Across from the teaching building, the classrooms were brightly lit, and students were studying. A student sitting by the window glanced out and stared in shock.

"The library is on fire!!!"

"Look! Is the library on fire?!"

Amidst gasps of surprise, all the students in the class ran out and peered down the corridor to look at the library in the distance, and the teacher couldn't stop them.

In the library.

The books flew wildly, accompanied by sparks, attacking the two of them, while dark shadows flashed by from time to time.

"Let's get to know each other properly." The girl waved at Su Deng with a grin. "My name is Yina, a high-level player from another world, a B-rank, two ranks higher than you."

Su Deng remained expressionless. "I'm currently in a C-rank otherworld."

Ina raised an eyebrow, "Then I'm a level higher than you!"

childish.

Su Deng ignored her, swung her sword and knocked a book to the ground, the tip of the sword piercing into the book.

"ah!"

A sharp scream rang out, and dirty red blood spread from the book. Then, the entire book turned into ashes.

“I haven’t finished speaking yet,” Ina said, annoyed that Ina was ignoring her. She continued shouting while dealing with the books, “I am about to kill you and then pray to the gods.”

Su Deng: "Idiot."

Ina wrinkled her nose. "I'm going to kill you!"

"I'd thank you if you could kill me," Su Deng laughed.

To Ina, that laughter sounded like mockery, contempt, and disdain.

She gritted her teeth, "You look down on me!"

"No." Seeing someone talking made Su Deng feel much better. "I'm truly grateful to you, as long as you can kill me."

She died, and everything in this world was no longer related to her.

She struggled to stay alive.

Once I'm dead, I don't care who I love anymore.

"You..." Ina felt even more humiliated and gritted her teeth, saying, "You will pay the price for your current arrogance!"

"I'll wait." Su Deng replied casually, while looking at the library that was beginning to burn and pondering.

There is only one way to escape within ten minutes and save the library.

Find the source of the chaos in this library, and the person behind it.

As for whether it's a ghost, we'll find out once we catch it!

Su Deng ignored the fluttering books and set her sights on the shadow that kept swaying back and forth there.

"Only a fool would fight here."

Tens of thousands of books flew out, each one burning with flames. They also received the system mission, but Yina had no intention of saving them. She flashed away and ran out, not forgetting to shout to Su Deng.

"Wait for me to come and kill you."

Su Deng neither chased nor stopped him, but quickly searched for that shadow among the bookshelves engulfed in flames.

"Open it!"

Ina ran to the door but found that the library door was impossible to open. She tried kicking it and smashing it with her weapon, but she couldn't break it open.

Two minutes later, she was panting, "Damn it!"

She turned her head to look inside.

Almost all the books in the library were flying around, burning, but on the surface, there was no sign of them being burned; the flames seemed to be just floating on the surface.

But when you reach out and touch it, or tear or break the book, the scattered pages simply turn into ashes.

Bang—bang—clang—

With a loud crash, a row of bookshelves toppled backward, crashing into another row, which in turn knocked over. Then, the hundreds of bookshelves in the entire flat collapsed like dominoes all the way to the door.

Many flying books were also covered, but many more were still flying in the air, their pages turning in the fire, looking like fiery butterflies from afar, illuminating the entire room.

Su Deng stood on the collapsed bookshelf at the far end, a sword in her hand, and leaped towards a huge black shadow in the firelight.

The dark figure was running around, and she had to run around with it, making it look like a maze. After going around twice, she got annoyed and just kicked it down.

Isn't this much more efficient and convenient?

"Hey!" Ina, who couldn't get out of the door, yelled at her, "Are you crazy?! You can hit me, but why did you kick the bookshelf?!"

The game's mission clearly states "and protect the library!"

So it wasn't destroyed by ghosts, it was Su Deng?!

There are only five minutes left, and it's too late to recover!

“Wuwuwuwu——”

Just then, the siren of a fire truck sounded outside.

The school reported the fire.

Ina gave up on the door and tried to kick the window, but she couldn't break the thin glass no matter what she did.

It's that lousy game again; you can't get out until you finish the mission.

Yina, who had originally intended to leave Su Deng to work and complete the task alone, gritted her teeth, took out a bottle of water, and splashed it out.

Boom——

The fire in the book didn't shrink; instead, it grew even bigger.

From the outside, the middle floor was ablaze with flames, and two figures could be vaguely seen moving about inside.

Strangely, despite the enormous flames, not a single wisp of fire emerged, nor even a wisp of black smoke.

It's like a glass box, with the fire burning only inside.

"Could it be... that the library is haunted...?"

"The students who were burned to death earlier..."

When someone remembered this, the students instantly turned pale.

Because on ordinary days, when students are reading inside, the books in their hands will inexplicably catch fire.

There have long been rumors that the ghosts of those classmates who burned to death are trapped inside, playing tricks on people, or waiting to find a replacement or something.

It was defined as a paranormal event.

The school forbade the news from being circulated and suppressed it.

But today...it's terrifying!

It makes you think in that direction.

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