Chapter 138 Autobiography (Part 3)
Su Mingyun's breathing suddenly became rapid.
"Is the monster in there?" she whispered.
Mu Yu didn't say anything, but stared in that direction and slowly approached.
The closer we got to the dark entrance, the stronger the strange feeling became.
The blood in my body seemed to be boiling and adrenaline was secreted rapidly.
His Adam's apple rolled and hot sweat quietly seeped out of his back.
He wanted to do something. What? He didn't know. It seemed as if a violent force was accumulating in his body, making him want to -
Mu Yu stopped in front of the door of this room.
The heart was beating violently.
...If he went in, he felt like he might go crazy.
He took a step back and whispered to Su Mingyun: "... Let's not go near this room yet. Let's go somewhere else."
Su Mingyun also felt that strange impulse, and nodded quickly, then stepped back without saying a word.
They turned to check other places on the second floor, but found nothing unusual. The things in the dark bedroom didn't seem to be coming out.
The two of them hurried up to the third floor - the third floor was an attic, and there were no people or monsters.
When he came down, Su Mingyun muttered, "This should be a novel, right? A novel must have a main line or plot or something. We have to follow the plot to get clues, right? Could the protagonist be the thing in the bedroom?"
Mu Yu shook his head: "Let's not touch that room for now. It gives me a bad feeling."
"So what are we going to do now?"
Su Mingyun looked at the second floor unwillingly, while Mu Yu had already stepped down the stairs leading to the first floor: "I feel like there should be some trigger mechanism that we haven't found yet..."
Suddenly, something flashed in my peripheral vision - it was in the direction of the bathroom on the first floor!
Mu Yu's expression turned stern, and he quickly ran down the stairs and rushed into the bathroom. Just as his hand touched the switch on the wall, before he could press it, he was pushed hard from behind.
He lunged forward, his waist hitting the hard marble countertop, and then the back of his head was held down, his entire head pushed down - the pool was filled with water at some point, and the water quickly poured into his mouth and nose!
Su Mingyun's exclamation and the sound of quickly running footsteps came from behind.
Bubbles continued to emerge and the water flow was turbulent. Mu Yu struggled hard to get rid of the hands behind him, but these hands seemed to be made of steel and did not move at all.
The lights suddenly came on, and the power that was restraining him behind him suddenly disappeared.
Mu Yu suddenly raised his head and coughed violently!
Su Mingyun came over to support him and wiped the water off his face with her sleeve. Her face was pale. "Someone was holding you down just now! Did you see what he looked like?!"
"No, cough, cough. Didn't you see it when you turned on the light?"
"No, he disappeared the moment the light was turned on!"
Mu Yu choked a few more times and slowed down his breathing.
He lowered his eyelids, and drops of water slowly slid down his wet eyelashes: "...I feel like Lu Chongnian."
Su Mingyun was stunned: "... Lu Zhongnian won't attack you, right?"
"I don't know," Mu Yu shook his head and raised his hand to wipe his wet hair. "When I saw him from the corner of my eye on the stairs, I felt like he went into the bathroom. Then the hand that was pressing on me... I felt like it was his too."
Su Mingyun was speechless.
She was a little frightened by Mu Yu's speculation.
Mu Yu calmed down for a moment and said, "It could also be my hallucination. The copy changed the person who attacked me into Lu Zhongnian's appearance based on my associations or wishes."
"...It's possible," Su Mingyun would rather believe this statement, "but what exactly triggered this person's appearance?"
Mu Yu thought for a while, then turned to her and said, "Why don't you go out for a while? Tell the people outside about the situation here so that they can have an idea of what's going on."
"Ah? ... But we haven't got any clues yet, and we don't know what they are going to do in the book. What can I say to them when I go out...?"
"Anything is fine, at least to let them know we are safe."
Su Mingyun looked at him blankly. After two or three seconds, she asked uncertainly, "Are you planning to do something dangerous? Do you want to get me out of here early?"
