257 The relationship between language and civilization

On the first day of the first lunar month, the Supersky Tower.

"Search and rescue team, Happy New Year." It was just over 6 o'clock, and it was dark outside. When I came all the way, I didn't see a few people on the road. When he entered the gate of the building, Wu Xiaoqing didn't see the doorman.

It was a rare time for the search and rescue team.

Although the property service of Qingtian Building is very ordinary, the surrounding government agencies are all very enthusiastic, especially after Qinglan Consulting took the initiative to file taxes a year ago.

First, a district leader came and instructed the phenomenon of random parking here.

Later, I came to the fire department again, took the initiative to put a few fire extinguishers, and conducted a fire drill - because I heard that they are consulting companies, and they seem to be the same as Internet companies, they all put very expensive data materials, for fear that a fire will give this company that has just made a little scale.

Before the Chinese New Year, the police station in the district also came to see it, and felt that the security work of the building was not in place - it was planned to set up a patrol point next to the guard room after the New Year.

After the New Year, if Wu Xiaoqing wants to come and go at night often, he will have to make up some strong reasons in advance.

"Happy New Year." The search and rescue team's new body is not usable on the space station because it is a walking method. Most of the time, he communicates with Wu Xiaoqing on the space station through the computer or glasses.

Only on Earth, in this small warehouse, would the search and rescue team use his clumsy body to walk back and forth in it. When Wu Xiaoqing came in, he was wandering around this small space.

It has been more than half a year since I bought this robot, and because it is a laboratory product, some key components Wu Xiaoqing has replaced several times. But there is still a lot of noise when walking. Compared with this noise, the voice of the search and rescue team really speaking was lower, as if they were answering Wu Xiaoqing casually.

It was very cold, and the body of the search and rescue team was afraid of heat, so the air conditioner was not turned on. Wu Xiaoqing waited for a while, and then felt the cold spread down his trouser legs. He saw that the search and rescue team didn't seem to be in a hurry to let him into the space station, so he went to boil himself a cup of hot water.

"Wu Xiaoqing," the search and rescue team controlled the body and returned to a corner of the warehouse, as the indicator light of the robot's brain dimmed, it means that the consciousness of the search and rescue team has returned to the computer in the room from the inside of the robot's body, so the air conditioner in the room was automatically started, and the water heater for boiling water was broken, "The water is boiled, and now the temperature is just right." ”

"Are you still boiling water if you're fine?"

"Help Yevgeny burn it, prepare for his departure."

"Oh." Wu Xiaoqing nodded.

Originally, Yevgeny originally said that he would come together and the whole family would have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and they had agreed before. But when Yevgeny didn't show up, Wu Xiaoqing knew that there must be something on the space station. Since the search and rescue team didn't call them, it means that this matter has nothing to do with them - there is only one explanation, that is, the aircraft that collected fuel has returned early.

Yevgeny was the only one in the entire space station who wanted to see with his own eyes what this aircraft would look like when it came back, and the others did not have such a strong curiosity, even if Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing saw the picture in the reproduction of Yan Xiu's memory screen, and after learning the basic principles from the search and rescue team, they were not interested.

The early return of the aircraft illustrates two problems:

The first is that everything in the Ascension Realm is normal, because the back and forth speed of the aircraft is controlled by the search and rescue team and the robot administrator, and only after the search and rescue team believes that the security situation in the Ascension Realm has been completely idealized, will there be a decision to come back early.

The second is that the external conditions of the artificial planet of the Ascension Realm are normal—that is, the crisis has not spread to the outer parts of the Ascension Realm.

The search and rescue team used to have such worries, because the planet to which the Ascension Realm belonged was only a part of the entire ecological chain, and since there were spaceships flying out to get fuel, there must be corresponding manufacturing and storage points.

Although according to the administrator, it is impossible to live in other places, judging from the mysterious yearning of most people in the Ascension Realm, it cannot be ruled out that someone has been to these other places before. If other places are also destroyed...... Then their mission will be complicated.

Now, it seems, that hasn't happened.

"How many days are left?"

"56 hours, Yevgeny has seen the whole process, just as you Chinese New Year's Eve...... Now it's rushing back. ”

"Well, call me here for ......"

"Next task."

Hearing this word, Wu Xiaoqing picked up the water cup and took a shallow sip.

The temperature is just hot, not to the point of being hot, but when you drink it, you can feel the warm heat from your mouth to your stomach. The hot water eased the tension in his whole body a little, but after a few seconds of relaxation, his legs couldn't help but start shaking again.

"Don't get excited now," the search and rescue team said, "for the time being, I can only tell you that I have basically determined the intention of this mission, but I still need to investigate the specific method." ”

Wu Xiaoqing nodded: "If you have something, just say it." ”

"I can't go into the details of the rest yet, but one thing is clear," the search and rescue team said, "this time we will be separated, and you will need to go it alone." ”

Wu Xiaoqing was silent for a moment: "Can I?" ”

"I don't know," said the search and rescue team, "because your part of the mission is probably the least informative of the three." ”

"Three missions?"

