Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 169 The Inscription on the Stone Tablet
The Starry Woman has disappeared, leaving only Shi Ming in the mysterious space.

Helpless, he could only look at the words on the floating stone slab.

Each character on this stone tablet is different, extremely abstract, and cannot be connected, compared, or analyzed for meaning. Even if Shi Ming stayed here for ten thousand years using normal methods, he could not possibly learn this script.

"Perhaps, we need to use special methods."

He focused his attention, concentrating his mental energy on the first character on the first stone slab.

The character lit up.

hula.

He felt that there was an infinite amount of information in that tiny symbol, like a dam releasing a flood, instantly rushing into his mind. His brain was like a high-speed computer, rapidly processing the surging flow of information, and for a moment, he didn't even have the energy to think about anything else!
"Is this how we interpret and learn...?"

Passive learning is extremely painful.

Especially with this kind of information bombardment, if you don't accept it, you will suffer the pain of your mental strength being torn apart.

Ten minutes later, he was finally able to catch his breath.

I've finally figured out the meaning of the first character.

Call ~
Strictly speaking, this type of character cannot be categorized as writing. It is more like a drop of blood, the most basic component of life, or the foundational element of rules. It appears simple, yet contains endless basic information. Even with his powerful mental strength, it took him so long to decipher the true meaning of this single character!
Just one character!
ten minutes!
His mental strength was failing, almost completely depleted.

Even the recent upgrade of the Dayun to a general-class drifting ship did not cause such a significant drain on mental energy.

"This is treating people like supercomputers!"

"Just one word overloaded my brain."

"These twelve stone tablets contain at least a thousand characters. If each one takes 10 minutes to learn, it would take at least 7 days to learn all the characters on the stone tablets!"

"On the 7th, my Da Yun was still anchored in that sea area."

Before setting off, he gave orders to the crew and authorized some basic defensive and combat authority to the two captains on board. There shouldn't be any problems in the short term, but seven days without returning is too long! Of course he was worried.

Moreover, he may not be able to fully learn it in 7 days, because he hasn't even factored in the rest time.

Once mental energy is depleted, it must be replenished.

It will likely take a long time to replenish the supplies.

Shi Ming let out a breath.

The surrounding stars sparkled.

He was surprised to find that his mental energy was being replenished rapidly.

The stars in this space can actually help him replenish his mental energy?

If that's the case, then that's much better.

It seems that the "teacher" wasn't entirely useless after all.

In just a few seconds, Shi Ming replenished most of his mental energy. He pressed on and focused his attention on the second character. Countless abstract and incomprehensible pieces of information flooded into his brain again, and Shi Ming analyzed and structured them bit by bit.

And so, time passed by unconsciously.

He is recognizing more and more characters.

These characters do indeed share the same origin as the four characters on the mysterious stone tablet inside the pyramid and under the crystal scepter.

But what Shi Ming didn't know was...

At the summit of Mount Everest, in what is known as the only remaining reserve of the Old World, a mysterious stone tablet with 33,000 characters was discovered, and the characters there belong to the same category as those on the tablet.

The scientists of Xirang diligently studied the text. With the original stele in hand, and leveraging the Dragon Kingdom's top resources and efficiency, utilizing the ship's most powerful computer analysis equipment, they spent several years researching under immense computing power, and only then managed to translate "A Glimpse of the Wonders of the Endless Seas (Part Two)."

This consumed a large number of energy stones, including tens of thousands of pure crystals.

If they knew that Shi Ming could master the analysis of a single character in just 10 minutes, they would be absolutely astonished.

Moreover, translation and mastery are not the same thing.

This script is particularly peculiar; different arrangements of the characters convey completely different meanings.

Only by thoroughly deconstructing it like Shi Ming could one truly learn and understand it. Simultaneously, in this process of refinement, his mental energy, whose exact value was unknown, was like an uncarved gem, being polished and tempered again under these extreme conditions. Whenever his mental energy could no longer sustain itself, a star would fall to replenish it.

His condition is getting better and better, and he is learning to read faster and faster.

In this mysterious space, the flow of time is unpredictable. Even someone as time-conscious as Shi Ming, immersed in his learning, lost track of how much time had passed.

Perhaps it will take a few hours, or perhaps a dozen hours?

During his rest, he looked inside the beehive he was carrying and discovered that he had not brought a watch.

"It seems that from now on, I'll still need to carry a precise mechanical watch with me."

"We cannot rely entirely on ourselves."

Although he did not wear a watch, Shi Ming had his own way of calibrating time.

"Intelligence Eye, gather intelligence!"

This is a special method of timekeeping.

If the Eye of Intelligence does not respond

That means it's not midnight yet. If the Eye of Intelligence responds, it means it's already the next day.

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Another mysterious place.

It is also an endless sea of ​​stars, lonely and distant, but the stars there are different from the space where Shi Ming is located; every star is very real.

As the stars twinkled, a woman emerged from this space.

Floating above the starry sky.

"Have you finally completed your mission?" an unknown voice asked.

"We were lucky. Through a extinguished artifact with location capabilities, we found a little guy with good physical and mental abilities. He should be able to learn those characters."

"How long do you think it will take him to learn those characters?"

"Ok?"

The woman in the star-studded dress seemed to be pondering and making a judgment.

"His physical condition is good, able to withstand the inspiration of starlight, and his mental strength is also good. Although it's difficult to analyze the specific values, he was able to break through my Illusionary Scorpion, so he's definitely top-tier. With the Origin Monument, it should take him one or two days to analyze a single character. At that rate, it will definitely take several years!"

"A few years? That's fast indeed. It seems fate has been very kind to you this time."

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On the endless ocean, the Dayun remained in place, waiting for a day.

"Why hasn't the captain returned yet?"

In the past, even if we were away from the ship for a long time, it rarely exceeded one day.

And I will also send them messages.

This time, even though they have been away for so long, they have not been able to communicate with them remotely. The current program of the Dayun is still the one set when Shi Ming left: stay in the original sea area and wait for instructions.

The stone pier was in a bit of a hurry.

"Don't worry, with the captain's skills, even if he encounters an S-class sea monster, he'll definitely be able to escape unscathed."

"What we need to do now is to carry out his previous orders before the captain returns."

(End of this chapter)