my stealth fighter

Chapter 764 Split
The plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and Marikina thought everything was under the general's control, until the two weirdos wrote weird words.

To be reasonable, she has a fixed language course every morning. Except for English and Russian, she has basically dabbled in other alphabet-based languages. At least after seeing it, she will understand what it is Language, but although the words written by these two eccentrics were also based on letters, she was confused. It couldn't be their own language, could it?Aren't they geniuses among geniuses?

She couldn't get in touch with the general, so she was caught in a dilemma. Either she had to find a way to find someone, even if she couldn't find the general, at least she had to find other scientific researchers, but in this way, she couldn't care about the communication between these two weirdos at all. , although she can't understand their language, and since she can't check the grammar, there must be many mistakes in the guessed letters, but it's better than nothing, otherwise they write a note, read a note, and eat a piece of paper. A note, no trace will be left after the event.

There was very little time left for her to think. Seeing that the man finished writing the note and passed it to the woman, the woman also took ten seconds to read the note, then tore it up and ate it, and then started the next round. I can relax my mind, stop thinking about other issues for the time being, and concentrate on guessing the letters and four symbols they wrote.

The notes prepared in the drawer are all A4 paper cut to less than one finger wide. It is very reluctant to write a sentence in English with a slightly complicated meaning. This is also to facilitate Marikina’s telepathy, but the language used by these two weirdos , each word is so short, you can often write two sentences in a note, and the other party can still understand it.

Sure enough, in the note that the man just finished writing, the abbreviation CJ appeared again, three times in just two sentences.

There is another feature of telepathic word guessing, that is, the higher the frequency of words, the easier it is to guess correctly. There is reason to suspect that "CK" is probably a typographical error.

If such a short abbreviation is guessed as CJ several times in a row, then it must be CJ and it cannot be anything else. So what is CJ?The common ones are nothing more than the names of people, places, or abbreviations that have special meaning to them.

Considering that this is the No. 43 scientific experiment station where they are not familiar, the possibility of the place name can basically be ruled out. In addition, they used this language on a temporary basis. At first they wanted to use square characters, but they had to switch to this language. It is impossible to agree in advance what "CJ" stands for, but they can be sure that if they write it out by themselves, the other party will be able to understand it without additional explanation. It is probably an important person's name, right?

Unfortunately, except for this CJ, this language is like a bible to Marikina, reminding her of the feeling when she first saw Arabic.

It was the first time for these two eccentrics to communicate secretly with pen and paper, and they still had strong apprehension and wariness. While one was writing, the other was chattering and staring at the door vigilantly, his ears pricked like Flagpole, once there is movement at the door, the evidence will be destroyed immediately-but what they were worried about did not happen.

In fact, they also have doubts, whether the pen was left on purpose by the military, and the existence of the pile of thin paper is also puzzling, but the paper is very ordinary paper, the pen is a very ordinary pen, and they twisted the pen. I opened it and looked at it. It is just a pen core and a pen tube. It would be too unbelievable to say that this can also be monitored, unless the military has Zenith Star technology and added sci-fi gadgets such as nano-robots to the ink.

As for where they sit, the ceiling is above their heads, and there is no way to see what they are writing from above, and they can't even see their hand movements, so they only need to worry about whether someone will suddenly break in at the door.

The communication went smoothly, but they didn't dare to be too careless. They sailed carefully for ten thousand years. They only passed the note back and forth a few times, and then ended the exchange. They quietly put the pen and the unused note back in the drawer Li—By the way, there are a lot of blank notes prepared in the drawer, and they want to make sure that the few missing notes will not be discovered this time.

After confirming that they stopped communicating temporarily, Marikina wiped off her cold sweat, hurriedly ran out of the dormitory with the things she had written down, and found the officer in charge of managing these reserve girls, expressing anxiously that she had something important to ask the general.

However, usually the general would come to her for business, and in her capacity, it is unrealistic to take the initiative to find the general. There are too many ranks in the middle, and the officers in charge of managing them cannot make decisions and can only report to the general.

Now she can only be thankful that she didn't choose to look for someone just now, otherwise she couldn't afford to waste the time. She waited for ten minutes, and finally got the news from her superiors - the general is out at this time, not in the experiment station.

She tried to ask when the general would come back, but she only got a blank stare from the officer. Could it be she who asked this?The general must have something important to go out, maybe it's a military secret.

