"Cen Jin?" Huo Xiaoting urged.
Cen Jin retracted his gaze, ran up to the third floor with Huo Xiaoting, and found Xiong Bing and Wen Tonghua in the reading room.
Wen Tonghua held the mop pole without the mop head and said angrily, "What are your plans? Are you trying to steal books?"
Cen Jin went around the bookshelf that blocked his vision, and saw four strange young men and women standing against the wall, a pile of instruments on the desk, live broadcast equipment such as mobile phones and cameras, night vision goggles, flashlights and electric batons and other night adventures Equipment, there are actually peach wood sword, yellow talisman and black dog blood.
There was a black garbage bag next to the table leg. The bottom of the bag was wet. When I opened it, it turned out to be a bloody pig leg.
Don't ask, Cen Jin guessed what the group of young men and women were here for, and he also noticed that the four of them had a red ribbon tied around their left wrist.
An 18- or 9-year-old boy on the right said, "My name is Lin Mu, and we are both students from the First High School of the City. As you can see, we are here to shoot the video. I hope you don't stop us."
A girl of the same age beside him said: "The library is open at night, and people who like to read are allowed to stay here until 3:00 in the morning. Now 8:10 pm is the opening time. You have no right to drive us away."
The teenager next to the girl echoed: "And the library holds a film exhibition every Wednesday, allowing citizens to come in and shoot. All four of us signed up to participate in the film exhibition, and this time we are here to shoot the video for the competition. Are you the administrator? The administrator has no authority. Interfere with our actions, and if necessary, you must cooperate with us."
A younger girl next to the boy nodded quickly: "Yes!"
Wen Tonghua frowned: "Really or not? Is there such a rule?"
"Indeed." Huo Xiaoting said: "The downtown library was donated by the local richest man privately. For ten years, various film exhibitions and technology exhibitions have been held every day. Citizens are encouraged to participate. The bonus is generous. If you get the special prize, you can also get the richest mansion One-day tour. So not only is Xinhai City famous, but even neighboring cities have Internet celebrities to check in.”
Lin Mu: "Did you hear me? I didn't lie."
Wen Tonghua: "Since there is an upright and bright reason, why are you hiding and running away when you see us? What's going on with these peach trees, yellow talismans, black dog blood?"
Lin Mu: "Please, reflect on yourselves. One person is tall and vicious, and the other one holds a stick and roars when he sees us. Can we not be afraid? Besides these yellow talismans and black dog blood, that's not for safety. The library in the city center. It is one of the most famous of the top ten urban legends in Xinhai City, of course we are afraid to shoot at night!"
Cen Jin: "Top Ten Urban Legends?"
Lin Mu: "You don't know?" He said eloquently: "When the central library was digging the ground pile, I heard that a copper coffin was dug up, and a forty second-hand Guanyin statue was enshrined in the coffin. That night, two workers did not Shen was rolled into the stone crusher, and the minced blood was sprayed on the erected copper coffin. Early the next morning, the surface of the copper coffin was found to be clean, and all the blood and minced meat penetrated through some gaps. Inside, it's as if the copper coffin ate them."
A copper coffin again? Cen Jin frowned.
"This is the first weird thing that happened in the library. The second thing is that on the fifteenth and sixteenth of every month, the shopping malls around the library will close at 8 o'clock in the evening, and no one knows why. Three things are the bronze statues in the square."
Everyone subconsciously looked at the bronze statue in the square outside the window, only to discover the blood moon tonight, but the bronze statue was not weird.
Cultural assimilation: "What's wrong with the bronze statue?"
Lin Mu: "It is said that this bronze statue was made after the copper coffin was melted. Her prototype is the statue of Guanyin, not the mother of the richest man at all! Because the mother of the richest man is still alive, what does it mean when people give her a bronze statue when she is alive? "
Huo Xiaoting was curious: "Why did you melt the copper coffin and make it into a bronze statue, which is still placed in the center of the library square?"
Lin Mu shrugged: "The gossip said that it was an expert instructing him to melt the copper coffin and mold it into a bronze statue to let it experience the wind and the sun and be surrounded by popular people. Over time, the evil spirits will not break into the army, and the disaster will be eliminated."
As soon as Cen Jin heard it, he knew that it was nonsense. If there was something wrong with the copper coffin that was dug up, there would be a strange cannibalism hidden in it.
Weird and not afraid of sunlight, the so-called evil is spiritual pollution.
Foreign objects usually contaminate three inches of land first, and then expand to the outside world, and although the bronze statue was strange, he did not feel any pollution.
