It’s Over! The Major General Is Bent! [Interstellar]
Chapter 15
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“…………Fifty-six ……years old?”
Miao Te repeated these words with complex emotions.
No wonder he said ‘You are still young’.
His age was more than three times his age ah!
“Yes. Very young right?”
The female officer thought that this little guy must have been shocked by how young the major general-daren is, causing him to show such a stunned expression.
“……”
Senior, I think our thinking circuits are not on the same line. So fifty-six years old is still young, but based on what criteria are you judging that that’s still young? How exactly is that face maintained at fifty–six years old?
Wait.
The teenager suddenly thought of a crucial point.
In his opinion, fifty-six years old was already an old man. But to everyone here, fifty-six was still very young, which means……
Miao Te turned to look at the female officer in front of him. He opened his mouth to ask something, but he paused, and closed it again silently.
Asking a woman’s age to the person herself, was he looking for death……
He thought about it and then cleverly changed the question.
“Excuse me, Lieutenant Colonel Via said that the seniors from the History Research Department are very old, is it true?”
“That’s true they are all older professors there, so you can’t make trouble if you go.”
The female officer answered with a smile.
The little guy behind her was like a child in her eyes. He was very obedient along the way and those eyes looked bright when he looks at her, she thought the child was quite cute. His age wasn’t that far from her own son so she subconsciously took the attitude used when treating her son.
“I will do things seriously.” Miao Te quickly showed his manners, and then pretended to casually ask. “I wonder if they’re older than my grandpa.”
“En~~ they should be older than your grandpa. The oldest one, the professor in charge of the History Research Department, is already 308 years old this year.”
“………………”
How long exactly is the average life span of future human beings?
The so-called longest-living turtles on Earth could only live for more than 200 years.
…….Well okay, now he must admit that the 56 year old major general-daren is really too young!
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The metal gate opened automatically, and the middle-aged female officer stepped into the room in a straight posture. A strange instrument containing a dilapidated ancient book floating inside the glass ball was carefully held in her hand.
She took a few quick steps after entering the door, and then laid the things in her hand down.
Miao Te followed her and stepped into the entrance, letting out a gasp as soon as he entered the door.
The reason being everything in front of him is really amazing.
He saw a lot of objects similar to the glass ball above the instrument held by the female officer.
A huge cylindrical glass tube occupies the center of the room with translucent liquid slightly rippling with a pale blue sheen inside.
Floating in the liquid of that huge glass tube were dozens of seemingly chaotic glass balls, but looking closely, they actually floated in an orderly manner among the blue liquid’s ripples.
In each glass ball, a dilapidated book floats.
There were also countless twinkling strange silver fluorescent dots in the liquid, wrapping around a glass ball and constantly spinning around. And on the huge curved hologram in the middle of the room, the ancient books inside the glass balls surrounded by silver fluorescent dots were being magnified.
“Professor Terry, this is the new recruit that Lieutenant Colonel Via asked me to bring.”
The voice of the female officer who brought him over awakened Miao Te from his observations. He turned around and saw three to four elderly men standing opposite him.
Although they were also wearing military uniforms, they did not have the spirit of soldiers. They all wore a white robe on top of their military uniforms, giving these old men a slightly elegant temperament.
The old man with white hair at the front, the one known as Professor Terry, glanced at Miao Te.
Then he shook his head.
“Tell Via that we don’t need servicemen here.”
“No, this is not for a serviceman. Lieutenant Colonel Via is letting him participate in the research among you.”
As soon as those words came out, the old men in white knee-length coats frowned.
“This kind of little kid?”1
Professor Terry said unhappily as he looked at Miao Te’s apparently childish young face in disgust.
“What can he understand?”
Mankind has been yearning to return to Earth.
Therefore, be it the royal family, the nobles of all parties, and the warlord forces, they all have research institutes dedicated to the ancient civilization of the Earth.
They hope to find the Earth’s orientation through the study of those ancient books.
If someone managed to lead mankind back to the Earth, then that someone would definitely enjoy an extremely high reputation among humans.
However, due to the interstellar wars, a lot of history and culture from Earth have been lost. Even the language used by humans on the Earth is unknown.
Today’s historians can only barely identify some of the languages used on Earth by guessing.
They call this language, Earth’s ancient language.
However, whether it is studying this ancient language or studying the ancient culture of the Earth, they were all extremely time-consuming. Those who can accomplish something from these things and have authority over them are usually older scholars.
Therefore, as soon as Professor Terry saw this underage kid, he immediately positioned him as a kid who came to rub some military merits off, and was unhappy with the kid.
“Professor Terry, this is an order from Lieutenant Colonel Via. The recruit has also learned part of the Earth’s ancient language due to family tradition.”
“I see, I understand, I’ll take care of it later.”
The white-haired old man waved his hand impatiently, with an expression saying you can leave now, don’t disturb me.
He didn’t bother to look at Miao Te, apparently not taking him seriously. Several other old men also continued to invest in their most beloved career’s research.
The female officer said nothing and turned to leave from the place.
Miao Te was left behind. These old men were obviously too lazy to take care of him and were just doing their own thing.
