"Are those things you just said true? This thing can allow us to go to another planet?"
Yan Jingxing slumped on the ground weakly, with a frightened expression on his face; Xie Yuzhi walked in from outside the cave, handed him a bottle of mineral water, and confirmed to him seriously at the same time.
"Yes, I saw it. The astronaut walked into the cave, sat in the flying saucer, and went to another world in the next second... However, the flying saucer I saw was not like this one. The surface was rusty and stained. The dust should be at different points in time.”
Even after hearing what he said, Miss Xie still held her hands in her arms and frowned, looking like she couldn't let go.
Yan Jingxing raised his head and looked at her.
"Of course, in the final analysis, all this is an illusion created by me alone. But don't we act on the premise that this illusion is real?"
"……You're right."
Xie Yuzhi's eyebrows relaxed slightly. She glanced at Ji Chunzao who was curiously surrounding the UFO in the cave, and then turned her gaze to the entrance of the cave.
"My driver, Uncle Liu, is at the bottom of the mountain. He drove the car over."
Yan Jingxing took a big gulp down his throat. The water was warm from the sun, and it seemed that it had just been taken out of the car.
"I can't let him see it...it's best not to let him know there is such a place."
she whispered.
"If all this is true, then no one else but us should be allowed to know the secret."
After saying these words, Xie Yuzhi quickly left the cave.
Ten minutes later, she came back again, her expression showing a bit of fatigue, but the energy in her pupils remained intact.
"Let's plan it first."
Xie Yuzhi said that at this time, she saw that Ji Chunzao was almost lying on top of the UFO, as if he was planning to find a hole to get in, so she couldn't help but stop her with a stern tone:
"Chun Zao! What are you doing? Come down quickly. We don't know if this machine can operate normally yet. It's too dangerous for you to do this!"
He was putting his feet on the bulge of the porthole. Ji Chunzao, who was trying to climb to the top of the UFO, heard the voice coming from behind, and his body suddenly stiffened.
"I, I understand..."
The little girl curled her lips, and although she was a little dissatisfied, she still got off the UFO obediently.
When she came to the two of them, Xie Yuzhi stepped forward, grabbed her hand unceremoniously amidst Ji Chunzao's exclamation, frowned and looked at her dusty cuffs and collar.
"Let's not talk about whether it's dangerous or not, don't you think it's dirty? Look, there's dust everywhere on your body."
Miss Xie complained and began to help Ji Chunzao dust herself off.
Judging from her tone of voice and her skillful movements, it was probably not the first time that something like this had happened. After all, the two were roommates.
Yan Jingxing watched the interaction between the two people and couldn't help but have the urge to laugh out loud.
Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi were obviously peers in the same school, but he could see that it was like a "mother-daughter relationship"...
Now he can finally understand what Chun Zao meant when he said, "Sometimes I feel like Xie Yuzhi is like a strict mother."
"Yan Jingxing, what are you laughing at?"
Just when he was having fun, he suddenly felt a chill, and the eldest lady's sharp gaze fell on him.
"Uh, nothing."
Yan Jingxing quickly straightened his face and put on a serious expression.
Xie Yuzhi stared at him suspiciously. After a while, she said:
"You should keep an eye on her from now on. Chun Zao always likes to mess around, sometimes without a clue. You are her friend, so you should pay more attention..."
"Okay, okay, I understand."
Yan Jingxing stood up from the ground on his knees.
"But I think Chun Zao always has her own ideas. I guess she has discovered something on there, right?"
"……is that so?"
Miss Xie turned her eyes to her roommate who was holding her arm firmly to prevent her from running around again.
"That's right!"
Hearing what he said, Ji Chunzao suddenly became energetic and said proudly:
"I just fiddled with it for a while and successfully opened the door of the UFO!"
"...?"
Xie Yuzhi let go of her hand and quickly walked to the flying saucer. After turning around twice, she saw an open iron door, barely big enough for one person to crawl through.
"Do you want to go in from here?"
She knelt down and looked at it with a flashlight. It was completely dark inside, and it was an empty cabin space.
"Well, although I don't want to doubt your words, the more I read it, the more unreliable it becomes. Can this kind of thing really send people to another planet?"
In fact, Yan Jingxing thought so too. In particular, nothing that looked like any instrument or equipment was found inside the flying saucer.
"If that's the case, at least there's no danger in getting in, right?"
"..."
Ji Chunzao said from the side in a tone of suppressed excitement:
"Whether it's true or not, the three of us can go in and take a look and we'll find out?"
