Pushing the partition door between the carriages, and passing through some narrow joints, the next carriage looks completely different. If the first car is like a large high-end jewelry store, then the second car is a narrow and dark underground library.
Towering bookshelves flooded the car, and the bookshelves weren't even parallel to each other, which made the place even messier than Papa's Antiques. In the narrow and crooked aisle, several people were already standing. Some people noticed Jenkins coming from the front compartment, but they didn't come forward to talk to him.
Car No. 2 does not have the magnificent crystal chandeliers and elegant gas wall lamps like Car No. 1. All the light here comes from the glass-covered oil lamps held by everyone. The oil lamps are placed at the corner of the entrance. Everyone who enters the car I can take one.
"If Alexia sees this, she should be very happy~"
He sighed in his heart, opened the glass cover and carefully lit the wick with a match, waited for the flame to stabilize, then carefully turned the knob to make the light suitable, and then entered the middle of the bookshelf with his cat.
Chocolate never eats books, so I'm not interested here. It was Jenkins who walked and looked at the writing on the spines of these ancient books, some of which he couldn't even make out, but which were undoubtedly of interest to him.
"Maybe I can find some books here that can answer my doubts."
He thought to himself, wanting to find out if there is a shopping guide in this carriage. But the bookshelves lined up block all the vision, even if there is a shopping guide, it is not easy to find it in a short while.
"It's okay, there are other ways."
His eyes skipped over the books in front of him, trying to find the regularity of the arrangement of these books, and at the same time, he was trying hard to think about the goal he was looking for. After five minutes like this, he had already turned three corners, and then he called out the ability light spot to activate [Unknown Way Ahead].
The beautiful purple light guided Jenkins to move forward, and stopped after a while. The book guided by fate was quite thick, with a blood-red cover, and no words on the spine.
Jenkins tried to yank it from the shelf, but no matter how hard he tried, the book wouldn't budge.
"Guest, are you sure you need this book?"
A hoarse voice came from behind, sending goosebumps on the back of Jenkins' neck. He turned around and looked behind him, an old woman with an oil lamp and a pointed hat was looking at him. Judging from the inspiration, this person should also be an insider of the bazaar, that is, the shopping guide for this section of the car that Jenkins hadn't seen just now.
"Yes, I need this book."
He nodded.
"This book is very dangerous. It is the most dangerous batch of books that are allowed to be read during the opening of this market. If you really need it, I can register for you to borrow. Such books are not for sale, only for borrowing duration."
she said, her eyes gliding over the badge on Jenkins's chest, resting for a moment on the bored cat, and then said:
"I seem to smell a familiar scent. Have you come into contact with [Book Fairy] recently?"
"Yes."
Jenkins replied hesitantly that not long ago he gave a book a soul, and the resulting book goblin wanted to follow him after everything was over, and also showed him a way to add a blank bubble—then he Encountered the sealed machine in the mountain of Loen, and then came into contact with the legend of the mad poet.
"Also."
The old lady nodded, but didn't say whether she was related to the race of the [Book Fairy]. Standing on tiptoe, she took out the book that Jenkins couldn't get out and held it in her arms. Jenkins still couldn't see the cover.
The old man led Jenkins through the labyrinth-like aisle of bookshelves to the registration desk in the center of the car, which was actually a small wooden table with oil lamps and forms. Because of the particularity of this book, it also costs sin coins to borrow. After learning the price, Jenkins bought ten minutes of reading time with 1 sin coin. And because he can get a 10% discount, it takes about 11 minutes to read the last sin coin.
The title of the book is Mortal Sin: Calamity Beast.
The emergence of intelligent life has brought civilization and prosperity to the world, but at the same time, it has also brought sin to the world. In fact, from the beginning of the world, sin has been growing with the fire of life and civilization. These terrifying things are not just energy, in fact, they are even higher rules than laws.
The accumulation of sins will produce a power that is incompatible with intelligent life. This is the power of monsters, and it is also an incomprehensible power in various disasters.
And when the sins of the material world reach a certain level, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes, thus giving birth to creatures composed of sins in the true sense, creatures that are completely anti-intelligent.
The existence of such life itself is contrary to normal intelligent life. Some of them will destroy the order of life reproduction, some symbolize endless greed, and some represent uncontrolled energy growth... In short, the birth of disaster beasts is an unstoppable natural phenomenon, and due to their own high status , so they cannot be completely eliminated.
"So that's why, so I only heard about the beast of calamity that was sealed, but not the beast of calamity that was killed."
Jenkins leaned against the underside of the bookshelf, illuminating the words in the terrible ancient book with the oil lamp on the floor. He couldn't understand those words at all, even just looking at them gave him a headache. But because he had paid a price to read, the bazaar helped him understand these ancient texts for a while.
I wiped my nosebleed with my hand, only to feel my head buzzing. These forbidden knowledges are power in themselves, and in the world of idealism, written records and ancient stories are the means of transmitting power. Jenkins can't figure out what kind of existence it is to write down this knowledge. You must know that even for him, just reading is very reluctant.
The birth of the first calamity beast, together with the disaster that destroyed the first era, has been buried in the dust of history. In the first chapter of this book, after a rough introduction to the birth of the Calamity Beast, the following chapters introduce the Calamity Beasts born in each era.
Jenkins knew that his reading time was limited, and he couldn't read every document under pressure, so the possibility of him passing out suddenly was very high. Therefore, he can only select a few chapters to focus on reading. All this is to be able to more fully fight against the beasts of disaster in the eighteenth era in the near future, so he first chose the materials of the seventeenth era, which is also The closest era to the present.