Chapter 92 Deciphering
"Are divine characters really as magical as the runes in ancient religious legends?"
After completing the new sentence divisions on the printed copy of the experimental notes, Li Yi asked a question.
“It’s not magical, it’s incomprehensible.”
As Lao Zhang looked through the printed copy that Li Yi handed over, he said, "The divine words may only be appearances, just like our circuits. The core is the internal layout and logical structure of the circuits, but after forming circuit boards, from the perspective of ordinary people, they are like special runes."
"However, we have scholars who have observed whether there are very fine faults and tiny structures inside the runes."
“But none of them were able to observe successfully.”
"When we observe it with conventional microscopic means, it seems to be smooth and empty, with nothing related to circuits."
"Some people also speculated that it is really the structure of the runes that produces the corresponding effect? It just requires the infusion of divinity?"
“But we have tried to imitate the ancient technology black box as much as possible based on what we can see, and then inject divinity into it, but we have never succeeded.”
"In short, there are too many things that are unclear."
Li Yi touched his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Can I understand it this way? Deciphering the text of the gourd civilization can at most let us know the logic of the gourd civilization's text, and then deduce the connotation of the altar's runes, and then we can confirm whether these runes have a direct effect on the altar's miraculous effects?"
"Yes."
Lao Zhang said:
"I have seen the calculation images provided by the virtual reality. Combined with what you said before, I think that the ancient gourd civilization should have mastered the divine writing and derived its own system. However, the modern gourd civilization has lost this ability."
"Fortunately, they have preserved the meaning of the text. Therefore, even if we try to decipher it this time, the worst result will be that we can get close to the truth of ancient technology from the meaning of the text."
"And the best result is to master it directly."
Li Yi nodded and said, "Which result do you think is more likely, Mr. Zhang?"
Lao Zhang said: "Of course I hope to succeed in one fell swoop, but from a realistic point of view, it would be good enough if I can figure out the connotation of the text and get closer to the truth of the divine text."
As he was talking, Lao Zhang had already finished reading Li Yi's punctuated version of the experimental notes.
"That's interesting. Your way of punctuation is quite useful for reference. Some of your punctuation may be more reasonable than mine."
"Now, you come and help me. I will tell you how to split the glyphs, and then let the AI system help you search for the relevance between the split glyphs and the historical text. Then, the AI will give you the corresponding word meaning screening."
"Finally, you manually filter the meanings of characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs that AI has selected. After several steps, the connotation of the text will basically be almost accurate. Do you understand?"
"I roughly understand. I'll try it first."
…
The efficiency of the AI-assisted decryption system is indeed very high.
For example, after the character "gourd" is split, it may have different pictographic states.
AI will use the characters that Li Yi split into pieces, and based on all the object forms in the cosmic museum knowledge base and the ancient text materials of Setan, give the specific objects, sounds, states or actions that this pictograph may refer to.
Then, based on all the suspected texts that he had screened out, Li Yi manually screened out the possible texts.
After several rounds of repeated screening, some of the answers with the highest error rates will be gradually eliminated, leaving only a few possibilities with the highest correct rate.
This can reduce the effort of the decoder to repeatedly ponder.
Moreover, the AI decryption system's database is complete enough and has been optimized on a large scale.
Therefore, the error rate is very low.
Li Yi observed Lao Zhang's working methods and learned how to operate them, and soon got into the state.
Li Yi, who absorbed a massive amount of memory fragments, had such an amazing learning ability that it really shocked Lao Zhang for a while.
In the middle, when I saw him operating faster and faster, I couldn't help but say, "Boy, why did you click it after just one look? Even AI recognition with a very low error rate can still have errors. You must identify carefully and think carefully, understand?"
Li Yi said:
"I've been thinking about it for a long time, Mr. Zhang. You think I just took one look and clicked. In fact, I've already looked at it several times in that second. It shouldn't be wrong."
Chen Qiongzhi also said:
"Yes, I have been looking at Li Yi's page. I think there is nothing wrong with the text he filtered out."
Lao Zhang wanted to say something else.
Chen Qiongzhi said: "If we find any problems after we finish the work, we can fix them. We might as well speed up the process now."
After seeing that Li Yi's operation was fine, she actually woke up the AI assistance system and started operating it.
