He didn’t know where He Fei got the motorcycle airship from; it looked very punk, and he was full of energy.
He came in front of Mu Sichen, took off his helmet, and said to his roommate, “You just came to this game, right? I know you probably don’t understand your current situation and are still a little confused. Come come, I’ll tell you what’s going on.”
Mu Sichen: “……”
The one who didn’t understand the current situation was probably He Fei.
He parked the motorized blimp in the square; a book appeared in his hand; he casually turned a page and shot at the motorized blimp; the blimp disappeared, and a picture of the motorized blimp appeared on the book.
He Fei told Mu Sichen: “This is the gap between the secondary and tertiary dimensions; all things have both secondary and tertiary forms. Just now I transformed the motorcycle blimp into a secondary state, and it was taken back to the book, easy to carry. How is it? It’s amazing, right?”
“…… Yes.” Mu Sichen looked at him with a complex expression, but his mind was thinking rapidly.
Compared to the first two “pillars,” the library was too advanced, and the form displayed was also very different; it didn’t feel like the “pillars” that Big Eye and the residents of Tongzhi Town could create.
After all, big-eye seemed to have quite a low IQ; compared to Qin Zu and Shen Jiyue, it was far behind.
This place was so magical; was it because of the influence of Shen Jiyue’s power, or another reason?
Shen Jiyue was a god-level monster at the level of the sunshade; although Qin Zu was also at the same level, he was obviously much stronger than Shen Jiyue.
In the books in the library, there were actually bedtime stories related to Qin Zu’s past and future, which made him feel that this library had a higher level.
It shouldn’t be just a pillar-level space.
Mu Sichen raised his head and looked at the sky, which was a transparent cover with blue skies and white clouds floating outside. The sunshine was also very bright, but there was still a false feeling.
Someone on a motorcycle blimp paddled by in the air, and Mu Sichen immediately lowered his head and said to He Fei, “Lend me your helmet to wear.”
“Like it?” He Fei threw the helmet to Mu Sichen. “See how generous I am; I won’t be like you, who won’t even lend me an octopus doll.”
Mu Sichen: “……”
Since he could still mention the octopus doll, it seemed that He Fei shouldn’t have been contaminated, and even if he was tainted with something bad, it wouldn’t be too serious.
“Look at your dumbfounded appearance; let’s go. Brother Fei will take you to broaden your horizons.” He Fei led Mu Sichen into the only building near the square.
This was actually another library.
The library was still unmanaged and had several areas.
He Fei said, “This is the hub of the central world. My home is located here, and it’s also a book. In the residential area H5248, there will be a book when you start your mission.”
Mu Sichen followed him to the residential area and saw many books; the books only had numbers on them without names; some had white covers; some were black and white; and some were already pure black.
“What do the colors of these books mean?” Mu Sichen asked.
He said, “It’s the level. In the beginning, they are all white; the higher the level, the more colors they have, and it is said that those books that are all black are players who are already full level. I heard that after full level, the player can meet the main god and choose to go back to the original world or stay in a favorite book, and the main god can also grant him a wish.”
All black books had probably been absorbed by the ‘pillar’. Mu Sichen thought to himself.
In addition to the residential area, there were two other areas in the library.
Outside the two areas, there was a layer of fog. Mu Sichen tried to enter the two areas but was stopped by the fog, unable to move forward.
Mu Sichen had only stepped one foot in when he heard a system prompt.
[Player has consumed 1000 energy values; will you continue to enter?]
It was better to forget about it. Mu Sichen withdrew his foot.
He couldn’t afford to enter a place where he had to consume energy value to enter.
Mu Sichen was a pillar-level player nowadays anyway, except for not having an evil god as his backing; his level was about the same as the Feather-Eyed Dependent, Yao Wangping, and the others.
If he couldn’t enter these two areas, that meant that no matter if it was the dependent of the Big Eye who were originally guarding the library or the dependents of Shen Jiyue who were attempting to occupy the library, there was probably no way for them to enter.
“What are you doing? You can’t enter there.” He Fei found Mu Sichen and yanked the man back.
