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This should be a notepad that I carry with me.Lu You shook his clothes suspiciously, there was nowhere to hide things... Hui Hui didn't know why he took them out at that time, and he didn't have any in his hand when he left.

He flipped through it casually, and only the last few pages of the book were left blank, and the front was filled with smaller dense black characters in the narrow line spacing—there were entries, dates, and several pages. There are also simple illustrations on it, which looks like the kind of handbook that records inspiration and daily schedules.

At first glance, this book was a personal belonging, and it belonged to a girl. Lu You closed it after flipping through it, without looking at the specific content, thinking that he would find Hui Hui tomorrow and return the things to her.

He shared the apartment with a roommate named Zhao Feng, who is also a student of T University, and he hasn't come back yet.Usually, when the two of them are together, they basically stay in their respective rooms, and they don't communicate much. Occasionally, Lu You will come over for a meal when he cooks, and he will do things like sweeping the floor and taking out the trash, and get along well. not bad.There is just one thing... that guy has a low alcohol capacity, and he still insists on drinking. When he was drunk, he was carried back by his friends and threw him at the door. Lu You was woken up more than once in the middle of the night and got up to open the door for him.

He took a change of clothes, wrapped a few layers of plastic wrap on his injured hand, and went into the bathroom. He was greeted by the smell of men's perfume.Seeing the razor and skin care products on the sink that he didn't have time to clean up, he had a bad premonition: Zhao Feng's carefulness in dressing up before going to the party was basically the same as the beauty of the girl he was meeting. Proportional - as drunk as he was when he came back from the party.

Lu You sighed secretly, and went to open the ventilation window to let the smell of perfume dissipate.He was already quite tired today, and if he was woken up halfway through his sleep, he might not be able to control his anger... I hope that Zhao Feng will be completely drunk if he wants to. If he is so drunk that he can't remember his address, it will be easier for him to be settled in a hotel.

The room was very quiet, making the sound of the bathing water all the more noticeable.Lu You knew that he was not too courageous, and he was fine at ordinary times. If one day he watched a novel or movie with horror elements, he would feel uneasy in the dark and alone.For example, when you rinse your hair with your eyes closed and the sound of water filling your ears, it seems as if you will see something approaching you when you open your eyes...

He rubbed his head vigorously against the shower water, and after washing off the foam, he quickly pulled the towel to wipe his face and opened his eyes, scanning the small bathroom filled with steam.When it was verified that there was no abnormality as expected, the tense heartstrings were considered to be loosened.

Clothes hung behind the door, half covering the frosted glass window that let in the light from outside.Lu You stared at the orange glass for a while, then lowered his head to continue washing his body.There seemed to be some water in his eyes, feeling astringent, and his thoughts were a little messy, at one moment it was the collapsed auditorium, the blood smeared on the gray concrete section, at another moment it was the pale lights in the hospital, and then it turned into the scene just now. When flipping the pages of the notebook, the few stick figure illustrations that flashed before his eyes... He flipped so fast that he didn't seem to be able to see clearly at the time, but those lines were gradually drawn clearly in his memory, clearly they were claws, tails , tentacles, etc. belong to the shape of the monster's limbs.

...Is that really an ordinary diary?

The more Lu You thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.Even if it is "ordinary", the definition in Huihui is probably very different from others...

Feeling restless, his injured hand couldn't stay in a humid environment for long, so he hurriedly took a shower in half an hour, brushed his hair casually, heated the packed dinner in the microwave, and carried it back to his room .

The fragrant and hot air from the food soothed the emotions, and the hungry stomach began to protest. Lu You untied the gauze and looked at the condition of the wound. The two sides of the scratched flesh were slightly separated, and the blood filled in the long and narrow gap had already solidified It became a blood scab.Thinking of what the doctor said to give the wound a breath, he didn't wrap it up again, and immediately took the chopsticks to open the takeaway box, ready to eat.

Just seeing the beef in the donburi, he remembered Huihui's tone when he said "open to enjoy"... After a pause for a while, he finally put the little black in the bag and prepared to return to Zhao tomorrow. Ben took it out again and opened it from the back.

Different from her gray and non-mainstream attire, her handwriting is as neat as a printout, and each small character is like black ants, crowding the page.Lu You originally planned to turn to those stick figures first, but his eyes fell on the first line of the last page, and the hand that was about to turn the page stopped.

"The Spider Wolf in the Old Hall"

... Isn't this the monster that Huihui told him in a serious face just now, saying that if he went to the auditorium, he would be eaten?

This book is not a diary, but a plot setting made by her?

Lu You made up his mind and told himself not to guess and continue reading.

