Chapter 250: Heavy Rainfall 3 Kilometers Ahead!
Chapter 250: Heavy Rainfall 3 Kilometers Ahead!
"Everyone! Let's get ready to go after we've rested!"
Chitanda Eru called out to everyone, and Hayasaka Ai stood up, pulling Kotori up from the ground.
Hayasaka Ai: "Let's go, let's go. We can't let them walk faster than us in a straight line."
Fujiwara Chika took off her sun hat and used it as a fan. "But I'm still so tired. This mountain is really hard to climb."
Kaguya Shinomiya looked over helplessly. "Fujiwara-san, you didn't bring anything with you again. Look at Hayasaka-san and me, we're carrying bags and we don't even get tired."
Although a professional hiking backpack doesn't contain professional hiking equipment, it's still necessary to prepare drinking water for six people, as well as sunscreen, insect repellent, and the like.
Hayasaka Aiya walked over and said, "That's right, I'm carrying all the weight, so you guys shouldn't complain about being tired."
Because Yukinoshita and Kotori weren't very physically fit, they only carried a cell phone with them at most.
Fujiwara Chika: "Ugh... but this is so heavy."
As soon as the words were spoken, everyone stopped in their tracks.
Especially the gazes of Yukinoshita and Kaguya Shinomiya became somewhat complicated.
So what if you carry your own weight? It's just useless fat!
Little Lonely also heard Fujiwara Chika's complaint, and then silently lowered her head to look at her toes... well, she couldn't see her toes.
"I see..."
Little Lonely's mutterings did not escape Hayasaka Ai's ears.
"What were you doing before? So lonely~"
Goto Ichiri felt a chill run down her spine, and then she saw Hayasaka Ai's kind smile.
Little Lonely: "No! It's nothing... I mean, what if we encounter dangerous animals or something in the mountains?"
Kaguya Shinomiya: "Don't worry about that, the forest on the deserted island has already been cleared."
As they were speaking, the nearby bushes suddenly rustled a few times.
Little Lonely immediately hid behind Hayasaka Ai, "There... there's something there!"
Kaguya Shinomiya frowned. She had just said there were no dangerous animals on the mountain; could she be proven wrong so quickly?
Hayasaka Ai: "Don't be afraid, judging from its size, it should be a small one."
Six pairs of eyes were fixed on them, creating a tense and somewhat oppressive atmosphere. Only when the white creature leaped out of the grass did Yukinoshita finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"What? It's Yanyun-chan who came over."
Intelligence agent, investigator, and spy Yanyun-chan has been ordered by Uchiha Ryo to protect the girls and, incidentally, inform Uchiha Ryo of their exact location.
...
After a tedious and monotonous climb up the stairs, the girls finally stood atop the island. The fatigue accumulated from the climb finally paid off.
Bathed in the afternoon sun, stand atop the mountain and overlook the entire mountain range and the shimmering sea.
"Yay! We won!"
With no boys in sight, Fujiwara Chika declared the winner of the match.
Five minutes after the girls reached the top of the mountain, the boys finally dragged the exhausted Yu Ishigami up as well.
Fujiwara Chika: "Hahaha, you guys lost!"
Uchiha Ryo nodded and waved his hand casually, "It's okay, maybe it will taste even better if we cook it ourselves."
Actually, it would be quite easy for Uchiha Ryo to lead the boys' team to victory. However, as far as cooking is concerned, it's not good to keep bothering the girls' team to make four extra portions. It's better for them to do it themselves.
Moreover, the boys' mealtimes are quite random, so if they don't cook at the same time as the girls, they can't very well ask the girls to cook again.
Putting that aside, as soon as the boys arrived at the top of the mountain, Ishigami Yu rushed into the pavilion and sat down on a stone chair to rest. Opposite him, there was also a little guy who was exhausted.
Chitanda, standing outside the pavilion gazing into the distance and admiring the beautiful scenery, was enjoying the cool breeze from above.
The most important thing about mountain climbing is the sense of accomplishment from conquering the highest point.
Yukinoshita: "The scenery here is quite nice. If a cable car could be built, I wouldn't mind coming here for a picnic every day."
Of course, this is on the premise that there is a cable car; she doesn't want to climb those thousand steps every day.
"The wind is so strong here..." Chitanda tucked her wind-blown hair back.
Kaguya Shinomiya narrowed her eyes. "Something's not right. We need to get down the mountain quickly."
Fujiwara Chika asked blankly.
"Why? We just arrived! I haven't rested enough, and I haven't even eaten the snacks I brought."
Uchiha Ryo came to Chitanda's side and they looked into the distance together.
"I'm sorry, we'll have to wait until next time for a picnic on the mountaintop. Look over there... there's a problem with the weather."
One of nature's most powerful forces, the weather, is about to change.
Unfortunately, Japan and Southeast Asia are prone to typhoons, and small islands in the south are especially vulnerable to their devastation.
Yukino rubbed her temples. "Judging from the shape of the clouds and the wind speed over there, we really need to get down the mountain quickly."
Uchiha Ryo: "Let's go down the mountain. The cumulonimbus clouds are about 30 kilometers to the north, and there should be heavy rain coming! It's really unfortunate that we encountered a typhoon on our first day on the island."
And so, after nearly half an hour to reach the mountaintop pavilion, everyone quickly descended the mountain without staying for more than ten minutes.
As Fujiwara Chika descended the mountain, she complained about the island's terrible weather. Shinomiya Kaguya, who had invited everyone over, also expressed her helplessness, saying that it was the power of nature, something that the zaibatsu (financial conglomerates) couldn't stop.
Suddenly, Nyanko-sensei emerged from the forest and jumped onto Uchiha Ryo's shoulder.
Yanyunjiang: "Meow! (That's my spot)"
Uchiha Ryo turned his head. Generally speaking, Nyanko-sensei would definitely go to Natsume's side. If he suddenly came to find him... then he must have encountered a problem that Natsume couldn't solve at all.
"What's going on? Weren't you told there was no problem on the island...?"
Uchiha Ryo slowed his pace and moved to the very back of the group. Nyanko-sensei's expression was no longer as composed as usual; it seemed he had truly discovered something extraordinary.
"There aren't any on the island, but this is an island... As the origin of all life, the monsters in the sea are definitely no less powerful than those on land, and may even be stronger."
Uchiha Ryo: "You mean, something in the ocean is causing trouble?"
"Hmm, being able to control such a large storm must be the work of that thing."
...
A storm is approaching, and the Shinomiya family's cruise ship is moving at full speed, but it is still shrouded in the rain.
Damn it, why did it suddenly start raining so hard? Will Qinglong II suffer the same fate as Qinglong I...?
The entire cruise ship was rocking, and the huge waves that crashed against it from time to time gave the feeling that it was about to capsize.
"Captain! Let's send out a distress signal first! The weather warning system is working properly; this storm seems to have appeared out of nowhere!"
The crew of the Shinomiya family cruise ship began to feel panicked, a sense of fear of nature and the sea welling up within them!
The middle-aged man, who had just been addressed as captain, was about to answer when another unfamiliar voice came from behind him.
"Young man, do you need any help?"
The middle-aged man turned his head, but what he saw was a sailor lying on the ground and an old man sitting on the sailor.
The old man had a kind face, but the only strange thing was that the back of his head was unusually long.
"You are...."
The next moment, the middle-aged man felt numb all over his body and lost consciousness before he could finish speaking.
"You devil, we're here to borrow a boat to resolve our troubles, not to kill people... Go easy on us."
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