Moriran and Suzuki Sonoko were stunned for a moment, and at the same time turned their heads along the direction of Shiraishi, and saw a few meters away, a woman wearing sunglasses had just stepped off another bus and was walking towards them with a clear goal.

The man was dressed simply, and his hair was trimmed short, so at first glance he looked a little like a boy. However, the square silk bracelet on the wrist and the necklace around the neck are just right to brighten, so that people can't distinguish gender.

Tomokako Ikeda approached with her suitcase in tow and nodded at Sonoko Suzuki, "Long time no see." ”

"Long time no see!" Sonoko Suzuki jumped over and hugged Tomoko Ikeda's arm:

"I read your new book! It's pretty, but can it be as sweet as before? Also, I said that I would be the protagonist and write a magnificent and romantic love epic! ”

"A romantic epic may not be written, and only you young people have the motivation to yearn for love." Tomoko Ikeda raised her hand and rubbed her head, "I'm past that age. ”

"Obviously you are a young man yourself." Sonoko Suzuki didn't give up, "Also, I said I was going to tailor my Prince Charming QAQ in it......"

Under the sweaty eyes of the other three, she and Tomoko Ikeda walked all the way away.

After walking seven or eight meters, Suzuki Sonoko remembered something, turned around and waved at the three of them: "Xiaolan, Ritsuki, hurry up!" ”

The "......" sees the nature of loving one and forgetting one, which is worthy of its name.

Sure enough, only the custom-made virtual Prince Charming is true love......

……

Although there were at least two local tyrants in the ranks of the civilians, Sonoko Suzuki and Tomokako Ikeda did not choose to take a taxi, but continued to transfer trains and buses.

Unlike Sonoko Suzuki, who almost threw her bus card into the coin box, Tomokako Ikeda seems to be quite skilled, and may have been running around a lot before.

Shiraishi always felt that the name Tomokako Ikeda was very familiar, and thinking about what Sonoko Suzuki had just said, after sitting down, he took out the "Blue Kingdom" in his bag and looked at the cover again.

The pen name is written "Tomokako Ikeda". This man actually wrote the book under his real name.

Shiraishi opened the title page again to see the author's introduction.

The Blue Kingdom, Tomoko Ikeda's debut novel, was a popular book that caused a small sensation when it was published two years ago.

A year later, the movie based on it became a hit, and Tomokako Ikeda became famous with a book.

In the past two years, she has written many works one after another, but most of them have tragic endings, not as popular as the earliest "Blue Kingdom", but the evaluation in the literary world has slowly risen.

The words on the book are too small, and it is easy to get motion sickness when you read it again.

Shiraishi was about to put the book away, but Conan next to him asked him coldly, "Can I read it?" ”

Shiraishi turned his head, and saw that the child had recovered a little from his autistic state, and began to become curious about everything again.

He handed the book over and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

After two transfers, the bus finally swayed to the bottom of the mountain.

After getting out of the car, several people walked up the mountain road, and when they reached the sky, the clouds turned into sunset, and they still didn't see the shadow of the villa.

Although Tomokako Ikeda was evaluated by Suzuki Sonoko as a "new otaku", her physical strength was not bad, and she never showed that she was tired.

Not to mention Maoriland.

Only Conan and Suzuki Sonoko are frantically dragging their feet - Suzuki Sonoko is not exercising enough, and Conan is mainly sick and dizzy, his feet are soft and his stomach is sour, and his physical strength has not yet recovered.

That book was really poisonous, but fortunately I finished reading it last night...... Shiraishi looked at Conan's pale face and secretly rejoiced.

……

"Ahh I can't! ”

When she turned another bend along the mountain road and found that there was still no villa in front of her, only layers of trees, Suzuki Sonoko looked desperate.

She wept and shook her ankles, and her delicate and beautiful little leather shoes were already covered with a lot of dust at this time.

Sonoko Suzuki wanted to cry without tears: "I shouldn't have picked these shoes with heels for the golden ratio...... I can't walk, I really can't walk a step, the gentle, considerate, handsome, and handsome Prince Charming who will smile and carry me up the mountain hasn't appeared yet! ”

Shiraishi was stunned, turned his head slightly, and sure enough, he saw Suzuki Sonoko looking at him with tears in his eyes.

