Chapter 751: Cultural Estrangement

Zhuo Lefeng has always admired Jiang Junyan's knowledge, and even many times when Jiang Junyan said some theories, he had to spend some time to study. Now, when Jiang Junyan mentions the Sapir-Wolf hypothesis, he takes as much time as Cao Yao to react.

The so-called Sapir-Wolf hypothesis refers to the hypothesis about the relationship between language and thought put forward by the American Sapir and his disciple Wolfe. They believe that all higher-order thinking depends on language, and that language structures determine the behavior and habits of members of a cultural group. Every language has culture-defined forms and categories according to which people interact not only but also to analyze reality, to notice or ignore certain relationships and phenomena, to sort out their reasoning and to construct their own consciousness. Each language artificially divides the consciousness of the constant emergence and flow of existing things in different ways.

To put it simply, language determines thinking. The language of a culture represents a group of people who cannot fully understand it simply by using the language they are translated. Translation can only express the literal meaning, but it cannot know its deeper meaning, or even a certain logical pattern.

Language barriers create cultural and ethnic barriers, and are also an obstacle to the inability of many races to understand each other and share logical thinking.

If you want to fully understand another language, you must completely abandon your own language background and thinking mode, otherwise you will not be able to fully understand the logical background of the other person. This logical background encompasses a complete set of worldview, political, religious, scientific, and philosophical perspectives.

Jiang Junyan continued: "Whether it is the castle or other places we see, there are signs that we have not seen and cannot understand. Even though Pu'an North simply points to Dracula with graphic supplements, we still don't know much more. Until we found Stindale, he showed me the same numbers in his notebook. And Elmos himself had told him that it was something higher. So what is this higher level of stuff? It should be a high-level language. ”

At this moment, Zhuo Lefeng finally understood what Jiang Junyan meant: "You mean, those people not only oppose the traditional Holy Grail worship, but even created a language of their own. This language is what we see as words, symbols, and patterns. In their opinion. The languages they create are much higher than those used in the market today, so they think that they are a higher level of thinking logic and have a higher level of language background. ”

"That's pretty much it. Any religion considers its religious background to be superior to other religions, but the difference is that most of the previous religions only created religious backgrounds and religious legends, and did not create a new language. And now, this group of people has actually created a new language, that is, a new logical background of thinking. ”

"If they speak like this, since they may have created a new language and formed a new logical background of thinking, we cannot consider them according to our logical thinking when analyzing their actions!" Zhuo Lefeng sighed, "It's really big now." ”

"It's really a big deal!" Jiang Junyan smiled wryly, "Extremist religion alone is a thorny problem, and now there is a possible background of Silla Ji thinking, which means that even if we catch one or two of them, we will not be able to fully understand their cultural connotations and thinking patterns." This is a new challenge for all of us. Of course, these are all speculations on my part, and maybe things are not what I thought they were. ”

These words can only comfort themselves. Because according to the current point of view, Jiang Junyan's speculation is the most likely.

"So we can't understand their logical thinking, we can't understand the way they deal with certain problems. Jiang Junyan, you must be careful. This group of people may not treat life and death in a different way than we understand. I'll rush back to Europe and join you at once. ”

Of course, it is good to wait for Zhuo Lefeng, but before Zhuo Lefeng comes, Jiang Junyan will not be idle. Now that he's made this bold guess, he'll have to figure out how to deal with this new model.

Not only can the other side form an idea of vampire revenge to oppose others in their search for the Holy Grail. And these people have formed a new cultural thinking, so they can appear in ancient castles and other places one after another, and mark them with words and symbols that they can understand. This means that they must have a circle of their own, which has formed their cultural background and even their ability to think logically.

Just like in the vampire movie, the vampires as a whole are a group of people who have their own race and social circle. They will participate in regular social events and will also have regular group ceremonies. Not only will outsiders not be able to find their clan circle, but once they inadvertently get involved, they will be immediately wiped out.

"You've seen a vampire at night?"

Cao Yao shook his head: "I've heard it, but I haven't seen it." What, you're going to find these vampires? But you don't even have a way, how can you find it? ”

"Actually, we don't need to look for it, after all, the other party has already set its sights on Pu'an Bei."

Cao Yao's eyes rolled, and he immediately understood the meaning.

Pu Andong and others were taken away by those people before, and Pu Anbei was actually not prepared, so after Pu Andong was arrested, Pu Anbei was at a loss. But now, if Pu Anbei and others do a good job, they will lead those people to take the bait. Even if Pu Anbei is finally taken away, things may turn around because there are still Jiang Junyan and Cao Yao in secret.

