After learning about the situation on the "Gray Land" island, Kii no longer foolishly thought that building a campfire would attract the occasional passing plane, and the diving suki told her the exact direction. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The island is located more than 1,000 nautical miles southeast of the main island of Hawaii, in other words, next door to the Deep Sea Fleet.

If you want to leave, you can hope that the will of the deep sea will end the "punishment" of Kii, or Kii himself can swim out with various tools. There is a submarine for diving, but it will not be lent to Kii because it will definitely go against the will of the deep sea.

"Isn't Yumi here?" Kii walked into the slightly empty shack and asked the young natives inside. Originally, she also planned to let Yumi be a tour guide today and visit other places on the island.

The indigenous people have a weak sense of security, and this shack on the outskirts of the colony serves as a "rest room" for young sentinels. It's not entirely true to say it's a lounge, because of the island's special environment, an outsider like Kii doesn't necessarily appear in a hundred years, and the young sentinels are more likely to gather together to play their game of woodchips, or do prayer and worship carvings depicting "sea gods".

"Yumi? She went on a mission. "The young natives are not as calm as their patriarchs, and like Yumi, they have an instinctive rejection of Kii. If it weren't for Kii's friendly gesture, Yumi wouldn't have become a friend with whom she could sit down and talk.

The young native who answered Kii hesitated for a moment, but still pointed out a vague direction to Kii. "Someone went out last night and didn't come back. The investigation was entrusted to us, and since it was not a big deal, we drew lots to select a few people to investigate. Yumi is one of them, and her luck has always been bad. ”

Then the group of young people dozed off and prayed, and they got together to play games and continue their game of woodchips, and no one paid any attention to Kii who was standing at the door of the shack.

Kii was surprised by today's cold reception, and in contact with the adults in the clan, Kii could feel their enthusiasm and sincerity no matter who they were, and it could even be said that they cared too much about Kii as a "guest". But the younger generation here seems to be lazy, and Yumi's hard-working people are among them. Kii used to be with Yumi a lot, but he didn't notice the difference.

Diving Qihime gave her a hint, and the will of the deep sea definitely wanted Kii to know important things in this tribe. Kii now feels that his "mother" may have a breakthrough in his own difficulties, and this point of difference may lie in this.

"Outsider, you're in the way!" The two sentries with short spears returned to the hut and pushed Kii unkindly, then knocked on the doorpost with the handle of the short spear. "Captain! Everything is normal, and the lost bear child has been recovered. The bear child went all the way into the jungle to catch the wild birds in front of his house and slept in it for the night. Luckily, I wasn't taken away by the beast. Thanks to the sea gods for their protection. ”

The young natives in the shack were divided into several teams, discussed with each other for a while, and soon finalized the answer, and still chose one by lot to report to the patriarch.

"Wait, you're not just two people out there, right? Why ......"

Kii stopped the young native, who was going to report, but the other party was impatient, and seemed to be the skinny one of the companions, and when the small team was formed just now, the person was squeezed into the outskirts. As for the so-called fair lottery, there is also obvious fraud, and the small wooden chips are distributed by a few relatively elderly people, and they are vague about the symbols on them, sometimes saying that three circles are the winning lot, and sometimes saying that as long as there is one person, two squares are the winning lot.

Among these natives, Kii has seen the sensitive word "lie" that he has not seen in the tribe before, and the outward indifference can be explained by the rebellious period of children, who spontaneously form small groups, bully "unsociable" partners, and use lame lies.

The germ of the dispute had taken root in these fifteen or sixteen-year-old natives, and Kii thought it was very strange, she had not seen such a phenomenon in the rest of the tribe in the past few days. And Kii remembers that when she visited the clan village, she heard Yumi introduce that it was a crime to violate the clan rules to tell others about the wrong weather, date, place, numbers, etc. The word "lie" does not exist here, but now Kii sees it with his own eyes.

"Don't bother me, I'm busy. You go to Yumi, the patriarch didn't ask me to be your guide. ”

"Where's Yumi? Now that the lost person has been found, why don't they all return together? Kii was now desperate to find someone to deal with to check her conjectures, and Yumi was the best person she could think of.

"How do I know? Maybe you went to catch wild birds, or you went fishing in the holy river, or you may lie somewhere to bask in the sun and be lazy. I'm different from her, my younger siblings are still waiting for me to go back and make lunch. Don't bother me anymore! ”

Kii got a message from this, and it was only in line with the practice here to "have fun" outside for a while after the assignment was over, and from the discussion just now, Kii also heard that 9 people were dispatched, and there were 6 others who didn't come back like Yumi.

