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023: The Hidden Secrets of the Confinement Room

"Huhu!~Huhu!~"

The wind was howling, and there was a devilish scream outside the cross window, like the wail of some invisible invisible creature that was locked outside and not allowed to enter.

"Pap!~Pap!~"

The heavy rain was raging, and the beating cross window kept shaking, as if an invisible creature was trying to break in.

finally--

"Boom!" There was a deafening bang, and a pale thunder and lightning tore through the sky.

With this burst of thunder, there was only a "click" sound, and the cross window suddenly opened inward, and the strong wind and heavy rain immediately rushed into the closed room.

What followed seemed to be the invisible creature, the invisible creature named 'Fear'...

Heath shuddered and felt a tingling feeling in his heart.

He walked up, closed the cross window and inserted the deadbolt, then turned back.

"That's right...there is indeed one missing..."

He counted again and confirmed that he had counted correctly. There were indeed 18 bookshelves in the 60th row, but only 17 in the 59th row.

"But they obviously look the same..."

Heath couldn't understand. He looked back and forth several times. The bookshelves on both sides clearly looked the same, but why was there one missing after counting? Where did the missing bookshelf go?

After pondering for a moment, he decided to find out what was going on and find the missing bookshelf.

So he took down all the books on the bookshelf one by one and placed them on the long reading table next to him. He vacated both rows of bookshelves, then picked up a book and passed it from one side of the bookshelf to the other.

Because the two rows of bookshelves are placed back to back, the book he is holding can pass through the bookshelf No. 60 and at the same time pass through the bookshelf No. 59 behind him. In this way, he penetrates through the bookshelves one by one, thus

Check out these bookshelves.

Is it just trial and error due to my own digital disability, or is it really a bookshelf that has disappeared?

"1..."

"3..."

"6..."

In the empty library, only Heath's voice echoed, and his slender arms held up the books and passed through the bookshelves over and over again, as if they were performing some kind of strange ritual. What do you think of this empty environment?

How weird.

And when he came to the end of the bookshelf, Hispan suddenly stopped.

"14!"

Heath stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes. Half of the book he was holding penetrated the No. 14 bookshelf in the 60th row. However, the remaining half did not appear on the No. 14 bookshelf in the 59th row as expected, but just like this.

Disappeared for no reason, disappeared!

"It's not a hallucination!"

Heath finally confirmed that it was not a hallucination or his own cognitive impairment, but that a bookshelf had indeed disappeared here.

He looked at the half-disappeared book in front of him. He tried it back and forth many times. Once the book passed through rows 59 and 60, it would disappear in an instant, as if there was an invisible void there.

"Is it bookshelf No. 14? Bookshelf No. 14, row 59, 5914... This homophone is not very auspicious..."

Heath thought inexplicably.

"Where did this missing bookshelf go? Why did it disappear?"

Curiosity and curiosity are the prerequisites for becoming a great wizard. After discovering the beauty of the bookshelf in front of him, the first thing Heath thought of was how to get this missing bookshelf out and how to understand everything in front of him.

He first tried to separate the bookshelves one by one, but unfortunately the bookshelves seemed to be fixed together. He tried for a long time but could not find a way to separate them without damaging the bookshelves.

"This phenomenon must be related to magic. If so, then there should be that thing..."

After pondering for a moment, he started groping carefully on the bookshelf in front of him.

"found it!"

Soon, Heath discovered a hidden pattern under the table between bookshelves No. 13 and No. 14, an egg-sized, round, complex six-pointed star... This was a magic circle!

"Sure enough, there is a magic circle! It seems that some kind of magic has not escaped!"

Heath now confirmed his guess.

"What kind of magic circle is this? Who left it here? Did it destroy the bookshelf? What is the purpose of doing this..."

A series of questions appeared in Heath's mind. Faced with this bizarre phenomenon, he naturally thought of a lot of possibilities, such as the powerful magic hidden by a powerful wizard, the secret hidden in the ancient academy, Sigrama

The treasures left behind by the dynasty...

These questions eventually turned into motivation for him to continue to explore the doubts in front of him, so after thinking for a while, he made a decisive decision——

"Let's see if we can untie it!"

As soon as he thought this, Heath immediately began to try to decipher the magic circle. As for the dangers this would cause, it cannot be said that he had not considered it at all. It can only be said that after curiosity and reason competed in his mind for a long time, curiosity finally gained the upper hand.

The way for wizards to crack the magic circle is to extend their spiritual tentacles and cut into the magic circle to dismantle each node of the magic circle. To put it metaphorically, it is like using a screwdriver and other tools to tighten the screws of an electrical appliance, loosen the rivets, and allow the electrical appliance to be dismantled.

Workers in this process do not necessarily need to know everything about electrical appliances. The same applies to magic. Even if they know nothing about the magic circle, they can dismantle it.

Of course, ordinary wizards will not be as reckless as Heath. After all, if they encounter a magic circle that has its own protective measures or has backlash, such random dismantling may bring unpredictable consequences.

It's like using a screwdriver to defuse a bomb.

However, one of the main reasons why Hiss is so arrogant is probably because this is an academy. The Hui of the Sea of ​​Trees considers the safety of the academy not much different from that of Blue Star modern countries, and the academy is generally very safe.

After all, there's no reason for a normal school to have a bomb placed in the classroom waiting for some naughty apprentice to come and defuse it, right?

"Tick-tock, tick-tock..." The rain kept falling, and time passed by little by little.

Heath quietly cracked the magic circle.

The cracking process was very smooth. Each node of the magic circle collapsed under his mental tentacles, and the entire magic circle began to fall apart. There was no trouble in the process, just like dismantling a toy.

Such smoothness could not help but make Heath a little disappointed. Although the magic circle was too simple, it greatly increased the safety factor, but it also showed that there should not be any particularly important secrets behind it.

"Let's take it apart first and then talk..."

Shaking his head, Heath suppressed the disappointment in his heart and devoted himself to the magic circle.

Soon, the magic circle was dismantled.

And at the moment when the magic failed, a bizarre scene appeared in front of Heath...

"Huhu!~"

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew up in the closed room for no apparent reason, causing Heath to shiver involuntarily.

The space between bookshelf No. 13 and No. 14 suddenly became distorted, and the space suddenly became blurry, as if a blurry mirror had been erected in front of the eyes.

And in this twisted space, a straight and dark corridor appeared. At the end of the corridor, a bookshelf stood quietly.

The bookshelf was empty, except for a single black book on the top.

"Huhu!~Huhu!~"

The wind seemed to be getting stronger, but the strange thing was that Heath couldn't feel the existence of any wind, and could only hear the constant whistling sound in his ears.

Along with the whistling sound, there seems to be a whisper like a dream...

"Come...come..."

That voice seemed to have some kind of strange magic power. Not long after hearing the voice, Heath's eyes suddenly became blurred.

As if sleepwalking, he stepped into the dark corridor...


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