[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 147: Cryll Rescue Act (4)

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"Away from him! "

Rico's shout shocked everyone. However, there was no time for them to question it.

They all instantly obeyed his instructions and stayed away from the two people they were holding on the ground.

Before long, the bodies of the two people shone, and finally exploded.

It was the same condition that Noelle was facing elsewhere. It seems his bad premonition has come true.

All the guards who were in this place, had been turned into time bombs that could explode at any moment.

Fortunately, none of them were injured. Everyone was only slightly surprised when they realized that the guards here were puppets that could explode.

The conditions were exactly the same as the 'hostages' in Eisen that Noelle had told them about earlier.

"Rome."

While Rico was still thinking about the situation, Werli walked over and called out to him.

"What's? "

Rico turned his head, and noticed the 'object' that Werli carried in his hands.

Werli noticed Rico's gaze, and gave the 'object' to her. That's not just any thing. It was a piece of someone's hand.

Rico accepted it and noticed it was more observant.

The former piece on the hand had dried, and showed signs of charred. But, most of its parts are still safe without stains.

What makes Rico interested in the hand piece is the bracelet and ring that is still attached to the wrist, and his finger.

After pulling out the bracelet and ring, Rico could finally notice the two objects more clearly.

The ring has a large size. A little too big to fit on the little finger. And the bracelet was also quite thick, having scratches with strange patterns on its surface.

Both objects are made of the same material, namely faded crystals with a level of hardness that almost matches diamond.

There was almost nothing strange about the two. But, that's exactly what stuck in Rico's mind.

"Anzu, can you check the body? If there's the same accessories with this, bring it to me."

"You're telling a girl to examine someone's corpse, and take away their property? "

Anzu could barely hold back her shocked gaze when she found out that Rico had asked her to do the strange thing.

If others knew it, then perhaps they would stare at Rico with a look of disbelief, as well as disgust.

But that's not a problem for Rico. It was because he knew that Anzu had no problem doing such a thing.

As he had already thought, Anzu simply shrugged her shoulders and walked up to the corpses of the two people who had been reduced to such a disgusting pile of charred meat.

He then took out two pieces of left hand that were somehow still intact despite having been faced with a devastating explosion.

After examining it for a moment, Anzu then returned and gave the two pieces of the hand to Rico.

"I don't know if it's a coincidence, or not. But, there are two left hands that are still intact, and have two accessories that you're talking about."

Rico accepts it and then pulls out all the accessories in the form of bracelets and rings that are still attached.

All the rings and bracelets have a similar structure. The manufacturing material is the same, and the hardness level is the same. Even the scratches on its surface were also identical to each other.

No way it's a coincidence.

"Do you guys know anything about this thing? "

Rico turned around, and looked at Liscia, as well as Werli who had been waiting behind him ever since.

Werli. "No, I don't know. But, I think those two things are what caused them to explode like the bombs before."

Liscia nodded, agreeing with what Werli said. That conclusion was of course already in Rico's mind, but he didn't want to believe it right away before examining it further.

(But, I guess there's no other choice but to believe it, yes .. )

For now, he could only make that conclusion as the basis of all his upcoming actions.

"Rico, what are you gonna do next? "

Anzu asked him. Even so, Anzu actually already knew what Rico was going to do.

"We need to see Kaira. I hope he already has information about them."

"Well, I think it's true."

It's a logical choice to meet Kaira now. After all, Kaira has the ability to read minds. It was possible that he had already read the minds of the people he was fighting against, and had information that Rico did not have.

If not so, then her only hope was Rias who could read one's memories.

That too, if the opponent they faced was still alive …

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As soon as Rico's group reached Kaira's location, they were instantly taken aback by the sight of Lilith lying unconscious on the ground.

Rico ran up to Kaira and frantically asked, "What happened to her? "

However, Kaira calmly answered him, "He was only surprised that those people started to blow themselves up. As I expected, Anastasia's blessing effect did not greatly improve Lilith's mental state. He's probably gonna be traumatized by this."