...Yes, in the final analysis, it still depends on practice to prove it.
In this situation, she was the only one who could put aside all worries and say "move forward" without hesitation.
Yan Jingxing knelt down next to Xie Yuzhi and looked at the girl's profile.
"What do you think?"
"Of course we have to try." Xie Yuzhi quickly made a decision, "I'll prepare the necessary things first, and then we go in together."
"What are you going to prepare?"
"Even if this thing really allows us to transfer to another planet, we have no idea about the living environment there, do we?"
She looked inside the UFO's cabin again.
"With this size...it seems that we can only prepare corresponding clothing and belongings."
"Yes, that person is an 'astronaut', so he can walk on alien planets, but..."
Yan Jingxing murmured.
"Where are we going to get a space suit? I read in a magazine that one costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and it's all state secrets."
"No, just the thing pulled out of the whale's belly, I believe it is definitely not a real space suit. I can make it based on its material, and if you are worried, I can also find someone to sew it into that shape, but in the end Just a 'souvenir'."
Xie Yuzhi replied.
"Anyway, don't worry, leave it to me to prepare. Let's seal this place up first and keep it a secret..."
"I see!"
Ji Chunzao suddenly shouted, his tone full of surprise.
"This is the so-called 'secret base', right?"
"...'Secret Base'? Although it sounds a bit childish, it is indeed what it is."
Xie Yuzhi rarely showed a faint smile.
Yan Jingxing looked around, trying to remember the surrounding scenery firmly in his mind.
…
In early summer, there is a secret that only three junior high school students know.
A cave in a deep mountain forest, a strange abandoned UFO, and an alien adventure that may be coming——
An unprecedented sense of anticipation made his heart begin to pound.
*
Three days later.
Yan Jingxing, Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi came to that place again - in front of the cave that they regarded as their "secret base".
Behind them were stacked several large packages tied up with ropes, all of which Miss Xie had asked someone to pull up the mountain in a truck. I heard that it contains generators, special clothes, oxygen bottles, emergency food, and various equipment and equipment needed for cross-country mountaineering.
Although he had known for a long time that Xie Yuzhi's family was very wealthy, he still didn't expect that she could complete the preparations so quickly and resolutely.
It is one thing to be born into a wealthy family. After all, Xie Yuzhi is still a minor in junior high school. He does not have his own career and cannot live independently.
Seeing their children making messy things all day long, wouldn’t her family care?
Doubts remain doubts. No matter what, Yan Jingxing is still very glad that Xie Yuzhi can join them. Otherwise, with his and Ji Chunzao's abilities, it would be impossible to complete this work after one semester.
...However, Miss Xie herself still looked dissatisfied.
"It's too hasty. Comparing the pictures of the spacesuit and the paper materials found in the hole, the damage was greater than imagined. I could only find someone who specializes in paper restoration in the archives and fumigation methods to separate the pages—all of which takes time.”
"So, we couldn't wait, so we came here first. We don't really want to launch the UFO. Aren't you curious and don't want to come to the secret base to see what's going on? Chun Zao has been talking about this every day for the past two days. It’s so bad that I’m almost being distanced by my classmates.”
"...Of course I am curious." Xie Yuzhi began to mutter in a low voice, "But even if it is just the preliminary preparation, I feel that it is very insufficient. There is too little information about the so-called 'another planet', and the UFO cabin Due to the internal area limit, I can only do this to this extent with my ability.”
"You're too serious."
Yan Jingxing comforted him from the side.
"You can't be serious. If you really want to go to another planet, you can't be too cautious..."
She sighed quietly.
"Now I kind of hope this flying saucer is fake."
"Why?"
"Because, this matter is not only related to my life. I can't let go."
The expression on the eldest lady's face was a bit subtle, as if she was having trouble with herself.
"Shall I go in first?"
On the other side, not far away, Ji Chunzao had already opened the entrance of the UFO with great interest.
"Put on your clothes and put your things away."
Xie Yuzhi turned around and warned again. She had also written special precautions before so that all three of them could remember them.
"How about you learn from her and be more relaxed?"
Yan Jingxing said with a smile.
"Like spring algae?" Xie Yuzhi shook his head, "I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in my lifetime."
She stared at Ji Chunzao's back, and the emotions in her eyes were complicated that he couldn't understand.
…
The three of them entered the UFO one after another.
"Don't be nervous. This time we are actually here to transfer equipment and test the internal environment. We may not know how to use this machine specifically until the data is restored. At the very least, it must be connected to a suitable energy input device before it can be started. machine."
"I, I'm not nervous..."
