Abnormal crossing

Chapter 6 What should I do if I open my eyes and am surrounded by aliens?
As if Milo's thoughts had been anticipated, a bleating voice soon sounded from the ceiling: "Captain, Jin, the report is out. I'll go over there now."

"Thank you, Meimee." Jin thanked the person above her head, pulled up one of her smooth long legs and wrapped it around the seat, then pressed the bracelet on her wrist.

Swah——

With the pressing of a button, a translucent blue light curtain immediately appeared in front of Jin.

Jin looked at it on the spot.

Milo waited quietly for a while, and when he saw Jin scrolling faster and faster, he couldn't help but ask, "How's the report?"

"Not very good." Jin kept the screen floating, changed the posture of crossing her chest with her hands, and introduced herself concisely:

"It's a very standard carbon-based life form. Its physiological age is about eight years old according to the Alliance Year. It has no other artificial bodies except for the teeth that have signs of wearing braces. Its cell vitality is low, and its telomere evolution length is relatively primitive. This is the key point. After all, the technological level and life span of most civilizations are positively correlated. In short."

At this point, she paused for a moment, organized her words, and came to the final conclusion: "This is an ordinary person, a planetary life that couldn't be more ordinary."

Milo leaned over and took a few glances. "So he's just an unlucky Qedasian who was somehow teleported to the ship?"

"Not necessarily." Jin shook his head and pointed to one of the columns and said, "It would be difficult for him to move normally on the planet Kedas given his physical fitness - at least the gravity bearing capacity is not compatible. In addition, Polona prohibits interstellar slave trade, so it is unlikely that he can appear here as a natural person."

"Of course, it is possible that he originally had some auxiliary devices on his body to help balance the external force, but they were lost during the transmission process. However, I personally feel that this is unlikely."

"Adding to the energy situation mentioned earlier, the unlucky guy may be real, but there is probably something wrong with him."

Milo tapped his fingers on the table a few times: "So what you mean is..."

Jin shrugged. "Although data is relatively objective, it is too rigid after all. Some things can only be understood through face-to-face communication, right?"

Milo was silent for a while, and seemed to think that what Jin said made sense, so he stood up from his seat and walked back to the platform with Jin: "Meimei, untie his restraints."

Gu Wei felt like he was dreaming.

In his dream, he first fell into a big pit without knowing what was going on. He heard a bunch of weird words in a daze, and then his eyes went black. When he woke up, he found that a strange man was holding his hand affectionately and wanted to kiss it, but within a few seconds, his eyes went black again.
What the hell is this mess?
and many more?

Am I not dead?
No, it's not just that I didn't die, I should say that I could...
Have you thought about it?

Thinking of this, Gu Wei suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes did not feel the discomfort he had imagined. After a short adaptation period of less than a second, Gu Wei "gained" sight again.

then
He then saw a man and a woman standing on his left.

The man was about two meters tall, with dyed, silky silver hair, and a bodysuit similar to the Marvel character Black Panther. He had a square face, and his features were not handsome but very regular. His eyebrows were quite in line with the Chinese aesthetic of thick eyebrows and big eyes. Although his memory was a bit short, Gu Wei recognized the other person at a glance as the man who had held his hand before.
The woman on the other side was about 1.75 meters tall and had an extremely delicate face. However, what attracted more attention than her face was the big fish head printed on her jumpsuit, which made Gu Wei subconsciously think of the British national dish "Looking Up at the Stars".
While Gu Wei was sizing up the other man, the man started talking, and a bunch of gibberish that Gu Wei couldn't understand came out of his mouth: "%￥#@"

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Gu Wei was silent for a few seconds, and deliberately moved two steps to the side. When he found that the other party did not make any restrictive actions, he relaxed a little bit - at this time he had already made some guesses. Although he still had many questions and confusions in his heart, at least from his own small actions, the other party should not be so wary of him.

Of course, the more likely possibility is that the other party is confident enough and is not afraid of causing trouble.

Then Gu Wei bit the soft flesh below his lips with his canine teeth and forced himself to calm down through the pain: "I don't understand what you are saying. Can you speak Chinese? Or English?" Gu Wei noticed that after he opened his mouth, the woman opposite him shrugged her shoulders at the man, and raised her eyebrows instead of frowning. He could roughly guess that her meaning was something like "That's what I say."

Then the woman said something to the ceiling, and soon a small box fell from the ceiling - well, it fell at a constant speed without any visible equipment to pull it.

Not sure if it was an illusion caused by psychological sensitivity, but Gu Wei seemed to be able to vaguely sense that the other party seemed to be hinting at the difference in the environment through certain details.

Under Gu Wei's gaze.

The woman fiddled with the small box for a while, then pulled a handful of hair from the man's head. Ignoring his protests, she walked to Gu Wei with the hair in her hand, shook it in front of him, and uttered a syllable: "%$"

Gu Wei was slightly startled, but soon understood what the other party meant and said in standard Mandarin: "Hair."

The small box in the woman's hand rang with Gu Wei's recording: "Hair."

Then the woman used similar methods to make Gu Wei recite a lot of very basic items, including but not limited to [clothes], [pants], [eyes], [gold], etc.
There were some items that Gu Wei had never seen before so he couldn't name, and there were others that Gu Wei was not sure whether the semantics were correct.

For example, if the group item is an iron block, Gu Wei doesn't understand whether the other party wants to express metal, iron or iron element, so he just randomly chooses iron as the answer.

However, judging from the woman's expression, the latter should also be prepared to make mistakes.

The whole process lasted for more than an hour, and the woman carefully recorded hundreds of pronunciations.

Although Gu Wei was still very alert and nervous during this period, it could not be denied that he also developed a certain degree of curiosity.

After all, in his opinion, it is almost impossible to master or decipher a human language in a short period of time by analyzing the pronunciation of some objects, at least with the current level of technology.

Take Chinese as an example.

Conceptually, Chinese has three types of vowels: open, middle and coronal. In addition, there are two semi-vowels: palatal and rounded. In addition, there are medials, nuclei and codas. This is not something that can be solved by just listening and using smecta.

Not to mention that the names of things are highly subjective. Even different cities in the same province may have different names for the same thing. The most typical example is potatoes. The names of potatoes from all over the country alone can be combined to form a 3,000-word chapter for an update.
More than an hour later, the beautiful woman came back to Gu Wei.

This time she handed Gu Wei a metal bean similar to an in-ear headset and motioned Gu Wei to put it in his ears.

Gu Wei did as he was told.

Then Gu Wei saw the other party press the small box and say something to him. At the same time, a more vague language came from the earphone: "#@￥%"

Gu Wei shook his head.

So the woman pressed it a second time.

Gu Wei still didn't understand.

Then the third and fourth.
Just when the woman pressed it for the fifth time, a long-lost voice suddenly rang in Gu Wei's ears:

"Have you eaten yet? If not, let's order some food first."

Note: The setting of the translation comes from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is an introduction to cross-cultural communication. There are already similar technical prototypes. The paper can be seen at arxiv.org/abs/2408.04628 and doi.org/10.1007/s10071-007-0129-9. The current level of technology has deciphered the pronunciation patterns of some killer whales, so it is not an exaggeration to decipher a language if the technology is strong enough.
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