At half past four in the afternoon, the four of Kirton came to the library again—Director Xin was still sitting in Lao Luo's seat, holding a pen in his hand and circling a pile of papers, looking a little anxious. 【.. n.. e●. When he saw the four teenagers, he quickly asked, "Children, have you found Lao Luo?" ”

"No, Curator." Lu Hua asked knowingly, "What, hasn't he come back yet?" ”

Director Xin sighed anxiously: "Lao Luo has never left his post without permission like this before, and I think his disappearance this time is a bit unusual - either something urgent happened at home, or something happened to him himself...... Anyway, I thought that if he didn't come back or contact me today, I'd probably have to call the Public Security Bureau. You see, right? It hurt me that he left without saying hello - I had to hurry up and sift through the new books I wanted to buy next month, and I had to keep watch in the borrowing room here, register him for borrowing and returning books, and go upstairs to answer the phone from time to time - oh my God, that's enough for me......" After complaining bitterly, he suddenly remembered his work and asked, "Are you still here for Lao Luo?" Or is it to read a book? ”

"Well, let's not look for Lao Luo, let's go to the reading room on the second floor to check some information." Lu Hua said, "Director Xin, you are busy, let's go read the book by ourselves." ”

"Okay, you can take care of yourselves." Curator Xin barely managed to squeeze out a smile.

The four of Kirton walked up the stairs to the reading room on the second floor, where several people grabbed books casually and held them in their hands, but they all seemed careless, their eyes glancing at the corridor outside from time to time.

At 10:50 a.m., a phone rang from the curator's office on the other side of the hallway. Kirton touched Lu Hua lightly and whispered, "Here's your chance." At the same time, he reminded Sean and Lancey with his eyes, and they quickly put the book back on the shelf.

After a while, Curator Xin hurried upstairs to answer the phone with resentment, and the four of Kirton pretended to be casual and walked out of the reading room, met Curator Xin at the top of the staircase, and said to him: "Curator, we're done, goodbye." ”

"Oh, okay, goodbye." Director Xin nodded at them hurriedly, and rushed to the office to answer the phone.

The four of them hurried downstairs—they didn't go out of the door, but quickly turned into the borrowing room on the left.

A few minutes later, Curator Xin walked down from the second floor with an obvious exhausted expression, sat back in his seat, and took a sip of tea from his teacup.

When it was close to six o'clock, Director Xin pressed the electric bell switch on the desk, and a musical bell rang throughout the library, announcing that it was time to close. Three or four people walked downstairs from the reading room on the second floor and left the library. Director Xin waited for a few more minutes, and to be on the safe side, he went upstairs to look at it for a while, then walked down again and shouted at the door of the borrowing room on the first floor: "Is there anyone else in there?" I didn't hear any response, so I walked out of the library and locked the door from the outside.

There was silence in the library.

After a few minutes, the floor-to-ceiling curtain at the innermost end of the library shook twice, and then it was lifted, and Lancy jumped out from behind it, gasping for relief, "It's really suffocating me—Kirton, blame you for your good idea!" ”

Lu Hua came out of the middle of the two rows of bookshelves like a trick, and asked nervously while calfing: "Curator Xin is leaving—alas, I can't stand it anymore—my feet are almost numb!" ”

Kirton and Sean stepped out from behind the largest row of bookcases. "Don't complain, you two, Sean and I are hiding in a bad place, it's narrow, dirty, and uncomfortable!" ”

Lu Hua lowered his eyes and frowned, "What do you say we're doing here—it's like a thief!" ”

Patting the dust off his body, Kirton said, "No—you might as well find a better way to get out!" ”

"Don't talk about these useless things now." Sean looked around worriedly, "The gate is locked from the outside, can we get out in a while?" Let's check the window. ”

"No problem, I've seen it a long time ago." "These windows are locked from the inside—we'll be able to jump out of them when we climb up the bookshelf in a while," said Kirton, pointing to the more than a meter-high prismatic window on the wall. ”

Lu Hua muttered with a sad face: "It's really damn, I've never done this kind of thing jumping over a window and a wall in my life." ”

Kirton ignored him, and walked straight to the outside of the lending room, saying, "Let's get down to business—where's Old Luo's room?" ”

"At the end of the corridor in front of the left side of the door is Lao Luo's room." Lu Hua said, walking over with Sean and Lanxi.

