Chapter 1145: Midnight Nightmare Carriage

Putting on his coat, wearing his hat, and holding the cat, Xia De hurried downstairs. After opening the door, a carriage that looked unusually dilapidated stopped outside the door. All the metal decorations outside the carriage were rusted, the coachman in black seemed to be integrated with the carriage, and the reins in his hands were full of small cracks.

The carriage was made entirely of wood, but there was no smell of rotting wood, but rather the smell of soil common in cemeteries. When Xia De stepped on the black iron-colored stairs extended down to board the carriage, he heard the entire carriage creaking, which made him particularly worried about the safety of the journey.

That coachman who was definitely not a human did not communicate with Xia De, but the St. Byron's school emblem hanging in the carriage, as well as the bookshelf, fixed teapot, and snack tray prepared by the Academy for travel, were all in the Academy style, so Xia De was not worried that he had boarded the wrong carriage.

The interior decoration of the carriage was unusually exquisite, even comparable to the private carriage of nobles. The inside of the carriage was wrapped with soft cushions to prevent collisions, and the seats were antique soft cushions fixed on the floor. A total of four small and exquisite copper-gilded kerosene lamps were hung on the four sides, but as the carriage started to move, the lamps went out.

A white oak coffee table was placed between the two sofas, and there was also a brown lacquered leather high-foot round table on one side. Trying to pick up the teacup, he found that the teacup seemed to be firmly adsorbed on the desktop. Although it could be picked up with force, there was no need to worry about the tea falling onto the expensive red cashmere carpet due to bumps.

"Really not bad, it seems that this should be the means of transport used by big figures in the Academy... It seems that I didn't board the wrong carriage, but that kind of big adventure unfolded due to misunderstanding is not the style of things I encounter. Yi Lu Na is the one who easily encounters this kind of thing."

He thought in his heart, held the cat that was not very willing to go out, and saw the carriage windows closed, and the curtains were nailed directly to the carriage. And as the carriage started slowly, Xia De knew that his journey had officially begun.

Even though Xia De possessed extremely strong space talent, five seconds after the carriage started, he still lost all his space perception ability. He could not distinguish east, west, north, and south, nor could he construct the approximate location in his head based on the memory of the terrain near his home.

He could only hear the woo-woo~ sound of the wind howling outside the carriage, but listening carefully, it clearly sounded like a behemoth wailing in the distance.

The bumpy carriage made Xia De resonate with the cat he was holding. This bump made the cat have a high interest. For a while, Xia De not only felt the carriage vibrating, but even felt that Little Mia herself was actively vibrating.

But fortunately, this vibration only lasted less than half a minute and ended.

After the ride became stable, the kerosene lamp on the round table in the carriage lit up first, illuminating the roll of parchment hanging down on the round table, with the arrangements for Xia De's next itinerary written in floral letters.

"Uninformed" Xia De and the cat looked at the lit carriage interior, but soon Xia De became more interested in the outside:

"You say, what does it look like outside now?"

"She" answered with a light laugh:

【Maybe you can try to take a look from the crack.】

Of course, Xia De was just very curious and didn't really explore what was going on outside.

He poured tea for himself and cut a red apple for Little Mia. After the midnight snack for one person and one cat was almost finished, the 30-minute journey had reached its end.

There was no prompt, but Xia De felt that the outside of the carriage was returning to the normal world.

Sure enough, after the kerosene lamps in the car went out again, bumps followed. This time Xia De confirmed that Mia definitely took advantage of the carriage bumps to vibrate on purpose, because the cat obviously didn't vibrate at the same frequency as him.

With the last vibration, the carriage landed steadily on the ground, the kerosene lamps lit up, and the carriage drove forward for a distance before stopping slowly.

"Arrived."

Without Xia De opening the door himself, someone opened the carriage door from the outside:

"Is it Mr. Xia De · Su Lun · Hamilton?"

The head of a young man with messy light brown hair stretched in from outside the carriage, and Xia De nodded immediately:

"Yes."

"Oh, welcome to St. Byron's!"

The young man wearing a robe said in non-standard Delariang language. Xia De jumped off the carriage holding the cat, and then looked up in surprise at the clear starry sky overhead, the stars were so bright that it felt like they could be picked by reaching out.

The outdoor temperature was lower than Toby Julian, but it didn't snow here. The air was exceptionally good, especially for Xia De who lived in the "Steam Capital" Toby Julian, the air here was simply as fresh as a forest.

