Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 603 Encryption (Combined Chapter)
The man in black robe held the corner of his clothes and walked hurriedly.

According to the rules and regulations, if something unexpected happens in the base, the news will be reported to the Red King through their respective channels, and only then will the true circumstances of the incident be known... However, this regulation has not yet been implemented.

Logically speaking, he didn't need to do much. He had just comforted the army that suppressed the rioting beasts. It was best for him to stay here at this time and act as a symbol to appease the people.

But he didn't.

Instead, he headed towards the Beakbeast Tower where he had said, "Don't worry."

The guards held their ground.

The wind turbines are still whirring.

It reserves the great power from heaven and earth.

"Has anyone been here?" he asked.

"Yes." The guards looked at each other and said, "——You."

"...Forget it." The man in black robe said through the voice machine: "Let me pass."

He opened the door as he wished.

A huge long-necked beast lay crouched on the ground, its body tangled in chains, its head hanging listlessly - the roar just now seemed to have consumed all its strength.

But as the man in black robe stepped into the tower, even with the breathing mask filtering, a faint fishy smell still floated to his nose.

——Inside the tower?
He looked around... Shan Di has now captured a total of four elder-level beaked beasts. One of them is the largest and most ferocious, and Lu Meng took it alone to serve as a guardian beast of the house. The rest are distributed at key points along the entire front line.

West, middle, east.

One each.

In addition to the "long necks" that already exist in the White Eyebrow Valley, there are currently two beaked beast towers in this area, and the one that the technological hunters go to during the day is one of them.

And this is another one.

He did not alarm the guards outside the tower, and his actions were normal as he quietly closed the door behind him... For safety reasons, these guards were kept at a certain distance from the Beaked Beast Tower. It would be more accurate to say that what they were really guarding were the wind turbines that provided electricity in the surrounding area.

These things are more vulnerable to damage.

The tower door was closed and there were no lights on inside. The only light that could illuminate the surroundings was the moonlight shining through the small, prison-like window high up.

Ordinary people cannot see at all.

But he is an exception.

It's better to say that I have already gotten used to this kind of environment... As the black-robed man of the Son of Scorched Earth, he closed his eyelids, and a faint light shone from his irises - this was not self-luminous, but by changing the structure of the eyeball to "capture" as much radiation as possible from the surrounding environment.

The brightness thus reflected is different from that of their subspecies brothers, the Sons of the Green Plains.

Like a predator in the night.

Through this unique vision, he could see the moonlight shining down, illuminating the swords, spears, halberds, and various weapons around him... Each of them was stained with blood but not sharpened; they were all training tools.

Unlike the places visited by the tech hunters before, which also served as reception venues, this Beak-billed Beast Tower was purely a training venue.

In the barracks, ordinary soldiers would use unsharpened model tools during training and fighting to avoid unnecessary casualties... However, this tradition was completely ineffective in the new martial arts training grounds that targeted beaked beasts.

Even if bound.

These behemoths are too powerful.

If ordinary recruits fight them with model weapons, they will neither be able to break through the thick skin of the beaked beast nor resist the attack of the long neck.

If you are not careful, you may be torn to pieces by their sharp teeth and beaks.

Therefore, if they want to apply to use the Beaked Beast coach, they must be fully armored and respond as if they were really stepping onto the battlefield, so that they can stay safe while being restrained by the iron chains.

At the same time, even if the recruits exerted their full strength, they might not cause any harm to the beaked beasts, as these strange beasts could recover easily.

There's not even any need for expedited medical treatment.

Currently in Shandi, the only ones who are qualified to use training equipment to fight against the Beakbeasts are the Black Knight Griffin, Princess Seto of the Shek Kingdom, Tora the Fearless of the Skeleton Corps, and the Embers Priest Huo Buyang... just a few people.

——But the above examples do not include the elder-stage beaked beasts.

The three beaked beast towers open to the public are already the top level of the entire training system.

Even if there are several powerful and famous masters, they must be fully armed and use all their skills to enter here.

Outside, there will be people from the medical department waiting.

They are always on call.

