"There are rocks here for you to sit on. There's still about an hour until the next target is released. Let's take a break here for a while."
"Um……"
Asahina nodded in a dull voice, and obediently sat down on one of the relatively flat rocks with her backpack in her arms. She took out some water, unscrewed the cap, and drank it silently.
Wu Yi also sat down. Although he had just finished a swimming competition, he was not very thirsty, so he just sat there.
About two or three minutes passed like this, and then a faint sound came from the forest about twenty meters away on the side.
It was indeed a very small sound, so small that Asahina didn't even notice it. Only Wu Yi noticed it and turned to glance in the direction where the sound came from.
Through the gaps between the leaves, a familiar golden color flashed by.
It was not the bright golden color like the sunshine in Koenji, but a lighter golden color, and it was long hair.
The corresponding candidate immediately appeared in Wu Yi's mind.
Nanase Tsubasa?
He was walking so lightly in the forest covered with dead branches and leaves. Was he following someone?
There is a phrase called "can't stand praise", which means that a person will become complacent and then instantly fall apart if he is praised a little.
Wu Yi even just thought about this in his mind, and the footsteps of Nanase Tsubasa, who was supposed to be going away, suddenly became a little louder.
huh?
Now Wu Yi became even more curious.
He stood up under Asahina's puzzled gaze, put his backpack down on the stone, and pointed in the direction where Nanase Tsubasa left.
"Sorry, please wait here for a while, I'll be back soon."
"Uh, oh..."
Asahina nodded subconsciously, and only realized it suddenly when Wu Yi's figure disappeared behind the bushes.
Wait, does this mean I’m alone now?
Just as the girl was thinking this, the extremely light footsteps sounded again.
Volume 378: Chapter World Boss Ayanokouji
On the other side, Wu Yi was sneaking silently through the forest.
The person walking in front was indeed Nanase Tsubasa, but for some reason she was following behind another person.
As for who it was, Wu Yi had no idea because the two sides were too far apart so he couldn't see the wine. In short, the relationship between the three of them now is like a mantis stalking a cicada while the oriole is behind.
Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be three people.
It could also be four people, or even five people... or just form an infinite number of nesting dolls and turn them into a human centipede.
But the probability of that is not high.
The three of them walked like this, one in front, one in the middle, and one at the back - the person in the front didn't know who was following him, the person in the middle didn't know who was following him, and the person at the end didn't know who the person in the middle was following. They moved through the rugged forest little by little with an amazing tacit understanding.
How long will it take...
Wu Yi couldn't help but start complaining in his heart.
With his previous patience, he shouldn't have been so impatient, but he left Asahina there after all. Although theoretically, Yagami Takuya shouldn't be so brave as to come today after being punched by him yesterday, it's possible that he is wrong.
Therefore, Wu Yi made up his mind from the beginning that if there was no result after ten minutes of tracking, he would give up immediately and turn back.
Five minutes have passed now, which means he only has the last five minutes.
If there was still no result after five minutes, he would rush back at full speed.
Just as he was thinking this, Nanase Tsubasa in front began to slow down.
Hmm? Is it time to stop?
Realizing this, Wu Yi also slowed down his pace slightly.
In his field of vision, Nanase Tsubasa, who had been tiptoeing along with a low center of gravity, had now climbed to the top of a slightly higher earthen slope and was crawling, looking forward.
It seems that all we need is a sniper rifle and a pair of binoculars.
Out of some strange prank mentality, Wu Yi tried his best to lower the sound of his footsteps and moved closer.
He almost moved little by little without making any sound and came behind the girl, then very naturally crawled down beside her as if they were taking a shit side by side, and spoke in a low voice with a tone of "Hey, we are in the same group."
"What a coincidence, who are you following?"
"!!!?"
Without any warning, she heard a voice next to her ear, and Nanase Tsubasa's pupils shrank to the size of a pinhole in an instant, and she almost screamed out loud.
Fortunately, Wu Yi covered her mouth in time and put her index finger in front of her lips.
"Shh, it's me."
"..."
Ignoring the girl's shocked expression which read "Why the hell is it you?", he continued to look forward and then let out a soft "eh".
The person Nanase Tsubasa is following is actually Ayanokouji Kiyotaka?
In the forest ahead, the young man in the single team still maintained the expressionless face he usually showed in school. Just like Wu Yi and the others before, he found a stone to sit down, and then began to drink water and rest.
Although he didn't have a terminal with him, based on Wu Yi's control of distance, he guessed that this place should still belong to the E9 area.
That means Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's first target this morning was also E9?
Although the school said that each student's route is unique, it is understandable that there are more than 400 people taking the exam this time. It is almost impossible to make sure that everyone's route is different and distributed all over the uninhabited island.
The simplest and safest way is to let some people take one route and some people take that route.
This makes design easier and safer.
So is there a possibility that...
——When did you start following Ayanokouji?
Wu Yi was about to ask this question when he felt a pulling force coming from his hand.
Perhaps she was dissatisfied with the fact that a strange man's hand was constantly touching her mouth, so Nanase Tsubasa tried hard to pull the man's hand away.
