Chapter 37
Huge hollow reliefs surround the tall, spiraling bookshelves. Intricate vines hang down from the top of the bookshelves, with five-petal lavender flowers in full bloom. The sunlight is caught by the light-colored hollow glass on the top and projected onto the half-story bookshelf, blooming with colorful layers.
Flying papers, pens, ink and books, lush plants and the occasional unidentified soft-ball animals.
A space that is completely inconsistent with this world.
Chen Jian, wearing a white shirt and shorts, sat on the steps of the bookshelf and took out a book. He calmly scanned the sky that was covered with darkness and smoke, which seemed to be two different worlds.
"How did you do that?" Shen Jian asked softly, looking up at the bright sunshine.
Even though we are in the Wuyan Tower, we can't see the sun.
Shen An sat at the desk casually placed at the bottom, and smiled gently when he heard the words, as if he had returned to the person Shen Jian knew.
"We built this without telling the boss." Shen An said softly, his handwriting flowing smoothly on the paper, but he was not reviewing documents, but writing something.
Shen Jian sat down with the book in his hand, opened it and spread it on his knees, holding his chin and looking at Shen An below.
"What does he want to do?" Shen Jian asked calmly.
Shen An paused, the ink gathered at the tip of the pen and slowly fell onto the white paper.
Shen An looked at Mo Dian in silence for two full minutes, his eyes dazed.
"The timing of my appearance was too coincidental. What was too coincidental?" Shen Jian asked again, stroking the bound handwritten paper and lowering his eyes.
Every book placed here was written by hand and then sewn into a book with thread. None of the processes involved machines.
As far as Shen Jian could see, there were no less than 100,000 books.
What a terrifying workload... Chen Jian calculated silently. Even if all the manpower in the Wuyan Tower were mobilized to write day and night, excluding the time spent searching for information, it could only be completed within ten years.
The chestnut-haired man lowered his eyes and quickly wiped off the ink spot with a special material. He smiled softly and said, "I was going to tell you this anyway. Don't be afraid."
"We just don't know how much you know now, and we don't know that you will suddenly go to see the boss."
Shen Jian carefully studied the book he had pulled out at random: "What do you mean?"
It is a research project about plants.
The boy casually flipped through a few pages, then put it back far away, walked to the other side through the corridor connecting the bookshelves, and picked up another book to read.
This one is a research project on weapons manufacturing, the adjacent bookshelf is a research project on food planting, and next to it, a research project on water purification, a research project on medicine - the handwriting on this is Shen Lanhe's, Shen Jian recognizes it; and a research project on social resource allocation, a research project on financial economics...
Shen Jian: “…”
The young leader slowly turned his gaze to the chestnut-haired subordinate who lowered his head and his expression could not be seen.
He looked at his subordinates who never forgot to write something even when talking to him, and suddenly, as if an electric shock had occurred, he had a strange and shocking guess.
Thinking of this, Shen Jian asked, he was even a little unbelievable: "Shen An?"
"Hmm?" Shen An responded to him gently.
Shen Jian asked softly, as if he was afraid of disturbing something: “What is this place called?”
Shen An below stopped writing for the second time, was silent for a while, and then, as if giving up, he sighed, put the pen aside, stood up and walked towards the stairs where Shen Jian was.
This place is very large, with more than a hundred tables scattered on the ground, but from above they look like small square wooden blocks.
As Chen An walked, he had a slightly nostalgic and bleak expression, but his tone was still soft, "This place... is called Ark."
He guessed right.
Shen Jian was also silent for a long time, and then put the book back.
There is no need to obtain information from these books, as [Ark] clearly expresses what this place is.
In his world, Shen An was also in charge of this project, and he personally told him that the plan was only three thousandths complete.
But who could have imagined that in the world above technology, a project with the highest level of confidentiality would contain a text book that had nothing to do with it.
This is indeed the [Ark], the last thing in the [Apocalypse] that can prove that human beings have survived.
"Why a book? Paper is very fragile." Shen Jian whispered.
Chen An shook his head. "Paper is fragile, but it is the safest right now. Everything uploaded to electronic devices will go through a medieval processor, not to mention the network inside the Wuyan Tower. The boss has the authority, even if he doesn't even look at it, but we can't afford to gamble."
"We will seal this place up in the end, seal it up, dry the air, and put in a damage-retardant agent suitable for paper. As for the rest..."
Shen An smiled slowly, "It depends on how capable the future person is."
Even in ancient times, there are many means to restore ancient artifacts. Mr. believes that humans can survive, so he also believes that humans can survive and find this place, restore these things, and then continue this civilization that once existed.
Shen Jian looked at Shen An quietly for a while, then he walked up the stairs and stopped three steps away from Shen Jian.
Shen An in another world was also used to standing at this distance from Shen Jian, and now he was standing next to his leader's child.
He lowered his eyes, but this time he did not overstep his bounds as he did to his leader. Instead, he asked calmly, "You, ..."
