Tomb robber: No more pretending, I’m from the Zhang family!

Chapter 126 The Origin of the Corpse Pill
"It is precisely because he is an American that he deciphered it. I later learned that the arrangement of the encrypted text in this silk book was deciphered by a mathematical principle. People like us never dreamed that these encrypted characters would be arranged in such a form, and even if we knew it, we would not be able to decipher this thing from a mathematical point of view.”

"It's really a coincidence, or it's God's will, third uncle, what is the secret recorded in the silk book?" Tian Zhen asked curiously.

Xie Lianhuan said: "You have a point in asking this question. If I don't say it, you will never know what it is."

This is really a coincidence. According to the information obtained later by Xie Lianhuan, Jude Kao accidentally discovered the decoding method of the ancient texts of the Warring States Silk Book with the help of an ancient Chinese "embroidered book".

This decoding method is very strange, but not complicated. It is similar to the method of using words to record the embroidery program in "Embroidery Book", but it uses some obscure words and patterns to encrypt.

Mathematically, this arrangement is like a dot matrix. It is not complicated. If you can find this decoding method, you can easily crack it, but if you don’t think about it, you will never be able to solve it for a lifetime. No matter how proficient you are at passwords.

After discovering the decoding method, Jude Kao was overjoyed, and immediately summoned a large group of professionals to conduct a large-scale translation of the Warring States Silk Book. It took only a short month to translate all the ciphertext.

To everyone's surprise, the secret recorded in the silk script was not a divination calendar during the Warring States period, or ancient scriptures such as sacrificial rituals, but an irregular and very strange pattern.

It's hard to describe how weird this pattern looks.

Xie Lianhuan's eloquence was not very good either, and he couldn't describe it accurately in his language, and he couldn't understand it even if he said it that way, so he simply found a pen and paper, and drew the picture for Tian Zhen to see.

After reading the sketch innocently, I couldn't figure it out for a while. Using his words to describe it, I can only say that the pattern is very simple. There are only six curved lines and an irregular circle. The lines extend each other. It's a bit like the veins of a river on a map, and it's a bit like the spreading roots of vines, which makes people confused.

And there is no written information. If you don't know that it comes from a fragment of an ancient book, everyone may think that it is a line drawn by a child on paper.

Even Jude Kao himself was extremely surprised. What he translated with all his efforts turned out to be such an inexplicable pattern, which made him think that his translation method was wrong.

But after countless repeated verifications, he found that there could be no mistakes. If the translation method was wrong, it would be impossible to successfully convert the text into this graphic seamlessly.

This can only show that the secret recorded in ciphertext is these seven lines, which is definitely true.

What makes people wonder is, what do these seven lines represent?Why did the owner of this silk book hide it in encrypted text?
Based on the experience of living in China for so many years, Jude Kao's intuition told him that things that can be written in ciphertext on extremely expensive silk must not be ordinary patterns, and these lines must have some special meaning. Maybe it's not trivial.

So from then on, Jude Kao became very interested in the things translated from the silk books of the Warring States Period. He spent a lot of time looking through countless libraries and materials. At the same time, he took this picture and searched for Many experts and professors in this field.

However, the level of the Damei group is limited, and he has been tossing and tossing for more than half a year without any results. Even if someone made a speculation, it would be nondescript and groundless.

Just when his interest was fading and he was about to give up research, a coincidence happened. A friend showed him the way. He told Jude Kao that such ancient Chinese things should be asked among the old people in Chinatown. , There are many old scholars from China in Chinatown.

After Jude listened to it, he planned to hold on to his last hope, so he took the blueprint and went to Chinatown for advice.

At that time, there was a kind of library in Chinatown, which was a place where old people gathered. It provided free tea, and there were entertainment such as chess and cards. Jude Kao went to this kind of place specially. He made several rubbings of the drawings. Learned old people show it to others.

That is to say, fate is good, and it really made him meet an expert.

This tall man is a skinny old man, a celebrity in the local area, and he is proficient in ancient Chinese history. He was drinking tea in a teahouse that day, and happened to meet Jude Kao to post a picture, so he asked for a picture.

Unexpectedly, after reading it, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Jude Kao where he got this thing, and he seemed to see what it was in a surprised look.

Jude was overjoyed when he saw that there was a door, and then he made up a set of excuses, told the old man the ins and outs of this thing, and then asked the old man if he knew anything.

The old man told Jude Kao that although he didn't know the origin of this graphic, he had seen something similar in one place.

When Jude heard it, his heart was moved, and he asked where he saw it.The old man said that when he was in China, he saw a pill stove in a Taoist temple in Qimeng Mountain, Shandong, and the figure carved on the pill stove was exactly the same as the one on his paper.

After hearing this, Jude asked someone to make a pot of good tea, handed it over respectfully, and asked the old scholar to explain the situation in detail.

The old scholar had nothing to do with himself. Seeing that he was very interested, he also became interested, and told Jude Kao what happened at that time.

That was 30 years ago. At that time, the old man was a professor of Chinese studies in a certain university. At that time, the world was in war, so he took his family and fled to a temple in the mountains to hide for several years.

This temple is very ordinary. Unlike other temples in mountainous areas, this temple is built between two cliffs less than 50 meters apart, and the bottom is vacated, a bit like a temple in the sky.

The whole temple is like a huge staircase, one after another, a total of seven floors, the walls are painted with yellow mud walls, very simple, the top four floors are wooden boards in the middle of two cliffs, with railings nor.

On several shrines, there are clay sculptures of Sanqing, as well as statues of Guanyin and Land God, which are very Chinese in any case.

(End of this chapter)