In the fifth hour of the game, under the apprentices' anxious yet expectant gazes, every vending machine in the library turned into motes of light and flew toward the central island, forming a massive number visible to every competing apprentice on every floor—2.
2?!
After five hours, Yu Xunge, who had accumulated 421 numbers, returned to her original form and plopped down in the Shadow World to start doing math problems.
Every apprentice in the library was doing the same, hiding away in nooks and crannies to quietly work out their calculations.
Not only did they have to get close to the final number, but they also had to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division the same number of times. Most troublesome of all, they had to ensure they held the greatest possible number of digits.
She had eleven negative numbers.
It looked troublesome, but it was actually manageable in the end. Multiplying the negative numbers by larger ones could bring down the final result.
After a round of calculations and using up every item she had obtained from the vending machines, the smallest number Yu Xunge came up with was 15. It was barely acceptable, and the total count was just right too—all 421 numbers had been used up. But it still wasn't enough.
Because that rabbit had gone to the third floor!
The familiar crack of a whip rang out from another floor. It had gone to whip other players?!
That wasn't good news.
Although she had no idea why the Librarian Director had remained on the second floor ever since appearing, the rabbit had always targeted whichever player held the most numbers. Once she left the second floor, the rabbit had gone after the other apprentices.
Yu Xunge immediately left the Shadow World and used Absolute Freedom