The four of them walked to Lao Luo's room, and the door was open. Kirton pushed the door open, and several people walked into the small room, which was probably less than ten square meters. Because there were no windows in the house, it was dark even though it was evening, and Cotton fumbled around the wall for a long time before finding the light switch. With a "pop", the room was illuminated by a small chandelier at the top.

The room, which looked like a small rectangular box, had the most rudimentary furnishings and household items—a table was placed in the innermost place against the wall, and a small television and an electric fan were placed diagonally on it, both facing the small bed on the right. In addition, there are small items such as water cups, cutlery, and tea cones on the table. On the floor lay a wooden chest, a wooden chair, a bucket, a basin - all that was left was a round mirror hanging on the wall opposite the cot. The whole room is so simple that there is hardly anything special to note.

Lu Hua looked at the hut and said suspiciously, "Is there ...... Is there really the 'incriminating evidence' we are looking for? ”

"Try it, even if you can find even the slightest clue." Kirton said, then divided, "Lancy, lift the sheets and pillows and look at them; Sean, you check under the bed; Lu Hua, you rummage through that wooden box. I'm looking for something in that desk drawer. ”

Several people immediately split up to search—but it barely took a minute for Kirton, Lancy, and Sean to have disappointed expressions on their faces, and the three of them glanced at each other, and finally their eyes fell on Lu Hua, who was squatting in front of the wooden box.

Lu Hua didn't open the box, just squatted there in a daze. Kirton stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" Is the box locked? ”

"No...... It's just, I'm thinking, we go into someone else's room without permission...... Is that moral? And...... Even if any evidence is found, I'm afraid it's not legal, right? Lu Hua hesitated and said.

Kirton rolled his eyes, "I said you're a person — you've come to this point, and you're still thinking about it!" Then Lao Luo called someone to assassinate and attack us, is this legal? If we don't take the initiative and find some evidence, we will sit back and wait! Forget it, I'm too lazy to tell you this, get out of the way-"

Kirton was about to squat down and open the box by himself, but Lu Hua seemed to be afraid of being looked down upon by his companions at this time, so he stopped Curton with a gesture and said, "Let me come." ”

He clasped his hands on the sides of the box, and opened it with ease, and several people looked inside—it was full of clothes, and they couldn't help but feel disappointed. But Lu Hua felt unwilling, he reached out and turned over the clothes one by one, and when he turned to the bottom of the box, his hand suddenly touched something, "Ah! The ground cried out.

The three companions asked nervously in unison, "What did you find?" ”

Lu Hua took out the stack of things and showed it to everyone: "I found it...... Money. ”

"Well......" Lan Xi said, looking at the stack of about a few thousand yuan, "what do you think it is—what's your name?" This is obviously Lao Luo's savings, what's all the fuss? ”

Sean said, "Put it back, or we'll be thieves." ”

Lu Hua put the money back at the bottom of the box boringly, then closed the box, stood up and said, "There's nothing special in there." ”

Lancy looked at her companions in disappointment and said, "We've searched through this hut — and we haven't found anything of value — it seems that our plan has come to nothing." ”

Sean frowned and said, "Could it be that Lao Luo guessed that after he disappeared, we or someone else would come to search his room, so before that, he packed up his important things and fled with them?" ”

"No, it can't be." Kirton said categorically.

"How do you know it's impossible." Sean asked.

