The Earth is Online - Chapter 4

[Chapter Four]

Tang Mo glanced around. There were no other people in the quiet library, let alone so-called angels and demons.

“Mr. Chen, please turn off the computer for me. I’ll see if I can still get books from the bookshelf.”

The magic stick nodded, and pressed the mouse to turn off the computer.

Tang Mo’s eyes swept across the magic stick’s right hand holding the mouse. He strode to the bookshelf, took out a book, and put it back. “Now, depending on the situation, we can still take books from the bookshelf at will, so let me confirm first… Mr. Chen, did you hear that voice?”

The magic stick asked a little confused: “You mean let us help the little girl find books, or she will die?”

Tang Mo nodded lightly, and the two sat on the chairs at the service desk. He said, “It seems that we belong to the angel camp.” As he spoke, Tang Mo stretched out his right hand. The magic stick leaned over to take a look, reacted at once, and hurriedly stretched out his right hand, and there was also a pattern of angel wings on the back of that hand.

“Ah, I have this too.”

Almost at the same time as the child’s voice said the word “angel”, Tang Mo discovered that there was such a pattern on the back of his right hand. This intention could not be more obvious, Tang Mo belonged to the angel camp. Most of the people in Huaxia are right-handed, and he just asked Shengou to help him shut down the computer just to understand the camp of Shengou without disturbing the snake.

But since the magic stick is an angel, the problem is even more serious.

The magic stick apparently also thought of this question: “We are both angels, who is the devil?”

This library is exactly the same as the library where Tang Mo works. Tang Mo opened his drawer and took out a piece of chewing gum. He chewed the gum slowly, gave the god stick a piece too, frowned, and tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table.

“The first possibility is that the devil is different from us, and the devil is not a human being. The voice should be related to the black tower. We temporarily believe that this game is the game that the black tower said three days ago. The black tower is some kind of unknown creature, Demons, like the Black Tower, are not humans, they are just our opponents set by the Black Tower.”

It’s completely understandable to say this: “So now we don’t find anyone else in the library, just the two of us, because the devil doesn’t exist.”

Tang Mo nodded: “Well, yes. But this is a better situation. There is a second possibility, the devil is also a human being.”

The magic stick nervously clenched the explosion-proof stick: “He hid?”

Tang Mo’s gaze casually swept across the God Stick’s hand holding the explosion-proof stick. After a while, he smiled and said, “It’s possible.”

An unknown adversary is always more terrifying than a known danger.

Tang Mo and the magic stick soldiers were divided into two groups. The magic stick is thicker than Tang Mo, so he will find the devil who may be hiding in the library, while Tang Mo is going to go to the first and second floors of the library to have a look.

Originally, the magic stick was still very scared and didn’t dare to do such a thing alone, but Tang Mo said, “That voice said, no violence.”

That being said, the magic stick is still a little cowardly. When looking for someone, his legs are trembling, and he can’t even hold the explosion-proof stick.

But Tang Mo returned within a minute. His face was a little ugly: “I can’t go down the stairs.”

“what?”

“There are two ways to go down from the third floor, the first is to take the staff elevator, and the second is to go down the stairs. I took the stairs first, but there seemed to be an invisible wall at the top of the stairs preventing me from going over. Then I went again Looking for the staff elevator, the elevator didn’t start, and there was no way to go down.”

The magic stick turned his head: “It means that we can only move freely on the third floor, so isn’t the book we are looking for on the third floor?”

Tang Mo also thinks so, but if the scope of the books is limited to the third floor…

The Godstick’s face suddenly became very ugly. He turned his head stiffly and his voice trembled slightly: “On the third floor of your library, how many bookshelves are there in total?”

“Twenty-three.”

The god stick widened his eyes: “Why so few!”

Tang Mo was also helpless.

How did he decide this?

A few months ago, Director Wang didn’t know what was going on. He said that he wanted to learn from the experience of modern libraries in the West and rebuild his own library, starting from the third floor. Suzhou Library has decades of history, just like other city libraries, the facilities inside are all aged. After Director Wang renovated the third floor, he replaced all the original more than 100 bookshelves and bought 23 large bookshelves connected together.

Many readers have complained that this kind of bookshelf is inconvenient to move around, and Director Wang has already planned to replace the bookshelf next year. It’s a pity that people’s calculations are not as good as heaven’s, I’m afraid he won’t have the opportunity to change the bookshelf again in this life.

If the scope of books is limited to the third floor of the library, it will be good for Tang Mo and Shenbang. Although Tang Mo is a library employee, he has been working on the third floor. Shenbang likes to read books on mysticism and religion. These books are all on the third floor. Both of them are most familiar with the third floor of the library.

But with fewer bookshelves, it’s easier for demons to burn books. The probability of burning the right book is greatly increased.

Just when both of them were worried, the familiar footsteps sounded again from the depths of the bookshelf. When seeing the little girl Mosaic, Tang Mo was unable to complain about where she came from. The little girl was holding a small rice bowl in her hand, and a pig bib was tied around her neck, and she ran over.

“Have you found my book yet?”

The magic stick shook his head in frustration: “We haven’t started looking.”

The little girl said angrily: “You haven’t looked for it yet?! I managed to sneak out to look for you while the teacher was not paying attention. The first day is almost over, and I will go home after the afternoon class is over. , if mom finds out, it will be the end.”

Tang Mo said, “Do you have any clues? Do you remember anything about the book?”

The little girl shook her double ponytail: “I can’t remember.”

The magic stick hurriedly said, “Aren’t you going to give us clues?”

