Superman's Ending Manual

At 7:30 in the morning, London time, in the card room for the entertainment of patients in Bedlam Lunatic Asylum.

Ke Yinzhi picked up a deck of playing cards that Francis had touched from the cabinet, and sat at the front of a card table with Anti-Dog.

"Wouldn't you know it just by looking at it?"

He held his chin with one hand and opened the deck of playing cards marked with serial number 02 as he spoke.

Then, gently open it while keeping its internal order unchanged. Start with the top playing card and work your way down one by one.

The playing cards given in the lunatic asylum are a standard set of 54 playing cards.

Except for the two side cards "Big King" and "Little King", among the remaining 52 real cards, there are 4 of each card type, namely: A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ,10,J,Q,K.

Immediately afterwards, Ke Yinzhi looked at the deck of cards with serial number 05 and the deck of playing cards with serial number 09 while keeping the order of the playing cards unchanged.

Soon, he and Anti-Dog discovered that the top and bottom arrangement of the cards in each deck of cards adjusted by Francis was different.

But they have one thing in common: every time the deck of playing cards is turned over, the adjacent big king and small king will be inserted in the middle, which seems to symbolize some kind of "interruption".

Ke Yinzhi raised his eyebrows and thought with interest for a while, then suddenly turned his face to the side and looked at the anti-dog with clear eyes.

"Mr. Gu Zhenning, if Francis wants to use these playing cards to clearly express and convey written information, what kind of logic do you think it might be used to convey it?"

Hearing this, Anti-Dog thought for a moment, and then replied: "If you want to use playing cards to clearly express text information, then I think there is only one way: that is to use the numbers on the playing cards to represent the order of the alphabet, so that Use this logic to convert the numbers represented by each playing card into letters."

He paused: "Then use adjacent playing cards as letters and combine them into English words to form a complete sentence. Of course, if you think like this, a deck of playing cards will definitely not be enough."

"It's basically the same as I thought." Ke Yinzhi said slowly, "According to our thinking, playing card A is equal to the number 1, which is equal to the first letter of the alphabet - 'a', playing card 2 It is equal to the second letter of the alphabet - 'b', and playing card 3 is equal to the third letter of the alphabet - 'c', right?"

The anti-dog nodded: "Yes, let's analogize it to the 10th letter: playing card 10 = number 10 = the 10th letter on the alphabet - 'j'."

He thought for a moment and then said: "But there are a total of 26 letters in the alphabet, and it is completely insufficient to use playing cards to represent them. This is a problem."

"Perhaps it can be further classified by the suit and color of the playing cards?" Ke Yinzhi asked while flipping the cards and studying the arrangement of Francis.

"It is possible, but judging from the two decks of cards we turned over, it seems that this conjecture is not valid."

Anti-Quan said calmly, his eyes focused on the playing cards along with Ke Yinzhi.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes slightly, turned his gaze slightly, and discovered the special arrangement rules of each deck of cards that Francis had played.

Just when he was about to speak, Ke Yinzhi took the lead and suddenly said: "Oh... I understand."

Anti-dog turned to look at him and was silent for a while: "Tell me, let me hear if it is what I think."

Ke Yinzhi said while thinking, "For the letters from 1 to 10, Francis uses three playing cards to combine them. For example, if he wants to express the 11th letter of the alphabet, which is the number 11, then he uses playing card A. (Number 1), sandwiching a playing card other than 1 to 10, followed by the letter A (Number 1).”

As he spoke, he sat down at a card table and listed out the corresponding rules with the paper and pen on the table.

Playing card A (equivalent to the number 1, which is the first letter of the alphabet - "A")

Poker A - Poker J - Poker A (equivalent to 11, which is the 11th letter of the alphabet - "K")

Poker A - Poker K - Poker A (same as above)

Poker A - Poker Q - Poker A (same as above)

"It's the same as what I thought: use a combination of three cards to represent numbers greater than 10, so that the numbers 1-26 can be fully expressed, and these 26 numbers correspond to the 26 letters of the alphabet."

Anti-dog spoke slowly, taking a deep breath invisibly.

He began to doubt whether Judge Black had the ability to read minds. In fact, his thoughts had been exposed to Judge Black, or maybe the two of them just happened to be on the same frequency.

Ke Yinzhi raised his eyebrows, "By the way, how do you think you should express it if you encounter a number like 20?"

Hearing this, Anti-Quan lowered his head and thought for a moment, then took the paper and pen from his hand and began to display several combinations of expressions for "number 20" on the paper.

