There is a large supermarket in the center of Baiyue Town and the only movie theater in the town, which is the busiest place at night. People who come out to play are often families or couples, shopping in twos and threes.
As middle school students, the two of them were not too conspicuous among them.
Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao came out of the supermarket, each holding a cream popsicle and sitting on a chair in the bus booth, chatting leisurely while eating.
According to the girl, the place where aliens can be seen is near the cinema; if the alien appears inside the cinema, all they have to do is buy a ticket and go in.
... Do aliens still like to watch movies about the human world? He always found it difficult to understand.
"I've always had a question, how did you discover aliens? You said 'it's related to the seasons', it's so real."
Yan Jingxing stared at the people coming in and out of the cinema and took a big bite of the popsicle that was about to melt.
"I'm going to meet the real owner soon, can I finally talk about it now?"
"This is my secret."
Ji Chunzao sat next to him, shaking his calves, and answered with a smile.
"But for your sake, I can explain it a little bit."
What do you mean "for my sake"... Yan Jingxing complained in his heart, except for me, no one will listen to you seriously.
Even he is 90% doubtful and 10% convinced, and is now waiting for the moment when he can make a final decision.
"Things that can be seen can naturally be heard. Before they actually arrive, I always confirm them by 'listening'."
"Hear it? Will it make a cry?"
"It's a bit different. It's more like an unconscious 'calling' or something like that."
Ji Chunzao shook his head and continued to explain.
"It's like we can receive signals from thousands of miles away through a radio, but that doesn't actually allow us to 'hear' someone far away, right? The radio waves actually have to be demodulated into audio signals by the machine itself, Only human ears can hear.”
"The 'sounds' of alien creatures are like this. They may not actually make a sound, but send some kind of 'signal'. Do you understand?"
...To be honest, I seem to understand it but not understand it. But judging from the serious attitude on her face, she must not be making random nonsense.
The other person is obviously the same age as himself, but he seems to know some strange knowledge that ordinary junior high school students cannot understand.
At this time, he remembered the model he had asked her to hide that day. He was really shocked when he got it. It was so big and beautifully made, as if a real biplane had shrunk.
He originally thought he bought it, but later he heard from his roommates that Ji Chunzao had won an award in the city's model airplane competition before, and he realized that she had made it herself.
"Do you know much about electronics?"
"It's okay." She explained a little embarrassedly, "Ever since I realized that the signals sent by aliens may affect humans through some form of radio waves, I have been trying to figure out what's going on. principle……"
Listening to Ji Chunzao's story about the process of self-study of various circuit principles and mechanical knowledge, Yan Jingxing's view of her changed slightly.
Although this girl always talks about messy topics all the time, which seems a bit annoying; but judging from her series of performances, at least Ji Chuncao is not the kind of fool who is simply immersed in delusions and can't extricate herself, but has devoted her life to Concrete actions and efforts.
"You're pretty awesome."
Yan Jingxing couldn't help but sigh.
"...Is that so? It's amazing. Well, if you think about it carefully, I am indeed very powerful! Haha."
After muttering a few words to herself, she suddenly became arrogant, puffed out her chest, and looked triumphant. The previous "embarrassment" was gone.
"..."
Yan Jingxing was a little speechless, saying she was fat made her gasp.
"Anyway, you mean you can hear radio signals?" He brought the topic back, "But this is not something ordinary people can do, right?"
"So, it's not quite accurate to say 'hear', it should be 'feel'."
"Is it similar to how bats can capture ultrasonic waves?"
"Yes, quite a few animals, such as dogs, whales, giraffes, etc., can capture ultrasonic or infrasound waves that humans cannot hear, and even actively emit them, playing a positioning function similar to sonar."
"As for being able to receive alien signals..."
She hesitated for a moment.
"Well, it seems that I am the only one who can do it so far. In other words, it is a 'super power'."
You are still a person with super powers, and your image is getting more and more complicated.
Yan Jingxing originally wanted to tease her, but found that the girl's expression suddenly changed.
"etc."
Ji Chunzao frowned and suddenly grabbed Yan Jingxing's wrist.
"Don't move yet."
"What's wrong?" He was surprised.
The girl didn't answer, but closed her eyes.
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and the eyes under her eyelids were turning violently.
"Be mentally prepared."
After a while, Ji Chunzao opened her eyes. She exhaled a heavy breath and stared at the empty night sky.
"The aliens coming this time... no, alien creatures, may be a bit dangerous. They have already arrived in the cinema."
"There's more than one kind?"
