30: Chapter 30 The Ancestor's Dimensional Reduction Attack

Lin Ye opened the note.

On the paper, there were only 18 characters written in a flamboyant calligraphic style:

"Observe the tides to know when to advance or retreat. The nation regards you as its pillar. Your parents are well. Preserve yourself and plan with patience."

Immediately, after a brief pause, the Great Xia Live Stream erupted with countless bullet comments like a tsunami.

[Holy crap! This play is on another level! Encrypted in classical chinese!]

[A dimensionality reduction strike! The anti-counterfeiting technology left by our ancestors crushes everything!]

[This is a god-tier move. Even if they show you the cards, you still won't understand!]

[The fewer the words, the bigger the deal! You foreign dogs can go check your dictionaries; check until you drop!]

[Can a Chinese class representative come and translate this? What do these 18 characters actually mean?]

[I think I mostly get it. Amazing! The depth here is terrifyingly high!]

[Don't say it out loud! Just keep it to yourself! Anyone who translates it is a traitor!]

[Right, right, right! Protect our Brother Eye!]

[Uneducated, can't understand!]

[Uneducated, can't understand!] x10,000...

The Great Xia netizens instantly reached a strategic understanding.

Meanwhile, those foreign IDs lurking in the Great Xia Live Stream, attempting to spy, were dumbfounded.

They frantically took screenshots and plugged those 18 characters into AI translation software.

As a result, translating it ten times yielded ten different meanings.

The technological superiority of the foreign trolls was ruthlessly crushed under the weight of five thousand years of Chinese cultural heritage.

These people's mental defenses shattered instantly, and they vented their impotent rage in the comments.

[USA: Fuck! You Great Xia people aren't playing fair! This is cheating!]

[Kangaroo Country: Protest! You must use an internationally recognized language; this is a violation of fairness!]

[Island Nation: Baka!!]

[South Korea: Shiba!!]

[Great Xia: You two only know how to howl like that. Who told you not to study back then and only think about stealing? You deserve it!]

At the commentator's desk.

Commentator Chen Guofeng slammed his hand on the table.

"Hahaha! Don't bother checking the dictionary!"

His voice, full of vigor, rang out in the livestream:

"With just these 18 characters, even if you had two hundred brains, you wouldn't be able to translate them clearly! Is the heritage of Great Xia something you small fry can understand?"

Beside him, Su Qinglan adjusted her hair with a smile:

"I suggest the linguistic experts of certain countries start by learning Pinyin first."

"Oh, I forgot to remind everyone, classical chinese has no punctuation. If you break the sentences in the wrong place... it could be fatal."

Xu Mingyuan held his thermos, nodding cheerfully:

"This encryption method is truly a stroke of genius!"

...

Throughout the Blue Star, the national destiny agencies of various countries were brightly lit.

Countless top linguistic experts and professors of cryptography were staring at those 18 characters, scratching their heads in frustration.

However, classical chinese—divorced from specific context, with flexible parts of speech and a heavy reliance on implicit meaning—was the ultimate nemesis of logical code.

The processing power of the supercomputers' decryption programs was maxed out.

After struggling for a long time, the screen finally spat out a dry English machine translation:

"Watching the water recede... the country makes you a pillar?"

This humorous, contrasting, and ridiculous translation left the high-level officials of various countries completely baffled.

"Idiots! All of them are idiots!"

...

USA, National Destiny Agency Headquarters.

To uncover the truth as quickly as possible, they hurriedly brought in a "Gaohua" expert who had immigrated out of admiration for "Free America."

When this expert saw the classical chinese on the big screen, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

He had thrown his ancestors' heritage to the dogs centuries ago.

He even forbade his children from speaking Chinese at home; now, looking at this was no different from reading a heavenly script.

Feeling the surrounding gazes that seemed ready to devour him, he forced himself to make something up for self-preservation:

"General, I... I have cracked it!"

The four-star general's eyes lit up: "Speak!"

The Gaohua expert adjusted his glasses pretentiously, suppressing the guilt in his eyes:

"The meaning of this sentence is: You must know how to observe the trends of natural disasters; the country values you greatly; your family is well; just ensure your safety."

