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- It was not until Friday that a letter from "Huang Jiang" from an office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs arrived, but it brought disappointment. The letter said:
Received your letter. The old district is in an island country and is dealing with some trouble there. According to the prior order, he cannot be contacted. He might be inland, but he might be back in a few weeks. How are you?
"Asshole!" Xia Xiang said angrily. He threw the letter into the wastebasket, put on his hat, and went to the landlord. There he found Zhiqiu, who was hard at work deciphering the coded letter. However, according to him, he failed miserably.
"I think trying these tagged words is in vain," Xia wanted to say, "Now the old district can't help us. Let us use our own brains to solve the problem. Now, look, let's start with another problem. This What¡¯s in the letter, and why wasn¡¯t it burned with the other letters?¡±
"It's really strange when you say that."
"It's very strange. The letter arrived on Tuesday morning. On Wednesday he paid all the bills and burned all the letters in the evening. On Thursday morning, Link went to take the train. Can we speculate that the letter was about doing Instructions on all these things?¡±
"It seems likely."
"Indeed. This means that the letter probably included an appointment to meet him at Pingtie. Now the question is, why didn't he burn this letter with the other letters?"
Zhiqiu¡¯s mind was searching in detective novels, a field he was very familiar with.
"When detective novelists write books," he commented, "they often use the phrase 'bring this letter with you' so that a bad guy can eventually be exposed. From the bad guy's point of view, so that he can confirm that the letter has been Destroyed. Of course, from a writer's perspective, the arrangement was to place the letter on the victim, so it could be written that the victim's hand held a fragment of the letter tightly to help solve the crime."
"That's right. Now, suppose our bad guy was aware of your cunning ulterior motives. Suppose he said to himself: 'Zhiqiu and other famous detectives often have murderers tell their victims: "Bring this letter with you." , then this must be the right thing to do.¡¯ That¡¯s probably why the letter is here.¡±
"Then he must be a particularly amateur murderer."
"Why wouldn't it be possible? Unless this is really the work of a trained Russian agent. I think somewhere in the letter, probably at the wedding, we can find the phrase 'bring this letter with you,' This would explain why Xin was there."
"I understand. But why was the letter pressed in the inner pocket and not in the hands of the victim as we assumed?"
"Maybe the victim didn't do what the killer said."
"Then the murderer will search his body and find the letter."
"He must have forgotten."
"How stupid!"
"I can't think of anything else. The letter is here, and there is no doubt that the admiration is full of dangerous and important information. If the letter arranged that meeting, this evidence is enough to prove that Link did not commit suicide, but was murdered. .¡±
"Listen! Assuming that this letter simply contains instructions on how to get to the Flat Iron, Link may have taken it with him because he was afraid that he would forget."
"No way. The reason is that he would put the letter in a convenient place, such as an outside pocket, instead of clipping it in a notebook. And¡ª¡ª"
"Not necessarily. He placed it somewhere convenient before arriving at the meeting place, but then hid it safely. After all, he sat on the flat iron for an hour or so by himself, didn't he?"
"Yes, but I haven't finished what I just said. If you want to read the instructions on the letter, then he will not send the letter with a code, but will bring a decoded version."
"Yeah - but - you know what, that solves the problem! He did bring the decoded version, and the murderer said, 'Did you bring the letter?' Link didn't even think about it, so he just brought this The decoded version was given to him, and then the murderer took one look at it and destroyed it, forgetting that the original copy might also be in his possession.¡±
"You're right," Xia wanted to say, "You're absolutely right. That's what happened, but it still doesn't help us much. However, we now know what content will definitely appear in the letter. It will be of great help when we decipher it. We also know that the murderer is relatively amateur, which is confirmed by the letter itself. "
"How to prove it?"
"There are two lines at the beginning of the letter, each containing only six letters. Only a possible murderer would reveal six separate letters in one line, let alone?Two lines of six letters. These words can only be two things. They could have been keywords for the password - substitute keywords for the letter, but they weren't, because I've tried it, and no one would be stupid enough to put keywords and passwords on the same piece of paper. They might also be keywords for the next letter, but I don¡¯t think they are either. For the encoding method I am talking about, six-letter words are too short as keywords. If it is a twelve-letter word, it is rare in English for a word to have twelve non-repeating letters. . "
"Is it possible if the twelve letters are not repeated?"
