— WHAT THE CIPHER WAS FOR —
Every cipher has a purpose. This one was to slow you down long enough to hear something. The something is this: You are not a reader of this site. You are a part of it. The corridor is not something Jiang found and described. The corridor is this. The reading. The following of links. The discovery of hidden things. The slowing down. You have been inside it since the first page.
— C. Jiang, from the deeper places
// the solution contains what the cipher pointed toward. it is not a surprise. you already know it.