"Once, yes … "

Rico could only helplessly lower his head, and looked at Lilith worriedly.

If what Kaira said was true, then it might be difficult for Lilith to continue this mission.

Last option, they could just leave it to Olivia, and move it inside《Reign》 so she could get some protection there.

But they hesitate to do that. After all, the distance between their current locations did not allow for a quick trip to Olivia's location. And they're sure they don't have time for that.

The sun had risen, and now it was bright enough. So the enemy might be more vigilant now.

The worst situation, they could only keep carrying Lilith and continue on this mission.

Rico quickly shook his head, and looked at Kaira. "From that, I want to ask you something very important! "

"What's that about this thing? "

Kaira raised her hand, and showed the same bracelet and ring accessories that Rico was carrying right now.

Rico nodded. "I assumed that you must have information about that thing, so I quickly came here."

Getting a hopeful look from Rico, Kaira could only smile wryly and shake her head.

"Dearly enough. Even we don't have enough information about what this thing really is. The only thing we know is, these two things will trigger an explosion in the user's body when the user has been cornered."

" … So you don't even know, yeah … "

Rico lowered his shoulders in disappointment, and bit the fingernail tip of his thumb.

"Then, what about the other information? You guys should have gotten it by reading their minds and memories, right? "

"Umm ... About that … "

Rias hesitantly raised her voice, making everyone's attention directed towards her.

Rico was a little surprised when he saw Rias was fine. However, he suspected that the girl would experience the same condition as Lilith.

But, contrary to her conjecture, Rias was still fine, and showed perfect condition, without the slightest injury.

Being stared at by many people was still a scary thing for Rias. Even though the ones staring at him were people he had known for many years.

It was probably an innate trait he had since he was still an earthling.

"I tried to read their memories. But ... I can't see anything at all."

"Whatchu mean? " ask Rico confusedly.

Rias shuddered a little, but she continued to explain. "As I said .. My memory reading ability doesn't work on them. It's like .. There's a wall blocking us, or they don't have brains so there's no memory to read … "

His words in the last line might sound harsh, but that was the fact.

Rias' ability is to read memories by infiltrating her consciousness into the internal memory storage of humans. And the only place for humans to store their memories is the brain. If Rias could not read their memories, then that meant they had no brains.

Or any other conclusion, they have godly blessings so that their abilities cannot function. That's the most reasonable conclusion for now.

"Even your abilities don't work either, yes … "

The two ends of Rico's eyebrows intertwined, making his face display a very clear frustrated expression.

"That's right. Even I can't read their minds" Kaira replied.

Grunting for a moment, Kaira then continued. "Well, at least we got one thing."

"What's that?! " Rico excitedly walked up to him right away,

"B-can't you calm down a bit? "

"Where can I possibly calm down here! If my estimation is correct, then the people on duty to guard this place are just hostages that those bastards use to buy time! They are victims too! "

Kaira fully understood Rico's worries. And he's convinced Norman has the same concerns elsewhere.

But, he couldn't be rash now. Too little information. With just a little mistake, it's over.

"I understand, I understand! For now, please calm down! I found this in one of their clothes bags."

Kaira then took out a piece of paper that had been folded, and gave it to Rico.

Rico accepted it, and immediately read the contents of the paper after unfolding it.

What was written on the paper was just an irregular row of random numbers. There were only a few letters there, but the position was so random that it could not form a single word.

Rico was initially confused, but he soon understood.

It was a code message.

Those people might not be able to explain it in detail, and in the end could only give an explanation past this line of code.

But, how do I read it? That's what makes Rico confused now.

Even his unique skill《Analyze》 cannot analyze that line of code.

"What the fuck is this .. A very confusing code. Is this some kind of QR translated in the form of letters and numbers? Really troublesome."

It would be better if the code was written in computer language, or that could be called binary code.

Anzu memorized all the binary numbers along with their translations, so he could translate them all with just a little time.

