Inside the cake shop, four people and a slime sat around a square table.
Yias and Bai Jin sat on both sides of Yang Yu, He Meng lay limply on Bai Jin's thighs. The two girls looked around the cake shop curiously, their eyes constantly scanning the beautiful cakes in the cupboard. The rich aroma made them feel light all over.
Yang Yu took the menu handed over by the waiter and took a glance at it.
The cakes on the menu were all ones I had never heard of before, and the prices were ridiculously expensive, with many cakes costing more than a thousand yuan.
After browsing around, Yang Yu made up his mind, "Four parfaits, and three pieces of this cake."
The pretty waitress smiled sweetly, "Please wait a moment."
Yang Yu had never thought that he could eat parfait in this world. But if he thought about it carefully, there were many ice spells in this world, so making ice wouldn't be too difficult, so having parfait wasn't something to be surprised about.
A few minutes later.
The waiter brought desserts to Yang Yu's table, a parfait for each person, and the cake was given to Bai Jin, Yias and Shu Jing.
Iyas looked at the pointy parfait with a spoon in hand. She had never imagined that humans would use ice as food. After taking a bite out of curiosity, she almost melted.
Bai Jin took a spoon and gave a lot of parfait to He Meng. He Meng squirmed his sticky body and swallowed the parfait. Four-leaf clover is good, but it is also nice to eat something other than four-leaf clover occasionally.
Shu Jing swallowed and sat face to face with Yang Yu, placing his hands on his thighs awkwardly, feeling at a loss and panicking inside, as if he shouldn't be here.
I was brought here by them accidentally! Judging from their attire, they should be adventurers, not candidates who came here to take the exam this year.
I was just returning a book and borrowing another one, why did it turn out like this
Can I really eat these things in front of me
This could be a trap. Mom said adventurers are very cunning. If they just want to have their cake and eat it, and bring me here by force and ask me to pay the bill, I can't afford it.
Taking a spoon and taking a few bites of the parfait, Yang Yu looked at Shu Jing who had been sitting stiffly opposite him. "Don't worry, you won't be asked to pay. Just eat."
Hearing this, Shu Jing shrank back and said tremblingly: "If you have anything you want to ask, just ask quickly. I'm in a hurry and need to go back to study for the exam."
The further they talked, the quieter Shu Jing's voice became, until it became inaudible.
"I have a lot of questions, which will take up a lot of your time. The parfait and cake in front of you are just a greeting gift. As long as you are willing to answer my questions, I will pay you a certain amount of money."
As he spoke, Yang Yu took out a gold coin with a face value of 1,000 from his bag and pushed it towards Shu Jing.
"I don't know, are these enough?"
"This, that..." Shu Jing was at a loss and quickly refused, "If you have any questions, just ask directly, you don't have to pay me. Besides, you're paying so much."
"You're welcome." Yang Yu smiled. "You look so smart, you must know what I want to know. As you can see, my companions and I are here for the first time at the Library of Everything today. We know very little about the situation here. Now I can only ask you for help."
When you encounter someone in need, lend a helping hand.
Her mother's words rang in her ears. Shujing mustered up her courage, slowly loosened her restrained hands, picked up the spoon, and took a bite of the sweet and silky parfait.
"I accept your kindness. As a reward, these desserts are enough. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I will do my best to answer them."
Seeing that Shu Jing was willing to give in, Yang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
If plan A doesn't work, he will have to consider plan B.
If soft doesn’t work, try something hard.
For example, find an empty alley, force Shu Jing into a corner, and torture her. Paid consultation.
Yang Yu believed that Shu Jing would be happy to answer his questions when the time came.
The only drawback is that if you do that you'll probably be mistaken for a street thug who's trying to gain experience, although in the end it won't be clear who's gaining experience.
"Then I'll get straight to the point." Yang Yu pulled his throat, "First tell me, what happened in the Library of Everything to make it so bustling with lights and feasting? The surroundings don't look like a library at all, and I was so looking forward to it."
Shu Jing was a little surprised, "Don't you know? I thought this was something everyone knew."
"I think that the majority of people in this world don't know. If there weren't something we need to check, we wouldn't have come all the way here."
Continuing to appeal to his emotions and reason, Yang Yu pretended to be forced to come here.
Shu Jing was also very impressed and told Yang Yu and the others the development history of the library without reservation.
The founding date of the Library of All Things cannot be traced back. It was established to protect the knowledge passed down by mankind.
In order to protect the precious knowledge of mankind, a large number of magicians spontaneously organized themselves to join the library and became the earliest guardians of the library.
At first, the Library of Everything was no different from other ordinary libraries, except that it had more books. Anyone could borrow books from the Library of Everything as long as they paid a small amount of money to apply for a library card.
It could be described as a golden age, or a dark age.
Human civil war broke out.
In order to gain access to information on the enemy's terrain and the level of magic and technology, top leaders from various countries flocked to the Library of All Things like crazy.
Although they were "crazy", their methods were actually very sophisticated. They took advantage of the librarians' inattention and wantonly destroyed and tampered with the information that had been painstakingly compiled by generations of talents, just to prevent their opponents from obtaining any intelligence or technology from their own country.
Ironically, they hope to obtain intelligence and technology about their opponents from the library.
At that time, there were countless forces extending olive branches to the Library of All Things.
If you don't obey, they will definitely find ways to raze the library to the ground.
If you can’t get it, it’s better to destroy it so that others can’t get it either.
The situation was extremely critical, and the library's top brass did not choose to sit idly by. Instead, they took a series of measures, including but not limited to temporarily closing the library, supporting and helping the moderate monarch, and cracking down on the army of unruly "browsers", proving with thundering force that the Library of All Things was not a soft persimmon that could be bullied by just anyone.
Eventually, all nations signed a series of treaties with the Library of All Things. The most important one was that no matter how the war unfolded, the library would never be implicated again.
The Library of All Things has never denied that it used some extremely dark means to ultimately ensure its neutrality today.
In order to maintain neutrality, they don't mind using some extremely dark means.
This is why human countries dare not attack the Library of All Things casually.
However, the problems of the Library of Everything have just begun. After the war, the first problem is to rebuild
(End of this chapter)