Volume 19, Chapter 138: Ghosts and Secret Rooms

Although I was a little worried about being discovered, there was really nothing I could do about that book. You will definitely not find the book if you don't go into the city. If you go in, there is only a possibility of being discovered, but it is not certain that you will be discovered. Besides, it would only be more troublesome if I was discovered. With my strength, no one can really stop me.

After carefully entering camouflage mode, I walked into this seemingly large city among a large group of people entering the city. Adhering to the consistent characteristics of French cities, this is also a city without city walls. The entire city is full of entrances and exits, which can be said to be connected in all directions. However, don’t think that the city’s defense is very poor just because it has no walls. On the contrary, the city’s defense is not only not bad but also very strong. The four towering towers that can be seen outside the city alone The light prism tower is enough to allow any invading enemy to weigh in advance how many people they can fire.

This kind of light prism tower is a relatively rare defensive weapon. Although it can be classified as a technological weapon, what it emits is not a laser but a similar special photon. Its final effect is not to burn the target with high temperature. Instead, it triggers space collapse at the target location, which means a small black hole will be generated to suck the target in. Precisely because of the terrifying nature of this thing, few people dare to resist this weapon head-on, including me. The research department of our guild has analyzed it before. With the output of that thing, if it hits head-on, it should be able to kill me directly in seconds. Of course, I wouldn't be so stupid as to resist city-level defensive weapons. That would be purely a fool's errand.

"Hello, may I ask where I can find books?" After entering the city, I chose to buy a lot of supplies in a small store and asked this while paying the bill.

Many people don’t know a secret, that is, the NPC in the city that is easiest to increase your favorability is the owner of the store. As long as you buy something from him, his favorability towards you will increase, and the more favorability you buy, the more favorability you will have. The higher it is. This situation is actually very common in reality, but many people don’t think of it in games.

With my super high charm attribute and intimidation attribute, NPCs will usually be very cooperative in helping me even if I don't use this little trick, but having such benefits is always better than nothing. Anyway, I don't care about spending so much money. Spend some money, besides, it’s not a waste to buy things like supplies, they will be used sooner or later.

After hearing my question, the boss immediately said enthusiastically: "Really? It's really a good person who needs something like this, but I happen to know a little bit about it." The boss thought for a moment, then turned around and took a piece of paper and drew. Zhang told me on the simple map: "The three crosses marked here are the three bookstores where you can buy books."

I looked at the circles on the map and asked, "What are these two circles?"

"Oh, the big one is the city library, but you need a special identity permit to go in there. The other circle is the skills training academy in the city. There are also books you can read there, but you have to sign up for skills training first. That’s it. I didn’t know what kind of books your guest needed, so I marked everything I could think of.”

I nodded and thanked the boss, then took the map and left the shop. There are five targets marked on the map, but I think there is only one that is really possible. Books in bookstores are for sale. I don’t think it is possible for something as high as "The Book of Energy" to be sold publicly in a bookstore. That would be the same as buying all the technical information and manufacturing of nuclear weapons in Xinhua Bookstore. The method is equally incredible.

After excluding the bookstore, the only ones left are the technical academy and the library, but I think the technical academy is not very reliable. Although relatively advanced skill books will be stored in that kind of place, the problem is that none of the books in the World Book seem to fit into the category of skill books, although judging from the characteristics of the "Book of Energy", this thing Once it becomes skilled, it will definitely be devastating, but after all, it requires a lot of research and analysis. It is not something that anyone can use immediately after getting a book.

After removing the four targets, only the library is actually left. Although the possibility of something of the World Book level appearing in such a place is not very high, at least it is still possible, so I decided to go over there and have a look, but now I have to solve a problem first. *** Question. After I came out of that small shop, I asked other NPCs. That place was not completely open to the public, but was open in stages. Ordinary people can go in and check some basic information as long as they pay money, but there are very few things in this part, and they are all unimportant information. The really useful things are only open to the White Cross Alliance, the actual owner of this city, and these The reading materials of the White Cross Alliance are actually graded. Low-level members cannot see high-level things at all, so even if I can sneak into their guild membership, it will be useless, because things of this level such as the Book of the World are not included in the books. The museum is definitely not something that ordinary people can see.

After thinking about it, I found that it is unrealistic to use a fake identity to sneak in. The simplest and most reliable way is to sneak in secretly. This is the most likely method to directly approach the target.

After confirming the plan, I immediately took action. I walked around the street a few times but found that no one was following me. Then I turned into an alley and disappeared completely in the shadow at the end of the alley. The next second I was gone. It has appeared in an alley between buildings behind the library. The library is equipped with a space protection array. You cannot use shadows to travel directly into the interior. Besides, I don’t know the situation inside. It would be troublesome if it popped out directly from the crowd.