"The spider wolf in the old auditorium: Average size, average attack power, and stupid. But if you clash with him in the auditorium, which is his lair, it is still not easy to gain an advantage. After examining the rumors related to the auditorium, it is determined that it is XX-level The girl who saw hallucinations at the welcome party and was on sick leave, the XX class played the prophet John when rehearsing Medusa in the drama club, the boy who was cut on the neck by a prop sword and died of infection, and the XX class climbed to the roof due to emotional problems and cut his wrists The girls who jumped from the building afterward were all their victims. The number of more recent and less severe victims is unknown.

"It's okay to get in touch with him. Let me help lure qualified food over, and refuse. Ask him to promise not to eat humans that I find pleasing to the eye, and he also refuses. In the end, we agreed that we should use our own ability when conflicts arise, and we will not interfere with each other before. Before I left, I met a few interesting people who regarded me as a junior school girl. I was invited to join the drama club."

There are only these two paragraphs on this page. The handwriting is not very new. It seems that it has been a while.But there is a blank line at the bottom, and a blank page after that, which is the last thing written in the notebook.Lu You read it twice, feeling like he was reading a pseudo-documentary fantasy novel, or the daily records of a paranoid patient.He stared at the sentence "in conflicts each according to its own ability", and what "human beings are pleasing to the eye"... Substituting Huihui running over to remind him to be careful of dangerous actions, the weird feeling became more obvious.

…Before today, all the communication between him and Huihui seemed to be the last time Huihui dragged someone to try divination by drawing cards, and he devoted an hour to listening to her talking about those inexplicable theories... He doesn't even need to talk, just sit and listen, the result can be considered "pleasing to the eye"?

Speaking of which... Now that the auditorium has collapsed, is the monster still there?

Lu You couldn't hold back and thought about it.He turned back to the title page of the book to see if there was a title like "Monster Illustrated Book" - there was not.Because the characters are really small, there are quite a lot of content in this small book, and it may take two to three hours to read them all.Randomly flipping through a few pages, they all wrote about the same content as the "Spider Wolf Materials" I read just now, and all of them were written in a tone that seemed to be true, as if it was a personal experience.

"The demonized staircase in Building XX, Block A, Metasequoia Garden: the section from the fourth floor to the fifth floor, there are dark red plaque-like stains on the ground, which can be washed off, and reappear after three to five days, similar to 'skin'. From one corner Digging down, no creature-like structure was found. It is said that you can't stop when you walk through this staircase, and you will be eaten if you stop for more than 1 minute. Nothing happened after standing for 5 minutes. Do you want to find a human to try? gone."

"A centipede-like thing: I found it wandering around the campus. It is more than four meters long, and the bristles on the side of the body are poisonous. No nest was found, and the species is unknown. It is probably an individual mutant without a stable population? Ordinary people can't see it. Occasionally, I can see its shadow falling on the ground, but this does not seem to be the condition for it to choose food. It is suspected that the food poisoning last time was the cause.

"Yesterday, I saw it eat the dog in the guard room, and then followed a girl into the dormitory building. The purpose is unknown. It found that I was watching it, and it has been avoiding me recently. It seems that it is still a little intelligent."

There is a small picture at the corner of the page, or if it is written clearly that it is a centipede, Lu You will think it is a caterpillar.Turning the page, there is still a short paragraph: "Is it a human being transformed by pollution? It's too ugly, I don't want to care about it."

This is the end of the information on this monster whose name is so perfunctory.There was another picture after a few pages, and this time I could tell at a glance that it was a bat: a pair of large wings spread out on both sides of the mouse-like body, spanning the entire page, and densely painted on the wings. circle.

"The group of cystic-winged bats in the abandoned building: Strange creatures, I don't know how they coexist harmoniously with so many viruses and parasites. They were originally insect-eating species, but after being demonized, they began to eat mice and birds. It will attack larger creatures. A stray cat was bitten when it was fighting for food, and it was very infected, but the cat didn't seem to feel it. Is the wound paralyzed? Its breath became a bit strange, just like those bats. I tried to wrap it up, but failed to catch it, and fled into the cracks at the bottom of the building. Let's see it tomorrow.

"When I went to find the cat, I found an abandoned baby. Would it be better to die early in such a world? However, human beings should decide for themselves. Put her at the side entrance of the police station and wait for 2 minutes. People found it and carried it in. Didn't follow up to see. I didn't find the cat when I went back. I only saw two mice beating and eating each other. The eyes were red... The bat that bit the cat last time seemed to have red eyes too. Can’t remember. In a bad mood, I killed them all and burned them to vent. I hope these disgusting things will never come out again.”

"The sea monster who is an elementary school music teacher: Hearing the news, I hurried over to see it, I was so mad! The incarnation looks beautiful, but the original body has a fish head! How can a fish sing? Maybe my expression is too fierce, and she vomited in fright There were so many bubbles that the classroom was flooded. It was so annoying. I didn’t want to argue with the fish head. Helped her mop the floor and listened to her talk about her hometown in the sea, which was very interesting.”

