476 Darkest Hour (Part 1)

"Hmm... This thing is really hard to understand. It was obviously written in English, yet it has so many made-up words. This author called Shakespeare must have been more than a third-rate writer—at least second-rate."

Holding the ancient book and comparing it with the reference materials on her computer screen, Xia Yubing rubbed her chin. "Still, it's strange. This language called 'English' is clearly recorded in the university database, but there's nothing about it in any academic journals."

She weighed the book in her hand and muttered, "Could it be that no one in this world besides me has studied English?"

Ever since Jiao Ziniu had brought over that ancient book, Xia Yubing, a linguistics major, had practically thrown herself wholeheartedly into studying and researching "English."

If Jiao Ziniu was someone bad at socializing, then Xia Yubing was probably an outcast from society.

She had never been popular. On top of that, she had chosen linguistics, a field long since replaced by machines.

Most of her time went into reading and studying.

Among college students, people like Jiao Ziniu, who happily enjoyed life and played to their heart's content, were the normal ones.

Though Jiao Ziniu looked socially anxious, he had actually always managed to attract plenty of people who liked him.

Still, Xia Yubing did not care about that.

The charm of linguistics was something other majors could never imagine!

She had even stopped playing games and focused entirely on learning English.

Honestly, the language was surprisingly simple.

It only had twenty-six letters, with a very clear subject-verb-object structure. Its grammar was mostly fixed, with very few changes.

English was easy to learn, and its logic was easy to understand. It was probably the simplest language in the world.

Its flaws were obvious too. Once written down, this kind