“I know you’re curious, but some places are dangerous.” He Fei told Mu Sichen, “I personally saw a very good-looking man try to enter this area, but he only took one step in, and one of his legs and one of his hands were gone. But he probably exchanged some special props, right? He was holding a mirror at that time, and the moment his hand and leg disappeared, that mirror shattered, and then his hand and leg grew back.”
“Handsome-looking?” Mu Sichen asked, “How handsome? Was he sunny, fit, brooding, or…”
He Fei revealed a very disgusted expression: “Why are you starting to be interested in men’s looks, ah? It’s not even the kind you’re talking about; it’s… how do I describe it? I’m not very good at describing men’s faces, and how could I observe men who are more handsome than me without looking closely? But that person, without me looking, gives people a very bright feeling. Seeing him is like seeing the moon.”
“God, why would I use such words to describe a man?”
He Fei couldn’t stand it and rubbed his arms.
His description reminded Mu Sichen of Shen Jiyue.
It was as if Shen Jiyue herself had come here.
It wasn’t that easy for god-level monsters to enter other realms, but the library was originally a realm that Shen Jiyue had just occupied, and it didn’t seem like it would be difficult for Him to come here.
In addition, when in Tongzhi Town, the person Mu Sichen was supposed to come into contact with was Shen Jiyue’s dependent. However, when he confronted Shen Jiyue in person later, although Mu Sichen didn’t dare to look back, the voice he heard, the tone of voice, and the feeling brought to him by the person behind him showed no difference between the Shen Jiyue he saw.
Shen Jiyue had a “spiritual dominator” title; perhaps he could directly control the minds of the dependents, using their bodies to enter any field.
If that was the case, then the enemy he would face wasn’t an ordinary dependent, but Shen Jiyue himself, who had suppressed his power to the level of a retainer.
Thinking of the things Shen Jiyue had done, Mu Sichen felt a headache.
This evil god was different from the big-eye; he was cunning and quiet. At times like a full moon flaunting its presence in the darkness of the night, at times like a crescent moon hiding in the starlight, making it difficult to discover His existence.
There were two types of power in the library: Big Eye and Shen Jiyue. Mu Sichen hoped to obtain more information and rules, first obtain Big Eye’s power, and then go to dig Shen Jiyue’s wall.
If it was targeted by Shen Jiyue at the beginning, this battle would be very difficult to fight.
Additionally, even Shen Jiyue attempted to enter those two areas but was unable to do so…
It seemed that the library was really more than just a simple pillar; there were so many, many mysteries hidden here.
“Why are you standing still again?” Seeing Mu Sichen standing still, He Fei heartlessly took his hand and led him to a black and white book. “I know you think this place is amazing and are observing and thinking. But don’t be in a hurry; first go back to my house; I’ll slowly explain.”
Slowly, half of He Fei’s book turned black. Looking at this book, Mu Sichen felt that he wasn’t far from death.
Mu Sichen would like to stop He Fei’s pollution, but he was still not clear about the rules within this “pillar.” He wasn’t clear where the pollution came from; he needed more information in order to clearly tell He Fei his current situation.
He Fei opened the book, and a door appeared in front of them.
“Amazing, isn’t it?” He Fei proudly invited Mu Sichen into his room.
It was a large flat building of four hundred square meters, and all the designs inside were full of technology.
There were robots that automatically handled household chores, a chef robot that was cooking, a gym, a study, a movie theater, and other rooms; it was truly a dream life.
“Coffee, tea, or coke?” He Fei asked, “Or ice water?”
“I won’t drink anything.” Mu Sichen looked at the three kinds of drinks and water delivered by the robots, suddenly remembering the first time he came to the game, there was an eye floating in the water given to the townspeople by his followers. He wasn’t thirsty, so he didn’t want to touch these things at all.
He Fei opened a can of ice cola and drank it.
Mu Sichen really wanted to stop him, but considering that He Fei had eaten plenty of times, stopping him at this moment would only be a drop in the bucket. It would be more convenient to just stick a self-sticker on him or hit him with the axe.
