My name is Liang Fan, I am a 22-year-old senior at Southwest University in China, majoring in history.

It's not that I don't want to live in the school dormitory, it's just that the school dormitory is too noisy, and I need to be quiet, extremely quiet, so that I can be inspired to write my thesis.

But I didn't expect this choice to be the beginning of the horror.

The studio apartment I rented was very close to the school, which made it easy for me to travel in and out of the school, after all, I needed to read a lot of books to write my dissertation, and I didn't want to live too far from the school library.

Today I woke up early as usual, around six o'clock, I washed up briefly, then wrapped my coat and walked to school, and after breakfast in the school cafeteria, I soaked in the school library.

It was about twelve o'clock in the afternoon when I came out of the library, and I had an extra book in my hand compared to when I came in.

The book is very thick and shabby, and the cover illustration is a snake man with a snake tail on his body, and the snake man illustration is engraved with three blood-red characters of "Snake Man Record".

I looked at the three words "Snake Man Record", and I had some doubts in my heart, I always felt that these three words were not printed, but made of countless layers of blood, at first glance, it was very terrifying, like some evil thing trapped in it.

But the sound of hunger interrupted my doubts, and I looked at my phone and saw that it was already twelve o'clock, and it was time for lunch.

"Let's eat in the school cafeteria, the things outside are expensive and unclean." I took my book and walked to the cafeteria.

I'm not a picky eater, so I'm ready to go back to my off-campus apartment and continue to work on my dissertation.

In this way, I walked out along the school road while thinking about my thesis.

As I thought about it, my face was gloomy and uncertain, alas, who called myself the original choice of the paper on snake people? It's like grass growing in the brain, and if I had chosen those popular history papers, I would have finished writing them by now.

Is it bad to write about the Qin and Han dynasties? Isn't it fragrant to write about the prosperous era of Tang Ming? Why choose a paper on snake people?

"It's the end of February now, and my supervisor asks me to submit my thesis by April, what should I do? If I can't finish writing this paper on snake people, I may not be able to graduate successfully, I knew that this was the case, I should have changed the topic of my thesis half a year ago, and now I can only pray that this snake man book will be useful, alas. ”

The more I thought about it, the more impatient I became, and soon I came to a tall building.

The tall building is circular from left to right, and on its nine-story balcony, there is also a snake sculpture spitting red silk, which is very strange.

This building is called the Snake Building, and the single room I live in is on the fifth floor above, although the name of the building is very strange, but I came here because of its strange name.

After all, I'm writing a paper about snake people, and living in a place like this probably inspires inspiration, I thought at the beginning.

Although this high-rise building is close to the school, it is extremely remote, and you have to pass through many alleys to find it, and if you are not an acquaintance in the neighborhood, you will not know that there is a high-rise here.

Looking at the condescending snake statue on the floor, I still feel a little frightened, like this snake statue will come back to life in the middle of the night and eat me with its mouth wide open.

But I quickly abandoned this idea, and it was just an ordinary statue, and there was nothing strange about it.

If you want to say strange, it should be the person who built the snake tower who is strange, how could he build a snake statue?

With some strange feelings, I walked towards the gate of the Snake Tower, which was nine stories high, but there was no elevator, so I could only climb the stairs in a sleepy way.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but the moment I stepped through the door, the building seemed to come to life.

I couldn't help but glance at the book "Snake Man Record", and I felt that the word "Snake Man Record" seemed to light up.

But when I looked closer, the lights were gone, as if they had never been there.

"It must be a delusion, right?" I muttered a word and climbed from the first floor to the second floor.

Just as I was climbing up to the second floor, there was a pounding and a few sounds.

The doors of all the rooms on the second floor opened in unison.

A man's head sticks out of the room, staring at me, and I shudder.

But when I looked at it again, I was shocked to find that the person with a living head was a tenant of this building.

The tenants glanced at me in unison, and when they saw that it was me, they closed the door without saying a word.

"It's not April Fool's Day, what are these tenants doing pranks?" I was scared in my heart, and my back and neck were full of cold sweat.

After regaining my heartbeat a little, I continued to climb upstairs, only to see that every floor I crossed, the tenants on that floor opened their doors and stared at me.

By the time I climbed to the fifth floor where I lived, I was already in a cold sweat and my face was full of horror.

"I've lived here for so long, and I haven't seen so many tenants open the door, and it's amazing today, it's like the whole building comes to life." The feeling of entering the door rekindled in my heart, and I always felt that I was missing something.

"Forget it, the paper matters." Pushing open the door to room 504 in front of me, I returned to my private room.

I heard that in room 504, where I lived, there had been deaths, and a woman committed suicide in this room, and her body was found three months later, and when she was found, her body was half decomposed.

Living in a room like this might be scary for others, but I'm an atheist and not afraid of this stuff at all.

This single room is not large, with a bed that takes up most of the space, and there is a desk next to the bed, on which are scattered with some daily necessities, and an open laptop.

The bathroom was in the other side room, and after placing the books on the table, I went into the bathroom and took a hot shower.

After taking the hot shower, my spirit became full, and the horror caused by climbing the stairs just now had been washed away by the hot water.

"Let's start working on the paper now." Secretly encouraging myself, I sat down in front of the computer.

A document opened on a brightly lit computer screen, and a paragraph was written on it.

The appearance, sacrifice and demise of the snake people.

This is the title of my paper.

After these days of hard work, I have written the part where the snake man appears, but I have not been able to write the content of the two parts of the snake man's sacrifice and extinction, either because I am not satisfied, or my own opinion cannot be proven.

"The snake people appeared for the first time, it was the ancient period of Nuwa's existence, the snake people at this time were the totems of the nation, and they were the mythical heroes of the nation, but then the image of the snake people gradually became extreme, people must hide when they see it, according to legend, they are the product of sin, which point of view should I believe? Or do I want the mentor to believe that point of view? ”

"The sacrifice of the snake people must be written, after all, through their sacrifices, you can find out their living habits, but the information I found on the Internet is quite scarce, and there is no introduction to the habits of the snake people."

"And the snakes, how they died out completely, I don't know."

I suddenly remembered the book I had brought back from the library.

"Hopefully something will be learned from it." I thought about it secretly, so I opened this "Snake Man Record" directly.

If choosing this snake tower was the beginning of my fear, then choosing to open this book is the source of my fear.

As soon as I opened the book, everything changed.

If I had a choice, I wouldn't live in this snake building, let alone open the book.