Chapter 53: The Spirit of the Illusory Book
After entering this space, the overly dense arrangement of bookshelves gave Gu Xiao a sense of crampedness, as if all the bookshelves sandwiched themselves in the center and sandwiched them into a sense of crampedness.
So he instinctively waved his arm, hoping that the shelves would fall apart.
He also knew intellectually that he should not have the authority to command these bookshelves, and he would not have any reaction if he waved these bookshelves.
But at the moment after he gave the order, these bookshelves really spread out obediently, freeing up a space of about fifty square meters for Gu Xiao, and a road unblocked by bookshelves unfolded in front of him.
Seeing this scene, Gu Xiao gradually understood.
It turns out that what I am in now should be the position of the 'Fantasy Book Original Text' mentioned in the extra reward.
I have 1% of the original text of the fantasy book, so I can command these bookshelves to make space.
He looked ahead along the path ahead.
In this case, what awaits me on the road must be the most special book in this library, the original book of illusion.
I was really looking forward to it-with such a thought, Gu Xiao embarked on this road guarded by countless bookshelves.
Along the way, Gu Xiao's eyes swept over the books displayed on the bookshelf next to him.
"Sherlock Holmes", "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "The Man in the Suit", ......"
"The Book of Chess, the Dead Sea Papers, the Song of Roland, ......"
"There is even the Principles of Natural Philosophy!"
As soon as he walked by, Gu Xiao suddenly found a book that he was extremely interested in, so he picked it up from the bookshelf and wanted to look through it.
"The first time I heard about Principia of Natural Philosophy was when I was in junior high school, and Newton's three laws and this book came into my field of vision at that time."
But when Gu Xiao really opened the inside of the page, he found that there was a blank in the "Principles of Natural Philosophy".
He hurriedly flipped through a few more pages, and even quickly turned over the entire book.
Except for the words on the first few pages, the Principia of Natural Philosophy is completely empty, just a very realistic binding.
Gu Xiao's brows furrowed slightly, put the "Principles of Natural Philosophy" back, and picked up the "Song of Roland" next to him.
As a result, there was no space at the end, except for the first few pages.
"What the hell is going on?"
Gu Xiao put the book back and set foot on the road again, and his steps were a little faster.
Along the way, at intervals, Gu Xiao would stop and flip through the book to see if there was any content in the book.
As a result, he found that the further he went, the more sparse the books on the shelves became, and the more sparse the books were, the more pages there were in the books.
It wasn't until he was almost at the end of the road that the bookshelf suddenly changed.
The multi-tiered bookshelves have been replaced with book display cases.
Inside each of the exquisitely crafted display cases, there is only one carefully decorated book.
Gu Xiao stopped, carefully took out the book, and opened it to check the contents.
"This is a book of "Book of Songs", the content, the content is complete!"
Gu Xiao finally discovered the pattern, there were nine book display cases at the end of the road, and only the nine books displayed in these nine display cases were complete and detailed.
In addition to this, even the most complete "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" has four or five pages of content that are blank.
He understood the purpose of this library, but he still wanted to talk to the owner.
So he deliberately accentuated the sound of his footsteps.
Knock Knock Knock –
The deliberately aggravated footsteps were like a doorbell after going to the master's house, suggesting Gu Xiao's arrival to the 'hall owner' in front of him.
When he reached the end of the road, he saw only a quiet maiden.
The girl was holding a huge hourglass in her arms, and her long white hair was draped over her shoulders. The face is demure, and a pair of water-cut autumn eyes are filled with a bookish breath.
Seeing Gu Xiao's arrival, the white-haired girl was not surprised at all, but just smiled like an elegant smile after thousands of acquaintances, and said to Gu Xiao: "Is it the hall owner?" You're finally back. ”
The doubts in Gu Xiao's heart were solved. I see, there is no existence of the owner? The content of the book gradually disappeared.
He stepped forward.
"I'm not your pavilion master, at least not yet. I'm just 1% of the Fantasy Book Original. ”
"Mind giving me a brief overview of what's going on here? And the books behind me, they're not ordinary books. At least I haven't seen a book that will lose some of its content on its own. ”
Hearing Gu Xiao say that she was not the owner of the pavilion, the white-haired girl's face was slightly lost, but she still introduced Gu Xiao.
"Hello Candidate Owner, my name is Alena, and I am the administrator of this library, and I am also the spirit of the Fantasy Book of the original book."
"In Okay Continent, books have a special significance, and only writers who have mastered powerful words can record the source code on the carrier and form books."
"This library is called the Aksha Library, and it doesn't hold items with great power like books, but a derivative of books—fantasy books."
"You can understand a fantasy book as something like a fake, but the meaning of a fantasy book is not something as superficial as a fake."
"If we use human beings as an analogy to books, then our fantasy books are the soul of books. It's just that fantasy books can exist independently from books, and books can only lose their spirituality without fantasy books. ”
Gu Xiao nodded, he finally figured out what the name of the All-People Lord World he was in was called, it should be called Okay Continent.
These fantasy books, such as the 'Dream of Journey to the West' that caused me a lot of trouble before, turned out to be just the soul of the books on the Okay Continent.
It's hard to imagine how terrifying the nature of these books can be.
But this Fantasy Book Spirit Miss Aksha said so much, Gu Xiao still had a question that she didn't answer.
"Why do the contents of these magic books disappear automatically?"
Asked by Gu Xiao about this, Aksha's head lowered slightly, and his emotions were visibly lowered.
"The fantasy book has no carrier, and its existence depends on the memory of living beings. The higher the fantasy book, the more souls need to memorize. When someone forgets the existence of the magic book, the content of the magic book will be missing. And if everyone in the world doesn't remember the magic book, then the magic book will disappear completely. ”
"A long time ago, there were still many people in the world who remembered these illusion books, and the spirits of the illusion books can still be kept intact."
"It wasn't until seven months ago that the connection between the Akshire Library and those people was suddenly severed, and the library gradually became deserted, and the spirits of the Fantasy Books either fell asleep or fell into decline."
"That's why you see so many fantasy books with blank content, those are dying fantasy books. There are still many sisters who have not survived, and they are all lost in the endless corridor of history. ”
In the end, as if recalling the appearance of the spirits of the phantom book becoming weakened one by one and finally falling asleep, Axia completely lowered his head. His shoulders shrugged slightly.
An indescribable atmosphere spread through the library.
Silence, depression, desolation.