old dream

Chapter 6 Barriers
In the alliance, everything related to the supernatural and mysterious is strictly isolated.

Today's ordinary people can learn about the existence of wizards from some absurd legends, but they can't tell the truth from the fake.

Because those who have the right to publicly use extraordinary powers are mostly under the extremely strict control of the alliance authorities and sects.

If a person was found guilty of spreading and abusing witchcraft, he was unconditionally executed.Although after experiencing the terrifying hunting era when everyone was in danger 120 years ago, these two crimes have been strictly bound.As a result, unofficial magicians have gone underground, spreading their doctrines in the shadows that are difficult for ordinary people to reach.

Especially in the alliance, almost all the materials that can be promoted to the transcendent realm have been collected and sealed by some organizations, and any form of copying and spreading is prohibited.

The reason why the extremely expensive scarlet instruments are used intensively in major seminaries is to avoid the risk of leakage of related materials.

From these quarantine measures, many of the bizarre rumors that are still brought up in the public are derived:

Some of the most extreme clerics allegedly forged some of the most famous magic books in poisonous ink and put them on the black market.

Those who are obsessed with the extraordinary but ignorant often spend a lot of money to buy this kind of book.After he opens the fake magic book and reads the first page, he will see the message "You are dead" at the end of the page, and he will be poisoned and die immediately.

A large number of similar legends, as well as the terrifying depictions of the virtual world in those country superstitions, have made people wary of magic items of unknown origin.

But none of this can stop Colin's desire for transcendence.

It took him two full years of trying before he could steadily master the method of recording the contents of letters with the abundance of life, and expand his "capacity" little by little.

But those letters were written in Ankh language, not to mention encrypted. For him who was born in Xinxili and was not familiar with Ankh language, it was no different from a bible encrypted with a bible, but it did not prevent him from conquering it little by little.

He recited the common vocabulary of Anhe all night, until he was familiar with his vocabulary as his mother tongue.

Recalls methods of deciphering letter substitution codes, and in countless attempts, rediscovers and even invents details that have been obscure or unread.

When he deciphered the first letter, even if it was just a checklist of the materials involved in the extraordinary experiments, it still made him cry for a long time.

The barrier has been overcome.Although there is no shortage of coincidences and coincidences.

As long as there is a lack in any link, it is impossible to break the alliance and the sect's monopoly on extraordinary knowledge.

The moment of breaking the wall happened four years ago, and it seemed that a brand new road was slowly unfolding towards him.

He believed that he would be able to regain his lost memories.

……

Logically it should be so,

But the reality is very unreasonable.

Four years later, Collin has not yet obtained any operability magic.

Finding relevant information that can get the average person started in high-level exchanges between seminaries is as difficult as recovering elementary school textbooks from a doctoral dissertation.

Fortunately, the headers of those documents are in clear text, so at least one or two relatively complete materials can be purposefully recorded each time.

But even so, with similar word counts, the completeness and systematicness of the information they provide is far less than that of a complete book in a specific field.

According to Craigie, witchcraft is just a small part of that world.

Most of these materials are basic theory.

And because of the ignorance of the disciplinary background and the relevant context, the discussions in those materials were full of ambiguity and confusion for Colin.

The same nouns represent very different concepts in the two documents.

The same concepts are described as unrelated properties in different fields.

The theory of ether force, the law of mirror resonance, the genealogy of pagan gods, the semantic purification of insect people, the analysis of inter-realm fluid exchange, the life cycle of the virtual world...

Even with the knowledge background of previous lives, facing the unknown and unfamiliar concepts in these chaotic materials, Colin could only feel a splitting headache.

Moreover, they are describing a world that is beyond human perception, counterintuitive and immeasurable with matter.

Unraveling a layer of veil from the Book of Heaven is like opening a box locked by an iron lock.

As a result, after opening the lock, it was discovered that there was actually another box inside.

He secretly slandered: Encrypting these files into garbled characters seems redundant, after all, they are originally from heaven...

……

At the same time, some letters may have a higher level of secrecy, so more complicated encryption methods are used.

Some use specific books as codebooks, or multi-letter replacement ciphers, and introduce meaningless symbols as "virtual elements" that disrupt word frequency statistics.

To decipher them requires more text.

In fact, Ke Lin currently has several sets of materials that have been tracked for a long time, but have not been able to be completely deciphered.