The general paused, asking suspiciously:

"That's it? No hidden code? No special survival techniques?"

"Absolutely not, General!"

The Gaohua expert thumped his chest confidently.

"The current situation in Great Xia is terrible. They are just 'drawing a big cake' to give that lucky Challenger some peace of mind."

The US high-level officials looked at each other, and their tense nerves relaxed.

The general sneered, his eyes full of contempt:

"So it's just chicken soup for the soul. The Great Xia people are only fit for playing these hypocritical emotional cards. Stand down!"

...

In the underground karst cave.

Lin Ye sat cross-legged by the campfire.

With just a couple of glances, as a top student of the Archaeology Department, he fully grasped the surface meaning of these 18 characters.

He nonchalantly tucked the note back into a hidden pocket, picked up his dagger, and continued whittling the branch in his hand.

His expression remained unchanged, but his brain had already entered overclocking mode.

In this classical chinese sentence, the last three segments were played openly.

"The nation regards you as its pillar."

The higher-ups were not just placing a heavy bet on him; they were treating him as a pillar of the state. This was an extremely high strategic positioning and expectation.

"Your parents are well."

It meant his parents were safe.

It indicated that not only were they safe, but the authorities had already made proper arrangements, relieving him of any worries.

As for the four characters "Preserve yourself and plan with patience," they made Lin Ye's heart warm.

In this asura field where the national destiny was in jeopardy and people were dying every day, the higher-ups didn't urge him to risk his life or generate immediate returns.

Instead, they cryptically instructed him: safety first, prioritize survival, and stay steady.

This made him truly feel the confidence of a top-tier mutual commitment.

After his moment of sentiment, he immediately calmed down.

Since the higher-ups used classical chinese, it couldn't possibly be just to send some "chicken soup."

The true core of these 18 characters lay in the first five: "Observe the tides to know when to advance or retreat"!

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Observe" means to look, to perceive.

What about "tides"?

Given the current situation, where would tides come from in this broken cave?

It could only be a metaphor!

A flash of inspiration hit him, and he caught the blind spot.

"Tides" represent the pollution here, or perhaps that high-dimensional energy!

"Observe the tides to know when to advance or retreat."

Combined, this sentence meant: The higher-ups had already discovered anomalies in the Void Sea through observations of the livestream!

And "knowing when to advance or retreat" was a cryptic warning to him.

They had already guessed that "pollution" could strengthen the body, but they also knew that such a windfall must come with a price.

This was a reminder to maintain his sense of proportion and not ruin himself for the sake of power.

"Hiss..."

Lin Ye frowned deeply.

He had only figured out a bit of the logic through personal experience and even using the risk of being polluted as a control experiment,I've only just figured out a little bit of the trick..

But those people up there had actually deduced so much information just by watching the livestream?

There are monsters in the national team; it's simply terrifying!

But just as Lin Ye put down the branch, a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind.

No!

These five characters had an even deeper metaphor!

To treat "tides" merely as pollution would be underestimating the people at the General Administration.

What if "tides"... were a metaphor for himself?

Lin Ye felt his spine stiffen, a shiver of being seen through sweeping across his body.

All along the way...

He had precisely avoided unknown crises and picked perfect-quality, pollution-free items from piles of supplies.

In the eyes of others, this was heaven-defying luck, but it had actually long been noticed by those with keen eyes.

This sentence was pointing it out to him in a cryptic way:

The higher-ups had already seen through the secret of his left eye's special ability!

Case closed.

Lin Ye gave a wry smile, but then the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up.

By using this encryption and delivery method, the higher-ups were sending him a clear signal:

The country knows you have a secret.

But we won't ask, we won't pry, and we won't coerce you!

On the contrary, the country will trust you unswervingly. Go ahead and do what you need to do!

Lin Ye felt relieved.

"This is fine too. Showing a bit of my hand as a bargaining chip will make the higher-ups value me even more."

He tightened the Kunlun Hunting Suit he was wearing and looked up into the depths of the underground karst cave.

"Since the big bosses dare to place such a heavy bet..."

"Then I, Lin Ye, have to make sure Great Xia wins so much it hurts!"