Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 590 Deciphering
Compared with other religious organizations, the biggest characteristic of the Jesuits is that for them, priesthood is the basic factor of their religious life, and every member of the Jesuits is ready to devote themselves to the missionary group at any time.

Correspondingly, their prayer time is more flexible, and they also abandon traditional ascetic activities such as fasting in the Catholic Church, so as to make their clergy work more flexible.

However, compared with the flexibility of the ceremony, the internal structure of the Jesuits adopts a company-based organizational structure, with a clear hierarchy, a president who exercises centralized control, and members are prohibited from holding high positions in the Holy See.

Judging from the records of various countries, the Jesuits have always been respected for their erudition. Many times they rely on their own skills to open the way of missionary work in unfamiliar areas, which is inseparable from the strict training they have received.

To become a Jesuit, you must first apply and pass the basic quality assessment to become a novice monk.After a two-year probation period, one enters the stage of being a clergyman, spending 3 to 5 years studying literature and philosophy, and at the same time making simple oaths.

Afterwards, help for 2 to 3 years in specific Holy See functions, usually teaching in secondary schools.Then enter the stage of four-year theological research, at the end of which he formally made the "Three Absolutes" oath, and finally became the most official member of the Society of Jesus, absolutely loyal to the church and obey the president.

This is also the biggest difference between the Jesuits and ordinary Catholic organizations. Those full members who are ordained must take a sacred oath of allegiance to the Pope.

This makes their missionary missions or other various actions subject to the Pope's ruling, which makes the congregation closely related to the Pope in a special form, and at the same time often undertakes secret tasks related to the Holy See.

So after seeing the logo of the Society of Jesus in this ancient document, Liang En and the others were quickly aroused. As one of the most core organizations of the Catholic Church, it is absolutely impossible for this document to be just a draft for practicing handwriting. .

"But I can't see what's in it." After repeatedly holding this thing and looking at it several times, Professor Shanda sighed and gave up his actions and said.

"I firmly believe that there is a secret hidden here, but it is too difficult for me to crack this secret, and it is even basically impossible in my opinion."

"Yes, I can't see any rules in these things at all." Librarian Hall shook his head and said, "Actually, I tried to crack it before you came, but the situation is not worth optimistic."

"Even for this thing, I used a computer with a high computing speed to decipher the code. Unfortunately, I haven't concluded any rules so far."

"This should indicate that there was something wrong with our previous thinking direction." Liang En said after listening to the other two people summarizing the previous situation, "These words probably contain other content."

"For example?" Professor Alexander asked curiously.

"For example, this thing cannot be deciphered according to the traditional language." Liang En said suddenly. "There are so many languages ​​using the Latin alphabet that I don't think it has to be English, French or Latin."

While listening to their conversation just now, Liang En found that both the curator Hall and Professor Alexander had acquiesced that these languages ​​were English and/or Latin.

The reason for this situation is also very simple, because according to Director Hall, the earliest place where this document appeared was in the famous Tower of London in England.

So they subconsciously thought that this document should be related to Britain or the British, and the language used by the British at that time was English, French or Latin.

In this way, researchers naturally subconsciously focused on these languages. Unfortunately, large-scale analysis now proves that this guess is definitely not correct.

"Then there are two questions now, one of which is which language the other party is using, and the other, more important, is how everything on this paper is converted into those languages." Professor Alexander asked .

"Language is easy to judge, because the other party is related to the Jesuits, so this language should be very closely related to Catholicism, but to find the real answer still needs experiments." Liang En said after thinking for a while.

"The only good news is that after entering the 17th century, many languages ​​and characters traditionally related to Christianity have completely become dead characters, so we don't have much to experiment with."

After reading it for a long time, Liang En also had his own thoughts on these hidden secrets. For example, the above records are also divided into words, paragraphs and sentences, which shows that this thing should be a logical document.

And as long as there is logic, then there will be an important starting point for future deciphering.Then you can translate a part of it little by little, and then gradually find the rules to decipher the whole content.

Of course, finding the direction does not mean that the next work will be much easier, because those who left this record have a lot of languages ​​to choose from, and it is definitely difficult to find the correct answer. things.

Fortunately, Liang En used a lot of language skills before, including many languages ​​used by the ancient Christian church. In this case, he immediately began to change the pronunciation of his own language and try one language after another.

The other people present didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Liang En's actions, because what he did made everyone think that he was an expert in ancient languages, so it was normal to adopt this approach.

After simply switching several languages, Liang En suddenly found that what he read aloud had a special sense of rhythm instead of the random pronunciation like before.This is of course good news, because normal language often has rhythm and rhyme, and it is impossible to deliberately twist the teeth like passwords, so as long as the reading is smooth, it means that the direction you are looking for is correct.

It is completely understandable that the read content cannot be translated, because many languages ​​have some similar languages ​​of the same branch, and as a secret document, the writer is likely to mobilize some of the content to make reading difficult.

"Have you found any clues?" Liang En's voice changed, and the others also focused on him, because the difference between the two voices was too obvious.

"Yes, I think it's some kind of Middle Eastern language that came from even earlier." Liang En said after reading a few more sentences, "I'm trying to rearrange these languages ​​now."

After speaking, Liang En quickly immersed himself in the research.Then keep trying various pronunciation and word combinations to see if you can find what you want.

Of course, in addition to using the knowledge in my mind to conduct research, the [ciphertext cracking (R)] card also had a great effect.

So under the combined effect of the cards and the knowledge in his mind, Liang En finally found the law and the order of the layout, and then in turn deduced what the whole document was about through the summarized rules.

And when all the translations were finished, Liang En found that although the document looked endless, it did point out the existence and location of a treasure.

(End of this chapter)