Chapter 259: Riddles Again
Zhou Zhensheng called He Shu and asked him to come over if he had time, saying that Ma Dao wanted to see him.
It has been more than a week since I last saw Saber.
He Shu originally thought that it was the first time they met and would be the last time, but he didn't expect that he would actually ask to see him specifically.
When he arrived at the company, Zhou Zhensheng told He Shu that Ma Dao had told him everything he knew.
The authenticity of his words is currently being verified, and after he is arrested, Ma Dao will also need to appear in court to testify.
But he resisted what happened next and made a request, which was to meet He Shu...
It was still the same room as last time, but Sabre looked much thinner than last time.
In just a few days, he seemed to have lost his previous energy and spirit.
The room is full of smoke, which makes non-smokers feel choking and unpleasant when they enter.
After closing the door, He Shu sat on the stool opposite Ma Dao and looked at him expressionlessly.
"They really take you seriously and actually called you here. Does that mean you're not with them?"
Ma Dao's voice was a little hoarse, as if he had said too much.
He Shu stood up and brought him a bottle of mineral water. Ma Dao actually smiled and said thank you.
"What do you want from me?"
Ma Dao closed his eyes and thought for a while: "Last time I asked you to help scatter my ashes into the Yellow River, but now I have changed my mind."
"So where do you want to go?"
Hearing He Shu ask this, Ma Dao opened his eyes and smiled at him.
"Bring me some paper and a pen. I'll write you an address. When I die, I hope you can take me there."
He Shu got up, went out to get paper and pen, and handed them to Ma Dao.
Saber wrote a string of capital letters on it. He Shu frowned slightly. What is this? Pinyin doesn't look like Pinyin, nor is it English. There are also phonetic symbols marked on it.
“After I die, even if only a handful of ashes remain, I want to be buried here.”
After Ma Dao finished writing, he handed the paper to He Shu and looked at him very seriously.
"I hope you can go alone. Don't worry, I won't harm you. I, Sabre, never cheat educated and honest people."
He Shu looked at the chaotically arranged capital letters on the paper for a long time but couldn't make out anything: "I don't understand."
Ma Dao laughed: "It's right that you don't understand it. Don't worry. If you can't find this place in your lifetime, then forget it."
He Shu felt a bit of a headache. Was it another secret code like that?
"Why did you choose me to help you?"
Saber thought about this question seriously: "Because... I have no one else I can trust."
He showed a sad smile: "You are willing to help Chen He, you must be a good person."
He Shu shook his head: "I'm not helping Chen He."
"It doesn't matter." Saber waved his hand: "Go away, I have nothing else to do."
He Shu pondered for a moment, took the pen and paper, turned around and left the room.
He went straight to Zhou Zhensheng and handed him the paper.
Zhou Zhensheng heard the conversation between Ma Dao and He Shu very clearly. He also read the contents on the paper carefully, but it was like a book written in heaven and he could not understand it at all.
There may be some secrets involved, but they should have nothing to do with the case he is investigating.
Seeing Zhou Zhensheng handing him the paper again, He Shu frowned slightly: "Uncle Zhou, there may be some clues here."
"Thank you for your hard work."
He Shu: “……?”
"Haha, you are good at deciphering these things. I won't bother two people with one thing. Since I don't know what Sabre wrote, it's better to try not to let more people get to it."
"Uncle Zhou, the clues left by Chen He are at least readable text, but this thing I..."
Zhou Zhensheng didn't give He Shu a chance to refuse. Besides, who could he ask to decipher the code? What if the information was leaked?
"Uncle Zhou believes in you, you can do it!"
Zhou Zhensheng patted He Shu's shoulder heavily: "Don't worry about this, just take your time to solve it."
He Shu really wanted to complain a little, he couldn't do it, he didn't want to solve the riddle...
"Okay, Uncle Zhou, I'll try. If it doesn't work, you should find someone else to help."
"Okay, okay, if you can decipher it, Uncle Zhou will give you a great credit."
The little guy in He Shu's heart rolled his eyes helplessly, but nodded numbly.
He Shu went to the hospital with the divine book written by Ma Dao. He ignored what Ma Dao said about wanting him to go alone and showed it to his aunt directly.
My aunt is knowledgeable and experienced, and she was injured because of the saber, so He Shu would not hide anything from her.
Qi Xue looked at the messy capital letters and pondered for a long time before hesitating, "Could it be Lisu?"
"Lisu?"
"I think they are somewhat similar, and Ma Dao himself is from the Lisu ethnic group."
He Shu put away the paper. At least he had a direction to look for.
"Aunt, if Saber really wrote down an address here, what secrets might he hide? I don't believe he just found a grave for himself."
Qi Xue smiled and said, "You'll know when you go and see it."
On the third day after Ma Dao wrote a string of hieroglyphs for He Shu, he was secretly transferred away .
Zhou Zhensheng did not tell He Shu about this, so He Shu had no idea how far their actions had progressed.
My aunt said that the text on the paper looked like Lisu language, so He Shu went to the library and searched for records about Lisu language on the Internet.
He found that the appearance of this text was similar to uppercase Latin letters, with marks to indicate tones, and it was somewhat similar to what Sabre wrote.
The old Lisu language has been included in the Unicode. After checking online, He Shu found that this type of Lisu language is actually not difficult to learn.
As long as you learn the Lisu phonetic writing system, you can communicate with each other, just like Mandarin Chinese.
The Lisu people live in scattered areas and have many dialects, but they can all understand written language.
So He Shu began to learn Lisu and prepared to try to translate what Ma Dao wrote.
He used the time he spent accompanying his aunt in the hospital to study, and it wasn't boring at all.
In the blink of an eye, a week before the New Year, my aunt was able to go home to recuperate.
My uncle drove over by himself, picked up my aunt and He Shu, sent them home, and then left in a hurry.
My aunt was so scared of lying in the hospital that when she got home she walked around with her right arm in a sling and also went with my aunt to buy a lot of New Year's goods.
Through this period of study, He Shu basically mastered the pinyin of Lisu.
But... after learning it, he found that the letters on the paper could not form a sentence or the meaning of any word.
Did I guess wrong? Isn't this Lisu?
He Shu originally wanted to give it a try, but at this point, his stubbornness to figure things out came up, and he wanted to know the secret on the paper even more.
This was a challenge for He Shu. He felt that Ma Dao wanted to see him a second time on purpose and would not just make some weird tricks to tease him.
So, when my aunt went home to recuperate, there was someone to take care of her, and the Spring Festival was approaching.
He Shu locked himself in the room again, studying the contents of the paper every day like an obsessive man.
