Chapter 53: Animal Language
After a period of teaching, Wang Xika gradually discovered some patterns: those children who seem to be unsociable and have average athletic ability seem to learn science better than those who are lively and cheerful.
This is very similar to modern society, where children with autism are prone to geniuses. Wang Xijia is so excited about her discovery that she recruits a large group of autistic children to start teaching science, hoping to discover a genius similar to "Rain Man".
The problem with autistic children, however, is that you don't know if they've learned it because they're too lazy to talk to you. It will take a long time to discover their talents.
Wang Xijia gradually felt that if he wanted to change the technical level of this world into the world before he crossed over, it was far from enough to rely on himself as a traverser, and he suddenly remembered another traverser, Yuan Qingniu, who sold fake shoes. It was as if the man had disappeared, and if he had been with him, he would have been able to speed up his progress a lot.
Wang Xijia has already laid down a large territory, the white-haired and black-haired camps, the two villages of Shanghekou and Xiahekou, as well as Taohua Town, and the craftsmen's camps all belong to his sphere of influence. Wang Xijia sent people to search for Yuan Qingniu in the territory, but there was no news, and he remembered that Yuan Qingniu would ask Nikolai to buy rubber, and went to Coffee Island by himself. Nikolai said that Yuan Qingniu had just finished buying the last batch of rubber and was leaving. This is strange, could it be that Yuan Qingniu went out early and Wang Xika came back late, and the two of them are neighbors who are not allowed to worship?
"When will Yuan Qingniu come to you next time to buy rubber? When you come, you bring him a message, and say that I am looking for him. Wang Xika asked Nikolai.
"He said that this is the last time to do business, and he will not come in the future, and that this rubber will be yours in the future, can you buy it all?" Nikolai said with a wink.
"I can buy it out, but I have something to find Yuan Qingniu, do you have a way to find him?" For Wang Xijia, money is not a problem - anyway, he can make the money himself, as much as he wants, he just wants to talk to someone from the same world as himself.
"Ah, I don't know, but didn't Yuan Qingniu say that he was from Qingniu Mountain? Maybe you can go to Qingniu Mountain to find him. Nikolai said.
Wang Xika asked, "Do you know where Qingniu Mountain is?"
Nikolai shrugged: "I don't know about this." ”
Seeing that Yuan Qingniu couldn't be found here, Wang Xijia only said goodbye: "Okay, then thank you, I'll come and collect the rubber tomorrow." I'll go first, goodbye. ”
Nikolai waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, king of the world." ”
Leaving the coffee island, Wang Xijia immediately sent someone to Niubei Mountain to find Yuan Qingniu. He was so eager to see that charlatan again, just as Qin Shi Huang longed to see Xu Fu who ran away. However, the strange thing is that no one knows where the "Niubei Mountain" is, and this person is as if he has never existed in this world.
"Maybe Yuan Qingniu is deliberately avoiding me?" Wang Xijia thought after searching for Yuan Qingniu in many unsuccessful ways. If a person deliberately hides himself, then there is no need to look for him again, what can he do if he finds him? I want him to build a modern society together, but this Yuan Qingniu is not even willing to see him, and most of them will not agree.
Judging from the only contact between Wang Xika and Yuan Qingniu, this Yuan Qingniu has not received much higher education in modern society, and he is an old liar who has been abducted and deceived, and his knowledge level is about the same as these primitive people.
Wang Xijia doesn't believe that there is only one person in this world, Yuan Qingniu, since he can travel to this era, Yuan Qingniu can travel to this era, then there should be other people who also travel to this era.
Wang Xika posted notices everywhere in Chinese and English, saying: "I am a traveler from the 21st century, if there is someone who also travels from the future, please come to Shanghekou to find me - Wang Xijia." ”
After the notice was posted, there were indeed a few people who came to Wang Xijia, saying that they were also traversers. But Wang Xika found at a glance that these people were not traversers at all, but just some local witches and gods, who wanted to come over to try their luck and get some money to spend.