This simply can't be called a hint, it is clearly an explicit.

Shiraishi now has a bag on his back, a bag in front of him, two more on his arms, and a heavy suitcase in his hand.

Although Suzuki Sonoko praised him very excitedly, after silently feeling the weight of the pile of bags, Shiraishi refused movingly:

"Your luggage is all on my back, plus your words, walking a thousand or two kilometers, maybe you should carry me......"

Suzuki Sonoko thought about it too, and sighed in disappointment.

"The road here is very uneven, and when you walk on your back, both of you are prone to falls." Tomokako Ikeda looked up, "I'm familiar with the neighborhood, so take a shortcut, and you'll be there in about five minutes." ”

A few people were walking on a compacted mountain road, but now they wanted to take a shortcut, so they changed to digging into the woods.

Although the suitcase has become less easy to drag and there are more bugs around, it has indeed begun to walk in a straight line, which is certainly much closer than the winding road.

Suzuki Sonoko was still sluggish at first, but after walking for a minute or two, a white and green mollusk snapped and fell onto her shoulder, and with a scream that pierced the forest, she became the fastest runner, eager to carry a few people and fly out of the woods in a second.

…… Although this was not Ikeda's intention, the pace of progress did increase a lot.

Passing through the woods and up a small slope, the sight finally opened up a little - they came to a mountain stream.

The mountain stream in front of you is more than ten meters wide, dozens of meters deep, and the cliffs on both sides go straight up and down, extremely deep and steep. At the bottom of the mountain stream, a river rushes by, and the sound of water crashes back and forth on the rocks on both sides amplifying

A rather rudimentary wooden suspension bridge spans a mountain stream and connects the two banks. Across the suspension bridge, you can see a three- or four-storey villa with a beautiful design.

This dangerous combination of man-made and natural made several young people exclaim, and Shiraishi was no exception.

But what he marveled at was the place - the scene where the drawbridge was going to be broken, everyone was trapped in the villa, and then the murderers did whatever they wanted, but they couldn't call the police.

Next time you go out, be sure to bring some compressed biscuits or something...... Shiraishi silently added an item to his list of travel essentials.

At the same time, he saw a man in a black robe and a black hood standing on the suspension bridge near the villa, walking with his back to them towards the villa.

Sonoko Suzuki thought it was a member of the club who had come to pick them up, and happily raised her hand to say hello.

Her shouts were heard far away from the mountain wind and the sound of water, and the black-robed man was stunned for a moment, and turned his head suddenly, revealing a face densely wrapped in bandages.

The bandage man glanced at the five people who froze behind him, and suddenly ran ashore quickly, but instead of entering the villa, he got into the woods next to him.

"W-What's going on!" Suzuki Sonoko got goosebumps in hindsight, "It's not Halloween, what are you doing dressed up like this, perverted!?" ”

The two girls hugged each other tremblingly.

Shiraishi looked past them at the drawbridge, and the black-robed man's outfit gave him a strong sense of déjà vu.

After a little recollection, he remembered.

- In "The Cyan Kingdom", which has a bit of fantasy style, there is a perverted murderer who is keen on dismembering corpses and implementing his own distorted "justice".

The clothes described in the text are like this: tattered black robes, a wide hood that falls down to the brow bone, bandages all over the body, and a blood-soaked axe.

Now everything fits well except for the axe.

"The 'surprise' prepared by Ayako is really as unique as ever." Tomokako Ikeda frowned, a little helpless, "But no matter how you look at this, it's only 'surprise'......"

"Surprise?" Moriran and Suzuki Sonoko are unknown.

As soon as Conan finished reading the book, he explained to his two former classmates: "It's a fictional character in Sister Zhijiazi's "Blue Kingdom", haven't you seen it before?" ”

"I've seen it." Sonoko Suzuki frowned, trying to recall, "But I saw it two years ago, and the details have long been forgotten." ”

Mao Lilan was a little ashamed, as if she hadn't seen Tomoko Ikeda's work in this group. When I'm free, I have to go see a catch-up ......