69 Shifting Destiny 1 (1/2)
Chapter 69: Shifting Destiny 1
Putting the book on the table, Garen continued to flip through the pages.
The yellow surface of the paper was slightly rough and crisp. The corner of the paper broke off after Garen lightly touched it. It was like an extremely thin template.
”Be careful, these books are very old, at least hundreds of years old,” Felicity said quietly.
”Okay.”
Garen softened his movements even more.
After flipping to the fifth page, it was still the table of contents. Garen ignored it and kept on flipping.
‘Hereby I thank my friend, Lady Liana. If it weren’t for her careful correction and sponsorship, this book might not have been published…’ After this, the words became blurry like they had been soaked in water.
Garen frowned and continued flipping. To his surprise, the actual content of the book was crooked black letters that looked like toads. Garen could recognize individual ones, but when jumbled together, they became garbled and meaningless.
”Could it be… are these special codes? I need to decode it to read the actual content?” Garen said with a frown. He flipped a couple more pages again, but they were are all the same.
”I think so. When writing down important information, a lot of people design their own codes.” Felicity nodded and looked through the book alongside Garen.
”Then what do we do?” Garen stopped at a random page. From top to bottom, there was not a single paragraph he could understand. All he could try to comprehend were some drawn engineering designs.
”One of my friends’ grandpa used to use this one method of encryption. I still remember it, so let me try to decode it.” Felicity excitedly grabbed the book, took out a pen and started to work her way through the book.
The girl pushed Garen away and even stole his seat.
Standing at the back, however, allowed Garen to see Felicity’s perky butt. One of her legs was sexily bent on top of the chair, lifting up her tight black skirt. If he crouched a bit more, he would be able to see what was underneath that skirt of hers.
”I am relaxed and happy,” Garen softly whispered to himself. With a grin on his face, he walked back a few more steps and enjoyed Felicity’s beautiful pose.
After about ten minutes.
”Garen, come here, I know what this book is about now!” the girl suddenly shouted.
Garen walked over in a hurry and sniffed her refreshing natural scent. He subconsciously inhaled deeply. However, seeing Felicity’s serious face, he organized his thoughts and looked at the table.
On top of the desk was a piece of paper. It contained a small paragraph decoded from the book.
”I have a general idea of what this book is about,” Felicity said with a bit of excitement.
She flipped to the table of contents and pointed at the page.
”There are three parts in the book: nightmare, the color white, ceremony. These three parts are in correspondence to the three strange events the author encountered. It tells the boring and difficult journey he went through to try and find answers, as well as the clues he picked up in the end. Basically, this book is a travel journal. A journal detailing the journey of a man who was seeking the truth behind fables!”
”Travel journal? Does it really have records of the strange events the author encountered?” Garen asked suspiciously.
”It doesn’t really clarify what exactly was going on. However, the author has recorded that he wasn’t sure since when but he began to repeatedly have the same nightmare. To reach the roots of why he was having it and to ease the pain, he went on a journey to figure out why it was occurring. If it really was just about a nightmare, then it couldn’t be categorized as a strange event. But, at the end of the book, the author seems to have learned something. The way he wrote became a little unclear, it was as if he was tabooing something.”
”Tabooing something?” Garen squinted his eyes. ”Can we find some information on the author?”
”No. From what I’ve noticed, after the author arrived at this one place and came out of it, there was a huge change in the book’s content and it became ambiguous,” Felicity explained.
”What is that place?”
”Rochwell Empire Library.”
Garen frowned, picked up the book, and flipped through it.
”Look at the back cover, there is something!” Felicity yelled anxiously.
Garen flipped to the last page in a hurry. Immediately, a white piece of paper that was tucked between the cracks of the back cover fell out. If it wasn’t for the cover being cracked after such a long time, a knife would have been needed to pry open the cover to get that piece of paper.
Felicity quickly picked it up and unfolded it.
On it was written only a single line: Navici Tsunami Mountain No. 174, under the third tree and six meters deep. I left the stuff there. – Charlie
”It’s a note! Nobody has found it before us, or else this piece of paper wouldn’t still be tucked in the book cover.” Felicity was thrilled. ”Let’s go check it out! Maybe we can get our hands on something cool!”
”Navici… Where is this?” Garen had never heard of this place before.