Not too many out of four

The heavy exhaustion weighed on the consciousness of the body, unable to open the eyes, and the body trembled uncontrollably due to the cold. Although Li Jia couldn't hold on to Suzuki Sonoko and passed out, her consciousness did not completely sink into the depths.

She can also vaguely perceive everything outside, and feel the coldness of the mermaid cave.

From the time they came in to find Miss Lan and Miss Yuanzi, they went all the way deep into the Mermaid Cave. The darkness and cold made her not know the passage of time, as if it had been a long time and it seemed that she had just walked for a while.

The water surface stretched from her calves to her waist, and the cold kept attacking her body, so she could only move her legs mechanically. Her vision became extremely narrow in the dark cave, and she could only follow the light of the flashlight and the meowing of the little orange cat.

She didn't dare to stop or call Kudo Shinichi. Her brother was also in a very exhausted state. He hadn't slept in cracking the code all night. In the morning, he didn't even bother to eat some breakfast to replenish his energy in order to find the missing person.

Li Jia slowly exhaled cold and white breath, her lungs were so congested that it made it difficult to breathe, but this was only because of the cold and excessive physical exertion, not because of the lack of fresh air deep in the cave.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the Mermaid Cave is not short of fresh air. There are winds blowing in from all directions, but it is also because of these winds that the cave cannot keep warmth. The more you move your body, the colder and more tired you feel.

When she found Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, she was really relieved.

A sense of peace of mind seeing that they are still alive and a sense of relaxation that they can finally stop and rest, Li Jia knew that she should not go to sleep at this time, the colder and more tired she was, the more she had to cheer up and wait for rescue.

Because once she closes her eyes, she may never be able to open them again.

Fortunately, when she left the room, she only brought Chuya brother out, and the other cats were left in the guest room waiting for them to go back. When she left the hotel lobby, she also asked the hotel manager to help her at noon and night Feed the three cats in the room.

"Brother Zhongye... let's go..." Her pale and purple lips moved, her voice was so soft that even she couldn't hear it clearly.

Unfortunately, she brought the little orange cat out. If it has been immersed in the water and is unwilling to leave, it will die due to lack of water, food, and physical exhaustion. A four-month-old cat is still a child among cats, even a teenager. not on.

It's too pitiful to die like this...

The body weakly leaning on the edge of the rock wall slowly slumped under the influence of gravity, and Li Jia thought in a trance that it might be her turn to die in the mermaid cave this time, just like the girl chosen by the mermaid in the mermaid legend drowned in an unknown corner of the sea.

When the little orange cat's wet body arched up and rubbed against it, Li Jia raised the corner of her mouth slightly. She somehow felt that "Brother Zhongye" who had been submerged in the water was warmer than her.

A silent and dense force enveloped Li Jia completely from the sea water, her body was gently and carefully lifted up, her closed eyelashes trembled, and she tried to open her eyes: "... who?"

The little orange cat nestled in Li Jia's arms looked up at her, and licked her cold fingers soothingly to bring some warmth and warmth.

The body floated up like in the clouds without gravity, and she vaguely thought that it was such a magical feeling for the soul to leave the heavy body.

The feeling of being licked by the rough cat's tongue constantly came from the fingers, neck and side of the face. Li Jia's consciousness kept sinking, thinking that maybe it was because her soul had not completely left the body, so she could feel the little orange cat in her arms.

Regardless of the wet hair all over his body, he kept licking her face in an attempt to wake her up.

Li Jia really wanted to open her mouth and tell it to save her own life and leave here.

Brother Zhongye is just a four-month-old kitten, not a superhuman cat with all-powerful abilities, so don't force yourself to stay with her.

"Meow woof! Meow woof!" The little orange cat's high-pitched and loud cry sounded in the mermaid cave, and the rebound echoed through the rock wall, pulling Li Jia's consciousness.

Consciousness drifted up and down in the depths of my mind, and I could only hear the little orange cat barking like a cat or a puppy, moving away and approaching, until the warm blanket covered my body to maintain body temperature, and the dazzling light fell on my eyelids eye-stimulating.

