"The door is locked? But the code didn't give me the key. Touching my puffy forehead, I looked carefully at the glass door.

A boxy high-tech fingerprint door lock caught my eye.

"Fingerprint door locks? It's pretty trendy. "Fingerprint door locks have been around for a long time, but now many stores in Xicheng are still using old-fashioned door locks.

With the glow emanating from the white lantern, I looked at the fingerprint door lock thoughtfully.

"Since I'm the caretaker of this bookstore, my fingerprints should be able to unlock it." With that, I pressed my index finger and tried to unlock the fingerprint door.

According to my speculation, the fingerprints recorded in the fingerprint door lock are generally index finger fingerprints.

But just then, a mobile phone rang and interrupted my movements.

"Who called me so late?" I rummaged through my black backpack and retrieved my phone from within.

I glanced at the screen of my phone, and it turned out to be a call from my mentor Xie Rong.

My supervisor, Xie Rong, is an old man in his fifties, who is not only my thesis supervisor, but also the head of the history department, and a person with great authority.

However, Xie Rong has never bullied others, he is very pleasant and gentle, his only drawback is that he is too short, only about one and a half meters tall, like a small dwarf.

Xie Rong helped me a lot during my dissertation writing, and in my heart, he is a competent and good mentor.

"It's almost 11 p.m., what's the matter with him looking for me?" Confused, I answered the phone.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but the moment the phone was connected, there was a sound of licking my tongue on my phone.

The tongue licking was faint, but I heard it.

"Teacher Xie is having supper? He doesn't seem to have a habit of eating supper. I thought to myself, but I said hello: "Hello Mr. Xie, it's so late at night, why haven't you slept yet." ”

"Haha, the teacher can't sleep tonight, so I specially asked about the paper, how is it, is your paper finished?" Xie Rong's voice of inquiry came from his mobile phone.

It turned out that the paper was urging, and I immediately shook my head and smiled bitterly: "Teacher Xie, the student hasn't finished writing the paper yet, wait a minute, the student will send it to you for review as soon as he finishes writing." ”

"Haven't finished writing yet? It's the beginning of March now, and before April, that is, at the end of March, all seniors must turn in their essays, otherwise they won't be able to graduate, so hurry up yourself. Xie Rong reminded in a worried tone.

"Got it, thank you teacher for reminding me, I must finish my thesis as soon as possible." I gave myself a military order.

"Mmmm, that's good, by the way, I haven't seen you in and out of school these days, have you been rushing to write your paper?"

It was difficult to leak the matter of entering the world of resentful spirits, so I had to dodge and answer: "Yes, I have been rushing to write my thesis for the past few days, and if nothing else, I will be able to finish my thesis soon." ”

This is not a lie, after completing the snake man recording task, I learned a lot about the secrets of the snake man, if nothing else, it is not a big problem to write that paper about the snake man.

"I've been too busy lately, so when I'm free, I'll just write a random essay on snake people and deal with school." I secretly made up my mind, yes, just coping, before I encountered the code, the focus of my life was to write my thesis and graduate, but after encountering this strange code, my life was turned upside down.

I gradually discovered that the world is not simple, and I am more willing to pursue the secrets of this code than to finish my dissertation seriously, not to mention, to find the reason for the evaporation of my parents, I need to use the strange power of this book.

Under all kinds of miscellaneous troubles, I can only write papers casually to deal with the school, and these snake people are secretive, I can't record them all in the paper, once all recorded in the paper, it may attract the attention of some people with a heart, so when writing the paper, it's good to talk in generalities.

"Well, then I'll wait to see your magnum opus! But don't be tired of yourself, go back to school occasionally and communicate with your classmates, don't stay in the rented room every day, so that sooner or later you will get sick. Xie Rong's hearty voice pulled me back to reality.

"Thank you for your concern, the students will pay attention to proportion." I smiled gratefully.

"Uh-huh, then the teacher won't bother you, you go to bed early." Xie Rong, who was on the other side of the phone, yawned a long time, as if he was tired.

Hearing the yawn in my ears, I hurriedly replied, "Okay, the teacher also goes to bed early, it's the student who bothers you, good night." ”

After saying goodnight, I was about to hang up, but at that moment, the sound of licking my tongue sounded again.

Hiss, hiss, hiss,

The sound of licking my tongue grew louder and louder, and gradually resounded in my heart, which shocked me from the bottom of my heart.

"The call hasn't hung up yet, this tongue-licking sound was made by Xie Rong?" Listening to the sound of licking my tongue, I suddenly remembered the words of the old man in the porridge shop.

"Watch out for my teacher? Could it be that the old man is reminding me to be careful of Xie Rong? This ridiculous thought flashed and left a faint mark on my mind, but I still had things to do, and I didn't pay much attention to it.

"Maybe I heard it wrong, or maybe Xie Rong is having a supper." With a wry smile, I hung up the call and put my phone back in my bag.

The horror bookstore was right in front of me, and I had to go in and find out, so I stuck out my index finger again and pressed it against the fingerprint door lock.

Sure enough, I guessed it!

With the sound of "drop", a mechanical female prompt sound slashed to his ears.

"The fingerprint is correct, the fingerprint has been matched, the owner of the fingerprint is Liang Fan, please push the door into the store."

Soon, the mechanical woman's chime subsided, and there was a crunch on the fingerprint door lock.

Sail! The crisp sound rang out in my ears.

