As early as when he first entered the library, Bai Zhi summoned the shadow guards to conduct relevant searches in the library.
Although Shadow Guard is said to be unable to accept too advanced instructions, such as cooking or doing homework, he can still complete some simple orders quite well.
For example, sweeping the floor, cleaning the glass, throwing away garbage, stepping on pits... and stepping on pits.
However, before all the players arrived at the beginning, one of the shadow guards he summoned to explore the library lost contact.
It was the very beginning. He couldn't reveal his skills when he first arrived, so he didn't say anything to others.
However, he did know from the beginning that there was some unknown danger in the library, but except for the beginning, nothing happened to the Shadow Guard after that... Until just now .
He has tried it. It seems that because he is not a living thing, the shadow guard cannot take the book from the bookshelf. So, why do books fall from the bookshelf for no reason
If anything goes wrong, there must be a monster. Taking that book back was a very correct choice... But there was only one thing that Bai Zhi didn't miss.
Just by exchanging such a small object, he consumed a terrifying 2,000 points of spiritual energy on it.
Although some shadow puppets double the cost of using their own skills, the amount of spiritual energy consumed by exchanging a book over such a short distance has reached a terrifying 1,000 points, and the upper limit of his spiritual energy is only over 2,000 points in total. .
If he didn't have the Shadow Ring, he might not be able to afford such a terrifying consumption.
"Like other books on the bookshelf, the content cannot be displayed without purchasing..."
After taking the book in his hand and taking a look at it, Bai Zhi raised his head and looked at the recorder after a moment of pondering.
"Do you want to read this book?"
"Did you just take it from the bookshelf? Is there anything unusual about it?"
After taking a look at the book in Bai Zhi's hand, the recorder looked a little strange.
"I suspect this book is the player named Setsuna."
Bai Zhi pushed the book in his hand over and spoke calmly.
"You can buy this book and give it a try. Maybe he will come back."
"Well… "
After a moment of hesitation, holding the book in his hand, the recorder chose to buy it in the story store.
Then, with a flash of white light, a young man with long black hair covering his right eye and a slightly pale face appeared on the table.
The moment the other party appeared, all the memories about the other party in everyone's minds returned at the same time.
When he saw Bai Zhi in front of him, he didn't seem to be surprised, as if he had known that he would be rescued, so he hurriedly spoke to Bai Zhi.
"I have very important things to do with this library..."
"Although I am very happy that you are back, Xiao Mo, can you get off my hands first?"
Before he could finish his sentence, behind him, the recorder whose hand he stepped on spoke quietly.
"Please, it hurts. You should lose weight."
Setsuna: "..."
… … … … … … … … … …
"This library is a story in itself."
After getting off the table, he immediately spoke to everyone with a serious face.
“We are in the middle of the story at the very beginning.”
"oh."
"Then?"
"so what?"
"..."
Seeing the reactions of everyone in front of him, Setsuna couldn't help but fall into silence.
Unlike what he imagined, most of the reactions from the people in front of him were dull, and a few of them even yawned out of boredom.
… Isn’t this information exciting enough
"Since we are in the story, the items we obtained through the destiny cards cannot be taken out so easily. You'd better be mentally prepared."
After a moment of silence, Setsuna spoke his second sentence.
"We already know these things, you might as well say something useful."
Both were prosperous and devastated. He probably couldn't stand it any longer. While shaking his red and swollen hands, the recorder spoke in a depressed tone.
"How on earth did you become a book?"
"... When a single person is in this library, the rules in this library will be triggered."
Subconsciously he glanced at Bai Zhi over there, the corners of his mouth seemed to twitch slightly, and he spoke instantly.
"I was caught by a person dressed as a librarian, and then I turned into a book and was randomly stuffed on a bookshelf... After turning into a book, my thinking will gradually become slow and stagnant, until finally of complete demise.”
He stretched out his hand to pull out a chair and sat down. The expression on Setsuna's face looked a little gloomy.
"In addition, in that state, I also saw some incredible footage... "
"What picture?"
Turning his head to look at the other party, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.
"In the beginning, it was an endless library. The internal layout of the library was the same as our current library, but it seemed hundreds of times larger..."
After letting out a slight breath, Setsuna spoke.
"The library was very lively, with all kinds of strange people coming and going every day. But one day, the library itself seemed to be attacked, the walls were broken, and endless monsters crazily poured into the library from outside the walls. Inside, more than half of the library was destroyed. Then, I saw a book falling from the bookshelf into the gap... "
"Then what?"
Bai Zhi sat up slightly and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"The pictures I saw were all in the form of fragments, and the subsequent pictures seemed a bit messy and unconnected... I saw the book that wandered out of the library and fell into a world, where it was picked up by a little girl. After picking it up, that world is also a world that has been corroded by ghost stories, and the situation is quite serious. It can be said that the whole world is on the edge of destruction."
The expression on Setsuna's face looked quite serious.
"That day was the little girl's birthday, but she was about to die. Before she died, she made a birthday wish to this book, hoping to live in a peaceful world... That book fulfilled her wish , swallowed the little girl."
"Is this the origin of this strange story?"
Looking around at the bookshelves that reached the dome, Bai Zhi frowned slightly.
"Absolutely, the pictures after that became even more fragmented... I saw more and more people being swallowed up by this book, and in the process, the white cover of the book gradually turned into black. "
Setsuna let out a small breath in his mouth.
