Chapter 3449: Hidden Text

Chapter 3448 Hidden Text

At this point, Laplace turned to look at Angel: "Now you should understand, Guyaxian and others dare to auction "The Art of Black", they must know the hidden text in the blank space, which is most likely the author's experience and annotations."

"This kind of hidden text is definitely valuable, but its value is based on "The Art of Black."

In other words, Guyaxian believes that the value of "The Art of Black" itself is greater than the value of these hidden texts.

This is not difficult to understand, knowledge itself is greater than "reading experience".

Laplace actually agrees with this point.

So, Guyaxian still chose to auction "The Art of Black" before deciphering the hidden text.

Laplace suddenly paused when he said this, and in Angel's puzzled eyes, Laplace's voice came from the other end of the mind tie: "Do you think Guyaxian really doesn't know the solution to the hidden text of "The Art of Black"? "

Angel hesitated: "I don't think... I don't know."

Laplace chuckled and didn't respond.

Angel frowned: "You mean, the ancient tooth fairy has actually solved the hidden text? It is selling it only because it is sure that the hidden text has no value?"

Laplace shook his head: "No, the ancient tooth fairy probably has not solved the hidden text, but I think they have guessed how to solve it. It's just that they can't do it."

Angel understood this time. Laplace meant: the ancient tooth fairy knows how to solve it, but may lack the necessary conditions and can't do it.

Laplace: "The reason why I say this is because "The Art of Black"... It's more like a notebook than a book."

Laplace pointed to the cover of the book in the psychic display cabinet: "You can take a closer look at the two rows of words on the cover."

Angel also turned his head to look at the book cover.

The first row is "black", and the second row is "art". No matter which row, the font is a very charming cursive font, especially from the rotation of the strokes at the corner of the word, the jumping rune vertical stroke, you can see the "uniqueness" and "beauty" of the font on the cover.

It is difficult to produce such a charming font by rigid printing alone.

In other words, these two lines of words are... handwritten by the author.

Handwriting, blank space, hidden text, binding and bookmaking, isn't this the norm for wizards' notebooks?

No wonder Laplace said that this does not look like a formally published book, but a privately bound notebook.

However, whether it is a formal book or a personal notebook, is there any connection with the solution of hidden text? Angel still couldn't figure it out.

Laplace didn't continue to beat around the bush and explained directly: "The audience is different."

"The audience of formally published books and the notebooks written by Odorus personally are different."

The former is aimed at the general public. The latter is aimed at a very small range of individuals.

Laplace suddenly asked, "Who do you think a wizard's own notebook will eventually end up in the hands of, if nothing unexpected happens?"

Angel thought for a moment: "It will most likely fall into the hands of relatives, or peers and students."

Laplace nodded: "That's right. Similarly, "The Art of Black" is Odorus' personal notebook. According to the normal process, the audience of his notebook must be his close people."

"And his close people are most likely his students, or peers of the Death Cult."

"Since the audience of "The Art of Black" has been determined, what type of hidden text do you think it will be?"

Laplace has basically fed the answer to her mouth, how could Angel not understand what she meant...

Angel: "Inherited hidden text, or common hidden text within the Death Cult."

Inherited hidden text can be understood as a code between teachers and students. Only the inheritors of this lineage can activate and understand the relevant hidden text.

Common hidden text refers to the common ciphertext owned by an organization or a group.

After the people in this group come into contact with the familiar common hidden text, they will use the method that everyone in the group understands to decipher the related hidden text.

Regardless of which type of hidden text in "The Art of Black" is, it is certain that it is definitely not something that Gu Yaxian can decipher.

The inherited hidden text must be deciphered by people of the same lineage. Gu Yaxian obviously did not get the inheritance of Odorus, so he definitely could not decipher the hidden text.

If it is a common hidden text, it must be someone inside the Death Faction to decipher it. And the Death Faction has been withered for many years... In other words, this is also impossible to accomplish.

So, Laplace said.

Gu Yaxian guessed the method to decipher the hidden text in "The Art of Black", but they could not decipher it. Because they did not meet the conditions for deciphering the hidden text.

