Chapter 13
Daybreak soon arrived.
Normally, Wayne would be squatting aside fiddling with his gun by this time, but today he has not moved yet.
Shi Yu let out a low breath, and her small earlobes were stained with a hint of bright red. She wrapped her arms tightly around Wayne's arms with distinct muscular lines, and buried her flushed face beside his arms like an ostrich. Her eyes trembled slightly and closed, feeling the scorching heat coming from the other's skin.
The tangled and hard muscles were like rocks on the edge of a volcano, and Shi Yu felt completely safe.
There were noisy sounds coming from the plain.
The chill of the night was gradually swept away by the warm sunlight. The chaotic sound of footsteps and the boys' uncontrollable voices faintly reached Shi Yu's ears. Shi Yu originally wanted to stay in bed at home and pretend not to hear the noise like he didn't hear the alarm clock.
…However, Shigure patiently lowered his head, still holding Wayne's arm and shaking it: "Wayne, can't you get up?"
She was clearly not asleep, but her voice had a sticky and delicate nasal quality.
She shouldn't have disrupted Wayne's plans because of her own selfish motives... With this thought in mind, Shi Yu called Wayne very sensibly. She only called him softly and waited for a moment, but the warmth in his arms didn't change.
Are you still sleeping?
Shi Yu was stunned.
The next moment, a chilling feeling of being watched interrupted her somewhat absent thoughts. Shi Yu was instantly frightened and nervously scratched Wayne, then opened her eyes wide and looked forward vigilantly.
There was a crisp, muffled sound as the medicine bottles collided. The man who came in was tall, thin, and pale. He stood five meters away from her and Wayne with a calm expression. His sharp golden eyes were like those of a fierce hawk.
Simon, who was wearing a mask and had gray hair and eyelashes like snow, glanced at her, then narrowed his eyes slightly and snorted coldly with a hint of disdain.
Shigure: "...Simon, why are you here?"
Shi Yu didn't care about his attitude. Seeing that it was him, the girl spoke to him happily and without any reservations.
Simon: “…”
A familiar irony appeared in his golden eyes as he stared at the lamb. As if he could no longer tolerate something, he threw the leaf-wrapped object in his hand to the ground in disgust.
"Food." The voice under the mask was slightly distorted, and Shi Yu heard Simon answer in a muffled voice.
"Uh-huh...Okay, thank you."
It turned out that Simon had been cooking for them all the time, including the meals they had in the camp. He was such a good man.
The boy was surrounded by a dark cloud like low pressure, and he was obviously unhappy.
Before Shi Yu finished speaking, he retreated, turned around and took a few steps in a hurry with an appearance of annoyance, but suddenly stopped. He turned sideways to look at Shi Yu again, and his golden eyes suddenly showed a bit of darkness.
Shi Yu was a little confused by the look of those gloomy golden eyes: "What's wrong?" She touched her face and it seemed that there was nothing wrong.
The soft, white, and innocent lamb looked at him ignorantly and unconsciously let go of the arm that was in the way.
Shi Yu smiled naturally and asked him, "Simon, do you have something to tell me?"
Simon's personality seems a bit twisted and closed, but Shigure thinks he's just too insincere. She tries to be cheerful when talking to him, and spends time with him as he works to correct his behavior. Isn't that what friends should do?
Simon's eyes darkened, he adjusted his breathing for a moment, and then the gloomy and weird boy squeezed out syllables from between his teeth that seemed to carry suppressed ferocity.
"...Don't bother me."
A very, very – fierce tone.
Shi Yu, who was still planning how to get along with Simon in the future, was suddenly shocked.
Is Simon warning her? But... obviously.
Shi Yu suddenly couldn't understand.
The arms, so thin that they seemed to be just bones, supported the wide sleeves, and the white joints were so prominent that they almost pierced through the pale skin.
The veins on the gray and sickly boy's fists were bulging as he stared straight at Shi Yu's frightened expression.
"Did you hear me? From now on, don't bother me."
