Chapter 299 At noon, the sun sets and the moon rises (4K two-in-one)
"Vincent knows these languages?"
Norma Gunn thought about these scattered and vague memories of He Meng: "It depends on how you define 'knowledge'. As you said before, with the deepening of the exploration of the abnormal zone, any language and thinking held by the explorer will gradually
Translated into Guchaniz language, they will inexplicably understand the semantics of a very small number of 'basic blocks', but they are scattered, confusing and unsystematic, and the 'basic blocks' with fewer strokes need to form complex 'compound blocks'
, the 'chunks' need to be combined in twos and threes to form words and sentences."
This does not include the fact that it will continue to distort itself, such as the growth and deformation of strokes and the partial reversal of order.
He Meng nodded slightly, and after thinking for a while, he raised the silver cane that could still be seen in the heavenly steps.
"My current memory of the abnormal area and the Guchaniz language is pitiful. I only have some vague feelings, and I clearly remember the semantics of simple 'squares'. Let me think about it, I can probably count them on one hand.
"
As he spoke, a square gap was opened in a mirror in mid-air by his cane.
"The square can mean our mouth."
"Image and simplicity." Oka commented.
He Meng drew a short horizontal line in the middle of the square again: "What do you think this is?"
"A line in the mouth? Is it a tongue? A tooth?"
"No, one of its semantic meanings is 'sun', and there are several other semantic meanings. I can't remember them clearly, but they all seem to have nothing to do with 'mouth'."
"I really didn't find any pattern." Gang looked at the words "口" and "日" drawn in the sky.
He Meng drew another word "door": "It means 'door', the door in reality or the door in Huita. Then, it's gone, and I only remember these three 'basic blocks'."
“It’s quite vivid.”
Then He Meng wrote the word "日" in the middle of "door".
"Then, as soon as I started to combine and change into 'composite blocks,' I couldn't understand it at all."
"The sun in the door?" Gang stared at the word "Jian", "It feels a bit mystical."
He Meng shook his head: "I have forgotten all its meanings. I only vaguely remember that they are very abstract and have nothing to do with the 'sun in the door'. Moreover, this is just a very simple 'composite block'."
As he spoke, he added a few more strokes on it, turning it into a crooked word "Jian".
"For example, I remember that it seems that it can continue to be combined and become this 'composite block', and the meaning has changed completely irregularly."
"Even exhausting the meaning of these 'compound blocks' is an impossible task, and this has not even begun to arrange the 'blocks and blocks'! At this point in the discussion, even the 'words' in our language
'It's not even comparable. Most of our words need to be arranged in two 'blocks' to be reflected, let alone a sentence carrying complex information."
"It's really confusing." Norma Gunn stared at the characters on the steps. "It's structurally confusing. Our human language is obviously made up of letters and words. So, even if Vincent is
A small amount of the semantics of 'basic blocks' can be understood in the abnormal area, but the degree of 'effective reading' is still far away."
Let’s think that the abnormal area is a channel for “learning” the semantics of Guchaniz language.
Even the only original channel, the earliest sporadic research and text transcriptions of this language among ancient scholars were brought out of the aberration zone.
But it is obvious that the "learning" efficiency is completely out of proportion to the degree of danger.
If nothing else, for knowledgeable people to learn ancient languages, it is something that requires great rationality. However, after entering a place like this, one's entire consciousness and cognition are in a trance, and there are very few meaningful revelations that can be obtained.
.
"This is an exaggerated description." He Meng said, "We have no reason to think that anyone can fully understand the Guchaniz language, but there is no other explanation for Vincent's subsequent weird behavior."
"for example?"
"You know the principles for recruiting team members when we set up the abnormal area investigation team, right?"
"Mainly those who violate the ban will be imprisoned for life or about to be shot." Gang nodded.
It is true that if you retreat before the limit of sleepiness is reached, you will have a higher chance of returning intact, but after just a few dozen hours of trying, what can you do?
In He Meng's memory, the outermost edge of the abnormal area actually looks little different from the normal area. The deeper it goes, the more beautiful and terrifying it becomes.
The Abnormal Zone has spread for at least thousands of years, and many ancient ruins have been sleeping in the depths. If you want to bring out the dusty secret history, ritual vessels, extraordinary materials or other occult documents, or even learn the secrets of higher levels, you need at least
After exploring inside for more than a month, sleep is inevitable. The Special Patrol Office has also explored some auxiliary methods to retain the will to fight and reduce cognitive damage.
But no matter what, the probability of being stuck in this kind of high-intensity in-depth exploration is extremely high.
