Not too many out of four

The sky outside the hotel was so gloomy that it seemed that the sky was about to fall. Layers of thick dark clouds piled up together, and a bright light flashed through the clouds from time to time, illuminating the dense and gloomy sky.

Zhongyuan Zhong also stood on Lijia's shoulder, feeling that the cat fur all over his body was blown back, and his nails had to pop out to fasten the fabric of the suspender skirt on his shoulders. He opened his mouth and wanted to call out: "Meow, woof woof."

The gust of wind filled his mouth full, and the sound he made was broken and fragmented.

He raised his head in shock, the sea breeze in Okinawa was too strong, and he felt that if he didn't hold on to Li Jia's clothes, his cat, which weighed only a few pounds, would be blown away.

"Brother Zhongye, go back to your bag," Li Jia turned her head and wanted to take him off her shoulders. Zhongyuan Zhongya raised his claws and pushed her hand away, only to see her frowning slightly, unable to hide her worry: "It's too dangerous outside gone."

Zhongyuan Zhong also bit Li Jia's hair, and muffledly shouted: "Wow meow!"

This little danger is nothing, if it wasn't for his absence, even if he couldn't turn back into a human, he wouldn't take this little bit of wind and rain seriously.

Staying outside is more convenient than staying in the bag. If Li Jia encounters any danger when going out, he can also use his claws to kill the prisoner.

According to Kudo's analysis, the prisoner who held the test of courage must have some purpose. He left two unlucky and innocent female high school students in the cave and took their mobile phones to reply to Li Jia, pretending that they were still in the guest room. what purpose.

From this point of view alone, people should not be in danger of life for the time being.

But if the dark clouds that accumulate in the sky start to rain continuously, the high sea level will not guarantee the safety of their position.

After reporting the situation to the police, the police confirmed with the hotel manager that there were seven people missing, including Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko. They were all participants who went to the night's courage test to enter the deepest part of the Mermaid Cave to retrieve the credentials.

The only information available at present is still unable to analyze the real prisoner, so we can only put the search and rescue of the missing persons first, and find the mermaid cave in the test of courage as soon as possible.

The sea has submerged some of the caves due to the rising tide, and if it were the mermaid cave, it would be more difficult to search and rescue in it.

"Brother Zhongye..." Li Jia suppressed her hair, and looked at him helplessly with her shining blue eyes: "We don't need to go back into the bag, but we must hold on to my clothes firmly."

Zhongyuan Zhong also bit his hair, and replied sullenly, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Of course, he didn't want to be swept away by the sea wind here.

"I know where the Mermaid Cave is." Kudo Shinichi silently put away the code card and couldn't wait to stand up and said, "Sorry Li Jia, I'm going to find Lan and Yuanzi now, you go back to the guest room first..."

"Please take me with you." Li Jia interrupted him firmly.

Zhongyuan Zhong also turned his head to look at Li Jia. From this angle, he could only see the girl's childish and beautiful side face. She took a deep breath as if she had made up her mind, and tightly clenched the fists on her side.

"Miss Lan and Miss Yuanzi disappeared for so long before they were discovered because of my carelessness," she pressed her lips tightly together, with guilt and determination in her eyes: "If I had discovered something was wrong with the text message earlier, if I had remembered to ask them to try A daredevil..."

Kudo Shinichi pulled his hair in distress and had a headache. Obviously he didn't want Li Jia to follow him at all, but he was worried that she would sneak out to find the mermaid cave: "...Okay, but you must follow me closely."

His eyes fell on the orange cat on Li Jia's shoulder: "Send Brother Zhongye back to the guest room first, it will be bad if it is blown away by the wind."

Nakahara Nakaya let go of Li Jia's hair, kicked his hind legs towards Shinichi Kudo's shoulders, the strong wind outside the hotel almost blew him away, he popped out his nails in time to catch the boy's clothes, and climbed onto his head flexibly: "Meow woof!"

If you are looking for someone, you should take him. The cat's sense of smell and hearing are much more advantageous than the two of them looking for people.

Kudo Shinichi hissed, trying to tear him off: "Don't grab my hair."

Nakahara Chuya flicked his tail to avoid his hand, and shouted firmly again: "Meow woof! Meow woof!"

