The library stands quietly in the northeast corner of the campus like an eerie coffin at night, as if to signal that something bad is about to happen.

Suddenly, a blinding flashlight pierced the darkness of the library, and a dark shadow crept into the library through the window with a dying moan.

"It's just me now." Chen Xiao muttered to herself proudly, and then couldn't wait to find the old book that was refused to be lent by the administrator during the day. He clearly remembered the panicked expression of the librarian Zhang Yao when he offered to borrow the book. His instincts told him that there must be a secret hidden in that book.

After some searching, Chen Xiao finally found the worn-out book in an inconspicuous corner. He took a deep breath and opened the book with some trembling. Disappointingly, however, there is nothing special about this book.

Suddenly, Chen Xiao frowned: it turned out that someone had torn off a page in the middle of that book. The uneven section of the paper resembles a row of messy fangs, and a few blood-like strange marks on it make Chen Xiao's back chill.

Chen Xiao was secretly speculating about the reason for the destruction of the pages, when suddenly, an inexplicable sense of uneasiness made him feel like a man. He jerked his head back and noticed that an eerie dark figure had appeared on the empty reading chair behind him. The dark figure had its head down, as if looking at something. In the miserable white flashlight, Chen Xiao was surprised to find that it was his roommate Lu Song.

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Chen Xiao was about to step forward and ask why Lu Song appeared behind him silently like a ghost. Suddenly, a string of cell phone ringtones rang without warning. Chen Xiao glanced down at his mobile phone, and his face suddenly turned white - the person who called turned out to be Lu Song. But Lu Song is obviously in front of his eyes now, and he doesn't have a mobile phone at all!

Chen Xiao swallowed a mouthful of saliva and picked up the phone tremblingly.

"Chen Xiao, where did you run away without going back to the dormitory in the middle of the night?"

Lu Song's casual voice came from the earpiece, but Chen Xiao's scalp was numb when he heard it.

"Where are you now?" Chen Xiao asked in a trembling voice.

"In the dormitory, of course."

"Are you sure you're not in the library?" Chen Xiao's voice has changed its tone a little. As soon as the words fell, a strange electromagnetic interference sound suddenly came from the earpiece, and the flashlight began to flicker frequently.

In the flickering light, Lu Song, who had been sitting in the reading chair before, suddenly disappeared. Before Chen Xiao could come back to his senses from the unbelievable scene in front of him, a cold palm was placed on his shoulder.

Chen Xiao turned his head reflexively, and a pale face as white as paper appeared in front of his eyes. The facial features were horribly distorted, and a pair of hollow eye sockets were dripping with crimson blood.

As if someone had punched her in the chest, Chen Xiao was stunned for several seconds before letting out a heart-rending scream, staggering through the window and fleeing.

Escaping back to the dormitory in one breath, Chen Xiao's chest was still rising and falling violently like a bellows.

"What happened just now, why did you hang up before the phone was finished?" Lu Song asked with some dissatisfaction. Seeing Chen Xiao's pale face and panting, he frowned and said, "What's wrong, why do you look like you've hit a ghost?" ”

The word "ghost" shocked Chen Xiao and gave a cold war. He nodded in a shudder, and recounted the horrific scene that had taken place in the library.

After hearing this, Lu Song's face turned a little blue, but he soon changed to a smiling face. He patted Chen Xiao's shoulder nonchalantly and said, "I think you read too many horror novels, right?" Alright, stop thinking nonsense and get some good sleep. After that, he comforted Chen Xiao absentmindedly and casually, then turned off the light and silently crawled back to his bed.

Chen Xiao had a terrible nightmare: in the dream, he saw a strange black figure under his bed. The black image was upside down on the bed like a spider, and its pale skin was covered with large patches of pus and blood, red and white, which was shocking.

It was just as the shadow pounced on him, and a pair of maggot-strewn hands about to grab his neck, that he awoke from his dream.

"No!" In the exclamation, Chen Xiao~ sat up.

"Nightmares?" Lu Song stood beside the bed and asked in a dumb voice.

Chen Xiao wiped the cold sweat on his head, adjusted his breathing, turned over and looked under the bed, the empty bed board made him breathe a sigh of relief. But suddenly, a faint bloody ambiguity made Chen Xiao's heart that he had just put down instantly rise again. He looked closely under the bed, and found a vague humanoid blood mark on the dimly lit bedboard.

