Monster Beauty's Unlimited Game

Sweet Home 14

Find Wendy, trigger the skill

Zhou Yan stretched out one foot and stepped under the projected light spot. The insects on both sides of the wall found the breath of a living person and began to move around. A few insects that were not afraid of death ran to the light, and a pungent blue tinge appeared on their bodies. Seeing the smoke, the other swarms avoided it one after another.

It seems that my deduction is correct, these bugs are really afraid of the sun.

The structure of this library is the same as that of ordinary libraries. The reading room will have glass windows that provide light. After walking through this long corridor, you should be able to reach the reading room.

[Congratulations to the player, 75% of the progress in exploring the library of Amber Town has been completed. 】

As soon as Zhou Yan stepped into the reading room, he heard a system prompt, which showed that he was thinking in the right direction.

The library in Amber Town is not large. There are more than a dozen rows of bookcases on the right side of the reading room, which should be all the books in the small town library.

Tens of thousands of tiny black bugs were still lurking in the shadows of the reading room. Zhou Yan stepped carefully through these places, and stopped in front of these rows of bookcases.

It is too difficult to fish out a few books from the vast sea of ​​books!

The classification of library books can form a professional discipline, and the Amber Town Library does not have electronic query equipment. How does Director Harvey manage these books?

After Zhou Yan observed for a while, he was frustrated and found that Director Harvey did not take this library seriously at all. The only management work he did to the library was to take back the books and put them back on the bookshelf.

All the books are arranged randomly, there is no pattern to follow at all.

After searching for a long time, he compared the library catalog on the library card, and finally found one of the books - "Ecological Analysis of Amber Town Flora", which is the work of Mr. Fisher.

This book is very thick, as thick as one centimeter. Zhou Yan struggled to pull out the book and put it on the dusty desk.

Looking at the sky outside the window, it is so difficult to find such a book. If you continue to search at this speed, you may not be able to collect all these dozen books until dark...

Zhou Yan took out the library catalog on his library card and began to study: "Ecological Analysis of Plant Groups in Anbo Town", "Theory and Method of Insect Clade Classification", "Methods and Applications of Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Populations in Anbo Town", "Uncommon Entomological Classification"...

These are very professional books. He set his sights on the "Ecological Analysis of Amber Town Flora" he had just found, and had a guess in his mind.

He came to the bookshelf, slid his fingers across the rows of books, and browsed through the books that no one cared about very quickly. He took out a few books without hesitation, folded them on his arms, and moved them to the desk as well.

Then I took out the borrowed books and compared them one by one, and I found several of them right!

The books on the library card are all very professional books and periodicals. Perhaps what they have in common is that they are thick and heavy.

It is not easy to find a dozen books in a large number of libraries, but it is relatively simple to find the thickest book in a whole bookshelf.

He doesn't need to search one by one according to the catalog on the library card. He only needs to roughly observe the bookshelf, find out the thicker books among the books, and then eliminate the wrong titles, which should improve a lot of efficiency.

Zhou Yan's plan was carried out very successfully. After finding out more than a dozen books, he spread them out on the table one by one.

These books were found, but they didn't seem to have any effect.

There is no prompt sound from the system, and no sound similar to the ringing of the mechanism can be heard.

Do you want to read all these books?

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes, thinking of a very important contradiction.

He had always had a misunderstanding before, that Wendy borrowed these obscure books for reading.

Wendy said how could a little girl understand these books?Maybe there are other reasons.

He has to think from the perspective of a child, why should he borrow these heavy books?

I flipped through one of the books and found something in it.

It is a leaf of a mulberry tree.

The thin leaves showed a dark yellow color, as thin as a cicada's wings due to extrusion, the veins were clearly visible, and yellow-green leaf scars were printed on the two adjacent pages.

It is the bookmark which the leaf made.

He put the leaf back to its original place, and read through the rest of the books. Without exception, there were all kinds of leaves in them. Zhou Yan only knew mulberry leaves, heather leaves, ginkgo leaves, Magnolia leaves and more.

Wendy borrowed these books to make bookmarks?

wrong.

Zhou Yan opened the library card and observed the dates of these borrowed books. The date on which the books were borrowed can be traced back to a few years ago at the earliest. Maybe these bookmarks were not made by Wendy.

He put the books on the desk in the order they were borrowed, and spread out the pages with bookmarks.

If you read it according to the first word on each page——

Well, shit doesn't make sense.

