I'm afraid of non-human beings

"I see."

Duke nodded thoughtfully, "Music classroom and toilet?"

Now that we have decided to act together, there is nothing to hide about some things.Lin You truthfully told them about Hanako and the piano in the music classroom, of course, leaving aside the dispute between her and the hanged ghost.

And, for some reason, she was always worried about that broken page, so she simply kept it a secret.

During this period, she was observing the reactions of the two people from beginning to end.

It's a pity that Duke's expression was serious from beginning to end, as if he habitually kept his face on the floor.Xia Zuo listened intently, however, although the performances of the two were different, they couldn't see any other clues.

"Then let's decide," Lin You said, "Where should we go first?"

"or……"

She tilted her head, "Which side is closer?"

Duke raised his hand, motioning for them to wait.

He stood beside the reading desk, rummaging through the drawers to find paper and pens.

With the light on, he quickly drew a few lines, and wrote and drew on them for a while.When I lifted it up again, it looked like a simple map.

"I saw a map of the previous safe evacuation routes for the two floors downstairs."

Duke explained: "I don't have a mobile phone on me, so I can only write down the more iconic and possibly useful places."

"According to the map," he pointed to them, "we are in the library now, about the same distance from the music classroom and toilet."

"Oh yes," added Duke, "between the two places."

Lin You: "..."

Ganqing is an equilateral triangle.

"It's the same wherever you go," Xia Zuo suggested, "whoever finds the information should choose."

Lin You said "hmm".

She was busy picking and choosing in the opened drawer, when she heard this, she flipped open the stapler as if thinking of something, and took out a coin underneath.

"Then just use it to decide."

The coin flipped up and down several times, and when it fell again, it was slammed down.

She slowly moved the hand away.

--front.

"Okay," Lin You looked up, "Go to the music classroom."

-

Walking in the corridor again, Lin You always felt a little uneasy.

She pays attention to every corner, and is on guard against the hanged ghost who is still wandering around suddenly rushing out to give her a good look.

Of course, at the same time, he was still paying attention to the movements of the other two.

But after leaving the library, Lin You found that the two of them got along quite strangely, and all their interactions were limited to something called their name.

What I said before is probably not a lie.

Just as she was thinking, she heard Duke take a deep breath in front of her: "Here we are."

Further forward is the sign of the music classroom.

If there is any supernatural legend in the music classroom, it is nothing more than that——

In the middle of the night, a school worker happened to pass by the supposedly empty classroom, but heard the piano inside spontaneously playing weird music.

This also corresponds to the little note that Lin You picked up, but she still hasn't figured it out yet, why is it "messy"?

Out of some kind of vigilance, no one was in a hurry to take another step forward.However, as if sensing their approach, in the silence where only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard, there was an unusual sound in the music classroom separated by a door.

Lin You happened to be next to the window, and she nudged the others with her elbow to signal them not to act rashly. She also carefully hid herself, and looked in through the glass from the corner of her eye——

A white finger slowly protruded from the top cover of the old grand piano.

Then there are a few knuckles and most of the palm.Finally, it turned over and rolled down from the piano cover.

This time, several piano keys sounded heavily, and at the same time, I finally saw the true face of that thing——

It was a fairly complete severed hand.

In the dimly lit music classroom, it looks even more pale, with a very smooth cross-section.

It rolled back and forth twice, played a particularly weird tune, and then propped itself up on the keys to stand upright, looking left and right as if it had eyes.Lin You quickly looked away, and waited a few seconds before quietly leaning against the window again.

When I looked back, the severed hand was bouncing and using the piano bench as a pedal, and the movement was very dexterous, and it jumped to the ground in one fell swoop.

It propped up its "body" with five fingers, and it was about to move towards the door, but it didn't know what it wanted to do.

"Shh."

She tugged at the other two and pointed back.At this time, there is no need for a tacit understanding to understand what she wants to say. Before the severed hand crawled out, they hid behind the corner of the corridor they came from just now, and watched silently as the door of the music classroom was opened by the severed hand. Pull open a gap.

Just like when he climbed out, he looked around with his broken hand, and after making sure that there was no change in the surroundings, he chose a direction, and quickly crawled to the corner opposite to the hiding place of the three.

It seemed that it was just a coincidence, it hadn't found them yet.

"What is this guy trying to do?" Duke couldn't help muttering.

