British writer

Originally, there were only 9,000 copies of the Monday supplement of "Seashore Magazine", and the discussion was not too wide.

But as soon as the "Manchester Guardian" got involved, the whole world knew about it.

People are all wondering what happened to the book review edition.

"What is this book review?"

"You don't know? Doctor Doyle released a new short story - "The Little Dancing Man", which challenges people all over London with this code."

"Ah, could it be that someone cracked it?"

"It looks right, but I just don't know who it is."

"There is no signature in the newspaper."

...

All kinds of discussions are clamoring in the dust.

In this way, another day passed, and when it came to Wednesday, the secret chapter of "The Dancing Little Man" was finally released.

...

early morning.

University College London,

library.

The students were not in the mood to study, and gathered together in twos and threes to chat quietly.

Although the line of dancing villains in the "Manchester Guardian" was not signed, they just had a vague feeling that the strange book review came from Professor Lu.

An impetuous and anxious atmosphere was brewing in the air.

Nikolic and Solomon are there too,

The two people's participation in Professor Lu's poll project spread like wildfire, so other people envy and respect them,

Post Professor Lu, I'm afraid it will be a big success in the future.

Nikolic said in a low voice: "I can't bear the eyes of my classmates looking at me."

Solomon said, "I enjoyed it. You, not your French roommate who was jealous of you..."

Before the voice fell, he was interrupted:

"I don't! I'm not! Don't talk nonsense!"

Nikolic refused three times in a row.

Solomon gave him a blank look,

"I don't know who was always muttering 'how are the Spaniards worse than the French?'. You are indeed no worse than him now. In the past few days, haven't you received a lot of love poems? The students in those girls' schools are all... ...Hmm! @#*￥%..."

Solomon was muzzled.

Nikolic denied again: "No!"

Seeing his nervous look, Solomon couldn't help but widen his eyes,

grass!

Is the serious friend really in love?

The world is crazy!

Solomon pinched the opponent's wrist covering his mouth, trying to break it away.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the door:

"bought!"

Everyone followed the reputation,

I saw a student rushing into the door panting, saying loudly: "I bought it, I..."

Before the words fell, the librarian interrupted: "Quiet!"

The student was slightly embarrassed, lowered his voice, and said, "I bought "Seaside Magazine."

The entire library was silent.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Suddenly, the librarian cleared his throat and said, "I'll take a look too."

As soon as this remark came out, all kinds of "crash clatter" sounds were heard, and the students all moved their chairs and sat around. The inner three floors and the outer three floors, they just changed the library into a lecture theater.

The student was a little embarrassed,

"I...that..."

It seems a little shy.

Solomon said, "What are you dawdling about? Forget it, let me do it."

He walked to the middle of the crowd, took the "Seashore Magazine", turned to the secret chapter of "Dancing Little People", cleared his throat, and began to read the original text:

"

‘Of the letters of the English alphabet, E is the most common, and occurs so often that it must be the most common even in a short sentence. Four of the fifteen symbols on the first strip are identical, so it is reasonable to estimate it as an E. '

"

All the people present nodded their heads,

Indeed, Holmes' reasoning is very sound.

Someone took out a piece of paper, drew all the little dancing people on it, and then wrote an "E" on the small side of one of them.

Nikolic urged: "Go on."

Solomon continued to read:

"

'Except for E, the order of occurrence of the letters is T, A, O, I, N, S... However, T, A, O, and I appear almost equally. It would be endless work to try every combination until one came up with a meaning. '

"

...

As Solomon read the original text of "Little Dancing Man", more and more letters were deciphered.

Suddenly, someone whispered: "I, space, C, A, R..."

Solomon was interrupted, but he didn't worry: "What's wrong?"

The student frowned slightly and said, "I'm reading yesterday's "Manchester Guardian" book review, don't worry."

Then everyone suddenly realized,

right!

There is also a book review!

Everyone started to rummage in a panic.

Solomon deciphered it against the "Little Dancing Man" in "Seaside Magazine".

However, someone faster than him,

Nikolic suddenly exclaimed: "Deciphered! I deciphered it! Yesterday's book review said so, 'I cracked the code. Your faithful fellow friend, Lu.'"

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other,

"It's really Professor Lu!?"

"Yesterday it was... hiss... so terrifying!"

"In the novel, Sherlock Holmes used a line of dancing figurines to lure the murderer to reveal his true body and throw himself into the net; in reality, Professor Lu used a line of dancing figurines to tell Dr. Doyle that the cryptographic trick he constructed was just a child's play."

...

The students whispered.

Suddenly, Solomon slapped his forehead as if thinking of something: "Do you think Professor Lu will continue to post book reviews today?"

This reminds others

Nikolic asked: "What about the Manchester Guardian today?"

...

"What about the Manchester Guardian today?"

Cavendish put down the "Beach Magazine" in his hand and asked James beside him.

At the moment, the two are looking for a bench in the courtyard of King's College, Cambridge, sitting and reading.

The cool morning breeze blows,

Silence lay between the two.

Seeing that James did not answer, Cavendish asked again: "Where is the Manchester Guardian today?"

Only then did James come back to his senses, looked at Cavendish, and said, "Mr. Supervisor, this Lu Shi is really an all-rounder, not only talented in literary creation, but also..."

The conversation stopped here.

Cavendish urged: "What else?"

James shook his head,

"That's all. See for yourself."

As he spoke, he handed over the "Manchester Guardian" in his hand.

Cavendish directly turned to the book review page and found that it was an article called "Design and Deciphering of Codes".

The author is of course Lu.

At the beginning of the article, Lu first told a short story:

The protagonist of the story is Caesar,

Needing to encrypt important military information, Caesar developed a cipher that made it impossible for outsiders to form a word by changing the order of the letters.

Since most of Caesar's enemies were illiterate, even if they could read, they would interpret these messages as some unknown foreign language, so no technology at that time could solve this most basic and simple substitution cipher.

This is the origin of Caesar encryption.

After that, Lu Shi described in detail the process of a password from design to cracking,

In the whole article, "Little Dancing Man" is not mentioned in a sentence, but it is also inseparable from "Little Dancing Man".

Cavendish took a deep breath,

"A learned man."

This is his most sincere evaluation of Lu Shi.

On the other side, James smiled wryly and said, "At the same time, he is also a serious person. Mr. Lu responded to Dr. Doyle like this, and I don't know how he would respond to me..."

Cavendish waved his hand,

"It's okay, hasn't he posted an article yet?"

James looked at the supervisor speechlessly, and said helplessly, "Did you forget that the Manchester Guardian does not have a page for serial novels. Mr. Lu's works are either published by the Royal Publishing Office or published in the Scotsman" .”