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

The light and shadows flicker.

"Mian!" LAYER shouted loudly, and the sword flashed, leaving a bright afterimage in PAREO's eyes.

LAYER panted and put down his sword: "I think... I have mastered it..."

"Well, I've done it." PAREO was really happy for her. She walked out the door, went to the corridor by the window to take a look at the sky, and came back, "It's getting late, let's just leave it at that for today."

"Okay." LAYER sheathed the sword and looked at Kita who was still meditating, "Little Kita, do you still want to stay here?"

Kita didn't answer.

LAYER's expression became serious. She just noticed that Kita's posture had not changed for a long time. She didn't know when the flame in her hand stopped gathering inwards and just burned normally.

However, Kita still kept his eyes closed, and beads of sweat the size of beans overflowed from his forehead.

She squatted down and said, "PAREO, go call Hongxia."

"Yes!" Behind him, PAREO also realized that something was wrong and hurried away with a torch in hand.

LAYER tried to push Kita's body.

Kita immediately fell backwards, the flame in his hand went out, and he fell into a coma.

ps: The cat’s layout cannot leave a blank line between the letter and the text…

Chapter 36 As long as we can get there

Everyone gathered around Kita's bed. This was not Kita's room, but Yili's, because it was near the window and the air was better.

Hongxia withdrew her hand from Kita's forehead. "The temperature is normal." There are no other symptoms.

However, Kita had been sleeping from day till midnight.

Yili looked like she was about to cry: "What the hell... is going on..."

Shizi held her in her arms and comforted her softly. However, Shizi herself looked at Kita's face solemnly, calling the giraffe silently in her heart.

"(What's going on?)"

As usual, no response.

Hongxia had no choice but to continue pouring starlight into Kita's body. Lisa was waiting beside her with a box of cookies. Her cookies couldn't be fed to a sleeping person, but at least they could help Hongxia replenish her mental strength.

Rinko also continued to play, providing benefits for Hongxia and Kita. She tried all the hymns she knew so far, even the ensemble with Liang, but the effect was not good. In the end, she could only play the "Glory Song" that she was best at to assist Hongxia.

"(Or, I'll take down the headlights again, so that I can have double the rainbow..." Shizi thought.

Suddenly, she had an idea.

It seems that Kita's situation has happened before.

She spoke her guess out loud, and the other band members' eyes lit up.

After leaving [Xingtian], Kita and Shizi fell into a coma. At that time, they both received the inheritance from their predecessors!

Could it be that this is the case now as well?

Hong Xia frowned: "But...we haven't been to any strange places..."

"No." Shizi became more and more convinced. "Those weird monsters before, and the inexplicable increase in my and Kita's stats after killing them... this must be it! That place is indeed related to the senior, but we just didn't discover it!"

"Then why are you okay?" Liang, who had been silent, suddenly pointed out.

Oh, right. Shizi frowned. She and Xiduo had both experienced inexplicable upgrades, but now Xiduo was in trouble, and she was still fine.

What happened?

Deep in Shizi's soul, in a corner that even consciousness cannot reach.

The giraffe was leisurely chewing leaves.

A fiery red circular area appeared silently on the map in Shizi's mind.

At this moment, Xiduo's eyelids moved. "Ah! He's awake!" Hongxia was delighted and worked harder with her hands, and Xiduo slowly opened his eyes.

"I want to... go..." She mumbled something intermittently in her hazy consciousness.

"What?" Shizi leaned down and listened carefully.

"As long as... we can reach... that place..."

Shizi's mouth twitched: "Sister, please don't talk like Linzi and don't use old jokes. You look like the former world number one who left only half of the key information to the protagonists before his death..." Although she complained, she was relieved in her heart. Since he woke up, it was nothing serious.

Except for Rinko who was inexplicably shot, everyone else couldn't help but laugh, and the atmosphere immediately became relaxed. Ichiri and Nijixia helped Kita up, and Kita finally opened his eyes.

Kita blinked and finally saw the people in front of him clearly. The mumbling still lingered in his mind, but it quickly dissipated. But the message had been retained.

“Going to that place,” she said.

"Where?" Youxina asked back.

"Could it be... this?" Shizi had already noticed the changes in the map in her mind. She waved her hand and a small table appeared on the bed with a sand table on it. The fiery red area on the map was particularly eye-catching.

Kita took one look and nodded.

