Extraordinary Puppeteer

Chapter 404 Deciphering Runes
A group of people walked and talked, and unknowingly came to an inconspicuous two-storey townhouse.

"Let's go, the underground palace is below."

Malik asked the rest of his men to stay on the ground, and he took Karin and 11 people into the apartment.

After arriving at a certain room on the first floor, a secret passage appeared in front of everyone.

The barriers and mechanisms of the town have long been cracked by the exploration team, and most of the barriers have been shattered due to years of disrepair. These purely mechanical mechanisms are still well preserved.

After entering the passage, a guard beside Karin took out a lighting spar, and the light immediately dispelled the darkness.

A group of people walked along the long passage, and gradually a ray of light appeared in the distance, and it seemed that they were about to reach the end of the passage.

At this time, there was a violent scolding sound from a distance: "Oh, what the hell, you savages, how many times have I told you that these important books must be handled with care!"

Karin and the others immediately quickened their pace when they heard the sound, and quickly walked out of the passage and came to a stone room.

They saw a small, sloppy old man carefully stacking an old book that was half missing on a pile of books on the ground.

The surface of the book was severely broken, which looked like signs of weathering, and a pile of debris was scattered on the ground, which should be the other half of the book.

And the six five-year-old and three-year-old men stood obediently aside, like elementary school students being scolded by a teacher. It seemed that someone among them accidentally broke half of the book.

These paper books have been baptized by thousands of years, and now they are shattered and need to be handled with great care.

"Do you guys know how expensive these books found in town are?!
Damn it, I shouldn't have come alone this time, Malik's men are all savages with hands and feet, and they don't know how to treat these babies gently!

Protective reagents, solid charms, and recording crystals, you all came down without any of them, and even ruined a book! "

After hearing the old man say his name, Malik's face flashed with embarrassment, and he quickly greeted the old man: "Master Yala, they have never done this kind of work, please forgive me."

After Karin heard that the old man was Yala, the chief alchemist of Emerald Isle, he also began to look carefully.

The old man looked in his sixties, but his body was still strong, except that his expensive mage robe was covered with dust and became dirty.

There was a strange smell on her body, her hair was all sticky, and she looked like she hadn't showered for a long time.

'Isn't this guy staying here for more than ten days? '

Just when Karin was feeling a little bit of a twitch, Yara heard Malik's voice, her eyes lit up like a nimble monkey, and she swooped in front of Malik.

"Malik, please ask your subordinates to go again and find a few reliable apprentices from the Emerald Isle. These subordinates of yours are not suitable for this kind of work at all!"

Malik smiled awkwardly, pointed to Karin and said, "I don't think it's necessary, let me introduce you, this is the new Master Yolin who joined us."

Yala froze for a moment, looked at Karin for a while, saw his too young face, and said suspiciously: "Really, why haven't I heard of his reputation?"

"Well, Master Yolin came here from the Old World on the Carmen Princess, and the passengers on the Carmen Princess have all heard of his reputation."

"Hahaha, Colonel Wade finally made a wise decision and asked an expert to help me. Well, we are about to start working, you all leave here quickly and don't disturb us!"

Malik had no choice but to leave here with six strong men, while Karin's guards were quietly guarding the door of the stone room to prevent accidents.

The little old man devoted all his attention to his work, and directly dragged Karin around the stone room, introducing him here in detail.

The stone chamber is about five meters high and covers an area of ​​more than 300 square meters.

A pile of paper books, parchments, and stone tablets on the ground are all ancient books collected from the buildings on the ground.

Not far from the pile of ancient books is a workbench, one of which looks a bit like the cartographer he developed for his new home, and the workbench is also equipped with a small difference engine.

Other than these, the stone room was empty, with murals carved on the walls.

Facing the wall at the entrance, there is also a sealed brass gate, with several different rare runes mixed in the pattern on it.

After taking Karin around, Yala pointed to the wall and said, "This room should be a transfer room. The door is sealed, but it doesn't matter. Malik conducted a ground survey before and found that behind the door is a Palace Square.

I was worried that brute force might damage the other side, so I decided to take it slow.

It's just that this seal is encrypted with four ancient characters, so it's not easy to crack it."

Under Yala's explanation, Karin also got a general understanding of the situation here.

Although the texts of the first and second eras are very niche nowadays, many extraordinary people like to use ancient texts to make combination locks.

Originally, the difference between different characters is even greater than the difference between Chinese and English. It is very difficult to decipher an unfamiliar character.

But now they are combined together like a heavenly book, which makes the difficulty of analysis even higher.

However, Yala, a master alchemist, still has some skills. After more than ten days of research and analysis, he has cracked half of the seal on the gate.

It only needs to continue to analyze for two months, and the seal on the gate can be completely untied, and this obstacle before entering the underground palace can be broken.

However, Emerald Island has an important event next month, and it is definitely impossible for Yala to stay here for two months, so Karin is asked to come over to help him, and quickly break the seal and return to Emerald Island.

Then Yala took him to the workbench and showed him how to use the workbench to assist in parsing text.

With the start of the plotter, several uncommon runes were drawn on the soft paper tape, and the paper tape was sent to the inside of the difference engine.

After a bang, bang, bang, a set of Tyrann runes was suddenly projected on the workbench.

"Food, prey, food?" Karin read the words directly.

Yala nodded and explained to him: "After transcribing the rare words on the paper tape, the difference machine will automatically detect the extraordinary power of the words, and display the Tyrannical phrases with similar meanings."

"It's really convenient. This way, the work of deciphering the text is much easier."

Karin couldn't help but praise, alchemists rely on various tools for their strength, otherwise they really have to go to the text test one by one, and they have to wait until the year of the monkey to completely decipher a set of text.

And Yala smiled indifferently: "Hehe, almost all archaeologists will have a set of this kind of rune analyzer, but the convenient tool is not all good.

Many new apprentices on the island rely too much on various tools, and the basic skills of some alchemists are very unreliable. If you don't get rid of this bad habit, your future achievements will be limited.

Therefore, I have very strict requirements on my students. When deciphering ancient runes, they must write and analyze them by themselves, which will be of great help to mastering the knowledge of related runes. "

(End of this chapter)