I'm afraid of non-human beings

It was five minutes before the picture-frame girl, who was foaming at the mouth, was lowered from the ceiling fan.

At that time, she was so dizzy that she didn't even have any movement or desire to struggle, let alone the desire for human flesh and blood.

She lay sleepily on the ground, raised her eyelids to look at these two people, her little finger didn't want to move, she hugged her shoulder silently.

... The picture frame girl was wronged, and the picture frame girl had nothing to say.

She just curled up there, and with a flash of white light, she disappeared in place.

However, the perpetrators do not feel any guilt about this.

Lin You is too vengeful.Right now, the wound has stopped bleeding, but it is so deep, at this moment, she will only be happy with the illustrated book, and go directly to pick up the card.

Naia gave a "tsk" sound, shook her head and said, "It's so miserable."

...You sound more sincere when you accept that schadenfreude.

However, a pleasure prisoner who almost engraved the word "pleasure" in his bones obviously didn't intend to do so.He walked over generously, and looked at the face of the card in Lin You's hand with his head, "What is it written on?"

【Name: Bust Portrait】

[Card number: 007]

【Level: R】

[Remarks: It was originally stored in a haunted art gallery, but it somehow escaped.At first glance, it looks like an ordinary portrait of a woman in red, with Guertena's signature on the back. Once someone gets close, it will reveal its true colors.Due to an unimaginable experience for ordinary people, I reject all fans or things like fans, and when I hear the words related to playgrounds, I will start to spit paint.Maybe I won't be able to enjoy the fun of the playground again in this life, what a pity. 】

Naia: "...Puff."

If he had planned to put on a symbolic sympathy before, he couldn't hold it back now.

He laughed so hard that Lin You put away the card on his own.

Fortunately, before leaving the last level, there was a teammate named Wen Yang who helped to heal him, and he recovered almost.Otherwise, after another blow like this, her current health bar would be a little dangerous.

"Go back to Duke now?" she said.

"No," the evil god smiled unhurriedly, "wait a minute."

Lin You: "?"

She was still standing where she was, watching the other person approach step by step.He raised his hand, obviously only passing the air above, but a little light flashed past.

Except for the blood that was still clotted on it, everything was healed as before.

...! ! !

Lin You's eyes suddenly became respectful.

——Be able to control the law and milk, even the incarnation whose power has been restricted is definitely the beginning of SR!

Fortunately, Naia had turned her head away at this time, and fortunately, she immediately hid her little thoughts - she didn't want her purpose to be exposed so early.

The evil god over there didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Although he didn't like to use spells in human form, it was nothing compared to the joy brought by this bustle.

"Let's go." He said now.

Lin You was walking towards the door when she suddenly spoke again.

"By the way," she remembered something, "Did her mouth move just now?"

When the picture frame girl was still hanging on the ceiling fan in a daze, she seemed to see the guy's mouth move a few times, but she didn't hear what he said.

After watching the play, Naia said absent-mindedly, "Really."

Lin You thought to himself that based on the previous situation, this guy can probably use his mind to transmit his voice to other people's ears through the air.

I don't know who I'm sending the message to this time.

Now that I think about it, I can't think of a result. What Lin You is curious about is another thing.

——They also stayed here for a while, but they didn't see Duke coming.

What about others?

Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned the same way, the person who ran towards him solved his doubts easily.

"found it!"

Duke panted and waved the note in his hand, "I've found the next one!"

He hurriedly said: "Your side—"

"As you can see," Lin You rolled her eyes, "it's resolved."

Duke: "..."

Why... What he wants to ask now is how is the picture frame girl? !

He bounced back and forth between his heart-scratching curiosity and his shaky worldview, and he couldn't decide which one to keep.

Before he could finish tangling, Naia spoke first.

"You said you found it," he put on Xia Zuo's harmless skin again in front of the unaware Duke, "what did you find?"

"oh oh!"

Duke didn't have any doubts at all, he came back to his senses and handed over the note.

"I was squatting in the Academic Affairs Office over there just now," he turned around and pointed, "I accidentally bumped into a bunch of things and picked them up inside."

Listening to his words, Lin You looked at the words above.

[One of the Seven Wonders - Thirteen Steps]

"That's six," she said.

The hanged ghost, the severed hand in the music classroom, the doppelganger, the bust portrait and Hanako in the toilet, plus this "Thirteen Steps", they are only one step away from solving the "Seven Mysteries".

"The words 'Thirteen Steps'..."

