"Liu Xu, are you willing to join my library?" That night, Liu Xu was called in front of the librarian. At the same time, he found that the librarian showed a rare expression of extreme caution.
"Library lineage?" Liu Xu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Director, I don't understand this at all."
"Then let me tell you!" The director nodded and said, "The library lineage is an institution responsible for collecting and protecting all banned books. 212 years ago, that is, the 88th year after the Great Era, human beings at that time suddenly A huge protest movement broke out, demanding that the Writers Association should not forcefully promote novels, nor force readers to read novels, nor allow them to read novels all the time except when eating and farming. The most intolerable thing is to read those novels. The plot is just a routine novel repeated over and over again, without giving them a chance to refuse to watch it.”
"It was a very dangerous time for mankind. It was reflected outside, and such a serious and almost riot scene broke out inside. In the end, the Writers Association and the World Government had to make a compromise. They announced an order to stop forcing readers to read novels, except for literary examination novels. In addition, at other times, no human being may be forced to read any novel for any reason.”
"But as a result of the lifting of the ban, the number of contracted authors began to decrease rapidly, and humans began to look for entertainment other than novels in large numbers, so video games were born. This is the only entertainment activity that is independent of novels so far."
"Although the birth of video games created the large-scale category of game novels, you also know that compared with novels, games are much more enjoyable. The most direct result is that novels have lost a large number of readers . At the most exaggerated time, almost all human beings went to play video games. The number of contracted authors born in 20 years was not as many as the number of contracted authors born in the previous year. Humanity had to give up a lot of territory. , and ultimately lost nearly 2/3 of the world.”
"Games are harmful to the country!"
"Then there was the great purge of games that you see in historical materials. All games were forcibly banned, and all protesters were directly imprisoned in labor camps. With the cooperation of the Writers' Association, the World Government, and all contracted authors, The game was completely suppressed, novels returned to the mainstream, all the resisters were completely eliminated, the number of contracted authors finally began to steadily increase, and finally mankind ushered in the super prosperous age of the twelve great gods."
"In order to prevent the same situation from happening again, our predecessors restructured the world and put all reading on the Internet. At the same time, they strictly controlled the Internet, repeatedly reviewed the games, and provided all human beings with the opportunity to read from the beginning. Inculcate the concept that reading novels is to save the world, reading novels is the destiny of all human beings, etc., trying to fundamentally solve the previous problems."
"But this kind of behavior has naturally attracted a lot of opposition. Many so-called sociologists, educators, etc. jumped out and said that this is a way to imprison human thoughts, this is to destroy the future of mankind, etc. So many people It is recommended to start the second great purge."
"But considering all the negative consequences of the previous Great Purge era, we decided to use milder methods. While sending all the so-called scholars who spoke out to labor camps and letting them read novels for the rest of their lives, we began to investigate all the illegal novels on the market. Fiction books will be destroyed.”
"Didn't they say that this is a restraint on human thought? Then just stop thinking. Without thought, there will naturally be no restraint!" The curator used an extremely calm tone to describe the order from more than 200 years ago. All the horrifying history of human beings was told to Liu Xu.
Although this period of history was also mentioned in the books in the library, Liu Xu roughly guessed the process of this period of history through mutual verification of various books, but it was the first time to hear the entire history in its entirety. Second-rate.
"So, our library lineage is to protect these books, protect these ideas, and give mankind a future, so we firmly protect the people around the library?" Liu Xu asked tentatively.
"No!" The curator shook his head. "We are the executors of this policy. We read and classify all books, find out those books that are confusing, and then confiscate them and burn them all. Chasing those who dare to write prohibited works guys, send them to the most dangerous labor camp."
"We strictly search for and destroy all prohibited items. Thousands of contracted authors who dared to resist the policy died in our hands, as well as millions of ordinary humans. In the end, we even destroyed three cities. , completely destroying the souls of all those last stubborn people."
"In that era, we were called the executioners of ideas, the devils of the times, the destroyers of the future of mankind, the worst evil in the world, and people who can never be forgiven."
"You saw 100 books in this library, which means that 1,000 books have been completely destroyed, and not even a single copy of the paper is left. As for why these 100 books can survive, it is not We have good intentions, but we leave some samples to educate young people who are new to the library and tell them how to identify prohibited books."
"In order to find those who hide the deepest, our people must also understand their thoughts, possess their thoughts, and then blend in, and finally pick out those people one by one. Either throw them into a labor reform camp, or directly on the spot Dharma!"
"Until now, the most important task of the library lineage is still to find those ideological thugs and then resolutely suppress them, not to guard the library."
"The library is just a base for our activities. When Jingqing City was first established, there were at least a hundred people in this library. Under the command of the director, they monitored everyone in Jingqing City."
"By the way, aren't you very curious, why are there so many empty rooms under the library?"
"That's because these rooms were not originally used to store books, but to monitor and interrogate those ideological thugs. Take the room you live in now as an example. It was an execution room back then, with at least more than 300 people in it. They died there, even though more than half of them were innocent, they did die in that room!"
The director's tone was still calm, but Liu Xu's body was trembling. Feelings were the truth of the library, and they were the royal guards of this world.
No, Jin Yiwei is not as crazy as them. I'm afraid this is not Jin Yiwei, a terrifying machine put together by the East and West factories.
"How are you doing? Do you still dare to join our library?" The director asked calmly. Liu Xu really hesitated for a long time before asking, "Then why is there no one in the library now?"
"Of course it's because our ancestors worked very outstandingly and thoroughly, and there are very few ideological thugs now!" the library director grinned. "But I have always had another guess, and that is because only people from the library lineage can They have the right to access these banned books, so after the ideological thugs outside have been wiped out, our library has become the place with the most ideological thugs in the world."
"So later on, the library became more and more benevolent, kind, generous, and stubborn. We were unwilling to let any book in it be harmed. We are here. The destroyer, but now he has become the protector here, don’t you think it’s very ridiculous?”
"It's not funny at all!" Liu Xu shook his head. "I can't comment on whether our ancestors were right or wrong, but the current library lineage is undoubtedly correct. For the future of mankind, these books cannot be seen in the world at present."
"But also for the future of mankind, we must guard these books and never let them disappear and be destroyed."
"You ideological thug!" the curator cursed, and then threw a pamphlet to Liu Xudao, "Actually, you have no choice. I have already reported your name, and the headquarters has also approved it. From now on From now on, you will be the library’s deck cleaner.”
"Deck cleaner?" Liu Xu showed a confused expression.
"Yes, deck cleaner, this is the nickname of our library. At that time, an important ideological thug took his students and fled to a cruise ship, thinking he could avoid us. This is a joke. .”
"It's just that this ship was owned by a great author at that time. He blamed us for soiling his deck and kept forcing us to clean the deck for him. It took three years to clean the deck, so we became the deck cleaners. It became a nickname for almost everyone, and later even we adopted this nickname ourselves. After all, deck cleaner sounds much nicer than being an orphan forever!”
