Chapter 155
Suzuki Sonoko has no feelings about Romeo and Juliet.
So the point of her shock was: "Do you really think someone would invent something like a fake death pill that makes you fart without taking off your pants?"
What's the use of it?
Without Party A's market demand, how could Party B have the leisure to research this...
Is it true that anyone would believe this thing?
"What else?"
Akashi-kun raised an eyebrow unmoved. "If I don't invent a fake-death drug, how am I supposed to explain to those idiots how someone could be in a coma for half a month over a disagreement?"
"Do you want people to think I'm a human trafficker who kidnaps women and feeds you drugs regularly?"
Suzuki Sonoko: ...
Suzuki Sonoko: "Who are you calling a woman?!"
wrong.
That’s not the point!
Yuanzi thought to himself that I had made him so angry that he was confused: "The point is that the official system here is similar to that of the Zhou Dynasty in China. It is divided according to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter..."
——We haven’t had time to distinguish between civil and military officials yet!
"Dongguan can barely be considered, but his main job is to control the technology of manufacturing weapons. Your fabricated stories are clearly all bombs..."
Akashi immediately frowned.
Could it have been exposed long ago?
"So what do we do now?"
Yuanzi thought about it and said, "It's okay."
This wasn't just nonsense to comfort him: "Since these people haven't exposed you yet, they must have noticed it a long time ago."
Akashi frowned. He really hated the loss of judgment caused by this information asymmetry. It felt like he had suddenly lost an eye.
"What can they detect?"
Yuanzi said of course she noticed something was wrong with me!
"I've been unconscious for almost a month and haven't eaten, but I'm not dead. So, I guess I can only be an immortal, right?"
Akashi: Immortal...person?
"In this world, only officials appointed by the king and their families have immortal status."
Akashi: Wait, what about the cause and effect? Why did it suddenly become "only possible"?
Yuanzi was still muttering, "It doesn't matter how many loopholes your story is. After all, my existence is the most direct evidence—"
She thought for a moment and added, "Rather, it's because your fabrications are so convincing that people think you're trying to hide something more real, something more unspeakable."
"Maybe in their imagination," Sonoko's expression became subtle for some reason: "Our story is even more ridiculous than you think..."
After a while, she retracted that subtle expression, and when she turned around, she found that Akashi-kun had been looking at her.
"What are you looking at me for?"
"Wait for your explanation."
To put it simply, this is...
Yuanzi reacted slowly for a while, then he tapped his palm as if suddenly realizing something, and said in a loud voice, "I'm sorry!"
Her tone this time wasn't as distressed as when she had just woken up, but it was still very sincere.
"It's true that I dragged you down, but I really didn't mean to do that. The situation at that time... was completely out of my control."
This is not an attempt to shirk responsibility, but simply a statement of objective facts.
"Even after encountering such a thing, you didn't abandon me. Akashi-kun, you are such a good person!"
This is not a good guy card, it is my objective feeling.
"I'll find a way to repay you, but it's a little unrealistic to say that right now. Given our miserable current situation—I'll take care of you for the time being!"
This is not a declaration of support, but a practical solution in the short term.
"After all, Akashi-kun isn't very good at dealing with this kind of environment, right? This pottery jar looks like a second-hand one from someone who gave it away. Just look at it, I'll make you a new one tomorrow!"
Her tone was so high-spirited, as if as long as Akashi nodded, she would rush out to dig the soil.
However, the cold-blooded Akashi-kun remained unmoved.
He said, “I didn’t ask that.”
Sonoko: “Huh?”
Akashi: "Tell me how you know so much."
"Isn't it just—"
Yuanzi paused abruptly.
Oh yes, she thought, how should I know that?
As if breaking through some strange blind spot in her thinking, Suzuki Sonoko recalled the series of investigation results about Gao Liyao and the fleeting vortex she saw when she came back after five hundred years.
She once suspected that Shanglong lived in another world.
She also guessed that the [door] was a tsunami.
But in fact: "It's not a tsunami, it's a whirlpool."
--"I'm back."
Akashi Seijuro snorted, "Where are you going back to?"