Lin Mu continued: "The fourth strange thing is the 'Human-skin Guanyin' that happened at the beginning of the year." He deliberately lowered his voice and said gloomily: "Don't believe it, some of us here have seen the human-skin Guanyin with their own eyes. I can't guarantee it's all true, the human skin Guanyin is absolutely true!"
Huo Xiaoting happened to investigate the case and immediately asked, "Who of you has seen it?"
Lin Mu pointed at the youngest girl and said, "Wang Youzhu, she has seen it."
The girl named Wang Youzhu looked at the crowd timidly, and whispered, "I live nearby, and I came to return the book that day. I remember very clearly that it was 6:20 in the morning. Because it was winter, the sun didn't get up so fast, and I woke up that day. It's foggy. Usually there are a lot of people, but it was the first day of the new year, many shops were closed, people went home, and I was the only one in the whole street. I was at the intersection across the street—"
Everyone followed her gaze. There was a cross at the end of the road opposite the square. There were high-rise commercial buildings on both sides.
But it was foggy that day, and only Wang Youzhu, a girl, was standing at the crossroads. The usual lively and noisy place was uncharacteristically, deadly quiet, like an empty city.
That moment of loneliness creates a sense of fear.
"I heard the sound of friction, getting closer and closer. I thought it was a cleaner, thinking that someone would not be afraid, so I ran in the direction of the sound, and gradually saw a tall figure in the white mist. It's three meters high, right at the door of the convenience store opposite."
The convenience store she was referring to was the gate of the mall where Cen Jin saw the strange figure just now!
"I stopped when I didn't feel right, hid behind the trash can and observed the figure, it was moving slowly, with many tentacles like dead branches on its back, moving up and down mechanically, the very deformed head on the neck I turned around suddenly and stared in my direction without moving. I was so frightened that I didn't dare to breathe. I shrank my head and didn't dare to look any more. '."
Wang Youzhu swallowed his saliva and said with a terrified expression: "They all said that the murderer did it. He is mentally abnormal, but it's not right! That human-skinned Guanyin is clearly alive! I clearly saw its head, turned around and stared at me, it must have been Found me! I knew for a long time that after that day, every time I went to the full moon, I would have nightmares, dreaming that the human-skinned Guanyin asked me to worship it, believe in it, and dedicate everything for it. I can't stand it, so I take advantage of this tonight Full moon + blood moon, come and unravel the mystery in person."
Cen Jin and others did not speak. Wang Youzhu's friend comforted her. After she recovered, Lin Mu said that they wanted to get the equipment back to continue shooting. Cen Jin and the others had no reason to object and let Lin Mu and others act.
As soon as the four of Lin Mu left, Xiong Bing: "That girl lied."
Cultural Assimilation: "Reason."
Huo Xiaoting: "Could it be because you don't believe in ghosts and gods?"
Xiong Bing: "She said that she hid behind the trash can, but the trash can at the street corner is a mobile trash can. It is emptied at 10 o'clock every night and put back at 6:30 the next morning. She saw it at 6:20. Human skin Guanyin, where did you get the trash can? When I seized their filming equipment just now, I saw one of them was broadcasting live on their mobile phone, and they were a group of weird Internet celebrities who were exploring live broadcasts."
Huo Xiaoting: "Are the current high school students dying like this?"
Xiong Bing: "Huaxia is still strictly controlled, and foreign countries are the real entertainment for the whole people to the death. There are too many strange live broadcasts of online adventures, and the number of viewers and the income are very considerable. If a terrorist incident really occurs, it can hit a record of 100,000 a night. Due to the high income of the knife, there are still people who put up rewards and hire anchors to explore the designated locations. There is a niche forum in China that is a window to communicate with the external network. Some people shoot videos on niche forums to earn clicks, and some people go directly through the forum. The bounty from the external network——
Did you notice the red ribbons on the four men's wrists
It was a niche organization called 'Dead Black'. In the past six months, it has broadcast live broadcasts of strange adventures all over the country. The video quality and production are high, and it quickly became famous on the Internet. The members of 'Dead Black' have a distinctive sign, which is a red ribbon tied around their wrists. "
Cen Jin didn't know this information at all, so he remained silent the whole time.
Wen Tonghua obviously knew about this organization, and when he heard this, his expression showed obvious disgust.
Huo Xiaoting pondered, "They are members of the 'Dead Black' organization, and their purpose is to live broadcast to find the weird, so how to find it? Where to find it? The four weird events mentioned by Lin Mu, except for the copper coffin, none of them happened in the book. In the library, even the copper coffin was melted into a copper coffin in the center of the square. So, what are they looking for in the library?"