"Who knows."

Lin You said with great interest: "Go in and have a look."

After the severed hand disappeared behind the wall, they also slipped into the music classroom.Thinking about the route it climbed out before, Lin You didn't hesitate, and stepped forward to lift the top cover of the piano.

Chingely had indeed hidden a small brown paper package.

The paper bag was fairly tightly wrapped, but Lin You took a little effort to unpack it.

Lin You: "..."

She probably knew what the severed hand was doing.

Carefully stuffed inside was a small vanity mirror, two or three pennies, and a bottle cap that came from nowhere.

Generally speaking, it's all shiny things.

...is this guy a crow? !

Duke: "...Is it going to expand its inventory again?"

"It looks pretty harmless that way," he said.

"For the time being," Xia Zuo corrected, "if it is discovered that its collection has been touched, maybe it will..."

"Coincidentally," Lin You said, "I think so too."

That's why she memorized the process of dismantling, and now she closed her eyes, almost as she remembered, with every crease folded back nicely.

"Then, this guy won't be much of a threat now..."

Duke muttered, "It shouldn't make us return empty-handed", and walked around the piano again.

"Ah," his eyes lit up, "Yes."

He squatted down and gently pulled out the small note that was pressed under the legs of the piano stool.

[The Fourth of the Seven Wonders: Double Body]

"Double body?"

Duke stared at the note in bewilderment, as if he hadn't heard the urban legend, but put it away anyway.Lin You noticed that it was consistent with the handwriting she found, so it should be genuine.

"'Double Body'..."

She explained: "It refers to the clone that will appear under unknown circumstances and is exactly the same as the real person—however, there is no specific connection yet."

"In this case," Xia Zuo said, "let's go to the toilet first."

"That guy probably won't go—"

He subtly changed the words, "Climb too far, and it won't take long to come back."

When leaving the music classroom, Lin You thoughtfully restored the door to the one with a gap open.

According to the map that Duke had memorized, they returned the same way and prepared to turn into another connected corridor.

But at this moment——

"Help, help—!"

Suddenly a person rushed out of the corner.

"Are you human?" He looked terrified and kept confirming, "You are human!!"

There was some blood on the corner of the man's clothes, and he rushed out rashly at such a time with this appearance, no matter how suspicious he looked.

But the fear on the face does not seem to be fake.

The three looked at each other, and Duke spoke first.

"Calm down," he said, "are you hurt?"

"No...it's not my blood," the man said nervously, "I just found a recently dead body."

Hearing the word "corpse", Duke seemed a little alert.

"How is it?" he asked his companion in a deep voice, "do you want to take a look?"

Looking behind him from the corner of the eye, Lin You suddenly caught a glimpse of a small shadow at the corner.

She withdrew her gaze and looked at the people in front of her again.

The most dangerous thing now is to act alone with someone. If there are three people, no matter how suspicious some of them look, if they have a check on each other, nothing will happen in a short time.

Then take this opportunity...

"Wait—" She stopped, touched her pockets, and made a look of being stunned.

"You guys go first, I left something in that classroom just now!" Lin You quickly counted the time, "It will take about a minute or so."

What she said was half true and half false, but Duke seemed to have no doubt about him, nodded, "Then you go and come back quickly."

Even though Xia Zuo, who was farther ahead, gave them an extra look, he didn't say anything.

"As soon as possible," Lin You waved his hand, "I'll chase you right away!"

-

Nothing to gain today.

The severed hand crawled hurriedly, its fingers hitting the ground with a "da da da" sound.

Then, in the next second, it found something not far away.

So round!So bright!

A round one dollar coin was lying in the middle of the corridor.

But at the same time as it rushed forward, the coin seemed to be pulled by something, and it retreated a short distance.

...?

Every time it jumps forward, the coin is pulled backwards, and it always keeps a short distance from it.Under that indelible attraction, the broken hand stumbled into such a simple routine and couldn't extricate himself.

The coin was pulled around the corner by the thin string tied to it, and it followed without hesitation.

Seeing that the target was close in front of him, the broken hand was about to rush forward.

However, another hand held the coin before it did.

It slowly held up its palm and "looked" at someone who was squatting behind the wall to fish and enforce the law.

Lin You still held the thin thread in her hand.

She smiled kindly and greeted it: "Hi."