As soon as you enter the library, there is a bag storage area on the left, and you are not allowed to bring bags into the library, and small bags must also go through the security check, and there is a library map on the right side, and the service desk is opposite.

Due to the large use of transparent tempered glass on the exterior wall, the lighting in the museum is very good, and when you look up, the museum is a grand patio-like structure, like a pagoda, spiraling up layer by layer.

Meng Li pointed to the map and introduced to Zhang Zi'an: "Including ancient books, the renovated Binhai City Library has a collection of more than two million books, and it is still growing, and it is the largest library in our province, which can be ranked among the best in the country." The library has one basement, five floors above ground, and the basement floor is a rare book library with constant temperature and humidity. ”

Zhang Zi'an was very hurt when he heard it. Obviously, the Antiquarian Hall is the most likely place for elves, and it is possible that one of the books was written by the elves' previous owners, or that a certain elf is mentioned for the first time in one book, or that one book is inextricably linked to the elves...... But there is no way, he has neither qualifications nor a letter of introduction, and it is difficult to enter the ancient book museum, not to mention that mobile phones are not allowed in the ancient book museum.

"Then you can always go in the other floors, right?" he asked.

Meng Li nodded, "The other layers are okay." We are currently located on the first floor, which mainly includes a bag storage area, a service desk, a café, a training seminar hall and a children's reading room. Library cards and comprehensive counselling services are available at the front desk, and the children's reading room is only open to children under the age of 16. ”

Well, the ancient books library can't enter, and the children's reading room can't get in, so Zhang Zi'an has to say goodbye to elves such as robot cats or rogue rabbits.

Meng Li continued: "The second floor is the Chinese book area, which mainly includes social science and technology book categories, as well as reference books and literature, and is divided into a reading area and a lending area. The same is true for the third floor, except that the collection is dominated by original and photocopied books in foreign languages. ”

"Further up, the fourth floor is the Chinese and foreign language newspaper and literature area, which also provides microfilm reading; the fifth floor is the digital reading and communication area, where you can read e-books and communicate with other readers. ”

Meng Li was commenting on the side, Zhang Zi'an held his mobile phone and scanned the first floor through the game capture interface. The hall on the first floor is relatively empty, and it is clear at a glance, and there is no trace of elves at either the service desk or the bag storage office. The café is separated by a glass curtain wall, and there are only a few pairs of young people drinking coffee and reading a book, thinking of it as a cheap version of Starbucks, and Zhang Zi'an believes that the elves will not appear in the café so tastelessly.

As for the training lecture hall and the children's reading room, one was not open, and the other could not enter.

Neither of them brought a bag, so Meng Li accompanied him to get a free library card, and then asked, "Which floor does Store Manager Zhang plan to go to?"

"It's my first time here and I want to look around before deciding what books to borrow. Zhang Zi'an didn't mean to drink, he didn't come to borrow books at all, "Teacher Meng, you are busy, please take care of yourself, I won't delay you too much." ”

Meng Li waved his hand and said, "Store Manager Zhang is welcome. I'll go to return the book first, and then go to the foreign language preview area on the third floor to read the book for a while, store manager Zhang, if you have any questions, you can go to the third floor to find me at any time, or go to the information desk. ”

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Meng. ”

Meng Li went up to the third floor on his own, while Zhang Zian came to the Chinese library area on the second floor.

Just one glance, and he was stupid.

It was only then that he intuitively understood what the concept of more than two million books was.

This is really a mountain of books!

In the library on the second floor, rows of bookshelves are arranged in an orderly manner, like soldiers of the honor guard. Each shelf is about two meters tall and is divided into six tiers from top to bottom, and the shelves are stuffed with books of different colors and thicknesses.

Rows of bookshelves surround the central reading area, where young and old, young and old, sit in chairs, reading eagerly, and some bring laptops or tablets to read and record while learning.

The venue was eerily quiet, with only faint keystrokes and chairs moving, and even when there were readers talking to each other, the voices were very low. The people who come to the library are all book lovers, and the average quality and cultivation level are extremely high, and they are afraid of disturbing others.

However, perhaps because of the New Year's holiday morning, the total number of readers was not as large as he imagined, basically there were only one or two readers sitting at each table, plus those wandering around the shelves looking for books, the total number of readers on the second floor may be less than fifty.

Since leaving university, Zhang Zi'an has not entered the library for a long time, and he has not studied seriously with a non-utilitarian mentality for a long time. He envied these people who still found their time to read books in the library in this increasingly impetuous society.

The library that cost a lot of money to build is so deserted, if the leadership of the Binhai Municipal Party Committee sees this situation, it is inevitable to be disappointed, but there is no way, this is an era of e-book prosperity after all, and paper physical books have gradually declined and become a sunset industry.

Zhang Zi'an's heart moved when he thought of this, is the paper physical book declining......

He thought of the elf whose power of faith was emerging, and that it would appear in the library, perhaps having something to do with physical paper books.

He didn't have time to think too much about it for the time being, he shook his head, held his phone flat, and opened the game capture interface to look around.

The scarcity of readers has become an advantage for him, and the process of finding the elves will be more convenient.

Holding up his phone, he started at the door, looking for the rows of bookshelves.

Except for the different numbers, each row of bookshelves looks similar, and the books arranged on the shelves are also similar, so it's easy to get dizzy after reading for a long time. Zhang Zi'an was worried about which row of bookshelves he had missed, and silently memorized the bookshelf numbers as he walked.

Readers who are looking for books in the bookshelf think that Zhang Zi'an, who is filming with a mobile phone, is an emerging profession such as anchor or vlogger, and no one pays attention to him.

Although there were many bookshelves, they searched for them in order, and after about twenty minutes, they were finished, and Zhang Zi'an went around a long circle and returned to the starting point, but found nothing.

The elf was extremely difficult to capture, and he didn't expect to find it easily, so he wasn't discouraged, and at the same time tried not to think about the possibility of the elf appearing in the antiquarian library or the children's reading room, which would be a serious blow to confidence.

If he had enough time, he would have found a way to enter the reading room for ancient books and children, but the problem was ......

Zhang Zi'an switched the game to the electronic map interface and made sure that the light cluster was a little dimmer than before.

He sighed and stepped up to the foreign language library section on the third floor.

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