Earth research base.
As soon as Lu Cheng returned from the camp in the other world, he came to a place similar to an interrogation room.
There were only two chairs and a table here, with a stack of files on the table. Lu Cheng picked up the file and began to browse it. The photo on the file was of a woman with gray hair.
Lin Yuping, 57 years old, is a world-renowned linguist.
After Lu Cheng finished reading the other party's file, the door of the room was pushed open and Professor Lin on the file walked in.
"Hello, professor." Lu Cheng took the initiative to stand up and pull out a chair for the other party.
"Hello."
She was wearing high-power reading glasses and a white coat, and looked like she had just walked out of a laboratory.
The 57-year-old professor looked older than he actually was, and his temperament reminded Lu Cheng of his grandmother who would always cook dumplings for him when he returned home during Chinese New Year.
"Are you the discoverer of these strange languages?"
After sitting down, Professor Lin Yuping also observed the young man in front of him.
To be honest, Professor Lin Yuping found it strange that a young man would come to interview her.
This is a top-level research base, and the researchers are basically all over fifty years old. However, when Professor Li first introduced Lu Cheng to her, he reminded her that Lu Cheng's age was not as simple as it seemed.
But no matter how Lin and Professor Ping looked at each other, they both seemed to be young men in their twenties, younger than her son.
"I am not its discoverer, but I am its learner." Lu Cheng responded with a smile, "Professor Lin, I hope you have analyzed this language."
The first sentence Lu Cheng used was in Chinese, but the second sentence was the common language of the other world continent.
"I'm well prepared."
Professor Lin Yuping also responded to Lu Cheng in the same common language, and there was not even a flaw in her pronunciation.
"You are indeed a professional. It is an honor to find someone like you to help." Lu Cheng didn't expect that someone would learn the alien language so quickly.
"This special language family is not difficult to learn once you have mastered the rules, and the language is very well preserved."
She was recommended by Professor Li to study a language she had never seen before. Initially, she thought that this language was an ancient writing unearthed somewhere, but the more she studied, the more strange it became.
The language sequence provided by Professor Li is not only extremely complete, but even the pronunciation has references.
Professor Lin Yuping’s responsibility is to analyze it, systematize it, and then establish a complete learning system.
It means learning the language.
Although Professor Lin Yuping is still building a learning method for this language, she has already mastered the language.
"Excuse me, where was this language discovered? Did you find some alien black box?"
This was a question that Professor Lin Yuping had when she was conducting research. Several of her young assistants even joked that they might have discovered a message from aliens.
But this language has connections with many language families on Earth, especially cuneiform.
"Aliens? They are aliens but not aliens either. Professor Lin, please take a look at this agreement."
Lu Cheng took out an agreement that everyone who goes to another world will sign. The most important clause in the agreement is confidentiality, and the second is about the length of stay in the other world.
Since one human entering the portal is equivalent to ten tons of materials, people who go to the other world to carry out development plans will not often travel back and forth between the two worlds.
"You can only stay in the Special Zone for more than a month before returning?"
Professor Lin Yuping had signed a confidentiality agreement before coming here, but the special administrative region mentioned in the agreement still concerned her.
But she signed her name on it without asking any more questions.
She had already made sufficient mental preparation when she came here for the interview.
"Thank you for your cooperation."
After Lu Cheng took back the agreement, he stood up and shook hands with the professor.
"When will we set off for the Special Administrative Region?" asked Professor Lin Yuping.
"Now."
Lu Cheng gave her a surprised answer, and the next second she widened her eyes in surprise, looking at the portal that Lu Cheng summoned on the wall.
Professor Lin Yuping feels that she is already old and has attended all kinds of international academic conferences. Having seen and understood so much, nothing surprises her anymore.
But the scene before our eyes has clearly gone beyond what current science can explain.
"The special zone we are going to is another world." Lu Cheng made a gesture of invitation to the professor. "Your daily necessities will be sorted out for you later. The special zone has already arranged housing for you."
The old professor followed Lu Cheng into the portal without saying a word. She even wiped her reading glasses to make sure she was not dazzled.
But everything that appeared before her made her a little unsure whether she was in a different world.
As far as she could see was a cluster of dark green tents, the kind that were very common in military camps.
But the air was so fresh that Professor Lin Yuping thought she had arrived in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This made her certain that she might be in another world, or that someone in the research base had secretly developed technology for space displacement.
No matter which one it was, the old professor could hardly suppress her inner excitement. The scene before her added a shovel of coal to her curiosity that had been burning for many years.
"We are currently in a kingdom called Skarre. Since teleportation requires energy, only one of your assistants is allowed to come to the special zone. He is already waiting for you at the destination." Lu Cheng said to the old professor.
"What's my job? Translate their language?"
Professor Lin Yuping looked up at the sky. It was now afternoon and the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it looked like it was going to snow.
"This is one of your jobs. Another job is to establish communication with the local people. If you have time, you can also teach them our language. But the job at hand is to register the refugees we receive."
Lu Cheng brought the old professor to the outermost area of the camp, where the refugees lived. There was a registration tent at the entrance of this area.
"Captain, the registration form and camera have been printed."
Tiehuan came to Lu Cheng and saluted him, pointing to a row of tables at the entrance of the tent.
“Let them in, and hopefully we can get the registration done before the snow starts.”
Lu Cheng came to his workstation, where there was a laptop on it, and on the other side was a printer and a soldier holding a camera.
This printer is the world's first device that runs on a diesel generator.