Zhou Yan observes these spread out pages, why use leaves as bookmarks?What do these blades have in common?

He found that the stems of the leaves had been artificially cut off, leaving only the intact leaves.

Picking up the first book "Ecological Analysis of Amber Town Flora", there are two yellowed mulberry leaf marks on the light yellow paper, and the position of the leaf tip just points to the word "real".

Zhou Yan seemed to have suddenly discovered the pattern, and he combined all the words pointed to by the tip of each leaf trace in order——

"I'm in the laboratory, fifth row, fourth floor, red."

It really is the information of the underground laboratory!

Would Wendy have started leaving these messages years ago?

Anyway, this is the last clue.

Just as Zhou Yan wanted to stand up, he stopped and put the books back on the bookshelves in a random order, before he came to the fifth row of bookshelves with confidence.

On the bookshelf on the fourth floor, I found the only book with a red cover.

When he pulled out the book, he heard a sound like rubbing between floor tiles not far away.

A dark passage leading underground appears to the left of the study room.

[Congratulations to the player, the progress of exploring the Amber Town Library is 100%]

[Congratulations to the player for triggering the task - entering the underground laboratory. (1/0)]

The strong stench came from the dark hole, and Zhou Yan felt a little bad.

Could it be that Wendy has also become a half-human, half-worm skeleton like Jesse...

The stairs at the entrance of the secret passage lead directly to the ground, and the deeper scene cannot be seen clearly, and the cold and humid air blows in.

Is this really a place for little girls?

He plucked up the courage and just stepped into the first floor of the stairs, and he couldn't help shivering. People are often most afraid when facing the unknown.

His hand rested on the wet and cold wall, and the slimy and disgusting feeling came to his heart again. He quickly withdrew his hand, and the palm of his hand was indeed covered with that weird black slime.

Is Wendy really alive?

Zhou Yan's footsteps were very light. He walked down the stairs step by step, and at the end was a closed iron door.

Because the temperature was lower than that on the ground, fine drops of water oozed from the iron gate, mixing with the adhered black mucus, as if the entire iron gate had been melted.

Zhou Yan obviously heard the sound of the secret passage door above slowly closing, and a pale light immediately lit up above his head.

There were vague footsteps coming from inside the door, very brisk, exuding the vitality unique to children.

Zhou Yan regained his spirits, Wendy was still alive, and her health was quite good.

"who is it?"

The unique crisp voice of a little girl sounded.

Zhou Yan: "Jesse, cousin Jesse."

He couldn't help but clenched his hands tightly, he was going home soon, Wendy was going to be found by him.

"Oh! Cousin Jessie! You're really here! Mom told me before that you're coming to our house!"

Wendy's tone was full of joy, and then there was the sound of the lock being undone inside the door, and with a creak, the heavy iron door opened.

[Congratulations to the player, the task of exploring the library in Amber Town is completed. 】

[Congratulations to the player, unlock the underground laboratory. (1/1)]

[Congratulations to the player, you have completed the target task - find Wendy. (1/1)]

[Congratulations to the player, complete the first target task, trigger the talent ability - creation. 】

[Congratulations to the player, trigger the customs clearance task - purify Amber Town. (0/1)]

……

A series of system prompts followed in Zhou Yan's mind.

But he didn't respond, and he didn't even notice the customs clearance tasks and talent abilities that suddenly appeared.

He took a step back subconsciously, his face paler than the light.

If Zhou Yan was disgusted and terrified when he saw half-human, half-worm Jesse before, then the moment he saw Wendy, he was full of shock, sympathy, and pity.

He suddenly understood the breakdown of Fisher and Cathy, and the significance of Fisher's statue.

On Wendy's head, there are two eyes. To be precise, they can't be called eyes, but huge compound eyes like insects. These two compound eyes almost occupy the entire space of her face.

The compound eyes were an uncomfortably dark red that looked like dried, lifeless blood clotted across her face.

Below the compound eyes are dozens of slender mouthparts that shine strangely, and above them are two extremely small round holes, which are moving slightly, exhaling a cold breath.

There are two cone-shaped yellow tentacles with fluff standing on the top of her head, trembling slightly with the airflow, this is her organ for sensing the outside world.

Her pale hands, which had not seen the sun for many years, were put together and slanted on that inhuman face, as if she was expecting something.

Wendy has the head of an insect, and the slender limbs typical of a seven or eight-year-old child.

