Padah!
Xia Qing fell to the ground with a thud, completely awake now.
Before she could figure out what was happening,
An irritated voice sounded from above: "Damn! Why did they even bring a kid!"
Another female voice replied, "Maybe she just looks young."
The woman said this and walked over, bending down to look at Xia Qing:
"Hello, my name is Qian Xue. What's yours?"
Guo Dong hid behind Xia Qing, quietly burrowing into her sleeve.
Xia Qing looked up, quickly scanning her surroundings.
Two men,
One was ruggedly built, the other wore a suit and looked like an office worker.
And the woman in front of her, who blocked most of her light, had light makeup on her face, looking like a university student who had just graduated a year or two ago.
Beside them was a dark library.
They were standing on the open ground in front of the library.
Xia Qing didn't answer the woman's question, but instead recoiled nervously.
Anxiously, she asked, "Where is this place?"
The woman smiled and said, "Probably the Thriller World. Have you read novels? It's full of all sorts of thrilling escape room games."
The rugged-looking man sneered, "Yeah, games. Games that can kill you."
Clearly, these adults weren't new to participating in 'games'.
The man in the suit had, at some point, walked to the library door.
He raised his hand to scan it and said,
"The barrier on this is gone. It seems all the players have arrived. Let's go."
The rugged man took out the axe on his back and walked towards the library.
The woman extended her hand to Xia Qing, pulling her up, "Let's go in too."
"How old are you?"
Xia Qing didn't hide this, truthfully replying, "Almost 10."
"Miss, I was just sleeping,
And suddenly I was brought here.
Is it dangerous here? How can I go back?"
The woman's expression flickered with surprise for a moment, "You're really only 10? This place is too insane!"
She looked at Xia Qing's young face, a struggle appearing in her eyes.
Was this place dangerous? Of course, it was dangerous.
Did she want to survive? Of course.
A child who knew nothing like this would only be treated as a sacrifice.
A moment later,
The woman tightened her grip on Xia Qing's hand and said seriously,
"Stay close to me later, don't run around."
Xia Qing nodded, "Okay!"
A cold laugh echoed from ahead, it was the rugged man.
"You can't even protect yourself, yet you're thinking of others, huh...
Don't slow me down later. Or my axe won't have eyes."
...
The group proceeded forward with the faint emergency lights in the library.
Guo Dong quietly crawled from Xia Qing's sleeve to the back of her neck.
It surveyed its surroundings.
Suddenly, its gaze froze.
On the ceiling...
What were those glowing words?
...
[This world is a bit strange. Why did they even pull a kid in?]
[Could the haunted building have a bug?]
[If the kid dies, this world will probably die out faster than others.]
[I heard there's a kid here? Heh heh... I love watching! I'm tired of everything else!]
[This kid will definitely be the first to die.]
...
Bullet comments?
Guo Dong thought uncertainly.
It had seen live streams before, but those were on phones and computers.
It had never heard of ceilings displaying bullet comments.
Was it some kind of projection?
Guo Dong glanced at the others. Couldn't they see them?
Was it because it was a ghost that it could see them?
Guo Dong quietly poked Xia Qing's back and wrote word by word:
[Something is watching you.]
Xia Qing was startled.
The hand behind her wrote again:
[It's like watching a live stream from somewhere.]
...
The sound of footsteps echoed in the library.
The man in the suit took out a flashlight and took the lead in exploring the surroundings.
Soon, he found a blood-stained notebook on a desk.
"Something must have happened here. I'll read it to you, and you all keep an eye on your surroundings."
The man in the suit held the flashlight in one hand and opened the notebook with the other.
The rugged man held his axe, surveying the surroundings.
The woman also watched her surroundings vigilantly.
Xia Qing, on the other hand, looked up, observing the ceiling.
The man in the suit slowly began:
"June 13th, Sunny.
He said he likes girls with good grades. If I can get into the top ten in the grade, he'll consider me."
"June 14th, Light Rain.
I like him so much, so much, so much."
"June 15th. Light Rain.
I can definitely improve my grades! Starting today, I'll live in the library!"
...
"July 1st. Sunny.
School is on holiday. I want to use these two months to sprint and get good grades when school starts!
I like him so much!
He's also staying at school to study!"
"July 5th. Sunny.
It's been so hot these past few days. I don't know if I'm hallucinating from the heat. I keep hearing strange sounds from time to time."
"July 15th. Sunny.
Heavens! Those strange sounds are actually..."
"July 20th.
Kill them! Kill them!
Kill them all! Kill them all! Die! Die!"
...
The man in the suit flipped further back, "The rest is all messed up. It's all 'kill,' 'die,' and so on." Da Feng Novel Network
There was no useful information.
The rugged man listened, completely bewildered, "What is all this nonsense?"
He didn't quite trust the man in the suit. He walked over and snatched the notebook to look at it.
The pages flipped rapidly.
"Damn! What kind of clue is this!"
"The owner of this diary should be a woman. At that time..." The man in the suit looked around, his gaze falling on a bookshelf not far away.
"At that time, she must have seen something. And it must have been related to that boy."
The rugged man also followed his gaze, "Aren't libraries for reading books? What's the big deal?"
"We'll know if we go and see."
The man in the suit shone his flashlight and walked over first.
The gaps between the bookshelves were about one and a half meters, still quite spacious.
But each bookshelf was very tall, packed densely with books.
So from the outside, you couldn't see inside at a glance.
The few of them walked around between the bookshelves.
When they reached the third bookshelf in the second row, they saw a pile of books scattered on the ground.
"Could this be the place?"
The woman stepped forward and tidied up the books.
But she found nothing.
The man in the suit looked at the bookshelves on both sides, "This is it."
The others also looked at the bookshelves.
They were all filled with books,
"Women's Health," "Women's Lifestyle Care," "Self-Cleaning,"
"Love and Being Loved," "Male and Female Sexual Relations,"
...
[Whoa, exciting! Did that guy do it with other women here?]
[No wonder he went mad.]
[This instance is a bit too easy. The hints are too obvious!]
[This team is not harmonious. The kid and the team will be the first to give points.]
...
Guo Dong peeked at the bullet comments, thought for a moment, and wrote on Xia Qing's back:
[The key to passing is probably the crazy woman.]
As soon as it finished writing,
In the library, a sound of footsteps echoed.
Tap, tap, tap,
It was coming from the second floor.
...