"The stack of money that Lu Hua found in the box just now shows that Lao Luo did flee in a very hurried and panicked state. He must not have had time to go back to the house to pack his things, otherwise—do you think about it, would anyone have left their money in the house when they came back to pack up and escaped? ”

Sean was shocked: "Ah-you're right, in this way, Lao Luo hasn't gone far now, he must be staying somewhere in this city!" ”

Lan Xi suddenly shuddered: "He...... Won't come back to get the money, will it? Isn't that just right...... Bumped into us here? ”

"I don't think so." Kirton pondered, "He should have some scruples." Don't forget, he fled thinking we'd call the police to arrest him - so he definitely didn't dare to come back now, for fear of an ambush and arresting him. ”

"Anyway, I don't think this place can be stayed for long." Lan Xi was still a little worried, "Since we haven't found anything, let's leave quickly." ”

Sean said in frustration: "I really didn't expect that we had worked so hard for so long and had no gain at all!" ”

Lu Hua lost his mind for a while, looked at Kirton and said, "What now?" ”

Kirton sighed, "What else can I do?" Let's go—are we going to dig three feet into the ground to find it? ”

Several people pouted helplessly together and walked out of the hut. Kirton was at the end, and was about to close the door until it was slightly open before they came, when he inadvertently glanced into the room again—he stopped and stood in the doorway in a daze.

After the three of Sean walked out a few steps, they suddenly found that Kirton did not follow, but stayed at the door of the hut, and several people turned back, Sean asked, "Kirton, have you found anything?" ”

Kirton paused for a long time, and turned his face to look at his companions, an expression that was difficult to fathom: "I didn't pay attention when I got up and entered the room, and when I exited just now, I glanced into the room again, only to find something unnatural. ”

"What's unnatural?" Several people asked together.

Kirton pointed to the wall on the right side of the hut and said, "Don't you think that oval bronze mirror is hanging in a very unsuitable place?" It was almost close to the far right of the wall, and below it was the bed—which meant that in this tiny room, you would have to climb in to look at the mirror, and you would have to cling to the right wall. Wouldn't that be too inconvenient? Isn't the wall directly in front of that table empty, and wouldn't it be much more convenient to hang a mirror there? Why do you have to huddle by that wall, as if you are afraid of being touched! ”

Several people observed for a while, and Lu Hua said: "That's true, the position of that mirror is indeed very strange - the person who hung this mirror in the first place seems to have deliberately not wanted people to see it." ”

"It's weird. I also think that normal people are not

I'll hang a mirror in a corner like this. Sean said, "Let's go in and have a look, maybe there's something really weird about this mirror!" ”

Several people walked into the hut again. Kirton first knelt on the bed, moved his knees to move his whole body in front of the bronze mirror, and then looked at himself and his surroundings in the mirror.

Half a minute later, Lan Xi couldn't help but ask, "Kirton...... Did you notice anything wrong? ”

Kirton stared at the smooth mirror, shook his head, and said, "It doesn't seem like anything special—it's no different from a normal mirror." It's just—" he pressed his eyes closer to the frame of the bronze mirror to look closely, as if he had discovered something new, "the mirror seems to be a foreign product, and the trade name printed on the top of the frame is in a foreign language." ”

"What foreign language? Read it out and listen to it. Lu Hua said.

Kirton didn't know how to pronounce the word, so he pronounced the letters: "t-r-a-n-s-p-o-r-t-e-r." ”

"Ah...... transporter？ Sean, who is most familiar with English, spelled out the word, "This word means 'transporter' or 'transporter' - I'm afraid it's not a brand name, right?" ”

"Could it be a code word, or a code that tells you how to open a certain mechanism?" Kirton unleashes his imagination.

"Organs? Code? God, this is just the librarian's room, not the pharaoh's mausoleum - you think you'll find a way out? Lancy scoffed.

