The sky was getting dark, so Kuroki took out his pocket watch and checked the time. It had been 24 hours since the game started.
They found a relatively dense jungle half an hour ago, and planned to make do with sleeping bags and thermal pads for one night.
"Where's Gin?" Miyano Shiho lay on the ground and looked at the sky. The weather was pretty good today, and he could vaguely see a few bright stars through the gaps in the branches.
"On a certain tree." Kuroki Ren yawned, "I will guard him in the middle of the night, so you can sleep peacefully."
"...How can I feel at ease?" Miyano Shiho complained.
"Get over it." Kuroki Jin chuckled, "If I had known I would have asked Kudo to borrow the tranquilizer gun."
"You dare."
"Sleep, sleep, do you want me to sing you a lullaby?"
"No……"
"Why do crows sing..."
"Shut up."
When Miyano Shiho woke up from his sleep early the next morning, he opened his eyes and saw an ordinary-looking Gin in disguise sitting there, fiddling with the fire.
She was immediately frightened.
Gin didn't want to pay attention to her, but he thought of Kuroki Jin's pitiful appearance when he left. After enduring it again and again, he still managed to explain: "Potter went to find wild fruits."
"……oh."
The two looked at each other in silence for a while. Just when Miyano Shiho was wondering whether to get up from his sleeping bag or pretend to sleep and wait for Kuroki Jin to come back, he heard the rustle of leaves.
Before she could be reminded, Gin raised his gun.
When Miyano Shiho sat up, he saw Kuroki Jin walking towards him, covered in grass clippings, with his hands forming an embrace. He must have taken something.
"Wake up." Kuroki Jin ignored Gin's gunshot and sat directly next to Miyano Shiho, "Here, eat the apple."
He spread the dozen apples he had brought back on the ground, picked one out and wiped it carefully with his clothes.
Miyano Shiho: "...Gin is looking at you."
"Look, I won't lose a piece of meat..." Although he said this, Kuroki quickly picked up another apple, walked over to Gin and handed it over.
Gin: ...Actually, I don’t want to eat it.
After casually eating some breakfast, Kuroki Jin identified the direction: "Then let's continue walking forward? We can almost reach it today... Wait, is that Kudo?"
Kuroki Jin moved the telescope, pointed in a direction to Gin, and motioned for the other party to look too.
He was right. In the woods on the other side of the mountain road, the two people running in this direction were Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan.
"Belmod is missing." Kuroki Jin immediately realized the importance of the matter.
He was about to rush out immediately, but Gin held him back and said calmly with no expression on his face: "Don't get too close, I'll be on guard from above."
Kuroki Jin nodded and signaled to Miyano to stay where he was, while he loaded the pistol in his arms before getting out of the woods.
"Over there!" Kudo Shinichi had been running all night. He and Mao Lilan were both very embarrassed. When they saw Kuroki Jin's figure, they immediately turned off the tracking glasses to avoid wasting power.
In fact, the moment he saw the glasses, Kuroki realized that the two people opposite him were genuine, but he still asked: "Aren't you two going that way? Why are you here?"
Kudo didn't hear that he was testing, and said directly: "We encountered Arrogance and Jealousy. They pretended to be Officer Sato and Officer Takagi. Belmod got separated from us after exchanging gunfire with them."
Kuroki Jin's face instantly turned cold. He immediately turned around and walked towards the forest, completely exposing his back to Kudo and the other two.
Kudo Shinichi followed him forward without noticing anything, but he didn't know that Gin's scope had been pointed at his head for a while.
They went back into the woods. The voice they just spoke was not loud enough, so Kuroki Jin repeated it again.
"Is Belmode injured?" Gin put down the gun and looked at Kudo Shinichi with a pair of dark green eyes, making the latter feel terrified.
"I don't know." Kudo really didn't know. "I only know that there was a firefight, and that Belmode walked in the opposite direction to the two of us."
Gin turned around and left.
"Gin!" Kuroki Jin stopped him, "Calm down, it's too inefficient for you to go looking for it alone."
"She'll leave a mark."
"I know, Gin." Kuroki Ren knew that Gin was definitely not as calm as he appeared at the moment, "Let's go together."
"Can I interject a word?" Kudo interrupted the conversation between the two, "The tracking glasses can see her approximate location. She didn't know when she took away my detective badge."
Kuroki immediately took the glasses, turned on the switch, and saw a red dot appear on one lens.
"Don't leave it on all the time, or the battery will run out." Kudo reminded, "I came to you through this too." Miyano Shiho wore a detective badge.
Gin took the glasses and put them on his face, checked the direction for a while, and then turned off the tracking system to avoid wasting electricity. He took off the glasses and looked at them for a moment and said: "It's a clever idea... but I seem to have seen these glasses somewhere."
"There are a lot of high school students wearing glasses." Kuroki Ren said casually: "You still have time to look at this. Can you hold the glasses?"
"Yeah." Gin put the glasses in his arms, "I'll leave first and leave a mark for you." After saying that, he quickly hid in the woods. Kudo Shinichi looked left and right without noticing where he was coming from.
Go.
He finally had time to breathe for a moment, and after helping Xiaolan, who had collapsed on the ground and was about to fall into sleep, to sit down, he said with some surprise: "I didn't expect the relationship between the two of them to be so good."
Gin's expression turned so bright when he heard about Belmode's accident just now.
"It's not just about the quality of the relationship." Kuroki Jin pinched the tip of his nose, it was too exciting in the morning, "Belmod is different after all."
"Huh?" Kudo Shinichi was already a little sleepy.
Although Kuroki Jin was also a little anxious, Kudo Shinichi and Maori Ran were so exhausted that they obviously could not continue walking, and he was not very relieved to leave them here.
So he picked up a branch and fiddled with the extinguished fire twice and lit it again, then sat cross-legged on the ground and meditated.
Kudo Shinichi didn't wake up until he was three years old. His eyes were hazy and he didn't know where he was for a moment.
He quickly remembered something and was horrified. A carp jumped up... and was restrained by the sleeping bag and lay back on the ground.
Kuroki Ren had already noticed such a big movement: "Are you awake?" He looked indifferent.
"What time is it?" Kudo Shinichi crawled out of the sleeping bag and saw Xiaolan in the sleeping bag beside him, and felt relieved.
"It's noon, let's have something to eat." Kuroki Ren saw that he was awake and threw him a bag of bread.
Kudo Shinichi pressed his chest against his back with hunger. He tore open the package and took two big bites. He swallowed it with water and then said, "I thought you would go with gin."
"If they try to kill you again, your escape will be in vain."
Kudo Shinichi could tell that Kuroki Jin was in a bad mood. He opened his mouth and didn't know what to say to comfort him. Their voices disturbed Xiaolan, who was sleeping lightly. The latter slowly opened his eyes and looked at it in confusion.
around.
Now that they're all awake, it's time for them to set off.