He once again stumped Suzuki Sonoko with his question.
The young lady's face, which was filled with joy, froze in an instant, and when she tilted her head she looked like she had a stomachache.
"You may not believe this," she replied, "but I don't know myself."
Akashi Seijuro sneered.
In fact, over the next three days, Suzuki Sonoko hardly saw any other expression on Akashi Seijuro's face.
The main thing is that she just said to others righteously that she would support them when she got better, but then she became ill again.
This is even worse than the beginning.
When she was simply asleep, she could still serve as a tool for Akashi-kun. There were donkey carts along the way anyway, so Akashi-kun didn't need to worry about driving the carts or spend time feeding the donkeys.
But now that everyone has settled down and lives in a resettlement camp designated by a neighboring country, she would go out in the morning to look for work - helping people weave baskets or carve boards or something - and halfway through, she would suddenly feel dizzy and faint on the spot.
If the manager sees that things are not going well, should he call the family?
Now that the family members have been called, should they take the patient back to their own thatched hut first?
——The camp was teeming with people, as densely populated as an anthill. The accompanying luggage and production tools were so crowded that there were few paths to walk on.
Akashi-kun used to be able to use a donkey, but now he can only rely on his own back.
Walking back from the production area to the living area feels like carrying a heavy load for three thousand meters.
With the obstacle course that was like an obstacle race and the road covered with dirt and bumps, even if she was lighter than an ordinary person, her muscles would still cramp after walking.
Suzuki Sonoko went out to work three times and fainted three times on the construction site.
After three days, Akashi's calves became thinner.
Suzuki Sonoko was so envious that she gritted her teeth.
But she has given up on eating and grinding her red hair.
The eldest lady remembered her ability to make money for the first time in a long time. She fumbled all over her body and took out a handful of bracelets, earrings and hairpins.
A bunch of valuable but useless stuff.
She had originally planned to buy something, but when she really took out the "money", she knew in her heart that the money would be useless.
The previous king lost his way, the new king disappeared, there was no one on the throne, and no food could grow in the land.
"For the refugees of Qing, the economic system has long since collapsed."
After Suzuki Sonoko finished muttering something that she didn't quite understand, she just stood there in a daze. Then, she didn't know what she thought of, but put the things back on one by one.
This feeling was magical, like every time she put something on, the fuzzy things in her head would become clearer. When she picked up the last earring, she was still thinking that as long as she put this on, maybe she would be able to remember everything -
——Bang!
It was like a huge gong and drum were beating in the air, or like some unknown huge creature was suddenly grinding its teeth.
Before Suzuki Sonoko even had time to think that "the demon is attacking", the screams outside the house perfectly confirmed this.
No way...
Time seemed to have slowed down countless times at this moment. Suzuki Sonoko glanced at the dark and empty hut, and remembered Akashi-kun who had said in the morning that he was going out to fetch water. She even replayed in her mind the route map he needed to take to get to the stream.
Then her whole body suddenly became furious.
When Suzuki Sonoko removed the straw curtain and rushed out, her movements were far more decisive than he had imagined.
When it comes to things like demon attacks, most people who have survived being refugees for three months are already familiar with the process, so the right thing to do is to hide first.
The best hiding place is a cave. It is best if you can squeeze in the middle of the crowd - the person on the outside may be eaten by the pursuing monsters, and the person on the inside may suffocate or be squeezed to death. In any case, there is a high probability that they will never be able to come out again.
So the middle is best.
Even though the escape route seemed crowded, in fact, people's pace was very rhythmic:
Those who are inexperienced but strong are vying for the lead.
The experienced ones didn't grab anything at first, but once they were almost in the middle of the stream, they immediately left the people behind them and rushed into the cave with unimaginable strength.
The remaining group, who were neither experienced nor strong, could only push their way into the cave, which was almost full of people, trying to use the shadows cast by the rocks to cover themselves from being seen by the flying demons.
Unfortunately, Akashi-kun belongs to the third type of person.
——He had never been hunted by the demons from the Twelve Kingdoms, and his calves had become thin from running with weights these past two days.