He lowered his voice, and his shoulders rose and fell and trembled like a beast suppressing its desire to eat humans. After he finished speaking, his poisonous golden eyes even glared at the girl viciously.
…
Shi Yu agreed in a daze: "...Eh, okay?"
...left.
She came quietly but left in such a hurry. She wanted to talk to Simon again.
Regarding Simon's words "Don't get in my way" - Shigure actually didn't feel much about this sentence.
Wayne had threatened to kill her before, but there was a reason for this. Why should she worry about the consequences of something she wouldn't do?
At noon, Shi Yu woke up and started to daydream while holding the skewers.
Wayne, with a frown on his face as if by habit, reheated the meat Simon had given them that morning. He hadn't spoken a single word to Shigure yet.
The meal ended in silence.
Excessive sleep every day made Shi Yu easily sleepy after dinner. She yawned, knowing that Wayne was going to go down from the tree house again to hunt monsters, so she carefully said to the red-haired boy in a low voice: "Then I'll go to bed, Wayne."
"When you come back, there are some things I want to tell you..."
What Xia Feng said couldn't possibly make her not care. Wayne must know something... However, Shi Yu's wonderful intuition told her that Wayne might not want to tell her about "Rain" and whether he would die.
——That's why he didn't say a word when facing Xia Feng last night, and he is doing the same to himself now.
Was it because their relationship wasn't that good? Wayne didn't seem to enjoy talking to her.
The grievance and fear slowly fermented in her heart. The more Shi Yu thought about it, the sadder she became. She was tortured by her own thoughts and felt a little exhausted. She rubbed the corners of her eyes and almost used a pleading tone.
"So, please come back soon this afternoon, Wayne."
The girl sobbed slightly, her voice becoming smaller and smaller, and her vision involuntarily became hazy and unreal.
In the floating tears, Shi Yu, whose thoughts were in a mess and whose vision had lost focus, seemed to see Wayne walk around the fire, lean over with an expressionless face, and then stretch out his arms to her as usual.
Hugging his knees, wrapping his arms around his shoulders, and then lifting his neck. When Shigure was easily lifted up, he couldn't help but wonder, this practiced movement, and Wayne's expression, this calm... When he fainted, except for the first time, had he always been carried along?
Even though I was being carried when I first woke up...
Wayne carried her to a tree wall away from the wind. After just two short minutes, the girl no longer had the energy to think about anything else.
While she was still conscious, the strong and pungent smell of chili pepper only stayed with her for a short moment before it was taken away by Lin Feng and completely disappeared from her side.
The mountain wind was stronger than ever before.
Xiao rested his hands behind his head, lying on a thick branch of an ancient tree.
With a broken red string wrapped around his fingertips, the young man from the East Country narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his fingers above his head, and aimed the red string at the sunlight pouring in from the woods.
The black medium-length hair that appeared even more messy due to its looseness added a bit of evil to his handsome and elegant appearance. The boy who always smiled like a lucky cat now looked like he had no smile at all, and his eyes were filled with tired indifference.
On the edge of the cliff.
The violent air currents blowing from bottom to top made Noah frown slightly, and he used his arms to block the flying silver hair on his forehead.
The huge cracked ravine was like an abyss with no visible bottom. Xiu half squatted down and rubbed the cracked rocks on the edge of the cliff with his fingertips. After waiting for a while, the patient hunter heard the resounding roar of some creature from below.
Simon, facing off against a dog blocking his path, gloomily reached for the medicine bottle hidden on his lower back. Xia Feng and a serious and thoughtful boy wearing a monocle were sprinting through the woods. Phil, with his cheeks still chubby but bruised around his chin and eyes, was repairing a shattered control panel while arguing incessantly with his companion, whose veins were popping out of his head.
A bizarre scene emerged in her mind, and sweat broke out on Shi Yu's forehead. She bit her lower lip with a slight pain.
The next moment, the girl suddenly woke up with a gasp. She trembled slightly and climbed up the tree wall, then looked at the sky outside the wind vent with her pupils constricted.
