Tang Yiling looked around the library through the car window. In addition to the frost-covered woods, the green hills behind the building that were originally densely vegetated have become as withered and yellow as the woods.
"Wan Qingxi Library, located at No. 615 Wan Qing East Road, is a three-story library that was abandoned more than ten years ago. Unexpectedly, it is now even more abandoned than before."
Looking at the three-story building outside the car window, Tang Yiling sighed.
"After all, this place is far away from the suburbs and between mountains and forests. Isn't it normal for this kind of unfinished building to have no one to manage it?"
While talking, Tang Linsu relied on her superb driving skills to park the red car smoothly in front of the Wanqingxi Library gate.
As soon as Tang Yiling got out of the car, she felt a cold and decaying smell coming towards her face; the smell of withered yellow leaves and rotten wood, combined with the cold air of heavy snow, made even her sister, who had been around more than Tang Yiling, frown. brow.
"It seems that we need to take some time to 'clean' this place. Yi Ling, go get your suitcase!" My sister said to herself while greeting Tang Yi Ling.
Tang Yiling nodded slightly, then picked up the suitcase and walked into the abandoned Wan Qingxi Library with her sister.
Walking into the library hall, most of the tiles on the floor and walls have long been broken and fallen off, mixed with broken glass slag on the ground. The sound of shattering glass echoed in the empty hall as we stepped over the shards.
Not only that, after entering the library, the disgusting and decaying smell still lingered, even stronger than outside.
As a last resort, both siblings put on commercially available gas masks before entering.
After passing through the crumbling bookcase, which had been gradually decayed by moths and wind and rain for more than ten years, the two siblings stopped in front of a solid iron door whose appearance was extremely corroded.
"Open the door, sister."
"Um."
"Chi!!"
While the two were talking, a cluster of flames rose from the fingertips of Tang Linsu's right hand; her index finger and middle finger came together, using the finger as a pen and the fire as ink, and directly lit it on the rusty iron door.
"boom!"
Orange-red flames spread from the fingertips to the iron door, with the finger as the center of the circle, outlining a talisman with flame as ink.
"Click, bang!"
With the talismans on the iron door completely intact, the solid iron door was tightly closed. Without any external support, it slowly opens outward.
"Huh! Let's go in." Tang Linsu blew out the flames on her fingertips and walked straight into the unlit iron door.
Tang Yiling followed closely behind, continuing to hold the suitcase in her hand, and followed her sister's footsteps into the iron door.
"Click, bang!"
The two siblings walked into the iron door with their front legs, and the iron door closed tightly with their back legs again, and the flame talismans that originally rose on the door also dissipated.
"Click! Zizzi!——"
Along with the sound of unstable electric current, blue-white lights illuminated the darkness beneath their feet. The light dispelled the darkness and revealed the stairs hidden in the darkness that continued to extend downward.
Tang Yiling subconsciously squinted her eyes to adapt to the sudden brightness. When she got used to the light, she realized that her sister had already walked down the stairs and reached the closed green iron door at the bottom of the stairs. .
Tang Linsu continued to follow the previous method and guided the flame at her fingertips towards the iron door. After a while, a new talisman was outlined on the iron gate again; but compared with the talisman just now, this time the talisman seemed to have a few more paintings.
After the familiar rumble of the iron door opening, and the sound of electricity flowing through the light, rows of iron shelves displaying paper materials appeared in the sight of the two siblings at the same time.
My sister was familiar with everything here, and she didn't forget to say hello to Tang Yiling who was standing in the stairwell when she walked in the door.
"Don't be stunned, come down and look for information with me." Hearing her sister's call, Tang Yiling picked up her suitcase and walked quickly down the stairs.
Leaning the suitcase next to the iron door, looking at the iron shelves neatly arranged inside the door with all kinds of information boxes, the originally fuzzy memories in my mind seemed to gradually become clearer.
"Information such as dolls should be placed in the thirteenth row from the left, the third floor from the left to the top, and the fourth box from the right."
Tang Yiling looked around, and there seemed to be a flash of white light in his eyes; under the urging of his sister, he directly told the location of the information.
"No way, how could you remember so clearly? I've been here so many times and I still haven't remembered everything." My sister looked suspiciously at Tang Yiling, who was standing motionless, just looking around.
Tang Yiling did not answer, but walked straight to the iron shelf he said. At this time, there were two signs clearly posted on the side of the iron shelf: "Ancient Equipment" and "Modern Equipment".
Then, Tang Yiling moved the fourth box from the right, on the third floor from bottom to top, directly out of the iron shelf and placed it on a conference table near the iron door.
He turned towards his sister and pointed at the box filled with information in front of him. "Yes or no, we'll find out if we take a look."
While talking to her sister, Tang Yiling pulled over an unused chair and sat down; she took out a book from a box full of information and started reading. The doubtful sister also walked to the information box, took out a book and started reading.
(Puppets began in the Spring and Autumn Period and were used for sacrifices; later they were popularized in dramas and developed into categories over time; such as string puppets, iron branch puppets, stick puppets, bag puppets, medicinal hair puppets, meat puppets, etc. Water puppets etc.
...Stories about ghosts, cavalry, public cases, history books, stories about emperors, ministers and generals of past dynasties; some tell history, some compose dramas, some are like cliff poems...)
"It's true, it's an introduction to puppets... But why don't I remember you reading these? It was hard for you to even read a page of a storybook without illustrations at that time!"
As the person who knows her brother Tang Yiling's temperament best, she knows it very well and is certain that at that age and with a young mind, Tang Yiling definitely didn't have the patience and determination to look through this information filled with densely printed small characters.
Not to mention how many years later, you can still clearly remember and accurately tell the location of a certain piece of information.
Although the two of them were both escorted, after all, they only had the minds and brains of ordinary people, and they could not be compared to the kind of wise men who had no emotions or had fear sealed away.
And she was certain that the two siblings had not suffered from memory-related diseases such as [hyperamnesia].
Thinking of this, eliminating all impossible answers, the answer exposed on the surface is the real correct answer.
After her heart beat rapidly several times, Tang Linsu cautiously asked Tang Yiling beside her with an uneasy mood.
"Yiling, has the [curse] engraved on your body awakened?"
Upon hearing her sister's inquiry, Tang Yiling's eyes stagnated obviously.
However, the next second, he still pretended to be indifferent and replied in a calm voice: "Well, when I woke up from the nightmare, I already felt... the presence of the [curse] in my body."
Although she had already listened to what Tang Yiling said before getting in the car.
But when she heard Tang Yiling tell the truth again in a voice that was so calm and emotionless... Tang Linsu's heart was filled with mixed emotions.
"Then...how do you feel now!"
"There haven't been any big changes. Except for some changes in the eyes, the physical condition is still the same as before."
Putting down the half-turned information book in her hand, Tang Yiling raised her head to think, turned to look at her sister beside her with a smile, and truthfully told her current physical condition.
After all, she is different from her sister who has been able to sense the curse in her body since she had self-awareness. The curse in his body is more appropriate to be called "parasitism" than "awakening".
In order to prevent his sister from worrying too much about him, he had concealed his [Blood Boiling] incident and instead focused on the puppets and the water curse nightmare.
(Although I know that I may not be able to hide this from my sister, but if she guesses it by herself, it won’t be too late for me to admit it, right?)