"It's hard to say." Kirton didn't think his idea was ridiculous, "Judging by our experience this month, it's not a strange thing. ”

Sean said, "But...... I really can't figure out how a bronze mirror can be a 'transport device'. How do you understand the meaning of this word? ”

Kirton thought for a moment, "Could it be something hidden in a mirror or frame?" Or...... Shall I break it up and see? ”

"No!" Lu Hua suddenly stopped, "Don't break the mirror, let me take a look." ”

As he spoke, he knelt down and approached the bronze mirror, holding on to the mirror to look closely at the word "transporter" on the outer frame of the mirror. After a while, he took a deep breath and said, "I remember, what does this word mean!" ”

"Huh? Doesn't that mean 'transport device'? This...... Impossible, right? Sean didn't believe he could be mistaken.

"No, Sean, you're right, but that's what the English word translates into." Lu Hua said, "But this word should be French, not English!" ”

"What, in French? …… How do you know? Sean asked.

"Because when translated into English, you don't know what it means, but when you translate it in French, the meaning is very obvious."

"What do you mean?" Kirton asked eagerly.

"The word 'transporter' means 'pull' in French." Lu Hua said.

"Pull?" Kirton didn't understand for a while, "What 'pull'?" ”

"It's the verb 'pull' – 'pull'!" Lu Hua shouted loudly.

"Ahh ”

After saying this, he stretched out his hands and grabbed the sides of the frame, and pulled it back vigorously, but the mirror did not move, and there was no change in the room. Kirton spat in the palm of his hand, grabbed the sides of the frame again and pulled it back, but the mirror didn't move out for half a minute, despite his milking efforts.

Half a minute later, he finally gave up, knelt on the bed and gasped, "What's going on?" I can't pull it at all! ”

"That alone is quite unusual." Lancey lamented, "A normal mirror would never have been so tightly mounted on the wall. ”

"And in Lao Luo's room, he actually found a bronze mirror printed in French - it shows that he has something to do with that French poetry book!" Sean said.

"However, following the instructions on the frame is useless." Lu Hua said with a sad face, "Could it be that we made a mistake?" Or is it Kirton – you're pulling the wrong way? ”

Kirton glared at him and said, "What more technology do you need to pull things out?" Is there still a standard pose? Why don't you pull it and try it! ”

Sean said, "Why don't you come down, and I'll study what is so strange about this mirror." ”

Kirton waved his hand and said, "It's useless." I've been studying it for a long time, and from the outside, it's just an ordinary mirror......"

Speaking of this, he stopped abruptly, muttered, "Mirror ......" and then turned his body to face the bronze mirror again, pressed the frame with both hands, and pushed it in violently - "pop", the bronze mirror actually fell into the wall, and at the same time, the wall next to the mirror next to the bed made a dull sound - the wall actually opened a gap of nearly 45 degrees in a fan-shaped way, revealing a hidden secret room!

"Ah——!h Lan Xi covered her mouth in horror, stunned by the scene before her. Sean and Lu Hua's surprise was no less than her.

"Here...... Sure enough, there is a secret room! Sean shouted.

Stunned, Lu Hua stared at Kirton and asked, "How did you open it?" ”

Kirton pointed to the bronze mirror embedded in the wall with his thumb and said, "This is a puzzle that the people who designed this secret room mechanism in the first place deliberately set up. Think about it, the images in the mirror are all 'opposite' to the reality - the word that prompts us to 'pull away' is printed on the thing 'mirror', which obviously has another implication - that is, the word should be understood in reverse! The 'pull' it refers to is actually the meaning of 'push'! ”

"You're so smart, Kirton." Lu Hua said in admiration.

"Let's get in." Sean pointed to the chamber and said, "Let's see what's inside!" ”

In fact, Kirton was even more impatient than Sean, and he jumped out of bed and tentatively walked towards the dark secret room. The other three also hurried over the cot and followed closely behind.

With a glimmer of light coming in from outside, Kirton found the switch for the top light by the wall of the chamber, and when he pressed the switch, a dim electric light on the top of the chamber illuminated the room, and they realized that this chamber was much larger than Lao Luo's room, probably about forty square meters, surrounded by smooth cement walls. On the wall next to the secret door, there is a copper mirror that is exactly the same as the outside - it is obvious that the inner and outer copper mirrors are obviously the "camouflaged" secret door handles.

