Chapter 140 Autobiography (V)

Principal Dou immediately raised his hand and pressed his index finger on the name tag button. However, at the moment when he was about to press it, a rule suddenly emerged in his mind.

【You can use the library card as a bookmark. 】

Why use it as a bookmark?

What role can it play?

His thoughts turned slightly, he put down his hand, took out the library card of the book "Violence", placed it on the open page, and waited for two seconds.

The written plot on paper has not changed or disappeared.

Principal Dou thought about it, turned two pages back, paused, and then turned forward - after turning four or five pages forward, he put the library card back into the book.

When I checked the page where the text just appeared, the text disappeared and the paper became blank again!

*

In the book.

Mu Yu was halfway through searching in the living room downstairs when suddenly his eyes blurred and he felt a sense of weightlessness.

When his feet landed on the ground, he found himself at the bathroom door, with Su Mingyun beside him.

——They were teleported? !

Su Mingyun was also a little confused.

Mu Yu asked her what had just happened. Her face suddenly turned pale. As soon as she opened her mouth to say the word "I", she choked as if something was blocking her chest.

She lowered her head, took out the library card, quickly added the due date points on it, and disappeared in front of Mu Yu!

…

Su Mingyun returned to the library.

She was thrown to the side of the table, and the moment her eyes focused she held onto the study table in front of her.

The electronic name tag on her chest automatically changed to "Administrator" at this moment. She stared blankly at the desktop, breathing heavily, and her whole body was covered in cold sweat, as if she had not yet recovered from the shock.

"Are you out?" A gentle voice sounded beside me.

Principal Dou took two steps forward, came to her, and looked at her inquiringly: "What happened in the book just now?"

Hearing the noise from their side, Mu Chenxi, Hong Yang and Ye Sui, who were wandering among the bookshelves, stopped and looked over.

Su Mingyun said in a trembling voice: "I, we found Lu Chongnian in the book, with a rope around his neck that looked like mist. Mu Yu went downstairs to find a tool that could cut the mist, and I stayed with Lu Chongnian... Then, I don't know what happened, a black hole suddenly appeared in my chest..."

Recalling that moment, Su Mingyun still felt horrified.

As she was chatting with Lu Chongnian, suddenly, a round black hole appeared inexplicably in the center of her chest.

A pair of hands stretched out from inside, and they were obviously men's hands.

The hands attacked Lu Zhongnian and grabbed his neck fiercely.

...Su Mingyun was frightened. She and Lu Zhongnian couldn't tear apart the hands, and no matter how far she stood up and retreated, the hands could stretch longer.

She retreated straight to the other end of the corridor, with one end of the hands connected to her and the other end connected to Lu Chongnian, like a noodle stretched straight.

Lu Chongnian looked like he was about to be strangled to death, and when Su Mingyun was about to collapse, he was suddenly teleported to Mu Yu's side.

However, that horrible feeling still lingered on her.

Even more, the feeling that something in her chest was about to burst out uncontrollably was still beating deep inside her body.

Fear swept over her. She was afraid that if she stayed in front of Mu Yu for another second, those violent hands would appear again, so she immediately filled in the repayment period on the library card and withdrew from the book.

After hearing the whole story, Principal Dou fell into deep thought.

"...When Lu Chongnian was on the verge of death, a text plot appeared in the book. This happened before in "The Ghost Behind", so this should be the rule. When the player is close to death in the book, the book will give a text prompt."

Principal Dou glanced at the library card lying between the two pages.

"Then I turned back a few pages and inserted the library card, and those lines of text disappeared. I feel that the library card can be used as a bookmark to adjust the plot progress. You and Mu Yu returned to the bathroom door, probably because your plot in the book was pulled back, and the death ending of classmate Lu Chongnian that was originally in progress was temporarily disappeared."

Su Mingyun was stunned: "Ah, the library card has this function?"

"But we shouldn't push the plot back, after all, the rest of the story hasn't unfolded yet." Principal Dou was still pondering.

