I Was Once a Legend

The door of 304 can be opened. It should be said that the door has been burned and deformed. Cui Zuojing pushed lightly, and the door panel fell down in its entirety, hitting the ground, raising a black ashes.

Cui Zuojing stood at the door and looked around. The room was burned extremely badly, all the furniture was burnt away, only the walls and the outline of the ceramic bathtub remained.

If it's all like this, there won't be any clues... Thinking of this, Cui Zuojing still walked in, not letting go of any possible information.

With sharp eyes, he saw that there seemed to be something of a special shape in the round bathtub that had been completely blackened by the fire. He reached out and picked it up. It was a lighter. Letters: VC.

Cui Zuojing immediately remembered the note he found behind the portrait. Does this lighter belong to the man named Vincent Campbell?who is he?What roles and functions did you assume?

Rubbing the lighter on his pants, Cui Zuojing put it in his pocket, turned around and went to the last room, room 305.

The door of the room can also be opened. Cui Zuojing opened the door to enter. This room is in better condition. After searching like the previous two rooms, nothing was found. Cui Zuojing set his sights on the closed bathroom door.

He pushes it away.

Surprisingly, the bathroom is surprisingly tidy, whether it is the clean tile floor and walls, the neat bath towels on the shelf, or the spotless washstand, there is no sign of having experienced a fire.

It's as if the bathroom door becomes a barrier during a fire, perfectly separating it from the fire outside.

There are some disposable sanitary appliances and even a lipstick on the sink, which may have been left by the previous residents. The mirror is covered with a layer of mist that is unreasonable, and it is impossible to see the figure clearly.

Cui Zuojing really wanted to see if he was his original appearance. He stretched out his hand and wiped off the fog on the mirror with his palm.

The cold water was rubbed on the palm, and the mirror was clear again, but what was reflected was the figure of the man who was also wiping the mirror.

Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng in the mirror froze at the same time.

Cui Zuojing immediately made a funny face. Seeing that Dong Zheng in the mirror didn't do the same moves as him, he couldn't help laughing, making sure that he didn't become Dong Zheng.

He heaved a sigh of relief, he had been worried about Dong Zheng's condition, and now he finally met him, even though they might be in different spaces, it was better than not knowing anything.

This mirror should be a medium for two people in different spaces to communicate. Cui Zuojing saw that Dong Zheng opened his mouth to say something, but he couldn't hear the other party's voice. He read Dong Zheng's lips to ask him Can you hear me, then I shook my head.

The man in the mirror was dressed as a waiter. The black suit perfectly set off his tall and straight figure, and the bow tie was tied meticulously, giving him an air of asceticism. He was wearing white gloves, one of which had been taken off to wipe the mirror.

And Cui Zuojing noticed at a glance the cursive characters engraved on the nameplate on Dong Zheng's chest.

vincent campbell.

The note and the lighter he got had a lot to do with the name. Cui Zuojing immediately took out the broken lighter from his pocket. Dong Zheng showed a slightly surprised look on his face. He nodded, indicating that Cui Zuojing's lighter was indeed his. of.

Neither of them wasted time on meaningless greetings. The design of the box must be for the two to exchange information. The clues they need in the scene may be on the other side, or they need the cooperation of the two parties to work together. Breaking.

Cui Zuojing showed Dong Zheng the two notes. Through the mirror, the letters Dong Zheng saw would be reversed, and Cui Zuojing also took the opportunity to think about the contents of the note again.

He didn't get many clues in the scene, such as the small note with Dong Zheng's current name written on the back of the picture frame, the mobile phone with cheating information in 301, the things locked in 302 that have been trying to break the door, and the card in the crack of 303. A string of unknown messy letters, unlike any known language, Dong Zheng's lighter in 304, and a mirror that can communicate with Dong Zheng in 305.

Among them, the note and the lighter are related to Dong Zheng. Cui Zuojing is sure that he searched carefully and there should be no clues. If the information in the phone reveals the plot, what about the card?

vincent campbell.

oprvvhmjieubpdp.

The back should correspond to a sentence. The note is in English. Let’s assume that the original encrypted text is also English. The third word is composed of two letters. In sentences or phrases, the most frequently used two-letter words are Pronouns, linking verbs, or prepositions such as is, am, of, an, in, it, he, on, or.

And according to the length of the letters before and after, ie should not be a preposition... Cui Zuojing thought, seeing Dong Zheng in the mirror frowned, and slowly wrote the number 15 on the mirror with his fingers.

15?

Cui Zuojing looked at the note and card again, and suddenly found that the two strings consisted of 15 letters.

Is that so? !

In a flash of inspiration, Cui Zuojing had a rough guess in his mind. He immediately picked up the lipstick on the sink, pulled off the cap, twisted most of the lipstick out, and wrote on the mirror.

Both strings of letters are 15. If they are matched with each other, it is likely that one string is a key and the other string is a ciphertext. However, the order of the letters on the card is messy and meaningless, and they are separated by spaces like sentences. ciphertext.

