The next day, Sunday, because of difficulties in translation, Meng Xuan did not choose to go to the library, but went directly to the Internet café.

Open a temporary card, turn on the computer, enter the card number, open the chat tool, enter the new network number to log in, and a set of operations will be smooth.

Tick tick!

As soon as the new network number was logged in, there was a piercing ticking sound, and Meng Xuan looked at it and was pleasantly surprised to find that a netizen named "Where did you come from" applied to add his own network number.

Meng Xuan passed the other party's friend application and looked at the other party's avatar, the other party's avatar was a big dog with glasses that looked like a dog, and it was in a shining state at this time, indicating that the other party was now on the line.

Meng Xuan lowered his head and groaned for a while, relying on his decades of experience in online pick-up in his previous life, he chose the appropriate sentence in his mind and sent the other party an opening statement:

"Hello, are you there?"

Perhaps because of the proper opening remarks, Meng Xuan quickly got a reply from the other party: "Yes, you are also a lover of the mysterious civilization of Ancient Nelson?" ”

"Yes, I am very interested in this research, and now I am studying the corresponding knowledge on my own, I have read a lot of your posts, and I think your posts are amazing, and I have encountered a lot of problems in self-study, so I hope to communicate with you more, I hope you can help me solve some confusion, for which I am willing to pay a certain reward."

Meng Xuan explained his purpose straight to the point.

"You are too polite, just communicate with each other, in the field of ancient Nelson civilization, no one dares to say that they are authorities, we are all gropers and explorers, for tens of thousands of years, the secrets of ancient Nelson civilization have been drowned in historical time, their splendid civilization, their magnificent culture full of mysteries, is now not known, even the name Nelson, now few people are known, it is my honor to make more people interested in discovering, exploring, and feeling the charm of the ancient Nelson civilization, how can I talk about remuneration?"

What surprised Meng Xuan was that "Where did it come from" actually rejected his offer to pay him.

Meng Xuan was prepared for heavy bleeding beforehand.

After all, the study of ancient civilizations in Nelson's family was so out of the question, it was very difficult to find a master, so even if it cost Meng Xuan a lot of money, he had to determine the steps of the blood source ritual, and he couldn't delay it again and again.

Is the ideological consciousness of the current researchers of ancient civilizations so high·····

Meng Xuan sighed in his heart, the other party was unexpectedly easy to speak, but it saved him a lot of effort.

So, the two began to chat.

After casually chatting a few legends and stories about Nelson's civilization, the other party quickly got back to the topic: "What troubles did you encounter in the process of self-study?" ”

"That's right, after reading your speculation post about Nelson's writing, I have a strong interest in the writing system of Nelson's derivative civilization, and I am currently studying the writing system of several Nelson-derived civilizations such as Hiltu, Zangueli, and Sears, and trying to translate the ancient books of related civilizations."

"But I encountered problems during the translation, some characters have multiple meanings, and different literal evolutions may bring completely different results to the translated content, so I am very confused, I don't know how to accurately determine the meaning of the words, for example, when translating a sentence, I encountered ······"

Meng Xuan told the other party about the problem he was facing at this time, and searched the Internet to find the picture of the ancient Chinese characters with two different meanings: "jump" and "cross", and sent it to the other party.

"In fact, the main thing in translation is the cohesion of the context, the meaning of the overall text in the context of the whole article, and I can't accurately translate the meaning of the simple character, but for this character, I can explain it to you a little.

The main meaning of this character should be 'cross', and 'jump' should be a derivative meaning that evolved later. ”

After a while, the other party's glasses dog head vibrated and sent a reply.

"Why is the main meaning 'cross' and not 'jump'? On what basis is the judgment made? ”

Meng Xuan was curious about this and humbly asked.

In fact, the basis for this judgment is very simple. When this character was discovered in archaeology, it mostly appeared in places related to sacrificial prayer ceremonies, or in inscriptions or historical records that recorded sacrificial prayers. ”

"After archaeological investigation and research, it has been found that there is a common activity in the sacrificial prayer rituals of the ancient Nelson lineage, that is, the relevant personnel involved in the sacrifice will join hands and cross the burning bonfire in turn, preferably with the body in contact with the flames, so as to dispel the negative information representing evil, darkness, disease, and death in the body, and bring light and good luck to themselves."

"This traditional activity can still be seen in Xizhou people's weddings, sacrifices, gatherings and other ceremonies, so the academic community generally believes that the original meaning of this character should be 'cross', and 'jump' should be the derivative meaning after the gradual slight changes in the ceremony·······

"Where did it come from" patiently explained to Meng Xuan in detail the origin of the judgment on the original meaning of this character.

It's not easy!

Meng Xuan thought to himself, although "where did it come from" be easy to say, Meng Xuan knew how extensive knowledge it contained.

If you are not a researcher who specializes in this field, who can have such a wide range of knowledge to know this.

Since it is related to rituals, the meaning expressed by this character should be its main meaning "cross".

After that, Meng Xuan asked the other party about several other questions in the translation of the ritual steps, and he received very satisfactory answers.

I've found the great god!

Meng Xuan was overjoyed in his heart, and chatted with the other party about the topic of Gu Nelson's writing, hoping to get more information that he didn't know.

"In fact, in the process of studying the Nelson lineage of civilization writings, I found a lot of interesting things.

For example, by comparison, I found that some of the scripts in different derivative civilizations were very similar in structure, but very different in meaning.

After in-depth research, I found that although the meanings of these words seem to be different, they all have their reasonable literal evolutionary contexts, and the literal meanings of different derivative civilizations are different.

From this, I suspect that these characters, which are very similar but have different meanings, are likely to have the same exact meaning in the first place, and that they are probably the original Nelson script.

Based on some historical sources and legends, I suspect that Nelson's writing system must have been very large and complex.

Their text is like a delicate mechanical component, and the complex structure of the font means that they can evolve a myriad of different characters.

It is quite possible that in Nelson's writing, the meaning of each word is determined, there is no such thing as derivation, and there are probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of different characters in their writing system! ”

"Where did it come from?" and Meng Xuan recounted their guesses about Nelson's writing.