Almost attracted the attention of the Okinawa County Police in the hotel lobby, Kudo Shinichi said depressingly: "Okay, okay, I will take you with me."

It's been a long time since Li Jia cut the cat's nails, and "Brother Zhongye" almost pulled his hair out just now.

He handed Zhongyuan Zhongya back to Li Jia, and brought the first aid supplies that might be used: "Let's go, go to the Mermaid Cave."

With such a big storm outside, non-professionals are not recommended to go out. Even the Okinawa prefectural police stayed in the hotel lobby waiting for news from the marine search and rescue team, but Kudo Shinichi couldn't wait with peace of mind.

The Mermaid Cave he deciphered is not the same as the location where the sea search and rescue team searched for the missing. It is an almost completely abandoned cave that will be submerged every time the tide is high. It was excluded from the search by the sea search and rescue team from the very beginning. scope.

If a person is in a flooded cave, it is impossible to reply to the text message alive, but Kudo Shinichi has other ideas, maybe, maybe things are just as he thinks.

He wanted to go see the cave for himself.

……

As Shinichi Kudo originally guessed, the cave implied in the code card was not flooded.

I don't know whether it is because the sea level has not fully risen or because the terrain in the cave has changed over time. Although the cave has been filled with water, it has not been completely submerged.

"Be careful." Kudo Shinichi said in a low voice, stepping on the water first into the cave.

Zhongyuan Zhong also held his head up and sniffed the nearby smell. It seemed that there was a human breath left behind, but due to the sea water and the wind and waves, the smell had faded a lot.

He didn't remember the smell of Mao Lilan and the others, and he wasn't sure whether the smell left in the cave belonged to them, or the smell from running around in the hotel or on the beach yesterday.

"Meow!" Zhong Yuanzhong also lowered his voice slightly.

The smell at the entrance of the cave is already very weak. From here, it can be seen from here that the seven people from the test of courage last night probably haven't gone out from here since they came in.

Li Jia hugged him nervously, and slowly followed Kudo Shinichi: "Brother Chuya, did you smell Miss Lan and Miss Sonoko?"

Zhong Yuanzhong also lowered his head and bit her finger lightly, it was so cold: "Meow meow! Meow meow!"

The dim environment in the cave did not affect the cat's vision at all. Compared with Li Jia and Kudo who moved cautiously, Nakahara could observe the environment in the cave more freely.

When leaving the hotel, in order to prevent the slippers from being washed away by the water, Li Jia was wearing sports shoes and was now immersed in the sea water. After a while, she began to shiver slightly from the cold, but she did not slow down at all following Kudo Shinichi's pace. He found her strange.

Li Jia exhaled slowly, and said in a low voice: "Is the smell at the entrance of the cave too mixed? Yes, there are seven missing persons in the test of courage."

Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little worried about Li Jia's physical condition. He was only submerged in water from the calf level down, and his body temperature would lose a lot over time.

He lowered his head and rubbed Li Jia's hand, pressed the little girl's cold hand with his abdomen, tried to warm her ice-cold hand, and the girl's slow and heavy breathing came from above his head.

The unstable caves, the sea water flowing over the calves, and the wind constantly pouring into the caves, although there is no need to worry about the lack of fresh air, walking in them will be a great test of physical strength and spirit.

She was shivering from the cold just now in the guest room, and he also saw the heating stickers that "Mr. Zhongye" found for her. Zhongyuan Zhong didn't understand why Li Jia didn't put the heating stickers on to keep her body temperature when she was so cold.

Kudo Shinichi stopped in his footsteps, and encountered a fork in the cave for the first time. He used a flashlight to illuminate the symbols carved on the wall, and his brows were deeply furrowed: "Damn, there are still codes here!"

But now he has no time to decipher any codes.

Zhongyuan Zhong also raised his head and sniffed, then turned his head and shouted at Li Jia: "Meow woof! Meow woof!"

Li Jia slowly began to walk towards one of the forks, her breathing became long and slow: "Brother, Brother Chuya seems to smell something."

He sniffed around carefully, and even asked Li Jia to hold him high on the rock wall to catch the smell and breath.