With this idea, Jiang Junyan exchanged views through the communication method agreed with Pu Anbei before. Pu Anbei, who had been standing still, had long wanted to attack immediately, so she promised herself and Pu Anxi to be bait, letting Jiang Junyan and Cao Yao wait for the opportunity.

In view of the other party's clever anti-surveillance methods, Pu'an North is fully prepared. She has a number of tracking devices on her body and objects, some of which have been specially handled. Even if one or two are discovered, Pu Anbei thinks that there will always be fish that slip through the net. After making sufficient preparations, Pu Anbei and Pu Anxi decided to throw themselves into the net. And the best place to be caught is a shipyard. And because the signal has been blocked before, Pu'an North also deliberately planned the route. Signals had appeared on these routes before, meaning that Jiang could see what they were doing. The rest is to resign themselves to fate, just waiting for Jiang Junyan and Cao Yao to play freely.

Everything is ready to go. Jiang Junyan also communicated his ideas with Zhuo Lefeng in advance.

Although Zhuo Lefeng is worried about your safety, but in the current situation, there are not many good ways. He told everyone to be careful, and he and Zhong Kaixin immediately embarked on a flight back to Europe.

At a hotel in Liverpool, Cao Yao stares at a computer screen. Each dot on the screen represents a tracking device placed in Pu'an North in advance. Now that Pu Anbei and Pu Anxi have entered the shipyard, as long as they are taken away, Cao Yao can rely on these positioning devices to find the whereabouts of those people.

Jiang Junyan looked around vigilantly, facing this group of people, they had to be extremely careful. Fortunately, from the operation in Pu'an North to the present, there is no difference in the surrounding area.

A certain point on the screen suddenly began to flicker frequently, and at the same time, Cao Yao and Jiang Junyan both received the signal. This is a signal they have agreed on in advance, and once Pu'anbei and Pu'anxi are controlled, the message will be transmitted immediately.

Cao Yao understood that those people had already captured Pu Anbei and Pu Anxi, and from this moment on, she needed to remember where the signal passed. Because these signals may disappear at any time, you have to replenish them afterwards.

Sure enough, not long after the message was delivered in Pu'an North, the flickering dots on the screen disappeared one after another. Eventually, the remaining one was gone ten minutes later.

"Is the signal blocked, or is the equipment completely discovered?" Cao Yao folded his hands and prayed, "Hope is the former." ”

If it's the former, you just need to wait for the signal to appear again before you can continue tracking. However, after waiting for half an hour, the signal that finally disappeared still did not appear.

"Here's where it was last seen!" Cao Yao pointed to the screen, "According to the map, this is a private office location. ”

"Will the office block the signal?" Jiang Junyan immediately dropped out of a more detailed map, and after seeing the surrounding layout, he said, "This office location is not far from the shipyard. Pu Anbei said that the signal entering the shipyard will be blocked. Based on the displacement of the signal, we roughly judged that they were arriving at the private office location through this route, and then the signal disappeared. What is the velocity of their displacement? ”

"Probably not driving!" Cao Yao pointed to the rate analysis above, "If it is a car, their route will be like this, and the speed will be faster." ”

The route doesn't follow the standard route on the map, and it's slow.

Jiang Junyan squinted his eyes: "In other words, there may be a special underground passage between the shipyard and that private office location. Parts of the channel were shielded, so we couldn't track it anymore. Either way, the signal eventually disappeared from the office, meaning that it was not a base camp but also an important transit point. ”

"So what are you waiting for, let's check it out right away."

"Check your size, just the two of us?" Jiang Junyan slapped it lightly, "Those people are all ruthless and strong, and the two of us rushed over to give them away." And we don't know if the signal will continue to appear and whether it will be transferred, so from now on, we have to keep an eye on the screen. As soon as the signal appears, it is marked as a record. At the same time, I will ask Jin Xiaochen to help investigate the background of that location. By the time we have done our homework, we believe that Zhuo Lefeng will almost arrive in Liverpool. This kind of front-line life-saving work should be left to a professional like him. ”

"You're just afraid of death! Hum! Cao Yao pouted and said, but he knew in his heart that Jiang Junyan was considering the overall situation. However, she was still a little worried. Pu Anbei and Pu Anxi have been arrested again, plus the previous Pu Andong, Pu Annan and Constend, will these people be in danger?

Since those "vampires" think differently from ordinary people, will they do things that ordinary people can't imagine, such as grabbing hostages and solving them immediately!