Cen Jin walked to the window and looked at the bronze statue in the square and the opposite shopping mall. He had no interest in the 'Human Skin Guanyin', the bronze statue and the 'Dead Black' organization, but he needed this high-paying job, and he must have just The tall, grotesque shadows seen downstairs were not dazzling.
If you want to keep your part-time job as an administrator, it's best to deal with the weirdness surrounding the library, and now the first thing is to make sure you survive tonight.
Wen Tonghua put away the mop and said, "I'm going to the monitoring room, how about you?"
Xiong Bing didn't speak and left.
Huo Xiaoting shrugged: "I'll go to the basement."
Cen Jin looked at Wen Tonghua, who was immediately alert: "Only one person can go to the monitoring room, you can choose another floor."
The four of them are in a competitive relationship with each other, and neither of them wants to be with each other.
Cen Jin spread his hands: "I have no obligation to tell you my whereabouts."
Wen Tonghua pouted: "Don't squeeze with me, who cares about you."
After he finished speaking, he turned to leave and went to the monitoring room on the second floor.
Only Huo Xiaoting and Cen Jin were left in the reading room. The two looked at each other, and Huo Xiaoting was the first to invite him to the basement.
Cen Jin's choice is the monitoring room and the basement.
The former can watch the surveillance on the five floors of the library + the basement and outside. He wants to pay close attention to the actions of the forest group of four, lest they harm other people, and by the way look for the tall and strange figure outside.
The basement of the latter usually stores old newspapers. The excavation of the copper coffin in the library was a major event, and there should be reports.
Therefore, Cen Jin readily agreed to Huo Xiaoting's invitation.
The entrance to the basement is the fire door on the right side of the movie exhibition hall on the first floor. The elevator is not directly accessible. The two people take the elevator to the first floor. There is a short corridor. There are two elevators on the left. There are two doors on the left and right of the elevator, and one leads to the The children's reading room, another one leads to the library staff lounge.
Opposite the elevator is the entrance of the movie exhibition hall, the short corridor is the library hall, the left side is the front desk, behind the front desk is a library for storing damaged books, and the right side is the borrowed books and a row of automatic book lending machines. .
The front three-sided glass door + fence-type anti-theft door + rolling shutter door, the glass door + fence-type anti-theft door is currently closed, so outsiders can't come in, but there are no obstacles in sight on both sides.
Cen Jin opened the fire door to let Huo Xiaoting advance. When he entered, he subconsciously glanced at the door, and suddenly saw a tall black figure standing at the door, his heart jumped, he suddenly pushed open the closed fire door and rushed out to take a closer look, the door was empty.
illusion
"What did you see?" Huo Xiaoting looked up.
Cen Jin shook his head: "Let's go, go to the basement."
Huo Xiaoting glanced at him and said nothing. The two went to the basement together.
When the manager left, he left the keys of all floors. They found the keys to open the door of the basement, and as soon as they opened it, the smell of dust peculiar to the old paper piles wafted out.
Cen Jin covered his mouth and nose, turned on the light, and walked towards the geographic magazine area first, while Huo Xiaoting watched his back disappear into the bookshelf before turning around and walking towards the bookshelf in the direction of news newspapers and folklore literature.
Cen Jin quickly found the plan structure of the library, and kept the structure plan, key doors, escape stairs, and ventilation ducts in his mind, then folded it into his backpack, turned around and rummaged through the bookshelves of the news and newspapers.
The library collects city newspapers from 1990 to April this year. Cen Jin went directly to the newspapers of the year when the library laid the foundation. Sure enough, he saw the detailed reports of that year in the genuine column.
"In March 2003, Li Zhenzhong, the richest man in Xinhai City, decided to build a landmark building in the city, donated a piece of land to build a library, and started construction in January. Unexpectedly, on the day of the start of construction, there were suddenly dark clouds covering the top and strong winds blowing. The machine fell into a deep pit and broke the worker's master's leg... All kinds of ominous omens failed to shake Mr. Li's charitable heart.
… After that, strange things happened frequently. In March of the same year, hundreds of corpses were dug up for three consecutive days. From the posture of the corpses, it can be inferred that they died unexpectedly, and they were suspected to be large burial tombs. On the fourth day, the workers dug up a beautifully erected copper coffin and worked together to lift the copper coffin to the ground. One worker suddenly slipped his hand, and the copper coffin fell to the ground, pouring out a large amount of foul-smelling black water. The other two workers couldn't stand the stench and conditioned reflexively to let go. The fourth worker happened to trip and the copper coffin fell, smashing him in an instant. Mud, blood slowly flowed out from the bottom of the copper coffin, and the audience was silent. "
Cen Jin read the news report in a low voice, and the author wrote it like a story meeting.
