Ding, ding, dang, dang...
The sound of the piano in their ears became somewhat hurried.
Taking advantage of the rhythmic noise, Mono moved his feet and began to circle around behind the Neck Person Teacher.
However, he hadn't even taken two steps.
Clang!
Screech—
With a sudden sound, the piano music stopped abruptly, and the room instantly returned to silence.
Mono hurriedly stopped in his tracks.
The Neck Person Teacher sat in place, swaying its head and thinking for a while before resuming its playing.
Dang, dang, dang...
It was repeating the eerie tune from just now in a loop.
While it wasn't unpleasant to the ear, this piano technique—sometimes fast, sometimes slow, moving one moment and still the next—
made the listener's heart beat along with it, thumping up and down and jumping all over the place.
Mono actually wanted to teach the Neck Person Teacher how to play; this music was truly depressing.
Fortunately, although the Neck Person Teacher's playing wasn't great, it was just as immersed as it had been in the game.
It didn't suddenly stand up halfway through.
Mono successfully reached the side of the wheel.
Now, the straight-line distance between him and the Neck Person Teacher was less than three meters.
For the Neck Person Teacher, such a distance was only a single stretch of its neck away.
Mono placed his hand on the wheel's handle and slowly applied pressure.
Rumble, rumble~
As the tether was loosened, the rack at the top of the ceiling beams also began to slowly descend.
Perhaps due to years of neglect, the rack made some noise and wobbled as it fell.
The Neck Person Teacher suddenly stopped playing again.
Mono stopped as well.
While his heart was racing, the Neck Person Teacher swayed its head again and resumed raising its hands.
Mono breathed a sigh of relief and continued turning. The rack successfully reached the appropriate height.
Mono turned his head to look upward and waved his hand.
Six was currently standing on top of the cabinet.
As he waved, Six withdrew her gaze.
Then, the small figure leaped from the cabinet and landed directly on the lowered rack.
Seeing Six stand firm, Mono pulled it back up. This would get them closer to the ventilation duct's exit.
Having raised it to a sufficient height, Mono stopped.
Looking left and right, he picked up a stone from the ground and jammed it directly into the mid-
dle of the wheel.
Releasing his hand and ensuring it was stable, he paced back along the original path.
Six did not jump directly from the rack to the platform at the opening of the opposite ventilation duct
as planned.
Seeing Mono return to the cabinet, she stayed quietly at the edge of the rack, waiting.
Mono reached out to grab the cabinet, preparing to climb up.
"Zzz?"
A faint sound of electric current suddenly came from the Television nearby. Mono's ears twitched, and he turned to look, but found everything to be normal.
He frowned, but there was no time for him to investigate right now.
After some scrambling, Mono climbed back to the top of the cabinet. PS: Please subscribe.
Chapter 68: An Unbeatable Existence (Please subscribe, third update on March 23rd)
Mono successfully climbed to the top of the cabinet.
Aside from the steel pipe he had left behind, there was nothing else up there. Turning his head, he saw Six still gripping the edge of the rack, reaching out her small hand toward him as much as she could, with half her body hanging off the rack.
It seemed Six wouldn't leave until she was with him.
Though Mono felt a bit helpless, he took a deep breath and stepped back a few paces.
Then he sprinted forward, reaching the edge of the cabinet, and with a stomp of his feet, his small
figure also suddenly leaped high into the air.
"Bang!"
In mid-air, a small hand accurately caught his falling body. A tremendous force pulled him, and Mono landed in Six's embrace.
The rack shook a few times, and some dust fell from the top.
Mono hurriedly steadied himself.
However, there was no time to think.
His ears twitched as he heard a strange sound.
Mono looked up toward the top of the rack.
He discovered that a section in the middle of the rope tying the rack looked as if it had been bitten, leaving only thin strands of fiber.
"Creeeeak~"
As he jumped onto it, the sound from the "bitten" part of the rope became increasingly strained. Hearing this sound, Mono's goosebumps rose again.
The rope was actually fraying and breaking!!!?
Mono didn't have time to think; he quickly grabbed Six and, keeping as steady and swift as possible, crawled toward the other side of the rack.
He didn't dare run, fearing the rope wouldn't be able to withstand the jolting.
Mono panted, his heart thumping.
He felt his luck was truly terrible.
You should know, this didn't happen in the game!!
Could it be that everything in this world really works the opposite way?
"Ding, ding, ding?"
The sound of the piano keys became even more urgent.
"Creeeeak—"
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