The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After hearing the time report from the timing computer, Leo couldn't help being stunned, because if the timing computer hadn't been adjusted and the time when the spaceship disappeared was subtracted from this time, then the remaining 430,000 years would be very short. It may be the time since the spacecraft fell into the Black Forest to the present.

And there is a big gap between this time and the time of the Earth Federation in Leo's memory, which is as much as 300,000 years.

You must know that the era of the Earth Federation where Leo lived was only more than 100,000 years away from the doomsday battle of the old earth. This obviously does not match the count of more than 300,000 years. If this happens, it must be the time here in the Black Forest The flow rate is different from the universe where the Earth Federation is located, or it has been more than 300,000 years since he woke up from his current body after his death.

As to what kind of situation caused this time dislocation, Leo couldn't figure it out for a while. He just felt that maybe the time gap was longer than the 300,000 years he knew now. Now the timing of the Prometheus Computers are just the tip of the iceberg.

"What did that voice say just now?" Sylvia asked after sensing that Leo's expression was a little strange after hearing the time report.

"It was telling the time just now." Leo explained, and then repeated the time numbers in French.

"More than 400,000 years?" Sylvia couldn't help showing a shocked expression when she heard this number. You must know that the historical records of the world of Velen, aside from the myths and histories propagated by various churches, are only recorded for thousands of years. More than 400,000 years is already a very huge number in Sylvia's eyes.

"Can you understand Gulanxi?" Suddenly, a voice broke into the conversation between the two.

The two turned their heads to look at the place where the voice came from, and saw that the other party was a humanoid body, his body was much taller than ordinary people, he had four arms, and the features on his face were similar to those of a human being, except that his eyes were not horizontal. , but vertically long.

Lanxi is different from other places in the Black Forest. In other places, the family-like mutation produced after the power is stimulated is considered beautiful. The more dehumanized and mutated, the more respected by ordinary people, but in Lanxi, it is completely based on the form of normal human beings. Mei, on the contrary, the status of those families from different gods and beliefs in Lanxi is not very high.

However, the humanoid who is speaking now is clearly an exception, as on this humanoid he wears a high maester's gown, and wears a string of maester's certificate metal plates around his neck.

Both Leo and Sylvia have learned about the status, class and political system in Lanxi City from the pamphlets they got when they entered the city. Politics, one in charge of the military.

There are a total of 30 levels of bachelors, and each level must have a corresponding qualification to be a bachelor, and this qualification is a metal plate called a certificate, which can only be obtained by a bachelor who has passed the final examination of the corresponding subject. He is qualified to obtain a certificate, and the more certificates he has, the higher his status in Lanxi will be.

Now the student certificate hanging around the neck of this humanoid is about 20 yuan. Such a figure means that this humanoid has a very high status in Lanxi, which is almost the same as the consul of a city. The reason for the consul is that he is not a native of Lanxi.

After looking at this humanoid for a while, Sylvia hid her curiosity well, and then asked the other party in a somewhat crappy Lanxi local language: "Can you understand what we just said?"

Leo and Sylvia were talking in modern French just now, logically speaking, no one in Lanxi should be able to understand it.

"Of course I can understand it. The language you use is somewhat similar to the language of Moya Town in Qiao Sen, but the accent is slightly different." The humanoid replied naturally: "I lived in Moya Town before. time, I have studied the local language, as long as I don’t say too complicated things, I can basically understand it.” As he spoke, he asked again: “Do you understand Gulanxi language? I just heard what you talked about just now. Time, mentioned more than 400,000 years."

"Can't you understand the language spoken by that voice just now?" Leo looked at the other party and expressed his own doubts, but then said with a little doubt: "But if you don't understand the language just now, what's the matter?" Do you know that the more than 400,000 years we are talking about is what the voice said just now?"

"I don't understand Gulanxi, but what the voice said just now has been partly deciphered by Bachelor Robert, and that part mentioned 400,000, years, etc." The humanoid explained, and then introduced himself Said: "I am Kakalu, a bachelor of the Academy of Ancient Languages."

Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other and introduced themselves, but they only described themselves as a traveler when introducing their identities.

Kakalu knew very well that the identity of the traveler that Leo and Sylvia said might not be true, but he didn't care about it. He cared more about whether Leo really knew Gulanxi.

"You understand Gulanxi, right?" Kakalu asked impatiently.

Leo was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "I know a little bit."

Because Leo didn't know whether the Gulanxi spoken by Kakalu was the language of a certain country on the Old Earth, so he didn't speak too slowly.

"I hope to hire you to help me translate an ancient book written in Gulanxi." After hearing Leo's words, Kakalu immediately showed a happy look on his face, and made his own request, and added : "Of course the remuneration for translation..."

"Your Excellency Kakalu, you are messing around here again!" Just as Kakalu proposed the reward, a middle-aged man wearing a special bachelor's costume came over and stopped Kakalu's behavior.

The middle-aged man didn't wear any certificate around his neck, but the bow tie and cuffs of his clothes had a few more glowing borders than normal bachelor's clothing, which represented his special status in the bachelor class.

"Master Belluk, why are you here?" Kakalu immediately became nervous when he saw the middle-aged man appear, and then asked suspiciously, "Are you following me?"

The middle-aged man glared at the other party angrily, and said, "Your Majesty Kakalu, you think too much! If the Bachelor's Association really wants to punish you, there is no need to follow you and find your fault. The fact that you took the Lanxi ancient book out of the first library without authorization is enough to cancel all your permissions."

When Kakalu heard the middle-aged man's words, he immediately showed embarrassment, obviously ashamed of his wrong thoughts just now.

