Mao Ci was about to explode with anger. He glared at the man in sunglasses on the ground with twisted features, "You are afraid of retaliation, but aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
As he spoke, he took out a knife from his backpack and put it against the man's neck. "Do you want me to kill you now, or to avenge you later? You have to choose one!"
The man's face turned pale and he lay stiffly on the ground, not daring to move.
"I, I'll tell you, I'll tell you," the man stared at the knife in Mao Ci's hand with a pale face, "Calm down, don't let your hands shake, I'm scared."
"It's Master Yuexian, Master Yuexian!"
"When I was feeling disheartened, I accidentally entered the temple of Master Yuexian. Afterwards, I began to have frequent dreams in which a woman told me that she was 'Master Yuexian' and that she could save me as long as I worshipped her devoutly at home."
"The eyes were given to me by Lady Yuexian, but I had no idea that they came from another girl. I took a nap, and when I woke up, my eyes were replaced. I even saw my own eyeballs on the table, and I was shocked."
"I didn't want to see those eyes, so I threw them into the toilet and flushed them away."
Burr: "You didn't lie to me?"
The man swallowed hard and said, "No, no, everything I said is true. There is absolutely no lie!"
Mao Ci then put away the knife, and the tension between his brows relaxed a little.
He took a deep breath and tried to control his emotions. "Finally found the answer."
Looking at his fearless expression, Baili Xin guessed what he was going to do.
The man in the suit held the burr's shoulder and said, "Do you want to fill in the answer? Do you want to verify it again? What if it's wrong?"
Mao Bu: "I can't care about so much. The time of death of the other people is uncertain. I am still alive and kicking, but I may die in the next second. Fortune and wealth are sought in danger. If you don't fill it in, you will die. If you fill it in, there is at least a 50% chance of survival."
Man in suit: "But it doesn't mean that the dead player must be you. Not only you, we have also complained. We don't know if this pattern of one person dying every day is true. What if we are just guessing wrong? What if they are just punished because they didn't complete their professional tasks?"
Mao Bu angrily pushed the man in the suit away: "But none of you complain as much as I do. You don't have a sense of crisis and death, but I do. It's your business if you don't fill it, but I don't want to die in such a confused way. I want to fight."
Having said that, regardless of everyone's obstruction, Mao Ci quickly filled in the name of Lord Yuexian on the answer.
Ding! The player answered incorrectly and will be punished by the system: beheading.
The cold electric sound of the system appeared in everyone's mind. Before they could react, they saw a flash of white light in front of them, and the burr's head swayed from the neck and fell to the ground.
The head rolled on the ground several times and stopped on the narrow wall next to the alley. There was still an expression of disbelief on his face.
"Ah! Someone's dead!" the man in sunglasses screamed, hurriedly got up from the ground, and stumbled out of the alley.
Baili Xin was quick-witted and quick-handed. He grabbed the collar of the man in sunglasses and pulled the frightened man back.
The five players present all looked unhappy.
Even the most battle-hardened players would not remain indifferent when they see a living being taken away by the system in an instant.
The feeling of being oppressed and coerced by the system made everyone feel unspeakably humiliated.
The man in the suit slammed his fist against the wall, and said gloomily, "'Master Yuexian' is not the correct answer."
He looked coldly at the man in sunglasses who was brought back: "He lied to us."
The man in sunglasses was already crying with fear. He begged for mercy with tears and snot, "I didn't lie to you. That woman really said she was 'Lady Yuexian'. I told you everything I know. I swear I didn't lie to you, otherwise I will die a miserable death and my eyes will rot!"
"Maybe he really didn't lie to us," the girl with twin ponytails who had been watching quietly from the side whispered, "Is it possible that the woman lied to him?"
"The murderer is that person, but the murderer's real name is not 'Master Yuexian'. Is he using the name 'Master Yuexian' to deceive people?"
The man in sunglasses sobbed, "Yes, that's right. That person must have lied to me. I really didn't lie to you. You have to believe me. Don't kill me. Please."
Baili Xin: "There is another possibility. The murderer is a follower of 'Master Yuexian'."
