Since it was speculated that there might be a hidden mezzanine in the library, the next focus was how to get to this hidden ‘Zero floor’.
Qin Lu’s ‘Plate Movement’ skill had been used up, and if they wanted to use it again, they had to wait for 24 hours, even if Xin Yan used Catalyst to accelerate, they still had to wait for 12 hours.
Yue Xingwen’s ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ could team teleportation but this skill could not specify a precise angle and could not directly reach the corresponding coordinate location.
None of the other people’s skills could ignore the architectural obstacles, so if they wanted to enter the so-called ‘mezzanine’, they still had to find the entrance to the mezzanine.
Zhang Xiaonian speculated, “The library database on the -1st floor is more than 5 meters high, and the mezzanine is likely to be hidden inside the Library Database. The Library database is surrounded by solid wood shelves filled with books. Could it be that one of those books is the mechanism to open the mezzanine?”
Ke Shaobin said excitedly, “I think so too! There are too many books in the database to count, and when we usually go to the Library Database to upgrade the skill book, we don’t go through all the books carefully, and if there are mechanisms in it, it’s really difficult for students to find it.”
Yue Xingwen shook his head and said, “The Library Database we usually see is definitely different from the current one.”
Jiang Pingce said in agreement, “That’s right, the entire library building is now in exam status, while we usually go to the Library Database to upgrade our skills in a non-exam status.”
Yue Xingwen went on to say, “In the usual Library Database, each person has a separate space and does not interfere with each other. We’ve never seen what the Library Database looks like in the exam state.”
Ke Shaobin thought about it carefully that Xingwen and Pingce did have a point. Usually, everyone took the points to the Library Database to upgrade their skills after the exams, and whenever they took the elevator to the -1st floor, they would be automatically separated by the library system, and each of them would go into their own database room.
But now, the Library was in exam mode, and the elevator cars had been completely blown up. At this time, the Library Database on the -1st floor must be different from what they usually saw.
Ke Shaobin said seriously, “That’s right, the current -1st floor Library Database may also be a hollow-shaped structure, with four corridors!”
Yue Xingwen’s gaze swept over his teammates and said, “Everyone needs to be careful later. Let’s go to the 1st floor first, go down the stairs to the -1st floor, and see if there is a mezzanine at the location of the stairs.”
At this time, everyone was on the 10th floor, Yue Xingwen once again turned on the ‘Fast as Lightning’ team acceleration skill, and everyone climbed down the stairs quickly, and came to the 1st floor in a blink of an eye.
Everyone knocked around the staircases for a while, but did not notice the existence of the mezzanine, so they had to continue walking to the -1st floor.
In the process of walking down, Zhang Xiaonian used the theodolite to measure the height of the staircase, and reported, “The total height of the stairs from the 1st floor to the -1st floor is 54 meters, which is the same as the floor height of the Library Database we usually see.”
Jiang Pingce said, “At this height, it really can be another floor.” He raised his head and carefully observed the surrounding walls. The walls of the staircase were all smooth cement walls, painted with white paint, consistent with the other floors. Jiang Pingce said, “Xiao Nian, try to see if you can dig through it.”
Zhang Xiaonian summoned the excavator and tried to dig the middle of the 54-meter-high wall, but the bucket of the excavator was directly broken by the wall.
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Like the other floors, the -1st floor had four doors in each direction: East, West, South, and North. Which door should they enter? Everyone didn’t know the bottom of their hearts, Yue Xingwen didn’t want to waste time guessing here, so he randomly pointed to the North door and said, “Enter this door first, everyone be careful.”
Yue Xingwen took the initiative to take the lead, Jiang Pingce walked side by side with him, and the others followed closely behind the two. Twelve people quickly walked through the door and entered the Library Database on the -1st floor. However, the scene in front of them made everyone freeze in place——
Library Database!
This was the real Library Database!
They could see row after row of solid wood bookshelves straight to the top, over 5 meters, neatly arranged in the spacious corridor, with labels next to each row of bookshelves, such as Social Sciences, Western Philosophy, Law, Economics, and so on.
There were too many books on the shelves to count, densely packed like a sea of books.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other and looked at each other.
After a while, Yue Xingwen said, “This should be a collection of books from all the majors in the entire library, right? The length of the corridor is about 50 meters, and this floor is likely to be made up of four corridors?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Go and see.”
Everyone quickly ran to the end of the corridor, and sure enough, it was a familiar 90-degree corner, followed by another very similar corridor, and continued forward. After two consecutive corners, they returned to their original point.
Like the other floors, the -1st floor was also a ‘回’ shaped structure.
Ke Shaobin looked around suspiciously, “The bookshelves here are all directly to the ceiling, I don’t see a mezzanine ah? If there is a mechanism, with all these books, how can we find it?”
