I Can Meet with Dead Scientists

Chapter 468 - 228: 100 Ways to Eat an Axe_2

However, what surprised Xu Yun was.

Upon hearing his words, Thomson quickly shook his head and corrected:

"Luo Feng, you are wrong, this time those people’s target is not me."

"...?"

Xu Yun was taken aback, and instinctively asked:

"Not you? Then who is it?"

Thomson lifted his eyelids, glanced at him, and reached out to pat Will on the shoulder:

"It’s Will."

Xu Yun: "?????"

Seeing Xu Yun’s wtf expression, Thomson couldn’t help but smile slightly, clearly amused by Xu Yun’s reaction:

"Luo Feng, have you heard of the Scotland root permutation encryption method?"

"Root permutation encryption method?"

Xu Yun was stunned again upon hearing this, and quickly some content flashed through his mind.

Anagram.

This is a method of surname encryption that belongs to advanced foreign languages in reality and frequently appears in novels, which can be understood as systematic generation of aliases.

Let me give a famous example.

In the work "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," there is a scene described as classic:

In the chamber, Tom Riddle drew Harry’s magic wand from his pocket, sketched in the air a few times, and wrote three glittering names:

Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Then he waved the magic wand, and those letters automatically rearranged, becoming:

I Am Lord Voldemort.

Tom Marvolo Riddle in English is "Tom Marvolo Riddle."

"I Am Lord Voldemort" in English is "I Am Lord Voldemort."

Due to the language barrier between Chinese and foreign languages, many people think the latter phrase was randomly scrambled and pieced together.

In reality, this is not the case.

Voldemort is actually a word formed from the French roots vol+de+mort, meaning "Flight of Death."

It belongs to the standard type of root permutation method.

Also, if you have seen the small student’s Death God, you might have an impression of episode 132 of Conan’s "Magician Enthusiast Murder Case":

This episode tells the story of Ran and Sonoko attending an offline meeting of magician enthusiasts, and Conan, due to a cold, returned home with Mouri first.

On the way back, the car radio announced someone was killed, and the murderer was a netizen at Sonoko’s meetup with the nickname "Shadow Master."

So Conan and Mouri immediately rushed back to the villa, but the only suspension bridge was already on fire.

Conan charged through the suspension bridge at the risk of his life, collapsing at the house’s entrance.

The modus operandi in this episode was classic, but even more memorable was something else:

Kidd disguised himself as a chubby man named ’Tsuchi井Takku Tree,’ and his naming scheme was also using root permutation encryption, although part of it was culturally localized by Old Thief Qing Shan.

Old Thief Qing Shan in this episode used root permutation to pay tribute to Conan Doyle, which is the classic Scotland-style root permutation encryption.

If classmates have not forgotten the Scotland celebrities mentioned at the beginning of the dungeon, they should remember the clue was actually given at that time.

According to Scotland’s root permutation encryption.

Assume a person’s name is ABC·DEF·GHIZK

Then you first need to split the last name into two words, such as GHI and ZK.

Next, move the first of the split words... that is, GHI to the front of the name, forming GHI·ABC·DEF·ZK.

After doing this.

Add a meaningless letter in front of GHI as a disguise, which can be removed when restoring.

For example, if you add a W, then it becomes WGHI·ABC·DEF·ZK.

Then, the third step is to check if the initial WGHI contains X, T, and Z.

If there are these three letters, they need to be replaced with other lowercase letters.

Because these three letters are also meaningless in Scotland’s root grammar.

For example, X should be decomposed into two lowercase l, which is ll, as if straightening the two crossed lines of X.

T should be replaced with a lowercase f, Z with a lowercase y—this replacement is limited to the first word.

As for the original lfy word, it should be distinguished with uppercase.

Then comes the final step:

Swap the starting letters of each word except the first and last two letters.

That is, swap the first letter of the second word with the last second word, the third with the last third, and so on.

Swap the first letters of ABC and DEF to become DBC and AEF.

If, due to odd numbers, there is one central word left, it remains unchanged.

In this way.

The surname ABC·DEF·GHIZK, once encrypted, becomes WGHI·DBC·AEF·ZK.

Seeing Xu Yun seemingly enlightened, Thomson smiled gently once more.

He took out a pen and paper, and wrote Will’s full name:

斯莫·卡梅斯.基尔克.威尔.

Small·Cames·Jlerk·Well.

According to root permutation encryption.

The starting letters of Cames and Jlerk should be exchanged.

So their original form is...

James and Clerk.

The initial S of Small is a meaningless word, which can be directly removed when restoring.

So Small becomes mall.

Next, l is lowercase, and there are two of them, indicating it’s the decomposition form of X.

Therefore, the original form of the first word should be Max.

Then, connecting it with the last Well, Will’s real name appears:

James Clerk Maxwell.

The moment this word appeared.

Xu Yun’s pupils suddenly shrank, as if struck by lightning, his mind went blank.

It turned out to be...

Him!

A moment later.

He took a deep breath, regaining his composure from the shock.

When he put this identity into the situations encountered over the past few days, everything could be perfectly explained: