Several long-distance buses moved forward smoothly. Some of the students on board were fast asleep and some were whispering to each other.
Yan Jingxing put his elbows on his knees, raised his face and stared at the scenery passing by outside the car window. At the same time, he cleared his mind. It was a rare opportunity to find some time to relax during this period of time.
Occasionally he would turn his head and look back and see the curly-haired girl sitting alone at the back of the car.
Yan Jingxing discovered that Chun Zao had been busy operating the mobile phone given to her by "Secretary Xie" and did not put it down until the car arrived at the destination. Her long hair fell down, covering her expression.
...could he be addicted? Because this girl's curiosity is too strong, sometimes Yan Jingxing is worried that she will be tempted and go astray. He feels that it is his responsibility to keep an eye on her.
The military training site is located halfway up the mountain, and the road passes through several continuous farmland and villages. There is a closed school. When the car passes through the iron gate, you can see that the area inside is quite spacious, and the blue and white buildings are arranged at random along the gentle slope.
The students carrying schoolbags got out of the car one after another, breathing the fresh mountain air while standing in twos and threes waiting for the teacher to let them gather.
Naturally, Yan Jingxing went straight to the back seat to find his friends as soon as he got off the car.
He saw Ji Chunzao standing alone behind an unobtrusive car with a bag half-carried, his eyes lowered and his cell phone tightly clutched in his hand.
"Is there anything you don't understand? I can teach you."
He leaned forward and said.
"No." The little girl curled her lips, and a look of dissatisfaction appeared on her pretty face. "It's just a mobile phone. It's not like I've never seen it before. Jing Xing, do you think I'm an ignorant countryman?" ?Even if you are from the city, you can’t look down on others.”
"I don't dare to look down on you. I just think it's a little strange to see you sitting in the back of the car and playing with your phone."
"There's nothing you can do about it. I'm sitting alone, and there's no one to talk to. Unlike you, there's someone with you."
No wonder there was a little bit of resentment hidden in her tone... Yan Jing Xingzhi felt that she couldn't laugh or cry because of such a thing.
"That's my deskmate. The seats in the car are the same as those in class. That's how the school arranged it. There's nothing I can do about it."
"I know. But if you are willing to take the initiative to sit next to me, no one will stop you..." Ji Chunzao was still mumbling, snorting softly from his nose.
Even so, she took the initiative to hand the phone to Yan Jingxing.
"You see."
After Yan Jingxing opened it, he saw a small man skiing on the phone interface and fell to death, and a "game over" icon popped up.
"...You have indeed been playing the game above."
"Huh? Have you seen it?"
"I borrowed my uncle's cell phone to play before."
Yan Jingxing couldn't help but began to persuade with earnest words:
"You may think the game is fresh and fun at first, but if you become addicted, you will get bored easily. It is better to exercise restraint and learn to control your time."
Ji Chunzao shook his head gently.
"I don't like playing in the first place."
"...Really? Because you don't think it's fun?"
When Yan Jingxing first came into contact with the game, he couldn't help but play it for a long time. And the girl Chun Zao may have worse self-control than herself.
"Actually, it's not bad. If I used to find my daily life boring, I might..."
Ji Chunzao sighed.
"As for now, to be honest, apart from things related to aliens, it's hard to pique my interest in anything else."
He couldn't help but nod when he heard this.
"It's no wonder. In fact, I have the same idea. This is the so-called 'psychological threshold'."
"……What's the meaning?"
"Yuzhi and I talked about it last night when we were on the phone. This is a psychological term. The reason why we talked about this is because she has the same thoughts as us."
The minimum amount of stimulation that can just cause psychological feelings is called the lower limit of sensory threshold; the maximum amount of stimulation that can produce normal feelings is called the upper limit of sensory threshold, and the middle range is the emotional threshold.
Whether it is happiness or pain, if the same psychological stimulation is repeated repeatedly, the threshold will slowly increase. Just like when you play a game for the first time, you will feel very happy, but as time goes by, you will definitely feel bored.
"Because of the excitement and reality of the alien adventure, the game itself becomes nothing... it makes sense."
Ji Chunzao replied thoughtfully. However, she soon discovered the real point of what she just said.
"Wait a minute, Jing Xing, what did you just say? Did you call Yuzhi last night?"