She opened her eyes slowly, and saw the wet head of the little orange cat approaching and licking her face and nose. The fluffy hair was wet and stuck to the cat's head, leaving only a pair of round cobalt blue big ones. Eyes, look pitiful and cute.

"Meow woof!" Seeing her open her eyes, the little orange cat raised her head excitedly and shouted to the nearby medical staff: "Meow woof! Meow woof!"

"Fujimine Toshika, are you okay now? Can you hear me clearly?" The medical staff confirmed whether the girl suffering from cold and hypothermia was conscious or just opened her eyes unconsciously by referring to her identity and name.

Li Jia twitched the corners of his mouth weakly, and barely raised his hand to hug the little orange cat next to his face.

Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, and she slowly closed them with peace of mind, allowing her consciousness to sink into the deepest part.

……

Two days after Li Jia woke up again, she felt a faint tingling sensation from her body as she lay on the hospital bed, and she saw the pure white ceiling of the hospital.

Mingming entered Mermaid Cave at the same time as Kudo Shinichi to search for traces of survivors, and was also affected by physical exhaustion and hypothermia, but she was in a coma for longer.

Even Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko woke up, and she slowly opened her eyes in the afternoon two days later.

Suffering from varying degrees of frostbite on her body, Li Jia quietly opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling dully, not expecting to press the call bell at all.

"Did we all survive..." A soft self-question sounded in the ward.

The door of the ward was opened lightly, and Mao Lilan was pushed in by a mature woman who looked like her behind her in a wheelchair. When she saw Li Jia turned her head and looked at her quietly, she couldn't help but shed tears: "Great... Li Jia I woke up too..."

She was so happy that tears couldn't stop falling, and when she raised her hand to wipe it, her mother Fei Yingli blocked it: "Lan, be careful of the wound."

Extensive frostbite on the body made the skin extremely fragile and easily irritated until it fully recovered. The frostbite was smeared with medicine and wrapped with bandages from fingertips to the depth of the cuff arm.

"Miss Lan, are Miss Yuanzi and brother alright?" Li Jia asked in a hoarse voice, her eyebrows and eyes slightly curved.

Mao Lilan was pushed to the side of her hospital bed and kept nodding: "Xinyi and Yuanzi are fine, and the cats staying in the hotel are also taken care of."

The girl with tears in her eyelashes wanted to reach out to touch her, but she was afraid of hurting Li Jia's frostbite, so she withdrew her hand helplessly: "Li Jia, will your body hurt?"

In any case, taking medicine after the body is frostbitten is definitely not as comfortable as when it was not injured, but Mao Lilan usually practices karate and has a much higher tolerance for injury and pain.

Suzuki Sonoko, who was rescued together, was a little more awake than Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi. Since waking up, she couldn't stop crying and feeling uncomfortable, but she could only be depressed and patient, and angrily scolded the prisoner who tricked them over.

Li Jia shook her head lightly, and whispered, "I'm fine, how is Brother Zhongye?"

Miss Lan just mentioned the cats in the hotel. She was a little worried about the little orange cat, which was still by her side before she fell into a coma.

She knew that the hospital couldn't bring pets in, but was the little orange cat sent back to the hotel intact or sick and sent to the pet hospital for treating cats...

"Brother Zhongye has a cold, so he has to stay in the pet hospital to be isolated from the cats in the hotel," Mao Lilan explained patiently, smiling, "But Mom went to see Brother Zhongye in the morning, and the doctor said he was in good spirits , will probably be cured and discharged soon.”

As the main cat that entered the Mermaid Cave together to search for Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, the little orange cat entered the pet hospital under the Suzuki Consortium to receive the highest standard of treatment and treatment, and the cats who stayed in the hotel also benefited from the caring and excellent care care.

