With a detailed map, it was much more convenient to move around.
Sun Mo and Murong Mingyue didn't spend much time before they found their destination.
"We'll be there after this corridor."
Sun Mo checked the map again.
"There are no footprints on the ground. No one has been here yet."
Murong Mingyue checked the surroundings.
There were cracks on the walls, and some parts had even collapsed. However, it was still very dark here because a large number of plants had grown in through the windows and holes, covering the walls and blocking the light.
"The atmosphere of the apocalypse!"
Sun Mo sighed. On the west side of the corridor was a garden, and on the east side, there was only one room about a hundred meters away.
"If this is a library, isn't it too big?"
Murong Mingyue was shocked. If it was stuffed with books, the value would be inestimable. Immediately, she started to worry again.
After such a long time, the books would probably have rotted away.
"We'll know when we go in."
Sun Mo came to the door. "These two door gods are quite beautiful."
On both sides of the metal door, there were two three-meter tall statues. Looking at their appearance, they looked like knights in plate armor from the Middle Ages in Europe.
They held a large shield in one hand and a halberd in the other, and a long sword hung on their waist.
Some plants sprang up on their bodies, embellishing them with green. It was as if they were wearing a cloak woven from plants.
"Let's go!"
Sun Mo called out and reached out to push the door.
Murong Mingyue looked at the two statues and was planning to touch them. In the end, at the instant Sun Mo touched the door, their left eyes lit up with a red glow. Then, they brandished their halberds and smashed toward Sun Mo's head.
"Be careful!"
Murong Mingyue was very anxious. She didn't have time to draw her sword and reached out to hit the halberd.
Bang!
The halberd didn't move.
Sun Mo's counterattack was activated automatically. His heart was alarmed. When he used the Indestructible Golden Body, he also lowered his body and rolled.
Bang! Bang!
The halberd smashed on the ground and followed Sun Mo's body.
"F * ck!"
Sun Mo slapped the ground with one hand and bounced several meters away. At this time, he didn't forget to pull Murong Mingyue.
"Don't worry about me next time!"
Although she said this, Murong Mingyue still felt very grateful in her heart. After all, Sun Mo himself was surrounded by perils.
The two statues began to run wildly. Their agile movements did not seem like heavy metal objects at all. However, the force of their boots stepping on the ground caused the leaves around them to rustle, and the dust on the ceiling rustled down.
"Let me try first!"
Sun Mo drew his sword and faced the attack.
Ding!
Evil Vanquisher collided with the hatchet and spear, emitting an ear-piercing metallic sound and causing Sun Mo's arm to feel numb.
Whoosh!
Sun Mo's wrist trembled, and the longsword slid away from the halberd, slashing the arm of the statue. However, there wasn't any injury at all.
"So hard!"
Sun Mo's expression changed. One must know that his longsword was a peerless-grade saint-tier weapon. Moreover, it had a miraculous effect, and that was to multiply the might of his ultimate skills.
Even Evil Punisher couldn't hurt the statue, so just how terrifying was its defense?
Hu!
The halberd brought a strong gust of wind and smashed down again.
Sun Mo hurriedly executed the Wind King Divine Steps to evade, but the statue continued to pursue him relentlessly. Also, this fellow's agility was quite high, and it didn't seem cumbersome at all.
Sun Mo activated Divine Sight, but he only saw a row of unimportant information.
Devil statue, made from an unknown metal.
"I knew it!"
Sun Mo was helpless. He no longer had any hope in his eye technique. He still had to find a way to break out of this situation himself.
"Sun Mo, retreat first. Give me some time to observe."
Murong Mingyue spoke with an excited expression. "This should be some kind of puppet."
"Stop fighting, let's leave this corridor first."
Sun Mo suggested.
He wanted to test the attack range of the puppet. If there were no accidents, their duty was to protect this library. Once they left a certain range, they would be fine.
As expected, just as the two of them left the corridor, the two statue knights stopped in their tracks. After Sun Mo pulled Murong Mingyue to hide behind the wall, they started to return.
"Leave it to me!"
Murong Mingyue recommended herself. This was a subject that she liked and was proficient in.
"Wait!"
Sun Mo raised his head and looked at the ceiling. "There's no need to fight them head-on."
Thanks to those secret agent movies, the current Sun Mo's horizons were broadened. He didn't fight the two statue knights head-on. Instead, he climbed into a ventilation duct.
The duct wasn't wide. After climbing in, he couldn't even turn around. If he wanted to retreat, he could only crawl backwards. Moreover, it was dirty and full of dust.