The night was quiet, and the gas street lamps with the St. Byron's school emblem illuminated the carriage. The carriage stopped on a semicircular square. In the center of the square stood a giant stone statue in the shape of an open book, and this square itself was the platform in front of that towering, brightly lit giant library.

The library was at a high place in the building complex, and the outer circle of the semicircular square was white stone steps descending level by level. The steps were divided into different sectors by metal railings decorated with vines. Looking down, the classical castle-style building complex stood under the starry sky of the quiet night, and the pointed high towers and the classical corridor bridge buildings complemented each other.

Looking into the distance, street lamps outlined the silhouette of the city extending to the distance of the ice sheet in the dark night. Old castle buildings and classical buildings stood here on the ice sheet of the extreme north like the previous era. There were blurry shadows of icebergs and glaciers on the horizon, and there was not even a trace of clouds under the brilliant starry sea.

"Very surprised, right?"

The young man who came to greet Xia De asked with a smile. He introduced himself as a fourth-grade student of the History Academy, arranged by the professor to guide Xia De:

"St. Byron's Comprehensive Academy is a veritable school city."

"Has this library building always been here?"

Xia De asked curiously.

"Yes, it has been here since the establishment of the Academy. It is one of the few buildings in the Academy that has never had major changes. After all, the library has the most ancient ritual base array and large-scale alchemical building technology. The successors of the Academy have not been able to reproduce the great power that built the library to this day."

Xia De nodded, facing the night wind, holding the cat and looking at everything in the distance:

"Before countless suns and moons alternated, they also stood here and saw everything in front of them..."

This was the second time Xia De truly set foot on the land of St. Byron's with his own body. This land and this city, at the other end of time, had long established a connection with him. Because he had just seen Miss Feilianna and Miss Oulannuode not long ago, thinking that he crossed time and breathed the same air as them, the melancholy in his heart could not be described in words.

"Mr. Hamilton, let's enter the library first. The administrator and the dean and vice dean of the History Academy are all waiting for you."

Although he had entered the St. Byron's Comprehensive Academy Library through projection several times, this was the first time he entered from the entrance. Before entering the door, Xia De also politely asked if he could bring pets into the library. The response was that it would be fine as long as Little Mia didn't run around.

The library door was five giant double-opening metal doors connected into a wall. Xia De had only seen similar doors in churches. The central door was engraved with the school motto of St. Byron's in the ancient language of the end of the Fifth Era, and the others were written with library rules in both Delariang and Kexi languages.

And after stepping into the gate, it felt as if he had come from winter to a warm spring. The marble floor was so clean that it could reflect light, and the red carpet on the floor extended to the deepest part of the library, and the area of the entrance hall was almost half the size of St. Deran Square.

Of course, the library was quiet at this time. Although Xia De could see the giant star map on the ceiling rotating and see candlesticks floating above the bookshelves, it seemed that there were very few people in the library, but it was only 8:30 PM.

"The exam week just ended, except for a few people, very few people come to the library at this time. After all... I think you understand."

The young man leading the way said. Xia De had the heart to ask about the other party's year-end exam results, but felt that it was inappropriate to ask so rashly.

Moving forward all the way, it felt like going deep into an ancient labyrinth constructed by bookshelves. But it was completely different from the library labyrinth of Victor Fanni, because there were traces of "living" everywhere here.

The ancient library, even in the Sixth Era of today, still radiated vitality, passing on knowledge and wisdom to the next generation of young people. The wish Miss Oulannuode made in the Gadis Library had become a reality in Xia De's eyes. She really assisted Miss Feilianna in establishing the greatest library on the ground.

The meeting place was still in the center of the library, under the high top where the rotating star map was suspended. In the past, when meeting, there was always a chair and a red sofa facing each other across the coffee table, but this time it was a group of four red sofas surrounding the coffee table.

The young student who brought Xia De left after Xia De entered the open space between the bookshelves, and after Xia De walked in, he also saw four people sitting on the sofa waiting for him.

"Red Moon Witch" Miss Dan Dac Nisi Te was still the same, even the position she sat in had not changed. She sat alone on a sofa.

Professor Jiaxiya, the vice dean of the History Academy who had given Xia De a lot of help, sat with another middle-aged man whose hair had already turned silver-white. The latter was wearing a monocle, and when he looked at Xia De, Xia De vaguely understood that the other party was the current dean of the History Academy, Professor Oudiya Si.

The two professors sat on the sofa on the left hand of Miss Dan Dac Nisi Te.

When he first saw Professor Jiaxiya, Xia De felt that his ears were a bit pointed. Now it seems that this is a manifestation of elf blood. ===== CHAPTER 1146 =====