Volume 1 Beginnings Chapter 2. Library in the moonlight

By the time Tang Ling was fully conscious, she was already standing in front of a European-style double-opening door.

"This? How did I get here? Where is this? Tang Ling looked around uneasily.

The endless dark corridor was empty, one end leading to this gate, and the other was nowhere to go.

The door in front of him was closed, but some warm light faintly shone through the crack in the door of the floor, shining on Tang Ling's shoes.

This is probably the room with light on the second floor that I just saw outside.

Tang Ling hesitated, reached out and gently knocked on the door twice, then pressed the doorknob and slowly pushed it into the room.

"Excuse me, is anyone there?"

Tang Ling asked, looked into the room, and then widened her eyes.

Moonlight from the floor-to-ceiling windows splashes on the worn shelves, dusty books, and weeds and vines climb in every corner.

It was a very spacious room, and the bookshelves seemed to be the only regular child, and the other tables and chairs were stacked on top of each other, crowded together at random, and the stacks of books could be seen everywhere you looked, and there was almost no place for people to settle here.

Tang Ling opened the door and accidentally touched a small pile of books, which scattered with a bang, stirring up dust all over the ground, which could be seen clearly under the warm illumination of the old-fashioned kerosene lamp hanging at the door.

This is a library that has been deserted for a long time.

It seems so.

Tang Ling covered her mouth and nose, waved her other hand to fan off the dust around her, and walked in.

"Ahem!"

Tang Ling coughed softly a few times from the dust, and she looked strangely at the tangled vines and weeds growing here and there, full of doubts.

Following the extension of these plants, Tang Ling noticed more strange places in this room.

"Here, it should be the second floor, right?"

Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the white full moon is very close, and a muddy path surrounded by bushes starts in front of the floor-to-ceiling window where Tang Ling is standing.

The trees with vigorous branches and foliage have been cut off the lower half of their bodies, and the remaining upper part has been inserted into the soil, which seems to be a new place with the scene outside the first floor, and everything reveals an indescribable sense of disobedience.

"Ouch? Why is there a little girl here? ”

A voice came from behind her, Tang Ling turned around in horror, and on the other side of the bookshelf, an old man walked out with a kerosene lamp.

"Little girl, how did you get here?"

"Hello grandpa, I don't know how I walked, but I accidentally got lost, and then somehow got into this building."

Tang Ling thought back to her series of outrageous experiences, and shuddered, now that she finally saw someone, her heart was somewhat relaxed, "Grandpa, I want to ask if you know how to get from here to Building B of the girls' dormitory?" It's past nine o'clock now, and I'm afraid that my roommate will be worried if I go back too late. ”

"Little girl, don't worry, old man, I haven't seen a child find here for many years, come, let's talk first."

The old man smiled kindly, as if he had a strong interest in Tang Ling, placed the kerosene lamp on the bookshelf on the side, walked to Tang Ling's side, and looked at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window, "It's strange here, right?" ”

"Huh? Ah, right. It's obviously the second floor here, why is there a road? ”

Tang Ling reacted, looked at the scenery outside the window with the old man, and said the doubts in her heart.

"People, sometimes you can't be deceived by superficial illusions, sometimes what you think you see with your own eyes doesn't exist at all, little girl, don't be controlled by your own consciousness."

The old man's strange words puzzled Tang Ling, and before she could think clearly, when she was about to turn her head to ask the old man, her wrinkled face magnified in front of her, and the old man's cloudy eyes stared at her.

"Little girl, have you forgotten something?"

"What, what?"

Tang Ling was so frightened that she took a few steps back, and a cold aura once again swept through her body, Tang Ling swallowed her saliva, gritted her teeth and bowed to the old man, and begged: "Grandpa, it's late, I should go back to the dormitory, can you tell me how to go back?" ”

"Today's children, why are they so impatient to chat."

The old man shook his head, turned around and picked up the kerosene lamp again, and walked deeper into the bookshelf, "Follow me." ”

This library was even bigger than Tang Ling thought, at least it had been walking with the old man for so long, and it hadn't come to an end yet.

Tang Ling turned on the phone, and was about to see if the phone had a reply signal, when the dizziness eroded the brain again, she couldn't support the shaking of her body, staggered a few steps and knocked down the bookshelf on the side, the old man in front of her looked at her pain indifferently, but there seemed to be a faint imperceptible unbearability in the cloudy eyes?

In the clock hanging in the distance, the hands pointed to "9:30".

The old man opened a door in the shadows and said to Tang Ling, who was in a state of confusion: "This road can be directly connected to the school's playground, and you will get there if you keep walking inside." ”

Tang Ling's only remaining consciousness sensed that her body was walking towards the door uncontrollably, and the old man beside her was in a coma at the last moment, his eyes were full of sadness, as if he was looking at his precious treasure, and said in a faint pleading tone: "After you go out, don't be frightened by everything you see, you must persevere." Tang Ling, you must remember it......"

When she woke up again, the mobile phone she was holding in her hand was constantly vibrating, Tang Ling picked it up in confusion and looked at it, and the "call from Rory" displayed on it was clearly visible.

There's a signal on your phone?!

Tang Ling was excited, and her consciousness finally returned, and she hurriedly answered the phone and shouted, "Rarity? Is that you? ”

"Tang Ling! Where are you! Come on! Don't go to the cafeteria! ”

Rory's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone, accompanied by a noisy and chaotic background sound, someone screaming?

"Rarity? Where are you, Rory? What happened to you? Lorry! ”

The phone suddenly hung up, Tang Ling began to panic, and was about to dial the phone again when a shrill alarm sounded from the radio in the distance.

"What the hell is going on?"

Tang Ling was uneasy, and hurriedly ran forward along the dark corridor, and the mobile phone that restored the signal began to transmit the messages that she had not received before, and the dense red prompts continued one after another, which dazzled Tang Ling, and in the transmission of countless messages, she clearly captured some important information.

"Catastrophe worsens", "man eats man", "monster with swift action", "end of the world"......

"Wouldn't it? This, to make a movie? ”

Tang Ling quickened her pace, and finally saw the exit not far ahead, and on the other side of the exit, the closer she got to, the more clearly she could hear the continuous screams.