Byron's Blade

On January 1, at 16:2 a.m., the St. Jacob's expedition was stationed.The camp had already turned off the lights to avoid attracting Zerg. The night was dark, with dark clouds above the head, no stars and moon, and the cold wind howling, almost taking away the last trace of warmth from the soldiers on duty.

The three figures gathered quietly in the southwest corner of the camp. Under the dim light, their identities could be barely recognized—Mu Li, Zoe and Lin Zhao.

"Does anyone know what's going on now?" Zoe was the first to ask, "The teacher woke up the three of us at such a late hour, and gathered here in full armor, why didn't we even give a reason?"

Obviously, as a person who is not very clear about the development of the situation, she is really confused about the order she just received.

"Be safe and don't be impatient, first listen to what the pastoral team has to say." Lin Zhao was as calm as ever.

Mu Li was checking her Xin Hanyue to confirm that she had enough energy, then she raised her head to look at Zoe and Lin Zhao and said:

"Tonight, our operation is very dangerous. The goal is to catch the traitor lurking in the team. This person is as cunning as a fox and very patient. He is the top spy in the entire Federation. Be careful, this person's skills are absolutely It will be weak, and it is very likely that there will be a back move. Our goal is to try to catch it by surprise, take it down before it has time to react, and never let it have a chance to fight back."

"Catch alive or kill directly?" Lin Zhao confirmed, because the leader Mu Xin's order was directly conveyed to Mu Li, so she is not yet clear about the task content.

"The request given by the leader is that it is best to capture him alive. If it is not possible, he can be killed to avoid future troubles. I mean, he must be captured alive and pry out the information about the Zeus from his mouth, so that the balance of victory will be tilted towards us. Since La After the Tia incident, the whereabouts of the Zeus was unknown and there was no news, so I had a bad feeling in my heart." Mu Li said.

"Wait, wait, wait, I can't keep up with the rhythm. Who can explain what's going on? Who are we going to arrest?" Zoe interrupted.

Mu Li glanced at her, and replied after a while:

"Catch the captain of the No. [-] squadron you were in before—Delia."

"What?!" Zoe was taken aback, unable to react for a while, and stammered, "Delia...you mean Delia is..."

"He is the deepest traitor lurking in the team, and he is also the chief culprit who killed Major Feng Xin." Lin Zhao said. Regarding this issue, when she received the order before, because she was a member of the investigation team, Mu Li briefly raised the issue with her. It took a while, so be mentally prepared.But how to judge it, Lin Zhao is still unclear.

With regard to Major Feng Xin's case, the investigation team has been doing a good job of keeping the secrecy secret, and Zoe has been recuperating before, so she doesn't know much about the situation.Mu Li and Lin Zhao briefly explained the case to her, and then described the investigation ideas of the case.Zoe listened very carefully. When Mu Li said that the key to solving the case was an inexplicable death message, Zoe frowned and asked:

"How did you judge from such a sentence that the person Feng Xin spoke of was Delia?"

Muli explained:

"We have all entered into a misunderstanding. This is a pure word game, and it has nothing to do with the background connotation it represents. Let us first violate the normal order of reasoning, reverse the reasoning, do a bit of empathy, and simply put We put ourselves into the scene of Major Feng Xin at that time, when I found out that I was poisoned, what would be the first thought that popped into my brain?"

"Fear and anger!" Zoe said.

"Let's not talk about emotional factors for now, just talk about rational thinking. If I find myself being plotted against by others, my first thought must be why, why am I being plotted against? Isn't it?" Mu Li asked rhetorically.

Lin Zhao and Zooey nodded.

"The reason is that I knew something I shouldn't know, and the murderer was afraid that I would spread it, so he wanted to kill me. This was the most direct thought of Major Feng Xin at the time. And what did Major Feng Xin know? It was Latia and A confidential matter discussed by the leader was overheard by the murderer. Then what kind of thoughts would Major Feng Xin have? Maybe it was unwillingness, fear, anger, because she was just a translator, and she never intended to be involved However, she was plotted against because of this. How unwilling she was, she even developed hatred. She hated herself for participating in the expedition, hated herself for ruining her own life. Maybe she still hated, hated that she knew old English , and was chosen as the translator."

Mu Li paused, and then came to a conclusion: "The idea of ​​Old English became her original idea for creating this puzzle."

