Chapter 246 04.0245: "Theosophamy"

Yin Shuyao, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the special car, saw such a magnificent building for the first time.

"Apart from going to school and accompanying Miss Peru shopping, I guess you haven't been here before."

The girl in the skirt squeezed her legs together, clenched her fists and pressed them on her thighs. Her clear eyes nervously looked at the scenery of Shangchao and the tall and extraordinary Admiralty Fortress that was getting closer and closer.

Horatio had warned her in advance that if she went in, she would not be able to come out for a while.

But knowing that she could serve the God-Emperor and His Holy Navy, she tactfully made up an excuse to her father, saying that Pringle Girls' College was going to hold a school trip.

In order to allow her to follow him with peace of mind, Horatio allowed her to take all the unfinished accounts with her so that she could continue her part-time job in the naval fortress, saving the trustworthy girl from the embarrassment of not being able to complete the work on time.

The hovercraft landed on the landing pad. The girl's civilian attire of a plain-colored printed dress looked very simple and conspicuous in front of the soldiers in neat uniforms with medals, ribbons, and epaulettes with gold tassels.

She followed Horatio stiffly, watching him salute each officer as he passed, one after another.

After stepping into the magnificent Admiralty Building, she was completely stunned by the various decorations collected from the starry sea, which were arranged in grids every five meters.

But Horatio's steps were big and fast, and she fell behind by a long distance just because she wanted to watch for a few more seconds.

The girl had no choice but to hold her skirt and jog in small steps to keep up, so as not to get lost in this guarded place that was not open to someone of her status.

"Good morning, everyone. I brought a new person here. Let me introduce her. This is Miss Yin, Miss Peru's female companion and one of the secret agents serving us in the Middle and Lower Nests."

Hearing Horatio say this, Louise's usual serious expression towards outsiders softened a little, and she said with a smile: "Welcome, Miss Yin. If you need anything, you can tell me directly."

"Thank...thank you!" The girl bowed to Louise stiffly.

"Hey, Xiaoyao, I was thinking about you today. I haven't hung out with you for such a long time. It's so boring. I really want to eat the chestnut cream cake at the KK-1 shopping mall in Vegas."

Thei came out with a smile on her face, complaining in a naive tone about her miserable life, and chattering about the mall counters and various gourmet women's clothing they had visited before. The familiar people and topics gradually relaxed the girls from their reserved state.

Soon, another girl with luxurious clothes, a gold-rimmed monocle on her right eye, a gold rose hair mask on her bun, and an expressionless face also walked out of the house.

"Hello, Miss Yin. Please give me the password you made." Lina said coldly, without too much greeting, and went straight to the point.

"Ah...ah, okay!" The girl's worry, which she had finally put at ease, suddenly became heavy again when she heard it. She frantically rummaged through her backpack and handed her the code book and Luban lock, which had grown from just a few pages at the beginning to a thick small volume.

"Miss, who is this...?" Yin Shuyao asked Thei cautiously.

"She is the female companion of Miss Hood, and also a colleague in our cipher group." Tei introduced briefly with a smile, without saying much else.

"I'm the chief of the Gothic Fleet Security Committee and the daughter of Colonel Lord Elphinstone. I'm mainly responsible for intelligence encryption and collection and organization here." Lina glanced at Thei expressionlessly and completed her introduction.

The brigadier-general's daughter seemed to have some sort of perverse taste in teasing Miss Hood, and she extended this taste to her female companions.

"Okay, everyone, enough small talk. Your task now is to perfect this code, to make it at least sufficient for our department to use on a trial basis."

"No problem, leave it to me."

"It's 'we,'" Thei corrected with a smile.

Lina's lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she sighed helplessly and gave up.

"Please introduce it to me first. What is this?" Lina asked the reserved girl, playing with the wooden cube in her hand.

"This is a little toy that was passed down from my family. Look, turn it this way, then twist it this way, and it will correspond to the vertical and horizontal lines on the Sudoku table. And according to the agreed comparison table, you can accurately check the numbers it represents and use them to form a password."

"That's quite interesting. What are the characters on it?"

"According to the different sentence arrangements, these characters represent numbers read in different directions on the Sudoku table, and can be interpreted from eight directions.

