Chapter 22: Sunrise

Su Mengfan walked over to {librarian} and used a flashlight to illuminate the strange creature.

It felt like its blood was slowly getting colder, and its palms were starting to bend and harden.

{Librarian}'s bullet-riddled head hung over Thatch's shoulder, and even if he died, he would hide behind him shyly.

Su Mengfan then unhurriedly poked it with the toe of his boot, and it fell backwards with a bang.

Needless to say, it's dead.

Su Mengfan struggled not to look at Thatch's bloodied face, and began to slowly unzip his protective suit.

The garment had long been soaked in thick, blackened blood, and transparent water vapor rose from the garment and spread in the cold air of the document room.

Su Mengfan was so smoked by the smell that he couldn't help retching, and then touched Daniel's breast pocket with his hand......

The fingers of the protective gloves clumsily unbuttoned him.

Su Mengfan suddenly thought that maybe it was this kind of glove that delayed Thatch to save himself.

There was a clear rustle in the distance, followed by the sound of brisk footsteps on the ground in the hallway.

Su Mengfan turned his head in fear and threw the beam of the flashlight at the passage.

After making sure that he was the only one for the time being, he continued to struggle to undo the buttons, and the buttons were finally undone.

Su Mengfan's hard fingers managed to pull out a thin gray envelope from the depths of the pocket, which was hidden in a polyethylene bag with a bullet hole in it.

In addition, Su Mengfan also found a blood-stained square card in his pocket, which was obviously the card Thatch had taken from the card catalog drawer in the front hall.

The card reads: "Schnukov, N.E., Agricultural Irrigation and Exploration in the Tajik SSR, Dushanbe, 1965." ”

The sound of light footsteps and indistinct beeps was now heard at a very close distance, and there was no time.

Su Mengfan picked up Thatch's rush. Sharp guns and flashlights (flashlights rolled out of the claws of {Librarian} after he was killed).

He began to run back as fast as he could, barely seeing anything as he could when he ran past the endless bookshelves.

Su Mengfan really couldn't confirm whether he was being chased or not, because the boots on his feet made a loud sound, and the blood hit his eardrums, and he couldn't hear the sound behind him at all.

Su Mengfan realized it when he jumped directly into the stairwell and began to roll down the hard stone steps.

They don't even know what floor they use to enter the document room.

So Su Mengfan had no choice but to go directly to the first floor, hit the glass of the stairwell, and then jump into the patio.

Su Mengfan waited there for a moment, observing the outside.

Right in the middle of the patio, several gray creatures with pointed faces were standing motionless, their eyes fixed on the window, as if they were looking directly at him.

Su Mengfan leaned against the side of the wall in fear, and continued to move slowly and gently.

The boots on his feet no longer hit the stairs, so he could clearly hear the light footsteps of his bare feet on the ground.

The sound is getting louder and louder.

Then, completely out of control, he slammed down the stairs again.

Su Mengfan jumped to another floor so that he could search for the familiar door from time to time.

Not found, he continued to lunge forward.

When it seemed as if footsteps could be heard nearby, they stopped, hid in dark corners, and looked around desperately for passages and narrow passages ahead.

Su Mengfan walked into the stairs again, and went down one or two more floors, maybe he ignored something?

So the demonic noise emitted by Su Mengfan, who was desperately trying to find the exit from this labyrinth, would attract every huge resident of the library, but it would not help him calm down.

Su Mengfan searched in vain like a headless fly to find an exit.

That is, he could not re-enter the original stairwell until he made out the familiar half-curved outline of the broken window in the background.

Su Mengfan walked back, jumped into the first passage presented in front of him, leaned his back against the wall, and rushed . Point the spear at the entrance where {Librarian} is expected to appear, holding your breath...... There was silence.

These cruel brutes decided not to chase Su Mengfan alone, they stood there quietly, waiting for Su Mengfan to expose himself negligently.

But he didn't need to go the old way, and the passage was stretched forward.

Su Mengfan quickly retreated to the open place, his eyes kept staring at it.

The hallway turns to the side, but just around the corner, a black hole appears in the wall.

It was covered with brick shards and a small amount of lime.

Su Mengfan obeyed the instinctive call and walked through the black hole and entered a room full of dilapidated furniture.

Rolls of film and film were scattered across the floor. A slightly opened door was in front, and a small wedge-shaped beam of miserable white moonlight shone onto the floor from behind the door.

Su Mengfan cautiously stepped on the creaking parquet floor and walked to the door.

