310 The Eleventh Store
◎Famous in the Star Domain.◎
The man in the healing chamber watched the video calmly, with no expression on his face. He was silent for about half a minute before asking, "What is she reading?"
A person who has been wandering on the battlefield for many years only needs to take a glance to see the huge difference in strength between the two sides. Compared with the hotly debated battle scene, he is more curious about what she is holding in her hand.
The silver-purple robot took out two books from the space ring, one is the first volume of "The Count of Monte Cristo" and the other is a collection of poems by Borges.
He handed the two books to the man and explained, "What she reads is called a book. I heard that it is an antique that disappeared hundreds of years ago. I don't know where she found so many of them. Now they are selling very well on Starnet. It took a lot of effort to buy two books from others at a high price. It's just words printed on paper. I read a few pages and it's nothing special."
The green-eyed man was soaked in the treatment solution, with only half of his face floating on the surface of the liquid.
The pages of the book were fragile and could not be touched by water. The nursing robot standing next to him came forward and placed a simple stand on the treatment cabin. The book was opened and propped up on it. It turned the pages according to the owner's line of sight.
The green-eyed man first looked at Borges's poetry collection, then The Count of Monte Cristo. After reading a few pages, he said, "It's not these two books."
The silver-purple robot nodded, "I know it's not this one, but I just want to show you what a book is. The book she read in the live broadcast room is called The Veil. The first batch of 20,000 copies was sold out a long time ago, but no one has received it yet. It will take at least two to three days for someone to get it, and then I will go and get two more copies."
The green-eyed man: "I want to see this live broadcast room."
The silver-purple robot grinned and shook his head, saying, "I want to see it too. Unfortunately, because of the accident at noon, The live broadcast room was forcibly closed. Based on my understanding of Guandao, it is unknown whether this live broadcast room can still be opened. That store happened to be opened on Guandao, and it is difficult for our people to approach, otherwise I would set out immediately and tie up the woman. "
The green-eyed man tilted his head slightly and blinked slowly: "Tied her?"
The silver-purple robot said as a matter of course: "You are unwilling to use a mechanical body. It is not easy to meet a native whose mental value may be close to yours. Don't be picky and keep grinding. "If you go on, there won't be enough time."
The green-eyed man remained silent for a while, then said, "I want to see all her live broadcast data. Find me all the books that can be collected in the world."
The silver-purple robot stood up resignedly: "Okay, okay. But books are very popular now, and all the fees are collected."
The green-eyed man didn't care about that, his eyes were fixed on the two books spread out in front of him, and he said in a low voice: "Leave these two."
The silver-purple robot left angrily.
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The prosperous Xinghua Star, Xinghua Bank Headquarters.
Staff member Si Ge heard his colleagues' discussion from the tea room. When the Guandao Bookstore hot spot incident that detonated the Star Network at noon occurred, he was taking a break and happened to see the live broadcast.
Si Ge started to pay attention to the bookstore's live broadcast room a few days ago, and noticed the strange live broadcast room because the name of the bookstore reminded him of the loan not long ago.
Si Ge is a very rational person. He has been waiting in the live broadcast room for several days and watched all the theme live broadcasts in the evening, but he has never placed an order.
He likes the daily live broadcasts of the bookstore, and the theme live broadcasts are also interesting, but they are not enough to make him willing to spend money.
Until the incident happened at noon today, especially after the coding program failed, the store was full of tough and brutal robot criminals. The world in front of him suddenly changed. The only thing that did not change was the calmness of the store owner. The extremely rational person finally couldn't help but become curious about the world of books.
Could it be that reading more books can also gain courage?
Si Ge grabbed a copy of "The Veil" with amazing speed, and bought four or five books in one go that he was interested in but had not placed an order for.
Whether it was intentional or not, the incident at Guandao Bookstore was destined to become a hot topic in the next few days, and the discussion about it could not be stopped.
