Survival Paradox [Infinite]

The narrow escape was almost unexpected.

Because the muscles all over his body were too tense just now, they suddenly relaxed. Wei Chi felt a tingling pain in his trapezius muscle, and he was almost flashed, and he lay down for a while before he recovered.

The old man had already walked under their bookshelves: "Hey, why don't you come down? Just spend the night on it?"

Ji Jingzhe jumped down, excitedly said: "Your steps just now are so handsome!"

The old man was complacent: "Isn't that right? Our 'Fuxi Bagua Step' has earned its reputation in vain?"

"Master! How tall are you?" Ji Jingzhe flicked his sleeves, arched his hands, and saluted a rather old-fashioned salute, "Xiaoshengji Jingzhe, 'Ji' in 'Calendar Year', 'Peach Red Li Bai, Everything Comes Out Shock's 'Awakening of Insects', I don't know if I am lucky enough to hear the name of the venerable driver?"

"Don't dare to be, dare not be." The old man waved his hand, stroked his non-existent beard, and said, "The name in white is Fang Qingdi, just call me Laofang."

Ji Jingzhe had a serious expression: "Qingdi...is it related to that 'Emperor of Qing'?"

"It is indeed from the lineage of Taihao Xihuang." Fang Qingdi said, "but the 'Di' in my name is not the 'Di' of 'Qing Di', but the 'Di' of 'Di Ting'. Qing Di is our sect Patriarch, Dao Dharma reaches heaven, so naturally I dare not steal his old man's name, I can only borrow his prestige."

"So that's how it is." Ji Jingzhe bowed again, "Thank you for saving my life!"

Fang Qingdi gave him a hand: "It's not enough to make a small plan."

Wei Chi's shoulders were still stiff, he had just climbed off the bookshelf, and asked, "Can you two speak human language?"

Ji Jingzhe looked at him: "What happened to your shoulder?"

Wei Chi rubbed it by himself: "Twist it, it's fine."

Ji Jingzhe stretched out his hand to help him pinch, the strength was astonishing, the pain caused him to lose his expression, but after being pinched, the muscles there were obviously relaxed.Ji Jingzhe scolded and scolded: "Let you stay in the laboratory every day without exercising!"

"That..." said the girl who had been hanging on the bookshelf for a long time, "Can you make room for a while?"

The four of them found a place to stay in the reading room—it was safe and hidden, easy to run around, and far away from the various corpses.

Then several people started discussing the current situation.

The girl's name is Tang Muhua, and she is a trainee lawyer. There is no arrangement this afternoon, and she came to the library to study cases.

Lao Fang is a true Taoist priest, he was the one who set off the green fire just now.

Tang Muhua was very surprised: "I didn't expect Taoist priests to really set fire."

"This world is so big, you didn't expect that there are so many. There are also many Taoist priests!" Fang Qingdi smiled at Tang Muhua, showing a mouthful of false teeth, and the fixed steel wire can be vaguely seen on the gums. This face is a bit scary in the dark, "like summoning ghosts or something."

Tang Muhua was a little scared, and subconsciously leaned closer to Wei Chi next to him: "Don't scare me..."

Wei Chi clearly remembered the old Buxiu laughing at him just now and saying, where are the ghosts in this world?

Fang Qingdi's performance desire was satisfied, he stopped for a while, sat back to his original place, and said: "But I don't know why, ghosts and gods should not be here...even the little ghosts can't be summoned."

Ji Jingzhe said: "Maybe the signal is not good."

Wei Chi slipped with one hand supporting the bookshelf.

Fang Qingdi thought for a moment, then nodded affirmatively: "It makes sense."

Wei Chi felt that something was wrong.

He asked: "Mr. Fang, your fire summoning and ghost summoning skills..." He thought for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable expression, "...is the principle the same?"

"Principle?" Fang Qingdi felt very novel when he heard this word, rubbed his chin and thought for a while, and said, "They all use talismans to summon things from other worlds to the world. The difference is that ghosts and fires have no spirits, while gods and ghosts have spirits... "

He babbled on and explained for a long time, but Wei Chi could barely understand the meaning: probably there is an area in the so-called "Underworld" where ghost fires are burning all the year round, and Taoist talismans can open a channel for these fires to burn into the present world, which is a kind of one-way His behavior is that as long as the phone is connected, the fire can burn along the phone line.But summoning ghosts requires interaction between the two parties. If one person calls over, there must be a ghost on the other side to pick up and agree to come over, so that the summoning can be successful.

... Is it really a bad signal?

But if we really use the analogy of answering and making calls, this world is clearly completely cut off from the outside world, that is to say, the call cannot be made at all, rather than the opposite party not answering.But if the will-o'-the-wisp can burn over, it means the call is connected...

What is all this called?

He is a dignified graduate student with a higher education, and one day he discussed summoning little ghosts with a Taoist priest in such a serious manner...

"Young man, young man." Fang Qingdi called Wei Chi a few times and refused to agree, then turned to ask Ji Jingzhe, "What's wrong with him?"

Wei Chi came back to his senses: "Old Fang, my surname is Wei, Wei Lan Wei, you can just call me Wei Chi."

"Weichi... Weichi...a good name." The old man praised, "Your parents are very Zen-like? People who practice?"