The spiritual willpower of the ignorant is almost completely destined to death. Even the knowledgeable, according to the statistics of the discussion group, only have a survival rate ranging from 3-15% from low level to high level.
Only those who know how to survive are qualified to say that they can "barely survive". In fact, there are also a lot of those who have been left inside in the past hundred years.
The Special Inspection Office will not take the initiative to send carefully trained investigators to die. Even if they are voluntary, they must be approved. Some people in their later years will apply with the mentality of "seeking knowledge before they are destined to die".
Therefore, in addition, most of the team members are prisoners who have been sentenced to life imprisonment or are about to be shot.
"It's a matter of narrow escape." Gang commented.
"That's it. How many people want to go but there is no way." He Meng smiled gloomily.
If you don't go, you will be useless. If you go, if you perform meritorious service, you will have a chance to live under the sun again.
However, the Special Patrol Office does not want anyone who violates the ban. Generally speaking, those who are at least high-ranking or have other special abilities and are deemed suitable after evaluation will not be evaluated. This kind of action will be a burden or unnecessary
Stability factor.
There will not be too many banned persons who meet these conditions, and of course, the number of investigations will also be very few.
"That time, we had three Insighters leading the team, but how many team members were there? Were all of them offenders? Or were there also a few of our fellow investigators? I can't remember clearly. What is recorded in the headquarters file is
3+12 people, but”
"I have lived for nearly a hundred years, and the Special Inspection Office is everything to me. I remember all the past here vividly, but I always feel that the operation more than 20 years ago is not worthy of the number of files.
, not only the names and faces of the team members don’t match up, but also the ratio of men to women and the number of heads, I think most of them don’t match up.”
He Meng spoke slowly while thinking, but his words were always filled with a large number of adverbs expressing uncertainty:
"At that time, our number of people should have been reduced. Deep in the area where there seemed to be a lighthouse-like thing, we were collecting data and samples while analyzing the information at hand and carefully formulating an exploration plan. Because there were unknown unknowns ahead.
It is dangerous. We follow our consistent strategy and order those who violate the ban to try to find a way out. This is the awareness they should have."
"At this moment, Vincent, who had just finished reading the surrounding text carriers not long ago, put forward fierce objections. He did not agree with the captain's choice of a female offender to go into danger, and
Protected her resolutely."
"The vice-captain has a certain right to speak. The captain was very surprised, but still asked him to give a reason. Vincent gave several explanations. I don't remember what he said at the beginning, but he didn't seem to be able to convince the captain.
It didn’t convince me, we all felt that he was just making it up.”
"Mainly because the female offender was a stranger to him. This was something that everyone, including him, knew clearly before departure. The area where she was previously imprisoned was completely different from the imperial capital where Vincent worked. If it hadn't been for this
The bank happened to be assigned to a group, and the two parties would not have any intersection at all. Such a precondition meant that even if he deliberately made up an excuse, and even if the woman took the opportunity to deliberately cooperate to avoid danger, there would be no reasonable excuse or performance.
space. In the end, Vincent simply said that he suddenly fell in love with her. Although this was also very outrageous, it was better than the completely irrelevant explanations before. Of course, the final result was still a quarrel."
"Pollution comes in all kinds of forms, such as pollution in the form of 'surge of love', which I have even seen projected onto non-kind bodies, not to mention the unknown effects from the mysterious Guchaniz language." Norma Gonn
After hearing this, I expressed my opinions calmly.
It was obvious to her that if that was all, it wouldn't be surprising.
"From my personal point of view, although Vincent's behavior is weird, in such an extremely special and extremely dangerous abnormal zone operation, for the sake of the overall situation and the preservation of strength, it can be temporarily compromised. Colleagues
If there are any problems between us, we will settle accounts later, and if there is any pollution, we will try to help solve them."
"You are right." He Meng nodded, "Although in that environment, several of us were groggy and anxious and grumpy, but we still tried our best to endure it. The captain temporarily replaced the pathfinder.
The quarrel didn't break out further, but the atmosphere became more tense and began to be a little suspicious of him."
"But in the next day or two of the operation, Vincent not only took good care of her all the way, but also showed more and more weird behaviors. He became very self-righteous, always deviating from the operation plan, choosing to explore on his own, and doing
Make some small moves that seem serious but inexplicable."
"Imagine a scene similar to this: You are exploring an unknown ruins that have been dusty for thousands of years. Everyone is carefully interpreting the incomprehensible words and symbols and walking on thin ice. But there is a team member who has since seen
After writing certain words, he would stand in a specific position and talk in a daze, turn something like a mechanism up and down three times and five times, and then wander off for dozens of minutes to several hours before returning to the team.
