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"Aliens have invaded Earth!"

On the high flowerbed stone slab by the side of the road, a girl's face was flushed, and several fresh acne marks on her forehead were white and red.

"Aliens have invaded Earth!" She announced loudly. The sweat-soaked Liuhai rises high in all directions, like a radiant crown on his head; Heavy backpacks slipped off the thin shoulders, and the wide school uniform was pulled into a triangular flag, like the ancient Egyptian Farrahine robes; She pointed to the sky with her right hand, kicked her phone with her left hand, like holding a torch of freedom in her right hand, and held a nameplate in her left hand - a blackened 'Statue of Liberty'.

"Bear child! Not down yet. The community aunt in a red vest on the side of the road pointed at her from afar, only hating that the hurried flow of people blocked the way.

The girl turned a deaf ear and continued to shout to herself: "Stupid earthling! Look up at the sky! There is a vision from heaven! This is a precursor to the opening of a wormhole..."

The hurried people followed the right hand of Lady Liberty and looked up: the sky was strange, the dark clouds rolled overhead, the boundaries were clearly visible, the circle was black outside, and the sun was shining inside the circle.

What the hell is the weather! Just after March, the weather was humid and muggy, and the air was filled with the restlessness of early spring.

In the distance, the thunder became clearer, the community was still in the sun, the new young leaves in the flower beds curled up hungrily, and the little aphids crawled anxiously on them, sensing that a storm was coming. This community has an extremely ordinary appearance, with six blue-roofed and white-walled panel residential buildings wrapped in neatly planned green belts, and only the proud expression of the community aunt wearing a red vest in the community shows that it is a family building in a certain agency compound.

Outside the building, the bright sunshine and the sound of the horn of the "innovative civilized city" poured in, and the new latex paint wall that was blistering and blistering on the ground was like a green and reckless juvenile acne scar face. A few muffled thunders, suddenly the air was stirred, and the pale yellow and old security door suddenly opened and closed with the cold wind pouring in, staging an uncreative ghost movie rhythm. The aborigines of this place, "Comrade Xiaoqiang", were not afraid of the noise and disturbance of the outside world, and focused on exploring the garbage behind the security door, and several climbed onto the rusty red fire cabinets, trying to regain the lost territory. The four walls of the fire cabinet are delicately framed by anime cardboard, and the silver-haired boy stands in the beautiful girl battle group with a sword in his hand, and his eyes are sharp to guard a black blue dragon cardboard box sealed by two spells, one reads "Hurry like a law", and the other reads "Death to those who open the box without permission". There are all kinds of anime books neatly arranged in the box, and several exquisite figures are smiling slightly, which is in vain for thousands of girls to say "husband". A pair of pirated gamepads and a large bag of DIY materials such as antique flower pieces and glass petals occupy other spaces. Who would have thought that the owner of the carton would be - Fei Yang - 'someone else's child'!

"Feiyang!? ——”

"Huh-Aunt Wu-" Facing the surprised gaze of 'Aunt Wu', Fei Yang jumped down from the stone slab of the roadside flower bed, and the seven horizontal and eight vertical Liuhai fell on the delicate Xianyue eyebrows. After covering the acne scars, the white and red porcelain baby face was like a budding pink bud, and the excited round eyes under the eyebrows were instantly bent like crescent moons. She used her crescent-like lips to show what it means to smile without showing her teeth.

"Hello Aunt Wu!" She bowed politely, and the slanted Farahin robe instantly returned to a dignified white-on-blue-sleeved school uniform. She was at this time - 'someone else's child'.

'Other people's children' is what adults call - a strange creature, never plays games, has excellent grades, has a sweet and filial mouth, is well-behaved and sensible, and has a 360° full coverage halo without dead ends. Opposite the old security door in the corridor, in the vermilion security door with Spring Festival couplets and inverted 'blessings', her room is just like her appearance, the bed curtains, wallpaper, and bed sheets are all shrouded in young Barbie powder. On the white desk under the pink curtain, in addition to the 'college entrance examination full score essay' and 'practice every day for five or three days', the World Geography Photography Atlas is the only extracurricular item that has been favored. This is a room built by her mother, An Ran, and represents a mother's expectations for her daughter. The fire cabinet outside the door is the dark world of the 'bear child' Feiyang, and inside the house she is "someone else's child", just like Xiaocao never raises a bar with a boulder, "Is it not good to live well" is her survival manual under the broom of the tiger mother.

