48. The arrival of the researcher
A research base for the Earth.
Lu Cheng had just returned from the Otherworldly camp when he came to a place that resembled an interrogation room.
There were only two chairs and a table with a stack of files on the table, and Lu Cheng picked up the files and began to browse through them, and the photo on the file was a gray-haired woman.
Lin Youping, 57 years old, is a world-renowned linguist.
After Lu Cheng finished reading the other party's file, the door of the room was pushed open, and Professor Lin on the file walked in.
"Hello Professor." Lu Cheng took the initiative to stand up and pulled out the seat for the other party.
"Hello."
She wears reading glasses and a white lab coat and looks like she has just come out of the lab.
The fifty-seven-year-old professor looks old, and his temperament reminds Lu Cheng of his grandmother who always cooks dumplings for himself when he comes home for the New Year.
"Are you the discoverer of these strange languages?"
After Professor Lin and Ping sat down, they were also observing the young man in front of them.
To be honest, there would be a young man who would come to interview her, and Professor Lin and Ping thought it was quite strange.
This is the highest-level research base, and most of the researchers are over half a hundred years old, but Professor Li reminded her when he first introduced Lu Cheng to her that Lu Cheng's age is not as simple as it seems.
No matter how Professor Lin and Professor Ping looked at each other, they were both young people in their twenties, younger than her son.
"I'm not the discoverer of it, I'm just a learner of it." Lu Cheng responded with a smile on his face and said, "Professor Lin, I hope you have parsed this language. ”
The former sentence used by Lu Cheng is Chinese, but the latter sentence is the lingua franca of another continent.
"I'm well prepared."
Professor Lin and Ping also responded to Lu Cheng with the same lingua franca, and there was not even a trace of flaw in the pronunciation.
"It's a real honor to be a professional, and it's a real honor to have someone like you to help." Lu Cheng didn't expect someone to learn the Otherworldly language so quickly.
"This particular language family is not difficult to learn after mastering the rules, and the language is very well preserved."
She was recommended by Professor Li to study a language she had never seen before, and at first she thought that this language was an ancient script that had been unearthed somewhere, but the more she researched, the more strange it became.
The language sequences provided by Professor Li are not only exceptionally complete, but even the pronunciation is referenced.
Professor Lin and Ping's responsibility is to analyze and systematize it, and then establish a complete learning system.
It means learning the language.
Although Professor Lin Youping is still building a method of learning this language, she has already mastered the language herself.
"I would venture to ask, where exactly was this language found? Are you going to find some alien black boxes? ”
This was a question that Professor Lin had when she was researching, and several of her young assistants even joked that they had found alien messages.
But this language has connections to many of the language families on Earth, especially cuneiform.
"Aliens? It's not an alien, Professor Lin, please take a look at this agreement. ”
Lu Cheng took out an agreement that everyone who went to the other world would sign, and the most important part of the agreement was secrecy, followed by the time of stationing in the other world.
Since a human entering a portal is equivalent to ten tons of supplies, people who travel to other worlds for exploration projects will not often travel back and forth between the two worlds.
"Stay in the SAR for more than a month at most before you can return?"
Professor Lin and Ping had signed a confidentiality agreement before they came, but the special zone mentioned in the agreement still made her very concerned.
But she didn't ask anything more and signed her name on it.
She had already been mentally prepared when she came here for an interview.
"Thank you for your cooperation."
After Lu Cheng withdrew the agreement, he stood up and shook the professor's hand.
"When are you leaving for the SAR?" Professor Lin Youping asked.
"Now."
Lu Cheng gave her a surprised answer, and the next second she stared at her eyes in surprise as she looked at the portal that Lu Cheng summoned on the wall.
Professor Lin Youping felt that she was very old, and she had been to all international academic research conferences, and there was nothing that would surprise her after seeing a lot of knowledge.
But the scene that appeared in front of us is obviously beyond the scope of what can be explained by the current science.
"The SAR we're going to is another world." Lu Cheng made a gesture of invitation to the professor, "Your daily necessities will be sorted out for you later, and the special zone has already arranged housing." ”
The old professor followed Lu Cheng into the portal without saying a word, and she even wiped her reading glasses to make sure she wasn't dazzled.
But what was presented in front of her made her a little unsure if she was in another world.
As far as she could see, there was a dark green tent colony, a common sight in military camps, but the air was so fresh that Professor Lin and Ping thought they had run to the air of the Tibetan Plateau.
This convinced her that she might be in another world, or that someone in the research base had secretly developed the technology for space displacement.
Either way, the old professor could hardly contain her excitement, and the sight in front of her added a big shovel of coal to her curiosity that had burned for years.
"We are currently in a kingdom called Scarlet, and due to the need for energy for teleportation, you only have one assistant who has been allowed to come to the Special District, and he is already waiting for you at your destination." Lu Cheng said to the old professor.
"What is my job? Translate their language? ”
Professor Lin and Ping looked up at the sky, it was afternoon, the sky was cloudy, and it looked like it was going to snow.
"It's one of your jobs, and the other is to build relationships with the local people and, if you have time, teach them our language, but now the work at hand is the registration of the refugees we are taking."
Lu Cheng took the old professor to the outermost area of the camp, where the refugees lived, and there was a tent for registration at the entrance to this area.
"Captain, the registration form and camera have been printed."
Iron Ring came to Lucheng and saluted Lucheng while pointing to a row of tables at the entrance to the tent.
"Let them in, hopefully before the snow gets the registration done."
Lu Cheng arrived at his place of work, with a laptop on top and a printer and a soldier with a camera on the other.
The world's first device to rely on a diesel generator was this printer.