After Popa's spacecraft landed on the surface of a mountain on a planet, the members of Silence were led into a rock building on the top of the mountain. Its appearance is simple and simple, supported by hundreds of rock pillars embedded with giant shell fossils. These rock masses are said to be products accidentally discovered by scholars in Chonghong Township while exploring the geology of the mountains, which convinced them that a huge liquid creature in the form of an ocean once existed on the planet in ancient times. It fed on aquatic animals cultivated within its body and occupied almost the entire planet, but eventually evaporated and died due to drastic changes in the star.
The Chonghong Library was built on its long-dead ruins. As a summary of past knowledge and latest discoveries by scholars in the Mysterious Wild Zone, visitors from outside the world have added some new content to it. The building part located outside the surface is only one-tenth of it, and more content is hidden within the mountain. To protect it from vandalism, only those invited by the scholars know how to find it.
Luo Binhan had some doubts that Yaleriga had been planning this library for a long time, but he also felt that "reading" might be regarded as some kind of painful mechanical memory for the Evangelical people. In any case, she probably couldn't do anything to the little robot. They had no choice but to follow Joel Farman into the library. After passing through a row of defense robots, they entered the reading room on the outermost surface of the large library.
There are many strange sights in the reading room: hundreds of thousands of minerals and plants in the specimen cabinet (this is just a drop in the bucket in the specimen library), thousands of promotional posters posted on the wall (it is said that they are mainly from popular works in the fantasy world). film and television), and a miniature model of a deep space train suspended from the ceiling. These things are enough for Luo Binhan to spend hundreds of hours thinking about, but at this moment he has no time to pay attention to them, he just wants to see the truly unique wonders.
Jing Huang stood in front of a table with the stinking face of a debtor to the world. Two cabinet-shaped robots (very similar to the one Popa rode before) brought him tissue paper, brushes, inkstones and various colors of paint.
Poppa sat on a small book support across the table, looking at him with shaky legs.
"These were left by Wanbozi, but she always performed poorly." It said, "Do you need other materials? For example, silk or bamboo pieces?"
Jing Huang studied the ink expressionlessly.
"The princess told me that your teacher is very good at drawing," Popa continued, "Can you draw what your hometown looks like? I'm curious about what the green mountains look like."
"...I'm not from Qingshan City. That's the master's dojo, east of Wang Ji and north of Zhen Kingdom."
"Draw your hometown." Popa still asked, "I want to see what it looks like."
Jing Huang frowned and then began to dip his pen in ink. He first outlines the bone line with light ink, then adds color with scattered edge rubbing, and then repeatedly accumulates ink and dyes. The whole process took place non-stop and was finally completed after more than two hours.
Popa remained seated throughout the process, patiently watching him paint. Finally, Jing Huang put down his pen and hung the painting in front of Popa. Luo Binhan, who was about to fall asleep at the table, was also shaken awake by Ma Lin and looked at the table in confusion.
The paper is stained with ink, and it is a scene of the vast sea and the bright moon. The ice wheel in the sky is like a mirror, the light is phantom and the clouds are hazy, it is cold and deserted. The waves in the sea are misty, deep and dark, and the waves of sadness are rolling. Where the water and the sky meet, you can see an island in the distance, with bright red lanterns all over the place, looming palaces, towers, and cornices. Another tree grew between the tiles, towering into the sky and as lush as a feather canopy.
Popa looked at the painting and said, "What you painted is different from Wan Bozi."
"...That's her thing."
Poppa retorted a little unconvincingly: "She is better at drawing animals."
It asked the cabinet robot to deliver several copies of old paintings. Luo Binhan stretched his neck to look around and saw only a few ink lines on the paper. It was a round creature with four legs, a long neck and a big mouth.
"Alpaca?" he speculated boldly.
"White horse," Poppa replied. It sat on the book rest with its head bowed, looking a little depressed.
Jing Huang didn't give it any time to immerse itself in the past, and directly poked its head: "Is this bad? Come on, I also want to check the news about 'The Stranger', the 'Dwarf Starr', and the 'Curse of the White River' , 'Filankel', 'Lion-Hearted Royal Family'...any word will do, is there any one that you remember?"
"I don't have the memory capacity to remember all the books here." Popa said, "But I know which books the princess has read. You can also borrow them from the library on the third floor."
"Then when am I going to find out?"
“You can tell the administrator robot the categories and keywords you need.”
Jing Huang thought about it for a while and asked unsatisfiedly: "What about the deeper collection of books? Did you give the women's department permission?"
Poppa watched him ponder, and then asked the cabinet robot to bring another piece of paper.
"Draw a white horse," it demanded.
Jing Huang began to grind his teeth, but in the end he still picked up the pen. The ink turned into a galloping horse, the brush strokes were a little sloppy, but the expression and momentum were still vivid.
Poppa looked around the painting, then sat down on the table with his head down a little sadly.
"I want to show Wanbozi this." It murmured, "How long has she spent practicing! But she hasn't come back yet. Paduma promised that she will come back, but both of them are gone now. "
It lay dull on the table. Joel Farman picked it up and patted it on the top of its head soothingly. After a while, it returned to the desktop, and the command cabinet robot put away Jing Huang's two paintings.
"I will put it into the two categories of 'Art' and 'No Far Land'." It said to Jing Huang, "Do you want a copy?"
Jing Huang refused. So Popa guided them into a certain miniature library. All the bookshelves were closely together and would automatically shift only after pressing the activation button, freeing up enough space for readers to walk through.
Poppa took them to a certain bookshelf and told them that it was the first book the "Princess" borrowed.
"These are all myths and legends about the outside world." Popa introduced. "The princess and her companions have finished reading the books on the upper shelf."
Luo Binhan visually measured the width and height of the bookshelf, and conservatively estimated that there were at least five thousand books here. Some of them don't even have names, just numbers and numbers attached.
He picked out a book at random, and when he opened it, the material of the pages was similar to that of the magazine on the Silence. When he casually turned to the end of the page, he discovered that there was a small metal hole in the cover of the thick book.
"What is this?" he asked, pointing at Kong.
"Data interface." Poppa said, "If you have an external cable, you can plug it in and read it. It is much more efficient that way. That's what the princess's companions do."
Unfortunately, Luo Binhan does not have a data external cable. He had no choice but to read it with his own naked eyes. When he tried to take a book to the reading room, he discovered a translucent chain tied to the corner of the book cover.
He shook the book in his hand, and the chain clattered slightly. Then he randomly pulled out three more books from the bookshelf, and they all ended up with the same chain.
"...What does this mean?" he asked Popa.
Poppa put the two short robotic hands together in front of him and replied quietly: "This is just a little anti-theft measure. It also allows you to put the book back in the right place every time."
"What happens if I break the chain?"
"I don't know," Popa said. "No one has done this yet... Padma said that the information in the book will be destroyed together with the thief, because some of the content is not suitable for circulation."
Luo Binhan had no choice but to give up the idea of packing a few books to entertain himself on the road. He randomly picked out a book and tried to walk to the reading room. The length of the chain was just enough to extend to the end of the reading room. He sat down there, opened the book, and then watched helplessly as a cabinet robot stepped forward, took out a chain made of the same material from its belly, and tied his feet to the metal table legs.
The chain was not heavy and even somewhat elastic, but Luo Binhan could not break free no matter what.
"Is this also an anti-theft measure?" he asked helplessly.
"Incentives." Popa co-authored it and unlocked it after half an hour. Padma said this would improve his concentration in studies. "
Luo Binhan looked at the others, they seemed not to save him.