"You mean... this riddle is an Old English riddle?"

"Yes, this sentence itself is expressed in code. The code is a computer language, not our human natural language. Because many people don't understand it, we will naturally choose to translate it into the current lingua franca. However, we made a mistake One point is that we cannot translate this sentence into a common language, but must translate it into Old English, and then combine it with the circumstances of the case to understand the meaning.”

She took out her mobile phone, opened a blank document, entered a few English words in it, and then held it up to the two of them and explained:

"The first keyword, Daughter of the Sea, does not refer to Andersen's fairy tale, but the most direct representative of the word in Old English-cordelia, Cordelia. The word cordelia, in Celtic and Germanic In Chinese, it will be used as a girl’s name, which means the daughter of the sea. Look at this, this is what Lanny found out from Major Feng Xin’s bracelet ID. This is the e-book she stored in the bracelet ID , showing that the most recent reading record is one day before the incident, and the title of the book read is one of Shakespeare’s four major tragedies——"King Lear", and the name of King Lear's youngest daughter is Cordelia. There are also The study notes made by Major Feng Xin specifically mentioned that the English used by Latiya is probably equivalent to the English of the 17th-18th century, which is similar to Shakespeare’s era, and the words are relatively old. In order to be able to translate more barrier-free , she specially downloaded Shakespeare's works to study. From the appearance of Latia to the time before the incident, Major Feng Xin has been scrambling for old English, immersed in such a brain-filled thinking environment of old English Among them, it is a normal reaction to think of Old English at the time of the incident."

Lin Zhao nodded suddenly, while Zooey looked dazed.Mu Li didn't care so much, and continued to explain:

"The second key word, corpulmonale. The English writing of corpulmonary heart disease - Corpulmonale. Some people will write cor and pulmonarye Let's take this word apart and see that the prefix cor has no special meaning. Generally speaking, it is just an interjection when used alone, and the latter pulmonale means 'of the lungs'. Note that these are medical terms. From Latin.

Based on the facts of the case, Major Feng Xin died of myocardial infarction, which had nothing to do with the lungs.Since it has nothing to do with it, we will remove the pulmonale and ignore it.The sentence then becomes cordelia dies of cor. 'Death' means loss, loss, and disappearance. In Major Feng Xin's code, it is translated into the code of the word 'die', which can also mean a minus sign.So, we can understand that by subtracting the first three letters of the word cordelia - cordelia-cor, the word becomes..."

"Delia!" Zoe exclaimed.

"Yes, Delia." Mu Li replied.

Lin Zhao said at this time:

"Is this a little far-fetched? It may be too hasty to ignore the word pulmonale if it has nothing to do with the lungs."

Mu Li said: "It is not easy for Major Feng Xin to come up with such a riddle in the tens of seconds before he died. You can't expect this riddle to be so delicate. She uses it in a simple and direct manner. We have to use simple and direct thinking to decipher it, otherwise we will not be able to comprehend what she wants to express."

Zoe chuckled and said, "I think it's been solved to this point. In fact, there is no need to pursue rigor. This is not scientific proof, and it is not that the police must have evidence to arrest people. The facts have already been revealed." Obviously, when the word Cordelia came out, the suspicion of Delia could not escape. Major Feng Xin clearly wanted to hide Delia in the name 'Cordelia', but he was afraid that we would not She understood what it meant, so she added 'died of pulmonary heart disease' at the end, which was the first thing she thought of at the time, and it couldn't be more reasonable."

"Actually, there are other evidences. Although they are indirect evidences, they are enough to prove it." Mu Li said.

"Eh?" Zooey was startled.

"The coffee in Major Feng Xin's stomach is very precious Blue Mountain coffee. Major Feng Xin only carried Blue Mountain coffee. Therefore, in order to pretend to die a natural death, the murderer must provide her with Blue Mountain coffee. This coffee should be the murderer himself. I bought it from my own private collection or from someone else, but definitely not from Feng Xin. This kind of coffee is not available in the market at all, and it is only available in the army, and the supply is also very limited. Only officers above the rank can get it. When the team first set off, the personal belongings of each team member had been registered, and there were only a handful of people who carried coffee, and the only ones who carried Blue Mountain coffee were Lanny, He Mo, and The leader, Major Feng Xin and Delia, and then compare Major Feng Xin's interpersonal relationship, once ruled out, Delia came out.