I knew the room, though it was only at the other end of it, but I could see the imposing reading room, the soaring ceiling and the giant windows, the passage to the strangely shaped wooden doors, and the reading tables that were messily placed on the sides.

There is no doubt that Su Mengfan is in the main reading room.

He stood on top of the enclosed wooden railings of the narrow corridor, which were four meters high, and walked around the wall.

It was from this corridor that {the librarian} came down and found theirs.

He didn't know how he had made it to the document room, let alone the other side of the place he had taken the way he and Thatch had taken before.

But he didn't have time to think about it, and {the librarian} might be in hot pursuit.

Su Mengfan looked at one of the two symmetrical staircases, which led to the base of the monument.

He suddenly ran towards the door, and not far from the carved wooden arch of the exit, the ugly bodies of several {librarians} lay across the floor.

When passing by the place where the previous battle took place, Su Mengfan was stuck in a pile of thickened blood and almost fell.

After barely opening the heavy wooden door, a bright white light immediately made it impossible for his eyes to see anything.

Su Mengfan recalled the commander's instructions, clenched the flashlight in his right hand, and quickly drew three circles, meaning that he came without malice.

The dazzling beam of light immediately turned to the side.

Su Mengfan put the machine gun on his back and slowly moved forward to a circular house with many columns and a sleeping chair.

He didn't know who would come to meet him.

A light machine gun was mounted on the floor, and the commander was deaf near the couch with his eyes pulled and let out short moans from time to time. groaning, the right leg twisting unnaturally.

Su Mengfan only realized when he saw him, his leg was broken at the knee and bent backwards instead of forwards.

He couldn't imagine how this could be done, what was so powerful that it could tear apart the legs that had been firmly growing on the commander's body.

"What about your companions?" The commander glanced at Su Mengfan, and then threw this question at Su Mengfan.

"{Librarian} in the Library...... They attacked. Su Mengfan tried to explain. He subconsciously didn't want to say that he had brutally killed Thatch with his own hands.

"Please help me up...... No, pick up my backpack anyway.

Let's see what has become of my legs...... They almost ripped his leg off.

Now, I'm carried on someone's back. The commander said in a low tone.

Su Mengfan put away all the equipment: two backpacks, two machine guns and a light machine gun, these things weigh about 30 kilograms, and it is not so easy to pick up.

But what was even more difficult was that it took them several minutes to carry their companion's limp body on their shoulders, which was difficult to move and weak, even the few short steps down the stairs to the exit.

So I had to throw away a backpack and a light machine gun. Only two machine guns remained.

On the way to the gate, they didn't run into a single {librarian}.

But when Su Mengfan opened the heavy wooden door hard, Jean was moaning. As the groaning commander passed, a rattling roar erupted from the deepest part of the building, a voice filled with resentment and pain.

The creepy feeling crawled all over Su Mengfan's body again, and he quickly closed the door.

The task now is to get to the metro station as quickly as possible.

"Lower your eyes!" When they were on the street, the commander ordered.

"The stars should be in front of you right now, don't even think about looking at the other side of the roof......"

Su Mengfan barely moved his stiff legs and stared at the floor obediently, just hoping to ignore the incredible sprawling of the 200-meter distance from the library to the descent to {Bolovit Station}.

However, the commander did not let Su Mengfan enter the subway station.

"It's impossible to report now, you haven't gotten the books, you've lost their guidance."

The commander gasped and asked Su Mengfan to put him down as he spoke.

Su Mengfan threw the thing directly on the ground, and then gently put the commander on the ground.

"Those brahmins will not like this result, the main thing is that you are not the true Son of God, and they have entrusted you with secrets.

If you go back to the subway station, you will disappear without a trace.

They have experts in this area, intellectual and non-intellectual.

Not even I can protect you.

Now, all you can do is leave, and you'd better go to {Smolink Station} and keep going, where there are a few houses and no need to be down the alleys.

If you walk before sunrise, you'll be there in no time. ”

"What sunrise?" Su Mengfan asked puzzled. He would have to rush to another subway station alone on the ground, which was like a slap in the head for him.

On the map, that metro station is two kilometers away.

"The sun, people are nocturnal creatures, it is better for them not to appear on the ground during the day, but there are also people who climb from the ruins to the ground to bask in the sun, if you disturb them, you will regret it for life.

I'm not just talking about sunlight, just two seconds and you'll be blind, and sunglasses won't save you. ”