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"But it certainly hasn't been discarded for long, the paper has only turned slightly yellow. ”

Lévy flipped through the folder, and the paper inside was yellowed and spotted around the periphery, and it was only a slight change of color in the middle. It's about the same as a book that no one has remembered in the warehouse for years. Or ten years or so at most, and then the paper will not only be as yellowed as it is now, and even if it is a fairly good high-end paper, the cave will be neither damp nor ventilated.

"There's no way to find out when the last time there was a person here, but you can tell that it's not been a long time since anyone used it. ”

Ryoko didn't go forward, but pointed to several large machines in the depths of this cave research institute. It is true that the machines were dusty, but there was no rust and peeling paint. Good quality is one thing, and not too long is another.

"Can you read the words?"

Levy's gaze lingered on the machines for which he didn't know what to do for a few seconds, and then he spread out the folder in his hand and handed it to Ryoko. This time, it's not that the liberal arts teacher's scientific literacy is so poor that he can't even make a basic judgment of what the content is. It was really the yellowed supreme words that weren't anything Lévy had seen before.

Yes, not that the words weren't in Lévy's language, but even he, who had traveled between galaxies in the universe and had come into contact with many different civilizations, had never seen anything like the words printed on these documents.

Of course, the universe is vast, and there are still quite a few planets where intelligent life exists that Lévy has never visited. He doesn't think that if he hasn't seen words, others won't know them. In particular, the information integration of the mind body, which is to extract all kinds of information from around to strengthen its own existence.

However......

"I don't understand. ”

Ryoko shook her head, her thin eyebrows wrinkled into two curves under her long bangs.

"This is not any kind of writing known to the Syndication of Thoughts. ”

Ryoko nodded again, affirming.

"I don't even know the information integration mind? ”

Levi smiled and told Ryoko to take the folder and study it first, and then went to the tables to 'scavenge' other documents.

The documents on the table were all written in a script that even Ryoko didn't know. Even the labels on the bottles and cans that look like they were used for experiments are all written on things that no one can understand. Levy certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to open the lids of those bottles and cans and smell them to match the stuff he knew. Even if he hadn't been to the lab of Suzune and Satomi Hakase very often, the experience of his previous job had taught him not to mess with anything that scientists or magicians were studying.

Yes, not only did he not open them randomly, but Lévy was very careful when he even touched those containers. After all, liquids that explode if shaken violently don't seem to be the product of science fiction, and those magicians or alchemists can't touch the various items in their workshops casually, and God knows what the consequences will be if they are triggered? Even in his daughter's magician's workshop, Levi has always been careful not to even walk carefully, so as not to accidentally touch something that happens to be on the table or hanging somewhere. In particular, Rin practiced the gem magic that had been passed down from the Tosaka family, and perhaps any of the beautiful-looking stones in her house had already been infused with magic and had been infused with simple techniques, and the slightest touch would make it sound like a bomb tied to a terrorist's body.

"It's not so much secluded...... Although there is no way to prove it, according to my personal analysis, the words written on these pieces of paper may not actually be a kind of text. ”

"Not a text?"

Levi didn't understand what Ryoko meant, and turned around to stare at the blue-haired girl who was still looking down and 'reading' the pile of papers in her hand.

Or to put it more precisely, I don't think the words written on these documents look like the words of a real language. ”

Ryoko looked up and shook the folder in her hand to explain to Levi. However, Levy still doesn't understand this, although he is a language teacher, but in fact, he is just teaching his mother tongue to children who grew up in non-native countries, like many 'foreign teachers' who tutor students in various cram schools. He is not on the same channel as the linguists who study language in the pile of literature buried in the literature every day in the university.

"I think that although you may not have paid attention to it before, as a person who has mastered more than one or two languages, if you look back and observe it a little, will you find that although various languages are different from pronunciation to writing, especially after writing, you can generally see some similar rules?"

……

Being stared at with that look from a girl who was still a student at his own school, Levi suddenly felt so stressed. It's about like an elementary school student who didn't listen to class at all, and then was asked a very simple question by the teacher, but couldn't answer it.

Fortunately, Ryoko didn't wait for the child's answer like those teachers, and stood awkwardly without letting people sit down. I don't know if she sensed Levi's embarrassment, or if she was just explaining it to Levi in that way, and didn't really expect his answer. Levi had just felt the pressure on his shoulders when Ryoko turned her gaze back to the paper in her hand.

"According to a large number of statistics, basically every language has some special words, and they are used much more frequently than some other words. To put it simply, it is the words that are used as ancillary purposes in the language. ”

Levi breathed a sigh of relief, he was an English teacher, and if Ryoko had talked about it to this extent, and he didn't know what words people were referring to, it would not only be a matter of whether his brain was spinning fast or not, but his professional level would need to be criticized.

Lévy roughly recalled the languages he was familiar with, such as the ones he had mastered since coming to Earth, and some of which he had learned back and forth between the major planets in the universe. And, of course, the lingua franca based on the language of today's dominant Deby Lune.