With that, the Commander turned around and walked to the stairs leading to the entrance to the library.

The heavy oak floor, almost two people high, gives a sluggish, almost reluctant feeling. The rusty hinges of the gate made a hysterical screeching sound.

The commander put on night vision equipment in both eyes and held the punch in one hand. Sharp gun, sideways into the inside.

A second later, he signaled his teammates to follow.

Su Mengfan and others also put on night vision equipment one after another, holding Chong Chong. Sharpened the spear and walked in.

In front of them was a long hallway, flanked by twisted tin hangers. It used to be a cloakroom.

In the distance, the faint light that darkens from the street illuminates a wide marble staircase that extends upwards.

The ceiling is about 15 meters high, and when you look up, the fine handrails in the corridor on the second floor are clearly visible about half the height of the walls.

The hall was quiet enough to hear the sound of needles falling on the ground, and they made a heavy echo with every step they took.

The walls of the vestibule were covered with moss, swaying softly, as if breathing.

Some strange vine-like plants, as thick as a human arm, hung from the ceiling, almost touching the floor.

Their stalks shimmer with a fatty sheen in the light of a flashlight and are covered in huge, unsightly flowers that emit a suffocating smell that makes people dizzy.

The amplitude of their swaying was also almost invisible, and Su Mengfan didn't want to explore whether the wind blowing from the broken windows on the second floor made them sway slightly, or if they were moving on their own.

"What is this?" Su Mengfan asked Tyne as he touched the vine with his hand.

"It's a green plant," replied a voice in the distance, "the irradiated houseplants, that's it, it's morning glory, and those botanists have the right way to cultivate them, especially those who have the right way to cultivate it......"

They followed the Commander to the stairs, leaning against the left side of the wall and going up, while Tyne covered them.

The leading stalker kept an eye on the black squares at the entrances to the other rooms he saw as he walked forward.

Others shine their flashlights on the marble and the rust-colored ceilings in the pits.

They stand on the wide marble staircase that leads to the vestibule on the second floor.

There are no ceilings, so the floors of the two vestibules are joined together to form a huge space.

The second level of the vestibule forms a rectangular with three sides.

In the middle is a staircase that goes up and forms a space on its own.

On the three sides of the rectangle are wooden cabinets, most of which have either burned or rotted.

But some of them look as if someone had just used them the day before.

There are hundreds of small drawers in each area.

"Card catalog," Thatch whispered, looking around with sincere trepidation, "these drawers can predict the future, and the founders know how to predict them."

After the ceremony, you pull out one of these cabinets at random, then open a random drawer and take out the cards inside.

If the ritual is done correctly, the name of the book will predict your future, or warn of foreboding or predict success. ”

After a moment, Su Mengfan wanted to go to the nearest cupboard and find the card that foreshadowed his fate.

But his gaze was drawn to a large spider web that stretched for several meters through a broken window in the far corner.

A huge bird, trapped in a thin spider silk that looks particularly strong.

It was alive and twitching faintly.

To his relief, Su Mengfan did not see the "owner" of such an extraordinary spider web.

Next to them, in the vast antechamber, there was no living thing.

The commander signaled them all to stop.

"Listen now," he said to Su Mengfan, "don't listen to any outside sounds...... Try to listen to your inner voice, the voice in your head, and that book will call you.

The employees thought it was likely somewhere in the main archives.

But page numbers are elusive, and they could be in a reading room, a forgotten library cart, a hall, or a babysitter's desk......

So, before we start looking for a way to enter the archives, feel the sound here, close your eyes, and relax. ”

Su Mengfan forced himself to close his eyes and began to listen intently.

In the darkness, the silence was divided into tiny noises: the crunch of wooden shelves, the sound of draft boxes coming down the hallway, the faint whispers, the howling of the streets, and the coughing of an old man in the reading room......

But Su Mengfan couldn't hear anything like a call or a person.

He just stood like that, not moving, for five minutes, and for five minutes, holding his breath weakly.

Breathing would prevent him from distinguishing the sound of a living book from the sound of a pile of dead books.

"No," he shook his head guiltily, then opened his eyes and said, "there's nothing here." ”

The commander didn't say a word, and Thatch didn't say anything, but Su Mengfan caught his disappointed expression, and their disappointment was self-evident.