But, the code they are dealing with today is definitely not a computer language. A binary language is a unique arrangement of languages that is only the basis of a computer system. And that language consists only of unique variables between 0 and 1.

after all, there are no computers in the world. So the language of binary numbers may not have been invented yet.

The code they were facing might be some sort of random sentence that was converted into a number form.

"?! Meet me! "

After analyzing it for some time, Rico finally understood the code.

All the numbers and letters written there are the alphabet and the numbers are 'reversed'.

That is, the number 1 will be changed to the letter A, and the letter A will be changed to the number 1.

It was a simple code, but it took time to break everything.

Although there are slight differences in form and pronunciation, the number of letters in the world is the same as on earth, which is 26 letters. And numbers also consist of 10 main numbers, which are from the number 0 to 9.

"Cracking this code will probably take some time. What are you guys gonna do? "

Rico looked over and looked at everyone behind him.

Kaira was the first to nod. "We'll wait until you crack the code. And during that time, we'll try to wake Lilith up somehow."

It seems everyone agrees with Kaira's plan. But, if they were really going to do that, then they should be quick.

After all, Noelle and Norman could not wait any longer …

In the end, they all agreed to wait until Rico cracked the code with Anzu's help, and wait for Lilith to regain consciousness.

It all takes less than ten minutes.

To break a code that contains many numbers and letters that are dizzying like that, the speed of the two of them in solving it can be said to be terrible.

What's more, if totaled, there are more than 20 lines of numbers and letters there.

"What did you guys find? "

Rico and Anzu did not answer Kaira. They just keep staring at the paper containing the results of the code breaking they did before.

The result was so surprising. The code contained information that even caused Rico to squeeze his own fist until it bled.

Anzu who was reading that beside him did not change his expression at all. Despite that, Kaira faintly felt the gloom emanating from her.

Kaira was curious about that. So he approached the two of them and went along to read the code that had been broken.

And now, he almost regretted it.

What those people are trying to convey through this code is something big. It's about innocent lives they don't even know about.

It's not some kind of code with big information that's going to tempt everyone. But it was the kind of information that made almost everyone there become irritated and almost provoked by emotions.

The deciphered code contained a message, addressed to those who had 'liberated' them.

Here is the content:

..."The building consists of six floors on the surface, and eight floors underground. Each floor will have approximately 20 rooms available. The man you're looking for is on the 3rd floor, he's being held and guarded by someone named Barsio. Careful, he's strong. There are many traps that you will face while exploring this place. And unfortunately, there was almost nothing of value because they had left this place. We're just hostages, and we're tools, too. Life meaning? We don't have it. They have been holding us for a very long time, and doing all sorts of experiments on our bodies. Please, release all the remaining people! They are just like us! They're just hostages in action! They're underground! I leave everything to you! "...

"What does that mean .. All the enemies have fled, and let the hostages fight? "

Alan's voice trembled, while magic energy with a high degree of concentration began to force out from his body.

Everyone was suddenly engulfed by guilt, and regret for not realizing everything sooner.

If what was written behind the code was really a reality, then the situation had changed completely.

Norman would definitely not allow this. And neither did Kaira.

The option to run away from this place, has been removed from their list of options.

Although there would probably be some people unwilling to get involved in this, they had no other choice but to follow what Norman did, considering he was their leader, he said, and he's the one who holds the key to their escape.

This is an unfamiliar island, they don't know anything here, so they can't be rash.

Anzu was one of those people who really didn't want to get involved. But he can't do anything. The only option he had was to go with the flow and help everyone, even though it would be very annoying.

Right now, the only thing Anzu thought of was the conclusion he had just come to after knowing that information.

Of all the people, he was the most aware of it. That person, must have done something so it all ended up like this.

He actually did everything on purpose to keep the Norman group from leaving the island, and to make them all naturally so as to help him.

Really dirty way of playing as usual.

(Iza ... You really made things more troublesome for me .. )

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