Wei Chi said, "No."

The Wei family is actually quite a traditional family. There is still a family tree handed down to Wei Chi's father's generation. There are two outliers, one is Wei Chi's father Wei Renjie, and the other is Wei Chi. Wei Yuan's father, Wei Renlong.

Wei Renjie has been dull since he was a child, and his grades are good. The poor middle school in front of his house has always been at the top. He came out of the bank vocational high school and directly entered the banking system. His job is harder than iron.We talked about Zhou Yingchun at the age when we should talk about friends, got married at the age when we should get married, and had Wei Late at the age when we should have children.Wei Chi's name was given by him, obviously at that time something started to happen - three years later, Wei Renjie quietly resigned when he was promoted, and categorically knelt down in front of Zhou Yingchun to beg for a piece of paper The divorce agreement said that he wanted to go on foot to see Gongga Snow Mountain.

Seeing the birth of his son when he was less than 30 years old, Wei Renjie probably saw through his entire life at that moment. He named his son "Not too late", maybe telling himself that everything is not too late Night.

Now Wei Renjie is already a well-known outdoor photographer, and he doesn't know where he is floating. During the Spring Festival, he will try his best to go home to meet his family, and he may not return in some years.

Wei Renjie's elder brother, Wei Renlong, is just the opposite. Wei Renlong has been smart since he was a child, and his grades are average, but he is very good at dealing with things. He dropped out of school after graduating from elementary school and left home.Afterwards, things became serious, and he was involved in the police several times. After being released on bail by his family, he felt ashamed. He went south and made a name for himself in other places.

At the New Year's Eve banquet the year before last, Wei Renlong drank a lot, stared at Wei Chi's shoulder and confessed with reddened eyes: what he regretted the most in his life was leaving home too early and not studying.

Now there are two brothers, one is "not too late" and the other is "not far away", it really seems to be a bit of a state of perfection and a return to the original.

Tang Muhua said: "Can we discuss the current situation now?"

Fang Qingdi: "Oh, yes, what kind of place is this?"

Wei Chi and Ji Jingzhe briefly talked about what they had experienced before.

Tang Muhua was dumbfounded when he heard it, but she really couldn't help but believe the current situation.

Ji Jingzhe asked Fang Qingdi: "Old Fang, do you think this might be some kind of evil formation?"

"It's not like." Fang Qingdi shook his head without hesitation, "I don't think there is such a great power in this world, and the ghost fire can respond to the call... Anyway, it doesn't feel like it. I can't feel the breath of any formation."

Tang Muhua: "Then what exactly is this?"

Everyone was silent for a while.

Wei Chi said: "In short, the most important issue now is how to get out."

Tang Muhua asked: "Do you have any clues?"

Wei Chi: "Cross-floor passages cannot be used, which means that the exit will be a place that can be reached on every floor; library staff cannot be messed with, including administrators, security guards, and cleaners..."

"It's not impossible." Ji Jingzhe said, "I think it's not that the staff cannot be contacted at all, but - we can't hinder their work."

Wei Chi thought about it, and agreed with him: "It makes sense."

The cleaner did not explode when "Zhang Fei" despised the cleaner, but after he threw the water on the sink; so did the borrower at the service desk, and the architect was yelling at her At that time, she kept responding to him in the chatterbox, until he held down the document she wanted to get; as for the security guard... probably just doing his job-clearing the venue after closing.

Ji Jingzhe distributed the snacks to a few people, and concluded: "It's too dangerous at night, go to bed when you're full, and Wei Chi and I take turns keeping vigil, and we'll look for clues tomorrow during the day."

Tang Muhua looked around tremblingly, frightened: "This is the only way."

Fang Qingdi had a big heart, so he found a thick book and put it under his head, lay on his back, and said: "Reincarnation of karma, retribution is not good, let's do it and see."

Ji Jingzhe told Wei Chi to go to bed first, but Wei Chi didn't refuse, and put on his clothes and lay down.After a while, the old man turned over and his back was against Wei Chi's back. Wei Chi could clearly feel the old man's bulging spine.

After a while, the old man's long breath came, and his heart was really big.

Wei Chi lay down for a while, and gradually became dazed by the old man's deep breathing. He had a dream in his half-dream and half-awake state. He dreamed that the old man who was leaning against him turned into a ghost. His eyes were gone and there were only two holes left, and his mouth was also a hole. , no teeth, eat Tang Muhua over there first, and come to eat him later.He stood up and wanted to run, but as soon as he rushed to the door, he bumped into a group of security guards. His face also had three holes without eyes or teeth.

He was sobered up by himself.

He sat up suddenly, and a strong hand stretched out beside him, grabbed his shoulders and hugged him into his arms.

Ji Jingzhe wrapped his arms around his shoulders and the back of his neck with the other, and whispered softly in his ear, "I'm here. Don't be afraid."

Wei Chi turned his head and glanced at Fang Qingdi's back with lingering fear, and then thought of the group of security guards in the dream with terrifying faces.

In Ji Jingzhe's arms for a while, he asked, "What day is it today?"

Ji Jingzhe: "Friday."

Wei Chi: "It's only been two days..."

Ji Jingzhe: "What?"

Wei Chi: "The library is closed on Mondays - the staff will clear everything on Mondays, during the day."