The student who attempted to challenge was so embarrassed that he could only bend his proud waist silently, pick up the white gloves on the ground himself, and then glared at Joet Brown with resentment.
Joet Brown put his hands behind his head, whistled, turned his head and had his back to him.
"Young man, don't be too impulsive. If you offend someone, you will regret it. Do you understand?"
Professor Bolt gave the impulsive student a kind reminder in a serious tone, and then ignored him as well.
After Joe Butron and Columbia saluted Professor Bolt, they left the classroom.
The crowd standing in front of the door watching the excitement saw Joet Brown leading the way out, and without saying a word, they consciously stepped aside to make way for Joet Brown to pass through.
Joet Brown had a smile on his face and nodded to the students around him one by one, trying his best to appear harmless, but in fact it seemed to have the opposite effect.
Wherever his scarlet eyes looked, the students shrank back in fear, and even some timid girls trembled with fear.
The smile on Joet Brown's face froze, and he later just walked quickly with a stern face.
"My Lord, where are we going now?"
Columbia asked quietly from behind Joet Brown.
“Just walk around.
Huh
Now that I am the department head, does that mean I can go directly to the library?"
Jobtran had an idea and immediately walked towards the library.
The crowd behind him gradually dispersed, but there were still many people following him with a curious mentality.
They looked from afar and watched Joe Butran and the other man walk to the remote and heavily guarded library.
"They can't really get in, can they?"
"Who knows. If it's really what Professor Bolt said, we can only watch from the outside."
The guard standing on the tower saw from afar two people walking openly and swaggeringly towards the library.
The guard rang the handbell hanging nearby.
The rapid sound of metal collisions alerted the guards at the door. They suddenly widened their eyes and stared at the two people walking in this direction.
One of them was tall and walked with a heroic step to the fence that only one person could pass through, and announced in a deep and powerful voice,
"Please show us your library entry permit, or you will be expelled."
Joet Brown straightened his chest and pointed to the badge on his chest.
"Excuse me, can this badge be used as a permit to enter?"
The guard narrowed his eyes, bent down, and came close to Jobtran to take a look.
“Although it looks like a genuine department head badge, I have the right to question whether it is a product of cost.
If you are willing to let us check it, please take it down. We have special instruments to identify the authenticity.
This is our guard duty procedure, I hope you can understand. "
Jobtran was not a talkative person, so he immediately untied the buckle of the badge and gently placed it in the guard's outstretched palm.
A glimmer of greed flashed in the guard's eyes.
He understood better than anyone what was stored in the library behind him. Those were priceless treasures.
As long as you have this badge, you can call up the cultural relics and view them at any time.
As long as you succeed in stealing one or two items, you won't have to worry about your life for several lifetimes, let alone living here day and night in the sun, rain, wind and rain.
He looked up into Joet Brown's face.
That face looked harmless, but those scarlet eyes gave her a vague feeling of murderous intent. And the crescent-shaped black tattoo on his hand also revealed a strange aura.
The greed in his heart was forcibly suppressed by his body's instinctive fear. The guard exhaled, turned around, and slowly walked to an inconspicuous small box beside the door.
The guard put on special gloves and carefully opened the small jet-black box.
After gently placing the badge in the center of the box, he closed the lid of the small box.
Within seconds of the lid being closed, the color outside the box began to undergo a peculiar change.
From the monotonous inky black, the seven colors of the rainbow slowly emerged.
A brilliant glow floats across the surface of the box, signifying the authenticity of the emblem.
The reason for this reaction is that the material used to make the badge is not ordinary black iron, but an alloy secretly developed by Miskatonic University.
This alloy can react with high-purity lead and produce a colorful and dazzling luster on the surface of the lead.
The guard was a little surprised when he saw the colorful patterns on the box.
"Why does a man who looks so young have a badge of such status?"
Such doubts came to his mind, but due to his authority, he could not ask more questions.
After taking out the badge, the guard respectfully returned it to Joet Brown and took the initiative to say,
“Hello, sir, the badge is confirmed to be authentic.
But you look a little unfamiliar, is this your first time in the library?"
Joet Brown took the badge and pinned it back on his chest, then nodded and pointed to Columbia next to him.
“It’s not just me, it’s his first time here as well.
By the way, he is my friend, can I take him in to have a look?"
“According to your authority, it is of course possible, but there are some rules in the library, please listen carefully.
Because even if you have the authority of the department head, you still need to follow the rules inside the library to move freely."
The guard explained carefully.
"Of course there is no problem with that. Please go ahead. We are all ears."
“First, no books in the library may be removed from inside.
Second, each area has a specific sanity requirement, and those who fail to meet the requirement will be blocked outside by the barrier.
Third, it is strictly forbidden to copy or record the knowledge in the library in any form.
Fourth, the contents of all books in the library cannot be read and can only be viewed.
Fifth, if you encounter any problems, please immediately activate the emergency help on your ID card and we will come as soon as possible.
Sixth, when you start to feel unwell, you should immediately put your books back to their original places, leave the library, and undergo a sanity test.
Can both of you do the above six points? "
The guard proudly explained the rules of the library, and Joet and Brown immediately agreed.
The only thing that made Joet Brown feel a little uneasy was that because of the accident in the last test, he still didn't know what his sanity value was.
But you can also take this opportunity to check your own Sanity estimates by exploring various areas of the library.
This way, you will feel more confident the next time you take a routine test.