Fortunately, in the book “Embrace,” he borrowed the power of Qin Zu and got another 8-pillar-level self sticker.
With the stickers in his hand, Mu Sichen felt very confident that even if his opponent was Shen Jiyue, he still had a chance of winning.
He Fei drank a can of Coke, burped, and then said with a melancholic expression, “It’s been a long time.”
Mu Sichen: “……”
“Seeing that you’re so young, the real world probably hasn’t gone by for long, right? But you probably don’t know that I’ve already been in this world for a long time; I don’t know how many years have passed and how many kinds of life I’ve experienced.”
He looked out the window with some vicissitudes.
Mu Sichen: “……”
How many years had passed? A full count added up to no more than an hour and a half!
In this space, time was just an illusion. Just like how he seemed to have spent more than ten years with Qin Zu in Embrace, but in reality, it was the time it took him to fly through a storybook. A few hundred words was no more than five minutes.
Looking at the books that He Fei had read, several of them were fairy tales that could be finished in three to five minutes, and it only took Mu Sichen two to three minutes to read the endings of the two versions of The Little Colorful Fish.
Except for The Life of the Coffee Bean, which might take a little longer to read, which of the remaining books could take more than an hour?
He Fei smiled to himself, “You may not believe me when I say it; I was once a fish that swam in the water for a lifetime; I was once an ant that yearned for ice and snow in…”
“That’s enough,” Mu Sichen spoke out to stop He Fei’s words, deciding to wake up this roommate who was living in a dream, “He Fei, where’s your cell phone?”
“Here it is.” He Fei took out his cell phone and said, “This is probably my only connection to the real world; I’ve always taken good care of it; how many years has it been? It’s been maintained by me exactly the same as it was back then, and it doesn’t even have… Oh, it’s dropped by 12%; that’s just more than an hour’s worth of consumption yet.”
“Bring it,” Mu Sichen said.
He Fei handed his cell phone to Mu Sichen and smiled sagely, “There are a lot of chat records inside; if it were in the original world, I wouldn’t dare to let you see it. But now, I’ve been through countless worlds, and I’ve looked down on everything, so you can just look at it.”
“I’m not interested in looking.” Mu Sichen quickly opened the My Ideal Town app and clicked on his game group chat.
Sure enough, after entering the library, He Fei didn’t receive any of the questions asked by Chi Lian and Cheng Xubo, such as “How can you send messages from the game?” but it was Mu Sichen’s automatically sent book messages that He Fei saw.
Mu Sichen pointed to He Fei and said, “Come over here and take a look at the message records on this. The very first time you sent into the game was an hour and a half ago, and these next messages are the ones that the system automatically sends after every world you experience. Each message interval time is about 3-10 minutes ago; you have experienced a total of 1, 2, 3,… Coffee Bean’s life is 9, you later sent a Mars exploration message, a total of 10 messages; that is to say, you have experienced 10 worlds, read 10 books, and spent 1 hour and 37 minutes.
“You haven’t been using your cell phone during this period, and the range consumed 12% of the battery.”
“He Fei, think about it; have you been hungry since entering the game?”
“I’ve eaten a lot!” He Fei argued with Mu Sichen with a look of his three views being shattered.
Mu Sichen: “I’m not talking about what you’ve eaten; what I’m asking is, have you ever been hungry? Have you ever felt like going to the bathroom? Have you ever felt full after eating food?”
He Fei: “Right now, I kind of want to go to the restroom.”
Mu Sichen sighed, “After all, it’s been an hour and a half; it’s time to go to the restroom.”
He Fei touched his stomach. “I just finished a can of cola; it seems like I’m a little hungry.”
“What time did you eat dinner?” Mu Sichen asked.
He Fei: “You mean the night before entering the game? It’s been too long; the memory is already fuzzy. I have to have a good… Huh? I remember so clearly, ah, I ate at 6 p.m. or so.”
Mu Sichen nodded. “I’m not sure how the ratio of game and real time is, but after eating at 6:00 pm, entering the game at 9:00 pm, and reading for an hour and a half, it’s really time for a late-night snack.”
He Fei: “……”
Thank you for the chapter!