Not too many out of four

The rain didn't stop until the next day, and the thick and gloomy dark clouds pressed down on the sky as if the sky was about to collapse at any time, and lightning flashed through the clouds like dragons and snakes, illuminating the world for a brief moment.

After the rain stopped, the torrential flood slowly merged into the river and diverted to other places. The place where they camped was only a mess. The tents nailed to the ground were washed away by the flood and stopped at The commercial vehicles far away from the river bank and mountain forest also disappeared.

There were two identical orange cats on Lijia's left and right shoulders. They used gravity to reduce their weight and reduce Lijia's burden, and then brought her back to the original position of the camp.

In order to protect Li Jia from the cold last night, I didn’t turn back into a cat to rest. Although I can recover some physical strength by falling asleep in human form, mental exhaustion is inevitable.

"Mr. Zhongye" and "Brother Zhongye" are not pushy people in this regard. Seeing the rain stopped, they stretched their bodies and calmly changed back to the form of orange cats, staying on Lijia's shoulders to relax and wait for work.

However, compared to "Mr. Zhongye" who can maintain a clean appearance, "Brother Zhongye" looks like a dirty cat. His clothes when he was a human were washed by the flood and thrown on the ground. There is a circle of dust, even if it is barely dry, it will look wrinkled and dusty.

In desperation, he had no choice but to turn back into a cat directly, and even with a pair of pants left for him, the cat's hair didn't become much bald, it just looked like a short stubble, and felt prickly to the touch.

"Aren't Zhongye-kun and Zhongya back yet?" Li Jia hesitated and looked around worriedly.

Even knowing that the flood and waves passed by last night, the two teenagers would definitely not stay where they were, but they couldn't see anyone after the rain stopped for an hour or two, so they couldn't help worrying about their whereabouts.

They should know where to meet at the camp after the rain stopped, right?

Li Jia is a little uncertain. I don’t know if the tracking necklace is malfunctioning. Now the communication function is still vague, and the positioning function is even close to non-existent.

She couldn't find them here, and guessed that their collars were also in a state of poor signal.

"—Lijia." A distant call came from the sky.

She looked up in surprise and didn't even see anyone. A bright red light flashed in front of her eyes and rushed towards her. She hugged her tightly, and the strength of her arms around her made her bones ache. .

Her delicate brows were furrowed in pain, she gasped secretly, and asked uncertainly, "Mr. Zhongye?"

The young man who held her tightly responded in a low voice, his arms and embrace were trembling faintly.

Li Jia blinked in surprise, making sure it wasn't her own illusion.

"I made you worry." She hesitated and raised her hand to pat his back, comforting him softly, "I'm fine, brother Zhongye took me out of the tent last night."

The little orange cat nestled on her left shoulder shook its ears, and the cat's claws stretched out firmly and calmly to step on Nakahara Chuya's shoulder. With a red light, he pushed him in the opposite direction: "Meow!"

Zhong Yuanzhong's youthful face turned frosty, he pursed his lips and calmly raised his ability to stabilize his body, his arms still wrapped tightly around Li Jia's waist.

In terms of physical skills and supernatural power manipulation, he may not be able to compare with the future him, but in a pure gravity contest, he will not give up so easily.

"Meow, woof, woof!" the little orange cat yelled unceremoniously, and the red light in the short stubble of hair became brighter.

Also, he didn't mean to admit defeat at all, and Zhongyuan Zhong, who aggravated his abilities and hugged Li Jia even tighter, was also unconvinced and competed.

Li Jia couldn't help gasping in pain in a low voice.

It hurts so much, it hurts when Mr. Zhongye hugged her.

The bones are faintly showing the pain of protest, and the strength is so great that it seems to crush and squeeze the person into a piece of paper.

"...Meow!" The orange cat dumpling on the right shoulder turned to lick her face, covering Li Jia's body with gravity to offset the behavior of the two idiots competing with each other to make the girl caught in the middle suffer.

Feeling that the pain from the back and waist slowed down and disappeared, Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief: "Is Mr. Zhongye injured?"

She touched Zhongyuan Zhongya's clothes on the back and there was a big hole, wondering if she was injured when the flood rushed over last night.

Compared with Li Jia's painful expression and gasping sound, what made him aware first was the gravity covering and blocking him, like a layer of membrane blocking them without a trace.

"...I'm not injured." He let go of his hand and took a step back, his eyes fell on Li Jia who was relieved that there was no trace, and he secretly rubbed the place where he had tightened too tightly just now, only then did he suddenly understand that his childish behavior made her uncomfortable.

"Sorry, I seem to be trying too hard."

"Mr. Zhongye is just worried about me." Li Jiashu opened his eyebrows, and seeing that his brows were still furrowed, he naturally changed the subject and said, "By the way, Mr. Zhongye has seen Zhongye?"

There seemed to be only one of them who didn't come, and "Chuya" shouldn't be a worrying character.

