Hogwarts Summoning Guide
Chapter 271 The Library and the Scapegoat
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Although the process was agonizing, the Diana did not disappoint, transporting the survivors of the great battle to the eastern coast. Silence reigned in the cabins. No one mentioned those who hadn't made it in time, no one mentioned what would happen to the mages who had fallen into the water and were wounded or killed in battle. The initial joy of escaping death was overshadowed by other emotions: fear of missile attacks, anxiety about the future, and guilt for the fallen comrades…
Bai Lin didn't want anyone to observe him up close, so he completed the teleportation alone outside the cabin. However, the Executive Department was, after all, the official agency for the management of magic in the East, and a thorough investigation of this incident was inevitable. Fortunately, Lulu had the status of an official of the International Wizarding Association and was also a well-known figure in the arts. The Executive Department very politely thanked her for the help and rescue she brought to the Executive Department, but still required them to assist in the investigation and not leave the East for at least a month.
Bai Lin was very fortunate that he had not revealed his identity and thus gained relative freedom, while the Execution Department mages who had returned faced a full investigation.
As for the war of words with the US military, it didn't cause any ripples at all. The Eastern Magic Management Committee had no way to restrain the US military or the US Ministry of Magic. Protesting or condemning them would only bring shame upon themselves.
However, the executive branch has confirmed that Fujiwara Ichiura was instructed by the United States to commit so many heinous crimes.
The internal investigation lasted about a week, but Bai Lin couldn't help much, so he focused his energy on the library function activated in the elemental tower of the habitat by killing Fujiwara Ichiura's shikigami.
Aside from Hagrid, who wasn't interested in reading, Yuxi, Kiki, and Lulu followed Bai Lin to the Elemental Tower with great curiosity.
After searching around the Elemental Tower, I found that there wasn't an extra room, but rather a magnificent door on an empty wall. Opening the door revealed a very strange space, filled with flowing light, but I couldn't see what was inside.
Bai Lin had imagined the library to be a room filled with bookshelves or perhaps a large computer, but when they entered, they found themselves in a lush bamboo forest.
Stepping out of the bamboo forest, a refreshing breeze swept over us, revealing a picturesque landscape of clear waters and beautiful mountains. The subtle fragrance of grass and trees filled our nostrils, instantly invigorating us and lifting our spirits.
"Wasn't it supposed to be a library? Why is it in the wild?" Yuxi asked curiously.
"The system notification says that only the Eastern Secret Realm area is open. Is this the Eastern Secret Realm? The scenery is quite nice!" Bai Lin replied casually.
"Wait..." Lulu suddenly reached out her hand, her expression somewhat strange, as if she had sensed something was wrong.
When Bai Lin turned around, he almost had a nosebleed. Lulu's clothes suddenly disappeared, and a faint golden light was slowly forming the Saintess Armor she wore in the Temple of Order. However, Bai Lin got a real treat for his eyes during this process.
"Hey, don't look!" Yuqian said coquettishly. Lulu's figure was indeed incomparable to her petite frame, and she immediately felt a little threatened.
Fortunately, the change of clothes only took about ten seconds. Bai Lin scratched the back of his head awkwardly, feeling just relieved that the big guy Hagrid hadn't come along, otherwise he would have been in big trouble...
Lulu glanced at Bai Lin and said, "We only entered this place in our consciousness! The surroundings are just illusions or something..."
"Perhaps it's not an illusion after all..." Bai Lin surveyed the surrounding scenery, the soil and rocks on the ground... Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he clapped his hands, exclaiming, "We're inside the book!"
Yuxi was taken aback, her face full of question marks: "What do you mean, 'called' in the book?"
Lulu looked enlightened and said, "That makes sense. If the space we live in is three-dimensional, we can completely regard the world expressed by words or pictures as two-dimensional space. I don't know if you have ever noticed that words can describe and summarize very complex events, scenery, principles and so on in just a few sentences. For example, the scenery in front of us may only need one sentence in a book, but if it is transformed into a movie scene or a physical reproduction, it will generate a huge amount of information."
Yuqian and Qiqi were both confused, but Bai Lin nodded and said, "For recording, information needs to be condensed, but for understanding, information needs to be deciphered, analyzed, and comprehended in order to be reproduced in the mind... I understand the role of the library now; it's to directly decipher the information in books, transforming two-dimensional space into three-dimensional space, allowing our consciousness to enter, so that we can understand the content in the books most efficiently!"
After understanding the principles of the library, Bai Lin spoke directly to thin air: "I want to search for information about Japanese shikigami!"
The encyclopedia interface appeared before everyone with a faint golden light, displaying a long list. Bai Lin casually clicked on it and selected a shikigami named "Gu Huo Niao".
Suddenly, a crying sound came from afar. The group followed the sound and found a village on the other side of the hill, but the wooden houses were very small.
Crying could be heard from a corner of the village. When people went to investigate, they found a group of ragged farmers gathered in a small courtyard. The woman in the middle was clutching a child's outfit and crying, while the people around her were whispering among themselves.
The fact that the farmers could not see the crowd further supports the inference that they were merely entering through consciousness.
Listening to the whispers of the people, everyone finally understood that the night before last, the farmer's wife had taken out her child's clothes to air them out, and in the morning she found a small drop of blood on the clothes. She thought it was from accidentally getting it on while washing the clothes, but when she looked this morning, she found that her child had been stolen. The neighbors all shook their heads and sighed, saying it was the work of the nine-headed bird.
Bai Lin's team was immersed in watching various exotic stories in the library, while Yan Nishuang was sitting on pins and needles in the Execution Department's monitoring room.
After a thorough investigation by the Executive Department, more than a dozen employees who may have leaked confidential information about the Executive Department's field mission have been identified, and Yan Nishuang's note has also been discovered.
Upon returning to the Execution Department, Zhang Quanshu was suspended from his duties. The deaths and injuries of nearly sixty mages and the sinking of the Cloud Ark made him inescapably responsible. However, it was impossible to expect him, the second-in-command of the Execution Department, to take the blame. Therefore, the staff suspected of leaking information, even fierce generals like Yan Nishuang who had risked their lives in battle and killed countless enemies, were imprisoned in the Supervision Office and faced joint interrogation by the highest levels of the Execution Department and even the Magic Management Committee.
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