Chapter 26: The Great Escape - 26
Zhou Fan woke up and went to work the next day. Since yesterday was Monday, he had 4 more days before the weekend. Zhou Fan was off on the weekends.
Even though librarians didn't work on the weekend, the library was still open. They have an entire team of people to replace the librarians on the weekends.
Zhou Fan soon made it to Lu Chen's office and announced his arrival. Afterwards, he went to the 7th floor and checked out a book. The book was a philosophy book written by a man named Confucius. It was called the Analects.
According to the person he checked it out from, Confucius was a man considered almost on par with agregot wuksen. However, he lacked the ambition to become a truly great historical figure. Instead, he focused on the way he treated himself and others, along with having a pure heart and pure intentions. Someone could make a religion out of that.
After checking out the book, Zhou Fan went to his section and officially started his duty. He cleaned up the entire area in around 5 hours. In that time, a couple of people had asked him questions and one of his coworkers had introduced himself. His name was Wagu and he came from another empire.
He had chosen to explore the world at a young age and eventually settled down here. According to their brief conversation, he had visited more than 5 empires. That was more than most people would visit in their whole life!
Since he was done, Zhou Fan sat down at his desk and started to read the book he checked out at the pace of an average person. After a while, Zhou Fan had to admit that the book was interesting. In fact, it contained many ideas he never thought of.
It also contains ideas that you may have thought of, but been unable to put into words or cement into your mind. Either way, Zhou Fan didn't put too much importance on it. Although it would be better if people listened to his teachings, Zhou Fan had no such expectations.
"Hello." A voice sounded out.
Zhou Fan looked up and noticed a short girl with glasses standing in front of his desk. She looked to be around 10 years old.
"Are you lost?" Zhou Fan asked.
"No. But I have a question." She said.
Zhou Fan had many questions running through his mind. Is this girl allowed up here? Does she have a silver card? Why is she here alone?
After a little while, Zhou Fan simply gave up. He realized he didn't care enough about this to put any more thought into it.
"What's your question?" Zhou Fan asked the little girl.
"Which bookshelf has information on the grot empire?"
"Follow me." Zhou Fan said. It was hard to point out where to go since the bookshelves are so close together.
"Here. This bookshelf has information on the grot empire, the yuit kingdom, and the Fut tribe." Zhou Fan pointed out.
"Thank you." The girl said while Zhou Fan was walking away.
Zhou Fan had almost decided to ask what she was doing here. Although he had only been working here for 2 days, he assumed that you didn't see a 10-year-old child every day.
Zhou Fan sat back down at his desk and picked his book back up. It wasn't too long before he was interrupted by the shouts of a few men.
"Hey! Stop right there!" 3 men in security outfits screamed.
Zhou Fan once again saw the 10-year-old girl. Only this time, she was running away from the security guards. When Zhou Fan saw that, he inwardly wondered if he would get in trouble for allowing her to be up here.
The commotion soon died down and Zhou Fan started to read his book again. Once again he was interrupted. This time, it was by the three security guards from earlier.
"Sorry to bother you, but have you seen a little girl about 4 feet tall? We last saw her run into this section."
Zhou Fan was surprised to hear that. He hadn't noticed any such thing happening.
"No sirs. I haven't been paying much attention to my surroundings." Zhou Fan said nicely.
"Ok, sorry to bother you." The man said before the three once again ran off.
After the consecutive interruptions, Zhou Fan started to pay attention to his surroundings. All of a sudden, he noticed a head peek out from under his desk. Zhou Fan almost jumped in shock when it suddenly came out.
"Hello." The familiar face said. It was the girl from before.
Zhou Fan was surprised that he didn't notice her going under there. It seems that he really needs to pay more attention to his surroundings when reading.
"Are you a ninja or something?" Zhou Fan asked. He had heard about them in a couple of books he previously read.
"No. But I have been sneaking around since I was young." She said.
'You're still young' Zhou Fan inwardly thought.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Fan inquired.
"I'm hiding."
"Obviously. Why did you come to this floor in the first place?" Zhou Fan asked.
"To read." The girl said simply.
Zhou Fan was starting to get a headache. He should've known it was a bad idea to try to make sense to a child.
"Nevermind. Can you leave?"
"Yes sir. Goodbye." She said while sneaking off.
Zhou Fan couldn't help but laugh to himself. It seemed that this job is much more interesting than he thought.
After the commotion had actually settled, Zhou Fan stopped reading and started to clean the area in preparation for closing. By the time he finished, the library had closed.
Zhou Fan walked up to Lu Chens' office and bid him farewell before going home.
When he made it home, he got on his bed and started cultivating. Although he still felt progress, it is getting much slower to break through into the next levels. However, Zhou Fan wasn't in a rush. As far as he knew, he would be the only cultivator for a while. There should be no chance for anyone to surpass him.
