Xianyu bluffed Teng Xiao into leaving without batting an eye, then turned and returned to the Library. His colleagues had already finished their work and returned to their desks, where they looked busier than ever.
But to Xianyu, a habitual slacker... one glance was enough to see the truth.
They were really just inventing things to do. If the Diviner hadn't still been there, they would probably have started slacking off long ago.
Holding the book with its outrageous title, Xianyu expertly picked a desk in a corner, then...
He started staring blankly at the title.
Xianyu didn't dare open the book at all. He kept having the irrational feeling that a single glance would send him down a road of no return...
He took a deep breath and decided to open the table of contents first, going through the memories he still knew nothing about in chronological order.
Xianyu steeled himself and started reading, forcing himself to ignore the florid language and trying to extract the key points from the piles of empty rhetoric.
Thanks to over a thousand years of work experience, this sort of thing really wasn't difficult for him at all :)
He had predicted in advance that Intellitron life would cause trouble and unleash the "Emperor's War"...
Yeah, that was nonsense.
Part of the reason was that Intellitron life was destined to become one of the Three Great Disasters of the universe.
Just like the most basic math problem, "one plus one equals two," it was inevitably a problem the entire universe would have to face.
Another part of the reason was that a Golem had caused trouble on his very first day on the job.
As for fighting the Swarm Disaster, the same "one plus one" logic applied.
It was like a scripted battle