Poker 2 - Poker J - Poker 10 (equivalent to 20)

Poker 2 - Poker K - Poker 10 (same as above)

Poker 2 - Poker Q - Poker 10 (same as above)

Ke Yinzhi looked at the combinations listed by the anti-dog and said with great interest: "So, when the poker card 10 is at the back of the combination, it is automatically treated as a '0'."

Anti-Dog nodded and continued: "With this arrangement, it is indeed possible to use playing cards to repeat all 26 letters of the alphabet, but there is a very important problem."

Ke Yinzhi answered his words: "The problem... is that a deck of playing cards can easily run out of cards. After all, there are only 4 genuine cards of each type."

"That's right." Anti-Dog nodded, "So when it comes to this situation, Francis will use a simple and clear method to express, 'the number of cards in this deck is not enough, please replace it with another deck'."

Ke Yinzhi smiled: "The method he used was to put two independent decks of cards, Big King and Xiao Wang, together to remind the people who read the cards that 'the content expressed by this deck of cards ends here.'"

"Yes," said the anti-dog, "when there are not enough playing cards left in the deck to continue expressing the letters of the alphabet, Francis' operation with the deck ends here." "He will turn around. Put "Big King" and "Little King" behind the last 'playing card that symbolizes letters' to indicate that 'you no longer need to look at this deck of cards, you can check the information of the next deck of cards'."

"I see."

Ke Yinzhi shrugged and murmured, "Then according to our logic, if we want to completely and continuously understand the text message that Francis conveyed in the cards, there is only one problem left that needs to be solved."

The anti-dog adjusted the non-existent glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "How to confirm the order of opening each deck of playing cards? This is the final question."

"Yes, for example, you write 'I Hate' on card number 1 using the letters represented by each card, 'he' on the beginning of playing card number 2, and 'he' on card number 3. It starts with 'you', and both beginnings can be accepted. So how do you confirm whether you should open the No. 3 playing card or the No. 2 playing card after the No. 1 playing card?"

As he said that, Ke Yinzhi turned his head and looked at Anti-Dog with interest.

Anti-Dog was silent for a while: "Do you still remember that before coming to the card room, Francis arranged the 24 books on the No. 1 shelf of the library?"

"Remember." Ke Yinzhi said, suddenly paused, "I see. Are you trying to say that the serial numbers of the 24 books represent the opening order of the 24 decks of card boxes?"

"That's right, how to confirm the order of the card box has to start in the library. The books with serial numbers 1-24 that Francis is playing with on the bookshelf should represent the opening order of 1-24 decks of playing cards respectively." Anti-Dog said , "The serial number of the first book from top to bottom from left to right is No. 21, and the serial number of the second book is No. 5, so the first deck of playing cards we should open is the 21st deck of playing cards. , and then the second deck of playing cards is the fifth deck of playing cards.

He paused for a moment: "With this idea in mind. Then convert all the numbers before the "big trump" in each deck of playing cards into letters of the alphabet, and you can get the meaning of Francis."

"Not Francis, exactly, but the people who are playing this game with him."

As he spoke, Ke Yinzhi raised his hand to support his chin and explained casually, "Francis doesn't know anything, he's just 'playing games'."

Anti-dog shook his head: "I don't really understand, I just cooperated with you."

"I can tell, but you helped me a lot." Ke Yinzhi smiled, "If I weren't in a lunatic asylum, maybe I would consider becoming friends with you, Mr. Gu Zhenning."

He paused and said casually: "Of course, I think I can consider getting you out of here and becoming my colleague. I haven't had the idea of ​​​​an assistant in so many years. This is the first time you have asked me to do this. People who think about it, but you have to wait until I get out of here."

Anti-dog pretended to be confused: "What on earth are you talking about?"

"You'll know later. For now, you'd better treat this as the ravings of a mental patient."

Ke Yinzhi teased while looking through the card box that Francis had operated, and quickly confirmed that every deck of cards that this memory geek had touched could basically be quickly converted into letters of the alphabet according to their rules.

Take the No. 9 deck of cards and the No. 15 carton in his hand as an example (the penultimate deck and the last deck respectively), try to record on paper the sequence of cards before the big and small kings appear. order.

Penultimate set of playing cards:

Playing card 9 (represents the 9th letter of the alphabet: I)

Poker 2 - Poker J - Poker 3 (represents the number 23, which is the 23rd letter of the alphabet: W)

Playing Card 9 (Letter I)

Poker A - Poker J - Poker 2 (represents the number 12, which is the 12th letter of the alphabet: L)

Poker A - Poker J - Poker 2 (same as above)

Poker A - Poker J - Poker 2 (same as above)

Playing Card 5 (Letter E)

Playing card A (letter A)

Big and small king (indicates that the number of cards is not enough to express, so there is a hard break and you can look at the next deck of cards)

The final set of playing cards:

Poker 2 - Poker J - Poker 2 (the number 22, which is the 22nd letter of the alphabet: V)

Poker 5 (E)

Big and small kings (indicates interruption, end)

Finally, Ke Yinzhi read out the complete English sentences represented by the two sets of playing cards.

