Chapter 12: An Impossible Encounter
I've never seen a woman so closely, and even the last time I looked at each other on campus wasn't as close as this time.
Xu Nanxing could feel Gao Qingzhu's warm snort, scratching his flushed cheeks from time to time, at this time, how could he still remember what Gao Qingzhu said, those bickering words had long been forgotten by him, and he even forgot to get up.
For the first time, he found that this woman's face was so white and tender, her low-hanging thick eyelashes trembled gently, and she was blinking at him, her eyes were like deep pools, but they were bright.
"Hooked on me?" Cold, Gao Qingzhu joked.
The ambiguous atmosphere vanished in an instant.
Pretending to cough to hide the embarrassment, Xu Nanxing stood up, pretended to look at the lanterns in the lake in the distance, and said unforgivingly: "Heh, just you?" How can you say that you are a woman anyway, if you do a favor, even if you are hooked, then there are many female monsters who are looking for help at Linhai Station, is it possible that I still have to be hooked on them all? ”
"Really?" Gao Qingzhu quietly approached him, stretched out his hand, and put it on his chest, "Then why is your heart beating so fast?" ”
Xu Nanxing was startled, took a few steps back, and stammered for a long time with wide eyes: "You, you, why do you still use your hands and feet!" ”
When Gao Qingzhu saw him like this, his eyes turned into two crescents with a smile.
Knock - Knock - Knock -
The heavy bell slowly rang from the mountain, it was from the Qingming Temple, the bell passed through the gap in the tree, down the long stone steps, and was transmitted to the city, and people were attracted by this strange sound, originally relaxed, but at this moment tense their nerves.
The night blurs the edges and corners of the mountains in the distance, and also highlights the strangeness of the mountains.
The strange appearance appeared on the other side of the mountain, and the rising fire lit up a large area of the sky, and even if it was far away, you could see that the vast smoke was being carried obliquely into the distance by the wind, and suddenly sparks splashed everywhere, and the sky was blazing.
"What happened to the mountain behind Qingming Temple? How did it catch fire? ”
"Let's go and help put out the fire!"
"If there is a wildfire, the whole mountain will be destroyed! I'm afraid it will hurt us again! ”
"Let's go! Extinguish the fire! ”
Some of the streets that were still hot after the Lantern Festival suddenly exploded, and the middle-aged people who were frightened by the fire ran towards the mountain with buckets and wooden sheds, while the remaining old and weak women and children continued to stay in the city, waiting for the news that they would extinguish the mountain fire.
"But go and see?" Gao Qingzhu looked at the direction of the fire and asked Xu Nanxing.
Xu Nanxing, who was on the side, recovered from the ambiguous atmosphere, and did not admit that such an unexpected thing had happened again.
He leaned against the brick wall and said nonchalantly, "No, what's there to see, we just have to wait for the misplaced spell to fail, it's just a naughty ghost similar to the dimension, and it can't set off any big winds and waves." ”
"A small alien creature can send us back to ancient times, and you still say it can't set off strong winds and waves?" Gao Qingzhu disagreed.
Xu Nanxing tilted his head to the side and stopped talking, and tried not to think about what happened just now, but the blushing and heart-pounding picture always appeared in his mind unconsciously, and he quietly turned his head to look at Gao Qingzhu, but he didn't see the woman.
In a panic, he looked a little farther away, only to find that she had gone far away, in the direction of the fire in the mountain.
This Gao Qingzhu, why is she always so curious, can she ignore her own safety without fear?
You must know that mountain fires are very dangerous, tonight the wind is strong, the fire is very easy to become fierce, even in the modern society with advanced science and technology, there is no guarantee that the mountain fire will be extinguished in a short time, let alone this backward ancient times.
I thought about her in my heart, but my body didn't want to keep up, and after hesitating for a long time, Xu Nanxing took a step forward and chased after her.
……
In the forest, the fire spread extremely fast, the firelight illuminated this pitch-black forest, and the monstrous fire continued to send thick smoke to the dark blue sky, and the whole mountain seemed to be covered in fog, mysterious and weird.
His head was heavy as lead, and he moved his fingers vigorously, and there was a pain in his trembling arm. The pain woke up a girl in a strange costume, her lead-filled eyelids jerking out of weight, and the bright light of the fire caught her attention.
Ahem –
Feeling uncomfortable by the gray smoke, the girl coughed again and again, and after relieving herself for a while, she gradually remembered what had happened.
Looking at the cabin beside her, which had been shattered by the impact, she realized that the wildfire was caused by her.
The girl's name is 2309, and she is a person from the future in 2130, because a large number of alien creatures poured out of the Time Flow River, and she was sent by her superiors to find out the cause of the accident.
The watch on her wrist showed that the time was more than a thousand years ahead of her destination, and now that the ship was broken, how she could get back.
The fire was still spreading, and the matter was caused by 2309, so it was up to her to solve it. Watching the raging fire erode the mountains and forests, she apologized, took out something hanging from her waist, and tried to click it a few times.
Di Di –
After a loud noise, several fist-sized machines suddenly flew out of the ruined spaceship.
