Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

"one."

"ignition."

A strong sense of weightlessness and shock came over them, and the shells carried the five people in desperate situation towards hope.

However, when Shizi woke up, there was only one person around him.

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Chapter 14 Awakening

"Hiss——" Shizi tried to sit up, but her head started to hurt and she had to lie down again.

"What happened..." There was silence all around.

Fragments of memory flashed through her mind. The shock that passed through her diaphragm, the collapse of the shell, what she was trying to do, what everyone was trying to do, the light, the smoke...

"(Where has everyone gone...)"

A rustling sound came from beside him, and Shizi reluctantly turned his head: It was Yili. She had recovered some mobility and crawled towards Shizi. She looked fine, but I don't know if she had any internal injuries. It was simply a miracle. Shizi didn't quite understand his own situation. His whole body was still numb and he couldn't feel anything.

"One...li." She opened her mouth and tried to call the other person's name.

"Here! Shizi, are you okay..." Yili came to Shizi's side in an instant, knelt down, and regardless of shame, tried to untie Shizi's clothes and examine her body.

Shizi's lips moved, temporarily retracting the question that was about to come to his lips.

She thought for a while and joked, "The butt... shouldn't be on the tree, right?" Yili's hand paused and the corner of her eye twitched.

"No, everything is intact... and there are no trees here..." Seeing that Shizi had no obvious external injuries, Yili breathed a sigh of relief and quickly put clothes on Shizi.

Shizi's mouth twitched barely once before she asked the question that concerned her most: "Where are the others?"

"Neither of them were here... When I woke up, I only saw Shizi."

That's right. According to the characteristics of this place, even if the explosion of the shells blew through several layers of the cave wall, it would be quickly repaired and no trace would be seen. No one knew where the others fell.

"…It's all my fault." Shizi said this and stopped talking.

Ichiri didn't want her friend to blame herself, but she didn't know how to comfort her. The guilt was about to overwhelm Shizi. Because of her playful thoughts, the five people dispersed. It would be fine if they just dispersed, but if...

She didn't dare to think about the following words. The arc-shaped cave wall hung high above her head. If it were normal, she would have unconsciously begun to appreciate the lines on the cave wall, but at this moment she could only let herself drown in the torrent of guilt. This was the punishment she deserved.

But after a while, Shizi's cold left hand felt warmth.

"Yili?" She saw Yili holding her left hand unexpectedly and placing it on her chest. Yili lowered his head, not daring to look at the part he was holding, but his hand was tightly held and did not let go.

"At least they... are definitely still alive and in good condition." Yili nervously diverted Shizi's attention.

"Eh?"

"Can't you feel it?" Yili was surprised. "Is it because you received less bonus? Feel it carefully, you can still feel their state."

Shizi quickly calmed down, and after a long time, he finally sensed the status of the others through the connection with CiRCLE. He didn't know their exact location, but they were all alive and well, and like Shizi, they were not injured.

Shizi was relieved for the moment and continued to lie on the ground to rest. During this process, Yili held her hand tightly. Yili's warmth spread from the palm of her hand to her whole body, allowing Shizi to slowly regain her strength.

"Thank you, Yili..." She supported herself on the ground with her right hand and climbed up, but saw that Yili was still in the same position. She looked carefully and found that Yili had merged with the surrounding environment and turned into a stone statue.

...Sure enough, it’s still the familiar Ichili.

After knocking off the thin outer shell, the statue's tightly closed eyes were revealed in the middle.

"Wake up, we're leaving." She tried to touch Yili's forehead with her right hand. Yili's eyelids moved a few times, the stone pieces on her body fell off, and she slowly stood up. I don't know if it was because she was nervous, but she still held Shizi's left hand. Shizi felt her face getting hot, and waved her hand to signal, and Yili finally reacted and reluctantly let go.

Shizi turned around and unconsciously protected her left hand with her right hand: "No matter what, it was me who separated everyone, so I have to bring everyone together again!" She strode ahead of Yili.

At this time, the two of them were in a spherical space. The walls of the cave were extremely thin, and they could hear the echoes from other places when they knocked with their hands. Even the floor was like this. It was incredible that this place had not collapsed. There was only one exit, which was a deep passage. From time to time, you could see openings leading to other spaces on the way.

"This should be the inside of the lungs. We were in an alveolus just now." Shizi explained to Yili, who was not good at science. She painted a mark on the stone wall with fluorescent powder, and the mark quickly merged into the stone wall and completely disappeared.

