The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

"Cen Jin?" Huo Xiaoting urged with his head.

Cen Jin looked away, 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's your plan? Do you want to steal books?"

Cen Jin bypassed the bookshelf blocking his view, and saw four strange young men and women standing against the wall, and a pile of instruments placed on the desk, live broadcast equipment such as mobile phones and video cameras, and night-time adventures such as night vision goggles, flashlights and electric batons. Equipment, there are 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 pork leg.

No need to ask, Cen Jin guessed what the group of young men and women were here for, and he also noticed a red ribbon tied around the left wrist of the four of them.

A boy aged [-] or [-] on the right said, "My name is Lin Mu, and we are both students of No. [-] High School in 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 love to read are allowed to stay here until three o'clock in the morning. Now it is eight ten o'clock in the evening, which is the opening time. You have no right to drive us out."

The boy next to the girl echoed: "And the library holds a film exhibition every Wednesday, and citizens are allowed to come in and shoot. The four of us have signed up for the film exhibition. This time we are here to shoot the participating videos. Are you administrators? Administrators have no rights 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? Is there such a rule?"

"Indeed." Huo Xiaoting said: "The library in the city center is donated by the richest man in the city. It has been holding various film exhibitions and technology exhibitions for ten years. Citizens are encouraged to participate. The bonuses are generous. If you win the grand prize, you can also get the mansion of the richest man It’s a one-day trip. Not only is Xinhai City famous, but even neighboring cities have Internet celebrities to check in.”

Lin Mu: "Did you hear that? I didn't lie."

Wen Tonghua: "Since there is an aboveboard reason, why do you hide and run away as soon as you see us? What's the matter with these mahogany yellow symbols and black dog blood?"

Lin Mu: "Please, reflect on yourselves. One is tall and fierce, and the other is holding a stick and yelling at us. Can we not be afraid? Besides these yellow symbols and black dog blood, isn't it just for safety. Downtown library It is the most famous one 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 library in the city center was digging the ground pile, I heard that a copper coffin was dug out, and a 42-handed Avalokitesvara statue was enshrined in the coffin. Two workers accidentally rolled it up that night. After entering the stone crusher, the bloody minced meat was sprayed on the erected copper coffin, but the surface of the copper coffin was found to be clean the next morning, and all the bloody minced meat penetrated into the interior through some gap. It's as if the copper coffins ate them."

Another copper coffin?Cen Jin frowned.

"This is the first weird thing that happened in the library. The second thing is that on the 16th and NO.[-] of every month, the shopping malls around the library will close on time at eight o'clock in the evening. No one knows the reason. The first Three things are the bronze statues of the square."

Everyone subconsciously looked at the bronze statue in the square outside the window, only to realize that there was a blood moon tonight, but there was nothing strange about the bronze statue.

Wen Tonghua: "What's wrong with the bronze statue?"

Lin Mu: "It is said that this bronze statue was molded after melting the copper coffin. Her prototype is the Guanyin statue, not the richest man's mother at all! Because the richest man's mother is still alive, what does it mean to make a bronze statue for her? "

Huo Xiaoting was curious: "Why is the copper coffin melted and made into a bronze statue, and it is still placed in the center of the library square?"

Lin Mu shrugged his shoulders: "The gossip said that a certain expert pointed out that the copper coffin was melted and molded into a bronze statue to let it experience the wind, sun, and popularity. After a long time, the evil energy will be defeated, and the disaster will be eliminated."

As soon as Cen Jin heard it, he knew it was nonsense. If there was something wrong with the copper coffin dug up, the thing hidden inside would also be something weird.

Weird is not afraid of the sun, the so-called evil spirit is spiritual pollution.

Foreign matter usually pollutes three inches of land first, and then expands outwards. Although the bronze statue is weird, he doesn't feel any pollution.

Lin Mu continued: "The fourth weird thing is the 'Human Skin Avalokitesvara' that happened at the beginning of the year." He deliberately lowered his voice, and said grimly: "Don't believe it, some of us here have seen the Human Skin Avalokitesvara with their own eyes. Other weird things I can’t guarantee that it’s all true, but the human-skinned Avalokitesvara is absolutely true!”

Huo Xiaoting happened to be investigating this case, and immediately asked, "Which one of you has seen it?"

Lin Mu pointed to the youngest girl and said, "Wang Youzhu, she has seen it."

The girl named Wang Youzhu looked at the crowd timidly, and said in a low voice, "I live nearby, and I came to return the books that day. I remember very clearly that it was [-]:[-] in the morning. Because it was winter, the dawn didn't dawn so fast, so I got up that day to return the books." It's foggy. Usually there are many people, but it was the first day of the new year, many shops were closed, people went home, and I was the only one on the whole street. I was at the intersection across the street—"

Everyone followed her gaze, and there was an intersection at the end of the road opposite the square, with high-rise commercial buildings on both sides, and it was usually very busy without looking.