Although Doctor Zhong said that he doesn't care if you risk your life, but when you have your last breath, remember to leave your organs to cool down so they can be used again and don't give the beaked beast a snack...but everyone knows that he has a sharp tongue but a soft heart, and he just wants to be prepared for emergencies.

Take it so seriously.

Everyone used their most familiar personal weapons.

Instead of these training equipment on the sidelines.

——Then it is obvious who can use them.

The man in black robe walked past these weapons, picking them up one by one, from the nobles' gorgeous samurai swords, to the assassins' frivolous and treacherous ninja swords, to the sabers used against enemies on the battlefield... as well as thickened machetes, heavy swords, and various long weapons, and even heavy weapons that were not wielded by ordinary people.

The types are numerous and complete, covering almost all major categories of melee weapons, which is dazzling.

Without exception, they were all stained with blood.

On the other side, the long-necked beast lying on the ground had scars of both new and old wounds all over its body... The people who used them actually used the most low-grade, almost harmless training weapons to chop the opponent into pieces.

Just looking at it is terrifying.

Since the last time I came here, it seems that the skin of the beaked beast has become thicker...

If you don't evolve, you will die. This is not an empty statement.

The toughness is increased.

But the weakness of the beaked beast shouldn’t be because of this... He turned around and carefully approached the giant beast.

Sure enough, under its feet lay a huge, thick straw mat filled with medical cotton and soaked with dried blood.

As long as there is this enlarged bed, the Beaked Beast can "enjoy" the bonus of healing speed while being beaten - it will be more resistant to beatings.

Superimpose the elder's own physique.

The recovery speed is incredibly fast.

From another perspective, if a living person were to suffer such treatment, it would be like a never-ending purgatory... But he had no such idea at all.

How many tribes in Shan land had their families destroyed and their wives and children separated because of this ferocious beast? Even if they were lucky enough to survive, they would have to endure a lifetime of loneliness and pain... As far as he knew, many herdsmen wanted to eat its meat raw, even though the edible part of the beaked beast was very small and the meat was very rotten, so even if they ate it, it was just to vent their anger.

And they did.

On the other hand, the result was that among the recruits who applied to fight the Beakbeast, the proportion of them coming from the herdsmen of Shem was the highest. The overall strength was improving rapidly.

But this still couldn't solve his doubts.

"The beaked gorillas are rioting, but the beaked beasts are so weak. There is a foul smell inside the tower, but people outside are completely unaware of it..." The man in black robes was thinking in his mind, "And if we want to take down the elder-level beast..."

He picked up a blood-stained iron rod and finally made up his mind. He went around to the front of the beaked beast and approached its long neck which was as thick and cracked as a tree trunk.

As he gets closer.

The usually aggressive and alert beaked beast had its huge head pressed to the ground, its face tilted to the side with its mouth half open, but it did not react.

"Crack!"

The man in black robe pressed down the clothes and poked the iron rod directly into its sharp beak, trying hard to pry it open.

In an instant.

A stream of light yellow gas poured out directly from the mouth of the beaked beast. Even with the faint moonlight, one could clearly see its trajectory, which showed how rich it was.

The source of the poison gas was actually inside the opponent's body!
His eyes lit up, he saw something, and was about to reach in and grab it -

"I advise you not to do this."

A dark voice suddenly sounded in the tower, floating gently.

"..." The man in black robe stopped moving, but he did not turn around: "Why?"

"Supposedly, this toxin is only effective against [Alien Creatures]. Ordinary humans and animals would at most smell a foul odor when they smell it - but that is within a certain concentration." The voice continued, stuttering a bit, as if it was not used to speaking so many words quickly at once: "But if you grab the concentrated liquid directly with your hands like you did... I'm afraid your skin will be corroded directly."

Before he opened his mouth, the black-robed man had already reached into the pried-open throat of the beaked beast, disturbing the yellow poisonous mist gushing out from it - a metal can flashed through the revealed gap.

It was stuck in the mouth sac of the beaked beast, with its head spinning, spraying liquid in circles. Once it came into contact with the air, it immediately atomized and spread, spraying onto the beaked beast's mouth, making a sizzling sound. It looked quite dangerous.

