After hearing the time signal of this timing computer, Leo couldn't help but be stunned, because if this timing computer was not adjusted, subtracting the time when the spaceship disappeared according to this time, then the remaining 430,000 years of time would probably be the time from the spaceship falling to the Black Forest to the present.

And there is a big gap between this time and the time of the Earth Federation in Leo's memory, and this gap is as much as 300,000 years.

You must know that in the era of the Earth Federation where Leo is located, it is only more than 100,000 years since the battle of the end of the old earth, which is obviously inconsistent with the count of more than 300,000 years, and this situation will occur, either the speed of time here in the Black Forest is different from the universe where the Earth Federation is located, or more than 300,000 years have passed since he died and then woke up from his current body.

Leo couldn't figure out what caused this time dislocation, but he just thought that maybe the time gap was longer than the 300,000 years he knew now, and that the current Prometheus timing computer was just the tip of the iceberg.

"What was that voice talking about?" Sylvia asked, sensing Leo's unusual look when he heard the time.

"It was just chiming. Leo explained, then repeated the time number in French.

"More than 400,000 years?" Sylvia couldn't help but show a shocked look when she heard this number, you must know that the historical records of the Veron world, aside from the mythical history propagated by various churches, are only records for thousands of years, and more than 400,000 years is already a very large number in Sylvia's eyes.

"Can you understand Qulency?" Suddenly, a voice interjected into the conversation between the two.

The two turned their heads to look at the place where the voice came from, and saw that the other party was a humanoid, his body was much taller than ordinary people, with four arms, and the facial features on his face were similar to those of people, except that the eyes were not horizontal, but vertical.

Lanxi is different from other places in the Black Forest, other places are based on the mutation of the clan after the stimulation of power into beauty, the more dehumanized the mutation, the more respected by ordinary people, but in Lanxi, it is completely in the form of normal human beings as beauty, but those who come from different gods and beliefs do not have a very high status in Lanxi.

However, the humanoid who is now speaking is obviously an exception, as this humanoid wears a high-level bachelor's uniform and wears a string of metal plates of the bachelor's certificate around his neck.

Both Leo and Sylvia had learned a little about the status class and political system in the city from the pamphlets they had received when they entered the city, and the city was divided into two main ruling classes, one was a bachelor and the other was a sergeant, one was in charge of politics and the other was in charge of the military.

There are a total of thirty levels of bachelors, and each level must have a corresponding qualification of the bachelor to be able to bear, and this qualification is called the metal plate of the certificate, only the bachelor who has passed the corresponding certificate subject completion examination is eligible to obtain a certificate, and the more certificates on his body, the higher his status in Lanxi.

Now there are about twenty pieces of academic certificates hanging around the neck of this type of person, such a number means that the status of this type of person in Lanxi is extremely high, almost the same as the consul of a city district, and the only factor that restricts him from becoming an archon of Lanxi is that he is not a native of Lanxi.

After looking at this humanoid for a while, Sylvia did a good job of hiding her curious gaze, and then asked the other party in a somewhat lame local language, "Do you understand what we just said?"

Leo and Sylvia were talking in modern Franic, and it stands to reason that no one would be able to understand Lanxi.

"Of course you can understand it, the language you use is somewhat similar to the language of Qiao Sen Lingmoya Town, but the accent is slightly different," the humanoid replied naturally, "I have lived in Moya Town for a while, and I have learned the local language, as long as I don't speak something too complicated, I can basically understand it." Then he asked, "Do you know the Qulency?" I just heard you talk about more than 400,000 years. ”

"Can't you understand the language spoken by that voice just now?" Leo looked at the other party and said with his own doubts, but said with a slight doubt: "But if you can't understand the language just now, how do you know that what we said about more than 400,000 years is what the voice just said?"

"I don't understand the Qulency, but the voice has deciphered part of what the voice said just now, and that part mentions four hundred thousand, years, etc. The humanoid explained, and then introduced himself: "I'm Kakalu, a scholar from the Academy of Ancient Languages. ”

Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other and introduced themselves, only to describe themselves as travelers.

Kakaru knew very well that the identity of the traveler that Leo and Sylvia were talking about might not be true, but he didn't care about that, and he cared more about whether Leo really knew the Qulency language.

"You know the Qulency language, don't you?" asked Kakaru eagerly.

Leo was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "I know a little. ”

Since Leo didn't know if the Qulency language spoken by Kakalu was the language of a country on the Old Earth, he didn't speak too slowly.

"I would like to hire Your Excellency to help me translate an ancient book written in the Qulency. When Kakaru heard Leo's words, he immediately showed a happy look on his face, and made his request, adding, "Of course the translator will be paid......"

"Your Excellency Kakalu, you're messing around here again!" Just as Kakalu offered to pay him, a middle-aged man dressed in a special bachelor's costume walked over and stopped Kakalu's behavior.

The middle-aged man didn't wear any academic credentials around his neck, but the bow tie and cuffs of his clothes had a few more glowing edges than normal bachelor's clothing, which represented his special status in the bachelor's class.

"Master Belluk, why are you here?" Kakaru immediately became a little nervous when he saw the middle-aged man appear, and then asked suspiciously, "Are you following me?"

The middle-aged man glared at the other party with some annoyance, and said, "Your Excellency Kakalu, you are thinking too much! If the Bachelor really wants to punish you, there is no need to follow you and find your fault, just the fact that you took the Lanxi Ancient Book out of the First Stackhouse without authorization is enough to cancel all your permissions." ”

When Kakaru heard the middle-aged man's words, a look of embarrassment immediately appeared on his face, obviously ashamed of his wrong idea just now.

