3=E
8=I,R
In looking affordable and closer. We find that Mr Cole has only deciphered page 3 of the ciphers. He is using numbers and also getting multiple letters from them. It would seem he too had a message that led to an empty hole in the ground.
Consider, your author has already presented his readers with "the key"....this key supposedly bringing an intelligible clear text from C2, but only by his suggestion that it did so, but no such clear text from the others. Now remember, as the story goes "a key" was to be delivered to Morriss in the event that his services were required. However, our author has already presented said, "a working key", so pray-tell, what other "unintelligible piece of missing paper" is it that "the author suggest" is still missing? If he already has everything required then why is he suggesting to his readers that another still "missing and unintelligible piece of paper" is still required?
It's a "hoodwink!" Nothing in the story is what it seems, nothing is accurate, and yet folks still insist there is light at the end of the "colorful" rainbow. A true tale, they say, they can solve the ciphers as they are presented, they say, then why is the author suggesting to you that you still require another still missing and unintelligible piece of paper?" In fact, how would he even know that there was one?

Obviously, he can't unless he's the one who created the story.

"Can you say, END GAME!" The author has been clearly caught in his own deceptions.

