He looked at the somewhat heavy badge in his hand.
Many thoughts flashed through Xu Yun's mind. He was silent for a long time and then slowly said:
"Mr. Thomson, if I am correct, this should be the emblem of the Cambridge Apostolic Society?"
Thomson nodded. With this fateful friendship, he no longer planned to hide some things from Xu Yun:
"Yes, I am one of the only two 'angels' currently in the Cambridge Apostolic Society, codenamed Elijah."
"Ilia?"
Xu Yun was slightly stunned, and the avatar of a two-dimensional white-haired girl in "Fate/staynight" flashed subconsciously in his mind.
But soon, he pushed this disturbing thought out of his mind.
The Elijah Thomson mentioned should refer to the prophet in the Bible who lived in the 9th century BC, an era of spiritual decline and rebellion against God.
This is a very important character in the Bible, which means "Jehovah is God."
Think of this.
Xu Yun subconsciously touched the texture of the badge a few times with his thumb and murmured:
“Is the Cambridge Apostolic Society a prophet?”
Friends who often read the European and American areas should know it.
In some later European campus literary works or film and television works, there are often one or even several secret organizations composed of students.
For example, Dumbledore's Army in Harry Potter, Greek letter societies in European and American movies and TV series, etc.
But actually.
Many of the settings of student organizations in these film and television dramas are derived from real-life templates.
For example, 90% of the student clubs in American TV dramas are based on the Skull and Bones Society at Yale University.
Well, the level of promiscuity is also highly restored.
It was founded by William Huntington Russell in 1832 and is currently one of the most famous student organizations in the world.
The Skull and Bones Society has produced three supreme commanders, two Supreme Court justices, dozens of cabinet members, and hundreds of members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, etc.
Belongs to the true ‘hegemonic’ organization.
However, Skull and Bones is not the oldest foreign student association.
For example, there is a student organization in Europe that is older than it, is no less famous than it, and is several times more mysterious.
It is Cambrdge Apostles, Cambridge Apostolic Society.
The Cambridge Apostolic Society was a secret society founded by F.D. Morris, Tennyson and Hallam in the 1820s.
The entire society is composed of the best 12 members from Trinity College and King's College, and each class can only have a maximum of 12 people.
Members of the undergraduate community are often called Apostles.
Graduate students are called angels, that is, Angels.
The purpose of the Apostolic Society at the beginning was actually very simple, it was just an offline gathering organized by a few top students.
For a long time, their gatherings consisted of reciting poems and painting, and chatting about dreams while eating snacks. It was a platform for academic leaders to communicate.
But after the first few batches of members graduated and entered high positions, some people realized the value of this organization and began to lead it down another path.
Wait until after 1840.
The Cambridge Apostolic Society has become an extremely strict organization, keeping the identities of its members highly confidential, and many people never reveal their identities until their death.
Just like later generations, you never know that some successful people who appear to be glamorous are actually members of 91 and Madou in private.
Now nearly two hundred years later, there are only fifty or sixty Cambridge apostles who are really known to people.
But the exposure of these fifty or sixty people alone is enough to shake modern science, politics and economic history:
For example, among them is the third-generation heir to the title of Baron Rothschild, Nathan, who holds the power to issue currency throughout the British Empire.
In addition, there are Keynes, Alan Hodgkin, Maxwell, Bertrand Russell, E.M. Forster and so on.
Even several famous spies who were said to be 404 spies were also members of the Cambridge Apostolic Society.
Thomson is now about 26 years old and has graduated from Cambridge as an undergraduate for three and a half years.
Although his current official position is professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow, he is also a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge.
In addition, during his time at Cambridge, he won the second place in the Langler Prize and the first place in the Smith Prize, and published many influential papers.
Both age and resume meet the recruitment requirements of the Cambridge Apostolic Society.
Therefore, many people in later generations, including Xu Yun, believed that he should be one of the members of the Cambridge Apostolic Society from 1840 to 1850.
Unfortunately, there is no real evidence to prove this view, so it has always been just a guess, not a conclusion.
I didn’t expect that by traveling through time now, I would unexpectedly solve this mystery?
Well, obsessive-compulsive disorder makes me feel a lot better
Xu Yun then handed the badge back to Thomson and said with emotion:
"Mr. Thomson, I have long heard that the Cambridge apostles have extraordinary status and far-reaching influence. I never thought that someone would be willing to spend such a huge sum of money to take your life."
The nature of the Cambridge apostles is very close to the "emperor's talent" in fantasy novels. They are destined to achieve something when they grow up, and may even become giants.
In addition, academic circles at home and abroad in ancient and modern times are inseparable from political games, especially in European society in the 19th century, which was even more bloody under the primitive accumulation of capitalism.
Therefore, when political stances or related concepts conflict, it is normal to use some outside tactics.
However, what surprised Xu Yun was.
After hearing his words, Thomson quickly shook his head and corrected:
"Luo Feng, you are wrong. The target of those people this time is not me."
"?"
Xu Yun was stunned when he heard this and asked subconsciously:
"Not you? Who is that?"
Thomson raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then reached out and patted Will on the shoulder next to him:
"It's Will."
Xu Yun: "????"
