Luo Binhan stared at the book for a long time. A hardcover book with pages of good quality that look like they were printed with ink. He was sure that the writing on it belonged to the Alliance, and the signature clearly said White Tower. That doesn't necessarily prove that it really came from the White Tower, but it makes it even weirder to be here.
He did not continue to read, but slowly raised his head and looked at Bang Bang, who seemed a little worried.
"What is this?" he asked.
"Uh, I picked it up. It's in a cabinet." Bang Bang replied hesitantly, "I can't understand its meaning."
"Do you mind if I take a look?"
Bangbang didn't have any objections, and seemed to be more looking forward to Luo Binhan telling him the content of the book. So Luo Binhan took a deep breath and asked the person monitoring the detention room to call Jing Huang or Yaleriga - Bangbang still didn't seem to be completely free from the shadow of the "Light Believer", and Luo Binhan didn't want to stimulate it anymore for the time being. .
The person who came over was Yaleriga. She took the book and weighed it for a while, then handed it back to Luo Binhan.
"There is no 'White Tower Press'." She told Luo Binhan. "Magics usually publish works in the name of individuals or towers. If the Camarilla as a whole wants to publish something, the two commonly used names are 'Silver Tower' ' or 'Silver Ladder'."
"So what are you doing? A copycat?"
"Or a prank." Yaleriga said, "This may be a magic item."
Luo Binhan immediately became alert. He felt that this book had a suspicious atmosphere from its cover to its title, not to mention appearing in the dangerous zone they were currently in. He almost immediately wanted to throw the book to Jing Huang, but when he handed the book to the robot controlled by ∈, the smooth book cover somehow slipped from his fingertips, hit the ground, and spread out in the middle. Luo Binhan looked over subconsciously and found that there was nothing written on the page.
"Empty?" he asked, picking up the book.
Bangbang, who has already read the whole book, said that this is the case. Despite having such a gimmicky cover and introduction, most of the inside pages of this book do not contain any text. There is only a form that seems to be filled in after the introduction, and there is a page with illustrations after the form. The main text of this book is the entire effective content of this book.
Luo Binhan followed its explanation and scrolled back to the front, and sure enough he found the information form it mentioned. On the surface, this form was not much different from any of the so-called psychological tests that Luo Binhan had occasionally been asked to fill out in the past. Common fields include "name," "gender," "preferences," "age," and "place of birth," but there are also more general or quirky questions, including "What color is your blood?" Do you start with the sharp end when eating objects with a certain point?", "Describe your most recent dream", etc.
There are so many strange questions, with more than a hundred listed, making this folded table five times longer than other pages. Luo Binhan lost patience when he saw a third of the page. He glanced briefly at the page and noticed a dusty, nearly circular footprint on the first side of the form. Bang Bang explained that he had accidentally stepped on the page, and it happened to land near the name column.
He turned over the form page and next saw the only page of text that Bangbang mentioned. As expected, the few paragraphs above are also written in alliance language:
You are a male and your current orientation is female.
Your handwriting proves that you are in a state of uncertainty. For you at this moment, the ideal partner is a mature, intelligent and guiding female. She can give you both physical and mental comfort.
Let's go now! Go find such a beautiful female to launch your operation. We will give you an ideal template object as a reference, and don't forget to continue to complete your personal information so that we can give you suggestions for the next step.
Luo Binhan felt a strong sense of mischief from these words, as if someone made a so-called personality test applet out of boredom. But the illustrations next to these words made him unable to ignore them.
It was a silhouette of a woman sitting on a chair. The physical details could not be seen clearly, but the muscle curves of the limbs were graceful and smooth, exuding a strong sexual attraction from the simple outline. Luo Binhan didn't see any horns or tail on her body, but he felt vaguely familiar from the outline.
He quietly glanced at Yaleriga with his peripheral vision and found that she was also looking at the illustration. A strange thought flashed through his head: Could it be this book that led Bang Bang to meet them?
That was a bit too unbelievable, so he didn't dwell on this idea for too long. Instead, he noticed Bang Banghou's embarrassment and immediately closed the page, pretending not to notice the similarity between the illustration and Yaleriga, and being sneaky. He glanced at Bang Bang's belly. That actually didn't make any sense. He had already discovered before that there was nothing on Bang Bang's body that he could use to determine his gender. He imagined it as a male because the voice it sounded through the translator sounded like a boy's voice change.
He did not return the book to Bang Bang, but held the cover and asked, "Where did this book come from?"
"A cabinet. It had a small hole in it, and a few parts were missing from the side. I, um, saw that the hole was just the right size."
It took Luo Binhan a while to figure out what Bang Bang meant, and that made him feel even more incredible. If Bangbang didn't fictionalize any part of him, the whole thing would sound like this: When Bangbang found out that his professor didn't return as scheduled as planned, he was eager to get opinions on his thesis and contacted Ojo. Together they boarded a miniature shuttle boat in the laboratory and passed through the black hole generator extremely recklessly. They thought they would find Finlatan's spacecraft signal soon, but this strange area left them with only dead silence. Immediately afterwards, some unexplainable phenomenon occurred. Some indescribable phantoms passed through their shuttle boat. The bridge began to frequently break away from Ohot's control, leading them to a blazing star.
They luckily landed in a desert. The shuttle boat was severely damaged and lacked repair materials. The surrounding environment was very bad. Ohot had to wrap Bang Bang to protect it from underground radiation. They also did not bring sufficient supplies and repair materials. In this desperate situation, they found an abandoned rest stop - it might be a pavilion or a tent, Luo Binhan couldn't tell from Bang Bang's description - where they temporarily settled down to rest and tried to find some food and water. , and found nothing but a cabinet half buried in the sand.
It was probably a vending machine, but Bangbang didn't know that at the time. It also has no concept of "putting in coins", because "points" are currency in schools. However, luckily, it found that the two flat metal objects placed on the cabinet fit perfectly with a gap in the front of the cabinet. At its request, Oholt inserted the metal object into the gap, and then pressed a big red button that began to flash.
A few seconds later a shiny book popped out of the bottom of the vending machine. Bang Bang picked it up, not understanding the introduction on the first page, and accidentally stepped on it when flipping to the second page. Ohot scolded it, and Bangbang hurriedly turned to the third page. This time it found an illustration on it - some kind of strange species with graceful and slender curves like a water fit person. It didn't know what it was, but felt a bit of a scholar's fascination with it.
Ohot started hitting it on the head again. Bang Bang had no choice but to put this unknown object into its compression bag. At this time, they still had an oblate metal object, which suggested that Ohot try again to see what other strange things they could get in this strange world.
Oblate metal objects are stuffed into the tiny holes. A few seconds later, they heard some kind of crashing noise, and a steady stream of material was spit out from the rectangular hole where the book fell, flooding the two of them like a hill. Afterwards, Oholt inspected, analyzed and classified them one by one, and found that they were high-energy fuel, superconducting substances, high-temperature resistant alloys, lubricants, a piece of leather paper with incomprehensible contents, and a few plant seeds.
They have never figured out the use of the last two items, but all the materials other than that - that is the resource they need to repair the shuttle boat.
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