The previous ones were all weird, but this one made Lu You want to laugh.If you just look at it as a fictional work, he also thinks these things written in the book are quite interesting.

Just don't imagine that they actually exist around you.

She said... In this city, there are hungry things everywhere.

Lu You stared at the paper page illuminated by the desk light, as if in a daze.On the page in front of him was a moth with wings shaped like a human face, and the words below it read: "Human Moth in the Subway Tunnel: Take the last train, there is one stuck on the glass..." These words were in his eyes. Gradually blurred, the follow-up can no longer be captured by out-of-focus eyes.

What is there to be afraid of with monster information that doesn't even have any bloody descriptions?The movies he had seen before were far more terrifying than this one, the impact of the picture and soundtrack was stronger, and it did not trigger such...

……fear?

Yes, it is fear.It's different from fear—different from the kind of fear that actually knows that there is nothing in the dark, but the instinct can't be suppressed.This time, for no reason, his reason stood on the same side as his intuition.He realized that he was really thinking, instead of cooperating with acting-like perfunctory, thinking about the situation and response in case of encounter... It seemed that he had confirmed their existence before seeing them in person.

Have you ever experienced such a scene?In the self-study room, where everyone was deserting and full of voices, suddenly, from nowhere, silence quickly spread to the entire classroom.The teacher didn't come, the class committee didn't maintain order, and everyone looked at each other, wondering why they kept silent.

That atmosphere...something indescribable is coming.is coming.It has come—a world covered in shadows is as silent as a needle.Untouchable, terrifying beasts passed between the people.It will take half a minute or even longer for someone to speak again, gradually returning to the previous excitement.

... The giant beast that passed by him stopped and did not move away.It sticks to his back, sniffs his neck, glances up and down all over his body with eyes full of covetousness - this sentence is actually not a description, Lu You really feels that someone is looking at him...something is looking at him several times ?That kind of distinct malice that I felt in the milk tea shop was the only time, but even if there was no malice, just being looked at was scary enough.

He wasn't even sure if there was such a... thing, it would have followed him back home.After all, he has been watched for an afternoon plus half the night, so it's hard to say whether he has adapted to it and can no longer notice it.

This is really... a creepy guess.

Just as the guessing continued to fall into a stagnant atmosphere, the sudden ringing of the phone startled Lu You solidly.When he moved, he felt his body was a little stiff, and there was a hairy feeling on the back of his neck. He took out his mobile phone from the side pocket of his coat and looked: it was from his roommate Zhao Feng.

Lu You connected the phone, and at the same time caught a glimpse of the dinner that he was too busy reading the contents of the book just now, and the appetite that had been molested a few times seemed to have died down, and he was not going to come back.He stood up from the table, ready to go to the refrigerator to get a carton of milk to drink, when he heard the loud and intense dance music on the other end of the call, as well as screams and laughter.

Zhao Feng was probably in a bar. "Lu—you——" he yelled loudly under the interference of the background sound, "tonight—I won't go back—do me a favor—the takeaway at noon—I forgot to throw away—"

Lu You said "hmm" helplessly, feeling that Zhao Feng couldn't hear it at all.During these few words, he had already walked to the door, touched the doorknob and was about to press it down, when he inadvertently looked down and landed on the ground: the crack in the door was bright, and there was light coming in from the outside .

...Did you forget to turn off the light outside when you first entered the room?

Lu You was thinking so——

There was a knock on the door.

Before his thoughts turned, he had let go of his hand like lightning, and took a step back——there was no sound of footsteps yet.Sticking to the ear was the questioning voice of the roommate who did not hear the response, "Hey, hey", saying "Lu You, please speak louder, I can't hear you" - he couldn't make a sound, cold sweat oozes from his palms, and raised his voice. The holding arm seemed to be completely frozen in this short period of time.

Outside the door, Zhao Feng's voice, which was exactly the same as in the phone, rang.

"Lu You? Are you in the room?" "Zhao Feng" outside the door said, even in the same tone, "I'm looking for you..."

He couldn't finish.Through the door, Lu You heard a loud bang, accompanied by crisp cracking and cracking sounds.In his extraordinarily barren imagination at the moment, the only thing that could make such a sound was probably picking up the glass-topped coffee table in the living room and smashing it on the tiled floor... A sharp and inhuman howl followed, and the inside But it contains pain and unbelievable emotions that are very similar to human beings.

Amidst the chaotic sound of demolition outside, Lu You's hands suddenly became less stiff.As he retreated away from the door, he took down his cell phone and directly hung up the current call that was still "hello" on the other end, and called the police at the fastest key press speed in his life.

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