Chapter 27: A New Species? - 27
The rest of the week passed by in a flash. Before Zhou Fan knew it, it was already friday. As he was putting the last book back on the shelf, he looked at the clock and noticed that it was time to leave. Zhou Fan said goodbye to Lu Chen before he headed home.
When he arrived, Zhou Fan didn't waste any time. He immediately went down the hole and made it back to his beasts.
When they saw him, they all ran to him in excitement. If they were dogs, their tongue would be out, and their tails would be wagging. Zhou Fan had recently come to the conclusion that the beasts were young. Although they were huge, he had a feeling they were almost as young as him.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy to tame them. He also wondered where their parents were. Maybe they all died after giving birth? Did the beasts come out of an egg?
Either way, Zhou Fan wasn't too concerned. Since he had the weekend off, Zhou Fan decided to further explore the cave with the beasts.
Although it seemed like he had explored it all last time, Zhou Fan realized that there were a bunch of tunnels that led to unknown places. Perhaps there were hundreds of caves like this.
For a while, Zhou Fan had wondered why no one else had discovered these places. After a short time of thinking, however, he realized that the snakes in the tunnel were enough to kill any trespasser. Even an army.
Also, they were even present in the other tunnels. Now that he was on the topic, Zhou Fan was worried that the snakes would attack the beasts. It would be bothersome to protect them all while traveling. However, Zhou Fan was confident that he could do it.
After resting with the beasts for a while, Zhou Fan decided to waste no more time. He set off to one of the random tunnels. Specifically, the tunnel most opposite to the one he came in through. When he reached the tunnel, Zhou Fan prepared to test out the snake's reaction to the beasts. He sent Zhuque in since he had the best healing ability.
Contrary to his expectations, Zhou Fan was astonished to see that the snakes had no interest in Zhuque. Even when he stepped on them, they wouldn't react. Maybe it's because they were born down here.
Although one could come to the conclusion that the snakes simply didn't attack, Zhou Fan had already tested that.
On Thursday, he threw a deer into the pit. The moment it hit the ground, it was covered, killed, and eaten by the snakes. Hence why Zhou Fan was surprised to see that they didn't attack Zhuque.
When Zhou Fan sent in the rest of the beasts, they still didn't attack. In fact, when Xiaolong stepped in, they started to make a path. Even then, it didn't seem like they were scared of him. It was more like an instinctual reaction.
Since the path was cleared, Zhou Fan lit a fire ball on his palm and walked on the ground with the rest of the beasts. One thing to be amazed at was the fact that there was no poop on the ground. They might just have a poop hole or something.
They continued walking on for an hour before they could see some light at the end of the tunnel. They slightly sped up their pace in anticipation.
When they finally broke through, they were amazed to see a cave the size of the last one. The most obvious difference was the giant crystal hanging from the center of the ceiling. Instead of blue, it shone a green light. The green was similar to the light of healing Zhou Fan created earlier. However, just like the last crystal, it contained no Qi whatsoever.
Another easy to spot difference was that, unlike the previous cave, this one had a single terrain. Forest. It was lush, green, and in the center stood a giant tree. Although the other trees had varying sizes, this one was more than 5 times bigger than the second biggest.
It almost touched the giant green crystal hanging from the ceiling.
All of a sudden, Zhou Fan noticed a wooden arrow shooting at him from afar. Although it seemed slow to him, it was going quite fast. When it reached him, he grabbed it with his hand and started to look at it. As he was doing so, he shot out a massive ball of water in the direction the arrow came from. It wasn't enough to kill the attacker, but it will put them out of commission.
GLULP!
The water hit the area and destroyed a fair amount of trees around it. Zhou Fan was quickly done examining the arrow. It was roughly made, but it could've killed a normal human if it hit them in a vital area.
Zhou Fan signaled to the beasts to go over to the area of impact as he quickly flew there. When he arrived, he noticed three people knocked out on the ground. 2 men and a woman. In fact, he couldn't call them people. Or at least in a human sense.
They looked like most humans he had met and the only difference was their long pointy ears. Examining them, Zhou Fan saw that once again, they contained no Qi in their bodies.
After looking at them for a while, Zhou Fan quickly made up a name, which he was used to by now.
"Elves." He proclaimed.
Although they seemed similar to humans on the outside, Zhou Fan wondered if their insides were the same. Before anything else, Zhou Fan almost wanted to experiment on them. He wondered if like the beasts, they would need their own special kind of Qi.
Or maybe they were similar to humans. At least, what he assumed humans could do. He resisted the faint urge to cut them open and once again splashed water on their faces in order to wake them up. This time, he made it icy cold.
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