The little girl suddenly said, “Ah, I remember, I found this feather in my room this morning. Yes, it’s a devil’s feather! I knew it wasn’t me who lost the book, it was the damn devil. , he stole my book! They are all liars, and I hate demons the most. Damn, I must catch him, break his wings, and put it in the popcorn machine here, to my favorite popcorn!”

The little girl handed a black feather into Tang Mo’s hand and hopped away again.

“Ding dong! Angel gets a hint of a ‘devil’s feather’.”

Tang Mo: “…”

God stick:”……”

After a while, Tang Mo said, “…This is our reminder?”

The god stick is also a little confused. He thought for a while: “Does this feather have any other function?”

Tang Mo touched the feather, and then took the feather and threw it twice in the air. It seemed to be an ordinary feather without any magical power. When Tang Mo tried hard to try out the magical power it was hiding, it just kept the same quietly and mocked silently.

The light suddenly disappeared at this time.

The magician screamed in horror.

The entire library instantly sank into darkness, Tang Mo’s heart skipped a beat, just as he was standing next to the service desk, he subconsciously turned on the old-fashioned lamp on the desk. Clicking, the faint yellow light dimly illuminated the one-meter range around the service desk, surrounding Tang Mo and Shen Gong.

Tang Mo stared at the bookshelves shrouded in darkness without blinking.

Tang Mo held back his nervousness and tried to turn on other lights. He found that all the lights could not be turned on except for this lamp on the desk. The two leaned against the table of the service counter and sat down on the ground.

In this endless darkness, the fear became more apparent. There is only this dim light on the third floor of the entire library, and the lights can’t shine on other places. It seems that there is a huge beast hiding in these darkness, as long as they take a step outside, they will be mercilessly swallowed into their stomachs.

“Did you hear any sound!” The god stick moved closer to Tang Mo in fear.

Tang Mo’s scalp felt a little numb when he said that. He listened carefully for a while: “No, I didn’t hear it.”

The god stick swallowed his saliva: “Why is it suddenly dark this day…”

Tang Mo remembered the nursery rhyme that Tong Sheng sang at the beginning: “If you don’t speak for three days and three nights, the angel and the devil want it. The angel can get a hint during the day, and the devil can burn a bookshelf at night… Is the day and night of this game? Is it different from our time flow?”

The magician was too frightened to think.

Tang Mo tried his best to calm down: “It’s two hours.”

“what?”

“That game started at 17:52, now it’s 19:58, two hours is a day.”

God Stick: “Do you have such a good memory?!”

Shen stick vaguely remembered that there was indeed a time before the child’s voice sang the ballad. But he was terrified at the time, where would he pay attention to that time, let alone remember it. Tang Mo actually remembered?

In fact, Tang Mo was also surprised. He also found that his memory seemed to be surprisingly good now. For example, he still remembered that Minnie on the little girl’s pink schoolbag was wearing a yellow bow and held a pink lollipop in her hand.

When did his memory get so good?

There is no time to think about this now.

Tang Mo said calmly, “Assume two hours as a day for the time being. It is said in the nursery rhyme that if you don’t speak for three days and three nights, the little girl will die after three days. So… this ‘night’ is also presumed to be two hours. At ‘night’, demons will come out and burn bookshelves.”

For the next time, Tang Mo and Shen Chou widened their eyes and stared at the twenty-three dark bookshelves.

Although they knew that violence was prohibited in the game, this unknown fear swept the two of them. They did not dare to relax and hold the explosion-proof stick tightly, which was a kind of psychological comfort.

However, an hour and a half passed, and they did not see anyone, nor did they see the scene of burning the bookshelves.

God Stick: “Is there really a devil?”

Tang Mo pursed his lips, and turned his eyes on the god stick: “There should be.”

“Then why hasn’t he burned the bookshelf yet?”

Tang Mo leaned on the desk at the service desk and said meaningfully, “I also want to know why he hasn’t burned the bookshelf yet.”

The magic stick didn’t understand what he said, but Tang Mo had already turned his head, clenched the explosion-proof stick and looked at the magic stick with deep eyes: “Mr. Chen, why do you think the devil hasn’t burned yet…”

“boom!”

A huge explosion sounded suddenly in the library.

Tang Mo opened his eyes wide to look at the place where the explosion sounded. In an instant, the fire was so blazing that the seventh row of bookshelves was engulfed by a raging fire. The huge flames looked terrifying in the library, and the flames illuminated everything. Tang Mo and Shen Gong stared there from beginning to end, but until the flames went out, they didn’t see anyone appearing from there.

The next day, the little girl jumped over with the Minnie’s schoolbag on her back.

“You haven’t found my book yet? Mom is visiting Uncle Mole’s house today. I managed to hide it from her. She hasn’t found out that my book has been stolen. I can’t hide it from my mom, she will definitely find out, When can you help me find the book?”

Tang Mo’s face was a little pale, and he rubbed his temples: “Did you think of any clues about that book today?”

The little girl said dissatisfiedly: “I said it, I don’t remember, I don’t remember, I don’t remember!”

Tang Mo reminded: “This is the second day.”

As soon as these words fell, the little girl didn’t speak anymore, but Tang Mo could feel that under the layers of mosaics, the little girl should be looking at herself with strange eyes. She said, “You’re an angel. You’ve read so many books, and of course you know that book. I’m not an angel. I hate reading books the most. How can I know the clues of a book. You only know!”

“Ding dong! Angel gets hint two ‘Contempt from Mosaic’.”

Tang Mo: “…”