Chapter 36: The White Boat
Jane was also startled by the sudden appearance of Mrs. Pince, and then realized that she was still in the library, and Hermione looked at her with a worried expression.
"I ......" Jane couldn't say a word for a long time, and her face turned red.
"I think you've bothered quite a few people." Mrs. Pince's words were as if they were squeezed out of her teeth.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Pince, let's go." As she spoke, Lindra pulled Jane's sleeve.
"Yes, ma'am. I'd like to borrow this book. He put away the lunch box Jane had brought to himself. Then pick up that copy of Mysterious Atlantis.
Lind then stuffed the lunch box to Jane, who was a little confused, and put the books back in their place, one by one.
He placed the books next to their bookcases, and the books automatically returned to their places as if they were attracted, and in less than a minute, he put them all back.
By this time Mrs. Pince had returned to the door of the library, and she continued to stare at the young wizards in the library, her eyes softening when she saw Hermione.
Then she would become very wary when she saw some of the little wizards who seemed to be restless, for fear that they would stain and damage their books.
Still, her gaze often lingered on Lindh and Jane.
She didn't really plan to kick the two little wizards out, they might just suddenly discuss a certain issue, and then suddenly quarrel, this is not the first time she has encountered this kind of scene, just remind it.
Another thing she was worried about was Linde, she had been paying attention to this little wizard for a long time, since she came to her in the morning to ask about the relevant books and until now he had never left here, she liked the little wizard who loved to read, but it was not advisable to read for such a long time.
She had just walked over, and looking at Linde's bloodshot eyes and pale complexion, she suddenly had the idea of driving this little guy out.
Since this little wizard himself said that he wanted to go out, let her go out!
Then she glanced at Hermione again, thinking about how she could gently persuade the little witch.
Linde grabbed the book, and after checking it out, they walked out.
Before leaving, Mrs. Pince gently reminded him that although the story in the book is beautiful, he should also pay attention to his body, and he will not be too much.
Lind nodded yes hurriedly, but he could see the worry beneath Mrs. Pince's stern face.
Jane, on the other hand, was kicked out until she walked out of the library thinking she was too noisy.
But she didn't have any apologies to Linde, she just felt that she was too embarrassed to be kicked out in such a public.
But as soon as they walked out of the hallway, her state of mind had adjusted and she continued with the previous conversation.
"If I'm not mistaken, some of the conjectures about Atlantis were only proven at the end of the last century.
And if you look at this book, it looks like it's a product of the eighteenth century, and even some of the words in it are ...... in this century."
Jane said as she spoke, and something was getting more and more wrong. Lind seemed to have heard a question too.
"No, it looks like an old book from the 18th century! How can there be so many relatively trendy remarks. Jane snatched the book from Linde's hand.
"You mean, what looks like an old book is actually a new one?" Lind asked tentatively.
"Yes, many books at that time were written in order to preserve them with rat skin and iron branches. The result is a book that can last for hundreds or thousands of years.
But at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a new technology for printing magic books that were easier to preserve and reproduce. So this technology has long been unused. Jane turned the page back and looked at the contents.
"Tooth rats and gall iron trees?" Linde asked suspiciously.
"Yes, it's a very old technique, the skin of the toothed rat is very thick, and with the impregnation of the western gall iron branches, the written content is like a tattoo that will never fall off." Jane explained.
"But this technology has been innovated in this century a long time ago, and because this technology has seriously jeopardized the production of tooth rats and cichtanic iron trees, it has long been unused." Jane continued.
These touched Linde's blind spot in knowledge, so he didn't bother Jane, but let her continue to think.
The two of them just stood around the corner of the hallway, in a state of silence.
Jane picked up a page with two fingers, rubbing her fingers lightly over it.
"It's not the kind of toothed rat skin I've ever seen, it's the skin of other animals." Jane whispered.
As she rubbed it, a small crack gradually opened in the middle of the page.
"Give me some light!" Jane narrowed her eyes as best she could, but most of the light at Hogwarts came from the ubiquitous candles, so she still couldn't see clearly in many places, so she could only call out Linde.
"Fluorescent flicker!"
Lind drew his wand and whispered a glowing spell. As the light came, he saw the small slit as well.
Jane saw the small crack and intensified the rubbing of her hands, and the crack gradually grew larger.
One page gradually turned into two, and in the hidden pages, there was a scrawl in unknown blue ink, and it could be seen that there were many alterations on it, as well as a large string of unsegmented sentences.
"There's a mezzanine here?!"
"There's a mezzanine here?!"
The two said this in unison.
"Keep going!" Lind hurriedly urged, anxious to see if the other pages of the book could be split in two.
Jane picked up the other pages and repeated the old trick, and then she sat directly on the stairs.
Linde maintained a fluorescent charm, white light radiating from the tip of his staff, and the two of them sat on the steps of the castle, and the occasional passerby just walked away.
In a few moments, the two of them split the book into two parts.
Contrary to what Linde had thought at first, there were only a few pages in the book that could be split into two parts.
The separated interlayer content is full of blue ink written on it, and it looks like a manuscript or something.
In this way, the original "Mysterious Atlantis" has an additional manuscript of about three or four pages.
Jane was also very curious about its contents, and she flipped over the front page of the manuscript, pushed the book to Linde's side, and then looked at it in the hallway.
"My name is Bashir Elton and I inherited my father's and maternal grandfather's work as a lamp keeper at the North Point Lighthouse. …… I had to write down this story of my own experience.
I had been forgetting it since I came back, my mind was clouded, and every night I listened to the sound of the waves rolling and lapping outside, which gradually turned into unknown whispers that came to my ears, saying: Forget it, forget it. ”
"Bashir, the author of this book." Jane whispered that although the letters on this manuscript were extremely difficult to read, and the author's own cultural literacy was not high, it was particularly difficult for them to read.
And he should have had a problem with his mental state when he wrote this manuscript. Linde added another one in his heart.
“…… My grandfather told me that once upon a time, a fleet of ships with white sails would sail from the distant shoreline, with the warmth of the sun on the eastern coast and the sweet scent of strange gardens and splendid temples.
One day, when the full moon was shining high in the sky, I boarded a strange ship with white sails hanging high, and one of the men on board invited me to sail with him to the beautiful unknown shore......"