"Excluded people", "lies", "fifteen or sixteen years old"...... A lot of seemingly interrelated information is intertwined in Kii's mind, and thinking about puzzles is not good for her. In the past, she relied on Sato to to deal with complex day-to-day problems, and Sato usually listed them.

Kii thought of the scene where Gonjun Sato played military chess with 10 people at the same time, and he would take out a notepad to record it as he did when he was at work on weekdays.

Kii did not stop at the shack any longer, she followed the route of the two sentries and walked all the way, and soon found two young natives busy fishing by the river, dressed as patrol sentinels. "Excuse me about your break, do you know where 'Yumi' is?"

"Probably in the lower reaches of the Holy River. She said there was something important to do. ”

Kii felt something was wrong, and she was a little negligent, Yumi had a special thing in common with some of her friends of the same age, no family, or no parents. She has told Yumi a lot of things these days, and treats each other as a close friend.

Sato Gonjun mentioned to her that it is best to pick a young dog without a mother when raising a dog, although such a paparazzi is very repulsive to outsiders, but constantly giving love, it will change qualitatively after a certain extent, and will treat the owner as the only close relative.

There must have been some special incident on this island a few years ago, and some of the children lost their parents. Yumi was very reluctant to be an outsider from the beginning, and Kii has always regarded it as a normal phenomenon, but the hospitality of the island's people is the main theme of the past. There is no such thing as throwing people back into the sea or threatening them with weapons, not to mention them.

"Don't you have to go home and cook for your younger siblings?"

When Kii asked this question, the two natives were about to answer, but they immediately paused, and they both stopped fishing and looked up at Kii. "No, Mother will do it for them."

If Sato Gonjun was here, it was possible to ask questions like "why didn't your parents die", Kii would not be so rude, she looked at the road to the downstream and hurried downstream.

She has a crush on the indigenous Yumi, and Kii's kindness always tells her to do superfluous things, although this time the goal is the same.

A beautiful island that looks like a "paradise", and the hidden secrets are being discovered little by little by Kii. What she sees as a paradise away from war also has a strong stain. While not enough to generate "resentment", these stains have affected young indigenous people.

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"Yumi! What are you doing here! This is a forbidden place, don't you know it as a sentinel? The patriarch glared angrily at the captured native, little girl Yumi, the cave was a little dim, but fortunately the cave was not deep, and the light at the entrance of the cave could be seen behind them.

"Patriarch, execute her directly! There can be no more tragedy. ”

There were warriors who directly offered a recommendation for execution, but the patriarch did not rush to punishment. "Give you a chance, say, why are you here? You should know what an outsider represents, even if Miss Kii may be a distinguished guest who has a relationship with the 'sea gods', but an outsider is an outsider, and God knows if she will do the same thing as that boy when she comes here! Your parents, and many others, died because of it. Do you want the tragedy to happen again? ”

"Sister Kii is a kind person, she wouldn't do that kind of thing. She really wanted to go back soon, but there was no way, maybe the 'door' here could help her go back. It's like ......"

Everyone looked at the innermost door of the cave, it was just a door frame, and they didn't know when they appeared in this cave, but the last time the outsiders returned from here to leave. In addition, there are many other gems that are unknown to the natives, and no one touches these dangerous stones.

"So you sneaked in to investigate, so you can bring Miss Kii with you next time? Are you crazy?! ”

The patriarch slapped Yumi in a fit of rage, and then motioned for his men to take Yumi with them and leave, while the guards returned to their original posts.

But everyone didn't expect Kii to arrive at the entrance of the cave at this time and walked inside. Yumi carved many of her favorite marks downstream to prevent getting lost, and Kii followed these marks and soon discovered the strange cave, and the many footprints at the entrance of the cave deepened her concern.

"Yumi, are you here?"

It was the patriarch's spear that answered her, but it was enough to knock over the boar, and it was only as painful as it was for her.

The spear was broken in two, and Kii could see the dozen or so adult native warriors in the cave armed with spears, as well as the clan patriarch who looked at her in surprise. After them, Yumi was tied with ropes and held in the middle.

When it came to this embarrassment, Kii said bluntly to the patriarch. "Don't be surprised. The 'sea god' you worship is almost the same species. I don't have any ill intentions, I just want to get out of here. So can you tell me all the secrets you know? ”