"It's—it's coming!" Chen Xiao trembled like a fallen leaf in the wind.

"Who's coming?" Lu Song asked with a frown.

"That ghost in the library! Now that it's, it's entangled in me, what should I do? Chen Xiao held her head in pain and said incoherently.

"Chen Xiao, listen to me, don't worry about this matter anymore, the things in the library are definitely not something we can handle." Lu Song hesitated for a long time, and suddenly said faintly.

Chen Xiao suddenly turned his head and looked at Lu Song in surprise: Obviously, Lu Song seemed to know something.

Lu Song ignored Chen Xiao's aggressive gaze, just lit a cigarette and smoked silently. For a long time, as if he had made up his mind, he violently snuffed out the cigarette butt and said, "Do you remember Gao Zan? ”

"Of course remember, didn't you say that he took a temporary leave to go home for something at home?" Chen Xiao replied inexplicably. Gao Zan is their roommate, but Chen Xiao hasn't seen Gao Zan for half a month. According to Lu Song, Gao Zan temporarily left the school because of some personal matters.

Unexpectedly, Lu Song shook his head slowly: "I said that I was afraid that you would be afraid, in fact, Gao Zan is likely to have suffered an accident." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Xiao suddenly gasped.

Under his repeated questioning, Lu Song slowly revealed an incredible truth.

It turned out that more than half a month ago, Lu Song accidentally found that Gao Zan often sneaked out of the dormitory alone in the dead of night, and did not come back with a tired face until the dawn of the east.

That night, Lu Song, driven by curiosity, secretly followed Gao Zan, only to find that Gao Zan walked into the empty library alone. Through the glass window, Lu Song saw Gao Zan sitting in a reading chair, excitedly scrolling on his mobile phone.

Suddenly, Gao Zan cheered, got up and began to rummage around. Then, he pulled a book from the bookshelf next to him, tore off one of the pages, and quickly jotted it down. He didn't notice that the broken book he had discarded aside, was strangely bleeding red blood. Suddenly, a pale arm slowly reached out of the page and grabbed Gao Zan unnoticed.

"I heard a scream from Gao Zan, and then the whole person disappeared out of thin air, as if dragged by those hands in the book, and then there was a strange chewing sound in the book." When Lu Song said this, his body trembled involuntarily.

"Did you just watch and not go up to help?" Chen Xiao asked in disbelief.

"At that time, I was so weak that I almost crawled back to the dormitory, how could I care about saving people? So I advise you, we can't afford to mess with the things in the library, so let's turn a blind eye and act as if nothing happened. ”

"But the problem is, now that thing has taken the initiative to find the door." Chen Xiao pointed to the blood mark on the bed board and shouted. After a pause, he turned his head and stared at Lu Song deadly, "Moreover, in the library before, I saw that thing change into your appearance." If I'm not mistaken, it's already aware that you've witnessed it hurt. If we don't do anything, the next one of us to be killed may be one of the two of us. The words made Lu Song's sweat rain.

"Lu Song, my side is already in place, how is your progress on that side?" Looking at the closed door in front of him, Chen Xiao lowered his voice and said to his mobile phone.

"I've found the drawing method of the exorcism charm on the Internet, but the introduction of black dog blood is not easy to find. After a while, you first find a way to drag Zhang Yao, and I will prepare a spell to support you as soon as possible. Lu Song's slightly hoarse voice came from the earpiece.

"You have to be fast!" Chen Xiaogan hung up the phone with a thousand instructions. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door in front of him. It turned out that after some analysis before, the two agreed that the librarian Zhang Yao obstructed Chen Xiao in every way when he borrowed the book, and he must know some inside story of the book. After discussion, the two decided to go their separate ways: Chen Xiao was responsible for finding Zhang Yao to find out the wind, and Lu Song was responsible for making some exorcism charms in case of emergency.

A dull knock echoed through the empty hallway for a long time before the door opened. In the darkness behind the door, Zhang Yao poked his head out with sleepy eyes.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing the uninvited guest outside the door, a trace of panic obviously flashed on Zhang Yao's face. And after Chen Xiao explained his intentions, his face was already as earthy. After hesitating for a long time, he reluctantly let Chen Xiao into the house.

