Chapter 152 There are living people here!

Mu Qingyu went straight down to the first floor, and found three wandering zombies on the second and third floors. They were probably staff members who were still on duty at the library when the apocalypse came.

Mu Qingyu dealt with them easily.

However, this does mean that no one has been here before.

There was a map showing the layout of the library in the lobby on the first floor. Mu Qingyu planned to use the map to find the books she wanted to collect first.

Before that, she deliberately glanced at the tightly locked library door. Sure enough, it was bolted shut by zombies with a huge steel bolt. This meant there must be living people inside the library, but it was also possible the bolt had been bolted shut before the apocalypse.

Mu Qingyu simply reminded herself to be more careful.

The ancient books collection room and the scientific books reading room are both on the second floor, which also has a document conservation and restoration exhibition room.

Mu Qingyu went directly to these three places, put everything into her spatial storage, and found no trace of humans on the second floor.

The third floor has a science and technology book reading room, an electronic reading room, and a famous people's manuscripts gallery. Mu Qingyu focused on visiting these three places.

Electronic reading refers to the collection of various electronic versions of books in a library.

Removing the hard drives was too much trouble, so Mu Qingyu simply put all the computer towers in the reading room into her spatial storage. She didn't take all the computer screens, but randomly selected a few to store.

She didn't take everything mainly because she was worried about it taking up space. She had too many things to collect this time, and she didn't know when the space would be upgraded again.

Thinking of the space, Mu Qingyu found a corner and went inside to look at the number on the door. She had fought her way here from Gunpowder Village, and the number on the door had changed from 121 to 854.

Given that the points required for the third space upgrade are 1000, based on previous experience, the fourth upgrade should definitely require more than 2000. The question is, how many points exactly?

But we're still far from 2000. Maybe I should go out with Xiao Shiyang and the others tomorrow. Even if I don't take anything, just killing zombies would be very useful to me.

Afterwards, Mu Qingyu went to the fourth floor of the library. The fourth floor mainly contains United Nations documents, foreign language materials, and journal articles from various countries.

These things were all quite important, and Mu Qingyu accepted them all.

So they spent a lot of time on the fourth floor, but still didn't find any living people, and killed two more zombies.

Besides books, Mu Qingyu also gained other things.

Because the library is open to the public and has a large daily readership before the apocalypse, they also set up staff lounges and provide free drinking water to the public.

Mu Qingyu found a lot of durable food in the staff lounge on the first floor, such as instant noodles in buckets, biscuits, chocolate, candy, canned food, mineral water and beverages, which filled an entire cabinet.

In addition to these, there are also some regular medications, presumably for both employee safety and external service purposes. There's also a one-meter-high cabinet, completely filled with them.

These things have now all benefited Mu Qingyu.

There was also a cleaning room, which was actually a place for cleaning staff to rest and store cleaning tools. A large amount of toilet paper was found there.

Then there was a whole room full of bottled water, which was probably stored by the library and supplied to the entire library for free drinking.

There were places like this on every floor, and Mu Qingyu gained a lot!

Interestingly, when Mu Qingyu got these items to the third floor, apart from bottled water and toilet paper, half of the items in the staff break room cabinet were missing, including medicine.

Upon reaching the fourth floor, the food and medicine cabinets in the staff break room were completely empty. However, the toilet paper and bottled water were still there.

Then Mu Qingyu discovered that the library had a fifth and a sixth floor, but the stairs and elevators open to the public only went up to the fourth floor, and the browsing layout map on the first floor only showed the fourth floor.

What are the fifth and sixth floors, and what is there there?

There must be an entrance!

Mu Qingyu guessed that the fifth and sixth floors were probably just not open to the public, but people could still go in, since the library wasn't some kind of state secret unit.

Sure enough, Mu Qingyu quickly found the stairwell in a place where only employees could enter by swiping their cards.

The entrance for employees to swipe their cards is an electronic gate, which can be climbed over. However, to go upstairs, there is another iron gate, which also requires swiping a card to enter before the apocalypse.

But after the apocalypse, without electricity, the electronic systems are definitely useless.

Mu Qingyu tried to pry open the door. In her previous life, she had collected supplies from all over the place and learned how to pick locks and locks. However, she was worried that there was another bolt behind this door, just like the door downstairs.

It has to be said that the most reliable things are often the most basic. If there were still bolts, she would probably have to use her supernatural abilities to break down the wall. She wondered how sturdy the wall was, and whether it would collapse if she forced it down.

Fortunately, there was no bolt on the door this time, and Mu Qingyu breathed a sigh of relief.

She carefully went up to the fifth floor.

She vaguely thought she heard footsteps, very light and careful, but they disappeared in an instant.

It happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that Mu Qingyu thought it was her imagination.

Mu Qingyu explored the area and found that the layout of the fifth floor was extremely simple.

There's just an employee break room, a storage room, a restroom, and the rest is a huge library.

The library doors were probably locked before, but they are now open.

Mu Qingyu was startled and shuffled even lighter. She had a gut feeling—there was someone on the fifth floor! Not a zombie!

Because of the power outage, the entire library was plunged into darkness. But Mu Qingyu knew that any book stored there that was completely closed to the public must be extremely valuable. She'd just take it with her eyes closed!

In the darkness, she swapped her windproof goggles for infrared night vision goggles. They were a very simple pair of goggles, made for her by Mu Qingrong before she left. While they didn't provide perfect vision, they were enough to see roughly in the dark.

She carefully searched the library, storing all the books she found into her spatial storage. Even after she had completely scanned the entire library, she still hadn't seen anyone.

But she had a strong feeling—there were people here!

Until Mu Qingyu noticed that one bookshelf in the library was mostly empty. She had just let out a soft "Huh?" when she noticed a shadow flicker at the library doorway and then vanish!

The shadow was very fast, but Mu Qingyu also possessed speed-related abilities, so she deduced that the shadow had run out of the library!

So her intuition was right! Just now in the library, it was something alive playing hide-and-seek with her!

Mu Qingyu didn't hesitate and quickly chased after them.

The five-story building was too simple; the original staircase didn't lead to the sixth floor. The sixth-floor staircase was inside the book storage area, leading directly up to the entire sixth floor, which was all book storage.

Mu Qingyu hadn't been to the staff lounge on the fifth floor yet. At that moment, the door to the lounge was shaking slightly—the living thing had entered the staff lounge!