"I will leave."

Anti-dog whispered the meaning of this string of English words in Chinese in his heart: "I am about to leave here..."

He hissed lightly at the dull air, thinking to himself.

"It turns out that TK has been using Francis, the memory weirdo, to help him deliver information to the caregiver who is the responder."

"Because Francis is the card room manager, every Saturday when the card room is about to be cleaned, other patients are prohibited from entering the card room and only Francis is allowed in. Because of this, he can play a game with TK." Game', that game is to open the cards in the card room and rearrange each card up and down in the order TK said. "

In order to verify the idea deduced by Ke Yinzhi just now, Fan Quan himself opened a deck of playing cards.

He tried to arrange the cards in order from top to bottom and translate the deck of playing cards into words according to the rules the two of them inferred.

Soon, he once again verified that this conjecture was correct: the numbers represented by the playing cards could indeed be perfectly converted into English letters without any hindrance.

At this moment.

Ke Yinzhi interpreted the three decks of playing cards in his hand and thought about their meaning with great interest: "The meaning of these three decks of cards combined is: William has been caught by the Control Bureau, don't worry about him, he probably The situation is already in danger. What we should think about now is to move our base and avoid the limelight for a short time.”

Anti-Dog interpreted the two decks of playing cards in his hand and thought to himself: "What these two decks of cards want to express is: The people in the Control Bureau already know that I am in the lunatic asylum, but they have not found me yet."

"Sure enough... this is how TK transmits information to the nursing staff. Then, I have to rush ahead of the black judge to screen out TK from the lunatic asylum and take him away."

Thinking of this, Anti-Inu took a breath invisibly.

Immediately afterwards, he immediately opened the chat panel with his mind.

[Anti-Dog: Cai Bing, please help investigate the monitors in the card room. The scope of the investigation is every Saturday to see if a caregiver will check the playing cards in the cabinet every Saturday. 】

at the same time.

On the other side of the card table, Ke Yinzhi put the back of his head on the back of the chair, leaned back, and thought to himself.

"But the nurse couldn't enter the library. She didn't know the order of the books placed by Francis, so how could she know the order of opening each deck of playing cards? Even if the English words represented by the playing cards could be interpreted, the order was wrong. , the message TK wants to convey to her will become irrelevant.”

Thinking of this, Ke Yinzhi suddenly raised his head from the back of the chair and turned to Ke Mingye and said, "Sir, can I go to the toilet?"

"Don't take too long." Ke Mingye glared at him with a cold tone.

"learn."

Ke Yinzhi smiled, walked into the toilet of the poker room, closed the door, and sat down on the toilet.

He pressed the earrings, the projection panel popped out, and then his fingers began to perform a series of operations on it.

Soon, Ke Yinzhi investigated the monitor operation records of Bedlam Lunatic Asylum:

——Only one supervisor will use the library monitors on Saturdays, because his job is to ensure that no patients sneak into the library and card room on cleaning day ——Of course, Francis, the library administrator with special permissions Except for members.

So, of course: TK has a total of two responders.

The first responder is the caregiver who cleans the card room;

The other contact person is the supervisor who uses the library monitor every Saturday.

Follow the steps.

The supervisor used the monitor to see the order of the books placed by the memory geek Francis on the No. 1 shelf of the library. He then confirmed the number represented by each book through the serial number, and then told the number sequence to the nurse. .

Immediately afterwards, when the nurse goes to the card room to take care of the cards, she will open the 24 decks of playing cards in the corresponding order, and then convert the numbers represented in each deck of playing cards into letters to form a complete English sentence.

Finally, as long as you are proficient enough, you can easily obtain the information TK wants to convey to them in a short period of time.

I have to say that this method is indeed very complicated and secretive: because in the eyes of others, "Memory Freak" Francis is a complete mental patient, so no one often cares about his behavior.

Besides, in the final analysis, all he did was rearrange the order of the books, take apart the cards, rearrange them, and put them back again.

No one would have thought that for so many years, TK has actually been taking advantage of Francis' characteristics and such seemingly illogical behavior to convey messages to the people of the "Revolutionary Evening Bell" organization.

Even because Francis couldn't remember names or faces, he couldn't directly ask him who TK was.

It can be said to be extremely cunning.

"TK, I have caught your tail..."

