rain forest

When Aoki wandered back with the bag of water, Kuchiki Byakuya was already there.The juvenile harvested a lot, two gray hares, and a colorful pheasant.Because he runs on the mountain all the year round, he looks very thin.

"Have you found the water source?" Kuchiki Byakuya asked.

"Yes." Aoki looked at the other college students who had begun to set up camp nearby, turned around and chopped off a tree trunk, split it open to reveal the white inside, attached the ghost path to the dagger and carved the words "water →".

The handwriting that was burnt black by the broken road was very clear, Aoki picked up the simple sign and inserted it to the place where the crowd was more concentrated.People around looked over one after another, and Kuchiki Byakuya followed. He followed the arrow and saw the same sign on a strangely shaped tree not far away. The boy took out his water bag and walked there.

Aoki walked back and picked up the small thing that Kuchiki Byakuya had brought back, and headed towards the water source again.She needs to wash the dinner materials with a lot of water, and it is unrealistic to transport them back again and again with water bags.

The cool black-haired boy knelt down on one knee, squatting by the stream to draw water. The evening light was reflected by the sparkling water, illuminating his face, and his delicate but cold facial features were dyed with a warm color. It was a rare sight.

The mountain wind is warm and it is spring.

What the girl thought of was very unpleasant. She remembered that there were several kinds of medicines in the bag, and these words came to her mind-spring, mountains, diseases.

What she was about to do was also a sight to behold.

Aoki put down the small animal that was dead but still warm, and used the ghost path to hollow out a small stone by the river to make a simple pot or pot, and then put the ghost path on the bottom to heat it up. , and then pour water into stone containers with water bladders.

While waiting for the water to boil, Aoki handled the rabbit first, how could the chicken not be plucked in the boiling water once.

The girl thought it was so convenient to go to ghosts, saving the effort of chopping wood and lighting the fire.She thought, no wonder the first ghost way that Fuzhu taught her was the Canghuo Pendant, she really took into account her status as a restaurant girl.

That period of time was undoubtedly pleasant, Jingle Ukitake was to her, just like Yoichi Sifengin was to Byakuya Kuchiki.Taught to be played with, and at the same time, undoubtedly pampered.

The water boiled.Aoki soaked the pheasant in with the chicken feet.The students who came to fetch water with water bladders watched curiously.Taking the chicken out, the girl plucked the feathers swiftly, a slight stench was released along with the heat, and the chicken feathers fell all over the ground, causing the students who were watching to back off a little.

At that time, it seemed that even the sun was a little brighter than it is now.The work of plucking chicken feathers can be done as a game. If you get tired of playing, you can leave it behind, and someone will naturally clean up the mess for you.As a child, she had the right to be willful, to be lazy, and no one would blame her for it.

Then, later, everything changed.

She can do anything, including the wrong things she understood in those years.Only, she can no longer be willful or squeamish.

After plucking the chicken feathers, Aoki disemboweled the pheasant, and then put the peeled rabbits by the stream, cleaning them one by one.

"Get water and go upstream," she said to the nearby students.

The students in the first class are nobles, and the three years of college life have completely reduced their aristocratic diseases, and the era when everything is not pleasing to the eye has long passed.

Someone squatted down beside her, and the shadow hit her.

Byakuya Kuchiki picked up a pheasant that hadn't been cleaned yet, and started washing it like Aoki did.

Aoki was slightly taken aback, she really didn't expect that Master Kuchiki would take the initiative to do such a thing.Kuchiki Byzai glanced at her indifferently, and kept moving his hands, as if saying that she was making a fuss.

Aoki looked around secretly, and the faces of the surrounding students couldn't hide their surprise.

Suddenly, the ground shook.

——I will bring you a surprise.

Ichimaru Gin's words appeared in his mind, and Aoki became nervous.Kuchiki Byakuya stabilized his body on one knee, his hand was already on the handle of the knife.Some of the students around were gasping, but not screaming. They are the elite among Mao's elites, and they can maintain the necessary calm no matter what the situation is.

After a moment of tension, Aoki relaxed instead. Since it was related to Ichimaru Gin, even if it was not a test for the students ordered by Jinglingting, it would not be too dangerous for him.