Kita has been trapped in a chaotic and crazy nightmare. There is nothing in the dream, but it seems to fill everything. Kita's consciousness is twisted by the creeping darkness, and delirium squeezes into her soul.

It seemed that the sound of a guitar came from an unknown place, and notes appeared before his eyes, protecting Kito's last clarity of mind.

There was no time, and I don’t know how much time had passed.

After waking up, the memories of the dream gradually fade away, but the most important information remains, like gold dust left after the sand is sifted away.

Although the experience in the dream was terrifying and a little disgusting when thinking about it, Kita inexplicably felt that those mumblings were not malicious.

The area was a plain, watered by four rivers, and Shizi was sure that the area was rich in grass and water, flowing with milk and honey.

Shizi estimated the distance. It would take about five days to reach that area. She looked at Yukina, who looked at her instead: "Can you trust the source of the map?"

Shizi nodded. Although the giraffe also spoke without opening its mouth, it just liked to watch Twisted Lily. On such a principled issue, it was completely different from the former bassist of a band with only one person left.

Yukina glanced at Hongxia again. The last time the map changed, Hongxia was seriously injured, but it also greatly improved the strength of all the combatants. Fear of injury is not a reason to stagnate. "I agree to go there." She looked at Hongxia and Chu?, "What do you think?"

CHU? Hearing this, he didn't react: "Sure."

Hongxia looked a little surprised. Until now, she had unknowingly handed over the decision-making power to the more powerful Youshina.

"You are also the captain, aren't you?" Yukina saw her confusion and explained calmly. Hongxia suddenly realized and smiled complicatedly: "I agree too."

Lisa's gaze lingered on Hongxia's face for a while longer.

"Okay. Let's go. Mr. Wu, change direction and go at full speed." After saying this, Youxina left.

The others left the room one after another. After confirming that Kita was fine, Niji, Lisa, and Layer also left. Kita, Ichiri, and Shiko were the only ones left in the room.

"Kitao, have you gained any new abilities? Like last time?" Shizi asked.

Kita shook her head. She still looked a little weak, as if she had not yet fully recovered from the nightmare.

Seeing her like this, Yili said nervously: "How about...sleeping here today?"

"Eh?" Two pairs of eyes stared at Yili. Yili felt as if he was on the edge of an abyss, and tried to explain: "I... I saw that Xiao Xiduo seemed very scared..."

Xiduo immediately coughed heavily: "Cough... seems... a little uncomfortable..."

"Huh? Should we go call Hongxia?" Yili started to panic.

"It's okay, it's okay," Shizi understood at a glance, "As long as you go and hug her, she will definitely be fine, right?" She showed an expression that said "I got hurt!"

"Eh? Hug?" Ichiri's legs were shaking, and her eyes were moving back and forth between Shiko and Kita, who were full of expectation. After a long time, she finally made up her mind. She closed her eyes and slowly stretched out her hand to Kita. Shiko's eyes opened wider and wider! Hug, hug me! Come on, Ichiri, you didn't do this the last time you released Shiko's Blade on me! She silently cheered for the two of them in her heart.

Finally, she couldn't help it, so she put on the cat-ear wig and said in a voice that was as clear as a feather - "Here I come!" She hugged the two of them in her arms, and the room was suddenly filled with laughter.

Outside the room, in the corridor, several people from RAS said goodbye at the door of the room.

"We are the weakest among the three teams. We'd better increase the intensity of training in the next few days. Can we put the band practice aside for now?" MASKING suggested to CHU?

CHU? frowned: "We just developed a little tacit understanding... Never mind, you are right, we are too weak."

So they did not return to their room but walked towards the dojo.

Practice more.

Yazi, who had just laid down on the big ghost-themed bed, suddenly felt a chill.

ps: When I re-watched some of the details, I found that I had forgotten why I wrote them that way, but somehow they corresponded to the plot I was thinking of now...

Chapter 37 Scorched Earth

Five days is neither long nor short.

During these five days, all band activities were temporarily suspended. The small stage of the bar never had five people standing on it at the same time. Instead, the gym was filled with people, and sweat formed steam, making the whole space foggy and the air turbid.

Physical training, skill training, and actual combat simulation.

Almost every day you can hear Yazi complaining about being tired.

"Ah... I'm so tired... Yuki-san, take a rest..." Ako lay on the ground like a dead fish, enjoying the cold ground, and refused to get up no matter who pulled her.

