Me and the Doll Girl of Zhidiao Island

Chapter 99 97. The Incompetent Me, and the Selfless Queen

"At 23:8.1 local time, an earthquake with a magnitude of [-] occurred in the sea north of Niigata, Japan and triggered a tsunami. No casualties have been received yet—"

"The epicenter of the earthquake was located on Chitori Island, north of Niigata, with a focal depth of 18 kilometers. Tokyo felt a slight tremor—"

"The Chitorijima earthquake caused the island to shift horizontally to the southeast. The central part of the seabed sank six meters, and the bottom of Senkaku Bay rose five meters. The West Island is about to disappear into the sea—"

"Hot news! Zhiniao Island has another [-]-magnitude earthquake! It completely caused panic! The Internet triggered the theory of "Zhi Niao Island? Huangquan Island!"

"The Earthquake Administration apologized for the failure of the early warning system to detect the seismic waves. I am very sorry for those who felt unhappy, especially the victims of Zhiniao Island. Then they collectively bowed their heads. The director knelt down for 15 seconds to apologize, saying that the prediction technology still has limitations—"

"Big Oolong! Public opinion reversed! The islanders confirmed that the alarm tower issued an early warning! They arrived at the evacuation site almost 10 minutes before the earthquake! Residents are safe and sound! It means that the early warning and forecast are sent perfectly! The Earthquake Bureau has not responded to this?!"

"The queen of Zhiniao Island is controversial again, bringing asylum? Or is it a disaster?"

"The Prime Minister expressed concern about the Zhiniao Island earthquake, helped the victims to live in peace as soon as possible, and expressed appreciation for the excellent evacuation behavior of the local mayor Jing Haiya-"

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Overhead, the stars shone so brightly that one wondered if the sun had never set.

Jiang Yuanshen seemed to be walking under a mixed sky, and in front of him was a concrete road with no end in sight, which was unbelievably long.

What he has encountered so far in his life is undoubtedly the longest road.

There are various houses on both sides, but they are all buried in dark green, and most of the houses are mostly damaged.

Children's toys, schoolbags, quilts, pots and pans, etc. are entangled in vegetation like trophies, making one wonder if these are the works of the artist.

His eyes kept peeking at the houses on both sides, and he kept walking on the street.

No matter how far you go, the scene is still the same as before, despite the cool breeze, the sunshine, and the sound of the wind, there is nothing but emptiness.

With endless loneliness and anxiety in his heart, he quickened his pace and walked forward, but his whole body was hot and unpleasant, like a painful disease.

After walking for a long time, I saw a familiar house, like a mysterious whisper emerging from the starry sky, and the vegetation wrapped around the eaves retracted its tentacles and left sadly, revealing a door.

The surrounding area is full of moisture and fresh green smell, and various wild birds sing happily.

Jiang Yuanshen's heart beat suddenly. He had the impression that this house was his home for 11 years.

His brain seemed to have lost the ability to think, and he couldn't wait to walk to the door and hold the doorknob.

Opening the door, looking around, it was an extremely neat and tidy Japanese living room. There was only a plate of fruit on the table, which was a red tomato.

"Kyoko!"

A childish voice came from the lower right of him.

Jiang Yuan turned his head carefully, and found a boy carrying a bag, squatting down carefully, taking off his shoes, putting them in order, putting on slippers and walking inside.

His face was sharp and clean.

--I?

"Kyoko! Are you up yet?"

"He" made an anxious voice as he walked to the kitchen.

At this time, a childish response came from upstairs: "I've woken up a long time ago!"

"Come down and help me."

"No."

"Don't go without food."

"I have a Chinese food auntie!"

"We have already caused a lot of trouble for Auntie Zhongcai! Anyway, come down quickly!"

"Jiang Yuanshen" turned on the rice cooker, poured the crystal clear rice into the pot, squatted down and turned on the gas switch from the cabinet.

Hearing the sound of flames growing out of nothing, a cluster of flames burned wantonly at the bottom of the pot.

"Sister Yao Xing said that a brother who doesn't know how to love his sister is not a good brother~~"

Jiang Yuan Shen looked in the direction of the voice, and a little girl was lying on the corner of the stairs with her hands on her hands, staring at "him" only with her head out.

She was wearing a baggy white shirt, black shorts and had shoulder-length black cropped hair.

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The scene in front of him was so familiar, most of Jiangyuan Kyoko's clothes were clothes that Chaokong Yaoxing couldn't wear when she grew up.

Because Chaokong Yaoxing has been running around with Jiang Yuanshen since she was a child, skirts are very inconvenient for her to move around, so she rarely wears them.

This caused Jiangyuan Kyoko to rarely wear beautiful dresses.

