"…"
In the silence, a gust of cold wind blew. Huai Shi looked at the headmaster next to him in confusion.
The headmaster also laughed awkwardly. "I'll send it back to you later. I'm just afraid that you'll sit on the ground and feel cold."
"Okay."
Huai Shi hesitated for a long time, put down the teacup in his hand, and stood up with the headmaster.
Stepping on the steps.
The huge and heavy alchemy door opened in front of them.
The relief sculpture of the snake-haired demoness on the bronze door glanced at them and quickly looked away.
In the library lobby behind the door, a beam of dim yellow light shone down, illuminating the dignified old man behind the front desk.
He stared indifferently at the visitors outside the door, his expression dignified without being angry.
It was as if he was located in the center of the library, surrounded by layers of strict arrays. In the reflection of the light, he looked so mysterious and strange.
He had the aura of a master.
"Which expert is this?" Huai Shi was startled and humbly asked for guidance.
"Don't think too much. He's the guard who was hired back to look after the library after retirement two years ago. He's already old and confused. He's still sleeping during work hours."
The headmaster casually broke his illusion. "This place has a special design. That chair is the center of the hall. Even if you put a dog on it, you'll feel that it's handsome and dignified, like King Arthur."
Well, he was indeed sleeping.
Huai Shi mustered up the courage to look over, only to find that the old man's eyes were open when he slept. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to tell …
His saliva was dripping onto his beard.
And he was snoring.
Bang!
A loud sound was heard.
It was the headmaster who walked up, raised his front paw, and slammed it on the table. "Hey! 'Stop sleeping. Did I pay you to sleep here?' Get up! "
The sleeping old man raised his head in horror. His face quickly turned purple and he almost had a heart attack. He hurriedly took out a medicine bottle from his pocket, took a few pills, and gasped for breath for a long time before he recovered.
He didn't even bother to wipe his saliva.
He almost died on the spot.
When he put on his glasses and looked over, his originally nervous expression relaxed. "You scared me to death! I thought the vice principal came to check on us … What's the matter, Principal? "
The black panther, who was squatting on the front desk, wagged its tail and licked its paws. "I'm here to bring the newcomer around and read some books. Open the door."
The old man was taken aback and immediately became reluctant.
"It's already so late. Can't we do it another day?"
"Amazing! This is my school, this is my library, this is my books. Do I have to wait for another day to read them? " Black Panther raised his head and glanced at the slacking old man in front of him. He asked angrily, "Do you still want to work?"
Being glared at, the old man shrunk his shoulders and immediately felt helpless. Feeling wronged, he said, "Alright, alright, why are you so fierce?"
As he spoke, he wiped off his saliva and slowly got up from the chair. He muttered something under his breath as he turned around and walked to the high wall behind him.
It was only then that Huai Shi noticed him.
In the lobby at the entrance of the library, behind the front desk, there was a huge wall that was more than ten meters high. It was engraved with solemn reliefs and countless complicated patterns … It turned out to be a door.
That's right, there was a straight gap hanging down from the center of the steel wall. If one didn't look carefully with a magnifying glass, it would be difficult to notice the slender gap between the countless complicated patterns and reliefs.
The entire wall was made up of two iron doors.
Huai Shi's Hand of Confinement could feel that the entire door was made of alloy. With such a huge structure and mass, it probably weighed thousands of tons!
But just in front of the iron door, as the hunchbacked old man slowly raised his skinny left hand and pressed it on the door, a sharp sound burst forth.
[Is this the f * cking ordinary old man you were talking about? Principal, are you talking about?]
Such a heavy door, even a tank's main cannon might not be able to blast it open.
What kind of monsters are the guards of your school?
Huai Shi was so scared that he sucked in a breath of cold air.
But before he could finish sucking in a breath of cold air, he heard a cold electronic voice in the shrill alarm, "Fingerprint error!"
The old man was stunned. He took his hand back and pressed it again.
"… Fingerprint error!"
Huai Shi: "…"
Principal: "…"
In the silence, the old man turned around and smiled awkwardly. "Sorry, I remembered the wrong hand …"
He switched to his right hand.
This time, there was no sharp sound. The door opened.
It was as if the mass of thousands of tons didn't exist at all.
Huai Shi squatted at the door and looked carefully for a long time before he realized that this thing was fully automated for fingerprints. He looked at the door and then looked at the old man who stood in front of the door with his hands behind his back like a peerless expert.
The person who guarded all the school's information and important files, and even the fragments of the Heavenly State records, was actually such an old man?
And it was a fingerprint lock?
Can't you change the password for your house? What if this old man died one day?
He scratched his head and felt that this Ivory Tower was going to be finished …
After he followed the principal into the door in a daze, he couldn't help but look back at the old man. The old man was still standing at the door. When he saw him looking back, he quickly raised his hand and waved to greet him with a fawning expression.
"…"
So, there really aren't any hidden experts in your school's library?
How disappointing!
