Early the next morning, Asagami Fujino woke everyone up.
"Hurry up and get up! We're leaving now!"
Asagami Fujino's voice echoed in the room. Alice and Sakuya opened their somewhat hazy eyes. Having spent a crazy night accompanying Asagami Fujino, even their constitutions felt a bit tired now.
"Hmm, Cthulhu." Alice instinctively reached to the side, but Cthulhu Loli was nowhere to be found.
"Alice, you're confused." Asagami Fujino smiled: "Last night, I had Cthulhu sleep with September Days and the others. Otherwise, how could we do that?"
"Oh, oh," Alice nodded foolishly.
"Alright, hurry up and get ready. We're about to leave." After Asagami Fujino finished speaking, she looked at Sakuya: "Sakuya, I'll trouble you with checking out. I've already prepared breakfast."
"Alright, Fujino."
In the desert under the high sun, Ryusei slowly moved forward on a camel.
After learning everything from Tumida last night, the group decided to help her. So, that night, using Qi Xiaosai's money, they rented several camels and enough water and began heading towards Tumida's village.
"By the way, how much further is it?" Qi Xiaosai was sprawled out on the camel. The forecast had clearly said the weather wouldn't be too hot today, so why was the sun so vicious?
"Almost there." Tumida looked at the sun in the sky, feeling that today's weather was strange. Although higher temperatures were normal in the desert, the sun today was excessively high.
"Oh right, we still don't know your name," Ryusei asked.
"Ah... My name is Tumida." After a brief moment of daze, Tumida quickly replied.
"Tumida is such a lovely name!" Qi Xiaosai seemed to be full of vitality again, and his eyes turned into hearts.
"This idiot!" Ryusei was completely speechless towards Qi Xiaosai and simply decided to ignore the guy.
About half an hour later, the air temperature kept rising. The water Ryusei's group brought was completely insufficient. Bun and a few others felt like they were about to collapse, and only Ryusei and those with better physiques were still relatively fine.
Ryusei looked at Bun and the two others who were about to collapse, and asked Tumida: "Tumida, haven't we arrived yet? Bun and the others won't last much longer in this heat."
"Almost, it's just ahead. Today's weather is really too strange." Tumida wasn't feeling well either. Today's weather was extremely bizarre. She had traveled this route many times, but never had the temperature varied like this.
"Is that it?!" Qi Xiaosai pointed ahead, where the outline of a village could vaguely be seen.
"Yes! That's the place!" Tumida said quickly after seeing it.
"Let's hurry up. Bun and the others are about to collapse," Ryusei said. Everyone nodded, accelerating their camels toward the village ahead.
Ryusei didn't know if it was an illusion, but as he looked at the approaching village, he felt a bad premonition in his heart.
"Could it be that the Masters are also in Tumida's village?"
This possibility popped into Ryusei's mind. Before setting off, Ryusei had lamented how lucky they were not to have seen the Masters during this trip to the Persian Gulf. If they ran into them now, wouldn't that be embarrassing? But Ryusei thought it was unlikely. After all, Tumida's village was located in a remote desert. Would the Masters, being girls, really come to a place like this for fun?
Ryusei couldn't be sure and could only pray that it wasn't the case, but the ominous feeling in his heart grew stronger.
"We're finally here." Tumida was the first to dismount the camel. Looking at the village before her, her heart couldn't help but relax.
"Is this the place?" Ryusei looked at the village and felt something strange; it seemed too quiet.
"It's too quiet, right?" Qi Xiaosai walked up to Ryusei and said.
"Yes, it's far too quiet." Ryusei looked at Tumida: "Tumida, are none of the people from your village here?"
"That's impossible." Tumida shook her head, her heart growing worried: "I'll go look for Grandma!"
After Tumida finished speaking, she ran straight into the village. Qi Xiaosai and Ryusei exchanged glances. After instructing Big Strong, who was in slightly better condition, to look after the others, they chased after Tumida.
"Tumida!"
Ryusei and Qi Xiaosai loudly called Tumida's name, hoping for a response, but only the faint sound of the wind answered them.
"Damn it, where did Tumida go?" Ryusei felt very anxious.
"Ryusei, look here!" Qi Xiaosai suddenly shouted. In front of a dilapidated house, a veil was caught and stuck in the window.
"Is this Tumida's?!" Ryusei quickly pulled the veil off the window. It was indeed Tumida's; Ryusei remembered it clearly.
"Could it be that N Company found their way here?" Qi Xiaosai speculated.
"Impossible, right?" Ryusei said. "N Company doesn't know we caught Tumida."
Qi Xiaosai looked at the deserted village and sighed softly: "Who could it be?"
"Hands up!" A somewhat familiar metallic sensation pressed against the back of their heads. Both Ryusei and Qi Xiaosai's expressions changed; they hadn't even noticed someone approaching.
"Bang-Crash!"
Two muffled sounds rang out. Their vision went black, and they simultaneously lost consciousness.
A black Armed Helicopter was flying towards the location in the sky not far above the desert.
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