Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Library Pavilion

"Perfect!"

As the lights in the cabin lit up one by one, Eryan leaned back, leaned back on the leather backrest of the driver's seat, stretched his arms and stretched out his waist. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In front of her, the yacht key was perfectly embedded in the slot, exactly the same.

"I told you," said Alice, standing behind the driver's seat, "it's this ship, and it's not wrong." โ€

"yes," he said, lowering his arms and turning his head, "I was a little unconvinced when I first came in, this place was so quiet, it didn't look like a vampire's lair. โ€

"Maybe that guy doesn't have any teammates at all, maybe he was acting alone from the start. Alice said, but the door behind her opened. She looked back and saw Reimu walking in, so she asked:

"Checked so quickly?"

"Ah," Reimu nodded, "like you said, there are no other youkai on this ship. But ......"

Halfway through speaking, Reimu suddenly stopped. Her expression looked a little complicated, and Alice couldn't read the emotion in it, so she had to bow her head and say:

"But?"

"I found a ...... on the ground floor I don't know how to describe it......" Reimu paused for a moment and continued, "It's better to go down and see for yourself." โ€

"Follow me. She shook off the words, turned away, and pushed the door open, leaving Alice and Yuzo staring at each other.

"What does she mean?" asked Yuzo, looking up at Alice.

"Who knows?" said Alice, "since she's said so, let's go and see!"

So the two of them followed Reimu, out of the wheelhouse, and down the steps at the back of the yacht to a small, somewhat dimly lit room.

Located on the lowest level of the yacht, this room has no windows on all sides and only a small dim lamp hanging from the ceiling, so the light in the room can barely be maintained to the extent that the road can be seen. In the center of the room was a wolfskin carpet with a single sofa and a small coffee table, and the walls were lined with a wall of bookshelves filled with a large collection of books that were too bloated for the burrow.

From the outside, this is a library, and although the light conditions here are very unfriendly to humans, for vampires, it is just right - bright eyes, dark and unreadable.

Alice walked to the bookshelf on the right, pulled out a book, looked twice, and found that it was full of crooked xenomorphs, which did not look like human language at all. As she read, her vision gradually distorted around the book.

She felt as if her arms were a kilometer long, and they were still stretching, and the book in her hand was like a magnet that caught her eyeballs, and she couldn't be distracted. Then, the strange words on the pages turned into dense black worms, writhing and tumbling and crawling down the paper, into her sleeves, and down her arms all the way to her head.

Thousands of bugs wriggling under her clothes didn't feel good at all, and Alice wanted to drop the book on the floor and hold her head and scream, but she couldn't. Her consciousness had left her body, and now she couldn't even blink an eyelid, she could only watch the insects climb higher and higher.

This strange itching sensation seems to last for a whole year, and it seems to be only for a second. Finally, the bug that hit the head crawled up Alice's neck. It lay there for a moment, as if making a final confirmation. Then, with its mouth wide open, it bit down, ripping a large piece of flesh from Alice's neck.

The pain, the unbearable pain pierced Alice's brain, and every cell in her body received a clear and urgent warning, but she couldn't run away, she couldn't scream, because the book hadn't spared her yet.

Led by the worm that had bitten her, the worms swarmed up, through the wound on her neck, and into her flesh frantically.

And with that comes knowledge.

The bugs melted in her blood, reforming the text, forcibly instilling vast amounts of knowledge into her brain along the veins. Some of this knowledge she can barely comprehend, and most of the rest are far beyond her limits. Her sanity was teetering in the flood of knowledge, and it looked like it was about to be completely crushed.

"Alice, Alice!"

The rough slap shook the book in Alice's hand to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, worms, knowledge, floods...... Everything is gone, she is still her, and books are just books.

"Hey, hey, wake up!" Reimu waved her hand in front of Alice's eyes and said impatiently, "I know you're very curious, but now is not the time to read!"

"Ah...... Ha...... Good...... Ok ......"

Alice froze in place, sweating and panting. Her mind went blank, and she couldn't tell whether the things she had just seen were dreams or illusions, but a little dizziness and pain still lingered in her nerves, telling her about the brief nightmare.

"What do you mean by reading a book to yourself at such a critical time!" Reimu grumbled angrily - she didn't know she had inadvertently saved Alice's life.

"Ah, I'm sorry......" Alice said, looking down, "I just ...... How long have you been reading the book?"

"About two or three minutes, what kind of book is this, and you are so engaged in reading it?"

Reimu said, bending down to pick up the book Alice had just read, dusting it off, and was about to open it, but Alice snatched it away.

"It's not a good book, so it's better not to read it. โ€

With that, Alice returned the book to its place.

"Huh, since you say that, forget it, I'm not interested anyway. Reimu shrugged her shoulders and gave up on the idea of reading - she wasn't a studious child, much to Alice's relief.

"Okay, back to business. Reimu clapped her hands and said loudly, "As you can see, this is just an ordinary library, at least it looks like this......"

"But, have you noticed, this room is smaller than all the rooms upstairs. โ€

"Well, that's true. "With the structure of this yacht, the lower the cabin should be more spacious, but this room is only half the size of the top floor, which is very unreasonable. โ€

"Well, that's what I thought when I came here, though not as carefully as you thought. โ€

After saying this, Reimu turned around and walked to the innermost wall.

"I guess," she said, turning her back to Alice and Zozo, "that there might be something hidden behind this wall, so I punched it." โ€

"It's like this!"

Reimu followed her words and punched the bookshelf. Then, with a "click" from behind the wall, the entire wall of books was neatly split in half with the center line as the boundary, and retreated to the sides, revealing a secret room hidden behind it.

"I think it was probably the violent impact that touched the mechanism by chance, and it opened the secret door......" Reimu turned around and said, "It's just luck." โ€

"The old man has begun to believe in the destiny of heaven, what should I do?" Eryan Yuzang came to the side of Alice, who was also stunned, and whispered, "It's the same thing to catch vampires, and it's also here, the luck of your gang is a little abnormal!"

"I ...... I can't explain it, so let's go and see!"

Alice shook her head, put aside for a moment the inexplicable array of strange things that had happened that night, and walked forward to meet the strangest events of the night.

"Now, that's what I'm talking about......" Reimu stood at the door of the secret room, pointing behind him with his thumb and turning his face sideways with a "That's it" look.

On the floor behind her, lay a young girl, blonde hair, purple dress, and skin like snow. The girl's eyes were closed, and her chest rose and fellโ€”a testament to deep sleep.

"Oh, what a beautiful person!" said Fujiwa Yuzo, because she had never seen the person in front of her. If she were a resident of Gensokyo, she would be like the magician beside her:

"This ...... It can't be ......" Alice's eyes widened and murmured, "this man...... How could it be here!"

She knew that person, not only her, but most of the non-human creatures in Gensokyo.

"Monster Sage...... Yakumo Purple!"