After transporting the "Red Lotus Seed" back to Zhuye Castle, Jiang Xiaotan wanted to dismantle it.

Firstly, it would be a disaster to keep this thing, and secondly, he also wanted to understand the principle of this thing.

The shape of this thing is like a large water tank, with a fully enclosed shell made of fine gold, with gorgeous reliefs carved on it: a lifelike Lilith holding a burning seed in her hand, "Red Lotus"

The name "seed" probably comes from this.

Because the shell is made of precious fine gold and orichalcum, it still shines brightly even after hundreds of years.

On the top of the "Water Tank", there are seven blank squares. Above the squares are written in Zhuye Empire characters: "This is a wide-area annihilation nuclear strike magic guide. The seal must be released before it can operate. Please use your own

The magic power writes the cipher text in the form of runes in the squares."

Under the square, it was written in Chinese characters "The password is the first sentence of the Qingyu Case on New Year's Eve".

At first, Jiang Xiaotan felt that Kain was too ambitious. If there was another time traveler, he would be able to decipher the cipher text immediately and use this killer weapon to do bad things.

But then I thought about it, I have to meet the following conditions: "Blue Star Traveler", "Understand Chinese", "Know what the first sentence of the Qingyu Case is on New Year's Eve", and "Have the opportunity to come into contact with the Red Lotus Seed" before I can take advantage of it.

This line of Chinese characters cracks the cipher text.

The probability of achieving this condition is actually not much different from the probability of asking a monkey to draw seven runes at random and it happens to be "the east wind blooms thousands of trees at night".

Moreover, it is even possible that this line of writing was specially reserved for Jiang Xiaotan by Kain.

If this is the case, then Kain is not necessarily a Blue Star person.

He probably just knew that he would have such a Blue Star successor, so he left such a line to Jiang Xiaotan.

As for why he can understand Chinese characters?

Probably because he read the memory of Guojiang Joke... or something like that?

However, Jiang Xiaotan can't see him at present, so the specific reason is unknown.

Talking back to the "Red Lotus Seed", Jiang Xiaotan can use the [True Red Eye] to see through part of its internal structure.

He tried to enter the two runes of "East" and "Wind", and then randomly entered a few wrong runes, and then used the [True Red Eye] to see its internal principles.

Below the seven squares are corresponding rune stones that sense magic. If the runes are correct, the precision mechanism below can be pushed to open the external seal. However, if the runes are wrong and the mechanism cannot be pushed in place, the protection system of the entire magic device will be activated.

The outer blocks will be locked, and the ciphertext cannot be re-entered for decryption within a certain period of time.

Moreover, after Jiang Xiaotan's observation, in addition to the correct set of runes "Thousands of flowers bloom on the east wind night", there seems to be another set of runes that can activate another set of internal systems.

However, the magic wires of this set of runes are all made of red magic stones, giving people an ominous feeling.

This made Jiang Xiaotan very curious about what the runes corresponding to this system were, and what the consequences would be if this set of runes were entered.

Most likely it will have bad consequences.

Could it be that this magic weapon also has a self-destruct function?

Peering further inside, nothing can be seen from the [True Red Eye]. Maybe this magic device also has a secret function. After all, many high-level vampires in the Zhu Ye Empire use [True Red Eye].

Jiang Xiaotan was very unhappy because he could not see the specific internal principles. He even wanted to enter the cipher text to unlock the entire magic device.

But if this thing cannot be closed once it is opened, it is doomed. Even if the defensive barrier of Fort Transy can interfere with and destroy the internal magic, it is not safe.

Just when Jiang Xiaotan was wondering whether to open it, Theodora suddenly found him.

"Lord Kain, there are two things I need to report to you."

"What?" Jiang Xiaotan had no choice but to put down the "big water tank" and then looked at the spy chief... Uh, no, the vice chairman of the Suppression Committee.

"The first thing is that we found the bodies of several young vampires in Xiacheng District. After identification by the library administrator, they were the ones who entered the library on the day of the fire."

Jiang Xiaotan felt a shiver in his heart: "In other words, these people completed their mission and were then silenced?"

"Very possible."

"Hiss, luckily we got the magic device back in time. If they deciphered the code, things would be terrible."

"Uh..." Theodora scratched her head, and then said: "Based on their death conditions, the time of their death is likely to coincide with the time when we recapture the magic device."

She felt ashamed when she said this, because if she didn't take back the magic device as soon as Jiang Xiaotan asked, but followed her original idea of ​​dragging it to catch a big fish, maybe the rebels would really activate the magic device.

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"It would be unreasonable if the rebels killed them because they deciphered the cipher text. Is the cipher text of this magic device so easy to decipher?"

Jiang Xiaotan shook his head.

If the poem "A Thousand Trees of Flowers Bloom on an East Wind Night" is spelled out according to runes, it actually does not conform to the grammar of this world, and it is difficult for people in this world to understand its meaning.

In addition, although this poem describes a scene, it is actually freehand. Even those who understand Chinese must combine the following text with "more blowing down, stars are like rain" to fully understand its artistic conception.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaotan felt that if the secret text was hidden in the text on the page using acronyms or cryptography, then these seven words would be enough for people in this world to guess for a while.

To be able to guess the cipher text so quickly was only if Kain did not hide it at all, or he hid the cipher text in the pages of the book through drawings or other methods.

But this is completely inconsistent with the impression of the thoughtful second true ancestor.

Unless he had set up other tricks to cover up the cipher text and pretended to be in the basement, he had actually flown out of the atmosphere long ago.

However, he also thought that there was a second set of ciphertext composed of red magic stones hidden in the magic device, so the possibility of this wave of Kain being in the atmosphere was very high.

So he comforted Theodora and said: "It's okay. The rebels probably deciphered the fake cipher text. What is the second thing you want to report?"

Theodora felt relieved after listening to what he said, and then reported: "It's still a matter of the library. The members of the anti-rebellion committee found a sealed magic book in the ruins. It was corroded by the fire but was still intact.

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"Magic book? What magic book?"

"I don't know, that magic book is sealed with a powerful spell. I'm asking my subordinates to try to crack it. After cracking it, I will ask them to send it over."

Jiang Xiaotan nodded after hearing this.

However, not long after, several anti-rebellion committee members came over in disgrace.

"Sorry, Lord Kain, we are not capable enough to break the spell on this book."

"No problem, bring it over and let me take a look."

After listening to the order, the members of the anti-rebellion committee carefully handed over a thick magic book with no words on the cover.

"Master Kain, do you want to build a defensive barrier or something? This kind of seal is probably because there is very powerful energy or monsters in the book."

Jiang Xiaotan had just received the book. After hearing it, he thought it made sense, so he asked them to start preparing.
Chapter completed!