——"Aliens are hiding in this town."
Ji Chunzao said this. but……
"real or fake?"
Yan Jingxing felt incredible.
"Then, will you take me there now?"
His voice became louder unconsciously, and his tone was mixed with doubt and excitement.
"Now, I might not be able to see it."
The girl gently rolled her bangs on her forehead with her fingers. Her expression seemed to be one of serious contemplation, but her words seemed mysterious.
"According to my observations, the appearance of alien creatures is often related to the seasons."
"ah?"
This is news I have never heard of.
It often appears in "Animal World" and "Man and Nature" shown on TV. Animals come into estrus, reproduce and migrate with the seasons.
Could it be that the habits of aliens are the same as those of animals on Earth?
He moved his mouth, feeling dubious. No, to be precise, doubt accounts for 90% of it.
"Anyway, just wait for now! When the time comes, I will naturally call you and we will find the aliens together."
Ji Chunzao's tone was like Patrick Star saying to SpongeBob, "Let's go catch jellyfish together", so relaxed that it was unbelievable.
"……Fine."
Hearing his promise, the girl grinned, showing a big smile and teeth as white as snow, and patted his shoulder hard.
The same bright smile as when I first saw her at the beach——
Bathed in the fierce and generous rays of the summer sun, he felt slightly dizzy again, but he didn't know why.
*
Time flies, half a month has passed since Yan Jingxing transferred to Baiyue Town Experimental High School.
After that, Ji Chunzao felt like "exposing her true nature" in front of him.
Just like Yan Jingxing's first impression, her real personality is indeed very lively, in fact, it is too lively.
After making the agreement to "find aliens together", the girl immediately changed her attitude. She would hang out next to his seat after class every day. None of the friends she was familiar with at school bothered her.
It's no wonder, after all, except for him, a transfer student, Ji Chunzao isolated himself from the rest of the class.
Yan Jingxing finally understood why some classmates in the class found her annoying. As long as this girl talks about a topic that interests her, she will chatter non-stop with her small mouth, not caring about the audience's reaction at all.
As for the so-called "topics of interest", there is actually only one thing -
Yan Jingxing was a little suspicious. She was trying to brainwash him into believing in the existence of aliens because she had no evidence at all.
However, there was no way he would be fooled.
At this age, Yan Jingxing has not completely abandoned his childish fantasies. The reason why he returned that day was because he thought it would be great if he could really see aliens.
Ji Chunzao said that she would take him to look for her, but in reality she just chatted with him all day long when she had nothing to do, and did not see any action from her at all, which made him feel dissatisfied——
"Ji Chunzao, have you found it?"
Just after class, the girl sitting in the last row hurried over holding a large hard-cover book.
"not yet."
After hearing his question, she answered nonchalantly.
"It's not time yet, so don't worry."
With that said, she placed the book on his desk.
"This is again..."
As soon as the words came to my lips, I swallowed them back when I saw the "Earth UFO Illustrated Book" on the cover.
"Forget it, I haven't finished reading the book you gave me last time."
Yan Jingxing said, moving the books that were almost covering the homework on the table.
"伱, you accept it first and then talk about it."
As a result, Ji Chunzao showed an eager expression and tried to stuff the book into his drawer. This move left him feeling confused.
How can anyone force people to borrow their own books?
"Hey, what's going on?"
Under Yan Jingxing's questioning, the girl finally told the truth.
"The last time my aunt saw me reading a book, she got angry and said she wanted to throw away all my things. So..."
She whined in a dejected voice.
"I obviously read it after I finished my homework."
Aunt? Doesn't Chun Zao live with his parents? He was a little confused, but he felt that the relationship between the two was not yet mature, so he didn't ask.
"You're giving me something you don't want again, right?"
he said angrily.
"No." Ji Chunzao's head shook like a rattle, "I just left it with you and asked you to help me keep it. I will take it back when the time comes."
"Fine."
Yan Jingxing didn't mind and agreed with a shrug.
After Ji Chunzao left, he found that his deskmate and the classmates next to him looked at him a little strangely.
Ji Chunzao chatted with him on the first day, and came to see him after every class. Naturally, it was impossible for this kind of thing to go unnoticed.
These days, everyone regards puppy love as a scourge. Just a slightly better relationship between two people of the opposite sex will be looked at differently in a middle school environment, not to mention that one of them is the most conspicuous weirdo in the class.
After feeling the gaze of others, Yan Jingxing began to realize that he might be regarded as a fool who was as fanatical about aliens as Chun Zao.