Apparently, Chen Qiongzhi did know a little bit about decryption, just as she said.
In other words, with the help of AI-assisted systems, we can get involved to some extent.
…
In the blink of an eye, most of the night was over.
Several people stayed up all night.
Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi are both evolvers with strong physiques, so they can naturally endure it.
Although Lao Zhang is not an evolver, as an expert in codes and writing, he naturally has a lot of benefits to keep himself healthy.
Plus, I was very excited at the moment, so I could hold on.
"All the words, phrases, and sentences have been selected. Let's interpret them one by one."
In this regard, the expert is Lao Zhang.
He just flipped open the first page of his experiment notes and said:
"This is the deciphered text. Please help confirm whether it makes sense."
"The 31st cycle day of the 301st year of the Hulu calendar, the first experiment."
"Captured a giant creature from the Holy Land, a large snake head, 2238 gourds long. Failed to extract its divinity, and it escaped from the laboratory. Later found dead on the second floor of the Holy Land (this sentence was added later)."
Li Yi knew that Lao Zhang used gourd to translate the unit of length into gourd civilization.
According to the information he had seen on the AI-assisted system before, a gourd was likely in the range of 0.6-0.9 meters.
Thinking about it, Li Yi said: "It seems that this big snake-headed creature is the remains of the 100-meter-class snake-headed mecha that we found in the ruins before."
Lao Zhang nodded and continued:
"The 32nd cycle day of the 301st year of the Hulu calendar."
"Capture the black water creatures on the seventh floor of the Holy Land and keep them."
"The 33rd cycle day of the 301st year of the Gourd Calendar."
"Capture the eighth-layer creatures of the Holy Land, the slime creatures. They are the bottom-level creatures in the eighth-layer food chain. They are easy to extract, easy to copy, and easy to transform. They are suitable combat materials."
"The 36th cycle day of the 301st year of the Gourd Calendar."
"The black water started to hatch, but began to show strong aggressiveness. I used my divinity to barely resist the danger of the black water. For temporary safety, I sealed the black water and left it for later operation."
Chen Qiongzhi said: "Three cycle days are missing in the middle?"
Lao Zhang said: "Yes, this is the order in the notes."
Li Yi added: "Pages 3 to 5 of the notebook have traces of being torn. Perhaps there were records there, but they were torn away by the author."
Chen Qiongzhi said thoughtfully: "But it is also possible that it was torn away by a third party? Although the possibility is small, it is not impossible."
Li Yi nodded and said, "Indeed."
Lao Zhang continued translating.
Some of them cannot be fully translated.
For example, there are some proper nouns, or words whose meanings just don't match. These all exist.
But Lao Zhang said that these are allowable errors and do not affect the understanding of the general meaning.
The contents of the experimental notes are also quite interesting.
Basically, it talks about how the experimenter captured what kind of creature, how he conducted the experiment, and what happened.
But no specific data or experimental process was mentioned.
It is estimated that all the storage files containing detailed data were taken away.
Until page 14.
Lao Zhang said:
"The 44th cycle day of the 301st year of the Gourd Calendar."
"Captured the intelligent species on the surface, Homo erectus, and tried to obtain the secret of wisdom. Failed, and Homo erectus died."
"The 45th to 59th cycle day of the 301st year of the Hulu calendar."
"We captured more than 30 intelligent species within a ten-light-year radius, dissected and analyzed them one by one, and learned about the causes of their intelligence."
After saying this, Lao Zhang was the first to shake his head and said:
"Within a range of ten light years, the solar system is also within this range. It seems that this gourd man may have captured ancient humans."
Li Yi pondered and said, "According to the various organs that the gourd man had stored in the laboratory, I checked the relevant information and can roughly estimate that some humans lived in the two hundred years between 1500 and 1700 AD."
"What's strange is that during those two hundred years, there was a period of dynasty change and cultural transformation. Some of the organs and faces in the culture tubes looked like people from the previous dynasty, while others looked like people from the next dynasty."
"According to this logic, the Gourd Man's cycle may not be a few days like ours, but a few years? Or even more than ten years?"
Li Yi didn't say everything because his knowledge of ancient history was only average.
At most, it’s better than ordinary people, but not much.
