Chapter 11: The Strange Old Man
It's always been so late these days, and the stars say sorry again.
"Short, short, short, do you know? I heard that Li Ling's guy almost defeated An Zihao yesterday. The boy in the college uniform, with short hair and a deep voice, said with an exaggerated expression.
"It's really fake, isn't that guy Li Ling so weak that he bursts? The results of the previous few subsection assessments were all poor, how could it be?" The boy next to him obviously knew Li Ling very well, and he wondered.
"Come on, don't say it, no matter how you say it, you'll lose, and you'll lose the king. Garbage is always garbage. The handsome boy on the other side shook his head, "Can that guy Li Ling do anything other than flirt with girls and teachers? I think even if he becomes a capable person in the future, he will also be the kind of miscellaneous fish that can be here." ”
"Well, why are you beating me? The handsome boy turned his head and looked angrily at his strange-looking companion beside him. His eyes turned slightly, and he saw a thin figure slowly walking past him with his head down, "Isn't that Li Ling?"
Since losing yesterday, Li Ling has been in a bad mood, and he didn't sleep well at all when he returned home, and when he got up in the morning and looked in the mirror, Li Ling himself was startled, his left face was not only high and swollen, but also his eye circles became dark.
With his hands in his pockets, Li Ling shook his head slightly, "Why, why." I lost again, the first three subsections of the exam are all about energy output, with my own unlucky energy program to help my own results naturally not good, but yesterday with An Zihao fight, I almost won, but I thought that my energy program actually stopped the supply of energy again in this case. ”
"In the battle, the time for you to use your energy is only five minutes, how can it be that the time for the energy program to continuously output energy is shortened?" Li Ling frowned, "Why do you always let yourself encounter this kind of unfortunate thing." Ah, Li Ling, who was very depressed in his heart, suddenly roared.
In an instant, countless eyes converged on the boulevard, looking at Li Ling, who was roaring in the sky like a madman, ignoring the strange gazes of the people around him, Li Ling raised his feet and continued to move forward, not going to the cultivation area of the capable, but walked straight into the main teaching building of the Central Academy.
Looking at the students coming and going in the spacious corridor, Li Ling sighed lightly and began to worry about his own future, "I am still too weak, if I continue like this, not only will I not be able to go to the Great Wilderness District with Sister Otowa, but I may have to stay at the low level of this capable person for a year............ Well, where is this Li Ling's leisurely footsteps slowly stopped, turned around, and unintentionally found a strange and unfamiliar door just now.
This door is two meters high and more than one meter wide, and is it made of black iron? Li Ling gently put his hand on the iron door, feeling the cold feeling unique to black iron, and couldn't help but shiver.
"Has the door always been here?" Why didn't he usually notice it, Li Ling looked around, only to see that he was far away from the route that he had deviated from his usual class.
"It's no wonder I didn't find out that I only cared about going to class on weekdays, teasing little girls, and didn't take a good turn around this teaching building at all, what is it in here?" Li Ling didn't wrinkle slightly, looking at the heavy black iron gate in front of him.
"There is neither a light screen, nor a handle, how can I open the keyhole?"
The surface of the black iron gate was polished very smooth, Li Ling's hand pressed slightly the black iron door, and his eyes and hands slowly slid on the smooth and cold black iron gate, seriously looking for the abnormalities on it.
"No, it still can't be opened. Li Ling scratched his hair, no matter how he got it, the black iron gate was motionless, not as high as it, not as thick as it, not as heavy as it was heavy, and Li Ling, who was at a loss, looked at the thick and smooth black iron gate and only stared dryly...... After tinkering for a long time, Li Ling shook his head and sighed slightly, finally giving up.
However, just as Li Ling turned around to leave, the black iron gate suddenly opened.
Now that the class is in class, there is no one else around, but Li Ling still looks around, well, swallowed slightly, and after some inner entanglement, curiosity finally beat fear. Li Ling stepped in.
At the moment when Li Ling fully entered, the heavy black iron gate was closed again with a bang, Li Ling turned his head sharply and looked at the tightly closed black iron gate, "It won't be so unlucky." Raising his head slightly, looking at the pitch-black ceiling, and feeling the cold air around him, Li Ling's body couldn't help but shiver, and he drummed in his heart, it won't be haunted.
Smack, just when Li Ling was nervous in his heart, a withered hand pressed heavily on Li Ling's thin shoulder, young man, come to borrow a book.