But it was foggy that day, and there was only Wang Youzhu, a girl, standing at the crossroads. The bustling and noisy place that I was usually familiar with was uncharacteristically quiet, like an empty city.

That momentary solitude can engender a sense of dread.

"I heard the sound of rubbing, and it was getting closer. I thought it was a cleaner. I thought I wouldn't be afraid to have someone by my side, so I ran in the direction of the sound, and gradually saw a tall figure in the white mist. It's three meters high, and it's right in front 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 felt something was wrong, and hid behind the trash can to observe the figure. It was moving slowly, with many tentacles like dead branches sticking out from its back, moving up and down mechanically, and the deformed head on its neck I turned around abruptly and stared at my direction without moving. I was so scared that I didn't dare to breathe. I shrank my head and didn't dare to look any more, so I ran away. Not long after I got home, I heard someone say that "Human Skin Guanyin" appeared in the square. "

Wang Youzhu swallowed, and said with a horrified expression: "They all said that the murderer did it. He was a psychopath, but it's not true! That human-skinned Avalokitesvara is clearly alive! I clearly saw its head, turned to stare at me, it must be Found me! I already knew that after that day, every time I reached the full moon, I would have nightmares, dreaming that the human skin Guanyin told me to worship it, believe in it, and dedicate everything to it. I couldn’t stand it, so I took advantage of it tonight Full moon + blood moon, come and solve the mystery yourself."

Cen Jin and others did not speak, Wang Youzhu's friend comforted her, and when she recovered, Lin Mu said that they wanted to get back the equipment and continue filming, Cen Jin and the others had no reason to object and let Lin Mu and others do their thing.

As soon as Lin Mu and the others left, Xiong Bing said, "That girl is lying."

Cultural assimilation: "Reason."

Huo Xiaoting: "Is it because you don't believe in ghosts and gods?"

Xiong Bing: "She said she hid behind the trash can, but the trash can on the street is a mobile trash can, which is removed at ten o'clock every night and put back at 06:30 the next morning. She saw it at [-]:[-] Human Skin Avalokitesvara, where did you get the trash can? When I confiscated their filming equipment just now, I saw one of them’s mobile phone was broadcasting live. They are a group of strange Internet celebrities who live on adventure.”

Huo Xiaoting: "Are high school students doing this to death?"

Xiong Bing: "China's control is fairly strict, and foreign countries are the real national entertainment to death. There are too many live broadcasts of weird adventures on the Internet. The number of viewers and revenue are very considerable. If a terrorist incident really happens, it can hit a record of [-] a night. The high income of the knife, and some people offer rewards and hire anchors to explore designated locations. There is a niche forum in China that is a window to communicate with the outside world. Some people put videos on the niche forum to earn clicks, and some people directly use the forum The reward for connecting to the external network——

Did you notice the red ribbons on the wrists of the four?

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, with high-quality and high-yield videos, and soon became famous on the Internet. Members of 'Dead Black' have a distinctive sign, which is a red ribbon tied around the wrist. "

Cen Jin didn't know this information at all, so he kept silent the whole time.

Wen Tonghua obviously knew about this organization, and his expression showed obvious disgust when he heard this.

Huo Xiaoting was thoughtful, "They are members of the 'Dead Black' organization, and their purpose is to live broadcast to find the strange, how to find it? Where to find it? The four strange 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 dissolved into the copper coffin in the center of the square. So, what are they looking for in the library?"

Cen Jin walked to the window to look at the bronze statue in the square and the shopping mall opposite. He had no interest in the 'Human Skin Avalokitesvara', the bronze statue and the 'Dead Black' organization, but he needed this job with a high hourly salary, and he was sure that The tall strange shadow seen downstairs was not dazzled.

If you want to keep your part-time job as administrator, you'd better deal with the weirdness surrounding the library, and the first thing now 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 left without saying a word.

Huo Xiaoting shrugged: "I'm going to the basement."

Cen Jin looked at Wen Tonghua, who immediately became alert: "Only one person can go to the monitoring room, you choose another floor."

The four of them are competing with each other, and none of them want to be with each other.

Cen Jin spread his hands: "I have no obligation to tell you my whereabouts."

Wen Tonghua curled his lips: "Don't crowd me, who cares about you."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left, going to the monitoring room on the second floor.

Huo Xiaoting and Cen Jin were the only ones left in the reading room. They looked at each other, and Huo Xiaoting was the first to invite him to the basement together.

Cen Jin's choice is the monitoring room and the basement.

The former can watch the five floors of the library + the basement and the monitoring outside. He wants to keep a close eye on the actions of Lin Mu's four-person team, lest they harm other people, and look for the tall ghost outside by the way.

The basement of the latter usually stores older newspapers. It was a big event that the library dug out the copper coffin back then, and it should be reported.

