Dream Guide

The starry sky moves slowly in one direction. According to experience on Earth, the place where the stars will set is the west. But in this different time and space a thousand light years away, all experience is unreliable. The more real the feeling, the more absurd the facts may be.

The M42 Nebula hangs on the ridgeline in the west, slowly falling towards the back of the mountain. Only half of the huge and thin Barnard's Loop remains, occupying half of the sky. A more eye-catching spherical nebula rises from the eastern sky, like a big red balloon, with bright stars hiding in the balloon shining with dazzling blue and white light.

Aoki took out the willow branch from his arms, put it under his nose and smelled it. A familiar smell from his hometown dispelled the discomfort caused by distance and strangeness.

A meteor streaked across the sky, leaving a beautiful straight line on the sky with a bright wake. When it crossed a small half of the sky, it suddenly turned into a parabola and began to fall downwards. It disappeared halfway down. Just when you think it has burned out and disappeared, it suddenly appears again like a ghost, flashing a big S shape in the sky, flying from the south to the north, then straight up, and back to the sky again.

People who have experienced the arrival of a giant moon and huge waves are all familiar with it, and know that this must be another twisted space.

Everyone is tired and needs a rest.

The savage camp where Situ was located also had many temporary shelters built, which were similar to the savage camp opposite. After questioning, I found out that the group of savages led by Situ had just arrived here.

The island they were on was slowly approaching the sun. It might not be the sun, but another star. Anyway, the disaster happened like that. The rivers dried up, fires ignited in the mountains and forests, and the savage tribe was engulfed by the sea of ​​flames. Their clan leader held up his scepter high under the scorching sun, and after ten days and nights of hard support, he finally fell down and turned into a mummy-like corpse.

Situ took the scepter from his hand and led the savages to retreat to the lake. The entire island became a sea of ​​fire, and only the lake in the center of the island had water. The lake seemed to be connected to the endless abyss, and even the sun could not dry it out.

They persisted for several days, and when heavy fog began to form on the island, they finally crossed the boiling lake and arrived here.

Situ spoke in an understatement, as if he just waited for a red light, crossed a road, and came to the lawn of the city park for a barbecue. But Aoki clearly saw the expressions on Ivan and Boris's faces when Situ was telling the story. Showing pain. He could see that even if the experiences of these two men were not as rich as Petru, they were still people who had experienced life and death, and things that made them feel painful must be extremely unbearable.

When the giant moon was in the sky and the big waves rolled into the sky, the feeling of despair and suffocation was still deep in everyone's hearts, and Situ and the others had obviously experienced a disaster more terrifying than the approaching giant moon. The most important thing is that they struggled with the disaster in despair for more than ten days!

The prayers of the savages continued all night, and they did not stop until the eastern sky turned fish-belly white and the stars above their heads gradually faded.

The savage priest in charge of praying came over and respectfully handed the silver scepter to Situ. They chatted for a few words, and then the priest went down and took some of the savages to collect wild fruits from the trees and the morning dew. The other group of savages who stayed behind were patrolling around the camp vigilantly, observing the people in the savage camp opposite. movement.

Mrs. Larry said: "It turns out that Mr. Stone is also a linguist. Not only can he understand the language of the savages, but he can also speak it so fluently. I really admire him!"

Situ smiled and said: "Thank you, madam! When it comes to linguistics, you are the real expert, I am just opportunistic."

Mrs. Larry said: "Mr. Stone, why should you be too modest? Any language is not thought up by someone, but a civilization developed over countless years. There is no opportunistic way. If there is any, please don't be stingy." , to be honest, there are still many ancient texts and disappeared languages ​​that have not been deciphered in our written and archaeological history!"

"Madam, you think too highly of me!" Situ laughed loudly, "I can't translate the words dug out from the ground. I can communicate with the savages only because they are alive. If they are dead, , I have no choice at all.”

He said and looked around, "It's not difficult to learn the language of these savages. Among all of you here, Mr. Aoki, Professor Su, and Mr. Petrew can all do it easily."

Qingmu and Su Huilan seemed to have thought of something, while Petru was confused and shouted: "I can't even speak the dialect of those places in Africa. How can I speak the language of savages?"

Situ smiled and said: "Language is also a kind of memory. As long as you can dream, you can get it, no matter which planet the other person speaks."

His words flashed through Aoki's mind like a bolt of lightning. He remembered that he had been able to speak many languages ​​inexplicably, as if those things were originally stored in his memory. He has always wondered, could he have been a top student before he lost his memory? Now I suddenly realized that he was not a top student, and even if he was, he might just be a top student who used dreams to cheat.

Dreams have no time limit, which means that as long as you have enough mental energy, you can learn a lot of things in dreams. You can enter other people's brains and easily steal other people's results as your own. Although this requires a certain mental price, for people like Aoki, what is the use of a little mental power?

Compared with other things, acquiring language is more difficult because the process of a person learning to speak cannot be condensed and embodied, unlike a paper or a design plan that can be displayed immediately. If the other person is not a linguist like Mrs. Larry, then if you want to learn his language from him, you must constantly switch between consciousness communication and language communication with him in the dream, which is equivalent to using your best language. Primitive and clumsy ways to learn a new language, and if you're not a linguist, the process is boring even in your dreams.

"This is so unfair!" Alice shouted angrily, "You are cheating! You are cheating!"

Mrs. Larry was not without envy, but she did not have any jealousy or emotion about God's injustice. Instead, she seemed to have discovered a new world and said: "You should really stand up earlier. We have many achievements in archeology and linguistics." The problem may have been solved long ago.”

Situ shook his head and said: "Madam, it's not that we don't want to stand up. In fact, we have done everything we can, but there are some things that we are more than willing to do. The process of civilization cannot be changed by one or two people."

He looked up at the vanished starry sky, "In the vast universe, the earth is not even a grain of sand..."

Mrs. Larry smiled and said: "I agree with what you said, but when the development of civilization encounters a bottleneck, or history reaches a dead end - there will always be heroes who will stand up, right?"

She looked at Situ and then at Qingmu.

Petru said, "Let them do their important work. Madam, you want to learn, and I am willing to serve you! I will follow you wherever you go from now on. I can help you dig stones from the ground and go to other people's places." Learning their language in your dreams can also protect your safety..."

Mrs. Larry smiled at Petru with some gratitude and said, "Thank you, Petru, you are a good person."

The crow, which had been full for a long time and had already taken a nap on the branch of a tree, just happened to fly over Aoki's head. He wanted to ask about breakfast. When he heard Petru's words, he croaked: "Wow, pirates are doing good things." Alright!"

At this time, the roar of the savages sounded again in the valley.

Stomachache, it’s even later, let’s post the two chapters together, one chapter will come soon