"Ah, that guy seems to have bumped into Kudou and a few kids around him last night," Nakahara Nakaya in his youth didn't think too much about the people around him, Li Jia's skill in changing the subject was not very good, But it was more than enough for him.

"The water last night seemed to be caused by them. They said that they touched some big gemstone of Sansuiemon, and they accidentally created such a mechanism." Although the gemstone was finally put back to the original position of the mechanism, but The water that gushed out during the previous startup did not recede so quickly, let alone the rain that followed last night, which made the water rise all the way up.

"Misui Kichiemon?" Li Jia asked in surprise, "Brother, have they encountered Mr. Sansui Kichi's agency?"

If it was the organist during the shogunate period, it would not be surprising to make any powerful organ.

"Li Jia knows that person?" Zhong Yuanzhong also asked in surprise, put his hands back into his pockets and walked side by side with Li Jia: "The group of little devils seem to be trapped on the roof by the mechanism, and he will stay there temporarily to accompany them until the doctor returns, Kudo The body was found at the scene again, the signal is not good near here, the doctor drove out to find the police, I don’t know why he hasn’t come back yet.”

They were closer last night, barely able to contact people with collars. After a brief exchange of information, "Zhong Ye" temporarily stayed with the six little devils to prevent them from being attacked by prisoners and treasure hunters.

How can I say that Dr. Kudo and the Haibara sisters have helped them a few times, it is impossible for "Chuya" to leave these little ghosts to stay with dangerous people.

Zhong Yuanzhong also came back to the camp first. If Li Jia and the others waited for the signal to improve a little, they would use the collar or mobile phone to send the location and news.

"Misui Kichiemon was a very famous mechanism puppet master more than 100 years ago. It is said that the mechanism puppets he designed can perform many actions. In the past, they were very popular with high-ranking officials and nobles." You may not be familiar with the history of the world, and it is normal that you have never heard of Sanshui Kiesemon.

But knowing that everyone was fine, she finally let go of the heart she kept mentioning.

……

Now for Li Jia and the others, the more serious problem is how they will go back to Mihua Town.

The luggage was washed away by the water, and the commercial vehicle disappeared. How to get back to Tokyo from Gunma is really a problem.

"If you're worried about this, why don't we meet up with the doctor now?" Rubbing the doctor's beetle car, we should be able to go back to Tokyo smoothly.

Li Jia sighed and shook her head, and said in a low voice, "The doctor's beetle car may not be able to accommodate so many of us."

Even in Zhongyuan Zhongye, they can all turn back into cats, but the passengers on the beetle car originally had six children, and it would be difficult to add another one of her. Let alone the car, if the traffic police saw it on the way back, the doctor would probably get a ticket.

"Then do you want to stop the car on the highway?" See if there is any kind-hearted person willing to give them a ride.

Li Jia frowned slightly, and said in confusion: "Let's go up and have a look first."

Generally speaking, when the car breaks down halfway, they signal to the passing vehicles to give them a ride. Although there may not be any cars stopping, it is still a way.

It's just that Li Jia suspects that they won't see vehicles passing by when they go to the road.

In the place where the flood broke out just last night, the nearby roads may have been blocked to prevent dangerous flash floods and mudslides.

They likely won't see a single car.

Zhong Yuanzhong didn't think about the possibility of not being able to go back. At worst, he would use his ability to avoid the surveillance video tape Li Jia and fly back to Mihua Town when it was dark and night.

The main reason is that there are too many surveillance videos on the road now, and the people in Tokyo have too many eyes, so if you use gravity at will, you may be seen by others.

Even if he doesn't know much about the government and the public security forces in this world, Zhong Yuanzhong also knows that it is not a good thing to let supernatural powers appear in video recordings at will.

To walk from the place where they camped to the road, it took about three to ten minutes at Elijah's speed, not counting the road that was washed away by the flood, and the slope that needed to be climbed up carefully.

"I'll carry you up." Nakahara Zhongya said naturally, reaching out to hug him, but what he didn't expect was that Li Jia would back away to avoid his movements.

The stunned and injured look on the young man's face made Li Jia a little guilty. She turned her head to look at the two cats squatting on her shoulders, and refused in a low voice: "Actually, Mr. Zhongye and Brother Zhongye can lighten the gravity for me to go up."

"...I just came down from the place where I took refuge last night just now." She lowered her head and added in a low voice.

She really couldn't get close to Zhongya Zhongya under the gaze of the two Zhongye cats, especially since he only kissed her last night.

Li Jia had already almost forgotten the kiss last night, but Zhong Yuanzhong's small movements of peeking over from time to time made her instantly think that he was also worried about her anger last night and worried about her being alone, watching her eyes quietly.

She was afraid that once he showed that he didn't care or had forgiven Zhongye Jun, he would suddenly kiss him again.

Zhong Yuanzhong also pursed his lips and compromised in a low voice: "Then let's go."