The shaking gradually stopped, and there was no other effect except that the dirty water in the stone container overflowed a little.

Kuchiki Byakuya frowned and stood up, looking around: "Take your things and go back, and don't leave your backpack from now on."

"Yes."

"Ok."

The students responded sparsely, turned around and rushed back.

Qingmu hastily washed the things, and walked back with Kuchiki who was waiting at the side.Whether the distance from the water source to the camp is long or short, it is enough for a few conversations.

Aoki said: "Master Kuchiki really has the charisma of a leader."

Kuchiki Byakuya said coldly: "Anyone who says the right words will not be refuted."

Aoki disagrees: "What I think of as leadership is to do something when everyone doesn't know what to do, even if it's just a word, even if the right word is cheap."

Kuchiki said: "You are very good at talking."

Aoki said: "I dare not take it."

The situation in the camp was much more serious than that of the water source. A crack stretched across the ground, and many college students gathered around the arm-wide, bottomless crack to look in.

Aoki's face changed slightly, she found a very bloody and annoying fact, her bag fell, the crack went through the land between the two old pine trees that she had hidden with the ghost path, just processed the prey When she was young, she felt that the backpack was too heavy, so she put it against the tree trunk and put it inside the ghost path encirclement.

There are dry food, medicine, and a change of clothes in the bag.When you want to use it, it's enough to be short of it.

The ground fissure was very long, and there were several other people who had the same experience as Aoki, so they notified the team members immediately.Unlike them, Aoki didn't say anything to Kuchiki Byakuya.The problems she thinks she can solve should not be borrowed from others as much as possible. She is not Aizen and can use them with ease. She thinks she is not a team player and has no intention of helping others. Don't ask others for help.

Someone took a pebble and threw it into the crack, and the surrounding students kept quiet tacitly.The sound of the stone hitting the rock while falling was heard clearly. As the stone fell deeper and deeper, the sound became smaller and smaller, and the sound of the bottom was never heard.

"Did it crack all the way to the bottom of the mountain?" Someone asked.

The rest of the people smiled and didn't care.The uncanny workmanship of nature also has unpredictable power in the world of corpses and souls. They have spiritual power and will become gods of death, so there is no need to be afraid of it.

In order to prevent accidents, the students worked together to build a simple plank road on the cracks with branches and trunks.Aoki picked up the twigs they had cut but could not use and lit a bonfire.Kuchiki Byakuya watched for a while, then turned around and collected all the prey that everyone had caught.

Aoki looked at him: "Shall we roast them together?"

Kuchiki Byakuya nodded succinctly, picked up the untreated prey from the pile and walked towards the water source.

After everyone built the plank road and firmly fixed the two ends, the bonfire in charge of Aoki was already full of aromas, and the baked food was divided into equal parts by her and placed on the large leaves that had been cleaned.Seeing that the hospital students finished their work, she rolled up the leaves and handed out the food together with the rotten wood.

The students washed their hands with the water in the water bag, and couldn't wait to unroll the leaves and eat them.

"Does it feel like a picnic?"

"Yes, this experience is really... an unexpected surprise."

"I didn't expect Tsuchimikado's craftsmanship to be so good."

"Haha, I never thought that one day Young Master Kuchiki would cook for me."

The last sentence was meant to be a joke, and the speaker and the others carefully looked at Kuchiki Byakuya.The boy who was still distributing the food made no expression, but the female student who was taking the food from him shivered nervously.

Aoki on the other side said: "Although Byakuya Kuchiki is a little more serious, he is still easy to get along with."

As one of the people who are difficult to get along with, and as a member of Kuchiki Byakuya's group, this statement seems very unconvincing, so Aoki added: "To put it bluntly, it's just boring."

The black-haired boy didn't say a word, just glanced at Aoki lightly, and the latter returned an unusual hippie smile.

This is the best default.

Although the atmosphere has not changed significantly, at this moment Aoki feels that the current elite group is unprecedentedly friendly and united.

It's so simple, one labor, one meal, and one joke can improve the cohesion.Aoki bit her own food, feeling a slight sense of ridicule in her heart, but at the same time, she was also moved.