Richard approached and flipped through the books with the emblem of the Black Spirit Empire, and saw that many pages were damaged due to poor preservation, and some of them still had traces of flooding and insect damage. In a sense, this is not a book at all, and it is difficult to even call half a book.

After turning a few pages, Richard's brows furrowed even more when he swept his eyes over the contents, feeling somewhat familiar.

"If a slave boy makes a mistake, then you can punish him like this. Stripped him naked, tied him to a wooden frame, and hit his lower body hard with a wooden stick until he made a woman's voice in pain, and then ......"

Richard raised his eyebrows, turned to the first page of the book, and saw a line written on it unsurprisingly: My autobiography - Moratos.

This turned out to be a duplicate book that already existed.

This......

Richard shook his head, ready to restore the book to its original state, but because the page turning action was too large, it touched the red line, and immediately placed the small copper bell connected to the book, and the "clanging" sounded.

The strong black man who had stopped at the door quickly appeared nearby, looked over, and asked in a buzzing voice, "You rang the bell?"

"Nope. Richard shook his head and explained, "I just accidentally touched it!"

"Accidentally?!Hey, there's no such thing as carelessness here!" the black strong man said in a deep voice, "In the Forbidden Book House, the bell rings, there are only two possibilities. Either you're preparing to buy the books, or you're preparing to steal them. If the former, you will obediently pay for it. If the latter is the case, I will kill you, regardless of whether you are recommended by the scholar Suradians or not! Which one do you choose?"

"......" Richard was silent, silent for a while, he really didn't want to have a ridiculous fight with the black strong man because of this kind of thing, and asked out loud, "How much?"

"150 Inferior Crystals, or 2,000 Gold Coins. The black man said.

"How much?" Richard raised an eyebrow.

I have to say that the price is really a bit high. You must know that at the auction, 7 books handed down by the Black Spirit Empire were auctioned by young men, and they were only 1,000 inferior crystal coins, which was several times the premium. And even so, when it comes to this, it is less than 143 inferior crystal coins in a book. Now the black strong man directly asks for 150 inferior crystal coins, which is really a bit excessive.

The black strong man said unceremoniously: "Here, a book is at this price." I've told you the rules a long time ago, if you want to buy a book, you have to prepare the money in advance, there is no bargaining here, and it's not for poor ghosts to come in casually. ”

Richard's eyes narrowed slightly, he looked at the black strong man for a while, stretched out into his arms, took out a high-grade crystal coin and five medium-sized crystal coins and handed them to the black strong man.

The black strong man was stunned for a moment, and took the crystal coin with a slight surprise, obviously he didn't expect Richard to pay so happily. In his opinion, Richard may still have the same ink as everyone else, for a long time.

After accepting the crystal coin, the black strong man's expression softened a little, and said to Richard: "You wait a while, I'll take the book down for you." ”

After saying that, the strong black man turned around and left, and walked back after a while, with something more in his hand - a ball of white cotton and a sharp black dagger.

Carefully stuffing the cotton into the brass bell, the strong black man lifted the red string and began to cut it with a sharp dagger.

At this time, Richard realized that the tenacity of the thin red thread was far beyond imagination. Rao is a strong man like a black strong man, holding a dagger and cutting most of the time before cutting the red string, which is more difficult than cutting iron wire.

After cutting the red string, the black man handed the book to Richard, and after thinking about it, he found two nameplates three fingers wide and seven or eight centimeters long from the centimeter of his coat pocket—one gold and one silver.

Handing the two nameplates to Richard, the black strong man said, "After you have purchased a product here, you will be considered an official guest." From now on, you can come and go freely with the golden nameplate and will not be blocked.

And the silver nameplate, you can give it to someone else as the person you recommend, and you are also eligible to enter the bookstore. However, there is only one chance, and I hope you can be cautious. ”

Richard took the nameplate, put it away, looked at the black man and asked, "There's an in-house bookstore here, right?"

According to the previous scholar Surrates, this forbidden book house is divided into two parts: internal and external. The difficulty of external entry is not too high, as long as someone recommends it. But not internally, the conditions are more stringent and the threshold is higher. Suradis did not say what it would be, but said that there would be more books to choose from.

Listening to Richard's words, the black strong man furrowed his eyebrows and asked aloud, "You want to enter the inner library?"

"There's no book I want here, I'm going to take a look inside, can't I?"

"It can be, but it's ......" The black strong man looked at Richard, looked up and down, as if estimating something, and said slowly, "But...... You'll need to pass our tests. ”

"Hmm, what test?" asked Richard.

"It's a test of your strength, and you have to show your strength and meet certain standards before you can be allowed to enter the interior of our Forbidden Library. The black strong man said, with a serious face.

"After all, we are forbidden here, and the degree of internal prohibition is more serious than the outside, and there are more prohibited items, wouldn't it be bad if you casually let people in, and only to be forced to come out outside?" the black man continued, "So, if you want to enter the inside, you must show that you have the strength to protect our internal secrets. ”

"Is that so......" Richard's eyes narrowed slightly. I don't have much to worry about showing my strength. But he's thinking about whether his long-standing disguise will be exposed?

He was introduced by the scholar Thorady, and his identity was on the surface, if he showed too much strength, or even showed his magic ability, would the scholar Thorates know?

Maliciously speculated, the scholar Thorates asked him to come here, would there be a deliberate purpose to probe his details?

Even if this may not be very big, he has to pay attention to it, and be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. After all, since the auction, he has been suspecting that the identity of the scholar Surrates is not as simple as it seems. What if it has something to do with the White Rock Tower Academy?

In this case......

Gently grabbing the two nameplates in his hand, Richard thought for a while and felt that it was better to be cautious, looked at the black strong man and said, "If you need to test, then I think ...... Think about it. ”

"Whatever you want. The black strong man raised his hand and said, "The choice is yours." ”

"That's good. Richard said, "When I think clearly, I'll come again." ”

"Good. The black man responded, and then made a gesture of invitation to the outside of the bookstore.

Richard didn't care, and walked out, followed by the large underground market, and returned to the laboratory.

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