Chapter 137 Autobiography (Part 2)
No one spoke.
Regardless of the Guardian's stance, in an atmosphere like a decisive battle, it would not be a good thing for Him to leave early.
"Closing time is 1:35, the time limit for this instance should be one and a half hours," Mu Yu said, calling everyone back to their senses, "Let's go in and take a look first."
After saying this, he took the lead and walked into the library.
Regardless of whether the guardian is still there or not, they must crack this copy.
This is the only thing they can do now.
*
The bookshelves inside the library are also arranged in a circular shape, with some study tables in the middle of the circle.
There were some things on one of the study tables, and when they got closer they saw that they were 12 electronic name tags.
It was a long and thin sign with a pin on the back and a small black display screen in the middle of the front, which currently displayed the word "Reader".
There was a small button next to the display screen. Mu Yu pressed it, and the word "Reader" disappeared, and "Administrator" appeared on it - this was an identity change nameplate.
"Don't go up there, or you might accidentally drop it." He said, pinning the thing to his chest.
Then look at the densely packed bookshelves surrounding them.
The bookshelves are of uniform specifications, and two bookshelves are placed back to back as a group.
There were also books on the side cabinets away from them, and there were large round number labels on the side cabinets closer to them. The group of bookshelves facing the library door was numbered 1, and rotating counterclockwise, there were bookshelf No. 2, bookshelf No. 3, bookshelf No. 4... all the way back to the starting point, right to the left of bookshelf No. 1, was bookshelf No. 20.
"Are these the books we are focusing on this time?" Fu Xiaoju swallowed his saliva, "How many books are there here?"
"A set of bookshelves holds about 1,500 books," Principal Dou said gently. "Twenty sets of bookshelves hold about 30,000 books."
"Thirty thousand copies?!" Fu Xiaoju and Gao Zhanyuan shouted at the same time.
If the copy required them to turn over every book, wouldn't they be dying? !
An hour and a half was not enough for them to clear everything!
Everyone's face turned grim.
Mu Chenxi said, "Let's go in groups of two to check it out first. Don't repeat the areas you are responsible for. If you feel there are any books with problems, you can take them first and bring them back later. We will gather in five minutes."
They allocated:
Mu Yu and Mu Chenxi are in a group and are responsible for bookshelves 1 to 4.
Ye Sui and Hong Yang are in a group, responsible for 5-8.
Yan Shaowen and Yu Ning are in a group, responsible for 9-11.
Jiang Shuyue and Fu Xiaoju are in a group, responsible for 12-14.
Gao Zhanyuan and Principal Dou are in a group, responsible for classes 15-17.
Jing Qiao and Su Mingyun are in a group, responsible for 18-20.
Everyone dispersed immediately.
Mu Yu came to the middle of the bookshelf and scanned the books attentively.
When he just arrived here at around nine o'clock, he came here to take a look around out of boredom. The first floor is full of literary works, including essays, poems, novels, etc.
At that time, he was focusing on flipping through bookshelf No. 1. At a glance, the books on the shelf and their order were no different from what they were at around nine o'clock.
So, will the copy use the ready-made book to make an article?
But if it was a classic masterpiece, it might be fine because more people might have read it and everyone could deal with it. But if the copy really found a book that no one has ever heard of, that would be a bit troublesome.
The other end.
Gao Zhanyuan followed Principal Dou silently, feeling a bit stressed... The only time he had ever had close contact with someone with the status of "Principal" was when he got into trouble in high school and the principal personally called him parents...
Why would Brother Yu put him and Principal Dou in the same group? Gao Zhanyuan shed tears of relief in his heart.
Principal Dou was a very tall man, walking in front at a leisurely pace. He raised his right hand, put his index finger and middle finger together, and lightly swept across the books on bookshelf No. 15.
Gao Zhanyuan cleared his throat and decided to break the awkwardness: "Um, Principal, are you familiar with this library?"
"When I came to look for He Xin before, I often waited for him here," Principal Dou said with a smile, "I like to read literary books. I have read about half of the books on this floor."
Gao Zhanyuan was secretly shocked. This amount of reading was unimaginable for a poor student like him.
"Then... can you tell which books were originally here and which ones are not?"
"How can we tell them apart?" Principal Dou smiled. "Not to mention that they often bring in new books, the locations of these books are not fixed. Students pick them up, put them down, and the librarians sort them out, so they will all be in a different place."
Gao Zhanyuan was a little disappointed: "Then finding the problematic book among these books is like looking for a needle in a haystack, isn't it?"
"Problematic books must have obvious characteristics," Principal Dou observed the book in front of him attentively and said softly, "It's impossible for us to really turn over the copies one by one."
