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A little selfmade encryption riddle:
Whenever I'm searching for a solution, I have this feeling, like standing on a single point. While I take a step forward, I have the feeling I'm falling two steps behind. It never matters how far I go, in the end I always stand where I started.
Can you solve this?
Et tu, Brute?
ucoh ry tq ohtsap, lrrb kaiw tkshpsw bjya?
Have fun!
Et tu, Brute? refers to
the betrayal of Caesar by Brutus, hence suggesting a Caesar shift.
Following the story intro:
"While I take a step forward, I have the feeling I'm falling two steps behind" -> Let's perform escalating and alternating Caesar shifts letter by letter. 1 step forward, 2 steps back, 3 steps forward, etc, except flip the directions because we're decoding instead of encoding.
The decoded cipher is
tell me my friend, what runs without feet?
which could be answered by
a river, anything electric or motored, your nose, or many other things