The middle-aged man continued to reprimand: "Although there have been several serious conflicts and deterioration between Your Excellency's realm and the realm of the Mother of Filth, our Lanxi has always maintained neutrality, and will never exclude or suppress the foreign scholars within Lanxi because of external affairs, and the rights and obligations enjoyed by foreign scholars and local scholars are equal. ”

"I know it's wrong. Kakaru bowed his head and confessed.

Leo and Sylvia, who were standing on the side, looked at the two of them with some novelty, the middle-aged bachelor was obviously just an ordinary person, but the energy fluctuations emanating from that Kakaru showed that he had at least the strength of a third-level psionic person, and such a strong man with great strength and life form was like a child being taught by an ordinary person, which made people feel an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

After reprimanding Kakalu, the middle-aged bachelor turned his head to look at Leo and Sylvia, and said, "Please don't take what happened just now, Your Excellency Kakalu is too concerned about the translation of ancient books, so he will invite the two of them indiscriminately......"

Hearing the middle-aged bachelor's words, Kakaru hurriedly interjected and said, "Wait, Bachelor Belluk, I didn't invite indiscriminately, this Mr. Leo knows the ancient Lanxi language, and he can help us complete the ......"

Before Kakalu could finish speaking, the middle-aged bachelor interrupted Kakalu's words and said with great seriousness: "Your Excellency Kakalu, you should know very well that in order to be able to translate that ancient book, the entire Bachelor's Association has sent seventy advanced scholars of the Qulency language, and each of them has a higher knowledge of the ancient language than you, and they have never made any progress in translating that ancient book, why do you think that a random foreigner you meet on the side of the road can translate that ancient book?" As he spoke, he turned to Leo and Sylvia with a slight apology, and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to target the two of you. ”

Leo and Sylvia smiled and didn't say anything.

Kakalu was now completely irrefutable by the middle-aged bachelors, because if he refuted, it would be equivalent to saying that there was something wrong with the knowledge of the seventy advanced scholars of the ancient Lanxi language, and offending the seventy higher scholars at once in Lanxi, even if Kakalu was bold, he would not dare to do so, let alone his teacher among the seventy higher scholars.

Seeing that Kakaru had no intention of refutating, the middle-aged bachelor's expression also softened, and he said in a deep voice: "I remember that Your Excellency Kakalu still has three jobs to be completed on your hands, and these three jobs should have been completed two full moon years ago, and they have been delayed until now, which has delayed the follow-up work. If you're okay, go back to your studio and do what you need to do, and don't worry about other things you shouldn't be worried about. ”

The other party's words had already reached this level, and Kakaru knew that he was at a loss, so he didn't argue, let alone stay here any longer, and said sorry to Leo and Sylvia, and left in a hurry with his head down.

After Kakalu left, the middle-aged bachelor didn't stay any longer and turned to leave.

As the two of them left, Sylvia couldn't help but smile and said, "What are we? Stage props? Those two people came to us specifically to perform." ”

Leo was also a little speechless about the behavior of the two scholars, but after smiling, he added, "I'm a little interested in the ancient book of Lanxi that they mentioned. ”

Sylvia looked at Leo in bewilderment.

Leo explained carefully: "Although the text here is different from the Flange, the core grammar and the writing of most of the words are still similar, and only need to compare them repeatedly, you can smoothly translate the articles written in the two languages, and if the ancient Lanxi language is the source of the current Lanxi language and the French language, then the core content is also the same, and you can also find out the mutual translation rules of the two languages through comparison." But the current situation is that seventy advanced scholars in the ancient language are helpless against that ancient book, and from the words of the middle-aged bachelor just now, it is not difficult to hear that the translation of the ancient book has not made any progress at all, which obviously does not conform to the translation rules of the same language, so the language used in that ancient book is ......"

Sylvia understood what Leo meant, and interjected: "It's probably not Quranxi, it's another language that is very similar to Gulanxi, but it's completely different, so those higher scholars will take the language in the ancient books as Gulanxi, and then translate it in the direction of Gulanxi's grammar, in fact, they found the wrong direction from the beginning." ”

"Yes. Leo nodded.

Sylvia asked, "Even if it's an ancient book written in a different language, what is there to interest you, just because you can learn more about one language?"

"Of course not, I'm interested in what's inside. Leo replied briefly, without elaborating in detail, then closed his mouth and walked with Sylvia towards a shop that sold all kinds of miscellaneous goods.

Leo didn't explain because he didn't know what was in the book at the moment, but he thought it was probably the private diary of a crew member of the Prometheus.

Both in the Old Earth Age and in the later Earth Federation, there are some specific rules and regulations, and all official documents must be written in the same language for easy reading, so there will be no official documents written in another language on any spacecraft except for private diaries.

Compared to those official documents composed of formulaic formats, a private diary can reveal more information.

However, judging from the attitude of the two scholars, the Lanxi ancient book seems to be very valued by them, and even sent so many senior bachelors to decipher the Chinese characters of the book, which shows that the author of this ancient book or the content of this ancient book has extraordinary significance to them.

Such an item of special significance will naturally not be easily accessed, nor will it be placed in the library at random, and there will definitely be a large number of guards.

In Leo's opinion, there are only two ways to see that ancient book, one is to sneak into the big library, find the ancient book, steal it out and read it, and then return it. This method is cumbersome and takes a lot of time to prepare, and if something goes wrong, it may cause unnecessary disputes.

The second way is the sign that Leo now sees on the sign outside the grocery store.

"Are you going to get a bachelor's degree here?" Sylvia asked as she saw Leo standing on the sign and looking at it for a long time.

Leo smiled and said, "It won't waste much of our time, will it?"