The Memoirs of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 245
Wonder Woman, or Princess Diana, was born on a place called Paradise Island.

That island is inhabited by the Amazon family, all of whom are female warriors with eternal beauty and body. They have been living a peaceful life of farming, fishing and hunting in isolation for thousands of years.

In fact, the Amazon clan can be traced back thousands of years to ancient Greek mythology. Queen Hippolyta in her clan is a powerful existence who can compete with the strongest wall-hanging and demigod hero Hercules in history.

The Amazon clan believes in Gaia, the goddess of the earth, accepts Gaia's instructions, and is stationed on Paradise Island. It maintains military training for the whole people all year round, and will only come forward to help human beings when a world crisis comes.

Princess Diana, the daughter of the clan queen Hippolyta, left Paradise Island a hundred years ago to follow a British soldier named Steve Trevor and participated in the First World War.

Princess Diana, who has the blood of the gods, has an indestructible body, terrifying strength beyond ordinary people, and incredible agility. The training of Amazon warriors on Paradise Island makes her very good at close combat.

Not to mention all kinds of magical equipment she has, such as the lasso of mantra that must tell the truth once wrapped, the indestructible guardian silver bracelet, the sword and shield made by the god of fire, Hephaestus, and so on.

Under the protection of many equipments, Diana's World War I trip was no different from an outing, and she overturned countless German soldiers along the way.

But war is always cruel. Princess Diana gradually saw the evil nature of human beings who love to kill each other. Especially after Steve's death, Diana chose to exile herself, hide her name, hide in human society, and watch with cold eyes. Everything about mortals.

Just like now, Diana, who was wearing a Greek-style dress, turned around, stared calmly at the chuckling Chinese youth, and said softly, "It's not a gentleman's job to make noise in a museum, sir."

As a demigod, Princess Diana was born with an appearance that far surpassed the average human being. Coupled with the heroic temperament bestowed by the Amazon warrior education, and the free and easy detachment cultivated in a century of human life, Diana is like a dark night no matter where she stands. Like fireflies, bright stars, bright and dazzling, always attract a crowd of mad bees and butterflies.

Those wealthy disciples who feel good about themselves always regard wealth that they did not earn as a passport, and the "noble temperament" brought about by elite education as a stepping stone, trying to conquer this so-called "divine" perfection like a Greek statue. woman.

Unfortunately, the reality is always cruel. The gap between mortals and demigods is as difficult to bridge as the gap between baboons and humans. If it weren't for the factors of social etiquette, Diana wouldn't even pay attention to the frivolous Chinese youth in front of her.

"Hehe, it's my fault."

Li Ang smiled calmly, raised his chin towards the Rosetta Stone that Diana was looking at, and said casually, "Beauty, can you understand this thing?"

Oh, Diana was speechless, and decided that the other party was an ignorant dude. You must know that the Rosetta Stone is one of the three treasures of the British Museum, and it is an undoubted world cultural relic.

This black basalt stele is engraved with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, ancient Egyptian cursive script, and ancient Greek. The content is the edict of the enthronement of the ancient Egyptian king Ptolemy V BC.

After the fourth century A.D., the Nile civilization declined, and the reading and writing methods of Egyptian hieroglyphs were gradually lost. No matter how hard the later archaeologists are, it is still difficult to decipher the structure and usage of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Until a French captain unearthed the stele in 1799, the three characters engraved on it at the same time became the best comparison table, allowing people to use the ancient Greek characters to deduce the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs with corresponding meanings.

In this way, archaeologists successfully uncovered the ancient Egyptian civilization buried in the dust of history. Its historical significance is similar to the rediscovery of the oracle bone inscriptions on the back of a turtle in Huaguo, which makes people cry.

The importance of the Rosetta Stone in the history of world archaeology is self-evident, and in the British Museum, the largest comprehensive museum, the Chinese youth who commented on the Rosetta Stone as "this thing" is also superficial. See one or two.

Diana was disdainful and speechless, she was too lazy to talk to this superficial brat, she just wanted to chat casually and leave, but she stopped, smiled slightly, and said calmly: "I don't really understand, sir, can't you tell me?" Let me explain?"

Li Ang clapped his palms and smiled, "Coincidentally, I know a thing or two about history."

Haha, no shame.

Princess Diana sneered even more in her heart. She herself is a resident of Paradise Island and knows the ancient Greek characters like the back of her hand. In addition, she has been in the business of antique dealers for the past 100 years. , took a lot of painstaking efforts.

A young man who doesn't even have a full beard dares to call himself "know a thing or two?"

Princess Diana was ready to watch the monkey show, with her hands folded reservedly in front of her, and a serene and indifferent smile with a hint of ignorance and admiration on her face - men can't bear to show their ignorance in front of women, this kind of face-saving Inferior attributes are rooted in the biological instinct of reproductive desire.

Li Ang bathed in Princess Diana's mischievous eyes, pursed his lips and scanned the stele, and made a "hmm" from time to time, putting on a thoughtful expression.

"Hehe, 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 it myself."

Li Ang pursed his lips, and spit out a series of words indifferently at twice the speed.

At first, Diana thought the other party was going crazy, but when she listened, she was shocked to realize that the other party was reciting the Coptic translation of the Rosetta Stone.

Coptic, the language spoken by early Christians in Egypt, used the Greek alphabet and played an important role in French historian Jean-François Champollion's translation of the Rosetta Stone in the early 19th century.

Princess Diana only had a little understanding of Coptic, and it was difficult for her to keep up with the speed of Li Ang's speech.

After reciting the Coptic version of the inscription, Li Ang took a breath and began to recite the ancient Greek version of the inscription at three times the speed.

After Diana reacted, she tried to save her face at first, relying on her advantage of growing up on Paradise Island, trying to correct the fallacies in the other party’s ancient Greek language—archeology and linguistics are huge projects that can’t be avoided. There will be omissions.

However, the chanting method used by Li Ang is extremely strange. Every time he reads a paragraph, he changes to a different dialect of the ancient Greek region, from the Dorian dialect to the Peotia dialect, from the Evie Island dialect to the Acadian dialect, and every time The voice and tense of this dialect are in full compliance with the standard, which can be called a textbook-like translation.

Poor Diana, who spent countless years of her life on Paradise Island, knew so many versions of the Greek dialect.

Wonder Woman couldn't turn her head around, but Li Ang took another breath, pressed his palm directly on the tempered glass that kept the Rosetta Stone, and recited in a more difficult language.

Diana was still puzzled at first, but when she got closer, followed Li Ang's gaze and tone, and compared the inscriptions on the stone tablet, she suddenly realized that the language he read aloud had 30 single-syllable characters and 80 double-syllable characters. and the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic language of 50 triphones.

After Li Ang captured the mutant Tianqi, he didn't bother to draw blood for autopsy and analyze the principle of supernatural powers. In his spare time, he discussed some archaeological issues with Tianqi—after all, a thousand-year-old fossil is very perfect. historical references.

The 14 lines of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on the stele are not long, after Li Ang finished reading, he turned around and said to Diana with a smile: "Please forgive me for using this vulgar way of striking up a conversation, respected demigod lady.

In fact, the first way I wanted to use to strike up a conversation was to ask you how many singing styles are there in vocal music? "

(End of this chapter)