He fell behind Li Jia to prevent her from falling down the slope due to the slippery mud, and his sight on her back was gradually attracted by the bright red marks on the back of the girl's neck.

"Li Jia, you seem to have been bitten by a mosquito on the back of your neck?" Zhong Yuanzhong also frowned and asked in doubt.

Although there are only three or five shallow marks, they are always very noticeable when they fall on fair skin.

"Huh?" She blinked, touched the back of her neck and scratched, leaving a few shallow scratches, "Maybe there are bugs in the place where I stayed last night?"

The inside of the cave is humid and even drops of water, which is generally the place where mosquitoes are easy to breed.

Just thinking about it, she felt that her body was itching so badly that she couldn't help scratching with her nails.

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked at it for a long time, a little suspicious but not very sure: "...is it really a bug?"

Li Jia stepped on the steep and slippery soil and took a shortcut to climb over the railing with the convenience of gravity. She was puzzled and asked blankly: "It's not a bug, what is it?"

Although it is a bit strange that mosquitoes appear on rainy days, it is also normal for mosquitoes to breed in caves.

"Li Jia, wait for me." Zhong Yuanzhong also took off the leather ring around his wrist and bit it in his mouth, wrapped his hands around her shiny and fluffy black hair, combed it with his fingers and tied it behind his head, revealing a white and clean look The nape of the neck with several red marks.

Just now when Li Jia occasionally raised her hair, he saw a strange red spot on the back of her neck. Now that she tied up her hair, he could see the true face of the red spot clearly.

There were no bumps or red dots, but marks like light pink petals falling on the back of her neck.

His cobalt blue eyes sank slightly, and when his finger touched the red mark, he asked in a low voice, "Will it hurt?"

Li Jia shook her head in a daze, and said honestly, "It doesn't hurt, it just feels a little itchy."

There are calluses on Nakahara's fingertips, and touching them will make people feel itchy on the back of the neck, which is more uncomfortable than the feeling of hair falling down.

"Is it a particularly big red spot?" She asked with some anxiety and fear: "We slept on the sleeping bag last night, so there shouldn't be any big bugs."

That is to say, but when she fell asleep in the middle of the night, a scorpion or centipede crawled over and bit her, but she might not feel it, maybe she was bitten by some poisonous insect.

For example, at the position of her ankle, there are still two small holes bitten by snakes. Thin scabs have formed and will not bleed and infect again, but the snake teeth marks will probably not disappear so soon.

"Meow, meow? Meow!" The little orange cat turned his head and took a look. He was puzzled at first, and then quickly meowed angrily.

The object of anger is obviously the orange cat dumpling squatting with him on Lijia's shoulder at the other end. His tail hangs down and hooks the tip of his tail happily. .

"Don't, it's so itchy." Li Jia couldn't help laughing, stretched out her hand to block the licking attack of the cat's tongue, it would feel comfortable to lick the back of her hand with a little barbed tongue, but licking the back of the neck is sensitive to itchiness The position will only make her want to laugh.

Zhong Yuanzhong also scanned the reactions of the two cats, and finally understood what the red mark on the back of Li Jia's neck was.

Inexperienced teenagers would naturally not know that this is the imprint left by kissing and sucking, but adult men can tell at a glance that it is the ambiguous kiss mark left by the lingering neck.

Like mosquito bites, the skin will become red, swollen and itchy due to the protective mechanism, and the place where the kiss has been kissed will naturally leave a shallow mark, but because the location is inconspicuous, it is not painful or itchy for the person concerned, Li Jia has not been there for a long time Discover.

"...Ah, it's a bug," Zhong Yuanzhong also said with a cold face, pointing out: "It doesn't look small, it looks serious."

"Hey?!" Li Jia's face changed slightly when he was frightened by his words, "How could this be?"

She had just been bitten by a snake, how could she be so unlucky to sleep in a cave and be bitten by a strange bug again.

"Is it a poisonous bug?" She froze with a sad face, "What should I do? I feel itchy on the back of my neck now. Is it the poison of the bug?"

The one who was bitten last night only found out now, can she really be saved?

"Insects are not poisonous, and the itching is because of this guy's tail," Zhongyuan Zhong also grabbed the tail of the orange cat dumpling and took it away, hooked Li Jia's waist, lowered his head and kissed it, covering the position of the hickey, and said vaguely: "But just in case, let's disinfect it."

The tip of the tongue swept across the nape of the neck, leaving a wet mark, the teeth gently gripped the soft flesh of the nape of the neck, grinding and sucking the kiss, the pupils in the cobalt blue eyes slowly contracted and became sharp because of the wild stimulation.

The young Zhongyuan Zhong couldn't restrain his wildness and possessiveness. He raised his eyes to look at "Mr. Zhongya" who was unhappy and drooped his tail, opened his mouth to reveal four sharp canine teeth like a cat, and said silently: "Mine."

Jealousy and possessiveness caused him to lose part of his rationality and control of his body, revealing his cat-like appearance.