To the surprise of several people, there was only an old desk at the innermost end of a huge secret room, on which dozens of old books were piled up. To the right of the chamber were surprisingly large closets, the wooden doors all neatly closed—and the rest of the room was empty—one wondered what the chamber was for. The four of them looked at each other, and the confusion of the same heart appeared on their faces.

Lancey looked around the chamber and said, "This looks like ...... It's like an empty classroom - I don't understand, is Lao Luo using this secret room for evening self-study? ”

"I think Lao Luo is just using this secret room to hide those important items." Lu Hua pointed to the desk in front of him and the pile of books on it, "One thing is for sure, Lao Luo obviously only discovered this secret room, not built it - because this secret room was undoubtedly built together with the library, then it is at least a hundred years old." It is impossible to know for what purpose the original builders built this chamber. ”

While Lu Hua was speaking, Kirton had slowly walked into the desk, he glanced at the dozens of old books piled on the desk, took a deep breath, and then said in a low voice: "I think all our previous inferences have been confirmed - Lao Luo is indeed a faithful 'believer of Mihir'." ”

The three of them walked over and stared at the dusty old books on the desk.

All books are all the same – Mars Barth's collection of prophetic poems. It was exactly the same as the one in Lu Hua's hand, the cover was blank, and only the name "Mars-Barthes" was printed underneath.

"It looks like it's exactly what Kirton had guessed." Sean exclaimed, "Old Luo has collected dozens of Mars Barth's prophetic poems in various places before this, and he has piled them all up in this secret room!" ”

Lan Qian looked at the drawers of the desk and said, "Is there anything else in here?" As he spoke, he reached for the drawer and saw what was inside, "Ah! There was a scream, and his hand flicked back like an electric shock.

In the drawer, there was a black pistol and a sharp knife—the same one that the man in black held last night!

Kirton took the knife out of the drawer, pondered, and said, "Strange, this knife is here—could it be that the man in black came back to this secret room after his failed assassination attempt on us?" ”

"It's entirely possible, he is Lao Luo's accomplice, and he should know about this secret room." Sean said.

Kirton's eyebrows tightened more and more: "No, since Lao Luo fled in a hurry, then his accomplices should be the same—there is no reason for him to risk coming back here just to put this knife, right?" ”

Lan Xi hesitated and said, "Maybe it's not this knife, we didn't see it very clearly at the time......

"Yes......" Kirton thoughtfully put the knife back, feeling a little uneasy in his heart. He picked up the pistol again and looked at it for a while, then said fearfully, "It's good that the murderer didn't kill us with this thing, otherwise it would be useless for us to run fast." ”

At this time, Lu Hua flipped through the pile of books on the table, and after opening them one by one, he said in surprise: "Strange, every book is the same as the one in my hand, it is the fifth volume, didn't Lao Luo collect the first four books of this set of poems?" ”

"Maybe the content of the first four books doesn't involve 'doomsday prophecy', so Lao Luo doesn't think there is a need to collect it." Kirton said, while putting the pistol back in its place.

Sean's expression was incredulous: "There are about forty or fifty prophetic poems here—don't you think it's incredible?" These poetry collections are scattered all over the world, how can Lao Luo collect so many by himself? Even if he travels the world......"

As he spoke, Sean's voice stopped abruptly, and he froze as the other three looked at him in bewilderment.

Kirton asked, "What's wrong with you, Sean, what's coming to mind?" ”

Sean shook his head slowly with a shocked expression, and asked in a trembling voice, "You guys...... Did you hear that...... What was that? ”

"Voice? What was that? Several people immediately became alert.

Sean's face turned pale: "It seems to be ...... The sound of the key unlocking. ”

The three of Kirton were shocked, and they pricked up their ears carefully

Listening, my body unconsciously shivered violently, and my body was cold.

This time, all four of them could hear it clearly—a tiny crack at the library's door. And what's even more terrifying is that next, there is the sound of the door being slowly pushed open.