"If you don't want what happened to Ijichi-san to happen to you, get up quickly." Yukina stood beside her with a dark face.

Beside her, CHU?'s voice was even louder than hers: "PAREO, what's wrong with you?"

"Please spare me, Master CHU..." PAREO covered her head. The continuous use of her ability also put a lot of pressure on her spirit. "PAREO's head hurts..."

"Shut up!"

"Yes~" PAREO smiled brightly, forced himself to continue to apply status to CHU? and MASKING who were practicing.

Lisa carried the cookies, walked through the crowd, and came to PAREO: "Have some."

"Thank you very much." PAREO ate a cookie and his frown relaxed a little.

Lisa turned around, came to Yazi and squatted down: "Yazi, you can take a rest, but you must come back quickly after the rest, okay?"

Hearing Lisa's gentle voice, Ayako raised her head and behaved much better: "Okay..." She took a small plate of cookies, left the gym, and went out for some fresh air.

Kita stood by the window in the corridor, his palms on the glass, looking up at the sky.

Cumulonimbus clouds were gathering, and the whole world was shrouded in a desperate low pressure. Heavy rain was coming.

Hearing Ako's footsteps, Kita turned around and glanced at her indifferently.

Thunderous encouragement.

"Oh..." Because of this look, Yazi stood still, his whole body trembling. This look was as if a god in heaven was looking down at the mortal world, it was really... too handsome!

However, Kita's aura returned to normal the next second. She blinked, looking puzzled: "What was I just doing?"

"Kita-san, you have no memory of what happened just now?" Ako was really shocked. "Could it be that... you also have a second personality..."

"Eh? Impossible, impossible, how could I have such a problem..." Xiduo's voice became softer and softer, "I should go ask classmate Wu..."

She trotted away. Ako looked at her from behind and scratched the back of her head in distress: "Can Ako also develop a second personality... I'll ask PAREO later."

In the room, Shizi listened to Kita's description and widened his eyes: "That's good, you are mentally ill, and I am mentally ill too. When we return to reality, we will go to the mental hospital hand in hand. Others will have to apply to see us. Great!"

Kita looked pitiful: "Really? Nothing happened to me recently? I'm still young and don't want to be locked up so early..."

Seeing that he couldn't tease her any more, Shizi chuckled and waved his hand: "Don't worry, your symptoms are completely different from mine. It should just be some sequelae from that sleep."

"The sequelae... when will it be cured?" Kita didn't want to continue this life of blacking out all the time. She talked to herself, but no one could answer her. Shiko promised to try to contact the giraffe, but neither of them had much hope for this.

On the map, the red area, representing the unknown and danger, is getting closer and closer.

Four days after departure. Command room "Polaris"

Shizi's left eye was projecting a 3D map, which was compared with the real scene in her right eye. They were now flying over a lake. Although it was called a lake, Shizi actually thought it could be called a "sea". Looking around, there were only shimmering waves, and no shore was visible. Only by constantly comparing the map could they know how far they were from their destination.

Not far away. Shizi was sure. This inland sea had already touched the edge of the red zone.

Yukina stood beside her.

"Slow down, hover around the red zone and observe for a while." She said. Now, most of the time, she is still in charge of things. CHU? often wants to make suggestions. Although Youxi always considers them seriously, under the premise that the team's strength is insufficient, CHU? has no confidence and even says less than Hongxia when making overall decisions.

Shiko waved and slightly reduced the engine power. The deafening noise from the outside world was significantly reduced. Shiko saw the shadow of the coast through the porthole. Youkina looked far away, trying to identify the details with his extraordinary eyesight.

"Hey, there seems to be something unusual on the coast over there." Chu?'s loud voice rang out as the door opened. The sound of the armor stepping on the floor covered the sound of the thick-soled shoes of PAREO who came with her. Chu? now activated [Apocalypse] and used the onboard AI to analyze the image. With the help of AI, she can obtain even more information than Yuki.

On CHU?'s display screen, almost the entire coast was covered by black smoke rising into the sky. It was hard to imagine how likely it was to get out once you entered the black smoke.

After hearing CHU?'s description, Shizi silently slowed down the speed of the airship by one level. She took out a jade slip. This was the result of her hard work in the past two days. Without dismantling the house, she once again gained the ability to use the jade slip.

"PAREO," she turned around, "Can you call Yazi?"