Chapter 2452 Scroll Of Nonsense
About an hour passed as Lin Mu continued to analyze the scroll with the silver band.
He didn't have much success, as the sealing array on the silver band was a bit too intricate. Lin Mu had to do everything half a step at a time, with the fear that any deep probing might end up causing the array to activate and destroy the scroll somehow.
As such, Lin Mu hadn't even managed to determine which kind of sealing array it exactly was.
'Whoever made this kept it messy intentionally,' Lin Mu realized. 'There are random formations that have nothing to do with the array present in this.' He discovered that there were formations like Odor Repelling formation, Anti-Hair Sticking Formation, and Glossy Tip Formation present in the array.
These most certainly had nothing to do with the Sealing array and when present in the hodgepodge of the formations, made it seem like they were different formations. Normally, Lin Mu would have found them rather quickly, but he had to be slow for the sake of caution.
~CREAK~
Thankfully, he didn't need to struggle for long as the door of the Interrogation Cell of the Second Lieutenant opened.
"I got it," Commander Dui spoke, his sleeves having quite a bit of blood on it.
"You got the solution?" Lin Mu raised his brows. "He gave it up?" "The solution is his blood." Commander Dui replied as he dabbed his finger on the bloody sleeve and then touched the silver band.
~SHUA~
As soon as he did, the silver band glowed before the blood turned into a thin thread that wrapped around it. Lin MU could see the formations within the array sorting themselves before unraveling!
"That was interesting." While blood was a common key used for Sealing Arrays like this, it had been disguised rather decently.
He would have eventually found out the key, but they had saved a lot of time.
"How'd he give it up so easily?" Lin Mu couldn't help but ask. "Didn't they have some restrains on them preventing them from speaking about secrets?" "They do, but we have adapted for it too." Commandeer Dui replied. "We have pills that can force them to speak." He added.
"False Bane Pills?" Lin Mu knew about them, as they were a common alchemical pill used in interrogation. "Those didn't work on them, and many others didn't either." Crown Prince Feng Shun replied. "But Crown Princess Shang in cooperation with our Imperial Alchemists, managed to make a new version of the pill that can work on the Black Ying Members as long as we stop them from using their sacrificial techniques.
Most of the ones we tried to catch before, ended up dying so we didn't get many opportunities to test the pill." He explained.
"That's good." Lin Mu replied. 'At least there was some progress with the Black Ying Empire members capabilities.' He thought.
With that done, Lin Mu opened up the scroll revealing over a three meters long. And in these three meters over a thousand lines written finely, making one squint to even read them.
17:17
"This is rather tiny." Lin Mu said, seeing it.
With that done, Lin Mu opened up the scroll revealing over a three meters long. And in these three meters over a thousand lines written finely, making one squint to even read them.
"This is rather tiny." Lin Mu said, seeing it.
"The content seems rather… Cryptic." Crown Prince Feng Shun said, having read a bit.
It was written in the Dao Script, but the sentences didn't all make sense. "The Donkey flies in the green sky. The Crab eats on the mountain. The Fish digs in the snow…" Lin Mu read a few lines, finding them to be almost nonsense.
"What do you think this is Commander?" Crown Prince Feng Shun asked. "A Cipher of sorts?" he wondered.
"Could be… Is there no other hidden secrets in it? Formations or more?" The commander replied.
"I don't sense anything." Lin Mu shook his head, having scanned it. And just in case, he also used his Spatial Perception to see if there was something else hidden, but found nothing. It was just plain parchment paper, and even the ink used to write on it seemed to be rather basic.
"It'll take a while to figure out what's the real meaning of this is ." Crown Prince Feng Shun let out a sign. "Let's make copies of it and let our people handle it." He stated.
"I can also assist." Lin Mu offered.
"You don't have to Daoist Lin Mu. Our intelligence department can take care of this. They are specialized in things like this," Crown Prince Feng Shun replied. "Not to mention, since the letter talked about the treasure being in the Dao Wind Empire. Our people have better knowledge of the locations within the empire, so they'll have an upper hand in this.' He explained.
"Indeed. Lord Imperator, you need not spend time in tasks like these." Commander Dui agreed. "There will be far more important things for you to do later anyways." "Alright." Lin Mu nodded his head. "What about the others?" he asked next.
"There hasn't been anything particular we've found from them right now." Commander Dui replied. "But we'll continue to interrogate them. At the very least, we should find the location of the outpost they talked about. If we can raid one, we'll gain a lot more information about the Black Ying Empire." He added.
"Keep me updated on it then." Lin Mu said before thinking of leaving. "I'll be back at my courtyard." "Have some time to yourself, Daoist Lin Mu." Crown Prince Feng Shun spoke. "You've been unconscious for too long. You should go and have some fun in the city." He suggested.
"Fun in these times?" Lin Mu raised his brows.
"The city might have higher security but it's still functioning like before. You can always go out." The Crown Prince elaborated.
"Hmm, I'll think about it." Lin Mu said before taking his leave.
~SHUA~
He flew out of the Discipline hall along with Little Shrubby and made his way back to the Courtyard.
But just as he was about to step in, he suddenly thought of something.
'Wait… that was just one of the Military Districts… there can be Black Ying Members in the other districts too!' Lin Mu suddenly realized.