Transform randomly in Kexue World

Chapter 437 Library in the Shadow

The staff would take them to the bathroom, which Conan had expected. Their adventure started when they stepped out of the bathroom. If Martin wanted to make the whole story more reasonable, it would mean that something in the bathroom caused the problem. They fell from the outside world into the inner world.

And such a thing is a mirror. The staff in black uniforms led them to stand in front of the mirror.

Seeing the world in the mirror that was consistent with reality, Conan confirmed his guess. The way the Library of Babel built a nearly infinite library space was to use mirrors. It is said that putting two mirrors together can create countless spaces. spatial method.

However, during the continuous reflection of light between the two mirrors, it will also be scattered in the air. In particular, blue light has a short wavelength and high energy and is more easily scattered. This is the main reason why the sky appears blue.

Therefore, in the deep space of the inner world, the light will be dimmer than the surface world, and the deeper the dark blue objects go, the closer they will be to black, and the normal light will also be faintly burnt yellow (Conan thought at first he was seeing " Adult Zone' later put on a yellow filter).

After all, Conan still didn't know whether the things in the so-called adult section were serious or not, because all the books he saw were gibberish.

But judging from the shelves of psychology books in the adult section, the contents are probably serious.

While thinking about useful and useless things, Conan stared at the world in the mirror, looking at the bathroom in the mirror, the ceramic tiles, the sink, the rusted stainless steel faucet, the staff in dark blue uniforms, and himself— —

Conan discovered that the staff in the mirror and his clothes had changed from black back to the normal dark blue, and at that moment they were pulled apart by the staff around him.

"But that's certainly not what a certain Mr. Detective wants, is it?"

But when I think about it being played by Martin both before and after, Conan burst into laughter.

Not only Article 10, but the other 11 to 14 also smell like something wrong, and I'm afraid they are also traps.

The paper ball was naturally the common rule that Tsugawa Hideharu threw away when he entered the library and was posted on the door.

Conan found some advertising cards with red covers on the newspaper rack at the entrance of the library. He walked over, picked up one and opened it. Inside was a complete reader's code, covering chapters 10-14 that Conan had not read yet. strip.

Then he first noticed a paper ball next to the trash can. And driven by intuition, he walked over and picked it up.

The face was the same as the one I saw before, but it was no longer in the stiff and terrifying state of a doll. He is very lively and seems to be a very kind and friendly person to children. At least he looks like an ordinary living person.

Therefore, the reason why the readers' rules that I discovered were torn apart should represent an implicit plot: the previous person who mistakenly entered the other world discovered that those rules were fake and tore off the fake parts.

For example, Article 10 of the Readers' Code. The code that Conan got before was torn apart, resulting in only half a sentence of Article 10. Now I can see the complete content: {Please always pay attention to your appearance in the library, provided by the librarian. Free mirror. }
But the common code has emphasized that you cannot look in the mirror, and now Conan has confirmed that looking in the mirror will lead to entering the other world by mistake. In this way, Article 10 of the Readers' Code has become a trap to induce readers - to be precise, this sentence only says that the administrator has a mirror, but does not say that you should look at it.

【You can’t look in the mirror anymore when you come back. 】 A voice of admonishment came to my ears. I looked up and saw a staff member in dark blue uniform bending over. His persuasive tone was very serious: "Don't look in the mirror again." 】

"Yeah." Conan jumped off the bench, ready to continue exploring the library.

The staff left the bathroom with the two children, and according to the rules, they were taken to the entrance of the library to wait to meet their family and friends.

Conan glanced at the library door: "If the purpose is to escape from here safely, now we only need to walk out of the door."

Now that Conan had a general understanding of the rules and gameplay of the library, the two boldly began to explore the library.

"You can't drink water..." After reading the sentence {Don't drink water that has left your sight} in the code, Conan looked at the water dispenser on the other side of the hall a little depressed: "I just wanted to drink water."

Haiyuan Ai still didn't speak, but she gave him sparse applause with dead eyes: "Yes, yes, you are great."

Unlike the empty world in the inner world, there are still quite a lot of [people] in the outer world, including busy staff, readers reading books, and a large number of staff in black uniforms.

They walked up the stairs to the lobby on the first floor and asked them to sit on the benches in the lobby. The staff then left and returned to their posts.

