Even Yez, a resident of the Magic Book Library, has run away, and Xi Ke is really the only one left here. He ate his bento on the TV and watched the young people orchestra sing on the TV: "We are children of the age of mythology, and adults teach us with countless myths – and yet in the end none of us have God's mercy and finally discover – they tell us that myths are only meant to prove two things: they are all angels, and we all deserve to go to hell. 」

Xi Ke bit his chopsticks and listened to the song.

In the evening, according to the habits of Seren and Naimo before they came, Xi Ke began to clean the Magic Book House at about eight o'clock, picking up garbage, and inspecting the museum for any damage by the way. After cleaning, the damaged books are repaired, and some books that want to rest for a while and are not shown to others are moved to the closed library.

Take a twenty-minute shower, and sometimes a bath, but not today.

About eleven o'clock I went back to my room to read. When he found that he had finished reading all the books he had brought back to his room, he carried them to the door of his room and threw them into the air, and the books spread their covers and flew back to their shelves.

Then he took the net with the long handle and walked out into the hallway. When there are no half guests in the museum, the magic books will all run down from the shelves and run around the museum. Although most of the magic books do not show human expressions, there is always a sense of calm and joy when he sees them either in groups or enjoying solitude in the corner.

Rick thinks the books like it here.

He loved it too. He likes to nest in stacks of books, one by one, expanding the shijie in his head.

But he is a man, not a book, and he cannot be stored in this place.

Sooner or later, he's going to have to get out of here.

Xi Ke closed his eyes and waved the net, netting the book that happened to pass by. Wherever the net goes, he will look at which book, which is his favorite calligraphy.

He took out the silver-white book, ten centimeters thick, from the net, and the book was meekly at his mercy. When Xi Ke looked at the cover, the purple title of the row of books on the top was "The Customs and Habits of the Dragon Clan and the Etiquette of Human Interaction with Dragons", which I wanted to borrow as an excuse to find dragons or trouble with Xi Ke.

Nick took the book back to his room to read.

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The content of this book, like the title of the book, is a book that teaches humans how to get along with dragons.

It mentions that for beasts, they don't need linguistic symbols to think. Linguistic symbols are nothing more than tools for human communication. They don't need to know the word "ice" to tell the difference between ice and water. Dragons can learn human language, but they think the same way as beasts, and are not limited by the narrow language of humans. That's the unique ability of the people who only understand Shijie with their basic senses. Humans are supposed to have it, but they are often blinded.

Rick had seen the Brilliant Fish Clan's King Moronis, so he knew that. Fish language does not use symbols, but directly uses concepts. In other words, other people may not be able to understand that Weishenme can think without symbolic language. In reality, however, even without the use of symbols, living beings have their own way of distinguishing between high and low.

Rick watched, and suddenly something knocked on his door. Xi Ke opened the door and saw that the "Great Magic Book of the Magic Book" was opened, the back of the book was perpendicular to the ground, standing on the ground, and a line of words was written on the page: A new book has arrived.

"I'll go right away. Rick said.

Because of the cold weather at night, he put on an extra mage robe, closed the door, and walked up the stairs to the depths of the Magic Book Library.

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There is a back door at the same height as the ground outside the Magic Book Library, and from the outside of the Magic Book Pavilion, no living object can perceive the hole except for the person who has the license.

Aside from the librarians, the only ones that will come in from here are inanimate magic books.

Rick opened the wooden door leading to the back door, and in front of him was a five-meter-long corridor, and the moonlight shone through the open back door at the bottom of the corridor, and he could vaguely see huge wooden bookshelves on both sides of the corridor.

Due to some unknowable mysteries, the magic books of the Great Ethero region will always gather in this place if they don't have an owner, as if it were calling to them.

Probably for the Magic Book, this place is within their invisible communication network, a famous Magic Book Paradise and Sanctuary, where every wandering Magic Book can find its bookshelves and readers.

Xi Ke inspected the bookshelves one by one, but did not see any books. He looked up and saw a man standing in the moonlight shining in through the back door.

The man was half-facing to Xike, dressed in a black mage robe, with a thin skeleton, pale skin and ebony-like hair, and a sharp gaze under the messy hair, like a knife piercing the heart.

That person looked the same as Xi Ke, and even his demeanor and eyes were exactly the same.

Rick saw himself standing there.

Xi Ke remembered that in "The Customs and Habits of the Dragon Clan and the Etiquette Requirements for Human Interaction with Dragons", it was said that the dragon clan will change into the appearance of humans and test humans.

Rick immediately knelt down on one knee and asked aloud, "May I ask your name?"

