Zong Lizi noticed that Jing Jiu's countenance was the same as usual, and his breathing was the same. She couldn't help but feel envious, asking, "What state are you in?"
The Cultivation states in this world were divided into a few major states. Most of the people at the New Era Institute were in the initial state, or the Fire-Observing State.
The Fire-Observing State was divided into twelve levels.
Jing Jiu had learned all this from the computer and the books. Looking at the intermittent battleship, he thought it was better to keep a low profile. "Level eleven?" he asked.
Zong Lizi said while looking at him enviously, "The professors at the New Era Institute are about level ten, to say nothing of the students. I think you're a genius no matter where you are."
Jing Jiu thought this was a fact that couldn't be denied.
By "no matter where" she meant the underground neighborhood, the New Era Institute, and above.
What Jing Jiu was thinking about was the universe and Chaotian.
After entering the New Era Institute, Zong Lizi led him to the Administration Office and applied for the qualification to sit in on the class as a relative.
Jing Jiu reached out his wristband to register his identity. Then he received the certificate of sitting in on the class and the most important library card.
With the library card, he could go to the library and access the internal database to get the teaching materials and works he wanted to learn.
The bell rang in a building in the distance. Zong Lizi led him to the front door of the library and told him a few things to pay attention to, and then went to class in a hurry.
She stopped short after taking two steps and turned around as if she had thought of something, saying, "Don't wander around. I'll take you to the canteen for lunch."
She ran a bit fast, stopped a bit fast, and turned around a bit fast. Her silvery hair tousled in the air.
They looked like the rotating stars in the universe.
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The library of the New Era Institute was much smaller than Jing Jiu had imagined, at least many times smaller than the library building on Shiyue Peak.
Soon, he realized the reason.
The computers and the reading terminals in the library could store many books, which seemed to be more advanced than those in Chaotian. However, the electronic books in the library could only display the three-dimensional pictures, but couldn't record the sword wills, pen wills, and intentions of the authors.
As Jing Jiu thought of this, he took out his library card and took out a reading terminal. He found a quiet and remote reading room and sat down.
He had been scanned five times since he entered the library, came to the reading terminal, and entered the reading room.
It was very difficult to avoid those scans. If he didn't want to be scanned, he could only break through the wall. The real problem was that the buildings here were too orderly. People lived in fixed areas according to fixed routes. There were no mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas here. There were even very few trees and rocks. What could he play?
Just as he had thought in the laboratory when he first came to this world, was he going to become a wastebasket?
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The Reading Terminal was also a computer, but it was connected to the database in the library of the New Era Institute, so the data could be retrieved at any time.
Countless rays of light emerged from the terminal and overlapped with each other to form a light screen. It emitted a gentle light that was not harmful to the eyes, forming patterns and words.
Jing Jiu's fingers moved quickly on the terminal, leaving behind countless afterimages. No one knew what he was pressing.
The patterns and characters on the screen changed at an unimaginable speed. If someone stared at the screen in the reading room at this time, they would only see ribbons of light. Even those cultivators with high cultivation could not see the contents.
The data was constantly changing, and the images were connected into rays of light. In a very short period of time, he had finished reading hundreds of books and journals.
Still, he felt it was too slow. It was because many of the contents in the books and journals were repetitive, and most of them were useless information.
According to the self-introduction of the library, there were thirty-eight million books in the database here, which was more than ten thousand terabytes of data.
T meant trillion terabytes, which he had learned before.
How long would it take for him to read all the data in the library at this rate?
Jing Jiu spread out his sword discernment to make sure that nobody was paying attention to this place and that the wave of scanning was still ahead. He reached out his finger and tapped on the window on the door of the reading room. A sword will came out from his finger and cast a layer of vague energy on the window. If someone looked in from the outside, they would only see that Jing Jiu was recording something on the light screen.
The sword will spread out after touching the glass of the window, forming a sword formation in a few seconds, isolating the outside world except for an opening for the high-speed optical cable to transmit data.
Having done all this, Jing Jiu cut off the connection between the optical cable and the Reading Terminal, and then held it in his hand.
If Zhao Layue were here, she would have noticed a slight change in Jing Jiu's hand.
Jing Jiu started reading the data transmitted from the optical cable with his eyes closed.
It was not accurate to use the word "reading"; it was more accurate to use the word "absorbing".
It was also inaccurate to use the word "transmitting"; it was more accurate to use the word "flooding".
An incalculable amount of data flowed into his body like a tide. Even though his consciousness was as deep as the sea, there were still some ripples in it.