Lao Zhang said, "I also think that the translation of 'cycle day' has some problems, but this is the most appropriate translation among the meanings of the words that have been broken down so far... In short, what you said is indeed very likely. The life cycle of the gourd man may be much longer than we guessed."
Chen Qiongzhi pondered, "In other words, the gourd man might be an immortal species? Or, like us, he evolved his body and improved his physique through divine radiation?"
Lao Zhang said:
"Who knows? This is not my field."
Then, Lao Zhang continued reading.
…
"The 12th cycle day of the 303rd year of the Hulu calendar."
"The slime organism transformation project was successful. This is one of my most successful experiments so far."
"The first modified organism I named Macrophagous Mucus has a powerful ability to evolve through phagocytosis. It is currently the most powerful biological weapon in my hands! Praise the gift of the Holy Land, which has made my experiment progress exceptionally smoothly!"
“Praise the Holy Land!”
Hearing this, Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi looked at each other, their eyes lit up.
"We have the evidence!"
Chen Qiongzhi smiled and said, "You actually guessed it right. Congratulations. It seems that the next time you enter the ruins, you will be able to determine the specific cause of death of the advance team."
Li Yi said in a low voice: "I just don't know if the fact that I translated the term macrophage mucus will affect the credibility of the evidence."
Lao Zhang was also happy and said:
"As for deciphering the credibility, there is AI notarization, and I can also prove it for you, so there is naturally no need to worry."
"In fact, if anyone dares to question my final draft, they can come and confront me!"
Li Yi smiled and said:
"Thank you, Teacher Zhang."
…
The deciphering of the writing of the gourd civilization is almost correct.
As Lao Zhang translated the whole thing, the logic was basically smooth.
The errors are only in a few word meanings.
Finally, after the decryption manuscript was completely finalized, Lao Zhang said with emotion: "It seems that Qiong Zhi really didn't brag to you. Li Yi, you are really good. If you retire and don't work as a mecha master in the future, you can consider coming to me to do decryption work. It will be fun."
"Especially now that the Xingyu Federation is constantly expanding, many records of civilizations that have appeared in ancient times will be recorded and summarized."
"For those of us who work in the field of text deciphering, we can also get a glimpse of the secrets of a civilization from the text, which is no less fulfilling than any other job."
Li Yi smiled and said:
"Then if there is a chance in the future, I will have to trouble Teacher Zhang to give me more advice."
"I don't deserve your advice. You will definitely explore various ancient civilization relics or discover various meaningful characters in the future. If you are interested, I can send you a learning list. Take the time to study it and learn more. Then you will be able to explore more easily in the future."
Lao Zhang took a long puff of his cigarette and said, "Next, I plan to continue following the deciphered text and trace it back to its source. I will continue to decipher the runes on the altar to see what is written on it."
"How about we continue working together?"
Although Chen Qiongzhi also wanted to know whether the writing of the gourd civilization actually involved the core of divine technology.
But at this moment, after a night, it was already time for training.
Therefore, she said:
"We'll come over again tonight after we finish training. I hope to see some results from you, Lao Zhang."
Lao Zhang shook his head and said, "Without the help of you two, the efficiency has dropped drastically. What a pity. You Evolvers are obviously quick-witted and are more suitable for use with the AI auxiliary system."
Chen Qiongzhi smiled and said, "Why, do you think you are not suitable for AI-assisted deciphering?"
Lao Zhang nodded and said, "It's not that it's unsuitable, but I'm afraid that once I rely on this thing, my deciphering ability and, most importantly, text sensitivity will slowly deteriorate. This is a skill that I've practiced for decades and I still feel there's room for improvement."
Li Yi praised:
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Teacher Zhang is very persistent."
"What a bullshit! I'm just old and useless. I can only rely on one skill package to conquer the world."
Lao Zhang smiled and continued to work.
Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi naturally left as well.
…
At noon, Li Yi and everyone talked about the deciphering results of the gourd civilization.
Cai Xiaodong enviously said, "This is Li Yi's unique treatment. There are all kinds of first-class experts that we don't usually see. The instructor said he would take us to see them. It's great."
Tan Haoran smiled and said, "If you had half the brains of Li Yi, there might still be some hope."
Cai Xiaodong snorted: "If I am half, then you are one-fifth!"
"You two, stop making jokes. Let's get down to business first!"
