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The first day in the game, Christmas Eve.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the Black and White Bear broadcast sounded in every room on time.

"Good morning~ Crew members of the Noah's Ark, a new day has begun, please go to the dining room to have breakfast in time, I wish you a happy day~"

Conan opened his eyes, startled, and immediately looked at the alarm clock next to him, only to see that the hour hand was already pointing to 7 o'clock. He was originally thinking about something that happened last night, but fell asleep at some point.

At this time, the sound of opening and closing the door came from outside one after another, and then there was a knock on the door of his room.

"Conan, are you awake?"

It was sister Xiaolan's voice.

"I'll get up right away!" Conan finished washing in a hurry and opened the door. Xiaolan was waiting outside the door. As the night passed, the girl's face seemed to regain her spirits, and she said to Conan with a smile, "Good morning, Conan. "

"Good morning."

It was already late when the two came to the restaurant, and there were not many people in the restaurant.

"The restaurant seems to basically only provide this kind of space food," Xiaolan looked at the windows where the food was served. They were basically semi-liquid food of various flavors that could be ingested directly. The instructions showed that they could directly provide the nutrition needed by the human body. , very convenient and fast, the disadvantage is that the taste is not very good.

"Even if there are other things, I guess everyone can't eat them. After all, we are in this kind of game." Conan said casually. At this time, he and Xie Ye came over with a yawn, took a pack of nutrient solution and left.

"Well... everyone is very anxious, although it is only natural." Xiaolan said with a wry smile.

Conan grasped Xiaolan's hand silently: "Let's go too, everyone should be at the place where we didn't finish watching yesterday."

Especially the library, after all, is the last words left by the panda, I was supposed to go in yesterday to see what's in it, but because of the late night time stipulated by Monokuma, I guess other people are also very concerned about it.

The two simply finished their breakfast and found the library in the corridor. By the way, they also saw many blocked corridors along the way, and it seemed that there was still an area that was not directly open.

The library that Panda mentioned is at the innermost part of a certain corridor, and there are several prominent characters written on it.

Library No. 1.

Number 1... Could it possibly mean number 2?

"Conan?" Xiaolan saw Conan stop and looked back at him.

"Ah, here we come." Conan quickly followed.

It is said to be a library, but it looks more like a regular library. Rows of mahogany bookshelves are neatly arranged, and all kinds of books are placed on it. The only difference from a regular library is that there are no labels for dividing areas.

There is no one at the library counter near the door, only a note is placed there, which says 'Only one book is allowed to be borrowed a day'. The opening hours of the library are from 9:12 am to [-]:[-] am. '

In addition, Conan also noticed that there were no monitors or screens in the library.

...Eh, could it be...

Conan called softly: "Monokuma?"

There was no answer, and no figure suddenly appeared.

"Did you find out? As expected of a super high school-level detective."

A voice sounded behind Conan, and Conan turned his head suddenly, only to find that it was a man in a sand-colored windbreaker, who seemed to be called...

"Mr. Dazai?" Conan called tentatively, pretending to be innocent, "What are you talking about? I just want to be called Monokuma."

Osamu Dazai glanced at Xiaolan next to Conan, but did not expose him, and said, "I tried it before, no matter how much I shout here, Monokuma can't seem to hear you." He paused, "Maybe he entered Not coming."

Conan's face changed: "Isn't that saying?"

"This is the only blind spot in the entire game," Dazai added to his unfinished words, "Maybe this is the important information that the panda desperately left us, an area that is not under the monitoring of the game."

"Of course, it's also possible that he deliberately made us think so. In fact, Black and White Bear still has the power to monitor this place, but he didn't show up on purpose."

"Hey, but why does Black and White Bear do this?" Xiaolan was puzzled.

"It may be to test whether we have the idea of ​​getting out of the game." Dazai smiled, and said softly, "Or, it is to provide us with a convenient space to play."

"What do you mean?"