Without the help of this lock, each number in each row of four numbers has eight possibilities, so there are at least 32 ways to interpret a four-number array.

But if this lock is added, if someone wants to continue to decipher it, the secret book on the Sudoku table can eventually increase the possible interpretations of each number to eight to the fifth power, that is, 32768, which will make it much more difficult for the thief to decipher it. "

"What do you think, Miss Peru?" Everyone looked at Thei. She frowned and said nothing, her eyes fixed on the exquisite red lacquered wooden Lu Ban lock, especially the mysterious characters on it that were painted with cinnabar and outlined with gold sand.

"What did your ancestors do?" Thei looked at the girl thoughtfully.

"Ah... um, I don't know much about that. I only know that my parents came to where my home is now when I was very young and opened a restaurant. My father never told me what happened to my mother, but I heard from others that my mother went crazy and jumped off the building and died."

"Got crazy and jumped off the building and died?" These words surprised everyone in the office.

Horatio immediately wondered if this had anything to do with the powers of cunning and mystery.

After all, He loves to do things that make people go crazy after thinking about them.

But, is it really possible for a chef’s wife to be so treacherous and do something?

Horatio rubbed his temple. Maybe it was due to his recent investigations that he became overly sensitive and everything seemed like a conspiracy to him.

Thei frowned and repeatedly looked at the wooden cube in Lina's hand. After hesitating for a long time, he slowly said: "This Luban lock contains the power of psychic energy."

"you sure?!"

"I have seen some records about this in the Black Library on the mentor's black ship. Mr. Cochrane, please contact mentor Ravenno. If you want to know the secret, we need to borrow his Black Library."
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On the Inquisition's black ship in Ravenno.

"Uh... okay, you, absolutely, are not allowed to, walk around. Just stay here. The things here are very dangerous to people who are not familiar with them, okay?" The Inquisitor warned, holding his forehead with a headache, with Horatio and his group standing in front of him.

"Of course, Your Excellency the Inquisitor." Horatio shrugged. He guessed that Ravenno must be panicking at the moment. After all, the books here were all collected and preserved by Gideon Ravenno, a man who was labeled a heretic twice. If he wandered around and flipped through them, he might find something that he had never seen, but was enough to make him lose his head.

The female interrogator held the star dart gun and looked helplessly at the smiling Miss Peru. She sighed and said, "Miss Throne Deputy, although you have good intentions this time, if you become an inquisitor and you bring people on the black ship casually like this, I'm afraid it will be easy for something to go wrong in the future."

"Oh, don't worry, Wintress. So where is the book?" Thei walked into the dark library in the dark, wandering around like a light ghost.

Ravenno held the Luban lock in his hand and looked at it with a strange expression.

"Miss Perroux said there was psychic power in this object. Is that true?" Horatio asked.

"It's true, I can feel it. But!"

Ravenno emphasized at the end: "This thing has a very strange design. It is not a pure psychic creation. It is very different from those things of the Eldar."

"Is it harmful? This girl said that her mother went crazy and fell to her death. Could it be related to it?" Horatio's scalp tingled when he heard these weird things.

Mock the imperial bureaucracy, understand the imperial bureaucracy, become the imperial bureaucracy, and surpass the imperial bureaucracy.

Now he finally understood why the empire always took a one-size-fits-all approach.

There are so many strange, mysterious, and risky things in this universe that it is wishful thinking to control them. For the current empire, the only feasible way to deal with them is to take a one-size-fits-all approach.

"I think this is the book." Soon Thei pointed out an old leather-bound book from the bookshelf. The book was covered with thick dust and had traces of time on its corners.

"Mr. Horatio, can you lend me a hand?" she asked playfully, pretending to make an effort before asking, obviously not intending to take it herself from the beginning.

The spine of this large book, made of bronze, is nearly 30 centimeters high and contains thousands of pages, making it visibly heavy.

But for Horatio, who had undergone genetic enhancement and maintained high-intensity training, this was nothing.

When this heavy tome was spread out on the ground, it stirred up a circle of dust.

Turning the pages of a book made of unknown material, the girl turned to a certain page based on her memory.

"Well, I think that's it."

"Theosophamy?"

(End of this chapter)