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Chapter 535 Library

"Has the balance been broken?"

Hu Qi frowned slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

For the past ten years, there have been no problems, but the once solid boundary membrane crystals are now showing signs of erosion.

He stared at the gradually fading boundary membrane crystals.

This situation means that the very foundation that sustains the world is being eroded and is beginning to become unbalanced. If intervention is not carried out soon, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The whole world will eventually be completely shattered.

The end result is that a hole will appear in this membrane.

At that time, the primordial calamity and gray mist lurking in the Void Sea will surely take advantage of the situation and, like a greedy glutton, intensify the erosion of the Origin Realm.

"Perfect timing. This constant cultivation is getting a bit boring. Let me see what's going on."

Hu Qi's eyes flashed.

The words fell.

Hu Qi devoted more attention to it.

These worlds are not weak.

However, it is simply impossible to withstand the descent of the Dao Lord's true form.

The status of a Dao Lord can generally only be supported by the size of the Origin Realm.

This is why Hu Qi did not find the Dao Lord's figure outside the Origin Realm before.

The fact that there are few Dao Lords is one thing.

Most importantly, the Dao Lord's position is too high.

It would be difficult to endure going to any world in the Sumeru Sea outside the Origin Realm.

If one insists on entering it, the only result will be that the world's will is affected by the Dao Lord's will, bursting apart and causing all living beings within to perish.

Therefore, the best approach is to dedicate more effort to finding the root cause of this situation and then take steps to resolve it.

……

The golden crow falls in the west.

Like a festering wound, scarlet phlegm slowly seeped from between the clouds.

Gradually, the sky darkened.

Deep in the alley, a five-story hotel stands silently in the darkness.

The neon sign above the hotel entrance flickered with an eerie light.

Of the four large characters, only the characters "青" and "园" shone with a pale light, while the other two characters were completely hidden in the darkness.

With the help of that faint light, one could barely make out the four faded characters of 'Qingyuan Hotel'.

In the sunset.

The hotel's shadow stretched long on the ground to one side.

The sky was still bright, and the sun still had a demigod-like form, but here there was a sense of gloom.

The closer you get, the cooler the air becomes, even though it was originally stuffy.

At this moment, in a coffee shop across the street in the distance.

There was a man and a woman sitting opposite each other.

The man was a handsome young man in his early twenties, with a silver earring on his right ear.

The girl was even younger, wearing a blue and white school uniform. She looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, like a junior high school student.

The two appeared to be having a meal.

But he would occasionally glance at the hotel in the alley across the street.

"According to the intelligence we have so far, this hotel suddenly appeared a week ago."

During this period, hundreds of people have entered, but none have come out yet.

Even more strangely, it's completely invisible during the day, only appearing as night approaches.

At this moment, the girl frowned slightly and spoke.

"This is clearly another place steeped in strange tales. But in any case, we cannot allow such anomalies to exist here."

She looked up at the young man opposite her.

"Shuoqiu, what are your thoughts?"

The young man called Shuoqiu slowly shook his head.

“I have lived for thousands of years and have never seen such strange tales, let alone know where they come from.”

“Ji Chang, I don’t recommend you go in. These ghost stories are far more dangerous than they appear.”

"Oh, so even you can't fight back!?"

The girl, Ji Shang, didn't respond, but instead asked a question in return.

"Hmph! Mere ghost stories, no matter how bizarre, what can they do to me? I am one of the Ten Great Weapons!"

Shuoqiu raised his chin, a disdainful sneer curling at the corner of his mouth, as if he had been greatly insulted.

"I'm just too lazy to change masters so often! How long have you been a weapon user? You can't even unleash 30% of my strength, yet you dare to take risks!"

"If you die, I will fall into a long sleep again."

Upon hearing this, Ji Chang's lips curled up slightly into a smile.

She knew that was just how the other person was.

Knife mouth tofu heart.

She was well aware of the dangers of ghost stories.

But she had reasons she had to deal with it.

If these strange tales are allowed to spread, only destruction awaits humanity.

Think about this.

She was about to say something, but before she could utter a word, the words were already out of her mouth.

--boom!

A deafening explosion suddenly tore through the air, and the violent shockwave shattered the entire window into countless sharp fragments, which poured down on Ji Chang like a torrential rain.

The sharp-edged shards of glass refracted a deadly cold light under the lamplight, threatening to leave several bloody scratches on her face.