What is certain is that the seven people in the test of courage chose one of the directions to move forward, but it was just that there was no way to determine the source of the smell. Zhong Yuanzhong also kicked his legs to break away from Li Jia's arms and jumped into the water.

"Wait, wait, Brother Zhongye..." Li Jia's voice calling behind him was weak and slow, and he walked hard to keep up with his movements and direction.

Zhong Yuanzhong also struggled to paddle his limbs, and dived into the water to pick up the faintly seen necklace. If it was something else, it might be difficult for him to see clearly, but the necklace that sank underwater was a sapphire necklace, blue is abnormal in the cat's eyes Bright and varied colours.

He came out of the water and swam to Li Jia with his limbs. He held the chain tightly in his mouth and couldn't open his mouth to make a sound. They didn't realize what he was holding in his mouth until Kudo's flashlight came over.

"Sapphire necklace..." Kudo Shinichi took the necklace and stopped Li Jia from picking him up: "Wait Li Jia, don't pick up Brother Zhongya, just hold it with your hands so that it won't be washed away by the sea." .”

It is impossible to dry the cat's fur all at once. It is better to let the cat continue to move its limbs in the water. Even if the temperature drops suddenly, the temperature of the sea water will be slightly higher than the temperature on land. Keeping him in the water will help maintain his body temperature .

Zhong Yuanzhong also kicked his limbs and tried to swim forward, always feeling as if he had become a creature like a water hound.

Using his sense of smell to find the leftover items, and barking to signal Kudo Shinichi to come over, he thought to himself, isn't this similar to a dog?

Wei Wei's distracted mind was pulled back by the strange smell, and Zhong Yuan Zhong also warned loudly: "Meow, woof, woof!"

A human-shaped thing fell into the water in front of it, and its body was swollen faintly from the bubbles.

"What, what?" Li Jia bent down to hug his body and moved forward, feeling a little uneasy.

The light of the flashlight swept over, Kudo Shinichi raised his voice and said: "Li Jia, stand still!"

The little girl was frightened by his suddenly harsh tone, Zhong Yuan also turned his head and bit her finger lightly, pulling her to go around.

Don't look, just follow him.

Even without too much probing and checking, Zhongyuan knew that the guy who fell into the water was dead.

Seven people were missing from the test of courage, one person was confirmed dead, and the whereabouts of the remaining six people are unknown.

Kudo Shinichi caught his breath and gritted his teeth: "Let's continue walking."

Now is not the time to go back and find someone for help. The radio waves have become extremely unstable due to the weather. He just glanced at the signal display circle of his mobile phone.

Can't wait to go back and find someone to help.

They must move on, find the remaining survivors, and finally let the search and rescue team lift the body out of the cave.

As we went deeper, we saw the bodies of several missing persons one after another.

But Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko still haven't found the target of their line of work.

"Meow." Zhongyuan Zhong also tilted his head and rubbed Li Jia's hand, feeling that her hand soaked in the water was freezing tightly, but he couldn't bring much warmth to her, the cat fur all over his body except the hair on his head was covered Wet, body temperature and physical strength are slowly losing.

The cat submerged in the water secretly clucked its tongue. After four months, the cat's physical strength was still not as good as that of a human, but this time it felt that its body was not as flexible as it started to move.

The Mermaid Cave is deeper than they imagined. The deeper the terrain and the lower the altitude, the Zhongyuan Zhong also swims in the water with all his limbs, and he didn't realize it at first.

Until he found that Li Jia's breathing was getting heavier and closer to him, he turned his head and looked back, and he didn't know when he had to bend down to protect his girl just now, but now she can hug her with just raising her hand he.

Damn, the water has spread to Li Jia's waist.

Zhong Yuanzhong also stopped his swimming limbs, kicked his hind legs backwards and floated on the water: "Meow? Meow!"

Li Jia couldn't go any further, so she asked her to go back first, and he went in to help them find someone.

Zhong Yuanzhong also bumped into her palm, and Li Jia was slow to realize that he had stopped. She barely raised the corners of her mouth and asked softly, "Are you tired? My sister will support you."

He raised his head to look at Li Jia's pale face and dark purple lips, closed his mouth and swam to press against Li Jia's body, he could feel the cold skin surface through his clothes.

