Just as one wave subsided, another rose.
While Zheng Qing was still restless over the new staff at Edge Academy and the Relevant Department, Sanyou Bookstore sent him fresh news, leaving him even more distraught.
"—It might just be a false alarm, but since we received the message, you should go take a look."
The Yellow Flower Cat lay sprawled across the counter of Sanyou Bookstore in Beta Town, lazily informing the young wizard who had rushed back, travel-worn and dusty. There was an inexplicable hint of pleasure in its voice. "Weren't you always curious as a child about where that old man went to save the world? Today, you can go see for yourself."
The "false alarm" it mentioned was the new message Zheng Qing had received not long ago.
A Sanyou Bookstore in the Outer Realm had detected what appeared to be an intrusion of higher-dimensional aura and sent an urgent request for help to headquarters. Just as a "book" was the point of intersection between the 2D World and the Three-Dimensional World, a bookstore was the point of intersection between the Three-Dimensional World and the Higher Dimension World. Every Sanyou Bookstore was born atop such intersections, monitoring the Higher Dimension World's influence on lower dimensions.
Most of the time, these intersections had no effect on lower-dimensional worlds.
Think of it in reverse, from a lower dimension's perspective. When you read a book, its words often simply passed before your eyes without affecting you in any way, let alone the wider world.
When things were slightly more serious, you might laugh or cry while reading, even forget to eat and sleep. At that point, the 2D World's influence on the Three-Dimensional World had begun to overflow, but it was limited to an individual. The situation was not serious,