Jiang Pingce took Yue Xingwen to fly into the air with a formula, and quickly circled around the Library Database following the ‘回’ shaped corridor.
The situation outside was even more terrible than they expected. There were countless books in the Library Database, and there were thousands of book spirits that slipped out after the bookshelves collapsed!
Some of the more distinctive features, such as Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, etc, were still recognizable to them at a glance. But there were some book spirits that they couldn’t even tell which book they came from.
After the two appeared in the air, these book spirits sensed their breath and surrounded them one after another. Sun Wukong even picked up the golden rod, almost hitting them on the head with the rod.
Yue Xingwen: “…”
If it wasn’t for Jiang Pingce’s speed being fast enough, the two of them would probably have been overwhelmed by the sea of book spirits.
However, as soon as they walked around the corner, the book spirits who were originally located in the western corridor collectively stopped, as if they were ‘not allowed to cross the line’.
Yue Xingwen looked at the book spirits behind him in horror and whispered, “These book spirits will attack us, and their abilities are as strong as described in the book! It’s too difficult to deal with so many book spirits at the same time.”
Jiang Pingce asked, “Is your method feasible?”
Yue Xingwen shook his head and replied, “I’m not sure, I can only try.”
Jiang Pingce: “Okay, I’ll cooperate with you.”
Both of them glanced at each other, and Jiang Pingce modified the formula to bring Yue Xingwen down from the air to the ground.
According to the memory in his mind, Yue Xingwen quickly came to the row of bookshelves labeled ‘Classical Novels’ and found a book of <Dream of Red Chamber> from the fallen books, then he opened the book and quickly flipped to the chapter in which Lin Daiyu appeared, and then pointed the pages of the book at the beautiful woman not far in front of him——
As if summoned, the book spirit turned into a wisp of white smoke and flew back into the book.
Yue Xingwen was overjoyed and said, “I guessed right! How the book spirits should go back is how the book spirits came out. Just find the book corresponding to the book spirit and turn to the chapter where the character appears, and we can take them back!”
The reason why he guessed this was because after reasoning and analysis, everyone agreed that the entrance of the library was the exit, and how they got in the first place should be how to get out in the end. The same was probably true for the book spirits.
The reason for the appearance of the book spirit was that the bookshelf in the Library Database suddenly collapsed, and the books were scattered all over the ground, as if the seal was ‘loosened’, so as long as the corresponding books were found again and the book spirit was sealed back, the problem in front of them could be solved.
It turned out that Yue Xingwen’s speculation was right!
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Now that a way had been found to deal with the book spirits, the next step would be much easier.
Jiang Pingce revised the formula once again and returned to the defensive castle established by Zhang Xiaonian with Yue Xingwen.
Seeing both of them coming back, Ke Shaobin hurriedly stepped forward and asked, “Xingwen, how was it?”
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath, looked at everyone and said, “There are roughly thousands of book spirits outside, all of them are the protagonists and important supporting characters in various books, as long as you get the corresponding books and turn to the page where they appear, you can seal them back again!”
Ke Shaobin was stunned for a moment. Although Xingwen had found a way to deal with the book spirits, the problem was that the bookshelves in the library had all collapsed, and it was not so easy to find the books of the corresponding characters in the sea of books!
Liu Zhaoqing asked, “These book spirits will attack us, right?”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En. They retain the abilities described in the original book. For example, Sun Wukong has a golden rod in his hand, and those female ghosts who escaped from the book of <Strange Tales> can still infinitely extend and kill.”
Xu Yishen rubbed his temples with a headache and said, “The text description is very abstract, and the physical characteristics described in the book don’t necessarily match up exactly with what they look like when transformed into an entity, right?”
Zhuo Feng said, “Moreover, this graduation exam requires us to read a wide range of books, and it’s even more unlikely that we’ll know what characters are in some of them if no one has read them at all.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Of course, we can’t know all the book spirits. Time is limited, so we will collect the book spirits we know first, and then we will find a way to figure out the rest.”
If it was a library under normal circumstances, each row of shelves had a corresponding label, and it would be relatively easy to find books. But now, all the bookshelves have collapsed…
Ke Shaobin said, “The bookshelves outside are all overturned, and the books are all piled on the ground, it’s hard to find them, right? Shall we restore the bookshelves first?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “En. After we go out later, Ke Shaobin can open the defense skill, senior brother Liu can stand up all the collapsed bookshelves, and then use the skill to sort out the books in batches and first arrange the books that are piled on the ground back as fast as possible, so that it’s convenient for everyone to look for the books.”
Ke Shaobin said clearly, “Understood. When the time comes, I will set up a firewall, and everyone can gather around me!”
At this point, the prompt in the hover box had become [Library Graduation Exam, countdown 55:01:06]
In 55 minutes, solving the problem of the book spirits and finding the exit to the mezzanine on the -1st floor, the time was quite short. Everyone didn’t have time to think about it and Jiang Pingce simply said, “Let’s go!”
Zhang Xiaonian removed the surrounding walls, and Ke Shaobin hurriedly opened his skill book <Network Information Security Technology> he had just learned, and set up an invisible ‘Firewall’ around them.
The advantage of the firewall was that it could follow Ke Shaobin’s laptop to move, spreading around 5 meters with the laptop as the center, and the existence time was 10 minutes.
Although Ke Shaobin’s network firewall made everyone feel very safe, when they saw the dense book spirits around them, a cold sweat couldn’t help to break out in their palms!
The book spirits sensed their presence and rushed over.
