"I have read your Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Unless you re-write a novel so that the characters in your novel have extraordinary powers, you'd better follow me and manage this library honestly. Your reflection character , There is no fighting power at all!" said the person sitting opposite Liu Xu.
It is hard to imagine that this tall, muscular middle-aged man is actually the director of a library and a cultural person.
Early in the morning of the second day, Liu Xu arrived at the Liberal Arts College, an hour earlier than the official start time.
But in the end, when Liu Xu entered the library to work, he was half an hour late, because the security robot at the entrance of the Liberal Arts College did not let Liu Xu enter the Liberal Arts College at all. It was not until the director was about to enter the Liberal Arts College that he Liu Xu was brought in.
"This is the key to the library. You are finally here. With you, I can sleep for a few more hours!" the director said happily, and opened the door to the library.
It was already ten o'clock in the morning, and the sign at the door of the library said that the library's opening hours were 9:30 in the morning. Fortunately, there were no students queuing up at the door.
In other words, the entrance was unusually deserted, and the entire library was located in the most remote corner of the liberal arts college. It was completely different from the other world where a large number of students crowded into the university library every day.
But thinking about it, when all the novels are placed in the library and can be read directly with a mobile phone, I really don’t understand the meaning and value of the library. The only ones left are probably paper books. It feels like a ritual.
After that, the library director began to assign tasks to Liu Xu. These tasks were not too complicated. They just arrived at the library at 9:00 every morning and made various preparations.
Open the door on time at 9:30, and then be responsible for sorting, placing, placing, counting, and a series of miscellaneous items in the library. Well, Liu Xu is responsible for almost everything in the entire library. .
Such a large amount of work made Liu Xu frown, especially when he heard his curator's evaluation of his Romance of the Three Kingdoms, his brows furrowed even more!
"What? Do you have any questions?" Seeing Liu Xu's appearance, the curator asked with squinted eyes.
"A little bit!" Liu Xu nodded and asked after hesitating for a while, "Director, why can't we even see a table or chair in our library?"
"Um..." Upon hearing Liu Xu's question, the director said with a strange expression, "Why are there tables and chairs in the library? Are you planning to let people in to read?"
"Uh..." Liu Xu was stunned for a moment. Isn't the library used for reading books?
Of course, Liu Xu had realized that there might be some differences between the libraries of this world and the libraries of Earth, so he decisively shut his mouth to save himself from asking any stupid questions.
"That's right, you are not a student of the Faculty of Arts, and many wild contracted authors don't know about this kind of thing. It's not surprising that you have such a problem!" However, the curator took the initiative to think of a reason for Liu Xu, and then explained He said, "I know that in most novels, the library is a place for people to read books. You probably also read these novels and thought that the library should be open for people to read."
"But these are the ignorant imaginations of wild authors, for real libraries are places where books are sealed!"
"Blocking books??" Even if Liu Xu tried to pretend to be calm as much as possible, his eyes still betrayed the shock deep in his heart.
"Yes, although this truth sounds a bit cruel, it is the fact!" The curator said lightly, "The world does not need too many books, let alone too much knowledge and wisdom, so any books that have nothing to do with novels , everything must be sealed in the library!"
"Why?" Liu Xu couldn't help but ask.
"Because we want to protect and save the world!" the curator said expressionlessly. "Books other than novels are either extremely boring, or they allow readers to understand a lot of things other than novels, allowing their wisdom to grow and their thinking to change. It is vast, thinking is full of logic, and the vision of looking at things will become proud and critical.”
"Isn't this bad?" Liu Xu asked subconsciously.
"Of course it's not good!" The curator couldn't help but sneered. "Do you think if everyone becomes wiser, has a broad mind, and likes logic and dialectics, how many readers will be able to read the novels in the library?"
"Uh..." Liu Xu said nothing.
"Take your teacher Luo as an example. The famous work and the only novel qualified to reflect it is called "The Best Sword in the Village is the Sword of the Holy Slayer". If it were you, I'm afraid you would see this If you read the title of the book, you will immediately lose interest in reading this novel!”
"After all, for you who can write "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the protagonist can get a magical weapon in 10,000 words, win the favor of the princess in 30,000 words, and sweep across the battlefield with a holy sword in 100,000 words. He clearly has it in his hand. He had learned 4 forbidden spells but didn't use any of them, so he had to use weapons to fight melee. The protagonist, who was only 16 years old, was able to use some lame so-called wisdom to fool a group of 61-year-old foxes around. Finally, he was surprised to find that his My father is the God of Light, my mother is the God of Darkness, and he himself is the Son of Light and Darkness. I am afraid I will vomit blood after reading tens of thousands of words!"
"Uh..." Liu Xu stopped talking. In fact, as long as he saw a book with a title of more than 7 words, he would immediately throw it aside.
Why 7 characters? Because "This novel is very healthy".
"You are such a smart person. Now that I have said this, you should understand why the books are blocked!" the curator asked. Liu Xu nodded and said naturally, "It turns out it is to reduce intelligence!"
"Deducing wisdom?" The curator tasted this brand-new term, then nodded and said, "Yes, it is to bring wisdom to the world, otherwise we will not be able to read novels like your teacher's."
"More than 90% of the contracted authors in the world write stuff like that, so 90% of the readers in the world must read it with gusto and even enjoy it, otherwise these 90% of the contracted authors will not be able to get it. God-given covenant, then our world would have been destroyed long ago under the reflection of the world!"
"Of course, these methods are not completely useful. The more books a reader reads, his taste will continue to improve, and eventually he will no longer want to read those junk novels full of nonsense."
"And these people happen to be your readers, which is why you were able to break the world record. In fact, for these people, finding a book like The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is full of complexity, detail, and at the same time There are no flaws in the logic, and it forms one exquisite theoretical closed loop after another, and it is so rare for a novel to exist like a real world!"
"Zhuo, if you don't write novels in the future, how will we readers live?" Well, the last sentence was said by the curator himself in his heart, and Liu Xu didn't hear it.
"..." Liu Xu stopped talking. Although this logic is very screwed up, and the method of instilling intelligence to all the people in the world is definitely the worst behavior, but I have to admit that this is also a way to save the world. After all, you don't Most of the contracted authors may be required to write works that are suitable for both refined and popular tastes.
"However, we all know very well about these books. Only a wide range of books can make human society develop to a higher level. If there are only novels, we humans will be unable to make progress. This is just a compromise to cope with the reflection of the world at the moment. "The curator said.
"I understand, books are the ladder of human progress!" Liu Xu nodded.
"Hey, don't always say something that is better than what I, the curator, say, okay?" The curator knocked Liu Xu on the head. "In the future, our world will inevitably leave this world full of dimensional rifts." The void, returning to a safe void without neighbors, we will no longer need a career as a contract author, and these books can once again help mankind move forward."
"But for now, these books can only stay here, blocked by the library, but at the same time they are protected until the day they can be spread around the world!"