"Some human beings depend on external things to know themselves, so when they see someone who looks like them, they panic. They will doubt themselves because of it. You don't have such doubts, you know very well that there is only one "me". No matter how many people you see, it's not me.

"I'm Monret. The man replied in the same voice as Rick.

Rick looked up and saw that the person standing there was no longer human. It was a shiny, silvery-white dragon.

Like the Ampaert, he has a goose-like long neck, a canine head and a lanky snout, a soft, bouncy torso, wolf limbs, a long-haired mopping tail, and a pair of huge silver wings.

But he was much larger than Ampatle, with a head height of more than seven meters, more than fifteen meters from the tip of his chest to the tip of his tail, and his silver fur looked like it was draped in a waterfall, so shiny that it was almost impossible to see its outline. His eyes were dark purple, and he stared at him.

Rick felt that it was as ancient as this magic library, having seen countless human beings born and died. He has accumulated incalculable wisdom that is beyond the reach of man.

"Ampaert didn't tell me you were a congenital necromancer. The greatest dragon, said the dragon-headed Menlett. His voice is not loud, but his words are clear and penetrate people's hearts.

He didn't know how to answer, so he could only look at Monette silently, hoping that the other party wouldn't feel rude.

Monrett continued, "He didn't mean it. It's just that to him, things like to eat meat, get out of bed in the morning, and help with the dishes are much more important than your magical talents. 」

Monlett took a step forward, and Syck smelled a fragrant scent of vanilla.

"So I brought the greeting gift he suggested, which was beef stew with red wine. 」

Meng Riet stretched his neck, and Rick saw a bento bag hanging around his neck, because the hair was too thick, it was buried by the hair just now, and he couldn't see it.

Monlett hooked his paw on the bento bag, and a book flew out of it, a new arrival. The book flew into the library in a butterfly-like path that kept going left and right.

Monlett continued, "I've always wanted to visit your house ever since Ampaert adopted you. But he insisted. As if I'm afraid I'll pick you up and shake you to death.

"You know what happened to your brother before you, right?"

"Yes. Rick replied.

Before adopting Xike, six of Ampat's apprentices secretly studied forbidden necromancy, and Zuihou left his master behind and fled.

Menlett paused for a moment, then said, "Because of this, I am particularly concerned about what kind of human person Ampaert has adopted this time.

"You look a lot like Jesahua. Black cloud hair, snow-white skin, and a physique that is about to fall apart.

"But your eyes aren't the same as his. 」

"I'm Rick Trigg. Rick said. He's not anyone other than himself.

"At the same time, he is also a Suni mage, a bookworm, a carnivore, and a celestial soul master. Neither of them can be equated with the existence of "you".

"Ampaert saw you on the news near the religious sermon venue, so he asked me to come and see you before him. 」

"I didn't join that weird religion!" said Rick solemnly. He remembered that after Toushabai left, when they were standing in the outer circle to talk to the police about the information, a reporter was taking pictures of the gate of the preaching venue, which was probably brought by the camera at that time.

"I don't look at your face like someone would join that kind of group. Please get up. 」

Xi Kexin stood up uneasily.

Monreette took another step forward, and now he was less than a meter away from Syk.

Xi Ke remembered that in "The Customs and Habits of the Dragons and the Etiquette of Humans and Dragons", the dragons are usually not hesitant to share their wisdom with humans, as long as they think that the humans in front of them have enough understanding, they are willing to answer all kinds of great questions in life for humans.

So he said what he had been asking all along: "Weishenme, those people love crooked reasoning so much, love it so much that they are willing to destroy their lives for it, and would rather die than admit that they were wrong? I don't understand.

"It's because I used to live like that, so I can't understand it? I think the shijie I see is not the same as the shijie they are living with!"

Menlett listened quietly, and then he replied in a deep voice: "The reason why man has been so enthusiastic about believing falsehood is because he knows nothing about himself and what he believes.

"They believe in a noun, not in the thing itself. 」

It's like Bripegg's use of the word "god" to deceive. Those who believe in Him believe only in the word "God," not in God Himself. They can't tell the difference between truth and falsehood because they don't know what God is, only by name.

"They don't understand that the use of names as the only essential recognizable condition exacerbates the proportion of misidentification. 」

"It's famous, it's not famous. Rick uttered a quote from an ancient sage who had left a message in the scriptures two thousand years ago.

Monrett grinned, showing a smile that could be described as "Although this is only the most superficial part of this truth, it doesn't seem to be an exaggeration for Ampaert to say that you have read the scriptures.

