Chapter 512 The Myth of Suffering

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Although Tsinghua University Library is just a campus library, it ranks second in the comprehensive collection of books in China. As for the first...

Don't ask, it's a national library anyway.

After showing his student ID card, Li Chungang and his classmates entered the library smoothly. In the spacious and quiet hall, there were students walking briskly from time to time, but everyone tried to suppress the footsteps as quietly as possible. For fear of disturbing others.

Li Chungang stood at the shared tablet used for book retrieval, and entered the keyword "Norse mythology" for conditional retrieval.

Cheng Tao, who was quietly standing behind him, was actually a little curious about what kind of books he, a top student with full creative ability, was reading on weekdays, but he didn't understand the content of the conditional search: "You Why do you suddenly think of watching Norse mythology?"

"Nothing else, just encountered some creative problems, so I want to look at the source. For the genre of Western Fantasy, most of the content comes from their oldest myths and legends."

"I didn't even know that Nordic mythology and Western fantasy novels can be related!" Cheng Tao patted his forehead with a self-deprecating expression, "Sure enough, I am too ignorant."

"Actually, I'm half-baked, that's why I came to the library to read and recharge my knowledge. The book I'm looking for is on the third floor, how about you?"

"Mine is on the fifth floor. Otherwise, let's gather on the second floor to find a long table after each finds the books we want to read. Whoever finds a suitable place first will inform everyone in the class group. If there is really no...then each find a way to find a pit."

For their suggestion, Li Chungang nodded from Shan Ruliu and agreed. Where to read is not to read. If you can choose to read at the same table with your familiar classmates and friends, it is obviously much better than strangers!

After using the tablet computer to search for the books they want to read one by one, they rushed to their goals and took the elevator to leave on the corresponding floors. Li Chungang looked around among the neat rows of bookshelves on the third floor. Books are a very unpopular type in the entire library. There are very few students who are interested in learning about this aspect. Sometimes it is estimated that no one will come to borrow it once in a month or two.

When we play fantasy and magic games or watch movies of this kind, we can often find that the background, content and even professional system of these entertainment works are similar.

Melee fighters, sneak attacking assassins, long-range crossbowmen, magical wizards and warlocks, and racial settings such as humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves almost all come from the same place, that is, Norse mythology!

Norse mythology is relatively small in China. Compared with ancient Chinese mythology and ancient Greek mythology, not many people know it.

Nordic mythology is a very special mythology system, which is more popular in Scandinavia and was born later than other mythologies.

And it has a different style from ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, ancient China, and ancient Indian mythology. For example, their gods are not omnipotent, and the world is not eternal!

Ragnarok is probably the most famous of these stories, where the end of the world is inevitable.

Fenrir, who can devour the world, and the serpent Jormungandr, together with the evil god Loki, jointly created the twilight of the gods, composing the most poignant battle scene in the history of mythology.

When the gods die, the whole world sinks under the water, but the world will eventually recover, and mankind will establish a new world and order.

In Norse mythology, the entire universe is divided into nine worlds, that is, the upper, middle and lower levels, connected by the world tree!

The upper layer is Alfheim, the country of elves, Asgard, the country of the gods, and Vanaheim, the home of the Vanir Protoss.

In the middle is the atrium of the Kingdom of Humanity.

Also called Midgard, in addition to Jotunheim, the land of giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist.

The lower level is Mospelheim, the land of flames, Sevenfheim, the land of dwarves, and Heim, the land of death.

However, the Nordic creation myths are only preserved in Iceland, and the only remaining historical materials are the Edda and some scattered epic legends!

Fortunately, Tsinghua University has just started school at this time, and the number of students visiting the library has not yet reached its peak stage. In addition, the library area of ​​Tsinghua University is large enough, so it is easy for them to find a table on the second floor that is large enough to accommodate them. Empty tables for a group of five or six people.

Li Chungang read it with great interest. He didn't have a deep understanding of this kind of foreign mythology before. Most of his knowledge belonged to the stage of hearsay and novels. Now after reading carefully, he gradually discovered that there is a gap between it and his "Lord of the Rings". with a deep connection.

When he first unlocked the fantasy book "Lord of the Rings", he watched it as an epic battle, and the immersive function of unlocking the work by the system made him feel relaxed and happy, but If you want to talk about the knowledge and origin contained in it, you know what it is and don't know why it is.

At this time, the expansion of the brain domain greatly increases the memory and achieves the ability of photographic memory, which is of great use at this time.

Other people on the same table usually take 8-10 minutes to read a page, and because they have to write a post-reading review, they need to stop and extract some essays from time to time, which further delays their reading process. schedule.

"Shua, Shua, Shua..."

It’s just that in such a quiet environment as the library, Li Chungang’s unusual book-turning speed accompanied by the sound produced by the friction between the pages inevitably lingers in everyone’s mind, and he can’t suppress his curiosity from time to time. He turned his head to look in the direction of the sound.

"You say... is Chungang reading a book or turning the pages?"

"I'm also very curious about this question, or else one of you will ask?"

"Schoolmasters all have the ability to remember things with a photographic memory, so you should give up on it as soon as possible!"

"Scholar is really terrifying!"

"Envy is so envious that you can die ten thousand times."

"..."

Loud noise is prohibited in the library, but it does not mean that even talking is not allowed at all, as long as the voice is low enough not to affect other people, fortunately, there is enough distance between each table in the library, Therefore, the whispers of these people are not afraid of affecting other people.

I recalled the content of "The Lord of the Rings" in my mind...

Li Chungang can't wait to let readers all over the world feel the vastness of Middle-earth in the book, and feel the shock and love when he unlocks it.