Zheng Rui and Zuo Youcheng sat side by side on the steps, and they all looked up at the night sky again.

After the surface buildings were bulldozed, the light pollution on the outskirts of the city disappeared all at once. Because there are no high-rise buildings in the urban area, it is equivalent to opening the ventilation corridor, and the haze has also dispersed after a few days. At this time, the night sky is so clear that you can even see a clear Milky Way, which was unimaginable before.

"Actually, I had my birthday last week, and I made a wish to delay the start of school this year." Zuo Youcheng said softly, his tone was not very pleasant, "I didn't expect it to be really delayed, and it is estimated that I won't be able to start school this year." ”

"Which school do you from?" Zheng Rui asked casually.

"I'm in the third middle school in the bridge district." Zuo Youcheng replied.

(Note: All place names in this article are fictitious, please do not correspond to reality)

Qiao District No. 3 Middle School is the focus of the city, and I can't see that this classmate is still a little interesting.

"It's a coincidence, I go to Tianbei Middle School." Zheng Rui said with a smile.

Qiao District No. 3 Middle School and Tianbei Middle School are very close to each other, that is, two roads apart, and although these two schools are not the first or second in the city, they are also on the top ten list. Because it is not a competitive relationship for the first place, the private relationship between the students of the two schools is very good. When Zheng Rui was in high school before, he sneaked out at noon to go to the shopping center between the two schools, and he could meet a lot of people from the No. 3 Middle School in Qiao District.

"Oh, it turns out that the big guy is in the sky, the big guy, the big guy, disrespectful and disrespectful!" Zuo Youcheng began to clap his hands again.

Zheng Rui couldn't help but return to the style of secondary two paintings: "Don't dare, don't dare, you're the boss." ”

"I can't, I can't." Zuo Youcheng hurriedly waved his hand, and then sighed a little old-fashioned, "It doesn't matter if it's a big guy now, and the school is estimated to have been bulldozed." It happened during the summer vacation, and I didn't even know how many other people were left in the school. ”

"Hey, you're okay, you're with your cousin after all." Zheng Rui laughed at herself, "Look at me, I am the only one left in the few tube buildings in this courtyard." ”

"My brother...... He ......" Zuo Youcheng mentioned Fang Tong, but his tone suddenly faded, "To be honest, my brother and I weren't very ...... before His family lives in another place, and it was only when he went to college that he began to come to my house often. ”

Zheng Rui can probably understand that Fang Tong was admitted to college in the city, and he would live at a relative's house in the city for a period of time during the summer vacation. Adults are busy now, and if they weren't in the same city, even relatives like cousins wouldn't be able to see each other a few times.

"Then you and he still know each other after all." Zheng Rui just said.

Now if she can meet a classmate from college, even if she hasn't said a word, she will feel very kind.

"Yes, that's my brother after all." Zuo Youcheng nodded, and then muttered a little bit, "But my brother is just my brother, he is not a person who will look up at the starry sky - he has been a top student since he was a child, and he regards the college entrance examination as the only purpose of high school, and he won't go to see "The Wandering Earth" when we go to see it." But what now? One night back to the pre-liberation period. ”

"People have different hobbies." Zheng Rui doesn't have any special feelings about this.

"Don't mind, my brother - he just doesn't have a hobby." Zuo Youcheng finally caught a person who could complain about his cousin, "I have no hobbies at all." At best, it's just playing social games like pesticides, and it's not addicted to it at all. ”

Pesticides are social games, and there is nothing wrong with that definition.

"Now, hobbies are useless." Zheng Rui said lightly.

"Big guy, you're wrong. We cannot abandon all ideals and pursuits because of the possible end of the world. Zuo Youcheng joked, "It's just that you don't take the college entrance examination and don't go to college, so what about the sea of stars, right?" The universe is not going to disappear. ”

Yes, the universe is not going away.

Even if human civilization perished, it would have been there for at least more than 10 billion years.

She remembered the last sentence of Zhang Beihai in "The Three-Body Problem".

"It's okay, it's all the same."

Zheng Rui once again felt that she needed a political commissar like Zhang Beihai, but when she thought about it carefully, maybe in this small broken basement, her own identity was closer to a "political commissar".

But—

Wait a minute!

Zheng Rui reflexively jumped up from the steps, and his right hand pressed against the forelimbs of the alien that flew over.

The arthropod's body was particularly large in the moonlight, leaving only a swarthy silhouette. The last two pairs of appendages of the alien grabbed both sides of the basement hole, and with one paw controlled by Zheng Rui, they jerked up the claw on the other right forelimb.

Through the dim moonlight, Zheng Rui saw that the alien's claws were disproportionately stretched and widened.

If the previous claw was like a short knife, the claw of the left forelimb of this alien is simply a glaive knife that is too heavy to go into battle - yes, it can't be wielded in battle by humans, but aliens are not humans!

"Ah!!!h Zuo Youcheng screamed in fright.

Zheng Rui's adrenaline level rose with his scream, and she realized in milliseconds that this claw must not be resisted, otherwise it would break her spine even if she had no blade.

- She let go of the alien's left forelimb before the alien swung the knife, kicking the left Youcheng away, and at the same time taking a large step back diagonally with the counterdirectional impulse generated by the reaction force of this kick, barely dodging the alien's hard and mortal blow.

What the hell is this......

It's different from what she's encountered before!

It is still unknown whether her blood has any effect on bone repair, but under the white light of the flashlight, it can be seen that the bleeding from the wound has gradually stopped.

The alien appears to be a right-handed animal, giving priority to attacking the left Youcheng who was kicked to its right by Zheng Rui. When Zheng Rui didn't react at all, its left forelimb gently reached forward, as if it was probing for something, and picked up the sophomore of the No. 3 Middle School in Naqiao District. Zheng Rui couldn't believe that a young man who was rounded to one meter eight was almost completely incapable of resisting like a doll in the hands of the alien.

What's so ......

Zheng Rui jumped over and used his own weight to pull the big knife on the right forelimb that the alien raised again, but he couldn't pull it, but just let it slash off - fortunately, he dodged Zuo Youcheng's abdomen and only slashed at his leg.

Is your leg broken? It's too late to think about it.

Zheng Rui took advantage of the fact that the alien had not yet raised the big knife of his right forelimb, jumped up and grabbed the relatively thin neck of the alien.

It's hard, and her left hand is also Zheng Rui's non-dominant hand, but she has to pinch the bug to death......

- It's just a bug.

Time seemed to slow down, and the alien left forelimb threw Zuo Youcheng away, and came back and slashed into Zheng Rui's back. It hurt, but the action of adrenaline numbed her.

Zheng Rui had focused all her attention on her infrequently used left hand, the fragile neck of the alien was like a can, crushed and deflated in her hand, and the bundles of tissues that resembled nerves or digestive tracts spurted slimy juice.

The alien appendage swung violently, and the left forelimb was pulled out of the wound on Zheng Rui's back.

Then it collapsed like a machine that had lost its signal.

The whole process is extremely short, and within three seconds is the difference between life and death.