"Do you want to take over here?"
Shen Jian just leaned against the bookshelf and looked at Shen An, with an amazed and appreciative look, carefully observing this subordinate who he seemed to be meeting for the first time.
He did not answer the question, but for the first time crossed the distance, stood on tiptoe and touched Shen An's head, "Thank you for your hard work, Shen An."
Chen An was slightly startled, and subconsciously raised a smile in confusion, "Yes, first..."
He suddenly came to his senses mid-sentence and took a step back, "Sorry."
Shen Jian shook his head, “It’s okay, he won’t blame you. It’s been ten years, right?”
Shen An blinked slightly and swallowed his tears, "Yes."
“…” Shen Jian looked at him gently, “Actually, I’m sorry for making you think of him every second.”
Because he looks so much like "Chen Jian".
Shen Jian sighed. He finally figured out why the leader of Wu Yan Tower had long hair. It was obvious that the long hair would even block his vision when he swung the sword.
To distinguish myself from this world.
In fact, Shen Jian and the long-haired leader of the Wu Yan Tower were in the same position. Even though they were both Shen Jian, he was not the Shen Jian in front of him, not the leader of the 30,000 subordinates of the Wu Yan Tower in this world.
Their leader died at the very beginning of the plan, so that Shen Jian could turn the situation around now.
Thinking of this, Shen Jian also felt that the original leader of this world was cruel enough to abandon his Wuyan Tower so calmly.
Shen An smiled, leaned over and patted Shen Jian's shoulder like the leader used to comfort him, "Actually, we are very happy that we can think of him when we see you. We also hope you don't mind that we see him through you for a few seconds. Thank you for knowing this and understanding this."
"I have forgotten your face for a long time." Shen An said, he looked wronged and painful without knowing it, "but I still have to guard this ark."
Shen Jian found it a little funny, and relaxed his body to watch Shen An's performance, "Suppose you knew that I just went to see him... Although..."
They all knew that "he" referred to the current leader of the Wuyan Tower.
Shen An subconsciously glanced at the red-eyed silver snake ring currently on Shen Jian's right ring finger.
"But you still told me these things." Shen Jian shook his head with amusement, "What if I don't agree?"
Shen An blinked innocently, "Then we will guarantee your future life and make sure you will be the last one to die among us."
"Although we may not live for much longer, probably."
Shen Jian: “…”
You didn't say a word about the consequences if he didn't agree to this matter.
But he didn't pursue the matter. Instead, he shrugged and said, "Answer my question first."
Shen An sighed and leaned down, "We need to explain this to you together. We are going to a place that is absolutely safe, although I don't know where the coordinates are set this time... Can I carry you down, the stairs are not safe?"
"No." Shen Jian responded to Shen An, who looked regretful, with a fake smile, "If you see clearly how I got up here."
Shen An followed suit and shrugged, a smile playing on his lips.
Just now, when Shen Jian asked "What is the timing of appearance is too coincidental", Shen An said he would explain, but he was silent afterwards.
And Shen Jian didn't have any doubts about this at all, he just asked the next question.
But now, the kid has clearly expressed his interest in this issue, which means that he almost agrees to "take over" here.
After all... under normal circumstances, if someone listened to such confidential information from an organization, he would be killed to silence him, right?
Unless you accept these things and then stay in a position working for the organization.
Although they certainly wouldn't be willing to kill the child.
As Shen An thought about it, he couldn't help but turn his head to glance at the indifferent child and laughed.
Shen Jian: “?”
Shen Jian: “…Although I don’t know what you are thinking, but be sober.”
Shen An responded perfunctorily twice, then turned around and stretched out his hand to signal Shen Jian to lead it himself, "Sorry, I need to cover it for a while."
Shen Jian glanced at him and did as he was told.
In fact, he could guess the principle of why this place was separated from the outside world—Shen Wenyan’s space technology.
In his world, this technology had not even been reported, and here it was certainly impossible for it to reach the ears of the current leader of the Wuyan Tower.
Perhaps there are some new research results now, such as remote transmission, so they cannot be made public to him for the time being?
But can’t quantum teleportation be used?
Shen Jian’s doubt flashed across his face, and then his eyes were gently covered.
“I also need to know what happened in the outside world.” At the last second, Shen Jian urgently added the “transaction content”.
He heard a slight laugh above his head, and then Shen An's soft voice came vaguely: "This is included in what you should know."
The feeling of weightlessness came suddenly, and darkness enveloped his vision. After an unknown amount of time, Shen Jian slowly felt the existence of gravity, and he fell to the ground.
Shen Jian had just weakly suppressed the urge to vomit when he suddenly heard Shen An's slightly panicked voice in a daze.
"Boss...? You haven't slept yet?"
Just as Shen Jian was about to pull Shen An away, he stopped: "......?"
This is your "absolutely safe place"???
You guys are not going to teleport to someone else's lair all of a sudden, are you? ?
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