Throne Steps

The house was lit by "stone lamps" all the time, there was no clock or hourglass, not even a window to show day and night.Time has lost its mark here, as if in eternal night.

Li Chen couldn't find a time reference, so he had to live with his biological clock.After the shock of just waking up, he was already able to treat everything that happened next with a normal heart-in fact, the situation was much better than he imagined.The guy who imprisoned him basically didn't care what Li Chen was doing except when necessary.

The so-called necessity is actually two things.One is to fill Chen with the liquid that was previously divided into small bottles at regular intervals.Because Li Chen hadn't eaten much other food at all during this period of time, the function of this liquid was clear and easy to understand - nine out of ten it was a nutritional supplement or something.After clarifying this point, Lichen would eat consciously when he felt hungry, and the "cloak" paid less attention to him.

The second is to take blood - which Li Chen judged as the reason for his imprisonment.

When taking blood for the first time, Li Chen saw him coming with a test tube and thought it was something else to drink.Unexpectedly, the cloak kicked him down, and then directly stepped on the small palm.

"...!" Li Chen's body tensed up the moment that kick came down.Unexpectedly, there was no severe pain as imagined.There was pain, but it was far less than Li Chen's original guess of "chopping bones with one foot".

Fixing the child's hand, the cloak took out a dagger out of nowhere, and slashed at Li Chen's wrist.

Immediately, blood gushed like a fountain.

That's how the scars came about!Li Chen immediately understood this matter.No matter how strange the world is, such a thing as "child suicide" still logically did not happen.

Thinking back and forth, judging from the situation of giving himself nutritional supplements, this guy is definitely not going to die.With such a turn in his mind, Li Chen let the opponent's actions go.

Sure enough, with just one stroke on the cloak, he put the dagger into the cuff of his inner shirt, and then raised Li Chen's hand—the blood dripped into the test tube along the way.After only three drops, the cloak was thrown away by Li Chen, and he returned to the light source.

Li Chen confirmed several things in a row.

The first one, the reason why I was imprisoned and the reason I was kept alive, was probably blood; the second one, the original cause of death of this body was probably bleeding too much; the third one, there was something wrong with the pain perception of this body.

In fact, there is one more thing—is there anything special about me?

Li Chen was not sure.The blood of this body is definitely different from that of the cloak, but it is difficult to judge which one is more common at this moment.

Is this body just an ordinary child picked at random, or is it a special individual that must be this?

Li Chen couldn't think about it too much, because the bleeding situation made him a little worried.If the cause of death was indeed blood loss, the blow might burst open the wound that had begun to heal.Li Chen looked around for a few times, and finally locked his target on a few pieces of cloth.

The strips of cloth seemed to be used to bind books, but now they are randomly thrown in the corner.Li Chen stood up and walked towards the corner, his anklets rattled for a moment.There is no sneaky meaning here, but some big movements deliberately made.

Li Chen's movements were not fast at first, and he paid close attention to the reaction of the cloak while walking.It wasn't until he finally stopped in front of the cloth strip that Li Chen confirmed that the cloak ignored him at all, and then picked up the cloth strip with confidence.

There is a display like a water cellar in the house, which is the only source of water.Given that the cloak himself drinks and uses it for experiments, Li Chen still believes in the quality of the water source.As for the principle, who cares?Li Chen scooped up half of the basin in an empty container that looked like a basin, then put the cloth in it and rubbed it. It may not be really clean, but it is a psychological comfort after all.Li Chen conveniently wrapped the still wet cloth strips on the wound, probably better than nothing.

Li Chen tried to use the time difference between eating and changing the stone lamp to calculate the flow rate of time, but there was no result, but he was not in a hurry.

He has a lot of time, almost nothing to do, and the cloak basically treats him as a little transparent with no sense of existence.Li Chen is not a person who is afraid of being alone, but it is absolutely impossible to continue like this.

Fortunately, I saved my life. If I have to degenerate into a thoughtless beast in the end, the result is unacceptable.

So Lichen was always looking for something to do.

He measured the distance of the chain—basically it’s okay to wander around the house; he dragged some old cloths to wash and dry in the shade and wrapped them around his body—it always felt subtle to run straight; he tried to remember how the nutrient was prepared—although The colors are still indistinguishable; staring at the fingertips of the cloak to draw the figure - gradually correcting the mistakes of the imitation drawing; the left and right hands alternately learning to write - although just randomly took a book in the corner to trace.

