In a silent and dark cinema, a "worm mass" composed of molluscs was floating and gathering above the head of a bald man who had not noticed anything strange at all.
This group of mollusks have translucent illusory bodies that reflect colorful colors when illuminated by light in the space, just like soap bubbles blown up by the sun.
They writhed their fat bodies, entangled each other, and gathered into a disgusting mass.
Located at their front end, similar to a head or mouthparts, is a simple and twisted human face composed of three black holes arranged in a shape like a dwarf alien.
This is the alien creature named "Spirit Leech" by Ji Chunzao. It cannot be observed and detected by ordinary people, as if it is a monster in another space.
Several leeches among them had already inserted the front end of their mouthparts into the head of the unlucky male spectator and began to absorb the nutrients inside - that is, brain tissue and brain marrow.
The body of the spirit leech moves, sometimes expanding and sometimes shrinking, with ferocious bloodshot threads floating on the translucent skin, sucking endlessly.
Real scenes of alien creatures preying on humans, extremely horrifying images, the impact is beyond any horror movie...
However, the audience in the cinema was completely unaware. This strange calmness, combined with the predatory scene, makes this world feel even more bizarre.
Ordinary people living on earth cannot detect the existence of alien creatures. They are adjacent to the dark abyss, but they can live a peaceful life in ignorance.
——This is the world in Ji Chunzao's eyes.
It was as if she was alone...in the waking world.
The girl's chest began to rise and fall, her heart was pounding, and her breathing became rapid.
Ji Chunzao tried very hard to maintain a serious and calm attitude in front of his companions, hoping that he would not panic or simply run away.
But isn't she afraid?
No, of course not.
The calm look she is sitting on the chair now is all fake.
Even if Ji Chunzao didn't lie, the group of spirit leeches would indeed not chase people. This was the conclusion she came to through observation - but how could she not feel scared when she saw a living person having his brains eaten in front of her? ?
That’s them…
Ji Chunzao stared closely at the worms floating not far away, not daring to blink. Her hand on the armrest couldn't help but move away a little bit, and grabbed the wrist of the boy next to her.
If she saw that they were getting even a little bit closer, she would immediately grab Yan Jingxing and run away. She thought to herself that she had to do this even if she was misunderstood and distrusted.
I don’t know if I should call it lucky, but as soon as the spirit leeches appeared, they locked on their target and swarmed towards a middle-aged man in the front row.
Although she knew this was not good, Ji Chunzao still breathed a sigh of relief; but on the other hand, her mood became more gloomy.
Although the girl can see alien creatures, she has no ability to stop them from running amok in the human world.
She couldn't even remind the other person that it would be easier to be regarded as a fool or a madman by others; most importantly, once a mouthpart invades the mind, the person is hopeless, and approaching rashly will only lead to him being entangled in leeches.
This feeling of powerlessness has been with her since she was a child, but she has no way to talk to anyone.
The loneliness and heaviness of not being understood by others made Ji Chunzao's heart keep falling. To this day, it has already accumulated a huge weight - it is not a burden that a teenage girl can bear.
Not only did he just watch others being invaded by alien creatures, Ji Chunzao also had to let his companions see the consequences of having their brains eaten. Only in this way could he win people's trust...
She whispered with guilt and uneasiness:
"Jing Xing, you will see it soon. Even if you can't see..."
Ji Chunzao was talking nonchalantly, but found that there was no response from beside him.
She turned her head and saw that the boy sitting next to her was trembling slightly, as if he was seriously ill.
His forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his mouth opened and closed like a fish that had landed on the beach.
"Yan Jingxing?!"
*
Yan Jingxing clung stiffly to the chair behind him, his mouth wide open and unable to make any sound. He stared straight at the huge astronaut, who emerged from the screen little by little.
The appearance of the astronauts made no sound, as if everything happened in a vacuum without air.
His feet landed on the ground and he slowly straightened up.
The astronaut was so tall that when he stood up, he was as tall as a hall, and the shadow he cast blocked all the viewers in the screening room.
this……
What the hell is this? !
Ghosts, ghosts, aliens... Yan Jingxing could imagine these; but he instinctively felt that the huge astronaut in front of him was some kind of transcendent existence, which could not be compared with ordinary supernatural phenomena.
He felt more like he was dreaming or having strange hallucinations.
Then, Yan Jingxing heard a dull breathing sound, "Hu-ha-", the kind of sound that only he could hear since the oxygen was sealed in the helmet.
The astronaut stood silently, breathing silently, and silently overlooking everyone in the screening room.
You couldn't see the eyes inside the bright black mirror, but Yan Jingxing still felt that "he" was looking at him.
Yan Jingxing didn't dare to move.
After that, "he" slowly raised a hand and stretched it towards the audience.
The boy held his breath.
"His" hand did not reach out to the back row, but stopped after touching the air in the front row, and his fingers began to make a rubbing gesture, as if he was touching something invisible...
...No, no, it’s not nothing.
Yan Jingxing's eyes widened again.
He saw, right in the center of the astronaut's palm, a twisted and squirming insect mass, exuding an illusory and colorful brilliance. Compared with "his" huge body, it is like a small bag.
The astronaut's fingers tightened slightly.
"boom!"
In this way, the insect group was crushed easily.
Yan Jingxing heard the explosion, like a balloon that had been blown over and inflated to its limit, but he was not sure whether it was his imagination.
Then, the astronaut took a step, crossed the auditorium, and disappeared from his sight.
An inexplicable and shocking emotion was emerging, driving Yan Jingxing to stand up subconsciously and want to look behind him.
"Wait, wait a minute!"
He wanted to call out to the astronaut.