After listening to Laplace's explanation, Angel fell into a period of contemplation after enlightenment.

"What are you thinking about?" Laplace asked curiously when he saw Angel was silent for a long time.

Angel pondered for a moment and shook his head: "Nothing, I'm just thinking about what the common secret code of the Death Sect is?"

Laplace: "From what you said, you intend to decipher the secret code of "The Art of Black"?"

Angel shook his head: "It's not that far yet, I'm just thinking about it... At least, there is no relevant information in the Death Sect intelligence I know."

Angel obtained many death sect classics from the city of Naraku in the Nightmare Realm, but none of these classics recorded any content related to the death sect’s common secrets.

But Angel is very sure that the Death Sect must have a hidden message in common.

Just like the Savage Cave has its own unique code text, this is a secret method that every organization has.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to solve the universal hidden text.

The first is to use a unique codebook to parse.

Only people within the organization have this kind of codebook, and a new codebook is usually replaced every few days to prevent the codebook from leaking out and being decrypted by people from other organizations.

The second is to use extraordinary materials or extraordinary abilities unique to the organization to analyze.

For example, the Magic Flute Monastery, a large wizard organization in the Southern Region. The hidden text of this organization must be analyzed using an extraordinary material called "Magic Flute Holy Water".

The "Magic Flute Holy Water" is an exclusive material of the Magic Flute Monastery and cannot be found in the outside world.

Also because of the exclusivity of "Magic Flute Holy Water", it became the secret solution of Magic Flute Monastery.

Also, the solution to the common hidden text of Sky Mechanical City's R&D Institute is...the Opening Technique.

All members of the R&D Institute will learn a trick unique to the R&D Institute, called the Opening Technique.

This door-opening technique is generally used in "Fantasy Mechanical City". Whether entering or leaving the "Fantasy Mechanical City", you need to use this trick.

However, if the internal notes of the members of the R&D Institute are written in cryptic text, the Open Door Technique can also be used as a method to decipher the cryptic text.

The above two examples, one uses extraordinary materials and the other uses extraordinary magic, are used as solutions to the common hidden text.

It's actually more than that.

Some common cryptic texts can only be analyzed using a unique extraordinary aura.

For example, in Fantasy Island, although Sanders did not directly characterize it as a "common hidden text", in the notes he left to Angel, in order to prevent the contents from leaking, there are many hidden contents that must be viewed using the Nightmare Breath. .

From a certain perspective, Sanders' approach can be regarded as a hidden message of commonality.

After determining the solution to the common hidden text, let's look at the hidden text in "The Art of Blackness".

The text hidden here should not be parsed using a codebook, because the codebook is a method used by low-level organizations, and its disadvantages are obvious.

Excluding the codebook, it is possible that the only way to unlock the hidden text is to use the unique extraordinary effects within the Death Sect.

Will the Death Faction choose exclusive extraordinary materials or unique extraordinary abilities as the solution to the hidden text?

Angel didn't know.

But both are possible.

If the answer is the Death Sect's exclusive extraordinary material, then Angel guesses that it will most likely be... the Four Primarchs.

Only the Death Faction can create the Four Primarchs.

It is very possible to use the tetraprimum as the opening password of the common hidden text.

So if the death faction chooses to use extraordinary abilities as the solution to the common hidden text, what kind of exclusive abilities will they use?

Angel could only think of one answer - blackening!

The blackening technique is also an exclusive technique of the death sect. It can return matter to the four original bodies. People who are not from the death sect cannot practice the blackening technique.

If the hidden text in "The Art of Blackness" is really activated by the Four Primarchs or the Blackening Technique.

Angel felt that he could actually give it a try...

Because he has the method of practicing the blackening technique.

Of course, the premise of everything is that the cryptic text of "The Art of Blackness" is really a common cryptic text, not a heritage type cryptic text.

…

Laplace saw the movement in Angel's eyes.

Although she didn't ask Angel what he was thinking, she could guess some... Perhaps Angel had thought of some solutions to the Death Sect's common cryptograms?

