Chapter 183 Query
Time flies, and several days have passed quickly. It is September now. The new semester of Shengguan University, which officially started on August 20th, has been going on for some time.
The sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly on the King's Campus, illuminating the towering spires and mottled bricks and tiles. The weathered stone carvings adorned the eaves, bathed in soft sunlight.
As the oldest campus of Royal Holy Crown University, the buildings on the King's Campus are almost a hundred years old. They are classical, solemn and serious, even a bit dark like an ancient castle, but these atmospheres cannot conceal the vibrant youthfulness of the students in their nineteens and twentys.
In the corridors, students walked in pairs, holding books and chatting. On the lawn, one or two young men and women could occasionally be seen sitting together, talking and laughing. The school's own tall bell tower was ringing, and students who had classes were rushing into the corridors.
This is a campus full of potential, where the elites of the kingdom are trained. To be able to enter here, both family background and talent are indispensable. They are all pillars of Putin, and their families are proud that one of their family members can enter such a top institution to study.
In the spacious library of the King's Campus, rows of bookshelves were arranged layer by layer, and sunlight poured in through the huge French windows. Many students were walking between the bookshelves looking for books, while some were sitting by the windows, quietly flipping through the books on the table. Dorothy was one of them.
'If Greg knew that I had been admitted to this university, he would be so excited that he would not be able to sleep for several days. Unfortunately, going to university at the age of thirteen is still a bit outrageous, so it is better not to tell him.
Wearing a brown top and a plaid skirt, Dorothy sat on a seat by the library window, looking at the campus scene outside the window. At this moment, the table in front of her was piled with thick books of various sizes. If you look closely, you will see that they are all books about Holy Crown University itself.
"History of Royal Sungkwan University", "Celebrities of Sungkwan University", "Origin of Sungkwan University", "Academic Journal", "Weekly Report of Sungkwan University"...
These and other things are the information that Dorothy actually looked up, and she hoped to rely on these materials to find traces of the ruins.
At this time, she had been in this university for several days. Thanks to Beverly's help, the thirteen-year-old Dorothy was now a college student. She had her own academic file and complete student identity in this school, and could travel around without restraint.
In order to give Dorothy enough time to search for relics and study mysteries, Beverly also gave her the privilege that she was only a nominal student in her major and class and did not need to attend any class compulsorily. However, if she wanted to go to class, she could attend any class.
Thanks to the special identity that Beverly helped her get, Dorothy had not attended any classes since she entered school. She put all her attention on finding the entrance to the ruins hidden in the school, but with little success.
At the beginning, Dorothy originally wanted to use small corpse puppets to investigate the building structure, track the members coming and going, and find the entrance to the ruins hidden in the school, just like she did when she found the Igwinter Security Bureau in the Cypress Shirt Building.
However, the King's Campus was too large, countless times larger than the Cypress Tree Building. Dorothy's small corpse could not investigate all the places in detail. Moreover, the buildings here were ancient and complex, which made the investigation more difficult. There were no large numbers of Security Bureau employees who frequently entered and exited the ruins, so Dorothy had no one to track.
For various reasons, after two days of carpet searching with the small corpse doll without any results, Dorothy decisively gave up this aimless search and instead tried to find out if she could find anything from other directions.
What Dorothy is thinking about now is to investigate the school's information, check the school's history and strange stories, and see if she can find some clues from some seemingly ordinary phenomena. After all, such a large relic is underground, and it was once the base of many associations. It is impossible to say whether all these factors have any impact on the current school.
So, recently she shifted the focus of her investigation to looking up information in the library. She spent another day going through a lot of literature on the King's Campus of the Royal Sacred Crown School, and finally found something.
Through the documents, Dorothy discovered that there were actually quite a few strange phenomena on the King's campus, and that they had always existed since the school was founded.
Strange calls, bizarre portraits, students suddenly going crazy or even disappearing... Strange things like these happen every few years and have been passed down until today. Although these things are not recorded in the formal school history, there are many of them in magazines compiled by some students themselves, some true and some false.
At first, Dorothy was quite happy when she saw these strange stories. She thought that these rumors were because these students encountered the entrance to the ruins and were affected by some extraordinary factors left inside. So Dorothy went to the scene of these strange stories one by one to check, but she did not find even the slightest abnormality.
After working as a strange story investigator for another day without any results, Dorothy was a little disappointed. She wondered if these strange stories were all made up by the scholars.
However, after Dorothy secretly looked through the student records in the archives, she found that some students had indeed disappeared or dropped out of school because of madness. The symptoms of madness were like drug contamination, which proved that there might indeed be some extraordinary factors affecting the students.
In Dorothy's opinion, these extraordinary factors may come from two aspects. One is that they are revealed from the ruins. The other is that there may be some secret society among the students or teachers of this school...
'Royal Holy Crown University gathers a large number of elites from all over the world. The school's predecessor was the base of several extraordinary associations. In such an environment, the possibility of the growth of secret associations is very high...
"If there really is a secret society in this school, then it makes sense that there are strange stories every few years. It is inevitable that there will be some accidents when doing extraordinary research. The secret society has a heritage, so such strange stories will continue... "
Sitting at the table, Dorothy looked at the table full of books and thought that there might be some kind of extraordinary society in this school. This was the possible conclusion Dorothy came to after reading so much information. Faced with this possibility, she had a way to verify it.
As she was thinking, Dorothy took out another gold coin with the word "lamp" on it and prepared to do some divination.
If the divination is successful, she will be able to determine whether there is any secret society in this school as she imagined.
"There is a secret society among the students and teachers at the Royal Crown University, King's Campus."
Dorothy silently said the divination in her heart, flipped the coin, and then prepared to cover the back of her hand.
But who would have thought that when Dorothy covered it for the last time, she made a rare mistake and the whole coin slipped accidentally, fell to the ground, rolled twice, and got stuck in the gap of the floor. After losing its luster, it stood in front of Dorothy.
Dorothy realized that her divination had failed. She had divined that the target was configured with anti-divination. The divination resources she had invested were not enough to break through the opponent's anti-divination defense. There was also a system prompt in her mind.
Dorothy's divination failed for the first time, but it didn't matter. She picked up the gold coin that had lost its luster on the ground, blew it and murmured.
"The divination failed... I encountered a counter-divination. Of course, a school-based secret society built on the remains of the Star Numbers Society will have some 'inspiration' to counter-divination..."
The purpose of Dorothy's divination was to confirm whether there was a secret society in this school. If the divination was successful, she could confirm it. If the divination failed... the other party had configured a counter-divination, then there must be a secret society.
This time, regardless of whether the divination is successful or not, Dorothy can achieve her goal.
"Well, now that we have confirmed that there is a secret society in this school, we should find a way to find them. They have been in this school for so long, I don't believe they don't know about the ruins."
Dorothy put away the coin and looked at the quiet library, thinking silently in her heart.
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