The waves were white, and his face turned a bit paler.
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"What's going on?"
Seeing the warning signal displayed in the database, the teachers of the library of the New Era Institute eyed each other in bewilderment.
In the next moment, the doors of all the reading rooms in the library were opened. The students came out from the reading rooms in bewilderment, asking why the terminals had malfunctioned.
The lights in the hall didn't flicker, and no electric sparks were generated; but an eerie and tense atmosphere had gradually filled the air.
It was unclear which information node couldn't withstand the impact of the large amount of data and was disconnected.
If the database had a soul, it would have felt relieved inwardly.
The door of a reading room was opened without any wind; it was unclear who had left.
The data optical cable dropped to the ground like a dead snake, devoid of any energy.
Jing Jiu walked out of the library and looked up at the sky while standing on the stone steps. Looking at the indistinct figures of the battleships behind the blue sky and white clouds, a hint of regret showing in the deep end of his eyes.
It was an interesting thing to absorb knowledge, especially the knowledge that he had never encountered before.
Back when he had just arrived in Aoyama, he was taken by his Big Brother to Shiyue Peak to read the books for a few years, and he had read all the books and records in Aoyama.
Since then, he had rarely felt as happy as he did today. It was because it was so interesting that he was immersed in it, absorbing the information at an increasingly faster rate. The capacity of the data optical cable could still hold on, but the database was being read so much that the computing core couldn't hold on any longer.
He thought he should leave the library for safety reasons; but he decided to stay where he was when he remembered that Zong Lizi said she would have lunch with him.
It didn't take long before Zong Lizi ran over from the teaching building and came to the foot of the stone steps. "I heard something happened in the library," she said after catching her breath while holding her knees.
Jing Jiu didn't understand why she had to run around when she had such a serious blood disease. "I don't know," he said calmly.
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The canteen of the New Era Institute was not far from the library. Zong Lizi found he really didn't know anything about the library after she told him about it. Feeling bored, she suddenly halted her steps and asked Jing Jiu, "Would you like to meet my classmates? If they knew you were the true path … "
Jing Jiu didn't wait for her to finish her sentence, refusing directly, "No."
Zong Lizi felt even more bored, saying, "Fine."
The two of them walked into the canteen. Many people looked in their direction.
Jing Jiu covered his head with the cap of the tracksuit, so his silvery hair attracted everyone's attention.
Many people at the New Era Institute had learned that she had written a novel over the last few days, and they also knew what had happened to her family.
Some of the gazes contained surprise, sympathy, mockery, and contempt. All the students knew was that her parents had died, and she had failed the second gene modification. It seemed that she had some kind of disease, but nobody could find out about it due to the privacy rules. The reason they were surprised was that she had never come to the canteen to eat.
"I thought she was an otherworldly princess who looked down on the food of mortals like us. It turns out that … she is just poor."
There was a table in the distance, with four girls sitting around it. A girl said this mockingly while looking in this direction. The other three girls laughed out loud. Another girl remarked scornfully, "I thought she was going to be a priest when I saw her cold and aloof appearance."
Though these discussions were not loud, Zong Lizi couldn't hear them; but she knew what had happened from the laughter and the undisguised gazes.
She led Jing Jiu to a corner and sat down without giving any response.
Jing Jiu had heard all the discussions clearly, but he didn't pay any attention to them.
Zong Lizi asked him to sit down, and she went to get the food.
Seeing this, the crowd felt even more curious, wondering who the guy with the cap covering his face was. Why did he let Zong Lizi do all this for him?
The food on the plate was not the cheapest nutrition cube, but the real vegetables and fried steak.
Jing Jiu didn't care what he ate, and it didn't matter whether he ate it or not. Thinking of her kindness, he nodded to express his gratitude.
It was then that a young girl came to the front of the table after some hesitation. She looked at Zong Lizi, hesitating to say something.
Zong Lizi lifted her head and asked, "What's the matter?"
The young girl said shamefully with tears in her eyes, "Lizi, I'm sorry … I told the class about your childhood, but I didn't expect those people to hear it."
Zong Lizi said with a smile, "Silly girl, do you think I'll blame you?"
Hearing this, the young girl felt relieved. She left after saying sorry while covering her chest with her hand.
Zong Lizi took off the hair tie on her wrist and tied up her silvery hair, asking, "Lu Shuiqian, my classmate from the elementary school and the middle school, what do you think?"
"She's lying," said Jing Jiu.
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