A few regular visitors who spent all day in the library were very familiar with the layout and structure of the library. After a while, they returned to the fifth floor, holding the same book with a different cover in their hands. The three "Life, the Universe, and Everything" have both Chinese and English versions, as well as versions in other languages. The years of publication are also different.
Zhang Zian has also read this classic science fiction book, but he never knew that there are so many versions of this book...
They found a free table and lined up the books so that they covered the whole table and it looked spectacular.
Some other readers didn't know what they were doing, and cast inquiring eyes one after another.
They returned to their seats and began typing in English.
[coo]: We have found the book you want, and it is placed on the table at the top of the stairs on the fifth floor. There are all editions, come and pick it up.
Including Zhang Zian, all the insiders looked at the table covered with books, waiting for what would happen. Especially Zhang Zian, although he thinks the answer will not be so simple, but he is also worried that one of the books suddenly disappears in full view, it will become a supernatural event, and it will cause a sensation...
Time passed by, and the air in the library was almost suffocating. The readers on the fifth floor were all sitting in their places, and no one stood up. Of course, there were no supernatural events such as books disappearing out of thin air.
[1415926]: This is not my book.
After struggling to make out the English sentence mixed in a string of pi, the regular customers I met with coo felt a little tight in their chests, feeling that they might be tricked, and almost vomited blood! If they made a mistake, it doesn't matter, they can look for it again, but they obviously found the right one, but the other party refuses to admit it... Isn't this obviously cheating
[coo]: But isn't this the book you want? Life, the Universe, and Everything, or which specific version do you want? I've heard people being picky about publishing houses...
[1415926]: My book has no title.
[Dashuaibi]: Your book has no title, it's about life, the universe and everything
[1415926]: Yes, can you find my book
[Jackdaw]: I'm sorry, we won't help, you have to find it yourself!
[Panbing Guozi]: That's right, there must be a limit to playing with others, and you wantonly consume other people's kindness. You will make people chill by doing this.
[coo]: Don't be discouraged, everyone! Try again!
[Blue Flower]: hmmmm, I'm not familiar with sci-fi, but I want to move a small bench and continue to watch the excitement.
Some of them spoke in Chinese, some in English, with indignation and jokes in their words. Zhang Zian waited for their verbal criticism to come to an end, and continued typing.
[Dashuaibi]: I forgot to ask before, you said that what you are looking for is your book, can I understand that this book is not provided by the library, but you brought it yourself
[1415926]: Yes, it is the book that appeared in this world with me.
[Da Shuaibi]: The last question, this book is about life, the universe and everything, does it mean that the content of the book is very complicated
[1415926]: Yes, can you find my book
Zhang Zian understood that this book and this elf are probably in a state of symbiosis and depend on each other. This elf currently exists in this world incompletely, so it has no form. It must obtain this book to become a complete body.
At the same time, he also understood why it is extremely difficult to capture. His task is to find a book that has no name, is not registered in the book, and contains everything from among the more than two million books in the library!
Finding a needle in a haystack is nothing more than that, right
And this shit is still a time-limited mission!
cheating!
The conversation between Zhang Zian and the elves seemed completely inexplicable to others. The library was not allowed to bring in bags, nor was it allowed to bring in its own books. This conversation was illogical.
Sure enough, the elves are asking for help, asking for help from other people in order to survive.
Zhang Zian entered the game's electronic map interface again and looked at it. The light group representing the position of the elf was already very dim, like a mist before the sun rises, which may dissipate at any time.
[Dashuaibi]: I don't know if I can find it, but I will try my best.
[1415926]: Thank you.
Zhang Zian pushed aside the chair and stood up. Coo walked over quickly with light steps, and asked in a low voice, "Do you really want such an inexplicable book?"
"I have to find it." Zhang Zian replied.
He didn't have time to explain much, even covering up was a waste of time, he waved his hand and went downstairs, leaving coo alone in the wind, while other readers were discussing in the chat room, waiting to see the end of this farce.
Zhang Zian came to the fourth floor and slowed down at the stairs.
Although he uttered bold words, he had no idea how to find them.
I don't know the size, thickness, binding, style, content, and classification of the book. How can I find it
But he has a guess that the book appeared in this world with the elves, that is to say, it is a book summoned from the void by the "Pet Hunter" game. Like the elves to be captured, ordinary people cannot see this book, but they can see it through the game capture interface!
The situation on the fourth floor is a little better, because the bookshelves are full of literature and newspapers. If there is a book on a certain bookshelf, it is quite easy to see.
