Chapter 517: Diary
To Lu Tao's disappointment, there was something about the crystal crown in the book, which did not last long, and the alchemist who took the notes just mentioned it, and after that, the content of the record turned to other directions, which can be roughly summarized as: how to raise pets and how to raise pets well. So, is it really okay to put this book about pets here?
Next, Lu Tao spent another half a day flipping through the rest of the books, in the case of a target, the content of these books Lu Tao passed quickly, after all, Lu Tao didn't know how long he would stay here, and it was very rare to have the opportunity to read books casually in the library of the Alchemy Association, Mickey and Princess Sophie, I don't have any special plans for the future path, who knows if they will leave here tomorrow, and whether they will follow or not?
Thinking of this, Lu Tao suddenly touched his beardless chin, by the way, why did he have to run around with Mickey and Princess Sophie? After he rescued Mickey, to be honest, in the end, Mickey's leg became intact, not because of Lu Tao, if you want to say that Mickey did something to repay him, it was enough to invite Lu Tao to eat a meal earlier, and when Lu Tao was arrested by Magina, it was Mickey who released Lu Tao in the end.
Later, he helped Princess Sophie escape from Issos, in fact, it was just by the way, after all, Lu Tao lived in Mickey's house, and on the way to the palace on Princess Sophie's out, Lu Tao did not play any role, it can be said that without Lu Tao it doesn't matter, Mickey can still rescue Princess Sophie, and maybe because of the lack of a light bulb and become much more refreshing. The reason why Lu Tao was brought was because if Mickey went to the palace alone to take Princess Sophie away, Lu Tao would become very strange if he stayed in Mickey's house, and maybe he would be interrogated in some way, so thinking about it, Mickey's family is really unlucky, but these are none of Lu Tao's business, who said that Mickey's family did not provide Lu Tao with a relatively comfortable residential environment, well, this is just the dark side of Lu Tao's heart, just mention it a little.
Therefore, Lu Tao did not have a reason to act together with Mickey and Princess Sophie next, thinking like this, Lu Tao slowed down the speed of reviewing these books, although the countermeasures were still the same as before, only reading the interesting parts, but Lu Tao looked more carefully, so as not to do anything important, and wrote down the content and index on the paper he brought over, if he could stay here for a long time, Lu Tao planned to go through the books in these libraries first, and then slowly read them one by one.
As mentioned earlier, most of the bookshelves in this row are alchemists' notes, but in the back half, it becomes an alchemist's diary, the difference between a diary and notes is actually not big for an alchemy chef, but the diary is a daily record, and the main direction is in the life of the alchemist himself, and the notes have their own focus, most of them are research results.
Most of these diaries have no meaning, and the words in them are all pieced together with ordinary trivial matters, and it was not until the last one that Lu Tao found a paragraph from which he was interested.
"On October 3, 554 A.D., yesterday I had a dream, in which I came to a strange world, in one of the rooms of a tall building, and when I looked out, everything was bad outside
There are not many buildings of the same kind, square, the windows of the black hole are like the eyes of a beast, especially I don't know what is happening in this world, all the buildings are incomplete, and even some buildings are only left with broken walls, which are burned into a pitch-black appearance by the flames that do not know when they are ignited and when they are extinguished, the sky outside is very gloomy, it seems that there will be rain, which makes these buildings on the dark surface look strange, and the materials of these buildings do not seem to be stones, but something I have never seen before, in short, I just feel that everything in that world is very strange。 In the dream, I was able to control my body freely, after the examination, it was a house with several small rooms, inexplicably, after seeing these rooms, the words such as bedroom, living room, and bathroom suddenly appeared in my mind, and then I would directly use these new words that I had never seen before.
The dust on the floor was thick, the curtains were half rotten and hung diagonally by the window, the glass on the window had long since disappeared, and there was a big hole in the center of the bed in the bedroom, which was full of feathers and stinking bird droppings, which seemed to have been occupied by some kind of bird of prey for a long time. I inspected the two-bedroom house, and it was in dilapidation everywhere, except for the dust that had been piling up for an unknown amount of time. The sofa and the bed in the other bedroom, the cloth and leather had been worn away from the time, revealing the yellowed cotton wool and sponge underneath, which splattered large clouds of dust at the slightest touch. Appliances such as TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines look fine, except for the dust, there is no damage, and the pots and pans in the kitchen are still there, but unfortunately, there is nothing in the refrigerator, only a layer of black solidification like asphalt remains at the bottom, indicating that it was probably food before. The few glass jars that survived were black or gray viscous semi-solid substances, and I hesitated for a long time, but I didn't have the courage to open them.
