Chapter 12 Silent World
作者:Zhu Congqian      更新:2024-07-30 16:27      字数:3108
    In the underground world, another White Tower suddenly rose from the sea. The part suspended in the air was the widest. The “tentacles” connecting the sky and the earth were extremely long, like a double-headed needle inserted into the underground world. This was a world with both underground sea and sky. The Dinomen called it the second level of the outpost: the “Silent World”.

    Yu Sha quickly understood the meaning of such a name. The calm sea was like a blue mirror, without any breeze, waves or even the ripples. A group of Pterodactyls passed by the sea quietly. The sunlight that came from nowhere shone on their crimson crowns and bright yellow beaks, turning them into even more brilliant colors.

    When they got close enough to the sea surface, the Pterodactyls placed their beaks in the silent sea……a few of them were lucky enough to catch a big fish, but this movement was as quiet as a dream, and the sea quickly returned to be calm like a mirror.

    “What should we do? I can’t swim!” Seeing her feet standing on the sea, Yu Sha was shocked.

    The Dinoman put a finger in front of its long mouth and made a gesture of silence. At the same time, a text prompt flowed in the eye of the little robot: “Keep your voice down! As long as you keep quiet, we can walk on the sea!”

    “What if the voice is too loud?” Yu Sha asked.

    The little robot took out an old mobile phone, and the music player program loaded just long enough for the robot to throw it out. Before the old mobile phone touched the sea, it played a square dance, and the clam sea suddenly turned into restless lava, burning the phone instantly.

    Yu Sha had lingering fears, and she quietly followed the Dinoman forward in the sea, while the little robot flew happily in the air relying on the propeller on its tail. The long journey was a good time for Yu Sha to ask questions, but when thinking about the mobile phone swallowed by the lava, she had to swallow the problem alone.

    Time passed very slowly in the silent space. After an unknown period of time, Yu Sha saw a small island on the sea level. She saw the shell-like sails driving strange triangular ships. Pterosaurs of different sizes were chasing the strange ships on the sea and snatched the fish caught on the ships. Plesiosaurs fled the water like dolphins, and their fin-like limbs seemed to be able to fly in the air and underwater at the same time.

    When getting closer, Yu Sha could clearly see the outline of the island.

    “Isn’t this Macao?” Yu Sha clearly remembered the outline of Macao Peninsula after passing the cross-sea bridge for countless times.

    The Dinoman nodded silently and motioned for her to keep her voice as low as possible.

    But she soon discovered the differences. Most of the buildings on the island were egg-shaped. The light flashed across the shell of the egg-shaped buildings, as if the buildings were breathing. On the roads paved with obsidian, the Dinomen rode bipedal or four-legged dinosaurs, replacing human cars for commuting. However, these huge dinosaurs carried Dinomen and their cargo but walked silently. The silent city of the Dinomen, with crowd but no one spoke or yelled, and even their footsteps were as soft as snow.

    When going ashore, Yu Sha was afraid of being recognized by the Dinomen here. She was a head taller than the average Dinomen, with very different appearance. Fortunately, those Dinomen only looked at him vigilantly, and no one really said a word about her arrival.

    “The Dinomen here are not allowed to speak. They are all outspoken liars before they wake up, so they are imprisoned on this island and can only rely on the Horcrux to communicate with each other.” Seeming to hate deception, the Dinoman Zere said with its fangs exposed.

    “Are they also mute? Like me?” Yu Sha thought sadly.

    “Their silence is different from yours. They have been deprived of the right to speak because of lies. Telepathy can only convey the true feeling……so there is no escape from their inner world, and they have to live in a world of absolute truth. Well, this is actually a kind of torture.”

    They arrived at the city at dusk. At the port were two standing Argentinosaurus statues. They stood like prancing horses, with their entangled long tails forming a third leg, powerfully supporting their majestic bodies. The front feet of the statues of the two giant dinosaurs touched together, and the two huge bodies formed an arch.

    But why were we here?

    “We have to find the Saint of Great Wisdom.” The Dinoman’s crest with orange spots bloomed like a flame burning in the setting sun. Then he cast a meaningful look. “The Saint of Great Wisdom is in this place of exile. He can answer many questions for you.”

    “Including the questions that I can’t answer you. No one has actually seen him, but I think you can give a try.” The Dinoman Zere said expectantly, “Everything is messed up, we urgently need to find the Saint of Great Wisdom to draw wisdom from him. The world is moving towards an uncontrollable future. ”

    The little robot has to show a pitiful expression behind the Dinoman, and it even learned to use its hands to bow like a puppy. “Please.”

    The statue of the giant dinosaur cast a huge shadow. Yu Sha looked back at the two statues in the afterglow. The upper parts of their bodies had been integrated into the first coming night, and the sound of falling stones can be vaguely heard, but everything was submerged in the coming night, and the underground night was like an abyss.