"Your voice is trembling when you speak."
Xie Yuzhi, who was carrying an oxygen bottle and a mountaineering bag, was the last to enter. She placed a telegraph satellite clock and a Hertime camera in a corner near the UFO, adjusted her watch and shoulder straps, and then took a deep dive. Taking a breath, he squatted down and crawled into the hole.
"There is a drawer here that seems to be suitable for storing things. Let me help you get it."
"good."
The cabin was pitch dark, you couldn't see your fingers, and the space was not spacious. The young people were so close that they could hear each other's breathing.
"..."
The cabin was incredibly quiet when no one spoke.
Xie Yuzhi raised her hand and glanced at the luminous watch.
"Thirty minutes. We'll be out in thirty minutes. If you feel unwell during the journey, please inform us in advance. Do you understand?"
She didn't say "don't touch the buttons" or anything like that, because there was no such thing inside the UFO.
"Um."
"good."
Hearing the responses from her companions, she calmed down a little.
Xie Yuzhi raised her head and looked up at the empty darkness.
Of course she knew that it was the curved metal roof of the flying saucer, which could be touched by stretching out her hand; but she still preferred to imagine it as a roofless passage leading to the vast starry sky.
The girl couldn't help but think to herself:
"Can this UFO really take us across the universe, across the galaxy, to another planet who knows how many light-years away?"
As soon as this idea came to her mind, Xie Yuzhi couldn't help but smile bitterly.
how could it be possible……
That is something that modern human aerospace technology cannot do at all, so people are willing to fantasize and describe the vast universe over and over again in fictional stories.
But imagination is imagination and reality is reality.
She always hated people who confused the two together, but during the past few days with them, she felt like she was living in a dream.
That’s why I couldn’t help but start dreaming together that dream I thought I had forgotten——
"Well, let's hold hands, okay?"
At this time, Xie Yuzhi suddenly heard another girl suggesting.
"Why so sudden?"
The silence in the darkness lasted for a moment, and she heard the boy ask.
"Is there any reason?"
She heard herself ask in a tone that was too calm to be true.
"No, no reason... I just suddenly wanted to do this."
Ji Chunzao replied softly.
"Ah, could it be that you are scared?"
"No!"
…That’s it.
However, it's no wonder. When people are in the dark, it is easy for them to have all kinds of random thoughts.
Although Xie Yuzhi didn't feel scared, her worry and nervousness at the moment were definitely not fake.
She heard Yan Jingxing laugh and then replied:
"I don't care, but it depends on what Xie Yuzhi wants."
It’s okay with Chunzao, do you want to hold hands with a boy? Not a primary school student.
"It doesn't matter to me either."
However, she heard herself agree without hesitation.
This reaction obviously surprised Yan Jingxing. After a while, she heard him say hesitantly:
"...Okay, then..."
She clearly felt that there was a body temperature on both sides slowly approaching.
The two hands she placed on her body were gently grasped and held up by the hands of the other two people who were groping for them.
One hand is small, soft, and seems a little timid; the other hand is rougher, but the force coming from it is very strong.
The three people in the darkness really held hands together.
Xie Yuzhi pursed her lips.
How strange, she thought.
It was obviously just such a small gesture, but it seemed to have some magical effect, making most of the haze lingering in her heart disappear.
"Boom!"
At this moment, a shocking loud noise came from above the head, as if lightning and thunder were brewing in the cave, enough to set off a storm.
"Whoaaah!"
"What, what's wrong?"
She heard both of them shouting, and her hands were shaking, so she quickly said:
"Everyone, calm down..."
"boom--"
Xie Yuzhi couldn't hear the sound.
There was a blazing light flashing in front of her eyes, causing her retinas to turn black.
From extremely dark to extremely bright, it is like the first light before the world opens.
Then there was a vibration, an extremely violent vibration, and the entire UFO was shaking crazily——
Then everything calmed down. She felt as if she was drowning. She was in a bottomless dark pool, slowly sinking with an unstoppable trend.
A huge vortex formed under her body, dragging her bit by bit towards the abyss of spiritual decay.
This series of changes came so violently that by the time Xie Yuzhi came to her senses, she was unable to say a word, let alone ask about the situation of her companions.
The only good thing is that before the change occurred, Ji Chunzao suggested that the three of them hold hands in the dark.
Therefore, even if it has reached the moment when she cannot feel each other or even confirm whether the other person exists, even if her consciousness is on the verge of collapse and she is about to fall into coma, the warmth of the hands holding each other is still weakly but firmly transmitted to her. in my heart...