Using the key and ciphertext in this way, Cui Zuojing was the first to think of Caesar encryption, which is a replacement encryption technology. All letters in the plaintext are moved backward or forward in the alphabet according to a fixed number. After offsetting, it is replaced with ciphertext.

For example, when the offset value is 6, the letter A is replaced by G, and the letter B is replaced by H...

Afterwards, Caesar encryption derived many variants, such as the one that Cui Zuojing is currently experimenting with. The cipher generally includes three parts: the encrypted real text, the key, and the encrypted cipher text.

Each letter in the key represents the starting point of the offset. For example, when the letter in the key is v, the counting starts from v, and the alphabet changes to vwxyza... The o in the ciphertext is the 15th letter in the original alphabet , and the 15th letter in the v offset alphabet is t.When the letter in the key is i, counting starts from i, and the alphabet becomes ijklmn... p in the ciphertext is the 16th letter in the original alphabet, and the 16th letter in the i offset alphabet is h.

And so on.

In this way, Cui Zuojing wrote out the real text corresponding to the cipher text one by one.

He didn't seem to notice when the banging on the door from 302 stopped. Coral lipstick wrote letters one by one on the mirror, gradually forming a sentence——

Dong Zheng deduced the law of the password a little earlier than Cui Zuojing, and the powerful computing power of the core produced the real text almost instantly. He watched the letters appearing in the young man's hand, and suddenly saw the corridor in the corner of the mirror. I saw a sudden flash of shadows.

His face suddenly changed, and he shouted to remind Cui Zuojing. He pressed his hands on the mirror desperately to let the young man know the crisis from behind, but Cui Zuojing seemed to know nothing, and he muttered Following the order of the alphabet, after writing fal, directly complete the remaining two letters.

thetruthisfalse.

Opposite the mirror, the pale, white and transparent humanoid creature twisted strangely. Its mouth grew so large that it was about to tear off its entire head. It waved its arms in pain as if struggling to escape from the burning fire, and flew towards Cui Zuojing. !

Cui Zuojing made the last stroke, he didn't look back, he directly raised his hand and pressed it on Dong Zheng's hand in the mirror!

The moment the palms of the two touched each other, Cui Zuojing's palm was completely pressed into the mirror, and he leaned forward. The next moment, his whole body was engulfed by the mirror and disappeared without a trace.

The mirror instantly lost all sights. There was no Dong Zheng, no Cui Zuojing, and no twisted evil spirit who was desperately trying to catch the boy back. Only the string of coral red thetruthisfalse remained on the mirror obliquely.

At the moment when the palm of the young man was close to him, Dong Zheng woke up from the unspeakable heart palpitations, he panted heavily and opened his eyes, the nurse was adjusting the speed of his drip, seeing Dong Zheng opened his eyes Eyes, calmly said: "You are awake."

"..." Dong Zheng didn't answer, he was in a ward, the morning light came in from the window, he was lying on the hospital bed wearing a hospital gown, with a hanging bottle, and a young man was lying on the next ward The book, eyes focused, and on the bedside table between the two of them, there is a very delicate model of a dragon boat.

The vermilion-roofed pavilions, the curved water cups in the garden, the rotatable driving fan blades on both sides, and the majestic dragon head statue on the bow are all so familiar.

It was the dragon boat he boarded in the first scene!

The nurse looked at Dong Zheng to make sure that he finished the last point in the infusion bottle, pulled out the needle for him, and left the ward with the needle tube and the water bottle.

The door was closed, Dong Zheng pressed the needle hole on the back of his hand, silently wanted to pick up the dragon boat to have a look, but the clinical young man suddenly put down the book and said to him: "You know what? After the hotel, I met with Mr. Godot, only to find out that she had been trying to kill me, so as to steal the news of the location of the gold mine."

This is... a scene from the second Red Dead West?

"Fortunately, I was smart and didn't leave the small bag of gold in the hotel as she wanted. I went to Yorktown and bought some muskets, a good horse, and the latest waistcoat."

The young man laughed, then ignored Dong Zheng and continued to read his book.

Dong Zhengzheng was puzzled. The nurse pushed the door open again and came in. She took a bottle of medicine and said, "This is a newly prescribed medicine based on your current situation. Take it for two days and observe the situation."

Dong Zheng took the medicine bottle and took the lead in looking at the ingredient list.

Haloperidol, a typical antipsychotic drug, has a good anti-hallucinatory and delusional effect.

Did I become a mental patient in this scene... Dong Zheng was thinking about how to send the nurse away so that he would not have to take medicine under her nose, when he saw a doctor enter the ward.

"How do you feel?" The doctor stood in front of the hospital bed, looking down at Dong Zheng who was sitting on the bedside, "Did you see that madhouse again?"

madhouse?

The thread was caught, and the memory hidden in the chaos was finally clear. Dong Zheng recalled the experience in the "dream". He used the vision of Cui Zuojing to travel through the madhouses in Europe in the [-]th century. When he finally woke up, he became a Vincent Campbell, a waiter in a luxury hotel.