The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse-Chapter 635 - 628: Very Simple

In this world where appearance equates to justice, being handsome really does help.

Gao Yuan had always thought of Yang Yi as a very... indescribable person.

Gentle and elegant, handsome and dashing—all the good descriptors Gao Yuan could think of could be piled onto Yang Yi’s head, yet Gao Yuan had never associated him with heartless killing, concealed malice, or turning faces faster than flipping books.

But evidence proved that a successful spy, a spy without any background support who managed to snatch Revelation from the hands of the Sanitation Worker and killed the bosses of both the Sanitation Worker and the Graycloaks, was nothing like his benign and adorable appearance.

Indeed, appearances can be deceiving.

Yang Yi turned to Gao Yuan and tapped lightly on the table with his fingers before speaking gravely, "Time is running out, I don’t know how long we can hold out, so we should cut to the chase. The communicator is now activated, and the Serpent People have paused their assault, but I believe the Serpent People’s onslaught won’t pause for long. Without the next step in communications, the Serpent People will eventually kill us all, right here."

Gao Yuan nodded in agreement with Yang Yi’s opinion.

"I’ve called you here because there’s a fairly simple plan to execute. I have just received the poisoning plan from Ram..."

Pausing for a moment, Yang Yi thought then continued, "This plan needs to be carried out because it’s our only chance to persuade the Serpent People to abandon their attack. The only difficulty in advancing this plan now is the inability to establish direct contact with the Serpent People. Xinghe, I want to know what the principle behind this device is, and if there is any possibility for you to operate it."

Xinghe immediately replied, "The technology of this communicator is quite simple; it’s just a signal emitter. Since Earthlings don’t have this kind of technology, any place that emits a signal is a protected domain of the Serpent People. However, the agreed-upon mode of communication between the Serpent People and the Graycloaks is similar to encrypted human communications. I don’t know how to make it work though, because this communicator actually doesn’t have the ability to communicate."

Yang Yi seemed surprised and asked, "It doesn’t have the ability to communicate?"

Xinghe thought for a moment and said, "Let me give you a simple example. Humans build a house and power it with a diesel generator. You might not know who the house belongs to, but when you see the light, you know someone’s inside. Hearing the roar of the diesel generator, you can be sure that this area belongs to humans, not a bunch of sheep or pigs that built the house. Do you understand what I’m saying?"

Yang Yi immediately nodded and said, "I understand. The Serpent People use their unique technology to mark zones off-limits for attacks, but now Graycloaks and the Serpent People can directly communicate. If this so-called communicator doesn’t facilitate communication, then how do they communicate?"

After pondering, Xinghe replied, "I don’t know."

Gao Yuan, curious, said, "Poseidon, I want to ask, since you’ve captured the Graycloaks, why don’t you just get the answer directly from them instead of asking Xinghe?"

"Because it must be verified. Acquiring intelligence isn’t that simple, and neither is discerning the authenticity of the information obtained. You have to understand that the Graycloaks are a secret organization. All their higher-ups have undergone counter-interrogation training. For an ordinary person, you might get the correct intelligence in a few simple minutes, but with the Graycloaks, what you believe to be true intelligence might just be false information they’re trying to feed you. It’s complicated."

Gao Yuan also felt it was complicated. All this truth and falsehood made his head swim.

Yang Yi’s fingers tapped unconsciously on the table before he suddenly said, "So you mean, this communicator is just a signal emitter, a unique signal of the Serpent People, not the type used on Earth for communication that can be directly converted into speech."

Xinghe nodded and replied, "Yes, such signals are similar to the noise made by a diesel engine when it’s working, nothing but noise. It’s due to some kind of radiation causing a radio signal. This is something like a radio signal, and Earthlings don’t have the language of this type of signal. My explanation is to give a similar meaning that’s easy to understand." freeωebnovēl.c૦m

"This communicator emits a signal?"

"Yes."

"How does it work?"

"Hmm, high-frequency electronic collisions can be used to generate it with electricity, but it’s very inefficient, or it could use the basic energy of the Serpent People... How should I explain this... Humans can use batteries to light a flashlight, but you wouldn’t think the battery is very important. It’s the same with this communicator, it’s like the Serpent People have given humans a flashlight with batteries inside."

Yang Yi looked again at the communicator in front of him and said, "So this means that this thing is a product of the Serpent People, not a technology given by the Serpent People. Now that I know this communicator can emit a signal, can it receive a signal too?"

After considering for a moment, Xinghe nodded and said, "It can."

Yang Yi began to ponder as well, then he spoke softly, "Communication between an advanced civilization and a primitive civilization can only occur when the advanced civilization makes concessions to the primitive one. Just like if you were to explain something, you must use words we can understand because words that don’t exist in our language system and concepts that aren’t part of our civilization are incomprehensible to a primitive civilization—at least, not without a learning process."

Xinghe seemed quite surprised and said, "Yes, you’ve got it right."

Yang Yi thought for a moment more before saying, "That means that communication between the Serpent People and humans is in a manner that humans can easily understand, and the Serpent People can effortlessly master. Mathematics is the mother of science, as well as the universal language of the cosmos. No, not mathematical language, that’s too complex. So, using this ’non-communicative’ communicator to perform relatively complex communication requires a manner familiar and simple to Earthlings, such as..."

Yang Yi tapped his fingers on the table again, then took a deep breath and said, "Morse code!"

"Morse code..."

Xinghe repeated, then said with tremendous surprise, "Yes! Morse code, a basic yet really effective method of communication that has been almost phased out."

Yang Yi continued calmly, "Not a specific codebook agreement because it’s not necessary. The Serpent People only gave the Graycloaks communicators; the Graycloaks had to establish contact quickly without the time or need to build a new Morse codebook. They just needed to use the old one."

Speaking softly, Xinghe asked, "Standard international Morse code?"

"No, the Graycloaks’ own encrypted Morse code."

Xinghe frowned and said, "As I understand it, encrypted code is still a code. You’d still need to obtain the codebook."

Yang Yi smiled slightly and replied, "The Graycloaks’ code is no secret to me, as I was once a member of the Graycloaks."

After saying that, Yang Yi looked at the communicator in front of him and said, "If my judgment is correct, all that’s needed is to keep toggling this communicator on and off, using the frequency of the switch to emit Morse code. Hmm, that’s simple enough."