing the alphabetical order.

Since most of Caesar's enemies were illiterate, and even if they were literate, they would treat these messages as if they were some unknown foreign language, there was no technology at the time that could solve this most basic and simple replacement cipher.

This is where Caesar's encryption comes in.

After that, Lu Shi described in detail the process of a password from design to cracking.

In the whole article, there is no mention of "Dancing Villain", but "Dancing Villain" is not far from every sentence.

Cavendish took a deep breath,

"A learned man."

This is his most sincere evaluation of Lu Shi.

On the other side, James smiled bitterly: "At the same time, he is also a more serious person." Mr. Lu responded to Dr. Doyle like this, I don't know how he will respond to me......"

Cavendish waved his hand,

"It's okay, hasn't he posted an article yet?"

James looked at the school supervisor speechlessly, and said helplessly: "Have you forgotten that the Manchester Guardian does not have a serialized page. Mr. Luk's works are either published by the Royal Publishing House or published in The Scottish. ”

(End of chapter)