Chapter 10 - Lin Mu, you sabotaged me!!! (1/2)

Da Hei’s heart was full of happiness after deciding to help his new colleague solve their problem.

He spent the whole morning teaching Lin Mu step by step on how to go through basic work process and after lunch, he rubbed his hands together and shuffled over to Lin Mu’s side, “I’ll be skipping work this afternoon? I have a little something on.”

Lin Mu paused, then nodded, “sure, I should be able to handle it on my own.”

“Okay!” Da Hei let out a big grin and took a new white collared shirt and a new pair of jeans from the cupboard.

Looking at this set of clothing that Da Hei had taken out, Lin Mu knew why he was skipping work.

“Recently, that Old Turtle seemed to have encountered some sort of problem during his work, and it’s always been me here alone, so troublesome.” Da Hei said as he changed his clothes.

Lin Mu no longer expected this dog to have the sense of shame as humans.

He turned his head away in order not to look, and upon hearing what Da Hei said, he asked, “what kind of trouble?”

“It seems that it was that nine-tailed fox who came in before that asked him to cast a divination, and he managed to divine out some kind of serious matter,” Da Hei answered, “because of this thing, I’ve been running around, delaying things until I didn’t have any time to see the old lady.”

Lin Mu heard the Da Hei say so, and was slightly startled, “the old lady……”

Da Hei’s voice sounded calm, “I went to see her on the weekend, and it’s probably due to terminal lucidity, but she’s got a healthy glow and was full of energy. A lot of her relatives, friends, and former students came back to see her after hearing the news, and she seemed happy, so it’s quite good.”

The old lady always had been a gentle and quiet person, and no matter how fierce she got, she was still always the same warm and gentle person. She had suddenly become more active recently, and her son and daughter than rushed back from abroad also knew the truth in their hears.

People always knew when they reached the end of their natural lives.

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Her time was coming, she had terminal lucidity, so she probably was going to leave soon.

“The old lady’s great-granddaughter is three years old,” Da Hei fell silent after speaking and his clothes rustled as he wore them. “I’ll come back when the workday ends, you continue working first.”

Lin Mu nodded, “okay.”

He watched as Da Hei left, and seeing that nobody else came, went to the reference room on the second floor.

After five days, Lin Mu could already see the shadow of the office’s second floor.

The entire area was made up of a large, dark and black building. The reason why an ‘area’ was used to describe it was because it almost covered the entire street’s sky.

Overall, it was a very distorted, irregular and unscientific shape, like it had been built up by a child who didn’t know anything, and simply stacked one block on top of another, with the occasional protruding piece.

Such a twisted shape, it wasn’t in accordance with architectural mechanics and aesthetics at all.

What was even more unscientific was the sunlight flowing down from the crooked and twisted gaps, and spreading over the entire street without any reasonable scientific principle. This resulted in a building that was clearly blocking out the sky, but didn’t actually block out the light shining down on the street.

On the outside, the building was made up of dark brick walls and dark golden tiles laid out in an orderly manner. Under the eaves hung bright lanterns of different colours that were quite different compared to the dark building. Even in broad daylight, one could see the red lights shining out from the lanterns.

There wasn’t a single window in the whole building, and all the lights were tightly shrouded.

This was Lin Mu’s first time on the second floor.

After walking up the stairs, he faced a circular space with a small platform in the middle that could fit about five people. If one stepped on the platform and raised their head, they would be able to vaguely see a dome that resembled a black dot.

With these types of docile pet dogs, Lin Mu had also seen news where ‘a thief entered the house, and the owner’s pet dog brought a pair of slippers to greet them’. Basically one should not expect dogs with these sort of nature to guard the house, and should just take the dog as a child and maintain such a life.

Lin Mu approached again to check on the dog’s exposed wounds and reiterated, “we have to go to the hospital.”

Yan Xuanjing did not know much about the Central Plains, but ‘hospital’, this word, he understood.

He raised a paw and pressed it on Lin Mu’s face again, indicating his refusal.

