Indescribable cyberpunk

The gilded spire, which is more than ten meters tall, is covered with silver gauze in the moonlight, making it look like a dream.

Zhu Jue looked at the face reflected on the surface of the spire in front of him, raised his hand to touch the tower, and opened his senses to look for any secrets that might be hidden in it.

The result was still nothing.

The entire minaret is made of solid marble. Except for the gold-plated surface, there are no hidden compartments or other special mechanisms as expected.

"Mirror, Mirror, tell me where the Nakter Codex is."

After covering his face and reciting a spell in his memory, Zhu Jue felt extremely ashamed. At the same time, Zhu Jue secretly expected something to happen.

Waited for a few minutes.

Except for the thought that appeared in his mind that he wanted to press Atal to the ground and beat him.

There seems to be nothing else.

"I was wrong?"

The successive failures made Zhu Jue begin to doubt whether his idea was correct.

Is there a deviation in the direction of my thinking, or is the information given by Atal accidentally missed by me, or is the magic mirror actually stored somewhere in the big library, but no one knows about it?

Turning around with a frown, Zhu Jue was ready to go back and check the pool again.

He has never been a person who likes to give up halfway. Now that he is here, he must put his ideas into action.

Even if you are wrong, you must understand clearly!

He took a few steps to the side, preparing to summon the scavenger to leave.

The sand line rose up and connected to the nearby corridor, but the last look before leaving made Zhu Jue stop.

Before he stood before the gilded spire and looked at himself.

He only has eyes for himself.

Now that he is far away, his appearance is blurred, but another thing reflected above is revealed.

There is a gold-plated spire in the entire large library. The front is where Zhu Jue stands, and the wall is behind it. However, Zhu Jue's side faces a three-story building with a more Gothic style.

Strictly speaking, it is the existence that the gilded spire has always reflected!

Ta~

With a crisp snap of his fingers, Grefdo, who had brought him here, immediately trotted closer to him.

“What is this building used for?”

"It is a place used by priests to pray and study classics. Each priest has his own private room here. They are all on the second floor. The first floor is the prayer hall. It is usually a place where priests exchange ideas. There are some special ones. We will also hold gatherings here during the day.”

As he answered the other party's questions tremblingly, Grefdo's mind was filled with thoughts of the rock beside the pool that had been punched into pieces.

"Special day?"

Zhu Jue raised his eyebrows and continued,

"It means you don't usually appear here. I understand you correctly."

"Yes, only the priest and Shana can come here."

"oh?"

He waved to Shana and motioned for her to come over.

"I think it must have been in the past month. Did anything strange happen in that building? Remember, it happened in the past month. If something similar happened before, don't mention it!"

So far, what Zhu Jue is looking for is no longer the location information of the so-called "Naket Codex" mentioned by Atal.

If the magic mirror is fake, then asking for location information must go through other media, and the clue is here.

The question is, setting aside the magic mirror, how did Atal know there were clues here?

How could this old guy who had been at the Temple of Uzzah for decades be able to determine the situation in a city from a distance of hundreds of kilometers?

In Zhu Jue's opinion, there are only two possibilities.

Either it was that when the other party was stealing the "Nakter Codex", he was not completely hiding as he said, but was hiding in a place where the intruder could be seen and confirmed the thief to some extent. Only then did Zhu Jue come to investigate his identity.

This reason sounds far-fetched, but the possibility is only general.

The remaining possibility is simple.

Great Elder Atal also knows how to do divination!

When Zhu Jue asked him about divination in Usa Temple, the latter said that he only knew about this spell because of his friends. At that time, Zhu Jue only wanted to know what this spell was, so he didn't think much about it.

Now because of the magic mirror thing, I started to recall the situation at that time. After thinking about it carefully, I discovered that there were many loopholes in his words.

First, Zhu Jue said that his divination method was learned in a dream after reading a certain book. Atal almost without thinking, said that it was a book similar to the "Nakt Codex".

How did he know that he could learn spells in his dreams after reading the book, and why he subconsciously said something similar to the "Nakt Codex"?

Secondly, he knew too much about the information about divination, and he could even describe some details that Zhu Jue was not aware of very clearly.

But he himself showed a repulsion towards this kind of knowledge.

If he was really so repulsive, why would he go out of his way to learn more about this kind of knowledge from his friend?

There is only one reason. He himself learned this spell through the "Nakt Codex"!

After this conjecture appeared in Zhu Jue's mind, many of the problems that had troubled him before were almost solved.

Why would Atal give information about the magic mirror even though he might know that there is no glass in the Great Library of Solan City?

Because he saw similar images in the dreams brought about by divination. Zhu Jue, who had experienced dreams, knew that there was very little valuable information that could be obtained in that situation, so Atal didn't have any more information. Under the circumstances, I could only tell Zhu Jue this way.

"There is a magical mirror stored in the great library of Solan City. It can help you find anything you are looking for. I mean it can help you determine the location of the "Nakt Codex"."

This sentence sounded very normal at the time, but no matter how you think about it now, Atal specially added the second half because he was unsure after saying the first half!

Of course, all the above are just conjectures that flashed in Zhu Jue's mind. After all, without clear evidence, he could not be sure of its authenticity.

It is precisely because of this that he came here.

Practice is always the best way to test your conjecture!

"Yes, it started about two weeks ago. When Grefdo and I were chatting there at night, we would always hear some strange noises. Grefdo also knows about this. You can ask he."

Shana tugged on her boyfriend's clothes and motioned for him to speak.

"Probably a few days ago, after our exchange, I was about to go back to my residence when I heard someone saying some strange words in a prayer room on the back side of the second floor. I don't know the specific content. I was worried at the time. He was discovered, so he ran away."

"Can you specify which room?"

In the prayer room on the back of the second floor, Zhu Jue had also heard about it in the afternoon conversation. It seemed that the people he met at that time were Grefdo and one of his friends.

It seems that what Grefdo said must be the truth.

"Well, it should be the innermost rooms, I'm not sure."

At that time, Gref had no time to run away, so he had no time to pay attention to this. If he was caught, he would not only be expelled from the big library, but he might even go to jail.

"knew."

While speaking, he raised his hand and slashed the backs of the two people's necks, then dragged them to a nearby tree in the courtyard, found a bush and put the unconscious man and woman inside.

Before leaving, he threw two gold coins at them as a reward.

With the help of the sweeper, he easily opened the window on the second floor and sneaked in. In order to ensure that he would not be discovered in advance, Zhu Jue deliberately chose a room far away from the room that made the special noise pointed out by Grefdo.

The moonlight falls in the corridor through the hollow carvings on the windows, illuminating the prayer room on the other wall and the corners of the corridor.

With all senses turned on, he slowly walked toward the inside of the second floor.

Only halfway through, there was already a reaction in my perception.

There's someone in the room ahead!

After realizing this, Zhu Jue immediately began to focus all his attention on that person, trying to confirm the situation in the room where he was as much as possible through perception.

However, the more detailed the perception is.

The expression on Zhu Jue's face became increasingly weird.