It still works. She thought.
Xu herself didn't expect that there were still usable instruments in the damaged spaceship, which was both surprised and delighted.
The flying instruments floated over the fire, circled around, and after confirming the scope of the fire, they suddenly stopped, like a network of encirclement, and when they gradually narrowed the range, the fire gradually shrank inward from the original vastness, and it didn't take long for the fire to be extinguished.
"How did you do that?" Behind him, a man's voice came, warm and soft.
2309 turned his head sharply, and a white suit came into view.
It was a slender man, with a fairy aura between his eyebrows, his eyes cut water, and his eyes slightly glowing with tears were even more moving in the moonlight. I saw him holding a four-cornered lantern in one hand, raising the other hand, gently wiping away the tears that had been smoked, and his eyes were still wet, so he slowly walked towards 2309.
I don't know if I should explain it, after all, I don't belong to this era, and it's useless to say too much, so after hesitating for a while, she still decided not to say it.
Seeing him approaching, 2309 didn't think about dodging, and was about to find an excuse to fool around, but the man opened his mouth first: "Are you a monster in this mountain?" What spell did you just make? How come I never met you? ”
After being asked several questions in a row, 2309 didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Realizing that he was too rude, the man hurriedly bent down and apologized: "It's rude, and I'll make amends to the girl." ”
In 2130, 2309 had never been given a 90-degree bow, and the sudden respect made her a little uncomfortable.
"In Xia Murong Bai, it is the fruit of a Bodhi tree in Qingming Temple, it took nearly a hundred years of cultivation to finally get a human form, today's Lantern Festival, guess the lantern riddle and have the honor to win this lantern, this is given to the girl, it is regarded as an apology."
Murong Bai handed the lantern out, and 2309's outstretched hand paused in mid-air for a moment, and finally took it.
From Murong Bai's appearance to the present, 2309 has never spoken, and was about to speak, but Murong Bai who was looking at the spaceship took a step ahead: "Huh? What is it? ”
In a panic, she put away the spaceship, and the spaceship that had smashed the ground out of the huge crater suddenly disappeared, leaving only a dark pit with a pungent smell of burning.
"I'm playing." 2309 finally said the first thing he had said when he came here, but it was clearly an excuse to fool people.
However, Murong Bai didn't see that although others were smart, they were very sluggish in some aspects.
The fire in the mountain has been extinguished, and in this way of extinguishing, 2309 and Murong Bai are naturally the only two people who know, but it is not for the people who are in a hurry to catch up with the mountain and Gao Qingzhu and Xu Nanxing who are swaying up the mountain.
The young people in the prime of life all looked puzzled, the back mountain that was still bubbling with fire, but now it was a dead black, the smoke was swallowed up by the night, except for the faint smell of burnt and the trees that had been burned to charcoal, I am afraid that there is no other proof of the existence of the fire.
How did this fire be extinguished before it rained?
After confirming that the fire had indeed been extinguished, the people in the prime of life left with a curse.
"This fire went out so suddenly, what kind of monster did it?" Gao Qingzhu looked at the scorched black place in front of him, and suddenly remembered something, "Is that Murong Bai?" Didn't he live in the nearby Qingming Temple? ”
"According to my understanding, that monster named Murong Bai doesn't have such great ability, I have inquired before, Qingming Temple was established nearly a hundred years ago, and the Bodhi tree was only planted when the temple was built, so he is only a hundred years old at most, and his mana must not be much." Xu Nanxing looked very understanding, and explained to Gao Qingzhu.
"You're well-informed." Gao Qingzhu patted him on the shoulder, "I see you're quite happy, why don't you just stay here?" ”
"I'm the station keeper of Linhai Station, this ability to find out the news is first-class, these days ......" As he spoke, Xu Nanxing suddenly realized that Gao Qingzhu's second half of the sentence didn't sound right, and he was still praising himself shamelessly, and then became unhappy, "I don't want to live here, I don't have wifi or a computer, it's like hell on earth when I stay here these days." ”
Xu Nanxing frantically complained about the backward life of the ancients, Gao Qingzhu shook his head, sighed helplessly, but had to listen to his complaints, probably because he was really bored these days, so he would confide so much dissatisfaction, Xu Nanxing at this time was like a middle-aged aunt, and the little mouth couldn't stop at all.
It's a little cute.
Retracting her gaze from him, Gao Qingzhu's eyebrows and eyes showed a smile, in just these few times of getting along, she found that every time she saw Xu Nanxing, she wanted to understand him more and more.
Maybe it's the illusion that people are used to, but what Gao Qingzhu doesn't know is that in her heart, there is indeed a place where changes are quietly taking place.
"Now that the fire is out, let's go and find a place to sleep, middle-aged aunt." Gao Qingzhu walked down the mountain, regardless of how Xu Nanxing behind him would react after hearing the words "middle-aged aunt".
However, it can be imagined.
Sure enough, after hearing those four words, Xu Nanxing was angry, "Who do you call a middle-aged aunt!" ”
He hurriedly followed, and in this lonely mountain forest, the two gradually disappeared into darkness.