Chapter 64: Utterly Reckless

  Two hands were slapped out of thin air with a wing-like effect, one roll perfectly landed with a gentle smile, completely without difficulty!

  Bang...

  The sound of a wine bottle shattering on the ground, the drunkard who had been wandering around in the middle of the night stared blankly at the mysterious figure that had descended from the sky. With eyes blurry from intoxication, he looked left and right, but there were no tall buildings or even a high wall around him. Where did this person pop out from?

  Jiǔ Mìng gave him a glance, stepped away from here, and before long, Liáng Gōng Chūn Rì's phone call came. After answering, Jiǔ Mìng clearly heard the relieved voice on the other end, nodded slightly, thinking to himself that she still cared about others after all.

  "It's been blown by the wind for half a day, I'll go find a place to rest, you guys play first." After reporting safety, Jiǔ Mìng didn't even know where she was now, and it wasn't early anymore. Figuring out her current location would have to wait until tomorrow. In her memory, tomorrow was supposed to be the day she played indoor baseball, but many things about that schedule were going to change now - whether for better or worse, she had no idea.

  But since there have been changes, this reincarnation should also be different.

  "What's with that? You're thinking of finding a place to sleep? I was worried about you." Haruhi Suzumiya's slightly dissatisfied complaint echoed over the phone.

  "...I was worried that I would tie myself to a hydrogen balloon and make a kite out of it! Nine Lives scratched her hair, "Well, I'm just concerned about you guys, it's getting late now, sleeping too late is not good for women's skin."

  "Don't try to placate me with such a cliché excuse... yeah, yeah." Haruhi Suzumiya seemed to have thought of something again, nodding to herself, "It's decided then, tomorrow's plan will be changed to a ghost-hunting operation!"

  May I hit you?

  Whatever, I'll just shut down and find a place to hide for a few days. When it's almost midnight on August 31st, I'll leave a message for my next reincarnation and be done with it!

  It just seems that this kind of waiting-for-death behavior doesn't suit me, no matter what, even if there's no hope and no way out, I still want to struggle a bit, even if I fail, I won't regret it too much. Thinking about it, the "me"s in my past lives probably thought the same way, after all, they were also "me"!

  It's just missing this period of memory.

  Patted his face, walked on the empty and deserted road to scatter for a while, Jiǔ Mìng found a building easily came to the rooftop, saw a clean place leaned against the railing sat on the edge of the rooftop let out a long yawn.

  "By the way, Panel-kun, can I have a conversation with that customer in the mysterious shop who seems to be lingering and won't leave?"

  No.

  "That's it." Jiǔ Mìng waved his hand, shattering the light screen in front of him and lying down on the eaves, "Let's just say we've adopted a stray cat with an unknown origin, sleep."

  The next day, Jiǔ Mìng was woken up by the noise, and he slightly opened his eyes. The dazzling sunlight made him squint again. A new day had arrived, why is it so noisy?

  She slightly turned her head down and saw that there were many people gathered under the building, they all raised their heads to surround and observe something, and the object of observation seemed to be herself.

  It would be a weird feeling if someone below shouted "Are you going to jump or not?" or "Hurry up and jump!" The scene would probably feel out of place.

  As soon as he sat up, a commotion broke out below, and even the police were ready to use their loudspeakers. Hmm, it was just in time that he woke up. If he had waited any longer, someone would have rushed up. Now, from a distance, people couldn't see anything unusual about him. But when someone came closer later, they would definitely be frightened out of their wits.

  He got up and walked back, leaving behind a large crowd of onlookers who couldn't figure out what was going on. Wasn't someone supposed to jump off the building?

  “……”

  How did it go back? Who reported the police for no reason?!

  "Where's the person?!" Everyone who rushed up opened the rooftop door, only to see an empty rooftop. The "suspected jumper" was nowhere to be seen... Uh-oh, could it be that they arrived too late and the person had already jumped?!

  The phone call inquired about the result, and the result was that both parties questioned each other. One side asked if someone had jumped down, while the other side asked if they had been found.

  The actual situation is that this person didn't jump down and wasn't found, just vanished into thin air...

  Who made this nasty joke?

  What's going on so early in the morning? Who called the police?!

  He let out a yawn that seemed to say he wanted to go back to sleep, and just as he picked up his phone to take a glance at the time, an incoming call appeared, "Hello..."

  "You picked up so quickly this time?"

  Nine lives were hanging by a thread, and I tried to take those small alleys with sparse population as much as possible. "Heart has a spiritual connection."

  "......are you a high school girl?"

  "Alright, I was just checking the time, and then your call came in coincidentally." Jiǔ Mìng Huā said, and then heard the sound of kicking a roadside lamp from the other end... Are you angry?

  "The team leader announces now! The ghost-catching game officially begins!!"

