I'm trapped in a cube

Deciphering the entire language system was not a difficult task for Zhengyanzhu. He had learned many languages ​​and it did not take him long.

The most difficult thing is that the pronunciation of some words does not follow the system.

This requires a long period of study, and Zhengyanzhu does not think he can fully understand those uncommon pronunciations.

So he found the core again and asked: "To what extent do you think I have corrected it, and how far do I still need to go?"

Originally, Zhengyanzhu just wanted to know his progress and how many words he still needed to learn to meet the core "correction" requirements.

But the core emitted a beam of light to the Lord of Righteousness, scanned it for a long time, and said something that surprised the Lord of Righteousness: "Correction completed."

Correction completed?

It turns out that you don’t need to fully understand all the vocabulary. As long as you reach a certain level, you will pass.

This surprised Master Zhengyan, and he quickly asked: "I have completed the correction, can you let me out?"

However, Core's next words plunged him into despair.

"The Black Tower will be opened only after all human beings in the Black Tower have been corrected."

After hearing this, Master Zhengyan realized that completing the correction by himself would only be considered a staged success.

This made him even more desperate. How long would it take until everyone was corrected?

He thought of those ignorant robed men and sighed helplessly.

The Lord of Righteousness talked with the core. Because he learned to twist the language, he quickly understood the core's criteria for "correction completed".

The core requirements are not high and do not require a lot of vocabulary. What he cares more about is the standard pronunciation and the power of the shadow needs to reach the extreme.

From the core point of view, the vocabulary of the distorted human characters in the Black Tower is up to standard, but the pronunciation is not standard, and most of them can't even summon phantoms.

This twisted language is a symbol of power. As long as it is pronounced, it will produce power. However, because the pronunciation is extremely non-standard, those in robes can even converse in this language.

These conversations also made their pronunciation even more non-standard, and everyone's accents were distorted.

The Lord of Right Speech also understands this. After correcting his own pronunciation, he cannot speak in this language at will. If he can still speak, it means that his pronunciation is not correct at all.

Therefore, when communicating with the man in the robe, he would even deliberately distort his pronunciation to prevent him from summoning phantoms.

"Language is power, not a means of communication." Core expressed his thoughts mechanically.

If you want to communicate, you lose power. If you want to maintain power, you must prohibit communication.

You cannot have both.

Speaking of this, Zhengyanzhu seems to have understood the core purpose. He wants to turn humans into some kind of race that uses the power of language.

"Why do you want to correct humans?" Zhengyanzhu asked puzzledly.

"Because you went to the wrong direction and wasted the powerful power of language." Core replied calmly, without any fluctuations in his voice.

"Aren't you trying to lead humanity into error? Didn't you create the distortion?" The Lord of Righteousness became even more confused.

Upon hearing the question from the Master of Righteousness, his core stagnated. He flashed purple light, flickering on and off like breathing, as if he was thinking about something.

Zhengyanzhu was shocked. This was the first time he saw the core pause. In the past, he would answer questions quickly, like a machine.

The purple light slowly became brighter, and the core emitted a beam of light again, constantly scanning the body of the Lord of Righteousness.

After the scan, the core stagnated again. After a while, it returned to normal state, and the faint mechanical sound sounded again:

"You guys forgot?"

…

Human beings did not have language at the beginning.

Back then, they only communicated through strange sounds, facial expressions, and gestures.

When he is angry, he grins, when he is happy, he smiles, when he is sad, he cries, and when he is hurt, he screams.

Upon seeing the prey, the human leader waved his hand, and the companions behind him swarmed forward with weapons raised, shouting to express their inner fighting spirit.

Simple and vulgar.

One day, a very good friend came to the core and said that she wanted to give human beings a kind of power. Human beings are too weak.

So she found the core and wanted to borrow the power of language.

The power of language does not require a strong body, nor does it require much exercise. It only requires the ability to speak, and it can summon powerful shadows, which is very suitable for weak humans.

"Your power seems to be tailor-made for them. Don't you want to see what your power will look like in their hands?" The friend persuaded the core and wanted him to pass on the power of language to humans.

The core doesn't care about how human beings develop, nor does he care about his own power being learned by others. He only knows that he likes this friend.

Like it very much.

The core also knows that this friend loves humans very much, even to the point of extreme obsession.

So, he agreed to the request, came to the earth, and imparted the power of his language to mankind who were still in the ignorant period.

Human beings at that time regarded the core as a god and regarded this power of language as a gift from God.

The core didn't care about this. He only knew that because of this incident, the friend came to him more frequently.

"Look, they can use this power to hunt! They made those weapons. Why don't they just use this power to make cooked food? How stupid."

"They also use these powers to move rocks, as if they are trying to build a tower, but why don't they just make the rocks, so cute!"

The friend watched these childish human behaviors with amusement, while the core watched her with amusement.

"Do you think they're cute?"

"cute."

"Great, finally someone has the same idea as me! You are the only one in the entire abyss who can understand me."

Hearing the praise from his friends, the core felt joy that he had never had before.

Humans put the prey they hunted on triangular towers made of stones and made childish sacrifices to the core.

Those little people arranged various objects neatly and made clumsy movements in gorgeous clothes.

"Praise the gods!"

There is no feeling at the core.

But my friend shouted "cute" and even wanted to rush over and pinch the little man, but in the end he suppressed his inner excitement.

Core didn't know what this meant. He just answered his friend's questions sentence by sentence, and then continued to agree with her opinions.

He didn't care about those humans at all, and he had no idea about these nonsense and childish behaviors.

"Look at them, even if they die, they still have to put them in the tower, and then build other towers. Human beings attach great importance to rituals. This is a reverence for nature and respect for their ancestors."

"Although human beings are weak, they have been working hard to survive. They also use the power of your language very well, which is awesome."

"You also think they are very powerful, right?" the friend asked the core.

"Yeah, awesome."