"It's possible. But based on Link's careful criteria in the dictionary, it seems impossible for these players to do so. Well, if these words aren't keywords or passwords, I guess they might represent addresses. Or, more Maybe one is the address and the other is the date. Their positions are exactly where the address and date are. Of course I don't mean the detailed address, just the name of the city, such as the Imperial Capital or the Magic Capital. The one below is the date."
"It's possible."
"We can give it a try. We can't confirm the address, but it is said that the letters were mailed from other countries. But we may be able to get the date."
"How are the dates arranged?"
"Let me think about it. These letters must represent the numbers of the day, month, and year. That means that one of them is an arbitrary filled-in letter. There cannot be an odd number in the letters, and there are two identical numbers in the month. It's highly unlikely that the letter arrived here on June 16th. I'm not sure how long it takes to get a letter from somewhere in another country, but it usually doesn't take more than three days, four days at the most. . This means that this letter must have been sent after June 10th. If these letters do not represent numbers, then I think rbexmg refers to either the tenth day of June or the tenth day of June. Now, if it represents the number If so, our coding tool would make 1 equal a, 2 equal b, 3 equal c, and so on, or it might treat 1 as the first letter of the keyword, and so on. The first hypothesis is more likely, because This will not expose the keyword. So we assume that 1 is equal to a, so what he originally wrote was a? june or june-a? Then use the ordinary method to encode the letter, that? marks an uncertain number, this number It must be less than 5. Very good, now, is it more likely to be written as ten or ten in June, or ten or six in June?"
"Most Chinese people write the day first and the month last. This is especially true for business people, but some old people still insist on putting the month first."
"Okay, let's try ten June first. Let's say rbexmg stands for a? june. Great, now let's see what we can get. Let's write it two letters, two letters. Let's put rb aside for now and start studying ex. Now, ex is equal to ju. In this kind of password, there is one thing that is very helpful for decoding. If it appears in the password table whether it is on a horizontal line or a vertical line, The two letters are next to each other, and you will find that the pair of letters before encoding and the pair of letters after encoding have the same letter. Do you understand? Okay, look! Take the keyword squander as an example. The form is written like this:
"If you encode the pair of letters de, then, taking the letter to the right of the two letters (according to the horizontal line principle), you will get de equal to er; the letter e appears before encoding and after encoding. On the vertical line The same goes for one letter immediately following another. Now, in our first pair of letters ex equals ju, which does not happen, so we can write them in tabular form for now.
"Considering these letters as the four corners of a parallelogram, we can say that jx must appear on the same line in the password form, horizontal or vertical; the same is true for je, and the same is true for eu and ux."
"But suppose ju follows the horizontal line rule or the vertical line rule, and the two letters are not adjacent?"
"It doesn't matter; it just means that the four letters are all on a line, like this: "jeux or xue?" j or other similar arrangement. So, writing out the letters we got in tabular form, we get:
"Unfortunately, there are no repeating letters here. It would have made a difference if there had been, but we can't always get lucky."
"Now, the first thing to notice is that the u and the There are four spaces left, and of course one of the letters is in the keyword. Let's take a risk and assume that the letter is not z. If it is z, we have to start over again, but we have to find a clue. Let's take the risk of z. Then there are three possibilities in the last line: uvxyz, w is in the keyword, or uwxyz, v is in the keyword.?, or uvwxz, y is in the keyword. But no matter what, u must be in the lower left corner. Now, looking at our table again, we find that e and u must appear on a line. We can't infer that e is connected to u, because in this case the keywords will be too long, and there are only four letters of space between e and u, so we put e in the leftmost column The first three spaces look like this:
"This doesn't make any real sense, but it's a start. Now let's deal with x. We know that x can never be next to u, otherwise there would be two spaces to fill in between x and z, but there are only There is one letter left; so x must be either the third space or the fourth space on the last line. Now we have two tables."
