Alien Knights

In the dark basement, Sabrina drank the fruit wine in front of her in one gulp by the faint candlelight, and said mockingly: "What third pick, the current me is just a lost dog."

Todd glanced quietly at Rachel, who gave him a calm look.

Sabrina continued: "When Clarence was alive, I had a pretty good life. Now I can only hide underground and live like a mouse!"

Rachel explained to Todd at this time: "For Sabrina, Eleanor specially issued a bounty in the alien group. Whoever catches her can get a large bounty, regardless of life or death."

Todd asked, "Why is Eleanor doing this to her?"

Sabrina pointed to her own head, her immature face was full of vicissitudes of helplessness: "Because of my supernatural ability... I can lodge my soul in the blood in my body, and through the way of blood possession, Abandon the original body and obtain a new body. In this way, I can indirectly obtain infinite life."

Todd somewhat understood her situation: "That's why Eleanor, who pursues immortality, took your ability as a target, and that's why she wanted to catch you so desperately."

Rachel nodded: "This time I was able to enter Iliad's library and transcribe the books I wanted, thanks to Sabrina's ability. She occupied the body of a masked servant and served me Opened the way to sneak in."

Having said that, Rachel held out her palm to Sabrina: "What about the things I asked you to keep?"

Sabrina didn't move, but turned to Rachel and asked, "What about the things you promised me?"

Rachel turned her head sideways, looked at the girl in front of her, and said amusedly, "King Muxi didn't hesitate to be in danger, and I want to see you here. Don't you believe my promise?"

Sabrina bowed her head and thought for a moment, then gritted her teeth and made up her mind, left the seat and walked to the corner of the basement, lifted a floor tile, and brought out a heavy wooden box.

Putting it on the table, Sabrina opened the box, pointed to a pile of notes inside, and said to Rachel: "It's all here."

Todd took out the notebook from the wooden box and looked through it carefully.

A large amount of text and pictures were copied in dozens of notebooks. What gave Todd a headache was that some of the text was in Common Language, some in Imperial Language, but most of them were in a completely incomprehensible language.

"These are all in ancient Tyro language, and they are translations of ancient text scrolls." Rachel looked at Todd's eyes, and quickly raised her hands and said, "Don't look at me like that, although I know more than a dozen languages, But I can’t understand this kind of writing at all.”

In desperation, Todd skipped the words and began to focus on the pictures.

Huge black towers, gleaming underground passages, and mysterious inverted pyramid patterns...

The notes are all descriptions of Crystal Su and the Beacon Tower. It looks like these things have been spread among the people long before the birth of words.

Todd turned to a page of notes and stopped suddenly.

It was full of strange words transcribed on it, which were the symbols that Meredith had shown him in the soul space.

One horizontal circle and then another horizontal circle, two upper and middle circles and one lower and one horizontal circle, and the last circle of upper and middle horizontal circles... There are dozens of such strange symbols in total, all of which are randomly arranged with horizontal lines and circles .

While clenching his hands into fists to support his chin, Todd thought hard, thinking to himself, could it be that these regular symbols are a kind of code?

Rachel leaned over to look at the notes, and said softly: "These symbols come from the records of the only person who entered the beacon tower room thousands of years ago. According to his description, these symbols are filled on the crystal screen. It keeps jumping, changing, and floating. Maybe...these are the languages ​​used by the absolute will?"

"I always feel that this symbol is very familiar. I should have seen it somewhere." Todd scratched his head: "But I can't remember it for a while."

Sabrina, who was sitting next to Todd, poked her head over, rotated the note on the table 90 degrees, placed it in front of her eyes, and looked at it curiously.

Looking at the notebook that was rotated 90 degrees in front of him, the original horizontal lines became vertical lines, and all the symbols became three-digit strings of numbers. Todd felt as if struck by lightning, and for a moment he forgot to breathe.

"1010011100101101..."

Todd's unconscious chanting caught Rachel's attention.

"What's wrong? What did you find?"

Pointing at the notebook, Todd said in a trembling voice: "Thousands of years ago, when those ancient Tairo people copied and translated the ancient scrolls, they probably made a mistake in the direction of the paper..."

"Wrong paper orientation?"

"The typesetting that was supposed to be transcribed horizontally turned out to be vertical..." Todd pointed to the notes and said, "So, these horizontal bars should be vertical, these symbols are actually numbers, a bunch of 0 and 1 composed numbers."

Rachel looked carefully, and murmured: "That's right, looking upside down, these symbols do look like the numbers used by the empire, 0 and 1... Then, what does this represent?"

Todd rubbed his temples vigorously with his fingers: "In my hometown, 0 and 1 are used as the most basic computing language, and their arrangement and change can be used to store information, embody logic and formula calculation...so, it It is widely used in the compilation of programs for intelligent machines."

The more Rachel listened, the more confused she became: "You mean, the symbols displayed in the control room of the beacon tower are actually a machine language of heaven?"

"This language is called a binary language, and it is regarded as a calculation method that can achieve the results of all things, but... why? Why does it appear in the beacon tower?"

Todd crossed his arms and thought hard: "Could it be that the beacon tower and the crystal lodge are all artificial products? The plane experiment, the battle of the gods, and the selection of races are actually related to future human beings. connection?"

Todd, who couldn't think of an answer after thinking about it, sighed towards the roof with a distressed face.

Rachel comforted him and said: "We still have too little information at hand. If we can translate these Tyro characters and study them carefully, we may have more answers."

Todd nodded, put the notebook into the wooden box, motioned for Rachel to put it away properly, and then asked, "When will the ship be able to return to Muxi City?"

"I've already sent someone to contact you." Rachel locked the wooden box and replied, "In the evening of the day after tomorrow, a two-masted cargo ship will arrive at the port. After boarding the ship, we will go west to bypass the Empire's sea patrol Team, and then go north to Muxi City."