He didn’t say a word, and just looked very obedient and honest standing there, but his eyes were secretly glancing over the glass balls soaked in the liquid.
What familiar words……
The teenager was very emotional. It’s been such a long time since he last saw these familiar words.
The Confederate State language of the Earth.
Yi2, there are only a few remaining pages, and the words on it were actually in Asian and European languages.
Miao Te did not know that such ancient artifacts passed down from the Earth were extremely rare.
The more ancient books from Earth you have, the older and more ancient your family is. If those aristocrats in the Empire managed to get a copy, it will be treasured and passed down as a family treasure.
So now there are dozens of ancient books here, which is quite rare.
It is precisely because of these treasures that these ancient culture historians of the Earth, Professor Terry in particular, would ignore the dangers of war and resolutely follow the Ishtar battleship.
The youth was watching it with interest when the white-haired Professor Terry pressed a key on the console next to him.
And as a result, the rippling pale blue water in the huge glass tube shook slightly, and the group of silver fluorescent dots moved around quickly. After a while, they swam towards a glass ball in the lower left corner and orbited around it.
Soon, a close-up of the book that was more intact compared to the rest of the books in the other glass balls appeared on the hologram.
Those ancient books are quite fragile and are broken down with a single blow of the wind, so they are carefully stored in a vacuum glass ball. The inner pages were scanned using special fluoroscopy instrument which presents the contents on the hologram outside.
The professors and scholars who have made great achievements in the study of Earth’s ancient history all went over.
These past few days, they have been studying the contents of this book.
Watching the glass balls undulate in the water for a long time, Miao Te looked thirsty.
He looked around and saw that there was hot tea on the table, so he walked over and poured a cup.
As he drank, he just saw the old men surrounding the hologram discussing something. So while drinking tea, he subconsciously also moved his eyes to the hologram.
Pu——!!!
The youth spat out all of the drink.
The tea and the sudden air intake made him cough desperately.
“Quiet!”
Professor Terry who was discussing the issue, turned his head and gave the noisy little kid an ugly glare.
He obviously came here to get credit, why not just stay there obediently.
He thought, dissatisfied, glaring at Miao Te even worse.
“qhuk qhuk qhuk……”
Coughing, Miao Te wiped the sprayed tea from the corners of his mouth with his hands. His face showed an extremely profound and complex look while looking at the pages presented on the hologram.
“This character has always been a symbol of orientation on Earth.”
“Yes, and it’s followed by a number. It must be marked with the coordinates.”
“I think it’s true, maybe that is what this set of numbers implies.”
“Uh, that……”
“Don’t make noise!”
The boy opened his mouth to speak, but was choked back by Professor Terry.
After teaching the little kid a lesson, the old man went back to discuss with his colleagues.
“We should go in this direction, this character seems to——”
“I think……” Miao Te still couldn’t help but interject. “This shouldn’t be anything like coordinates……”
“Little kid can you not understand what shut up means! You are not qualified to comment here!”
“…………”
Seeing the little kid quiet down after roaring at him, the old man turned back with satisfaction and continued to discuss with his colleagues.
“According to our previous determination, this character seems to represent the north on Earth. That time, space was always only expressed in three dimensions on Earth. In other words, people living on Earth mainly used four directions to mark their position.”
Miao Te: “………………”
Professor, you’re right, that character indeed means the north direction.
However——
The point is this, but once this character is followed by a number, the symbolic meaning would be completely different!
The teenager looked at the only remaining symbol on the page of the dilapidated book that was being studied seriously by the scholars with great complexity.
【n25】
……Fuck, it’s actually at level 3!
Miao Te covered his face and could not help but swear.
In his era, according to the unified regulations of the Earth Confederate State, all cultural industries such as text, film, television, comics, etc. were divided into three levels.
n0 is for all ages.
n15 is viewable by adults.
n25……you know ……… the highest third level, which is the most yellowest3 and violent kind.
“You see, the meaning of this character is life, and this word should be human, and this, ‘original’ means the origin. I am afraid that the content of this ancient book refers to the origin of human life, which has great research value. “
The white-haired professor talked eloquently, and a number of old scholars around him nodded frequently, with a reasonable expression on their face.
“So ah……”
Miao Te: “……………………”
He saw the complete sentence like this.
‘John leaned over and smiled, his hands were should not be described should not be described the place where life was born should not be described should not be described should not be described…….Human’s most primitive should not be described should not be described should not be described……’
“This word here should represent mother. In addition, the word near here should mean children, babies, en, right, this book should explain the origin of human life.”
Miao Te: “………………”
The original words he saw on that page were——
‘He bit should not be described should not be described…… of this woman who would become a mother soon…… should not be described should not be described should not be described…… gnawing and sucking like a baby……’
“Then, we can proceed with this book as the next research focus.”
Professor Terry made his concluding remarks after several historians have said that the professor was right, yes, the professor was right.
Looking at the white-haired, white-bearded old man, they all said that they would work hard to study the copy of the violent n25 yellow book. The dark-haired youth felt that his embarrassment cancer had reached the late stages and has no more cure.
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Should he tell them the truth?
Why does he have the feeling that if he tells the truth, he will be killed by this group of old scholars whose average age is said to be over 260 or 70 years old?