Oh, what a lonely guy, he thought to himself.
Maybe it's just because she has no other friends in the class that she feels it doesn't matter?
The next day, Ji Chunzao forcefully stuffed him with a book about superpowers.
On the third day, she simply brought a bag with three books in it. For some reason, the girl's expression was a little nervous and sad.
On the fourth day, she presented a bunch of water monster-shaped dolls and a rather exquisite spaceship model made of plastic and metal, with a look of reluctance on her face. Yan Jingxing originally thought that there was no room for her things in his dormitory, but when he saw her expression, he softened his heart and agreed.
On the fifth day, Ji Chunzao did not come to school.
She didn't show up for the next two days. Yan Jingxing was a little worried and couldn't help it, so he went to ask the head teacher. The teacher said that the adults in her family helped her take sick leave.
On the eighth day, Ji Chunzao finally returned to school, but that day, the girl did not come to him as usual.
While he was in class, he couldn't help but turn his head several times and secretly look at the figure sitting in the back row.
The long hair with some natural curls hangs down like water plants, and the bangs covering the eyebrows look like they have never been arranged.
No one could see her expression at this moment. Yan Jingxing only relied on his impressions and understanding in the past half month, plus a little intuition, and felt that there seemed to be an atmosphere of melancholy surrounding the other party...
Is it a matter of feeling depressed?
It was not until four classes later that he saw the girl appear in front of him, and he began to feel uncomfortable.
When it was time for self-study in the afternoon, Yan Jingxing finally couldn't help it. He tore off a corner of his draft book, wrote down the issues he was concerned about, made a ball of paper, and took advantage of the fact that the classmates who were sitting on the podium to help the teacher with discipline were not paying attention. , and threw it towards the back.
The paper ball hit Ji Chunzao's head and was buried in the thick black hair.
"That's right."
The students who were also fishing could be heard one after another exclamating in small voices and whispering among each other.
He sighed at the hot feeling in his hand, and then realized that he was glared at by Ji Chunzao fiercely.
After a while, the paper ball was thrown back.
"Everything I collected in my bedroom was thrown away by my family."
There is only this sentence above and nothing else.
*
As the rays of sunlight slanted down, the flow of people on campus gradually became scarce. The private cars blocked in front of the door dispersed, leaving only the students and faculty who occasionally came out of the cafeteria.
Yan Jingxing was walking back to his dormitory with his schoolbag on his back. The road beneath my feet has gradually become familiar.
The lights in the teaching building were extinguished one by one as night fell, leaving only a few offices with lights on. The soothing yellow light penetrated the glass windows, illuminating the interior warmly and brightly.
A lamppost cannot dispel all the darkness in a corner. Walking along the path under the shade of the trees, the tireless chirping of insects gradually fills the deep ambient sound. Occasionally, you can see a family of wild cats crossing the grass lightly without making any sound.
Yan Jingxing was a student living on campus. The same day his uncle helped him complete the transfer procedures, he moved his luggage over. He usually only went back on weekends or two days.
In order to prevent accidents, the school does not allow students who live on campus to leave the campus, so at night, the busiest place is the dormitory building.
The building is divided into two sides for men and women. They are actually in the same building, but they are separated by iron doors in the middle of the corridors on each side. They can only enter from the entrances on both sides.
After a day of classes, Yan Jing walked to the third floor, put his schoolbag on the table a little tired, and sat down to rest.
At this time, the roommate sleeping on the upper bunk stuck his head out and asked:
"Want to play cards later?"
Residential students are prohibited from bringing any electronic devices and entertainment supplies. However, students always have their own methods. Fighting with school rules and teachers is an essential part of campus life.
"Aren't you afraid of being caught by the dormitory manager?"
"It's okay, just put your things away before the scheduled patrol."
Yan Jingxing waved his hand.
"I'll forget it. There are a lot of homework assignments today and I'll be back too late."
Although he had just transferred to another school, he quickly became familiar with his roommates. After all, they were all boys of the same age, with restless and restless hearts, experiencing the same environment, and caring about the same things. .
There are six people in a dormitory, and only two of them are in the same class, and the rest are from other classes. At this moment, they all smiled narrowly at him.
"Is it really because you have a lot of homework? Didn't you secretly date someone?"
"...What are you talking about?"
He frowned.
"I heard that you are very familiar with Ji Chunzao?"
"Why do you even know this?"
"Of course I said it." The roommate in the same class showed no guilt for his gossiping behavior.
"But everyone has heard of Ji Chunzao's name before." Someone added, "He is a famous weirdo in the whole school."
