When the three of them saw Jiang Shan reappearing, they were shocked by her bloody legs before they could be happy for two seconds.
"It's okay." Jiang Shan said.
If you believe something you shouldn't believe, you should suffer the consequences.
She casually tore off a section of her sleeve and tied it tightly on her calf to temporarily delay the bleeding.
Zhang Zheng was so angry that his teeth itched: "I told you that you shouldn't believe the words in that broken radio. It's really not a good thing. What good thing can do such a thing as trap us here?"
The shadow of Zhang Zheng being dragged away twice by shadows is still there, and new hatreds are added to old ones.
"Then we won't look for the basement anymore?" Zhao Ying said hesitantly.
"I still want to go." Jiang Shan said with a cold face. She really didn't like to be coerced. But if Zhao Ying's statement is correct and the humanoid shadow was intercepted because the basement does not belong to the library itself, then they only have the basement. This way.
In fact, Jiang Shan understood this from beginning to end, but she didn't want to give in in front of the shadow.
This was not a deal with Shadow, it was her own action.
The problem now is how to find the entrance. Faced with such a huge and complicated library, everyone has no clue and no way to start.
"Hidden trees in the forest."
Jiang Shan suddenly said, looking at the mountains of bookshelves in front of her, if this place were compared to a forest, then these bookshelves would be trees.
Well the classic metaphor, if you want to hide a tree, where's the best place to put it, the forest.
Jiang Shan expressed her thoughts, and the three teammates across from her looked at her. To be honest, they all thought it made sense.
The main reason is that the physical strength of the three of them has almost reached the limit now. Even Gao Wenwu has begun to have blurred vision. However, everyone has a tacit understanding and has not said it out loud, not wanting to add psychological pressure to his teammates in this situation.
The next thing to think about is, if the bookshelf is the key, then which of these many bookshelves is the real "tree".
Jiang Shan couldn't help but frown again.
The clues we now know are that although the "crazy criticizing father and daughter" are not good people, whether it was the "nonsense" on the radio or the various guidance and hints they received after coming to the library, all these words at least have some meaning. With real clues.
Since the humanoid shadow wants to guide them to the basement, the clues given to them will not be false, so it is the "nonsense" that they should believe the most.
Jiang Shan put her hands on the back of her head, and she began to think back from the beginning (from the first time she heard the cry for help from the radio in the church, to every word that had come out of it up to this moment.)
"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."
"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?"
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"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."
Jiang Shan suddenly raised his head, with a strong luster in his eyes. All three people looked at her in unison. Zhang Zheng was stunned. This was the second time he saw Jiang Shan's eyes so bright.
Human eyes have never been able to shine with such light in the darkness.
Jiang Shan said slowly: "Don't touch that bookshelf."
That, bookshelf.
There are countless sentences that sound confusing, but this sentence is the only one with a very obvious direction. Only the meaning it expresses is the "only", the bookshelf.
Jiang Shan's eyes were simply shining. She had been sitting on the ground to rest since just now, and now she stood up again with her hands on the ground.
She asked: "What floor are we on now?"
To be honest, the flying up and down just now was a bit off.
Zhao Ying hurriedly held up a flashlight, looked at the surrounding walls and said, "It should be on the third floor. When we came all the way just now, we saw the number 3 on the wall."
When allocating the workload before, Zhao Ying and Gao Wenwu were assigned to the first and second floors, while Jiang Shan took the initiative to choose the third, fourth and fifth floors with higher difficulty and risk factors.
And Jiang Shan and the others discovered the mutation that occurred when they reached the fifth floor.
Just now, the humanoid shadow led them to swoop all the way, and they actually crossed the fourth floor and reached the third floor.
Jiang Shan looked at Zhang Zheng with sharp eyes: "Do you still remember the bookshelf you knocked down?"
The first thing happened when Jiang Shan and Zhang Zheng started searching the third floor. Zhang Zheng touched the bookshelf with pinyin engraved on it.
"I told you that I didn't knock it down," Zhang Zheng muttered, "it fell by itself...wait, what do you mean?"
Jiang Shan clapped his hands lightly, and everything was connected: "That bookshelf is the only one that does not have a classification label. It is the only one that is different."
The explanation given by Wei Yuan at that time was that the bookshelf was donated free of charge. Now think about it, love is nothing.
Jiang Shan said: "Zhao Ying, do you still remember how you got to the third floor?"
Logically speaking, Zhao Ying and Gao Wenwu should have remained on the second floor. But now, they say it's on the third floor.
Zhao Ying: "...!"
Gao Wenwu also seemed stunned.
They couldn't remember, no, they didn't realize that they had reached the third floor? Even the keen Gao Wenwu was completely confused. Even if he was in a bad state of dehydration, he shouldn't be unaware that he had gone up a floor?
"The darkness blinded us." Jiang Shan looked at the expressions of his teammates and knew that it was as expected, "The bookshelf collapsed and blocked the stairs, right?"
When Zhao Ying and Gao Wenwu wanted to escape, they found that the stairs leading to the first floor had been smashed, and they had to be trapped. Jiang Shan and Zhang Zheng also faced the same situation of being blocked by bookshelves.
"I guess from the beginning, his purpose was not to simply break the stairs. Those collapsed bookshelves were really meant to trap us in the library and not be able to leave. To be precise, they trapped us on the same floor."
Jiang Shan thought he was smart and "hooked" his father's shadow's arm to reach the third floor. Maybe it was the human shadow that was pushing the boat along, otherwise why not just throw her and Zhang Zheng to death in mid-air.
The three people exchanged glances with each other, not only shocked but shocked. But after the shock, there was a cold feeling crawling all over my back.
"Then how did Zhao Ying and I get up here?" Gao Wenwu still couldn't figure it out. Obviously the stairs going up and down are really broken.
Jiang Shan looked at them. Their eyes were different from hers. They would be completely disoriented in the dark.
"Books are the ladder of human progress." Jiang Shan said slowly, his eyes flashing with fire, "Aren't these bookshelves just stairs?"
Jiang Shan has personally seen humanoid shadows arranging these bookshelves one by one. The tall and long bookshelves are spread under the soles of your feet. Can you tell what is the real ground?
Jiang Shan stepped on the soles of his feet at this time, and the old wooden floor made a squeaking sound.
Everything around, the floors and bookshelves, are made of wood. Old wood.
Zhao Ying swallowed her saliva and felt her feet were cold and the cold air entered her body.
Gao Wenwu was silent.
Zhang Zheng: "..." When he came in, did he tell you a scary urban legend about wooden floors?
Let me make it clear again that this book does not have any CP or emotional lines. Some readers questioned me about writing so-and-so as if the male protagonist deliberately carried personal goods, etc. Perhaps the word count of this book is still too small, and many foreshadowings have not been developed. I can only It is said that Jiang Shan will not be manipulated by others, and she does not "listen to anyone's words". Everything she does has her own clear purpose. The medicine bottle and camera that Wei Yuan took away are very, very important clues (throughout the entire text). Wei Yuan is indeed a special character, but it does not mean that he and the heroine are CP... The reasons for all these will be revealed later in the article.
Although this is my first book in Reading, I am also an old author who has been writing for many years. I am very grateful for everyone's lively discussion on this book. I also ask everyone to be patient and follow up. Everything will be revealed.
(End of chapter)