It seems that now we can only rely on luck to explore the way. Shizi held on to the wall and made a quick judgment.

"We estimate that we are at the end of the trachea. As long as we go to the wider fork, we should be able to reach the main trachea. If the other people are in the same situation as us, they will go there and we can meet up." Shizi compared the two sides and decided the next direction. After a short rest, they started to move forward. This time, Liang was not in front to explore the way, and they often saw the dark cracks leading to the alveoli. The two were much more careful.

There aren't too many twists and turns inside the trachea, but there are many forks, most of which lead to the alveoli, and some to other bronchi. The connection between the alveoli and the trachea is not necessarily on the left or right sides, but may also be under the feet or even above the head. The two people need to be extremely careful to avoid falling into the embarrassment of falling into the alveoli and being unable to climb out.

Every time they passed an alveolus that they could enter, they would go in to check out the situation. Every place was empty, exactly the same as where they woke up. They saw a hole, went in and saw it was empty, and then they returned to the trachea, and the next hole was in front of them. Yili gradually felt that he had entered a maze. If he continued like this, he might not even be able to tell the direction of coming and going, and it would also waste a lot of time.

Yili walked behind with her head down. Shizi's legs swayed in front of her, making her a little dazed. Since she came to this world, she hasn't had the opportunity to be alone with Shizi for a long time. They have always been together, a little noisy but also very happy. It was not like this when she was with Shizi before joining the band: both of them were the type who were better at ending a topic than finding one, so it was relatively quiet, and the few topics were basically about music: Shizi was Yili's only listener and also Yili's producer. At the beginning, Yili was still nervous and couldn't play well. Shizi's music was also very immature at the beginning. Gradually, Yili began to adapt, and Shizi's music became better and better... Recalling such daily life, Yili couldn't help but be dazed, with one foot already in the hole.

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Chapter 15 The Secret of Yili

"Be careful!" Shizi quickly grabbed Yili, "Didn't I tell you to be careful? Are you thinking about something?" Yili looked up and saw Shizi's helpless expression.

"Yes...I'm sorry."

Shizi did not hesitate and continued to move forward, but this time, she grabbed Yili's wrist. Yili froze for a moment, and then was dragged along tremblingly.

My head feels dizzy... Am I lacking oxygen?

In a place that Yili couldn't see, Shizi's face was also hot. The last time Shizi held someone's hand was in her childhood in her previous life. Now, taking the initiative to hold someone's hand was more terrifying for Shizi than fighting a monster. However, since Hongxia was not here, the task of taking care of Yili could only be given to her... Shizi kept hypnotizing herself with high-sounding words such as "sense of responsibility" and "obligation".

Fortunately, this period of time was not very long. While Yili was still dizzy, Shizi had stopped walking without him noticing.

"There seems to be something in this one." Shizi stopped, made a "hush" gesture to Yili, and slowly approached the cave entrance next to her. Before Shizi could get close, a turbulent blood-yellow turbidity flow gushed out of the cave entrance, and countless skeletal tentacles grew out of it, grabbing Shizi. Yili reacted immediately, grabbed her, ran back, turned around and ran into another alveolus. Shizi reacted in time and sealed the cave entrance before the mucus torrent arrived. The turbidity flow continued to corrode Shizi's blockade, but under Shizi's continuous maintenance, it still failed and slowly shrank back to its original position.

Shizi deactivated her ability and looked in that direction worriedly. If she wanted to move forward, she could only go through that hole. But the hole was blocked by a monster. The monster's body was liquid. Normally, it was just a small monster that was not to be feared. But now she had no way to attack such a creature by herself, and Ichiri's ability to manipulate water was useless. It was a pity that Liang and Kita were not there. One of them could control it, and the other could directly dry the monster. There was no need to worry at all.

Turning his head, Shizi saw the condition of Yili. During the escape, some turbid water had soaked Yili's coat and was corroding it.

Noticing this, Yili quickly took off his coat. Under the coat was a normal black T-shirt, which was nothing. However, Shizi's eyes were gradually attracted by the coat in Yili's hand: inside the coat, there were two group photos taken before, and all the sheet music that Shizi had given Yili since they met.

Silence.

Although, Shizi knew that this was not the right place to talk about this kind of thing...

But Shizi knew why Yili had never dared to change clothes before. She thought it was just because she was shy.

Yili hid his coat behind his back in an instant, and forced a fake smile with a sweaty face: "Let's hurry up and get going!"

How to set off now? Shizi didn't understand what she meant.

"Actually, I can deal with that monster..." Ichiri picked up the guitar.