Fortunately, Suzuki Sonoko really came to find him.
The girl was wearing the straw sandals given by the old village chief. She ran towards him with such agility as if she remembered the art of "wall-walking" again. She climbed up the cliff in just five steps, and then, under Akashi's shocked gaze, pressed him against the rock wall.
The cave is clearly at the end of the path.
Akashi Seijuro could see a shadow swaying at the entrance through the gap in the wall, like someone's arm - he was sure it was an arm because when he tried to go in just now, he was pushed out by this hand without any resistance.
Suzuki Sonoko's clothes were very loose, and Akashi's cheek was pressed against the rock, and he felt as if he was completely enveloped by her shadow.
"Akaashi-kun."
It was unclear whether the girl was panting or trembling, and her voice was fluctuating greatly.
"Don't speak or move."
The sound of something flapping its wings drowned out the boy's subsequent questions. Because of the incident with the big bird with a snake body on the first day he arrived, Akashi didn't struggle much. He suddenly felt at ease because she was pressing on him.
That’s right.
Although Miss Suzuki is unreliable, she seems to be quite capable. Being with her might be safer than staying in that degraded "air-raid shelter".
But the body's instinct cannot be restrained.
Akashi accepted this point well: when he was very young, he had seen the monsters raised by the Chang family, and knew that this kind of fear actually came from the suppression of biological species. Even if he knew in his heart that the thing was safe, his body would still tremble because of the tension.
Akashi originally thought he had restrained himself, but now it seems——
wrong.
Akashi rubbed the side of his face slightly, and glanced at his arm covered by light-colored satin from the corner of his eyes: the fabric did not ripple.
His hands weren't shaking.
Who is that...
ah.
Akashi's eyes of different colors suddenly narrowed, and he looked at Miss Suzuki, who was "covered" on him, with curiosity and from a limited perspective.
It was she who was trembling.
She... could actually be afraid?
That’s right, Akashi thought again, why did he think she wasn’t afraid?
——This guy can only fly when he is brainless. He becomes a coward as soon as he wakes up. He is so timid that he can only do breaststroke in mid-air. After coming here, he fainted directly. He never even saw the big bird bowing to salute.
She would say "that state is out of control", proving that she knows that "that state" exists.
But she didn't know that when she was in "that state", she could even frighten the monsters in the other world.
So she really felt that she might get hurt.
She is afraid of getting hurt.
——But she still chose to block him.
Akashi felt as if the rock under his face was warming him up.
The red-haired boy did not sigh, but just slightly moved his arm covered by the cloth, slowly moved it to the upper part, and while groping, he held the girl's trembling hand.
Wow, Akashi-kun actually looks a bit exhausted: so many cold sweats?
The main thing is that she can't make any sound now. If conditions permit, let alone cold sweats, she would even want to shed a few tears.
In the Twelve Kingdoms, immortals are not omnipotent. Even if the demons cannot kill the immortals, they can still injure them (in fact, they can kill some of them). Even Qilin may lose its life.
The Fukushin is not a professional race that can fight. To her, changing generations means death.
At this time, Suzuki Sonoko was just hoping that her luck would allow her to avoid all the big demons with such lethality and ensure that this mountain wall was safe.
Is she scared?
I'm scared to death.
The fear of death is simply an instinct engraved in her genes.
But in the current situation, even if I gamble with my own life at that one percent risk, I cannot gamble with Akashi Seijuro's life at ninety-nine percent safety.
He is innocent.
——If she hadn't suddenly discovered something and dragged him into it, Akashi Seijuro's life might have been related to monsters, but he wouldn't have been in such a chaotic world where monsters were rampant and one day might not end the next.
It can’t be said that it was all her fault, but it’s not far off.
"Please don't move..."
She sounded cowardly even to herself: "I think those things probably won't bite me, but I can't guarantee the parts you expose—"
The words got stuck in his throat before he could finish speaking.
"I'm serious Akashi-kun."
Suzuki Sonoko looked at the boy's hand that was suddenly held, and she was almost crying with anger.
"At this critical moment, let's not think about being a hooligan, okay?"
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