"Looking again at the diagonals of our three pairs, we find that j and x are on a line, and j and e are also on a line. That means that j cannot be directly above x, so We will fill in j in the first three spaces on the x line of the two tables. Now, we are going to face an interesting problem. m and n are on a line. We have a strong desire to These two letters are filled in the two spaces to the right of the letter j in table 1, and k and l are regarded as the words in the most keywords; but you can't do this in the table because there are not enough on that line Space. If the table is the correct combination, then m or e or m and e must be letters in the keyword. m and e are on a line, but n cannot be next to e. This allows us to deny Several arrangements, but still leaves a lot of possibilities. Our keywords cannot start with en, that's for sure. But now, wait! If the e account is in the third space, then n cannot On the far right of the same line, because according to the horizontal line principle, this puts n and e next to each other; so in the table, that line cannot be jmn or jln. Then Vaughn can only get jlm, if n is not in the keyword If it is in, then this is impossible, because n cannot be close to e, and it must be a line with it, and it must also be a line with m.¡±
Xia Xiang scratched his hair for a while, sitting there muttering.
"It seems that we have exhausted ourselves with these five letters." Zhiqiu said, "Why not try the other parts of the letter? I have separated them two by two. Ha! This is ours again My old friend exmg appears here again."
"Really?" Xia Xiang straightened up, "Then, if we guessed correctly, it will be another date in June. I can't believe it is part of two words, one of which ends in j, or i, or ju or iu or iun or jun. If this letter is to set the meeting on June 18th, then will the two letters in front of it be the letters representing 18, and then it will be ah? No matter what , let¡¯s try; what are they?¡±
"Ob."
"ob equals ah. This is so effective. Okay, let's follow this and touch it."
"O and a are on the same line, o and h are on the same line, and we already know that a and b are on the same line. So it seems that our idea is correct. But it is not too big. Gang Leader, because none of these letters have a fixed location for us.¡±
"Wait a minute," Zhiqiu said, "I suddenly had an idea. The city on the letterhead should be somewhere in Central Europe. There are six letters, and the last two letters are the first two letters reversed. Yes. Could it be warsaw?"
"Oh my God! So beautiful! We can try it. Let me see - here we get this." He wrote two new pairs of diagonal lines -
"W and x are on a line," he observed. "It is too tempting to assume that w is on the last line, right next to x. Otherwise, it must be in the keyword .Just for fun, let's fill it in our two tables. Now, this is going to be fun. w and n are also on a line. We can't put n on the fourth line because it has to be e is on the same line. We also can't put it on the third line, because then there are only six letters between n and u, but we have eight spaces to fill. If the position of w is Correctly, n must be in the first two lines above, which means that this letter must be in the keyword."
Zhiqiu tried to fill in the letters.
"So it looks like the table is wrong," he said. "Why? What did we do? Oh, I get it. e and n can't be next to each other, so if this is the correct table, then e must be in Line three. I said, this means the keyword is eleven letters long."
"Not necessarily. The e could be somewhere alphabetically. But if the table is correct, then the beginning of the third row is the only place for the e. Let's move on. s and t are On the same line, there are r and t, but rst cannot be connected.?? together, otherwise rs would become st, which is not the case. I would like to put st in the two spaces before u, but we are not sure that is the correct position. Well, damn it! Just do it - if we get it wrong we can do it again, no big deal. Now, in this case, r must be in the keyword, so it should be the two spaces in the upper right corner of the first row of the table. This means, rs will be what t. "
"But we know rs! If at equals rs, then rs equals at."
"Thank God! This is true, this is great! This actually proves that our s and t are correct. Now, we know that ar must appear side by side in the keyword."
Zhiqiu stared at the form again.
"Now can we study that nx is equal to aw? Yes - look! If we put a in the two grids in the table that meet the condition that nx is equal to aw, then a cannot be next to r! Then, Either we're all wrong, or we can eliminate the form."
"Long live! Great president! I have always hated this form, let's just throw it away. Then let's get a promising form."
"It makes me happy that you think this is promising! m and n are on the same line, how to deal with this? Should we study this now?"
¡°Why not?¡± Let¡¯s try it. Put m immediately below n, then there are five spaces between m and s, but only three letters to fill in, because we already know that n and r are in keywords. So m must be in the four grids on the upper left. Now, we already know that ne is equal to mg. Obviously, g cannot be the space between e and n, because then there would be mng in the keyword, which is simply bizarre. But in this case, we still have several possible arrangements. Is there anything else we can do? "
"We can put q before s. If it is determined that there is no u in the keyword, q is unlikely to appear in the keyword, and you probably already know what r is."