Seeing the serious look on the girl's face, Yan Jingxing couldn't get nervous.
Until now, he has lacked realism.
"Where is the danger? How did you know?"
"...because I have seen them before. This is not the first time these guys have appeared in this town. Every time they appear, they act in groups, treating the people living here as prey, and treating the entire Baiyue Town as their prey. Their hunting ground. Unscrupulous..."
Ji Chunzao never let go of his wrist. On the contrary, her fingers were still clenching tightly subconsciously, making Yan Jingxing almost cry out in pain.
"——I call them 'spiritual leeches'. They are dangerous creatures that specialize in sucking out human brain marrow."
But the girl's next words made him swallow back the complaints that were about to reach his lips.
She turned around and asked softly:
"How about it, do you still want to go in now?"
*
Yan Jingxing stood in front of the ticket gate, looking at the posters posted on the wall, which were all popular movies that had been played recently.
The conductor inside the window looked listless, while the girl behind tugged on his clothes and urged in a low voice:
"They're coming soon."
"...Okay, that's it."
There are people checking tickets in the theater, but only at the entrance. In other words, no matter which movie you want to watch, you can just buy a ticket to see it when it is showing. This is a little secret that only locals who often go to the movies know.
Yan Jingxing pinched his thirty yuan pocket money and finally chose what he wanted to see.
The poster corresponding to this movie shows a tall man wearing a white mask and holding a sharp knife in the middle, and underneath are a group of actors and actresses with frightened expressions.
Even if everything is fake, at least I can watch an exciting horror movie. he thought.
The conductor took the banknote and glanced at the man and woman holding hands standing in front of the window. He found that he was obviously a young student. He couldn't help but shook his head, as if he was lamenting, "In the declining world, such a young child Just start dating and falling in love."
The two eldest children were not in the mood to talk to boring adults, so they walked into the theater after taking the tickets.
"Jing Xing, do you know what a leech is?"
Ji Chunzao was still explaining to him in a low voice as he walked.
"Well, it seems we call it 'Leech' here?"
"Yes, leech is a kind of mollusk. It is very abundant in rural paddy fields. If you are not careful, you will be parasitized. The leech feeds on sucking blood. It will cling tightly to the human skin and insert its snout into the skin to remove it from the wound. Draw blood. According to rumors, they also release an anesthetic, so many people are unaware of being tagged."
"Yeah. I've also heard that once a leech sticks on it, it's very difficult to pull it off, and you can't pull it out casually, otherwise it will leave its mouthparts in the wound. You have to sprinkle salt on it before it will curl up and fall off. Come down..."
Yan Jingxing imagined such a scene and couldn't help but shudder.
City kids like him are most afraid of these disgusting bugs.
"Are you afraid? Then I think the 'spiritual leech' is even more terrifying to you."
Ji Chunzao held his hand firmly, followed him step by step, and said in a faint voice:
"Because what they eat is not blood, but human brains."
Yan Jingxing said nothing.
Although what this girl said was scary, but still, he lacked a real sense of the so-called "alien".
"If this alien leech is really as scary as you say, then you still dare to come here?"
"That's not what you want to see."
Ji Chunzao muttered for a while, then suddenly stopped. After Yan Jingxing looked over curiously, she lifted up her hair.
"Because I can see."
The girl pointed to her bright eyes.
"If you are really unlucky and are picked by spiritual leeches, then just run away. They won't chase them. After all, other people can't see or even notice them approaching, so the 'leeches' don't need to pass To hunt for food, just change the target. However, there is a saying you must remember."
Ji Chunzao raised her little face and stared at him very seriously.
"When I say I'm leaving, no matter what happens, you have to leave with me. Can you promise me?"
"Okay." He replied casually.
"ensure?"
"I promise, it's okay."
"……That's good."
After walking around the dimly lit cinema corridor for several times, Ji Chunzao finally determined his target.
"It should be right here."
She pointed to one of the entrances.
The two of them entered the screening room. When Yan Jingxing looked at the screen, the movie had already started to show.
"Oh, it happens to be the movie I bought. I'm lucky."
He and Ji Chunzao sat down in the back row.
Then, it wasn't until this moment that Yan Jingxing suddenly reacted:
"Wait, can't see? So I can't see aliens?"
"Yeah. We can't be sure until they actually appear." Ji Chunzao replied in a low voice, "But you are most likely invisible. I have never met another person in school who can see."
"...!"
He almost stood up, forgetting that his hand was being grabbed.
"What's wrong?"
Ji Chunzao looked at him in surprise.
"You're still asking me? If you can't see it, how can you prove to me the existence of aliens?!"