"I'll tell you the truth, I didn't let you touch that book during the day to save you, that book is very evil." As soon as he sat down, Zhang Yao couldn't wait to say to Chen Xiao. After a pause, he cautiously leaned into Chen Xiao's ear and said, "That's a book that can eat people." ”

In just a few words, Chen Xiao was shocked like five thunderbolts. Under his constant questioning, Zhang Yao secretly told an unbelievable experience. Listening to Zhang Yao's story, Chen Xiao's face became more and more solemn - the experience Zhang Yao said was almost the same as what Lu Song said before.

"Did you see who the man who was 'eaten' by the book was?" Chen Xiao thought for a moment and asked.

"Of course you can see it, that person is your roommate."

"So you were there?" Chen Xiao couldn't help but exclaim.

"Why did you use 'also', was there anyone else who saw that scene at the time?" Zhang Yao's shock was even worse than Chen Xiao's.

"That's right, Lu Song also saw it." Chen Xiao nodded and said.

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Yao's face suddenly turned pale as paper. He stared at Chen Xiao for a long time before shaking his head mechanically: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Yao's reaction was a little abnormal, Chen Xiaogang wanted to ask in detail. Suddenly, there was a muffled "bang" from the window next to me. The two of them gasped in shock—a bloody face clinging to the window wrapped in night, jagged fangs rubbing back and forth, making a cacophony of sounds.

"Run!" After a short silence, Chen Xiao screamed and grabbed Zhang Yao, and rushed out of the door desperately. As soon as he rushed out of the dormitory, there was a piercing sound of glass shattering behind him. Immediately after that, a sound of "squirming" quickly chased after the two from behind, sounding like some heavy object was crawling quickly on the ground, and the occasional sound of bone joint friction was even more shocking to the two of them.

Chen Xiao ran wildly, took out his mobile phone and pressed Lu Song's number. The phone rang, but only a strange sound of electromagnetic interference came from the receiver. Just when Chen Xiao was at a loss, Zhang Yao beside him suddenly snorted, and the whole person fell straight forward. Then, as if dragged by a strange force, he began to retreat rapidly.

Chen Xiao instinctively turned his head, but the hairs on his body instantly stood upside down. In the dimly lit corridor, the bloody figure was dragging Zhang Yao's feet and neck backwards. Zhang Yao struggled desperately to pick at the ground with his fingers, and his nails turned outward in an instant, leaving several shocking blood stains on the ground.

Listening to Zhang Yao's screams, Chen Xiao told himself that he had to find a way to save Zhang Yao no matter what, but his legs moved uncontrollably, getting farther and farther away from Zhang Yao.

When Chen Xiao fled back to his bedroom in a sweat, Zhang Yao's screams in the distance were almost inaudible. A strong sense of guilt welled up in his heart, and he finally deeply realized what Lu Song said about his powerlessness.

Chen Xiao sighed heavily, and just wanted to lock the door, but a black shadow suddenly broke down the door first.

It was Lu Song with a frightened face.

At this time, Lu Song looked embarrassed, and the clothes on his body were torn several feet long, and the edges were stained with blood.

"What are you ......" Chen Xiao couldn't help frowning.

"Are you embarrassed to ask? Didn't I ask you to find a way to drag Zhang Yao, why did he still find a chance to sneak attack me? Lu Song suddenly roared with an angry face.

"You said it was Zhang Yao who attacked you? No way, I saw him dragged away by that ghost, and now I'm afraid it's already too bad. Chen Xiao shook her head like a rattle.

"You mean I made it all by myself now?" Lu Song shook the ragged clothes on his body angrily. He told Chen Xiao that when he was looking for the black dog blood used to draw talismans just now, a piercing sneer suddenly appeared in his ears. What's even more terrifying is that the laughter actually came from his feet. He hurriedly lowered his head, and found that the hard concrete pavement under his feet had become as transparent as glass. Under that layer of glass, Zhang Yao was grinning at him maliciously. Before he could recover from the shock, Zhang Yao suddenly reached out a pair of arms covered with corpse spots and grabbed him.

"It's good that I ran fast, otherwise I'm afraid this little life will have to be explained." After Lu Song finished speaking, he wiped the cold sweat on his head with palpitations.