"Do you still remember the time when she was most famous?"
They were suppressing laughter while communicating enthusiastically, and it seemed that they were indeed deeply impressed by the girl's outrageous behavior.
"Yes, yes, I remember, it seemed to be last semester, right?"
"She won an award in the city's aerospace model competition. During the flag-raising ceremony, the school commended her and asked her to speak. But halfway through, she suddenly shouted into the microphone, 'UFO is coming soon! Everyone, hurry up. Run away!', and then he jumped off the platform in a hurry and ran away before everyone could react. That was in front of all the teachers and students in the school..."
"..."
Yan Jingxing was speechless.
He had previously felt that Ji Chunzao had the aura of treating others as if they were nothing when pestering him, but he never expected that this person could actually do such a thing in public.
Is it too much?
Just imagining that scene made Yan Jingxing so embarrassed that his toes clenched to the ground. If it were him, he might have been unable to help but recall it every night, so embarrassed that he could toss and turn and not fall asleep.
This girl Ji Chunzao, both in terms of nerves and thickness of face, far exceeded his imagination...
"So, you two are really friends?"
someone asked.
"I see those things on your table are her things, right?"
"of course not."
Yan Jingxing immediately shook his head in denial.
He began to doubt whether his sudden agreement with Ji Chunzao was the right choice.
It's okay to go fooling around with her, but if you have to embarrass yourself with her, that's not worth it.
"Really? I heard that she is quite beautiful."
"Really? I didn't notice it at all."
"Aren't you in the same class as her?"
"But she always keeps her hair so long that it completely covers her face. She looks like a female ghost. No one can see her."
"Where's Jing Xing? You must have seen what she looks like, right?"
"..."
Can I say that the first time I met her, I mistook her for a mermaid in the sea?
But you can't say this kind of thing in front of others. So he vaguely brushed off the topic.
*
Today's math problem is more difficult than usual. Yan Jingxing stared at the lamp in a daze, but his mind was no longer on his homework.
Speaking of which, he actually didn't see much of Ji Chunzao all day today.
Based on the sentence on the note and her words and deeds some time ago, it seems that the girl's aunt had a conflict and the things at home were thrown away, so after returning to school, she looked downcast and helpless. Spirit.
What Yan Jingxing hesitated was, should he find a way to comfort her?
To talk about the relationship between the two, they are relatively familiar, but in fact they have only known each other for more than ten days. In the eyes of others, they appear to be close because Ji Chuncao is always getting closer to each other, but in fact they have never been "friends". This word is still some way off.
Even a junior high school student like him understands this principle of "a simple conversation makes a deep conversation". He and Ji Chunzao are not close enough to talk about family topics.
"...It's better to take a shower."
After hesitating for a long time, I couldn't come up with an answer, and my head started to hurt. He decided to put the issue aside for now.
…
The bathroom in the dormitory is public and is just downstairs.
After taking a shower, a refreshed Yan Jingxing returned to the dormitory and looked at the alarm clock on the table. It was already nine o'clock.
The lights-out time set by the school is ten o'clock, and the dormitory warden will come to patrol in half an hour. He was about to climb into bed and sleep. The originally noisy corridor gradually became silent.
But at this moment, a burst of noise suddenly broke out outside the room.
He was stunned for a moment, then opened the door and went out, seeing more than one person from the dormitory coming out to check on the situation.
The entrance to the corridor was already crowded with curious people, and some people shouted excitedly:
"Yan Jingxing! Who is Yan Jingxing? Someone is looking for you!"
……ah?
Yan Jingxing opened his mouth wide in surprise.
"Get out of the way!"
"Hey wait, I asked you to wait downstairs, why did you come up directly..."
I saw a girl with long hair running up the stairs in three steps and two steps at a time. She nimbly passed through the crowd of spectators, and then rushed to the corridor in a hurry under the watch of a group of boys. .
"309, that's it."
She was out of breath from running, and she caught sight of Yan Jingxing standing blankly at the door.
"follow me."
The girl grabbed his wrist and pulled him to walk out.
"Wait, wait, where are you going?"
"Do you still have to ask?"
She turned her head with a strange expression of "What are you talking about?"
"——Of course we are looking for aliens! Didn't we already agree?"
……I knew it.
Ji Chunzao's voice was clear and undisguised, allowing everyone in the corridor to hear her answer clearly.
You really shouldn't have asked.
Under the astonished gazes of the onlookers, Yan Jingxing couldn't help but cover his face, feeling that he had indeed asked a stupid question.
