KABANATA 7 - EMERGENCE OF DELTA

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My eyes widen in horror. Why would Czarina purposefully write a letter of apology with a secret message? Why didn't she just write it in literal?

"Don't you notice the bold letters? That's the codes. William Shakespeare used to do this. Do you know the Bacon Cipher?" mabilis niyang pahayag.

"Okay?" Iyon lamang ang tangi kong naisagot dahil hindi kayang i-absorb ng utak ko lahat ng mga sinabi niya. Gano'n talaga siya katalino. Kahit nga ano'ng tindi ng ipinakita niya kaninang pagsolve sa murder case at riddle para sa susi, kaya niya pa ring isipin ang cryptogram daw na ito. Grabe lang talaga siya sa multi-tasking ng utak.

"Born in sixteenth century England, Sir Francis Bacon was not only Lord Chancellor of England under James I, but was also a brilliant philosopher. Though not appreciated in his time, one of Bacon's achievements was a simple cipher he incorporated in his written works called the Baconian Cipher. In 1623, he created a cipher system using the techniques of substitution and stenography. It is an art of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and the receiver knows of its existence. People then describe his system using binary notation. A binary representation of the Roman alphabet, such as this one. . ."

Sinubukan niyang gamitin ang kanyang projection at ito ang kanyang ipinakita:

A-00000 G-00110 M-01100S-10010
B-00001 H-00111 N-01101T-10011
C-00010 I-01000 O-01110 U-10100
D-00011 J-01001 P-01111 V-10101
E-00100K-01010 Q-10000 W-10110
F-00101 L-01011 R-10001 X-10111
Y-11000 Z - 11001

"Ughh!" Mabilis na nawala ang projection at minamasahe na ng isa niyang kamay ang kanyang mga mata. He is obviously in pain.

"Ayos ka lang?" I force myself not to touch him.

"I'm okay," sagot niya habang tila inaadjust pa rin ang mga mata sa liwanag.

"Sumasakit ba mga mata mo kapag nasosobrahan ka sa paggamit ng aptitude mo?"

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