Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Common Language

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Actually, it was very easy to tell who was an expert. They were people who had a crowd watching them. Experts would always attract attention.

Chen Shouyi wasn’t in a hurry to practice, so he slowly viewed the experts one by one.

At this moment, he paused his steps. Up ahead, there was a large group of people crowding around. Several trainers of the archery dojo were even here with their eyes glancing over from time to time.

The person they were looking at was a middle-aged man with a cold expression. He had an intrepid figure and was clad in a casual short-sleeved shirt that revealed the muscles of his arms. His muscle lines were thin and tight, as though they were formed by meshed steel wire. Every time he fired an arrow, a sharp whistling sound echoed through the air.

His actions were filled with a unique cadence and a type of rhythm. Although his firing speed wasn’t fast or slow, it gave everyone a feeling of floating clouds and flowing water, a sense of continuous flow.

Chen Shouyi silently watched for quite a while at the side. After that, he walked to the resting zone and sat in a chair as he closed his eyes, seemingly in meditation. It lasted two hours. When he opened his eyes again, that middle-aged man had already left.

However, he didn’t mind it. He had already obtained what he wanted to obtain.

“Can I ask what help do you need?”

“I want a 300-pound bow!”

Chen Shouyi took up a bow and three arrow quivers, and went to an empty spot.

He tested the power of the bow and discovered that given his current strength, the bow felt somewhat light. However, he didn’t intend to change it. A 300-pound bow was the standard for male martial apprentices.

Usually, an ordinary adult could only use a recurve bow of about 40 to 50 pounds. For bows that were over 100 pounds, they had already exceeded the boundary of a hunting bow and entered the level of a battle bow. And for the power of a 300-pound bow, in a medium distance, it could be compared to a rifle.

It was the same as sword techniques. Archery also had a standard force exertion method and action. But it was much simpler compared to sword techniques and what it tested was one’s vision power, intuition, and judgment ability. There weren’t many knacks. One’s own talent, practice, and repeated practice were the key.

For someone like him that was proficient in sword techniques, there was naturally no difficulty if he wished to enter the elementary grade of archery.

At the next instant, he opened his eyes and instantly began to use his bow to fire an arrow.

His movements were complete in a single breath, and it could be said to be perfect.

The arrow shot out rapidly with a woosh, vanishing completely without a trace.

Chen Shouyi shook his head and fired another arrow. This time, it hit the target board, but sadly, it was only at the first ring.

The third arrow missed the target.

The fourth arrow at the third ring!

And after the fifth arrow, all his arrows began to strike the target.

He continued to fire arrows. Now, given his formidable body, his strength flowed endlessly. The 300-pound bow was effortless for him to use. He couldn’t sense any fatigue at all.

After a short while, all his quivers were empty.

He took back the arrows and adjusted the distance to the target. He didn’t rest and continued to fire.

For the sake of safety, each shooting space was separated by a wall. One could enter to collect their fired arrows at any time.

His achievements improved rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the archery dojo closed, his grade in archery rose from (ungraded) to (elementary: 10)

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At 9.30 pm, he took his briefcase and returned to the motel.

When he was preparing to head up, the receptionist called out to him, “Little handsome guy, your package has arrived.”

“Oh, thank you.” After taking the package, he headed back to his room.

He closed the door and sat on his bed, tearing open the package. There were three thick books in it.

[Common Dialogue Used When Communicating With Barbarians]

[Common Language Dictionary In The Otherworld]

[Learning The Barbarian Language With Pictures]

It was unknown what was the reason, but from the places humans had explored in the Otherworld, there only seemed to be a single language. Regardless of how far the distance between two barbarian tribes was, or whether they believed in gods or not, or even for intelligent biological creatures different from humans, the language they used seemed to be the same.

Several scientists did countless research regarding this to the point where genetic studies were rapidly developing during these few years. Then, they came up with an explanation that was somewhat more acceptable. The research discovered that creatures from the Otherworld had extremely effective gene fragments involving language. It was, in fact, several tens of times higher than human’s. However, their ability for the speech wasn’t stronger than humans.

According to the evolution theory, this was a serious waste, a huge redundancy some might say.

Some scientists thought of a shocking conjecture. And that was that their genes should be able to inherit information about their language.

And as for this conjecture, ever since it had been formed, there was always much dispute about it. Why? Because there was an even more incredible conclusion that arose from this.

That would mean that the biological creatures in the Otherworld had come from the same origin point.

This wasn’t the same as Earth where life had begun in the primordial seas that gave birth to organic molecules.

The ‘origin point’ of the Otherworld should have been an intelligent creature that could use language to converse. After ‘it’ died, its cells and genes began to spread, and countless other lifeforms were born using them as a foundation and underwent evolution.

And the language it spoke was passed down through its genes and cells.

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Therefore, Chen Shouyi didn’t need to worry that the shell girl’s language was some obscure one that would leave him helpless.

When he thought about the shell girl, Chen Shouyi hurriedly opened up the briefcase he bought not long ago.

He took the tied-up shell girl from within.

After that, he tore the adhesive tape off her mouth and cut away the rope on her hands and legs.

The shell girl stretched her body, cast a glance at Chen Shouyi, and turned her head away in an expression of anger. But when Chen Shouyi took out some five-colored glass marbles, she instantly beamed with joy.

She put the marbles under the light, and when she stared at the bright colors, she grew increasingly fonder of them. Her legs, which were dangling from the table’s edge, began to sway left and right from joy.

This type of glass marbles were toys for little children and relatively cheap, costing about $30 for a large box of them. Chen Shouyi bought one box and in it, several hundreds of glass marbles were present.

Chen Shouyi guessed that he would be able to use this for a very long time.

After feeding her honey, Chen Shouyi then placed her on top of a pillow and changed the TV channel to a cartoon.

After that, he ignored her.

Right now, she was mesmerized by the television. This was especially so when cartoons were going on. Although she couldn’t understand what they were saying, she watched each scene with relish. Her eyes were glued to the screen unblinkingly.

As for Chen Shouyi, he took the simplest [Learning the Barbarian Language with Pictures] and started to seriously read and learn the language used in the Otherworld.

After he read for a bit, he suddenly spoke to the shell girl, “Bozhaluokebaduo!”

The book indicated that the meaning of this sentence was. “We are friends!”

But the shell girl didn’t seem to have heard it. Her entire attention was focused on the television.

Chen Shouyi took the remote control and off the television before repeating his sentence once again.

The shell girl was thoroughly angered. She stood up with her hands on her waist and screamed, “Beiqi! Beiqi! Beiqi!”

Now, she was no longer as afraid as before when facing the ‘giant’. As long as she gave him enough golden sand, she could act however she wanted and he wouldn’t care. Naturally, that was other than the time when she was tied up.

“Beiqi?” Chen Shouyi didn’t care about the shell girl’s anger. He paid close attention to her voice as he mumbled silently in his heart. He hurriedly took out the dictionary and searched based on her intonation. Sadly, after searching for half a day, he still had no idea what ‘Beiqi’ meant.

Could it be that her pronunciation was wrong?

“Bei [4] qi [2], Tai [4] qi [1], Pei [4] qi [2], Pei [4] qi [2]!”

“Peiqi!”

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the cartoon she was watching before, and a light flashed in his mind. “Little Pig Peiqi!”

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Note:

Little Pig Peiqi is Peppa Pig (a western cartoon)