Zhao Ying's headset suddenly lit up and turned on automatically: "Ahhhhhh!"
"My mother...is like ice cream melting..."
Zhao Ying's body shook violently, and the impact of the sound almost penetrated directly into her brain. She suddenly pinched the switch of the headset.
But at this time, the headset seemed to be out of her control. The moment the button was turned off, it would turn on again, as if there was someone fighting with her.
"Dad always brings work home. I hate dad so much. He is such a bad dad..." The sharp and resentful words kept piercing Zhao Ying's eardrums.
Zizizizi~
"Dad also forced my mother and me to help... Why, I hate him! I hate him!"
"Mom, I'm so sleepy and hungry. It's so dark here."
"There are more and more books here, and my father is getting busier and busier. He doesn't even let my mother and I go home. I think about it, we no longer have a home..."
"Because the new library no longer accepts books, they just send them all here! Every day, I have to touch those disgusting books. I want to vomit!"
"I vomited on the book, and my father beat me. He looked angry, like a monster."
"I hated these books. I tore them all, tore them all. My mother rushed over and held me down. Her tears fell on my face. She said I was sick..."
Gao Wenwu rushed up to turn off Zhao Ying's headset, but it was to no avail. The headset's light flashed crazily. Even if Gao Wenwu couldn't hear it, he could still tell something from Zhao Ying's increasingly pale face.
Zhao Ying couldn't hold on any longer.
"Am I sick?"
Gao Wenwu smashed the headset connector with one punch.
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"If the identity of the human shadow is the librarian, then who was the attacker who Zhao Ying and Gao Wenwu encountered?" Jiang Shan said seriously.
There is always a division of labor in this library, and all the behaviors of this humanoid shadow show that he is managing this library. Like a strict parent, no flaws can be tolerated.
Zhang Zheng said: "Didn't you say that the shadow... can extend his hand infinitely? Why couldn't it be him who reached out and attacked Zhao Ying and Lao Gao?"
In fact, Zhang Zheng couldn't imagine that there might be countless shadow monsters with long bodies and long hands walking around in the darkness around this secluded cave...
Just imagining it gives me chills.
He would rather believe there is only one. Well, one, no matter what kind of monster, only one at least sounds like there is a chance of winning.
"But Zhao Ying said that the voice was deliberately tempting her to make mistakes," Jiang Shan thought seriously and whispered, "It's not like our Mr. Shadow's behavior."
For some reason, Jiang Shan always felt that the humanoid shadow was quite decent. At present, it seems that he will not do anything intentionally to cause fouls. Even after Jiang Shan climbed up the bookshelf and said those loophole-taking remarks to him, Jiang Shan was let go.
It's not like he was viciously trying to kill anyone.
Zhang Zheng could only sit aside and listen to Jiang Shan's various analyses. His shadow and behavior style were no longer human. Can he still think with human behavior?
Jiang Shan always felt that he would soon connect everything, but he was still a little short of it.
"Do you still remember that bookshelf you knocked down? Those pinyin engraved on it... I'm thinking, if, if the humanoid shadow was a librarian before, why would he, who pays attention to rules, allow someone to write down the words on the bookshelf? Those traces?”
And it's not just ordinary graffiti, it's carved directly with a knife. This is a serious pollution and vandalism to public property.
Zhang Zheng wanted to say that he didn't knock it down, so he touched it! Who knew that the bookshelf seemed to be having a convulsion?
Jiang Shan read: "'My mother suddenly melted like ice cream.' 'My daughter scattered like sand.'"
"That's enough, stop reading." Zhang Zheng stopped in shock. The more I listen to it, the more it sounds like a scary nursery rhyme.
But Jiang Shan had already lost his mind and said slowly: "These words...could it be that they were not written 'casually' as meaninglessly as we thought?"
Zhang Zheng's teeth leaked: "If this seems to be completely clueless, how can it have any profound meaning?"
Jiang Shan has played word puzzles and brain teasers, and she knows that sometimes she can't guess something not because it's too complicated, but because it's... too simple. "Maybe there's no profound meaning, just a literal meaning."
In the darkness, Zhang Zheng showed a smile that was uglier than crying: "You mean people can melt like ice cream?" This is obviously the worst joke.
Jiang Shan thought for a while: "Maybe the melting she said is the 'erosion' you are talking about?" Everyone expressed it in different terms, but they actually mean the same thing. And maybe children’s expressive abilities are inherently limited.
Zhang Zheng fell silent when it came to erosion. Even he didn't want to hear these two words.
"What about scattering like sand?" Zhang Zheng was speechless. Sand and ice cream were two descriptions that couldn't be compared with each other.
Jiang Shan paused, as if she was recalling something she didn't want to remember, "I have seen the appearance of eroded people. Some of those eroded parts are indeed, like... floating sand." If she could force it, she could say it. Gotta go up there.
After a long silence, Zhang Zheng suddenly looked directly at Jiang Shan: "Have you seen him?"
"Let's first assume that if the meanings of these pinyin expressions are true, it means that this place was a family before."
Mother, daughter, and probably father.
Children have rich imaginations and limited expressive abilities. In her eyes, people can actually disappear little by little. Perhaps these people are melting like ice cream.
Jiang Shan looked experienced, "When you think about it this way, doesn't it look less scary?"
Zhang Zheng: "..." Sorry, he feels even scarier.
If a whole family disappeared in this library, it would be the second scariest place after Songshan Hospital.
Jiang Shan suddenly turned his head: "I remember that this library originally had windows on each floor. Did you notice that when... the windows disappeared?"
It seemed that they hadn't felt the light coming from the window for a long time. The whole library was extremely dark. It was daytime when they came in before. Even if it was dark now, there would be moonlight or something, right?
Zhang Zheng paused.
"Do you still remember when it started... becoming completely lackluster?"
At this point, Jiang Shan found that she was slow.
Because her eyes can already see in the dark, the price of being able to see the darkness is that she loses her judgment on the light.
Zhang Zheng had been buried in a pile of books for a long time, and he had always felt that the library was dark since he came in, so he had long ignored any windows. But he still remembered the old and cold windows on the outer layer of the building that he saw when he looked up before coming in.
Zhang Zheng tried hard to recall: "It seems that it started when the rules came from the headset..."
Restart, everything restarts.
At that time, all parts of the library were covered with a layer of darkness.
