Zhou Jialiang only felt that he had fallen heavily in an unknown place, like a step down, because he hit the protruding yang corner of the step, he suddenly felt a pain in his buttocks, and his head was a little dizzy, so he sat up and came back to his senses, but found that it was dark all around, and when he looked up, there was no hole on it, and it may have been closed.

"Ouch......"

It was Wu's voice, Zhou Jialiang immediately took out a flashlight and turned it on, shone it in the direction where the sound came from, and found that Wu was sitting on the steps in front of him, rubbing his thighs that had been hit.

"Are you alright?" Zhou Jialiang asked.

"It's fine." Wu touched the surface of the steps and slowly stood up, "It's good that there is a carpet on it, otherwise my legs would have been broken." ”

At this time, Zhou Jialiang also stood up slowly, and the two of them began to walk down the stairs one after the other, and through the lighting of the flashlight, they found that this was originally a large library, with rows of tall dark wood bookshelves arranged in an orderly manner, as if they had come to the school library of an ancient European university.

Wu, who was keen on reading, ran down excitedly with a flashlight after seeing it, but Zhou Jialiang was looking for a switch around him that could turn on the chandelier on the flower board.

After a while, Wu suddenly shouted, "Senior Zhou, look! ”

"What's wrong?" Zhou Jialiang hurriedly walked to Wu, who was standing next to one of the rows of bookshelves.

I saw him flipping through a thick book with retro bindings, Zhou Jialiang leaned over to take a look, it was all in Italian, and it was also equipped with pictures, because he was born in Italy, so he immediately understood what it said.

It was a history book, titled Banana Origins", roughly flipped, and seemed to record the whole process of how the city of Staley developed from scratch, which is equivalent to a prequel to the "Extinction of the World", which mentions that during the European Renaissance, a physicist named Banderu Starley accidentally discovered the existence of dimensional wormholes, but due to the limited conditions at the time, he could not verify it through sophisticated instruments, and in the eyes of others, his so-called theories were also purely fallacious.

Later, he and several assistants who believed in him overrode public opinion and jointly built a huge wormhole crossing machine, and what was depicted in the book was a sketch of the machine, which made Zhou Jialiang and Wu Bei feel familiar, it was the metal triangular pyramid with a luminous sphere, but the painting was a lot bigger, and there were several people painted next to the picture, through the reference, the machine had to be at least two or three stories high, and because the electric energy was not discovered and used at that time, Therefore, Starley and the others can only use the power of lightning generated by nature during thunder to drive its operation, and after repeated experiments, they finally succeeded in crossing for the last time and came to a barren other world.

I thought that there were only a few of them in that place, but unexpectedly, many people had come here before them, and through inquiry, I learned that those people came to this unknown world for unknown reasons, that is, those people came here through the unstable wormhole generated by nature itself, which is what Starley has always wanted to demonstrate, so he couldn't wait to go back and tell the world that his theories were correct, but at this time he found that he couldn't go back, Because the current environment is so barren, there are no materials and no materials, and it is impossible to build the wormhole crossing machine again, so a group of people, including Starley, began a long pioneering project......

The erudite Staley became the leader of the village, and slowly, simple villages appeared, and through countless generations of unremitting efforts, the village was developed into a town, and from the town to the city that began to take shape, until modern times, the people here named the city after him in honor of Staley, who pioneered the pioneer at that time

From the book, it can also be learned that the sketch of the travel machine that Staley drew through his memory in his later years has actually been sealed somewhere, because the people here have taken deep roots here, and they have long since lost the idea of returning to the real world, so naturally they will no longer think about building that machine......

A cursory look at the entire book, which doesn't mention the Illusory Realm Corporation in the slightest, it seems that the author wrote the book before the Illusory Realm appeared, and he obviously didn't expect the city to end up like this.

"Do you think what is written here can be trusted?" "If the Western-style building were a game, there would have been a lot of fiction, but I don't know why, everything here feels so real to me......"

"But now is not the time to understand this." Zhou Jialiang looked at the time, and shone his flashlight around as he walked, "There is not much time for us, now we have to figure out how to get out." ”

"Alas......" Wu sighed and silently followed behind Zhou Jialiang.

"Look, what's that?" Zhou Jialiang shone the light on the side of one of the bookshelves, and there was a thin hole in it, but when the two looked closely, it was a keyhole.

"Is there a door on the shelf!?" Surprised, Wu began to take a closer look at the structure of the shelf, but to his disappointment, this shelf was no different from other bookshelves except for a keyhole.

At this time, Zhou Jialiang was going to reach out to get the book on the bookshelf with his back to the keyhole, but he couldn't take it down, this situation attracted his attention, it turned out that this was just a model of a book, just like the book decorations placed in many retro restaurants, through careful observation, the side of the book cover, in addition to the title of the book, there is a faint pattern on the top and bottom - plum blossoms on the playing cards!

At this time, he heard Wu shouting not far away: "Senior Zhou, there is also a keyhole on this bookshelf!" ”

Zhou Jialiang immediately ran forward, and observed the bookshelf that Qiwu found, and also focused on the book with the keyhole facing back, indeed, it was still a book model, and the two ends of the title on the side of the book cover were faintly diamond-shaped patterns......

"Hahahaha......" Zhou Jialiang suddenly laughed.

"Senior Zhou......?" Wu looked worried.

Zhou Jia opened the map on the bracelet and found that there were eight rows and eight columns of bookshelves, and in front of the last row of bookshelves, there was a door, and the door was shown red in the picture, and he seemed to suddenly understand something.

"Wu, let's go, it's time to solve the problem!"

"Good ......"

The two of them followed the map around the bookshelves and came to the door, which was a dark carved wooden door.

Zhou Jialiang stepped forward and twisted the doorknob.

Click, squeak-

"What's going on!? How did you two get out of here!? ”

The cannon's surprised voice, and Qian Yu next to him with a surprised face.

It turns out that this door is actually the carved wooden door in the hall, which has a playing card pattern relief above.