Seeing Xu Yun's wtf expression, Thomson couldn't help but smile. He was obviously very pleased with Xu Yun's reaction:
"Luo Feng, have you heard of the Scottish transposition encryption method?"
"Root conjugation encryption method?"
Xu Yun was stunned again when he heard this, and then something flashed through his mind.
Anagram.
This is a surname encryption method that is an advanced foreign language in reality and often appears in novels. It can be understood as a regular generation of vests.
Give a very famous example.
In the work "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", there is a scene that can be called a classic:
In the secret room, Tom Riddle took out Harry's wand from his pocket, drew a few times in the air, and wrote three shining names:
Tom Marvolo Riddle.
Then he waved his magic wand, and the letters automatically switched positions and became:
I am Voldemort.
Tom Marvolo Riddle's English name is "TMarvolo Riddle".
"I am Voldemort" in English is "IAmLordVoldemort".
Due to the barrier between Chinese and foreign languages, many people think that the following paragraph is randomly spliced together.
This is not actually the case.
Voldemort is actually a word composed of the French roots vol+de+mort, which means "flying over death".
It is a standard way of conjugating root words.
In addition, if you have watched the Death of Elementary School students, you may also have an impression of Conan's 132th episode "The Murder of a Magic Lover":
This episode is about Ran and Sonoko going to an offline meeting for magician enthusiasts. Conan and Mouri Kogoro went home first because they had a cold.
As a result, halfway through, the radio in the car said that someone had been killed, and the murderer was a netizen nicknamed "Shadow Master" from Mariko's meeting.
So Conan and Maori rushed back to the villa, but the only suspension bridge had already burned.
Conan risked his life by crossing the suspension bridge and finally collapsed outside the house.
The modus operandi in this episode is classic, but what’s even more impressive is another thing:
Kaitou Kidd changed his name to a fat man named "Doi Tucker Tree". The naming idea is also an encryption method of root conjugation, but it was partially changed by the old thief Aoyama.
The root conjugation used by the old thief Qingshan in this episode is to pay tribute to Conan Doyle, which is the classic Scottish-style root conjugation encryption.
If there are students who haven't forgotten the Scottish celebrity mentioned at the beginning of the copy, they should remember that the clue was actually given at that time.
Encrypted based on Scottish root conjugation.
Suppose a person's name is ABC·DEF·GHIZK
Then first you need to split the last name at the end into two words, such as GHI and ZK.
Then move the first word after division, which is GHI, to the front of the name to form the name GHI·ABC·DEF·ZK.
Finish these.
Then add a random letter in front of GHI. This letter is a meaningless cover-up word and can be removed during restoration.
For example, if a W is added, it is WGHI·ABC·DEF·ZK.
Then the third step is to check whether there are X, T and Z in the WGHI at the beginning.
If these three letters exist, they need to be replaced by other lowercase letters.
Because these three letters are equally meaningless in Scottish root grammar.
For example, if
T should be replaced with a lowercase f, and Z should be a lowercase y. This replacement is limited to the first word.
As for the original word of lfy, it is distinguished by capital letters.
Then comes the final step:
Center-replace the first letter of each word except the first and last two letters.
That is, the first letter of the second word is exchanged with the first letter of the second-to-last word, the third word is exchanged with the third-to-last word, and so on.
The initials of ABC and DEF are exchanged and become DBC and AEF.
If the most central word is left due to an odd number, then the word remains as it is.
This way.
The surname ABC·DEF·GHIZK, after encryption, became WGHI·DBC·AEF·ZK.
Seeing that Xu Yun seemed to have some realization, Thomson smiled softly again.
He took out a pen and paper and wrote Will's full name in front of him:
Small Cames Jlerk Well.mall Cames Jlerk Well.
Encrypted according to root conjugation.
The initials of Cames and Jlerk are to be exchanged.
Then their original form is
James and Clerk.
The S in Small at the beginning is a meaningless word and can be removed directly when restoring.
So Small becomes mall.
Then l is lowercase, and the number is two, indicating that it is the decomposition formula of X.
Therefore, the original form of the first word should be Max.
Then splice it with the last Well, and Will's real name appears:
JamesClerkMaxwell.
The moment I saw this name.
Xu Yun's pupils suddenly shrank, his whole body felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his mind was completely blank.
Actually it is
he!
After a while.
He just took a deep breath and recovered from the shock.
When this identity is substituted into the things encountered in the past few days, everything can be perfectly explained:
No wonder that when we first met, this person was wearing square leather toes with metal buttons on the uppers.
No wonder he knows everything about Maverick's past and his life experiences are readily available.
No wonder Thomson was willing to teach such a country boy mathematics late at night.
No wonder the man behind the scenes would send out troops to kill Thomson and others on the border at such a cost.
Because of this, he is the second reduced-fee student at Cambridge University after Mavericks, and one of the greatest physicists in history.
James Clark
Maxwell.
at the same time.
A curtain of light suddenly appeared in front of Xu Yun:
[Hey, the mission has been activated! 】
[This mission is divided into main mission and side mission, and the side mission is being generated]
[Side mission has been generated!]
[Side mission name: One hundred ways to eat an axe!]
Xu Yun: ""
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My heart suddenly hurts a little. I dare not write anymore. I need to sleep first to save my life.