We checked carefully. Delia and Feng Xin were old comrades who joined the army in the same year. They had been serving in the same army. They were very close, and they had a very good relationship in private.Therefore, in the middle of the night, Delia went to find Feng Xin with coffee, and she would not be suspicious.Probably killing Feng Xin by poisoning coffee was Delia's impromptu idea, not premeditated before departure, so he didn't expect to leave such a loophole.Or maybe, he thought of it before committing the crime, but he still chose to do it because of another purpose, which is unknown. "

"So that's it, oops, so, hasn't this Delia been lurking for a long, long time?" Zoe's face was a little ugly.

"It cannot be ruled out that the current Delia is not the original Delia at all." Mu Li said.

Lin Zhao took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, now that the identity of the murderer has been confirmed, what should we do next."

Mu Li turned his attention to a double tent about thirty steps away, and said:

"Delia has always lived with Doug Stephen of the Fifth Squadron. Doug didn't know about this matter, and we didn't want to disturb him. Before the meeting, I went to check it out, Delly Ya and Doug should be in the tent now, and we don’t need to worry about Doug. Later, Zoe and Xiaozhao, you two should stand outside the tent, and one of you should keep an eye on one side of the tent. I’ll go in and catch Delia alone. I will strive for a success. If I miss, you will be responsible for the support. Be careful not to let Delia have the opportunity to inform the outside world, and don’t let him have any chance to escape. We judge that he is likely to commit suicide. One point must be paid attention to. In addition, there is another possibility that he may try his best to die together and attack the leader. He seems to have targeted the leader before, but because Qiu Zheng and Xiaozhao were standing by, he was afraid of scaring the snake, so he gave up. Yes. Qiu Zheng, Lan Ni and Joan have already gone to protect the leader, we just need to complete our own tasks.

Finally, I want to emphasize again that the enemy is likely to be alert, or they may have already prepared, so we must act with caution.Only succeed, not fail, understand? "

"Understood!" Lin Zhao and Zoe responded in unison.

After the three of them agreed, Mu Li picked up his Xin Hanyue on his back, then took out his saber, held it in his hand, and quietly walked towards the target tent.Lin Zhao followed behind with swords in both hands; Zoe pushed back, and the big shield was already on her arm.

When Lin Zhao and Zoe were in position, Mu Li gently opened a corner of the tent with a dagger.Fortunately, the federal marching tents are not zippered, but buttoned, and the curtains are all tied to the tent body.The saber in Mu Li's hand was extremely sharp, and he cut off the button tie silently, then slowly opened the door curtain, and sneaked into the tent like a ghost.

In the darkness, she crouched on the spot, and there was a person lying on the camp mattresses in her left and right hands. According to their body types, the thinner one was her target—Delia.

She groped towards Delia's bed, intending to stun him with the handle of the knife before saying anything else.But when she approached the bed, she suddenly noticed that something was wrong, because the person lying on the bed was not a human being at all, but a roll of quilt that was pinched into a human shape.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she was about to evacuate the tent immediately.But suddenly there was a murderous intent coming from behind, Mu Li reacted extremely quickly, his right hand stretched to the back like lightning, grasped the handle of Xinhanyue knife, the blade came out of its sheath with a "clang", and in the pitch-black tent with the help of a corner of the opened tent curtain, Reflects the coldness.

The opponent seemed to be shaken for a moment, and his attack was slow. Mu Li seized this opportunity, turned around and drew the knife, and swung the knife to slash. He heard a crisp "ding", and the opponent immediately left after missing a hit.

Mu Li shouted sharply:

"stop!"

Outside the tent, Zoe only felt a figure come out of the tent like lightning, stabbing at her with a sharp aura, she immediately raised her shield subconsciously in shock, and then only felt a strong force coming, causing her to back up involuntarily. The ear-piercing sound of scraping metal pierced her ears, and a sharp scream shook her brain, her jaw was numb, she almost lost her grip on the shield, and was unable to react for a while.

The opponent seized the opportunity and immediately fled quickly towards Zoe's side.

The author has something to say: the next chapter ends the third volume

Regarding the identity of the murderer, I don’t blame you for not being able to make this reasoning. It’s my fault that I didn’t give all the known clues. When I wrote the last chapter, I left out the key point of Shakespeare. Stay in this chapter to complete.Alas... I am old and my memory is not good.