On the way, Haihara Ai watched as the employees in blue uniforms and the employees in black uniforms were clearly separated from each other and had no contact with each other. Moreover, paying attention to the details, it could be seen that the blue uniforms were actively avoiding the black uniforms, while the black uniforms completely ignored the blue uniforms.

Then Conan remembered, looked at Haibara Ai aside, and said in a show-off manner: "Look, I was right, right? In fact, I can be trusted."

However... these rules are not meant to be followed blindly, there are even traps in them.

Although dangers are triggered along the way, in the outside world, those anomalies will not turn into monsters and chase humans like in the inner world. Danger can be dealt with as long as you follow the requirements of the rules or ask for help from the staff.

For example, after pulling out a book from the bookshelf, they suddenly found the library director Hideharu Tsugawa standing on the opposite side of the bookshelf, staring at them with red eyes. But just regain your composure and follow the rules {remember you will never see anyone on the opposite bookshelf. } Just pretend not to see it, that’s not the real curator.

In the outside world, you can occasionally hear staff in black uniforms talking to you, but you must not respond in any way. If they block the way, they will simply lie to the air and claim that they saw "garbled characters" in a certain area. These black uniforms The staff will hear it and rush to that direction to confirm.

In a study room, they discovered that the rules posted outside the study room and the rule sheet inside were numerous and contradictory.

A piece of paper was found in the gap between the bookshelves, with scrawled writing on it: {Blue is black, children are adults, you are children}
Then I found a staff manual from a staff desk.

"Even the staff manual is obviously problematic." Conan was a little surprised by this: "The numbers at the end of rule 11 start from 9 again. Considering that the previous rules talk about the children's area as if nothing happened, it should also be used as a trap. Fake rules.”

"Creating traps here means that these rules are also for 'players' to see. It seems that Mr. Detective has found the right direction." Haihara Ai behind him yawned: "But can it be faster? I have already tired."

"No problem, let's go to the last stop." Conan put down the employee handbook: "Go to the third floor."

Taking the stairs to the third floor, the two of them saw the same scene as Tsugawa Hideharu. The glass wall and door of the children's area were completely sealed with bricks.

"No problem, let's go this way." Conan was completely as expected and led Haihara Ai deep down the corridor, twisting and turning to another room. "Adult area?" Haiyuan Ai looked at the sign on the door and raised an eyebrow: "Is it available on every floor?"

"Before you go in, think carefully about where else is this place?" Conan hesitated.

Haihara Ai was a little dissatisfied, but after recalling it, when the two of them and Martin were looking for books here during the day, there must be no adult section here. So which section was this originally?
In order to facilitate recall, Haiyuan Ai picked up the map in his hand (ready to tear off the escape props in the dotted line part of the map at any time) and prepared to compare the map and think about it.

At this glance, Haihara Ai realized something was wrong. There was a subtle deviation between the map and the real situation. The length ratio of several corridors was wrong. Their current location was different from the location of the adult area on the map, or rather Here is actually——

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh roles", Conan signaled her to be silent with a cryptic look on his face: "if you say it easily, you might disturb someone - although I think the game should be over by now."

Conan opened the door.

The layout of the adult area is exactly the same as that of the adult area in the other world - it is the world in the mirror after all.

It's just that there are a bit too many staff inside. There is only one staff member in blue uniform, and the black staff from the other world are almost crowded here.

Seeing someone coming in, the staff in blue uniforms came over, presumably thinking that the two children needed help.

"Hey, this is the children's book section, right?" Conan said firmly to the person in front of him, as if he was talking to Martin.

I sealed the original walls and doors of the children's area, fine-tuned the layout of this floor, walked around the corridor for a while, walked to the opposite wall, and opened a door with a different orientation than before. This is what is called The adult area is located.

"If I continue to search here and find places similar to the curator's office, I should be able to find a more detailed origin story." Conan said confidently: "But I can't afford the details. It's enough to figure out what happened here. ?”

The staff in blue uniforms who were originally still vividly asking "What is this kid talking about?" had changed their expressions at this time, while the other staff in black uniforms in the adult area had disappeared.

"The Library of Babel uses mirrors to create a nearly infinite space to store books, and then selects the readable books to form all possible books in the world from the past to the future and place them in the surface world."

