"Yeah, yeah~"
Seeing an extra arch on the wall, Zashiki Warashi looked very happy, like a great hero waiting for recognition, with his face raised and his head held high.
But Kamiyagawa just pressed the little lucky god's head: "Zashiki, please go back to the bell first. When you return to reality, I will praise you well."
Zashiki Warashi nodded obediently and turned into transparent smoke and got back into the golden ball bell.
In the statue showroom, there are only two combat units left, Kamiya and Prajna.
"There is actually an unexplored hidden area in Novice Village. I don't know what is in it."
Kamiyakawa held the hatchet in his hand tightly and walked into the stone arch door with a certain degree of caution.
Laughing Prajna floated slightly into the air, raised his chest, raised his head and retracted his chin, straightened his slender waist, gently crossed his hands in front of his body, and quietly followed behind his own onmyoji.
Inside the stone arch.
It was different from what Kamiyagawa had imagined. The interior of this hidden area did not look mysterious enough. It still looked like a school building.
However, compared with the teaching building of Hualinggui School outside, it looks much older.
This hidden area is filled with the old smell of decay and mold. It looks generally like a school corridor, but there are no windows and only mottled walls.
It was dark and gloomy in the depths, and I didn't know what was there.
"Is the environment similar to an unknown old school building?" Kamiyakawa looked around and said to himself.
He took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and successfully checked the mission information in "Kaitan Monogatari".
There are a total of two main missions that have been completed so far.
They are all regional tasks of Hua Ling Gui School. One is to defeat Hanako; the other is to explore more than 80% of the school map.
Among them, when the exploration map task is completed, the progress is 82%.
And as soon as they entered this hidden old school building corridor, the exploration rate increased from 82% to 83%.
"Huh?" Kamiya raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Could it be that this hidden area is the 18% that has never been explored in Novice Village?"
When he had previously conquered the Flower Bell School, Kamiyagawa had preconceptions that the 18% unexplored area was the bottom of an artificial lake.
But now it seems that his idea is most likely wrong.
The cloister of the old school building behind the hidden door is the unknown 18%.
As for the artificial lake bottom, it is very likely that it has not been included in the map range of the Hualing School in "Kaitan Monogatari".
"If I hadn't been there, I would have had to wait until I was able to fully explore the bottom of the artificial lake before I would have noticed that there was something fishy about the map of Novice Village."
Kamiyagawa thought like this, raised his phone a little, and began to explore the corridor of the old school building.
The floor under your feet is wooden and creaks when you step on it.
Where the light beam shines, fine dust dances wildly.
Where the light beam cannot reach, it is dark, unknown, and daunting.
There was no room that could be entered in the corridor. After walking carefully for a few minutes, Kamiyagawa suddenly stopped.
At the same time, Prajna, who was following behind, gently put his hand on Kamiya's shoulder as a warning.
In front of one person and one spirit, a figure can be seen a dozen steps away.
Standing there quietly, motionless.
"Encountered a strange thing?"
Kamiyagawa held the [bloody hatchet] horizontally in front of him and directed the flashlight beam of his cell phone towards the location of the figure.
Under the light, Kamiya saw clearly that the thing opposite was not a human being, or even a humanoid creature.
But a statue.
"A statue again?"
After looking at Hannya next to him, Kamiyagawa took another step forward and began to approach.
You can see what seems to be a brass statue standing alone in the corridor of the old school building.
The image of a little boy with his hair tied in a bun, carrying a bundle of firewood on his back and holding an open book in his hands.
Also, it's worth noting.
In the cloister of the dusty old school building, this statue has a characteristic that is full of contradictions——
Its body is spotless.
"Is this the bronze statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya?"
After getting closer, Kamiyagawa recognized the identity of the statue.
Kinjiro Ninomiya.
The last agricultural politician and thinker in Edo Japan, he was engaged in the rural revitalization movement.
It is said that Kinjiro's family was poor. When he was a child, he had to go to the mountains to cut firewood to make ends meet. He could not go to school like ordinary children. After chopping firewood every day, he would walk and read while carrying firewood.
When he grew up, Kinjiro became a scholar respected by everyone, and because of his childhood experience, he was regarded as a symbol of hard study and diligence.
The Japanese regard him as the "god of learning", and his statues are even worshiped in some shrines where academic work is the main focus.
In addition, because it has the meaning of "God of Learning". More than ten years ago, statues of Kinjiro Ninomiya could be seen in many primary and secondary schools in Japan.
But later, for some reasons, the statues of Ninomiya were slowly removed from various schools.
jingle--
The golden ball bell inside the [Mirage Cloth Bag] jingled, and it was the bell inside that was being rang.
The little God of Fortune must have sensed the existence of good things around him.
The sound of the bell was particularly loud this time.
"So, is there anything special about this statue?" Kamiyagawa and Hannya came forward to take a closer look.
The moment he got close to the statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya.
Tikka——
The brass statue made a harsh and clumsy sound of metal friction.
Ninomiya Kinjiro turned his head stiffly and mechanically, his empty eyes looking right at Kamiyagawa.
Tikka——
There was another harsh metallic sound.
The bronze statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya glanced at Kamiyagawa, turned around suddenly, opened his brass legs that theoretically should not be so flexible, and ran away like flying.
"A bronze statue that can run away?"
The sudden change stunned Kamiyakawa.
He used his mobile phone's flashlight to shine forward and could see the back of the bronze statue fading away.
In addition, there is something particularly conspicuous tied to the bundle of firewood carried by the bronze statue——
That's a wooden sign.
To be more precise, it is a sacred coffin, and it is unclear what is specifically enshrined on it.
Moreover, the divine coffin is not made of brass and is not integrated with the statue.
It looks like it can be picked up as a prop.
Zashiki had just tried hard to ring the bell, and he probably sensed the existence of this prop.
"Isn't that wooden sign exactly the same as my save point?"
Special props that exist in hidden areas?
By the way, the bronze statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya carries special props and runs away from people.
Is this thing a dung beetle?
"Chase! Don't let the statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya escape, it has something good on its back!"
Kamiyakawa finally reacted and quickly ordered Hannya who was also confused next to him.
One person, one spirit, and a moving bronze statue began a fierce chase in the corridor of the old school building in the hidden area of Hualing School...