He searched on the fourth floor, but couldn't find it. There were no books on any of the bookshelves. If he could find it on the fourth floor, the task would not be extremely difficult.
When Zhang Zian went down to the third floor, it was like entering hell mode from now on.
He looked helplessly at the bookshelves in the foreign language reading area on the third floor, which meant that he had to filter carefully one by one, because this book could appear on any shelf. Each bookshelf has six floors above and below, and this book may appear on any floor. Dozens or hundreds of books are lined up on each shelf, and this book may be stuffed between any two books.
To find this book, he must point his phone at an area of the bookshelf, observe it through the game capture interface, then observe it with the naked eye, and then compare the two to find out what is invisible to the naked eye but can be seen through the game capture interface. How difficult is it to find that extra book from a collection of more than two million books, and to find a specific stone from a mountain of books
Even if there are roads on the mountain of books, it will take time to climb to the top!
What Zhang Zian lacks most now is time!
Too close to the bookshelf, the mobile phone camera can take a limited range of shots, too far away from the bookshelf and it is easy to miss... He tried a few times and found that it is best to stand at a moderate distance, so that the first to sixth floors of the bookshelf just fill the phone screen vertically The entire space, and then scan layer by layer with eyes.
The horizontal length of the bookshelf is very long. On average, Zhang Zian has to compare each bookcase more than a dozen times. The bookshelf has two sides, the sum of the number of front and back.
In order to avoid omissions, it takes at least 20 seconds for each comparison, and the focal length of the eyeballs switches repeatedly between the close-range mobile phone screen and the slightly distant bookshelf...
The colors of the densely packed books on the bookshelves are dazzling, green, yellow, black, white, red... all mixed together, like a big dye vat, especially these books have foreign titles, and those twisted lines on the spine Cursive fonts can easily make you sick if you look at them for a long time.
After reading the front of each bookshelf and then going around to look at the back, it didn't take long for Zhang Zian to be fainted, with bouts of nausea and nausea, even so, he gritted his teeth and persisted.
However, seeing the remaining hundreds of bookshelves on the third floor, and only a few more bookshelves on the second floor, he clearly knew that unless he was lucky, he would never have time to find the book before the elf disappeared.
Holding the phone at the same position and height for a long time, his arms are already sore. This is after he trained a pair of unicorn arms with Lao Cha. If it were replaced by his weak body before, his arm muscles would cramp within a few minutes.
When he came down from the fifth floor, he also took the "Modern Genetics: Anatomy from Genes to the Surface" and kept it under his arm, pretending that ordinary readers were looking for a book, but now his arms are sore Tired again, this book has become a burden, this pretense is meaningless.
So he looked at an empty space on the bookshelf, and he was going to put the book back.
"Master Zhang, are you still looking for books?"
Zhang Zian kept the posture of putting the books unchanged, turned his head and saw Meng Li was also standing beside him with two books, looking leisurely, the woolen coat that he had taken off earlier had been put on again.
Meng Li noticed the English version of modern genetics monograph in Zhang Zian's hand, and was deeply surprised. The only doubts he had before were completely dissipated, thinking that he was really concentrating on the study of modern genetics.
"Mr. Zhang, have you finished reading such a thick English monograph?" Meng Li asked politely.
Zhang Zian pretended subconsciously: "... I just flipped through it roughly. The content of this book is a bit shallow, and it doesn't satisfy my appetite. I want to find something deeper."
Meng Li said with a smile: "No matter how deep it is, I'm afraid we can only study the latest papers."
Zhang Zian didn't want to get entangled in this issue, so he changed the subject and said, "Mr. Meng, are you also looking for books?"
"I've already searched for it. These two books are about arithmetic ultrafiltration, mainly studying the solution of infinite element Diophantine equations." Meng Liyang picked up the two books in his hand.
Zhang Zijian smiled as if he could understand.
Meng Li looked at the sky: "It's almost noon, I'm going back to school. Manager Zhang, do you want to stay here for a while?"
Zhang Zian nodded: "Stay a little longer, I haven't found the book I'm looking for yet."
"Oh, it's also about modern genetics?" Meng Li casually asked politely.
"Uh... that's right, it's about life, the universe and everything." Zhang Zian said with a wry smile, mentally prepared to be ridiculed.
However, Meng Li didn't laugh at him. Instead, he was slightly startled, showing a look of surprise, and asked, "Master Zhang has so many hobbies... Besides modern genetics, do you also like to study mathematics?"