Yan Jingxing said angrily. If he hadn't had to lower his voice in the movie theater, he would have started to get angry.
At this moment, he even felt that he could confirm that this guy was just playing tricks on himself.
"I've thought about this a long time ago."
However, the girl's reaction was calm.
"I didn't think you could see aliens from the beginning, but you still asked me for evidence to prove their existence, so I could only consider other methods."
She raised her head and said word by word:
"Jing Xing, what do you think will happen to those people whose brains are eaten by spiritual leeches?"
…
In the screening room, it was as dark as night, and silent figures could be vaguely seen. In the silence, only the dialogue of the actors on the screen echoed between the seats. Each audience member seemed to be in a small isolated universe.
Ji Chunzao's voice was low and suppressed, and only he could hear it.
In the dim vision, the girl's pupils were shining brightly, and there was something breathtaking about it.
Yan Jingxing was momentarily infected by the seriousness in her tone and could only stare blankly.
"That's what I want you to see."
After the last explanation, Ji Chunzao turned back and seemed to be concentrating on watching a movie.
Yan Jingxing was silent for a while. He sat back in his seat and stared at the screen silently.
…
The plot of the film gradually becomes more intense and victims begin to appear. The murderer, holding a sharp knife high, chased the remaining survivors in the ancient house on a rainy night. The actress who accidentally fell let out a miserable scream.
But Yan Jingxing couldn't focus all his attention on the screen.
He was waiting for that answer.
The girl next to her is also waiting.
A movie only lasts ninety minutes, and that moment will eventually come.
At a certain moment, Ji Chunzao's hand suddenly became harder.
"coming!"
Yan Jingxing's eyes widened and his gaze wandered around the screening room.
"where?"
"The bald man in the front row, the spirit leech has chosen him as a target! Can you see it? It's floating above his head——"
Under the girl's instructions, he quickly found the back of the spectator.
However, there was no abnormality on or around the other party. In Yan Jingxing's eyes, he was just sitting there watching the movie quietly like everyone else, and there was nothing special about him.
He looked left and right, even stood up and looked around, but could not see the so-called "alien creatures" floating in the air.
I really can't see anything...
Yan Jingxing sighed.
He felt that he might have thought wrong. Maybe Ji Chunzao was really not lying. She was just following her own ideas to understand the things that only she could see.
After getting along with her for the past few days, he knew that the girl's attitude was very sincere, and Yan Jingxing really didn't want to regard her as the kind of person who wanted to impress people.
...But this kind of thing is no longer important.
If he can't see or touch something, what difference does it make to him whether it exists or not?
Yan Jingxing felt very disappointed.
At this moment, he let go of the childish fantasy in his heart.
After this movie, let's part ways with Ji Chunzao right here. He doesn't want to pay attention to it anymore.
That doesn't mean he's bound to be one of those people at school who makes fun of her. He just felt that even if he was willing to believe everything, that aliens were real and that Ji Chunzao was a genuine superpower, could he become her companion?
If you cannot see the same things, you are destined to be a person in two worlds.
"Let go."
He whispered to her beside him.
Ji Chunzao seemed to hesitate for a while, but with Yan Jingxing's insistence, the girl finally retracted her hand.
His eyes returned to the movie.
Then, he couldn't take his eyes away anymore——
"Then, what is that?"
Yan Jingxing opened his mouth wide and saw something extremely incredible.
A huge white bloated arm slowly crossed the screen, like a drowning person emerging from the water, coming from the screen to reality.
Ghost? Is it a ghost? Or are they the aliens Ji Chunzao talks about...
Just one palm occupies a small half of the screen. As long as you have normal vision, it is impossible not to see it. However, there is still silence in the cinema. There is no commotion. Every audience is still sitting in their original seats, as if nothing happened. .
This made Yan Jingxing understand: he was the only one who could see this giant hand, not some surprise prepared by the theater.
His thoughts were in chaos, and he was so frightened that he couldn't help but hold his breath.
But when the "person" on the screen slowly emerged, he found that the situation was more outrageous and absurd than he imagined.
A huge hand grasped the edge of the screen, and what emerged was a head wearing a helmet. The helmet was dark and round, reflecting a cold luster like a mirror, like a round glass fish tank;
The "white and bloated" arms turned out to be not the original color of the skin, but a piece of clothing that wrapped the hands. It was just that it was not ordinary clothing, but a protective clothing made of composite materials such as rubber or sponge. , and there is a huge white backpack behind...
——What emerged from the screen was a giant in a space suit.
