Endless Silver Machine

"Go in and stay there and I won't hurt you!"

Qianyou and Milia, who still didn't know what happened, cuddled up on the bed tremblingly. Hearing the man's voice, they timidly raised their heads and looked towards the door. Yuanyi, Ariel and Jialu were held at gunpoint and pushed into the room.

"Senior!"

The two of them shouted in unison.

"Qianyou, Milia, those people didn't do anything to you, right?"

Yuanyi quickly walked to the bed and checked the bodies of the two schoolmates. Seeing that there were no obvious injuries, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"They just burst in and asked us to sit together and didn't do anything else..."

"Senior Yuanyi, what happened..."

Their bodies were shivering, not knowing whether it was because of the cold or fear. Yuanyi hugged them tightly and explained briefly in their ears.

"Don't do anything, just listen to them and nothing will happen. We will find a way."

"Hey, what are you talking about in secret!" The man came over and grabbed Yuanyi's arm and threw her onto another bed. "You three sit together and don't move!"

They were all wearing thin pajamas at this time, so the three men guarding the room were not worried that they had threatening items on their bodies. Moreover, the students of Wangli Academy are generally not good at using magic. The release speed of basic magic is definitely slower than the bullet fired from the gun. Everyone understands this truth.

"Where are the others?"

Ariel dared to question one of the men with a gun. The man was not irritated, he just glanced at her lightly.

"The people in Frost Moon Academy are too dangerous and must be controlled. If you cooperate, at least they will not be hurt."

"Tsk..."

Ariel understands the situation of Qiu Ke and the others, but now she is helpless. The confused brain has not yet thought of a way out of the current situation.

There were multiple footsteps coming from outside the room, and the visitor and the man whispered a few words. The man nodded and returned to the room.

"Two of them seemed to have run away. The remaining two became much more honest after being restrained with a pair of magic handcuffs."

He said this deliberately to the girls. Feeling relieved and uneasy at the same time, everyone stared at the man with angry eyes.

"Don't look at me with such a scary look." The man shook the gun in his hand, "If you wait until our matter is over, you children will be released. We are not terrorists who kill innocent people indiscriminately. , just for the sake of ideals, I have to do something that goes against my heart.”

"The words sounded better than the singing. I almost believed it."

Ariel pouted.

"Ariel..."

Jialu grabbed Ariel's arm to stop her from provoking her any more.

Ariel's slender arms trembled slightly in her hands.

Jialu lowered his head and leaned on her back.

"Just be patient for now..."

She murmured in a voice that only Ariel could hear.

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"Telua-senpai...where are we going..."

"Find a place to hide first...then slowly...find a way..."

After running a short distance, both girls were out of breath. Tirua stopped in the shadow of the tree trunk, holding her hands on the trunk and gasping for air.

Leilu's situation was even more pessimistic than hers. The moment she stopped, her legs were paralyzed and she knelt on the ground.

"Here... take a rest..."

Tirua sat down against the tree trunk, no longer caring that her skirt was stained by the mud.

In order to facilitate movement, neither of them put on jackets, and their sweat became biting in the cold wind. Tiruya felt her nose itching, so she quickly covered her nose with the tissue she had always kept in her pocket to stop herself from sneezing.

Leilu also covered her mouth and didn't make a sound. Now the two sat disheveled in the bushes, sharing only a forced smile.

The principals and tutors of the two academies do not live in the school buildings at night, and there is no way to ask them for help using PDAs. The security personnel may have all been subdued, so there is not much hope. The power outage caused all equipment that relied on electricity to be unusable. Even basic lighting in the school building could not be guaranteed, and the direction could only be roughly determined by the faint moonlight.

"Telua-senpai, I have no problem."

After resting for a while, Leilu stood up on her knees. Her knees were a big red spot, which was a result of the scrapes she had just suffered when she fell.

Tiruya stood up, bit her finger, and wiped her own blood on the red and swollen area. The wound gradually returned to its normal color.

"I'm sorry, Tylua-senpai, for causing you more trouble..."

"It doesn't matter how much you say after the frustrating talk is over. At least cheer up now. If you fall, you will really cause me big trouble."

"Well, thank you..."

Hearing Tiruya's circled words of concern, Leilu lowered her head and hid her smile under the shadow of her bangs.

"Leilu, where do you think it is easy to hide and find people approaching?"

"...A building with many rooms may be able to do this. But..." Leilu hesitated, "If you are surrounded, it will be difficult to escape from inside. That's what dormitory buildings are like."

Leilu's explanation was very reasonable, and she also used the incident she had just experienced as an example, making the hidden danger even more difficult to ignore.

"In that case, places like teaching buildings are not considered."

"Telua-senpai, do you know how many people there are in the other party?"

"It's not difficult to use wide-area detection magic, but..." Tiluya thought for a moment, "If they have equipment that can react to large-scale magic, our location will be exposed."

"So that's it..."

Even Tylua had to take a break after using magic on a large scale, so she couldn't leave her current position immediately after finding out how many people there were. Leilu originally thought she had come up with a great solution, but if the first step could not be executed, the subsequent plans would become meaningless.

"Tell me what you think of."