She had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and ask to meet the language teacher who was in charge of teaching her.

Her language courses are fixed in the morning, and the language teacher has other things to do after noon, maybe to teach other students, and waited for about half an hour before finally meeting with the teacher.

Since this was a private matter entrusted to her by the general, she did not dare to show the teacher all the recorded content, and only picked out two unconnected sentences for the teacher to read.

The language teacher glanced at the strange words on the paper, then looked at her again, "This is not some lost ancient language, nor is it an alien language, it's Chinese Pinyin."

"Huh? Pinyin...Pinyin? Chinese?"

Marikina never dreamed of it, but isn't Chinese a square pictograph?

"No wonder you don't know each other. You haven't learned Chinese before, and you haven't arranged Chinese courses for you. But even if you were arranged for Chinese courses, you probably would have skipped the pinyin part." The language teacher explained.

That's right, in order to maximize the learning effect in the limited time, all of Marikina's learning content is "practical" as the biggest purpose, and it is "practical" only for her. She doesn't need to know how to pronounce a word, As long as she knows how to write it, as long as she knows its grammar and spelling rules, even if she learns Chinese, she will skip the process of learning pinyin.

Chinese is notoriously difficult to learn in the world. Many foreigners whose mother tongue is not Chinese may be able to speak Chinese fluently, or even speak pure Beijing movies or Northeast dialect, but if they are asked to write Chinese characters, they will write If they can’t come out, let them type Chinese characters on the computer or mobile phone, it’s also impossible, because they haven’t learned Pinyin, how can they type without learning Pinyin?Didn't hitting Wubi kill them even more?
Marikina straightened her thoughts. If it's pinyin, there's nothing I can do. But it seems that the teacher can know pinyin, so she asked, "Can you understand what these two sentences mean?"

The language teacher smiled wryly, "I know a little bit of Chinese, but...the pinyin you wrote must be misspelled. Although it is relatively easy to correct the pinyin, if you guess the wrong tone, the semantics will be completely different. You can make sure you Are the four tones you guessed correct? But this CJ, um, must be the name of the person."

"..."

Marikina was about to go crazy, obviously looking at such a simple spelling, why is it so complicated!
What she has to deal with is a combination of 26 letters plus 4 tones. Although tones only appear on the heads of a few letters, this level of complexity is like Mount Everest standing horizontally in front of her.

She can see very clearly. When the spelling and intonation are all clear at a glance, it will take the two weirdos about ten seconds to understand the note written by the other party. The difficulty will also increase exponentially.

The teacher looked at her sympathetically. Although she was asked to arrange the training courses by herself, it is quite commendable that she used such hell-difficult courses to hone herself.

"Is there still time for me to start learning Chinese?" Marikina asked almost desperately.

"If you are in a hurry, it may be very difficult." The teacher said tactfully. After all, Marikina is hardworking but not a language genius. "Chinese is difficult to learn, and pinyin and tones are even more difficult to learn. , Many people whose mother tongue is not Chinese and who have lived in China for several years may not be able to spell every tone correctly, unless they started learning Chinese from birth."

"Then what should I do? Is there any other way?" She said dejectedly.

The teacher thought for a while, "I don't quite understand your telepathic... method, so what I said may not be feasible, but maybe you can give it a try-although the pinyin is very complicated, if you don't combine 26 letters and 4 Think of these tones as a whole, but guess independently, first guess the letter, and then guess the tone, will this work? The tone is different from the numbers from 0 to 9. If you guess the number wrong, you guess it wrong. There is no chance to correct it, but There is a certain regular relationship between tones and letters. If you connect the context, there is a chance to correct it. Of course, it is still very difficult. If you can try to improve the correct rate, I can help you try to find out the correct interpretation of pinyin, and the correct semantics."

If Marikina has realized something, if this is the case, guessing the tone and guessing the number really cannot be confused, and there is a possibility of splitting the guess.

But this is a private matter entrusted by the general, and the general specifically asked her not to report it to the teacher. She can't decide, she has to ask the general for instructions.

Where is the general?When will you be back?
She couldn't just wait around doing nothing until the general came back and contacted her. What if those two weirdos wrote notes to communicate?She could only temporarily decline the teacher's kindness, go back to the single dormitory, and continue to monitor the actions of the two weirdos.

(End of this chapter)