…
In front of bookshelf No. 10, Yu Ning stood on tiptoe, took down Gorky's "Childhood" from the middle of the sixth row, and flipped through it.
He had read this book several times and could recite the beginning. At this moment, the words in the book were no different from what he remembered.
He frowned and stuffed the book back onto the shelf.
Where would the books in question be?
Turning around and just about to check the bookshelf opposite, he noticed that Yan Shaowen was holding a book with his back to him, reading it very seriously.
When I took a closer look, I realized that Yan Shaowen was looking at the library card in the book.
Yan Shaowen didn't look up. Feeling him approaching, he said, "All the borrowing cards for the books here are clean, and there is no borrowing record."
Yu Ning thought for a moment, typed on his phone, and handed it to him: "He has cleared the library card, so he is just waiting for us to write our names on it."
Yan Shaowen glanced at him and said, "Why would He do this? There are many blank lines on these borrowing cards. Even if they are really full, the librarian will usually replace them in time, so there will always be blank lines for us to write. As for those who have read this book before, they are not in this copy anyway, so what does it have to do with this copy? Why can't their names be kept?"
"He deliberately cleared all the library cards, most likely to create obstacles for us to identify problematic books."
Yu Ning was stunned and understood what Yan Shaowen meant.
——The books in question are most likely not books originally in this library, but new ones that He put in!
No one has ever read that book(s), so the library card is naturally blank, and it is easy to distinguish them from the books that are already in the library.
Even though not every book in the library has been read by anyone, it can still narrow the search scope a lot.
After Yan Shaowen finished speaking, he turned his gaze back to the book in front of him.
This is a classic collection of essays, and almost all readers who like essays have read it.
There is no noteworthy change in the content itself, but...
He glanced at the name tag on his chest. At this moment, his identity was "Reader".
【Only librarians can adjust the position of books. 】
What if I adjusted the position of the books?
He raised his hand.
This action attracted Yu Ning's attention.
He watched Yan Shaowen gently press the button on the name tag, and the three words on the black display screen jumped to "Administrator".
The next second, Yan Shaowen's gaze fixed on the book.
Yu Ning reacted quickly.
He immediately adjusted his name tag to "Administrator" - in an instant, the book in Yan Shaowen's hand turned blank!
Yu Ning opened his eyes wide, reached out his hand and turned the pages. Every page was blank, all the words disappeared, leaving only the page numbers on the corners of each page!
On the other side, Mu Yu and Mu Chenxi also discovered this.
As long as you change your identity to "Administrator", all the books on the bookshelf will become blank; only when you change your identity back to "Reader" will the text come back, and there will be no change from before it disappeared!
"Is this what it means that 'only readers can read books'?" Mu Yu murmured.
Mu Chenxi closed the book in his hand - this book was taken from the fifth row of bookshelf No. 2. He turned around and took a look, then walked to bookcase No. 3 and stuffed it into an empty space in the middle of the fourth row.
What happens after you, as an administrator, adjust the location of books?
Mu Chenxi took a step back, and the two brothers stared at the book, observing its changes.
However, as time went by, nothing changed.
The book has simply been relocated, that's all.
Mu Chenxi narrowed his eyes and said, "Maybe I didn't find the right book. This problem will only occur if the book in question is swapped."
…
Jing Qiao and Su Mingyun came to bookshelf No. 20.
They haven't found any noteworthy clues so far... Jingqiao did find that the carpet on the ground was shining with gold. Was it so shiny before the copy came?
I don’t remember. I don’t have a very deep impression of it.
She squatted down and touched the carpet. It felt rough and hard, but she couldn't feel anything else.
"What's the matter, Qiaoqiao?" Su Mingyun asked behind her.
Jing Qiao shook his head and sighed, "I think I'm overthinking it."
"Then let's check these books."
"Um!"
Just as he finished speaking, a "pop" sound suddenly came from somewhere.
It sounded like a book falling to the ground, which was particularly abrupt in the quiet library.
Jing Qiao was standing at the edge of bookshelf No. 20, near the study desk. He stuck his head out to look around, and met eyes with Mu Yu, who also stuck his head out from between the bookshelves.
...Should be nothing, right?
Thinking of this, Jing Qiao retracted his head.
Su Mingyun's surprised voice came from behind: "Hey, this book——"
The sound of books falling.
Jing Qiao's eyelids jumped and she turned around, only to see a book lying on the ground. Su Mingyun had disappeared!
"Ming Yun?!" Jing Qiao called out in surprise, ran over to pick up the book, took two steps forward, came to the corridor outside the bookshelf, and looked around.
——Su Mingyun is really missing! Where did she go?
Jing Qiao was a little at a loss, and subconsciously wanted to open the book in her hand, but Principal Dou ran over to stop her: "Don't move yet!"