Su Mingyun's face was filled with worry. "I don't know where the black hole came from. Is it because I touched something that it got stained? If I can use the library card to move the progress bar forward, can I just move it to the beginning? In this way, no matter what the triggering condition is, it should be able to be eliminated?"

She still had to go back to the book quickly. After all, Mu Yu was still in the book and she didn't know what was going on.

"You can try this," Principal Dou comforted, "Don't be nervous, I will keep an eye on your movements in the book at all times."

Su Mingyun took a deep breath, adjusted the electronic name tag on his chest to "Reader", turned into a ray of light, and re-entered the book.

Hong Yang frowned and asked from a distance, "Are Ayu and the others okay?"

"It's fine for now."

After hearing Principal Dou's answer, Mu Chenxi on the other side withdrew his gaze, walked back to the back of the bookshelf, and focused his attention back on the present.

From just now till now, he has spent more than ten minutes walking around the entire circular bookshelf.

During this process, he would occasionally select some bookshelves and put the books in his hands on them, doing cross-tests in this way - testing what would happen if he adjusted the positions of books as an administrator, and whether there were any problematic books among the books in his hands.

Until just now, he finally discovered something unusual.

At this moment, he was standing on the side of bookcase No. 14 near the outer ring corridor.

He had just stuffed a book titled "Hedgehog" into the rightmost corner of the third shelf of this row of side bookshelves, but the next second, the book disappeared.

The books on this shelf from the middle to the far right were collectively moved one centimeter to the right, leaving an empty space in the middle of the shelf, and "Hedgehog" reappeared here.

——The book automatically adjusted its position.

Mu Chenxi narrowed his eyes slightly and took the book back from the bookshelf.

Then he stuffed the book back to the far right.

Immediately afterwards, the situation just now happened again.

The book disappeared again, and the books on the right half of the bookshelf moved collectively again, and "Hedgehog" appeared in the empty space in the middle!

so--

When problem books are placed on the problem bookshelf, their positions will be automatically corrected.

Mu Chenxi did some more tests.

He took out "The Hedgehog" and other books on the bookshelf, making sure there was an empty space on each of the seven shelves in a row, and all the empty spaces were at the far right end.

Then he stuffed The Hedgehog into these empty spaces one by one.

After testing, it was found that on the first floor at the bottom and the seventh floor at the highest, "Hedgehog" would not automatically correct its position.

But from the second to the sixth bookshelf, it will automatically adjust to the center position on each shelf.

Mu Chenxi took a step back and looked at the row of bookshelves.

So, two to six, a total of five bookshelves, five central positions, corresponding to five books...will eventually be adjusted to form a vertical line.

But why?

Also, why bookshelf number 14?

Mu Chenxi pondered for a moment, took a step forward and pulled out "Hedgehog".

Suddenly, a pair of hands reached out from behind and knocked the book to the ground with lightning speed, and at the same time pushed hard, overturning the entire row of bookshelves!

With a loud bang, this row of bookshelves fell towards the adjacent bookshelves, and the books on them fell to the ground with a crash!

Mu Chenxi turned around quickly and saw a black hole suddenly appeared behind him. The hands were stretched out from the black hole and were quickly retracting!

This thing came out of the book with Su Mingyun?

Mu Chenxi's face turned cold and he grabbed one of the hands. The other party immediately struggled. The black hole began to float away, and the arms of the hands stretched infinitely!

"Hong Yang, Ye Sui, come and pick up these books!"

After saying this, Mu Chenxi grabbed the hand of unknown origin and chased forward!

Hong Yang and Ye Sui were standing behind him, a few rows of bookshelves between them. They leaned out to take a look, their faces suddenly changed, and they quickly ran over.

[Please cherish your books and do not drop them on the ground. If you find them dropped, please pick them up immediately. ]

Hong Yang quickly picked up a few books, but Ye Sui beside him said seriously: "No, the focus may not be these books, but these library cards!"

At this moment, several library cards fell out of the books. There were no book titles marked on these cards, and they had no idea which card belonged to which book.

The rules stated that "the library card can be used as a bookmark, but please do not lose it or misplace it. Please ensure that the library card is always placed between the correct books" - the hands clearly wanted to mix up the library cards for the problematic books and the ordinary books.

