Standing on the back of the giant dragon Gregory, while flying all the way, Richard once thought about what the daughter in Gregory's mouth would look like.
The initial thought was that the opponent would be a relatively small dragon. Compared to Gregory's huge figure of more than ten meters long and like a fighter jet, the opponent might be four or five meters long and weigh several tons. Although it is a "mini dragon", it should be more visually impactful than a giant crocodile.
Not long ago, Gregory transformed into a middle-aged man with a sallow complexion. Richard also thought that if the other party's daughter were in human form, she would be a muscular girl about 1.7 meters tall, similar to the female athletes in modern earth weightlifting events.
However, Richard did not expect that the other party's daughter looked completely different.
The petite figure walked up from the bottom of the mountain and slowly approached. What finally appeared in sight was a human girl of no more than seven or eight years old. She was about 1.2 meters tall and her whole body was purple.
The hair is purple, like lilac, smooth and natural. The clothes are purple, like lavender, exuding a light fragrance. The eyes are purple, like two purple gems, crystal clear and transparent. The pendant on the white neck and the bracelet on Hao's wrist are also purple, like purple stars falling from the sky, shining brightly.
The other party is like a girl coming out of the purple world.
Purple girl—Pandora!
But compared to the other party's appearance, what attracted more attention was her aura, an aura that was extremely cold and kept strangers away.
In the process of walking, in the eyes shown, and in the momentum exuded, it seems to be expressing the same meaning all the time: don't mess with me, don't look at me, don't get close to me, and don't talk to me!
"Da da da", the dragon girl named Pandora walked by, glanced at Richard with an extremely cold gaze, then turned back and walked away coldly, walking into the black castle.
The impression the other party gave Richard was that of a high-powered girl character called "Haihara Ai" in "Detective Conan".
"So, father and daughter live separately?" Richard, who was standing there, said to himself after looking at it, "But such a daughter seems to be a little different from what he thought before." Then he shook his head. If he was kidnapped and treated as a playmate of such a girl, it would probably be more complicated than he thought before.
But this is not important. What is important is that you have to continue your own research and figure out the truth about this world. By the way, even the giant dragon has appeared. How many magical things are waiting for me in this world
…
at dusk.
In the open space between the Black Castle and the Dragon Cave, a bonfire was lit, making a "cracking" sound, and a fat hare was roasted on the fire. The fat in the hare meat seeps out little by little, flowing like gold on the surface. Occasionally it falls into the bonfire below, and there is an immediate "sting" sound, and the aroma quickly spreads out.
There was movement in the black castle, and with the sound of footsteps, the girl named Pandora walked out and stood about three or four meters away from the bonfire, staring at it.
Richard turned his head to look, his eyes flashed, he pointed at the hare on the fire and asked, "Want to eat?"
The purple girl did not answer, and her cold eyes did not change. She did not seem to have a desire for food, but more like she was expressing dissatisfaction and warning, similar to... "Rabbit is so cute, if you dare to eat rabbit again, then I will …I’ll just eat you” kind of thing.
In the absence of a certain tacit understanding between the two parties, silent communication is bound to be difficult, especially when one party's eyes have not changed.
Richard's eyes flashed and he asked again: "Are you hungry?"
"..." There was no answer, as if he didn't understand at all.
Raising his eyebrows, Richard remembered that when communicating with Gregory, he used the current common language of the mainland, and there was no problem. But that may have been something that Gregory learned only after he had lived a long life. In this case, it is very likely that the girl Pandora does not speak Common Language, but speaks another language.
"Puttonian?" Richard asked in another language.
"… "no answer.
"Klinian?" Richard changed to another language.
"..." Still no answer.
"Fijian?" Richard switched to a third language.
"..." Still no answer.
"Asghar? Masko? Lakda? Mengpa..." Richard began to use the fourth, fifth, and sixth language tests continuously.
After living in this world for fifteen years, Richard still has a comprehensive grasp of some things, especially language. Although it is impossible to master all the languages in the world, it is the most comprehensive and involves every major language family. It is mainly to prepare for exploring the world.
After all, this is a real world, and Richard doesn't think it will happen that everyone on a continent speaks the same language.
But the problem now is that after testing all the seven or eight language families that I know, there is no response from Pandora.
"In this case..." After turning the hare on the fire, Richard did not give up and thought about other methods.
Language is considered the most important communication tool for intelligent creatures (human beings) and is the main way of communication. Generally speaking, language is produced in a specific environment to meet the needs of life. The specific environment will inevitably leave a specific imprint on the language.
Looking at it from a biological perspective, several languages evolved from specific ancestral languages in special environments. According to the kinship of each language, they can be divided into several language families. Language families can be divided into language families, and language families can be divided into language branches. Language branches are ultimately divided into languages.
Simply put, language has a four-level relationship of "language family → language family → language branch → language type".
From the source, the most fundamental language is the specific ancestral language from which it originated. The languages under the unified ancestral language may be very different, but they are not fundamental. Some are even close, such as Chinese and Japanese. As long as you determine the language family of the other party, you can greatly reduce the language communication barriers. You may not be able to communicate smoothly in a short time, but you can express some simple meanings.
Since the current language system of the world cannot communicate with Pandora, what about some languages on modern earth? The language system on earth is even larger, with 13 language families, 45 language families, and countless language branches and languages.
In this case…
Having made up his mind, Richard did not hesitate, looked at Pandora, and started testing using several of the 13 language families with a wider range of applications.
"English? Sanskrit?" This is a test of Indo-European languages.
"..." Pandora didn't react at all, just looked at it coldly and strangely.
"Finnish?" This is a test of the Uralic language family.
"..." Pandora still had no reaction.
"Mongolian?" This is a test of the Altaic language family.
"..." Pandora continued without any response.