She was startled.
When everyone heard their voices, they all gathered together.
Principal Dou looked at the number of people and asked, "Five people are missing?"
Soon, Yan Shaowen and Yu Ning walked out from the front bookshelf, also holding a book in their hands: "Fu Xiaoju and Jiang Shuyue are missing, this book is lying on the ground in front of their bookshelf No. 13."
Mu Yu's brows immediately furrowed. "So the first sound of the book falling just now came from them?"
He took the book and looked over it.
These two books have something very obvious in common:
The cover and back are all blue, without any patterns, just pure blue.
There is no information on the book jacket, publisher, or book number. It looks like a self-printed book and is full of informality.
The book that appears in front of bookshelf No. 13 is called "The Spirit Behind the Scenes" and the author is called "How to Put on False Eyelashes?"
The book that appeared in front of bookshelf No. 20 was suspected to be the one Su Mingyun had just flipped through. Its name was "Violence" and the author was "Mr. Cake".
Both of these book titles gave them a bad feeling, and looking at the current situation, the same speculation emerged in everyone's mind.
"...Could these three people all be sucked into the book?" Hong Yang asked doubtfully.
"Should we open it and take a look?" Jing Qiao asked anxiously, "Principal Dou, why did you stop me just now?"
Principal Dou pointed at the name tag on her chest and asked, "Student Su, is she a reader like you just now?"
Jing Qiao was stunned for a moment, then glanced at the badge on his chest: "Yeah, right, we have never adjusted this thing."
"'Only readers can read books'. Regarding this rule, I suspect it may not just mean that only readers can see the text," Principal Dou suggested.
Jing Qiao turned his head when he heard this: "Ah, so it means that only when you open the book in question as a reader will you be sucked into the book?"
Principal Dou nodded: "It's possible. Anyway, I suggest that everyone switch to administrator status first, and then open these two books."
Hearing this, everyone pressed the buttons on their name tags.
After everyone became "administrators", Mu Yu concentrated and opened the book "The Spirit Behind" in his hand.
It's still blank.
He flipped through a few pages, then turned to the end of the book and took out the library card.
Two records appeared on the library card!
There are three columns in total, namely borrower, loan period, and repayment period.
The first record: Jiang Shuyue January 1, 20xx 00:08 (the third column is blank)
The second record: Fu Xiaoju January 1, 20xx 00:08 (the third column is blank)
Seeing this, Jing Qiao quickly took out the borrowing card of the book "Violence", on which there was also a borrowing record.
Su Mingyun January 1, 20xx 00:09 (the third column is blank)
"These three people definitely entered the book, but as administrators we can't see anything in it," Mu Yu stuffed the borrowing card back and closed the book. "By the way, have you heard of these two books?"
Everyone shook their heads.
This strange book title, strange pen name, they had never heard of it.
Mu Yu's gaze fell back on the author's name of the book "Violence" and he concentrated on thinking.
Mr. Cake.
He was sure that he had never heard of this author, but the pen name gave him a sense of familiarity...
He thought for a moment and said, "I want to go in and take a look."
"Ah? Brother, you want to go in?" Gao Zhanyuan immediately became nervous.
"Since there's something strange in the book, we have to go in to find clues. Su Mingyun is the only one in the book 'Violence' right now, so I can go in and look after her."
"Don't all follow us in. For now, it's enough for two players to explore each book. You guys stay in the library and wait and see what's going on with us. And by the way, look for other books like this."
Mu Chenxi did not object, but reminded: "Don't be impatient, as long as this instance is not over, Lu Zhongnian still has a chance to come out. You worrying here will not help him at all."
Mu Yu pursed her lips: "I know, brother."
He adjusted his identity to "reader" and took the book "Violence" from Jing Qiao.
Everyone held their breath, and he calmly opened the first page of the book.
The look of preparedness instantly turned into surprise.
"Huh, why is it still--" Before he could finish his muttering, Mu Yu turned into a ray of light and was pulled into the book.
The force supporting the book disappeared, and the book suddenly fell down and was caught by Mu Chenxi.
Everyone looked at each other.
"...What did he want to say just now?" Jing Qiao asked hesitantly.
"Why still?"
Or what?
But Mu Yu had already gone in, so they had no way of knowing the answer to this question for the time being.
Mu Chenxi turned to the last page of the book and saw Mu Yu's name appeared in the second record of the library card.
He turned back to the first page.
The pages of the book faced them blankly as always.
After a moment of silence, he closed the book, raised his head and said to the others, "I'll keep an eye on these two books. Go and look for other books that look like this. Remember to use your administrator identity to look for them. If you have any doubts, take them and bring them to the study table."
