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Chapter 141 History of Dock Town

"OK, thanks."

Chi Heng expressed his thanks and let the woman lead the way.

"My name is Gianna Dourif."

When the woman was leading the way, she did not forget to introduce her name, "It's the librarian here, I know your name, Justo Chi... You are now famous in Dock Town, and many people are discussing you."

"Discuss me? How to discuss me? I guess I'm a bad person?"

Seeing that this woman didn't look at him with weird eyes like other townspeople, Chi Heng didn't refuse to communicate with her.

"This……"

Librarian Gianna Dourif felt embarrassed again, knowing that she had said something wrong, "Never mind, not everyone is sane, everyone is scared, and they don't know what to do."

"I understand that others are afraid," Chi Heng said calmly, "Although I haven't done anything, why aren't you afraid? Aren't you afraid of me?"

"Because I'm sensible."

Daurif turned around and said seriously: "You saved the three children. This is an undoubted fact. You took the father of the child to save people. You did nothing wrong. Everyone was just afraid, so they blamed you."

Chi Heng smiled.

"But seeing you today..."

The two walked up the stairs, and Dourif said, "The sheriff said you were only 23 years old? But you don't look like 23 years old at all."

"I don't look like 23 years old?"

Chi Heng knew that the police chief had shared some of his information in order to alleviate everyone's rejection, and it was no surprise that Doliv knew this.

"I'm not talking about your appearance, but you... how to say it."

Daurif continued to lift his unstable glasses on the bridge of his nose, "You have matured far beyond 23 years old, if it was someone else, you would definitely not be able to stay in the town, because everyone is looking at you with strange eyes , suspicious of you, hostile to you, no one can stay."

Chi Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a while. Is it a strange way to dare to ignore everyone's strange gaze?
But he changed his mind, and indeed, according to the normal way of thinking, if almost everyone in a town is hostile to you, then you must not be able to stay in the local area any longer, so you have to leave.

What's more, the remote place of Dock Town itself is very xenophobic. Even if they have done nothing wrong, the local residents may not be very friendly to outsiders.

The reason why he ignores these strange gazes and hostility is because he has a greater pursuit and the confidence to protect himself.

If there is no such confidence, there is no need to doubt that Chi Heng slipped away overnight.

Daolifu took Chi Heng to the third floor, stopped beside the bookshelf at the corner, and pointed to the books on the shelf, "The book you are looking for is probably here."

"Thank you."

Chi Heng expressed his gratitude.

I thought it was just a small public library, but I didn't expect this library to be so big and have so many books. If I searched for it alone, I'm afraid it would take a few days to find it.

"Read slowly... some books are a bit old, please use them carefully."

Doliv didn't forget to tell Chi Heng before leaving.

Chi Heng focused his gaze on the bookshelves. The books numbered D-178 to D-210 were all about the history of Dock Town. He first took out the first book, which was titled "The Origin of Dock Town and "Development", the time when the book was written was in 1978 in the last century, this book is too close to modern times, I'm afraid I can't find too many useful clues.

Sure enough, Chi Heng opened the book and browsed through it roughly, and introduced the origin and establishment of Dok Town in a regular manner. It mainly described the 20 years of gold digging in Dok Town. Write about witch hunts.

The title of the second book is "The Construction of Dock Town", which focuses on the story of a local celebrity who worked hard for the development of Dock Town in the last century, and was directly passed by Chi Heng.

The third book, the fourth book...

Until the eighth book, Chi Heng became a little interested.

Because the book was written in 1899!
It has a history of more than 100 years now.

He turned the pages of the book, and saw that the author's name was Patnik Dennis, but the title of the book was strange, it was "Walking in Another World".

If others saw the title of the book, they were just curious at most, but when Chi Heng saw the title of the book, his expression froze and he began to read it carefully.

The author, Patnik Dennis, claims to be a resident born in a small town. He has been sensitive and autistic since he was a child. He doesn't like to have fun with other people, and he is only indulging in his own world.

Just like Fabre, the author of "Insects", Dennis also likes to observe the types, characteristics and habits of insects. He claimed that after reading the first volume of "Insects", he also began to study the ecology of insects in Dock Town and nearby plan of.

He described and recorded the ecology of insects in Dock Town in detail in the book. The profound and interesting descriptions almost made Chi Heng think that he was reading a reprint of "Insects". A strange description of one's own soul and emotion.

"interesting……"

Chi Heng almost forgot that he came to read the history of Dock Town. He subconsciously looked at the cover, and then looked up at the bookshelf, wondering if the book was misplaced?

But maybe because of the title of the book, Chi Heng didn't give up reading, but looked around. There were still no extra customers in the library, so he simply sat down cross-legged and continued to browse.

Although Dennis is autistic, his spiritual world is very rich and colorful. He is not only obsessed with the world of insects, but also describes the world of insects from his own perspective, as if the whole world of insects has human wisdom and the wisdom of insects themselves. Society, in this insect society, insects are also classified, and there are also wars and communication.

Even, Dennis mimicked other people as corresponding insects. For example, he mimicked his mother as a cicada, thinking that his mother was always chirping and making noise.Mimicking his father as a beetle, Kong Wu is powerful and feels very secure.

Mimic the girl next door who always bullies him into a mantis, thinking she is a very dangerous Miss Mantis.

Chi Heng gradually understood why this book should be placed in the historical category, because Dennis' description in the book clearly showed the development and changes of Dock Town for more than 30 years, including the period from 1881 to 1889 when the book was completed. , the social and ideological changes brought about by the third wave of immigration in the United States.

The title of the book "Walking in Another World" may imply that the author "walks" and experiences in the world of insects, and observes outside the normal human society, which is not the real other world that Chi Heng understands.

But in the last chapter of this book, Chi Heng noticed something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)