A block away is the city's No. 1 Key Middle School, today is the weekend, and the school ends early. The week-long dormitory students swarmed out of the iron gates of the campus, like parole prisoners, and the school gate was crowded with waiting private cars. Pedestrians and students weave agitately through the staggered traffic on the road, honking, swearing, and congested traffic, occupying the six lanes outside the school gates, and the wide road becomes a huge parking lot. The rainstorm is coming, and everyone wants to end the trip before the darkness sets.

Fei Yang, who was wearing a white-on-white and blue-sleeved school uniform, was also in this torrent, and the school was only a block away from home, so naturally there would be no one waiting for her in the convoy. She staggered down the narrow stone steps of the flowerbed, which had not yet been repaired, and staggered down from time to time. A few strands of hair were scattered on her loose balls, and a mobile phone disguised in a notebook was attached to her sweaty face, and the corner of the mobile phone screen had been shattered into a chrysanthemum, but it was still the most precious part of Feiyang's private property. As a sophomore in high school, its fate is ill-fated. At home, in the face of his mother's carpet search, it is not safe for the mobile phone to stay in this special notebook, and all Fei Yang can do is let the mobile phone rise and sunset. Every day when she goes home, she will patronize the fire escape, and after repeatedly checking that it has been turned off, she will send her mobile phone into the Qinglong cardboard box in the fire cabinet with a sense of ceremony. The world of the school is much wider than that of home, but there are still 6 mobile phones unfortunately killed on the podium in front of the blackboard before school today, fortunately, Feiyang alertly sensed the existence of danger, and before the last class, the disguised notebook with the mobile phone was glued under the seat.

"When you go out into society, you will thank me!" The head teacher, Mr. Liu, said earnestly after bitterly reprimanding them for being the worst class of students he had ever taught.

Of course, Feiyang knows that "the second year of high school is a "slope", and the third year of high school is a peak, and she can't survive and ruin her future", she also wants to put down her mobile phone and focus on being a real "other person's child". But what is the future: being admitted to university, going to society, becoming a civil servant like "someone else's child", getting married and having children, buying a car and a house, traveling the world, and going to the peak of life... And then what? Fei Yang felt that there would be something, she wanted to say that she would save the world like "Spider-Man", but when she thought of that damn tights-"

"What are you thinking? The unit exam is going to be tomorrow, and your mother is much more terrifying than the end of the world! Save yourself first, sober up, secondary two girl. The hot phone in her hand was reminding her.

The STEAM New Year promotion consumed all of Fei Yang's savings, and in order to get the best value for money, she made full use of every minute outside the supervision, and even forgot about the unit exam. It wasn't until today, when Teacher Liu roared, that she wailed with the whole class, as if she didn't know at that moment that there was a parent-teacher meeting after the unit exam.

Fei Yang looked up, the dark clouds above his head became thicker and thicker, and the sunlight with nowhere to escape rushed out of the round hole in the center of the dark clouds, like the last holy light of the end of the world.

"Maybe?!" As if seeing a life-saving straw, Fei Yang jumped on the high stone slab by the flower bed, pointed to the holy light, and loudly announced into the phone: "Aliens have invaded the earth!" As soon as the childish voice came out, it was muffled by the horn of the traffic.

"What?" I didn't hear it clearly on the other end of the phone, but my voice had a dull tone.

At this time, the "bear child" is immersed in "Thanos saves the world!" In the excitement, Columbus discovered the New World, and she was the first person to get a glimpse of the alien sky!

"Aliens have invaded Earth!" She shouted again.

The other side of the phone was already surprised, but sneered: "Then did your alien boyfriend come to pick you up with colorful auspicious clouds?" ”

When he was in junior high school, Fei Yang was brainwashed by the second middle school comics, and once declared like Haruhi Suzumiya: Except for aliens, people from the future, people from another world, and superpowers, he has no interest in ordinary humans. At that time, she was mediocre in appearance, short in stature, unconfident in her eyes, and her taste in dressing was often regarded as a negative teaching material, and she often hummed lyrics such as "Leave hibernation quickly, quickly break out of the cocoon, don't be trapped on the surface of the earth by boredom" and "Why do passers-by make people annoying, prepare to be amazed" such extremely silly lyrics. Fei Yang, who is now in his second year of high school, recalls that period of black history, and will pat his head with a faceless look to see Jiangdong's father.

