Chapter 544 Bookstore
A look towards the moon.
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"The owner of the haunted bookstore is awake!" In a remote corner of the moon, a group of children suddenly began to whisper to each other.
Along with the commotion downstairs, a young man lying on the sofa in his clothes was slowly waking up on the bed in the attic.
In the children's memories, the young man in white is the manager of the bookstore and the only living person in the store.
After drinking a full cup of black tea at noon every day, he would sleep until late at night and never take care of business. This pattern has never been broken since the first day he saw him.
It was just past three o'clock in the afternoon. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have gotten up. When he smelled an unusual group of children, they all grabbed the books in their hands and stared at every move in the attic.
There are no other employees in the bookstore, at least no one has ever seen anyone helping, but no book has ever been lost, and no one has ever seen the shop owner step out of the store.
It's not that no one has ever thought of taking away books, but the books they steal always disappear unknowingly and reappear on the corresponding bookshelf the next day.
However, as long as you don't take it away, no one will care how long you keep it in the store.
The hundreds of square meters of bookstore are filled with books, and coupled with the cold and empty environment, it is easy for people to have some ghostly thoughts.
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The haunted bookstore can be regarded as a wonder in this town. Every day, many people come here to read books for free. In an era when mobile networks have penetrated into thousands of households, a pure bookstore can have such people. Traffic is really not easy.
Many people were first attracted by the rumors of hauntings. Legend has it that this bookstore does not have no employees, but they are all ghosts that ordinary people cannot see.
The store manager is a necromancer who orders his servants late every night to restore everything to its original state silently.
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Most people in the new era have lost their fear of ghosts and ghosts, and instead have strong curiosity.
One is that because of the appearance of the extraordinary, a monster that blows up a building with one punch is more terrifying than a kid who only dares to sneak around in a dark corner and harm people.
Some people with related abilities even capture ghosts to make various negative materials. In the practice of "Thousand Souls Sutra", there are several related spiritual materials that need to be used.
Another reason is that after the emergence of spiritual energy, many high-level practitioners were able to observe the existence of ghosts, and they left a large number of research records.
Fear mostly comes from the unknown. When the veil of ghosts is gradually lifted to everyone, they are no more frightening than lions, dragons and tigers in the wild.
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"Dear Mr. Mage, I..." A child who reacted first immediately took the book in his hand and ran to the bookstore owner as fast as he could and stammered.
There are a few like him.
These children may have family members who have given them guidance, asking them to look for opportunities to hook up with big shots, or they may have sensed an opportunity based on their instincts and joined them one after another.
A group of people who come from poor backgrounds and are found to have poor cultivation aptitude will look for any glimmer of hope to change their destiny.
The status difference between cultivators and ordinary people on the moon has been torn apart even more in the past ten years, and the only thing left to do is to write the hierarchy into law openly.
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It was a pity that the sleepy bookstore owner, dressed in white, had no intention of stopping. He seemed to be slow in his movements and passed through the obstacles of several children like a ghost without even looking at them.
He walked toward the door step by step, his steps as smooth and mechanical as a robot.
The disappointed boys and girls felt a little unwilling, but they didn't dare to get closer for fear of offending the store manager. After all, if nothing else, they could only occasionally find some information in the bookstore that required a contribution to see outside. This is worthy of respecting its owner.
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And just when he woke up, several intelligence points that took turns monitoring the bookstore day and night also exploded in an instant.
"Send a report to your superiors immediately!"
“In case of special circumstances, please contact the special correspondent immediately!”
"Urgent notice, the target seems to be trying to get out of the bookstore!"
"All inspectors, please take cover!"
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A series of orders came from the command center in a corner of the town, transmitting the pain signal from the needle to the center of the huge body of the human federal government layer by layer.
"Boss, I have been transferred to this area for two or three years, and my daily task is to keep an eye on him, so who is this person? Every time I check the database, it shows that the permissions are insufficient." A young man with a small crew cut secretly said I asked my team leader.
"I don't have the authority either." The captain said the answer he had said before with a straight face.
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"Commissioner Red Fox, are you here?"
Just when the atmosphere was getting awkward, a girl wearing a dress and a fiery red leather jacket appeared quietly outside the door of the command room.
"After I received the news, I rushed over as quickly as possible."
"No matter how many times I see it, those legs can be licked to pieces!" After seeing the looming black stockings under the red fox dress, the young man with a flat head had already forgotten the question he was about to ask.
"Where is he?" She ignored the gaze of the young man behind the captain and asked in a coquettish tone.
This was a task she got with great difficulty and a lot of connections, so she absolutely couldn't afford to make any mistakes.
"The target is...what, the target has disappeared?!!!" The captain in charge of the command was confused. How could a living person disappear in front of the radar and a bunch of people?
The red fox stared at the two of them with a dead look on his face. His cannibalistic gaze made the boy with the flat head, who was thinking with his lower body, re-supply more blood to his brain.
"Miss Red Fox, please wait a moment, we will reposition you immediately! We will not let the target get lost!" The captain, who has been in the intelligence department for many years and knows that the beauty in front of him is ruthless, immediately issued a military order.
"Send the high-definition picture of the last scene before the target disappears!"
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"Are you looking for me?" The surveillance screen had just been sent, and a cold and slightly mechanical voice sounded in the command room again.
"Who!" The captain subconsciously pulled out his gun on guard. He was just an intelligence officer who was slightly stronger than ordinary people, with a strength rating of 1-1. The pistol was still his most powerful weapon.
"Sir, the Joint Council has invited you. The pick-up and drop-off convoy is already on the way." Red Fox was the first to react. She pressed the signal light on her body and signaled the convoy that had gathered urgently from outside the city to drive to her side.
"Joint Council..." After hearing this, the flat-headed young man finally understood why the captain's confidentiality level was not enough.
He always thought it was just the captain who didn't want to tell him, but it turned out that he really didn't know.
As the de facto highest authority of the Human Federation, the Joint Council and the confidentiality level of their related figures...