"How is this possible? If it's really as you said, then who is Zhang Yao who was with me just now? Chen Xiao still shook her head, only feeling that her brain was cloudy.

"You're still suspicious of me?" Lu Song was so angry that he gasped, and suddenly pulled up Chen Xiao and rushed out of the door, "Let's go, let's go to Zhang Yao's bedroom together, and you will know who is lying when you arrive." ”

"How so?" When Zhang Yao's distorted corpse appeared in front of him, Lu Song's eyes widened in disbelief. Zhang Yao's cold body was curled up on the floor in the corner at this time, although there were no scars on his body, but his whole face had been deformed under extreme fear. It seems that before he died, he did encounter something that made his soul wander.

After pondering for a long time, Lu Song suddenly slapped his head: "I understand, what we said is actually the truth, and it should be that thing that attacked me and Zhang Yao." ”

"You mean ......"

"High praise!" Lu Song said word by word.

"But why did he harm us?" Chen Xiao couldn't help but shudder.

"He attacked you and me, perhaps because he felt that fate was unfair to him, and was ready to pull the two of us to accompany him. And the attack on Zhang Yao is likely just to shut him up, because the most secretive is the dead. ”

"So what do we do now?" Chen Xiao said hurriedly.

"The reason why Gao Zan became a powerful ghost who harmed people must be that he felt that he had died unjustly. The only way for us to stay alive is to find out the truth about his death and resolve his grievances. Lu Song pondered for a moment, and his gaze suddenly fell on the right hand of Zhang Yao's corpse, "Look, he seems to have something in his hand." ”

Chen Xiao followed the sound and found that a corner of paper was exposed in Zhang Yao's clenched right fist. He struggled to break Zhang Yao's stiff right hand and found that it was a crumpled ball of paper. When the ball of paper was unfolded, the two of them gasped in unison—it was actually a torn page with a few small words written crookedly: left, front, right, right, left.

Lu Song repeatedly flipped through the fragment of the book several times, and told Chen Xiao that this was probably the page that Gao Zan had torn off for recording on the night of the accident.

"But how could this page be in Zhang Yao's hands, and what special meaning did he have when he held this page before he died?" Chen Xiao asked like a cannonball.

"Perhaps, he wanted to give some hint to the person who found his body?" After Lu Song finished speaking, his gaze fell back on the crumpled page. After pondering for a long time, he suddenly slapped his head as if he realized something, "I think I probably know the reason why Gao Zan goes to the library in the middle of the night every day!" After speaking, he dragged Chen Xiao straight to the library.

It was almost early in the morning, and the quiet library looked gloomy and terrifying, and the yin wind that blew out of nowhere made Chen Xiao shrink his neck.

"What the hell did you find?" Seeing that Lu Song began to look around with his mobile phone as soon as he entered the library, Chen Xiao couldn't help but ask.

"Found it!" The corners of Lu Song's mouth suddenly flashed with a smile. He held up the mobile phone in front of Chen Xiao's eyes and pointed to the faint wifi signal on it.

"I don't quite understand." Chen Xiao had a puzzled expression on the second monk's face.

Lu Song smiled faintly and explained to Chen Xiao: "The school will be disconnected after twelve o'clock at night, and Gao Zan has recently become obsessed with a newly launched mobile game. To get up quickly, he goes to the library every night to connect to the Wi-Fi in the 24-hour fast-food restaurant, which is just across the wall from him. If my reasoning is correct, the odd text that Gao Zan left on the broken page can basically be explained. Lu Song paused and analyzed to Chen Xiao, "The words on that paper are likely to be the roadmap of a maze in the game." Gao Zan probably inadvertently tried out the way to move the maze at that time, and his first reaction under the joy was naturally to choose to record this hard-won route. Unfortunately, he didn't have any paper with him to record at the time, so he ......"

"So he tore up the book and angered the ghosts lurking in the book!" Chen Xiao suddenly exclaimed.

Lu Song nodded silently, and then took out a piece of rune paper from his arms, on which some strange runes were drawn crookedly.

Now that we know the cause of Gao Zan's death, the next step is to find a way to resolve his grievances. Although we haven't found the black dog's blood, I've drawn this exorcism talisman with my own blood. Although the effect will be somewhat discounted, it should be more than enough to deal with that ghost. ”

Looking at Lu Song, who was confident, Chen Xiao nodded with relief. He just wanted to ask something more, but his eyes instantly widened - he saw a strange white mist filling the back of Lu Song at some point. The white mist churned and twisted, gradually forming a vague figure, quietly approaching Lu Song from behind, who was unaware.

