Chapter 059 Coleman Tribe
The second-floor library of the Central Library is full of mystery.
The paid area on the second floor, which seemed not as spacious as the first floor, had countless magical restrictions. Ancient scrolls were wrapped in a layer of light blue magic barrier protection like water mist.
Ryan led the barbarian girl to Area C, where there was a space as big as an indoor basketball court with a height of more than 20 meters. People did not feel oppressed by the "mountains of books" all around at all. Instead, they felt like they were in a vast ocean of knowledge, which made people want to find the truth in the ocean of knowledge.
This design is very clever.
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The library has recently received a lot of new barbarian documents. A bearded old man who looks like Marx is counting the records there. He seems to be a book registrar.
The barbarians' industry was very backward, and they had not invented papermaking. All documents were recorded on specially treated animal skins. There were several thick piles, and it seemed that there were at least tens of thousands of pieces.
The barbarian girl couldn't help but get excited when she saw these "trophies". Being able to grab all the documents in the tribe here meant that countless tribes had been looted and countless people had died at the hands of those damned "invaders".
Ryan glanced at her coldly, the meaning was obvious: If you dare to make trouble, get out now!
She seemed to understand Ryan's stern gaze, and she suppressed the grief and anger in her heart. Her body trembled slightly from clenching her fists, but in the end she didn't say a word.
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Ryan asked politely, "Mr. Administrator, I would like to borrow these animal skins. Which ones have you counted?"
The bearded administrator didn't raise his head and said calmly, "Few people are interested in the barbarian writing, especially young people..."
Ryan responded: "I am a fan of writing research. I was very interested to hear that the barbarians have a complete language and writing system."
"Oh... it's rare. The road of [Polyologist] is not easy to walk."
The bearded old man murmured something, and without asking any more questions, he pointed to the animal skin that was nearly one meter thick on the shelf beside him and said, "These are the documents that I counted without duplication and are relatively complete. Take them if you need to borrow them. Remember to be careful, the animal skin has not yet been coated with a magical protective coating..."
"Okay, thank you for your advice."
Ryan didn't hesitate and directly picked up the pile of animal skins and led the burden to the lending room not far away.
There are single reading rooms in the paid area that are very private and soundproofed and have magical restrictions to prevent prying eyes.
The barbarian girl was dragged to the library in a daze. Until now, she didn't understand why Ryan brought her here.
Seeing that he had borrowed such a large stack of tribal documents, she guessed that this human witch doctor wanted to learn their language and writing.
But is learning a language that easy?
She had been learning the "old priest language" from the high priest's grandfather since she was a babbler, and now, at the age of thirteen, she had truly mastered the language.
Without a reference, without anyone to guide, relying only on some words, how could it be possible...
Seeing the suspicious look of the barbarian girl, Ryan didn't intend to explain more to her.
How could a primitive man who didn't even know what a steam engine was possibly understand the technological existence of the "intelligent brain"?
He took a look at the words on the animal skin, and the system automatically sounded a prompt.
[Ding! Unrecorded text was found, the system is automatically identifying and recording...]
Ryan looked at the barbarian girl again, pointed at the words on the animal skins, then pointed at his mouth and said, "Read it word by word."
The simple physical description made the clever barbarian immediately understand what he meant.
Does this "human witch doctor" really need to learn language?
Although her eyes were full of doubt, she still did as she was told.
She looked at the words on the animal skin and read out each sentence.
"&*%ф%￥ё￥..."
As one of the candidates for the future high priest of the tribe, Wu Duo actually knew by heart most of the words on these animal skins.
Most of these books are documents recording major events of the tribe, and some are herbal books with hand-drawn illustrations, the habits of jungle beasts, the identification of poisons... These are all leather scrolls commonly seen in the tribe.
She even saw a piece of animal skin that she had copied herself.
These are the documents that the chief of the Kerman tribe distributed to the small tribes on the edge of the forest. This means that those small tribes have been brutally attacked by the "invaders"...
As she read, her eyes were filled with tears.
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[Ding! The system automatically identified an unrecorded language, and the text is matching...]
Ryan ignored the burden's emotions and coldly helped her turn the pages of the animal skin.
As she finished reading one page, he turned to the next.
The barbarian girl speaks very fast, but this does not affect the work of the "intelligent brain".
As long as she pronounces it correctly, the system can easily recognize and record it.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, quantifiers, pronouns, as well as special nouns, onomatopoeia, modal particles...
The "intelligent brain" has an accurate and scientific language translation function, which analyzes the text and sounds that Ryan "hears" and "sees" one by one.
Even with such efficiency, it still took nearly five hours to finish reading the one-meter-thick animal skin document.
The system recognized more than three thousand commonly used characters, and with the addition of some picture comparisons and context analysis, the "intelligent brain" successfully parsed most of this barbarian language!
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Ryan saw that the translation level of the "intelligent brain" had reached 87%. Although there were still some rare characters whose meanings he didn't understand, it was enough for normal communication.
He tried to set up the translation program, and then the pronunciation of a sentence appeared in his mind.
Ryan read it out loud and asked the barbarian girl, "What's...your...name?"
This sentence is not in the common language, but in the real barbarian language!
"you……!"
After hearing this, the burden, who had been reading for five hours and was already thirsty, stood there in a daze as if struck by lightning.
After a moment, her dark eyes were filled with shock as she asked, "You...you learned the language of our Coleman tribe?"
The intelligent brain has simultaneous translation, which is no longer a bunch of gibberish.
Ryan was not used to the barbarian tongue-twisting pronunciation, and he stammered: "You... answer me."
After hearing the second complete sentence, the torturing child finally believed that the human in front of him had learned their language.
She replied weakly: "My name is... 'Udo'."
But...how is it possible for someone to learn and master a language in such a short time? !
Oh my god, this is incredible.
She was well aware that this "human witch doctor" did not know any Coleman language before, but just by speaking a few words, it was enough to make people feel that his talent for language learning was amazing.
But now , what do I see?
Just by reading literature for five hours, he learned the language of his people? !
Ryan ignored her shocked look.
If faced with this situation, I'm afraid anyone would probably have this look of astonishment.
He went straight to the point and said, "Now tell me... what was the second line of text you wrote on the wall..."
"You mean 'sacrificial language'?"
When Wu Duo heard this question, she instantly understood that the reason why the man in front of her changed his mind and did not let her fend for herself was probably because of this reason.
However, a sense of anticipation also arose in her heart.
Since he has a need, there is room for negotiation!
"Sacrificial language?"
Ryan didn't quite understand the meaning of the word that Udo said, but he thought it was another way for their tribe to describe the "Monk'er ancient language".
He directly took out a less important ancient text fragment from Baron Morin's collection and said, "I need... you... to interpret this text."
Now, communication is completely fine.
When Wu Duo heard this, her guess was confirmed.
If there is value in using it, there is room for negotiation.
But this clever barbarian chick was not willing to be a "tool man", and said: "I can help you interpret it, but you have to help me."