"Yeah, we chatted for more than an hour."
Recalling the scene at that time, Yan Jingxing couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
"I suddenly discovered that chatting with people on the phone is quite interesting. I used to just use it as a tool to connect with people. I didn't expect that when I actually chat with friends, it will be a completely different experience."
It was obvious that he and Miss Xie had experienced an adventure together the night before; but when they were lying on the bed and talking on the phone the next night, they still felt that they were full of conversation, and both of them felt reluctant to leave when it ended.
Ji Chunzao's red lips opened slightly, as if she was surprised.
"As for making such a fuss..." Feeling that her expression was a bit exaggerated, Yan Jingxing complained, "Didn't you say you spent the whole night on the phone with her that day? It was only after I found out about this that I thought I could give it a try. ."
"But... we are all girls!"
"Isn't it okay for boys?"
He felt even more confused, so he answered seriously:
"Well then, I'll give you a beating too."
"ah?"
"I have made an appointment with Yuzhi that we can make more phone calls and chat more when we are at home. This is to avoid favoring one over the other."
"Then, then..." the little girl's face turned slightly red and her tone was slightly stuttering, "You can call me regularly and say good night to me... or something like that."
"Okay, no problem."
Yan Jingxing nodded and agreed without hesitation.
At this time, he heard a familiar voice coming from next to him.
"What are you doing here?"
Xie Yuzhi appeared in front of them again.
"Oh, we just happened to be talking about you."
"my business?"
"Yes, didn't we call and chat on the phone yesterday?"
Miss Xie nodded.
"Yes. But put this aside for now. Look around. Everyone is gone."
Only then did Yan Jingxing realize that the bustling noise from the students around him had disappeared at some point. He looked around and found that for a while, they were the only two people left chatting.
"...No one came to inform me?" Yan Jingxing looked at Ji Chunzao, feeling a little helpless, "Isn't our popularity in the class too bad?"
"Maybe it's because you two were chatting too passionately away from everyone, and others felt like they couldn't interrupt."
Xie Yuzhi held her hands in front of her chest, with a smile on her lips, and her tone seemed to have deep meaning.
"Even when I saw you from a distance, I felt that there was an atmosphere where it was difficult to be disturbed when you two were talking."
"……What's the meaning?"
Yan Jingxing felt that there was something in her words. He couldn't help but secretly glanced at Ji Chunzao again, and found that the little girl's expression was dull, as if she was wandering.
"It's not interesting." Miss Xie raised her eyebrows, put down her arms, and walked to the front, "I'll take you to your class assembly first."
Yan Jingxing scratched the back of his head, feeling that both girls were acting a little strange today.
…
On the way, Xie Yuzhi said to them:
"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. Before leaving home today, someone wrote to contact me."
"Um?"
"I plan to hire someone to collect the missing cases that have occurred in Baiyue Town in the past ten years, and find clues to the whereabouts of the explorer and the whereabouts of the 'body' that was brought back to Earth. This matter has already been revealed."
"This is business! You should have said it first."
After Yan Jingxing complained, he asked strangely:
"Isn't it a little too fast?"
"Yeah, I feel weird too."
Xie Yuzhi held her chin with her hand, showing a thoughtful expression.
"Baiyue Town is a small place, not a big city. I don't believe that there are people here who specialize in detective work... Moreover, rather than me finding him, it is better to say that the other party came to him on his own initiative, so it happened so quickly. "
"What's the meaning?"
"I had people release the news a week ago, but the initial scope was only a few villages near here, because my original plan was to collect intelligence from local people first, rather than pin all my hopes on finding a suitable professional. Enter the people."
"To put it simply, the detective who wanted to meet me could only have taken the initiative to contact me so quickly unless he had been in this town from the beginning."
Xie Yuzhi looked at Yan Jingxing and Jichun Zao.
"How about it, do you want to meet together?"
"Of course." Yan Jingxing said, "But military training..."
"I've already asked the teacher. I have nothing else to do in the afternoon. We can just sneak out while no one is looking."
As a well-known top student in the Experimental Middle School, Xie Yuzhi said this without hesitation. If other teachers and students heard it, they would definitely be shocked.
But Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao both showed appreciative smiles and gave her a thumbs up.
"no problem."
"We'll go together later."
(End of chapter)