He’s a magnificent nine-tailed fox, such a great monster, why would he need to go to the hospital for such skin injuries.

Invisible injuries that would take more than a couple of days to recover, it was necessary for him to recuperate, and going to a human hospital would be useless.

The surrounding areas were full of densely packed books, which looked like they were from different eras. Some were so old they were even clay tablets, or something similar to that.

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Although it was called a reference room, in actual face it was a huge library. With the number of books and references far exceeding any other known library in the world.

Apparently, there were about five such units within the country.

The main reason why its area was so wide and contained such a great amount of books was because the data collected had been recorded since ancient times, and until this day, even the Old Turtle who had been responsible for guarding the area for over 3000 years wasn’t sure what the earliest available data was.

In order to maintain the integrity of their history, all the monsters had collectively decided to keep their battles away from these give locations. As for human wars, they didn’t matter, simply because it wasn’t as if they could see or touch these references.

When one wanted to look up information, all they had to do was to step up onto the platform and say the relevant keyword, and they would be sent by the platform to the area where the relevant information were preserved.

Da Hei had emphasised this matter to Lin Mu before, since this reference room had been around for so long, it has long achieved spiritual awareness. Once, some evil monsters had entered and wanted to play some little tricks, but it wasn’t long before they were turned into corpses and thrown down the stairs.

Therefore, in order to go up, one had to have good intentions.

Although Lin Mu had heard from Da Hei on how to use the room, experiencing it for the first time was still a strange experience.

Lin Mu’s cheeks suddenly felt cold, he reached out and carefully grasped the dog’s paws, took it out of sight and tentatively asked, “not going?”

Yan Xuanjing pull away his paws from Lin Mu’s hand, and pressed it on his face again.

Lin Mu paused, and asked again, “go?”

The dog retracted it’s paws.

Lin Mu froze for a while, and felt that this was really strange.

He actually felt that this dog was communicating with him.

No, when he picked it up yesterday, the dog was already quite intelligent.

He marveled at the information he had received about the Great Wilderness and the Central Plains. Once the old materials had touched his hand, they turned to words that Lin Mu could read clearly, and flipping through it, there were also colourful illustrations kindly attached.

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Lin Mu gave a small sound of exclamation then raised his head to look around the reference room he was in. He asked softly, “could I be allowed to take this down? I still have work to do.”

The platform under his feet shook slightly, and rumbled as it sent Lin Mu back to the entrance.

Lin Mu gave his thanks, and carefully brought the data down the stairs. He sat down and began to read.

Da Hei had told Lin Mu before, that the existence of the Great Wilderness was based on the existence of the Central Plains. Lin Mu hadn’t understood at first, but the book explained it clearly.

The Great Wilderness, the Heavens, the netherworlds, and all those other legendary places in myths and legends were all dependent on the Central Plains, just like projections.

Monsters, Gods and Ghosts, all of them lived in these projections. They were able to see what happened in the Central Plains, but to the normal humans in the Central Plains, they were illusions that did not exist.

In addition, the book also contained information about some of the main influences in these special regions. Their contents were extremely detailed, and even the personal interests of these high-level forces were arranged out in a clear manner.

And the ones listed at the forefront of the information was the country to the east of the Great Wilderness, Qingqiu Country, with her current head Yan Gui, and his successor Yan Xuanjing.

Lin Mu suspected that the monster in the reference room did this deliberately.

Shortly after Lin Mu fell asleep, Yan Xuanjing, who was resting with closed eyes on the blanket raised his head abrupty, and his dark eyes were glowing green in the darkness.

Lin Mu’s bed was leaning against the window, and at the same time, a plump little hand reached up onto the window still. There were red bits swaying in the dark light, and soon another little hand also reached up.

Next, a small head popped up onto the windowsill. It was a cute child with a little red fruit on his head, baby fat on his face, lovely and pale, with a beautiful flower branch in his mouth.

He was struggling to see what was going on in the room as he leaned over the windowsill.

With his raise of a head, he met eyes with the nine-tailed fox in the house.

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