The middle-aged man continued to reprimand: "Although there have been several serious conflicts in your field and the field of the mother of filth recently, and the relationship has deteriorated, we, Lanxi, have always maintained neutrality, and we will never be distracted by external affairs. Any exclusion or suppression of foreign bachelors in Lanxi, the rights and obligations enjoyed by foreign bachelors and local bachelors are equal."

"I know I was wrong." Kakalu bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Leo and Sylvia, who were standing aside, looked at them curiously. The middle-aged bachelor was obviously just an ordinary person, but the energy fluctuations emanating from Kakalu showed that he possessed at least a third-level psyker. However, such a strong man with powerful strength and life form was being taught by an ordinary person like a child, which made people feel an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

After reprimanding Kakalu, the middle-aged bachelor turned his head to look at Leo and Sylvia, and said, "Please don't take what happened just now to your heart. Your Excellency Kakalu cares too much about the translation of ancient books. I will randomly invite the two of you..."

Hearing what the middle-aged bachelor said, Kakalu quickly interjected and said, "Wait! Bachelor Beruk, I didn't invite you randomly. This Mr. Leo knows Gulanxi, and he can help us complete... "

Before Kakalu finished speaking, the middle-aged bachelor interrupted Kakalu, and said very seriously: "Your Excellency Kakalu, you should be very clear that in order to be able to translate that ancient book, the entire Bachelor Association sent seventy You are a high-ranking bachelor of Gulanxi language. Every bachelor is more knowledgeable in Gulanxi language than you, and they have not made any progress in the translation of that ancient book so far. Why do you think that you are just doing it on the side of the road? Can a foreigner I met be able to translate that ancient book?" Then, he turned his head to Leo and Sylvia apologetically, and said, "Sorry, I didn't mean to target the two of you."

Leo and Silvia smiled and said nothing.

Kakalu is completely irrefutable by the middle-aged bachelor now, because if he refutes it, it is equivalent to saying that the knowledge of the seventy Gulanxi senior bachelors has problems, and he offended seventy seniors in Lanxi at once. Bachelor, no matter how courageous Kakalu is, he would not dare to do this, let alone his teacher among the seventy senior bachelors.

Seeing that Kakalu didn't intend to refute, the expression of the middle-aged bachelor also eased, and said in a deep voice: "I remember, Mr. Kakalu, you still have three jobs to complete, and these three jobs should have been completed in two years ago. It should have been completed a full moon ago, and it has been delayed until now, which has delayed the follow-up work. If you are fine, please go back to your own studio and complete the work that should be completed, and don't keep worrying about other things that you shouldn't worry about. "

The other party's words have already reached this level, and Kakalu also knew that he was wrong, so he didn't argue, and he didn't mean to stay here any longer. He said sorry to Leo and Silvia, and hurriedly lowered his head. left.

After Kakalu left, the middle-aged bachelor didn't stay any longer, turned around and left.

When the two left, Sylvia couldn't help but smiled and said, "What are we? Stage props? Those two people came to perform in front of us."

Leo was also a little speechless about the behavior of the two bachelors, but after smiling, he said, "I'm a little interested in the ancient Lanxi book they mentioned."

Sylvia looked at Leo puzzled.

Leo carefully explained: "Although the text here is different from the French text, the core grammar and the writing methods of most of the text are still similar. You only need to compare them repeatedly, and you can easily compare the two. If the ancient Lanci language is the source of the current Lanci language and Farang language, then the core content is also the same, and the two languages ​​can also be found through comparison. The law of mutual translation of words. But the current situation is that seventy senior scholars of Gulanxi language are helpless with that ancient book. From the words of the middle-aged scholar just now, it is not difficult to hear that the translation of ancient books has not made any progress. It obviously does not conform to the translation rules of the same language, so the language used in that ancient book..."

Sylvia understood what Leo meant, and interjected: "It's probably not Qulanxi, but another language that is very similar to Qulanxi, but completely different, that's why those advanced scholars put The language in the ancient books was regarded as Qulanxi, and then translated according to the grammar and other directions of Qulanxi, but in fact they looked in the wrong direction from the beginning.”

"Yes." Leo nodded.

Sylvia asked again with some puzzlement: "Even if it is an ancient book written in a different language, why are you interested in it? Is it just because you can understand one more language?"

"Of course not, what I'm interested in is the content inside." Leo responded briefly, without explaining carefully, he closed his mouth, and walked towards a shop selling various sundries together with Sylvia.

The reason why Leo didn't explain it was because he was not clear about the content of that ancient book, but he just thought that the ancient book might be the private diary of a certain crew member of the Prometheus.

Whether it is the old earth era or the earth federation after that, there are some specific rules and regulations, and it is stipulated that all official documents must be written in the same language for easy reading, so except for private diaries, there is no An official document written in another language will appear.

Compared with official documents in a formulaic format, private diaries can reveal more information.

However, judging from the attitudes of the two bachelors, it seems that the ancient Lanxi book is very valued by them, and even sent so many senior scholars to decipher the text in the book, it can be seen that the author of this ancient book or the content of this ancient book is very important. It has extraordinary meaning to them.

Such an item with special significance will naturally not be easily touched by others, nor will it be randomly placed in the library. There must be a large number of guards.

In Leo's view, there are only two ways to see that ancient book. One is to sneak into the big library, find the ancient book, steal it out and read it, and then return it. This method is somewhat cumbersome and requires a lot of time to prepare. If there is an accident, it may cause unnecessary disputes.

The second method is the notice Leo saw on the notice board outside the grocery store.

"Are you going to take the bachelor's degree here?" Seeing Leo standing on the notice board for a while, Sylvia couldn't help asking.

Leo smiled and said, "It won't waste much of our time, will it?"