Chapter 1897 Dolly Zaun

Reconnaissance target: female Kolo parrot (ultra-small magical beast, subspecies of Zaun)

Health status: basically good (congenital violent disorder)

Life Level: Level 2

Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 20, Constitution 13, Intelligence 2, Wisdom 14, Charisma 18

Special Abilities: Darkvision 120 ft., damage reduction 1.5 power levels/silvering, spell resistance, fragrant breath, prismatic spray (cast at will)

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After checking Dolly's physical attributes, Joan became very interested in this arrogant Kolo parrot, and soon came up with a good idea.

"Haira, I want to borrow your parrot, give her a physical examination, and collect blood and feather samples along the way. If you think Dolly is not smart enough, I can also cast spells to improve her intelligence."

"If I can make this stupid bird smarter, of course I would like to, but Dolly may not be willing, can you persuade her to cooperate obediently?" Hailar asked worriedly.

"Try it, I'll reason with her."

Joan's self-confidence inadvertently surprised Hailaer and Zion. Dolly is very clever as a bird, but she is just a bird after all. What can she understand?

As for winning the favor of the parrot with her own charm and eloquence, and persuading her to cooperate in the experiment, it is even more unreliable.

Hyrule himself is a charmer, and Holden is a bard who relies on charm and eloquence. Even they can't tame this rebellious parrot. Their kind greetings often attract Zaun-style chokes. An introverted social-phobic nerd, how can he convince Dolly to be obedient?

"Joan, do you want to cast a charm spell on Dolly?" Audrey asked.

Joan shook her head lightly: "It's easy to control Dolly's will with spells, but it's too immoral to do so. I want to convince... the bird."

This is really strange!

Hyrule, Audrey, and Holden were all interested, waiting for Joan to talk to Dolly.

Without rushing to speak, Joan opened the notebook and recorded the conversation between Holden and Dolly in shorthand, and then analyzed the logical sentences to try to summarize Dolly's language pattern.

If you only look at the conversation records, it is easy to have an illusion, as if the person talking to Holden is a creature with advanced intelligence, and every answer seems logical.

However, this is not the case.

"Parrot learning tongue" is not really able to speak, but a blunt imitation. You can master some short sentences, but you don't fully understand the applicable scenarios of each sentence, so when people talk to parrots, they always make jokes that don't answer the question.

Dolly performed exceptionally well in this area, showing that she is smarter than ordinary parrots. She can guess the intention of the interlocutor based on the pronunciation characteristics, intonation changes and facial details of the interlocutor, and then select a matching degree from the sentence library she has mastered. The highest phrase answer, so as to avoid the situation where the question is not answered as much as possible.

This kind of dialogue with guesswork is already the limit of the intelligence of wild animals in nature.

Dolly's intelligence attribute is only 2 points, and has not broken through the upper limit of birds in nature. Of course, it is impossible to truly understand complex human grammar, and the sentences she can master are also very limited. As long as you talk to her a few more words, she will inevitably be exposed. Copying rote from birth, answering questions beyond the true level.

Seeing through Dolly's background, Joan can use her dialogue mode in turn to let her know what is the real "language art".

Turning around and walking to the parrot, Joan greeted her with a smile: "Hello."

"Fool! Fool!" replied Dolly dismissively.

Holden shrugged helplessly, unable to see that Dolly's attitude towards Joan was different from what she had just treated him.

Dolly's attitude was completely within Joan's expectations, which further verified his guess, and he felt a little more confident.

"Dolly, do you hate stupid birds more or smart birds?" Joan pretended to be angry on purpose.

Dolly stared at a pair of small dark eyes, a little dazed.

No one has asked her such a question before, and I don't understand what it means. This is a bit out of line!

Dolly paced up and down the table, tilting her head in thought.

She could only understand two words of what Joan just said.

One was "Dolly," which was her nickname.

The second is "fool", the meaning does not need to be explained.

According to her usual language processing method, ignoring the words she couldn't understand, this sentence can be shortened to "Dolly=fool", and observing the unfriendly expression of the young mage, Dolly is further convinced that this kid is insulting herself, Immediately scolded back.

"Fool! Fool!"

Dolly's original intention was to say, "You're the fool," but her inability to utter a complete sentence made her answer naturally ambiguous.

"Look, Dolly admitted it herself, she hates fool birds." Joan turned to look at Hyrule, Audrey and Holden, "Do you know what this means?"

The three friends shook their heads together, their faces full of confusion.

"It's actually very simple. The inverse proposition of 'Dolly hates foolish birds' is 'If Dolly doesn't hate foolish birds, it must not be foolish birds'. There is no doubt, right?"

"According to the common sense of logic, a proposition and its inverse are equivalent. We simplify the above-mentioned inverse proposition to obtain 'Dolly doesn't hate smart birds even more'."

"It is known that Dolly is a bird, and Dolly hates stupid birds. If I cast a spell to make Dolly smarter, I can draw a logical deduction——Dolly doesn't hate herself who has become smarter."

"It proves that Dolly doesn't mind if I make her smarter, isn't there a problem?"

Audrey, Holden, and Hyrule were still in a daze, and Holden was the first to react after a long time.

"No problem! No problem!"

Audrey and Hyrule also came back to their senses, and clapped vigorously to hide that they didn't understand the nonsense that Joan just said.

Dolly tilted her head. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help feeling a little flustered. She wanted to speak, but she wasn't sure what to say.

Just when she was restless, Joan turned around again, and asked with a smile: "Dolly, I have arranged two plans for you to increase your intelligence, one is free treatment, and the other requires additional payment." Which set do you choose?"

This problem is also seriously beyond the outline!

Bad guys bullying Dolly can't understand!

However, Dolly didn't want to reveal her inner panic in front of the cunning little mage, so she barely kept her composure and racked her brains to think of countermeasures.

Dolly could only understand the words "Dolly" and "payment" for what Joan asked just now. In fact, she didn't understand the meaning of payment, and only knew that it was related to money.

These days, Dolly and Hailaer have been together day and night, and have been taught by the hostess, knowing that "money" is a good thing. According to the usual sentence processing procedure, Joan's question is abbreviated as "Dolly=money", so what should she answer? It's obvious.

"Add more money! You have to add more money!"

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