Immediately after, the fingerprint door lock opened automatically, and I held the doorknob with both excitement and nervousness, and gently pushed the glass door open.

As the glass door was pushed open, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out, gripping.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck,"

The laughter was pleasant, like the girls were playful.

"There's a girl playing in a horror bookstore?" This burst of laughter out of thin air startled me.

"This laughter came from the air." I subconsciously looked above the gate, and saw a string of purple wind chimes hanging on it, and it was my act of pushing open the gate that stirred up this string of purple wind chimes.

"It turned out to be the sound of wind chimes shaking, it scared me to death, why is there a string of purple wind chimes hanging here? I'll take it off later. "The ringtones of the purple wind chimes are nice to listen to, but sometimes too scary.

Moreover, it is rumored that the wind chimes are a symbol of the coming of ghosts, and when the wind chimes ring without wind for no reason, it means that the ghosts and wild ghosts are coming.

All in all, when the wind chimes ring, something bad will always happen.

I was relieved to see that it was the sound of purple wind chimes, and then I withdrew my gaze and looked into the horror bookstore.

But at this moment, the change started again, and I felt a burning heat in my back.

The heat was hot on my back, and it made me feel so uncomfortable.

"The black backpack was carried on my back, could it be ......, damn, that code has spontaneously combusted again!" I immediately took off my black backpack and poured everything out.

Then, a book wrapped in firelight came into view.

This book, wrapped in firelight, is the "Horror Bookstore Management Code".

As the code was enveloped in firelight, there was a strange laugh in the Horror Bookstore, not the wind chimes from earlier, but another particularly hollow sound.

桀、桀、桀桀、桀桀、桀桀、

The sound was familiar, and every time the book spontaneously combusted, it drew this strange sound, so I wasn't surprised and didn't get as frightened as I usually did.

"Luckily, this flame only wraps around the code, and doesn't burn anything else, otherwise it would have burned me alive." I crouched down and stared at the code.

After burning for a while, the code automatically turns the page, but this time it doesn't turn to the end page, but stops at the table of contents on the fifth page.

I glanced up with wide eyes, and there were seven lines of small blood-colored text at the top of the table of contents page:

[Congratulations to you (Liang Fan, the tenth horror bookstore administrator), you successfully entered the horror bookstore, you guessed it, the horror bookstore in front of you is the horror bookstore in the code, as a qualified horror bookstore administrator, you must use your life to maintain the normal operation of the bookstore, please open the store on time at eight o'clock tomorrow morning to welcome the avid book fans of the horror bookstore]

[Note 1: Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, it will be the first time the bookstore will open for business, the first time the bookstore opens on time, only in advance can not be delayed late, and it must also be carried out by the bookstore administrator in person, and then if the bookstore administrator is too busy, you can hand it over to someone else to look at the store, or you can decide whether to open the store on the same day, and if you don't open the store on the day, it will be regarded as a closed break]

[Note 2: Deliberately delaying the opening of the first store, or the administrator not personally opening the first store, will erase the life of Liang Fan, the bookstore administrator]

[Note 3: You can close the store for six days a month, you can decide which day to close the store for rest, and the other days of the month need to be open normally, if the other days of the month are not open normally, the life of the bookstore administrator Liang Fan will be erased]

[Note 4: The bookstore is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.]

[Reminder 1: Daily quests and horror trials will start at 3 midnight tomorrow, so stay tuned]

[Reminder 2: With the birth of the horror bookstore, subtle changes have taken place near the Snake Tower, have you noticed]

After reading these seven lines of blood, the fire of the code dissipated, and I picked up the code and sighed: "It turned out to remind me that the store would open tomorrow, and I thought something big had happened." ”

"It said that the first opening of the horror bookstore must be on time, and it must be carried out by me personally, otherwise it will wipe out my life, it seems that I have to set the alarm clock before falling asleep, if I don't pay attention to oversleeping, I will pay the price of my life!" My heart pounds at the thought of this.

"But then, if I'm too busy. You can leave it to someone else to look at the store instead, or you can choose to close the store on the same day, this rule is more humane, after all, I don't have time to open the store every day. ”

I'm not telling a lie, although the senior student's studies are not very cumbersome, but after I finish writing my thesis, I still need to participate in the thesis defense and other important things, and I can't open a store in person every day, and if the code requires me to open a store every day, it will undoubtedly kill me.

"However, it should be noted that I can only close the store for six days a month, and the other days of the month need to be open normally, if the number of business days in the month is not enough, it will still wipe out my life."

"There is another point to note, it says that the first time I open a store, I must do it myself, that is, I not only have to open the store myself, but also insist on opening the store for 12 hours, and I can't leave it to others to watch the store halfway."

I secretly keep these points in mind, so that I don't make a mistake and bury my good life.

"The code has always been a more truthful master, I can't test its bottom line, and I can't neglect my duties and not be serious, just follow the rules." After a serious remonstrance to myself, I looked at the two warm reminders.

"The daily quest and the terrifying trial will start at three o'clock at midnight tomorrow, and I already knew that three o'clock at midnight tomorrow, that is, three o'clock in the morning of the meeting, will start soon."

But what does that mean? With the advent of the Horror Bookstore, subtle changes have taken place near the Snake Tower? ”

After reading this warm reminder, I looked out of the snake tower like a reflex arc, only to see that there was a black linen outside, and there was no change at all.