High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship
Chapter 561

A First Taste of Truth, Part One

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Yang Yi took his reading card, which looked much like a shower card, and walked deeper into the library.

Everything ahead was pitch-black. Even switching to Three Eyes revealed no objects at all. It was complete and utter "nothingness," much like the sky over Miskatonic University.

But after just a few steps, Yang Yi suddenly felt weightless, as though his body were falling. Then his surroundings abruptly opened up, and a peculiar building appeared ahead.

It was a cylindrical tower made of stacked bookshelves, roughly fifty meters tall and twenty meters in diameter, with five floors in all.

Wooden walkways and staircases ran around the outside of the tower, with lamps on the railings. There were even escalators to help students reach the books they wanted.

The entrance was at the bottom. From there, one could follow the walkways and stairs all the way up or head inside.

Yang Yi now stood about fifteen meters in front of the tower, on a solid floor laid with wooden planks.

"Strange..."

Muttering to himself, Yang Yi frowned and stood still for a few seconds, then backed out.

Another sensation of weightlessness came over him.

The tower before him receded at tremendous speed, disappearing into the darkness.

He was back at the library entrance.

"That's spatial folding technology. With your level of knowledge, explaining it would be a waste of breath."

Old Man Sun was reclining in his lounge chair. Seeing Yang Yi walk backward out of the library, he spoke up to inform him.

Yang Yi ignored him, glanced around, and prepared to enter again.

At the entrance to the Truth Library, there was nothing except Old Man Sun's personal table and chairs. Everything was shrouded in darkness, and even the floor was a layer of transparent material.

Yang Yi lingered for

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