Ke Yinzhi looked through the list of employees, his eyes resting on the face of one of the supervisors, with a deep light flowing in his pupils.

"I found you, TK. You have to move one step faster than the black judge next."

Anti-dog thought, pushing up the non-existent glasses on the bridge of his nose.

At this moment, he received a reply from Cai Bing.

[Cai Bing: I found it. The nurse responsible for cleaning the card room on Saturday is fixed. There is only one person. She will take apart each deck of cards and take a look. The purpose is to ensure that there are no cards in the card box. Missing, because some patients have been angry about this matter. 】

[Anti-dog: This nurse is TK’s contact person. On the surface, she is confirming whether the cards in the card box are missing, but in fact, she is observing the order of the cards and getting the information TK wants to convey through the order of the playing cards. 】

[Cai Bing: Who knows, this is your business. Well, this is her personal information, and that's where I can help you. 】

[Cutting ice: (photo)]

[Anti-Dog: Orange Peel, photos and information have been posted in the discussion group. 】

[Anti-Dog: Your identity is a caregiver. It is naturally easier to find and get close to this caregiver than it is for us. The task of forcing him to find out who TK is is left to you, so move faster. 】

[Good Orange Peel: Received. 】

At this moment, on the other side of Bedlam Lunatic Asylum, there is the nurse's lounge.

The air was a little noisy, and several caregivers in the same lounge were complaining about having to work in the canteen again later.

Some people say that some mentally ill person might pour his own shit into the dinner plate when he comes to get the meal, and then have to put it away again while enduring the smell.

Some people say that it's good enough that they don't put shit in your face. They are all working as caregivers here, so don't complain so much, just get used to it.

Others asked, did you think he was a little strange today?

As he said that, several caregivers turned their faces slightly and gave Orange Peel, who was wearing a caregiver uniform and a human-face mask, a strange look.

After Orange Peel sent the message on the chat panel, he put down the truck key in his hand on the table, picked up a folding fruit knife, and took a gentle breath.

According to the original plan, the carer he played had to drive a truck and leave briefly in twenty minutes to buy a batch of milk and daily necessities from a London supermarket. But now the plan has changed. He has to find the nurse within these 20 minutes, and then force him to find out TK's true identity.

Orange Peel hid the fruit knife in the pocket of the nurse's uniform, immediately lowered the brim of his light blue hat, quickly set off, and opened a crack in the door of several adjacent nurse lounges to look for someone.

Soon, when he came to the third nurse's lounge, his keen eyes found a person who looked the same as the photo given by Cai Bing.

Orange Peel slowly approached the caregiver from behind, avoiding the camera's shooting range, and extended the blade of the fruit knife.

Then, he quietly put the tip of the knife against his back.

The orange peel was pressed against his ear, whispering in a voice that only he could hear.

"Come to the bathroom with me. Don't make any noise or nod your head during this period, otherwise I will kill you directly. Don't doubt that I won't do that."

Hearing this, the nurse swallowed and nodded slightly.

Immediately afterwards, he was forced to follow Orange Peel into the employee toilet, walked into a cubicle, and closed the door.

The moment the door closed, Orange Peel pressed his palm against the wall of the cubicle, then inserted the knife between his fingers and spoke in a gentle voice.

"I know that you are TK's contact person, and you have been helping him deliver information to the organization in the lunatic asylum for so many years. But one thing I must tell you, TK's identity has been exposed, and I need to know who he is now, and then put He rescued him."

After saying that, before the man had time to think, blood suddenly surged and a finger slowly fell from the wall.

The nurse was startled for a moment, then turned pale.

Just as he was about to scream, a hand with sharp bones covered his mouth.

Immediately, a sound as gentle as lake water, but like the hissing of a poisonous snake, slowly sounded in his ears.

Like the devil's whisper.

"If you don't tell me which patient TK is within 5 seconds, I will cut off your other finger and dig out your eyeballs."

Orange Peel said in a low voice, and took out the Demon Sword Muramasa from his bag. If the opponent refused, he would chop off his head with the Demon Sword Muramasa, and use the equipment's characteristics to gnaw at his soul.

"Man, I'm a pro. You won't even feel any pain until your eyeballs fall off."

He paused and tilted his head slightly, with a gentle smile on his face.

"Then, I will count down from now on. Before counting down, I hope you can name the patient."

As he spoke, murderous intent swayed like running water, surrounding the caregiver in front of him. He seemed to be trapped in a swamp, unable to breathe or move at all.

The next moment, Orange Peel could feel the man's frantic struggle in his arms, so he calmly withdrew his right hand that covered his mouth.

"Amamiya Taka!"

The nurse yelled hoarsely, "TK's identity... is Amamiya Taka!"

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