"Ghost" The pores of his whole body opened, and Li Ling was so frightened that he only jumped up two meters, and almost didn't hit the top of the arc of the corridor...... The sudden situation frightened Li Ling tightly closed his eyes, "Brother ghost, no, uncle ghost, don't eat me, I don't even have a wife, if you want to let me go, I will definitely burn high incense for you." ”
"What the hell is here, boy, do you have a brain cramp? A hoarse voice came from behind Li Ling again.
Thinking about it carefully, the hoarse and low voice, Li Ling frowned, "Yes, where is the ghost, what am I afraid of, besides, if it is really a ghost, it depends on our little virgin with fine skin and tender meat to put on a napkin immediately, dance the knife and fork to unload himself into eight pieces, and then enjoy it slowly, how can there be so many words for himself." ”
Slowly turned around, only to see that the person standing in front of him was indeed a person, an old man about eighty years old.
The old man's face was full of wrinkles, he was wearing a wide white robe, his eyebrows and beard were already white, and there were not many teeth left in his mouth, and his cheeks were obviously beginning to shrink in.
A pair of small black glasses with a red rosacea on top of it, and the two small eyes behind the lenses are now looking at Li Ling, who is swollen on the left side of his face.
"Young man, are you here to borrow a book?" the old man's mouth was completely covered by a white beard, and as the old man spoke, he could only see the large pile of beards swaying a few times.
Well, Li Ling looked at the sporadic age spots on the old man's bald head and was slightly stunned, "He asked himself if he was here to borrow books, is this a library? Li Ling's eyes rolled and he agreed very happily, "Yes, I'm here to borrow a book." ”
Well, nodding slightly, the old man turned around, pinned the two withered hands loosely behind him, and said in a deep voice, "Young man, come with me." "Alas, old man, what are you doing," Li Ling, an old man who looked at the slow walking in front of him, suddenly asked curiously.
"Old man?" said the librarian here, the old man was silent for a moment, and then said slowly.
"Sure enough, it's the same as I guessed," Li Ling looked at the blackened stone walls around him, "This is indeed the physical book library of Central Academy that has disappeared for many years. ”
Following the old man, through a constantly dark stone corridor, Li Ling came to a huge space of several square kilometers, and Li Ling's eyes were sore with white filler light clusters floating in the air. After his eyes gradually adjusted, Li Ling saw the surrounding environment clearly, and saw that there were six rows of huge bookshelves neatly placed in the huge space, and those bookshelves were more than thirty meters high, just a few meters away from the dome of the huge space.
Observe carefully, only to see that the size and height of each two rows of bookshelves should be the same, and the rest of the bookshelves are in a stepped shape, the lowest in the front, and the higher the bookshelves in the back.
Ahem, after a few slight coughs, the old man slowly walked to the huge bookshelf, a chaise longue that looked a little old randomly placed on the flat field.
Bending down with some difficulty, the old man sat on it with a heavy butt, and the chaise longue under which he got up couldn't help but make a cow sound, as if complaining that the old man was too hard.
Half-lying on the old recliner, the old man breathed a long sigh of relief, half-squinted at the old gray-eyed beard, and trembled slightly, "It's old, my body is not good, young man, I'm really sorry for being a little sluggish." ”
"Oh, it's okay, old man, is this the physical library reading room of Central Academy?" Li Ling looked at the row of neatly arranged huge bookshelves and turned his head and asked again.
“...... Well, this is indeed the reading room of the physical books of the Central College. Looking at the neat books on the shelves and the empty aisles in between, the old man sighed slightly, "But there is no one here who has ever been here." ”
Twenty years ,,, wrong, it seems to be twenty-five years, the old man stretched out his withered hand, scratched the bald head, and thought.
"So long" Li Ling looked surprised, turned his head, and looked at the leisurely old man on the recliner.
"Alas, there is no way, now that technology is so advanced, you young people all use your light brain to read books, who still rares these physical books. The old man stretched out his withered hand, pointed to the round-framed eyes on his nose, and said slowly.
"Yes, yes, Li Ling nodded, physical books, at the moment, that kind of thing has long been outdated. No one is going to waste time borrowing physical books. ”
"Aren't you, young man, here to borrow a book, go in and pick and choose, and you might find something useful to you." I couldn't see clearly that the little eyes under the white eyebrows were closed, and I saw the old man's withered arm slowly rising from under the white robe, trembling slightly to pick up the steaming green tea on the small coffee table next to him.
Ao, slightly stunned, Li Ling still moved, and walked into the bookshelf dozens of meters high.