Two fundamentally different bodies, as if being pranked by the heavens, are randomly twisted together.

Seeing that Zhou Yan didn't respond, the little girl tilted her head slightly, white light spots were reflected in each small dark red eye in her compound eyes, showing she was confused, a thin film of flesh under the mouthparts trembled slightly, and came out again. The crisp and immature girl's voice: "Cousin Jesse?"

She didn't seem to know that she had an insect's head.

Zhou Yan tried his best to calm down his panic, and said, "Yes, I, I'm here."

Wendy nodded, her two tentacles collided with each other, she clapped her hands and said, "That's great, I knew you would come to me!"

Her posture was no different from that of an ordinary little girl.

He regained some composure. He had created insect-mutated monsters before, but those ugly monsters served as stupid and evil villains in movies.

Wendy looked much cuter and more well-behaved than those monsters.

And, Fisher and Cathy must have given her enough love.

Zhou Yan suddenly understood why she looked like a human in the picture she saw before.

Just as Zhou Yan copied a black-and-white photo with colored pencils when he changed the photo before, Mr. Fisher also used the same method to describe the future for his daughter—a real human girl.

He is an entomologist, since he can draw exquisite illustrations, he must be able to draw photos that look like real ones.

Zhou Yan stood where he was. He wanted to look into Wendy's eyes, but worried that the complicated emotions in his eyes would disappoint her, so he could only look at the ground, his voice tensed: "Why are you hiding here?"

Wendy bounced over to a children's rocking chair and sat down, holding her face in her two little hands with baby fat, and said: "Mom hasn't come back after going out for a long time, and curator Harvey said he would take me to his house to take care of me." , but my father told me that if there is no one at home, hide here!"

After finishing speaking, she let out a giggle, and the two tentacles collided with each other flexibly, and said with a recalling tone: "Dad also said that when I leave, I must leave the library card at home. He said that someone will Come to me."

"I made those bookmarks with him, even though I don't know why he did it."

It turned out that the information in the book was left by Mr. Fisher, and he seemed to have expected such a day long ago.

Then why doesn't Mr. Fisher show up?What did he expect?

If Wendy knew that the library card she left would lead to Jesse's death, I don't know what would happen...

Zhou Yan didn't know how to explain to Wendy, and now he could only act as her cousin temporarily.

However, how did she, a little girl, escape so many bugs and come here?

Zhou Yan: "There are many bugs in this library, how did you get here?"

Wendy tilted her head slightly, showing a naive attitude: "I don't like them, I tell them to stay away from me, and they go away!"

Zhou Yan was taken aback. He didn't expect Wendy to have such a special ability. Curator Harvey is a fanatical believer. He must have a special purpose in inviting Wendy to his home. Could it be that he also wants to use Wendy as a sacrifice?

He looked at Wendy's pale skin, showing an unhealthy blue color, which is the skin that can only be seen without seeing the sun all year round.

She certainly didn't go out very much, and it's likely that Cathy and Fisher wouldn't let her out.

"What else did Director Harvey tell you?"

Wendy shook her head: "It's nothing. He came to the house to take me away. I said I was going to tidy up some things, so I ran out through the wormhole in the house and hid here!"

She is also bold. Curator Harvey never imagined that she would hide in the library.

Zhou Yan only had time to observe this underground laboratory at this moment. The experimental table covered with black mucus was filled with all kinds of glass beakers and precision instruments that could not be named.

The walls of the basement are surrounded by large analytical instruments, which are also covered with black liquid, and it seems that they have not been used for a long time.

The glass beakers were all empty, and some of the paper recording the experiments were soaked in black mucus, making it impossible to read the writing at all.

Even the system didn't prompt, is there any clue here?

Many questions lingered in Zhou Yan's mind. After thinking about it, he asked the most concerned question: "Wendy, where are your parents?"

Wendy lowered her head, shaking her little feet, and said, "I don't know, Dad hasn't been home for a long time, Mom, Mom said she was going out for a while, and then disappeared."

"That Uncle Harvey said Mom was away, but I don't believe him at all."

Zhou Yan had an ominous premonition—some accident must have happened to Wendy's parents, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't.

The basement fell into a cruel silence, and the pale lights flickered a few times due to the unstable current.

Wendy shrugged, she was still a little girl and didn't know how to get along with adults she had never met before, her dangling toes were tensed, and she said cautiously: "Cousin Jessie, can you take me to find my mother? "