"I'll explain it to you specifically, so I told you before, this time the situation is very complicated. The other two tasks will be handled by Shen Changwen and Yevgeny...... For specific details, I still have to wait for the New Year to come over and discuss with them. I'm coming to you now to do a simple test. Take a look at your phone. ”

Wu Xiaoqing opened his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that the mobile phone was automatically receiving a software.

All of Wu Xiaoqing's permissions, including computers, mobile phones, and company accounts...... It's all shared with the search and rescue team.

Among these things, especially mobile phones, are actually used by search and rescue teams most of the time, and Wu Xiaoqing's most common operation with mobile phones is just to help plug in the power supply and charge when it is out of power.

Most of the time, the information on his mobile phone is forwarded to the glasses in the form of subtitles, and after a long time, Wu Xiaoqing will often forget the fact that he has a mobile phone.

Now, sending a file to Wu Xiaoqing on the mobile phone alone is obviously an abnormal signal.

Because according to the principle of confidentiality of the search and rescue team, all information that may be involved in the task is strictly confidential, that is, it needs to be discussed, and the information source will be strictly controlled by the search and rescue team, usually only displayed, not saved.

Not to mention the mission information directly presented by the search and rescue team, even if it is within Qinglan Consulting, the relevant information that is closely related to the mission will be managed in accordance with the company's top-secret management standards.

After the mission is over, all the data will only be retained by the search and rescue team, and other copies of the data on the company's computer will be deleted by the company's technical department - directly and physically destroy the hard disk. As for paper materials, they are thoroughly shredded and then incinerated in-house.

After the file has been decompressed, there are about more than 100M, which are all ordinary EXCEL files and audio files, and have not been professionally kept confidential. But after opening it, Wu Xiaoqing quickly realized that the content of these materials was not ordinary sensitive.

EXCEL IS A HUGE TABLE, DROP-DOWN, WITH A TOTAL OF FIVE COLUMNS.

Two of the columns are easily recognizable, in Chinese and English. Wu Xiaoqing saw the first Chinese word, which was the two words hello, and the first English, which was hello. These two words are in the same line, and the meaning is obvious, that is, the same meaning, translated between different languages. In the third column of this row, there is a long string of numbers, a combination of numbers with only 0 and 1. This most likely means that it is some kind of machine language, and in the fourth column, a completely unfamiliar character appears.

Wu Xiaoqing tried to copy the characters and then search, but when he was operating, he found that each of the last characters was a picture.

The fifth column is the connection of audio files, and after opening, Wu Xiaoqing heard an unfamiliar but clear pronunciation coming from his mobile phone. The voice was Wu Xiaoqing's own voice — that is, it was recorded by the search and rescue team. The pronunciation is short.

After a brief stint of Russian with Yevgeny, Wu Xiaoqing had a brief understanding of the world's major languages, including the languages used in several of the three missions they had previously encountered.

In this mission, the linguistic analysis of the Ascension Realm was specifically proposed at the project consultation meeting, and it also played a key role in the final decision-making.

Wu Xiaoqing knows that to understand the extent to which a civilization understands the world, it is a very simple and crucial step, which is to first understand their language.

The Ascension Realm was once considered a civilization higher than the earth, because their technology had too many earthlings that felt incredible, but through the linguistic analysis of this civilization, the shallowness of this civilization was finally determined.

This truth is easy to understand, looking back at the history of the earth's civilization, in fact, from ancient times to the present, along the way, when knowledge continues to explode, the complexity of language itself is also constantly evolving.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the English vocabulary – in the 1604 publication of the Alphabetical List of English Words, the entire book is only 120 pages, and the total number of words is only 3,000, because the amount of information about life in ancient times is very small, and 3,000 words are almost enough.

In modern times, the vocabulary of commonly used speakers is close to more than 10,000, and the vocabulary of native English speakers will reach 70,000, counting the more than 60,000 words that are not commonly used. The Oxford English Dictionary contains more than 600,000 English words – most of which are special words used in professional fields.

At that time, the results of research on the language of the Ascension Realm showed that the average number of words used by these cultivators was only a few hundred—this was almost the level of a primitive civilization. Such a small vocabulary, on the one hand, is of course due to the shallowness of civilization, and on the other hand, to a large extent, it is also due to the fact that the living environment of the Ascension Realm is too monotonous.

Wu Xiaoqing paid attention to the drop-down button on the far right of the file, it was very small.

This shows that the whole file is huge.

The whole document is not arranged according to the initials commonly used in the dictionary, and Wu Xiaoqing can see that the way of arrangement is obviously the efficiency of the use of these words themselves. For example, the first line of hello, and then down, is the name, salutation, code name, friendly, civilized, dangerous......

Wu Xiaoqing simply browsed the two pages, and what he saw in his eyes were more words, each of which was the same as the above, with corresponding parts to each other. A Chinese followed by a string of English, followed by a string of numbers, then a picture, and finally an audio.

Wu Xiaoqing suddenly seemed to realize something, and he directly controlled the button manually and pulled it to the bottom.

Of the five columns, only the number in the third column remains, but the other four columns have disappeared.

Wu Xiaoqing stretched out two fingers, pointed to the string of numbers and the blank fourth column and asked, "I'm afraid they are the targets we need to save." ”