Nakahara Nakaya suddenly turned his head to look at Kudo Shinichi, his clothes were half wet and he was panting heavily, his face began to turn pale.

The incoming wind and waves raised the surface of the water and wet their clothes, which caused the loss of body temperature to increase, and because he was always blocked by Li Jia, he didn't feel the fluctuation of the sea water so much that it affected his progress.

He secretly had a headache, and if they couldn't find anyone, they would also be buried in this so-called mermaid cave.

"... Meow." He bit Li Jia's hand slightly hard, took a deep breath and dived hard under her recovered gaze, and faintly breathed a sigh of relief when his eyes swept across the road ahead.

"Meow, woof, woof!" Zhong Yuan yelled loudly, and his voice bounced off the cave twice and three times.

Hold on a little longer, and the terrain ahead begins to go up.

He seemed to smell a pungent mint-like smell with some bitterness. It seemed to be the sachet that Maori and the others brought to repel mosquitoes when they went out. Unexpectedly, it became the smell to identify them at this time.

"Lan! Sonoko!" Kudo Shinichi, holding a flashlight, was the first to discover two girls leaning shoulder to shoulder on the rock wall with their legs bent and sleeping on a slightly higher rock.

As innocent people who were involved in the test of courage with unknown intentions, the prisoner didn't seem to want to put them to death, but he didn't intend to tell others where they were. He just put the two unconscious girls on a rock that had not been submerged by the sea tide superior.

But if no one came out to look for them and the water level in the cave rose, sooner or later they would die in the mermaid cave like the people in front.

Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief, her body trembling from the cold: "Miss Lan, Miss Yuanzi... that's great, you're all fine..."

Zhong Yuanzhong was also worried about arching into her arms, and kept yelling: "Meow, woof! Meow, woof!"

Don't fall here, you will really die if you fall here.

The girl, whose breathing became extremely heavy, barely raised the corners of her mouth, and stepped forward to touch Mao Lilan and the others' body temperature. After a night of sea breeze and cooling, their skin surface was very cold, and their fingertips and lips even faintly turned purple.

Li Jia pursed her lips and smiled slowly: "Fortunately, I brought this."

The useless heating stickers in the waist bag were protected by plastic bags, so they were not soaked by sea water. Li Jia shook her hands and took out the warm baby stickers and put them on Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, shrinking her legs and squeezing onto the rocks with them.

The wet clothes stuck to the surface of the body, and Li Jia leaned against Suzuki Sonoko's body shivering slightly from the cold.

Zhong Yuanzhong also kept paddling his limbs to keep himself afloat in the water. Looking at the four people clinging to each other, he secretly gritted his teeth but couldn't think of a better way to take them out.

His current body is just an ordinary cat.

It would be great if it had strength, and if gravity is still there, even cats can easily rescue them.

"When I came out, if I left it for the hotel manager, he should have told the Okinawa prefectural police well, right?" Kudo Shinichi whispered with a wry smile, and the mobile phone with GPS in his arms showed that there was still a signal.

Should I say good luck or bad luck?I successfully found the people I wanted to find, but I didn't have the strength to take them out.

He let out a breath of white breath slowly, sent the text message and the location together, looked at the phone for a long while and finally successfully sent the text message, and then passed out with a sigh of relief leaning against Mao Lilan.

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked at them with a headache, so there was no way to hold on until rescue came.

The body is suffering from severe hypothermia, and it is difficult to guarantee that it can persist after temporarily supplementing with glucose, especially Lijia's body...

Thoughts kept slipping through his mind and then they were pushed away because they were not feasible. The faint but bright red light was not noticed in the Central Plains when the cave was lit up, but the familiar gravity brought him back to his senses first.

The abilities and physical abilities belonging to the supernatural person instantly made the cat's body extremely strong. I feel that even if it meets the four previous robbers with its current body, it can be easily solved by a cat.

He shook his head vigorously to clear away his extra thoughts, swung his limbs and pounced on Li Jia's body, heaved a sigh of relief after covering the surface of her body with gravity, and turned his head to look at the other three.

Although I don't understand why the ability came back suddenly, but it's important to save people, let's get Li Jia and the others out first.