After hearing Tiruya's words, Leilu raised her head, her eyes full of doubts. Tirua stood in front of Reilu and raised his hand to place it on her little head.

But Tirua didn't do this because Relu was not a child who needed her to take care of her.

"Maybe you can find an unexpected breakthrough in your ideas."

Although Relu's age and experience are not as good as hers, Tiruya will never ignore every opinion she puts forward. During the year of working together in the student union, Tiruya has found completely different ideas from Leilu's thoughts that she spoke without any scruples more than once. She also understood that only by letting go of the rigid way of thinking can we learn more. Hidden new things.

Therefore, Tiruya would not look at her like a school girl. Leilu was her friend, and above all, she was a trustworthy partner.

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Obviously the number displayed on the PDA has not increased much, but Aika feels that the time has passed dozens of times. Xiaoye was now leaning against the door that was open a crack, alert to the movement in the corridor. He used the closed curtains as a cover and paid attention to the door of the teaching building.

So far, those men have not noticed the movements of the two of them, and Aika has not seen anyone passing by the teaching building.

Of course, so does Tiruya.

Did she escape? Was Wei Xi with her? These questions lingered in his mind, desperate for answers. However, the PDA without signal remained silent, and the expected figure did not appear.

The curtains held by Aika had obvious wrinkles, and her nails dug into her palms through the fabric. The pain made Aika loosen her grip on the curtain, and the raised corner was covered by fabric.

He flexed and stretched his stiff fingers repeatedly, and the blood flow gradually returned to normal, and the temperature returned to the cold palm.

Xiaoye turned to look at Aika, and Aika shook her head.

"That group of people should have rushed into everyone's room at the same time, so as to have a surprise effect. If there is no obvious commotion outside now, one possibility is that only we have escaped, and the other possibility is that others have also escaped I escaped from the dormitory, but because the search was very strict, I kept hiding somewhere and never came out.”

"No matter which possibility it is, it makes people very uncomfortable..."

"I know you are anxious now, and I feel the same way as you. But at this time, the more impatient you are, the slower your thinking will become. I think you still understand this simple truth, right? If you can't do it, , I don’t mind coming so that you don’t have time to think about unnecessary things.”

Blood-red magic power danced on Xiaoye's fingertips. There was no trace of pity or ridicule in his eyes when he looked at Aika, as calm as a bottomless lake.

Being stared at by Xiaoye's eyes like this, Aika realized her gaffe. But this kind of mood does not mean that you can calm down by calming down. Aika took a few big breaths and sucked the cold, unheated air into her lungs. After covering his mouth and coughing quietly for a few times, those troublesome thoughts were pushed to the corner of his mind.

"It seems you don't need my help anymore," Xiaoye put away the magic power on her fingertips, "What a pity."

"If possible, I hope you never come to do this favor."

Aika smiled, and Akatsuki responded with the same smile before returning her attention to the corridor again.

Aika returned to the window and used the corner of the curtain to peek out the window.

During this period of time, in addition to monitoring, their brains were running rapidly, looking for a solution to the predicament at hand.

In a head-on collision with thermal weapons, they, as students, were completely helpless. As long as you are not a desperado, you will try your best to avoid things like eggs hitting rocks.

Hiding until dawn, the principal and tutors may discover something unusual, so this is a safe way to consider.

"This is indeed a more reliable approach, but..." Aika bit her lip and looked at Xiaoye who suggested this calmly, "They will also think of this, so they will definitely do something this night. It is simply impossible. We will wait until dawn as we wish!"

"Shh, keep your voice down." Xiaoye closed the sliding door of the classroom and approached Aika, "The problem now is that although we know that the other party is coming for us, and we can guess a little bit of the purpose, but other than that We don't know anything else. How many people there are, and whether they have any magic equipment, these issues should be taken into consideration before taking action. This is a basic course in our second grade. You haven't been exposed to it yet. It’s not your fault. What I said may be a bit selfish, but the first person you have to consider now should be yourself. After ensuring this, you can then save other people. If you just want to satisfy that little bit of self-esteem, you include yourself. If you don’t, you really can’t get anything.”

There was no blame in Xiaoye's tone. He just put the argument in front of him so that Aika could understand. It was impossible for Aika to find a reason to refute these words. If you can't refute, you can't continue to have your own way. Xiaoye knows that Aika is not the kind of person who speaks forcefully.

"Of course I know this kind of thing very well..."

"Quiet!" Xiaoye suddenly made a "shh" gesture, "Someone is approaching this building..."

"I'll go check it out."

Aika gently returned to his responsible position. This time, he opened the curtains at a smaller angle, and then carefully looked out the window.

"Huh?"

The people standing in front of the teaching building and looking around were to some extent expected.

"Is it an enemy?"

"Um..." Aika showed a relaxed expression and answered Akatsuki, who was exuding tension all over her body, "It's Leilu."

"Relu?"

The tension disappeared from his side instantly, and Xiaoye breathed a sigh of relief.

"but……"

Aika hesitated for a moment, and Xiaoye urged him to speak quickly with her eyes.

"Tylua, who lives in the same room as her, doesn't seem to be with her..."

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