Abner picked up the notebook, and relied on the powerful analysis ability of "Pure White Eye", and only slightly turned a few pages, and he knew it in his heart.

"This note is written in ciphertext." He said affirmatively.

"Ciphertext?" Miss Fanny repeated puzzledly.

"The letters that make up the words in this notebook are very crude, not like mature texts that have evolved and developed, but more like some kind of designed symbols... I just counted the types of these symbols and Gu Fusac The number of words in the language is roughly the same." Abner pointed to the words on one of the pages and explained with a smile.

Miss Fanny leaned to Abner's side when she heard the words, and looked at the finger of the other person, she said thoughtfully: "That is to say... every symbol represents one or several Guvsa The letters of the Croatian language?"

"Yes!" Abner nodded, but glanced at Emma on the other side. It turned out that the lady was not surprised, and apparently knew that the text on the note was ciphertext.

That’s right, how could “decryption scholars” fail to see such a simple trick? She didn't say it before, but also to help Miss Fanny check?

While thinking this in his mind, Abner quickly deciphered some of the letters represented by the symbols by means of "exhaustive method".

Immediately afterwards, he frowned.

Because the words formed by deciphered letters are surprisingly a group of numbers!

This is the second layer of encryption? What incredible content is recorded in the notes... Need to be kept secret to this degree?

However, since it is a digital group, I am afraid that the corresponding "codebook" is needed to complete the translation...I don't know which book the baron regarded as a "codebook".

Thinking of this, Abner sighed, and then showed his achievements to the two ladies around him.

When Fanny saw this, she said in a pompous tone: "Detective Breen, you are so amazing! It took only this time to crack it out." His face was full of admiration.

Miss Emma was a little bit complicated. She asked herself that she could not parse the meaning of the ciphertext in such a short period of time. So she was frustrated and said with sincere emotion: "It is worthy of being Backlund's famous hero. detective'!"

After sighing, she also thought of the question that Abner had thought about before, and deliberately said: "Abner, these number combinations are likely to represent the corresponding words in a book?"

"Yes, maybe it's a certain book in the study room above." Abner nodded slightly and approved Emma's words.

"Abner..." Miss Fanny whispered, then took out her pocket watch and looked at it, and found that it was four o'clock, so she reminded: "It's getting bright soon, we have to rush back to the small town hotel as soon as possible. Identify which book those numbers correspond to."

"Then pretend to go together, and look up slowly when you go back." Emma smiled.

"How to pretend?" Abner asked in surprise.

Although he hadn't counted them carefully, there are still twenty or thirty books in the bookcase in the study, which is not so easy to put away. Even if he wears the "hand of wisdom" he can have the same strength as a curly baboon.

"Leave it to me." Fanny stood tall now, very confidently.

Seeing that she seemed quite sure, Abner didn't say anything. After searching the basement carefully with the two ladies, he walked the stairs back to the study room on the upper floor.

Then, he knew the reason for Miss Fanny’s self-confidence:

Fanny puts the books in the backpack as if they were put in a bottomless pit, and there was no sign of filling up.

Is this backpack a magical item? The occultist’s ability to create pockets of space?

Hmm...it should not be. The use of demi-god-level items in a low sequence might have an astonishing negative effect... and this level of items in the hands of a Sequence 9 will only cause her to misfortune.

But even so, it must be an invaluable treasure... Are they so relieved of me? Aren't you afraid that I will be wicked

That's it for Miss Fanny... But looking at Miss Emma's appearance, she seems to have become accustomed to it too? Didn't they realize the true value of this item?

Just when Abner was full of suspicion, Fanny had packed all the books into her backpack, turned her head and smiled: "Okay, let's go back to the hotel first."

Abner nodded, but said with emotion and warning: "This is the first time I have seen a magical item with ‘space’."

Fanny clearly understood the meaning of Abner's words, her eyebrows softened suddenly, and she smiled: "Thank you for your reminder, Detective Brian. But I believe in your character."

