Chapter 38 Pick up a conversation
Wonder Woman, or Princess Diana, was born in a place called "Paradise Island".
The island is home to the Amazon tribe, all of which are female warriors with everlasting appearance and toned body. They have lived a peaceful life of isolation from the world, farming, fishing and hunting for thousands of years.
In fact, the Amazon clan can be traced back to ancient Greek mythology for thousands of years. Queen Hippolyta in its clan is even more powerful existence that can compete with the strongest and demigod hero Hercules in history.
The Amazon clan believes in Gaia, the goddess of earth. He accepts Gaia's instructions and garrisons on the island of Paradise. He maintains military training that is of the same nature as the whole nation for many years. He will only come forward to help mankind when a global crisis comes.
Princess Diana is the daughter of Hippolyta, the queen of clan. She left Paradise Island a hundred years ago and participated in World War I with a British soldier named Steve Trevor.
Princess Diana, who has the blood of gods, has an indestructible body, with a terrifying power that is beyond ordinary people, and has an incredible agility. The training of Amazon warriors on Paradise Island makes her extremely good at close combat.
Not to mention the various magical equipment she has, such as the true word lasso that must speak the truth once she is entangled, the indestructible guardian silver bracelet, the sharp sword shield made by the god of fire Hephaestus, etc.
Under the protection of many equipment, Diana's journey of World War I was no different from an outing. She pushed the cart all the way overturned countless German soldiers.
But war is always cruel. Princess Diana gradually saw the bad nature of human beings who are obsessed with killing each other. Especially after Steve's death, Diana, who had no worries, chose to exile herself, hide her identity, hide in human society, and watch everything about mortals coldly.
Just like now, Diana, wearing a Greek long dress, turned around and stared at the chuckling Chinese youth calmly, and said softly: "It should not be done by a gentleman in the museum, sir."
As a demigod, Princess Diana is born with a look that is far beyond the average human line. Coupled with the heroic temperament given by Amazon warrior education and the free and easy and transcendent development of a century of human life, Diana is like a firefly in the night no matter where she stands. The bright stars and bright dazzling always attract a group of crazy bees, waves and butterflies.
Those rich disciples who feel good about themselves always use the wealth they have not earned as passes and the "noble temperament" brought by elite education as a stepping stone, trying to conquer this perfect woman who has the so-called "divine nature" like a Greek statue.
Unfortunately, reality is always cruel. The gap between mortals and demigods is as difficult as the gap between baboons and humans. Without the factors of social etiquette, Diana would not even want to pay attention to the frivolous Chinese youth in front of her.
"Haha, it's my fault."
Li Ang smiled calmly, raised his chin at the Rosetta stone tablet where Diana was watching, and said casually: "Beauty, do you understand this thing?"
Haha, Diana was speechless, and believed that the other party was an ignorant playboy. You should know that the Rosetta Stone is one of the three treasures of the British Museum and an unquestionable world-class cultural relic.
This black basalt stone tablet also carved three texts: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian cursive scripts, and ancient Greek. The content is the edict of the ascension of the ancient Egyptian king Ptolemy V in BC.
After the fourth century AD, the Nile civilization declined, and the pronunciation and writing of Egyptian hieroglyphs gradually became lost. It was difficult for later archaeologists to decipher the structural usage of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
It was not until 1799 that a French captain excavated the stone tablet, and the three characters engraved on it became the best comparison form, allowing people to deduce ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs with corresponding meanings with the help of ancient Greek characters.
In this way, archaeologists have successfully opened up the ancient Egyptian civilization buried behind the dust of history. Its historical significance is similar to the oracle bone inscriptions rediscovered by China in the back of a turtle, which makes people feel moved.
The importance of the Rosetta Stone in the history of world archaeology is self-evident. In the largest comprehensive museum of the British Museum, the superficiality of Chinese youth who gave the Rosetta Stone "this thing" can also be seen.
Diana was disdainful and speechless, too lazy to talk to this shallow young boy. She was about to talk a few casually and leave, but stopped, smiled slightly, and said calmly: "I don't understand very much. Sir, can't you explain it to me?"
Li Ang smiled, "A coincidence, I know a little about history."
Haha, I'm shameless.
Princess Diana sneered even more. She was a resident of Paradise Island and knew everything about ancient Greek words. In addition, she had been doing antique dealers for the past century and knew how much effort and effort scholars from all over the world had spent to decipher stone tablets.
A young man who has not even grown a beard dares to claim to be "a little bit of it?"
Princess Diana is ready to watch a monkey show, her hands are restrained in front of her, and her face is quiet and calm and ignorant and admirable smile - men cannot tolerate showing their own ignorance in front of women, and this inferior attribute of forcing face is rooted in the biological instinct of reproductive desire.
Li Ang bathed in Princess Diana's bad-hearted eyes, pursed her lips and glanced at the stone tablet, and from time to time, "Yeah" sounded one or two, posing a thoughtful expression.
"Haha, sir, if you are waiting for the tour guide, you may be disappointed."
Diana said slowly: "In fact, there are also original translations of the Rosetta Stone and related introductions on the Internet. If you don't mind, I can read them by myself."
Li Ang curled his lips and sniffed out a series of arduous words at twice the speed of speech.
At first, Diana thought the other party was crazy, and knew that she was going to listen, so she was shocked to realize that the other party was reciting the Coptic version of the Rosetta Stone Translation.
Coptic was a language used by early Christian believers in Egypt, using Greek letters, and played an important role in the translation of the Rosetta stone by French historian Jean François Shangboliang in the early 19th century.
Princess Diana only has a little understanding of Coptics. As Li Ang's speech speed continues to increase, it is difficult for her to keep up with the other party's pace.
After chanting the Coptic version of the inscription, Li Ang took a breath and began to recite the inscription of the ancient Greek version at three times the speed of speech.
After Diana reacted, she first tried to save her face, relying on her own advantage of growing up on Paradise Island, and tried to correct the fallacies in the other party's ancient Greek language - archaeology and linguistics are a huge project to pick up shells in the sea, and there will inevitably be omissions.
However, the chanting method used by Leon is extremely strange. Every time he reads a paragraph, he changes to the ancient Greek dialect, from the Dorian dialect to the Piosha dialect, from the Evie dialect to the Arcadia dialect, and the voice and tense of each dialect are completely in line with the standards, which is a textbook translation.
Poor Diana, who has been on Paradise Island for countless years in her life, did she know so many versions of Greek dialect?
Wonder Woman's mind was already a little too hard to turn, but Li Ang took a breath again, pressed his palm directly on the tempered glass that kept the Rosetta stone tablet, and recited it in a more difficult language.
Diana was confused at first, but when she got closer, followed Li Ang's gaze, tone, and compared the stone inscriptions, she suddenly realized that the language she read was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic language with 30 monophones, 80 biphones, and 50 triphones.
After capturing the mutant Apocalypse, Li Ang did not spend time drawing blood to dissect and analyzing the principles of superpowers. In his spare time, he discussed some archaeological issues with Apocalypse - after all, an aged fossil that is thousands of years old is a perfect historical reference material.
The 14 lines of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on the stone tablet are not long. After reading it, Li Ang turned around and smiled at Diana and said, "Please forgive me for using this vulgar way of picking up a conversation, respected dear deity lady.
Chapter completed!