Principal Dou reminded them from a distance: "Pick up these books and library cards first. It doesn't matter as long as no players enter these books yet!"

The borrowing card is a pass for players to buy and sell books, and it carries the function of adjusting the plot of the book. If a borrowing card with a player's borrowing record is separated from the book at this moment, and is not put back into the book within a certain period of time, the fate of the player in the book will probably become unpredictable.

But that’s not the case right now, so don’t worry too much for now.

On the contrary, the three books "Violence", "The Ghost Behind" and "Silent" - the black hole is likely to appear next to these three books and attack them when they are not paying attention, so Principal Dou cannot leave the study table at this moment, he must watch them carefully.

On the other side, Mu Chenxi was chasing the black hole.

The black hole continued to drift away without slowing down at all, as if it could carry Mu Chenxi for the entire duration of the dungeon if it wanted to.

Another hand in the black hole also stretched out and gave Mu Chenxi a middle finger from afar in a mocking tone.

Mu Chenxi sneered and suddenly stopped.

He clasped the wrist of the hand with his left hand, grasped its forearm with his right hand, and stabbed it hard with his thumb.

The skin and muscles under the palm tensed instantly, and the noodle-like arm struggled violently, causing the black hole in the distance to float in the air.

Mu Chenxi's thumb did not loosen at all and continued to press down. A faint scream was heard from the black hole.

It hurts! It hurts!

Crazy, this man is crazy, does he want to pierce his arm alive?

He struggled frantically, thrashed around, and screamed, wishing he had never appeared in front of this man. Then at some point, he saw Mu Chenxi's face very close to him in his shaking vision.

——This man took advantage of him not noticing and moved in front of him.

The black hole froze.

There was mockery in Mu Chenxi's eyes.

He reached his hand into the black hole.

——

A shrill scream rang out in the quiet library.

Hong Yang, Ye Sui, and Principal Dou who were sitting at the study table all looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw a black hole retreating from behind a row of bookshelves. And what stretched out from it was no longer a pair of hands, but a person, a man!

——He was grabbed by the neck and pulled out of the black hole!

He had Lu Chongnian's face, but with an expression of extreme fear that Lu Chongnian would never have. This expression distorted this handsome face, making it look vulgar and inferior.

"If you want to pretend to be that guy, try to act like him."

Mu Chenxi stretched out his hand expressionlessly, placed the tips of his index and middle fingers on the edge of the hairline of the face, fumbled around for a moment, and then fixed on a position.

The man's head was pinched so hard that he couldn't move. He turned his eyes upwards desperately, staring at his hand, and shouted in fear: "No, don't--"

Mu Chenxi mercilessly tore off the bloody layer of skin on his face. The scream in the man's throat changed from a low voice similar to Lu Zhongnian's to a hoarse one. The age of his voice seemed to have increased by many years, and so did his appearance -

This is clearly a middle-aged man!

His face was sallow and full of wrinkles, and one didn't know if it was due to years of indulgence or if it was natural. Heavy bags under his eyes made his face look bloated and haggard.

The whites of his eyes were yellow and bloodshot, and his chin was covered with rough stubble. This decadent man clearly looked a bit like Lu Chongnian, but the feeling he gave was completely different.

Mu Chenxi narrowed his eyes.

"...Your last name isn't Lu, is it?" He said suspiciously, twisting his wrist and turning the man's head to the side, looking at him and asking, "Does that kid's father look like this?"

Hong Yang and Ye Sui were stunned by Mu Chenxi's rough operation, and were even more stunned by the true face of the man in the black hole.

The latter seemed unable to accept that his true identity had been exposed, and he screamed and yelled in collapse. Mu Chenxi used five fingers to exert force, veins popping out, and with a "click" sound - the latter's voice stopped abruptly, and the expression on his face froze.

Mu Chenxi let go, and the man's head hung down limply.

Then, he and the black hole slowly disappeared from their sight.

"...dead?" Hong Yang swallowed and asked in a low voice.

Mu Chenxi came over and said coldly: "Of course we can kill the monster if we can."