"Watch your back!" Chen Xiao instinctively shouted.

Lu Song, who heard the warning, just wanted to turn back, but a pair of festering arms suddenly poked out of the fog and strangled his neck. Lu Song was suddenly pinched and rolled his eyes, and with difficulty he probed the rune paper in his hand towards the ghost behind him. Seeing that the rune paper was about to be attached to the ghost's body, the ghost suddenly let out a piercing scream. The rune paper eerily rose into a cloud of blue flames, and the only straw turned to ashes in a wisp of green smoke.

"Bite quickly, bite your middle finger, and redraw one." Lu Song, whose throat was locked, said helplessly to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao was already frightened and his legs were weak at this time, and he came back from the shock when he heard Lu Song's call. He bit his middle finger, but found that there was nothing to draw a talisman around, and he couldn't help but stretch out his bloody fingers and was stunned on the spot.

"Book ......" Lu Song painfully aimed at a book scattered on the ground not far away, and his voice was like a mosquito moaning.

Chen Xiao suddenly picked up the book, turned a page randomly, and drew a charm to ward off evil spirits from memory. After painting, he tore off the pages of the book with a "stab" and was about to rescue Lu Song. But when he looked up, he found that Lu Song's originally painful face was filled with a chilling smile.

"You've finally been fooled!" In bursts of piercing strange laughter, the white shadow slowly drilled into Lu Song's body along his mouth and nose, and finally merged with Lu Song.

"You, are you Lu Song or Gao Zan?" Chen Xiao asked with a look of horror.

"Of course I'm Lu Song. Didn't I tell you earlier, Gao Zan had already taken a leave of absence to go home. Lu Song said with a cruel smile. As he spoke, the features on his face moved like dead leaves floating on the water.

"But didn't you say before that you saw Gao Zan being dragged out of the book, and Zhang Yao has also confirmed it?" Chen Xiao said suspiciously.

"Think about it again, did Zhang Yao say that the person he saw was a high praise?" Lu Song said with a sneer.

Chen Xiao frowned and pondered for a moment, then took a sharp breath: "Is it you the roommate that Zhang Yao said was dragged into the book?" ”

In the midst of wild laughter, Lu Song nodded slowly. He told Chen Xiao that he was the one who came to the library in the middle of the night to rub the wifi and tear up the string of strange words. It was only after he was dragged out of the book that he learned that the author of the book he tore had just died in an accident not long ago. Due to his obsession with writing, his ghost did not reincarnate, but was attached to the only work in his life. That book was his brainchild, and it was the last evidence of his existence in this world.

"It's a pity that I tore up its most proud work. It watched my every move in the book and was furious. To punish me, it imprisoned me in that book. The only way I want to be reincarnated is to deflect its anger. Lu Song said this, a pair of empty eyes stared at Chen Xiao with malicious intent, "I know that its mana is not enough to imprison more people at the same time, so only if you come in, my soul can be freed." In order to achieve this goal, I tried my best to lure you into the game, and for this I had to kill the big-mouthed Zhang Yao. So, to some extent, his death has nothing to do with you. ”

"Despicable! We've been roommates for years, how can you do that to me? Chen Xiao shouted hysterically, fear and anger shaking his body like chaff.

"Roommate?" Chen Xiao let out a disdainful snort, "Do you really think of us as your roommates?" It's been so many years, Gao Zan has never played mobile games, don't you know, the handwriting on the broken page is actually written by me, can't you see it? Also, it's been two weeks since I was dragged into the book, and I've been gone for so long, have you ever asked me where I went? You will always only have yourself in your eyes, and an indifferent person like you is embarrassed to talk to me about roommate feelings? Lu Song said, and pounced on Chen Xiao, who was speechless.

In the wind, the tattered book opened and closed strangely, like a strange mouth.

In the screams, Chen Xiao, who was constantly struggling, was dragged out of the book alive. With Chen Xiao's disappearance, everything returned to its original calm. Only the old book scattered on the ground was still slowly flowing out with red blood, as if it was shedding tears of remorse.