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Chapter 289: Draconic Language Course

Then a few doctors in white coats entered and attached electrodes connected with wires to Gua Gua’s head.

"You can go to the lounge now," You Chi said to Wang Baihu, "Leave this to us."

"Don’t I need to go into the consciousness space?" the latter asked, puzzled.

"We don’t have enough equipment, we can only connect three people... or two people and a dragon."

"Alright... I hope Gua Gua can understand what they’re saying." You Chi was a bit disappointed, he initially thought he could also enter the consciousness space and see if it was as magical as Honglian described.

...

"Gua?"

"It actually works." Chen Xuan looked at the dinosaur slowly getting up from the ground, feeling incredulous himself.

The Gua Gua before him was not an illusion but the actual being invited into the dream.

To achieve this, at least two conditions needed to be met: the other party knew what dreaming was; the other party could understand the meaning of an invitation.

"Isn’t today’s dream a bit strange?" Lin Qing had also entered the dream at this moment, "It seems like there are a lot of impurities floating in the air."

"It’s not impurities, it’s noise," Chen Xuan judged, "The last dream collapse left Zhang Zhiqui with a bad impression, even if he himself may not remember. When encountering the same nightmare again, he can be more easily awakened."

"Luckily we don’t need to disturb him this time." Lin Qing turned her head towards Gua Gua, "Next, we need to let it understand what it needs to do."

Gua Gua looked around, eyes full of curiosity.

It wasn’t afraid of Chen Xuan and Lin Qing. Just before entering the dream, Wang Baihu had already introduced everyone in detail—even though it was unknown whether it understood, at least it knew these people meant no harm.

This time, the container they were in was farther away from Zhang Zhiqui, and door panels were added at the entrance, so even if a small lamp was lit inside, it wouldn’t be discovered from outside.

"Gua Gua, take a careful sniff of the air later," Chen Xuan patted the dinosaur’s neck, instructing word by word, "Remember its characteristics, then go out and find a similar scent."

"Gua."

"Do you understand?"

"Gua?"

"If you understand, nod once. If you don’t, nod twice."

"Gua ga." Gua Gua nodded three times.

"..." Chen Xuan was silent.

"What does this mean, did it understand or not?" Lin Qing couldn’t help asking.

"Who knows," Chen Xuan scratched his head; this step was far more difficult than he had anticipated. Gua Gua was indeed very smart, which could be reflected in its abilities, but being smart doesn’t mean it can accurately complete tasks.

"Why not let it try first?"

The worst result would be it doesn’t know what to do, wasting a day.

"That’s all we can do." Chen Xuan was about to open the door when he suddenly stopped, "Wait... maybe there are other ways."

"What ways?"

He didn’t answer directly, but took out a scanning gun to aim at himself, adjusting his abilities.

Then he took a deep breath and called out to Gua Gua, "Gua."

Lin Qing was dumbfounded.

Gua Gua shook its head, "Gua~"

Chen Xuan imitated, "Gua?"

"Gaaah!"

"What are you doing?" Lin Qing laughed, "You don’t really think that by barking a few times, the dog will understand what you mean, do you?"

"Perhaps a dog doesn’t, but Gua Gua definitely can," Chen Xuan made a shushing motion, "Let me say a few more things to it."

The person and the dragon started conversing back and forth.

If not for the fact that the time in the dream could be controlled by the Dream Maker, Lin Qing would have liked to go and wake Chen Xuan up.

But gradually, her initially pursed mouth began to form a large "O" shape.

The dialogue between the two was no longer confined to a couple of simple sounds.

It had become a series of harmonious notes!

"Gua ah ah roar!" Gua Gua said.

"Gaga wow gua!" Chen Xuan said.

Lin Qing surprisingly saw a hint of satisfaction in Gua Gua’s eyes.

Huh!? Am I dreaming?

No, this is still a dream! She smacked her cheeks forcefully, but was stopped by Chen Xuan after a few hits.

