After walking a little further away, Kidd stopped and let go of Busujima Saeko's hand.
"What exactly happened? What did you see?" Busujima Saeko asked with concern.
Kidd wiped the sweat from his head, hummed for a moment, and then spoke, "When you spoke, I found that half of the fifty people around me, both in body shape and appearance, began to change rapidly towards your appearance, and the heartbeats I could hear seemed to be unified all of a sudden."
"When we came out later, I paid special attention to it. Even though we didn't communicate with each other verbally, the changes continued. Those people sitting on the chairs were like a piece of plasticine, slowly being shaped into our appearance by an invisible force. I suspect that if we stay a little longer, there will be many people who look exactly like us trying to replace us."
Kidd quickly told everything he had observed in the library. As a top thief, he always had good psychological quality, but he was still a little scared this time.
"No wonder there is no noise inside." Busujima Saeko also found it very strange after thinking about it. It seems that there may be problems in every place in this town.
"Hey, what about that book? I saw some words in the catalog that should be the clue." Busujima Saeko said with a frown.
The library felt like it was full of dangers, and no one knew what would happen if they broke the rules. But without getting the book, it would be hard for them to find a way to solve everything. They couldn't just put their hopes on God.
Kidd snapped his fingers lightly, then reached into the air and "stole" the Book of Mysteries directly from the library.
"How did you do that!" Busujima Saeko was a little surprised. She clearly saw that the book was still on the bookshelf before the two came out.
"It's just a little trick to make a living." Kidd smiled and handed the book to Busujima Saeko.
Busujima Saeko took the book and started flipping through it immediately.
Kidd looked up at the dim sky. The light source in the sky, temporarily called the "sun", was gradually approaching the horizon. It was estimated that night would fall on this town soon.
"Let's go. Don't stay here too long. The castle is still some distance away, and I don't want to spend the night outside." Kidd called out, then quickened his pace and ran.
Busujima Saeko closed the book and followed closely behind Kidd.
The road to the castle was easier than anyone had imagined. Nothing strange happened and everything was so normal. I don’t know if it was because it was not dark yet or because of something else.
The castle is not too far away, only about one kilometer away from the edge of the town. The road in between is basically deserted and there is nothing there.
With a swish, Kidd unlocked the mechanism lock of the castle gate, and then pressed the pressure bar down with force. The downward pressure of the pressure bar caused a series of mechanical movements. The giant stone door that was more than four meters high and one meter thick slowly opened, and then a cloud of dust blew out from it along with the flow of air.
"Ahem, didn't you say the castle was very clean?" Even though she was wearing a mask, Busujima Saeko was still irritated by the sudden spray of dust and coughed twice.
"Such a big castle, and without anyone cleaning it, there is only a thin layer of dust. Isn't it clean?" Kidd used his sleeve to brush away the dust in front of him and walked in first.
The first floor of the castle is a huge living room with a huge red carpet in the middle. A layer of dust on the red carpet suppresses the bright red color.
Busujima Saeko walked beside the red carpet, looking at the full sets of armor placed in the four corners of the living room. Judging from their condition, these armors did not look like they had not been taken care of for a long time, and there was not a single trace of rust. In addition to the armor, there were two rows of twelve silver candlesticks on both sides of the living room, but there was not a single candle on them.
"Are you planning on staying in the same room with me tonight or something?" Kidd asked.
"Do you even need to ask this? You don't want to be like those guys in the movies and live separately in such a dangerous place, do you?" Busujima Saeko rolled her eyes.
"OK, come with me." Kidd took Busujima Saeko to a room he had carefully selected.
This room is of average size and is located on the far left side of the second floor of the castle. Judging from the arrangement of things inside, this should be the room for a bodyguard or a servant.
"The window on the right will take you directly to the woods behind, and the one on the left will lead you to a high platform. From that platform, you can easily return to the road we came from without opening the door."
Kidd introduced the situation of the room to Busujima Saeko. After looking at the route to jump out of the window, Busujima Saeko placed the Book of Secrets on the stone table in the middle.
The moment the book was put on the table, a gust of wind blew out from the cover, blowing away the dust on the stone table. It seemed that the book had a bit of mysophobia.
Busujima Saeko already knew that there was something wrong with this book, so she wasn't too scared by this weird thing.
According to the table of contents, Busujima Saeko turned to the page that recorded the strange house. Kid also came over and looked at the introduction on the page with her.
Rumor has it that there is a strange house in this town. The strange thing about this house is not its appearance or its interior, but the things that happen in the house.
It is impossible to verify who the original owner of this house was. What we want to talk about is its first resident. The first resident was a happy family of three. Takeo Saeki was a kind ordinary clerk, and Kayako was a kind housewife. By the way, their son Toshio was very lively and cute, and was loved by everyone around him.
But things don't always go as planned. One day, Takeo Saeki never came out after returning home. His concerned colleagues went to his home and found that his wife and son were also missing. There was food that had begun to rot on the table in the living room. The sudden disappearance alarmed the police, and after a long period of fruitless searching, they could only assume that the three had left overnight due to urgent matters.
In order to change the feng shui of the house, the landlord made special changes before the second tenant moved in. He converted the second floor of the house into another complete house within a house with a kitchen and a toilet, so that it could be rented to two households at the same time.
The people who lived on the second floor were a pair of twin sisters, and the person who lived on the first floor was a tutor. I heard that the tutor later gave the twin sisters free lessons. But what was strange was that at some point, the twin sisters and the tutor suddenly disappeared, just like Takeo Saeki's family, and never appeared again.
The police searched more thoroughly this time, but unfortunately still found nothing. The landlord, who had been delayed in renting his house for three months, was also helpless. Fortunately, some things left behind by the three men were able to compensate for his losses. However, because of these two incidents, no one in the town was willing to rent his house.
In order to attract tenants, the landlord went to the second-hand market and bought an old TV and a videotape player. The owner was also very polite and gave him a videotape.
This change was apparently good, and the third tenant who rented his house was a woman...