Volume 19 Chapter 138 Ghost and Secret Room

Although I was worried about being discovered, I really had no good idea for that book. If I didn’t go to the city, I would definitely not be able to find the book. If I went in, there was only the possibility of being discovered, and it was not necessarily discovered. Besides, I was really troublesome to be discovered. With my strength, no one can really stop me.

After carefully entering the disguise mode, I got into this city that looked quite large. Adhering to the usual characteristics of French cities, this is also a city without walls. The whole city is full of entrances and exits, which can be said to be well connected. However, don’t think that the city has poor defense without walls. On the contrary, the city’s defense is not only not bad but also very strong. The four towering light prism towers that can be seen outside the city are enough to make any invading enemy think in advance and think about how many people they can bombard.

This prism tower is a relatively rare defensive weapon. Although it can be classified as a technological weapon, it emits not a laser but a special photon. The final effect is not to burn the target at high temperature, but to cause space collapse at the target position, which means that a small black hole will be generated to suck the target in. Because of the terrifying nature of this thing, few people dare to resist this weapon head-on, including me. Our research department of the guild has analyzed before that if the output of that thing hits the front, it should be able to kill me directly. Of course, I will not be so stupid as to resist city-level defensive weapons, which is purely a fool.

"Hello, where can I find the book?" After entering the city, I chose to buy a lot of supplies in a small store, and asked this question while paying the bill.

Many people don’t know a secret, that is, the npc that is the easiest way to increase favorability in cities is the boss in the store. As long as you buy his stuff, his favorability will increase, and the more you buy, the higher your favorability will be. This situation is actually very common in reality, but many people can’t imagine it in games.

With my super high charm and deterrence attributes, even if I don’t use this little trick, NPC will usually help me very well. However, it is better to have such benefits than not. Anyway, I don’t care about spending so much money. Besides, I won’t waste anything like supplies, and I will use it sooner or later.

When the boss heard my question, he immediately said enthusiastically: "Is that so? People who need this kind of thing are really good, but I happen to know a little." The boss thought for a moment, then turned around and took a piece of paper and drew a simple map and said to me: "The three forks marked on it are three bookstores, where you can buy books."

I looked at the circle on the map and asked, "What are these two circles?"

"Oh, the big one is the city library, but you need a special identity permit there to enter. Another circle is the city's skill training academy, which also has books to read, but you must first sign up for skill learning. I don't know what kind of books you need for the guest, so I marked out everything I could think of."

I nodded and thanked the boss, and then left the store with the map. There were five targets marked on the map, but I think there was only one that was really possible. Books in the bookstore were sold. I don’t think things of the level of "Book of Energy" could be sold publicly in the bookstore. It was as incredible as all the technical information and manufacturing methods of nuclear weapons bought in Xinhua Bookstore.

The only thing left after the bookstore is the Skills Academy and the library, but I think Skills Academy is not very reliable. Although there are relatively advanced skill books in that kind of place, the problem is that any of the Book of Worlds does not seem to meet the scope of skill books. Although judging from the characteristics of "Book of Energy", this thing will definitely ruin the world once it becomes skilled, but after all, it requires a lot of research and analysis. It is not something that anyone can use immediately after getting the book.

After removing the four goals, the only library was left. Although the possibility of things like Book of the World is not high, at least it is still possible, so I decided to go there and take a look, but now I have to solve the problem first. After coming out of that small shop, I asked other NPCs that the place is not completely open to the public, but is open in a hierarchical manner. Ordinary people can go in and check some basic information as long as they pay money, but there are very few things in this part, and they are all unimportant information. The real useful things are only open to the White Cross Alliance, the actual owner of the city. Moreover, the reading materials of the White Cross Alliance are actually hierarchical. Low-level members cannot see advanced things at all, so it is useless even if I can get involved in their guild membership, because things like Book of the World are definitely not something that ordinary people can see even in the library.

After thinking about it, I found that it is really unrealistic to want to get in with a fake identity. The easiest and most reliable method is to get in secret. This is the most likely method to get in directly.

After I made up my plan, I immediately started the action. After walking around the street for a few times but no one followed me, I turned into an alley and disappeared completely in a shadow at the end of the alley. The next second I had already appeared in a lane between buildings behind the library. The library was equipped with a space protection array, and I could not use the shadows to cross into the interior. Besides, I didn’t know the situation inside. If it emerged directly from the middle of the crowd, it would be troublesome.

