Escape From the Library

Yue Xingwen is a third-year student in the Chinese Department of Hua'an University. There is a final assessment for a course this semester that requires everyone to write a paper for the professor to grade. He is hurrying to write a paper these days and needs to consult a lot of literature.

There is an electronic reading room on the first floor of the school library, where you can find a large number of electronic documents and the latest domestic and international academic journals.However, as the final exam is approaching recently, students of various majors flock to the library to study like a tide.Yue Xingwen gets up at seven o'clock in the morning every day, rushing to occupy a seat before the library opens at eight o'clock.

This morning, when he got up, he found that it was snowing heavily outside, and the whole world was covered in white. The playground next to the dormitory building was covered with thick snow, and it was as clean as a white blanket.

Yue Xingwen is a native of the south. He had never seen snow when he was a child. It was only after he came to the north to go to school that he discovered the magnificence of the winter snow scene. He stood excitedly on the balcony and took many photos with his mobile phone. Then he washed his face and put on a thick sweater The down jacket is ready to go to the library.

The head of the dormitory, Gu Ming, also just woke up. Seeing that he was about to go out, he yawned and asked, "Xing Wen, are you still going to the library when it's snowing outside?"

Yue Xingwen said while changing his shoes: "My thesis is only short of the last part, and I want to hurry up and finish it today."

Gu Ming said: "The thesis you wrote must be professional. I just fooled around with one, as long as you can pass it."

Yue Xingwen is a well-known top student in the Chinese Department. He receives scholarships every year. His thesis has been praised by many professors. The attitude of a top student towards papers is different from that of a scumbag.Gu Ming sighed a few words in his heart, and said: "It's snowing, be careful on the road."

After Yue Xingwen put on his shoes, he turned to Gu Ming and said, "Understood, Brother Ming. I won't be coming back at noon, and I'll come back at night when the museum is closed."

***

The wind was biting outside, and there was thick snow on the road, so Yue Xingwen walked very carefully.

As soon as he walked past the corner of the boys' dormitory, he saw a classmate wearing a black down jacket teetering on the steps. Before Yue Xingwen had time to reach out to help him, the other party fell into the snow with a "slap", and the whole person was lying on the ground. Placed on the ground into a "big font".

That sound was painful to hear.

Yue Xingwen stepped forward quickly, helped his classmate pick up the scattered books on the ground with one hand, and grabbed the other's arm with the other hand to pull him up, and asked softly, "Student, are you alright?"

The boy struggled to get up with the strength of his arm, quickly wiped the snow off his face, revealing a pair of clear eyes.

The two looked at each other, and a smile quickly appeared in the boy's eyes: "Senior, what a coincidence!"

Yue Xingwen also recognized him: "Xiao Nian?"

Zhang Xiaonian, a first-year student in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Architecture, Hua'an University, went to the same high school as Yue Xingwen, and they met in the university association.Since Zhang Xiaonian is his junior in high school, Yue Xingwen takes great care of him.It's just that this little junior is a bit confused, and he is still a road idiot. When he first started school, he often couldn't tell how to get from Area A to Area F of the teaching building, and made a lot of jokes.

Yue Xingwen always felt that the junior brother was missing a root in his head.Seeing that his body was covered in snow, Yue Xingwen asked with concern: "Did you hurt from the fall?"

Zhang Xiaonian patted the snow on his body, and when he smiled, he showed two small canine teeth: "It's okay, I'm wearing thick clothes!"

Yue Xingwen handed the book he picked up to the other party: "Your information."

Zhang Xiaonian took it over and thanked him, and asked, "Is the senior going to the self-study room so early?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Go to the library."

"I'm going to the library too, let's go together!"

The two walked forward side by side.

Yue Xingwen carelessly asked: "How is the review for the final exam?"

Zhang Xiaonian said with a bitter face: "I have been trying my best to memorize these days, and I didn't pay attention to the class in the first half of the semester. I always feel that I will fail the class."

Yue Xingwen looked back at his junior brother: "After failing the course, there is only one chance to make up the exam. If you fail the make-up exam, you have to retake it. It is very troublesome to retake the exam. You have to take classes with the next class of students. You should try to review as much as possible. You can fly at a low altitude with 60 points. If there is a record of failing a course, you will not be able to continue the research in the future.”

Zhang Xiaonian nodded seriously: "Yes. I know. I've spent every day in the library sorting out my notes. I hope this exam won't be too difficult..."

The two chatted while walking, and it was exactly 8 o'clock when they came to the library.

The library opened on time, and the students who had arrived earlier filed in.

Yue Xingwen said goodbye to him at the door: "I'll go to the electronic reading room on the first floor to check some information."

Zhang Xiaonian smiled and waved: "Then I will go to the fourth floor for self-study, see you senior!"

The two parted ways at the library entrance.

Yue Xingwen found a vacant seat in the electronic reading room on the first floor and sat down, put his phone aside, turned on his laptop and began to look up documents.

During lunch and dinner time, students used to put their textbooks in the library to occupy a seat, and Yue Xingwen also put his schoolbag on the seat, and rushed back after eating to continue to check the information - he had to finish the thesis as soon as possible so that he could concentrate on reviewing the rest of several courses.

It was getting dark, Yue Xingwen spent the whole day, and finally finished sorting out the thesis.He closed the laptop, stretched comfortably, thinking about reading it again tomorrow, fixing typos, and sending it to the professor's mailbox if there is no problem.

The dissertation, which has been tossing for more than half a month, is finally finished, and Yue Xingwen is relieved.

It was almost ten o'clock before he packed his things and got up to go back to the dormitory.

