Chapter 8: The White Cat Iron Room
Lin Du climbed up the stairs to the third floor, and according to the instructions of the female registrar at the borrowing office, she shook the ID card on her chest in front of the closed door of the library, and the door opened automatically to both sides. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis is a very simple thing in another world where technology is developed, but I don't know how to do it here. Lin Du looked at the wooden sign in his hand curiously, and saw that the door seemed to have a tendency to close again, so he hurriedly got in.
After entering the door, Lin Duan found that it was only a square empty room, less than forty square meters, and a huge disc was drawn on the ground in the middle of the room, which occupied almost three-quarters of the room. The disc was cut into more than a dozen fan-shaped areas, each painted with a different color, and the whole looked very much like the dartboard used for the entertainment of the world, except that many of the fan-shaped areas were filled with colorful graffiti, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable and mischievous. However, it wasn't these things that made Lin Du feel most curious, but a beautiful flower basket hanging above the center of the disc, which was swinging around like a swing.
He stood stunned, looked up at the swinging flower basket, and felt like he had gone to the wrong place and accidentally came to the children's amusement park. He wanted to go up and swing, but the basket was too high for him to go up. He was about to turn around and go out, but saw a furry paw sticking out of the flower basket, and then a small half of the apple suddenly flew out, cut an elegant arc in the air, and landed at Lin Dui's feet with a snap.
Lin Du couldn't help but rub his eyes, look at the apples on the ground, and then look up at the swing in the flower basket, but then saw that the swing suddenly stopped strangely, hanging in the air at a 45-degree angle, and at the same time came out a lazy voice like an uncle, but the tone was very funny: "Ah, I'm sorry, it's littering again!" But I don't mind if you pick it up and eat it." ”
But I mind! Lin Du muttered in his heart, looking at the flower basket with curiosity, it was really not a big flower basket, it couldn't even fit a child like him, how could it fit an uncle? He guessed what kind of obscene short uncle could be inside, actually swinging here and throwing apples. He leaned over and picked up the apple, threw it in the trash can beside him, and asked, "Uncle, I'm looking for a library, can you tell me how to get there?"
"There are no uncles here, only wolves. The voice was subdued and abrupt, with a kind of arrogance in a tone of voice.
"Wolf, my lord?" the name is weird.
"Well, that's good! Lord Wolf is the gatekeeper of the library on the third floor, and the guide of the lost child. Look at your feet, that's the spatial teleportation circle that Lord Wolf has prepared for you. How's that? magnificent, isn't it?" the voice said smugly.
Lin Du looked at the messy graffiti on the ground, although he didn't know how to draw, he felt that it would be better to paint by himself. I remember that Mr. Ji said that the teleportation circle is a kind of space circle that can only be built by people who practice Saturn and Jupiter, and it can take people to the place where they want to go, but how to use this thing? He had no choice but to raise his face again and ask: "Lord Wolf, I want to find a book on flower essence and potions." ”
"Oh-very good, very good! Lord Wolf likes diligent and studious children the most, and although the clever Lord Wolf thinks that it is useless to learn those things except for the soul seal, the kind Lord Wolf will still help you open the passage. ”
Lord Wolf said, sprinkling a yellow halo from the flower basket, the halo fell in the disc, and suddenly stirred up a wave of yellow and purple light to spread around, and the graffiti on the ground quickly faded and even disappeared as if it was being washed by rain, and at the same time, the disc protruded from the ground to become a two-inch-high stone platform, and a few flashes of guidance words surfaced in each fan-shaped area, and finally there was a little teleportation circle.
Lin Du stood in front of the circle, staring blankly at the magical changes in front of him, feeling like he was watching a movie, but it was extremely real. This practitioner's "trick" aroused a deep curiosity and excitement in his heart, and he really hoped that this "trick" would continue forever, or change a few more. However, Lord Wolf's words also caught his attention, why did he say that these things were useless, and what was the soul mark he was talking about?
"The magic circle is open, what kind of books do you want to read, find the category yourself, and step on it. However, Lord Wolf doesn't mind if you first praise Lord Wolf's subtle circle building skills...... Ugh!"
The proud voice stopped halfway through, and then with a flick of its paws in the basket, a whole apple flew out with a whoosh, heading straight for the gate behind Lin Dusk. Lin Du thought it was hitting him, and he hugged his head in fright, but he heard Qing Lingling's voice like a mountain spring ding dong behind him: "Stinky cat, you are throwing things again!"
Lin Duan was confused, turned his head, but saw Lin Peixuan picking up the apple on the ground and raising his hand to throw it at the flower basket, and there was still a protesting voice coming from the flower basket: "I'm not a stinky cat now, I'm a wolf...... Meow!"
