Chapter 488: Allegiance and Language
"Boss, this caveman is definitely a big man among cavemen!" The halfling trampled a caveman under his feet and asked Grimm for credit, "He used the best weapon of all the cavemen, and he had a necklace on it, so maybe he was the leader of this tribe!" β
"Well, that's good." Green observed the caveman in front of him.
Compared to the one Grimm had just caught, the caveman looked slightly stronger, with some faint red lines on his tan skin and a few small short spines on his back. However, Green valued the intelligence of the cavemen more than their fighting prowess - after all, with the sprout-like arms of the cavemen, no matter how strong they were, they couldn't be much stronger.
Compared to the caveman that Green had just captured, this caveman looked much more honest, at least he didn't constantly struggle and resist like the goblin just now, but honestly lay on the ground, with a "toss as you want, I won't resist" attitude.
This time, Green was not in a hurry to transform it into a demon, but was ready to talk to it first.
"Hey~ man, let's talk for a while." Green stood in front of the caveman, looking condescendingly at the caveman in front of him.
The caveman lies on the ground, pretending to be a corpse.
"I'm asking you!" Green stomped the caveman's body.
"Gah! Karma! β
(Pain...... Hurt...... οΌ
Greene: "Now, I'll ask you questions, and you answer." Did you hear that? β
"Gah! Karma! β
(Pain...... Hurt...... οΌ
Green let go of his foot: "Don't you guys have wisdom?" One only knows 'eating' and the other only knows 'pain', so can't they say something else? β
"Gah! Karma! β
(Pain...... Hurt...... οΌ
Green glanced at another brown caveman who had been transformed into a demon by himself: "Do you know anything other than 'eating'?" If all you know is 'eating' and 'hurting,' you're going to die. β
Brown caveman: "Karma! Rattle! Quack! Quack quack! β
(Pain...... Dangerous...... Food...... Eat. οΌ
Looking at the caveman who suddenly said several words, Green finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not stupid. β
Brown Caveman: "Quack! β
Greene: "Would you like to be my subordinate?" β
Brown caveman: "Quack! β
(Eat...... οΌ
Greene: "Hmm...... Eat? I'm asking you, would you like to be my subordinate and be loyal to me? β
Brown caveman: "Quack! β
(Eat...... οΌ
"Will you be loyal to me?" Green stared at the caveman in front of him and repeated what he had just said.
Brown caveman: "Quack! β
Green felt a little embarrassed: "Allegiance, allegiance, do you understand?" That is, in the future, you will listen to my words and work for me, and you will do whatever I tell you to do. β
"Quack! Quack! Quack quack! The caveman kept yelling, looking very flustered, as if he was worried that Green would kill him with a knife.
With a subtle expression on his face, Green looked at the halfling man on the side: "The caveman is not even as intelligent as a kobold?" β
"Oh~ Boss, you're too much of a caveman. Kobolds are a bit stupid, but there are at least birth casters among kobolds, but cavemen......" the halfling paused, "I've never heard of a caster among cavemen." β
"Hmm......" Grimm looked at the caveman with a subtle look, "That'......"
If the IQ of the caveman is slightly higher, maybe the demon caveman can also control the ordinary caveman, so as to form an underground combat force composed of the caveman to make up for the weakness of the demon tunnel warfare. But if the caveman is not as smart as Mona...... Then Green will have to think carefully about his recruitment plan.
Green looked at the goblin with a disappointing look. Although there is no language, through psychic induction, the cavemen can clearly feel the "malice" from Green.
Seeing Green's eyes, the brown-skinned caveman panicked. The strong desire to survive caused it to constantly shout: "Quack! Quack! Quack quack! Quack! Rattle! Quack quack! Quack! Karma! Quack quack! β
(Dangerous...... Food...... Eat...... Food...... Dangerous...... Eat...... Food...... Allegiance! οΌ
Green:!!!
"What did you just say?" Green looked at the caveman in front of him in surprise.
Brown Caveman: "Quack! Karma! Quack quack! Quack! Karma! Quack quack! β
(Food...... Allegiance! Food...... Allegiance! οΌ
"Hmm...... Not bad. Green breathed a sigh of relief, "It doesn't seem hopeless. β
After receiving Green's affirmation, the brown caveman was very excited, and kept making a "quack" sound.