Mu Yu paused.
His reaction was undoubtedly the answer.
Su Mingyun was puzzled: "Can't we do it together? We have been in this dungeon more than once or twice, what danger is there——"
A light suddenly flashed through her mind.
"—Wait, you think the condition that triggers the mysterious man's appearance is 'acting alone'?"
Mu Yu sighed.
Su Mingyun suddenly realized: "When he appeared just now, I was still on the second floor, but you had already walked down the stairs! We must be on different floors?"
Mu Yu said helplessly: "...It's just speculation. But I'm not sure if the two of us separate again, that person will appear on my side or your side. The name of this book is "Violence". The man just now was very strong and his movements were very rough. I'm afraid you can't handle him alone."
Su Mingyun gritted her teeth and said, "Come to my side if you want! Anyway, when you were attacked by him just now, he disappeared when I arrived. If he really appears next to me later, you can't come to help me!"
"...Yes, that's indeed the truth..."
"Besides, you just failed to resist, so what difference does it make whether he comes to your side or mine?"
"Hmm..." Mu Yu was embarrassed. Indeed, he was not that great.
"That's it," Su Mingyun decided. "I'll go to the second floor, and you stay on the first floor. Let's keep an eye on each other and go over if anything goes wrong!"
"good."
Su Mingyun was still mumbling as he turned and walked out of the bathroom.
"To be honest, you are definitely afraid of me, but no matter how scared I am, I will come with you because I am more afraid that this dungeon game will have no end."
"You know, no matter where we want to go in the future, we have to worry about whether it's a sign of a dungeon. When everyone in the group discusses what they want to do, will this be a collective death? I hate the bright future turning into an unknown dark abyss."
"Once you have something more to fear, the fear in front of you will no longer be so scary," Su Mingyun turned around, her tone carrying the relaxation and lightness that is deeply rooted in her character, "Mu Yu, you understand, right?"
Mu Yu was slightly startled, and responded softly: "...Yeah, I understand."
Su Mingyun smiled.
"Then I'll go upstairs!"
"Okay," Mu Yu cleared his throat, "Mingyun, you can write down the year, month, day, and time of the repayment period on the library card. If you really encounter the danger of having to withdraw in time, you can make up the points and leave."
"Okay, got it!"
*
At this moment, in the library.
Mu Chenxi kept his eyes on the two books "The Ghost Behind" and "Violence".
He turned the pages from time to time, but no information appeared in the book.
Gao Zhanyuan came over, holding a stack of books in his arms, all with blue covers: "I brought all the suspicious ones here!"
Jing Qiao just walked over from the other bookshelves and saw him put all the books on the table. He was amazed and said, "There are so many?"
Mu Chenxi looked up and asked, "Do you remember which bookshelf each book was taken from?"
"I asked him to mark each book with a pen," Principal Dou came over and spread his hands, "Anyway, everything will be restored to its original state after the copy is completed."
Gao Zhanyuan brought over at least twenty books.
Among these books, some do have pure blue covers but have book numbers; some do not have book numbers but have patterns on the covers; and some look exactly like "The Ghost Behind" and "Violence", which are the most suspicious.
But even the last type, there are as many as seven or eight books, and these are just the ones Gao Zhanyuan collected from ten sets of bookshelves.
That is to say, including the remaining ten sets of bookshelves that have not yet been checked, the number of books of this type may reach fifteen or sixteen.
If every book is a "problematic book" and every book requires players to go in and solve the puzzle, then is the time for this copy really enough?
"I think there must be interference," Principal Dou thought, "The problem now is that when we read as administrators, we can't tell which books are problematic. When we read as readers, we will be sucked into the problematic books the moment we open them."
"It might not be a big deal if we suck it in, actually?" Jing Qiao asked hesitantly, "After all, we have to go in anyway, right?"
“Of course, but it would be better if we could determine which books have problems, and then we could form teams and go in well prepared,” said Principal Dou.
