High Above

"The Book of Silver Glory is here? It takes no effort to get it."

When Ian saw the label of this book, he immediately began to look at it carefully - the sacred sacrificial book of the Dragon Worshiping Mountain People of Nanling was placed here, and adjacent to it was the "Breaking Cocoon" originally written by the Butterfly People of Icewind Valley. "Rebirth", the "Prayer of Charel (God of War of the Nomads)" of the nomads of the Golden Plains, the serpent worshiping cult document "The Perfect Enemy" that once caused great trouble in the central region, and probably the other side of Junling Castle A classic book "Daliga Divine Casting Declaration".

All in all, they are all trophies obtained by the empire during its conquests and development. They are carefully placed here. It is not known whether they are used as research materials or as commemorations. In short, the protection is quite strong, and many books are as lifelike as new.

But that didn't stop Ian from touching it and copying its contents.

To be honest, Mo Feng and Earl Phoenix understood Ian's behavior very well - how could a book lover resist the opportunity to touch these precious classics?

Anyway, there is a protective inscription here, and there is no loss if you touch it, and there is no problem in reading it, but Ian is not that overstepped, so they don't think it's a big deal.

Only Hua An saw some clues. Miss Goblin frowned slightly and whispered: "This guy's eyes will glow silver every time he touches a book. What is his spiritual power? It can't be some ordinary observation." Psychic!"

Of course, the whisper is a whisper, Hua An doesn't care what the other party's psychic power is, she is just a little dissatisfied with Ian hiding it from her... But who doesn't have secrets? So that's pretty much it, goblins never get to the bottom of things.

Ian originally thought that the mission was completed very smoothly. The Dragon Cult did not ask him to take back the Book of Silver Glory at all. He only needed to tell them where it was - this goal has been achieved.

However, when Ian stretched out his hand and touched the book that exuded a faint silver light, he frowned slightly.

The young man turned his head and looked at the old Earl who was communicating with Mo Feng in a low voice. Earl Phoenix raised his head strangely and said, "What's the matter, Mr. Ian? Do you want to read that book?"

He smiled. Young people who are willing to ask their elders for instructions before taking action are always welcome: "Please, but don't read it for too long. The protective inscription is only effective for five minutes. After five minutes, you have to put it back and wait." It will take ten minutes for the inscription to be charged before you can read it again."

Except for research time, the protection of inscriptions in the collection room does not work all the time, which also brings some trouble to those who want to read the contents of the books for free - after all, they can only read for five minutes at a time, which is incoherent reading. You may not be able to read part of it in one day, and those who want to extend their reading time will be noticed by the administrator and evicted from the collection room.

Ian obviously didn't look strange because of this matter. He picked up the Book of Silver Glory, flipped through it a few times, and after confirming its content, he put it back.

"This was a rubbing made later, right? Lord Earl."

He stared at the bookcase and asked with some confusion: "Will there be rubbings in the rare and unique book collection room? Or is it that the real Book of Silver Glory has been used for research, so a fake is placed here?"

"Rubbing? Fake?!"

Ian didn't feel anything was wrong when he said this. He just realized that the book was indeed a rubbing. Although the content should be correct, the energy contained in the entire book was the life energy of a steel-skinned earth dragon. , rather than the ancient dragon's power.

Although Ian didn't know whether the Book of Silver Glory contained the power of the steel dragon from back then, but no matter what, it shouldn't be a steel-skinned earth dragon. At least he must be a serious dragon species, right?

But what he felt was wrong was already the biggest insult to Earl Phoenix. For a moment, the old man - to be honest, even Ian could only barely sense the moment when the other party used the essence - a moment later, he Appearing in front of Ian, he took out the Book of Silver Glory from the protective shelf with a gentle but apparently impatient force.

He carefully flipped through this sacrificial text written by the Dragon Worshipers. The old man had already become familiar with the contents of all the solitary copies during so many years of safekeeping. He could even recite all the books word for word. He was 100% sure. , there is no problem with the content of this Book of Silver Glory.

But just when Earl Phoenix raised his head in confusion and was about to ask Ian why he said that, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Yes, when I picked up this book, I could still feel the power of the ancient dragon, and I almost fell to the ground. But now, although my strength has made a huge breakthrough compared to the past, I still can't compete with the ancient dragon god of the Nanling mountain people. Far from it - its power cannot be so weak..."

Earl Phoenix muttered to himself, he completely believed what Ian said about 'fake'... but how could it be possible? Who has the ability to secretly replace such an important ancient book under his nose? !

"Is it a trick of the Dragon Worship Cult?" The old earl narrowed his eyes, and golden-red flames lit up in his red eyes, exuding an astonishing sense of oppression.

Ian didn't say anything. He didn't know who did it, but it was definitely not the Dragon Worship Cult. If the Dragon Worship Cult had such ability, why would there be any need to entrust him to check on the situation?

"It's the mole!"

Earl Phoenix had obviously thought of this. His sudden anger and oppression caused the entire Imperial Capital Library to sound an 'attack warning', and dark red warning lights lit up inside the entire library. But soon, he used his authority to shut down the attack warning and replaced it with an orange 'theft' warning.

The library was declared closed, and not long after, more than 70 members of the Book Guarding Knights who guarded the Imperial Capital Library gathered around the collection room. The staff looked at each other with fear on their faces and stayed aside - they We already know what happened. The rare and unique books in the collection room were stolen. This is undoubtedly the fault of everyone present. The punishment for salary reduction is probably small, and all unimportant employees will probably be fired.

Who wants to be called ‘irresponsible’ and be fired? What's more, working in the Imperial Capital Library is so relaxing and comfortable, and you can browse the empire's treasure trove of knowledge at close range.

Earl Phoenix also knew this, which was also a shame for him. He also knew that if he didn't discover it, it would be impossible for these ordinary knights and staff to detect the thief's methods - the thief holds a high position in the library. , this is an internal theft.

The question is, who is it?

The old count glanced at everyone present. He was preparing to pretend to be angry and scare them before starting the formal investigation process.

But soon his anger became genuine.

Because while Earl Phoenix was out reprimanding the guards and staff of the library, Ian began to scan the books in the entire collection room at an extremely fast speed - anyway, the silver chip can be scanned by touching it, and it just burns the text content. Even the old machine from the previous life could do it, let alone the mysterious chip that uses the computing power of his brain?

So, in such a short period of time.

He found eight more ‘rubbing books’.

Of course, Ian was not stupid enough to tell everything. He just went out and whispered to Count Phoenix that he noticed two more strange books.

But this was enough to make Earl Phoenix's hair turn golden in anger and stand on end.

Asking for a monthly ticket~