In the end, Xiao Feiran drove the car, while Cheng Zhi watched from the side, trying to awaken her memories.

Along the way, they passed a bookstore with a dirty and messy entrance and a large hole in the door.

It seemed like no one was home. Cheng Zhi and Xiao Feiran took the stun guns and went inside. They were surprised to find it even more chaotic. There was trash everywhere, and some books were scattered on the ground, torn and crumpled up. The smell in the air was also unbearable.

They didn't speak after they came in. Xiao Feiran wandered among the bookshelves and put the books into her spatial storage.

In the end, all the books on the four walls and three shelves were taken away, and they left immediately.

Back in the car, Cheng Zhi finally dared to breathe deeply, recalling the strange smells from earlier. "Oh my god, that smell... I almost threw up."

Xiao Feiran shared the same sentiment, glancing sideways at the bookstore. "Who would have thought? But thankfully, it was a very fruitful trip."

Cheng Zhi, standing next to her, chuckled and pulled two horror novels from her pocket. "You've really reaped a rich harvest! I've wanted to read these two for a long time."

Xiao Feiran smiled and said that he would lend it to Cheng Zhi after he finished reading it, and then drove towards the library. He didn't know when Cheng Zhi got it.

When they were almost there, they put the car away and the two of them got out and walked inside on their own.

This place looks so remote, I never expected to find a library in such a back alley. Xiao Feiran asked sincerely, "Why was this library built here?"

Cheng Zhi, a local, explained, “This is an old library. My mom had it when she was a child. Back then, this place wasn’t remote at all. There was a movie theater next door, and the biggest market was just a few steps away. But later, the western part of the city became more prosperous, and fewer and fewer people came here. My mom said that it might be demolished in a few years.”

So that's how it is. Looking at the three-story building in front of him and the large characters that had lost their luster, Xiao Feiran seemed to see the bustling scene of people coming and going in the past.

Even the most remote library was not spared from the disaster; it is unclear whether the glass doors were destroyed by the flood or vandalized.

The two went inside and found that the first floor was severely flooded. Xiao Feiran felt a pang of regret seeing the empty bookshelves.

Cheng Zhi was alright, because if she remembered correctly, the first floor usually had children's books, and overall there weren't as many books as on the second and third floors, so it was fine.

But Xiao Feiran didn't think so. "Even a small mosquito is still meat."

Feeling disappointed, they went up to the second floor.

Upon reaching the second floor, Cheng Zhi saw a boy slumped over a table, seemingly taking a nap. Unsure of his situation, Cheng Zhi switched her stun gun for a gun and stopped in her tracks.

However, after only three seconds, Cheng Zhi was no longer so nervous, because she noticed that the boy was dressed very thinly, and the skin on the back of his neck was bruised, which strongly suggested that he was already dead.

Cheng Zhi gestured for Xiao Feiran to stay where she was. She walked forward quietly, and when she saw the boy's bluish-purple face and faint smile, Cheng Zhi knew that the boy had frozen to death.

After receiving the signal, Xiao Feiran came up. She didn't pay much attention to the appearance of the library, but instead quickly started collecting the books.

Just as she received the second bookshelf, she discovered a second corpse.

This is a girl, who also froze to death. She was leaning against the bookshelf, and she was only wearing her underwear.

I don't know what the relationship was between these two people, but they both froze to death in the library.

On the other side, Cheng Zhi finished tidying up the bookshelf, walked back to the boy, said "excuse me," and began rummaging through his backpack on the desk.

His school badge was placed in the smallest compartment, with some information about him written on it.

High School Affiliated to Ocean University of China

Senior 3 (7)

Qi Sen

This boy was actually from the same school as Cheng Ye. She couldn't understand why a senior high school student would die in the library.

Cheng Zhi felt sorry for him. After remembering his name, she returned his school ID card to him.

The two continued towards the third floor. The door to the third floor was intact, and the lock remained securely in place.

Xiao Feiran smiled slightly, produced two hair clips from somewhere, and started doing what he used to do.

Cheng Zhi leaned against the glass door, clapping her hands uncontrollably, "As expected of Master Xiao, any time, any place, even a super criminal, serious... ah!"

Before Cheng Zhi could finish speaking, Xiao Feiran pried open the door, and Cheng Zhi, who was leaning against the glass door, fell inside.

Cheng Zhi clutched her butt and wailed, "You have no sportsmanship! You pried it open and didn't even call out to me, you just watched me fall like that."

Xiao Feiran rolled her eyes at Cheng Zhi, "Stop talking so much nonsense, hurry up and finish packing and go home."

The two of them packed away the bookshelves one by one, and finished quickly. While packing away the books, Cheng Zhi also picked out two books that she wanted to read and took them with her.

The two returned home with a full load of goodies, and sure enough, Cheng's parents were already home.

According to Cheng's parents, the square was quite lively, with many people gathered together chatting. If Cheng's mother hadn't complained about the noise, the two men wouldn't have wanted to come back yet.

After a brief exchange of what they had seen and heard, Cheng Zhi and Xiao Feiran returned to their room, locked the door, and then slipped into the spatial dimension.

They remembered that during the last upgrade, only the land increased, but the houses remained unchanged. This time, they were particularly curious about what kind of changes would occur.

After they went inside, they explored the entire place but couldn't find a single area that had been upgraded.

Cheng Zhi was incredulous. She sat on the sofa, furiously yelling at the air, "So many of my books?! You took them and didn't do anything about it?! How could you do this?!"

Xiao Feiran was still searching for differences, and she couldn't accept that there was no upgrade at all.

Just as she was about to unleash a torrent of profanity after failing to find anything, something touched her foot.

Xiao Feiran slowly lowered her head, looking at the disc-like thing at her feet, and she was completely dumbfounded, "A...sweeping...robot?!"

What the heck? They went through all that trouble to collect so many books, and all they gave me was a robot vacuum cleaner?

Although she didn't want to accept it, she had no choice.

Xiao Feiran expressionlessly picked up the object, came down from the second floor, and placed it in front of Cheng Zhi.

Cheng Zhi: "..." No way, no way, this thing isn't the legendary upgrade, is it?!