The deserted town lacked its usual atmosphere of life, which made Childe extremely uncomfortable.
When the car drove past the houses he was familiar with, he longed to see familiar faces, but unfortunately there were none.
Qiongzhi was fine. He lowered his head and stroked the paper of the diary. The material of the paper was very good. It was not too smooth, but not particularly rough either. It was the kind of paper that was very suitable for writing.
It shouldn’t be easy to buy such paper?
Moreover, that witch could own a single-family house with a unique design, and the true appearance of the room that only he had seen...
I think the witch must have been very rich.
The rain outside was falling heavily, as if it was eager to wash away something. The raindrops hit the car body, making crackling sounds, and everyone's minds seemed to be constantly whipped.
In this somewhat stuffy atmosphere, Renault stopped the car steadily, tilted his head and said, "We're here."
The library in the small town is not big. It was converted from an old house of a former society. Naturally, the collection of books here is not very large, and there are no famous books or the like. Most of them are miscellaneous books, and even cookbooks occupy a large part of the collection.
They were not well categorized because the town residents took turns to clean the library, with one person from each household being responsible every week. The most people did when they came here was to clean the place, and it was impossible to spend time specifically sorting the books.
The door of the library was open inward, and several people hurried in in the rain, shook off the raindrops on their bodies, wiped their hands on their clothes and began to search.
"Renault, haven't you read that book? Don't you have it in your car?" Childe hated reading, and now he was asked to find a book. Naturally, he hoped it would be over as soon as possible.
But Renault shook his head. "The book in my car isn't a properly published book. The story has been patched together and altered."
"So what book are we looking for now?"
The two brothers Ni Jie and Ni Ye who came in with them were unexpectedly quiet at this time helping to find the book. Perhaps it was because the matter of life and death was before them. After all, no one knew whose name would appear next in the diary.
Ni Jie did read some books. Unlike Ni Ye and Childe who were "book-averse", his grades were decent when he had books to read earlier. Later, when he had no books to read, he followed Ni Ye and hung out with Fudock.
Last month, a few of us were discussing joining the army. There are always wars going on outside now... I heard that it's easy to pass the inspection and you can get paid.
But no one expected to encounter such a thing today.
Ni Jie looked at the books and said, "If you want to see more accurate content, it's best to look for books written by the older generation in the town that record historical events. Most of these books don't have titles, the covers are ordinary, and the content is purely handwritten."
As he spoke, he pulled out a medium-thick book bound with simple iron rings and said, "Like this one, this one records animal husbandry techniques and equipment manufacturing."
His words made everyone look at him a few more times. The difference between him before and after was quite big, and everyone was a little uncomfortable with it.
But Ni Jie's words at least gave them a direction in their blind search.
Qiongzhi put the diary on the floor behind her and looked through the bookshelf, pulling out those books that met the requirements and piling them aside.
The only sounds in the library were the patter of rain coming in from outside and the slight noise of books rubbing against each other.
After Qiongzhi found a book that met the requirements in a bookcase, she sat down cross-legged and began to check the contents. If she came across a book that might involve legends or history, she would flip through it a few more times.
Soon, she had picked up half of the stack of books and piled them up at the other end. At this time, the rain outside was getting heavier, and the thunder and lightning were becoming more frequent.
Qiongzhi, who was originally concentrating on flipping through a book, was distracted by a slight change in the weather outside. Then her whole body froze, because in her peripheral vision, she saw a two-meter-tall behemoth appear in the rain.
It was completely naked, pale and covered in fat. Its massive white head was covered with sparse, long, black hair. The hair looked wet and stuck tightly to its scalp, only covering part of it, leaving much of the white skin exposed.
The face was like a puffed pancake, with human features but relatively flat. The eyes were almost invisible, but the slight protrusions made people know that they were a pair of eyes. There was not a single eyelash.
He has no eyebrows, but has prominent brow bones. His mouth is flat and long, forming a line that almost reaches his ears at both ends, and his lips are almost invisible.
It has no neck, and its head seems to be directly connected to its naked body, like a failed "person" made by a child out of clay.
Before Qiongzhi saw it out of the corner of her eye, no one knew where it was hiding, and naturally no one knew where it came from.
In the afterglow of Qiongzhi, it took a slow step forward, with the ends of its mouth curved upwards, pushing the sagging fat on its cheeks to the sides, forming layered wrinkles, and the fat on its chin was pulled apart because of this expression.
Click.
The book in Qiongzhi's hand fell to the ground. He suddenly stood up and looked outside. The noise even startled Ni Ye, who was the farthest away from him.
"What's going on?" Ni Ye frowned and turned around, "Has the diary started writing again?"
The others looked at the diary spread out on the ground, but the pages were blank, with no bloody words. Qiongzhi, standing there blankly, looked even more strange.
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