Jiang Yuanshen looked at her in disbelief, the wind chimes on the window sill were jingling, full of sea breeze, slowly shaking the curtains.

Kyoko's breathing, demeanor, movements, and even the shoulder-length short hair that followed Shake Apricot were all so vivid.

"Let's just eat something today." "Jiang Yuanshen" was frying the rice with a spoon in his hands a circle bigger than hers, until the grains of rice were fragrant, "Go and cut up the ham I bought."

Jiangyuan Kyoko's eyes were shining brightly, she leaned forward like a rambunctious rabbit, and opened the bag:

"Ham today! So big! As thick as my arm!"

"Don't cut it all, just cut it into one-third, put the rest in the refrigerator, and eat it later." "Jiang Yuanshen" said in a rather heavy tone. .

However, Jiangyuan Jingzi didn't care about this, she pouted and protested: "I can finish eating."

"It's not a question of whether you can eat it or not, it's too extravagant to use it all at once."

"Yes, but after the ham is kept fresh and refrigerated, the taste will not taste good!"

"It tastes the same when you fry it."

"Well"

Jiangyuan Kyoko whimpered softly from her small throat, then picked up a small green stool beside "Jianyuan Shen" and stood on it.

She held the ham sausage and cut the seal with a knife.

"Jiang Yuanshen" glanced at her and said:

"Be careful with your knife."

"Don't worry, I'm no longer an eight-year-old girl."

Jiangyuan Kyoko carefully pressed the tip of the knife against the plastic film, and then it was like tearing off the clothes of a creature, revealing the delicious meat inside, and Yan let out a sweet breath.

"My appetite is not that of an eight-year-old girl."

She spat, and secretly glanced at "Jiang Yuanshen" beside him, and before he could react, she picked up the knife and cut off half of it.

"Jingzi, didn't I say cut it into thirds?" Hearing the sound of the knife falling on the sticky board, "Jiang Yuanshen" glanced at it and said in amazement.

Jiangyuan Kyoko has been cutting the knife, cutting half of the ham into thin slices of a few millimeters, lest her brother will splice it back with magic.

"But isn't this just one-third?" She pretended to be puzzled and said.

"This looks like one-half? You are already nine years old, so you should have learned it?"

"Hey~ Jingzi is not good at mathematics, now I know, it turns out that this is one-half."

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Jiang Yuanshen felt the fatigue and mental pressure all over his body, like candy placed in the sun, gradually melting.

The mood suddenly calmed down, and the weather was as sunny as the person on the radio declared.

"He" put Jiangyuan Kyoko's sliced ​​ham into the fried rice, stir-fried it a few times before putting it into a bowl.

Drizzle tomato sauce over it, press the back of a spoon in the middle, and spread it around.

For Jiangyuan Shen and Jiangyuan Kyoko, this is a very simple and cheap meal, and the calories and price are very cost-effective.

After eating the steaming fried rice, a small blue measuring tape appeared in "Jiangyuan Shen"'s hand. Jiangyuan Kyoko obediently stood on the wall near the stairs, where there was a height scale written crookedly in black pen.

"Thumbs down."

"Stamp on Kyoko's thumb."

The sound of the measuring stick being pulled out was mixed with the breathing of the two of them.

"1 meters."

"I only grew 2 centimeters."

Jiangyuan Kyoko's words hadn't finished yet, and thick cumulonimbus clouds suddenly piled up in the blue sky, like a huge bomb floating.

In an instant, there was a hustle and bustle everywhere.

Afterwards, it seems that I can't remember clearly. When he came back to his senses, he was standing in a huge and empty area.

Covered by deep grass and covered by cumulonimbus clouds, there are quiet ruins.

In the end-of-the-day world where everything is completely silent, only cicadas are left.

After a while, Jiang Yuanshen realized that his clothes were in tatters.

The house collapsed into ruins, and the stone wall with the height numbers printed on it was particularly conspicuous. On Zhiniao Island, there were countless crows screaming around.

Before that, Jiang Yuanshen was more or less lucky, but looking at the scene in front of him, he finally had the feeling of "ah, so Kyoko is really dead".

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It's morning, a strange room.

Jiang Yuanshen realized instantly that he was hiding in a very warm bedding, like a towel soaked in warm water.

He opened his eyes, and what he saw was the white wall, and the window on the west was like a picture frame, containing the scenery.

There is a wooden table by the window, and the vase on it is filled with jasmine wood. When the wind blows in, the white flowers will sway.

——Sure enough, it was a dream, how could Jinghai do such a thing.

Dreamland should be the last place to go, but it makes people stay there forever.

However, in addition to emotion, sadness has the upper hand.

Jiang Yuanshen struggled to swallow the sobs in his heart, and in the corner of his eyes, the dry tears seemed to condense into sand.