"The power of that book became more and more powerful, and in the end the place it affected even became a restricted area. Anyone who walked into that area would be swallowed by the book..."
"Finally, we players arrive."
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The information revealed from Setsuna's mouth was really too shocking.
Whether it is the mysterious real big library that was invaded by countless monsters, or the true origin of this strange story, it can be said that it is simply unheard of.
If a book that escaped from that big library could become such a strange story, then what kind of mysterious place would that big library that was invaded by countless monsters be
Just like the mysterious train that Bai Zhi saw in Anna's spiritual world before, traveling through the void, the description of the mysterious big library that was revealed from Momo's mouth was also filled with excitement. It has an extremely mysterious color.
But at the very least, right now, those things are not areas they are qualified to get involved in.
"The arrival of our players... means when the large-scale battle mission begins, right?"
Frowning slightly, Yeyue Yingxue opened her mouth and asked.
"At that time, this copy should not have undergone such a change. What happened later?"
"That book... it's learning."
Setsuna took a deep breath in her mouth.
"From scratch, it is constantly learning about us, acquiring knowledge and memories of our world... That book tried to invade our world through those players, but was blocked by the system's defense mechanism."
"In other words, the body of the strange story we are currently in is a book that has become a spirit, has self-awareness, and I don't know where it is hiding now?"
Bai Zhi reached out and touched his chin, with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Let me ask you a question, in the fragments and scenes you saw, is the world that the book came to be on the verge of destruction?"
"The sky is torn apart, the earth is riddled with holes, and all kinds of weird things are rampant in the world... I don't think that kind of world is okay."
Probably thinking of the scene he had seen before, he looked around at everyone, and Setsuna's tone seemed a little low.
"That is a world scenario where the resistance from players completely fails. If we fail, then our world will become that kind of hell on earth."
"I probably understand."
Bai Zhi raised his head and glanced at the book floating in the center of the square table, and snapped his fingers.
"That book knows a lot of things from the players, so it is growing rapidly, including the exchanges we are familiar with, which are similar to the system store and the way to perform tasks. The book imitates the system through learning. It's just that by imitating others, it makes itself look different... Does it want to become the second system?"
Bai Zhi suddenly became interested.
"… I have no idea."
After a moment of silence, Setsuna shook her head.
"But I know that everything we see now is false. It is a story scene constructed from the book itself, because the core entity of this ghost story is just a book."
"But why can you see this?"
His brows were slightly wrinkled, and he seemed a little confused as the moon reflected the snow and the clouds dispersed.
"Also, if you were turned into a book, how did you fall from the bookshelf to the ground on your own?"
"After turning into a book, I still have certain mobility."
After looking at the other party, Setsuna suddenly explained in his mouth.
"But the more time goes by, the faster my self-awareness will dissipate, and the speed of movement will become slower and slower, becoming a real book. You have lost your memory about me, plus the book There is still that librarian in the library. I want to remind you that it is basically impossible and you can only choose to save yourself. As for why you can see those pictures... "
When he said this, Setsuna himself also frowned.
Obviously, he himself didn't know the reason for this kind of thing.
"Two possibilities."
Bai Zhi glanced at Shu Mo thoughtfully, and then spoke.
"The first possibility is that this is information from other players, and the second possibility is that it is from the owner of the book... The probability is about 50 to 50."
"The other players... are they?"
After listening to Bai Zhi's words, Xia Wen's eyes suddenly lit up.
"It is possible, and the probability is quite high."
After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi nodded.
"No matter what the possibility is, we should be able to find the clues they specially left for us in the library... The shadow guards previously found a total of six abnormal books on the more than 3,000 bookshelves in the library, with covers and other The books are different, you can see them at a glance, I have marked them, each of you will take one."
As he spoke, Bai Zhi also handed a sketch of the terrain inside the library to Setsuna.
"There are still nearly 40 minutes until the next story starts. We will try to get this matter settled within 30 minutes. I will send a shadow guard to follow everyone... Remember to be careful to avoid the one in the bookshelf. Wandering Librarian.”
Although Bai Zhi was confident enough to get all the books within five minutes by virtue of his ability to swap places with the shadow guard, first of all, six books happened to correspond to six people. Bai Zhi felt that this was not just a coincidence. .
Secondly, no matter how abundant his spiritual energy is, he cannot withstand such a large-scale consumption. Even if the Shadow Ring provides a 5 times recovery rate of spiritual energy in the dark, all the two thousand spiritual energy consumed previously will Recovery also takes at least 20 minutes.
Finally, he is not a babysitter.
He has carefully marked the location of each book on the map. It is impossible to say that he has to do everything for him. In a sense, none of the players here are weak.
—Take Setsuna as an example.
Although the other party deliberately mentioned the key description, Bai Zhi is still quite sure that the other party definitely has certain skills that can predict the future.
There is no doubt about the shadow guard's concealment. When he explored the entire library before, he always walked under the shadow of the bookshelf, and the opponent was turned into a book and placed on a bookshelf at least two meters above the ground. How did he know that the shadow guard would pass by at that time
... Unless the other party predicts that time in advance.
"No, it shouldn't be about predicting the future. The future is not that easy to predict. It should be about predicting some possibility of the future..."
Seeing the other party's leaving figure, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.