My fairy tale is actually a strange story

Chapter 87 Fist Bump

squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak...

Halfway through looking at the stars and the moon together, Sand Diao suddenly stretched out its small paws and balled them up. It moved toward Jiang Yuncheng in a small fist pattern, stretching and contracting several times.

"What for? Boxing?"

Jiang Yuncheng was confused and had no idea what Sha Diao was doing.

Zhiji——

Sand Marten pointed to the distance, where the city walls of Chengfeng District could be seen. They were like earth and stone walls built in ancient cities. They were territorial fortifications built by fairies.

It looks like it's going home.

Before going home, Sha Diao poked Jiang Yuncheng's hand again, and then continued to make a fist with his little claws. He seemed quite disappointed when he couldn't get the response he wanted.

"Are you going to fist bump with me?"

When expressing emotions such as friendship, trust, and tacit understanding, humans also interact by fist-bumping or lightly touching each other's chest with their fists.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuncheng made a fist with his left hand and stretched it forward. He took out his mobile phone with his right hand and turned on the recording function.

What Sha Diao is talking about now is definitely not just praising the beautiful night. It may contain some important things. If you take the tape back, you might be able to find a member of the exchange station to translate it.

Seeing Jiang Yuncheng extending his fisted palm, Sha Diao became obviously more and more excited. He also extended his fisted paw and pushed his fists together lightly, which seemed to be a gesture of reaching some kind of agreement or tacit understanding.

After doing this, the sand marten turned around and jumped out for more than ten meters, then turned back and waved its little paws to say goodbye, before continuing to run towards the wind riding area and disappearing into the vast night.

"Strange…"

Jiang Yuncheng looked at the less than two-minute recording on his phone and was not sure whether there was anyone at the exchange station who could translate.

According to the guards, when goblins and humans conduct material transactions, they are often led by goblins who understand human language. Those goblins are the diplomats of the tribe, but I have never heard of guards communicating with each other in the goblin language.

It was getting late, and if Jiang Yuncheng didn't go back, the security officer at the exchange station would definitely be worried.

Driving the off-road vehicle back to the exchange station, it was roughly half past 22 o'clock. The security guard on duty saw Jiang Yuncheng entering the door and directly handed over the hot coffee in his hand.

"Brother Jiang, why are you staying out in the wild so late in this cold weather?"

If Jiang Yuncheng hadn't reported safety in the chat room before, indicating that the location was still within the coverage of regular mobile phone communication signals, otherwise the exchange station might have launched a search and rescue operation.

"When I was in the wild, I met a goblin, a member of the ferret family. He sat with me and watched the stars. I thought that my future work would involve dealing with goblins, so I stayed with him and watched for a while."

Jiang Yuncheng drank the coffee handed to him by the security guard and felt his skin, which had been dry by the cold wind, slightly warm up.

"Is that so..." the security guard sat back on the chair in the duty room, "you and the goblin are quite destined."

Jiang Yuncheng did not mention that the ferret he met today was a sand ferret. In all likelihood, it was the fairy princess who got lost a while ago and returned to the tribe.

However, Sand Marten has returned to Chengfeng District, and the ferret clan has not continued to search for the missing person, so we will not mention this matter for now and let's take a look at what he said in the recording.

"Yes, do you understand the elf language?"

"what?"

The security guard was stunned by this question, "You definitely don't understand. Regardless of our communication station in Chengfeng District, there should be no one in all communication stations and even all safe areas who can understand the goblin language."

"Is it so difficult?"

Jiang Yuncheng's original expectation was that very few people understood the goblin language, but he didn't expect the guard to give a completely negative answer.

"You know it's difficult to learn," the guard explained. "Look at how diverse the races of the Fairy Sect are. Cats, dogs, ferrets, and various flying beasts all have completely different sounds. Let's talk about it. But it’s the same language.”    Elf languages ​​are not just a matter of word formation and grammar. They have ever-changing laws of sound wave vibrations and aura fluctuations, which are very complicated to learn.

On the contrary, after humans experienced a catastrophe and united into the four areas of the safety zone, language communication underwent a wave of integration. The threshold for the goblins to learn human language is much lower than for humans to learn goblin language.

"That's it..."

"What? You want to communicate with goblins who don't understand human language?"

"Having similar thoughts."

The security guard reminded, "There are a few ways."

First, a goblin who doesn’t understand human language has a goblin who knows how to translate it;

Second, some fairy tales are related to sounds, which can expand the ability to understand the language of fairies.

The first option is more common. Sometimes when the exchange station is trading with goblins, goblins who don't understand human language will appear, and they will be accompanied by goblin translators.

The second option is rare. Even if Xu Hong's "Singing Cicada" is a fairy tale closely related to sound, she will not spend too much energy on developing the fairy tale function to communicate with fairies to improve combat effectiveness and outdoor life. Functionality is what matters.

"Yes, I'm thinking of a different person."

"What kind of alien?"

It was a bit boring for the security guard to watch the night shift alone. When Jiang Yuncheng raised the topic, he became more energetic and introduced the gossip of Chengfeng District to the newcomers and friends.

"A very powerful genius girl, a 20-year-old doctoral level scientific researcher."

"It's really awesome."

The world before the time travel was not without such geniuses, but now this different world has an apocalyptic background and human life is difficult. It is indeed not easy to skip a grade at a young age and obtain the status of a doctor or researcher at the age of 20.

"That doctor's fairy tale is also great, "The Water Spirit"."

"It seems like the number is pretty high, right..."

While living in the safe zone, Jiang Yuncheng learned about many common fairy tales, and also read the official fairy tale database. He had a general impression of the name "Water Elf", but because he had never been exposed to it, he did not take a closer look.

"Fairy Tale Serial Number 16."

"16?!"

The top pick exceeded Jiang Yuncheng's expectations.

The serial number of 99 fairy tales mainly depends on combat effectiveness, but also has a certain survival and action ability score. In short, combat effectiveness has the greatest weight, and it is certain that the further you go, the stronger you will be.

If the serial number enters the top 9, it belongs to a fairy tale with divine personality. It can be directly called a myth. If the serial number is within 20, it is already outstanding in strength.

In ancient times, humans living downstream of rivers suffered from droughts and floods, including water shortages in dry seasons and floods during heavy rains.

Water elves can sense and control water veins. They guide humans to build water conservancy, open culverts, release floods and store water, and mediate droughts and floods.

With this fairy tale background, it already feels like a land of mountain gods.

The fairy tale power corresponding to "Water Elf" can sense water veins and manipulate liquid substances. The underground water veins are not only closely related to survival and action in the wild, but also related to the construction of safe zones, and even correspond to natural aura veins.

For such a fairy tale with both combat effectiveness and functionality, it makes sense that the serial number is 16.

(End of this chapter)