At the critical moment.

All the fragments suddenly and strangely froze in mid-air, as if an invisible hand had pressed the pause button.

Then, like pearls with a broken string, they fell to the ground with a clattering sound.

The entire coffee shop was now enveloped in an eerie purple light.

The young man was nowhere to be seen in his seat.

Ji Chang suddenly found herself holding a giant scythe, at least two meters long. Dark purple patterns meandered across her skin like living things, stretching from her fingertips to the corners of her eyes.

"This is."

She looked up and gazed across the street.

The black apartment building that had stood there was cracking at an alarming rate, with scorching flames shooting wildly out of the cracks.

Countless eerie figures struggled and screamed in agony at the burning window, the smell of burning flesh mixed with the heat wave hitting us.

Boom——!
next second.

The entire building disintegrated amidst a deafening explosion.

See this scene.

Ji Chang's pupils contracted sharply, and she lightly touched the window frame with her toes, transforming into a purple streak of light that pierced the sky.

She shot through the swirling sparks like an arrow, heading straight for the ruins of the hotel.

-

"Look! It's the Armor Master!"

"My God! That scythe is even cooler than the weapons I saw in the video!"

"I wish I could become a weapon user!"

"What are you filming, you idiot? Run!"

……

The customers in the coffee shop then came to their senses and took out their phones to take pictures.

Amidst the constant clicking of camera shutters, no one showed any fear of the supernatural phenomenon.

In this world, weapon users are like rare animals—uncommon yet real.

However, some quick-witted people swiftly fled into the distance.

The appearance of a weapon user is definitely dangerous. If we stay, we might get caught in the crossfire and die, which would be a pointless death.

Ji Chang had no time to pay attention to the commotion behind her.

As she landed at the edge of the ruins, she slashed through the air with her giant scythe.

The violent wind instantly tore through the swirling dust, revealing a shocking scene:
The eerie hotel is gone, replaced by a charred crater nearly 100 meters in diameter.

"They actually destroyed this place outright. Could it be that a weapon user intervened?"

Ji Chang looked puzzled.

"Impossible. If there were a Weapon user, I couldn't possibly not have sensed it, unless... the other party is also one of the Ten Great Weapons!"

Shuoqiu's voice rang in her ears.

Upon hearing this, Ji Shang took out a black cell phone from her pocket.

I called directly.

It only made one sound.

The call was then connected.

Before the other side could speak.

Ji Chang then spoke quickly.

"This is Ji Chang. Please retrieve video footage from within ten minutes of the Qingyuan Hotel..."

A moment later, my phone vibrated.

A picture was sent to me.

After Ji Chang saw it clearly.

Before she could react...

Then Shuoqiu's voice suddenly rang out.

With a look of astonishment.

"It was him, no wonder..."

……

——Boom! ! !

A jagged bolt of lightning tore through the clouds, illuminating the entire city in an instant.

Skyscrapers with flashing neon lights towered high beneath the dark clouds.

Neon lights blurred in the rain and mist, draping the towering glass curtain wall in a hazy cloak of light.

Rainwater meandered along the facades of skyscrapers, refracting the myriad lights into a fragmented galaxy.

On the asphalt road, puddles reflected the ever-changing neon lights, like an overturned bucket of paint.

The streetlights in the green belt cast dim, yellowish halos in the rain.

At a distant street corner, rain wove like a curtain.

A black umbrella pierced the rain curtain, and water droplets dripping from the edge of the umbrella splashed into tiny water droplets on the asphalt road.

The figure under the umbrella gradually came into view as it approached.

He was a young man in his early twenties with a buzz cut and an unremarkable appearance, but a scar about an inch long on his left cheek added a touch of ferocity to his look.

The gray jacket was darkened by the rain, the tight shoulder line outlined his muscular physique, and the calf muscles exposed under the shorts were bulging. Every step he took made the puddles tremble slightly.

As Hu Qi walked forward, he gently turned the umbrella handle with his fingers, causing the raindrops on the umbrella surface to scatter in a spiral.

This body was not possessed.

Rather, it was a physical body created by a wisp of his divine soul that had entered this place before.

I grew here for ten years with their help.

Now, with Hu Qi's power being poured in.

The body's power has increased even further.

Suddenly, Hu Qi stopped in his tracks.