Zhang Xiaonian also scratched his head in confusion. “I just measured, the length of the corridor is 50 meters, the area of the four corridors is exactly the same as the other floors, and the corridors are full of bookshelves, and the mezzanine is not always in the air, right?”
Just when everyone was puzzled, suddenly, a familiar mechanical female voice sounded in their ears: “Welcome to the exam room of the Library Database room, next, it will be your graduation assessment time.”
This voice obviously came from the skill instructor they had just met in the Control Center.
Ke Shaobin hurriedly asked, “Graduation assessment? Will we graduate smoothly if we pass?”
Skill Instructor: “Not really. After passing the graduation assessment, you will only receive a graduation certificate. If you want to graduate, you still have to take part in the graduation defense and get your degree certificate.”
Everyone: “……”
This library system was really perverted enough, there were exams for admission, and exams for graduation?
Yue Xingwen frowned and asked, “What are the exam rules? Do we need to answer the questions like we did in the entrance exam?” He remembered that in the entrance exam at that time, he took a paper, and the exam was full of idioms.
Skill Instructor: “The exam begins.”
As soon as the words fell, the bookshelf in front of them suddenly collapsed, and the dense books smashed at them like bricks!
Yue Xingwen hurriedly opened the dictionary. “Golden Cicada Shell!”
He teleported to the other side of the bookshelf with his teammates, narrowly avoiding the falling books and avoiding the tragedy of being overwhelmed by a sea of books.
However, before he could gain a foothold, the bookshelf in front of him began to tilt again——
Ke Shaobin’s face changed. “Oh no! The domino effect, the bookshelves in the four corridors will soon all collapse!”
Jiang Pingce said decisively, “Xiao Nian, build a wall!”
Zhang Xiaonian immediately raised his right hand, and in an instant, the reinforced cement Earthquake-proof wall more than 5 meters high on all sides rose up around the 12 people, blocking the collapsed bookshelves!
Everyone stayed within the protection of the Earthquake-proof wall, only to hear the loud sound of ‘bang’ and ‘bang’ in their ears, and the domino effect caused the bookshelves to collapse one after another, all the books fell, and for a while, the brick-thick books flew everywhere, and the entire Library Database was in a mess.
Liu Zhaoqing smiled bitterly, “This time, we are really ‘swimming in the sea of books’.”
Xu Yishen said helplessly, “There are books everywhere here, and once Xiao Nian’s protective wall is gone, we’ll be flooded by the books in an instant, right?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “It’s better to let me dissect a corpse like the entrance exam.”
After 3 minutes of shaking, the outside gradually quieted down. It seemed that all the bookshelves had collapsed, and Yue Xingwen took a deep breath to say, “Hiding is not an option, let’s go out and take a look.”
Jiang Pingce said, “I’ll go up first.”
He raised his right hand, quickly drew a coordinate system, used the formula to control himself to rise up to a height of 5 meters, looking out——
Noticing something strange on Jiang Pingce’s face, Yue Xingwe hurriedly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Jiang Pingce looked down at Xingwen and wrote another formula, causing Yue Xingwen to fly as well, hovering at his side. Yue Xingwen followed Jiang Pingce’s gaze, and his scalp immediately went numb.
Seeing both of them having an ugly face, Ke Shaobin was nervous and curious, so he hurriedly asked, “Xingwen, Pingce, what’s going on outside?”
Yue Xingwen said, “It’s the book spirit.”
Everyone was very puzzled. “Book spirit?”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other and said with a wry smile, “After these bookshelves collapsed, all the books seemed to have lost their shackles, and a large number of spirits came out of the books. For example, the various demons of <Journey to the West> and the female ghosts in <Strange Tales>.”
Everyone: “……”
What kind of terrible scene was this? All the characters described in the book had become spirits. It was okay if they were good characters, what about those villains?
Liu Zhaoqing didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. “So, we have to fight against thousands of book spirits?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Look at the hover box.”
Everyone looked up and realized that a familiar hover box had appeared in the upper right corner, and there was a line of prompts inside—— [Escape from the Library’s Graduation Exam, Countdown 01:00:00].
They had to escape from the Library Database in one hour.
Xu Yishen sighed and said, “With so many book spirits, how can the 12 of us beat them?”
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen glanced at each other, and the latter seemed to have thought of some way, so he leaned into Jiang Pingce’s ear and whispered a few words.
The next moment, Jiang Pingce nodded dryly, looking back at everyone to say, “Xingwen has thought of a way to deal with the book spirits, let’s try it first. Everyone stays here and waits for our news.”
Jiang Pingce grabbed Yue Xingwen’s arm with his left hand gently, and quickly wrote down a formula with his right hand. In the blink of an eye, the two jumped out from the top of Zhang Xiaonian’s wall and disappeared in front of everyone.
Maybe “from the 1st floor to the -1st floor it’s 5,4 meters”? Because I was scared then I read this))
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