Chapter 3 Busy First Working Day
"The top floor is my living room, and the second floor is Xiaoguo and Jingjing's room. www.biquge.info The old man Luo pointed to the stairs and continued, "This is the core of the entire bookstore, the operation room of the bookstore. The red dot on the screen means that there is a problem with the books in that area and needs to be dealt with, and the green dot is the book spirit in the library that can solve some problems. However, the red dots that aren't eliminated by the green dots are up to you. β
After Old Man Luo finished speaking, he took Fang Rui out of the wooden house and took the elevator down to the bottom of the library. Just now, he already felt that the space above the library was huge, and when he went down to the bottom, Fang Rui felt that he had become a person from Lilliputian, and the dense books on the huge bookshelves made him feel as if he had fallen into a forest of books. The rows of bookshelves spread endlessly, and I suddenly felt very small. After the elevator came out, Old Man Luo took Fang Rui into an open-top jeep, after all, such a large library would definitely be tiring to death if you walked on your feet. The jeep didn't have a steering wheel, instead it had a tablet-like display, and Old Man Luo pressed a red dot on the screen that couldn't be erased by the green dot, and the car started.
It's still a touch screen! Fang Rui saw this kind of high-end car for the first time. Along the way, the jeep drove very fast, and along the way, Fang Rui could be regarded as seeing the spirit of the book that Old Man Luo said, which was actually a variety of pens, including brushes, pens, quill pens and even branches that were cut into the shape of a pen. And the problem with the books that Old Man Luo said is that some books fall from the shelves or are not neatly arranged on the shelves, at this time, these book spirits will rush up, and the books that originally fell to the ground or were not arranged in order will actually return to their places by themselves, looking very much like sheep guarded by sheepdogs.
The jeep drove for more than five minutes before it reached the red dot on the screen, Fang Rui saw a book with a small flame, and several book spirits around him seemed to be afraid of the fire and didn't dare to step forward, but just surrounded it.
"Alright, your first job starts with putting the book back in its place!" Old man Luo pointed to the burning book and said to Fang Rui.
Fang Rui looked around a little embarrassed, there was not a single fire extinguisher in the place where there were so many books, wasn't he afraid that they would all burn? There was no fire extinguisher, and there was no water around him, Fang Rui thought about it and felt that he could only use a simple and crude method to extinguish the fire, that is, to step on it. But the strange thing is that Fang Rui's feet hurt when he stepped on it, and the small flame on this book has not been extinguished, and even has a tendency to get bigger.
"Boss, no! Can I take the bus back and get water? Fang Rui felt that he had no tricks, and if he didn't water it, he could burn it all.
Old Man Luo hadn't spoken yet, and those book spirits shook one by one, as if they were shaking their heads with Fang Rui and saying that they couldn't use water. Rui is a little confused here, no water, no stepping on it, and no fire extinguisher, what should I do with this fire?
"Just use your right hand to pat it on the back." Old man Luo finally pointed out a clear way for Fang Rui.
Fang Rui looked at his right hand with some hesitation, and then looked at the book that was constantly simmering, and finally gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, squatted down and patted the book with his right hand. There was no expected burning sensation of the flames, just a slight heat, and when he opened his eyes, Fang Rui found that the flames on the book had turned into sparks, and patted them again, as if they were brushing off the dust, and the sparks disappeared.
The book spirits surrounding Fang Rui immediately jumped up and down, left and right, as if they were celebrating. Fang Rui picked up the book from the ground, the book has a cover with a black lychee-like pattern, the material of the cover is very hard and flashes a slight red light, and you can feel the slight heat emanating from the book in your hand.
"Very well, it seems that this job is a good fit for you. In our store, Xiaoguo is in charge of reception, and Jingjing has always been running external affairs, so you start with internal affairs first and help me manage the books in the library. If there is a problem, you can take this car and solve the problem. However, I would like to warn you not to wander around the stacks, not to open any of the books, not to go out into the compartments deep in the stacks. If you can abide by the above three principles, I believe that this job should be relatively easy for you. Old Man Luo took the book from Fang Rui's hand and handed it to the book spirits, who put it back in place with their heads on top of the book.
"When you're done with the problematic book, you give it directly to the book spirits, and they know where to store it. Okay, since you're on your first day at work, I'll take you first. Let's go, let's go to the next location. After speaking, Old Man Luo took Fang Rui into the jeep and rushed to the next red dot position.