Mu Chenxi closed the two books in his hands: "I think we can find some books that are related to ourselves among these books."
Gao Zhanyuan and Jing Qiao were stunned.
"Ourselves?"
"Yes. Just now I was wondering what the unfinished words were before Ah Yu went in - 'Why still', what could be the content after 'still'?"
Mu Chenxi shook the two books in his hands. They were neither thick nor thin. "What else could it be except 'still a blank'?"
"——Ah!" Jing Qiao suddenly realized, "The problem book is blank whether it is opened as an administrator or a reader? ... In this case, the reader can see the difference from other normal books at a glance... But by the time we find out, we have already been sucked in. This setting is meaningless, right? What does it have to do with 'ourselves'?"
She said confusedly.
"Of course it is related," Principal Dou listened and thought for a moment, then gently replied, "In fact, I was just thinking about a question. Among the interference items that Gao Zhanyuan brought over, there are a few that seem to be niche books that I have read before."
"I have been wondering, are the problematic books actually books that originally existed in this world, but He erased the book number and other information, and perhaps also modified some of the story content? Or are these books that originally existed in this world but have now been modified in appearance all interference items, used to disrupt our vision. The real problematic books are actually books that have never been published in this society and were created today, right now?"
"Now I finally have an answer."
After players open the problematic book as a reader, they will be sucked into the book immediately. There is no possibility for them to read the story content, know the story development in advance, and hold the "golden finger".
Therefore, there was no need for Him to be so strict and erase the words in the book.
Unless - these books had no words in them to begin with.
They were all created today, with only stories, and they are empty shells.
It makes sense. He can only create stories, not words.
Words are full of human emotions and thoughts.
The same story will have different developments when written by different writers, and the same scene will be portrayed with completely different moods when written by different writers.
Words, and any creation in this world that requires emotions and thoughts, can only be done by humans, creatures that are rich in emotions and thoughts.
Neither the program nor He who does not understand humans can be replaced.
Principal Dou gently pointed at the two books in Mu Chenxi's arms.
"But the problem is, if these problematic books are just ordinary horror stories created by "He" today, and players can get out by solving puzzles, and can clear the dungeon after solving all the books, then what is the difference between the stories in these books and ordinary dungeons?"
“He went to great lengths to create this instance, and even today’s time seems very special—but what was finally presented was just a collection of instances? If this is true, then He may have run out of tricks at this stage.”
Gao Zhanyuan and Jing Qiao were stuck.
They seemed to vaguely understand what Principal Dou meant, but they were still a little short of it...
“So, assuming that the stories in these books are special, what makes them special? Who and what are they related to? Assuming that He chooses the locations and settings of the copies every time has a deep meaning, and this time is no exception, then——”
Gao Zhanyuan and Jing Qiao blurted out: "Ah, the autobiography library!!"
Principal Dou nodded.
They were in a library called "Autobiography".
"The founder of Lianda once said that life is like a book."
…
Mu Chenxi lowered his eyes.
Principal Dou said everything he wanted to say, and his analysis was even more comprehensive than he had expected.
If the stories in these books are special, then their specialness is probably related to these players.
— they are likely to be the stories of their players.
His eyes swept across "Violence" and fell on the pen name "Mr. Cake".
Whose pen name could it be?
On the side, Jing Qiao couldn't help but look at the spine of the book "The Spirit Behind".
Author: How to apply false eyelashes?
Her expression changed subtly.
The next second, the book suddenly bounced.
She and Gao Zhanyuan were startled. Mu Chenxi focused and immediately removed the book "Violence" that was pressing on them.
"The Ghost Behind" opened automatically, and the white pages flipped through and stopped at one of the pages.
The black words finally slowly emerged on the snow-white paper.
【Jiang Shuyue and Fu Xiaoju gradually walked towards the door.】
[Outside the door, the mist quietly waits to embrace them...]
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