"However, your luck is really good this time. You were actually washed ashore by the seawater entering the cave at high tide." Although I really wanted to talk about my daughter and the others, but I managed to escape from death. I was deceived into entering the cave and almost died. Concubine Eri could no longer say the lesson.

It just understated how the search and rescue team found them, and did not mention the remaining people who disappeared during the test of courage.

The missing persons in the test of courage, including the prisoner, all left their lives in the Mermaid Cave on the coast of Okinawa. If Kudo Shinichi and the others went deep into the cave to find Mao Lilan, they sent a distress location, and Li Jia put them on thermal insulation stickers. It is very likely that the two girls who stayed in the cave all night could no longer resist the high tide that flooded the Mermaid Cave and washed them out.

"... Were we washed out by the high tide?" Li Jia asked uncertainly, frowning.

But she seemed to feel someone at that time, and she gently lifted them up and sent them out of the cave.

Can the sea water that floods the cave at full tide really wash them out of the deepest to the shore?

"Although it's unbelievable, the search and rescue team did find you on the shore." Fei Yingli was also a little puzzled, but there was no other explanation for their sudden appearance on the shore other than the high tide.

Although the possibility is very low, the facts have to be believed.

The remaining five people who disappeared from the test of courage were also successively salvaged ashore in the past few days.

After Kudo Shinichi woke up, he cracked the case and found the real prisoner of the test of courage. Unfortunately, the prisoner had died together with the other victims, and he could not get the real punishment that the law should have given him.

The dead can no longer atone for the mistakes they have made. A revenge for killing their lover due to the conspiracy of four people drowns everyone in the sea.

"...Really?" Li Jia murmured in a low voice, "There is no fifth person."

It turned out that the warm red light she vaguely felt coming from the darkness was not someone, but her illusion?

"The fifth person?" Mao Lilan heard only part of her words, and asked in doubt: "Is Li Jia talking about Brother Zhongye?"

They went deep into the mermaid cave together and came out. The little orange cat was the one who suffered the least from the cold and recovered the fastest.

According to the frostbite situation on their bodies, the hospital gave them a suggestion to stay in the hospital for observation for a week, and the official discharge time will be determined according to the recovery speed of the body. Teenagers and girls with strong bodies and strong recovery ability like Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi are estimated to be discharged in a week.

Suzuki Sonoko estimated that it would take two or three days at night, and Li Jia, who had the weakest body self-healing and metabolic ability among them...

The doctor's suggestion is to stay for half a month before leaving the hospital. She is also a little physically weak, and the nutrients her body takes in can't always be absorbed well. Take this opportunity to take care of her body together.

"Well, that's right, Brother Zhongye is the fifth person who saved us." Her eyes were soft and soft, and her voice was soft and pitifully hoarse: "I can look at Brother Zhongye and Brother Zhongye." Are they too?"

The hospital cannot bring pets in. If she wants to see the cats at home, she can only go outside in a wheelchair like Mao Lilan.

"Drink some water first." Fei Yingli carefully helped her sit up, and put a pillow behind her waist: "The doctor told Li Jia's current situation, and she will be discharged from the hospital in a week at the earliest."

"Li Jia doesn't want the cats in Zhongye to worry about you, does she? It's better to recover from the injury before going back to see them."

Li Jia took the warm water handed over by lawyer Fei and held it in the palm of her hand. Feeling that the bandages had become dull and numb, she lowered her head and sipped her saliva to moisten her throat: "Yes, it's better not to worry the cats."

The girl's eyes drooped down, quietly looking at the water glass in a daze.

It will take a week at the earliest to be discharged from the hospital to see the cats at home. Since the cats were adopted, it seems that she has not been separated from them for such a long time.

Li Jia secretly sighed from the time when she went to school for only one day to not being able to see each other for a week. When she goes back, the cats will not think she is dead, right?

I heard that cats don’t have the concept of the owner going out to work or school. They only know that the owner who left is going hunting. If they don’t go home for a long time, they will think that the owner was injured and died while hunting outside.

It seems that no matter what, it will worry the smart and well-behaved cats at home.

