Chapter 145 Autobiography (10)
Although Mu Yu was prepared to refresh his understanding of the middle-aged man when he knew that this copy was related to Lu Chongnian's father, he still did not expect that reality would be like this.
Perhaps his stiff arms gave away his mood, Lu Zhongnian silently hugged his neck tightly and changed the subject: "It seems that each floor corresponds to what he did at different times. When he attacked you on the first floor, did a small house appear?"
"...I didn't notice." Mu Yu found his voice again.
"We may have to defeat them layer by layer, and we may need to go up to the third floor as well." Seeing that Mu Yu's expression was still very stiff, Lu Zhongyong said to him in a young voice, "There's no need to be sad about the past."
Mu Yu was silent.
How could he not be sad when the person he loves had such a childhood?
"What did your dad... do on the third floor?" he asked dryly.
Lu Zhongnian paused and said, "He almost killed my mother."
Su Mingyun took a breath of cold air.
Mu Yu slowly tightened his hands and was silent for a second. He bent down and put Lu Zhongnian on the ground, and said to him and Su Mingyun: "You two stay here, I will go down and lure him out."
Seeing Lu Zhongnian taking a step closer, Mu Yu reached out to stop him: "Be obedient."
Lu Zhongnian: “…”
Mu Yu turned around without saying a word and walked down the stairs.
Lu Zhongnian came to the stairs and watched him walk down to the first floor and into the bathroom.
Su Mingyun comforted him from behind: "Don't worry, we'll go down as soon as Mu Yu calls us, and shine the light on your dad and he will disappear. There will be no problem."
Lu Zhongnian remained silent.
"When he first showed up with your face, we were really scared," Su Mingyun tried to liven up the atmosphere and made small talk, "He has to impersonate you to do something like this, really..."
As she spoke, she felt embarrassed again and her voice gradually became quieter.
Lu Zhongnian said calmly: "He is not impersonating me."
Su Mingyun was stunned.
The boy was staring straight downstairs, and his voice was so low that if you didn't listen carefully, you couldn't hear it at all.
"Maybe that's me."
*
Mu Yu stood in the bathroom.
He stared at himself in the mirror.
The self in the mirror seemed a little distorted in the dim light. It didn't look like him, but more like a stranger.
This stranger had a blank expression on his face, but his cold eyes seemed to be hiding a flood of emotions that were about to burst through his skin.
My hands were clasped on the edge of the sink with such force that veins popped out, and the reflection on the lenses gradually blurred my vision.
Mu Yu was unable to sense the existence of the things around him for a moment, and only felt that something in his body was roaring angrily.
He bent his right arm, took out the dagger from his trouser pocket and removed the sheath.
Holding the knife tightly, the voice in his body roared even more crazily. He tightened his fingers again and again, and his breathing became rapid.
——When his head was suddenly pushed into the pool that had been filled with water without him knowing when, he was not even caught off guard.
No word was said from beginning to end.
Second floor.
Su Mingyun and Lu Chongnian heard a barely audible splash of water and their nerves instantly tensed.
They waited for Mu Yu's signal, pricked up their ears to the amplified heartbeat, not daring to miss any sound.
But no.
After the initial faint sound of water, there was no more movement coming from the bathroom on the first floor.
Did they hear it wrong?
Lu Zhongnian's brows slowly frowned.
…
Mu Yu's head was constantly pressed down roughly.
He stared at the bottom of the pool. A light came from somewhere. At the moment when the light intersected, small black words appeared on the white background of the pool.
Kill him!
【Quick, kill him! 】
[Isn’t he hateful? Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! ]
The urge to riot was like an ant drilling into Mu Yu's bones. He felt like he was electrified and his hands were shaking uncontrollably - he was shaking with excitement.
The man behind him was holding him down violently, not noticing that his hands were still calmly resting on the edge of the sink, his right thumb silently groping for the handle of the knife.