There were too many people at the scene at that time, and Sigo was also very excited. In addition to being excited, he was also looking forward to the books he had already ordered.
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In the central area of the capital star, at the most authoritative spiritual power research institute in the entire star region, several young researchers were watching the live broadcast of the Guandao Bookstore incident.
Among the researchers, there were robots and semi-robots, but no pure native humans.
"Kuanjima's misconduct this time is more serious than three months ago."
"No one is hurt, so maybe it's not that bad."
"It's all thanks to the store owner's high level of mental power. The problem now is not the group of prisoners. The key is how to deal with this store owner and the influence outside."
"The conditions of the six robot criminals who joined later and the two employees in the store are a bit strange. It's not clear just watching the video. Are they being dominated?"
"The mental power level of the native human on the island is probably comparable to that of the marshal. Take him in as soon as possible, and don't let those guys in the military get there first."
"This may be a bit difficult. I've checked. The store owner Lu Yao has a clean past record and no criminal record. It will be difficult to get him out without a suitable excuse."
"Then don't make excuses. Get the person first."
"To put it simply, even if the military and Guandao didn't stop her, her ability alone would be hard to deal with. So many high-level criminals, even with their mental chains, couldn't trap her. This is not going to be easy."
"Are we just going to let her wander around the island? Who knows what the purpose is?"
...
The debate among several people became more and more intense, but unfortunately there was no conclusion in the end.
Someone clicked on a picture, which showed a detailed list of books: "If you can't catch her, you might as well collect these books. They are very popular online, but unfortunately when I planned to buy them, the live broadcast room window was empty."
The researchers are not unfamiliar with books, but they have never seen physical books. They usually read e-books or data storage cards.
In the era of highly developed information technology, any information can be obtained through optical computers and star networks.
From the time they were students to the time they became researchers, they had absorbed a lot of knowledge, and the most common use was the electronic library, which was convenient and quick to read.
Physical books were not very attractive to them, and unless they were interested in the shopkeepers with high spirits, they would not be interested in the books sold in the bookstores.
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Kanjima, Bookstore Street.
Lu Yao did not know that after the incident at noon, the outside world had a great curiosity about the bookstore and herself.
The shipping warehouse on the second floor is operating normally. The newly purchased printing equipment in the mustard space has started working and is temporarily looked after by Alfred. The back-end orders and consultations are taken over by the dream-fulfilling system.
After dealing with the trivial daily affairs, Lu Yao finally had time to sit down and think about the new bookstore tasks and task rewards.
The rewards for the bookstore tasks are relatively simple, and the most special item reward is the spaceship fragments.
Lu Yao couldn't help but wonder if the system sent her a spaceship, indicating that she needed to arrive at a certain place.
That unknown place might be a cannery?
Lu Yao never forgot the cannery in the clue, but there was obviously no such factory on Guan Island.
If it is located somewhere outside of Guandao, the spaceship will come in handy. When
the spaceship is needed, perhaps the ultimate mission will begin.
Lu Yao thought of the mission that had just been announced. The incident in the third district had just ended. It would be difficult to convince Guandao to open the second and first districts to the bookstore in a short period of time, unless she could think of another way.
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In the research laboratory of the seventh district, jailers 0766 and 0777 stared at the store owner's physical examination results in a daze. The store owner
's mental value exceeded the highest threshold of the latest instrument detection, and the store owner's mental value was still in an unknown state.
This news was not shocking enough. After 0766 and 0777 carefully analyzed the store owner's physical data, they also made some unexpected discoveries about her body.
The two guards spent half a day sorting out the information and writing a report. They contacted the eighth district's management director, Kiran, and asked him to go to the first district to see the warden early the next morning.
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In the eighth district's management office, Kiran hung up the video call and lowered his head to continue reading the book in front of him.
The shop owner gave him and 0815 a sample book with a poem in the appendix.
The poem is called "Elegy" and the author is Goldsmith.