And at that moment, a sharp pain hit Yan Jingxing's head.
*
"……Eh?"
When Ji Chunzao was anxious, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
The girl is born with the ability to sense the presence of "abnormal radio waves" in the air, which is the key to her ability to confirm the time and location of aliens' arrival.
But at this moment, the chaotic noise that had been buzzing in her ears suddenly disappeared, and she returned to the normal world.
She turned around and saw that the translucent insect mass had disappeared.
The spiritual leech is missing?
Did he leave the earth after finishing hunting?
No, now is not the time to think about that...
"Wait, wait a minute!"
She heard the boy next to her suddenly shout.
He suddenly stood up from his seat, and then his body shook slightly as if his head had been hit hard.
The boy grabbed his cheek and groaned in pain as he squatted down.
"Jing Xing, Yan Jingxing! What's wrong with you?"
She grabbed Yan Jingxing's arm and shook it twice, but the other person's appearance was obviously in some kind of strange disorder...
At this time, Yan Jingxing's strangeness had attracted the attention of the people around him.
Ji Chunzao looked around. The movie hadn't finished playing yet, but the eyes of the audience were already looking over.
She gritted her teeth, hugged the boy's arms with both hands, and helped him stand up from the ground.
"Come on, we have to get out of this place as soon as possible!"
…
Fifteen minutes later.
Ji Chunzao walked out of the store holding a bottle of mineral water.
She saw Yan Jingxing sitting on a bench not far away, waving weakly to her, subconsciously speeding up her pace and trotting all the way to his side.
"for you."
Yan Jingxing, who was leaning limply against the back of the chair, took the mineral water, unscrewed the cap and poured a few big gulps down his throat. Then he breathed a long sigh of relief, and his whole body seemed to come to life again.
"What happened to you just now?"
Ji Chunzao sat down next to him and asked cautiously.
"Could it be...a disease? I mean, a hereditary kind..."
"Huh? Ah, no, that's not the case."
Yan Jingxing wiped the water stains from his mouth and sighed.
"I was just in the cinema and saw... something very strange."
He is still a little shaken up. Moreover, the appearance of the giant astronaut caused a lot of mental pressure on him, which was obviously abnormal, and the reason is still unknown.
"Huh? Did you see something strange?"
Ji Chunzao opened his eyes wide, as if he couldn't believe his ears. Then she smiled happily, with surprise in her tone.
"Have you seen the spirit leech? Can you believe me now?!"
"more than."
Yan Jingxing composed himself.
"What I saw was not an alien, but a person. No, it should be said to be a ghost?..."
Hearing this, the little girl couldn't help but shake her head and looked down at him with pitiful eyes.
"Jing Xing, there are no ghosts in this world. You have to believe in science."
I really don’t want to be told by you!
Yan Jingxing resisted the urge to complain. At this time, he suddenly realized a problem: the audience in the cinema did not see the astronauts, nor did they see the spiritual leeches, so what about Ji Chunzao who has super powers?
"Could it be that you can't see it?"
"What did you see?"
"It's the giant astronaut who emerged from the screen..."
"?"
Ji Chunzao tilted his head, showing a confused expression.
She really didn't seem to see it.
Can only you see it? what is happening?
…
Yan Jingxing told everything he had seen and heard. It can be seen that this is the first time he has encountered a supernatural phenomenon, so he can't help but want to find resonance; in this regard, Ji Chunzao is naturally his predecessor.
But in fact, the little girl's mood was very complicated.
After comparing the description with Yan Jingxing, she was sure that he had indeed seen a spiritual leech.
For the first time, I met a peer who could see alien creatures like me, and for the first time I found a companion with a common topic. It could not have been a better start.
But why did he suddenly become the "invisible" person?
Yan Jingxing was not lying, she could still see this, including the sudden disappearance of the group of leeches, which coincided with the time when the so-called "giant astronaut" pinched the Banelingworms.
but……
astronaut?
What does the appearance of "him" mean?
Sitting on the chair, Ji Chunzao held her chin, her eyes unconsciously staring at the deep darkness and dim lights in the distance, and the small town streets that seemed to be drifting in the tide of night. She couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
The situation seems to have become more complicated than imagined.
"Chun Zao, everything I said is true..."
"I know. I believe you."
Ji Chunzao answered simply.
If I, who have been suffering from the feeling of "not being believed by anyone", can't believe him, then who can?
To her, two people who can see the same thing must be natural companions. As for the differences and differences that may still exist...
"Just find out why!"
The girl slapped her knees and stood up neatly. This sudden movement startled Yan Jingxing, who was watching her reaction secretly.
"Uh, what did you say?"
Ji Chunzao turned around and smiled happily at him.
"We're not looking for aliens anymore, let's go look for the astronauts you call us!"
The flowing night blew the girl's long hair, and standing in the evening breeze, she seemed to be flying with this strength, so excited, so free, so...
Desirable.
She can make a decisive decision just by hearing his words. This is her.
What about me?
Yan Jingxing lowered his head, opened his palms, and slowly clenched his five fingers.
The moment he saw the giant astronaut appear in the cinema, besides the instinctive surprise and panic at witnessing the giant thing, what he could also feel was...
A sense of curiosity, an unprecedented curiosity about things.
Yan Jingxing always felt that "he" must have something to say to him, so he desperately wanted to stop him at that time.
This feeling has no reason, but it is so real.
He shook his clenched fist vigorously and stood up from the chair.
"Okay, let's go!"
This will be an unparalleled and wonderful night that will change my life——
At the moment when he and the girl in front of him reached a consensus, Yan Jingxing suddenly had such an idea.
