The edict bore just a few lines of words, but its message was surprisingly coherent. This made Fang Zhengzhi a little apprehensive.
He believed the answer should lie within the edict, yet if he could not see it, then it had not served many purposes.
Was it an acrostic poem?
Fang Zhengzhi turned his eyes at the start of each line, and the end of each line, then diagonally through every line…
But after he had tried every conceivable method, he still could not discover any other meaning.
Was it really just an appeal for peace?
This… should not be like this!
Wait a second!
In peace we shall live, in separation we shall perish.
"In peace we shall live, in separation we shall perish!"
In an instant, Fang Zhengzhi squinted slightly, and this sentence was not difficult to find. Yet it blended with the rest of the words in this edict.
But, this sentence had a major problem.
It had an incorrect word!