When Fang Rui, who had been busy all day, sat down on the sofa in the store again and gasped, it was already more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and Fang Rui had encountered many strange things on this day than he had in several lifetimes combined. Those so-called problem books are not only on fire, but also books that are entangled in electricity, books that are wrapped in water like freezing, books that grow a pair of airplane wings flying around and crash into bookshelves, and books that jump like rabbitsγγγγγ Where are some books, it's clearly a bunch of funny elves. Fortunately, Fang Rui's right hand seemed to be able to beat them honestly with a single beat, but in order to chase the book with airplane wings, Fang Rui chased behind its ass for more than ten minutes, making Fang Rui, who was not good at sports, gasp like a dog.
During the processing of the problem book, Old Man Luo also introduced the basic situation of the bookstore to Fang Rui. The books in this library are all made of the changes of everything in the dead world, simply put, everyone is a monster, a demon, a spirit, a demon and even a god has their own moment of death, and then it will be transformed into different kinds of books, and the content of these books is one of the skills that he is best at in life. For example, the simmering book that Fang Rui encountered at the beginning was formed by a fire snake after death, this kind of fire snake lives in volcanic lava, its own temperature is very high, and its best skill is to breathe fire, but it is only a kind of low-level fire spirit. Later, the book that allowed Fang Rui to chase the long wings of the plane several streets was transformed after the death of a senior aircraft manufacturing engineer. Fortunately, it is still just an unknown senior aircraft manufacturing engineer, if it is a book transformed by the Wright brothers, the inventor of the aircraft, after his death, it is estimated that Fang Rui's incarnation of the Flash may not be able to catch up. In other words, the greater the ability before death, the greater the power to turn into books after death, and those books that Fang Rui can solve now are just some low-level spirits or humans who are transformed into books after death. But fortunately, the library itself is a restrictive barrier, and the books in question will not be too lethal in most cases.
"Alright, you can leave work today." Old man Luo looked at Fang Rui who was still resting on the sofa with a smile.
"Well, good!" Fang Rui touched his chest and felt that this job was really difficult to do, if it weren't for the money in the stack of envelopes, he really wanted to say that he wouldn't do it.
"Oh yes, did you come across something at home?" Old man Luo asked suddenly.
"Uh-huh!" Fang Rui nodded hurriedly, he had almost forgotten such an important matter after a day's work, it was night when he went home now, he didn't want to run into that monster at his doorstep.
"Jingjing, you accompany him back, it can be regarded as letting him know about your work!" Old man Luo said to Bai Jingjing, who had already eaten the third bucket of KFC.
Bai Jingjing reluctantly put down the chicken wings that were gnawing happily in her mouth, pouted, and said, "He has 'bastards' and still needs me to accompany him back!"
"Novices can't use it, so you should teach him! If you have teaching experience, you will have a bonus for evaluating your title in the future! Old man Luo's seductive smile made Bai Jingjing put down her chicken wings, clapped her hands, and walked out from behind the counter.
"Let's go, rookie!" Bai Jingjing said disdainfully towards Fang Rui, then turned around and walked out of the store.
Fang Rui reluctantly followed, and as soon as he walked out of the store, Bai Jingjing turned to Fang Rui and said, "I don't know why Grandpa Luo gave you 'mix', what qualifications do you have to get it alone?" But for the sake of Grandpa Luo's face, I will endure it, just now you also heard that Grandpa Luo asked me to teach you, which means that from now on I will be your teacher. Do a good job for me, or I won't spare you if you smash my Bai Jingjing's signboard! Do you hear that? β
Fang Rui looked at Bai Jingjing in front of him, who was chattering at himself with one hand on his waist and the other hand, and finally couldn't help laughing, it was really her appearance that was too funny, she was like a teapot with a fat belly.
"What are you laughing at? Be serious! Bai Jingjing glared angrily, it was rare that she had finally become a teacher, although the apprentice was just a person, but there was also a demon with an apprentice, Bai Jingjing felt that she could put on the majesty of a teacher.
"Oh oh, good! I'm sure I'm going to work hard, and I'm counting on this job to make money to support myself and my ancestors in the family! Fang Rui immediately nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, just as Bai Jingjing said just now, he is still just a rookie, this job seems to be just weird and tiring now, but who knows if there will be danger? It's great to find a veteran to give yourself a bit of learning.
