Darkness is Coming

Before the data transmission was completed, Yang Xiaoqian and Yu Qian left the conference room. They had already listened to what they should have heard, and there was no need to participate in the discussion about the old-fashioned issues. Therefore, after the two left the building where the confidential conference room was located, they flew straight into the sky to make sure that they did not. There will be others who will hear the top secrets recorded in the tablet.

Under normal circumstances, it will take at least a few years to master the language used by Tan Zong with only linguistic experts and senior translators, because this is a completely unfamiliar language system, and mastering it requires more than conquering syllables and words. , grammar, sentence structure and other difficulties, but also to solve a problem: the huge difference in world views.

  There are too many things in this world that do not exist in the other world, and vice versa, the two sides have very different understandings of the same thing, which leads to great differences in the language used to describe things. For example, in the Asian language used by Tan Zong, the words "light" and "warmth" are synonyms, both derived from the words "sun" and "flame", and the auxiliary roots used come from a word that often appears in various The hypernym in the lexicon is judged by the rules recognized by etymology experts, and this hypernym is likely to refer to "rune".

Why is there such a situation? According to the speculation of linguists, it is very likely that in another world, the lamps that emit light for lighting do not use electricity or kerosene, but runes to provide energy. In that world, the sun and flames were the first lighting objects, and they could both produce a feeling of warmth or burning, so when a device that used rune energy to emit light and heat appeared, it was called a "lamp" , while the sun is called the "sky lantern" and the moon is called the "cold lamp".

   Of course, "lamp", "sky lantern", and "cold lamp" are only the corresponding words after the subhuman language is translated into Chinese, and the connection between them cannot be understood literally.

With such a difficult obstacle, it is naturally impossible for linguists to decipher and master the demi-human language in just two or three months. Fortunately, they also have the help of a "genius linguist"-don't ask, the genius language hidden behind the scenes The scholar is the artificial intelligence disguised as a translation machine in the Zero One Base—so he successfully overcame various difficulties and basically mastered the subhuman language system. "Illiteracy", even if it is zero-one, cannot be created out of nothing, and translate the vocabulary content that Tan Zong has not mastered.

   After all, Asian language is not English, and it is not as easy to construct as English words. Even if you master a small part of the root etymology, it is difficult to create correct new vocabulary.

After the linguists deciphered the demi-human language, the special team immediately convened a senior interpreter and a psychological research team to try to communicate with Tan Zong and the four-legged demi-human commander. Under the preferential treatment of the members of the special team, Tan Zong opened his mouth, First stuffed countless delicious food, and then spit out the few otherworldly information.

   The four-legged demihuman commander codenamed "Cockscomb" is also extremely cooperative under death threats, answering questions and answering questions almost as fast as a rapid-fire machine gun.

  Unfortunately, neither of them can give much effective information, because their races seem to live in a corner of another world, and their living space is compressed by various powerful monsters, and they can only survive in the cracks.

   The four-legged demi-humans continue their race by virtue of their strong reproductive and digestive abilities, while Tan Zong’s clansmen rely on the gifts of their ancestors to hide in Tibet and survive.

   The so-called gifts of ancestors are all kinds of rune utensils. The silver rune ring on Tan Zong’s ankle when he came to this world is one of them. If he didn’t have this silver ring, he would have been buried in the mouth of the beast.

From Tan Zong's description, he seems to be a member of a certain human tribe, and the system of this tribe seems to be still between the primitive communal system and slavery, and has not yet transformed into the feudal system, neither engaged in farming, nor There are no nomadic livestock, but wandering between dangerous and safe areas, the tribe's food supply all comes from gathering and hunting.

The elderly, children, and weak female clansmen will gather all kinds of wild fruits and plants, while young adults and strong-bodied female clansmen will venture into the territory occupied by powerful monsters, collect the corpses of monsters or set traps, hunt animals and low strength. the monster.

Sometimes with good luck, when encountering a large beast that is seriously injured and non-toxic and edible, the entire tribe can have a full meal, and the remaining meat and internal organs will be sprinkled with plant powder as a seasoning. , placed on a slate and exposed to the sun into jerky.

When a clan died of illness or injury, others would not leave their corpses behind. If it was impossible to bring the corpse back, they would cut off their arms and legs, cut the meat into jerky, and leave the bones behind. to the relatives of the deceased. When the tribe's food is in short supply, the elderly who are unable to produce will give up their lives and give their corpses to the tribe to eat.

The    rather primitive tribes continued like this from generation to generation until luck ran out.

In the process of another clan migration, a bloodthirsty three-headed monster broke into the clan, and the three-headed monster, which was more terrifying than the beast, slaughtered Tan Zong's clansmen, and the blue flames that sprayed out burned all the clansmen into Ash, only Tan Zong, as the outpost of Pathfinder, managed to escape.

  Tan Zong attracted a group of monsters in the process of escaping for his life, and unfortunately ran up the cliff, and finally had to jump into the space crack on the cliff in a desperate attempt.

  This is everything Tan Zong knew. After repeated inquiries by the special team, Tan Zong finally recalled another important information under the temptation of delicious food.

  There is a legend among the Tan Zong tribe: in the direction of the rising sky lantern, across the vast and dangerous ocean, you can find the incomparably powerful Tianhuan tribe.

   Legend has it that the members of the Tianhuan tribe can fly to the sky, move mountains and overturn seas, and even easily kill monsters as tall as ten people.

  It is said that the people of the Tianhuan tribe have the softest and thickest hides to cover their bodies, and they all have uneaten dried meat and wild fruits.

  It is said that the members of the Tianhuan tribe can live in comfortable and warm stone houses, and each house will have a light to drive away the darkness at night.

  It is said that the people of the Tianhuan tribe can get food every day without having to work and hunt when they are old and weak, and they will be made into jerky until their lifespan is exhausted.

After the translator successfully made Tan Zong understand the meaning of the word "heaven", Tan Zong decided that the Tianhuan tribe was heaven, and of course, the isolation room where he was imprisoned was also heaven, because he would not be in danger in the isolation room, it was warm and comfortable. Comfortable, yet unimaginably delicious food every day.

   is a hundred times better than jerky.

   This is Tan Zong’s original words, because he can only count to a hundred at most.