Hu! Hu!
In the duct, the sound of breathing was hurried and ear-piercing.
"I might as well kill my way in."
Murong Mingyue frowned. This kind of narrow and oppressive place made her very uncomfortable. She felt her heartbeat quicken, and she was sweating profusely.
"There definitely won't be a second time."
Sun Mo thought to himself that if he were to do it again, he would develop claustrophobia.
After crawling for a long 300 meters, Sun Mo finally found a ventilation duct. He smashed the fence with a punch and jumped down.
This was a huge library filled with bookshelves. On the bookshelves, there was a dazzling array of books covered by cobwebs and dust.
They were like dead bodies, buried in the cemetery.
Murong Mingyue couldn't wait any longer. She walked to the nearest bookshelf and pulled out a book.
"..."
Murong Mingyue carefully flipped through the pages and became more and more disappointed. It was because she couldn't understand the words.
She changed over ten books consecutively, but they were all the same. This made Murong Mingyue very disappointed.
Even if the books recorded divine arts, it was useless if she couldn't understand them.
"Right, I can't give up. What if there are language books?"
Murong Mingyue's eyes lit up. She could learn the native language first.
To a great teacher, with the support of all sorts of halos, as long as there were textbooks, it wasn't difficult to learn a language by oneself.
Sun Mo also flipped through the books. After that, he felt a headache.
"What kind of scribbles are these?"
He didn't even recognize a single punctuation mark!
Such a huge library, and from the height of the observation from the outside, there were at least three levels. Therefore, the number of books stored here must be very large.
Sun Mo reckoned that there should be language books here. But self-learning?
Please!
Sun Mo recalled the fear of being dominated by English in the past.
Although his marks in the college entrance examination weren't low and he had passed the fourth and sixth level of his university days, honestly speaking, it was really difficult. After all, he had been learning for close to ten years since junior high.
Sometimes, Sun Mo would wonder how good it would be if the Great Flower became a celestial country and the entire world took the initiative to learn Chinese, taking pride in learning Chinese.
"System, is this language available in the merchant store?"
Sun Mo prepared to slack off.
"Yes!"
The system's reply caused Sun Mo's eyes to brighten.
"How much is it?"
Sun Mo felt a little trepidation.
"200,000 favorable impression points."
The system quoted a price that made him feel very uncomfortable.
"It's just a language, is there a need to be so expensive?"
Sun Mo mocked.
"You can spend a few years to learn it by yourself!"
The system coldly laughed. "Also, do you think languages are so easy to learn? If you go for a vacation, you just need to know the commonly used ones. If you settle down, you will have to learn even more. Once you want to learn the knowledge and culture of others, you have to be proficient in it. In fact, you have to be even more proficient than your own countrymen. "
"I'll buy it."
Sun Mo didn't deny this point. It was like the literature of various countries. After it was translated into another country's language, it would basically lose its original artistic conception.
"Do you want to learn it?"
The system asked.
"Yes!"
As Sun Mo's fame grew, it became increasingly easier for him to earn favorable impression points.
Ding!
"Congratulations on learning the Sithe language. Proficiency level: expert-grade."
Che!
Sun Mo's lips twitched.
He had spent 200,000, yet he wasn't even at the grandmaster-grade. This was too much of a scam.
However, this expert-grade was already sufficient for Sun Mo to understand these scientific books and journals. He could use the Sithe's way of thinking to consider problems.
As for the grandmaster-grade, it involved literature and art. To Sun Mo, it didn't have much meaning.
Language was a tool!
After Sun Mo grasped this language, the entire library was like a beautiful woman throwing herself into his arms, completely opening up to him.
Sun Mo greedily absorbed the knowledge here.
The nearby bookshelves were filled with books related to botany. Many of them were things Sun Mo had never heard of before. If he could learn all of them, the botany of the Central Province Academy would definitely be the best in the Nine Provinces.
Time was slipping away unknowingly.
After Murong Mingyue walked one round on the first floor, she even went upstairs. She only came down after over an hour. When she found Sun Mo, she saw him leaning against a bookshelf and holding a huge book, engrossed in it.
"Sun..."
Murong Mingyue was about to call out when she suddenly froze.
No!
Sun Mo's expression clearly showed that he could understand these books, but that shouldn't be the case. After all, he didn't have a place to learn these words.
"Could it be that some books are written in the language of the Nine Provinces?"
After thinking of this possibility, Murong Mingyue immediately walked over and stretched her neck to take a look. She frowned and couldn't help but ask.
"You can understand it?"
"Hmm?"
