"Big brother... here."

In the dark pit, the boy with a timid voice seemed to be scared and his body tightened, but he still spoke with a thorn in his mouth.

It was not until this moment that Shiina Iori finally looked at the strange boy in front of him who was so scared that he thought he had met a ghost twice, just leaning on his side and figure.

Just as he had already met his eyes, Shiina Iori realized something was wrong.

The boy in front of him looked about eight or nine years old, with a thin figure and a thin body, and his face was as white as dry bones that had been drained from marrow fluid. The whole thing was a bit transparent pale, and his face seemed to be covered with a thick layer of powder.

He wore a hat on his head to cover his hair.

When he got closer, Shiina Iori's [Night Vision] made him suddenly realize that the boy's thin eyebrows had some of the strokes.

It turned out to be drawn with an eyebrow pencil.

The drawing was very ugly, I don’t know if it was his own hand.

After carefully looking at the sight, Shiina Iori discovered that the other person's eyelashes and the hair exposed from the hat were all snow-white, and the layer of white on his face that he thought was pink was dry and peeled off.

Looking at it from a distance under the sunset or in the shadows is indeed a bit cunning.

But when you look closer, you can barely tell that this layer of pigment is not foundation.

"Is this, albinism?"

After hesitating for a few seconds, he instantly compared the classic symptoms of dry skin and white hair, Shiina Iori was stunned.

It turns out that what scared him twice in a row was just a genetic disease?!

"...yes."

Hearing this, the somewhat timid boy paused and agreed in a low voice.

After agreeing, he seemed to be used to it, and added with a very stubborn sentence: "Mom said this is a very ordinary disease and can be cured! You, don't use that kind of look..."

But just as he was halfway through his words, the boy who was always timid raised his head, but he did not see the strange gaze he had been used to recently, and his voice stopped.

Shiina Iori subconsciously opened her mouth when she heard his words.

But he did not refute, and instead mentioned the serious tone before:

"What are you wandering around outside in the middle of the night, just a little kid!"

"Where is your mother!"

"I can't tell you if I don't have spanking today!"

While speaking, he acted as fierce as possible.

But after all, that handsome face has reached 20 points of charm, and it is actually quite difficult to make people scare. Even the little boy in front of him who was so scared that his legs were weak just now didn't care, and he muttered in a low voice:

"Spanking...spanking is light."

"What?"

"Nothing!"

Hearing Shiina Iori's pretending to be fierce, the boy's thin body was stretched straight again.

"Yeah."

Shiina Iori responded casually, and noticed the secret door of the wall where the boy was drilling out. He reached out to support Yui, who was still a little weak, and led him towards him.

Following the boy into the secret door, there was a long and curved narrow passage in front of him, barely able to accommodate two people walking side by side, and a poor quality glow stick that was stuck on the wall that could only roughly illuminate the road in front of him.

Shiina Iori, who had night vision, was fine, but Yui, who had not spoken since the boy came, carefully supported Iori's body.

When entering the passage, I looked at him with some concern:

"Iori?"

"Um."

Shiina Iori didn't say anything, just shook her head gently.

So Yui stopped talking and walked forward with him.

Shiina Iori stretched out her hand and fanned the air, feeling the slightly cool air in the passage in the evening. It seems that this passage should have multiple outlets or multiple ventilation ports, which is not very secretive.

He said to the boy casually: "This passage is your secret base? How did you find it? It's very good."

"This is an authentic tunnel that was chiseled out in our house before~"

"It's amazing!"

"It's just that my mother didn't let me in before I finished my homework."

When he said this, the boy wiped his nose with a proud look on his face. Only at this moment did the pale little face finally have a little more vivid energy that belongs to this age.

But halfway through his words, he suddenly remembered something, and felt a little embarrassed:

"In addition, my mother doesn't allow me to talk to others about this passage."

"It's just...you've all fallen in anyway, so it shouldn't be a big deal?"

The boy was obviously a little confused, and seemed to be unable to control it.

Shiina Iori casually swept the rough grinding marks on the grinding walls in the narrow passage and the drainage ditches on both sides of the passage, sniffing the strange smell of the slight soil and humus unique to the underground dirt road, and did not intend to continue asking:

"oh."

What children can know, and it will be useless to ask.

But this feeling is like when the dog reaches out and bans the medicine, it has to taste the salty and light taste. Halfway through the question, the other party suddenly stops asking. This situation will also trigger a rebellious mentality.

The boy himself didn't know what he was alone and thought for a long time before he finally spoke:

"I heard... I just heard!"

He emphasized this and signaled that he was just chatting, the boy whispered and pretended to be mysterious: "I heard that the authenticity here was built by my grandfather during the third battle period!"

"And there is a very long passage! It can lead from here to the town below, you can go home directly from here! You can also go to your mom's hostel!"

"Even before there were rooms inside, so many people could live in!"

"It's very, very awesome! It's like the TPC base hidden under the sea in a special drama!"

Speaking of this, the eyes of the albino boy who was always in a lifeless face seemed to be rising in his eyes.

Which boy did not dream of creating a secret base for himself when he was young?

Hearing that he said, Shiina Iori glanced over without saying a word:

"Is this the reason why you ran into the woods in the middle of the night?"

“Um…”

The boy was choked and could not speak.

He secretly avenged his fear of being scared twice, and Shiina Iori then thought about the boy's words just now.

Is it a channel during the Three World Wars?

That's been decades.

etc?

Mom's Hostel.

Is this the child of the hostel owner's house?

"May I have your name?"

Shiina Iori asked him.

After getting rid of the topic of the secret base, the little boy was immediately beaten back to his original form, and he looked weak as he spoke: "Nei, Ninomiya Hitomi."

"It's true."

Shiina Iori remembers that when he first came to the hostel, he saw the last name card lying on the boss’s desk with the words ‘Ni Nonomiya’ written on it.

Thinking of this, the two sides I saw yesterday seemed to be connected.

But didn’t the proprietress say that her son didn’t come yesterday?

"Then where is your mom?"

"It should be right in front!"

Ninomiya Ren said, walking two steps quickly, Shiina Iori walked over carefully.

Turned a corner in a narrower passage in front than before.

A low sound of boiler air was heard from afar.

"Crack--"

The three of them walked in and saw the boss changing into a short-sleeved shirt. They were wrapping a towel and sticking their butts on the trachea, and pushing them hard on the ring-shaped air valve with both hands.

Even with exhaust fans and chimney pipes leading to the ground, the cottage was as hot as a sauna.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, he subconsciously taught a lesson: "Ren! Have you finished your homework? You are not telling you that you are not allowed to finish your homework..."

As soon as I was halfway through, I suddenly realized that the number of footsteps was not correct.
To be continued...