Pharmacist Wan scolded, and then asked Li Yi:
"So, in other words, there really is an evolving giant goo in the fifth level?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "With this evidence, we can basically confirm the situation of the giant creature hiding in the dark. Next week, we only need to complete the remaining chain of evidence to confirm the cause of death of the advance team and get the reward."
Everyone was delighted.
"However, since we can't defeat these slime creatures, the value of the reward will probably be discounted due to insufficient information on strategies."
Li Yi said:
"Therefore, we need to confirm whether we should submit the reward after completing the chain of evidence next week; or wait for one or two more ruins explorations to find out the slime creatures' weaknesses as much as possible, or even kill a slime creature ourselves and get the strategy information before submitting it all together?"
Zhang Xuqiang said:
"I agree with the latter. Only in this way can our overall benefits be the highest."
A few people looked at each other and felt that it would be better to find out the results of the bounty clearly so that they could earn more and have a better chance of choosing a suitable divine weapon.
Therefore, everyone agreed with the latter.
…
During the actual combat training in the afternoon, Li Yi approached Zhang Xuqiang and said:
"I didn't practice more yesterday, so I wasn't able to collect yesterday's divine radiation. Please ask the brothers to find some time to help me, and see if I have a chance to condense a new divine gene this time."
Zhang Xuqiang immediately said: "Arrange it now!"
With the arrival of the seven-member rent collection team, Li Yi also entered the Pluto mecha, started it up, and activated his divinity.
Now, his starting speed only takes a little over 10 minutes, which has reached the lower normal level of the class, which is cause for celebration.
In this way, when the actual combat comes, there will be more room for operation, and you can pop out and rest for a short period of time.
The overall battery life has been improved again.
Of course, those who have already mastered the skill of starting and stopping freely within one minute still need to work harder.
At this moment, the divine radiation of the seven-member group has radiated towards Li Yi through the Pluto mecha.
Zhang Xuqiang said to the other six people:
"I didn't pay yesterday, so I'll pay today, which means 4 minutes per person. Thank you for your support, brothers."
Zhang Wenqiang smiled and said, "Compared to Xuqiang's recent progress and achievements, our contribution is just a small matter."
Although Zhang Wuqiang was reluctant, he had to admit that Zhang Xuqiang had indeed changed greatly after joining Li Yi's team. He was ahead of everyone else in the strategy of conquering the virtual ruins.
Thinking of this, Zhang Wuqiang said:
"Brother Xu Qiang, don't worry, we brothers are your strongest backing! We only hope that you can fly higher and higher, and revitalize our Zhang and Qian families in the future."
Zhang Xuqiang said in a deep voice:
"Of course, it would be great if everyone has no complaints. I believe time will prove our choice."
…
Inside the Pluto mecha, Li Yi felt that there was a sign of the sixth divinity, but it seemed that it was still a little short of the mark.
No wonder, this time his battle with the slime creature was also a high-intensity battle, and it took longer.
But in fact, after getting the Zanpakuken, his pressure plummeted instantly.
Therefore, the effectiveness of this high-intensity combat is still slightly inferior.
"The total amount of divine radiation is still a little less. It seems that I have to think of a way to expand the source of divine radiation."
"I'll take some time these two days to use up the quota of public divinity."
"Then, I will try to get more military merits and exchange them for some B-level fusion-type divine nuclei. These can also increase my divine radiation."
In the blink of an eye, four minutes passed.
In the cockpit, Li Yi let out a long breath and thought to himself:
"Before I go to Teacher Zhang's place tonight, I should first drag the instructor and let her give me a hard drill for two hours before I go there."
…
After the afternoon training session.
Li Yi quickly chased Chen Qiongzhi into her office and said, "Instructor, my sixth divine gene is almost ready to come out. How about we practice a few moves before we go to Teacher Zhang?"
"What, it's only been a week and you've got another one?"
Chen Qiongzhi's beautiful lips couldn't help but twitch.
Li Yi smiled and said:
"Instructor, why are you so surprised? Didn't I also buy one a week before?"
"It's getting harder and harder to be a normal person, but you... Never mind, it's useless to tell you that being a normal person is useless. You are not a normal person to begin with. This is my problem."
Chen Qiongzhi knocked on the table, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, this is a good thing. Then when the field is empty, I will increase your speed and strength again to see if you can react."