"The 'name' that can be given, the 'reputation' that can be evaluated, and the 'standard' that can be established are all part of the 'name'. All of them will be separated from the true "common name" of things at the moment they are established. Even if they are established according to their "common name", once established, they will be independent and no longer equal to "common name". 」

"Common name", that is, the true definition of things, is a correct understanding of the essence of things, and is an abstract concept that corresponds to reality. The "correct answer" to "what kind of function is a bowl?", "what kind of action is considered a jump?", "what is a man?", "what is a woman?", and these "common names" are the "common names".

"Name" is a "noun" created by human beings after understanding "common name" in order to represent common name in language. Like "bowl", "jump", "man", "woman". It must be used in conjunction with the understanding of "common name" so as not to be misused.

For those who truly understand the common name, he can understand the meaning of the words "bowl", "jump", "man", and "woman" no matter what language they are transformed into. For someone who doesn't understand the common name, if the bowl changes color, he doesn't know what it is. Because he didn't know that "bowl" is not defined by color, but by function.

Menlett continues, "'name' is only when it is first proposed, because it is born of essence, and therefore conforms to 'common name'. After that, there will be people who only recognize the "name" and never really understand the "common name".

"Because I am obsessed with the 'name' and don't know the 'common name'. So people will make fakes and put names on them to confuse its essence. For example, a counterfeit leather bag pretends to be a "designer bag", and a gold-plated bag falsely claims to be "pure gold". The name has nothing to do with the truth.

"By meeting some criteria, they will pretend to be their own standards. For example, a person who used to be a second foreign language is usually a person who travels a lot of places, has a lot of experience, and is a person who has the ability to be a social backbone. As a result, people set standards and decided that people who can speak foreign languages and have a high degree of Westernization are people who can become elites. Then, by learning a foreign language, people pretend to be capable of being the backbone of society. In fact, there is neither eloquence nor insight.

"Human beings need language, they need countless 'names', and they rely on language to exchange shijie that both sides have seen. Gradually, however, some human beings have become unable to communicate without language, and even rely on language to build their own understanding. Therefore, to chase the labels of 'special', 'great', 'loved', and 'most haode', and to ask others to describe them this way, rather than doing it yourself.

"'Name' is actually very important, even for those who are bent on chasing common names. For you, when you are studying, you benefit a lot from the words that must be made through the name. However, the same thing often does not have the same effect on different people.

"Those whom you cannot understand have never understood the common name of the word 'I'—a flaw that cannot be remedied, no matter how much they have gained in other areas.

"The god of the foreign mage refers to the great being who is omniscient and omnipotent, who created shijie out of nothing, and who has requirements for human beings, and who provides guidance and norms for human beings to follow. His existence is the premise of all the world's definitions.

"Our so-called gods, but those who have wisdom beyond human beings, who surpass our liliang, or who operate according to laws that we cannot grasp, are called gods. So it's not just an unidentified lifeform with a huge liliang, it can also be some kind of jishu, or a natural phenomenon like a tornado that never listens to humans and doesn't care what humans are doing.

"The god of the foreign mage is 'God loves the world', and our god is 'Heaven and Earth are unkind', but such a huge difference in 'common name' is absolutely not felt at all by those who only recognize the 'name' of 'God'. 」

"Selling dog meat on a sheep's head!" Rick earnestly described this phenomenon in a colloquial phrase. In fact, what the ancients said is not difficult to explain.

Monrett's voice rose and fell with a gimmick, but remained true to the original theme: "They don't know any 'common names.'" So they chase the literal wealth that they pile up on financial numbers, seek slogans of love that don't actually generate any warmth, and single-mindedly sell their reputations. I just want to catch Shijie by grabbing the "name". But shijie is only the sum of "common names", and it never acknowledges the "names" created by humans. 」

"Read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles. Again, he replied with an old proverb, and he felt that this was the starting point of the difference between him and those people.

Rick has traveled too far. It's not like those people who have been hitchhiking, and although they can look out the window, they haven't walked a single step, let alone read this shijie.

"There's the answer in the book. For those of you desperately looking for answers, that's where you should be. Menlett said. Just like now, the questions asked by Rick are answered in the book.

"But the problem is outside the book, in the experience. If there are no questions, just absorb the answers, and in the end you will only learn how to win on paper, which is useless. Menlett said, "Neither reading but not experiencing, or only experiencing without reading, cannot accumulate much wisdom for the short life of human beings." Human beings can only complete the process from discovering a problem to solving the answer only a few times in their own life. That's why there are books. Life experience makes people have questions, and the answers that have been solved by predecessors are in books, and people who have the same questions can get the results of their predecessors' lives. Therefore, reading can make people grow quickly. 」

"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years. Rick laughed relaxedly.