Start with the Readers Chapter 214: Decipher

Abner picked up the notebook, and relying on the powerful analysis ability of the "Pure White Eye", he only flipped through a few pages, and he knew it in his mind.

"This notebook is written in ciphertext." He said affirmatively.

"Ciphertext?" Miss Fanny repeated in bewilderment.

"The letters that make up the words in this notebook are very simple, not like mature characters that have undergone evolution, but more like some kind of well-designed symbols... I just counted the types of these symbols and the ancient ones. The number of words in Fusac is roughly the same." Abner pointed to the words on one of the pages and explained with a smile.

Miss Fanny moved to Abner's side after hearing the words, looked at the direction of the other's finger, and then said thoughtfully: "That is to say... each symbol represents one or several Alphabets of ancient Feysac?"

"That's right!" Abner nodded, but glanced at Emma on the other side, only to find that the lady was not surprised, and obviously knew that the words on the note belonged to ciphertext.

That's right, how could the "cryptographer" fail to see such a simple trick? She didn't say it before, but also to help Miss Fanny check?

While thinking this way in his heart, Abner quickly deciphered the letters represented by some symbols by using the "exhaustive method".

Then he frowned.

Because the words formed by deciphered letters are surprisingly groups of numbers!

Is this layer 2 encryption? What kind of extraordinary content is recorded in the notebook...need to keep it secret to such an extent?

However, since it is a group of numbers, I am afraid that the corresponding "code book" is needed to complete the translation... I don't know which book the baron used as the "code book".

Thinking of this, Abner sighed, and then showed his achievements to the two ladies beside him.

Seeing this, Fanny said in an exaggerated tone: "Detective Bryan, you are amazing! You actually solved it in only this little time." Her face was full of admiration.

Miss Emma was a little complicated in her heart. She asked herself that she couldn't decipher the meaning of the ciphertext in such a short period of time, so in addition to being frustrated, she sincerely sighed: "As expected of the famous Backlund The 'hero detective'!"

After sighing, she also thought of the question that Abner had thought about before, and said after deliberation: "Abner, these combinations of numbers probably represent the words in the corresponding positions in a certain book?"

"That's right, maybe it's a certain book in the study above." Abner nodded slightly, agreeing with Emma's words.

"Abner..." Miss Fanny murmured softly, then took out her pocket watch to look, and found that it was already four o'clock, so she reminded: "It's almost dawn, we have to go back to the town hotel as soon as possible, There is no time to identify which book those numbers correspond to.”

"Then pretend to leave together, and search slowly when we get back." Emma said with a smile.

"How do you pretend?" Abner asked in surprise.

Although he didn't count carefully, there are at least twenty or thirty books in the bookcase in the study, which is not so easy to pretend to go. Even if he wears the "hand of wisdom", he can have the same strength as the curly-haired baboon.

"Leave it to me." Fanny said very confidently with her chest up right now.

Seeing that she seemed to be quite sure, Abner didn't say any more. After carefully searching the basement with the two ladies, he went back to the study on the upper floor along the stairs.

Then, he knew the reason for Miss Fanny's confidence:

Books were put into the backpack by Fanny, as if they were put into a bottomless pit, and there was no sign of being filled at all.

Is this backpack a magical item? The ability of the mystic to create space pockets?

Hmm... Probably not, if you use a demigod-level item at a low-sequence level, I'm afraid the negative effect will be astonishingly large... and an item of this level in the hands of a Sequence 9 will only bring her troubles.

But even so, it must be a priceless treasure... Are they so relieved of me? Aren't you afraid that I will have evil intentions?

That's all for Miss Fanny... But looking at Miss Emma's appearance, she seems to have gotten used to it? Don't they realize the true value of this item?

Just when Abner was full of doubts, Fanny had already packed all the books into her backpack, turned her head and said with a smile, "Okay, let's go back to the hotel first."

Abner nodded, but still half sighed and half reminded: "This is the first time I have seen a magical item with 'space'."

But Fanny obviously understood the meaning of Abner's words, her brows and eyes softened a lot, and she said with a smile: "Thank you for your reminder, Detective Bryan. But I believe in your character."