Li Yi smiled and said:
"One gear is not enough, instructor. If you want a better effect, you'd better give me two or three more gears. Besides, I still hope that the instructor can give me some guidance."
"Do you think I'm an old car, with one or two gears?"
Chen Qiongzhi shook her head and said:
"Okay then. See you in five minutes. I need to take care of some loose ends."
"Okay, I'll wait for the instructor's good news."
…
At this moment, according to the situation in the first half of the month, the training hall, which should have been empty, was actually filled with some noise.
It is Li Yi’s group and Fang Tao’s group.
During this period of time, both groups have become accustomed to rolling up.
At this moment, Li Yi and the instructor walked out of the office and went to the fighting arena, attracting everyone's attention.
Chen Qiongzhi ignored the other people's gazes and said with a smile: "This time, besides your slight improvement in physique, what other tricks have you not used yet? If you don't have any new tricks, then your recent improvement in physique can't withstand my speed and strength after I increase it by two or three levels."
Li Yi smiled and said, "Of course there are. I hope the instructor can give me more appreciation and guidance."
As he spoke, an invisible divinity began to surround Li Yi.
Ambient air, automatic without wind.
Li Yi adjusted his breathing, stimulated his qi and blood, and directly launched an explosive skill.
Then, he supported himself with one hand, put his right hand behind his back, leaned his body forward, and looked like a tiger out of a cage. This was the starting posture of the Tiger Strike Style.
The astonishing momentum even frightened the group of people who had gathered unconsciously in the stands.
Sun Duxiu murmured, "Li Yi's fighting skills seem to have improved. With just one random move, he can actually give me the illusion of seeing a giant tiger."
Recently, with Li Yi's increasing actual combat experience and improved physical fitness.
His fighting skills have already subtly broken through the bottleneck above perfection and are beginning to display fighting skills that have never been shown in this era.
Chen Qiongzhi's eyes also flashed with surprise, and said:
"You use the Tiger Strike Style better than I do."
Li Yi didn't say anything and started to rush forward.
As he rushed forward, the Wind God sequence divine gene with tornado characteristics in his body suddenly shone brightly among the thousands of gene segments.
Whoosh!!! Halfway through the acceleration, Li Yi's body suddenly disappeared, and he accelerated suddenly! In the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of Chen Qiongzhi!
“So soon?”
Chen Qiongzhi, who was only using the strength and speed of a mid-level evolver, didn't react instantly.
Boom!!! Li Yi punched Chen Qiongzhi in the chest.
As the soft flesh of his chest vibrated like waves, Chen Qiongzhi suddenly exerted force when he was hit, and his body absorbed most of the force of the blow, and then retreated violently.
"Good boy, how come this punch is so much stronger than the last one? Although it can't penetrate my skin, the force is enough to crush most mid-level evolvers."
Li Yi smiled slightly and said:
"Instructor, didn't you notice the divine movement at my feet? That was a tornado. I activated the divine gene of the Wind God sequence and added a tornado thrust to the original acceleration."
Chen Qiongzhi laughed dumbly: "Well, I made the mistake of empiricism today."
As he spoke, Chen Qiongzhi also suddenly sprinted forward, his entire body turning into a high-speed white line, running towards Li Yi.
Bang!!! With a loud bang, the two fists collided directly, and the air was emptied instantly.
Instantly, the two collided again at high speed, and the sound of "Pa Pa Pa" continued.
Visually, it was dazzling, and I could only see the punches and feet moving as fast as phantoms.
Many people watching below couldn't keep up with the speed of the two.
Although its power is far less than that of the divine mecha, its strength is enough to shock the people below.
Sun Duxiu was shocked and said, "Has Li Yi's strength improved to the point where even the instructor needs to use all his strength? Isn't this the level of a top-notch mid-level evolver?"
Yao Shiwan frowned and said, "No, the instructor's strength is at least comparable to that of a high-level evolver. He should still have some strength left."
"Even so, it's scary enough. I won't watch it anymore. I need to practice more!"
Sun Duxiu was shocked and reached out to forcefully turn his head away.
On the court.
Li Yi smiled and said, "Instructor, I have another trick. Please appreciate it."
As he spoke, sounds like electromagnetic explosions came from around Li Yi.
(End of this chapter)