The library was built to be larger than the hotel, and it was the largest building in town besides the church.
Flocks of crows circled overhead, the clouds hung low, and the library doors were open, with a light shining inside.
The passersby didn't seem to notice anything amiss, and continued walking briskly.
As Su Yi walked in, she was almost bumped into by a child running around in the lobby.
She pulled her foot back in time, but the child still bumped into her leg.
"I'm sorry..."
The child, who looked like he had just learned to speak, patted the dust off himself and apologized to Su Yi, then timidly ran to his older sister and hid behind her.
"I'm sorry." The older sister was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and already looked like a little adult.
"My sister didn't do it on purpose."
"It's okay, just be careful next time."
Su Yi was very tolerant of the cute little girl. She had been a bit absent-minded just now, thinking about yesterday's recording, which was why she hadn't noticed someone in front of her.
Jiang Nuo glanced at the child a few times, then frowned in confusion.
Why does the deathly appearance on this child appear and disappear intermittently?
They saw the blood-red book; in the dimly lit town, the library did almost everything that was forbidden.
Seven colors, bright lights, and a caretaker dressed in brightly colored clothes.
At first, Jiang Nuo didn't see the person hiding behind the book. Only when she got closer did she realize that a little dwarf was hiding behind the book, with half an eye peeking out from the pages, openly peeking.
The little dwarf, dressed in a red uniform, sat on a small stool behind a huge blood-red book, his toes bobbing up and down.
"Oh! Hello, beautiful Miss Su Yi, we meet again."
Tang Mu greeted Su Yi in his peculiar accent, then waved to the three of them. "Hello, new friends. Is there anything I can do for you?"
I felt a little uncomfortable seeing clothes of other colors at first.
This Tang Mu... doesn't quite look human?
I think so too! No human face should have such strange features.
Thanks to yesterday's recording, Su Yi now feels a bit traumatized whenever she hears Tang Mu's voice. "I'd like to ask my friends a few questions. Can you answer them?"
Su Yi proceeded according to the plan they had discussed beforehand, while Jiang Nuo and the other two stood silently behind her, as if they were three mute people.
Tang Mu gave them a strange look, then forced a smile, his lips almost parallel to the corners of his eyes, his pupils large and round, like those of some kind of sharp-beaked animal.
"Of course, Miss, it's my pleasure to serve you."
As Tang Mu spoke, he peeked out from behind the book and told the two little girls, "Don't play behind the lamp!"
Su Yi glanced back at Jiang Nuo, took out her phone from her pocket, and began to ask questions.
"About the origins and culture of this town, the reasons behind its rules, who the Nightwalker are, the reason for the church's construction, and whether everyone in the town is a believer in Jesus."
Su Yi finished speaking in one breath, her inner unease disappearing. She calmly gazed at Tang Mu, looking determined to get an answer.
Tang Mu: "..."
He slowly lowered his long, thick eyebrows, which furrowed tightly. "So many questions."
Then he held up one finger, "Let me think."
[Hahaha, Tang Mu looks like he's about to break.]
[ Tang Mu's expression visibly turned aggrieved, haha.]
"... Ahhh! Mili!"
A scream shattered the silence that everyone had deliberately created.
The four looked over and saw the child, who had been alive just moments before, lying on the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices, without any warning.
The older sister knelt on the ground in anguish, cradling Mili's head and weeping, "Save her! God..."
"Oh, tragedy has struck."
Tang Mu's voice was devoid of emotion, but his expression gradually became complex on his ugly face.
Su Yi went over and checked the child's breathing. "He's stopped breathing."
Two seconds later, Jiang Nuo saw the child's spirit.
The soul was enveloped in a cloud of black mist and vanished in an instant, as if it had been plundered.
" The Nightwalker again."
Jiang Nuo frowned and threw out a talisman.
The talisman burned without leaving ash, so we followed it.
Si Yan's voice was deep, "They don't seem to be the same batch as those in the hotel; they arrived very quickly."
" Mili!"
As if sensing something, the older sister screamed and cried towards the door.
" Zhang Quan, go after them and see," Jiang Nuo whispered, taking the Ugly Doll out of her pocket.
The Half-Corpse Soul suddenly emerged, transforming into a transparent ghostly figure, and rushed out following the aura of Jiang Nuo's talisman.
Tang Mu moved from the bench to the giant blood-red book, swinging his legs.
" Mili, poor child, she was taken away by the Reaper."
" The Reaper?" Jiang Nuo's lips curled into a sneer, his tone less than friendly. "Your town isn't big, but there are quite a few kinds of ghosts and monsters."
"Shh..." Tang Mu held up his waxy hand to his pointed lips, urging, "Don't say those two words, you'll be targeted."
" Mili definitely didn't behave last night," Tang Mu said, his round eyes fixed on his sister. "Right?"
The older sister wiped away her tears, "Last night... Mili couldn't sleep, so she went to the haunted house to play hide-and-seek."
Bang!
"Unforgivable!" Tang Mu slammed his hand on the table, jumping up and down on it. "They were playing hide-and-seek last night!"
"Oh, beautiful lady, you probably don't know what a haunted house is. Let me explain."
Tang Mu jumped to Su Yi's side, his fingernails digging into Su Yi's shoulder. "In our town, every house has a haunted house. The scarier the haunted house, the better, so that vengeful ghosts can live there and coexist with them."
"On moonless nights, the vengeful spirits will randomly choose a few houses to stay in. If they find someone awake in a house... then it's considered a gift of food, to be taken away by the Reaper!"
Si Yan: "They're not in the hotel."
Tang Mu chuckled, his tone sinister, "There's no need for a haunted house in a hotel."
Jiang Nuo: "What will a moonlit night be like?" He hadn't forgotten that before he left, the little girl had said that tomorrow would be a good day, and tonight might be a moonlit night.
Tang Mu's smile widened.
"On the night of the full moon, vengeful spirits hunt for food. The town must be completely silent; not a sound can be made, and no one can speak. Anyone who makes a sound will become food for the vengeful spirits."
Jiang Nuo: "..."
Ultimately, it's about coexisting with vengeful ghosts.
All the rules are controlled by vengeful spirits.