【Hurry! Hurry! 】
[This scum! This trash! Kill him! Stick the knife into his body! Chop him into pulp! ]
[Give him back everything he has done to everyone, including Lu Zhongnian! ]
The black words piled up crazily, gradually rising from the bottom of the pool.
The last word was almost touching his eyeballs.
Mu Yu's nerves were throbbing and hot blood was rushing through his veins.
He blinked in the water, turned his head slightly, and noticed with his peripheral vision in the violently shaking waves that the man behind him seemed to be looking at their right.
What is he looking at?
This scumbag couldn't even concentrate when killing people?
Mu Yu turned the knife around and changed to a reverse handshake gesture.
The man suddenly noticed that he had propped himself up. He was surprised and a look of disdain flashed across his face. He increased the strength of his hands, trying to push him down again.
But unexpectedly, the next second, with a loud bang, Mu Yu suddenly jumped up and turned to pounce on him.
He burst out with overwhelming power, and the man was startled and staggered back a step, with a black hole appearing behind him.
"Do you think I will let you in?" Mu Yu grabbed his neck, turned his arm, and slammed him against the wall roughly. He raised his right hand high, and the dagger blade flashed a silver light.
“Ah—ah—” the man screamed in horror.
"——Mu Yu!" Lu Zhongnian's voice suddenly came from outside.
The knife that was about to pierce the man's eyeball stopped abruptly.
Mu Yu's eyes regained a bit of clarity.
He was breathing heavily and staring at the man in front of him who looked exactly like Lu Chongnian. The latter was still screaming in fear, and his heart was beating fast.
His body is still screaming, stab him and cut his body into pieces!
Kill this man and return the violence to him.
"Mu Yu, don't be impulsive!" Su Mingyun's anxious shouts and footsteps approached here!
Mu Yu's Adam's apple rolled, he clenched his teeth, turned his wrist, and the dagger drew a bloody mark on the man's neck.
The man let out a shrill scream. Mu Yu roughly dug his fingers into the skin and tore it off the man's head with force.
The middle-aged man knelt down with blood all over his face, howling as he slowly disappeared in front of him.
Heavy footsteps were heard outside the bathroom door and the light was turned on.
Su Mingyun stood at the door, watching the scene in the bathroom with fear and trepidation.
——Mu Yu stood facing the wall, his upper body was wet and his hands were covered in blood.
"...Where is Lu Chongnian?" He turned his face to the side, his voice extremely hoarse.
"He, he disappeared the moment he went downstairs," Su Mingyun swallowed, "Mu Yu, the small house appeared..."
Mu Yu followed her line of sight and looked to his right.
In the corner of the bathroom, a corner that he had almost forgotten just now, a small villa appeared quietly.
Mu Yu tried hard to calm his breathing.
Su Mingyun hesitated to speak.
Mu Yu walked to the sink, turned on the faucet, and rinsed his hands which were still stained with blood.
Then he turned around and his eyes calmed down.
"Walk."
*
After climbing in through the second-floor window of the small house, they were directly teleported to the first floor. It seemed that the floors of the small houses corresponding to each floor were fixed.
They found Lu Chongnian trapped in the fog again in the corner of the first floor, a Lu Chongnian who looked younger.
Mu Yu used a dagger to cut through the mist. Lu Chongnian immediately grabbed his hand and stared into his eyes: "Are you okay just now?"
"I heard your voice and Su Mingyun's voice." Mu Yu said in a low voice.
Lu Zhongnian was silent, raised his hand and touched his cheek: "There is only the attic left, I probably can't go up with you, remember don't be impulsive."
"Um."
Sure enough, when they returned to the big house and ran upstairs, Lu Chongnian disappeared among them.
Mu Yu said to Su Mingyun, "Wait a moment on the second floor. I'll go up to the third floor first."
"Okay," Su Mingyun said without further ado, and just reminded him, "You must give me a signal this time!"
"good."
Mu Yu rushed straight to the third floor, where there was a wooden door above the stairs.
When he and Su Mingyun came here to check before, there was nothing noteworthy in the attic, only some miscellaneous items covered with cloth.
