There are rows of seats around the square here.
The dark sea water silently flows through the abandoned square, with tiny dots of light flashing in the sea water, as if countless pairs of eyes are opening and closing in the sea water.
Xia Chujian turned around, stirring up the sea water and shattering the tiny specks of light in the sea water.
Crossing the square, Xia Chujian saw an empty street, winding and extending in the dark color of the deep sea, with no one knowing where it led to.
It can be seen that the city of Arkham must have been a very lively place in the past.
The streets were lined with crowded shops of all kinds, their doors rickety and their windows empty.
The various goods displayed inside had long been carried away by the tide, and no one knew where they were.
The streets thus appeared dark and desolate, and an uneasy atmosphere enveloped the surroundings.
Xia Chujian sneaked along the narrow stone-paved street.
There is no light in the sea, only the luminous sea fish swimming in front, forming shadowy trails.
The houses along the street are also entangled with huge seaweed, like heavy curtains, covering up unknown secrets.
The whole street is filled with an atmosphere forgotten by time.
Is this Arkham City?
The legendary unknown place?
No matter what it looked like before, in Xia Chujian's eyes, this place was ancient and outdated, exuding an atmosphere of extreme tranquility, but also on the verge of madness due to extreme repression.
The spire that is faintly visible in the distance, the dark blue eaves, and the man-high bell on the bell tower on the left all seem to be hiding the deepest secrets, revealing an indescribable weirdness.
Xia Chujian calmed himself down and swam forward along the streets of the underwater city.
She swam neither fast nor slow, and the eyes behind the goggles looked around vigilantly.
At the end of this street is a tall building with a white spire.
Xia Chujian was also very familiar with the style of this building, and so was everyone in the Beichen Empire, because this was what a holy temple looked like.
All the temples in the Beichen Empire are basically like this.
But the temples of the Beichen Empire are all gray buildings, equally solemn and majestic, with crenel-like spires on the roofs.
And this building under the sea is white.
No one knew what the white building material was made of, but it did not change color under the impact of the sea water, and there was not even a trace of damage.
There is a black plaque on the gate of the building with four lines of gold-plated characters on it.
"The water is so calm, the mountains so green. The terraces and pavilions are layered, and I ascend to a noble height."
Xia Chujian swam in out of curiosity.
When she was on Guiyuan Star, she had visited the Temple branch once and knew what it was like inside.
Sure enough, what I saw was a hall that looked exactly the same.
The ceiling of the hall is very high. When people stand inside, they can only feel the vastness of the sky and the earth, as well as the powerlessness and insignificance of human power.
That’s the feeling a temple gives people.
But this white castle is at the bottom of the sea, which actually gives people a more shocking feeling.
Because the city-state is not a place like a temple with a pulpit on top and chairs below for believers to worship.
To be precise, this is a library, a very huge library.
The hall, from bottom to top, including all four walls, is filled with densely packed bookcases.
The bookcase is filled with books of various sizes and thicknesses, which reveal a strange and lustrous color in the sea water, like jade polished by time.
For Xia Chujian, who lives in the era of full electronic data and where all books have been digitized, this shock is unparalleled.
She even felt a sense of piety and worship.
Just like believers worship their own gods.
But she was not praying to God, but to the overwhelming amount of books that represented knowledge.
Knowledge is the ladder of human progress.
Books are just carriers of knowledge.
Xia Chujian swam over slowly and looked from the lowest level on the left side of the hall.
All she could see was the title of the book on its spine.
Some of them were in Beichen language, which Xia Chujian could understand.
For example, "Introduction to Mathematics", "New Interpretation of Plane Geometry", "Foundations of Physics Volume 1"...
At first glance, they are all science and engineering books.
Not a single work of literature.
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief.
Her grades in math, physics and chemistry are pretty good.
Although physics was the last semester, I was able to get started only after my aunt crammed in.
She tried to reach out and pull out the book "Foundations of Physics, Volume 1".
As soon as she got the book, she felt that it was much heavier than the physical books sold on Star Online.
Moreover, the front and back covers are hard, and it doesn't feel like a paper book.
Of course, Xia Chujian thought again, if it was a paper book, it would have been soaked in water all year round and would have been soaked long ago.
Although this is a game, it is a three-dimensional holographic simulation game that follows the physical rules of the real world, so such loopholes will not occur.
A few weeks ago, the books she got from Haidagon's cave at the bottom of the sea on the planet Morisawa were not made of paper, but of a very rare leather book, which is why they were not damaged by sea water.
But the book in her hand now was neither paper nor leather.
Xia Chujian asked Qilu, "Qilu, can you tell what material these books are made of?"
Qi Lu whispered, "Master, this is a book made of bamboo slips. Long, long ago, before humans invented paper, bamboo slips were the main means of recording."
Xia Chujian looked up at the countless books in the hall, took a deep breath, and said, "Are these books all bamboo slips?"
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