    “Okay, then how can I find him?” Yu Sha could remember the voice of the Dinoman, but she was even more confused because of it. “Didn’t you say that he is dead? The last time I communicated with him through the ‘system’ formed by his remaining memories?”

    \“He did die 65 million years ago. But as you know, he turned his memory into a ‘system’, which is just a fragment of his memory. If we need to ask him something in person, we need his logic.”

    “Then what does his logic look like?” Yu Sha felt it much easier to find an item than to find someone.

    “The Saint of Great Wisdom incorporated his logic into genetic information and placed it in the hibernation cabin of the outpost. He said that he liked silence, so he personally designed this prison where liars could not speak, which is a paradise for the scientific weirdo like him.” The Dinoman said, staring at the last ray of light.

    “Maybe he is anything, an old man, a child, a man, a woman, or even a dinosaur. It’s just that his genetic information is strictly encrypted, but we must find him before darkness and chaos completely fall.”

    Looking for it in a completely strange world of dinosaurs? Maybe it’s easier to find a specific sand on the black sand beach than this.

    “If you choose to agree, you have to go to the city alone to find the Great Wisdom Sage, but I can only stay here.” The Dinoman Zere stayed under the statue. “My dishonest heart will make me trigger the punishment of the ‘Silent World’, being swallowed by lava. In this city, it’s not that you will be safe enough if you don’t make a sound, as I have said before, this world tolerates no lies……”

    The Dinoman seemed to be sorry for its stopping, but its words also admitted lies. However, where did the Dinoman lie to her……or was everything he said a lie. But when she thought about the lie, the stinging feeling she felt when she told the lie came back again.

    “So like what I have said before, you have the right to choose……”

    “I will.” Yu Sha nodded silently, and the night fell in the silent city.

    As night fell, the figure of the Dinoman Zere under the statue of the giant dinosaur became smaller and smaller, while the silent city got closer and closer to Yu Sha. On the right was the restaurant at night. The Dinomen exchanged the food caught on the backs of dinosaurs during the day. Others exchanged brightly colored egg-shaped items for fish. Yu Sha guessed that they were the fruits of the Dinomen. Sometimes when the exchange was not equal, or when there was no enough capital, the Dinoman would reluctantly pull out the feathers on their own tails as compensation. When looking at the expression of those Dinomen, Yu Sha thought of when her mother was paying.

    “Excuse me, do you know where the Saint of Great Wisdom lives?” After bowing first, Yu Sha asked the Dinoman on the back of the duck-billed dinosaur. The little robot reminded her that she could communicate with the Dinoman here through telepathy.

    “A monster without a tail.” Yu Sha got this answer and a look of contempt.

    “Excuse me, do you know where the Saint of Great Wisdom lives?”

    “This tailless giant looks delicious.” The bald Dinoman sitting on its top almost crushed the Archeopteryx below him to death, and its expression was as cruel as its heart.

    “Excuse me, do you know where the Saint of Great Wisdom lives?” Yu Sha did not stop asking. However, the answers she received were either being ignored or being neglected, which felt terrible.

    She found a clue during her 598th inquiry. When she was about to ask a Dinoman who was tallying goods, the Dinoman with a broken claw riding on a Pachycephalosaurus spoke before her……to be precise, communicate through telepathy. But the object who was talking to the Dinoman with the broken claw was not her but a stooped Dinoman who was busy carrying a basket of goods to Parasaurolophus.

    “It looks like you have a good harvest today. The wings of this Aztec Pterosaur are long enough to make a beautiful cloak.” The Dinoman with the broken claw showed a greedy expression, and all its emotions seemed to need no disguise here, for there was no blandishments. “Three swordfish, this is the highest price I can offer. Don’t be disrespectful, dwarf!”

    Maybe this sentence could be changed to “I sincerely want to buy it, three fishes! Think about it, the price is not bad, and there are wounds on the wings of this Pterosaur……” If my Mom were here, she would definitely say this, for tender words made it easier to make a deal, Yu Sha thought.

    But in the face of absolute truth, wasn’t such rhetoric a lie?

    “In addition to your two tail feathers. You need to give me another three swordfish before they grow back.” With a thin body, it finished the work of tallying the goods and hunched over and climbed onto Parasaurolophus again. In the orchid shelf on the back of Parasaurolophus, the head of the Parasaurolophus hunted by it was twice as big as the Dinoman.

    The sharp eyes of the stooped Dinoman showed that he was a hunter that should not be underestimated. “Your ugly appearance is not good enough for this beautiful Pterosaur. You are wasting your life buying it. Besides, your price is not high. The courtship ceremony of the Dinomen is about to begin……I am doing a good deed, for your dressing like that is sure to scare the girl.”