The apple smashed into the flower basket with unmistakable accuracy, and the protest immediately turned into a terrible cat meow, and the rope hanging the flower basket suddenly disappeared, and the flower basket also disappeared out of thin air, and instantly appeared on the floor between Lin Du and Lin Peixuan. Lin Du saw clearly that the flower basket contained half a basket of red, green, and green apples, and a white cat that was more than half smaller than an adult cat stood on the pile of apples, holding the edge of the basket with two paws, and writhed excitedly at Lin Peixuan, screaming: "You hit me, you hit me! Let's change the game, change it!"
Lin Dui's eyes widened in surprise. He felt that the world was a little out of order. What uncle, what wolf, all of them don't exist, it's just such a small white cat making trouble. This cat can actually speak, although the nerves do not seem to be normal, but the words are correct and round, listening to the meaning of its words just now, it seems to be the gatekeeper of the three-story building.
The gatekeeper here is a cat!
Lin Duzheng was amazed, but saw Lin Peixuan raise his sandal-wearing foot and kick it on the flower basket fiercely: "Go and pretend to be your wolf!
The height of the basket was more than half of Lin Peixuan's, and it contained a lot of apples, with Lin Peixuan's strength, this foot could not move the flower basket at all, but the flower basket was half off the ground, and then it kept shaking back and forth, like a pirate ship. The white cat shook its head as if drunk as the basket swayed, and barked: "You broke my bed! This is the employment fee that Lin Fengshan gave me! I will go and tell Lin Fengshan! I will ask him to pay me a bigger bed!"
"Go, go, go, my father's star beast is the most incompetent and annoying, I can't stand you for a long time, tell him to see how you are guarding the door here, littering, lying, pretending, playful, scribbling, shouting and screaming...... , tell him to break the contract with you, so as not to leave you here and make people angry!"
Lin Peixuan's small mouth was so clever that the white cat was like a defeated rooster, and she suddenly lost her spirit. Lin Du listened and watched quietly, and suddenly felt that although her sister didn't like her, she still kept her face, at least she didn't quarrel with her.
In a short period of time, Lin Duan's understanding of the Lin Mansion and the cultivation world also deepened a lot, and many questions also poured into his mind like a tide: Is this cat really one of his father's weakest star beasts? How many star beasts does his father have? What is the strongest of them?How powerful is my father?......
He felt more and more that this was an incomparably wonderful world, but unfortunately he couldn't practice, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
Although the white cat was deflated, he still held the apple basket and defended aggrievedly: "I, I didn't come here because I was incompetent! Lin Fengshan said that his children would definitely like me and play with me, so I agreed to come and watch the library! But you don't like me!"
"Why should I like such a naïve guy as you!" Lin Peixuan said again.
"Then you brought me a lot of apples, and you played a game of apple wolf with me last time!"
"I,...... That's when I see you being pitiful here!"
Lin Du saw that they were arguing more and more intertwined, as if there was no room for him to interject, not to mention that he didn't want to interject, so he quietly walked away alone. He circled around the circle and saw three fan-shaped teleportation areas displaying the words "Mineral Crystal", "Essential Oil Flower Essence", and "Herbal Elixir", but he didn't find the area about the soul seal. The soul mark mentioned by "Lord Wolf" is really a mysterious thing, and there is no one in the library, and his curiosity is hung high, thinking that he must ask the old gentleman for clarification in the future.
He knew a little bit about the hedron and the potion, but he didn't know anything about the flower essence, so after thinking about it, he stepped onto the teleportation area marked "Essential Oil Flower Essence". In an instant, he felt that his body was light, as if it had turned into a gust of wind, but just as he wanted to look down at his body, he found himself in a library room, with tall bookshelves and densely packed books, which dazzled him and dizzy.
There were so many more books than the bookstore he had ever visited! And it was just a library!
Lin Du screamed unconsciously with joy, like a hungry wolf seeing a fat lamb, and wanted to fly over on all fours. He started to flip through the first row of bookshelves, and found that they were all books that introduced flower essences, "The Key to Flower Essence Blending", "The Secret Legend of Wu's Flower Essence", "Flower Essence Practice", "Flower Essence and the Ten Paths of the Heavenly Stars", ...... He flipped through the books one by one, looking for a more comprehensive primer suitable for his own reading, he didn't know that these books were collected by his father Lin Fengshan with strong strength, and they were more in-depth and specialized than the common books on the market, but this seven-year-old child was still like falling into a treasure, and his whole body was full of happiness.
Lin Peixuan seemed to see the brilliance on his body. The little girl followed him and stood not far behind him, quietly watching him concentrate on picking up a book, watching him tiptoe, stepping on the bench, drawing a book, reading, turning the page, thinking, repeating, she could deeply feel that every cell in his body was singing and dancing. She suddenly had the feeling that she could not see the boy in front of her, who at all did not look like a seven-year-old child, for she had never seen such a fascination in her three brothers, the oldest of whom was eighteen.
