Si Yan said, "Young Miss, don’t be anxious."
How could Bao Lin not be anxious? Her face had turned red with eagerness.
She actually knows arithtic! She truly knows arithtic! And she seems even more skilled than Mr. Gray Parrot! On what grounds? How can she be both beautiful and skilled in arithtic?!
Moreover, she seed even more skilled than Mr. Gray Parrot.
On what grounds? On what grounds was she both beautiful and skilled in arithtic?!
In the Beast World, Beastn who knew arithtic were genuinely scarce. Apart from the Ape Tribe, the Monkey Tribe, so intellectually adept parrot clans, and the sea-dwelling dolphins who knew a little, other Beastn could hardly count beyond ten.
Consider this: a new sage from the Monkey Tribe earned his title simply by solving a problem as complex as ’5213 1123’—a calculation involving numbers nearly in the tens of thousands!
And the Beastn of Myriad Beasts City held sages in very high esteem.
In so respects, their status was even higher than that of the Golden Crystal Beastn!
This was because only sages could solve problems of food distribution, and only sages could conceive of special ideas like "constructing an auction house."
The thoughts and wisdom of sages were far beyond what ordinary Beastn could compare to!
For her to casually pose such a difficult problem in a place so lacking in arithtic, to treat such a challenge so lightly...
Is she... is she trying to beco a sage?! No, absolutely not!! Bao Lin thought frantically.
However, Si Yan paid no mind to Bao Lin’s agitation. She said, "Mr. Gray Parrot, it seems you won’t be able to solve my problem any ti soon."
Gray Parrot looked ashad.
Si Yan took out a wooden tablet and said, "The Young Miss believes the problem I posed is unsolvable. How about this: I will write the answer on this tablet and then cover it with a piece of beast skin. If you solve it within three days, you can co to our wine shop, lift the beast skin, and see my answer."
She chuckled. "I will prove to you that this problem can indeed be solved."
Si Yan took the wooden tablet, wrote down the answer, and then wrapped it securely in beast skin.
Yin Hong then used a vine to suspend it from the center of the wine shop.
Gray Parrot cupped his fists politely. "Mr. Si Yan, I will return and ponder this problem. I will strive to solve it within three days."
Si Yan smiled. "You’re welco to try."
After speaking, Gray Parrot beca completely absorbed in his thoughts and turned to leave.
Bao Lin hastily stopped him. "Uncle Gray, why are you leaving? You clearly promised you would defeat Si Yan!"
Imrsed in arithtic, Gray Parrot couldn’t break his train of thought. For a mont, he didn’t even understand why he was being stopped, appearing distracted and confused.
Green Parrot said, "Young Miss Bao Lin, once my brother enters this state, he can’t hear anything anyone says. Please, let it be."
Bao Lin’s expression turned exceedingly grim.
Why isn’t Uncle Gray Parrot helping anymore?!
Just then, another sage from Myriad Beasts City, Yuan Cong of the Ape Tribe, walked over and sat down in front of Si Yan.
"Mr. Si Yan, I also have a question for you," he said.
Bao Lin’s mood instantly brightened!
Yuan Cong of the Ape Tribe! The great sage of the Ape Tribe!! With him stepping in, Si Yan will surely be trampled underfoot!
Si Yan said, "Please ask."
Yuan Cong asked, "Recently, I’ve discovered a certain connection between a circle’s circumference and its diater, but I cannot clearly explain this connection. Could you elaborate on it?"
He asked this without any concern that Si Yan might not understand terms like circumference and diater.
Si Yan vaguely recalled a sage from the Monkey Tribe, a baboon, asking her a similar question before. It seems sages from every tribe and nation study pi.
Si Yan replied, "The circumference is a little more than three tis the diater."
"A little more than three tis its diater?"
"If the diater is one, the circumference is three tis the diater plus a little bit more."
Yuan Cong’s eyes lit up with understanding. "So that’s how it is!"
Then, he hurried away, apparently to verify his idea.
