The sky moves slowly in one direction, and as a rule of thumb on Earth, the place where the stars will set is to the west. But in this alien time and space a thousand light-years away, all experience is unreliable, and the more real it feels, the more absurd the facts can be.

The M42 Nebula hangs on the ridgeline to the west and slowly descends to the back of the mountain, with only half of the huge, thin Barnard ring remaining, occupying half of the sky. An even more striking spherical nebula rises from the eastern sky, like a large red balloon, with bright stars hiding in the balloon and shining with dazzling blue and white brilliance.

Aoki took out the willow branch in his arms, put it under his nose and sniffed it, a familiar smell from his hometown dispelled the discomfort caused by distance and strangeness.

A meteor pierced the sky, with a bright trail, leaving a beautiful straight line on the canopy, and when it crossed the small half of the sky, it suddenly turned into a parabola, began to fall downward, and disappeared halfway through. Just when you think it has burned out and disappeared, it suddenly appears ghostly, flashes a large S shape in the sky, flies from the south to the north, and then goes straight up, and returns to the sky again.

Those who have experienced the arrival of the moon and the great waves are no longer surprised, and know that this must be another distorted space.

Everyone is tired and needs to rest.

The savage camp where Situ was located also had many temporary shelters, similar to the savage camp opposite. After inquiry, I learned that the group of savages led by Situ had just come here.

The island they were on was slowly approaching the sun, or maybe it wasn't the sun, but some other star, and that's how disaster happened. The rivers dried up, the mountains and forests were on fire, and the horde of the wildlings was engulfed in flames, and their patriarch held his scepter high in the scorching sun for ten days and nights before finally collapsing, reduced to a mummy-like corpse.

Situ took the scepter from his hand and led the savages back to the lake. The whole island was a sea of fire, but there was water in the lake in the center of the island, which seemed to be connected to the endless abyssal sea, and even the sun could not dry it.

They held out for several days, waiting for fog to rise on the island, and finally made their way through the boiling lake.

Situ said it lightly, as if he had just waited for a red light, crossed a street, and had a barbecue on the lawn of a city park, but Aoki could clearly see that Ivan and Boris had painful expressions on their faces as they spoke. He could see that these two men, even if they were not as rich in experience as Petru, were people who had been born and died, and that what could make them feel pain must be extremely unbearable.

When the giant moon was in the sky and the big waves were raging, the feeling of despair and suffocation was still deeply rooted in everyone's hearts, and Situ and they had obviously experienced a disaster that was even more terrifying than the coming of the giant moon. The most important thing is that they fought against the disaster in despair for more than ten days!

The prayers of the savages continued all night, and they did not stop until the eastern sky turned white and the stars above them faded from their light.

The savage priest in charge of the prayer came over and respectfully handed the silver scepter to Situ. After a few chattering words, the priest went down and took some of the savages to gather the wild fruits from the trees and the morning dew, while the other part of the savages watched the camp around the camp vigilantly, observing the movements of the savage camp opposite.

Mrs. Larry said, "It turns out that Mr. Stone is also a linguist, and I am amazed that he not only understands the language of the savages, but also speaks it so fluently!" ”

Situ smiled: "Madame has won the award!" When it comes to linguistics, you're a real expert, I'm just cutting corners. ”

Mrs. Larry said, "Why should Mr. Stone be too modest! Any language is not someone who patted his head to come up with it, but a civilization has developed over countless years, there is no opportunistic way, if there is, please don't be stingy, be open and honest, there are still many ancient words and disappeared languages that have not been deciphered in our written history and archaeological history! ”

"Madame, you think too highly of me!" Situ laughed, "I can't translate those words dug up from the ground, I can communicate with the savages, it's all because they are all alive, if they are dead, I can't do anything at all." ”

He said, looking around, "It's not difficult to learn the language of these savages, and among all of you here, Mr. Aoki, Professor Su, and this Mr. Petru can easily do it." ”

Aoki and Su Huilan's hearts moved, as if they had thought of something, while Petru was inexplicable and shouted: "I can't even fucking speak the local dialect of those places in Africa, how can I speak the words of a savage?" ”

Situ smiled and said, "Language is also a kind of memory, as long as you can dream, you can get it, no matter which planet the other party is talking about. ”

His words flashed through Aoki's mind like a bolt of lightning. He remembered that he had inexplicably been able to speak many languages, as if those things had been stored in his memory in the first place. He has always wondered, could it be that he was a top student before he lost his memory? Now I suddenly figured out that he was not a scholar, and even if he was, he might just be a scholar who used dreams to cheat.

There is no time limit in dreams, which means that you can learn a lot in dreams as long as you have enough mental strength. You can get into other people's brains and easily steal someone else's work for yourself, although it comes at a mental cost, but for someone like Aoki, what is it to use up a little mental power?

It is more difficult to acquire language than anything else, because the process of learning to speak cannot be condensed and concrete, unlike a paper or a design proposal that can be immediately revealed. If the other person is not a linguist like Mrs. Larry, then if you want to learn his language from him, you have to constantly switch between conscious and verbal communication with him in your dreams, which is equivalent to learning a new language in the most primitive and clumsy way, and if you are not a linguist, the process is very boring even in dreams.

"It's so unfair!" Alice exclaimed angrily, "You're cheating! It's open! ”

Mrs. Larry was not without envy, but she did not feel the slightest jealousy or injustice, but as if she had discovered a new world, she said: "You should have come forward sooner, and many of our problems in archaeology and linguistics may have been solved long ago." ”

Situ shook his head and said, "Madam, it's not that we don't want to stand up. In fact, everything we can do has already been done, but there are some things that we have more than enough to do, and the process of civilization cannot be changed by one or two people. ”

He looked up at the vanished starry sky, "In the vast universe, the earth is not even a grain of sand......"

Mrs. Larry smiled and said, "I agree with you, but when civilization hits a bottleneck, or history reaches a dead end—there are always heroes who stand up, don't they?" ”

She looked at Situ and then at Aoki.

Petru hurriedly said: "Let them do their great things, ma'am, you have to do your learning, I am willing to serve you!" I will follow you wherever you go in the future, I can help you dig up the rocks in the ground, go to other people's dreams to learn their language, and keep you safe......"

Mrs. Larry smiled a little gratefully at Petru and said, "Thank you, Petru, for being a good man." ”

The crow, who had eaten well and had slept on the branches, had just flown over Aoki's head, and was about to ask about breakfast, but when he heard Petru's words, he cried out, "Wow, the pirate is good!" ”

At this time, the whistling of savages sounded in the valley again.