Chapter 52: "The Big Thing"
Ruan Lin shook his head helplessly, what he had to do now was to let the cute leader in front of him say more, accept the daily language of his society, choose the word with the highest frequency from it, and imitate his pronunciation to say it again, so as to show his willingness to communicate.
"I don't understand what you're saying." Ruan Lin pointed to his ears and shook his head.
In front of him, he seemed to have suddenly woken up, and took the initiative to hold Ruan Lin's hand, as if to take him to a certain place.
Ruan Lin did not resist, and let him lead him forward. The creatures on either side voluntarily gave way to a path.
Ten minutes later, he led Ruan Lin to the inland sea, he let go of his hand and pointed to a stone monument by the sea.
The stele is 10 meters long and wide, and is filled with dense text symbols.
He raised his head to look at Ruan Lin, his eyes full of anticipation, and began to rub his two small hands.
Ruan Lin speculated that it might be their text, and casually pointed to a character, his eyes looking at him.
He shook his head and continued to say something.
Ruan Lin pointed to a character once again and continued to look at him.
He still shook his head, a little disappointed.
Ruan Lin took the initiative to pull him aside this time, pointed at himself, and said a few words in his frequently pronounced vocabulary.
He burst out laughing, nodded hurriedly, and pointed at himself.
It was clear that the stele was not made by them, and he did not understand the meaning of it, and he thought that Nguyen Lin, a visitor from heaven, would understand.
Ruan Lin had a great headache at the moment, the civilizations he had encountered before had dictionaries and comparison tables, but there was really no way to encounter this primitive civilization.
He suddenly thought of the interstellar Rosetta Stone message sent by Earth towards the universe in the "Cosmic Call" mission, which could be understood by any species with basic logical abilities.
Nguyen Lam wanted to improve on this, using easy-to-understand hieroglyphs to communicate with them.
For the next two hours, he led Nguyen Lin to visit their residence, where they lived in the surrounding peaks, where they carved caves and lived in groups, with a total population of about 200,000.
This also reminded Ruan Lin of the cave people at the top of the mountain, perhaps they could be called the cave people at the foot of the mountain.
The leader led Nguyen Lin into the cave at the foot of the mountain and pointed to the carved text on the wall, which was very different from the composition of the words on the stone tablet.
Ruan Lin pointed to a character again, and he quickly looked at Ruan Lin and spoke.
"It seems that there is no need to resort to hieroglyphs, they have their own written records." Ruan Lin suddenly smiled dumbly.
For the next half month, Nguyen Lin continued to learn their language until he was able to speak a complete sentence.
"My name is Ruan Lin."
"Oh! You're finally able to say it all, and it seems like you're not that stupid either! ”
Ruan Lin suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, and the leader in front of him seemed to be more venomous.
He continued: "My name is Al, and I am the patriarch! Are you also a patriarch? You look weird! Your ears are so small! ”
This population has a tendency to talk, they are curious about everything.
Ruan Lin looked at him with a smile: "Hmm.. I'm also the patriarch. There are so many strange-looking ones! ”
He was also completely relaxed at the moment, and he hadn't talked face-to-face with intelligent beings for a long time.
"You flew in from the outside, too! I thought you knew what that meant. ”
Al almost had the word disappointment written on his face.
Ruan Lin asked with interest, "Also?" Has anyone ever flown in from the outside before? ”
Al was so excited that he jumped: "Of course! A long time ago, big things like you flew in from outside, and they all smashed underneath, and out of that big thing came a few strange tall guys, oh, they're taller than you! They look a lot stranger than you, but I don't understand what they say with something on their heads, so they pile up a big block of stone there, carve those things and go away, I thought you knew them! ”
Ruan Lin touched his non-existent beard, and he could deduce that a ship of a certain civilization had crashed here after some kind of accident.
Ruan Lin asked rhetorically, "Do you know where those tall guys went?" ”
"Of course! The weird tall ones went back into the big stuff, and then I never saw them again, and we didn't dare go there, it was terrible. ”
Ruan Lin decided to find out, and he stood up: "Al, can you take me to the vicinity of that big thing?" ”
He hesitated a little: "Hmm.. Of course you can, but I won't get anywhere close, I don't dare to look. ”
At this time, half an hour had passed since departure, and Al had taken Nguyen Lin to the foot of a mountain peak in the distance.
He pointed ahead, "It's over there, I'll wait for you here." ”
It's a ship! It smashed a 200-meter-wide cavern at the foot of the mountain, and all around it were the mutilated corpses of the civilization's creatures, and everywhere there was coagulated green blood, which had formed a scene of blood flowing!
"No wonder Al didn't dare to come, they probably had never experienced a war before, and they had never seen anything like it."
Ruan Lin cautiously stepped over the corpses, he wanted to enter the interior of the ship.
The exterior of the ship is so shattered that it's hard to imagine what it looked like when it was alive, but the interior can be seen in full view.
There was a deathly silence all around, except for the crisp sound of Ruan Lin stepping on shards.
He managed to step into the interior of the ship, which was supposed to be the aisle of the ship, with a faint light intermittently flickering above.
With each step forward, a few more corpses appeared, and Ruan Lin was able to see them as they were.
They look exactly like the little gray men in the movie! It has a huge head, eyes about 2.4 times the average human size, hairless, gray skin color, limbs similar to that of humans, and a height of about 3.2 meters.
Several of the corpses were unable to bare before they died, their pupils becoming dilated and losing their light reflexes.
Ruan Lin retracted his gaze, since the rear was not the main control room of the ship, it should be the front.
Thirty seconds later, a circular control room appeared in front of me, but it was already dark, and there was no life light.
Ruan Lin tiptoed into the main control room, and he turned on the night vision devices in his eyes.
In the next second, he felt his left hand being pulled hard.
Ruan Lin looked to the left in a panic, only to see a little gray man lying on the ground staring at him with wide eyes, his pupils dilated rapidly at this moment, and the fingers of his left hand began to spread out one by one, and then used his last strength to compare a "4" to Ruan Lin.
In the second second, the little gray man's pupils dilated to the limit, and the left hand he was about to raise directly lost its support and fell heavily to the floor.