*
After a period of dizziness, Mu Yu quickly regained consciousness.
The vision changed from dark to bright...not really.
It was still dark in front of me.
But unlike pure black, in the darkness, he could barely make out... He seemed to be in a house, and the place he was in seemed to be the living room. He could vaguely see some furniture and the layout of the room.
"Mu Yu, is that you?" A low voice called out from behind.
It was Su Mingyun's voice.
Mu Yu turned around - Su Mingyun was huddled in a corner. The two of them made eye contact and immediately came together.
"You came in too," Su Mingyun still spoke in a low voice, as if afraid someone might hear him. "I just fumbled around but couldn't find the light switch. The windows were blocked by curtains and couldn't be opened. Is this the world in this book? It's like 'The Island'!"
Mu Yu asked her in a low voice: "When you opened this book as a reader just now, did you also see a blank space?"
Upon hearing this, Su Mingyun nodded repeatedly - she made a surprised sound when she opened the book and found that there was not a single word in it, but before she could tell Jing Qiao this clue, she was sucked in!
Mu Yu pondered.
Therefore, even the “reader” cannot see the content of the “problematic book”.
They can only be sucked into the book and experience the plot for themselves?
He strongly suspected that the copy was set up like this because this was the book created by "Him", a book that did not originally exist in this world, so naturally there were no words written by human authors.
But if this book was entirely created by Him, why would He be familiar with the pen name "Mr. Cake"?
"Mr. Cake" should also be a fake original author made up by Him, right?
"Then, I just found this thing appeared on my body." Su Mingyun held the two things in his palms.
It's a library card and a pen.
Mu Yu turned on the screen of his mobile phone and shone it, and found that there were borrowing records of both of them on the library card.
He subconsciously searched his trouser pocket and found that he also had these two items. Similarly, there was a record of the two of them on his library card.
These two library cards are exactly the same.
"What is this used for?" Su Mingyun asked.
Mu Yu thought for a while and said, "I suspect that the book return record can be filled out by us ourselves. As long as we write it down, we can leave this book at that time."
"So that's it!" Su Mingyun suddenly realized.
This is a life-saving tool!
"Then we..."
"Are you going out?" Mu Yu said softly, "If you are going out, please write down the time. I will stay here to look for clues."
Su Mingyun immediately shook her head like a rattle: "I'm with you!"
She didn't come to the dungeon just to gather people. She was not afraid and she wanted to stay!
Since Su Mingyun said so, Mu Yu signaled her to follow him closely.
This living room seems to have no entrance, that is, there is no exit.
The place where they were standing was the corner of the living room. Walking forward, they could barely see the luxurious sofa and coffee table in the front left.
A vending machine stood on the side of the sofa closer to them, casting a silent shadow.
On the other side of the sofa is a staircase leading up, and behind the stairs is another room. I don’t know if it is a restaurant.
This is a villa.
"There seems to be a bathroom in front. I didn't dare to go in alone just now." Su Mingyun said in a low voice.
Mu Yu walked forward along the wall on the right, and finally found the door to the bathroom that Su Mingyun mentioned.
He leaned in, finally found a switch on the wall, and pressed it.
With a click, the whole bathroom suddenly became bright.
It turns out there is a light in this place - Su Mingyun let out a long sigh, she had been holding this sigh for a long time!
Everything in the bathroom was clean. The sink and smart toilet were so bright that it looked as if no one had ever used them. Even the tiles on the floor were spotless.
The two of them looked around calmly and left the bathroom.
Mu Yu looked up the stairs and thought, "Let's go up and take a look."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a soft "pop" sound.
The light in the bathroom behind them turned off automatically - the entire living room fell into darkness again.
Su Mingyun's breathing stopped instantly.
…There was silence for a few seconds.
Mu Yu glanced at the bathroom, reached back and held her wrist: "Don't be afraid, let's go."
…
They crept up the stairs.
Darkness would increase people's fear, but so far it seemed that the light in every dungeon was not very good. Su Mingyun froze for a while, then got used to it...
Step onto the second floor, and there are stairs leading to the third floor.
The two of them shifted their gaze from the top of the stairs to look diagonally forward, and their bodies instantly tensed up.
——On the wall of the corridor ahead, there was a huge black shadow.
What was that? A monster? How long had it been standing there?
But the shadow didn't move at all.
They carefully identified it for a while and found that it seemed to be the entrance to a room. The door was open and it was darker inside than outside, which created this visual effect.
However, Mu Yu and Su Mingyun did not relax at all. They still stared at that direction.
…In that deep room, there seemed to be some strange atmosphere emanating from it.
They couldn't see it, but they could feel that there seemed to be something in that room.
Someone.
She was sitting quietly inside.
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