Chapter 42: Layers
Unlike Luo Wei's imagination, there are no layers of bookshelves and noble and elegant interiors in front of him.
In front of him is a stone road, about 20 meters ahead, is a glass-enclosed wall with a gate.
On the right side of the wall is a door that can only be entered and exited by a single person, and on the left is a window that looks like an office counter. There were several gentlemen and ladies in elegant dresses, lining up at the window.
"I still have a case in my hand, so I won't accompany you." Evan patted Lowe on the shoulder and said, "When you come out today, ask me for a key to the office." Open the wall with the Transfiguration Charm to enter and exit the Broken Path at any time later. ”
"Thank you, Captain!"
Lowe watched the captain leave. However, as soon as he closed the door, Luo Wei suddenly remembered that when he took the photo before, he had borrowed captain 1 Prang and had not returned it.
“…… I'll be on when I go to get the keys. He thought.
Lorenz's voice came from the window:
"Registrar No. 3053, Miss Milana. Today's assignment to your workspace is number 12, and the Ruins Library wishes you all the best and safer. ”
Luo Wei looked curiously, this guy was rarely not wearing his own white coat, but a very standard formal suit, sitting behind the window counter, constantly operating something.
The lady who had just registered walked briskly to the gate, passed through and quickly disappeared into the corridor in the distance.
"Registrar No. 6129, Mr. Maxim. Your workshop is No. 5, and the Ruins Library wishes you all the best and safer. ”
Several people in line in front of them passed through the gate one after another, and there were no new people coming behind them, and now in the corridor except Lorenz, only Lowe was left.
"It's your turn, Lowe." Lorenz held out his hand from the window, "Your approval instrument and library invitation." ”
Lowe handed the thing to Lorenz.
"I just heard the clerk number, you already have thousands of clerks?" He asked.
"Not really. As of now, we have only 15 registrars. Lorenz quickly stamped the pages of the document and replied.
"But I've heard that the number of the clerk has reached more than six thousand."
"It's just a numbering scheme." Lorenz casually explained, "The first digit represents the wizard rank, and the last three digits are individual numbers. ”
No wonder...... Luo Wei thought of the company's employee badges in his previous life, and he knew something in his heart.
Lorenz quickly sorted out the formalities, got up and personally led Lowe through the gate into the inner hallway.
The hallway is like an apartment building, with many separate rooms on both sides. Lorenz led him to the nearest doorway to the room marked with the number "1".
Lowe saw that he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just sighed and pushed the door straight in.
Lowe followed through the door.
It was a very small room, only five or six square meters, and was paved with gray-brown stone bricks on all sides. On one side of the wall, there is a window with a black hole. Next to the wall where the door is attached, there is a long table with exquisite workmanship, about 1.2 meters in length.
Next to the table is a wooden chair with plush cushions. On the wall directly opposite the door of the room, there was also a very low wooden door.
Luo Wei's gaze swept around, and what attracted his attention the most was the several large rectangular crystals arranged horizontally in a row on the table.
Behind the crystals were a thumb-thin metal tube that zigzagged together and stretched along the wall into the next room.
I have to say that this posture is really too much like the "multi-screen monitor" in the monitoring room.
"Let me give you a brief overview of the working environment."
Lorenz stood in the center of the room, first pointed to the window of the black hole and said: "This is the 'terminal', where the tasks that are issued every day, the files that are accepted and reported, are all operated. ”
Terminal?
In a world of ancient times, Luo Wei heard a very technological term.
"This is the window." Lorenz pointed to the row of rectangular crystals on the table, "We have multi-angle viewing glasses installed in the room inside. Relic and test items are sent to the next room, where you will need to observe the room and compile it into a file. ”
Luo Wei understood: "So, my task is to be an observer, to see what effect or function the holy relic has, and to record it in the archives?" ”
Lorenz nodded: "Although your physique is quite special, I still have to emphasize that it is not a special case, do not enter the room and directly touch the holy relics and test objects." ”
Luo Wei nodded repeatedly.
A person like him who cherishes his life will definitely not be unhappy for himself.
"That's pretty much it. You are working for the first time, and the library will give you the necessary guidance when it comes to delegating tasks. I went out first. ”
"Wait." Lowe stopped him.
Looking at Lorenz's inquiring expression, Lowe asked the question he had been holding back for a long time:
"Isn't this a 'library of ruins'? Why didn't I see the ruins or the library? ”
Lorenz sneered, "From the moment you cross the Broken Path, you're already in the Ruins Library. ”
Luo Wei frowned suspiciously.
"Strictly speaking, the Ruin Library doesn't exist in the 'real world' as you know it, it's a separate space with its own order and laws."
"You can think of this as a tower with dozens of floors. Among them, the bottom 10 floors are called 'Library', and the area above 10 floors is called 'Ruins'. This is just to make you understand simply, in fact, each so-called 'layer' is an independent space. ”
"Oh......" Lowe seemed to understand.
"For the Ruined Library, the lower the floor, the more it represents the stability of rules and order. We are now at the bottom of the zero-mark mark, where all the clerks work, safe and secure. And the higher levels of access are ...... It's not up to you to know yet. ”
After Lorenz finished speaking, he smiled kindly, closed the door and left.
Lowe was lost in thought.
He still remembered the "Holy Relic Archive" he had seen before, and the "Lightless Ring" he wore on his hand, numbered 1F0652. If this is conceived as a hospice, the "Aphotic Ring" would be a relic stored in the library on the first floor.
Theoretically, this thing is not as threatening as Lowe himself.
At least until he was hired, he was being monitored as a "2F" level threat.
Lowe shook his head and sat down in his chair.
He also brought the file that the previous captain gave him, and there was no movement in the room at this time, and he had nothing to do for the time being, so it was better to study the contents of the file carefully.
For the attack he experienced before, Luo Wei now feels scared when he thinks about it: he really walked around on the brink of death. But if that skeleton monster didn't say more nonsense, but directly launched a lethal attack, he might have died on the spot.
"But it doesn't make sense...... I'm just a rookie, he can kill me in seconds, why did he go to great lengths to make the River Styx, and grind and chirp for a long time? ”
Lowe thought back to the experience and remembered the prayer that the skeleton had sang:
Your faithful servant asks for the Styx Dead,
Offer the lost lamb to your meal!
"Grass...... He didn't kill me directly, did he want to use me as a living sacrifice to the evil gods? Lowe's scalp tingled.
In the novel, he has seen too many things like "pumping the soul to make a growing lamp" and "refining the flesh of the belt into a magic potion". Now that it almost happened to him, Luo Wei only felt a chill in his back.
But beyond that, there's a problem.
At that time, I once recited "Xuan Zhi Xuan, the door of all wonders", but for some reason, it didn't work at all.
Is your gold finger failing?
Zizi –
Suddenly, there was a sound overhead. Immediately after, an elegant male voice rang out from all sides of the room.
"Ahem, Mr. Lowe Austin, I'm the chief deacon of the Ruins Library, you can call me Roland."
Oh, here we are. Are you the legendary "ordinary 9th-order scrap wood finisher"-Luo Wei couldn't help but complain in his heart.
"Next, I'll guide you through the first archiving and sorting mission of the Ruins Library."
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