Bai Jingjing seemed to be very satisfied with Fang Rui's attitude, did not say any more words, and led him out of the alley and stopped next to a pink Beetle car on the side of the road.
"Your car?" Fang Rui guessed that the owner should be Bai Jingjing as soon as he saw this pink, and sure enough, Bai Jingjing took out the key to open the door and stuffed his fat body into the driver's seat with difficulty. Fang Rui hurriedly sat in the co-pilot's seat.
"Youkai also drive, don't you fly?" Fang Rui asked stupidly.
"Flying around your human world? Why don't you humans be caught and sliced and studied? Bai Jingjing continued while starting the car, "Besides, the mana consumed by flying, why don't you drive if you can save a little effort?" β
"Oh, Master has a point!" Fang Rui's dog-legged look made Bai Jingjing look a little proud, and his dissatisfaction with the apprentice being a personal person also disappeared a little.
"Okay, don't call me Master, call me old! In the future, just call me Jingjing. Bai Jingjing said with a smile, at this time, Fang Rui found that Bai Jingjing had two shallow dimples when she smiled, and with her big eyes and thick eyelashes, she was a beautiful embryo, but unfortunately the whole person was a little too fat, and the fat on her face squeezed her facial features together.
"That... Jingjing, you turned out to be a γγγγγ Skeleton? Fang Rui asked cautiously, after all, he was the master he taught, and he still wanted to find out the true identity of the other party.
"Well, that's what you humans call a bone spirit! Huh, how's that? It's the first time I've seen such a fat white bone spirit! Bai Jingjing smiled self-deprecatingly, her fat body had always been a lingering pain in her heart. All the female creatures in this world, regardless of whether they are humans, demons or demons, want their appearance to be beautiful, but unfortunately, as a white bone spirit with an obese humanoid Bai Jingjing is enough to vomit blood, and no matter how Bai Jingjing's mana is, she can't lose this body of fat, for her, it can only be two forms, either a real pink skeleton or the chubby appearance she is now.
Fang Rui didn't answer, although he was still an innocent little boy and didn't know how to please girls, he still knew how to talk about her figure less in front of women, especially when he was still a fat and beautiful girl.
Bai Jingjing didn't want to continue this topic, so after thinking about it, she took advantage of the time on the road to explain the knowledge about bookstores to her rookie apprentice: "Grandpa Luo's bookstore is only responsible for Kyoto and the regions of the two nearby provinces, and there are other bookstores in other places. There are now 717 bookstores like ours around the world, responsible for the management of all books that have been transformed into posthumous lives around the world. Grandpa Luo is the manager of our bookstore, and I heard that he also started as a clerk and worked for more than 800 years before rising to the position of store manager. I've only been doing it for more than 40 years, in fact, I've just passed the probationary period, don't look at Xiaoguo as a child, he's been doing it for more than 120 years. β
"Ah, no, it's just over forty years of probation? So what do I do? I'm retiring after my probationary period! Fang Rui felt a little incredible, this probationary period was too long.
"That's because most of the time bookstores don't recruit people, because people usually have a short lifespan and can't work for long. I didn't expect Grandpa Luo to recruit you this time, I also think it's very strange! Bai Jingjing replied.
"So, there are still a few cases where people will be hired?" Fang Rui then asked.
"Well, I heard Xiaoguo say that in the history of bookstores, there have been recruits, but there have only been seventeen recruits before and after." Bai Jingjing then said, "There are two people among these seventeen people, I think you should know, one is Leonardo da Vinci and the other is **** Qingming." β
"Cow man!" Fang Rui couldn't close his mouth when he opened his mouth wide, even if these two people were just people, they were also eternal cattlemen.
"The other fifteen people are not well-known in your human history, but they have all achieved the level of store manager, and three of them have become group leaders. The group manager is the person in charge of all bookstores in a country, and he is two levels higher than the store manager! After Bai Jingjing finished speaking, she said with infinite longing, "Hey, it would be good if I could be the store manager when I could do it, I don't have extravagant hopes for the group manager." β
"There's still a level, huh? Then I guess I'm at the bottom! Fang Rui smiled self-deprecatingly, but Fang Rui didn't have any idea of Bai Jingjing's lofty ideals, he hoped to find a normal job.