After pushing open the door of the dormitory, the warm air rushed in, Yue Xingwen rubbed his hands that were about to freeze, and was about to change his shoes, when Gu Ming, the head of the dormitory, came over and said, "Xingwen, why didn't you answer the call?" I just wanted to ask you if you want to have a midnight snack."

"I've been in the library all day today. Maybe it's because the phone is on silent, so I didn't hear the call." Yue Xingwen took out the phone from his pocket, reached into the pocket and found nothing.He hastily opened the zipper of his schoolbag and rummaged through it for a while, his face gradually paled.

Gu Ming wondered, "What's wrong?"

Yue Xingwen frowned slightly: "I left my phone in the library."

Gu Ming asked: "Is it the new mobile phone you just bought last week?"

Yue Xingwen nodded, and rubbed his temples helplessly: "Oh, I'm confused after checking the information, I hope I haven't lost my phone."

Gu Ming hurriedly urged: "Then go back and look for it! The library closes at 10:30, half an hour should be enough time."

Yue Xingwen put on the down jacket again: "Well, I'll go and come back quickly." He was not so sloppy at ordinary times, maybe he was dizzy after checking the information all day today, and forgot to put it in the bag when he was packing at night. Cell phone on seat.

***

After Yue Xingwen went out, the other two roommates returned to the dormitory one after another, sat at the desk and chatted with the computer on.

A roommate swiped onto the school forum, pointed at the computer excitedly and said, "Damn it, take a look! The top ten hot posts on the school forum, a freshman junior passed by the library in the middle of the night yesterday, and found the door open. The shadows are shaking, just as scary as a ghost movie!"

Holding the teacup, Gu Ming walked over to glance at the post, and said, "This is obviously an illusion caused by being too tired of the final review. How can the library be open in the middle of the night? There are so many shadows swaying, why didn't she say that a red man came out of it?" A ghost in clothes?"

The roommate nodded and agreed: "That's right, she must be dazzled. There is no picture, no truth." After refreshing, he found that "this post has been deleted", and the roommate looked aggrieved: "It really is a nonsense fishing post, so fast. It was deleted by the moderator!"

At this time, Yue Xingwen was walking forward against the cold wind.

The snow fell even harder, and the whole world was a vast expanse of whiteness. He could only see a distance of more than ten meters in front of him clearly. The batch went from east to west, and he was the only one who went from west to east. People around him cast puzzled looks at him, as if they were asking: This classmate, why do you go to the library in the middle of the night?

Yue Xingwen wrapped the down jacket tightly.He didn't want to go to the library in the snow in the middle of the night, but that phone was a 20th birthday gift he bought for himself with a scholarship, and it had only been used for less than a week. If he lost it, he would be so distressed.

Yue Xingwen pulled the brim of his hat and continued to move forward.

When I arrived at the library, it was already 25:5 in the evening, and the library would close in [-] minutes.

Yue Xingwen rushed to the door quickly.

It is too cold in winter, and the temperature difference between inside and outside the house is huge. The library usually closes the outermost glass door and draws a thick curtain to block the wind, but it is strange that the door of the library is open at this time.

No one came out, and no one went in.

It was eerily quiet.

The vast expanse of white snow fell rustlingly, and the library building merged into the thick night, as if it was towering into the clouds, and the top could not be seen at all.Although the lights were on inside the library, the sight was blurred by the heavy snow, and all the windows were covered with a thick layer of fog, making it hard to see how many students were still inside.

This time period should be the peak time for students to return to the dormitory. Why did no one come out of the library?

Yue Xingwen hesitated for a moment, then walked up the steps.

He always felt that there seemed to be a few more steps at the entrance of the library today than usual, but he had never counted the exact number of steps and could not confirm it.The door is open, or it may be close to closing time, so it is convenient for students to come in and out?

Thinking of the new mobile phone he left behind, Yue Xingwen didn't hesitate anymore, swiped his campus card at the door, and walked into the library quickly.

The light overhead was dim, and there was no one around.

Yue Xingwen walked straight to the electronic reading room on the first floor.He remembered that his seat was the far right in the third row. At that time, he put his mobile phone on the inner seat. The location was actually very secret. Maybe the mobile phone was still in place, or it was picked up by a kind classmate and handed over the lost property. recruitment office.

Yue Xingwen quickly walked through the corridor, and then his whole body froze——

What appeared in front of him was not the familiar electronic reading room and neat rows of computers, but an empty hall the size of a basketball court.

The four-meter-high walls around the hall are made of solid wood bookshelves that go straight to the top, and all kinds of books are densely packed on them. The bright light from the crystal chandelier on the roof is gently sprinkled like broken diamonds, and the light and shadow are intertwined on the white marble floor. , like a magnificent dream.

Yue Xingwen rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he was hallucinating.

But after rubbing his eyes, the scene in front of him remained unchanged.

In front of him is still an empty hall surrounded by bookshelves, and there is no computer in the electronic reading room.

He was still sitting here in the afternoon looking up information, why now, the reading room has completely disappeared?What's with this strange hall?

Yue Xingwen sensed something was wrong, and immediately turned around and ran out at a speed of sprinting [-] meters!

But the moment he ran to the door, the door of the library suddenly closed in front of him with a "squeak", and that sound made one's teeth ache in the silent night.He stretched out his hand to push the door, but found that it couldn't be pushed open at all, Yue Xingwen turned his head, and sternly said: "Who is pretending to be a ghost?!"

His voice echoed twice in the empty hall.

Then, a cold mechanical female voice suddenly sounded in my ear: "Yue Xingwen, a third-year student in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hua'an University, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, student ID number 18384016, the information has been archived."

"—Welcome to the real life survival game "Escape from the Library."