The God of Thieves

Chapter 185 Deciphering the Code
In front of the NPC shop, Ye Xing stopped.

Lie Fei, who had already reached the door, turned around in surprise: "What's wrong? Don't go in?"

"Those who can't get in, the enchantment set up at this door." Ye Xing pointed to the door, took two steps closer, raised his hand and touched it lightly in the air, and the store door, which was empty for a while, immediately bounced back. Thin and transparent barrier.

"Enchantment!" Lie Fei's eyes widened. It was the first time he had seen a real enchantment with his own eyes. "But, isn't only a senior mage able to create an enchantment? The shopkeeper here..."

"Yes, he is a hidden magician."

Lie Fei blinked, and asked innocently: "Then how to break it? Break in?"

"...How is that possible! Do you want the two of us to be thrown out?" Ye Xing rolled his eyes and pointed to a small wooden barrel on the other side of the door, "The key to unlocking the enchantment is right there."

……

It's an unobtrusive wooden barrel that looks like it's been around for some time.

If Ye Xing hadn't known this a long time ago, he probably wouldn't have discovered that there was something hidden here.

There was a small opening in the barrel, allowing only two fingers to pass through.Ye Xing's index and middle fingers slowly picked up a roll of paper in the barrel, and under Lie Fei's surprised gaze, Ye Xing slowly opened the parchment in his hand.

It is a bit similar to the skill parchment that Ye Xing got before.

"Everything goes from simple to complex,
Through each cycle,
through every season.

In the midst of fierce battles,

The sunshine of Kaya finally rose from the continent of Aland. "

The text is written in Old Common.

Ordinary players usually start to choose the language they are good at when entering the initial setup stage of the game.Everyone can choose another language besides the modern lingua franca.

Unlike the elvish language or other languages ​​preferred by most players, Ye Xing chose the ancient common language.

Old Common and Modern Common are distinct in language and script.

To use an analogy, it is like the comparison between modern simplified Chinese characters and oracle bone inscriptions. Although they are all cultural products on the continent of Aland, after tens of thousands of books have evolved, the ancient common language is no longer the language used by most humans.

Ye Xing had considered coming here after entering the world map before.

And the owner of the shop just happens to like to use ancient common language every time he solves a puzzle.

"Is this shopkeeper a magician or a poet?" Lie Fei couldn't understand the ancient common language, and could barely make out some fragmentary words, so he was at a loss.All he could recognize was what seemed to be a poem.

But what message is hidden behind this poem?
Ye Xing translated it in modern lingua franca.

Then he frowned, stroked his chin, and thought.

"It should be numbers, that mysterious shopkeeper likes to use numbers as answers to riddles." Ye Xing glanced at the direction of the barrier.If he remembered correctly, the answer to the riddle should be an 8-digit number.

……

"Analyze the numbers from such weird poems? How is it possible!" Lie Fei wailed, covering his head with his hands, "Didn't he open a shop for business? He opened the shop in such a remote place, and it was another puzzle. Test people, whether he wants to do business or not!"

Ye Xing glanced at Lie Fei distractedly, and smiled wryly: "Do you think everyone runs a store for money? Besdell is not short of money."

Besdell is the owner's name.

"Okay, okay, as a mercenary, I can only think about money!" Lie Fei muttered, "Then what should we do now?"

"What else can I do? Of course I have to untie it!" Ye Xing sighed.

He reached out and flicked the parchment in his hand.

"Everything went from simple to complex, through every cycle, through every season. This is the first sentence... Then, in the midst of the blazing war, the sun of Kaya finally rose from the continent of Aland. "Ye Xing rubbed his chin, thinking quickly in his mind.

In the past, almost all players died in this level, but some players once thought of something in common.

Like 8 digits like...

Ye Xing pondered over the summaries of the previous players he had seen before.

In his mind, there is now an encyclopedia of creation that has gone through ten years.

After only a few seconds, Ye Xing raised his eyes, and a ray of light suddenly lit up in his bright black pupils!

"It's 17491706!"

"Huh?" Lie Fei was taken aback, but before he could react, he saw that Ye Xing had already thrown the parchment in his hand at him, and ran directly to the door of the store.

I saw Ye Xing stretched out his hand and lifted it, and pressed it directly on the door through the void.

And the transparent barrier on the door shook, slowly revealing its shape.

This enchantment enveloped the entire store, and the only eye that could break the enchantment was at this door.

Besdell is waiting for the first person to open the enchantment to appear.

……

Ye Xing grabbed it slowly from the air, and then saw a few white lights suddenly condensed on the surface of the enchantment.Ye Xing quickly grasped these light spots, then reached out and made a movement in the air.

Ye Xing stretched out his hand and stroked, from top to bottom, straight to the end.

Lie Fei said that he didn't understand at all.

Until he saw Ye Xing made another movement, this time with two strokes, Ye Xing wrote a 4, 4 in Arabic numerals.

1，7，那么接下来就会是4、9、1、7、0、6。

but why?
Lie Fei patiently watched as Ye Xing entered all eight numbers, and then, he heard a click in the void, and another flash of white light flashed across the transparent barrier between the store and Ye Xing Liefei. With such a whoosh, it disappeared.

"You just solved it? Hey, hey, Ye Xing, tell me how you did it! How did you guess that the number represented by that poem is 17491706!"

This string of numbers is actually just Ye Xing's guess, and he is not sure that it is the answer.

Fortunately, Besdell will give everyone three chances.

If it's not 17491706, he has two other alternative answers, but this is the most likely string of numbers that Ye Xing thinks.

Psychological analysis is actually a matter of probability.What Ye Xing is best at is to give the most likely answer based on the existing information.

"It's actually very simple. The answer lies between the poems: in the first line, everything goes from simple to complex. What would simplicity be? It's 1, so the relative complexity should be 9, from 1 to 9; the second line of this sentence OK, go through every cycle, every cycle, the cycle is week, week, week, that is 7, the third line of this sentence, through every season, four seasons in a year, that is to say, this sentence The number in is 4."

(End of this chapter)