Shizi's face was full of distrust. Was she just trying to change the subject?

"Really..." Yili explained: On the first day of hunting, she successfully assimilated the acid sprayed by the meat mountain monster. After that, she got inspiration. She can use the enemy's body fluids for her own use. The same is true for the turbidity monster in front of her. She can use her own water flow to continuously penetrate until the monster is assimilated.

Since it is really feasible, Shizi certainly has no objection.

However, she glanced at the sheet music in her pocket and began to worry. Actually, she had recently written a suitable solo for Yili, and it would have been a good idea to send it out at this time, but when she saw that coat...

"Here...here."

"Huh?" Yili saw Shizi handing over a sheet of music. It was a new song.

"Why...are you still willing...to give me this..."

The heartbeat is so fast.

"...at least don't sew the music scores...I will write many more songs for you...so many that you can never finish sewing them..." Shizi's face was almost turned away.

Yili looked at her profile, and then at the wrinkled music score in her hand. She reached out and took the score. Their fingertips touched, and the soft touch instantly spread throughout her body. Yili immediately withdrew her hand. She controlled the throbbing in her heart and turned her attention to the music score. After a long time, the gurgling stream and the sound of the piano came out from the alveoli where the two were hiding, flowing to where the monster was, flowing into the darkness, and blending with the monster's body. The monster did not notice.

Of course, Shizi can't enjoy the music properly now.

When the monster officially disappeared, the two walked into its room side by side. The coat was reluctant to be thrown away, so at Shizi's strong request, it was stuffed into the backpack, and Yili promised not to take it out again.

There was no orb in the room. However, there were other more important relics, which made Shizi and Yili who came in later ignore this regret: a skeleton, a human skeleton.

In the center of the room was a skeleton with its head hanging down. After seeing so many monsters, such an ordinary skeleton was not scary. Shizi touched it slightly, and it fell backwards, with the skull rolling backwards. Because the skeleton was at the lowest point in the room, the skull rolled back and hit the skeleton, making a dry sound.

"Look, there are words written here." Shizi looked over and saw words carved on the ground in front of the skeleton. It was so old that it was hard to recognize, but Shizi was sure that they were Chinese characters!

Chinese characters! Shizi didn't expect to see Chinese characters here, and from the legible text, it can be seen that this is the classical Chinese that Shizi is familiar with!

Suppressing his shock, Shizi read and tried to translate for Yili.

"The rest of us...were mistakenly...defeated...and left behind for posterity...a total of a hundred people."

"So, what does it mean?" Yili didn't understand at all.

"I can understand the words, but not the whole. God knows how many years have passed, and only a few words are left. I don't know why it can be preserved in this place for so long." Shizi left his doubts for the time being, took out paper and began to make rubbings.

The work was quickly finished, and Shizi looked at the skeleton beside him and said: "As for my fellow villager, take him with you and find a place to bury him later."

When they left, Shizi was carrying a large canvas bag on her back. The atmosphere was obviously much more depressing. Although they had been fighting for a long time, this was the first time they saw their dead seniors.

Shizi took a last look at the alveolus. This was the tomb of an unknown predecessor for thousands of years. From the top of the cave to the ground, from the deepest part to the entrance, Shizi wanted to remember this place as much as possible, which was also a respect for the predecessor.

It was this glance that made Shizi discover an irregularity on the wall. She walked back.

"What's wrong?" Yili followed and saw Shizi standing two meters away from the wall. He took out the steel fork and poked it into somewhere on the wall.

The stone wall cracked in front of the two of them, and a stone staircase appeared behind the stone wall.

The faint sunlight shone into the darkness underground.

Stimulated by the sunlight, Kita slowly woke up.

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Chapter 16 Reunion

Liang and Hongxia have fallen into a big crisis.

Since they woke up, they have been trapped in a large natural prison cell, spending countless springs, summers, autumns and winters. In this small spherical space, the only exit is hanging high above their heads. The short distance is a chasm that cannot be crossed in a lifetime. Here, the two depend on each other and gradually develop extra feelings... Although Shizi, who heard the two people's story afterwards, wanted to imagine it this way, in fact, the two quickly found a way to escape and resolutely put it into practice.

"Liang! What should we do, Liang? Are we unable to get out?" Hong Xia, who had just woken up, shook Liang's shoulders. Liang was unhurriedly carving something on the stone wall with a piece of iron. This piece of iron was the last remnant of Shizi's poor shell, which was preserved because it happened to fall on Liang's body and was not swallowed by the stone wall.

