The world controlled by dice [Western Fantasy]

In a dark, shabby, dusty antique bookstore, a middle-aged man with beard was lazily sitting behind the counter, wearing a slightly old suit and glasses, looking at a book with yellowed paper .

The wind chime hanging at the door rang, indicating that guests were coming.But the middle-aged man didn't raise his head, nor did he get up, he just said casually: "Look around, if you need anything, please call me."

Then, he continued to bury his head in the books.

After Siles walked into the bookstore, he looked around.

This is a small bookstore.According to the text on the door frame, it should be called "Grenfell Antique Bookstore".There are two rows of bookshelves and a few tables in the store, and many books are stacked crampedly, but none of them are brand new, but books that smell of old ink.

This bookstore did not appear in Yuanshen's memory.

Siles put the black long-handled umbrella at the door, and looked for the books he wanted as the boss greeted him.He didn't know why the sound of dice appeared in his mind just now.

He tried to talk to the dice in his mind, looking for the existence of the dice, but to no avail.Finally, he decided to walk into this bookstore.

He first noticed the obsolescence of the books.Old does not necessarily mean old, but it definitely means that the bookstore owner is very old.According to the knowledge records in the brain, after entering the Middle Ages of Fog, people only started to use printing for the first time nearly 300 years ago.

The era in the fog is the era they are in now.Before the Wuzhong Ji was the Silent Ji.Silence's literature is exactly where Siles is specialized.

He scanned the books in this bookstore a little critically, and found that most of them were books from this era.

He didn't really expect that there would be ancient books about Silence in this store, but for various reasons, he asked the always silent boss: "Excuse me, are there any books related to Silence?"

The middle-aged man immediately raised his head when he heard the words, and looked at Sirius with a slightly strange gaze.Then he said, "Yes." He casually raised the book in his hand, "This is it."

Siles walked to the front of the counter, glanced down at the gray-black stains and dust on the counter, and just asked, "Can I see it?"

The expression of the middle-aged man was even weirder, he muttered something, looked at the young man with calm face, black hair and black eyes in front of him, hesitated for a moment, then put the book in front of Sirius.

"What's your name?" Siles asked while looking down at the book.

"Grenfell, you can call me Glen." Grenfell said casually, "I have to ask, why are you interested in the book of Silence?"

"I study the literature of the Silence Period." Siles replied.

He already understood what the book was about.It is not the original of the Silent Chronicle literature, but the works of contemporary scholars. The content introduces several famous works of the Silent Chronicle, which are similar to guide books.

It's a bit basic for Siles, but seems like a good primer for students taking his courses.He was thinking about the list of books he made for those students.

Then he realized that Grenfell seemed to have been silent for too long.

He raised his eyes and looked at Grenfell.

The middle-aged man looked at him with an unfathomable look.

Siles was slightly stunned, and then asked, "Why do you look at me like this?"

Is there anything wrong with studying the literature of the Silence Period?

Grenfell stroked his brown beard, and then muttered as if he was talking to himself: "Silence...literature...um...no, no, this won't work..."

Siles glanced at him, lowered his eyes again, and turned to the title of the book, "Three Blasphemous Novels of the Silent Period and Brief Discussion on Their Thoughts", and he wrote down the name.

At this time, Grenfell had already made a decision, he pulled out the drawer, took out a business card from the drawer, and handed it to Siles: "Here you are."

Siles took it and glanced down.

"Ramifa Historical Society. Vice President, Joseph Morton."

Grenfell said, "I don't have what you want here, but I can give you this business card." There was a hint of hint in his tone, "This can be regarded as a semi-official organization."

Siles narrowed his eyes, and the sound of dice rolling came again in his head.

[You need to make a knowledge judgment. 】

[Knowledge: 45/80, failed. 】

[You failed to get any information from this ordinary business card.You think you should find the person on the business card. 】

Triggered another judgment?What is the mechanism that triggers the judgment?

In the running group, usually the players ask the host for a judgment; in some special cases, the host will take the initiative to give the players a judgment.

But no matter what, the two judgments that Siles encountered so far were triggered automatically, like a rigid computer program.

What kind of script is he in?Who is making such a judgment for him?

Should he get any information from this business card?But this is just a person in charge of the Historical Society, what can he bring to Siles?An ancient book from the Silent Era?literature?

Siles thought while thanking Grenfell.

He felt confused and vigilant, but the dice in his pocket stayed there peacefully, as if nothing had happened.Finally, Siles left the bookstore with the name of a book and a business card.

At this time, it was almost nine o'clock, and Siles hadn't had breakfast yet.While waiting for the carriage at the stagecoach stop in Logan Market, he bought a small piece of bread from a nearby bakery and swallowed it with a little difficulty.

He pondered in his heart, even though he will leave West City in another week, how he will spend this week is also a question.

The original is an outstanding student, and he can get a scholarship every year, and his mother will also send living expenses every semester.However, during the time he was looking for a job after graduation, the rent and living expenses had exhausted his savings.

