His words reminded Xu Tingfang of something.
She hurriedly said, "It was written in a book, one of those on the shelves..."
As she spoke, she pointed toward the bookshelves.
But her voice abruptly cut off.
Xu Tingfang's eyes slowly widened as she stared at the scene before her in disbelief. Every book on the shelves... had changed!
Different colors, different titles, different sizes...
How was that possible?
Her disbelieving gaze caused a subtle change in Shen Hai's eyes, but he said nothing. His gaze merely grew somewhat strange.
However, still in shock, Xu Tingfang failed to notice that strangeness.
"What's wrong?" Shen Hai asked.
Xu Tingfang felt her skin crawl. She instinctively grabbed Shen Hai's wrist and whispered, "Just now... there was only one book in the entire Library. It was called Sick Village Records, with a black cover. I remember it very clearly!"
"Tell me what it said."
Shen Hai glanced down at Xu Tingfang's hand. He did not pull free, merely raising his brows as he asked.
"It was very short, only a few pages. It recorded how Sick Village underwent its mutation, from a survivor's perspective..."
With Shen Hai there, Xu Tingfang calmed down somewhat. Although Shen Hai's reputation was not particularly good, a human was certainly more dependable than a ghost.
Xu Tingfang carefully described everything she had just seen. Toward the end, something suddenly occurred to her, and she hurriedly asked, "You must have seen them too, right? When those four books flew up, their covers were black, weren't they?"
Yet Shen Hai shook his head. "No. If all the books were identical, I would have taken one down and read it long ago."
Shen Hai denied what she said.
He thought back over the story Xu Tingfang had just told him. If everything