In my dreams, I felt hungry and thirsty, and there was little food, but if I couldn't find pure water, I felt like I wouldn't be able to last long. As for the extravagant hope of being disgraced by the dust of the house and wanting to wash my face and sober up, I can only decisively leave it behind.
Then, just as I was about to go out in search of food and water, I woke up from this dream that had lasted all night, and unlike my usual sleep, it was long and real, and even though I slept until the sun had risen high, I still felt as if I had not slept at all. Because dreaming consumes too much energy, I made a lot of mistakes during the experiment today, and my mentor is very angry, so I'm already thinking about whether I should try some potions that are said to help with sleep?"
"On October 4, 554 A.D., the dream of the previous day continued, and I asked for a sleeping potion from an alchemist I knew well, and it seemed to be of little use.
Then yesterday's part, I woke up from the beginning of the room and went out of the door, which was the sixth floor, and there were no more stairs going up. Lowering the metal ladder fixed above, I tried to open the metal door leading to the roof, but the metal door was locked. Unfortunately, the opposite door on the sixth floor was also locked, and I tried to shake the outermost metal security door again, and all I could do was make a screeching sound except for some puffy iron filings falling down. Continuing down, the fifth, fourth, third, and until the second floor, I found an unlocked door.
The family seemed to leave rather hastily, clothes and some such as toothbrushes
Personal belongings were scattered all over the place, of course, now they were all covered in a thick layer of dust, and only the general outline remained, but even that didn't bother me, because whenever I noticed something, fresh words would pop out of my head, so I could recognize what these things were scattered on the ground.
The two shoes leaning on the wall are one large and one small, the small one is only more than ten centimeters, its owner should be only five or six years old, wipe the dust on it, from the style, its owner should be a girl. The other large shoe was a leather shoe, I couldn't tell what brand it was, and now it was gray, and even the original color was not very recognizable. I didn't see the hostess's shoes, either they were all taken away or there was no hostess here at all.
I lighted my pace and walked into the living room, turning a corner, and first found the kitchen, which was in the same location as the previous room. Everything was in the kitchen, except for the cupboards above and below, which were wide open and messy, with small half-sacks of flour and small half-sacks of rice left. Unfortunately, the flour and rice were turned into dust and piled up high, and the color was even a little black, and it was obvious that they could no longer be used as food. In the other part of the cupboard, there are plastic bags, there are egg trays that originally held eggs but now only eggshells are left, and there are some miscellaneous glassware, most of which are missing a part, and I don't know how it became like this, those glassware are very exquisite, wipe off the dust on them a little, and they can be sold at a good price on the black market, and the lack of this part makes me feel very pity, of course, it is a pity that the things in my dreams cannot be taken out at all.
Continuing to look for anything that could be used as food or quench my thirst, I found a bottle of clear liquid in the cabinet below, this bottle of clear liquid of unknown unknown color was mixed in the bottles and cans, and if I didn't pay attention to it, I unscrewed the cap, I put my nose to the mouth of the bottle and sniffed it. It's wine, to be exact, the word that comes to my mind should be cooking wine, a little pungent, but you can drink it, I can't care so much, I put a whole bottle of cooking wine at the mouth of the bottle and drank it, unlike the usual ale or wine, this kind of wine called cooking wine is like a flame burning in my mouth, and for a moment, I can't think about anything except feeling the scorching inside this flame.
At this point, the dream finally woke up, different from the dream of the previous day, today's dream has a lot of details, and there are many more things that I have not seen at all, although after waking up, it still seems that I haven't slept much, but I am interested in the dream for two consecutive days, this is a new world, although I don't know why I can only see it in a dream, but the things here are very interesting, I hope that tomorrow I can still enter such a dream, I can feel that as long as I keep dreaming like this, whether it is my research or my career as an alchemist, it will develop to a very high level。 ”
Lu Tao carefully read the content of these pages, and touched his hair with a little surprise, always feeling that the contents of these two diaries were a little familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere. Maybe it's because the things described in this are simply things that modern society has, Lu Tao shook his head, and didn't take the thoughts just now to heart, but wanted to continue to look down, being able to dream of another world, does it mean that there are actually some unknown world entrances and exits in this world?