After the guard made sure that both of them could recite the six rules, he clapped his hands several times on the library door in a strange pattern.
Boom boom.
There was a loud noise coming from behind the door, and when the noise stopped, the guard opened the wooden door this time.
Behind the wooden door, however, it was not what one imagined.
It was a spiral corridor built in the dark. From outside the door, one could not see the bottom of the corridor at all.
“It turns out all the structures on the ground are just empty shells.”
Columbia sighed.
“What a big deal!”
“No, in fact, the library above us is real and contains many books.
But it was a trap.”
The guard smiled grimly.
"There are always some smart-assed fellows who come in with their own forged passes, and we put them up there until they repent."
The guard's smile gave Columbia a chill. It was obvious that the repentance he spoke of was definitely not that simple.
By the time he reacted, Joet Brown had already silently walked down the endless spiral corridor.
"Eh? Sir? Sir?"
Columbia shouted dumbfoundedly, his voice echoing in the corridor, as if mocking him.
"Wait for me!"
Columbia trotted after him.
The guard outside the door laughed foolishly and closed the wooden door.
Boom boom!
The entire corridor suddenly began to shrink at an extremely fast speed.
Columbia ran as fast as he could, then stumbled.
It rolled down with a gurgling sound. Joet Brown, who was walking slowly in front, heard the noise coming from behind and instinctively stepped aside.
"Ahhh, I can't stop."
Columbia groaned in pain and rolled over.
"Um, wait for me down there."
Joet Brown's face was filled with shame. He just thought it was a big black rat rolling away from him, but he didn't expect it to be Columbia.
"Ahh! Ohhhhh! Ahhhh!"
The screams gradually faded away, and after a muffled thud, it seemed that Columbia had reached the bottom of the stairs first.
The steps behind were gradually shrinking, and Joet Brown had to speed up his pace.
When he landed on solid ground and reached the bottom of the escalator, he saw Columbia with a bruised face and a swollen nose, lying on the ground howling.
"Teng Shit Oh Le. Oh Di Ma Hey!"
"Pfft, Columbia, you don't have to be called Rat anymore.
From now on, I'll change my name to Pighead."
Joe Butran couldn't help laughing as he saw a big bump on Columbia's head.
"The four muddy streets are blocking the way! I'm going to peel my skin off!"
Columbia looked at Joet Brown with his swollen little eyes sadly, and the look was very much like that of a resentful little widow.
“Alright, alright.
I'll take you to see the school doctor later. I'll pay for the medical expenses. Anyway, I have to go for a check-up.
puff."
Joe Butran still couldn't help laughing, and secretly turned his head and chuckled.
After a while of laughter, the two of them focused their attention on their current environment.
It was a frighteningly empty hall, lit entirely by kerosene lamps on the walls.
There was nothing everywhere, but a crystal ball was placed abruptly in the middle of the hall.
"It seems that the design of this library is not as simple as we thought."
Jobtran sighed, and helped Columbia walk to the side of the crystal ball.
There is an inconspicuous gap at the bottom of the crystal ball, which should be the groove for inserting the ID card.
And Joet Brown signaled that Columbia should try it first.
Columbia angrily pulled out his ID card and inserted it into the groove.
The crystal ball suddenly projected several waves of light in all directions, and then projected on one of the walls of the hall,
“Columbia, welcome to the Miskatonic University Library.
According to your authority, you can enter the first area and explore it for thirty minutes.
Please pull out your ID card and then pay attention to the countdown time on the ID card.
Once you enter the first area, a countdown will begin.
If you remain in the library during the countdown time, you will be treated as an intruder.
I wish you a pleasant reading. ”
The bricks under the projected wall sank in, revealing a passage that gradually lit up.
"Go ahead, I'll see you outside later."
Joet Brown pointed toward the passage.
"Um."
Columbia pulled out his ID card and walked into the passage.
When Columbia entered the so-called first area, the passage and the projection disappeared, and everything seemed to have returned to normal.
Joet Brown inserted his ID card in the same way as in Colombia, but no light came on the crystal ball and no projection appeared.
"Is this a malfunction?"
Joet Brown touched the surface of the crystal ball in confusion, and then the crystal ball began to shine brightly, and with a click, a crack appeared on the crystal ball.
One, two, three, and more cracks appeared.
The entire crystal ball was broken into pieces by countless cracks and fell to the ground.
"Is the quality of this thing so poor?!"
Joet Brown reluctantly pulled out his ID card, stepped back a few steps, and sat down on the ground dejectedly.
"You're not going to ask me to pay for the credits, are you?"
He propped his chin with the back of his hand and sat there at a loss.
He was the only one in the empty hall, which made him feel a little lonely. Then a question came to his mind.
"Am I in the library now
There's no countdown on the ID card?"
He placed the ID card in his palm and looked at it, but found nothing unusual on it.
In the teaching building of the Mystical Knowledge Research School, a lady wearing a witch's hat felt an extremely strong energy fluctuation.
She immediately trotted to her staff room and used observation spells to investigate the source of the previous burst of power.
When she discovered that the power came from the library, her face immediately changed in shock.
She ran to the dean's office, but Arnold was not in the office and his whereabouts were unknown.
A smiling old man appeared in front of the witch who was about to stamp her feet in anxiety.
He patted the witch's shoulder gently.
"Ms. Klemieva, relax, this is a small and expected thing.
Let me handle it."
"headmaster!"