The Great Escape - 26

Zhou Fan woke up and went to work the next day. Since yesterday was Monday, he had 4 more days before the weekend. Zhou Fan was off on the weekends.

Even though librarians didn't work on the weekend, the library was still open. They have an entire team of people to replace the librarians on the weekends.

Zhou Fan soon made it to Lu Chen's office and announced his arrival. Afterwards, he went to the 7th floor and checked out a book. The book was a philosophy book written by a man named Confucius. It was called the Analects.

According to the person he checked it out from, Confucius was a man considered almost on par with agregot wuksen. However, he lacked the ambition to become a truly great historical figure. Instead, he focused on the way he treated himself and others, along with having a pure heart and pure intentions. Someone could make a religion out of that.

After checking out the book, Zhou Fan went to his section and officially started his duty. He cleaned up the entire area in around 5 hours. In that time, a couple of people had asked him questions and one of his coworkers had introduced himself. His name was Wagu and he came from another empire.

He had chosen to explore the world at a young age and eventually settled down here. According to their brief conversation, he had visited more than 5 empires. That was more than most people would visit in their whole life!

Since he was done, Zhou Fan sat down at his desk and started to read the book he checked out at the pace of an average person. After a while, Zhou Fan had to admit that the book was interesting. In fact, it contained many ideas he never thought of.

It also contains ideas that you may have thought of, but been unable to put into words or cement into your mind. Either way, Zhou Fan didn't put too much importance on it. Although it would be better if people listened to his teachings, Zhou Fan had no such expectations.

"Hello." A voice sounded out.

Zhou Fan looked up and noticed a short girl with glasses standing in front of his desk. She looked to be around 10 years old.

"Are you lost?" Zhou Fan asked.

"No. But I have a question." She said.

Zhou Fan had many questions running through his mind. Is this girl allowed up here? Does she have a silver card? Why is she here alone?

After a little while, Zhou Fan simply gave up. He realized he didn't care enough about this to put any more thought into it.

"What's your question?" Zhou Fan asked the little girl.

"Which bookshelf has information on the grot empire?"

"Follow me." Zhou Fan said. It was hard to point out where to go since the bookshelves are so close together.

"Here. This bookshelf has information on the grot empire, the yuit kingdom, and the Fut tribe." Zhou Fan pointed out.

"Thank you." The girl said while Zhou Fan was walking away.

Zhou Fan had almost decided to ask what she was doing here. Although he had only been working here for 2 days, he assumed that you didn't see a 10-year-old child every day.

Zhou Fan sat back down at his desk and picked his book back up. It wasn't too long before he was interrupted by the shouts of a few men.

"Hey! Stop right there!" 3 men in security outfits screamed.

Zhou Fan once again saw the 10-year-old girl. Only this time, she was running away from the security guards. When Zhou Fan saw that, he inwardly wondered if he would get in trouble for allowing her to be up here.

The commotion soon died down and Zhou Fan started to read his book again. Once again he was interrupted. This time, it was by the three security guards from earlier.

"Sorry to bother you, but have you seen a little girl about 4 feet tall? We last saw her run into this section."

Zhou Fan was surprised to hear that. He hadn't noticed any such thing happening.

"No sirs. I haven't been paying much attention to my surroundings." Zhou Fan said nicely.

"Ok, sorry to bother you." The man said before the three once again ran off.

After the consecutive interruptions, Zhou Fan started to pay attention to his surroundings. All of a sudden, he noticed a head peek out from under his desk. Zhou Fan almost jumped in shock when it suddenly came out.

"Hello." The familiar face said. It was the girl from before.

Zhou Fan was surprised that he didn't notice her going under there. It seems that he really needs to pay more attention to his surroundings when reading.

"Are you a ninja or something?" Zhou Fan asked. He had heard about them in a couple of books he previously read.

"No. But I have been sneaking around since I was young." She said.

'You're still young' Zhou Fan inwardly thought.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Fan inquired.

"I'm hiding."

"Obviously. Why did you come to this floor in the first place?" Zhou Fan asked.

"To read." The girl said simply.

Zhou Fan was starting to get a headache. He should've known it was a bad idea to try to make sense to a child.

"Nevermind. Can you leave?"

"Yes sir. Goodbye." She said while sneaking off.

Zhou Fan couldn't help but laugh to himself. It seemed that this job is much more interesting than he thought.

After the commotion had actually settled, Zhou Fan stopped reading and started to clean the area in preparation for closing. By the time he finished, the library had closed.

Zhou Fan walked up to Lu Chens' office and bid him farewell before going home.

When he made it home, he got on his bed and started cultivating. Although he still felt progress, it is getting much slower to break through into the next levels. However, Zhou Fan wasn't in a rush. As far as he knew, he would be the only cultivator for a while. There should be no chance for anyone to surpass him.