Chapter 170: Greetings from ???
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Upon seeing this series of numbers, Benjamin was slightly dumbfounded.
What was this?
Was it like those logical reasoning test where you were asked to fill in the next number by understanding the pattern of the series? Or was it some encrypted code which was used to deliver message from extraterrestrial beings to Earthlings through natural phenomenon?
This did not seem right. Wasn’t this a fantasy or magic genre kind of story? Why a mathematics question out of the blue?
But, Benjamin did not dare to take it lightly. He knew that this series of numbers might very likely hide the secrets of that world. Thus, upon seeing this series of numbers, he spent nearly an hour to study it.
Unfortunately, he could not figure anything out.
He could not find the pattern within this series. Nor did he know things like Morse code. So, he could not decrypt it. Moreover, it was also mentioned that this series of numbers was jotted from the memory of the Pope. It was possible that this series of numbers contained errors. So, there was nothing Benjamin could do about it.
But...
As if he had suddenly realized something, Benjamin calmed his thoughts which were running all over the place and regained his focus.
This series of numbers... contained errors?
According to the tone in the book, the Pope seemed quite confident with his memory. Therefore, Benjamin thought that even if there was any error in this ratio, the errors should be quite small. Surely the errors would not be more than two.
Moreover, looking from a different perspective, this could also be considered as a different line of thoughts?
If there were one or two numbers that were incorrect in this series, then he would only need to look for the numbers that were different than the other numbers in this series. In fact, from another point of view, this was the same as finding the inner pattern of this series of numbers.
All of a sudden, the whole question had switched from passcode decryption to searching for the problematic one.
Benjamin for some reason felt like laughing.
Now here was the question: who was the ‘traitor’ in these numbers?
This was not a difficult thing to do. From the shallowest point of view, there were four numbers which were even numbers, only the last one was an odd number.
If the one that the Pope had recalled wrongly was the last number, simply adding or subtracting it by one would give the right proportion of the particles.
Actually, if he thought about it carefully, for matters like ratio, if there was any minor error in one of these numbers, it might cause the whole series of numbers to change pletely. The meaning derived from these numbers could also change drastically.
Like this series now, after doing the correction, Benjamin had numbers "16:10:24:24:28" or "16:10:24:24:30". After simplifying it by dividing everything by two, he would get "8:5:12:12:14" or "8:5:12:12:15".
... What did this represent?
Benjamin was dumbfounded once again.
Thinking hard, he decided to give it a try himself. Thus, he shut his eyes and entered the Space of Consciousness. He began collecting his Water Particles in five piles according to this ratio.
His affinity to elements was not adequate, so he could not collect all the particles. Thus, in order to do it quickly, he waited for the piles to bee smaller sizes than those recorded by the Pope in the book in ratio. At last, he had five piles of Water Particles of smaller sizes.
He first adjusted the proportion of the particles by using the ratio given by the Pope of "16:20:24:24:29
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