A big earthquake happened, and the situation seems to be very bad. Jinghai Shenyue should have gone back in time.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuanshen closed his eyes again, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but then, he felt more and more wrong——

Wait, why do I remember it again?
Is it
Jiang Yuanshen stared blankly at the room. The air was filled with the unique smell of medicine. In the corridor outside the door, he happened to be able to see a statue of "Jesus" hanging on the wall.

His thoughts stopped, and he was like a fish pretending to sleep, with his eyes open.

Could it be that Jinghai Shenyue left the island and didn't come back?
But he immediately eliminated this assumption. If Jinghai Shenyue really left, then the earthquake would probably continue forever.

"Xiao Shen—!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the door, and Chaokong Yaoxing was looking at him tiredly, but his face was full of joy.

She seemed to realize that her voice was too loud, and immediately lowered her voice and said,
"You've been sleeping for two days, you really scared me."

Chaokong Yaoxing said while squatting beside the bed, watching him like a pet waiting for its master to wake up.

Just as Jiang Yuanshen was about to speak, his head felt a sharp pain. He couldn't help raising his hand to hold his forehead, and even his right leg felt itchy like ants crawling.

Chaokong Yaoxing's face showed pain. She didn't know exactly where Jiang Yuanshen was suffering, but because she saw him suffering, she was so sad that she was about to cry.

"The doctor said that you have a serious concussion and you need to lie still more, talk less and move less." Chaokong shook his fingers with his small hand, wanting to use force but afraid of his pain. "The right leg has a big cut and needs to be recuperated for a while."

Jiang Yuanshen stared blankly at her face, and when he finally understood what happened, he asked:
"Where are Jinghai and the others? Didn't they leave the island?"

"." Chaokong Yaoxing's expression finally began to become troubled, she pressed her lower lip tightly, and remained silent.

That was an unspoken affirmation.

But soon, she showed a look of making a decision.

"Xiao Shen, after you heal your wound, you and I will leave here, okay?"

Chaokong Yaoxing stood up, that pale little face pressed against his forehead tightly, exhaustion rushed over his face, making Jiang Yuanshen hold his breath,

"Kurosawa-san is a nice person. She said she could send me to Tokyo to go to school, but not in the same school. I agreed."

Jiang Yuanshen's temple was aching, but at this moment, he felt that it had nothing to do with him, and was far away from him.

——That's great, it's great to be able to leave together.

Seeing the young man in his eyes lowered his eyes, shaking the apricot towards the sky like scooping up a handful of clear water, he held Jiang Yuanshen's hand, and said in an almost begging tone:
"Xiao Shen, there is no need for us to stay on Zhiniao Island anymore, we have already helped Jing Hai, this is completely enough, don't add burdens to yourself, okay?"

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Jiang Yuanshen didn't quite understand why it became like this, he just turned his head and looked out the window, and didn't answer Chaokong Yaoxing's words.

"Has Kurosawa returned to Tokyo?"

"No." Chaokong Yao Xing looked at him with a bit of bitterness on his expression, "Student Kurosawa will take care of you at night, and I will take care of you during the day."

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"Shall I call her now?"

"No, let her rest well."

Jiang Yuanshen looked up at the ceiling——

Sure enough, I am a very obstructive person, maybe I don't have the qualifications to go to Tokyo with Kurosawa Reai.

Next, Chaokong Yaoxing and Jiang Yuanshen explained what happened to Zhiniao Island in the past two days.

Now the power system on Zhiniao Island is paralyzed, and it is all run by generators.

West Island is a very small isolated island, and there was no one on the island at that time.

The government dispatched ambulance personnel to Zhiniao Island on the same day. Fortunately, the affected area was concentrated in the southeast, allowing personnel to set up tents and renovate.

It is good news that the hospitals in the north were not damaged.

What is even more surprising is that no one was killed in this earthquake, which shocked the whole world. The small place of Zhiniao Island suddenly became the headline of the international news.

Everyone attributed this miracle to the "Queen" and the Takimitsu father and daughter who were in the broadcasting department at that time.

Jinghaiya has been maintaining order in the disaster area, just like a good mayor.

He declared that Takimitsu and his daughter are the heroes of Zhidiao Island, and Jinghai Shenyue is the most selfless "queen". At next year's Doll Festival, Takimitsu and his daughter will be allowed to join the "Queen" parade.

The "Queen" has not been seen so far, and it is said that she prayed for the islanders at Zhidiao Shrine.

Chao Kong's words of shaking apricots kept lingering in his ears, Jiang Yuan Shen stared out of the window blankly, occasionally a black shadow passed by, and he couldn't tell what kind of bird it was.

He let time pass in vain until the sun went down.

(End of this chapter)