"What are you doing? This could cause a disconnection."

"Sorry, I can’t quite tell if this is a real dream or a false one," Lin Qing said, looking confused, "How can you possibly converse with an animal?"

"We all fell into a misconception before, which was thinking Gua Gua is an animal... a prehistoric dinosaur, or rather a large, smart pet."

"Isn’t it?"

"Of course not." Chen Xuan shook his head, "The saying that dogs can’t understand barking is because none of the dogs in the world are smart enough to invent a language. Whether it’s the sounds of apes or dolphins, they’re essentially instinctive roars, and no matter how much one mimics, it’s merely imitating the animal’s emotion at the time."

"But Gua Gua is no longer an animal, it’s... an intelligent lifeform, perhaps..." he paused, "perhaps even smarter than humans. Because of this, the sounds it makes are no longer roars but can be considered meaningful language."

Lin Qing raised her eyebrows in disbelief, "Are you serious?"

"There’s a way to prove it," Chen Xuan pointed at Lin Qing, "Whoa."

"Whoa?"

As the words fell, Lin Qing found herself twirling uncontrollably, turning three circles in place.

"What’s going on?" she exclaimed in astonishment.

"This demonstrates that it really is a language," Chen Xuan said, withdrawing his hand. He had just used the Law Commanding True Words Technique, which can only exert the effect of one word, and commands like turning three circles are usually impossible to execute. But when he used an entirely different language, the limitation was overcome—it contained more complex meanings with just one tone.

After hearing his explanation, Lin Qing was even more shocked, "Are you saying you not only realized Gua Gua invented a language, but also learned it within an hour?"

"Not really learned it; I can only say I’ve scratched the surface for now," Chen Xuan modestly said, "but at least I can make it understand our requirements."

Seeing his companions’ incomprehensible expressions, he knew it was necessary to explain more, "Actually, it’s not something I guessed randomly, but an inspiration given by the description of the ’Extraordinary Intelligence’ ability—if Gua Gua’s intelligence far surpasses that of beasts, and isn’t just equivalent to a ten-year-old child as the mechanism assumes, then what level is it at?"

The explanation he had given Lin Qing was obviously a simplified version.

In fact, the scanning gun described the ability as: ’Extraordinary Intelligence’ LV5, blue.

—"There are varying degrees of sages: lesser ones achieve their own success, greater ones benefit humanity; the cornerstone of civilization is built upon this latter kind of person."

If the ability is elevated to the level of civilization’s cornerstone, then creating a language should be entirely normal, right?

So he switched to a ’Linguistics’ ability and tried communicating with Gua Gua.

The result was even more astounding than he expected.

During the conversation, he wasn’t the one struggling to understand what the other party was saying; instead, Gua Gua was teaching him how to grasp its language, using expressions, body movements, and even the size of its mouth to assist in expressing. The linguistics ability elevated him to a language master level, and with Gua Gua’s brilliant guidance, it allowed him to roughly understand the framework of this foreign language’s expression in a very short time.

After listening, Lin Qing was dumbstruck.

It took her a long time to recover, "Even the average human couldn’t achieve that..."

Accurately speaking, most people couldn’t, at least Chen Xuan couldn’t guarantee he could easily teach an alien to speak Chinese.

From this perspective, Gua Gua’s intelligence might even surpass human levels.

It merely lacks systematic education... like nine-year compulsory education.

"With such a gap, how did the mechanism determine its level is only that of a child?" Lin Qing couldn’t understand. This would undoubtedly be a major work error. While the Dimensional Limit Mechanism’s principles strayed later on, its professional level remains top of the industry, so it shouldn’t be such a glaring mistake.

"I asked Gua Gua, and it said it deliberately feigned stupidity during the test," Chen Xuan shrugged, "because it felt the testing place was filled with a bloody and evil aura, and it didn’t want to stand out."

"Gua!" Gua Gua responded proudly.