Chapter 536: Book of Elves

math?

Mathematics has always been Zhang Zian's hard work since he was a child. He was taken aback when he heard Meng Li's abrupt question, "What do you mean?"

Meng Li looked at his watch and said in a hurry: "Shop Manager Zhang, if you want to find books about life, the universe and everything, you might as well go to the reference book category. If there is such a book, it should be placed in the reference book category. Li... well, I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first, see you later!"

Classification of reference books?

Before Zhang Zian could react, he waved to Zhang Zian and hurriedly left with the book in his arms.

"Wait a minute! Why is it a reference book?"

Zhang Zian finally regained his senses, and hurriedly chased down the second floor to ask for clarification, but Meng Li had already mixed with other readers who went to check out the borrowing procedures, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving Zhang Zian standing in a mess at the stairs .

Meng Li's expression was quite certain when he spoke, it didn't look like he was joking casually. Although Zhang Zian doesn't understand how life, the universe, and everything are connected with reference books, as the saying goes, if you go to the doctor for a sudden illness, you will never have enough time, so you can only use the tools as Meng Li said. Look in the book?

The collections on the second and third floors are roughly divided into four categories: social sciences, science and technology, reference books, and literary novels. If the search scope is limited to reference books, the time-consuming will be reduced to a quarter of the original.

Zhang Zian thought about it carefully - Damn it's wrong! There are reference book areas on the second and third floors. Should I go to the second floor or the third floor? Or maybe the second and third floors? Meng Li left in such a hurry that Zhang Zian didn't even have time to ask.

He is standing between the stairway on the second floor and the third floor at this time, and readers passing by him feel that he is a little in the way.

So should we go to the second floor or the third floor first?

He took out his mobile phone and looked at it. The light group representing the position of the elves on the electronic map was already extremely dim. Judging from the speed of the search just now, the second floor and the third floor can only be chosen one of the other, just like flipping a coin. People have a hard time choosing.

Unable to hesitate any longer, Zhang Zian decided to gamble on the second floor. After all, the second floor is the Chinese area, so the search speed will be faster. Maybe he can go to the third floor to look for it after the search.

As soon as he took a step, he suddenly remembered that when the elves first appeared in the morning, Xinghai blinked at him three times outside the storage room. He didn't know what Xinghai was doing at the time, and Xinghai didn't explain.

Could it be...

Is Xinghai reminding me to go to the reference book area on the third floor?

certainly,

Maybe he misunderstood it. In fact, Xinghai has no special meaning at all...

As the saying goes, going to the doctor indiscriminately for a sudden illness, since he has no clue, he can just pretend to be Xinghai.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, returned to the third floor, and went straight to the reference book area.

The range is reduced by half.

Reference books, including dictionaries, class books, political books, encyclopedias, yearbooks, handbooks, abstracts, tables, catalogs, maps, and many other categories. Zhang Zian hadn't searched the reference book area on the third floor before, and he took a breath when he saw the dazzling array of books.

He bet on the special meaning of Xinghai blinking three times. If so, what does it mean that Xinghai faces the wall after blinking three times?

Wait, which direction is that outer wall facing? east or west?

Zhang Zian judged the direction, and turned his body to the west, which Xinghai was facing at that time. Coincidentally, the bookshelves in this reference book area also had east and west sides. He faced the west, and what he saw was the east side of the bookshelves.

The range is cut in half again.

In the end, he turned his face up at an angle similar to that of Xinghai, turned his phone sideways, and saw the fifth and sixth floors of the bookshelf.

The range is reduced by a third again.

If he hadn't misunderstood Meng Li's hint and Xinghai's hint, then the search range had been reduced to 1/48 of the original.

Zhang Zian raised his head, raised the phone above his head, and searched for it line by line.

One bookshelf, two bookshelves, three bookshelves...

No……

No.

No!

There are fewer and fewer bookshelves left, and he is getting more and more anxious. Could it be that he really made a mistake?

"Oxford Interactive Illustrated Dictionary", "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary", "Collins Dictionary", "Oxford Contemporary Encyclopedia", "Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spain", "McMillan English-English Dictionary"... a large number of dictionaries Appears and disappears on the phone screen.

Zhang Zian's arm muscles were sore again. He was about to switch hands to hold the phone. The moment his left and right hands were handed over, he suddenly saw that there seemed to be a slight deviation between the screen of the phone and the reality.

His heart was beating violently, and he quickly returned the phone to the position just now. Through the game capture interface, he saw a scarlet book inserted between the "Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy" and the "McMillan English-English Dictionary". Bare, without any characters.

Taking the phone away, the scarlet book disappeared from view.

The phone was put back in place, and the scarlet book was in sight.

Can't go wrong! This is the book!

Zhang Zian endured the ecstasy in his heart, held up the mobile phone with one hand to observe, and slowly stretched out the other hand.

Before that, he had never touched the elves to be captured with his hands in the process of capturing Fina, Laocha, Richard and Feimas. Although these elves exist in reality in real form after being captured, when they are in the state of being captured, they are between reality and illusion. He can't imagine what it feels like to touch them at this time.

Now, he's about to touch a book from the void.

He pinched the spine of the book and didn't feel the temperature. Other than that, it was similar to a normal book, with the same thick texture.

Tightening his hand, he pulled the book out.

Sure enough, as the elf described, this book has no title, the cover, back cover, and spine are all bare, and the hard cover has a golden metal edging. It is heavy and does not look new or old, but it feels good.

With Zhang Zian's character, he really wanted to read the contents of the book, whether it really included life, the universe and everything, and also wanted to know why Meng Li was able to conclude that this book was placed in the reference book category, but Running out of time, he took out the book and immediately ran to the fifth floor with it under his arm.

Some passing readers pointed to the sign posted on the wall with disgust - "loud noise, running, spitting, and littering are prohibited in the museum", but Zhang Zian ignored it.

He returned to his seat in one breath, bent over, and typed a line in the chat room as fast as he could.

[Dashuaibi]: 3.1415926, I found your book, I am standing now, holding your book in my hand!

He pushed away the keyboard and held up the scarlet book of spirits like an Olympic torch, praying that there was still time.