At this time, in the Library of All Things, in the fifth reading room, Li Yan was sitting on a book that was more than one meter wide, wandering between the towering bookshelves.
He stopped beside a bookshelf. Li Yan's hunched body seemed extremely small next to the huge bookshelf. He waved his hand lightly, and a book was pulled out from the bookshelf and fell steadily into his hands.
"Siluru's Bizarre Adventure in the Demonic World"
The author of this book is an adventurer. It is said that during the last battle between the hero and the devil, he sneaked into the devil's army and went to the devil world through the devil's gate.
This book mainly tells the story of how Sirulu, after passing through the gate to the demon world, disguised himself as a member of a lowly and inferior race and went on an adventure with a demon world noble whose family was almost wiped out.
This book records what he saw and heard in the demon world.
Although the mainstream view in the Library of All Things is that this book was just written casually by some eccentric person, Li Yan is more inclined to believe that the male adventurer named Sirulu really went to the demon world.
After all, many of the descriptions in this book about the various races and magical scenes in the demon world are too detailed. If one relies solely on imagination, it would probably be impossible to write such a book.
Of course, this book is not without its shortcomings and flaws. The descriptions of magic and various strange creations are extremely vague, and the conflicts between various races are glossed over, as if they were deliberately avoided.
Many people in the Elders' Council of the Library of All Things also used this as an argument to criticize the book, firmly believing that it was just a fantasy novel written by someone with a wild imagination.
However, this cannot be blamed on them.
This book has been in the library for less than a hundred years, and the last battle between the hero and the demon king has been four centuries ago. Almost all the information about the hero and the last battle has been sorted out and placed in an important storage room. The members of the Library of All Things can only consult the photocopy in the storage room, so there is no possibility of any omissions.
So at that time, this book was naturally excluded.
The past events could not help but come to mind.
A long time ago, the books donated every week would be processed and verified by the donation committee, and duplicate or meaningless books would be eliminated. They would then be handed over to the Elders' Council to judge their value and give the donors corresponding rewards.
However, there were disagreements when the book was being reviewed, but it was finally sent to the Elders' Council for judgment.
At that time, the book was accompanied by a letter from the donor.
The donor claimed that he found this book in a treasure chest left by his ancestors. He had tried various methods to open the chest before, but he didn't know how the chest opened suddenly.
The original donor opened the treasure chest with the intention of seeing what was inside. After he discovered it was a book, he immediately lost all interest and donated the book to the library.
Although most people in the Library of All Things firmly believed that this book was worthless, in the end, they still rated it as the lowest grade F because of its wild imagination and arbitrarily included it in the library.
Li Yan's opinion is exactly the opposite of that of most people.
He believed that this book was extremely meaningful and would most likely become a powerful weapon to deal with the next attack by the demons, thus achieving the effect of knowing the enemy and knowing yourself, and being invincible in every battle.
Unfortunately, Li Yan, who joined the library at that time, was still too young and failed to convince the majority of the Elders. He could only use his contribution points to buy the book at the price of S-level materials.
In fact, many senior executives would complain about the materials they like, thinking that the prices given by other people in the library are too low and cannot match the knowledge in the books at all.
In order to prevent members of the Presbyterian Church from fighting when arguing about the value of a particular book, the Library of All Things came up with this compromise method.
If someone thinks that this book has corresponding value, he can spend twice the corresponding value to buy the original copy of the book, which means he has spent money to buy a reasonable position for the book.
The result of implementing this system is that there are fewer arguments.
Even if everyone's evaluation of each book has some deviations, as long as the deviations are not large, few people will continue to argue about the value of a particular book.
Unless, it's really polarized.
And "Silulu's Bizarre Adventure in the Demonic World" is one of the rare books that causes disagreement.
However, the disagreement was resolved by Li Yan, who decisively bought the book and sent it to where it belonged.
And that was almost a hundred years ago.
Touching the rustic cover, a sense of age came over Li Yan. He could feel that this book was born in an era even older than when he was born.
Assuming that it is true as the donor said, the box containing the book is probably cast with some special magic. As long as we can find the box that originally contained the book, we can confirm whether what the donor said is true or false.
It's a pity that that happened a hundred years ago. It is almost impossible to find the box. It is probably burned as firewood a long time ago. Therefore, there is no basis to judge the authenticity of this book.
But Li Yan did not regret it, and he still firmly believed in the truth depicted in the book. Every time he opened the book, he seemed to see the voices, faces and smiles of that era, which made him unable to put it down.
But this time, Li Yan did not read the book with a refined mood, but truly regarded the book as information.
Underground mazes are not unique to this world; similar facilities seem to exist in the demon world as well.
Unlike here where the method of making mazes was lost early on, the method of making mazes seems to be widely available in the demon world, and this book more or less introduces the situation of the mazes there.
In short, the mazes in the demon world seemed to be built by each big family specifically for training their offspring.
In the demon world where strength is respected, if the descendants of those big families can pass the last level of the family maze, it is equivalent to gaining the recognition of the entire family and becoming a strong candidate for the next patriarch.
It takes a huge amount of financial and material resources to build an underground maze, but the underground maze over there seems to be quite easy to maintain.
As long as it is maintained, even if the last guardian is defeated by the attacker, a new guardian will emerge again in about half a year.
The underground maze over there can be said to be an essential prop for the demon race to improve the strength of their family.
Such an underground maze setting will naturally cause countless fights in the demon world.
In order to make the family stronger and stronger, it is necessary to own more mazes. The cost of building a maze is huge, but maintaining it is not, so the best way is to take other people's mazes for yourself. This is also one of the logics of racial conflicts in the demon world.
Another protagonist in "Silulu's Bizarre Adventure in the Demon World", the demon noble, was killed because of her family's underground maze.
(End of this chapter)