Little did Lin Peixuan know that early experiences in life were so important that they would make a child fall in love with anything that brought him pleasure. A rag doll, a toy, a piece of mud, a hole of ants, an old story of grandma, dad's paper airplane, mom's lullabysy, all of them are fun, but some lack lasting and deep attraction, and some can't get and can't have. Lin Dui's childhood was only books, only the dream world woven in the books, which allowed him to temporarily escape the incompleteness of reality, and only the knowledge and ability given in the books could give him the confidence and courage to persevere.
He needs it, loves it, gets used to it. He happened to be seen by Lin Peixuan like this.
But Lin Peixuan was angry. Originally, she came up to see what Lin Du was reading, but she forgot that there was a living treasure-like guard cat on the third floor. She had given the cat apples twice and secretly played with it, but she didn't want anyone to know about it, for fear that others would laugh at her for being childish. But Lin Du bumped into it all, so he became angry and scolded the white cat to prove his innocence, and then got rid of it and chased after him.
When Lin Dui chose a book to take down from the shelf, Lin Peixuan was like a yellow finch and saw the cicada mantis and quickly attacked. She reached out from behind Lin Dui, snatched the book in her hand when the other party was caught off guard, folded her arms in front of her chest in the stunned gaze of the little boy, and said calmly, "I just want to borrow this book." ”
"Sister......" Lin Dui stretched out his hand to get the book back, which he had chosen for a long time.
"It's useless to call my sister, this was originally what I chose before, and I forgot to take it. ”
Lin Peixuan waved her hand and told Lin Du with a leisurely and calm look that I just wanted to grab it, and I grabbed it. She really wanted to see this gentle and delicate brother go crazy, and she had the impression that he had never been angry, either innocent and sunny, or cute and cute. She looked at him with a little amusement, waited, and then saw the little boy smile lightly, and went to the other bookshelves to pick up books.
Lin Peixuan suddenly had a feeling that she had nowhere to spill her anger. She couldn't help but stomp her foot and followed in hatred.
The two children spent half an hour in the library. Lin Duan picked a book, and Lin Peixuan grabbed a book. Lin Du picked five copies, and Lin Peixuan grabbed five copies. In the end, Lin Du turned around, watched the little girl follow behind angrily, holding a stack of thick books, and asked very seriously, "Sister, is it too much?"
Lin Peixuan glared at him fiercely: "This is what I borrowed, what's the matter with you!"
Lin Du touched the back of his head, as if he was really afraid of being tired of his sister, he stopped looking for books, turned around and walked out the door, he shook the identity card in his hand in front of the door, and the person suddenly disappeared from the library and returned to the three-story teleportation room. He subconsciously looked up and saw that the flower basket was back in swing mode, and the white cat was humming something inside.
Lin Du didn't leave, but circled around the teleportation array again. Earlier, he had seen a few words in the array that could arouse curiosity, and he wanted to go in and learn about it, such as this, astrology. He remembered that the old gentleman said that after cultivating and gaining different star powers, he could learn some methods for using star powers, and these methods were called star arts. Superb astral techniques are the secrets of various families, sects, and Holy Sees, and it is difficult to learn them without special circumstances, of course, he can't learn them no matter what he can't practice, but he can't suppress his inner curiosity.
It's too curious, it's like passing by a whole library of martial arts cheats, and if you don't go in and take a look, you will definitely feel regretful for life. Lin Du stood in front of the teleportation table and hesitated for a moment, then stepped into the astral area and disappeared.
Lin Peixuan followed closely, just standing in front of the teleportation array and seeing the word star magic, she couldn't help frowning. Of course she knows what astralism is, this kind of book is only available on the third floor of the library building, and only those who have cultivated star power can use it, and only three brothers are in and out of here at present. Could it be that Lin Duan was already practicing? No, he was only seven years old, and the Star Mansion was not yet mature, so it was impossible for him to cultivate!
So the beautiful little girl held a thick stack of books and stepped into the astral area. After her body lightened and her eyes darkened, she saw herself come to a strangely empty room, the size of the white cat's teleportation room, only empty and nothing. And Lin Dui was standing not far in front of her, also looking around stupidly, looking dazed.
The ceiling is tightly sealed, there are iron walls on all sides, and there is no door on all sides, and the floor is also a bluestone floor, and there is not even a gap. The whole room is like an iron cage.
After looking at each other, the two children couldn't help but glance at each other, and they saw fear in each other's eyes. After all, it's the first time I've come here, and I don't know why it's like this. Just when they were at a loss, they suddenly heard a strange voice "Huh". The sound seemed to come from all directions, and it was hard to figure out where it was coming from. The two children seemed to grasp the life-saving straw and shouted in unison: "Who is it?"