Laplace thought for a while and said softly: "If you really have this ability, I estimate that even if you don't have the right to obtain level 4 treasures, the people of the Jingmu clan will open the right to read and use "The Art of Black" for you. ”

As long as Angel can decipher the hidden text, she believes that Jotta will not be stingy about temporarily lending "The Art of Blackness" to Angel.

Angel was silent for a moment and shook his head: "Currently, I don't have the ability."

What he said was not a lie.

Even if the solution to the hidden text of "The Art of Blackness" is blackening, or the four principles.

Then Angel must also learn the blackening technique first...

But now, he only knows how to practice the blackening technique, but he has not succeeded in practicing it.

Therefore, "currently" he does not have the ability to decipher the hidden text in "The Art of Blackness".

But Angel has no intention of giving up "The Art of Blackness". Now that he knows there are alchemy works of the Death Sect here, he will find a way to exchange them from the Jingmu Clan.

Even if it wasn't for the hidden text, but simply for the "historical facts" of the Death Sect, he would exchange "The Art of Blackness".

And Angel is very confident that he can achieve this goal.

After all, as the founder of Dream Crystal, he has a lot of bargaining chips...

Especially in today's situation where the puppet of disaster can come at any time, the significance of the Crystal Plain of Dreams is even more extraordinary, and Angel has more space to control.

Even if he did not rely on the "foreign invasion" as a bargaining chip, but simply relied on the soul sleeping in the crystal of the holy corpse as a bargaining chip, Angel was confident that he could exchange for "The Art of Blackness".

So, no rush.

…

Angel briefly stated his thoughts. After hearing this, Laplace nodded: "Indeed, there is no need to rush."

"And you don't have to do it yourself, just leave it to Gleipnir."

"Let her negotiate. She... will make good use of the current bargaining chip." Laplace: "Just think of it as a return gift from the Book of Starry Sky."

Angel did not reject Laplace's kindness.

Compared to his rootless self, Gleipnir is obviously more suitable for handling these "diplomatic" affairs.

Moreover, Angel believed that with Gleipnir's methods and their existing bargaining chips, they didn't even need to pay anything. As long as they struggled with the Jingmu clan for a period of time, they would get what they wanted.

So, there’s really no need to rush, just wait.

Their private communication here has come to an end for the time being.

Angel looked at Jotta: "I have a general understanding of "The Art of Blackness", now I can take out the "Book of Starry Sky"."

This time, Angel directly said "take" instead of "show".

Jotta also understood what Angel meant: "Are you two confirmed that this time the right to obtain the level 4 treasure will be designated as the "Starry Sky Book"?"

Angel nodded without hesitation: "Confirm."

Jota stopped inking and sent "The Art of Blackness" back to the hands of the attendant. Immediately afterwards, the velvet in the psychic display cabinet flashed with electric light again.

The familiar aperture appears again.

This time, it quickly came to a peaceful giant statue.

Under its "urging", the colossus slowly started to move. It stretched out its hands covered with white porcelain and blue transistors, and reached toward the sky.

The movement of the colossus is like a child admiring the stars in the night sky. Looking at the stars in the sky, he can't help but reach out his hand to catch one.

However, a child will definitely not be able to grasp the stars.

But Colossus... seems to have done it.

As soon as it reached out, a floating light spot appeared around the "little sun" in the void, like a bright galaxy.

And the Colossus reached forward, and a shining "star" in the galaxy seemed to be pulled by some kind of gravity, like a meteor streaking across the sky, dragging a long tail, falling from the sky, and landing on the palm of the Colossus among.

The colossus remained motionless, with stars twinkling on its outstretched palms.

At this moment, he is really like a giant who can pick up the stars.

There is no doubt that this luminous "star" is the treasure guarded by the colossus.

The aperture that had been waiting for a long time quickly jumped to the hand of the colossus, forming a six-pointed star formation, replacing the luminous star.

And the real "stars" have already arrived in the psychic display cabinet under the electric light of the six-pointed star.