Chapter 753: Interlocking Clues
After taking Sawyer's package, the two of them found a secluded corner of the tavern and sat down.
There was nothing in Sawyer's package, just a few notebooks wrapped tightly in oil paper.
The records in the notes were very sparse, with huge gaps between each entry. There were no dates to serve as intervals, and even some key and sensitive words were referred to by aliases.
After reading the entire notebook, I have no idea what he is talking about. It is just a code book with no way to translate it.
Normally, if a mission in the [Foreign Land] reaches this step, Mo Cheng will most likely directly click [Abandon Mission], because he knows very well that the next step will be another mission to obtain the decryption code book.
This task will most likely require you to run a long distance and talk to troublesome people, and you may even have to hold your nose and complete several tedious and unnecessary tasks for those guys who are glaring at you, simply because they need to [test] you.
Just thinking back to the previous decryption process, Mo Cheng felt that his blood pressure was rising steadily.
"I want to ask, what happened to Sawyer in the end?"
Just when Mo Cheng was about to tear up the code book in his hand, the bartender who was cleaning suddenly asked.
Mo Cheng had nothing to hide, "He has become one with nature, without any pain."
Three arrows pierced Sawyer's head, throat, and heart before he could react. They were then burned by Mo Cheng's [Flame Breath], thus avoiding the fate of being dug out by carnivores in the forest.
After listening to Mo Cheng's words, the bartender lowered his head and left. Then he quickly brought a large glass of wine and placed it in front of Mo Cheng. "This glass was left here by Sawyer. I'll buy you the wine as a thank you for helping him. Take the glass away after you finish drinking it, and help me close the door."
The wine glass is a whole piece of oak carved into the shape of a cup. It is estimated that the capacity of a cup is slightly more than one liter. What is different from other wine glasses is that flower buds and green shoots grow on the outside of the wine glass, as if this piece of wood has not lost its vitality.
The wine in the glass is the most common beer, which has a low alcohol content and is cheap. It is the best choice for people with little money to get drunk.
The beer, which should have been yellow, mixed with the green light from the cup, presenting a strange dark green color.
It feels like ink solidified, then dried in the sun, and then put into water again.
Mo Cheng was very sure that he would never drink this kind of thing. The appearance of this thing told others that it was not something that could be .
But Mo Cheng seemed to realize something. He frowned, reached out his hand and dipped it into the wine glass, then smeared the trace of beer on the blank space of the notebook.
Everything Sawyer wrote in his notebook was intentionally left with a space between each word, and there was also a strange blank space in the middle of each line.
After the blank space was stained with beer that looked like a mutated substance, clear handwriting immediately appeared, "...This puzzle seems a little simple..."
Being able to solve the puzzle as soon as he got it was undoubtedly a good thing for Mo Cheng, but he felt that it seemed too simple.
A very common thought is that when you see a difficult question, you think it is too difficult, but when there is an answer next to it, you think the answer is too easy to get.
But this is undoubtedly a good thing for Mo Cheng, because he knows himself too well. If he really has to complete a few more tasks before he can decrypt the code, it will undoubtedly be an extremely uncomfortable thing for him.
He carefully filled all the blank spaces in the notebook with beer. Many densely packed tiny words appeared between the lines. After filling all the blank spaces in the notebook with beer, he actually used up the entire cup of beer just in time.
When there was not a drop of beer left in the glass and words appeared in all the blank spaces in the notebooks, several notebooks floated up out of thin air, and the papers fell off to form a circle that kept spinning.
As a beam of light from the wine glass hit one of the papers, all the papers reacted like dominoes. Finally, the papers overlapped in front of Mo Cheng, and all the densely packed invisible fonts on them began to change, forming a map.
A clearly marked map.
"I take it back. This thing is definitely not simple."
Mo Cheng originally thought it was just a simple invisible ink trick, but after he saw the whole process, he realized that the clue insurance measures left by Sawyer were not that simple.
Even if someone learned the code "The tree has fallen" from him, they would only get a map disguised as an investigation note, and the blank spaces on the notebook would need to be filled with beer in Sawyer's glass.
At the same time, it is very important that the amount of beer in the glass must be just right, not too much or too little, otherwise other problems may arise.
Obviously, the only person who could know how much beer should be put in Sawyer's glass was a bartender who had been dealing with him for a long time.
With such an interconnected arrangement, Mo Cheng had no doubt that one of the places was wrong, or the bartender was suspicious of them, and the map in his hand would become a deadly trap.
only……
How did the bartender know for sure that he was the person Sawyer asked for help?
After handing Mo Cheng the glass, the bartender sat far away, and even turned away when he noticed something was happening on Mo Cheng's side. When he turned around and found Mo Cheng looking at him, he shrugged and said, "Sawyer told me that if someone tells me that a tree has fallen and doesn't ask anything else, then he should hand over his glass."
"As for the glass of wine, it is a custom in my hometown. Every glass must be filled with wine when it leaves me."
Now Mo Cheng's doubts were resolved. Sawyer obviously knew that the bartender had the customs of his hometown, and as the cup he often used, the bartender was obviously accustomed to pouring a certain amount of beer in Sawyer's cup.
The bartender didn't know Sawyer's arrangement, but it didn't matter, as Sawyer knew the bartender's habits.
If even one step is wrong here, the result may be a fatal trap.
Mo Cheng guessed that if there was an error, the most likely possibility was that the place shown on the map would be some kind of forbidden area for the elves.
For example, the ancient tree of life or something like that.
After getting the map, Mo Cheng and Margaret left the tavern. The location marked on the map was not far away.
But at the same time, not many people go near that place on purpose.
Because that place is the public cemetery of this town.
Crow Ridge is located in the southwest of the town. There are only two people taking care of it , one is responsible for patrolling during the day and the other is responsible for patrolling at night.
Their main job is to prevent jackals, wild dogs, and tomb robbers from digging up graves.