After appearing outside the wall, I first confirmed that my position would not be discovered, and then I carefully leaned against the wall behind. I asked Chili to scan the back of the wall with my mental power field. After confirming that there was a warehouse behind me, not a reading room with a lot of people, I carefully turned Eternal into a dagger and cut open the wall and dug out the door.

Because eternity is sharp enough, the work of poaching walls was completed without much effort. Since the cutting is relatively fast, the wall is not seriously damaged. After I entered the room, I filled the cut wall back and sealed the entrance. As long as I didn't get close, I couldn't tell that the wall had been cut.

The situation behind the wall is like the result of a reconnaissance. It is indeed a warehouse, but it is not about floating astronomy and dust on the ground. No one has been here for at least several months.

I quickly moved to the door and confirmed that there was no one outside, I pushed the door and walked out. There was a not too wide corridor outside the door. Obviously, this one belonged to the work area of ​​the library staff, so the aisles and other things were very narrow, and the decoration was basically zero. The stone traces could be seen directly on the walls, and there was no covering at all.

Following this passage that looks like an authentic tunnel and goes forward, I soon encountered a horizontal passage. The width of this passage is obviously wider than the previous one, and the ground is covered with polished floors, walls and other things, which is obviously much better than the previous one. According to my analysis, this city may have been a system city before, and the library already existed at that time. Later, the White Cross Alliance that occupied this place now captured the city, and the library I see now should have been built on the basis of the original library. The new library uses the previous library structure in many internal structures, but has also renovated some things. For example, the passage I just drilled out should have been abandoned and the old library remains, so the decoration on both sides is much different.

After carefully entering the new area, I heard footsteps and could also hear each other's conversation. It was not difficult to hear from their conversation that they were both NPCs, so I decisively hid back the turning passage that I had turned out before. It was not until the two NPCs passed the connection point between this passage and the main passage that I suddenly rushed out from behind and covered their mouths and dragged them back back into the old passage together.

After I caught the two NPCs, I kept struggling desperately, but these two civilian NPCs were obviously not my opponents, and I was easily pulled into the utility room I entered before. I don’t know what happened, but the more they struggled, the more they got closer to the utility room, it seemed like they were afraid of the utility room, but I didn’t care about their feelings, so I pulled the two of them in regardless of their reaction.

I opened the door of the utility room with my feet and let Ling come out and release a soundproof array. I let go of the two of them. What surprised me was that the two NPCs did not resist after gaining freedom, but suddenly rushed to another corner of the room farthest from me, and then hugged each other and shivered.

"Don't shake it there, come and answer a few questions from me. If I'm satisfied, I can't kill you."

The two NPCs on the opposite side were obviously a man and a woman. After hearing my words, they were stunned at first, and then they looked around with their fearful eyes. When they saw their eyes, I remembered that there was no light at all, and there was no window in the utility room. It can be said that it was a large area of ​​black paint. Because I have dark vision, I always forget that others cannot see things in dark places. Seeing the reactions of these two guys, I was obviously scared.

"Stop looking for it, I'm right in front of you."

When the two NPCs heard me, they immediately shrank back, and they hit the table and chairs behind and frightened themselves. The female NPCs among them were even more frightened and screamed and jumped as if she was crazy.

"Okay, just give me peace." I stretched out casually, and a small ball of flame appeared in my palm. Although the flame was very small, it was at least enough to illuminate this small room.

The appearance of light made the two of them stunned for a moment. After seeing my appearance, they seemed to be relieved. They were so depressed for a long time that they thought their appearance was not intimidating enough.

"Huh, I'm so scared. I thought it was a ghost in the old area!" The female NPC immediately relaxed after seeing me, and while talking, she patted her chest with lingering fear.

"Ghost?" I said I could not understand the behavior of these two guys who saw me, and I felt more relaxed than seeing ghosts. It seems that I am much more dangerous than ghosts, right?

The other party took my surprise as an inquiry and explained it to me directly. After a long time, they had a ghost story circulating here, which was that there was a terrifying ghost in the unrenovated old library's legacy area. Later, this entertainment legend later became more and more evil because many people promised that they had seen the ghost. In the end, there was no NPC in the entire library that dared to enter this abandoned area. Of course, the main reason why this legend can be circulated and effective in these NPCs is that they are all civilian NPCs. If they fight NPCs, they will definitely kill them directly.

After I figured out this legend, I didn't take it seriously, but soon I suddenly thought of a question. "Ling."

"I understand." As I prompted, Ling snapped his fingers directly, and a blue shock wave visible to the naked eye swept across the room instantly, and then a grayish-white figure fell from a pile of tables.

