Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 448 Library

seed.

This strange name caught Howard's attention.

If his understanding was correct, what Lia Weide was referring to here were those who had undergone genetic testing.

It was undoubtedly strange to use this word to refer to humans. Could it be that this woman was in charge of a human hatchery?

"I'm afraid this isn't the right way to handle it," Howard said.

"When a packet of seeds is infected with anthrax, instead of picking out the uninfected seeds, it's better to burn them and grow new ones." Lia Weide said, "The ones I just burned weren't all the infected ones."

Howard: “But they’re not seeds.”

Lia Weide: "That's right, so there's no need to bother choosing."

For a moment Howard didn't know what to say. Perhaps in the eyes of imperial nobles of this level, the lives of mortals were really not as important as the flowers in their own back garden.

While Howard was hesitating, the woman walked up to him and took his hand naturally.

"Mr. Howard, why bother with such a trivial matter? We have prepared a banquet to welcome you. I hope this little incident did not disturb your mood."

But when Leah Weide wanted to walk with him, Howard pulled his hand away.

"I'm not interested," Howard said. "I'm not here to participate in boring social activities. Besides, the lives of so many people are not trivial matters."

Lia Weide stopped, she turned around and looked at Howard and said:

"Do you want me to forgive those people?"

Howard: "It's not about forgiveness. The innocent don't need to be forgiven, and the guilty don't need to be forgiven."

After a moment's silence, Howard seemed to see a barely perceptible arc rising on Leah Weide's mechanical face, which seemed to be wearing an exquisite brass mask.

"Kindness, Mr. Howard, what still keeps you in it?"

But before Howard could answer, Lia Weide continued:

"Now that you mention it, I have a plan."

Although Howard guessed what the woman was going to say, he still let her speak: "Please speak."

"If you want to keep them safe, I can give them all to you," Lia Weide said. "It's up to you to decide who to pardon or punish."

As expected, just when Howard was about to agree, Lia Weide said:

"But, there is one condition."

Howard: "Because all the consequences caused by this incident will be borne by me."

"Then, it's settled." After reaching an agreement, Leah Weide took Howard's hand again. "The banquet isn't just a boring social game. It's also a great place to meet friends and exchange interests. You are now our special advisor. Spending some time communicating and getting to know them will also be helpful for your future work."

But Howard really didn't want to attend any party, especially when he thought about the last party he attended... The psychopath from that family even forced a kiss on him, and he really didn't want to go through it a second time.

So he could only continue to find excuses to refuse:

"You also said that attending the banquet is to prepare for future work, but I don't know what my job is yet. So instead of telling me what kind of banquet I'm going to attend, why not tell me what my job is?"

"You'll understand when the time is right," Lia Weide said, but she also saw Howard's resistance, so she continued:

"If you truly do not wish to attend such a social event, I will not force you. Since you are unwilling to attend the banquet, I should have arranged for you to rest. However, before you rest, I still hope that you can go see someone first. Like you, he is also our special advisor, and before you arrived, our only special advisor."

Howard certainly wouldn't refuse this request, and Leah Weide's words more or less aroused his curiosity.

The other party is also a special consultant like myself, and I was recommended by a mysterious human who is at least not much weaker than Freya. So who is this special consultant?

……

Half an hour later, Leah Weide personally took Howard into the library of the Wide Silence.

She was accompanied by a small entourage. Besides Howard, the only people allowed to travel with her were her two children and the powerful psychic named Tyrannosaurus.

The library of the Wide Silence is located in the center of the spacecraft. Even if you take the tunnel elevator all the way from the eco-room to here, it still takes quite a while.

When the two heavy wooden doors of the library slowly opened in front of Howard, a maze built of books and knowledge appeared before him.

Howard saw books piled up like mountains and filling the sea. These books were neatly placed on wooden bookshelves, stacked all the way to the ceiling. Countless connected bookshelves cut the space into fragments, and these fragments were connected to each other, forming a complex maze.

In order to help people who enter the maze identify the direction, some bookshelves even have maps nailed to mark their current location. However, most of these maps are faded and brittle, and are framed in vacuum frames. I am afraid that these maps themselves are antiques.

Some more important books, like maps, were kept in vacuum cabinets.

This library houses at least hundreds of millions of books, including various atlases, manuscripts, star maps, recordings and images, many of which are originals and unique copies.

These books cover forbidden knowledge, lost history, and some more profane and evil things that cannot be discarded.

Therefore, most areas of this library are actually closed. The books stored inside are not for remembrance, but just for existence. Although the knowledge inside is unknown to anyone, it is at least still in the hands of humans. Perhaps one day in the future, the knowledge recorded in one of the books will have a huge impact on human development.

The religious texts that Howard borrowed from Freya, which were covered by the archbishop's book cover, were nothing more than something on the introductory bookshelf here.

Hundreds of servitors and servo skulls work here day and night, cleaning dust, spraying medicines, and constantly entering and updating book atlases, so as to maintain the integrity of these books, so that they will not be eaten by insects, and some books will not be broken into ashes when picked up after hundreds of years.

Even so, due to time or other irresistible forces, many words here disappear forever or can no longer be interpreted every minute and every second. However, for some knowledge, being quietly forgotten forever when no one is paying attention may be the best ending.

In the library, Leah Weide became Howard's guide. She skillfully led Howard and his entourage through this maze of books. She walked through one restricted area after another. Of course, the servitors and alarm systems in the restricted areas would not be triggered by the passing of the patriarch.

However, when walking past some bookshelves, Howard always heard some faint giggles. If there was no little devil hiding in this library that would follow people and laugh secretly, then it could only be the books that were laughing.

It is no exaggeration to say that if ordinary people even take a look at the books in these restricted areas, they will probably be included in the empire's cleanup list.