On the other end of the phone is a dead friend who has played Gege in a blanket, and the biggest power of a dead party is to dare to step on and stomp in your most embarrassing place, and Xia Xia will naturally not let go of such an opportunity. Sure enough, merciless bullets came.

"Wake up! Secondary 2 Girl! Fei Yang wilted halfway, "The sky of this world is not lit up for you, the wormhole is not opened for you, your mother is still your mother, your father is still your father, if you don't come back quickly, when your mother comes back, we don't want to go shopping..."

Hitting the death hole, Fei Yang was completely stunned. The word 'Mom' is a sobering soup that rescues her from the apocalyptic vision of an alien takeover of Earth. "! The old problem is repeated. She scolded herself.

"Are you fucking looking for death?"

Fei Yang was frightened, her foot fell off the stone steps, and she turned around. A four-wheeled pickup truck full of waste cartons blocked the traffic behind in the non-motorized lane, and a bald betel nut chewing head emerged from the Range Rover, spitting stars and cursing. The pickup truck hurriedly increased the throttle, trying to find a gap to drill out of this human-vehicle battle, Feiyang on the side of the road dodged and avoided, and the overflowing carton of the pickup truck almost scratched her. Fei Yang glanced at the driver and stuck out his tongue at the driver, if the appearance of the hanging child was seen by the tiger mother An Ran, he would definitely faint on the spot.

Xiaxia on the other side of the phone had returned home, and she scolded while changing her clothes: "Stupid! The second illness of secondary school is committed again. ”

"Wow, handsome... Handsome—" The phone on the desk came from the speakerphone.

"How handsome? Is there Chen Haoshuai? Xiaxia asked as she smeared lipstick in the mirror.

"Handsome—handsome...."The on the other end of the phone stammered out of tune.

"How handsome is it?" Xia Xia was a little curious: "Is there Ouyang Ruishuai?" ”

"Whew-" The sound of saliva came from the phone.

"Not really—shoot me a—" Xiaxia's hand holding the eyebrow pencil stopped, her slender willow eyebrows raised.

"Ahh - Wow! So cute! The phone was screaming again.

"What's the situation? Feiyang, are you finished? Ghosts are screaming and screaming, and people are dead! Xia Xia wiped the crooked stroke off her eyebrows.

"Haha! Cat God? Cat ancestors? No, the cat Buddha is right! There's a Ragdoll cat on the side of the road, super cute, Xiaxia, I'm sure you've never seen such a fat, lazy cat! ”

"I saw your mom walking in the direction of the school with an umbrella." Xia Xia looked at the sky, viciously threw away the cotton pad in her hand, and took out her nirvana again.

But on the phone this time, there was only noise and screams that answered Xiaxia.

"Hey, hey! Fei Yang—" Xia Xia picked up the phone on the table...

The screams and noise faded away, and Fei Yang opened his eyes.

The sky was gray, the drizzle was cold, and there was a white dead silence all around, without the hustle and bustle of people and watery traffic, only the lonely hovering of tall buildings.

A stream of cold blood rushed from his nostrils to the heart of Fei Yang's brain, "Huh?!" Hell yes! Who am I? Where am I? Who wants to take my throne—", she croaked, but her voice was not heard.

The white-gray roof approached, and on the roof, a woman in a light blue cashmere coat was curled up and kneeling on the damp blue-gray concrete floor, surrounded by black asphalt like a spider's web. The woman was like a dehydrated, angry corpse, the rain soaking through her hair and clinging messily to her scalp and pale cheeks.

"Female ghost—goblin——? Help me! Mommy Mommy! The sky is clear, the earth is spiritual, urgent as the law, there is no Amitabha Buddha in the south! O my Lord Jesus..."Fei Yang is like a motor out of control, but the picture is as if someone has been muted, the air is weird and dignified, and there is no trace of waves quietly.

The female ghost on the roof seemed to sense something, she raised her head, and a slightly haired face on her slender neck, although haggard and miserable, but the majesty and grace between her eyebrows were still there.

"Mom!" Fei Yang froze, and the air and the picture froze even more.

The female ghost turned out to be her mother-An Ran!

An Ran knelt there, staring up at the gray sky with empty eyes and stunned, her blistering lips trembling and shouting something.

Fear runs rampant like a cold sword. However, only a moment later, Fei Yang reflexively looked obedient: "Mom - I love you, I love you so much - don't scare me, please don't joke!" Even though there was no sound, the mouth kept going.