"If this is a space where Black and White Bear cannot interfere, and there is no live broadcast to the outside, it means that what you do here will not be seen by outsiders... Just kidding."

However, no one thought it was a joke, and Conan and Xiaolan couldn't help but darken their expressions, and they couldn't help but be wary when they looked at other people around them.

In other words, if you do something here, people from the outside world, including Monokuma, will not know about it?

"However, this possibility is actually very small. According to Monokuma, only those who pass the game can survive, so the outside world must also know that the passer must have killed other people to survive... This also puzzles me This is contradictory to Black and White Bear's purpose of wanting us to kill each other. After all, not everyone has the courage to take on the identity of a 'murderer', especially those who have nothing to hide and expose their ugly desires to the public. in the public eye."

That's right, this is also what puzzled Conan. Human beings have bad roots, just like most murderers he encountered before, even if they made up their minds to kill, they would still keep a fluke mentality and use mechanisms like Disguising it as an accident or framing others is always an attempt to get rid of the punishment after killing.

But the content of the live game, that is to say, even if the so-called student referee is successfully concealed, as long as outsiders see that only one person survives, they must know that he killed the others. This is a huge limitation.

Or does Monokuma actually have other purposes that they don't know about?

Dazai said: "Well, but this is a bit far-fetched, although other possibilities have been listed, but this library is very likely to be like the panda said, he invaded the game to provide us with help, as long as you take it Just read a book and you’ll know.”

Just as Conan was about to pick up a book, Xiaolan grabbed his wrist suddenly. Conan looked up in astonishment, but saw Xiaolan shook his head at him with a smile, and took out a book first to read.

The book Xiaolan pulled out did not have a cover, or all the books here seemed to have no cover. Before Conan could stop her, Xiaolan's expression suddenly changed, her pupils looked hollow, and the book fell from her hands. fall.

"Lan!" Anxiously, Conan even forgot to call him 'Sister Xiaolan'.

"Don't worry, it will be fine in a while." Dazai said as if he had anticipated this scene in advance.

Sure enough, after half a minute, Xiaolan's eyes gradually recovered, but there was still fear in the eyes looking at the book: "This, here..."

"It's about some strange creatures or taboo knowledge," Dazai said softly, "I remember that Monokuma seemed to mention that this lady didn't seem to have contacted that world before."

Forbidden knowledge or creatures.

Conan almost immediately remembered what Meguro Era told him before.

'Some knowledge is a taboo just to read, once you know too much, your reason will slip into the abyss uncontrollably, so if you encounter such books, you must be cautious and careful...Huh?We keepers, haha, we naturally have a lot of collections in this area, but we can't tell you. '

'Because some secrets are best kept in the dark for a lifetime. '

Keeper.

Conan repeated this word in his heart again, with a serious expression on his face. He remembered that Meguro Era told him that the knowledge held by the secret keeper would not be revealed in a lifetime, so as not to cause inevitable disasters. Now, these precious The information is neatly placed here.

Does this mean that the Keeper is no longer able to protect this knowledge?Or maybe the panda wanted to pass on some information to them, but couldn't tell them directly because of the black and white bear, so they created the library?

Conan wanted to confirm something with Osamu Dazai, but when he looked up, he found that he had disappeared, and Xiaolan didn't continue to read the book, but looked at him with worried eyes.

"Xiao Lan... sister."

"Conan-kun, do you know something?" Xiaolan's expression contained deep worry, "The black and white bear said before that I am the only one here who has never been in touch with that world. What is that world? Why did I completely It is extremely dangerous not to understand what you are talking about.”

Oops.

Conan's heart skipped a beat, and he met Xiaolan's eyes nervously: "Sister Xiaolan..."

Just as he was trying to think about how to justify himself to get over this hurdle, Kunikida suddenly walked towards him.

"Sorry, can I interrupt for a moment, I have something I want to confirm with you, if possible, can I go to the restaurant for a while?"