After appearing outside the wall, I first made sure that my position would not be discovered, and then carefully leaned against the wall behind me. I asked Chili to help me use my mental force field to scan the back of the wall to confirm that it was a warehouse rather than a crowded place with people. After entering the reading room, I carefully turned eternity into the shape of a dagger and directly cut through the wall to dig out a door.

Because the eternity is sharp enough, the work of digging out the wall was completed without much effort, and because the cutting was relatively fast, the damage to the wall was not serious. After I got into the room, I refilled the cut wall just enough to seal it. At the entrance, as long as you don't get close, you can't tell that the wall has been cut.

The situation behind the wall is just like the reconnaissance results. It is indeed a warehouse, but it is not a warehouse for books, but a lot of furniture and other junk. Judging from the spiders on the walls and the dust on the floor, no one has been to this damn place for months at least.

I quickly moved to the door, made sure no one was outside, then opened the door and walked out. Outside the door is a corridor that is not too wide. It is obviously the work area of ​​the library staff, so the corridors are very narrow, and the decoration is basically zero. Traces of stones can be seen directly on the walls. No covering at all.

Follow this passage that looks more like a tunnel than a corridor and you will soon encounter a horizontal passage. The width of this passage is obviously wider than the previous one, and the ground is paved with polished floors and the walls have been painted. It is obviously much better than the previous one. According to my analysis, this city may have been a system city before, and the library already existed at that time. Later, the White Cross Alliance that now occupies here captured the city, and the library I see now should have been built on the basis of the original library. The new library uses many of the internal structures of the previous library, but some things have also been renovated. For example, the passage I just dug out should be the remains of the abandoned old library, so the decoration on both sides is different. so many.

After carefully sneaking into the new area, I heard footsteps before walking very far, and I could also hear the other party's conversation. It was easy to tell from their conversation that they were both NPCs, so I decisively hid back. I turned out of the winding passage. When two NPCs passed the connection point between this passage and the main passage, I suddenly rushed out from behind them, covered their mouths and dragged them back to the old passage. middle.

The two NPCs struggled desperately after being caught by me, but these two civilian NPCs were obviously no match for me, and they were easily pulled into the utility room I entered before. I don’t know what happened, but the two NPCs struggled more and more as they approached the utility room, as if they were afraid of the utility room, but I don’t care about their feelings, so Regardless of their reactions, he directly pulled the two of them in.

I closed the door of the utility room with my feet and asked Ling to come out and release a soundproof circle before I let go of the two of them. What surprised me was that the two NPCs did not resist after getting free, but suddenly jumped away from me. The other corner of the farthest room, and then they hugged each other and shivered.

"Stop shaking there, come here and answer a few questions for me. If you satisfy me, I won't kill you."

The two NPCs opposite were obviously a man and a woman. After hearing my words, they were stunned for a moment, and then looked around with fearful eyes. When I saw the look in their eyes, I remembered that there was no light at all here, and there were no windows in the utility room. It could be said that it was completely pitch black. Because I have dark vision, I always forget that others can't see in dark places. The reaction of these two guys was obviously scary.

"Stop looking for me, I'm right in front of you."

When they heard my words, the two NPCs immediately shrank back in fright. As a result, they bumped into the table and chair behind and shocked themselves. The female NPC among them was even more frightened and screamed and jumped as if going crazy. Average.

"Okay, please be quiet." I stretched out my hand, and a small flame appeared in my palm. Although the flame was small, it was at least enough to illuminate this small room.

The appearance of the light stunned the two of them for a moment. After seeing my appearance, they seemed to be relieved. They were depressed for a long time, thinking that their appearance was not intimidating enough.

"Phew, I was scared to death. I thought it was a ghost in the old district!" The female NPC relaxed immediately after seeing me, and patted her chest with lingering fear as she spoke.

"Ghost?" I couldn't understand why these two guys felt more relaxed when they saw me than when they saw a ghost. It seems that I am more dangerous than a ghost, right?

The other party took my surprise as a question and explained it to me directly. After a long time, a ghost story has been circulating here, that is, there is a terrifying ghost in the remaining area of ​​the old library that has not been renovated. Later, this entertainment legend became popular because many people swore that they had seen the ghost. The rumors became more and more evil, and in the end, there were no NPCs in the entire library, and they would definitely be killed directly.

After understanding this legend, I didn't take it seriously at first, but soon a question suddenly occurred to me. "Ling."

"Understood." Following my prompt, Ling snapped his fingers, and a blue shock wave visible to the naked eye swept across the entire room in an instant, followed by a gray-white figure falling from a pile of tables. .