He raised his hand and stretched it out of the umbrella, letting a few drops of cold rain fall into his palm.

Raindrops bloom on the skin, carrying the city's unique turbidity, yet subtly revealing something strange.

What appears as ordinary rain to the average person takes on a strange and unsettling quality in Hu Qi's eyes.

In each raindrop, fine black mist, as thin as hair, meanders and rises, writhing in the air like living things.

At a glance.

The entire city was shrouded in an aura like a dark, ominous cloud.

Moreover, in this situation, the closer you get to the front, the denser the black aura becomes.

"The source of that thing should be in this city..."

Hu Qi's eyes flickered slightly.

Because he had previously used his divine soul power to enter this world, he was not unfamiliar with the information about this world.

This world is called the Realm of Silence.

On the surface, it is nothing special, just an ordinary modern world.

Its level of technological civilization is roughly equivalent to that of Earth in the early 21st century.

Originally, the extraordinary power in this world was a kind of existence called the Weapon Master.

This system is somewhat unique.

It is not controlled by humans themselves.

Instead, it relies on external forces, somewhat similar to the previous Beast Taming World.

The difference between the two is.

The people in that world obtain power by raising spirit beasts.

Some people in this world acquire extraordinary power by mastering different weapons.

Each weapon contains varying degrees of extraordinary power.

These objects are not limited to traditional cold weapons; they may be modern firearms, ordinary farm tools, or even a pair of ordinary scissors. Any item with special power can be called a weapon.

When an ordinary person gains recognition from a weapon, they enter the ranks of 'weapon users'.

Some of these weapons are normal and can be controlled.

However, some weapons can corrupt the mind of the weapon user, turning them into a bloodthirsty madman.

Some weapons don't even need a master, because each weapon is essentially alive.

You can choose your own owner.

The main theme of this world is the story of the righteous weapons users, representing humanity, fighting against the evil weapons.

Of course, this is normal.

Two weeks ago, a strange change suddenly occurred in this world.

Various bizarre and strange tales began to quietly emerge.

Ordinary people who encounter these strange tales are almost certain to die.

Even powerful weapon users can perish if they get involved.

Even more frightening is that the number of these ghost stories is increasing day by day.

If nothing unexpected happens, these bizarre tales are the root cause of the world's gradual erosion.

The reason Hu Qi was able to find this place is...

The dark aura is one reason, but there's another one as well.

It was the same thing I got from the Qingyuan Hotel.

Think of this.

Hu Qi reached into his pocket.

A black bookmark appeared in his hand.

A line of small, blood-red characters was written on it.

Rocam City Library

After he entered this place.

They then found the location of a strange tale nearby.

That is, the Qingyuan Hotel.

After entering, they interrogated the employees who had already been corrupted by the strange power, but found nothing.

Hu Qi set the hotel on fire.

This bookmark was found at the hotel bar.

At the time, it was sandwiched inside a charred book.

Everything else was engulfed in flames, but the bookmark remained unharmed.

if nothing unexpected happened.

The origin of this strange tale is likely related to the Locam City Library.

This bookmark is more like a medium for spreading the power of ghost stories.

Think of this.

He started walking forward.

Not long after, he stopped again.

A library suddenly appeared before him.

The tightly closed iron gate separated the inside from the outside into two worlds.

Through the dusty glass window.

Only the outlines of the neatly arranged bookshelves inside could be vaguely seen.

A fat man with a face full of acne was squatting outside the door.
He was looking down at his phone.

Everything seemed so ordinary.

But in Hu Qi's view.

The entire library was covered by that black substance.

Like a lurking giant beast.

It opens its blood-red maw, waiting for its prey to walk right into its trap.

"That friend"

At this moment, the fat man suddenly looked up and noticed Hu Qi's presence.

However, they were intimidated by the fierce aura emanating from Hu Qi's appearance, and their voices unconsciously weakened.

Are you here for a job interview too?

Hu Qi did not answer immediately.

My gaze shifted to the yellowed job posting on the glass:

We are currently recruiting several librarians. Monthly salary ranges from 2 to 10 RMB. Specific details will be discussed in person. Please contact Manager Liu at 1974 if interested.

See this scene.

Hu Qi's eyes flashed, a smile twitched at the corner of his mouth, and then he nodded.

"Yes, I'm here to apply for the job!"

(End of this chapter)