Chapter 121 The Wasteland World - Essence of Corruption (1/2)
Chapter 121 The Wasteland World - Essence of Corruption
The old man looked at Daniel and at the fruit with a fascinated expression
Due to the sht colors, and the plump and delicious appearance, he could not help but s a bigthe fruit, he put the pit into his mouth, and crashed it with his teeth, as if he was an i to wait for the candy to melt in his mouth
”K'ah harujia hai?” said the old ht smile appeared on Daniel's face He made another fruit appear in his hand Then, he sliced a sate's bars ay more power than needed
The old man's ht ar in the air at high speed He then sers over it, felt its juicy consistency And finally, put it in his mouth
The moment the old ht
His following reaction was siar for the first time in his life
He brushed his white hair in disbelief, and turned to look at Daniel as if he had been just slapped out of the blue
With visible excitee, entered it, and then sat in front of Daniel
Frouessed that this gracile-looking old man was nowhere nearly as week as he appeared to be In fact, he seeer than the muscular man himself, which explained his co him
The old man looked at Daniel with stupor, then, he stretched his hand towards him
From the drool that threatened to drip down the corners of the oldover his lip continuously, Daniel could guess what the old man wanted
He made the rest of the previously cut fruit appear in his hand once again, but just as he was about to put it on the old ain
The old man looked at Daniel in confusion
With the old man's attention on him, Daniel quickly indicated at one of the books which he had seen on the table in the left side of the room
Before Daniel could even notice his e, approached the table, grabbed a book, ate behind him
Daniel was able to feel hisawareness, but his speed was so fast, that he wasn't able to folloith his own eyes
The oldabout it, but instead of accepting it, Daniel started to gesture in response
Hethe book, one for looking at the words, and one for reading them
Daniel's objective was to associate the pronunciation with the symbol
He had already memorized the symbols which composed this human-like race's alphabet, but the book couldn't teach hiive indications to the old htly different from the ones he had read in the bookstore
They were still sies
He had seen this sort of changes between the ancient andhis studies in the library of his castle But this level of evolution of language, was only so that he had seen in scriptures thousands of years older frouessed for hour, Daniel would indicate a symbol he wanted to kno to pronounce, and the man would pronounce it
Every now and then the old ht he was about to leave, he would give him another piece of fruit
After two full hours, Daniel was starting to have difficulties in finding symbols whose pronunciation he hadn't heard yet, and soon enough, the oldeach and every symbol contained within the book
Suddenly, he seeot up on his feet, and as he was about to dash out of Daniel's cell, a woman's shout could be heard frouah!”
As the man heard the woman's voice, he turned to look back at Daniel, and waved his hand in salutation
Then, he disappeared froed in with a furious expression ”JIGUAH!!” She shouted once again
This woman had common feature, and didn't appear beautiful to Daniel's standards She was more heavily clothed when compared to the hunters, and the amount of black spots on her body was similar to that of the uess, he would say that she see before she could scold him
She took a couple of minutes to calm down, then, she wore her h the bars of the cell
In Daniel's hands, she saw one of her books He was holding it opened on his legs, and was pointing at each sy it out loud
The woman looked at Daniel with interest Then, she said ”K'joah nar nahaj'ha?”
Daniel looked back at her, but didn't answer
Noticing the lack of response, the woman pointed at herwas clear She meant ”Can you understand?”
Daniel shook his head in response
The ed woman crossed her arms and observed Daniel for a few h the use of signs
At so this slow conversation, Daniel had asked the wo This had confused her, but only for the first couple of hours