However, before the man could finish his words, the man in black reached in again, grabbed the metal can and threw it directly into the corner.

"Why?" This time it was the other party's turn to ask.

"This is the property of Shandi." The man in black robe stood up and stroked his palm, "and you are killing it."

Even emotionally, he didn't care about the life or death of a beaked beast.

But as I just said, this elder-stage beaked beast is a rare asset to their Shan land, a trophy from the previous beast disaster, and proof that they are in the same boat under the banner of the Red King.

Not to mention, there is the potential to continue to create profits and play a greater role in the future.

Pouring poison gas into his stomach while he's still alive... In just a short period of time since he entered the tower, the beaked beast has gone from being able to make a few calls to being unable to move... I'm afraid that even gods won't be able to save him before this bottle of poison gas is used up.

He turned around.

With excellent eyesight in the dark, he could see the other person's face clearly, including the twitching corners of his mouth and the painful expression... It was obvious that this jar was worth a lot.

It does have a killing effect on beaked beasts, but perhaps due to the need to prevent accidental injuries and the difficulty of production, its intensity is not even as direct and fatal as a strong poison... If it were not for the limitations of effect and price, the beast disaster caused by the long-necked beast would not have plagued the people of Shem for so many generations.

And those who possess it...

"I want to ask you, what are you doing here?" he said, "And...what do you mean by 'alien creatures'?"

"—Chad."

"Alien creatures... didn't you tell me this news?" The man took out the oily paper hidden in his arms. If you spread it out, you can find that it is the ciphertext he deciphered. There is a blank in one paragraph, while several phrases are circled in another paragraph.

"--Red King." Chad said.

The man in black robe stood still, his figure tall and straight, the tassels of his priest's robe hanging down, just resting on the ember emblem on his chest.

He tilted his head back slightly.

Seeing that the other party did not react, the tech hunter jumped down directly - he had previously relied on the claw strength of one hand to hold four fingers tightly in the gap between the bricks and stones on the wall.

Hang on tightly.

And merge with the darkness.

The Tech Hunter landed lightly, holding the paper between his fingertips. "At first I thought you had missed some words during the translation, which caused the blanks in the ciphertext I got... but later I found that this was not the case at all."

Because, when he continued to sort out other ciphertexts, he found that in addition to blank spaces, there were also some inexplicable words mixed in the paragraphs.

In theory, this is within the allowable range of error, and we can just treat it as a translation error, which does not affect the main meaning of the original text.

However, when he suddenly combined these words again... he found that they could be interpreted into new, smooth and readable sentences!

[Alien Creatures]

Is one of them.

And, according to Chad's understanding, these words should be exactly part of his blank ciphertext.

This can only mean one thing -

"When you were translating for me, you had already understood my ciphertext," Chad said, holding up the paper with a complicated expression, "and then you deliberately omitted the key part of the translation, using guesswork and omissions as excuses."

When reading at the first level, if only some words are missing, others can easily understand it through the context and will not feel anything strange.

Chad needed a relatively accurate translation so that he could compare it with his encryption method one by one... All the errors and omissions accumulated together resulted in the loss of the second layer of meaning.

But the most terrifying thing is not here.

Not only did the other party create gaps, but they were even able to embed the missing information back into the normal translation in an insignificant form by re-encrypting it.

This is not just an art of language.

"You completely saw through my encryption method - you wanted to tell me this." Chad said slowly, "Otherwise, this last step is meaningless except for showing off."

When he realized this.

It's really terrifying.

[Life Skills: Lock Picking]

When it comes to a high level, people are no longer faced with low-end things like ordinary safes or iron doors.

For example, technology hunters, if they want to explore lost ruins, they will inevitably encounter various ancient novel encryption methods and even program password locks... These cannot be solved by craftsmen alone.

The one Chad used was a newly discovered set. After he found it, he did not report it to the organization in order to keep it secret.

But I didn't expect it.

It was solved directly by someone I had just met.

The secret is out.

(End of this chapter)