The restricted book area is located at the very back of the library, far away from the light outside the window and very close to the dark chaos.

Lu Shijuan walked towards the darkness step by step with the light on her back.

There was no one in the library, even the librarian's seat was empty. There was only a dog of unknown breed lying at the door, purring and napping from time to time.

Strange... Is the library always like this? Then it's not unnecessary for me to look for opportunities to sneak in... There are plenty of ways to deal with a mere watchdog...

Lu Shijuan thought about it and stopped in front of a row of bookshelves in the depths.

He walked slowly in front of the bookshelf, picked up the books and looked at their titles.

"Voynich Manuscript", "Sussex Manuscript", "Al-Ajif: Book of Arabia"...

During Azhen and Ji Shengying's Kep class in the morning, Lu Shijuan had heard the names of these books. They were all incomplete copies of the ultimate magic book in the world of Cthulhu, the Necronomicon.

As for the original version of the "Necronomicon", which is said to have great power, it has long ceased to exist in the world. Although countless investigators and researchers have collected various versions of manuscripts all over the world, trying to get a glimpse of this ultimate book.

The complete picture of the book, but all efforts were in vain, no one has successfully seen its complete version.

Therefore, this book is also called "The Undead Fragments".

Lu Shijuan casually took out a book and started to read it. The words in the book had been changed into Chinese by some powerful force. He did not have difficulty reading, but he just felt a little uncomfortable.

What Lu Shijuan didn't know was that the moment he opened the book, an illusory figure appeared behind him.

The figure looked like a girl, with a dark dress and curly white hair, making her expressionless face look even colder.

She held a pitch-black 100-sided dice in her hand. Whenever Lu Shijuan picked up a new book and started browsing, she would spin the dice and gently throw it upwards before catching it with her hand.

Sometimes it's just thrown once, sometimes it's repeated twice.

If a reincarnation familiar with the Cthulhu running group witnesses this scene, he will immediately think of this:

The first roll of the dice is sanity firm!

The second time is to determine the reduced san value!

Lu Shijuan himself was unaware of this, but he gradually realized that something was wrong.

As he read more books, his brows became more and more frowned, and his body continued to feel a slight chill.

"Books about the Ke world are indeed not that good-looking. Maybe I lost my sanity value unknowingly while reading them."

He put the book in his hand back toward the bookshelf and calmly analyzed the current situation.

It seemed that mental discomfort led to physical incoordination. The book in his hand was not accurately inserted back into the space between the two books, but instead knocked the other book on the right to the ground.

Lu Shijuan looked at the gap that had doubled in size and felt irritated. He roughly stuffed the book in with one hand and rubbed his forehead fiercely with the other hand.

Then, he knelt down and picked up the book that fell on the ground.

"The list of graduates of Randolph Carter's Legendary Investigator Academy... Huh? A photo fell out."

Lu Shijuan picked up the group photo of the graduation ceremony that slipped out of the roster. He glanced at it casually and looked away, but then suddenly turned back and stared at a certain position in the photo.

He saw an acquaintance, and around that acquaintance were people he didn't expect.

Lu Shijuan immediately opened the roster and started searching one by one, and soon found the two names that came to mind.

"Why do they two appear here together..."

He continued to look down, and as he expected but was unwilling to confirm, he saw three names that had been mentioned frequently in book circles recently.

In the appendix after the roster, Lu Shijuan found a group photo of the five of them.

In the photo, five investigators, one man, four women, are holding scissor hands and looking at the camera with smiles on their faces.

One of them is none other than Xinming Xinming, who the old driver had fought against in the new chapter of "Sherlock Holmes", the "author" of the personal guard of the head of the Samsara Studio, a girl who exerted various strange powers by writing three essays.

The other three people have also been witnessed by book friends in the alliance in other worlds of classics. They are also members of the Guards: "Illustrator" Yin Lei, "Editor" Yujo Kana, and the boy from the "Reader".

The remaining "operations" are very mysterious. The Alliance only knows of his existence through the mouths of other members of the Guards, but has never actually witnessed it.

"In other words, you are the 'operation'... Not to mention, your skills are quite suitable for 'operation'."

Lu Shijuan looked at the photo and couldn't help but murmur to himself. At the same time, the scene when he and the girl were doing the reincarnation mission appeared in front of his eyes.

"The problem is, "Cthulhu World" was cleared before the fourth death mission "Metamorphosis", and the bastard room director only mastered the brainwashing of the artificial alliance leader after the fifth death mission "Resurrection"

strength.

"Why do the five members of the Guards appear here together, and what's going on? Could it be that they were teammates before they were made into artificial alliance leaders?"

"Woof!"

A dog barking interrupted Lu Shijuan's thoughts.

Oops, I accidentally made a sound!

He hurriedly stuffed the photo of the five of them into his pocket and made a fighting posture.

However, when he looked at the dog at the entrance of the library from a distance, he had a strange feeling——

So bright.

Why does that dog look so bright, with its sharp teeth emitting a cold light? It is obviously facing away from the sun.

Where does light come from...

Speaking of which, there are no lights on in the restricted book area. Why was it that I was able to read books and look at photos normally without using any light magic...

And why, I didn’t realize there was any problem...

Lu Shijuan's eyes widened slightly. He didn't look back. He lunged forward and rolled around on the ground before turning and looking behind him——

Just a few inches away from where he originally stood, there was a glowing humanoid floating in the air.

There seemed to be billions of tiny radiant spheres floating on the creature's skin. Lu Shijuan just looked directly at it and quickly covered his eyes with his hands.

Without any reason, he instinctively felt that if he dared to use his eyeballs to see the other person completely, he would usher in madness and destruction.

In addition to the radiant human form, Lu Shijuan also caught a glimpse of a girl rolling dice out of the corner of his eye, but now it was obvious that the threat from the radiant human was more direct——

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

The moment the dice fell back into the girl's hand, Lu Shijuan let out a wild roar.

His sanity value was reduced to only 5.

The results of Dice Niang's test after reading the forbidden book, coupled with the san check just now for his sudden encounter with a monster descended from an alien god, finally drove him to the edge of madness.

However, something even more unexpected happened.

Ta-ta-ta.

The watchdog ran past Lu Shijuan with a simple and ridiculous pace, and pounced on Guangren.

The light man remained motionless, as if he didn't care about this weak creature.

"Woof!"

The dog opened its mouth and bit Guangren, and Guangren's glorious and invisible body suddenly lost one-third.

Before Guangren could react, the dog opened its mouth twice more and disappeared completely.

Lu Shijuan stared blankly at this scene through the gaps between her fingers covering her eyes.

The dog turned to face Lu Shijuan, its long tongue sticking out of its sharp teeth, and its dripping saliva reflected an ominous light.

The dice girl on the side threw the pitch-black dice in her hand again, dropped it, caught it, failed the sanity test, and rolled it again to confirm that the san value was deducted.
Chapter completed!