Chapter 740: Chapter 740: The Meaning of the Inn’s Somber Language Tomorrow
Robert was taken aback, he didn’t even understand what had happened!
“Why?!” He attempted to struggle, but his body continuously refused to respond, unable to resist the detective handcuffing him!
“Only the murderer could understand that note.” The detective retorted coldly, “Your presence here proves that you’re the murderer! What more excuses do you have?!”
Robert’s brain felt as though it had been struck mercilessly with a sledgehammer!
His secret code had been deciphered?!
Impossible… how could that be possible?! It must be those two, knowing they couldn’t win, who betrayed him! It must be!
The door was opened again.
Bai Youwei and Zhu Shu stood outside, very understandingly telling the detective:
“Detective, people have also entered rooms 304 and 401~”
“Good!” The detective strode outward, “I’m going to catch all these damned criminals! Arrest them all!”
Robert looked at them in bewilderment: “Did you two meddle with the note?!”
“Yeah~” Bai Youwei backed away with her hands behind her, smiling at him, “Was my imitation alright?”
“How is it possible?” Robert couldn’t accept it, “How could you break that secret code?!”
“Because it’s quite simple~” Bai Youwei shrugged, nonchalantly saying, “None of you understand Chinese, which means the characters on the paper are not real words, but symbolic imageries. Your teammates just memorised them blindly.”
“Even so, you couldn’t possibly guess the true meaning of those words!” Robert excitedly questioned her, “Did they tell you? How did you bribe them?!”
“Ha~” Bai Youwei laughed, “Did I bribe them? Was there a need?”
To be honest, from the beginning, I doubted the true meaning of these words, I just didn’t have a precise direction. But then you said you enjoy mystery novels, which gave me a clue, after all, I’ve also read Holmes.”
Robert’s face turned pale.
“One of the stories is called ‘The Dancing Men’, which also uses a code, a symbol representing a letter, right?” Bai Youwei enjoyed his expression, speaking unhurriedly, “Then I started to think, if I were the culprit, wanting to quickly convey a message within a limited space, what’s the first thing that should be conveyed?”
Robert slowly bit his lower lip, watching her unwillingly: “You… deduced it that way?”
“More or less~” Bai Youwei grinned, “I think the first thing to be conveyed should be the target, who the plan is against, this should be made clear. But if none of you know each other’s names, how to refer to it? … The room number is the most direct way, right?”
Robert kept his face stern, remaining silent.
Bai Youwei continued: “I noticed that in the secret code, the combination of ‘固团围回’ kept reappearing, it appeared in each cryptic message, so I boldly guessed it was the English ‘0’, because no matter who you plan against, the room number will necessarily contain an ‘0’! With that, I got four letters, z, e, r, o.
Furthermore, as soon as your secret code appeared, the female guest in room 405 met with trouble, therefore I deduced that the words before ‘固团围回’ referred to ‘four’, and the ones after, to ‘five’—
‘图回困围·固团围回·图囝圈团’, these word combinations together would denote ‘four-zero-five’, 405. I used these known letters in the whole sentence, making connections and guesses, hence I got even more letters.”
Bai Youwei squinted her eyes, a playful smile forming on corner of her lips: “At last… I used these letters to write several notes and pushed them into everyone’s rooms, anyone who could understand would want to take a look, right? Just like you~ at this moment.”