Watching Deng continue her strange laughter, and glancing at the book in her hand, Yun You felt that this girl's ntal state seed a bit abnormal.
But upon further thought, it didn't seem so odd after all.
The Cosmic Library is too vast, sotis you can't see another normal person for months, and there's no normal food supply. You can only eat so nauseatingly sweet cola and lollipops all day.
Under such circumstances, how could Deng maintain a normal ntal state?
"By the way... you ntioned before that combat is forbidden in the Cosmic Library, right?"
Yun You shook the "Human Flesh Book" in her hand and asked curiously, "So why suddenly turn and fight now?"
"No, no, don't misunderstand."
Deng waved her hand, smiling as she explained, "This isn't called 'fighting.'"
"That guy is insatiable; he wants everything yet forgets the simplest truth of this world—there's no free lunch."
"He simply paid the necessary price, and this was a completely fair and just transaction. I didn't fight, just gave him a reward according to the trading rules. He couldn't handle such power himself, so he ended up stretching his body to the breaking point."
"Being kind-hearted as always and unable to tolerate waste, I simply made him into a Book of Destiny Revelation. This way, his life's value wouldn't be wasted."
Upon hearing this, Yun You couldn't help but click her tongue.
"Rules? Aren't they your rules, which you can explain however you want?"
She silently grumbled in her heart.
"Ahem..."
Deng cleared her throat twice, interrupting the girl's wild thoughts.
"Alright, it's ti for the second revelation now."
She paused slightly, then closed her eyes, seemingly calculating.
After a mont, Deng extended her hand, pointing in a certain direction, and opened her mouth again.
"Where tal roars, rust devours the stars."
She glanced at Yun You with profound aning and said, "Tears form amber, earth veins... hidden gold."
"...?"
Yun You was slightly stunned, subconsciously asking, "Is it over?"
"I feel like you said sothing remarkable, but upon thinking about it, I can't understand the aning."
"Could you elaborate a bit more?"
Deng was silent for a mont, but finally nodded.
She cleared her throat twice and continued, "Heart of rust swallows gold, yesterday's poison mist sung by people today."
"The poor find amber tears, never fading in Mother's embrace."
"This is the answer you seek."
Yun You furrowed her brow.
Although she knew that Deng must have her own profound aning for saying this, she really couldn't understand it for now.
Was Deng hinting at the hiding place of that enemy nad "Zhao"?
Thinking of this, Yun You wanted to ask further.
But Deng shook her head first, quite seriously saying, "The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed."
"You must figure it out yourself!"
"Maybe in the near future, we will have another chance to et, and then you can compare to see if the revelation I gave you is correct or not."
With that, she turned around and waved.
"See you next ti~ Rember to fulfill the agreent and send so snacks on ti!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Yun You was sowhat startled, just about to say sothing, but the floor beneath her suddenly cracked, and she lost control, falling into a void world, as everything before her was shrouded in darkness.
Who knows how long passed...
As the girl's vision restored, the world around her slowly erged before her.
She had left the Cosmic Library and returned to Nest City.
Only...
From the surrounding dilapidated yet lively tube buildings and abandoned factories, this place clearly wasn't the Steel Forest Area but so slum in the Lower City.
Rust Bay.
The largest civilian settlent in District X of Nest City No. 3 Lower City.
This district is close to the ocean, with natural port geography; its economic conditions should not be poor. However, because in the past, there was the largest industrial area in the Lower City here, large amounts of sewage and chemical emissions have polluted the ocean and rivers, so those oceanic fleets prefer to trade at other ports.
In the morning, the whole town awoke from the trembling sound of tin roofs, strings of laundry with shirts hung on the remains of so reactor towers, with faded sheets fluttering in the yellow sulfurous mist.
So old-fashioned boilers, modified by artisans into breakfast carts, spewed coal-smoky white smoke on one side while emitting the tempting aroma of sizzling fried foods on the other.
The underground sewage ducts still emitted a stench, and children wearing rubber boots occasionally found radioactive chemical resin in the rubbish heaps, those golden brown crystals dancing in the morning light, like candies discarded by the aristocrats from Upper City.
The stench and toxins perating the air made Yun You, who had lived in the Lower City for more than a decade, feel a headache.
Only the residents here were long accustod to these conditions.
"Fix pots—fix buckets—"
An old crippled coppersmith passed by Yun You, his tricycle loaded full of chemical valves now being eagerly converted into stew pots by housewives.
"Splash~"
Nearby, a basin of soapy water suddenly splashed from a building constructed without permission, and the flying water droplets pierced through the web of illegally installed wires, refracting rainbow colors on the rusty pipes. A repairman lying in the cool canopy made from a scrapped reactor, engraved words onto steel plates with a blowtorch, each flash of blue-purple flas marking "House for Rent" or "Tattoo Service" on the tal surface.
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