"There was a fatal accident that day, and work was stopped immediately. Mr. Li received a notice and was ready to call the police. He had an accident on the way over and didn't have time to deal with it. That night, the blood moon was in the sky... Blood moon?" Cen Jin narrowed his eyes and shook the newspaper, Continue reading: "The blood moon was in the sky, and hell fell into the world. There were only five workers left behind that night. Two of them got up at 12:00 in the morning to urinate at night. The entire construction site machine suddenly started to operate, and two workers accidentally fell into the stone crusher..."
The following content is the same as what Lin Mu said.
Three people were killed in just two days. Li Zhenzhong planned to hand over the copper coffin and the murder case to the police, but then, for some unknown reason, an expert suddenly appeared and instructed Li Zhenzhong to dissolve the copper coffin to resolve his grievances.
The newspaper said that the copper coffin was an evil thing, and the contents of the copper coffin could not be released, and the bones that were dug out were human sacrifices, which were used to sacrifice to the evil spirits in the copper coffin. The land of the library is called 'the land of the four yin' in Feng Shui. The so-called land of the four yin is the place where the heaven, the earth and the people are not in harmony. It is usually built as a temple, a Taoist temple, a crematorium or a cemetery.
Buddhism and ghosts coexist, good and evil coexist in the same place, and the junction of yin and yang is the land of the four yin, which can not only breed the most powerful evil spirits, but also breed false gods.
The so-called false gods are the incense offerings of mountain spirits and demons in folklore who pretend to be small gods to deceive people through cultivation. The strangeness of people is also a family fairy who protects peace.
The false gods are both good and evil, good and evil in one thought, and evil is only evil.
The masters said that the things in the copper coffin are evil. It was man-made to be buried in the four shades of the earth. Once the time is ripe, it will break through the earth and bring disaster to the world. Therefore, it needs to be melted and reshaped into a bronze statue to withstand the scorching sun and disperse. Evil.
Cen Jin replaced all the special terms in the newspapers with a strange system to explain, "The Land of the Four Yins" is a place with a special magnetic field, just like the underground river that Ding Yqing mentioned.
'Evil evil' and 'pseudo-god' are foreign objects. Some people use secret methods to raise strange things, just like the tomb-suppressor who evolved into a high-risk foreign object in the Sihai Grottoes.
"The question now is whether the identity of the master is true or not. If it is false, it means that the bronze statue is still being raised and raised, then the abnormality around the library can be explained. After all, twelve lives can be killed. Cover it up, and there is a human skin Guanyin, it is estimated that the master is a fake."
Cen Jin flipped through other newspapers, trying to find the one with the picture of the copper coffin, but only found a newspaper with half torn off. He wiped the jagged edge of the newspaper with his fingertips, he had a guess in his heart, but his face remained calm. .
"The latest newspaper didn't publish the 'Human Skin Guanyin' case, you can't find it." Huo Xiaoting suddenly appeared behind him, holding a yellow leather folklore book in his hand and said, "I originally wanted to find out what the original location of the library was. I found that three pages were torn in the middle, and I guess these three pages must be related to the secret of the copper coffin."
Cen Jin stared at her: "The report of the copper coffin dug out in the newspaper was also torn up in half. Maybe it's key information, and it was deliberately kept from being known. But how does the person who tore up the information know that someone is investigating?"
Huo Xiaoting frowned, his face was puzzled, and he suddenly thought: "Maybe it's not us who are defending. You just came to apply for the job today, and I'm just interested in folklore research, so it's impossible to defend us. Could it be Xiong Bing? He is hired Bing, you can tell that there is a reward on the niche forum, and also recognize the characteristics of the 'dead black' organization. With his ability, he can be regarded as a part-time job with a salary of 36 per hour on weekends?"
She continued: "There is also a problem with cultural assimilation. As a graduate student, he can go to an educational institution to teach, with a monthly salary of at least 10,000 yuan, and he goes straight to the monitoring room. The purpose is too obvious. I heard Xiong Bing say that the most important thing is The first to find out that the four 'Dead Black' are cultural assimilation, and those four young and strong people are afraid of the cultural assimilation of weak scholars? It's too strange to be obediently stuck in the corner."
Cen Jin: "Indeed."