Believe me so easily? Girl, it’s too easy to gain your trust, right?

Abner sneered, and when she saw that she seemed to know some measures, she stopped persuading her.

...

The three returned all the way to the "Old John" Hotel, Fanny and Emma returned to their guest rooms.

After sealing her room spiritually, Fanny took off her shirt and trousers, walked into the bathroom, soaked in the bathtub, and washed away the dust all over her body. Then she said to her friend with some fear:

"This expedition is really dangerous. If I hadn't met Detective Bryan, I would have died..."

Emma also nodded solemnly, and said: "The effect of the'bribery' in the ruins is really terrible. We both picked up the notebook. At that time, our minds should have been lowered... and you were reduced especially badly. ......At that moment, I even forgot the hole cards in my hand, really closing my eyes and waiting for death."

Fanny had already recovered from the comfort of the bath at this time. She rubbed the mud on her body with a towel and smiled: "But we are lucky to get to know Detective Bryan."

"Why? Really fell in love with him at first sight?" Emma squinted and smirked, lying beside the bath.

"It's not love at first sight, but it's very good. It's true to be willing to develop friendship with him... Don't you think he is very good in frontal combat ability, knowledge and reasoning ability? We need such a powerful companion on our extraordinary road. !" Fanny opened Emma's hand at the trouble and said solemnly.

"That's why...you will use the'backpack' to test his character?" Emma asked with a smile.

"Isn't that the plan you made early?" Fanny glanced at her friend, learning her voice, "When you meet the right companion, you can test it. If the person being tested is malicious, then It will inevitably eat its own evil results and be swallowed by the'backpack'."

"It was indeed what I said... It's just that your performance was too deliberate. I think Abner has seen it through..." Emma sighed.

"I wanted to ask before, why would you call him Abner directly? What did you talk about in the basement at that time?" Fanny asked suspiciously.

"'Abner' is the'hero detective' authorized me to call it." Emma "shows off" deliberately triumphantly.

And her response was a handful of water thrown by Fanny...

...

Abner, who returned to the guest room, didn't know at this moment that he had become the talk of the two girls while laughing.

Because the sky was about to light up, he didn't take a break. Instead, he opened an obviously old book and began to compare the number combination he remembered in his mind, trying to decipher the second layer of ciphertext meaning.

As for the books, he had come here specially before he separated from the two young ladies.

However, until the five books at hand were compared, Abner did not find the correct "codebook."

"When I was picking books from Fanny's backpack, I deliberately chose the five most likely... but none of them...

"Then, will the'codebook' really be hidden in the rest of the books in the hands of those two young ladies?"

Abner, who was suspicious, patrolled the room subconsciously. Suddenly, his eyes swept across the Hermes embossed decoration on the hotel wall. He couldn't help but move, and suddenly he had a new inspiration:

"The baron was obviously building a house according to a ritual layout before he sealed himself...or a mausoleum!

"What he recorded in his notes through two layers of encryption is probably related to this matter...

"And that kind of ritual is recorded in the "Book of Necropolis"!

"Will... the real ‘codebook’ is "Book of the Necropolis"?"

Thinking of this ~lightnovelpub.net~ he randomly turned over a page of his notes, comparing the set of numbers in the first line with the "Book of Necronomicon" in his memory.

Soon, he deciphered the content recorded on the note page:

"On September 12, I stumbled upon an abandoned castle in the middle of the Delaire Forest. Because the situation was unknown, I didn't approach it. I planned to make preparations before entering the exploration.

"On September 14, after my observation, there seemed to be a vampire secretly guarding the abandoned castle, but that was just a sequence 7. It is very simple to enter the castle without hiding him.

"I decided to wait for Austin to come in and investigate with her."

Looking at the words he had deciphered, Abner recalled the appearance of the baron's body covered in dark spots in the "Retrospect" scene, and only felt that his scalp was numb.

Because he had read the original work, and he knew how terrifying the castle in the middle of the Delaire Forest was!