As soon as he opened the door, a black mass rushed towards him!
Mu Yu was startled, dodged and went into the attic. The thing then turned around and pounced on him again!
This turned out to be a deformed beast.
It is nearly two meters tall when standing on all fours. It has the face of Lu Chongnian, and its neck is connected to the animal's body. It is completely black, with various tumors on its skin. When it roars, it sounds like a tiger's roar.
Mu Yu's face darkened instantly.
Downstairs, Su Mingyun heard the sound and shouted, "What happened to you?"
"I'm fine, don't come up yet!" Mu Yu responded while dodging the beast's attack and quickly looking around.
He didn't know whether it was because the surrounding clutter was too messy or because his vision was too shaking while he was dodging, but he couldn't find the small house for a while.
A dark shadow came from the front and he was unexpectedly slapped against the wall. His back was hit violently and a bloody smell instantly rushed up his throat!
Mu Yu gritted his teeth and turned over, avoiding the beast's second palm - where exactly is the little house? !
Suddenly light streamed into the attic.
Mu Yu fell to the ground and suddenly looked up, only to see that the curtains in front of a window in front of him had opened automatically at some point, and the light was coming in from here.
Then, swish, swish, swish——
The beast stopped attacking and turned its head left and right in alertness.
——The curtains in the other three directions also opened automatically, and the light outside was bright.
Downstairs, Su Mingyun exclaimed, "The curtains suddenly opened!"
That’s not all.
There doesn't seem to be any outdoor scenery outside.
Mu Yu looked through the window and saw a wider corridor with wooden floors and taller white walls...
Boom, boom, boom, boom. The heavy footsteps shook the ground, as if a giant was running towards them, approaching them rapidly from the front.
A pair of legs appeared outside the window and were running towards them!
The beast suddenly began to panic and seemed to be looking for a place to hide.
However, before it could find its hiding place, the roof of the attic was suddenly lifted up, and the giant childhood version of Lu Chongnian looked down at them, his cold gaze falling on the beast.
He raised his legs and stepped on them as if he was going to crush ants to death.
Mu Yu's pupils suddenly shrank: "Lu Chongnian, we are still down there!!"
A shadow loomed over their heads, and the foot suddenly hovered above them.
Mu Yu's heart almost stopped beating: "... Lu Chongnian, did you see me? Did you hear my voice?"
The foot did not move.
Mu Yu's heart skipped a beat.
Did he not hear it, or does this Lu Chongnian have no memory?
He tried to continue speaking: "...If you step on it, everything will be over."
Even if he and Su Mingyun could escape, something worse would definitely happen to Lu Zhongnian.
His intuition told him so.
As the owner of this book, once Lu Zhongnian compromises with the book and compromises with violence, he will most likely disappear completely from this world, both physically and mentally.
Mu Yu hated this book and hated the childhood that left Lu Chongnian with bad memories.
He also wanted to punch the father, thinking that he almost lost himself.
But Lu Chongnian grabbed him at the critical moment...so, he must also grab Lu Chongnian now.
Mu Yu sorted out his thoughts and spoke calmly: "Lu Chongnian, I don't know why in your inner world your father is wearing your skin, or do you think it is you who is wearing your father's skin?"
On the first and second floors, Lu Chongnian was tied up in that small house.
He couldn't get out of the small house by himself, and could only appear beside them when he sensed they were in danger, listening to their struggles and shouting, but he couldn't move a step himself.
The third floor is quite the opposite.
They were the people living in the small house, and Lu Chongnian appeared in a bigger house.
His father turned into a monster that seemed invincible to normal humans, but Lu Chongnian was even bigger than the monster. Even though he was so small, he already had the ability to kill a monster with one foot.
But why on earth should this man be allowed to wear his skin?
Why would you want to have your face on such an ugly beast?
Mu Yu felt extremely upset the moment he saw the beast.
Did Lu Chongnian think that he looked a lot like his terrible father when he rebelled?