So 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 does not go directly to it. Two people take the elevator to the first floor and come out to 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 and another door leads to the library staff lounge.

Facing the elevator is the entrance of the film exhibition hall, and the short corridor is the library hall. On the left is the front desk. Behind the front desk is a library for storing damaged books. On the right side are borrowed books and a row of automatic borrowing machines. .

There are three glass doors in front + fence-type security door + rolling shutter door. Currently, the glass door + fence-type security door is closed, so outsiders cannot enter but there is no obstacle to see things on both sides.

Cen Jin opened the fire door to let Huo Xiaoting go first. When he went in, he subconsciously glanced at the door, and suddenly saw a tall black figure standing at the door, and his heart beat suddenly. He 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, said nothing, and the two went to the basement together.

When the manager left, he left the keys of all the floors. They found the keys and opened the door of the basement. As soon as they opened the door, the peculiar dusty smell of old paper piles came into their nostrils.

Cen Jin covered his mouth and nose, turned on the light, and walked towards the geographical 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 newspapers and folklore literature.

Cen Jin quickly found the floor plan of the library, kept the structure diagram, key doors, escape stairs, and ventilation ducts firmly in his mind, then folded them into his backpack, turned around and rummaged through the bookshelves piled with news papers.

The library collects urban newspapers from 90 to April this year. Cen Jin directly went to the library to find the newspapers from the year when he laid the foundation. As expected, 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 city landmark building, donated a piece of land to build a library, and started construction in January. Unexpectedly, on the day of the start of construction, suddenly dark clouds covered the top, strong winds blew, and the altar blew down. The machine fell into a deep pit and broke the leg of the worker's master... All kinds of ominous omens failed to shake Mr. Li's heart of charity.

…Since then, strange incidents have occurred frequently. In March of the same year, hundreds of corpses were dug out for three consecutive days. From the posture of the corpses, it can be inferred that they died in an accident during their lifetime. It is suspected that they were buried in a large group of tombs.On the fourth day, the workers dug out an exquisite vertical copper coffin, and worked together to lift the copper coffin to the ground.A worker slipped his hands suddenly, and the copper coffin fell to the ground, pouring out a large amount of foul-smelling black water. The other two workers could not bear the stench and reflexively let go. Worker No. 3 happened to trip and the copper coffin slipped, smashing him instantly Turned into flesh, blood slowly flowed out from the bottom of the copper coffin, and the audience was completely silent. "

Cen Jin read the content of this news report in a low voice, and the author wrote it like a story.

"There was a fatality that day, and work was stopped immediately. Mr. Li received a notice to call the police, but an accident happened on the way here, and he didn't have time to deal with it. That night, the blood moon was in the sky... a blood moon?" Cen Jin narrowed his eyes and shook the newspaper. , continue reading: "The blood moon was in the sky, hell fell into the world, there were only five workers staying behind that night, two of them woke up at 12 o'clock in the morning to urinate, the entire construction site machine suddenly started to work, 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 homicide case to the police, but then for some 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. The bones dug out were living sacrifices, used to sacrifice to the evil spirits in the copper coffin.The land of the library is called "the land of the four shades" in Feng Shui. The so-called land of the four shades means that the heaven, the earth, and the people are not in harmony with each other. It is usually built into a temple, a Taoist temple, a crematorium or a cemetery.

Buddhism and Taoism coexist with demons and ghosts, good and evil coexist in the same place, and Yin and Yang meet. This is the land of the four Yins, which can breed the most powerful evil spirits and false gods.

The so-called false gods are the offerings made by mountain spirits and ghosts in folklore who pretend to be small gods to deceive people through cultivation. The weirdness of people is also a family fairy who protects peace.

False gods have the same body of good and evil, good and evil can be separated in one thought, while evil is only evil.

The expert said that the thing in the copper coffin is evil, and it is man-made to be buried in the four shades. Once the time is ripe, it will break out of the ground and cause harm to the world, so 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 newspaper with a weird system to explain, "land of four shades" means a place with a special magnetic field, just like the underground river mentioned by Ding Yiqing.

'Evil spirits' and 'false gods' are foreign objects. Some people use secret methods to raise strange ones, just like the tomb hunter who evolved into a high-risk foreign object in Sihai Grotto.

"The question now is whether the identity of the expert is true or false. If it is false, it means that the bronze statues will continue to raise weirdness. Then the abnormalities around the library can be explained. After all, twelve lives can be killed Cover it up, and there is such a thing as the human skin Guanyin, it is estimated that the expert 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 that had been torn in half. He wiped the jagged edge of the newspaper with his fingertips. .

"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 folk book in his hand and said: "I wanted to find out what the original address of the library is, It was found that three pages were torn out 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 newspaper's report on the unearthing of the copper coffin has also been torn up in half. It may be key information, and it is deliberately kept from being known. But how does the person who tore up this information know that someone is looking for it?"

