It was rather interesting. This was Ming Shuiyun's first time setting foot in the White Box Library.
It wasn't that she disliked reading, nor did she dislike the atmosphere of a library. She was simply too busy usually: attending classes, doing assignments, Peerless Kill, having fun with her classmates, probing into her roommates' military intelligence... Every minute and second of her daily life was packed to the brim, so naturally, she had no time to swim through the ocean of knowledge at the White Box Library.
All right, the truth was that she didn't really like reading. But what serious student liked reading? Not casual books, but textbooks packed with specialized terminology. Even Lin Xue, Kui Nianruo, and Qian Yuya, who ranked near the top of their year, merely didn't hate reading textbooks. They were far from liking it.
There was a long distance between not hating something and liking it.
The library's main doors slowly closed. Several brocade-clad warriors guarded the stairways inside the White Box Library, guiding Ming Shuiyun upstairs.
In the enormous library, only her footsteps could be heard. She was wearing the same Steel-soled Boots as Qin Leyin. Each step rang out crisp and clear. Supposedly, these were the standard boots of Statistics Department agents, and their sound, like a symphony of steel, could make people's hearts tremble... She, too, wanted to make someone's heart tremble.
There were even more brocade-clad warriors on the third floor, packed so tightly they were practically shoulder to shoulder... They stood on both sides of the passageway, their expressions calm and their eyes fixed straight ahead, like a series of living tombs. Ming Shuiyun had once been terrified of these Golden Guards who carried out every order without fail, but now she felt they were nothing special—living like tools was