"Hum—"

There was a strange roar coming from deep underground.

Immediately, the overhead lights dimmed.

In an instant, all the people who were working in the museum stopped, as if they were accustomed to it, and did not panic and hide, but stopped in place, quietly waiting, waiting for the light to come.

A few seconds later, there was a sizzling sound of electricity overhead, and the incandescent light came back on.

It was just at the moment when he regained his light that an innocent officer on duty saw a black shadow flash at the corner of the stairs in the distance.

"You saw that too, didn't you?"

The Guardian appeared beside him unconsciously.

"Yes, yes......."

There was a slight tremor in the voice of the officer on duty.

The guard pressed his hand to the hilt of his sword, and he looked at the clock on the wall, and whispered:

"It doesn't seem to be a hallucination."

Not an illusion,

That's ...... Reality.

……

Rena crouched down by the door, pulled a wire out of her pocket, and gently slipped into the lock.

No one knows how Rena escaped the inspection of the museum, entered the interior of the museum, and took advantage of the gap between the lights to enter the management office area on the second floor.

A simple cover can achieve your goals.

The same is true of the museum's guards.

Rena thought as she slowly twisted the wire.

The door to the archive room opened, and the interior space was dark, seemingly unaffected by the light in the corridor, and Rena did not dare to turn on the light, so she could only light her own candle to barely see a small area in front of her.

Rows of bookshelves are neatly arranged, looking no different from the library outside, fingers gently brushing the file bags on the shelves, and the yellowed paper has a heavy sense of history.

However, every part of the place is very clean, and there is no dust on the stacked books, and it seems that the cleaning of the archives here is very good.

"The dumbest thing people can do is to put secrets on paper, which can be easily kept, easily tampered with, and easily ...... Destroy. ”

Rena muttered softly.

Of course, she thinks it is even more stupid that someone spends a lot of money, at all costs, just to satisfy their curiosity.

There will always be people who will come and go to uncover the "mystery".

Rena searched the shelves, mostly materials about the museum's collections, or some inconsequential historical accounts.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she stopped in front of a file bag and fixed the candle to the iron shelf.

"Instructions for the establishment of the Pornia Museum, borrowing privileges, Class B, and that's what I found."

With that, Rena carefully took down the file bag, trying not to make a sound, and easily opened the seal, pulled out the paper inside, and put it in the candlelight.

"Huh?"

A look of confusion appeared on the excited little face.

On the thick paper in his hand, there was a blank space, and there was not a word.

"Torah—"

Like the sound of someone mopping the floor with shoes, Rena raised her head, and her scalp was numb in an instant, and behind the two-story shelves opposite her, a black figure could be vaguely seen standing.

"Torah—"

The same voice rang out again.

A second before Rena blew out the candle......

It moved.

That person, when did he appear?

Or was he here all along?

Rena couldn't figure it out, so she could only grit her teeth and try not to make a sound, and before she knew it, cold sweat soaked her back.

Approximately, after a minute?

Wrong! It may not even be a minute, and the man is up and running again, and every time he moves, he makes that weird "tearing" sound.

And, what Rena can be sure of is that the person, seems to be moving in her direction.

No, stay away!

The woman's instincts told her that the man was dangerous, and that she had to avoid it.

After Rena was sure, she stabilized her breathing, slowly squatted down, and put the document bag on the ground silently, after there was no light source, she couldn't see anything clearly, and there were no windows around to provide some light,

"Torah—"

In the dark, you can only rely on the voice to judge the distance of the person.

She slowly retreated with her waist bent, and slowly moved away from the cover of the bookshelf.

"Torah—"

But the man seemed to be able to see where she was, and still moved towards Rena's place.

And......

The frequency is getting faster and faster!

It's as if he was just slowly dragging his legs, and now he can move normally.

At this time, Rena was completely panicked.

She reached out to touch it, but she didn't touch anything, and there was an empty piece in her hand, and that sense of powerless panic swept over.

"Bang dang! ——”

Her backward foot didn't know what it had kicked and made a loud noise.

The man, who had been in the darkness and uncertain, seemed to have finally locked on to his target and let out a laugh like a roar.

"Ha ......"

Under extreme fear, people will not move, and whatever is smart and witty, whatever will run away, all will be thrown into the back of their minds.

It's not a matter of being discovered, but a strong premonition that as long as she is caught, then she will die.

The strange black shadow was darker than the darkness around it, like a humanoid, but it didn't seem to be human.

Help me!

Under the fear of death, Rena wanted to scream and ask for help, but she seemed to be choked by the neck and couldn't make a sound at all.

Run!

Gotta run!

The instinct to survive drove her to act.

As soon as she took a step, she felt a cold hand at her feet grab her ankle, and her center of gravity was unstable, and she fell straight to the ground.

A burning smell crept into her nose, with ash-black particles, her throat itched, and countless pitch-black claws seemed to be deep in the boundless darkness around her.

And the man who was moving in the darkness also came to her at this time.

The smell of burnt is even stronger than just now.

What I felt together was the endless coldness and the sense of despair in the face of death

For some reason, such an image came to her mind at this time.

Still in this archive room, a raging fire burned, smoke billowed out, tongues of fire swept through the heat wave and flooded the books, and a lonely figure stood in the fire, and finally, consumed by the fire.

"Ahh ——”

Eventually, Rena couldn't hold back her screams of terror.

meanwhile

Squeak –

It was the sound of the door being opened.

A white light shone in from outside.

The light shone on the shadow, and Rena finally saw it for what it really was, like a charred corpse, leaning down and reaching out to her, only a hand's throw away from her.

And this scene, under the illumination of the light, gradually dissipated into ashes.

Rena sat dumbfounded between the broken charcoals, with an inexplicably twisted black substance at her feet, unable to distinguish what it was.

There was also a male voice in his ear:

"Captain! I've found the intruder. ”