"There is no more water or food, and I am going to die..."
"I don't know if my relatives can still hear what I said. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I gave up on you for the library. This may be a selfish punishment for me."
"The knocking on the door, the knocking on the door again, sooner or later I will be driven crazy. Even if I don't starve to death, I won't be able to hold on for long."
"In the darkness, there are shadows that can swallow everything, including light sources, books, iron doors..."
"No one outside has responded to me...it seems like it's really over."
Jiang Shan was sitting in the back seat of the car. The semi-old assembled SUV was bumping crazily on the road. It was the third time he was sitting in the car of an angry driver. Jiang Shan was already very calm.
There were continuous shouts from the radio, and it seemed that the man could not hold on much longer. But Jiang Shan still noticed the keyword. Is there a shadow in the darkness that can swallow everything?
Jiang Shanggang wanted to think carefully about what this sentence meant. Zhang Zheng in the front row swung his tail and made a sharp turn. The standard curse words blurted out: "Can we stop making noise in the car? Is it over yet?"
In the eyes of other people, Jiang Shan turned on the radio as soon as he got in the car. Along the way, there were all kinds of loud and small noises, high and low. The space in the car was small, so it was really audible. It's quite irritating.
Jiang Shan silently turned down the volume. She just wanted to get some more clues from it. At present, apart from saying that he was in the library and that he had some kind of swallowing shadow, this person did not say any other clues that sounded helpful.
"What did Ashan hear again?" The voice came from behind, it was Wei Yuan.
Behind Jiang Shan's seat was the carriage, and Wei Yuan sat back-to-back with her.
Jiang Shan said truthfully: "He said he had run out of food and water and was about to die."
Zhao Ying and Jiang Shan sat in the back seat together, and Gao Wenwu sat in the passenger seat. Hearing this, he urged Zhang Zheng: "Can't you drive faster?"
Sure enough, the irritable driver scolded him: "What the hell, this car is just slow...I have already used my skills!"
Zhao Ying stared at the old radio in Jiang Shan's hand, "Why do you have this thing?"
It's weird no matter how you look at it.
Jiang Shan said after a while: "It was a gift from a friend."
Wei Yuan's eyes were deep behind the carriage. Jiang Shan only knew that Zhang Wanqiu gave her the radio, but she didn't know that Wei Yuan had sent it to her.
"Keep listening." Zhao Ying said, "I really want to know what else you will hear."
Jiang Shan turned off the radio completely. She looked at Zhao Ying: "Can you explain 'erosion' to me?"
Even though Jiang Shan had seen some things with her own eyes, she still couldn't understand this "erosion".
Zhao Ying didn't expect that Jiang Shan would take the initiative to ask her this question. She thought Wei Yuan had already explained it to Jiang Shan. "Everything you see is erosion."
Jiang Shan felt that she should ask another question, "What about?"
"Have you seen the car's fuel gauge?" Gao Wenwu suddenly said.
"The fuel consumption of this car under normal circumstances should be 0.08 liters, and now it is five times that."
Therefore, they have to prepare more fuel than usual, and the consumption rate is still rising. Even five times is calculated based on experience, and the number may vary from day to day.
Jiang Shan didn't understand cars, but she understood the explanation. She thought again of the frozen sandwich Wei Yuan handed her in the back of the truck.
Five times the corrosion rate.
If you understand it this way, it seems that everything that is happening in this world can be imagined.
"So if that person is not in the eastern suburbs library," Gao Wenwu said helplessly, "then we can't go to the western suburbs anymore."
"He is here." Jiang Shan said. "I heard."
Jiang Shan had turned on the radio all the way, and she was actually doing an experiment. She found that the farther the car drove (that is, the closer to the destination Dongjiao Library), the clearer the sound came out.
Before, he couldn't tell the difference between male and female, but finally Jiang Shan recognized that the voice came from a man. And he seems to be of a certain age.
The voice is not as sharp and loud as that of young people like Zhang Zheng.
Zhang Zheng couldn't keep his mouth shut even while driving, and said sarcastically: "It's really amazing. Yesterday he was Popeye, and now he is a witch and a prophet."
As always, Jiang Shan didn't take Zhang Zheng's words to heart. She turned on the radio, and the hissing sound was much less. A male voice came out intermittently, as if he was reading something. Even Zhao Ying next to her was confused. Suddenly he turned his head:
"You shouldn't be left alone in the library late at night." The man's old voice murmured.
"Don't touch that bookshelf, there's a terrifying monster hidden deep inside it."
"As you walk deeper into the library, be careful of the figure hiding behind the bookshelves."
…
The movement of the wheelchair came from behind, and Jiang Shan knew that they had all heard it this time. Zhang Zheng drove his car directly over a huge boulder, and the whole car was shaken to the point of overturning.
"Oh my god, is there really someone talking?" Before, he had retained some reservations and thought it was Jiang Shan's imagination.
Gao Wenwu hesitated and said: "But why do I feel that these few sentences are like gibberish?" The preface and follow-up words are inconsistent, as if he is delirious.
Zhao Ying said: "Stop talking, listen!"
"If objects can rust, why can't people?" Several hollow and ferocious chuckles came from the radio, "The human body is composed of many tiny organisms, and these organisms are interconnected through interactions between molecules and cells. If the human body is affected by the external environment, such as changes in water, oxygen or humidity, the balance between these organisms may be disrupted, causing parts of the body to rust..."
"Everyone is eating artificial things, and their stomachs are filled with industrial fast food. In this case, we can imagine that a microorganism called "rust fungus" grows and reproduces in the human body, causing parts of the body to appear similar to Rusty substances. Over time, rust fungi multiply more and more, from organs and tissues... Once they start, they don't stop, eventually causing the entire human body to become rusty."
It was so eerie that it made one’s scalp numb.
"In order to prevent the human body from rusting, we should keep the body dry and clean just like objects. If the rust bacteria spreads too fast or too widely in the human body, it may even spread outside the human body..."
"What is he talking about?" Zhao Ying's face turned pale after hearing this.
Soon, a message came from the radio that the man seemed a little confused, and it was accompanied by the sound of turning pages, "Why is it gone after writing this? Whose research manuscript does this seem to be... and there are a lot of incomprehensible pictures."
It turns out that the man was reading something written by someone else.
"Human wisdom is really great. It's not a loss to be able to sleep with these books..." At the end, the man seemed a little pleased.
"If someone finds me in the future, I hope that I and these books will still exist by then. What will the world be like by then?"
(End of chapter)
