Chapter 94: The Library's Translation Activity: Translation

The players' houses were ultimately not built fast enough; by the time the closed beta ended, the houses had not yet been roofed.

Everyone could only log off with regret, hoping that when they saw this house again, it could be completed in its entirety.

But Chen Zhi clearly did not intend to do that.

He decided to increase the test quota by 200 spots; of course, he did not intend to hand these test spots to players casually, but rather hoped to give them away through translation activities.

Over these past few days, he did not let his employees end their testing, but instead had each of them start looking through those books and sorting them into categories.

Some of these books were bought by Andrew; buying books in Tana City is not an easy task, but there are always some books to be purchased from down-and-out nobles or affected small merchants.

Others were sent over by Saina; she had quite a collection of various books in her possession, and of course, there was no lack of books with theological and supernatural themes.

At the same time, he also had his employees look through many library books; these books were the main source, and if they were to be photographed at the current speed, players would see at least 30,000 books during the library activity.

It was just that for these employees, it was truly a bit of "quantum reading."

"Is this test really supposed to take this long?" An old employee, whose eyes were becoming a bit blurry from reading, rubbed his shoulders. "To think it needs to be tested for so long..."

"Maybe it's testing output or something like that. Boss Chen said the sample size needs to be larger, and he's striving to open it up to players later, saying something about the server being afraid it can't handle the load." Laoliu rubbed his brow. "But he never lets us go look at anything else, just reading these books; I don't know what it means."

"Maybe we also need to record some scenery, but now isn't the time." Another employee took out two fruits and shared them with the two of them. "Anyway, we don't need to wait for updates; according to Boss Chen, we belong to the 'no-wipe' category."

That is the one good thing about being an internal employee, and precisely because there would be no data wipe, two employees who had intended to leave Chen Zhi's company stayed on.

Of course, they also knew that after leaving Chen Zhi's company, they wouldn't be able to do much at other companies.

The Virtual Helmet is nothing compared to the entire game; even if they were poached from Chen Zhi's company, once they arrived at a new place, they wouldn't be able to create a game that could compete with this one.

However, more people simply did not believe that this game was so powerful; after all, a Helmet is bound to one person as soon as it is activated.

On the official forum, players were racking their brains to translate those messy documents.

The books uploaded to the library page were diverse, including children's books, vocal music books, history, humanities, and social sciences—covering almost everything.

However, the quantity was not large, totaling only a little over 7,000 books; mainly because even with quantum reading, taking a screenshot of every page and uploading it to the official website was a very laborious task.

And this work could basically only be done by Chen Zhi alone.

Of course, he also hoped that his employees could do this work, but at the thought that they might be exposed or, for some reason, start doubting this world, Chen Zhi decided to do it himself.

At least these employees could do the photographing.

At this moment, Falling Leaves Listening to Autumn was lying on the floor copying notes for his grandfather.

Translating a book is not easy, especially translating more than 100,000 characters; the key is that no one knows the original language of this book.

But this could not stump the old gentleman; he had already begun to focus on compiling the vocabulary and then tackling them one by one.

It was not just one book, but many books, because other players had already started translating children's books, and the old gentleman had already begun to mark out fixed vocabulary from those children's books to form a dictionary.

The language of this world was not difficult for the old gentleman to understand, especially with the help of various auxiliary books.

Plus, the players could already understand it to begin with; even if they didn't speak it perfectly, they could remember some common phrases or frequently used fixed vocabulary, which greatly reduced the difficulty of translation.

At this moment, all Falling Leaves Listening to Autumn could do was assist the old gentleman with the translation; after all, he was the one who had taken the initiative to make this request.

"This grammar is actually quite complex; I never expected that, just for a game, they would create a new language." The old gentleman took off his reading glasses and said with emotion, "And this book is very literary; if those great writers saw it, they might feel inferior."

"That impressive? It must have been written by someone specifically hired for it." Falling Leaves Listening to Autumn knew that few people would be willing to translate those complex books, so the one he chose for his grandfather was just such a book that looked like it had a lot of text.

According to the old gentleman, this was a romance novel.

And it was very complex and obscure, mainly telling the story of the love and hate between a young serf and a noble lady.

The plot had a strong sense of fatalism; it could be said that for such a novel to be placed in the library, it already indicated its literary status in the entire otherworld.

But, it was just too slow to translate; there were many specialized terms inside with no references, so one could only rely on some roots and spellings to fill in the blanks.

Moreover, once away from the game, the players' comprehension of this Tana Language plummeted; many people even forgot what the language meant after hearing the pronunciation of Tana Language.

It must be said that this is the power of the game; because of this, players were even more attentive to the language within the game.

Perhaps the official launch of this activity was also to let players learn more Tana Language.

You'eryuan: My head really hurts. Just translating children's books these past few days, I've discovered that Tana Language has so many words.

Ai Ai who can draw: I'm about to give up. I've found that without the game's buff, after coming out, I've forgotten all the Tana Language.

Yezi: I'm a bit better, but it's limited to simple translations; I'm powerless when it comes to anything too profound.

Falling Leaves Listening to Autumn: Hahahaha, my grandfather has already translated 100,000 characters for me, and he's translated many other books too. Thanks for your help, I think I'll have a Helmet soon.

Demon Emperor to Falling Leaves Listening to Autumn: Maybe the officials will open up Helmet distribution soon; after all, they can sell them for a high price.

After Falling Leaves Listening to Autumn finished showing off online, he began to continue organizing the data. When he entered his grandfather's room again, there were already several guests sitting inside.

His grandfather's students were spread all over the country and abroad; many people would come to consult his grandfather when they encountered translation difficulties.

What he never expected was that there were actually two people holding Tana Language notes... asking his grandfather how to translate them.

(End of chapter)