Chapter 252: An Unexpected Discovery in the Command Room (Part 3)
Chapter 252: An Unexpected Discovery in the Command Room (Part 3)
The two bright moons reflected one after another, and Gu Xiaoyue—despite her aloofness—looked beautiful as she stood in the cold moonlight.
Gu Xiaoyue pushed up the spectacles on the bridge of her nose and tilted her head slightly. Her tone was cold and concise as always, “What is it?”
She was only wearing a single coat at the moment instead of the thick mage robe, but it displayed her slim figure to the fullest. Xiao Lin lost himself in her slightly and quickly coughed to cover up his embarrassment after realizing that she was frowning very faintly.
However, his expressions soon became a little convoluted after recalling his reason for calling Gu Xiaoyue out. After a moment’s silence, he spread out his tightly-clenched right hand, and revealed a nearly sweat-soaked piece of paper in his palm. He said, “I just found this in the orc’s command room.”
When the orcs realized that they could not defend the fortress, they destroyed a lot of things in advance. Gu Xiaoyue knew that, and she had also guessed why Xiao Lin suddenly went to the command room. It was definitely an attempt to find out a thing or two about the orcs’ actions. What she could not understand was why Xiao Lin called her out in the middle of the night.
“What’s this?”
“See for yourself.”
Xiao Lin stopped talking despite having more to say and eventually handed the piece of paper to Gu Xiaoyue. Then, without blinking, he stared at every possible change in expression on the girl’s delicate face.
Gu Xiaoyue was even more confused. She took the paper, squinted her eyes, and looked at it carefully under the moonlight.
The city wall fell into a brief silence again, with only the sound of waves roaring in the distance. What disappointed Xiao Lin was that, apart from being a little surprised when she first saw the piece of paper, she still remained very calm after that. However, for more than ten minutes after that, Gu Xiaoyue remained silent. She simply stood still like a sculpture.
Xiao Lin did not believe that she had not finished reading that piece of paper, since it was less than 30 characters. Seeing as Gu Xiaoyue refused to speak, he could only wait for her response.
“This is impossible!” Gu Xiaoyue finally spoke, with her tone sounding much colder.
Xiao Lin shook his head. “I don’t have any idea. I couldn’t believe it when I first saw this piece of paper. After all, you asked me to bring the letter to your sister, and at that time, I just gave it a couple of casual glances, so I’m not really very sure. I can’t understand it no matter how much I thought about it, so all I could do is look for you in the middle of the night. Can you tell me what you discovered?”
Gu Xiaoyue’s face was a little confused, and such an expression appeared very rarely for someone who had always been calm and confident. She opened her mouth and said, “Yes, the text on this piece of paper is the same as that used by my sister and I since we were kids. That special font is almost the same, but that can’t be possible. It’s just a code between me and my sister. How could it have appeared here!”
Xiao Lin sighed. The results he was expecting had been confirmed, but did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. When he returned to Earth some time ago, Gu Xiaoyue had told him to forward a letter to her sister Gu Chengyun. She stated the letter was written in a code that only she and her sister could understand. No one else could make sense of it even if they read it.
When Gu Chengyun was reading the letter, curiosity drove Xiao Lin to glance secretly at it. The code was indeed written in a very special and complicated font, and it was utterly impossible for any outsider to understand it.
Xiao Lin did not care much about it at the time because he felt it was a little quirk between two sisters. However, if the code’s special font actually appeared in the orc’s command room on a torn piece of paper, the logical explanation was that the document was very important. After all, it was the first thing that the orcs tried to destroy.
Likening Xiao Lin’s shock to mere turbulent waves was a gross understatement. His mind had been sent into complete chaos, but the cool sea breeze blew past and calmed him down slightly so he could try his best to sort out his thoughts.
First of all, the font was undoubtedly a special language originating from Planet Norma. It was certainly not Orcish, because Xiao Lin had compared the paper with the other complete orc documents. The font was very different and so was the handwriting. Orcs had poor handwriting with crooked fonts, but the other font was quite beautiful.
Secondly, Gu Xiaoyue and her sister Gu Chengyun have never entered the Dawn Academy before, let alone go to Planet Norma, but from what Gu Xiaoyue had confirmed, she and her sister seemed to have used it as a kind of code since childhood.
Xiao Lin did not suspect Gu Xiaoyue to deceive him, especially not when he had seen the lively and optimistic Gu Chengyun. None of that seemed to be a farce. He asked softly, “Who taught you this code?”
“I taught myself. Since I had to take care of Chengyun from when we were both very young, there were times I felt really bored at home. During that period, I accidentally discovered a book detailing this code. Back then, Chengyun and I treated this font as some kind of code. We both found it very interesting. It was mainly just to pass the time and learn from each other.”
As Gu Xiaoyue said that, she was also feeling a little distressed. “But it’s hard to learn. It took Chengyun and I many years to thoroughly master this code. We didn’t think much about it at the time and just treated it as a little secret among us.”
Xiao Lin believed Gu Xiaoyue’s words, and followed up by analyzing, “So the book used to study that code must have been left by your parents or one of your elders, which means—”
“Which means that someone in my family was once selected into Dawn Academy, and for some reason, they translated this Planet Norma language book into Chinese and left it at home.” Gu Xiaoyue was a very smart woman, but her emotions were all over the place when she muttered to herself.
Xiao Lin could understand Gu Xiaoyue’s feelings and was even feeling some sympathy for her. It was very likely that the language book was left by her father or mother, and from Gu Xiaoyue’s earlier statements, her parents had left her since she was very young. It would make perfect sense if her parents were in Dawn Academy or the New World. After all, according to the rules of the Supreme Council, those who reached Gold-rank were not allowed to return to Earth.
That was the most reasonable explanation. Although plenty of questions still remained, such as why her parents only left them that particular language book or why they disappeared without saying goodbye, it was their family’s affairs and Xiao Lin should not be interfering.
“Then what kind of language do you think this is? It can’t be Orcish, or Normese, or Mermish.” Xiao Lin asked.
“What other answer could it possibly be if it appeared at this particular time in the orc command room?”
Both their gazes shifted simultaneously to the distance and landed on the silver fleet that was quietly floating on the sea surface. That was probably the most spot-on answer.
It was Elvish!