Demi-human Girls Completion Manual
Chapter 301 - 124. Relative Years_2

Chapter 301: 124. Relative Years_2

"Huh?"

Fisher suddenly realized something and furrowed his brows as he went back through the paintings one by one. The scenes depicted various magnificent spectacles, with iconic buildings and landscapes surfacing in his mind like memories.

The Holy Church of Kado, the dome of the Northern Realm, Schwali’s airship manufacturing factory, the giant tree at the northernmost tip of the South Continent, the Golden Palace of Nali...

Were these things exactly the same as the process when Mu Xi sent back those relics to the sea?!

Spring, summer, autumn, winter, time passed...

Though the author’s painting skills were clumsy, the sights seemed tangibly before your eyes, the changing scenes of the four seasons giving an infinitely shocking impression, as though in that instant you walked through the entire world propelled by the passing years.

One of the earlier paintings was somewhat odd; it depicted a storm as dark as a black hole, from which more storms burst forth like stars.

The main perspective of the painting was from a very distant position, not even reaching the edge of that storm, merely glancing at that place from afar, but in Fisher’s mind suddenly emerged the memory of a voice relic that Mu Xi once sent back to the sea...

The scenery in this place was beyond anything currently known to humans, the only possible match being the legendary Storm Sea at the end of the world, full of treasures!

But when Fisher looked closely, he turned his head to glance at the painting beside it and suddenly realized that the strokes used in this painting differed from the others, not quite appearing to be the work of a single artist...

However, looking at the dozen or so paintings back and forth, a shockingly simple conjecture instantly emerged in Fisher’s mind.

That’s it, he had subconsciously overlooked a flaw that seemed easily discoverable yet cunningly concealed; about the Whale-man Species...

He remembered the first time he met the Crab-man, Lingna, who not only called herself a member of the royal family, the Ocean Emperor... She had also said a phrase that could easily be misunderstood as bragging, she said,

She possessed an endless lifespan!

Now, the two terms next to it had completely matched up with the Whale-man Species, and she had also mentioned that the royal family had Companion Sea Beasts, which aligned with the characteristics of the Whale-man Species. So, could it also mean that the Whale-man Species had another trait, that of a very long life!

Fisher didn’t believe any life form could be so enduring as to be unafraid of the passage of time, but there was indeed a possibility that this Whale-man Species, completely unknown to humans including Fisher, was in fact a race with an exceptionally long lifespan, the so-called Longevity Species.

For a Longevity Species with a social form completely isolated from other civilizations, it was very possible that they would have a method of counting years completely different from any other species in the world!

He turned to look at the very young-looking Whale-man, Moli, beside him, who looked like a naive young girl, and suddenly remembered the indicative word that appeared when he first recorded Moli using the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual...

Juvenile Whale Species

Why would a Whale-man who appeared to be in her twenties be recorded as a name that sounded very young in the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual?

The reason might be that, within the Whale-man’s own reckoning of time, she was extremely young, so young that other Whale-man considered her not fully matured and could only describe her as juvenile...

With his heart beating slightly faster, Fisher turned to Moli at his side and asked,

"Moli, tell me, how old are you this year?"

"Huh? Why do you suddenly ask me this..."

"Tell me, the specific number."

Moli, looking at Fisher’s very serious expression, hesitated for a long time before finally raising two fingers, revealing the astonishing number "two," indicating that this young girl was only two years old, which was clearly unrealistic.

"Two years old? That’s impossible... wait a minute, let’s first go over some basic concepts of time. First off, for the Whale-man Species, how many days are there in a year?"

"There are 365 days.

That is to say, the concept of a year is actually the same, representing the time it takes for one orbit around the sun, which is unsurprising. Although I don’t know how the demi-humans in the ocean calculate the movement of celestial bodies, it’s fine as long as the result is consistent.

But when Moli spoke of her age just now, she actually used the "year" from the Nali Language...

It suddenly occurred to Fisher that Moli’s language was bestowed by Ramasitia, somewhat similar to how the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual bestowed upon him the Fermat Baha Dragon Court Language, with many words in the Nali Language either untranslatable or a single word shared by multiple terms.

He remembered feeling embarrassed when he made a mix-up with a word and inadvertently caused a misunderstanding with Mier in the South Continent. This phenomenon also illustrated an issue: the intrinsic logic within languages is completely different. Bestowing language knowledge like this without giving the same foundational thought process of the language...

Although Fisher later perfected his use of the Fermat Baha Dragon Court Language through relearning and would no longer make such mistakes, he absolutely did not believe that Moli would reflect on the gaps in language usage.