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Jiao Yu, of course, did not object. General Ling, on the other hand, spat hard onto the ground. “Fair enough! If that kid finds anything, he won’t tell us either.”
He Lingchuan flipped through the booklets again, all the way to the end, and suddenly paused. “This one isn’t a ledger.”
From the outside, it looked no different from the others, but inside, there were only a few thin pages. And instead of recording the receipt of jiang beads, it was filled with strange sets of numbers, for example:
76-4-11;
2-8-1.
And so on.
Each entry was three numbers linked by two dashes, and each page only contained a handful of such entries.
“It’s code.”
Both monsters immediately turned their expectant eyes on him. “You can solve it, right?”
“You think far too highly of me.” He Lingchuan did not look up, eyes fixed on the page. “This kind of code has to be used with a key text or cipher. Only then can it be translated into actual words.”
“A key text?”
“Basically, a book or text that pairs with it,” He Lingchuan explained. He had heard a public lecture back at the Hall of Inquiry where an elderly instructor had gone on at length about cryptography and encryption and how they were compiled. “Or you could say the code was designed specifically to match that book.”
“Damn it all!” General Ling’s face twisted instantly. “Anything made of paper got...
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