"Yes, good, just fill it in there. But can you find out the meaning of these paired letters now?"
"No. I've tried filling them in, but it doesn't work at all. With am, that becomes rsen, which could be many words. At the beginning of the letter, there's a ts, followed by qj. ts equals sq. You think the next pair should be something like u, but it¡¯s not. qj must be something like s.¡±
"Yes, that means we're on the right track. Q is any letter placed between two s's. It's strange that at this stage we still can't figure out the actual style. It shows how powerful the code is. Smart, how vicious, isn't it? Wait, before this pair was mg equals ne, which gives us ness. It's very possible, maybe even right, but that could be a lot of words. Here we go again! Whatever this is, it seems important - the same word, ness is preceded by bffy, but this bffy is a stumbling block and I can't see anything but keep struggling in the upper left corner. Let's write that ne equals mg case, all possible positions for it."
"I can see one thing," Zhiqiu said, "there should be a vowel between m and n. This vowel is not a, e, i or u, because we have fixed them in other positions. . Then it¡¯s either o or y.¡±
"I prefer o. There are too few words with the myn string. But y must be in the keyword. The end of the word is the most likely. Maybe the end is mony. This gives us the table mony, and nine-letter words. That seems to make sense. And the word must start with e or g. That's not very pleasant. ebg, edg - let's go in alphabetical order Let¡¯s do it. ehg ¨C I don¡¯t think so. eig ¨C I can pronounce it, but we have fixed the i. elg ¨C Where is the dictionary? Can¡¯t find it in the dictionary. eng is impossible ¨C we already know that n is in Where is it - same thing with erg. OMG you can't just eliminate all words ending in mony - that doesn't work for form a and form c, and for form b, less than a last resort, I don't believe this is A fourteen-letter word.¡±
"In this case, you can exclude Form B."
"Okay! I don't mind, although a thirteen-letter word ending in mon is still conceivable. In that case, our keywords either start with mon or the other way around."
"But that's right! We can't find any words starting with e or g."
"Indeed it cannot. Now, we have fixed e and g, and mon is also fixed. We are not far from success. Fill them all in! Take a look! I am sure that f must be between e and g - this That¡¯s where it is.¡±
Zhiqiu uses a trembling pencilFill out the form.
"This does look better," he admitted, "Now, let's see if this helps me decipher the letter. Damn it! There are so many combinations and we still can't figure it out! Bffy still can't read it. Oh! Wait! There is something! mz-ts-xs-rs. Now. What is mz u, is likely to be ru; this is a probability of 1/2. ts is sq, xs is what s, this is means that q is in the correct position. Now suppose that xs equals si. There is no reason to object to this. Then rs is probably at, which makes sense. Suppose again, assuming that all assumptions are correct, then mztsxsrs is rusqsiat. Take out the q and we get russiat. Could this possibly be russia?¡±
"Why not? Let's try it. Write the letters. Monar¡ªoh, Zhiqiu!"
"Don't sway!"
"I have to shake! We found the keyword. Monarch. Wait, there are three spaces before e. We only have b and d to fill in. Oh, no, I forgot! y¡ªDear y !monarchy! Three cheers! That¡¯s it! Look! Your form is now complete, and I must say, it looks beautiful.¡±
"Oh, Xia Xiang! How wonderful it is!"
"No nonsense! Let's get on with the work, now is not the time to waste time. Start right now. pr-bf-xa-li-mk-mg-bf-fy-mg-ts-qj¡ª¡ªlet's get this bf¡ª¡ª Feel it clearly. I'll read the diagonals and you write them down."
¡°Okay. t¡ªo¡ªh¡ªi¡ª¡®to¡ªhis¡ªserene,¡¯ would that be right?¡±
"This is English. Come on, let's solve bffy."
"'to-his-serene-highness' - Xia Xiang! What is this?"
Xia Xiang¡¯s face turned pale.
"Oh my God!" he exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Is this true? Are we wrong and Pan Xiaowen is wrong too? Keep reading!"
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