So easy to believe me? Girl, is it too easy to gain your trust?

Abner slandered, seeing that she seemed to know how to behave, he stopped persuading her.

…

The three returned to the "Old John" Hotel all the way, and Fanny and Emma returned to their guest rooms.

After sealing the room spiritually, Fanny took off her shirt and trousers, walked into the bathroom, soaked in the bathtub, and washed off the dust all over her body. Then she said to her friend with some fear:

"This expedition is really dangerous. If I hadn't met Detective Blaine, I would have died..."

Emma also nodded solemnly, and said: "The 'bribery' effect in the ruins is really terrible. Both of us picked up that notebook, and our minds should have been lowered at that time...and you were lowered. It was especially severe... At that time, I even forgot the hole cards in my hand, and I was really closing my eyes and waiting to die."

At this time, Fanny had already recovered from the comfort of the bath. While rubbing the dirt on her body with a towel, she smiled and said, "However, we are lucky to be able to get to know Detective Blaine."

"What? Did you really fall in love with him at first sight?" Emma lay on the side of the bathtub, narrowing her eyes and teasingly.

"It's not easy to fall in love at first sight, but I have a good impression. It is true that I am willing to develop a friendship with him... Don't you think he is very powerful in terms of frontal combat ability, knowledge, and reasoning ability? We need this on our extraordinary road A powerful companion!" Fanny said solemnly, opening Emma's mischievous hand.

"That's why...you use the 'backpack' to test his character?" Emma asked with a smile.

"Isn't that the plan you made a long time ago?" Fanny glanced at her friend and imitated her voice, "When you meet a suitable companion, use this as a test. If the person being tested has evil intentions If you don't want to, then you will inevitably suffer the consequences and be swallowed by the 'backpack'."

"It is indeed what I said... It's just that your performance is too deliberate, I think Abner has seen through it..." Emma sighed.

"I wanted to ask before, why did you call him Abner? What did you talk about in the basement?" Fanny asked suspiciously.

"'Abner' is what the 'Heroic Detective' authorized me to call it." Emma deliberately "showed off" triumphantly.

What responded to her was a handful of water thrown by Fanny...

…

Ebner, who returned to the guest room, didn't know that he had become the talk of the two girls when they were laughing.

Because the sky was about to dawn, he did not rest, but opened an obviously old book, and began to compare the number combinations remembered in his mind, trying to decipher the meaning of the second layer of ciphertext.

As for the books, they were specially ordered by him before he separated from the two ladies.

However, until he finished comparing the five books at hand, Abner could not find the correct "code book".

"When I was picking out the books from Fanny's backpack just now, I deliberately chose the five most likely books...but none of them are...

"Then, will the 'code book' really be hidden in the rest of the books held by those two ladies?"

Having doubts, Abner subconsciously wandered around the room. Suddenly, his eyes swept over the Hermes text relief decoration on the hotel wall, and his heart couldn't help but a new inspiration suddenly appeared:

"The baron was obviously building a house according to a ritual layout before sealing himself...or a mausoleum!

"What he recorded in his notes through two layers of encryption is likely to be related to this matter...

"And that kind of ritual is recorded in the Necronomicon!

"Could it be... Could the real 'code book' be the Necronomicon?"

Thinking of this~IndoMTL.com~ He randomly flipped through a page of his notes and compared the set of numbers on the first line with the "Necronomicon" in his memory.

Soon, he deciphered the content recorded on this page of notes:

"On September 12th, I stumbled across an abandoned castle in the middle of Dreyer Forest. Because the situation was unknown, I didn't approach it. I planned to enter and explore after getting ready.

"On September 14th, after my observation, there seemed to be a vampire guarding the abandoned castle in secret, but that was only a Sequence 7, and it was very easy to get into the castle without him.

"I decided to wait for Austin to arrive, and go in with her to investigate."

Looking at the text he deciphered, Abner recalled the appearance of the baron's corpse covered in black spots in the "backtracking" scene, and felt his scalp tingling.

Because he has read the original book, he knows how terrifying the old castle in the middle of the Dreyer Forest is!