Chapter 311 The Value of Knowledge
Lind carried Bachelor Conrad into the reading room in the west wing of the library and threw him on the long table.
Phil's potion was really good, and it didn't take long for Conrad to regain consciousness, but the edema on his face still hadn't completely disappeared, and he no longer had the majesty of his original unsmiling state, which made people want to laugh at a glance.
As soon as Conrad opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by outsiders in the library, and the pirate at the head was sitting only a meter away from him, leisurely flipping through the book.
"What are you going to do?" his throat wasn't fully swollen, and his voice sounded rather hoarse.
Lukka closed the book, looked up and asked, "What do you think?"
Conrad's eyes flashed with horror as he sat up from his desk, the simple gesture of which made him gasp.
Originally, as an assistant to the director, it was not a problem for him to take a book that belonged to this library from the library where he worked. But these people on the other side are pirates from Tata Island, and they are in a hurry, who knows what will happen?
However, Conrad did not intend to give in at all, forcibly opened his swollen eyes, glared at Luca and said, "I am not obligated to answer your questions!"
"Answering the question?" Lukka smiled and waved his hand, "No, no, you don't have to say that I probably know what you did, why don't you let me tell me if I'm right?"
Without waiting for Conrad to respond, he continued:
"Just now when I was in the shower, you snuck into my room with the same shelf that originally housed the book. You can't touch this book, but with that original shelf, you can take it away without touching it directly. ”
"Moving the book off the table, and not touching it, I guess you must have lifted the desk up and tilted it so that the book slid on the shelf. When I checked my desk just now, it was obvious that the legs had been moved. ”
"Then, you hold up the shelves and try to hide the book in those cubicles next to the hallway, presumably hoping that the enchantment on the book will work again and seal the compartment as well. That way, no one but you knows the location of that book, and it won't fall into my hands. ”
"But you didn't expect that I had already set up two magic circles in this book, and you had just entered the compartment, and before you could put that shelf in place, you were tightly entangled by my spider web technique. ”
"What's worse is that you are allergic to cobwebs, I'm afraid you don't even know about it, right? ”
"At that time, under the cobweb, you should have sensed that something was wrong with your body, and when you were struggling desperately, you accidentally touched the book, and you were hit by the magical energy on it, which is what we saw later, and the cobwebs puffed up a big bag of power. ”
Conrad looked at the other and said nothing, neither admitting that Luca was right, nor refuting it.
Lukka shook his head helplessly: "It's okay, anyway, I've figured it out after going through it, and it doesn't matter what you say about these things." I have only one question right now. ”
He walked up to Conrad and looked at him in a very sincere tone: "Why did you look at us unpleasantly from the beginning? Did you have an old grudge against that knight and get angry with me, or did you hear false rumors about me? ”
Conrad's swollen face twitched a few times, and finally he couldn't help but speak:
"It's not pleasing to the eye? Of course I don't like you! What do you think this library is for? Is it a place where you can just come in?
"How much effort did it take me to get to where I am today, how many exams did I go from being the lowest apprentice to where I am today? What about you? Especially you, Mores! Just because Taylor raised you, you can skip those exams and study directly with Director Werner?
Mores scratched his head and looked innocent: "I think I studied quite well back then, at least not worse than most of the students here." ”
"Isn't it bad?" Conrad's face became even more hideous, "What if it's not bad? Why do other people have to pass the exams one by one, and only you can get access to the most advanced books as soon as you come? Everyone else has to do their duty and work hard in the library when they learn a certain level, but what about you? Read a bunch of books, turn around and run to Layton Island, and become your sea knight! Have you ever asked yourself, what do you give back to the library?"
"You're going too far, aren't you?" Mores retorted, "If I'm going to give back to the library, I don't have to be here, right? Why don't you tell me how many precious manuscripts the Knights' Templars have provided to the library over the years?"
"Precious manuscripts, copy all those things that the knight temple chewed up, and send them in return, and you give back so cheaply!" Conrad refused.
"Alright," Lukka thought over to make a round, "you don't see that Mores is not pleasing to the eye, and there is no need to be angry with us, isn't it just that he doesn't work for the library?
It was fine that he didn't speak, but as soon as he spoke, Conrad immediately turned the finger around:
"And you, and your illiterate men! What do you think knowledge is, is it something that you can get by casually walking in the door and reaching out your hand to ask for it? What is the difference between your behavior and those beggars?"
"Well, 'Anyone who seeks knowledge and truth, let him enter into this door, and we will be courteous,' but it is written on your door!" exclaimed Luca.
"Come in here, yes. But have you paid any price? It is because of people like you that this precious knowledge has become cheap!" Conrad's face twisted even more.
"I know why the overall cultural literacy of the Sunset Islands is so low!" Lukka sighed, shaking his head.
"The knowledge of this library should not be learned by people like you in the first place!Otherwise, how can the value of knowledge be highlighted? You should be—ah!" Conrad's voice stopped abruptly, and he fell face down on the table, losing consciousness again.
Ollie stood behind him, holding the greatsword in his hand, the hilt facing upwards, and the force was really not light.
"It's so annoying, this guy. She whispered.
"I can't take it anymore!" Lukka shook his right hand, unleashing the flow of mana that had been condensed, and halting the half-cast stun.