Chapter 20: Killing
"This is Momoi's backpack. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
I looked at the time, it was 4:40 p.m., but the place didn't seem to feel the time changing, no matter how many hours passed, the sky was always gray.
"Momoi? Don't you see anyone else? β
Sakura crouched down and rummaged through his backpack, then simply poured out everything inside and spread it on the ground.
"Sakura, what are you doing?" I'm a little weird.
"-Oh, I... It's just to see if there's anything available. β
Her eyes were evasive, clearly hiding something.
"Nozomi, I think... We may not be able to go back to the Wujiang Mansion, and we may not be able to go home..."
"How so?"
She didn't answer me, she just pursed her lips and shook her head, Momoi's backpack was rearranged and carried on her back.
"I really regret coming on this strange trip, I said, I didn't want to come at first, Xiaoxi, I'll be honest with you, because I'm the one who..."
As I was talking, I saw Sakura's hand adjusting on the shoulder strap of the backpack, and suddenly, a bright light like lightning flew in front of my eyes, as if something slender was ejecting from above, and it pierced the back of Sakura's hand with a "whoosh".
"Ahh
The cherry tree was dragged to the ground by the force from top down,
When I looked, it was an arrow, and the iron arrow made a cracking sound as it pierced the bones of her hand.
I suddenly looked back and saw a figure on the roof of the building next to me, and under the gray sky, the figure turned and fled to a place I couldn't see.
Could it be...
I didn't have time to think about it, so I hurriedly crouched down to check on Sakura's injured hand.
It's tricky, how do you get this out, I've never been in this situation except I've seen it on TV, how do you pull out an arrow... The method is certainly not as simple as shooting TV.
"It's the arrows of the crossbow."
Sakura said with a painful expression, she pinched her wrist tightly, the knuckles of the hand had lost their blood color and turned white, I didn't think much about it, and hurriedly helped her to walk into the building, at this time it is much safer to hide in a covered place.
"Damn..."
Sakura cursed in severe pain, her injured hand had begun to swell and bruise, and it was clear that there was bleeding that could not be stopped.
"What to do? Sakura, I'm not going to get this? But your hands seem to be getting worse and worse. β
I looked at her anxiously, completely unable to cope.
"You help me break the top end of the arrow."
I understood what she was up to, and although I wanted to stop it, it seemed to be the only way to do it at the moment.
It's just a wooden arrow, it shouldn't be difficult to break, but I gritted my teeth in pain as long as I touched the cherry tree a little, and after thinking about it, I had to let her bite her clothes and break the tail end of the arrow... I didn't stop doing it, and before she could react to the pain, I pulled out the arrow from below with a quick hand.
"Ahh
The whole building resounded with the screams of the cherry trees, she curled up on the ground motionless, her feet twitching slightly, and I helped her wrap her hands tightly with the strips of cloth of her clothes, and it took a few minutes for her to recover.
"Thank you."
She whispered weakly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't even say hello to you..."
"You can't do it if you say it."
Sakura hooked the corners of her lips, I admired her ability to endure pain, and the weaker girls probably cried and fainted.
I helped her to the wall, and I sat down next to her, and there was nothing in them, like unfinished buildings under construction, and in many places you could see sections of steel and concrete, weeds and rocks, and sticks of wood with nails scattered everywhere.
"Xiaoxi, did you see the figure on the roof just now?"
"Hmm."
"I think that's the classmates we know."
Sakura said with certainty.
"Sakura, do you remember what we came here for?"
β... Didn't you say you were going to find the first mailbox? β
I took the letter out of my pocket and opened it again...
- Find the first mailbox and drop this letter in, and Venna will not die.
These lines of words play back and forth in my eyes, and then through the optic nerve to the brain, the meaning of the content is very simple, as long as you do it as Funai will not die, on the contrary, if I choose to run away or some other act that does not follow common sense, then Wennai's fate will be very miserable, right?
So here's the problem.
The current situation is, firstly, I don't know where I am, secondly, from Yusuke, who died by the passage door, there seems to be an invisible danger lurking around me, and thirdly, from the situation where someone has just attacked Sakura, whether the target of the attack is clear or not, one thing is certain - someone wants to hurt us, or it is more appropriate to use "kill".
"Sakura, I don't think we just have this letter."
"You mean..."
"Among my classmates, there are others, and the content of the letter may not be the same as ours..."
"Not quite the same?"
"For example, our purpose is to save Fumina, or to do so to avoid the death of our classmates, but maybe some people are asked to 'kill'."
"I see what you mean. You're saying, for example, someone who has a letter like us, but the content is, 'Find Sakura and Ruriki, kill them, and you won't die.'" 'Something like that, huh? Do you want to say what that means? β
I nodded, and although it was speculation, the situation forced me to think, "Yes, that's it." β
If you speculate in this way, except for Funai, who may have lost the qualification to "compete" by having one of her arms torn off, everyone else may have different letters and are in full swing carrying out their tasks.
Maybe Venna has too, she's just lost an arm, she's still have feet to walk and run, maybe she's wandering around the building somewhere.
Thinking about it, I can't help but shudder again and again, no matter who called us on the trip in the first place, the purpose was to make us kill each other with different purposes, and in the end we were caught as we wished, and we all fell into the arranged layout... Who is going to do this?
However, there are also very far-fetched places to speculate like this, such as why Sakura became a group with me, I remember when the fire happened, after everyone disappeared, the only person I saw was her, only her "one-sided words", if she lied, I would die without proof, unless I found another living person to figure out what was going on,
"Xiaoxi, what are you thinking?"
Sakura asked suddenly.
"It's nothing, it's useless to guess anything now, I'll see how your hands are?"
"It's okay, I don't feel any pain."
She smiled, but immediately retracted to an expressionless face, I checked her hand, and indeed there was no continued bleeding, but it is never the best policy to wrap a strip of cloth in this way, the wound will become infected after a long time, and the body will cause complications, these are common sense, I really admire those ancients on the battlefield, where they were injured, they tore their clothes and wrapped them, and then the wound was gone and forgotten over time.
"I can only find the mailbox as soon as possible, and then deal with it after returning to the Wujiang Mansion."
"But... How do you find this, if you look for it one by one, when will you find it..."
"Ruriki-"
Suddenly a voice came from the entrance to my side, and following the voice, a tall man was standing there, his clothes, his posture, his breath, and I immediately recognized the man.
"Momoi?"
He walked at me silently, and as the distance between us had narrowed, I noticed a detail that frightened me to the core.
Momoi's hand, holding a gun.