Chapter 1897: Dolly Zuan

Reconnaissance target: female coro parrot (super-small magic beast, subspecies Zuan)
Health status: Basically good (congenital irritability)
Life level: Level 2
Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 20, Constitution 13, Intelligence 2, Wisdom 14, Charisma 18
Special abilities: dark vision 120 feet, damage reduction 1.5 energy level, silver plating, spell resistance, fragrant breath, colorful jet (cast at will)
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After checking Dolly's physical attributes, Qiao Ann developed a keen interest in this arrogant Kolo parrot, and soon thought of a good idea.
"Hailar, I want to borrow your parrot, do her physical examination, and collect blood and feather samples by the way. If you think Dolly is not smart and well-behaved, I can also cast spells to improve her intelligence."
"If I can make this stupid bird smarter, I can't ask for it, but Dolly may not be willing. Can you persuade her to cooperate?" Hailar asked worriedly.
"Try it, I'll make sense to her."
Qiao'an's inadvertent self-confidence surprised Hailar and Zion's sisters and brothers. Dolly is a very clever bird as a bird, but after all, she is just a bird. What can she understand?
As for winning the favor of the parrot by virtue of her charm and eloquence, it is even more unreliable to convince her to cooperate in the experiment.
Hailar itself is a charm caster, and Holden is a bard who relies on charm and eloquence to eat. Even they can't tame this jealous parrot. The kind greetings often provoke the Zuan-style choking of the other party. Joan is lonely. How could an introverted social-fear otaku convince Dolly to be obedient?
"Joan, do you want to cast a charm spell on Dolly?" Audrey asked.
Qiao An shook his head slightly: "It's easy to control Dolly's will with magic, but it's too immoral to do that. I want to convince...birds with reason."
This is really strange!
Hailar, Audrey and Holden were all interested, waiting for Qiao'an to talk to Dolly.
Qiao An was not busy talking first, opened the notebook, and recorded the content of the conversation between Holden and Dolly in shorthand, and then analyzed the logical sentences to try to sum up Dolly's language model.
If you only look at the conversation records, it is easy to produce an illusion, as if the person who was talking to Holden was a creature with high intelligence, and every response seemed logical.
However, this is not the case.
"Parrot learns tongue" is not really able to speak, it is just a blunt imitation. It can master some short sentences, but does not fully understand the applicable scenarios of each sentence. Therefore, when people talk to parrots, they will always make jokes that are not the answer to the question.
Dolly’s outstanding performance in this aspect shows that she is smarter than ordinary parrots, able to guess the intention of the other party based on the interlocutor’s pronunciation characteristics, intonation changes and expression details, and then filter out a matching degree from the sentence library she has mastered. The highest phrase answer, so as to avoid the situation where the answer is not the question.
This kind of dialogue with guesswork is already the limit of intelligence of wild animals in nature.
Dolly’s intelligence attribute is only 2 points, which does not break the upper limit of natural birds. Of course, it is impossible to truly understand complex human grammar, and the sentences that can be mastered are also very limited. As long as she speaks a few more words, she will inevitably be exposed. Born with rigid methods, the answer is not the true level of the question.
Seeing through Dolly's details, Qiao Ann can in turn use her dialogue mode to let her know what the real "language art" is.
Turning around and walking to the parrot, Joan smiled and greeted her: "Hello."
"Fool! Fool!" Dolly replied disdainfully.
Holden shrugged helplessly, not seeing any difference between Dolly's attitude towards JoAnn and his earlier attitude.
Dolly's attitude was completely within Qiao'an's expectations, further verifying his guess, and she felt more confident.
"Dolly, do you hate fool birds more or smart birds?" Qiao An deliberately pretended to be angry.
Dolly glared a pair of small black eyes, a little fuzzy.
No one had asked her such a question before, and I didn't understand what it meant. This is a bit superb!
Dolly paced back and forth on the table, tilting her head thinking hard.
She could only understand two words Qiao An just said.
One is "Dolly", which is her name.
The second is "fool", the meaning does not need to be explained.
According to her usual language processing method, ignoring words that she can't understand, this sentence can be reduced to "Dolly = fool". After observing the very unfriendly expression of the young mage, Dolly is further convinced that the kid is insulting herself. Immediately scolded back.
"Fool! Fool!"
Dolly's original intention was to say, "You are a fool." However, she did not have the ability to speak a complete sentence, and her answer was naturally introduced into ambiguity.
"Look, Dolly confessed herself that she hates fool birds." Qiao Ann turned to look at Hailar, Audrey and Holden, "Do you know what this means?"
The three little friends shook their heads together, ignorant.
"It's actually very simple. The inverse proposition of'Dolly hates fool birds' is'Dolly doesn't hate it, it must not be fool birds.' There is no doubt, right?"
"According to general logical common sense, a proposition is equivalent to its inverse-negative proposition. If we simplify the above-mentioned inverse-negative proposition, we can conclude that Dolly does not hate smart birds."
"It is known that Dolly is a bird, and Dolly hates fool birds. If I cast a spell to make Dolly smarter, I can draw a logical conclusion-Dolly does not hate being smarter herself."
"It can be proved that Dolly doesn't mind if I make her smarter, is it okay?"
Audrey, Holden, and Hailar were still in a daze. After a long time, Holden was the first to react.
"Nothing wrong! Nothing wrong!"
Audrey and Hailar also came back to their senses, clapping vigorously to conceal that they didn't actually understand the nonsense that Qiao An was talking about.
Dolly tilted her head. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help feeling a little flustered. She wanted to talk, but couldn't tell what was appropriate.
When she was upset, Qiao Ann 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 one do you choose?"
This problem is too serious!
The bad guys bullied Dolly don't understand!
However, Dolly did not want to expose her inner panic in front of the cunning little mage, she barely remained calm, racking her brains to think about countermeasures.
Dolly can only understand the words "Dolly" and "Pay" for the words Qiao Ann asked just now. In fact, she didn't understand the meaning of payment. She only knew that it was related to money.
These days Dolly gets along with Hailar day and night, and is taught by her hostess by her words and deeds. She knows that "money" is a good thing. According to the usual sentence processing procedure, Dolly’s question is abbreviated as "Dolly=money", then how should she respond? It's obvious.
"Add money! Have to add money!"
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