Chapter 253: 1.5-34 (2/2)

So using his time wisely, Xinya deviated his time from taking pictures of certain important pages to taking shorthand on things that might not be so important.

While he was reading about why an established lucerne will survive, even a scorching burn because of the massive underground root reserves and growing points, he got a voice call through party chat.

Knowing that it could only be Melting Snow, Xinya hurriedly picked up the call and answered.

”Hello?”

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”Drifting Cloud, I need your help!! When that librarian NPC said to put the books back, he didn't mean just to put them back neatly in place; he wanted them in exact order!” exclaimed Melting Snow in a panic tone.

”Calm down, we will figure this out,” Xinya replied soothingly. He had a feeling that the NPC would pull some sneaky trick, and he was right.

Listening to what the green-eyed man said, Melting Snow, started to calm down. If the man was this calm, he must have some idea of how to help him.

After giving the matter some thought, Xinya asks, ”Do the books have call numbers on them?”

”Call numbers? What is that?” asked Melting Snow, totally bewildered.

Xinya should have expected this. No one, especially a young boy of Melting Snow's age, would know an obscure library system from hundreds of years ago.

”A call number is an address on books that help people locate materials in the library.” Xinya sighed, ”But since you had to ask, there's no point in going that route.”

”Then what should I do?”

Xinya wondered that too. Since he needs the boy to complete his quest, he needs to think hard. Suddenly an idea hit him, it was a stupid one, but he knew it could work.

”Melting Snow, I got an idea, but first, I need you to remove all the books, if any, you already put on the shelf. Then, using your fastest speed, I want you to try all the books one at a time in a spot until the quest says the book counted for your quest. You are going to have to do that over and over again until the entire shelf is filled. Is that something you can do?” asked Xinya.

Melting Snow thought about his friend's plan and had to agree it was a stupid idea, but he also knew it would work. ”Yeah, I can do it. Thank you so much for the idea. I'm going to go start on it right now!”

Before Xinya could even reply, Melting Snow had already hung up the call and started taking the books off the shelves.

”I didn't even get to ask about how he will be reaching the top shelves of the bookcase,” Xinya said softly before going back to his books.