Chapter 38: Pick-up
Wonder Woman, or Princess Diana, was born in a place called "Paradise Island".
The island is inhabited by the Amazons, all of whom are well-built warriors with eternal faces who have lived a peaceful life of isolation, farming, fishing and hunting for thousands of years.
In fact, the earliest Amazon clan can be traced back thousands of years to ancient Greek mythology, and the queen of Hippolyta in its clan is a powerful existence that can compete with the strongest wall-hanging, demigod hero Hercules in history.
The Amazon clan worships Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and is stationed on a paradise island under Gaia's instructions, maintaining a national nature of armament training all year round, and only when a world crisis comes, will they come forward to help humanity.
Princess Diana, on the other hand, is the daughter of Hippolyta, the queen of the clan, who left Paradise Island a hundred years ago to follow a British soldier named Steve Trevor in World War I.
Princess Diana, who has the blood of a god, has an indestructible body, terrifying strength beyond ordinary people, incredible agility, and the training of Amazon warriors on Paradise Island makes her extremely good at hand-to-hand combat.
Not to mention the various magical equipment she possesses, such as the lasso of the truth that must be spoken once entangled, the indestructible silver bracelet of guardianship, the sword shield made by the god of fire Hephaestus, and so on.
Under the protection of many equipment, Diana's World War I journey was no different from an outing, and countless German soldiers were overturned along the way.
But war is always cruel, Princess Diana gradually saw the inferiority of human penchant for cannibalism, especially after Steve's death, Diana, who had no concern, chose to self-exile, incognito, hidden in human society, and watched everything from the sidelines of mortals.
Just like now, Diana, dressed in a Greek dress, turned around, calmly stared at the chryling Chinese youth, and whispered, "Shouldn't it be a gentleman's thing to make noise in a museum, sir." ”
As a demigod, Princess Diana was born with a appearance far beyond the average of human beings, coupled with the heroic temperament given by the education of Amazon warriors, as well as the free and easy detachment cultivated by a hundred years of human life, Diana is like a firefly in the dark night no matter where she stands, bright stars, bright dazzling, always able to attract a lot of wild bees and butterflies.
Those generous disciples who feel good about themselves always use the wealth they have not earned as a pass, and the "noble temperament" brought by elite education as a stepping stone, trying to conquer this perfect woman with the so-called "divinity" like a Greek statue.
Unfortunately, the reality is always cruel, the gap between mortals and demigods is as difficult to cross as the gap between baboons and humans, and if it weren't for the factors of social etiquette, Diana would not even want to pay attention to the frivolous Chinese young man in front of her.
"Hehe, it's my fault."
Leon smiled calmly, raised his chin at the Rosetta Stone that Diana was staring at, and said nonchalantly, "Beauty, do you understand this thing?" ”
Oh, Diana was speechless in her heart, thinking that the other party was a gentleman who did not learn and did not know how to learn, you must know that the Rosetta Stone is one of the three treasures of the British Museum, and it is undoubtedly a world cultural relic.
This black basalt stele is engraved with three texts at the same time: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian cursive, and ancient Greek, and the content of the edict of the ancient Egyptian king Ptolemy V in BC ascended the throne.
After the fourth century AD, the Nile civilization declined, and the reading and writing of Egyptian hieroglyphs gradually disappeared, and it was difficult for later archaeologists to decipher the structure and use of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
It wasn't until 1799 that a French captain excavated the stele, and the three scripts engraved on it at the same time became the best form of comparison, allowing people to deduce the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs with the help of ancient Greek characters.
In this way, archaeologists have succeeded in unraveling the ancient Egyptian civilization buried behind the dust of history, and its historical significance is similar to the rediscovery of the oracle bone inscription on the back of a turtle in China.
The importance of the Rosetta Stone in the history of world archaeology is self-evident, and in the British Museum, the largest comprehensive museum, the superficiality of the Chinese youth who gave the Rosetta Stone evaluation of "this thing" can also be seen.
Diana was speechless in her heart, too lazy to talk more with this shallow hairy boy, just wanted to talk a few words casually and leave, but stopped, smiled slightly, and said indifferently: "I don't understand much, sir, can't you explain it to me?" ”
Li Ang stroked his palm and smiled, "Coincidentally, I also know a little bit about history." ”
Hehe, it's not ashamed.
Princess Diana sneered even more in her heart, she herself was a resident of Paradise Island, she knew ancient Greek writing well, and she had been in the antique dealer business for a hundred years, and she knew how much effort and effort scholars from all over the world had spent to decipher the stone tablets.
A teenager who hasn't even grown a beard dares to call himself "a little bit of a thing? ”
Princess Diana was ready to watch the monkey show, her hands folded in front of her, and a quiet smile with a hint of ignorance and adoration on her face—men could not bear to show their ignorance in front of women, and this inferior attribute of face-saving was rooted in the biological instinct of the desire to reproduce.
Bathed in Princess Diana's evil eyes, Leon pursed his lips and scanned the stone tablet, making a "uh-huh" or two from time to time, putting on a thoughtful expression.
"Hehe, sir, if you're waiting for the guide, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed."
Diana said slowly: "Actually, there is also the original translation of the Rosetta Stone and related introductions on the Internet, if you don't mind, I can look through it myself." ”
Leon pursed his lips and spoke twice as fast as he spoke, indifferently spitting out a series of words that were condescending.
At first, Diana thought that the other party was crazy, and when she heard that she was listening attentively, she was shocked to realize that the other party was reciting the Coptic version of the Rosetta Stone translation.
Coptic, the language spoken by early Christians in Egypt and using the Greek alphabet, played an important role in the translation of the Rosetta Stone by French historian Jean-François Champollion in the early 19th century.
Princess Diana only knew a little about Coptic, and as Leon continued to speak faster, she had difficulty keeping up with the other party's pace.
After reciting the Coptic version of the inscription, Leon took a breath and began to recite the ancient Greek version of the inscription at three times the speed of his speech.
After Diana reacted, she first tried to save face, relying on her advantage of growing up on a paradise island to try to correct the fallacies in the ancient Greek language of the other party - archaeology and linguistics are huge projects that will inevitably be missed.
However, Leon used an extremely strange way of reciting, and every time he read a paragraph, he changed to a dialect of the ancient Greek region, from the Doria dialect to the Piosian dialect, from the Evieu dialect to the Arcadian dialect, and the voice and tense of each dialect completely met the standard, which can be called a textbook translation.
Poor Diana, who had spent countless years of her life on a paradise island, could have understood so many versions of the Greek dialect.
Wonder Woman's mind was already a little spindle, but she saw Leon take another breath, press her palm directly against the tempered glass where the Rosetta Stone was kept, and recite it in a more difficult language.
Diana was puzzled at first, but when she got closer, followed Leon's gaze and intonation, and compared it with the text of the stele, she suddenly realized that the language she was reading was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic language with 30 monophonics, 80 diphthongs, and 50 triphonic characters.
After capturing the mutant Apocalypse, Leon didn't patronize the blood dissection and analyze the principle of the ability, but also discussed some archaeological issues with the apocalypse in his spare time - after all, a thousand-year-old fossil is a perfect historical reference.
The 14 lines of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on the stele are not long, and after Leon finished reading it, he turned around and said with a smile to Diana, "Please forgive me for using such a vulgar way of accosting, esteemed lady demigod."
In fact, the first way I wanted to pick up a conversation was to ask you how many ways to sing vocal music? ”