Chapter 270 Everything that language carries

"We have received information from the Red Dragon spacecraft. /Star City has been destroyed and no life has been spared."

Ella told Yan Xia the information. Yan Xia was originally conducting some biological experiments. He paused and was speechless for a moment.

After a long while, he spoke: "We have completed the last effort, otherwise the Olive Branch Civilization will not destroy /Star City."

"We must start preparing for the disappearance of the Tiancang Five Star Region. The attack of the Olive Branch Civilization will not end so easily."

"Let the warships leave that area and not be affected. The new industrial chain will also be transferred to the unmanned deep space and all completed by machines."

Yan Xia did not have any lucky thoughts.

If it were him, would he not destroy the threat of the Civilization Federation?

Impossible.

The warships of the Olive Branch Civilization have not arrived yet. Yan Xia guessed that the other party felt that the risk of long-distance combat was too great. Unless they crushed with absolute strength, they would inevitably fall into a protracted war, giving the Federation extra time.

However, the warships of the Olive Branch Civilization will still come, but they will appear on the final battlefield to clean up the mess.

This is a super-distance war, a top-level confrontation of technology.

Before Ella could pass the information out, she received the second message.

"Independent Glory still exists. Judging from the information, it seems that Xu has given up and hopes to get our help."

Yan Xia's face became solemn.

After experiencing the disappearance of the Silk Road, he could not fully believe in Independent Glory. If Independent Glory itself is also an unknown weapon, then it would be a huge risk for them to contact Independent Glory.

The most important thing is that Yan Xia does not think that Xu will do this.

The gap between civilizations is too big. Xu was unwilling to let the Federation join the war before, wasn't it because he didn't want the war to have external intervention?

It wants to ensure the purity of civilization and the simplicity of revolution.

Then the existence of Independent Glory is contrary to Xu's will.

"Ella, what do you think?"

"Unlikely!"

Ella answered her conclusion almost instantly.

"Put this matter aside for now, and let those who contacted Independent Glory not come back."

Ella took out another file at this time.

"Also sent back is a conjecture by An Li."

This is not a physical document. Yan Xia received it and began to read it.

"To someone in the Federation whom I don't know, this may seem a little crazy, but please read it to the end."

"The moment I came into contact with the glory of independence, I got something. According to a message in the glory of independence, this thing is a treasure, but it is not so magical. It is language, the language of the Olive Branch civilization."

"When I got it, I suddenly understood why it is a treasure, or why the Federation exists, / why Star City is gradually approaching us."

"Although I have read a lot of books, I still can't finish reading all the works. I don't know if anyone studies language, civilization, or even the relationship between the two."

"For an ordinary animal, why Why can't they develop civilization? "

"Intelligence? We all know that the intelligence of some animals is not that low. For example, some individuals of the same family and genus as our intelligent life also have quite strong intelligence, but they can't develop civilization. "

"Is fire a tool? But in nature, it is not only intelligent life that can use tools. As mentioned above, some species of the same family and genus as intelligent life can also use tools. Under your teaching, they can even complete more complex operations and learn the technology of drilling wood to make fire. "

"What is it then?"

Yan Xia looked at Ella who had walked out of the laboratory and sat on a sofa. He ordered a cup of tea to Ella and continued to read.

"I think it is language."

"Some people think that animals also have their own language, but in fact they do not. The calls of animals are simply conveying emotions, nothing more."

"The language of intelligent life is more complex and unique to intelligent life. Here I think of the chicken and egg problem. Is it language that came first and then civilization, or civilization that came first and then language? My answer may be the former."

"Language is the carrier of civilization, not civilization is the carrier of language."

"When a life has language, language gives this life the ability to inherit. Life can use language to pass on the knowledge of the previous generation, thereby generating progress."

"Think about it, can ordinary animals do it?"

"Animals learn skills from their parents from birth, and then continue to repeat when they grow up and have children. Such steps and their skills cannot become efficient with the summarization of experience from generation to generation, or the change will be very, very slow, calculated in hundreds of thousands of years, but not many species can live for millions of years. "

"However, language can easily allow a later life to master the knowledge of the predecessors. Everything that the predecessors have explored in their lifetime may evolve into a sentence in the future, or more accurately, an idiom. When we say an idiom, we don’t seem to realize that it carries the peak of all the knowledge of a certain life. "

"When language appeared, civilization was able to advance rapidly, and then writing began to appear, summarizing and preserving everything that had happened before, but writing is ultimately dependent on language, and language is the carrier of everything. "

"Why can so many civilizations in the Federation merge together? I think the human culture, human history and human way of thinking carried in the language have contributed greatly. / Star City was also influenced by this in the later period, and then slowly approached the Federation."

"Each civilization has its own unique perspective. I have learned many languages. After learning this language, my vision will be broadened to the race of that language. I can gradually understand that race. After deep thinking, I also found that most radical racists come from those who do not know the language of other races, and individuals who learn the language of other races will be excluded by this group. Is this a coincidence?"

"If we learn the language of a civilization, can we also understand the technology of this civilization?"

"Of course, all my ideas may be false and imposed on me by the glory of independence. The attachment contains the language of the Olive Branch civilization. Please be cautious when you contact it."

After reading this email, Yan Xia also got some inspiration from it.

He has never thought about this aspect of the problem, because it is a perspective problem. When you can see the perspective of others, or even look at yourself from the perspective of others, then you can realize the existence of such things.

In the past, he had been forcibly annexing other races and suppressing his thinking on these aspects with force. Now, facing a more powerful civilization, he became the weaker party in terms of both force and culture, so this question would become necessary.

Although An Li's perspective is not applicable to all occasions, it is mostly correct.

You can't expect one thing to explain everything, but since it is fulfilled in most events and lives, it proves that it is necessary to exist.

"Language?"

Yan Xia looked at the attachment and felt that it was time for him to understand the Federation from a different perspective.