  "Please... I don't even know where I am myself, how did you catch me?" Upon hearing this, Jiǔ Mìng let out a sigh, he was truly unfamiliar with this world, and would easily get lost even if he just went to an unfamiliar place.

  "Alright! Don't worry, you're still in this city, can't get lost, don't hang up!" After finishing speaking, Haruhi Suzumiya directly hung up the phone unilaterally, apparently having another new idea, seemingly still the type that doesn't care about others' feelings.

  "Have you locked onto him?" After hanging up the phone, Haruhi Suzumiya sprang to Nagato Yuki's side, her eyes fixed intently on the laptop in Yuki's hands, which displayed a map with a small flashing red dot...

  "Alright."

  "Ah ha! You're really something, Nozomi! Only a hacker could have done this!"

  What can a hacker do? Don't be ridiculous! After what happened to Jiǔ Mìng, he would definitely sneer at this situation. The mobile phone in his hand, no matter how mediocre it is, is still a 'divine instrument'. It's impossible for autonomous spread signal source to happen again, and it's fundamentally impossible to locate him through regular hacking means by locking onto his phone.

  Can't even find the signal, what's the point of locking it?!

  "What's the exact range?"

  "A radius of about fifty meters."

  "Can't it be smaller?"

  "En." Nagato nodded slightly, this degree was already the limit, of course she wouldn't say the truth out loud, nor would she casually mention that if they got closer to each other, the accuracy of their positioning would further narrow down.

  "Whatever." With a wave of her hand, Haruhi Suzumiya waved a small flag in her hand, "OK! Now is the time for our SOS Brigade to officially take action, it's your test!"

  Why is it a test for 'us' and not for yourself? Ah Xū sighed, as the leader of SOS Brigade, making such a declaration at the beginning of things, wouldn't it affect morale by being idle and reaping benefits?

  It seems like I'm going to be exhausted again today.

  "Huh!!!! It actually moved!!!!" When Haruhi saw the red dot on Mikuru's computer screen start to move slowly, Koizumi suddenly jumped up, while Nagato Yuki remained calm.

  "It's normal for a big living person to run around wildly, this kind of game is only fun when played like that, stop spacing out, GOGOGO!"

  Want to play? Then let's have a good time...!

  Even if his location was 'precisely positioned' within a radius of fifty meters, but in this range, four people were stunned for half a day and couldn't even see one of his hairs!

  What a joke, Jiǔ Mìng thought his anti-tracking ability was not bad, but he was discovered by just a few ordinary people. He might as well find another crematorium, open the lid and take a nap inside!

  As for Nagato Yuki, the fifth member of the group, Kujou was certain that she had already discovered her true nature...

  Nonsense, if she can locate a mysterious store with just a mobile phone, how could she possibly fail to find him in such a close range?

  "This is not scientific!!" Sitting in a cool place, Ah Xū held a bottle of cool air and panted heavily. After working hard for half a day, he had been circling around the opponent's positioning range for several hours, but still hadn't seen even a shadow of the opponent. This was simply... there was nothing more infuriating than this!

  Koizumi couldn't help but smile wryly, the gap in strength between the two sides was just too great. If Jiu Ming had deliberately tried to hide, unless it was a completely open area, even if they narrowed their search range by half, they would probably still have trouble finding him.

  And Jiǔ Mìng has always been very fair, at least he didn't go to places where he couldn't enter... such as bank vaults... or places that prohibit students from entering.

  Asahina Miru, Moe is just moe, now she's almost fallen down.

  Haruhi Suzumiya, who should have been annoyed, was still full of energy and even seemed to be more courageous due to the loss in the morning. "Everyone take a break for now, we'll continue this afternoon. It's only fun when we catch such cunning opponents!"

  "......Isn't it just cunning? It's simply outrageous and lawless!"

  A looked listlessly at Youka's laptop, the red dot that was so close to them was a huge mockery, it was clearly nearby! But no matter how they searched high and low, they couldn't find him anywhere.

  "Proposal!"

  Ah Xū, who was eating something, suddenly thought of something and quickly raised his hand.

  "Speak up, Ah Xū is making his rounds!"

  "Hey, what's with this patrol? A motley crew!? "Maybe we can lure him out with some delicious food!"

  "Hmm?" Like that, Haruhi Suzumiya pinched her chin in thought, "Good idea, I'll leave this matter to you. If we can't tempt them out, then those delicious foods will be our lunch instead."

  My money!!!!!

  A Hua suddenly had an urge to slap himself in the mouth, why did he suddenly come up with this proposal out of nowhere, isn't this just asking for trouble?!

  You think you can just eat a little and then get away with it? You underestimate my determination, after drifting in the air for half a day last night, I won't let you off easy today.

  A stick suddenly flew over from somewhere and hooked away the food that Ah Xū was holding in his hand...