In one group, the plaintext at the letter header is marked as:

"It is under the jurisdiction of the Cardinal of the Third Church, and is compiled by Kahn Fosher, a foreign scholar of the Kayu Subcontinent Department."

By comparing some recent news, it can be determined that this material is related to the newly conquered colony of the Alliance, the small uncivilized country "Zelan" located in the Kayu subcontinent.

After hundreds of years of rapid expansion, the native people of the Alliance are no longer excited about conquering the natives, and there is not much turbulence in public opinion.But Colin was aware of the possibility contained in the letter.

It means that the excavation of the genealogy and symbolism of the gods in a strange country by the scholars of the alliance has officially kicked off.Therefore, in these letters, there may be an analysis and explanation of the voodoo folk customs of "Zhelan".

While those witchcraft may still be very primitive, they are exactly what Colin needs now.

After a period of observation and experimentation, it was basically confirmed that the letter used a multi-letter replacement cipher.The key to deciphering this ciphertext is to eliminate the interference of meaningless "virtual elements".

Ke Lin has traced the sender's 20-letter text, and has determined the original meaning of four imaginary elements and five letters, and is in a state where he may decipher the original text at any time.

After two hours of hard work, the time gradually entered the night.

It's a pity that after counting the new texts received today, only one more letter's original meaning was confirmed.

Maybe it still needs a little bit of text accumulation. In recent days, the sender from "Zhelan" is still updating the letter at a time that is not fixed.

In order not to miss these crucial letters, Colin made up his mind: absolutely not to report for absence from the seminary.

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When Colin and Ricardo walked into Luca's office, the "old friend" was writing something on his desk.

Seeing the two come in, Luka stood up to meet him, he was very tall.

He said to Colin, "It was beautiful last night."

"Generally," Collin said.

With the shutters ajar, the summer afternoon heat in Stade is almost visible to the naked eye.There is almost nothing in the room except for a few potted plants and bookcases.Although clean, it seems a bit cheap.

This is the top floor of the Aspen Hotel yesterday. Luca put his office here, which is a bit shabby for his status as one of his five hands.Because this industry is difficult to bring any profit.

But he can receive most of the Simrei who just arrived in the Alliance.

Luca gave them a place to stay and washed the dust for them.When necessary, they will generously help.He said that he was also a refugee ten years ago, so he can better understand the helplessness of a person who has just arrived in a foreign city.Because of his actions, the nickname "Old Friend", which is not a deterrent, also spread unknowingly.

Generally speaking, the oldest Cynthili gangs never run their own industries, as they did a hundred years ago, they only sell their own violence to provide the necessary security for some industries.Some groups that have emerged in recent years have also begun to operate casino brothels, and most of the old guys look down on them.As for Luca, he doesn't seem to have much to do with either of these.

Luca patted Colin on the shoulder and turned his eyes to Ricardo.

"Congratulations, Ricardo, for your first time," he said.

Ricardo crooked his mouth: "The father at home doesn't seem to think so."

Luca smiled and put his arms around Ricardo's head:
"How does he know what he has cultivated? A real man."

In the past, Ricardo and Luca had a good relationship, albeit not at work, but in private.

For Ricardo, Luca is like a brother.

Ricardo: "I thought you would be angry too."

"I've been so proud of you."

"Even if I destroy myself?" Ricardo asked in confusion.

Luca still wrapped his arms around Ricardo, and he was silent for a while.

"It's not a good thing to be in that kind of place, Ricardo," he said apologetically.

"But it also teaches you two of the most important things in the world...and that is perseverance, and protecting your friends."

Luca retracted his arm, returned to the back of the desk where the papers were still spread, and rummaged in the drawer for a while.

"I prepared a gift for you." He said, "It was placed here more than ten months ago."

He found a small black bag and took out its contents. It was a beautiful pistol with an ivory grip.

"I'm sorry I haven't been able to see you for two years, Ricardo." Luca walked up to Ricardo with a pistol and handed it to him:
"Now you deserve it."

It was Luka's gun in the past, always with him and meticulously maintained.Ricardo had been eyeing it for a long time, but Luca never let anyone touch the gun.

Holding the slightly warm ivory grip, its gun case shone as if it had just left the gunsmith's workshop, and there was almost no trace of gunpowder firing.Ricardo was speechless for a moment.

Colin knew that the gun had never fired a single bullet.

　Colin is not Luka's thug, after all, the relationship is divided.Working with Luka because he has other layouts.For example, the upcoming Prohibition.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)