Sun Mo casually replied. He didn't plan to hide it.
"Where did you learn it from?"
Murong Mingyue knew that she shouldn't ask, but she couldn't help it.
"If I say 'Heavenly Impartation of Words', can you accept it?"
Sun Mo smiled awkwardly.
He didn't want to lie to Murong Mingyue, but he definitely couldn't say anything about the system.
"I believe it!"
But Murong Mingyue nodded seriously.
Sun Mo was stunned, but he soon felt relieved.
This was the Nine Provinces, the pinnacle of the feudal society. Even some great teachers believed in Buddhism, let alone the barbarians.
They believed in the gods.
"What are the books here about?"
Murong Mingyue asked.
She was a very intelligent girl who was also afraid of trouble. Hence, she didn't want to find out about Sun Mo's background. Life was short, and it was better to spend time on meaningful things.
"This section is about botany. I haven't looked at the others yet."
Sun Mo realized that a long time had passed.
"Are there any books about mechanisms and puppets?"
Murong Mingyue asked.
"You want to decipher the two statue knights outside?"
Sun Mo reacted very quickly. "Let's go and look for them."
15 minutes later, Sun Mo found a book on puppetry on the second floor. He then started to flip through it and introduced it to Murong Mingyue.
"You're very proficient in puppetry?"
Murong Mingyue was surprised.
Sun Mo's introduction wasn't the kind of reading aloud from a book. Instead, it was a narration with his own understanding. If one didn't have a certain level of foundation in puppetry, they wouldn't be able to do it.
"It's just so-so!"
Sun Mo was humble. Actually, he had grandmaster-level puppetry theories, but he had never invested much effort into this subject.
After all, even if he learned it to the extreme, he wouldn't be able to create a Transformer.
It should be because he had learned this language that he could use Divine Sight. He just needed to glance at the bookshelves, and the names of the books would pop up.
"
"Seven Hundred and Twenty Mechanical Tricks."
"
...
Sun Mo looked around and finally pulled out a book.
"I think it's this one!"
Sun Mo flipped through it.
The Sithe called puppetry technology. It was a comprehensive subject that involved forging, bionics, smelting, communication, and so on.
"There's a lot of content!"
Sun Mo spoke for half an hour and felt tired.
"Here!"
Murong Mingyue passed a water bottle to Sun Mo, indicating for him to continue after taking a sip.
There was no helping it. Sun Mo cast Encyclopedic Knowledge on the two of them and continued to introduce the content of the book. Occasionally, the two of them would even discuss it.
"It's actually powered by sunlight. This explains why they can still move after so many years."
Murong Mingyue felt very emotional.
"Yeah!"
Sun Mo nodded.
The path of the Sithe's golem technology was completely different from puppetry. It was more systematic and industrialized.
These golems could be mass-produced. Not only could they be used for security, but they could also be used for mining, cleaning, surveillance, and so on.
The puppets of the Nine Provinces were basically the crystallization of individual wisdom. Therefore, there were all sorts of unimaginable works that couldn't be mass-produced.
"Let's deal with the two golems outside first?"
Murong Mingyue suggested.
"Alright!"
It was rare for her to make a request, so Sun Mo couldn't bear to reject her.
These two golems had been around for too long, and they hadn't been maintained. Therefore, although they could move, their structure had aged, and the utilization of sunlight had greatly decreased.
Therefore, the most important thing to deal with them was consumption.
"I'll do it!"
Murong Mingyue wanted to do it personally because she wanted to understand them better.
Fifteen minutes later, the two demonic statues ran out of energy and came to a stop, motionless.
Although she didn't have any handy tools, Murong Mingyue still dismantled them. The moment the metal plate was removed, she exclaimed in surprise.
Inside the golems were all sorts of gears and levers. Ordinary people might feel dizzy just looking at them, but to a puppeteer like Murong Mingyue, it was the most beautiful picture.
"Sun Mo, can you give it to me?"
Murong Mingyue begged.
"What's our relationship? Why do we have to be so clear?"
Sun Mo smiled. "And those books, you can read them all you want."
"I hope you can teach me this language!"
Murong Mingyue's beautiful big eyes looked at Sun Mo. Although she had given up on suicide and left the plains to come to the Central Province Academy, she honestly felt that life was meaningless.
But now, she had found a new goal.
So there's a wider world beyond puppetry that I know.
"Sure!"
Sun Mo already had an idea. He planned to translate these books into the Nine Provinces Language and make them available to the school's teachers.
Murong Mingyue was about to thank him but was interrupted by a voice.
"I want to learn this language too!"
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