The poem describes a kind man who adopted a dog. At first, the kind man and the dog got along well. Suddenly one day, the dog went crazy and bit the kind man. People cursed the crazy dog, and everyone thought the kind man would die. In the end, the kind man miraculously recovered, but it was the crazy dog that bit the man who died (1).
The owner did not read the poem during the live broadcast at noon. Jilan read the original poem repeatedly and found for the first time that the expression of words could be so profound and obscure.
He already had the key in his hand, but he still couldn't solve the puzzle in front of him.
There was a knock on the door, and Jilan came back to his senses: "Come in."
0815 pushed the door open and came in, holding "The Veil" in his hand. He strode to Director Jilan and asked in distress: "Director, do you know what the poem means?"
After getting "The Veil" at noon, they had read it several times and realized that it was not accidental that the owner read the excerpt of "The Veil" during the live broadcast, and there was also a metaphor about the "dead dog".
Just thinking about it repeatedly in private, I still couldn't completely solve the mystery.
What does the owner want to say?
In the bookstore, Zhu Wei and Xi were also looking for the owner to solve the mystery.
Xi: "Are you mocking the prisoner in the third district as a dog?"
Lu Yao smiled and shook his head: "I really don't mean that."
Zhu Wei: "This book is too difficult to understand."
Lu Yao's smile became even brighter: "Books are like a maze full of traps. The author hides the puzzles in one paragraph after another. Sometimes a puzzle has only one answer, and sometimes it extends to countless paths. The answer you can find is the answer to the puzzle you are willing to believe in your heart. Isn't this more interesting than simply digging your brain?"
Zhu Wei shook her head in confusion: "I haven't dug other people's brains, but I have committed a more serious crime than digging brains."
Zhu Wei can't avoid the past.
When she came to Guandao, she didn't feel guilty until the day she came to the bookstore, and the time and past that imprisoned her seemed to flow again.
Zhu Wei sometimes thought that if she had met the shop owner earlier and seen the "robin" earlier, everything would be different.
She cut off her family ties with her own hands, but her life was still not happy.
Those emotions that had nowhere to vent finally found an outlet in the world of books.
Books are like tens of millions of planets scattered in the star field. Each book contains a world, which is generously unfolded in front of her eyes. The thoughts and imaginations of strangers fill the injustice and loneliness of her life.
How ridiculous.
However, in view of this, Zhu Wei also believes that the "Veil" specially selected by the shop owner is not as Xi interpreted.
What is the mystery of the story? Lu Yao did not reveal it to the two volunteers until closing time.
The next morning, only half of the 20,000 copies of "Veil" were shipped.
Lu Yao sent the 10,000 packages of new books and other ordered packages to the postman's airship.
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Early in the morning, 0766, 0777 and Jilan met in the eighth district. The two prison guards talked with Jilan for a while, and then boarded the airship together and headed for the first district.
The first district is the most heavily guarded area in the nine districts of Guandao. Two mental barriers are set up outside the thick and tall metal walls. On weekdays, entry and exit are strict and troublesome.
The three prison guards stayed at the gate of the first district for about 20 minutes before they finally completed the entry and exit procedures. After passing through many checkpoints, they finally arrived at the round building where the warden's office was located. They were told by the warden's secretary prison guard that the warden had left the island yesterday night for something.
The warden is the pillar of stability on Guandao Island. He prevents people on the island from getting restless and prisoners from causing chaos. He usually does not reveal his whereabouts.
The three prison guards had no temper at all and could only turn back.
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Two days later, the first readers of "The Veil" finally received the real thing.
The original text of "Elegy" was also attached to the book. The heat of the Guandao Bookstore incident has not yet subsided. There are various interpretations of the metaphor hidden under the "veil" on the Internet.
When netizens from all over the star domain were reading and understanding, the store owner received a strange private message.
[Author's words]
Note (1): The original content of "Elegy" is translated and quoted from the Internet.
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