Liang put down the last stroke, put the iron sheet in his arms, stepped back silently, lowered his head, and clasped his hands together.

"Namo." There was a rare sadness in her voice.

Hongxia was stunned and looked at the wall: "Kita Ikuyo's seat", "Goto Ichiri's seat", "Wu Shizi's seat", the words were written neatly, which made people tearful.

"What the hell!" Hongxia was so angry that she took out her drumsticks and ran after Liang. Liang, on the other hand, held Hongxia's shoulders and looked at her with sympathy: "Accept the reality, Hongxia."

"They are not dead!!!" Hong Xia clapped her hands, watched the words on the wall gradually disappear, and taught this unreasonable friend a lesson.

Liang was surprised when he heard this, and after careful consideration, he realized: "So that's how it is?"

"So you really don't know?!" Hong Xia's eyes narrowed into cat's eyes. She looked at Liang's innocent face and decided to change the subject, "Let's think about how to get out of here..."

This spherical space is empty, and the exit is above the head, so there is no way to get up. It is similar to the previous situation, but without Shizi, the king of ideas, around, I don't know if it is a blessing or not.

Liang tried to find a place to climb on the stone wall, but failed. The sound wave was not strong enough to push the two to the top of the sky. There was no gap in the wall, so they could not see the situation outside. The two searched everywhere in the room, but could not find any useful clues. They exhausted all conventional plans, but could not get closer to the exit above their heads.

After wasting so much time and energy, they finally sat cross-legged on the ground, closed their eyes, and pinched their chins together, thinking about whether there was any other way. Hongxia's ahoge shook violently, and before it could stop shaking, it was pinched by Liang's two fingers. Hongxia opened her eyes, and Liang held the bass in one hand with an expressionless face.

Liang picked up Bess and said, "Just now I found that the wall here is very thin. If I can use sound waves to collapse it..."

"Wait!" Even if it was a sound wave, Hongxia had never seen Liang destroy anything solid with it, so it must be extremely difficult. Besides, Hongxia had also checked the wall, and to say it was thin was also relatively speaking. If you want to destroy such a wall, given the difficulty of controlling sound waves, it would cause the entire cave space to collapse if you are not careful! Hongxia stopped Liang and stood in the center of the stone chamber, right below the exit.

During this period, it was not only Shizi who was working hard to develop gunpowder. As the only person in the five-member team without attacking ability, Hongxia was also working hard to make up for this shortcoming.

Hong Xia squatted down, picked up a stone knife, and took a deep breath.

Hong Xia's only ability is healing, so she should start with healing and think about how to convert it into attack power. No matter how unbearable this method is... If she doesn't do this, she won't be able to keep up with everyone.

Hong Xia's knife-holding hand was trembling slightly. She closed her eyes and pointed the knife tip at her left palm. However, she finally made up her mind, opened her eyes wide, and stabbed the palm of her left hand. With the piercing pain, blood flowed out. Hong Xia tried not to look at it, and put her left palm on the ground, and dazzling starlight burst out from it!

Tomo Ichi Rainbow Summer

Skills: Jazz Drum Technique Lv6, Baking Technique Lv7, [Star Dust] Lv1

This is a skill that Hong Xia discovered. The healing power of the starlight is so strong that it can even allow Hong Xia to "turn the environment into her own body." Now, the small area next to Hong Xia can be said to be a part of her. She can perform some small-scale self-healing, such as making stone pillars grow on the ground to lead to the exit!

The stone pillar slowly rose from the ground. Without needing Hongxia to speak, Liang squatted behind her and silently supported her body to prevent her from falling. The stone pillar rose up little by little, holding up the two of them, heading towards the only exit. It was getting closer and closer.

Since there was hope, Hongxia worked harder. This state was extremely stressful on the spirit. Sweat kept coming out of Hongxia's face. The sweat dripped onto the ground and mixed with the blood, forming a bunch of enchanting blood flowers. In contrast, the results were also very significant. Liang kept paying attention to the height because Hongxia was no longer able to be distracted.

Liang suddenly said, "We're here." Hongxia couldn't hold on any longer and fell forward. Liang held her up. Hongxia's body fell down and fell into Liang's arms.

Looking at the results in front of him and the girl who fainted in his arms, Yiliang's face, which had never changed, showed surprise: "You're trying too hard, aren't you?"

Liang picked up Hongxia and stepped out of the cave.

When Hongxia woke up, her head was resting on Liang's thighs. When she sat up, she found herself in a long pipe.