Chapter 62 God and Language

  "What's going on? Grandma, I've only been gone for a few days and the master of this place has changed? This is too fast, or did something go wrong within the Kuroiwa clan?"

  His head spun with a few circles, Chen Xu held his breath, which was already light, thoroughly still, like a lifeless corpse, quietly lurking under the rocks, observing the strange situation in the Black Rock Territory.

  At this time, the night was already deep, and the group of people in the Black Rock Territory had also eaten their fill. At this moment, they were all lying down by the bonfire, looking at the cave that originally belonged to the leader of the Black Rock with a somewhat playful gaze.

  After a while, several apemen shouted and walked out, and a team of apathetic apemen were taken out of the cave. Their bodies were very strong, but perhaps they had not eaten for a long time. Each pair of eyes showed endless confusion and dullness, as if they had all become idiots.

  Sitting among the robust apes was an ape-man wearing a cloak of unknown feathers. At this moment, he was constantly taking over the ceramic bowls from other apes and gulping down the thick soup inside. His blood basin-like mouth seemed like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much he filled it, it seemed impossible to fill it up.

  However, the other powerful apemen did not dare to express any grievances, and they all served this bird feathered ape with great respect, waiting on him as he enjoyed his dessert after dinner.

  Although they were eager to taste the delicious thick soup in their hearts, they didn't dare to be slow on the surface.

  It was only in an unguarded moment that they left a trail of saliva at the corner of their mouth, revealing their true feelings.

  "What a high prestige, it seems that this little guy should be the leader of these apes. Is this another ape from a distant tribe? They saw that the defense of the Black Rock Tribe was empty and the warriors inside had disappeared by more than half, so they took advantage of the fire to plunder and captured the entire Black Rock Tribe?"

  With a stir in his heart, Chen Xu clung to the rock crevice, pressing his body tightly against the steep cliff that was as tall as a person. He seemed like an armadillo, and at this moment, he completely blended into the surroundings. Unless someone passed by him, no one would believe that there could be a hidden ape-man in such a place.

  The performance of the ape-like man with bird feathers completely fell into Chen Xu's eyes, and he quickly made his own judgment based on this situation.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, after those seemingly elite Black Rock Apes were brought out, this Bird Feather Ape finally stopped its incessant swallowing motion, and with great interest, tossed the ceramic bowl in its hand, allowing the remaining thick soup to flow onto its body, seeping into its fur.

  "Where did this exquisite thing come from? And where has our great Blackrock leader gone? Was it eaten by the Jungle Overlord?"

  The suspiciously spinning pottery bowl, the Bird Feather Ape Man lifted up one of the somewhat thin apes with a single hand, speaking fluently in Ape language, saying "Great Black Rock Second Leader, could it be that until now, you still don't want to answer my question?"

  "According to the rules of the jungle, your Black Rock Tribe is now a part of my Bird Mountain Tribe. Do you know what will happen if someone in the tribe resists the leader?"

  "Tell me where the Black Rock leader has gone, is he searching for the origin of these wonderful vessels? Don't try to deceive me, or you know what price you will pay!"

  A string of sounds like a machine gun rang out, and in this dark jungle night, it was so obvious. Between the trembling bonfires, Chen Xuan seemed to have returned to his later years, listening to foreign language listening exercises in class.

  Chen Xu looked at this situation with some confusion, seemingly unable to accept it for a while.

  Although he had long suspected that the Ape language might be a branch of an advanced linguistic system, seeing its expressive power today still left him with a trembling heart.

  He dares to take human heads as guarantees, the ape language used by this bird-ape man is already very close to the linguistic system of later generations, and the application of words in it is extremely pure, which is not comparable to those half-baked apes before.

  In the midst of his thoughts, Chen Xuan suddenly remembered a story from the Bible about how people originally spoke one language, but God, in order to prevent humans from developing too quickly and threatening His authority, divided human language into many parts.

  Then people's communication became a problem and they could no longer work together in harmony, and the threat to God also disappeared.

  The original meaning of this story was that language is the greatest obstacle to human communication, but at this moment Chen Xu thought it contained so many different flavors, making his heart constantly flutter and his scalp numb.

  Who is this legendary God? Whose language was the original language? All of this, if connected to those inherited crystals and the shackles of the Industrial Revolution, seems to lead to a very terrifying conclusion.

  Thinking about the prophecies of great disasters that have been circulating in the human world for years, thinking about the records of great floods all over the world, thinking about the so-called Noah's Ark, Chen Xu felt a bitter taste in his heart.