Everyone is not simple, except for him, the most kind and harmless, who really loves labor and just wants to keep a part-time job.
Huo Xiaoting suggested: "Let's go to the monitoring room to see what they want to do."
Cen Jin glanced at her lightly and said, "Okay."
Anyway, the main information I want to get here has been obtained. Next, I will find the 'tall strange figure' wandering outside the square. It is best to drive it away and get a part-time job. As for what mercenaries, folklore research scholars, or expedition live broadcast teams are hiding His mind has nothing to do with him, just don't delay him in supporting his family.
Of course, if he does something wrong, he will use the right of citizens to report.
***
In the monitoring room on the second floor, the door was locked, Wen Tonghua opened a can of cold beer and took two sips, his throat let out a refreshing sigh, his eyes fell on the display screen cut into 38 small squares, monitoring everyone in the library. whereabouts.
But I saw that the 'Dead Black' group of four separated and went to four different locations. Lin Mu went to the women's toilet on the third floor, Wang Youzhu went to the nursery room on the fourth floor, and the other two went to the reading room on the fourth floor and the fifth floor. Thirteen floors of bookshelves... eh? Why did Xiong Bing go to the bookshelf on the thirteenth floor on the fifth floor
Wen Tonghua immediately notified the boy who went to the fifth floor: "Fan Yuankai, that mercenary has also gone to the bookshelf on the thirteenth floor of the fifth floor, you should be careful yourself."
Fan Yuankai on the monitor screen replied, "I see. Hey, this guy is really troublesome, should we kill him? I heard that those evil people like to eat human flesh. If there is real flesh hanging around, maybe they can really photograph evil people. thing."
Wen Tonghua: "You're crazy, do you know that we are broadcasting live? You can still escape after killing someone
Fan Yuan laughed: "Just kidding." He was just hilarious.
Lin Mu of the same channel said: "But Wen Tonghua, you are too realistic to play a person who doesn't believe in weirdness and hates live expeditions. We were almost scared."
Wen Tonghua: "If it's not realistic, how can I help you divert that group of people? How can I grab the monitoring room? Come on, don't let them delay things."
Listening to their conversation, it turns out that they are familiar with each other. In fact, their identities are not fake. The four teenagers and girls are indeed students of No. 1 High School in the city, and Wen Assimilation is also a graduate student of Xinhaicheng University. It's just that they know each other and are members of the "Death Black" organization. I received a reward for "Live Filming of Xin Haicheng's Central Library Strange: 'Human Skin Avalokitesvara'" in two days, so I contacted the nearest team and formed a team to follow the instructions in the reward, and come in tonight to do a show to draw out 'Human Skin Avalokitesvara'. 's live broadcast.
Reward reminder, first go to the women's toilet on the third floor, put a piece of pig's trotter in the water tank of the last toilet, and then open the window outside.
Then there is the reading room on the fourth floor, where black dog blood is put in the reading room, and another person goes to the nursery room at the same time, and puts a doll with a recording in the nursery room.
Then they each find a place to hide and follow orders.
The last person went to the bookshelves from the thirteenth floor to the fourteenth floor on the fifth floor to find a pair of eyes in the wall.
These are the tips in the reward. In fact, there are reasons for each practice. For example, the water tank in the last toilet of the women's toilet on the third floor was once filled with human broken arms.
The reading room on the fourth floor was splashed with blood one day, and every tile from the floor gap to the ceiling was covered with thick blood. The nursery room on the same floor is said to have hid in an unmarried girl who was pregnant one night. She strangled her life with her navel. The baby who came down was thrown at the desk where the heartbroken man was reviewing every day, scaring the heartbroken man crazy.
As for the bookshelves on the 14th floor on the fifth floor, it comes from an urban legend a long time ago. It is said that a woman was killed and her body was buried in the walls of the library. Just enter the bookshelves on the thirteenth floor and open the fourteenth floor. The books on the bookshelf can see the eyes in the wall.
Because the last bounty tip was an old-fashioned story and an urban legend, Wen Tonghua and the others took it for granted that all the tips were just some weird library talk, so they boldly accepted the bounty.
After all, the bounty is rich, and as long as you follow the steps, you can get 20,000 yuan, and you can get another 30,000 yuan when you shoot the 'Human Skin Guanyin'.
Wen Tonghua told others: "All take action, don't waste time."
Everyone went to the prompt location, which was not monitored, and was blocked off from entering and leaving.
Of course, Lin Mu and others thought it was because there were too many complaints, and the library had to be closed to reassure people, but they didn't think it was because of weirdness.