The legal currency used by the Principality of Const, where Lamifa City is located, is called "Duke Coin", which is a light coin made of precious metals.Comparing the currencies on the earth horizontally, Siles believes that the duke coin is roughly equivalent to 100 yuan.

There are also marquis coins equivalent to 10 yuan, and earl coins equivalent to 1 yuan.

Most of the conversion units in this world use the decimal system, 1 Duke coin = 10 Marquis coins = 100 Earl coins, the conversion is quite convenient.For He Jiayin, a native of Earth, it was very convenient and he was greatly relieved.

There are also banknotes.However, the denomination of banknotes is larger.Commonly used are the hundred-dollar note, which is equivalent to one hundred dukes, and the ten-dollar bill, which is equivalent to ten dukes.

Now Siles still has three ten-coin bills, four duke coins, and some marquis and earl coins. All the deposits add up to about forty duke coins.

The simplest and crudest way of saying it is that forty duke coins can allow him to live in Lamifa City for forty days.But that was when the living conditions were stable.

He is about to enter the job and needs to purchase teaching materials, professor clothing, daily necessities, and also needs to prepare in advance for academic writing after entering the job.Even if some of them can be reimbursed by the school, it cannot be said that forty duke coins are enough.

After all, wages are paid at the end of the month after school starts.His monthly salary was fifty dukes.

Siles sighed slightly in his heart, and swallowed the last bite of bread worth one earl coin.At this moment, the stagecoach drove over along a specific track, dragging the two carriages behind.

Siles opened his pocket watch and took a look, and found that the time was exactly nine o'clock.He stepped into the carriage with several other passengers.There is no place to sit in the carriage, so I can only stand like this.

The carriage moved along a fixed track and route, and the speed was not fast, and it had to stop and unload passengers from time to time.The cabin shook violently, and there was a strange smell from time to time, but every passenger was used to such a bad ride experience.

It took about two hours before Siles arrived at his destination - Ramifa University.

Lamifah University is located in the northeast corner of the entire Lamifah City, very close to the outskirts of the city. The main body is a large building similar to a castle.

It is said that this place used to be the castle of a nobleman, but when Lamifa built the city and planned to build a university, the nobleman donated the building.

Surrounding the main castle, there are a number of other buildings, including a greenhouse, sports field, library, and more.The dormitory that Siles will be moving to is located in a low-rise complex on the west side of Lord Lamifa's castle.

Entering the campus, a kind of liveliness and vitality that is different from the old city will be exuded.

Some students who returned to school early wore the school uniforms of La Mifa University, and walked past Siles happily, thinking that Siles was also a student, and greeted him.

Siles smiled slightly and nodded towards them without explaining the misunderstanding.

Originally, he had been a student at Ramifa University for four years. He was an ordinary literature student for the first two years, and became a research scholar for the last two years.Siles realized that his former juniors and juniors would appear in most of his classes.

After a while, he walked across the large lawn in front of the main castle, and entered the inside of the castle from the main entrance hall.This ancient building, which was built in the Silent Era, exudes a thick and deep aura, which made Sirius calm down the moment he entered it.

The office of the professor of literary history is located on the fourth floor, which is a small independent office.

In this world and in this era, although there are universities, there are no "science majors" like in Siles' hometown. Most of the majors in universities are literature, history, philosophy, language, political geography and the like.

The education system in the university is divided into two parts as a whole, one part is basic education, the other part is advanced education, which adds up to a total of four years. The arrangement is roughly similar to the undergraduate study and postgraduate study on the earth, but the latter still follows the old one. apprenticeship system.

Schools and teachers and students refer to advanced education students as "apprentices" internally, and externally as "research scholars". The concept is similar to that of graduate students on earth.

Siles is a new professor, and he also needs to take on apprentices, and he doesn't have many options.After school starts, he will know who the students he is going to lead are.

... He hoped to be a student who was easy to get along with.

Apart from the apprenticeship, Siles also needs to take charge of two public elective courses and two professional elective courses within the School of Literature and History.Since his entry was very hasty, after the interview yesterday afternoon, he only had a general understanding of his future responsibilities.

... Seriously, it seems even more incredible that he can become a professor.How hastily did the professor leave before he needed a freshly graduated apprentice to become a professor within a week?

With this in mind, Siles opened the office that the professor had used before with a key.

As soon as the door opened, he could smell the smell of old books.Dull air was poured into his nostrils along with the dust, making Sirius frown involuntarily.

Looking at the messy scene in this office, he sighed slightly after a while.

Books and paper were randomly scattered in this room of more than ten square meters, the ink was spilled, and the feathers of the quills were all tattered.Desks and chairs were overturned, and books and objects on the bookshelves fell randomly on the floor.

The sofa is full of messy paper balls and scraps of paper, showing a mess.

How hurried and anxious was the former owner of this office when he left?

Siles wondered for a moment whether he should go in or not.

"Cilles, aha! I guessed that you would come today!" An old but energetic voice came from the distant stairs in the corridor on the fourth floor.

Siles looked sideways, then smiled: "Professor Bright."