area51novel Chapter 1022: The 4th Signpost
Chapter 1022: The 4th Signpost
Chapter 1022 The Fourth Signpost
His mind was filled with scenes of adventures with Roger's pirate group. Without getting any useful information, Victor immediately restricted his thoughts and focused all his attention on the text itself!
Vic gathered his thoughts and started reading the logbook again from the first page. This time he was not as fast. Vic wanted to find patterns, secret codes or metaphors between the lines of Oden's words, but he didn't do it!
"Yamato! Go and do your work. I'll come find you if there's anything else. Don't waste time with me here!"
In this way, Vic read the log again and again, and Yamato next to him began to yawn.
Vic knew that there was no such thing as a code book to decipher text. A lot of the content looked normal, and it was impossible to see the deep meaning hidden under the normal content!
But Vic didn't know whether Oden had used the code book or not, so there were more directions to imagine, just like doing a probability problem. Vic read the log over and over again, but still had no clue!
"I see. The problem lies in these logbooks written after returning from Raftel. The content is ordinary and rambling, as if they were written just for the sake of writing!
The torn pages about Raftel were the real trick, drawing those unaware of the situation to their attention and ignoring the slight anomalies in the following pages. What a trick!
A few days later, Vic finally found a clue in the content behind the torn pages. The torn pages were records of Raftel, and the following pages were records of the period from returning from Raftel to Roger getting off the ship. After that, Oden stopped writing!
In fact, there is something wrong with these pages. Vic should have suspected it earlier, because the tattoo on Shanks' back was tattooed by Roger and Oden during that period!
If one wants to find the secret of the tattoo on Shanks' back, the most likely place to look is the logbook from that period, but since there is no specific reference, Vic can only focus on the whole thing!
Vic has been referring to many famous publications in this world these days, such as Rolando, the Big Liar, and trying to find the corresponding code book from these books circulating throughout the world, but he has failed and cannot find any coherent content at all!
Later, Wick referred to the unique culture of Wano Country and the books circulated in the country, but still got no results. It was as if this logbook was really a book that recorded the voyage of Pirate King Roger after he conquered the Grand Line and became the king. Wick wanted to give up!
But the fact that Roger and Oden tattooed Shanks on the back was too unusual, so Vic had to grit his teeth and persevere!
Finally, Vic was left with no other choice but to use ancient texts as a last resort, but he didn't expect it to be so useful!
Every word in ancient characters can be translated into modern characters, but not every word in modern characters can be translated into ancient characters.
Because that's how words work. As time goes by, more and more new words will be created for better writing and expression.
Therefore, not every current text can find a corresponding ancient character. This is true for the world of One Piece and the world of Vic's previous life. Oden took advantage of this and wrote a few chapters with ordinary content and rambling to convey information!
So when Vic translated the last few logs into ancient characters, there were many gaps in them.
After connecting all the ancient texts, it becomes a guide map for deciphering the tattoo on Shanks' back. The tattoo on Shanks' back can be peeled off layer by layer in a certain order, and finally combined in another form to obtain the final hidden content!
If there is no text version of the interpretation order of the directional map, you will never be able to figure it out no matter how hard you try. It will just be a bunch of gibberish. Who has the ability to get the final answer?
This isn't a decryption problem anymore, it's a probability problem. What's the probability of every step being correct? With so many steps and sequences, the probability is probably approaching zero!
“No wonder Roger and Oden left Red Hair and Buggy behind. Raftel must be in the right place at the right time to enter. It really exists in another dimension!
No wonder Luffy couldn't find it. Even if he tried to rely on luck, there were no such thing as time and space limitations. It was like a tiny dot that only appeared once a year in the sea behind Narcissus Star Island. Who would be so lucky as to encounter that flashing dot? I guess only Zoro could lead the team to enter!
After layers of deciphering by Vic, the tattoo on Shanks' back finally turned out to be rows of ancient texts, or incoherent ancient texts.
However, the contents were particularly consistent with the historical texts on the other three signposts. After recombining and redistributing them, Vic obtained four intersecting coordinates and the effective date for entering Raftel!
You can't find Raftel without the four signposts. There is indeed a reason for this, you can't help but accept it!
Finally, the tattoo on Shanks' back was deciphered, and the specific location and time of Raftel's appearance were obtained. Vic was completely relieved. The great treasure will eventually see the light of day, and there will be no more uncertainties!
After returning Oden's logbook to Yamato, Vic returned to his normal routine!
"Luffy, I'm sorry!"
Vic did not intend to give Luffy the historical text of the fourth landmark behind Shanks. If he gave it to him now, with Robin around, the Straw Hat Pirates would be able to find Raftel in at most a year!
When Luffy returns as king, it will probably be the time for his ultimate battle with the World Government and Im!
But Vic has only just grasped one lightning law. The speed law is stuck, and the space law is still a long way from perfection. How can he defeat him? Plus, Garp is no match for him. Im is a powerful being who possesses several complete laws, so he still lacks time to develop!
Vic now wants to postpone the battle to the next generation, that is, twenty or thirty years later, anyway, he has pure gold in his hands!
He thought that Luffy, Ace and others who he thought had the potential to break through to the realm of God could just quietly retreat, use pure gold to maintain their physical peak, and then practice in seclusion. After everyone had quietly broken through to the realm of God, he would catch Im off guard!
Anyway, Vic has the Soul Tree which can isolate the violent fluctuations of laws when breaking through the realm of God. With his deliberate plan, Im will definitely be at a loss at that time!
And Vic was also confident that by that time, with Roger and Oden's arrangements, the historical text of the fourth signpost would most likely have been destroyed by them!
So unless Victor tells him, Luffy will never find the fourth signpost in his life, because Oden's logbook is in Yamato's hands, which is equivalent to Victor's hands. As long as Victor doesn't agree, Yamato will never show it to outsiders!
Combined with the abilities of Ein and Bonnie, as long as they are used on Luffy and the others at the right time, a slightly older Luffy and the others will appear.
If the big secret treasure doesn't appear, after using this a few more times, even Luffy, the sun god Nika, probably won't be taken seriously by Im. He probably won't even be interested in taking action!
The great secret treasure cannot be found, and the new generation of Joyboy is getting older day by day. Who else can threaten Yim's rule?
Let Luffy and the others escape secretly and ensure that Im will not be suspicious. After they break through the realm of God, the chances of defeating Im will be much greater!
Luffy can't think too far ahead now. His goal has always been to become the Pirate King. This is determined by the height Luffy is at now. No matter how much you say, it will be useless!
Luffy once said that he didn't want to be a hero and only wanted to do what he wanted to do. It is estimated that no one can persuade him. Only when he becomes the Pirate King and realizes his ambition, will Luffy consider other things!
But Victor has always been considering the overall situation, and the great treasure is just one part of the overall situation. So at this moment of life and death, the great treasure can be temporarily abandoned, and Luffy's dream can also be temporarily put on hold!
It may sound a bit against his will, but with so many lives at stake, Vic would rather be a little against his will!