Huo Xiaoting frowned, his face full of confusion, and he suddenly thought: "Maybe it's not us. You just came to apply for the job today, and I'm just interested in folklore research, so it's impossible to guard against us. Could it be Xiong Bing? He was hired Bing, you can tell the rewards offered by niche forums, and you can also recognize the characteristics of the "Death Black" organization, with his ability to see a part-time job with an hourly salary of 36 on weekends?"

She went on to say: "Cultural assimilation also has problems. As a graduate student, he can go to an educational institution to teach, with a monthly salary of at least 1 yuan, and as soon as he leaves, he goes straight to the monitoring room. The purpose is too obvious. I heard from Xiong Bing that in the end The first to discover the four members of 'Dead Black' is Wen Tonghua, and those four are young and strong, but still afraid of the Wen Hua of weak scholars? It's so strange to be stuck in a corner obediently."

Cen Jin: "Indeed."

Everyone is not simple, except 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 here has been obtained, and the next step is to find the 'tall ghost' wandering outside the square, it is best to drive them away and get a part-time job, as for mercenaries, folklore researchers, or the expedition live broadcast team. His thoughts have nothing to do with him, as long as he doesn't delay his family support.

Of course, if he commits crimes, he will use the citizen's right to report.

***

In the monitoring room on the second floor, the door was locked. Wen Tonghua opened a can of cold beer and drank a couple of sips. He sighed comfortably, and his eyes fell on the display screen cut into 38 small squares, monitoring the whereabouts of everyone in the library.

However, the four members of the 'Dead Black' group 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 on the fourth floor, and the other two went to the reading room on the fourth floor and No. 13 on the fifth floor. .13 bookshelves...huh?Why did Xiong Bing go to the No.[-] bookshelf on the fifth floor?

Wen Tonghua immediately informed the boy who was going to the fifth floor: "Fan Yuankai, that mercenary has also gone to the No. 13 bookshelf on the fifth floor. Be careful yourself."

Fan Yuankai on the monitor screen replied: "Got it. Tsk, this person is really troublesome, should we get rid of him? I heard that those evil things like to eat human flesh. If there is real human flesh hanging around, maybe we can really capture the evil thing."

Wen Tonghua: "You are crazy, do you know that we are live broadcasting? You can escape after killing someone? What a shame!"

Fan Yuan joked: "Just kidding." He was just talking.

Lin Mu of the same channel said: "However, Wen Tonghua's image of you playing a person who doesn't believe in weirdness and hates adventure live broadcasts is so realistic that we were almost scared."

Wen Tonghua: "If you're not realistic, how can you lure those people away? How can you get to the surveillance room? That's enough, don't let them delay the matter."

Listening to their conversation, they seem to be familiar with each other. In fact, their identities are not fake. The four teenagers and girls are indeed students of No. [-] High School in the city and Wen Tonghua is also a graduate student of Xinhaicheng University. Received a reward for "Live filming of Makoto Xin Haicheng's strange city center library: 'Human Skin Guanyin'" in two days, so I contacted the nearest one and formed a team to follow the tips in the reward, and come in tonight to do a show to draw out "Human Skin Guanyin" live broadcast.

Reward hint, 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 released, and another person goes to the nursery at the same time, and a doll with a recording is placed in the nursery.

Then each of them found a place to hide and obeyed orders.

The last one goes to the No.13 to No.14 floors of the fifth floor to find a pair of eyes in the wall among the bookshelves.

These are all hints in the reward. In fact, there is a reason for every practice. For example, the water tank in the last toilet of the women's toilet on the third floor was once filled with human severed arms.

The reading room on the fourth floor was splashed with blood one day, 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 an unmarried girl who was pregnant one night, and she strangled her to death with her belly button. The baby that got down was thrown by the desk where the heartbroken man was reviewing every day, scaring the heartbroken man crazy.

As for the No.14 bookshelf 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 wall of the library. Just enter the No.13 bookshelf and open No.14 The books on the bookshelf can see the eyes in the wall.

Precisely because the last reward tip was an old-fashioned urban legend, Wen Tonghua and the others took it for granted that all the hints were cobbled together strange tales from the library, so they boldly accepted the reward.

After all, the rewards are generous, as long as you follow the steps, you can get 2 yuan, and you can get another 3 yuan if you capture the 'Human Skin Avalokitesvara'.

Wen Tonghua told the others: "Let's all act, don't waste time."

Everyone went to the reminder location. Those places were not monitored, and they were all sealed off, and entry and exit were prohibited.

Of course, Lin Mu and the others thought that there were too many complaints, and the library had to be closed to reassure people, but they didn't think it was because of the weirdness.

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The middle position between No.13 and No.14 bookshelves is collectively referred to as No.13 bookshelf.