The implementation of the last item was always intermittent, and Li Chen didn't dare to use his eyes too much.According to his limited knowledge of young children's growth, developing children's eyesight will be affected if they look at things in a dark environment for a long time.

Already achromatopsic, don't make things worse.

When the cloak finally came out, Li Chen was able to completely trace and memorize more than a dozen shapes, and he also copied seven or eight pages from the book.

When Li Chen copied the book, he also integrated the text by the way.Although at first glance it is not as clear as the 26 letters of English, but judging from the repetition rate, Li Chen feels that the number of commonly used words in this language will not exceed 300.He began to memorize the words with the highest repetition rate, and compared the similarity between the graphics and the text. Occasionally, he felt that the strokes in the graphics were similar to the strokes of the font, so he sorted them out, which almost filled a sheet of paper.

The cloak first flipped through the stack of papers that Lichen used to practice drawing graphics, and then began to throw them aside one by one.Li Chen looked at it, and it seemed that the drawings were all wrong before. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but found that the finalized ones were also started to be thrown away.

Li Chen wasn't too nervous.Anyway, the pens were picked up from the side of the cloak, and the ink was dipped next to him, so it would be too late to teach him a lesson now.What's more, this situation always reminds Li Chen of the teacher who taught him Chinese in his previous life.

At that time, I could still write with my right hand.

Li Chen looked at his right hand, the mottled scars on his wrist seemed to remind him of his current situation.Laughing self-deprecatingly, he turned his gaze back to the cloak.

Finally, there were only two that were put down by An Ran—actually they were thrown in front of Li Chen in the other direction.

So there are only two right... Li Chen picked it up with some black lines, and one of them was exactly the one he saw for the first time.

Cloak began flipping through the transcript.

Li Chen thought he was going to throw it again, but this time the other party didn't move a piece of paper, but paused for a while on the paper summarizing the similarity between words and graphics.

Even if he hadn't been thrown, Li Chen didn't think that all the words in the manuscript were correct.Sure enough, the cloak took a blank piece of paper and started to write it himself.

Li Chen looked forward to seeing him writing like a fly, and suddenly looked forward to it—is this the long-awaited teaching finally arrived?

The cloak was finished quickly, Li Chen stood aside and glanced at it, there were definitely not more than fifty symbols—and he had never seen any of them.

Just when Li Chen was still puzzled, the cloak made a sound.He pointed to the first symbol and pronounced a sound, which was short and strange.

It's the pronunciation!Pinyin!Phonetic symbols!

For some reason, a TV commercial segment flashed across Li Chen's mind.

——This is the age of audiobooks!

He quickly picked up the pen and marked it with pinyin and phonetic symbols while reading along.But it seemed wrong again, the cloak uttered that syllable again, Li Chen stared at the other party's lips - this is only half of the face that can be seen under the cloak - using imitation skills to distinguish carefully, and finally finalized it correctly after slight adjustments .

There are 46 symbols in total, and the cloak quickly finished teaching, and then he found a book from the bookshelf and threw it to Li Chen.The book is a little thin and looks very old.As soon as Li Chen opened it, he was immediately stunned.

This turned out to be a dictionary!Li Chen only glanced twice, and his heart sank.

The text that Li Chen is plagiarizing is arranged as the main line, with the pronunciation of the teaching just now marked, and there are notes—but he has never seen any of the text that makes up the notes.

Two sets of text?This is a bilingual dictionary!

The most terrible thing is that I am afraid that the text of the annotation is the lingua franca.And what he is learning may only be used in certain special places.It feels a bit like trying to master Arabic, only to find out that I was born in the Celestial Dynasty.

And even if it is "Arabic", the cloak doesn't seem to have the slightest intention to continue teaching.No matter how much Li Chen wants to gain more knowledge, he can't be stupid, so he can only master what he has learned.

Soon, he discovered that the cloak was not a sudden discovery of conscience.

Most of the books here are in non-universal languages—according to the title of the book that the cloak said, Li Chen had to find it on the bookshelf and hand it to him.There are a lot of books, and Li Chen was very slow at first to find them. Impatient with the cloak, he would get up and sweep Li Chen who had climbed up the bookshelf to find books, and then took them away by himself.