    “You are so unreasonable!” The silent quarrel was also shocking, and the explosive temper of the Dinoman with the broken claw made its anger extremely intense. The hostile atmosphere felt by the dinosaurs under them became restless, and the battle between the two Dinomen was imminent.

    If they had concealed each other’s feeling a little, this fight would not have happened. At this time, Yu Sha felt that telling the lie was not a mistake.

    “Stop your fighting! Do you want to cause trouble? If you make a sound, the ‘system’ will hear it, and then the ground under your feet will be swallowed by lava. Damn it, why are we here to suffer this?” An aging Dinoman said tremblingly. Obviously he had endured silence for too long. “No matter which of you falls down, you will cry out. Even if you can hold your voice, the dinosaur you are sitting on cannot do it. I have no intention of upholding justice, but your fight will affect everyone in this area……”

    The two furious Dinomen could only swallow their anger alone……Any voice could be heard here, and Yu Sha could feel their inner turmoil from the ferocious faces above their long mouths.

    “If you don’t separate, all of our Dinomen will swarm up and knock you down before you cry out in pain. We don’t care who is right or wrong, and we don’t want to be affected by your impulse.” The words of the aging Dinoman were not enough to pose a threat, but more glares fathered around him could not be denied.

    Yu Sha could see the bloodshot mouth and the exposed fangs……But in the end, the two Dinomen rationally chose to obey their fate.

    This was very clever, but also helpless.

    “Absolute reality is hell!” The little robot followed with the words flashing in its eye, and it made a sad expression as it hovered in the air. But why was this? Wasn’t the heart-to-heart communication the easiest thing in the world to eliminate barriers?

    However, Yu Sha quickly guessed something. Emotions and truth are actually two different things. When people could only follow the truth but could not release emotions, then instincts and impulses would feel suppressed.

    Instinct? Instinct? Yu Sha thought about it over and over again, and suddenly she had an idea.

    Wasn’t that exactly what he wanted? For a scientific weirdo, the most painful thing was communicating with people. Yu Sha remembered the common settings in human movies. Entrusting memory to computers was obviously safer than humans.

    But memory was just memory after all, and the original core logic……Yu Sha smiled, and she suddenly realized.

    “Little robot, listen to me now!” Yu Sha raised her head and said to it loudly. “Fly away from the island, but not too far. Do you still remember the music we played at the exhibition yesterday? The louder you play that music, the better!”

    The little robot showed a surprised expression. Its brain seemed to be frightened and short-circuited by Yu Sha’s words, and its tail almost stopped rotating and made it fall from the air.

    “Listen to me, hurry up!” Yu Sha’s tone was irrefutable. The little robot immediately spread his hands to express his helpless acceptance, and then quickly flew to the distant sea area.

    Yu Sha did not expect that the cute body of the little robot could burst out with such volume. The dark and quiet sea immediately boiled into a sea of flames. The fire and strong sound formed deadly waves. All the Dinomen on the island witnessed the surging lava on the sea, and they immediately realized that the catastrophe was imminent.

    So the Dinomen in the whole city ran in a panic, but the ocean was burning, and the Dinomen on the island had no way to escape. Now fear dominated the poor Dinomen, but their reasons did not allow them to make a sound for help.

    “Hold on, hold on for a while. It will end soon!” Yu Sha ran, for she needed to hurry up. If any Dinoman couldn’t stand it and made noises and be swallowed by flames, it would be her fault, but this was the only way.

    The hot lava echoed with the sound waves. The running Yu Sha saw huge containers appearing on the bottom of the sea where the flames had burned out. Each container was filled with liquid. Monsters as big as the mountains were sleeping in the containers under the sea water.

    Running in the narrow streets in the flames of doom, Yu Sha was almost trampled by the great dinosaur several times, but the little girl did not flinch.

    Across the center of the Dinoman City, the street layout there was more like Macao. On the left side of the street where Yu Sha passed, the egg-shaped buildings were densely stacked. The tops of those dilapidated low-rise buildings were covered with yellow-brown patches, like wind-swept pebbles on the beach. Further away, on the islands separated by the inland sea, the buildings there were not only more spectacular, but also colorful. They were built against three connected peaks.

    The terrain here was very similar to the place where Yu Sha used to play when she was a child——the fountain next to the Senado Square. Oh my God, this place looked exactly like Macao on the ground. Yu Sha liked the fountain because there were many tourists here and they all made wishes to the fountain. No one cared that she was mute, so she felt more like a normal person sitting here.

    Here, Yu Sha saw a small Dinoman drawing a picture of the starry sky on the ground.

    “Excuse me, do you know where the Saint of Great Wisdom lives?” Yu Sha asked breathlessly.

    “It’s none of my business.” For all the silent burning ocean and the scorching air, the little Dinoman continued to paint.

    Yu Sha was relieved, for she realized that she finally found the right person.