Seeing the translucent shadow, the two NPCs opposite immediately screamed again. Ling probably thought they were annoying, so he just sent a mental shock to knock them both out.

While Ling knocked out the two noisy guys, I also walked over to the translucent ghosts and squatted down. The other party squirmed on the ground for a while before raising his head, revealing a terrifying face that would definitely make a child cry. Of course, this trick didn't work for me. When I saw that big ugly face, I stretched out my hand and slapped the other person on the head, and slapped the guy to the ground again with a scream. Before the other person could get up again, I reached out and grabbed his hair and lifted his face up.

"If you don't want to be beaten again, just be honest. Who do you want to scare by looking so disgusting?" I almost put my face on the guy's nose and cursed at the ugly face from close range.

When the guy I mentioned heard my words, he immediately cried and said aggrievedly: "Sir, I am wronged! I didn't mean to be so scary. I was burned alive by the fire when I died, so I turned into a ghost. He also looks like this, and my ability is too low to transform my appearance, otherwise a ghost would have such an ugly face all day long."

"You are a ghost."

"This..." The guy choked on my words and didn't know what to say.

Seeing the unlucky look on his face, I said directly: "Well, seeing that you are also an unlucky guy, I won't bully you. Anyway, there is no direct conflict of interest between you and me."

"Thank you, sir."

As I said that, I touched another bag of black crystals from my body and waved it in front of the guy twice. It wasn't until the guy's eyes almost turned into pendulums that I asked in the tone of a weird uncle trying to trick a little lolita. Said: "Do you want it?"

For the undead, black crystal is a natural tonic pill, and it has no side effects. The only problem is that it is less effective for the undead with higher strength, but it is still extremely precious for the low-level undead.

When he heard what I said, the guy nodded desperately and already stretched out his hand, and I threw the bag directly to Ling, and then said: "I have plenty of that stuff, but I can't give it to you in vain. I want it." If so, answer my question. If I’m satisfied, I’ll give it to you.”

"As long as I know anything, I will definitely tell the adults." For the sake of the Black Crystal, I estimate that even if I ask that guy to bark like a dog now, he will agree immediately.

"I don't want to ask you any troublesome questions. I just want to know if you have heard of the Book of the World."

The ghost didn't answer immediately when he heard the name. Instead, he pondered for a while before regretfully shaking his head to express that he didn't know. He thought that if I couldn't get the information, I would definitely not benefit him, so he was also very depressed.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of the Book of World, but have you heard of the Book of Energy, the Book of Time, or the Book of Space?"

After hearing this question, the ghost thought for a while, and finally said helplessly that he had never heard of it. But just when I was about to give up, he suddenly said: "Although I haven't heard of it, it doesn't mean that it must be here." No. After all, I was just a warehouse manager in this library during my lifetime. I don’t know all the books in the library. Moreover, the library was rebuilt once after it was destroyed. Some will definitely be lost during this period. Books, and some will be added, there is no guarantee that there will not be the books you want. And..."

"And what?"

"If you can't find the book you want in the library here, you might as well go and have a look below."

"under?"

The ghost pointed at his feet and said: "It's right under our feet. This utility room is actually just a disguise. You only need to turn the door handle to the end, and then turn it in the opposite direction three times to open a secret passage. This passage is connected to the bottom In a secret library, some of the most precious books and some treasures in the old library were stored below. Because the current library was built on the basis of the original library, there was no foundation dug. , and I didn’t find that there is a secret room down here.”

"Are you saying that even the people from the White Cross Alliance don't know what's going on down there?"

"Yes, I have been in this library since my death. No one knows there is a secret library down there."

I nodded and said, "Then I'll start looking here. I guess the book I'm looking for will definitely not be in the public library area." As I said that, I walked to the door and turned it twice according to the ghost's instructions. handle. Sure enough, when I completed the last lap, a damaged stone sculpture of a man with no nose suddenly sank slowly downwards along with the base in the corner. As the sculpture lowered to the ground, a path was blocked. The stone steps appeared in my sight.

"Come with me." In order to earn those black crystals, this ghost worked very hard. As soon as the cave opened, he immediately walked to the front and showed me the way.

Because this secret room contains very important books, many mechanisms are installed in the passage below. However, because this ghost understands the settings of all mechanisms, these seemingly powerful mechanisms are all just decorations. Under the guidance of that guy, I easily entered the secret room without touching a single mechanism. Even the password lock on the door was opened directly after the ghost told me the password. My usual brute force cracking method was completely useless. Useful.

"This...is this the library?" When the door to the secret room opened, I was completely stunned by the sight in front of me!