  "My goodness! This ape language shouldn't be a simplified version of the Galactic Common Language, right? It's like Japanese to Chinese or Korean to Chinese?"

  He pinched his thigh hard, Chen Xu couldn't help but take a cold breath in his heart. Although the existence of the transmission crystal and chain had previously led him to subconsciously speculate about the existence of aliens.

  But now he really saw the so-called ape language that can express so many meanings, and he still couldn't accept it.

  The conversation in front of him continued, and did not stop because of Chen Xu's astonishment. The bird-like man was unlike Chen Xu and his friends; when he spoke, he rarely used gestures, mostly using overlapping tones to express various complex meanings.

  Chen Xu could clearly discover that although the Black Rock Apes couldn't pronounce these overlapping tones, they were roughly able to understand them.

  At this point, even if he didn't believe it in his heart, he had to admit that this world was a bit unusual. To form a systematic language with the wisdom of apes is simply more difficult than ascending to heaven. By extension, where did these linguistic apes come from?

  Straining his ears, he listened with the spirit of a sixth-level listener, concentrating on the pronunciation of the bird-like man, and Chen Xiang vaguely understood his general meaning.

  This doesn't mean that his knowledge is particularly good, it's just that although this ape can express its own meaning through vocalizations, the vocabulary isn't very large. In other words, these words were learned from other apes in previous life, Chen Xu had simply never been able to combine them before.

  It's just like someone who has studied English in China for many days suddenly comes to the United States, and the vocabulary is not much different from that of Americans, but there are big problems with listening and speaking, which is a characteristic of mute language.

  While Chen Xu was trying his best to eavesdrop, the Bird Feathered Ape also roughly told his plan. The second leader of the Black Rock Ape Tribe, who had not eaten for several days, under the double pressure of meat soup and big sticks, naturally abandoned his dignity and obediently confessed, revealing the whereabouts of the Black Rock Leader, and naturally, he completely betrayed the Fire God Tribe.

  "A tribe with magical utensils? A well-preserved small hidden tribe? Those are two inheritance crystals!"

  Gently stroking the smooth surface of the ceramic wall, Bird Feather Ape Man waved his large hand and ordered his subordinates to bring some food for these starving apes. His eyes gleamed with a hint of brightness, just like Black Rock Leader, seeing an excellent opportunity for a tribe to rise.

  Although he seemed to be in a good position at this time, his so-called Bird Mountain tribe was actually similar to the Black Rock tribe. He had come on this trip to trade with the Black Rock tribe, and the traditional trading between the two tribes had been going on for a long time and could have continued.

  The Blackrock tribe was suddenly empty, and the bird ape man saw those lovely pottery, so he changed the transaction to robbery in an instant, and easily solved the Blackrock tribe that had lost half of its combat power, successfully annexing this place.

  However, even with such success, he did not forget the strength of his original tribe, and compared to those powerful tribes around him, even if he annexed the Blackrock clan, it was nothing to be proud of.

  After this, still have to survive in the gap of this jungle.

  He still has a long way to go to gain enough discourse power in this territory, but the emergence of pottery gives him an opportunity to rise rapidly. Like the leader of the dark night, he also sees the opportunities hidden inside, an opportunity for rapid rise using pottery.

  "Good grief, are all tribal leaders with golden crystals this clever?"

  Chen Xu, who was quietly observing from the side, saw the bird-ape's expression clearly and quickly understood his thoughts with his two lifetimes of experience as a human. He couldn't help but let out a faint sigh in his heart, feeling somewhat resentful that his unique patent from the Stone Age had been stolen by someone else.

  "Damn it, I won't meet a smarter caveman than me again!"

  "Never mind, although there are still ape warriors hiding in the dark in this tribe, but from the ones in the bright place, we can roughly infer their number. Counting them, having a hundred is already considered top-notch. They know about my Fire God Tribe's affairs and won't leave immediately."

  "Tonight, after they fall asleep, hehe, it's time to catch the turtle in the urn! All along, I've been conducting tribal warfare in this Stone Age with a focus on 'no bloodshed', and all along, there hasn't been an opportunity for a real battle. Now, it seems like such an opportunity has finally arrived. Let's see what kind of surprise the debut of bows and arrows in this Stone Age will bring us!"

  Ideas swirled in his mind, Chen Xu observed for a moment, then quietly turned around and re-entered the thicket. This time, it was the turn of the bow and arrow to shock the forest.

  (Sweat, today's report is a mess, everything is chaotic, the update is late, and the brothers who rewarded me won't have time to see it, sweat, let's talk about everything tomorrow, brothers, forgive me!)