Superman Termination Manual-Chapter 504 - 254 Bedlam Asylum Journal (Part 5)_2

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“Yes,” Fan Quan nodded, “that’s why when it comes to that, Francis would take a straightforward approach to indicate ‘this deck of cards is out of cards, switch to the next one.'”

Ke Yinzhi smiled, “The method he used is to put the two jokers—the big joker and the small joker—together, to remind the person checking the cards ‘the information conveyed by this deck ends here’.”

“Right,” Fan Quan said, “when the remaining quantity of playing cards in a deck box is insufficient to continue representing the letters on the alphabet, that marks the end of Francis’s manipulation of that deck.” He would then place the “big joker” and the ‘small joker’ after the last ‘card symbolizing a letter’ to indicate ‘this deck is no longer needed to be checked, you can look at the next deck’s information’.”

“I see.”

Ke Yinzhi shrugged and muttered, “Then, according to our logic, if we want to read and understand the text message conveyed by Francis through the cards completely and continuously, there’s only one problem left that needs to be addressed.”

Fan Quan adjusted his non-existing glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, “How to determine the order of opening each deck of playing cards, that’s the last issue.”

“Exactly, for instance, the text written with the cards from the Box No.1 is ‘I Hate,’ if the beginning of Box No.2 is written ‘he’, and the beginning of Box No.3 is ‘you’—both can follow up. Then how do we confirm whether after Box No.1, the next one to open should be Box No.3 or Box No.2?”

While speaking, Ke Yinzhi turned his face with interest towards Fan Quan.

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Fan Quan was silent for a while: “Do you still remember before going to the card room, Francis first arranged those 24 books on the No. 1 shelf in the library?”

“I remember,” Ke Yinzhi said, then suddenly paused, “I see… Are you suggesting that the serial numbers of those 24 books respectively represent the opening order of the 24 decks of cards?”

“That’s right, how to confirm the order of the card boxes starts with the library. The books numbered 1-24 arranged by Francis on the shelf are supposed to represent the order of opening 1-24 decks of playing cards,” Fan Quan said, “The sequence number of the first book from the top to the bottom, from left to right is 21, the second book’s sequence number is 5, so the first deck of playing cards we should open is the 21st, followed by the 5th.”

He paused for a moment, “With this idea, then transform all the numbers appearing before the ‘big joker card’ in each deck of playing cards into the letters of the alphabet, and we will be able to understand Francis’s intentions.”

“More precisely, not Francis’s intentions, but those of the person playing this game with him.”

As he spoke, Ke Yinzhi rested his chin on his hand, explaining carelessly, “Francis doesn’t know anything, he’s just ‘playing a game’.”

Fan Quan shook his head, “I don’t really understand, just humoring you.”

“It shows, but you’ve been a great help,” Ke Yinzhi smiled, “If we weren’t in the asylum, perhaps I would consider making friends with you, Mr. Gu Zhenning.”

He paused for a moment, speaking casually, “Of course, I might consider getting you out of here to be my colleague. I haven’t had the idea of wanting an assistant for so many years, you are the first person to make me think so, but… that will have to wait until I get out of here.”

Fan Quan pretended not to understand: “What are you rambling on about?”

“You’ll know later on. For now, you’d better take this as the delirium of a lunatic.”

Ke Yinzhi, while teasing, browsed through the card boxes operated by Francis, quickly confirmed that every set of playing cards the Memory Strange Man had touched could almost be rapidly converted to letters on the alphabet based on their rules.

For example, the 9th deck of playing cards he held, and the No. 15 card box (respectively the penultimate deck and the final deck), he tried to note down the sequence of the cards appearing before the jokers on paper.

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Penultimate deck of playing cards:

Playing Card 9 (representing the 9th letter of the alphabet: I)

Playing Card 2 – Playing Card J – Playing Card 3 (representing number 23, which is also the 23rd letter of the alphabet: W)

Playing Card 9 (Letter I)

Playing Card A – Playing Card J – Playing Card 2 (representing number 12, which is the 12th letter of the alphabet: L)

Playing Card A – Playing Card J – Playing Card 2 (same as above)

Playing Card A – Playing Card J – Playing Card 2 (same as above)

Playing Card 5 (Letter E)

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Playing Card A (Letter A)

Jokers (indicate insufficient number of cards to express, thus forcing an interruption, can look at the next deck)

Final deck of playing cards:

Playing Card 2 – Playing Card J – Playing Card 2 (number 22, which is the 22nd letter of the alphabet: V)

Playing Card 5 (E)

Jokers (indicate interruption, end)

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In the end, Ke Yinzhi read out the complete English sentence represented by these two decks of playing cards.

“I will leave.”

Fan Quan softly recited the meaning of this string of English in Chinese in his mind: “I am about to leave this place…”

He gently exhaled a sigh of stifling air, contemplating inwardly.

“It turns out, TK has always been using the Memory Strange Man Francis, in such a way to convey messages to the attendant who was his contact.”

“Because Francis is the card room manager, so every Saturday when the card room is about to be cleaned, other patients are forbidden from entering, only Francis is allowed. Precisely because of this, he can play a ‘game’ with TK, which is to open the playing cards in the room according to the order told by TK and rearrange each card.”