Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 606: Moonlit Woodland

With Brother Bai here and Doctor Jin there, there shouldn't be any problems in the short term.

Xia Shou immediately took out his cell phone, dialed Su Yue's number, and pressed the dial button.

"The number you dialed is currently busy..."

At this time, someone is calling Su Yue?

Xia Shou hung up the phone and sent a text message to the other party, but when Xia Shou clicked on the other party's profile picture, he was shocked to find that his phone had no signal!
At the same time, Xia Shou noticed that the light outside the window dimmed at an extremely fast speed. It was an abnormal speed of dimming, as if the process from day to night was compressed into a few seconds.

In an instant, the library was plunged into darkness. Only the dim moonlight coming through the window provided a weak source of light. None of the fluorescent lights in the library were turned on, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.

The brightest light nearby was the white light emitted by Xia Shou’s cell phone.

Unable to connect to the Internet, the sky suddenly darkened, have we entered some unknown abnormal area?
Xia Shou held his breath, turned off the screen of his mobile phone, walked to the window and looked outside.

Outside is no longer a control center, but a grassland.

Xia Shou remembered very clearly that the library of the Control Bureau had several floors from the ground to the underground, and from the above-ground part of the library, one could see various parks from the outside, and the surrounding area was built with park landscapes, not the lawn in front of him.

This piece of grass...is not the common lawn you can see in the city. It is full of mottled shadows and is overgrown with weeds.

Farther away, the shadows were more mottled and larger, a bit like a forest, but the light was too dim to see clearly.

Xia Shou frowned. He was not sure how bad the situation was, nor did he know the specific effect of this anomaly. This completely unknown fear reminded him of the sanatorium incident. Then, just like now, he was involved in the anomaly without any preparation.

The difference from that time is that Xia Shou is now an experienced finisher.

But precisely because of this difference, he is now more nervous than he was then, even more frightened.

The more you experience, the more you realize the horror of the unknown and abnormal.

He is now much stronger than he was before, but because of this, he deeply understands that sometimes, intelligence is more important than strength.

The library was very quiet. When Xia Shou adjusted his mood to the quietest, all he could hear was his own breathing and the slight sound of the weeds growing on the grass outside the window rubbing against each other in the night wind.

As for the interior, there was no movement at all.

If it were normal, it wouldn't be so quiet. With such a big commotion happening in the Control Bureau, there would definitely be a lot of people in the library on normal days. In such a short time that Baihe teleported him here, it's impossible that all the readers in the library would have escaped.

So, I am the only one who was pulled into this abnormal area?
Xia Shou moved tiptoe between the bookshelves, listening attentively for any sounds that might be coming from the darkness, but unfortunately there were none. There were no monsters hiding in the darkness, and everything here was so normal that it seemed as if there was nothing unusual at all.

Sweat dripped from Xia Shou's forehead, and [Self-Destruction] was still on cooldown.

He now had no means of conducting risk-free reconnaissance, and he had never felt so helpless as he did at this moment.

Call Su Yue's name loudly?
Just release the action to search quickly?
Or should we explore slowly in this extremely quiet way of moving?

In this strange and abnormal field, all three of the above approaches may be correct, but they may also all be wrong. No one can tell Xia Shou what the rules are here.

With his current depth, it is no longer suitable for him to use the Pinnacle to refresh [Self-Destruction].

Now, in the Root Sea, Xia Shou has reached an area with excessive density. In this case, if he is forcibly pulled down to a deeper depth, he may be crushed to death by the water pressure of the Root Sea.

This was probably what he encountered when he first came out of the study in Merlin's House, before he devoured the red wax figure.

"Quietly...listen...Xu...hee..."

Xia Shou had just raised his foot when he suddenly heard a barely audible sound. In the extremely quiet environment, the rustling sound was almost like an illusion.

Xia Shou suspended one foot in the air, held his breath, and concentrated his attention to catch the unusual movement he had just heard, and then he heard it again - a vague, intermittent sound!
The enhanced hearing of the scorpion spine allowed Xia Shou's eardrum to capture the slightest vibrations in the air. Although the sound that sounded like whispers was extremely difficult to distinguish from the white noise of wind blowing through weeds, he still distinguished that the noise was coming from inside the library.

Following the direction of the sound, he slowly approached a bookshelf by the window.

The moonlight shone through the glass, and the floating dust was floating in the air. The window panes divided the white moonlight into broken squares, extending from the wooden floor to the bookshelf next to it. The voice that Xia Shou heard came from above.

"Hee... Qi... No..."

Intermittent, but different sounds and colors.

I can hear it more clearly now, as if someone is discussing something. Even though only fragments of words are heard, I can still tell that they are not being spoken by the same person.

He walked silently to the source of the sound and finally locked onto a book on the bookshelf.

The moonlight just illuminated the title on the spine of the book - "Moonlit Woodland".

Below the title of the book are the names of the authors, there are two of them: Fujin and Wu Ni.

"A lot of things have happened recently... Book Eater... Jin Fenglong is also making his own plans, he..."

The voice became softer and softer, and it was almost inaudible, but Xia Shou caught a few key words.

After more than ten seconds, a "hush" sound suddenly came from the book.

"Shh! Be careful... someone might hear you."

There was no sound at all.

Xia Shou frowned, stretched out his hand, hesitated for a moment, then decisively took the book from the bookshelf and opened it.

The first page says:

[Tonight, the gods were chatting in the moonlit woods. The breeze was gentle and the weather was just right. Except for a few gods who were absent, all the other gods gathered in the middle of the woods.

The atmosphere is harmonious, and it is a good time to chat about the past and the future.

Just recently, many things happened in the world, and the most worrying thing was the unpleasant conflicts between the psychologist under the human god and the book-eating old man under the magic poem.

Let's hear what they have to say...

But the gods didn't seem to want us to hear them, and their voices were very soft. I wanted to get closer to listen. As long as I walked through the woods and followed the gurgling stream all the way towards the rising moon, I would soon reach an open space surrounded by bushes. As long as I hid in the bushes, I would not be discovered.

The night is short, and their conversation is limited to tonight.

Only tonight did the conversation happen.

If tomorrow, or yesterday, the conversation has never taken place. 】

The first page only has this short paragraph, which ends with an ellipsis.

The second page, and all the pages after that in this book, are completely blank.

(End of this chapter)