Mu Yu took a deep breath and spoke word by word:
"Listen, you are nothing like your dad. He is not you, and you will never be him."
"Tear off the skin on his face and see!"
There was a moment of silence, and the feet hanging above their heads were moved away.
Little Lu Zhongnian stared at him, his eyes filled with anger: "Who are you?"
"Don't worry about who I am," Mu Yu waved his hand at the beast, "Just give it a try."
Lu Zhongnian's eyes fell on the beast.
The beast had curled up in a ball, trembling.
Lu Zhongnian stared at it for a while and said, "Mom left because she didn't like it."
Mu Yu's eyes suddenly felt sore.
"It's the beast she doesn't like, not you."
"No, when she looked at me, it was no different from when she looked at it," Lu Zhongnian said in an extremely calm tone, "I shouldn't have hit him with a chair in front of her."
In just a few words, he wove together a corner of his childhood.
Mu Yu suppressed the emotions in his heart and said slowly: "You are a child. Something bad happened here. You just wanted to protect your mother. You have done a good job."
The look in Lu Chongnian's eyes as he stared at the beast still showed that he wanted to kill it.
He didn't care what the beast really looked like.
“Lu Chongnian, pick him up first, tear off the skin on his face, and then make a decision. You won’t suffer any loss.”
"You're lying to me," Lu Zhongnian said coldly, "If you tear off his skin he will disappear. If I make this choice I can no longer kill him with my own hands. I can only choose one of the two."
After hearing this, Mu Yu suddenly calmed down.
It turns out he knew everything.
"Then make your own decision."
Lu Chongnian paused.
He subconsciously looked at Mu Yu and became inexplicably nervous.
However, Mu Yu was not angry.
He still looked at him, his eyes slightly red, his eyes calm and gentle.
"But Lu Zhongnian, think carefully. Don't let other people's eyes blind you to yourself, even if that person is the one you were closest to."
"Is it your fault that she left you? Is it wrong for you to protect her? Is it violence when you are forced to use force to fight back against a violent person?"
"You don't know what your mother was thinking when she left you, and you may never know it again in your life. But in fact, even if you really know it, what does it matter?"
"Are you going to change yourself because of what she said?"
"——Even if so many people think you are good, you are just you, not anyone else, let alone your father?"
After saying this, Mu Yu stopped talking.
Time passed minute by minute, and Lu Chongnian kept looking at him without moving.
The beast stood up quietly - it obviously couldn't escape from the black hole like it did on the first and second floors - but the next second, it flew up with a scream!
Lu Chongnian grabbed it by the back of the neck and lifted it into the air.
The four legs flapped in the air, and the face that looked exactly like Lu Chongnian was distorted in fear.
Lu Chongnian looked at it, then looked at Mu Yu.
Mu Yu just looked at him the whole time.
Lu Zhongnian pursed his lips, as if hoping that he would say something more - perhaps he wanted him to convince him again, or perhaps he just wanted to confirm that he was really not angry.
However, Mu Yu did not speak, as if she was determined to wait for him to make a choice.
Lu Zhongnian was silent for a few seconds and placed his hand on the beast's cheek.
As the beast struggled desperately, he tore off a layer of bloody skin.
His father's face was revealed.
"Don't kill me, please, don't kill me!" The beast's roar turned into a cowardly plea for mercy.
"——Why don't you give it a try?"
Mu Yu's voice sounded again, and Lu Zhongnian immediately looked at him.
"Don't you think he is you and you are him? Then don't you want to see if there is another face of yours hidden under this one?"
Lu Zhongnian subconsciously raised his hand...
But paused.
Three seconds later, he dropped his hand.
...suddenly I don’t want to watch it anymore.
The beast disappeared in his hands, and he looked at Mu Yu silently: "You haven't told me your name yet."
"My name is Mu Yu." Mu Yu walked over.
Lu Chongnian stretched out his hand.
Mu Yu held his hand, rubbed his palm, and sighed softly: "You can be so stupid sometimes."