"We won't kill you," he looked at the man in sunglasses who was almost mentally collapsed, "Describe the appearance and characteristics of that woman in more detail."
The young man's calm tone comforted the man in sunglasses a little. He held back his tears and thought for a long time before speaking: "She is very beautiful."
"She has a very nice and special voice, a very charming one. She is wearing a cheongsam from the Republic of China era and has big wavy hair. She doesn't look like someone from our time, but from the last century."
Baili Xin was silent for two seconds before he took out his phone, found the photo of Miao Pan'er he had taken earlier, and asked, "Is this the person?"
Several other people also came over.
The man in sunglasses stared at his phone carefully for a while and then shook his head: "It feels very similar, but the face doesn't seem to be similar."
"Oh," Baili Xin didn't show much regret. He just took his phone back and flipped through another photo. "What about this person?"
The man in sunglasses looked over again.
When he saw the woman in the black and white photo on the phone clearly, the man in sunglasses' pupils suddenly widened and pointed at the phone screen with a trembling finger, "It looks like her! It seems to be this person! Who is this woman!"
The eyes of the men in suits all fell on Baili Xin in an instant. Baili Xin enlarged the photo: "This photo is hung on the celebrity wall of the library of X University. It has her personal profile on it."
The girl with twin ponytails stuck her head out and looked over, reading the text on her phone: "Professor Ru Mian, s1913-s1960, professor of the Department of Archaeology at X University. His major achievements include..."
"Born in 1913, died in 1960, was only in his forties when he died."
"Why did this person suddenly appear?"
The man in the suit stared down at the man in sunglasses and asked, "Are you sure the person you saw is this person?"
The man in sunglasses shrank his neck and hesitated, "I... No, I'm not sure. The photo in his phone is too blurry, I can't see his face clearly, I just feel that his clothes and temperament are similar."
"Hold, sorry."
The man in the suit turned green in the face. "Did you know that you might kill someone because of your uncertainty?!"
The man in sunglasses shrank his neck and dared not speak.
Twintails: "Want to try this answer again?"
"Try? How?" The man in the suit pointed at the fallen Burr and looked over. "Like him, are you going to risk your life?"
The already tense atmosphere became even more solemn. Everyone lowered their heads and no one dared to say another word.
The girl with twin ponytails opened her mouth and hesitated to speak. After a long time, she whispered, "His death was not completely in vain. At least one wrong answer was eliminated and a clue was provided to us. He died, but we are still alive. We can't just give up on ourselves, right? Now there is another answer. What are you going to do? Verify it or give up?"
The man in the suit took a deep breath and said, "There are two directions now. One is to go to X University to investigate the matter called "Ru Mian", and the other is to find a way to communicate with the 'Master Yuexian' in the dream. Let's act separately."
The man in the suit said as he looked at the man in sunglasses on the ground, "Leave this man to me. I will investigate that 'Master Yuexian'."
Another player followed suit and said, “I’ll come too.”
Baili Xin: "I'm going to X University."
Xia Chi: "Then I'll go with you."
Twin Ponytails: "I'll go too."
Baili Xin glanced at the twin ponytails and said, "Okay, there's still time to go now. Let's go."
The body of Mao Ci on the ground disappeared into thin air. The only five remaining people split into two groups and began to race against time.
At about 4:30 in the afternoon, Baili Xin came to X University again.
There were no people holding banners at the university gate, and the school had long since returned to its former tranquility.
The guard happened to be one of the people who came that morning, and they had a deep impression of Baili Xin. They greeted Baili Xin enthusiastically, and the guard did not stop the person from entering.
As soon as the three entered the school, they moved straight towards the library.
It was past four in the afternoon and the sun was at its highest point, but there were only a few students in the huge library, which was as sparsely populated as usual.
The librarian also knew Baili Xin, so he let them in without any objection.
Xia Chi sighed: "Brother, X University is your home, right? It's simply unimpeded."
Baili Xin: "At least I have already shown my face, I can't come here for nothing."
The girl with twin ponytails walked straight to the "Wall of Fame" and stared at it for a long time before she said, "Usually university libraries will have university development histories and biographies of people. We might find some clues there. Should we look for them separately?"