Li Chen confirmed that this body is healthier and stronger than the generally recognized body of a child, and there is really a problem with the pain.If it weren't for Li Chen not being able to get the dagger, he really wanted to draw the knife himself when taking blood - to clearly test the degree of pain loss.

But these are all side matters. Li Chen's main task now is to classify these endless books.

The books on the bookshelf are not sorted by the first letter of pronunciation, but according to the book-finding mode of the cloak, there must be a classification.Li Chen records the books that the cloak has found as the most important record, and records the others in alphabetical order.These books were sorted according to their titles and their positions were marked. Although the project was huge, what Li Chen needed most was time.After going back and forth, he almost remembered where the most commonly used book for the cloak was.

On the other hand, Li Chen would flip through all the books that had run out of cloaks.Sometimes he could find the figure that the cloak had drawn just now, and he would copy down the sentence next to it-this was usually the words that the cloak read out when drawing the pattern.The cloak realized that Li Chen didn't close the book when he handed it out after flipping through it, and even acquiesced in Li Chen's way of mixing various liquids together—although they all ended up being poured out in the end.

When these things gradually became smoother, Cloak's common language dialogue finally increased again after the first "speech".

Li Chen seized the opportunity to hold up the common language dictionary he had found, and asked the cape to read the pinyin one by one again. If he was lucky, he could even ask the meaning of simple words.

Language learning is finally on the right track.Although it is not systematic enough, after a while of exploration, at any rate, Li Chen can begin to understand a little bit what the cloak is saying, and can jump out word by word intermittently.If you want to be truly fluent in language, I am afraid that you need the influence of the big environment.Now that the two of them face each other, Li Chen doesn't expect much.

"Complete." Li Chen took advantage of the cloak's movement as if it had come to an end, and hurriedly moved his test tube to the other party.It is also possible to check the experimental results and generate dialogue exercises. Li Chen regards this opportunity as an important matter.

The cloak still only glanced at it: "Throw it."

Typical failure verdict.Despite achromatopsia, Lichen found a unique way to identify various liquids—smell them.He dare not say anything else, the commonly used ones can definitely be distinguished, and he believes that at least he did not choose the wrong raw materials.

So did you get the ratio wrong?

Although the process of making the cloak can be imitated vividly, since Li Chen can't draw light and shadow anyway - after reading a lot of books, he believes that this is a manifestation of the body's lack of affinity for the elements, that is, no magical talent - it is possible to succeed Only those reagents that can be prepared.What I'm thinking about now is the nutrient.

The result of eye observation is not necessarily accurate, and there is a real possibility that something will go wrong at the moment of pouring... It would be great if I could get a prescription for the nutritional supplement.

Li Chen glanced at the huge pile of books calmly, and sighed in his heart that this is not easy to handle.There are many names in books in non-common languages ​​that I can’t understand, and the ones I am most familiar with are those that I need to read for cloaks. Not only the language is secretive, but most of them have complicated patterns.As for the nutritional supplements, it is estimated that the cloak can be successfully prepared with eyes closed, and it is impossible to refer to the formula in the book.

If you know it, don’t use it, if you don’t know how to use it... Li Chen laughed at himself and poured out the liquid, and threw the test tube into the big basin to be washed—these are all the work of this little man—then turned around.

The cloak held a test tube in one hand and the dagger in the other: "Hold out your hand."

Li Chen looked at it, and directly stretched out his finger to feed it on the blade of the dagger, and with a little force, blood oozes out.The cloak froze for a moment, and didn't start receiving the third drop of blood, which was still three drops.Then he put away the dagger, turned around and took a reagent and handed it to Li Chen.

"drink."

Li Chen did it easily, and the feeling of drinking it was different from that of nutritional supplements.Although he had already drank various cloak experiments, there seemed to be something different this time.

As if drinking warm water, the warmth spread from the throat to the internal organs, and then spread to the limbs, making the whole body warm and comfortable.

Probably a blood tonic.Li Chen pretended to be nonchalant and recited the past to continue his writing and drawing and random experiments. After a while, he slowly evoked a meaningful smile.

Looks like a good performance...a reward.