…
Mu Yu called Su Mingyun up and climbed out of the small house with her.
When they reached the third floor of the house outside, their heights instantly stretched out and became taller than Lu Chongnian.
Lu Chongnian looked up at them, as if he still had a lot of questions, but Mu Yu didn't have time to explain. He grabbed his hand and called Su Mingyun to go downstairs together, wanting to see what else was waiting for them in this big house.
When they reached the second floor, they found that the light in the bedroom had returned to normal - still dim, but no longer pitch black.
Mu Yu let go of Lu Zhongnian's hand, walked to the door and saw that in the bedroom, the middle-aged man was sitting on the edge of the bed with his back facing them.
"Why is it still like this?" Su Mingyun muttered softly.
Mu Yu glanced around and fixed his eyes on the family portrait on the bedroom wall.
This family portrait gave him a very strange feeling. In the photo, Lu Zhongnian was held by his mother, and the woman with a blurry face was leaning against Lu's father, and both of them were smiling happily.
A strange atmosphere emanated from the room, and the source seemed to be this family photo.
Mu Yu walked in, and the middle-aged man sitting beside the bed did not respond.
At the door, Su Mingyun was nervous. Lu Chongnian wanted to chase him in, but she quickly stopped him.
While paying attention to Lu's father, Mu Yu stepped onto the bed and followed his intuition to take down the family photo.
There was an axe hanging on the wall behind the photo frame.
Mu Yu was stunned and took down the axe. In an instant, the world in the book began to become turbulent!
He immediately jumped off the bed and ran back to Su Mingyun and Lu Zhongnian.
The vision began to distort and space began to fold.
Everything that was originally three-dimensional suddenly turned into a two-dimensional plane, and the man beside the bed also became a person on the plane, folded like a piece of paper.
"What's going on? Should we get out of here quickly?!" Su Mingyun asked in panic.
Mu Yu lowered his head: "Lu Chongnian, do you have a library card?"
Little Lu Zhongnian asked hesitantly, "What library card?"
"He didn't, otherwise Mingyun, you should go out first!" Mu Yu shouted.
“Ah!” The wall beside him suddenly bulged out, and Su Mingyun leaned back. “I, I, I, I’m with you!”
The three of them hugged each other and squatted on the ground. However, after a while they found that the turbulence here did not affect them. No matter how their heads and feet folded, their feet were firmly standing in the void!
The loud rumbling sound continued to rise and fall, and everything in all directions was distorted.
…
It took nearly half a minute for everything to stop.
Lu Chongnian, who was protected by the two of them, has recovered into his adult appearance, and from his eyes, it can be seen that his memory has also been restored.
The villa disappeared.
At this moment, they were in a very small rectangular space.
It is about ten meters long, one meter wide, and thirty meters high, and all the walls are glowing with a light blue halo.
They stood up and looked at him warily.
There are vertical lines in the halo in front of Mu Yu.
He walked over and reached out to touch it, but he felt nothing, only a cold touch, and he couldn't tell what these stripes were.
He turned around and found Lu Zhongnian at the other end.
"This wall is made of wood." Lu Chongnian said.
Su Mingyun and Mu Yu walked over together.
Mu Yu reached out and touched the narrow wall. Although it looked the same as the other walls, it felt like wood.
He looked back at the axe lying in the center of the space.
The axe did not disappear with the villa.
"Do you want us to cut down this wall?" he wondered.
Su Mingyun: "Speaking of which, when the space began to fold just now, I seemed to feel that I could get out. What about you?"
"Me too," Mu Yu looked at Lu Zhongnian, "What about you? You don't have a library card yet?"
Lu Zhongnian touched his trouser pocket and shook his head.
Mu Yu's heart sank.
Then how would Lu Chongnian leave?
Do we have to cut down this wall before we can leave?
"The shape of this space is like a book now," Lu Zhongnian thought, and said to them, "You should go back to the library first and see if there are any new developments outside. Anyway, the library cards are still there, so you can come and go freely here."