"Maybe it's not really here. So, we're going to look for it in the pile of papers. More precisely, we're going to try to get there. A minute later, the stalker made up his mind and gestured for the rest of the crew to follow.

He walked towards the wide doorway, and walked through it, only one of the original two panels on the hinges remained.

The edges of the door panel are charred and look weird on the surface.

On the other side there is a small round house with a ceiling 6 meters high and four entrances.

Tyne followed the Commander and Thatch, and out of sight, he took a step towards the nearest surviving cupboard, pulled out one of the drawers, and pulled out a card.

After a quick glance, a confused look appeared on his face, and he tucked the card into his breast pocket.

He knew that Su Mengfan had seen everything, so he slyly pressed a finger to his lips, and then hurriedly followed the two stalkers.

The walls of the roundhouse were also littered with drawings and markings, and a sofa with broken springs and pieces of faux leather stood in a corner.

In one of the four hallways, there was an upside-down book, and next to it were some leaked pamphlets.

"Don't touch anything!" The commander warned.

Tyne sat down on the couch under the window, squeaking the spring. Thatch was also sitting on the couch.

Su Mengfan stared at the books scattered on the floor as if he had been cursed.

"Don't touch them...... he muttered, "be sure to keep rat poison in our base library, or the rats will eat everything...... What? There are no rats here? He asked, repeating what he had said.

Instead of seeing a place full of rats, they worry when they see that there are no rats around.

"What mouse? Are you kidding? The commander pulled his face, "Around here, where are you going to find mice?" They were eaten up a long time ago. ”

"Who?" Su Mengfan asked puzzled.

"What do you mean by 'who' when you ask? {Librarian}, of course. Tyne explained.

"So are they animals or humans?" Su Mengfan asked.

"Not animals, of course not." The stalker shook his head anxiously and said nothing.

Tyne suddenly felt a strong uneasiness in his mind, as if some danger was rapidly approaching him.

Suddenly, a large figure walked through the window, and the glass shattered.

Su Mengfan, who faced Tyne, was staring at the books on the ground one second, and was frightened by the monster that suddenly rose the next.

The monster directly bit off the head of Tyne, who was still answering his own question, and the blood splattered at once to Thatch on the sofa on the other side.

"Ahh {Demon}" Thatch suddenly screamed and was picked up on the ground by the rush. The spear shoots at the monster that ate Tyne.

The monster screamed in pain and stepped back.

However, due to the huge body that was too violent just now, it was directly stuck in the window.

could only endure Thatch's shooting, and let out a tiger-like roar at Su Mengfan and the others with his bloody mouth open.

Su Mengfan immediately woke up when he saw this scene. Pick up the punch in your hand. Sharp spears shoot wildly at monsters.

Under the heavy fire of the two of them, the monster stuck in the window died not long after. The football-sized head drooped down.

Su Mengfan took a closer look and found this monster.

It has a multi-segmented spine, a short tail, and three pairs of limbs: two arms suitable for grasping things, two legs, and two large wings.

They also have a long head and a blunt snout, including a bat-like nose with eyes and vertical cat-like pupils far apart from the head, and a large mouth with 4 canine teeth and several mesophytic teeth.

The demon's back is covered with sparse short black hair, and there are skin folds at the base of the neck.

Their wings are attached to their bodies, and their limbs are muscular, almost twice the diameter of their thigh muscles, which explains why demons can fly, despite their large size – in fact, demonic wings are so powerful that they can hover in the air for long periods of time.

Their eyes appear small and resemble the vertical slit-like pupils of felines.

These features, combined with the arrangement of their teeth, seem to support this possibility.

And they grow on the sides of their heads, so they are less likely to hunt by sight.

And their large nasal tubes indicate that they have a strong sense of smell and are much like bats.

Overall, the animals that seem most likely to mutate are bats, but {Demon} has hair but no feathers, scales, or beaks, suggesting that they are of mammalian origin.

But the roar it emits is very different from the screaming sound of a bat.

The {demon}, with its many animal characteristics, can be said to be some kind of genetically engineered chimera-like animal, and it is not too much to say that it was created in a laboratory before or shortly after the war.