In the context of a fantasy worldview, there is no need to delve into how books are produced and selected, or how the mirror world is realized.

“But among all the possible combinations of books, in addition to the human-readable parts, there are also combinations similar to virus codes, and then some kind of weird existence appears in the world in the mirror and invades reality, right? "

Conan showed the various rule sheets collected in his hand: "All the problems revolve around the children's area, because the problem first broke out from the children's area, and these weird existences are very 'innocent'. When they are in the children's area, The force will be strong, but as long as they think this is not a children's area, they will quiet down."

The repeated emphasis on the non-existence of the children's area on various rule sheets is not to deceive readers, but to deceive these weird beings who think they are children.

"At first glance, the problem here can only be solved by closing the children's area, but the world in the mirror is almost infinite. Unless this place is demolished and rebuilt, it is impossible to close all the children's areas with human power. We can only send staff to start from the shallow level, The children's area is sealed off layer by layer to guard against and defend against those monsters that can assimilate people into books. The red gloves are made of materials that can effectively suppress monsters, and the red uniform should be used to go deep into more dangerous places. This material is used all over the body. Made from a variety of materials...the library eventually became the operational state we see now.”

"——That's what your script is, right?" Conan looked proud of his victory.

"Emmm... I can't be wrong about the parts that have been deduced, but overall it's regrettably small." The staff member in blue clothes - Martin, to be precise, said with a look of disgust, and then pointed to the psychology section. Bookshelf: "I'll give you another resurrection. Go read a book and then get out and investigate again."

"How is that possible!" Conan raised his little fist, not believing that there was anything wrong with his reasoning, and making it clear that he didn't want to continue playing.

Martin shook his head: "Speaking of great detective, you seem to think that you have to crack my game before you can continue to investigate the conspiracy of the ugly guy, the curator, and the location of the body?"

"Eh?" Conan seemed to know what was going on.

Haihara Ai, who was already yawning, opened her eyes slightly and became a little more interested.

Martin suddenly walked to the bookshelf of the psychology train, first took out a book and threw it to Conan: "You will be punished to read it completely and make up for it later."

Conan took it, thinking that this was already a part open to the public, and the books were no longer garbled. It was just a good time to see what the books here were. When he opened it, he found that the content was "The Prime Minister's Seven Captures of Megatron". 》.

Recalling that he seemed to have fallen asleep while Martin was reading, Conan looked like he was ghosted: "Are you just trying to force me to read your book?"

"No." Martin said with his eyes closed, taking out another book from the bookshelf and throwing it to Conan.

Conan took the second book and found that the cover of this book was not the uniform black textured paper cover in the library, but an imported book with patterns and foreign languages ​​- these were the imported books that Tsugawa Hideharu had flipped through in the children's book section. .

Are these books just put on the bookshelf? Conan moved over involuntarily, and then discovered Tsugawa Hideji's trick of placing three rows of books on the bookshelf.

It turned out that he was so close to what he wanted to investigate... Conan had a cold sweat on his head.

"By the way, if the psychology major bookshelf were to have two columns, I would move all these books to the second column and put them on the surface." Martin added: "As for what they are... to me It’s so boring that it’s not worth mentioning. Just open it and see for yourself.”

Conan also noticed that the book in his hand did not have a back, but was actually a book-shaped box.

After opening the box and seeing a packet of white powder inside, Conan understood everything.

"First, start with the correction from the origin." Skipping Hideharu Tsukawa's drug-hiding techniques, Martin directly explained his script: "The origin of the weirdness is that a child studying in the children's area came into contact with scattered drugs and accidentally ingested it. Well... Let’s make one fat, one thin, one short, and two cute little girls.”

"Oh." Yidai said with dead eyes.

"Then there is the setting of the staff. The so-called depth of the world actually symbolizes the degree of understanding of the curator's activities." Martin continued: "The blue clothes represent people who have no idea about hiding drugs. They are very ordinary. Black clothes represent people who are vaguely aware of this, but choose to remain silent, so don’t talk to people in black clothes. As for people in red clothes that you haven’t seen yet, it means that you have a deep understanding of the matter and are committed to it. The person who paid the price is Mr. Tamada.”

(End of this chapter)