At the door, there were densely packed bookshelves as far as the eye could see. Countless small mechanical arms slid quickly on the ceiling rails, organizing various large and small boxes, moving files and other things nimbly and placing them in the places where they should be.
At the end of his line of sight, there were several separate doors. Through the glass windows, he could vaguely see countless huge units sinking in the cooling liquid, venting terrifying high heat.
That was an exaggerated amount of data being transferred, written, and read at a rapid speed every second.
The whole place didn't look like a library. It looked more like a workshop and engine room in a factory.
"The first floor is mainly the server of the Ivory Tower, the school's files, and many insignificant records. It's just so-so, nothing to see."
The black panther walked in front and skillfully found the elevator that led to the basement. He said excitedly, "Follow me, I'll bring you to see the treasures of the Ivory Tower!"
So, is it really okay for you to be so casual?
I've only been here for a month!
But after he walked into the elevator, he heard the principal ask, "Is it the Dragon Gate Trial in Dongxia or the Rashomon in Yingzhou?"
"Hmm? “
Huai Shi didn't understand.
After the black panther stood up and pressed the elevator button, it suddenly transformed into an Australian Desert Red Kangaroo with muscles all over its body. It looked back at him and explained, "The screening mechanism left behind by the Heavenly State lineage … Which one did you pass? Do you think I can't tell that you're an official member of Celestial genealogy? "
"You can tell?" Huai Shi was stunned.
"Of course, the people who pass the screening and those who don't are actually a little different. There will be some special changes in the person's temperament and the source substance. Simply put, it's an anti-counterfeiting sign.
So, which one did you pass? Principal, I'm very curious. There aren't many people who can pass those trials seriously these days. "
"Uh …"
Huai Shi thought about it and was prepared to tell the truth. After all, there was nothing to hide. "The Myriad Heavenly Sphere."
"…"
The principal looked at Huai Shi in surprise but didn't say anything.
"What's wrong?" Huai Shi asked.
"No, I'm just lamenting that it's not easy for you. Among the remaining twelve trials in the Present Realm, the Myriad Heavenly Sphere is the most troublesome one. It's not easy, but it's not difficult either. It's very torturous, and the criteria for passing varies from person to person. Moreover, Golden Dawn is still stirring up trouble inside. It was fine in the past. After all, everyone used to be colleagues in the Utopia. There were many things that could be discussed. But recently, those guys haven't even replied to my messages. They seem to have a lot of opinions about the school. Do you have any leads? "
"Uh …"
Huai Shi's expression twitched, and he couldn't help but look away. "I'm not sure about that either."
"That's true. No matter how I look at it, you don't look like a traitor sent by Golden Dawn," the kangaroo said casually while gnawing on a sugarcane that came out of nowhere.
！
Huai Shi suddenly became nervous.
He was afraid that the principal would suddenly jump and strike him to death here.
Looking at it this way, he seemed … seemed … indeed … a little like a spy sent by Golden Dawn?
Then what did the principal mean by leading him here?
Was he trying to lure him to expose himself?
Or was it that the Ivory Tower and Golden Dawn actually had some kind of unspeakable and unknown friendship before, and they often communicated in secret and thought that he was sent here?
"Don't worry, I won't misunderstand."
The principal patted him on the shoulder kindly. "If I didn't know that you were Osiris' driver, why would I invite you to the Ivory Tower?
I'm actually very pleased that you can inherit Mr. Orton's legacy. Although the Vice Principal has a big opinion of you, that guy has always been quite awkward. He shouldn't be trying to trip you up because of this … right? "
In the end, he hesitated, not daring to be sure.
Huai Shi was already numb.
There was a lot of information in this old bastard's words, and he couldn't digest it at all.
But while he was in a daze, the elevator had already gone down to the bottom floor.
After passing through layers of strict defenses that Huai Shi couldn't even detect, it went straight to the core of the Ivory Tower and slowly opened there.
When Huai Shi walked out and passed through the last door, he caught a glimpse of countless heavy books suspended in mid-air.
It seemed that there was a Tree of Light spreading in the void. Those straight branches crisscrossed and formed a three-dimensional matrix in the huge underground square.
When the layers of matrices intersected with each other, heavy books emerged at the nodes formed and rotated slightly.
They were all fragments of Kingdom of Heaven.
Huai Shi felt the Book of Destiny tremble violently. This was the vague outline of the fallen Kingdom of Heaven, a massive structure formed by thousands of fragments of Kingdom of Heaven.
At the very core of the countless light matrices, there was a complex projection that was purely formed by the overlapping of countless images. Every moment, it revealed a different appearance. Amidst the flowing light and bubbles, the outline of a book was faintly outlined.
Perhaps … that was what the Book of Destiny should have looked like.
Just by existing here, it seemed to control the operation of the whole world, shrouding everything in its own writing and records.
In the almost suffocating spectacular scene, Huai Shi couldn't help but sigh.
"It's really beautiful."
"Who says it isn't?"
The principal sighed softly. "Unfortunately, it's a fake."
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