Even with the ability to chew through a pig’s leg, Wen Wen found this book no less troublesome than a pitifully fragile rabbit demoness.
Moreover, Wen Wen was even more curious about where the things eaten by this book had gone.
If they truly vanished into thin air, Wen Wen would use it to deal with the facility’s daily garbage…
Wen Wen reached out his darkened hand. The ferocious book immediately bit down on his arm, but the Calamity Gauntlet was indestructible, and this immense biting force was of no consequence to Wen Wen.
It even seemed as though it had been hurt by Wen Wen’s hand; the eyes of the beast’s head on the cover teared up, looking somewhat wronged.
Wen Wen paid no mind to its emotions, instead gripping the front and back covers and violently prying it open!
The strange book resisted vehemently, closing tightly like a clam shell, but it was ultimately and helplessly forced open by Wen Wen, revealing the contents recorded within.
These pages were slightly yellowed and quite thick, seemingly made not of paper, but of some kind of animal skin. Wen Wen gently touched the pages and felt an indescribable sense of aversion.
Fortunately, the texture was slightly different from human skin; otherwise, Wen Wen wouldn't have wanted to touch it with his hand.
But even if it wasn't human, it should have been the skin of a species similar to humans.
Upon being touched by Wen Wen, the strange book trembled violently a few times, then stopped struggling obediently, allowing Wen Wen to examine it.
Although the book was thick overall, because each page was not thin, it only numbered over thirty pages. They were filled with Yishan characters and another script that Wen Wen had never seen before, occasionally accompanied by some pictures and formulas.
Regrettably, not only did Wen Wen not recognize the unfamiliar language, but he also couldn't understand the meaning of the Yishan characters.
However, the value of this book was at least equivalent to that of a disaster-level containment item, so Wen Wen certainly wouldn’t give up just because he couldn’t read it.
Therefore, he first went to the man in the metal suit. This central administrator of the disaster zone possessed vast knowledge and might understand this script.
Upon seeing the text, the man in the metal suit exclaimed in surprise, "These are Yuta characters. The characters themselves possess power; specific phrases can mobilize psionic energy!"
"Yuta characters…" Wen Wen muttered a couple of times, then his expression brightened, and he asked, "Can you help me translate it then?"
The man in the metal suit shook his head and said, "I don't have the corresponding materials here, and I don't advise you to study it too much."
Wen Wen frowned and asked, "Why?"
"Yuta characters are not something anyone can learn. For ordinary people to rashly learn them, they either become mad or are twisted into monsters by abnormal powers."
"Although you can learn it, for someone with abilities like yours, the effectiveness of these characters is not very significant."
"And…" He paused to choose his words carefully, saying, "The characteristic of these characters mobilizing psionic energy is not inherent. It relies on a certain great existence to possess this characteristic. Studying too much will attract that existence's attention, and you will ultimately be forced to become their follower…" Sudan Novel Network
If this script was so dangerous, Wen Wen might have to give up. However, he still asked with some reluctance, "Then… how much is too much?"
The man in the metal suit pointed at the strange book and said, "Books like this, don't exceed three at most…"
This reassured Wen Wen. Let alone three, he didn't even know where to find a second book.
Although the man in the metal suit didn't recognize the content of this book, the monsters from the Inner World should recognize some of it, right? It's not like all the monsters Wen Wen captured were illiterate.
So, he took out a large stack of white paper and began to copy.
By evening, the monsters' favorite examinations began again. Amidst the monsters' cheers, Wen Wen distributed the exam papers filled with his care.
Upon receiving the exam papers, the monsters discovered that this examination not only included cultural and moral subjects but also half of it contained content that had never appeared before.
That content basically involved translating the following into the Federal Common Language…
Yes, Wen Wen planned to use this method to get the monsters to help him translate.
And although the monsters were suspicious, they could only obediently answer the questions. The first reason was their great respect (fear) for Wen Wen, and the second was that the difficulty of these questions was much simpler than asking them when the fifth Federal Conference was held and what its significance was…
Wen Wen had copied every sentence from that book onto the exam papers, but the order was completely shuffled, and not a single monster received a complete version of the content.
Each piece of content was assigned to at least three monsters. If all three translations were similar, Wen Wen would adopt that translation. If the three translations differed, Wen Wen would not trust that piece of content.
Fortunately, the book only had over thirty pages; otherwise, copying it alone would have taken Wen Wen a lot of time.
While copying, Wen Wen remembered Song Ling, who had been taken away by the Hunter Association. That guy seemed to possess a lot of knowledge from the Inner World, and learning this book should not have taken him too long.
After collecting all the exam papers, Wen Wen began to cross-reference the content to translate the book.
The Yishan characters were simple. Except for monsters like the Curly-Haired Baboon that had lost their minds, every monster knew some of them to varying degrees, so Wen Wen easily completed the translation of the Yishan character portions.
As for the Yuta characters, only a few exam papers had answers filled in, and each of those papers was not quite the same.
However, at least Wen Wen confirmed that among the monsters in the cells, only the Pu Guang Angel, the Faceless Demon, and Yan Biqing might recognize Yuta characters, and they probably only recognized the meaning of some characters.
As for the other monsters, they were even more illiterate than Wen Wen when facing Yuta characters.
With the help of these translations, Wen Wen roughly figured out what the book was about.
The book's title was "The Book of Lightning"!
It provided a very detailed analysis of the nature of lightning, including how natural lightning was generated, and some formulas related to lightning!
Perhaps due to the differences between the Inner World and the real world, some of the things recorded within were not very sophisticated, even seeming laughable to Wen Wen, who had studied basic physics.
But for espers, the value of this book far exceeded any physics book in the real world!
Because it even contained a tutorial on how to construct a "generator" within the human body using psionic energy!
And based on some of the content Wen Wen had deciphered, he could already begin to experiment with some things!
"As long as what's recorded here is actually useful, I'll find a way to get another one!"
"Learning another one should also be safe, but that’s for the future. What I need to do now is to find the most accurate translation among the translations from those three…"