"Phoneme?" Mao Zhengzhi frowned slightly and murmured to himself.

Seeing the puzzled look on Mao Zhengzhi's face, Meng Lu hurriedly explained.

"Phoneme is the smallest phonetic unit divided according to the natural properties of the phonetic."

"Just like vowels and consonants, for example, the Chinese we currently use, there are 32 phonemes in total."

"All our usual communication is done by these 32 phonemes."

"As for the communication between these giant fish, I have discovered 52 phonemes. Although there may be other phonemes that have not been discovered yet, with these 52 phonemes, it should be possible to make a simple analysis of their language system."

Lu Yongchang and Mao Zhengzhi nodded repeatedly.

It's worthy of being professional.

Lu Yongchang once again turned his gaze to the holographic images beside him and carefully observed all the processed voice clips.

“Huh?”

His eyes moved slightly, as if he had discovered something.

Under the gaze of Meng Lu and Mao Zhengzhi, Lu Yongchang took a step forward and reached out to define an area in the holographic projection.

"Professor?" Meng Lu looked at Lu Yongchang's actions in surprise, and was puzzled for a moment.

Lu Yongchang did not speak, but instead processed the designated voice clip on his own.

With the help of zero, Lu Yongchang easily removed various frequency fluctuations containing information.

Then, a relatively stable but still slightly random fluctuating spectrum graph appeared in front of everyone.

"This is..." Mao Zhengzhi suddenly realized that as a biologist, he had already realized the meaning of Lu Yongchang doing this. "No wonder we couldn't find any similarities at that time!"

"So the problem is here!"

But Meng Lu was still confused on the side.

Her main research direction is language, and she does not understand the purpose of Lu Yongchang doing this.

"This is the ultrasonic frequency of giant fish that explore the surrounding environment, and you can simply understand it as the noise floor in their words."

Lu Yongchang did not look back and explained directly.

"In the deep sea, they can only rely on ultrasound to sense their surroundings, but this also leads to a problem."

“How should they communicate when perceiving the environment?”

"You can't risk being 'blind' to communicate with your peers, right?"

"So, they evolved this unique language system."

Meng Lu suddenly realized and took Lu Yongchang's words: "On the basic, perceptual ultrasound waves, superimposed with other frequencies, and transmit information with frequency fluctuations!"

"It's a pity that humans cannot hear these ultrasounds."

"Otherwise, when they communicate, they may form a beautiful piece of music one after another."

Lu Yongchang nodded without comment.

As Meng Lu said, this possibility exists exactly.

If you replace these ultrasounds with audio that human ears can hear, then when these giant fish are talking, you will hear pure music, with waves and waves, and no lyrics.

Of course, whether these music sounds good depends on personal luck.

Some words sound like fairy music, while others sound like harsh noises made by scraping glass.

But no matter what, as long as you say enough, they can eventually perform a beautiful song.

Just like having many monkeys typing the typewriter keys at will, they may end up writing an epic masterpiece.

Lu Yongchang withdrew his somewhat divergent thoughts and turned his attention to the holographic image again.

For some reason, when observing the "sentences" composed of phonemes, he always feels a little strange.

He frowned slightly and stared at the holographic projection.

After pondering for a while, he spoke again: "The phoneme arrangement of these giant fish seems to be something wrong..."

Meng Lu was excited and nodded repeatedly: "Professor, have you discovered this phenomenon too?"

“There does not seem to be so-called grammar in their language system.”

As she said that, she opened another holographic image with confusion on her face: "Professor, look, this is the sound made by the leader of the giant fish while urging his companions."

"According to statistics, a total of 43 voice clips were generated during this period, and each voice clip lasted about 2.1-2.3 seconds."

"In theory, these voice clips should tell the same thing."

Lu Yongchang nodded slightly.

That should be true.

"The problem arises." Meng Lu reached out her hand and slid on the holographic projection again, "These 43 voice clips have the same phonemes."

"These phonemes form some short or long syllables, and like phonemes, these syllables also exist in 43 voice segments at the same time."

"but!"

"The arrangement order of these syllables is not consistent, they seem to be arranged randomly." Meng Lu shrugged and said helplessly, "At least Zero did not find any rules."

"This strange phenomenon occurs in many voice clips."

"So, I suspect, there is no grammar in their language at all."

Lu Yongchang frowned immediately: "How do they understand what their companions say?"

"There is no fixed grammar, which will inevitably cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

"This is undoubtedly fatal to a species."

Meng Lu hesitated for a moment and slowly spoke: "This may have something to do with the way they speak."

"Through data processing, I found that many of these more than 100,000 voice clips are repeated."

"When they speak, they may repeat their words."

"The different syllables are arranged and combined until the other party fully understands it."

"...Repeater?" Lu Yongchang twitched his lips and subconsciously complained.

Meng Lu looked at Lu Yongchang blankly, and this sentence broke her inherent impression of Lu Yongchang in her mind.

She nodded with difficulty: "To some extent, it's a bit like a repeater."

Although it sounds a bit incredible, in Lu Yongchang's opinion, this is not an incomprehensible phenomenon.

After all, there have been researches that the order of Chinese characters may not necessarily affect reading. For example, after reading this sentence, you will find that the characters in this story are all messy.

Maybe the brains of these giant fish also have similar functions?

However, this is not good news for humans.

Although it is not clear how these giant fish understand this unruly language, it undoubtedly adds a lot of difficulties to the Academy of Sciences' subsequent deciphering work.

"Let's summarize and organize it first."

Lu Yongchang pondered for a moment and said slowly: "At least, find out all the same syllables first, and then analyze the meaning of their expression based on the video."

Meng Lu nodded helplessly.

"I'm afraid that's all that."

Although it has zero help, the workload of this "stupid method" is still extremely large.

At least, in the next week, Meng Lu may have to work overtime in the laboratory.
Chapter completed!