"Don't worry, I can let you meet!" Suzuki Sonoko's carefree voice came from the door, and a woman who looked like a bodyguard and a nurse pushed her in.

Li Jia looked up in surprise, and couldn't help asking: "Miss Yuanzi, what are you going to do?"

"Video call," Suzuki Sonoko shook his phone triumphantly: "I can ask the hotel and the pet hospital to help open the video call. One hour a day will not affect your rest and allow you to see your cat at home."

With the ability of the Suzuki consortium, it can be easily resolved with just one phone call.

Looking at the girl who was stunned on the hospital bed, she raised her eyebrows: "More than an hour will affect your rest."

Sickness requires a lot of rest time to allow the wound to heal and the body to repair itself. If you are always thinking about the cat staying in the hotel, it will not be able to get a good rest. Wouldn't it be half the effort.

"Thank you, Miss Sonoko, one hour is enough." Li Jia thanked softly, the girl who was too soft as soft candy thanked Suzuki Sonoko, who was used to carelessness, a little uncomfortable.

She pretended to cough twice, and said generously, "Who made you and your kitty our saviors!"

Although she angrily scolded the real criminal for a long time, Suzuki Sonoko also knew that it was because of her that she put her good friends Ran, Kudo, and Li Jia in danger this time, and she would have a bad conscience if she did nothing.

It's just that the hospitalization expenses are fully covered. She also ordered people to take good care of Lijia's cats who stayed in the hotel and the cats who accompanied them to venture into the mermaid cave and caused a cold and sickness.

……

When the video call is connected, two small windows are displayed on the left and right sides of the tablet.

The Zhongya cats staying in the hotel approached the camera curiously, and the kitten stepped on it with its pads stretched out, and opened its mouth without hesitation: "Meow! Meow meow? Meow meow!"

Meowing loudly one after another like greetings, Maomao moved its head very close to block "Chuya" and "Mr. Chuya" behind him.

"Mr. Zhongye is also very energetic today." Li Jia frowned and smiled softly, "Did you eat and rest obediently?"

"Meow!" The little cat yelled shortly before being pushed aside by the orange kitten behind him. It called eagerly: "Mimi! Mimi! Miwu?"

The tail swung wildly behind him, and he swept the kitten's face several times, getting an angry paw from it.

The two Zhongye cats, who were not much different in size, meowed, swung their paws and opened their mouths to bluff at each other, trying to drive them away to take the exclusive shot, but unexpectedly, the orange cat Tuanzi, who had been staying behind, stepped forward and completely occupied the best position.

He lowered his head and sniffed the tablet, and said heavily: "...Meow."

"I'm fine. I'll be back in a few days." Li Jia pursed her lips and said with a small smile, "Mr. Nakaya also takes care of himself."

On the other side, the little orange cat who stayed alone in the pet hospital and did not need to compete with other cats, wore an Elizabeth ring around his neck and some bandages on his hind legs. Wang!"

"...Brother Zhongye has more than just a cold?" Li Jia couldn't help asking.

If it's just a cold, you don't need to wear an Elizabethan ring or wrap a bandage on your hind legs.

"Meow woof?" The little orange cat lay in front of the camera with a gloomy expression, even the cat's whiskers fell down: "... Meow woof."

"No, this wasn't an injury sustained in a cave," Sonoko Suzuki twitched his lips, his face delicate: "It seems that it was bitten by a husky that rushed out the day it was sent to the pet hospital."

"Eh?!"

Seeing Li Jia's nervous and astonished expression, she quickly comforted her: "But your kitten is very powerful, it just escaped with a small scratch."

After applying the medicine to the little orange cat, the pet hospital was worried that it would lick and tear off the bandage, so it put on an Elizabeth ring for it.

"Yes, that's how it is..." Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief, and said with some distress: "Brother Zhongye must heal his wounds obediently, and sister will be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible to take you home."

The little orange cat moved its whiskers in frustration, and called out seriously: "Meow woof! Meow woof!"