Lin You pondered: "I remember that strange talk that there are twelve levels in total, but as you count and walk, you will find that there is one more level. When it comes to the last level—that is, No.13 level, it is absolutely impossible. Can't go back."

Otherwise, you will be dragged to another dimension, or something extremely terrifying will happen.

"The question now," she blinked, "where is that flight of stairs?"

Duke: "This..."

He took a deep breath and raised his finger in the direction he came from.

"I found it when I passed by. I didn't dare to go up. I counted it at the bottom. There are twelve steps in total."

Lin You weighed it up.

Stairs and toilets, or the former is closer.

Without saying much, she raised her legs and walked over there.

"Eh?" Duke was taken aback, "Are you going now?"

The evil god in the human vest had that harmless smile on his face again, and when he passed by him, he said in a good mood; "You have to go and see, maybe something good will happen."

Duke: "...?"

good thing? ?Brother, is your use of the word wrong? ? ?

He was dazed for a few seconds, and hurried to catch up. Lin You had already helped up the handrail of the staircase he pointed to just now.

Duke opened his mouth and was about to speak, but he saw the other party turned his head, raised his index finger, and gave him a "shh".

Lin You turned around.

She stepped on the first step and began to count silently in her heart.

Three, four...

As the stairs climbed higher and higher, the air seemed to be getting heavier.

……eleven twelve.

In the breathless silence, Lin You stopped counting.In front of her eyes, there was another step at the end of the stairs that should have been flat ground.

Thirteen.

She stepped on it without hesitation, and then turned her head.

Lin You: "..."

Nothing happened.

"This... shouldn't be." Duke was in a complicated mood, and immediately added after discovering the slip of the tongue, "No, no, no, I'm not expecting something to happen, or—could this be the stairs in another place?"

Lin You lowered her head and counted again, and found that she was stepping on the No. 12 step.

But she remembered so clearly that it was impossible to count them wrong.

"No, it must be here," she turned around, "It was really an extra level just now."

"...But, are you sure you were the first to find that note?"

Duke froze.

"I can't be sure." After thinking for a long time, he said in a muffled voice.

"I found it in the pen holder. Now that I think about it, it seems that someone deliberately stuffed it into the middle of the interlayer..."

"Then, it's sure enough."

Lin You shrugged, "There is still a sixth person in this school."

Those upstairs will not have time to do this.

She walked down the stairs and leaned over the corridor window to look out.

"Looking at it this way," she said, "there is fog outside, but the sky and stars can be seen clearly."

"The constellation of Pisces is very bright tonight."

Duke turned pale with shock, "You still understand astrology?!"

Lin You: "...No, I just guessed."

"Because in order to summon Cthugha, the most important condition is the clear night when the star rises above the horizon." She said, "If it is really the cultists who have deciphered this 'unbelievable' first, then We need to hurry up and act.”

"After all, if he really successfully completes the summoning ceremony," Lin You said with a smile, "some people will be in trouble."

Naia: "..."

Duke: "???"

What picture?What ya?

"I suggest you say," Naia folded her arms and leaned against the wall with a smile on her face, "Everyone will be finished."

Honest Duke couldn't hear the undercurrent between the two of them at all, the strange name was enough to confuse him, "What is that?"

"It's okay." Lin You waved his hand, "That's it, as long as we know that if we don't find a way to stop the sixth person who is hiding, no one will get good fruit."

"so……"

She turned her head, "Go over there next time."

-

Standing at the door of the women's restroom, Duke's heart ached.

There is no other reason.

The upstairs has been ruled out, so there is a high possibility that Hanako is in this room.

but……

He doesn't know why now, worry and sympathy for the ghosts are going up and down on both ends of the balance.

It's very mixed.

Lin You's goal was very clear, and Naia watched her playfully and walked straight to the innermost compartment.

Then, he raised his hand and gently knocked on the tightly closed door.

"Hanako, Hanako, come and play together."

There was a sudden noise from inside the door.

While his scalp exploded horribly, Duke also realized——

This time, they were in the right place.

On the other hand, Lin You, who was still standing at the door, still looked normal.

"Hanako, Hanako," there was even a smile in her voice, "Come and play together."

The light tube suddenly went out.

The field of vision was completely black, and it finally turned on after a few seconds. Under such a drastic change of on and off, Lin You still stood motionless by the door.

She knocked a third time.

This time, it was silence, a long silence.

Duke wondered if it was his illusion, why did he feel that the guy inside didn't want to come out.

After a long while of silent confrontation, finally, there was movement inside.

... The compartment door was pushed open tremblingly.