"What about you?" Green looked at the other caveman with red veins on his body, "Are you willing to be loyal to me?" β
Red-veined caveman: "Quack! Rattle! β
The caveman quacked, but there were still four meanings that could come and go: pain, danger, food, and eating. Other than that, nothing is known.
Green glanced at the brown caveman who had sworn allegiance, and then at the caveman in front of him, who was obviously stronger and had some dark red lines on his body.
Green could feel the fear of the red caveman, and in this case, it should be happy to give in, but the only four basic meanings were conveyed from the other party: pain, danger, food, and eating. It seems that the cavemen only speak these four languages.
"Because you didn't convert to a demon?" After hesitating for a moment, Green injected chaos magic into the red-veined caveman, transforming him into a demon as well.
For ordinary humans, "demon transformation" does not increase "wisdom", and the transformation of the transition may even lead to the target completely losing rationality and turning into a monster. But for those creatures whose intelligence was originally only at the level of "paramecium", the all-round enhancement brought by "demon transformation" may indeed make them "slightly" smarter - at most, it is the level of evolution from paramecium to Mona.
Chaos magic was infused, and the caveman's body began to change, the red lines on his body became more vivid, and the muscles under the skin became stronger.
"Will you be my subordinate and loyal to me?" Green asked the red caveman.
Red Caveman: "Karma! Quack! β
The red caveman lay on the ground with a frightened face, making a rattling sound, conveying only fear, but refusing to be loyal.
Grimm thought for a moment, then turned to the brown caveman next to him and ordered, "Tell it to be loyal to me." β
Brown caveman: "Quack! Quack quack! Quack quack ......"
The brown caveman rattled and exchanged with the red caveman. The two cavemen kept quacking and screaming, and they couldn't complete the communication for half a day.
Green listened to the conversation between the two cavemen, and found that the cavemen's language did have only four sounds: pain, danger, food, and food.
Although there are only four pronunciations, there are many meanings in them. For example, in addition to expressing pain and suffering, "pain" also means begging for mercy, surrendering, defending, being injured and dying; "Danger" means fear, flight, leaving, etc.; "Food" means to advance, attack, courtship, come, etc.; In addition to food, "eating" also means happiness, joy, sleeping, resting, and following.
In general, the language of cavemen is only two kinds of expressions: "emotions" and "actions", and they do not even have the concept of "self". Overly complex words like "allegiance" naturally do not exist in the consciousness of the cavemen, they do not have this consciousness at all, which makes it difficult for them to understand what Green is saying - even if Green has transmitted his will directly to their heads through a spiritual connection, they still cannot understand what Green means "allegiance", and can only understand it in their own way as "pain + food + food".
The cavemen had a great deviation in their understanding of Green's words, and when they wanted to express it, the deviation was even greater. It is very difficult for the caveman to express "allegiance", the brown caveman can consciously produce the concept of "allegiance", which is completely a sudden mutation under the extreme oppression of life and death, but the red caveman does not understand the concept of "allegiance", even under the interpretation of his companions.
"I'm afraid it's going to be hard to use these cavemen." Green couldn't help but sigh, "It feels like Mona is smarter than them." β
At least Mona doesn't have a fixed mindset and can easily accept and understand Green's words; These cavemen, on the other hand, are influenced by their innate knowledge, and are much slower to accept what they cannot understand than Mona.
The only thing to be thankful for is that although the caveman speaks a rudimentary language, he does have the ability to "learn" to accept new things, so after being taught by the brown caveman, the red-striped caveman also slowly understands what "allegiance" is.
"Quack! Karma! Quack quack! The red caveman knelt in front of Grimm and pledged his "allegiance."
The language is still that kind of language, and the expression is patheticly simple, but it does convey the idea of "allegiance" from the spiritual connectionβthe feeling of fear, obedience, pleasure, obedience, and food.
Looking at the caveman kneeling on the ground, Green's mood was a little complicated.
"From today onwards, you will be called sweet potato, and you will be called sweet potato." Green gave each of the cavemen a name, "You will follow me for the time being, and I will teach you some of the most basic knowledge." β
"Quack Gong ......"
"Gurgling ......"
The two cavemen, with odd pronunciations, tried to try to say their names in an effortful manner. Although the pronunciation was awkward, they were very happy.
"Quack."
"Gurgle."
"Quack."
"Gurgle."
β¦β¦
The two cavemen happily kept calling their names.
Hearing the strange pronunciation of the two cavemen, Green couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes. Green suspected that he might have made the wrong choice to take in the two cavemen.