Chapter XXVI: The Library

It's about to fall into the night.

The Chalcedony Pavilion, the hall, has been cleaned up, leaving only a chair in the center.

In the dim light, Huai Shi also grabbed a candle in her hand, always feeling as if she was doing some kind of cult.

"Is it really okay to do that?"

"Probably not, right?"

Raven shrugged calmly, "I know you want to look for clues through the records of Lao Yang in the Book of Fate, but I need to remind you first, although the idea is good, through regular reading, you may not find any useful records - after all, the most important thing for him is obviously his wife." Of course, if you want to eat some dog food, I didn't say it......."

Huai Shi sighed, "If you have something to say, can you sell less lawsuits?"

"Am I not afraid that you are not mentally prepared?" the crow whistled, "and you must use something useful to find something useful...... Not so much of a safe approach, you know?"

"Desperate, huh?" Huai Shi sighed and sat down in her chair. ”

"I won't say more about that whole bunch of principles, you know psychics, right?"

"Nonsense, do you want to let Lao Yang get on your body?"

"Something like that. ”

Raven shrugged his shoulders very anthropomorphically, "In short, you can understand it as - the Book of Destiny itself is the operator of an important item, and all you have been reading is a catalog.

It's as if you have a computer and you're ready to commit some cybercrime - all you have to do now is use Yang's records as your account password, quietly go over the wall to access a dangerous and forbidden server, and then look for Yang's own browsing history...... In addition to the Cyber Regulatory Commission's investigation of the Internet, there is also the danger of being implanted by Trojan horses and viruses, you know?"

"Will you die?"

"Unlikely, after all, Lao Yang himself is just an ordinary person, and the records after his death are just a pile of old files that will be covered naturally. ”

The crow patted him on the shoulder: "No matter how bad it is, it's better to live than to die, right?"

"Oh, isn't that my normal day?"

Huai Shi accepted it calmly, and even had time to joke with herself, "Let's be smart, hurry up, and hurry up." ”

"It's so reassuring that you have such an awareness, take out the book of destiny. ”

The crow glanced at him, and suddenly turned into a handful of green smoke, and the smoke dissipated, revealing the quill of the branch. As Huai Shi's palm unfolded, the book of destiny, which had now been materialized and fused with him, appeared in his hand.

The cover unfolded, and under her operation, the records of countless Huai poems over the years disappeared, and then, a hand-drawn old-fashioned computer Internet login interface appeared.

"Fortunately, I still have a lot of essentia in Laotang Town, otherwise you wouldn't even be able to pay the dial-up fee. ”

Dozens of essentia flowed from the tip of the pen and turned ink, and the progress bar of the dial slowly grew under her sketch.

"Remember, once you go in, you can only be on the periphery, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely never go deep into the inside, you are not allowed to mess around, you are not allowed to look around, you are not allowed to touch ...... Anyway, don't do anything but what you're going to do, keep the candle in your hand, and come back as soon as the fire is out, understand?"

The crow finally admonished.

At the moment when Huai Shi nodded, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and the pen and ink on the page suddenly distorted into a whirlpool, pulling him into it.

It seems to have fallen for thousands of years, and it seems like only a second has passed.

Huai Shi seemed to have experienced a lot of things in the process, but when he stood firm in the dark, he quickly forgot about it.

"Don't look left and right - I helped you erase those memories, if you don't want to have nightmares, don't think about it anymore, it's only three minutes, little brother, hurry up!." ”

The crow's urging woke him up from his trance.

The candle in his hand was burning rapidly, illuminating the scene around him.

It seemed to be a dilapidated library, with a smell of dust and musty floating in the air, and in the dead silence, Huai Shi stood among the countless bookshelves, looking around uneasily.

He was the only one in the silent darkness where even death seemed to melt away.

If it weren't for the candlelight in his hand, he would have gone crazy.

There was a scream in the distance, followed by a loud bang, and in the roar, countless dust fell rapidly from the beams.

Not knowing what was going on, Huai Shi wanted to lift the curtain to take a look, but when he saw through the broken curtain hole and saw the miserable white pupil staring at him outside the window, he wisely dismissed this idea.

"Two minutes and forty seconds left!

The crow scolded angrily: "It's also dangerous for my sister to help you watch the wind, okay! What do you think was the sound just now, you were almost discovered by the predators! Hurry up!"

Huai Shi didn't dare to rub it any longer, looked down at the candle in his hand, and after merging with Lao Yang's broken record, the light of the candle pointed to the deepest part of the darkness, guiding him forward.

There seemed to be something else in the darkness, and there were constant trivial sounds, but nothing could be seen in the dim light.

There was only the sound of water droplets and the sound of small rubbing.

It seems that something is waiting for any longer.

Huai Shi sped up, and the sharp sound of the old floor being trampled continued to sound, reaching into the depths of darkness, and after a long time, he heard the voice of the crow:

"This is the bookshelf, third row, second from left! Hurry up, hurry, one minute!"

Following her instructions, Huai Shi found the one she spoke of from the cookie-cut spine of the bookshelves.

There seems to be no difference between all the books here, not even the spine or the cover of the book, as if they were randomly thrown here, and no one cares about them.

It's just that at the moment when Huai Shi opened, he suddenly felt a chill, and the premonition of death resurfaced - something was eyeing him!

In an inhuman scream, the floor, bookshelves, and even the ceiling trembled, and wisps of darkness extended from them, like pitch-black flowing water, extending to all sides, touching and looking for traces of prey.

By the candlelight, he could barely make out what it looked like, but he couldn't believe it: it was all hair, one by one, convulsive and twitching like a snake! Dry, cold hair groped greedily for everything around him, and in the darkness came the sound of struggle and hissing, followed by the unsettling sound of chewing.