Baili Xin hesitated for two seconds and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
The library was very large, and before the sun set, the three chose to act separately again.
After watching Twin Ponytails and Xia Chi leave, Baili Xin turned and walked towards the librarian.
He wanted to find someone, the old man who had stood outside the window that night to warn them.
Universities do have development histories and biographies, but as producers, the content written in them must be full of positive things. But in reality, the secrets hidden under the positive things appear most often either by word of mouth or in unofficial history.
Moreover, an old man of such age who often wanders around the library should be easy to find.
Sure enough, as soon as Baili Xin asked the librarian, the librarian immediately knew who Baili Xin was talking about.
"Oh, I see. You mean Mr. Lin, right? He used to be a professor at our school. After retirement, he became a librarian. Later, for some reason, he became a little crazy and often said irrelevant things. He was also quite pitiful. He lost his wife at an early age and his son at an old age. He had to bury his son before him."
"If you want to find him, then try your luck in the woods. He should be wandering around in the willow grove at this time."
Baili Xin: "What is it like to lose a child in old age?"
Librarian: "I also heard it from others. He has a daughter, but this daughter did not inherit her father's good brains and has never been good at studying. Her university grades were not ideal. In order to make his daughter have a bright future, he forced her to repeat three or four years and take the college entrance examination several times."
"As a result, not only did my daughter fail to get into her ideal university, her grades got worse and worse."
"After the last college entrance examination, her daughter ran away from home. She occasionally sent some things to Mr. Lin, but gradually there was no news. Mr. Lin might have been traumatized at this time. He became crazy and said things like 'the daughter is not a daughter'."
"About fifteen years ago, Mr. Lin received his daughter's belongings and learned that his daughter had passed away. He must have been shocked because he was still smiling after his daughter died, saying things like 'That's great, she's finally dead.' Oh, how pitiful."
Baili Xin: "What is his daughter's name, do you know?"
Librarian: "Oh, I don't know about that. But Old Lin kept repeating a name, it seems to be 'Pan'er', I guess her daughter might be called this name."
"…", Baili Xin, "Okay, I understand, thank you."
After bidding farewell to the librarian, Baili Xin left the library and walked into the lush willow forest.
These willow trees are lush and leafy, with very tall branches that cover the sky above.
Baili Xin walked a little further away and looked back at the library. The more he looked, the more he felt that the library looked like a coffin.
The willow forest was very large, and Baili Xin searched for twenty minutes before finally finding the old man he had seen that night by the river.
The old man sat on the bench, quietly looking at the slowly flowing river, his eyes numb, and it was unclear whether he was in a daze or thinking about something.
It was not until Baili Xin sat down next to him that the old man looked at him with his neck stiffened, then turned his head back to the river.
Baili Xin: "Old man, we just met, do you remember me?"
The old man seemed not to hear his words and continued to stare at the river in a daze. If it weren't for his eyes blinking from time to time, people would almost think he was a statue sitting on the bench.
Seeing that the old man didn't answer, Baili Xin hesitated for a moment, raised his voice and asked, "Do you know the name Miao Pan'er?"
The old man who had been looking at the water suddenly moved. He turned his head and looked at Baili Xin with a pair of cloudy eyes. After a few seconds of stalemate, Baili Xin heard the old man's hoarse voice: "I remember you, you are the one who entered the library that night."
"Hehehe, you're in trouble, right? I know that no one who gets involved with this library will have a good ending."
"It's what we deserve. We deserve it."
The old man spoke incoherently, his pupils dilating and shrinking, "I warned you a long time ago, but you didn't listen."
"Why won't you listen!" His eyes suddenly became fierce, "I'm doing this for your own good, why won't you listen to me! How can a father hurt his own child, Pan'er, why won't you listen to me?"
Baili Xin: "Is Miao Pan'er your daughter?"
"She is not, that woman is not." The old man's expression suddenly became crazy. "She is a devil, a devil who eats people without blinking an eye. That demon is not my daughter. She is a devil that drilled out from underground, from the underground of the library. It deceived my daughter and occupied my daughter's body. It killed my daughter. It is my enemy, not my woman! It died well, died well."