Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2180: Chapter 1024: Library_2

Yu Chen pecked at a grain of rice, seemingly impressed without understanding, and whispered, "If there were such a place back... uh, back home, I would definitely not let my mom come over."

Motan smiled and shrugged, "I get it, since reference books are great matches with most parents."

"For reference books, they’re basically concentrated in the three main halls here. This area has the most people and the lowest permission requirements. As long as it’s related to academics, even a first-year student like me can apply normally to come here and read."

A Dwarf Priest who appeared to be around forty but was actually fourteen shyly stroked his beard and pointed to the orange badge at his collar representing [Second-year - Grade Leader], and said with a smile, "Because the inner city is always semi-closed, each college has an array that leads directly to the three main halls here, although the permissions are quite tedious to process."

"Oh, oh!"

Motan and Yu Chen continued to mimic little chicks pecking rice, feeling fresh about this other-worldly academic daily life.

Not to be outdone, a Dwarf youth dressed as a Justice Sect Holy Temple Knight jumped to add, "But these three main halls are only a small part of this library. They form the low-barrier first area; behind them are twenty-five different types of areas, where generally only fifth-year students, those with enough credits, or those recommended by professional teachers can go to read."

"From Area Twenty-six to Area Thirty-five are deep zones."

A Beast Elf girl wearing a Law Enforcement Force uniform, making it hard to see her college and sect affiliation, pushed up her glasses and said softly, "Besides male and female student union presidents and some senior public organization cadres from each academy, most students must have at least a vice-chairman’s permit to enter; borrowing books out of there requires procedures that take at least two months."

Yu Chen instinctively shrank her neck, "Sounds impressive, just like the morgue’s cold storage at my old school... Ah!"

Her Highness the Saintess succeeded in attracting everyone’s attention, suddenly realizing her mistake and gave a brief cry, casting Motan a pleading look, accompanied by a ’QAQ’ message.

Motan, for the benefit of future roles for ’himself’ as Cole, resisted not responding to Yu Chen’s message.

"Ahahaha, it’s not really that amazing, Wang Yu, let me tell you, because of the identity of our Holy Church Union delegation, Academy City specially granted us some special permissions upon application."

Fyari, being loyal, diverts the topic with a hearty laugh, taking out two disc-like items resembling CDs and handing them to the pair, saying with a grin, "Just holding this, we can freely browse between Area One and Area Thirty-five, and we can even bring people!"

Motan quickly followed up seamlessly, "Oh wow, fully open access? That’s impressive!"

"No, no, no, it’s not entirely open."

Though she managed to change the topic, Fyari continued cheerfully explaining to the somewhat confused Motan, "Besides the basic zone with three main halls, mid-zones numbered 2 to 25, and deep zones numbered 26 to 35, there’s also the so-called ’Restricted Book Zone’ in this library!"

Motan and Yu Chen simultaneously paused, repeating in unison, "Restricted Book Zone?"

"Numbered Areas Thirty-six to Forty-five, collectively referred to as the Restricted Book Zone"

The Beast Elf girl in the Law Enforcement Force uniform slightly nodded, explaining, "The knowledge stored there... um, and much that’s not considered knowledge, is said to be very dangerous, some even capable of absorbing the reader’s soul or directly leading to a different dimension in the books there. Without special permission, no student can enter. Admittedly, although many legendary books are stored there, few are genuinely interested in such dangerous places."

Fyari grinned, showcasing a pale red CD-like pass, and bragged, "As official members of the delegation, I, Tom, and Lord Spurada each received a special pass, allowing us access to Areas Thirty-six, Thirty-seven, and Thirty-eight. Sadly, it can only be used personally; otherwise, it would certainly sell... uh, rent for a good price."

[My place.]

Motan lamented internally, regretting hearing about this.

The reason was simple, despite having zero interest in the Restricted Book Zone now, Motan, being very aware of ’self,’ could confidently predict that once his mental state shifts to ’Chaotic Neutral,’ the person in the Realm of Innocence named ’Tan Mo’ would definitely find interest in that place, and enormous interest at that!

Even amidst crisis and chaos, even when time is unavailable in every sense, Motan still knew ’he’ would definitely try to sneak into that mysterious Restricted Book Zone, with no retreat.

If only I could lose my memory...

Motan sighed deeply inside, gradually breaking the silence resulted from the Restricted Zone topic, smilingly asking his fellow companions, "Then we’ll leave it to you to show us around. But since it’s our first time in such a place, we do not know where to start, if possible, would you mind giving some pointers?"

"Hmm, how about showing us some things you’re normally interested in~"

Yu Chen, holding onto Motan’s arm, also gave everyone a bright smile, saying gently, "Can we count on you?"

Immediately, the companions selected by the three deans exchanged excited and cheerful glances.

Fyari, who intended to propose similarly from the start, smiled contentedly.

The situation was rather simple, leaving aside the initial welcome party; for a simple tour of the library, with so many receptionists available, let alone needing about twenty-odd attendants; there wouldn’t even be a need for guides, so a slight pondering indeed as Fyari’s meaningful ’and you can bring people!’ beforehand leads to an easy conclusion.

Consequently — they’re actually here for free books access.

Although none were interested in the seemingly bizarre Restricted Book Zone, being top-tier students in Academy City, the tools books housed in the three main halls, despite their abundance, were hard to satisfy these elites. In most cases, mid-zone... especially permits for deep zones were rather challenging to secure, and even achieving so demanded vast investments in time and effort, for poor returns.

In fact, none of the accompanying personnel had permissions to freely access deep zones.

Under this premise, thanks to being granted all pre-Restricted Zone permissions due to their trainee representatives’ status, and being able to bring others, Motan and Yu Chen’s representation was self-explanatory.

Despite the group lacking thick-skinned individuals, in mostly ’considerate’ Motan had long discerned everyone’s intention, not minding offering a gracious favor, thus directly giving a platform, speaking with latent meaning ’I’ll lead you where you want to look.’

The similarly clever Yu Chen also made the same choice simultaneously.

"Tut, you could charge some fare for piggyback reading..."

Fyari shook her head, muttering softly, then lightly clapped her hands, smiling, "Well, then, everyone could guide us to plan the tour route~"

...

Twenty-five minutes later

"Hello, excuse me..."

Motan hesitated a bit as he looked at the elderly gentleman ahead buried in books, curious as he asked, "Is this Area Thirty-one? I seemed to have gotten separated from my companions during teleportation."

"No."

"Ah? No?"

"This is Area Thirty-nine."

"Which thirties?"

"Area Thirty-nine, the fourth layer of the Restricted Book Zone."

Chapter One Thousand Twenty-four: End