Sun Wukong, the Tang Monk and his disciples, and the various demons in <Journey to the West>; Girls in <Dream of Red Chamber>; The heroes of Liangshan in <Water Margin>; And there were the various heroes and heroines from the <Three Kingdoms>… Going further, the female ghosts in <Strange Tales>, Daji and Nezha in <Investiture of the Gods>…
Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t help but complain, “Fortunately, there is Xiao Ke’s firewall protection, otherwise, how can the 12 of us be a match for these book characters?!”
Xu Yishen smiled and said, “Sun Wukong alone is enough for us to drink a pot of water.”
While everyone walked forward around Ke Shaobin’s side, Zhuo Feng used his ‘Mechanics’ skill to lift the bookshelf and set it up again, while Jiang Pingce used his ‘Decay’ skill from <Nine Chapters of Arithmetic>, combined with the arrangement of the ‘Series Number’, to quickly set up the books that were scattered into a mountain on the ground back on the bookshelf.
Jiang Pingce raised his right hand, as if using magic, and the books on the ground were neatly arranged on the shelves under his control, neatly arranged in groups. Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but praise and said, “You’re also good at organizing!”
Jiang Pingce said, “The length of the bookshelf is fixed, and it’s not difficult to put it up in batches.”
Zhuo Feng could make the bookshelf as light as a feather, which was convenient for everyone to lift, and after standing it up, he made the bookshelf as heavy as Mount Tai so that it would not easily collapse; Together with Jiang Pingce’s help, a ‘organizer expert’ from the Mathematics Department, the Library Database, which was originally messy because all the bookshelves had collapsed, soon became as neat and tidy as it was in the beginning.
Where 12 people passed, the bookshelves were erected one after another, and the books on the ground also flew back to the bookshelves in batches, this scene was filmed by Ke Shaobin with his laptop, and he muttered, “Science fiction movies won’t dare to act like this.”
Xin Yan wondered. “You still shoot videos? After leaving the library, you can’t take your laptop with you.”
Ke Shaobin said with a smile, “I’ll still record it. It should be regarded as psychological comfort.”
With 10 minutes of firewall protection, it took them only 8 minutes to straighten out the dozens of rows of bookshelves that had collapsed in the four corridors. There were still 2 minutes before the firewall ended, so Yue Xingwen hurriedly said, “Everyone go to the classical novel section in the west corridor first, there are the most book spirits there!”
Everyone quickly returned to the classical novel section. Ke Shaobin put his laptop in the very center so that the effect of the firewall could radiate around and everyone worked in groups of six to look carefully on the two rows of bookshelves.
Yue Xingwen usually went to the library and had a lot of experience in finding books. Even though those books were messed up after the bookshelf collapsed just now, he quickly found a key book, <Romance of the Three Kingdoms>, after scanning through it with a single glance!
He had been reading this book by heart since he was in middle school, and he quickly flipped from the table of contents to the character’s appearance chapter. As he opened the corresponding pages, the book spirits that slipped out of <Romance of the Three Kingdoms> were taken back by him one by one!
Liu Zhaoqing and Xu Yishen found <Water Margin>, flipped through the table of contents, and retrieved all of the nearby Lu Zhishen carrying a tree, Lin Chong, who was holding a spear, and Wu Song who was fighting a tiger from the book as well.
Several girls were responsible for collecting the characters in <Dream of Red Chamber>, while Zhang Xiaonian quickly flipped through <Journey to the West>, collecting all the four Tang Monks and the Pipa Spirit, Spider Spirit, White Bone Spirit, and other well-characterized demons as well.
Xin Yan found <Strange Tales>, and collected all the female ghosts. Jiang Pingce picked up <Investiture of the Gods> and quickly flipped to the chapters where Su Daji and Nezha appeared, collecting a number of characters from the book.
As long as the characters and books were correct, those book spirits would turn into a beam of soft light and return to the book.
After the book spirits returned to the book, they immediately closed the book and put it back on the shelf, so that the book spirit would be resealed!
Due to the large number of characters in the classical novel, the number of book spirits that popped up was also very large, and after they found a few key books and collected the book spirits in this section, the pressure around them was suddenly reduced by a lot.
But the time for Ke Shaobin’s firewall was also up.
Ke Shaobin warned them, “The firewall’s time is almost up, everyone be careful, use the control skills!”
The next moment, everyone suddenly heard a deafening roar——
Everyone looked back to see a huge creature with its mouth wide open and pounced on them fiercely! Qin Lu raised her right hand without hesitation. “Siberian Cold Current!”
A cold wind blew past her body, and wherever the wind passed, all the book spirits were frozen into ice.
Ke Shaobin stared dumbfounded at the behemoth in front of him and asked, “What is this again?”
Qin Lu smiled bitterly, “It should be a dinosaur.”
Everyone: “…”
Qin Lu said, “I have read a book called <The Complete Illustrated Book of Dinosaurs>, which tells about the Jurassic period, the types and survival conditions of dinosaurs, and the images of these dinosaurs are exactly the same as the illustrations in that book.”
Liu Zhaoqing said in disbelief, “This is also considered a book spirit?!”
Qin Miao said calmly, “Book spirit is not just a character in a novel—— animals and plants in all kinds of illustrated books, great people in popular science materials, famous people recorded in history books may all become book spirits.”
She looked around at her classmates and said, “Even us, if we can’t get out of here in the end, we may become characters in the book, sealed by the book, and stay in the library forever.”
Wow, dinosaur!!!
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That’s a terrifying end to the chapter…My God. Though seeing all sorts of book characters was fun. Even the dinosaur lmao!
Thank you for the translation!