I bought a few light bulbs at the night market and replaced the broken screen of my phone, then headed back to the Snake House without any hesitation.
Around ten o'clock in the evening, I returned to the first floor of the Snake Building.
I was walking in a hurry, so I didn't notice the changes on the first floor of Snake Tower.
Now I am standing in front of the Snake Tower, and I finally find that major changes have taken place on the first floor of the Snake Tower.
A majestic high wall separates the stairs on the first floor from the lobby on the first floor.
On the right side of this high wall is a stairway about two meters wide, and next to the stairway is Gu Ya's coconut massage parlor.
On the left side of this high wall, there was originally the lobby on the first floor of the Snake Tower. There should be a security room in the lobby, but at this moment, the lobby and the security room inside disappeared, replaced by a wide shop.
On the left side of the shop hangs a blood-red door plate, with a line of small white characters engraved on the door plate: "4-444, Shelou Building, No. 4 Renmin Road, Southwest District, Xicheng."
"It seems that the store in front of me is the physical bookstore that was awarded to me." As I stood in front of the store, I heard the noisy suona sound again.
The sound of suona sounded out of thin air, and I was startled: "The sound of suona came from the shop."
I looked into the store with fear. The store was dark, like a beast with its bloody mouth open, waiting for me to come to my door.
Perhaps because of the sound of the suona, some ingot paper money fell from the sky. These ingot paper money gradually enveloped me, making me breathless.
In the suffocating state, I vaguely heard a hoarse cry.
This crying voice was crying and screaming intermittently: "There is... a ghost... hiding a book! Wait for... you... to come into the urn!"
This intermittent scream sounded like the wailing of ghosts and a funeral song.
"Is there a ghost hiding in a book, waiting for you to come?" The cry slowly merged with the sound of the suona. In this situation, the fear in my heart reached the extreme!
"This place is so weird, didn't Gu Ya notice?" I glanced at Gu Ya's Coconut Massage Shop. The neon sign above was still on, so it was obviously still open for business.
If Gu Ya is still in business, why didn't she notice the changes outside the store? Am I the only one who can see these scenes?
I was about to suffocate, so I reached out and touched these Yuanbao paper money. Just when I was about to touch them, they disappeared in an instant, and only the sound of the suona was still ringing.
The Yuanbao paper money disappeared, and the suffocation feeling in my body disappeared. I breathed a sigh of relief and looked above the store.
There is a large antique square plaque hanging there, with four large blood-red characters engraved in it.
Those four blood-red characters are the name of this store—Horror Bookstore!
The four characters "Horror Bookstore" are written in crazy calligraphy, which is very shocking.
Not only that, there is also a blood-red neon light that fills the entire large square plaque.
The neon light on the plaque keeps flashing, like a light flickering in the dark.
Looking from a distance, you can see the four big blood-red characters "Horror Bookstore" swaying and beating, which is very eye-catching and fascinating.
I stared at the plaque and found that under the words "Horror Bookstore", there were several small pale words: "Store Manager Fan An."
These small pale characters were really very small, as tiny as bacteria. Even if an ordinary person opened their eyes, they would not have the chance to see them, but I did.
"Store manager Fan An? This bookstore is the mission reward I chose. I should be the store manager. Why is it that one again?
Fan An?" There was confusion in my eyes.
Although the physical bookstore in front of me has the same name as the horror bookstore in the code, this bookstore was the mission reward I chose. Because I didn’t have time to pick up the store name, it was automatically named the horror bookstore.
Otherwise, why would I choose such a weird store name, called Qingzhu Study, Tingzhu Academy, etc. Wouldn’t the store names be good? It would attract more high-quality scholars!
In other words, the horror bookstore in front of you is completely different from the horror bookstore where the mission is issued in the code.
The horror bookstore in front of me is a physical bookstore, and it is the mission reward I chose.
The horror bookstore in the code should be a virtual bookstore that does not really exist. It only relies on this code to issue tasks, select and train bookstore managers, and complete certain unknown conspiracies.
All in all, since this physical bookstore is a mission reward, the person it belongs to should be me, not Fan An, the store manager in the code.
However, the words "Store Manager Fan An" are clearly engraved on the plaque. Based on the nature of this code, it can be inferred that anything with the words "Store Manager Fan An" will eventually belong to that Fan An.
"Who is this Fan An? Why can he snatch my mission reward? It's too much." I was a little angry. After all, this store was the reward I had worked so hard for, and now it was taken away wantonly.
What is tolerable is unbearable.
"No, no, I'm too preconceived. Maybe Fan An is not the real store manager. The reason why his name appears on this square plaque may be because the four-character store name on the plaque was inscribed by him himself." I suddenly thought.
Another possibility.
This may happen. The physical bookstore in front of me is a task reward given to me by the virtual bookstore. As the manager of the virtual bookstore in the code, Fan An certainly has the right to name the reward.
"If you want to know whether this is true or not, God will make it clear to you if you check it with your eyes." I thought to myself and took out the mobile phone with the screen replaced.