It seems that in order to build a modern society, you cannot rely on others, but only on yourself. As the song goes: "There has never been a savior, and there has never been an immortal emperor." It is up to us to create human happiness. ”
Although Yuan Qingniu was not found in a wide range of searches within the territory, it made Wang Xijia more familiar with the products in the territory. This search found a lot of minerals and oil fields, and found a jade mine, which is the mine where Lianshan offered jade. A number of wild animals that have long been extinct in modern times have also been discovered, and 4,5 dinosaur habitats have been found.
Wang Xijia ordered that wild animals should not be killed, especially mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and dodos. In the case of dinosaurs, it is also not allowed to enter their living quarters at will. Of course, there are beasts that hurt people still need to be put to death. Due to the lack of primitive people's concept of animal protection, this order was resisted to a certain extent, especially since many craftsmen have always used animal fur to make clothes, and if they do not let the hunting of wild animals not even have clothes.
Wang Xika used his prestige to forcibly enforce this order, and those who wore leather clothes changed to cotton and linen clothes. And sent Lang Nado, who knew the language of beasts, to convey this order to the animals: as long as you don't invade humans, humans won't harm you. Lang Nado didn't understand the language of reptiles like dinosaurs, but he could communicate with mammals, which in turn conveyed to birds, and birds to dinosaurs, so the animals knew about this decree.
In fact, the animal that Wang Xijia cares about the most is the giant panda, but unfortunately he did not find it. This animal is just like other traversers in this world mountain, Wang Xijia knows that they must exist, but he just didn't have the fate to encounter them.
Before the crossing, Wang Xijia had seen giant pandas in the zoo, but he was not allowed to touch them. In this era, any animal can be touched, but you can't find it - life is probably like this, where is there a perfect thing? Of course, Wang Xika is also a contented person, although he didn't find a giant panda, but he can see dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, and mammoths with his own eyes, then this life is worth it.
How many people in human history have the luck to travel to ancient times and have close contact with these extinct animals?
Wang Xijia suddenly wanted to learn the language of animals, and often asked a horse or a cow to talk to, and asked Lang Naduo to be the translator. After studying for a few days, he wondered if Lang Naduo was translating randomly, because he felt that Lang Naduo had a similar way of communicating with each animal: he howled wildly for a while with his throat.
"Different species of animals rely mainly on eye contact, and you have to learn to express what you mean with your eyes. The other is smell, the exchange of smell is the key to the communication of different animals, and the change of smell is very important - how can animals get effective information from you if you go to take a bath every day? Have you ever seen any animals that love to bathe?" Lang Naduo taught Wang Xika for a few days, and found that Wang Xika did not make much progress, so he ordered him.
Eye contact Wang Xika can understand, but it is a bit difficult to communicate with the smell of a line. Wang Xijia tried not to take a bath for more than a month, and just found the feeling of communicating by smell, Meng Jianniang gave him an ultimatum: "If you don't take a bath again, I will take the child out to live by myself." ”
Wang Xijia understood that Meng Jianniang was serious, so she went to the river to take a bath, and also washed away her dream of learning animal language - after all, people with a family can't do what they want like before. Besides, from the bottom of his heart, he is still a person who loves to take a bath.
Although Wang Xijia can't rely on the smell on his body to emit information, he has not gained nothing after studying it for a few days, and he can gradually distinguish the smell information between different animals.
When animals agree with you, they taste salty, and when they disagree with you, they give off a sour taste. If they smell fishy, they are planning to cook you for dinner.
On this day, when Wang Xika went to the river to take a bath again, he suddenly smelled a fishy smell. Turning around, a huge wolf was guarding Wang Xijia's clothes, looking at him coldly.
Wang Xika hurriedly showed with his eyes that he was an animal protectionist and just wanted to take a shower, hoping not to disturb. But it may be that he didn't learn animal language well, and the wolf didn't fully understand what Wang Xika meant, so he still stood coldly by the river, guarding the pile of clothes.
Wang Xijia was about to use eye contact more deeply, when suddenly his heart moved, and he asked directly, "Are you are werewolf?" Can you speak Chinese Chinese?"
It turned out that Wang Xijia felt that this wolf was a bit similar to Lang Naduo's appearance after transformation, and it was likely that he was also a werewolf, so he tried it with words.
Sure enough, the wolf slowly said in Chinese: "How can there be the smell of vampires and my people on your clothes?"