Posers

If it gets to 28 or higher...

Su Luo remained silent for a while before finally raising her head and sighing:

"This is really difficult. It took me a full five minutes to learn it."

During this short time Su Luo learned the common language of this era as well as several mainstream machine languages.

The common language of this era was also the most difficult language Su Luo had ever learned.

As civilization and technology advance, language itself carries a wealth of knowledge. Moreover, as the places where languages were developed become increasingly isolated from the more advanced living environments of later generations, the transmission, meaning, and usage of languages will gradually change.

We once lived in a happy and unambiguous era.

The universal language of [Eternal Paradise] is so Perfect Perfect Su Luo recalled some ancient knowledge.

Wittgenstein, a key figure in 20th-century linguistic philosophy, dreamed in his youth to use language to reflect the world, to define the boundaries of language using human logic, and to silence all that is unspeakable.

But this was destined to be a dream as beautiful and fragile as crystal, and he naturally gave it up.

The universal language of [Eternal Paradise] is the closest Su Luo has ever learned to this dream. Its language structure contains a large number of mathematical logic calculation systems and real-world logic. In other words, it deconstructs mathematics and the structure of the world and directly writes them into the basic units of the universal language.

That's why I learn the local language whenever I go to a new place.

Anyway, after Su Luo finished learning, she also supplemented her knowledge with some cutting-edge physics and mathematics.

The language of advanced civilizations is itself a condensed form of physics and mathematics; language is the knowledge threshold of civilization.

"If language alone is this terrifying, then the actual technology must be incredibly powerful."

Su Luo muttered to herself, recording the entire common language of [Eternal Paradise].

In this purely technological era, if it were in the extraordinary era, such a thing might be called Xiantian divine pattern, secretly in harmony with the Great Dao, and naturally able to mobilize the power of heaven and earth.

There's a common trope in fantasy works: the protagonist inexplicably Crossing to another world as a useless person, only to discover that the local Body Refining is an ancient divine script.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the local Text. The locals thought they were incredibly impressive just because they knew a few characters, and started showing off their poor Chinese language skills, which barely reached 120 points, only to be proven wrong.

This is roughly at the level of ancient divine script, but it lacks the versatility of the extraordinary system.

Su Luo set aside the language system and began to learn the readily available knowledge of cryptography and information science that Zuo Guxian had stolen from the scenic area system.

While everyone was busy with their own tasks, Jerome, who had been squatting by the Laboratory questioning his existence, finally came to his senses and began to reflect on his situation.

"These two guys are acting strange. They seemed so stupid before, but today they dared to hit me and even secretly brought over this high-performance spaceship. Have they become religious?"

"That's unlikely. Generally, missionaries wouldn't come to such a closed work environment, and they wouldn't be allowed to access the internet during work hours... Could they really be selling their bodies for money?"

"Their spaceship is strange too. It doesn't have any corporate markings, clearly it's privately built, yet its performance is so exaggerated that the scenic area's observation system isn't responding... Could it be some kind of top-of-the-line product from the Second Empire?"

"Why did my job title change to 'public utility'? Wasn't the lowest position 'Maintenance Worker'? Who switched me to 'firearms'...?"

After pondering for a long time, Jerome ruled out many possibilities, finally slowly raised his head, and said with piercing eyes:

Let's get straight to the point.

"I will never believe in your so-called [Flying Church]! As long as I am a member of the [Flying Spaghetti Monster Church], I will be a member of the [Flying Spaghetti Monster Church] for life!"

The other three people in the Laboratory were puzzled.

Jerome raised his hands enthusiastically. "This universe is a giant bowl of spaghetti! And the Fixed Stars in it are the sausages in the spaghetti!"

Long live the Flying Spaghetti Monster Church!

It was too abstract, so Su Luo and the others ignored Jerome, sealed his mobility, and went about their own business.

It wasn't until the Laboratory reached the management level of the [Fantasy Ecological Tourist Area] that they all managed to gain entry into the management team.

"Why do we need to scan our identity again?" Song Shige asked Zuo Guxian.

If you control the entire scenic area's system, then you can simply turn the entire scenic area into a cup, so why would you need to go through identity verification?

Zuo Guxian had been cracking the Citizen Network for over half an hour, but it didn't seem to be going very smoothly. Upon hearing this, he said:

"The dual-layer system is a nested system. Or, to put it another way, it's a hardware-embedded system. All the hardware in the scenic area has its own independent system, which is more technologically advanced and controlled by an unknown entity."

Zuo Guxian frowned, sensing something was amiss with this discovery.

He had clearly already obtained the highest authority over the entire scenic area, namely the development authority of [Aurora Starport Group], and theoretically possessed the highest authority.

However, when exercising permissions, they are isolated by a deeper, more fundamental system.

Compared to the technology of this system, the system designed by [Aurora Starport Group] is like children playing house, piling up a sandcastle on top of a steel curtain made of special alloy.

The technological capabilities of this hidden system should be the same as those of Citizen Networks.

Behind this era lies a force whose technological prowess has surpassed that of [Aurora Starport Group] for many years, and which may control the most basic building materials manufacturing and communications.

Is it what they call an empire?

Zuo Guxian doesn't exert his influence, then Su Luo and Song Shige, who have entered the management team, won't have it so easy.

After passing through several layers of identity verification, Su Luo and Song Shige were confronted by three sheriffs armed with unknown weapons.

The three sheriffs had no specific faces, their bodies were covered with flowing silver-gray force fields, a black, standardized ring floated above their heads, and they held unidentified standard-issue weapons in their hands. Their aura was icy.

The head sheriff looked at the two men and confirmed their identities:

"The suspects Luosu Song Shouzheng; we have been waiting here for three days."

"I'm telling you very clearly—you've broken the law!"

Su Luo raised her hand and placed it on Song Shige's shoulder, signaling him not to act yet.

What law did we break?

"Illegal showing off." The lead sheriff's tone was indifferent, but gradually became more forceful.

"Upon investigation of the video footage, it was found that the two of you provided illegal in-home services two months ago, and were showing off on a machine that was not registered as a 'Mother Goddess' model."

Before the two could refute, the sheriff's tone suddenly became impassioned:

"You will be sentenced to 120 years in prison!"

You two—show-offs!