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Chapter 1654: A Question of Time? A Means of Hiding Text

Speaking of which, Gao Yuan actually noticed one thing very early on after coming to this world. That is, although in many cases, the plots of the original works he encountered seemed to be no different from the original works, there were occasionally differences in some details, and this difference was due to the difference in technological levels.

You know, the original story has been serialized in my world since the last century, and it was still being serialized until I came to this world.

Such a long span results in that, as real time progresses, the level of technology in the story is also developing. This results in the original work actually having a story timeline of less than one year, but the level of technology in the story has undergone earth-shaking changes.

As a result, this kind of plot arrangement makes some of the early plots in the original work seem problematic now due to the changes in the level of technology, or some of the latest plots may also have obvious problems.

For example, in the "Triumph" trial, I saw the story about Rum's life 17 years ago. People 17 years ago actually used smartphones? It's just nonsense...

Of course, I don't need to consider it at this time. The plot that I am facing now, which has problems due to time, includes the Itakura Taku incident in the original work.

If my impression is correct, the plot of the original work by Itakura Taku was released at the beginning of the new century, so the corresponding original plot fits that era. When most people started to use personal computers, many computer operations were completely new to outsiders. Therefore, some methods would be completely unknown to outsiders who do not understand computers.

In this way, in the original work, Itakura Taku used computer documents to record his diary, and in order to prevent important information from being peeked at by others, he chose to hide the contents of the diary. The method was to change the font color of the text to be hidden to the same color as the document background. In this way, if the document is opened normally for reading, naturally, these contents cannot be seen.

However, this approach seems to make sense, but in reality there is a big problem, that is, the spacing between words -

After all, hiding the text in this way, but the text is still there, will result in some inexplicably empty paragraphs in the entire document, which is easy to notice, just like Conan in the original work.

However, this is the plot of the original work after all, but now, the reality I am in is——

Excluding the special case of "Noah's Ark", the technological level of this era is probably about ten years behind that of his original world, and personal computers have basically become popular. Therefore, in such an era background, Itakura Taku's method in the original work looks very ridiculous.

  As a well-known "CG producer" and game system designer, would he, who has sufficient computer technology reserves, be stupid enough to use this method to hide document information?

Putting aside other things, if someone opens this document and uses the "Select All" function, the information that is visually hidden by changing the font color will still be selected, so all the information can still be seen.

But obviously, the reality now is that Itakura Taku did not use this method, otherwise Conan would have seen the problem long ago.

However, after reorganizing Itakura Taku's diary through artificial intelligence software, the content displayed was about the horrible things that Itakura Taku encountered after seeing "Tequila" and how he reached an agreement with the mysterious woman. This means that there must be this information in the document, but Conan didn't find it, so it must have been hidden -

That is how the matter?

Therefore, thinking of this, Gao Yuan took the initiative to open the source document of the diary for the first time, and began to read the contents of the diary, looking for places where there should be hidden information.

Sure enough, after reading the whole article normally, there is no content about Itakura Taku's subsequent contact with the mysterious woman of the organization, so there must be hidden content.

However, since the formatting is very neat and the number of lines between diaries of different dates is consistent, there is no sign of anything unusual. Therefore, if an outsider is completely unaware that there is hidden content in the document, it is impossible for him to know that there is hidden content just by looking at the content.

So……

“Is there a built-in hidden text function?”

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but chuckle -

Because the document program itself has the function of perfectly hiding content! And after careful observation, Gao Yuan also found that Bancang Zhuo had set "restricted editing" for the document, and a password was required to unlock it...

So, thinking of this, Gao Yuan simply resorted to a simple and violent method -

Save the document as text format...

No matter how much Itakura Taku did to the document, as long as it was converted into the most basic text format, all the contents inside would be displayed in the text format...

This is also the reason why the artificial intelligence program I use can directly interpret all the contents when interpreting documents.

This is a problem with the document program itself. Unless you directly protect the document itself with a password instead of using the "restrict editing" function, it will be easy to find out the contents of the document.

But once Itakura Taku uses a password to encrypt the document, the secret contents in the document will become exposed. At that time, for those who really want to find out the secrets of the document, wouldn't it be easy to crack the password?

Therefore, from Itakura Taku's point of view, it is actually the right approach to hide the content instead of overtly encrypting it.

Just like now, Conan and his friends have not yet discovered the hidden contents in this document.

In this case, Gao Yuan now knows that Itakura Taku has indeed used a more sophisticated method than the original to hide the information, but at the same time it has also hindered Conan's process of discovering clues...

There is still a deviation...

If Conan doesn't discover the hidden information, the subsequent plot will not be able to proceed normally.

  If Conan comes to me for help now, I can try to guide the development of the situation, but what if he doesn't come to me?

It's impossible for me to go directly to Dr. Agasa's house next door and ask for help in the middle of the night, right?

and so……

What should I do? If Conan never finds that information and the story can't develop according to the original plot, then what I want to verify will be ruined!

Or, force the plot to go on the right track...

  What if I and Conan participate at the same time, it might backfire and cause the plot to deviate completely out of control?

or……

If Conan can't do it, I...

Turn yourself into a child, dress up as Conan, and act out the rest of the original plot, so that the plot seems to be heading in the direction of the original, and ultimately allow yourself to verify that thing?

However, the risk of doing so is very high. After all, I am not Conan himself. If this matter is really as I guessed, then it would be safe only if Conan himself is involved.

Therefore, it is better to wait for Conan to discover the hidden information himself and let the situation develop normally, otherwise I can only consider giving up this verification opportunity...

However, after a while, from what Gao Yuan overheard about Conan's situation, Conan did find out the information that Itakura Taku had hidden...