Si Yan grumbled to the gecko on her head, "I’ve morized pi to over a dozen decimal places, but it’s useless here. They don’t understand decimal points, and multiplication is also hard to explain."
The gecko said, "’The circumference being a little more than three tis the diater’ is already enough to keep them thinking for a long ti."
After Si Yan finished her discussion with Yuan Cong, she noticed the surrounding Beastn staring at her as if she were so kind of monstrosity.
Si Yan’s eyelids twitched. What was wrong with them?
Yin Hong noticed Si Yan’s unease and answered excitedly, "Si Yan, they think you’re incredible—perhaps the next sage!"
A sage? Si Yan mused. She had no interest in that.
Witnessing this, Bao Lin fell into utter despair.
Why? Why does *she* know these things? How can she possibly know them? Where did she learn all this?!
Si Yan then turned to the surrounding Beastn and asked, "May I ask how you asure units of length?"
"Units of length?" a Beastman replied, his voice filled with awe and respect. "Mr. Si Yan... Sir, we do have units of length."
Si Yan’s interest was piqued. "What kind of units of length?"
The Beastman said respectfully, "Sir... could you co with us?"
Si Yan asked, "Is there a standard asure?"
The Beastman replied, "Yes, there is."
Si Yan wanted to see their unit of length, so a group of Beastn reverently escorted her to the center of Myriad Beasts City, as if they were welcoming a sage.
In the center of Myriad Beasts City stood a stone. In the middle of the stone was a scratch mark, glowing with a faint golden light, about thirty-three centiters long.
The Beastman explained, his voice filled with reverence for the Beast God, "This scratch mark was left by the Beast God. After our ancestors discovered this inscription, they adopted it as their unit of length."
Si Yan curiously went to examine the inscription.
The Beastman continued, "The Mark of the Beast God has not faded over thousands of years; instead, it has grown even more distinct. We call the length of this inscription from end to end ’one mark.’ All Beastn in the Beast World, and all our asurents, are based on this ’one mark.’"
Si Yan discreetly materialized a ruler and, shielding it with her body, quickly took a asurent. 33.33 centiters? So ’one mark’ is about one foot. This Beast God is incredible!
Afterward, she quickly put the ruler away.
The gecko on Si Yan’s head puffed out its tiny chest proudly.
Hah! Impressive, aren’t I? Simply brilliant!
Si Yan smiled at the Beastman. "I understand now. Thank you."
"You’re most welco, Sir. Most welco."
Many of the male Beastn blushed as they gazed at Si Yan. Is Myriad Beasts City going to have a female sage? Can a female truly beco a sage? She’s so intelligent... and so beautiful!
Si Yan didn’t forget her business, looking at the crowd of Beastn and starting her advertisent.
"Welco, everyone, to my wine shop! Our wine is guaranteed authentic, purely brewed! Absolutely unique!"
"Every bowl of our wine is a unique masterpiece!"
"West City’s Little Wine Shop! Seize the mont, seize the joy!"
Si Yan’s advertisent was remarkably effective!
"Let’s go!!"
"We’re going to buy wine!!"
"We must buy the sage’s wine!!!"
Although she wasn’t officially recognized yet, so Beastn already considered Si Yan a new sage.
After finishing her advertisent, Si Yan turned to head back, saying to Yin Hong as they walked, "Later, I’ll give you five jugs of wine. Take them to the City Lord’s Manor in Myriad Beasts City. These five jugs are special, and their price is also considerably higher."
"Oh, and rember, one jug is nine Red Insect Crystals, so five jugs will be forty-five. Forty-five crystals! Not one less. Make sure you bring all the Insect Crystals back!"
Yin Hong was dumbfounded, his face flushing crimson with excitent.
"Si Yan, I understand! I’ll deliver them imdiately!"
Forty-five Red Insect Crystals! Their entire Silver Wolf Tribe couldn’t earn that many in ten years.
Since following Si Yan, his life had taken on an almost dreamlike quality...
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