"Then you'll stay here?" Su Mingyun was shocked.
"Yes," Lu Zhongnian looked at Mu Yu, "Maybe I have to wait until this dungeon is cleared before I can go out."
There really is no better way.
Su Mingyun filled in the repayment date on the library card and went out first.
Mu Yu handed the axe to Lu Zhongnian: "Then you take this thing. I will come in and inform you anytime if there is any news."
The moment their hands separated, Lu Zhongnian grabbed his wrist, pulled him over, bent down and kissed him.
Mu Yu was stunned and his ears immediately turned red.
"My thoughts in the copy are mainly concentrated when I was 11 years old," Lu Zhongnian whispered to him, "Although I haven't completely gotten rid of the influence of that period now, there is only a little bit left."
His fingers were embedded in Mu Yu's fingers, and his lips were on Mu Yu's ears.
"That little bit has almost been completely cleared away by you."
Mu Yu's cheeks felt hot.
He raised his eyes and muttered in dissatisfaction: "There are still some left? How can we clear them all?"
Lu Zhongnian thought seriously and said, "Don't be angry like you were just now, maybe it will be cleared up?"
Mu Yu: “?”
Lu Zhongnian: "You were really a little scary just now."
Mu Yu: "...I really wasn't angry just now."
"real?"
"Of course it's true!"
Mu Yu threw a punch, but was caught by Lu Chongnian.
The boy smiled, lowered his head, kissed him for a while, and rubbed his nose affectionately.
"Go ahead, don't worry about me, I'll be waiting for you here."
*
When Mu Yu returned to the library, Gao Zhanyuan, Jing Qiao, Jiang Shuyue and Fu Xiaoju all came out and they also got an axe.
To be on the safe side, they did not use the axe to chop the wooden wall. They thought of coming out to ask everyone about the situation first.
Mu Chenxi led them to bookshelf No. 14 and told them his discovery.
"So there are five books that need to be lined up here?" Mu Yu gestured, "Wait, the wooden wall of each book can be aligned with this line, right?"
In the book-shaped space just now, the narrow surface with vertical stripes should be the book edge, and the wooden side is the spine.
Normally when you put books on a bookshelf, of course the spines should face outwards. But if they placed the five problematic books in the same way, then wouldn't cutting through the wooden wall of the five books be like cutting into the air?
If you put it upside down and point the spine inward, then you will be chopping the side that is against the wall.
"Will we split the bookshelf when we cut the wooden board?" Jiang Shuyue responded quickly, "Could the monster generator be inside this bookshelf?"
Each set of bookshelves is nominally composed of two bookshelves placed back to back, but they are actually made into one piece when they leave the factory.
The five books are located at the C position on the side of the bookshelf, aligned with the line between the two bookshelves.
Gao Zhanyuan immediately said, "Why don't we just chop it apart now and see?"
He swung the axe they had brought from the book and everyone got out of the way.
After two or three powerful blows, only a few chips fell off the top of the bookshelf.
Jiang Shuyue patted Gao Zhanyuan's shoulder and consoled him: "That's normal. Since the copy has given the conditions, it would definitely not be that easy for us to split this thing apart without the conditions."
"Let's wait until all the books are finished," Mu Chenxi said, "Right now, 'Silent' and 'Hedgehog' are still in progress, and there's still one book missing."
Everyone walked back to the study tables.
"We've found so many suspicious books, but there's still one missing?" Gao Zhanyuan scratched his head. "Why don't we just use the reader identity to look through them? Whichever book is blank is the right one."
Mu Yu agreed: "Indeed, don't think about being fully prepared before entering the book. Finding the book first is the most important thing."
As he was speaking, Principal Dou, who had been standing in front of the study table, suddenly placed his hands on the desk.
“The Hedgehog has turned the page.”
Everyone turned to look over there.
On the desk, the pages of this book flipped through the pages, and then stopped at a certain moment.
【New readers please start reading from the beginning. 】
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