This is so weird, maybe it's a trap? A giant pit?

Once, the experience of the mother and daughter fighting countless times was a wake-up call for Feiyang: This kind of thing is not less done, pretending to be a door-to-door errand, and suddenly turning back halfway to check the temperature of the computer; deliberately leaving a handful of change in the corner of the couch; Holding a couple of anime magazines, he said he found it while cleaning his room; Countless times I have claimed to have met so-and-so teacher, the parents of so-and-so classmate... In order to test whether her daughter is really 'someone else's child', it can be said that everything is done. What's even more hateful is that no matter what the result is, this woman will quickly occupy the high ground and wave her arms: "I'm not for your good, I'm not too lazy to bother with this for someone else's child!" Am I easy?! It seems that my daughter will not give up until she is grateful and thanks. Where there is oppression, there is resistance, after a few moves, Fei Yang grew rapidly in frustration, and finally practiced today's drama.

Fei Yang begged for mercy, but his brain circuit was running rapidly:! What kind of technology is this? vr？ Hypnotism? Has human technology developed to this point? Is it possible to manipulate people's consciousness at will? Could it be that this is the masterpiece of Mom and the aliens?

"Another alien! Are you sick in the head? Secondary 2 girl, wake up! Fei Yang wanted to beat her head, but suddenly found that there were no hands and heads, except for the picture, there was nothing, not even herself!

"I'll go! I've watched too many ghost movies, and I've had such a creative ghost dream! She sighed, if she had hands, she would have quickly straightened her clothes and hair, and straightened herself back into "someone else's child".

Knowing that it was a dream, Fei Yang dared to look directly at her mother: her mother knelt stiffly on the ground, her long wet hair hung on both sides of her pale cheeks, her eyes were blood-red, and the blood vessels on her forehead were as clear as the black asphalt like spider webs on the ground. Fei Yang wanted to laugh a little, but suddenly, she got angry, after all, it was her mother who was kneeling!

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mom! I don't mean to laugh at you, though, sometimes it's a little annoying to you, but I don't mean to have such dreams. Wake up, it's not fun at all...", her mouth squirmed like a machine gun, trying to get out of the nightmare, and to the despair: the picture was still the same, the cold, the damp was still there, and the mother was still kneeling in a blue-gray patch!

"God, Mom, are you testing me? All right! I vowed never to play games or buy comic books again; Be sure to listen well in class, don't doze off, and don't cheat sheet in exams; If I don't help my classmates bring takeouts and do homework, I don't want the money they owe. God, Mom, I've really studied hard since then, are you satisfied? Please spare me! Fei Yang bit her lip and closed her eyes in prayer. She prayed religiously more than once or twice a day, such as before each exam; For example, when you can't do a certain question; For example, when the game is about to hang...

A white light flashed, "Buddha, Jesus, Allah, the Jade Emperor... Manifestation! Fei Yang cheered and recited the gods and Buddhas she knew and could remember.

The white light seemed to sense her piety, and bathed in a low voice, enveloping her warmly and affectionately. Fei Yang forgot about his thoughts for a while, and completely forgot his previous dream, just obsessively drifting with the white light, there was no time and space, only an eternal tranquility. This kind of drifting may be a moment, or a century, until a huge red ball suddenly descends, and the red ball is filled with hot and tumbling magma-dense gas, but Fei Yang has no burning or fear, only incomparable reverence. Then the darkness and emptiness swallowed everything, but the space was moving forward at a gallop, and between the electric light and flint, a brilliant glow flew by, and then it was pitch black and empty... In the darkness, there seemed to be countless fluorescent flashes, and gradually they became brighter and clearer.

"Wow! It's cool—"

Fei Yang couldn't help but scream, although he still couldn't hear his own voice, he didn't have time to care. Because she finds herself in the middle of a vast universe! As a fan of astronomy, Fei Yang has always thought that the universe is like an empty and barren desert. But at this moment, it is like being in a wonderful underwater world, in addition to the distant bright stars and ethereal stardust, there is also an epic masterpiece being staged! It was a magical, faint, mysterious blue point of light, which was agile and seemed to have life; They are ubiquitous, diverse, and seemingly untouchable.

Fei Yang reached out to touch it, and for a moment, she realized clearly: "This is not a dream!" It's a completely real world! ”