Quack, quack, quack.

Huai Shi swallowed and frothed, carefully shifting his position, and his dark hair scurried past his feet like a snake, flowing into the depths of darkness.

"You're here to see the animal world! Leave the assimilated hellish librarian alone, she won't find you until the candle goes out!"

Huai Shi gasped, "What the hell is this place?"

"Is it too late for you to ask this?" Crow helplessly: "You have fifty seconds left." ”

Huai Shi didn't dare to delay any longer, opened the cover, and by the light of the book, he saw the dense handwriting on the page, but the handwriting didn't seem to need to be read, and the moment he was gazed, it seemed to be alive, and he drilled into his consciousness along the line of sight, turning into countless flashes of light.

At first glance, Huai Shi saw Lao Yang's grandson squatting on the toilet to cheer himself up.

"My eyes ......"

Huai Shi subconsciously held his breath and quickly turned over this paragraph.

All the records seem to be fragmented and fragmented, he can only flip down randomly, and there are even few large pieces, all of which are trivial things, and even confessed to the art teacher when he got a little red flower in the third grade of primary school.

"Old Yang, you're quite precocious......"

Huai Shi sighed, saw that there was still a small half of the candle left, quickly turned over this paragraph, and continued to look down.

Soon, he saw his pale sister-in-law in the ward, and Lao Yang, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and was full of energy.

"Wife, don't worry, I have money! At the end of the month, we will transfer to the provincial hospital, and I have found all the experts." He gently covered the slightly pale palm: "After two years, when you are well, give me a big fat boy, or a daughter, I like ......"

Looking at her smile, Lao Yang himself laughed.

It's as if you've been redeemed.

Huai Shi turned a page gloomily,

But if you look down, the memory is fragmented, and in a series of broken intentions, full of pain, fear, and uneasiness, and finally, a figure appears.

The smile is sneering, the hair is yellow, and there is a pair of red gloves that Huai Shi will never forget.

"Well, that's it. ”

As the five fingers spread, it covered Lao Yang's face.

An icy feeling poured into the cerebral cord.

Behind it is a continuous nightmare and trance, more and more fragments come out, as if drunk, maintaining daily life, but more often it gradually becomes the walking dead, and I don't even know what I'm doing.

"Huaishi, you can't do it, there are still twenty seconds!" the crow urged.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Huai Shi looked at the candle that was about to burn to the end, flipped down frantically, fragments, fragments, went to the hospital to deliver meals, went to the bank to transfer money, called to collect the final payment, and then, received a call......

"There's a lack of a cellist for the Tachibana Group's welcome party, isn't it......? Haven't you seen that kid Huaishi? You're okay, right? Eh, yes, that's it. ”

After hanging up the phone, Lao Yang proudly cocked Erlang's legs, hung up the phone, took out his notebook to memorize the briefly, and sent a text message to Huai Shi: "That kid has to jump up happily when he knows." ”

It's just that when he was writing the address, his expression suddenly stiffened.

The address sent out is very different from what was just written down.

Then, an unknown number was dialed and the report was rigid: "Transporter 4 is in place." ”

"Very well, come to me. ”

There was a hoarse laugh on the phone.

Lao Yang got up and picked up the key.

At that moment, a gust of wind blew, and the light of the candle trembled

The remnants of light are extinguished.

A strand of black hair quietly wrapped around Huaishi's ankle, bringing a cold touch, as if it had been frozen by ice...... Trace by thread groping upwards......

In an instant, half of Huai Shi's body became numb.

"Damn, how did the waves of the Silver Sea get here...... Huaishi, come back, immediately!" The crow's angry voice came: "You are entangled!"

"Soon, soon! I've almost found ......."

Huai Shi didn't bother to respond to her, and sped back the page, but the countless hairs stretched faster and faster, dodging the light of the candle, growing and spreading behind Huai Shi's back, spreading, and entangled around his limbs, getting tighter and tighter.

And Lao Yang was driving, going east along the avenue and turning left on Binhai Avenue...... Huai Shi picked up speed again and heard the sound of the sea tide in the distance.

The black hair was wrapped around his neck, tightened, and he was out of breath.

The candle trembled, and the last ray of light was about to be extinguished.

Lao Yang had already parked, walked out of the underground parking lot, and walked forward with a slow movement that made Huai Shi crazy, turning left, going up, and climbing the stairs.

Huai Shi felt the wail of his neck, and his hair was going upward, running down his face, about to burrow into his eyes, mouth and nose.

The premonition of death is like falling into a sea of ice.

It's getting cold from the inside out.

At that moment, he saw Lao Yang push open a door.

In the darkness behind the door, a familiar face was revealed.

At that moment, the candle went out.

Darkness gulped him up like a spring.

In the last moment, an invisible force pulled him, upward, suddenly breaking through the pitch-black fog, like riding a roller coaster upside down, speeding upward, but then, a strand of black hair floated up, like a rope wrapped around his ankles, pulling him down.

"Get out of here!"

Huai Shi used the last of his strength to invisibly chop off the axe, cutting off the pitch-black hair.

The moment he lost consciousness, all he heard was angry screams coming from the darkness.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the familiar drawing-room, bent over, and frantically vomited the last bit of food in his stomach, and heard the raven rebuke.

"Are you crazy! Almost! Almost! You're assimilated there! Stay in the hell of Depth 27 forever with that group of!"

She glared at Huai Shi, "You've already been remembered by that thing! Don't even think about going there again until you break through the fifth order and become the crowned one!"

"I found ......"

Huai Shi gasped as hard as she could, and her saliva and tears flowed out of her embarrassment, but her eyes were bright and scary, like the high beams on the highway of hell.

"I found him......"

He muttered hoarsely, "I found him!"