The sky, which was shining brightly, suddenly darkened.
It was like a huge mirror suddenly collapsed and shattered, and the scattered light spots surged rapidly, gradually converging into a huge torrent flashing with fluorescence.
Then the "torrent" gradually outlined a tall and broad male body like the white edge of a drawn line.
"There's a meeting tonight, so the second phase will start early."
The powerful and calm male voice was like being amplified by a well-functioning loudspeaker, accurately delivering the instructions to the ears of everyone in the forest.
Shi Yu couldn't see the true appearance of the huge shadow in the sky from her angle. She tried to move a few steps, but froze in place out of fear.
That person is...
Shi Yu moved her lips, and as if she was afraid that her silent whisper would be heard by the man in the sky, she made a short breath.
"All points you've earned in the past five days will be used towards the second phase of training." He paused, the faint sound of paper shuffling echoing. Then, the man continued calmly, speaking in a tone like he was reporting official business. "All mechas will be confiscated, and the top ten in the school exam will retain their abilities. The second round will be an elimination system, with a maximum of two people in each group. Everyone except your teammates will be considered a hostile target."
The illusory fluorescent light cast a shadow on the man's white military uniform hem and the solemnly straight trouser legs. At most, Shi Yu could only see a pair of bony hands covered with polite and cold white gloves...
"Satellite monitoring and positioning are ongoing. If a combatant is judged as a failure by the center, they will lose 10% of their points the first time, 80% the second time, and will be sent to Ghana to perform voluntary labor in the mines the third time."
"And the winner of the battle will take all the points of the loser. The top 40 will advance. That's it."
Five seconds after the words fell, the man let out a low "tsk" sound, and the sound of flipping papers was heard again for a moment.
"Fixed-point teleportation will begin within fifteen seconds, and teammate identification will be completed within ten seconds. Aside from teammate identification, everyone else will be teleported to a random location on the map." The man seemed impatient with this unnecessary addition. "Anyone within one meter is a teammate. Hurry."
Shigure: Seconds? How many seconds? What are you going to do?
The sky returned to its clear blue, and the shadow vanished. Shigure's mind went blank, and without thinking, he ran to the wind's edge. To his surprise, he saw the red-haired boy below him, whizzing through the trees like a gust of wind, and in the blink of an eye, he was at the foot of the giant tree.
Shigure: "Wayne...Wayne!"
The girl's panicked heart almost jumped out of her throat. She shouted to the other party in a somewhat collapsed manner, not caring how far the tree house was from the ground. Her long black hair was like gorgeous seaweed fluttering behind her. She fell from the terrifyingly high tree house like a desperate bird.
In the air, Shi Yu saw those beautiful, upturned, cat-like green eyes for the first time, and a look of astonishment that he had never seen before appeared in them... and quickly turned into rage.
Ten seconds... ten seconds.
Even though the scenery was rapidly receding, she only sobbed out of anxiety, without any fear of being hurt.
When the warm breath completely enveloped Shi Yu's body, she cried out softly because of the pain brought by the impact, but she couldn't hold it back. The relief that came over her like a wave made her cry out uncontrollably.
"Wow... Wayne, I knew it."
"I……"
Wayne's voice cursing "Are you crazy?" hadn't fully reached her ears, and she hadn't even uttered the words of apology when a biting chill instantly replaced her warm chest, which was heaving violently with anger.
Shi Yu opened her eyes wide with tears in her eyes and looked around blankly - countless icicles hung in the blue-gray cave, and outside the cave, heavy snow was still flying.
There was no one around.
Shigure:?
The author has something to say:
Simon is the best at inventing himself. Hehehe, there is obviously nothing but he will make up a lot of nonsense in his imagination, and his imagination is very unhealthy!
88 Wayne, the next one is even better.
The last part was actually that the judgment time was only ten seconds but the transmission time was fifteen seconds. If it was a little bit different, the teammate would be judged and teleported away together, but it was still a little bit different. We were separated before we could even say two words x
But Wayne will be here soon!
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