In the modern world with advanced technology, everything can be traced. If you want to know who the real manager of this store is, it is very simple, just look it up online.
However, since the code dares to issue rewards, it must have used its own weird abilities to secretly tamper with people's memories and certain information on the website, making the existence of this bookstore legal and reasonable.
Otherwise, a bookstore appears out of thin air in Shelou, which will inevitably lead to further investigation.
After taking out my phone, I opened the Sky Eye software directly, then entered the words "Horror Bookstore, No. 4 Renmin Road, Southwest District, Xicheng" in the search bar at the top of the page.
After inputting, I clicked the "OK" button. The Internet speed was very slow. I waited for more than ten seconds before the Sky Eye page started to jump.
"Beep! Sky Eye has searched for information about the Horror Bookstore at No. 4 Renmin Road, Southwest District, Xicheng. Please scroll down to view."
I tap the screen to complete the scrolling operation.
Then, the information about the scary bookstore in front of me came to my mind:
Business type: small business, physical store operation
Business status: In business
Registration authority: Southwest District Branch of Xicheng Administration for Industry and Commerce
Main person in charge: Store manager XX (vacant), bookstore manager Liang Fan (employed)
Looking at the column "Main Responsible Person", I was dumbfounded and was about to raise my arms and exclaim.
But at this moment, the words "vacant" in the brackets suddenly flashed and suddenly turned into the words "Fan An".
"Is the store manager Fan An?" I muttered in confusion, but before I could finish my muttering, I saw
The word "Fan An" disappears, and the three words "vacant" are restored in brackets.
Seeing this strange scene, I felt a big wave in my heart: "The code knows that I am searching for information about the bookstore. It is telling me that the manager of the bookstore in front of me is not vacant, but his name cannot be disclosed at will, so it can only be tampered with
Available!"
"It turns out that the manager of this physical bookstore is really Fan An, and I am just a small bookstore manager." I shook my head and smiled bitterly.
"It seems that I guessed wrong from the beginning. The horror bookstore in the code is not virtual. It has been tempting me to choose this bookstore as a reward. Once I choose this bookstore as a reward, it will automatically be named a horror bookstore. The so-called "get it for me"
The rights to the store name are all illusory!"
"It turns out it's not that I didn't have time to name the store, it's that the book didn't let me name it at all."
"What a scam! They say this is a bookstore that is rewarded to me, but in fact the real store manager is Fan An, not me. I am still a small bookstore manager." I put down my phone and smiled helplessly: "
You bet I'm just a brick in the horror bookstore, wherever it needs to be moved."
"It's good now, the horror bookstore in the code is really open in the real world."
The codes all released tasks in the tone of "Horror Bookstore". I thought that horror bookstores did not really exist, but at this moment, I realized that I was completely wrong.
The horror bookstore in front of me is both the mission reward I chose and the horror bookstore mentioned in the code. The two are one! And I am the tenth bookstore manager of the bookstore in front of me!
After sorting out all my thoughts, I looked at the bookstore in front of me in shock.
Two white lanterns hung on both sides of the bookstore's plaque. A deep white light leaked from the lanterns, reflecting the white cloth on the lanterns into a human face, which was very eerie.
What's even more terrifying is that each of these two white lanterns has a big word "Dian" written on it, as if this is not a bookstore but an ancient charity village filled with corpses.
The noisy suona sound, coupled with the two white lanterns with the word "Dian" written on it, makes it seem like this bookstore is doing something white.
On the lower side of these two white lanterns, that is, around the store door, there is a creepy couplet:
Hengbiao: There is something wrong with opening the book
First couplet: Ghost accompanies me to study
Second line: I teach ghosts to read
"A ghost accompanies me to study, I teach the ghost how to read, and there is a ghost in the book? Is this selling books or selling little ghosts?" Looking at this couplet, I got goosebumps all over.
Next to the upper and lower couplets, that is, on both sides of the store door, there is a roly-poly doll standing on each side.
There were smiling faces painted on these two dolls, but the smiles were very stiff, like the frozen smiles of the dead.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and the two roly-poly dolls swayed like two ghostly ghosts dormant in front of the store.
These two ghostly ghosts waved and laughed, as if they were welcoming me into the store to read.
"It looks like there is an evil spirit inside. Does anyone really patronize a bookstore like this?" I sighed to myself, and slowly approached the bookstore.
As I got closer, I finally saw the two roly-poly dolls clearly. The dolls had no ears on either side of their cheeks, as if they had been cut off by humans.
Some bright red liquid dripped from the gaps in the doll's ears. I got closer and smelled it, and a pungent smell of paint hit my nostrils.
"The doll is filled with red paint?" I muttered, but I didn't care about this detail in my heart. I stretched out my hand to push open the glass door of the bookstore in front of me.
But at this moment, there was a sound from Peng!
The glass door was not pushed open, and my forehead came into close contact with the door.