Seeing the translucent phantom, the two NPCs on the opposite side immediately screamed again. Ling probably thought they were annoying, so he simply rushed over with a mental shock and shocked both of them.

While Ling fainted the two noisy guys, I also walked to the translucent ghost and squatted down. The other party shook his head for a long time before lifting his head, revealing a terrifying face that would definitely scare the child to cry. Of course, this trick was useless to me. Seeing that ugly face, I directly slapped the other party on the head, and slapped the guy on the ground with a slap. Before the other party got up again, I reached out and grabbed his hair and lifted his face up.

"If you don't want to be beaten again, be honest. Who do you want to scare me like this disgusting?" I almost pushed my face to the guy's nose and cursed at the ugly face at close range.

The guy who was brought up by me immediately cried and said with a grievance: "Sir, I'm wronged! I didn't mean to become so scary. When I died, I was burned to death by the fire, so the ghost he became is also like this ghost. Moreover, my ability is too low and I can't transform my appearance. Otherwise, the reason why a genius would have always been so ugly."

"You're a ghost."

"This..." The guy was so choked by my words that he didn't know what to say.

He looked like he was unlucky and said directly: "Okay, you are also an unlucky person, so I won't bully you anymore. Anyway, you and me don't have any direct conflict of interest."

"Thank you, sir."

As I said that, I touched the bag of black crystals from my body and swayed in front of the guy for a few more times. Until the guy's eyes almost turned into a pendulum, he asked in a tone of a weird uncle lying to the little loli, "Do you want it?"

For the undead, the black crystal is a natural Ten-total tonic pill, and there are no side effects. The only problem is that it is relatively low for the undead with relatively high strength, but it is still extremely precious for the low-level undead.

Hearing my words, the guy nodded desperately and reached out his hand. I threw the bag directly to Ling and grabbed it, and then said, "I have too many of that stuff, but I can't give it to you for nothing. If I want it, I will give it to you. If I am satisfied, I will give it to you."

"As long as I know, I will tell you." For the sake of Black Crystal, I guess even if I ask that guy to learn to bark, he will agree immediately.

"I don't ask you any troublesome questions, I just want to know if you have ever heard of the Book of the World."

The ghost did not answer immediately when he heard the name, but pondered for a while before shook his head with regret and said that he didn't know. When he thought that if I didn't get the information, I would definitely not give him any benefits, so he was also very depressed.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of the Book of the World, so have you heard of the Book of Energy, the Book of Time, or the Book of Space?"

After hearing this question, the ghost thought for a while and finally said helplessly that he had never heard of it. However, just as I was about to give up, he suddenly said: "Although I have never heard of it, it does not mean there is no place here. After all, I was just a warehouse administrator in this library during my lifetime. I don't know all the books in the library. Moreover, it was rebuilt once after the library was destroyed. Some books will definitely be lost during this period and some will be supplemented. It is difficult to guarantee that there will be no books you want. And..."

“And what?”

"If you can't find the book you want in the library here, you might as well go and read it below."

"under?"

The ghost pointed at his feet and said, "It's just under our feet. This utility room is actually just a disguise. You just need to turn the door handle to the bottom and turn it back three times to open a secret passage. This passage connects to a secret library below, which are all the most precious books and some forbidden books in the old library at the time. Because the library is now built on the basis of the original library, the foundation was not dug, nor did you find that there is a secret room below."

"You mean the thing below doesn't even know the White Cross League guy?"

"Yes, I have been in this library since I died and have never left. No one knows that there is a secret library underneath it."

I nodded and said, "Then I'll just start looking for it from here. I guess the book I'm looking for will definitely not be in the public library area." As I said that, I walked to the door and turned the door handle twice according to the ghost's guidance. Sure enough, when I finished the last round, a broken stone sculpture with a broken nose in the corner of the wall suddenly sank slowly along with the base. As the sculpture descended to the ground, a blocked stone step appeared in my sight.

"Come with me." The ghost worked very hard to earn the little black crystal. As soon as the cave was opened, he immediately walked to the front and led me to the road.

Because the secret room contains very important books, there are many mechanisms installed in the passage below. However, because this ghost understands the settings of all mechanisms, these seemingly strong mechanisms are all decorations. Under the guidance of that guy, I easily entered the secret room without even touching a single mechanism. Even the password lock on the door was opened directly by the ghost after telling me the password. My usual brute force cracking method was completely useless.
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