In fact, it would have been better if she hadn't struggled. When she struggled, her body began to shake.
There are already many dead branches and leaves on the ground in the forest. They have been piled up on the ground for many years, like a thousand-layer cake, maintaining a delicate balance with each other. They can be crushed if you are not careful.
Click.
A crisp sound was heard, and a thin dry branch was broken by the girl's weight at the right time.
The sound was not loud, but it was extremely harsh in the uninhabited island forest, which was extremely quiet and free of modern industrial noise, like a bolt from the blue.
For a moment, Nanase Tsubasa's body froze.
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, who was sitting on a rock in the distance, seemed to have sensed something, and paused slightly, then turned his head slightly and looked over here.
oh well...
Now Wu Yi was also happy.
Without any further words, they both lowered their heads at the same time.
Under the cover of the earth slope, Wu Yi looked at the girl whose pretty face showed a hint of anger, and made a silent gesture.
——Is it smooth?
This is a question that does not need to be entangled. If things develop normally, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka will definitely come over to take a look when he finds out someone is following him.
Nanase Tsubasa also made a gesture while gritting her teeth.
——What else?
……
At the same time, in the forest about 300 meters away from here, Asahina still stayed where she was obediently.
It was difficult for her to explain clearly whether she was kidnapped or something else.
If we state the situation objectively, there was a red-haired junior girl with twin ponytails, who should be in the first grade. After junior Wu Yi left, she came up to her in a swaggering manner. Not only did she sit down on the stone where junior Wu Yi had sat before, but she also took out a one-liter bottle of drinking water that she had just won in the swimming competition from the latter's backpack, unscrewed the lid and drank a sip directly from the bottle.
It was almost as if he was asserting his sovereignty.
Asahina didn't feel angry or upset about anything, she just felt confused.
Imagine that you go out to eat with your friend, and while you are eating your friend suddenly says he needs to go to the bathroom, so you sit alone and continue eating.
Suddenly, someone sat down in your friend's original seat. Not only did he sit down, but he also started to take your friend's bowl and chopsticks and took a few bites of food. He didn't say anything, but acted like he was very familiar with your friend.
At this time, everyone would be full of question marks and think, who the hell is this XBZZ?
"Don't look at me like that, Asahina-san~"
Amasawa Ichika narrowed his eyes and smiled like a little devil with a heart-shaped tail.
"I know you, senior. Actually, we know each other. We are in the student council, the first-year class A representative - Amasawa Ichika."
"……It's you?"
Asahina suddenly remembered that she did know the other person.
Although she had only met him once at a student union meeting, and she hardly listened to the meeting, she had a very vague impression of him.
But, I have indeed seen it.
"What do you want to do? Besides, this is Junior Wu Yi's stuff, don't touch it, otherwise I will report it directly to the school." Asahina warned.
"So scary~"
Tian Ze Yixia hugged the water bottle tightly and shook his upper body for a few times as if he was scared, but then he started laughing again.
"Nothing, I just want to make a deal with Senpai. You are in the same group as me, right? So I know that I will come back here eventually. Before that, I will wait here quietly, so please don't act rashly."
"..."
Volume 379: Chapter Will you be liberated too?
In the jungle of area E9, the two of them ran as fast as they could and finally reached a flat area.
Wu Yi slammed on the brakes, stopped, looked around, and nodded to himself.
"Well, that's about enough."
In just a few dozen seconds, they had already run several hundred meters in one breath. If they continued to go forward, they would almost reach the D9 area of the port next door.
It was such a long distance and in a jungle with complex terrain, there was no way Ayanokouji could find it even with his abilities.
“Ha…hahaha…”
Nanase Tsubasa stood up with difficulty, bent over, supported her knees with her hands, and gasped heavily.
She didn't have Wu Yi's abnormal physical fitness, and she was carrying all the luggage on her back. The long distance travel in such a short time made her physically exhausted.
And this is the result of being dragged and hauled by the latter the entire time.
If she were left running alone, at this intensity she would probably be unable to run halfway.
But even though her body was exhausted, the flame of anger in the girl's heart was still burning fiercely, or even more so than before.
"let me go!"
Nanase Tsubasa gritted his teeth and shook off Wu Yi's hand.
"It's all because of you. My tracking plan has been ruined!"
"Okay, I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Wu Yi scratched his cheek insincerely, thinking to himself, wasn't it you who broke the branch?
It was quite interesting to make a girl who usually looked so intellectual lose her temper, but this was obviously not a good time to start a quarrel, so he decisively changed the subject after calming her down a bit.
"Actually, what I wanted to ask just now was, when did you start following Ayanokouji?"
"In the beginning."
"……what?"
"I ran into Ayanokouji by chance when I refreshed the goal grid for the first time yesterday, and then I ran into him again when I refreshed the goal grid for the last time yesterday."
Nanase Tsubasa's expression was still gloomy, but she still answered the questions honestly.
"So theoretically, I have been following him off and on for a day and a night."
