Chapter 319: Deciphering the "Heifang Cloth Manuscript" _1

As for Yinghuo City, Jiang Yu was fairly familiar with it; many people considered it the place where Jiang Yu "secret dragon" had made his mark.

Indeed, a decade ago, staunch supporters of the Wallfacers were most numerous in Yinghuo City, and many of its residents took pride in this.

However, in the past decade, Yinghuo City had not found any new opportunities for development.

Today, the most significant presence of Yinghuo City is the joint project with Guanghan City to develop Mercury.

This time, Jiang Yu brought an inspection team to Yinghuo City to carefully study its future opportunities.

Since there was a bureaucratic system to utilize, Jiang Yu did not concern himself with this matter, after all, he was not very professional in this area.

After spending a few days in Yinghuo City, Jiang Yu set off relentlessly for Zao Shen City.

Zao Shen City was also a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt, smaller than Ceres Star, yet this dwarf planet was rich in mineral deposits.

Therefore, from the beginning of its construction, Zao Shen City was built according to the model of a mining base.

This city was much smaller than Ceres City, with most of its structure being residential and commercial areas, serving as dwellings and places for workers to relax.

Another part was the smelting area, which served a similar function to the industrial zone of Ceres Star, processing metal ores on-site.

However, the scale of Zao Shen City's smelting area was not large, only enough to handle the ores mined from Vulcan Star itself. Juno and Pallas were also of similar sizes, so the administrative tasks of these three dwarf planets were all undertaken by Zao Shen City.

Meanwhile, the mining platforms roaming the main asteroid belt were almost entirely under Ceres Star's control.

Now, the entire main asteroid belt resembled the backyard of the Solar System State.

Jiang Yu also stayed on Vulcan Star for two days before starting to return to Jupiter.

On the way back, Jiang Yu received good news: Wu Zheng's team had finally deciphered the "Heifang Cloth Manuscript"!

It was the only piece of written material left by the "Black Cuboid People," or perhaps the descendants of the "Black Cuboid People," found from the Heifang Relic Site.

Today, two hundred years later, they had finally decrypted this manuscript.

According to Wu Zheng, in addition to descriptions of the "Black Cuboid People" and their descendants, the key content of the manuscript recorded how to open the "Dark Forest"!

Wu Zheng also reported that they would wait for Jiang Yu to return before opening the "Dark Forest," allowing Jiang Yu to witness this historic moment!

Jiang Yu initially wanted to see the translation but then thought that he might have many questions while reading it, so he temporarily curbed his curiosity. He gave Wu Zheng's team a break, deciding to address everything upon his return.

This exhilarating news made Jiang Yu impatient to return, but the speed of the spaceship was already at its maximum. By the time he arrived back at the Jupiter Civilization Circle, it was already half a month later.

Jiang Yu did not return to the capital of the Solar System State, Jupiter City, but headed straight for the small Space City studying the "Black Square".

The vacation of Wu Zheng's team had ended, and the members had all returned with excitement, ready for the next steps.

The further research on the "Black Square" would surely become world-renowned and even be recorded in the annals of history as a significant event.

After entering the Space City, Jiang Yu first gave a brief speech to thank everyone for their hard work and asked everyone to stand by for further instructions.

Immediately after, Jiang Yu, along with Wu Zheng and several other principal investigators of the research team, went to the archives room.

Wu Zheng first showed the original "Heifang Cloth Manuscript": "Actually, Pei Yunqi had almost completed the decryption work, but his results were not expressive enough; that's why he thought his decryption approach was incorrect.

"Through our recent studies, we have noticed a detail: the 'Black Cuboid People' have four hands!"

"A member raised a bold conjecture that a four-handed intelligent being, when writing their own script, might use all four hands to write simultaneously, or perhaps two hands at a time?"

"The different method of writing could be the key that has been eluding us in deciphering the 'Heifang Cloth Manuscript'!"

"Based on this theory, after a period of research, we indeed discovered that the first row of two independent characters isn't the beginning of the first and second lines, but should be read as a vertical structure, followed by the second row of characters in another vertical structure sentence."

"Having achieved this breakthrough, the translation difficulties that had been troubling us were quickly resolved!"

"Once the right method was found, the rest was easy to handle."

"It took just over three months to completely finish the deciphering work."

Wu Zheng's joy was evident in his words, unraveling the heart knots that spanned over two centuries.

One of the researchers beside him added, "We speculate that the 'Black Cuboid People' adapted their script to the environment of Earth, or it has 'Earthified' due to their long-term residence on our planet.

"Therefore, our work of deciphering went very smoothly, with only a few words whose meanings we didn't understand, which didn't significantly affect the overall understanding of the text.

"This is the deciphered document, divided into three parts: the first part describes the 'Black Cuboid People,' the second part describes the Dark Forest, and the third part is the method to open the 'Dark Forest'."

Jiang Yu saw the manuscript on the portable computer, with a section of the original text, a translated section, and some of Wu Zheng's group's explanations and conjectures.

The translated section read, "We come from distant mountains, and our tribe has always been searching for a marvelous treasure in the desert.

Among us were once two 'Creators,' who were erudite, understanding the principles of the four seasons and holding deep knowledge of the earth's depths and the remote stars.

Furthermore, they had long lifespans, said to have been blessed by that very treasure, which is why they lived so long.

They alone knew the approximate location of the treasure, and the tribe had to rely on their guidance to search for it.

However, one of the 'Creators' disappeared over a hundred years ago, along with a dozen tribespeople."

The other 'Creator' passed away in natural old age over eighty years ago, leaving the tribe completely at a loss concerning the whereabouts of the treasure."

Note:

1. Creator: Presumably someone with the consciousness of the 'Black Cuboid People,' they may have held the position of a tribal seer or priest.

Because of the powerful life force bestowed by genetic technologies and some advanced knowledge, they appeared quite mysterious.

And the majority of the tribe should be the so-called 'Creators'' descendants or people gathered together previously for survival.

2. Distant mountains: Likely referring to Tianshan Mountains.

Analysis:

1. The composition of the 'Black Cuboid Tribe' likely had ordinary humans as the main body, with 'Creators' as the actual leaders.

2. The gene technology level of the 'Black Cuboid People' was very high, allowing people whose bodies they had modified to live for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years!

3. It can be almost certain that the 'Creators' with the consciousness of the 'Black Cuboid People' have all died out, and the previous concerns about them blending into humanity can essentially be dismissed.