It feels like you are in a familiar back garden or club, how would you interpret it?"
"Suffering from a rare form of pollution, or a 'martyr' with idiosyncratic pursuits." Gang tried to list the possibilities, "But this change was too sudden, and his behavior did not look like he was completely crazy. I
Indeed, one can't help but think that he really suddenly understood some secret, and it is a secret with stakes."
"So you know why I said, it's like he 'knows those words'." He Meng said.
It is true that pollution is strange in many ways, but if it is strange to a certain extent, understanding it this way will make your own logic more acceptable.
"Bigger accusations and quarrels emerged, and this time we took action."
"In the 'Cocoon' phase climbing path at that time, the position of the 'Gate of Seven Lights' that I had passed through had not yet shifted, and before taking action, I passed through the 'Skinned Gate' higher above it.
, was promoted to the second level of Xiaoxiao. The captain at that time was Colin Davis, a strong man who was loyal to his leader and had been in the third level of Xiaoxiao for many years. He was also the father of the current Inspector Owen Davis.
We always thought that Vincent was the first level of the Deep Dawn, but then you also found out. Unexpectedly, he actually hid his strength. He is also the third level of the Deep Dawn! Moreover, the methods of the 'fractal master' are very difficult to deal with, and the two of us worked together to defeat him.
He was suppressed!!"
"In everyone's already anxious and dazed spiritual state, the two sides struck hard this time. Not only were they attacking each other to kill, but they also used the secret technique of chengyu to cause substantial damage to each other.
, Captain Colin was even seriously injured."
"Fortunately, Vincent's essential motivation was not hatred of life and death. He finally stopped fighting until the end, but the final outcome is self-evident -"
"The investigation team was disbanded and everyone separated in the lighthouse area."
"We encountered a series of strange things during the retreat. All other team members died. Captain Colin and I escaped. However, it may be because the captain left a pollution hazard after being seriously injured and could not resist.
The gnosis infected the will, and unfortunately he was 'lost' after three years."
"From that point on, it can be considered that I am the only survivor."
"The leader was very sad when he heard the news. The two inspector generals, Colin, was originally a genius who had great hope of being promoted to the 'Enforcer', and Vincent was originally an 'unexpected surprise' for Xiao Xiaosan, but both ended up like this.
An accident.”
"And in the ten or twenty years since then, I have never seen Vincent and the woman again. In addition, it was obvious that his mental state was not normal at the time. We once thought that after they separated at that time, they should finally
Couldn't get out of B-105's abnormal zone."
"But now we know belatedly that he actually came out and immediately married the woman and had a child. It's just that the woman, like Captain Colin, may have been in the third place due to the contamination of the abnormal zone.
He died of illness a few years later."
"This was a result that was gradually deduced during the investigation until four or five years ago. Who knew that just when the identity was locked to the last batch of suspicious objects, Vincent really disappeared again. So, what happened to him that year?
What happened? Did he lose his mind due to pollution, or did he really learn the Guchaniz language and know some secrets? What did he do in the lighthouse area when he was away from the team. Various mysteries remain.
It's an unsolved case, and we can only hope that it can be solved in the future from Carolne Van Ning."
Norma Gunn thought carefully while listening, and then asked aloud: "So, what was your original purpose of entering the B-105 abnormal area to investigate?"
"That prophecy," He Meng said, "originally was due to the leader's instructions that there might be an important prophecy in this area, and we were asked to search for the revelation."
"At noon, the sun sets and the moon rises?" Gang confirmed.
"Yes, this is the valuable result we brought back that year, but the interpretation method has been limited so far. We also suspected that if Vincent knew more, he might make relevant hints to Carolyn at the Turner Art Museum.
"
"In this way, if we try to explore the detailed interpretation of the prophecy, I'm afraid we will really re-explore the B-105 abnormality area."
"Not only that." He Meng shook his head, "I'm afraid this place has more secrets than we thought. The leader reported based on our memories, the messy items and information we brought out, and combined with his latest information in recent years.
After studying the situation, he also believed that there might be a key buried in this place. He even deduced that if Vincent really learned any secret, it would be either the interpretation of the prophecy, the key, or both.
have."
"Key?" Gang was a little confused, "If you put it in ordinary terms, it can be regarded as one of the high-level extraordinary resources, but for a leader who has passed through the sixth level of 'Jhin', the 'Gate of Annihilation', it will also
What other climbing paths are there for the keys that are of interest?"
"If it was an ordinary key, how could Mr. Pogorelic be so concerned about it?"
He Meng smiled calmly when he heard this.
"The leader believes that this may be a key to the 'Dome Door'."