At this moment, he saw a small exit on the highway not far ahead, and hurriedly stepped on the brakes. The speed slowed down, and William pulled up near a sandy lagoon.

Bai Xinrui was still curled up in her seat and fell asleep, William pushed her arm and said, "Come out quickly and breathe, and go home and sleep again." As he spoke, he jumped out of the cab.

Looking around, William had the illusion that he had come to an unexplored planet, with rough sand and gravel under his feet, an endless sea in the distance, the outline of a dark mountain on the opposite side, and birds flying in the distance, as if only to intensify the desolation and loneliness here.

With only nature, them, and the luxury car left between heaven and earth, William felt a sense of fear and emptiness that was out of his experience.

Bai Xinrui's head shook from the high car window, and it was clear that she was awake.

William walked to the other side of the car, opened the door, and reached out to pick her off the tall Hummer.

The wind blew in through the opening of the car door, Bai Xinrui blinked her big eyes, and immediately came back to life with full blood, jumped lightly, and jumped out of the car.

She is still innocent and innocent, facing the endless sea and sky, not only is she not disappointed, but she can't hide her excitement.

There was a hint of coolness in the seaside air in the middle of the night, and she opened her arms, breathed in the fresh air very intoxicated, and shouted excitedly: "Look! How close they are to us! ”

"Who?" Hearing Bai Xinrui's headless words, William was startled, thinking that she was sleepwalking.

Bai Xinrui looked at William's cute and handsome appearance, a smile bloomed little by little on her face, and said sweetly: "Stars! ”

William looked up, the sky was dark gray, the moon had just passed mid-heaven, and at this moment, it was shrouded in a dark cloud, emitting a faint light. The sky is full of stars, as if it is within reach.

Bai Xinrui didn't say a word, raised her leg and stepped on the front bumper of the Hummer matte black, and then, flexibly light, twisted her waist and sat on the wide hood, looking condescendingly at William on the ground.

William stretched his arms hard and sat down.

Suddenly, the girl beside her was silent, and looked up at the deep night sky quietly, as if reading a huge mysterious book, looking focused and fascinated.

William looked sideways at her in a white dress like a delicate lily in the night.

The darkness of the night and the sparkle of the stars gave her already peerless face an incomparably delicate contour, and her skin shone like a jewel soaked in cheese.

Bai Xinrui stretched out her hand and moved very gently and slowly in the sky, as if she was touching every star in the canopy, her long black hair floating in the night wind, like a dark green romoa in the sea, which made her bare neck white and slender.

William noticed that her ears were small and cute, with a thin silver thread falling from the softly contoured earlobe, and a crescent moon set with white diamonds at the end.

As if hypnotized by the shaking crescent moon, William followed her example and looked up at the vast starry sky.

A brilliant Milky Way hangs from the deep blue sky, and in the distance meets the sea, which shimmers like stars pouring down from the Milky Way.

Tonight, for the first time, he discovered that the starry sky above his head was so beautiful and awe-inspiring, the sound of the waves of the sea was so rhythmic and rhythmic, and the sea breeze from the Pacific Ocean could blow so gently on his chest and gently sway his heart......

In the past, the years of struggling to grow up were like clouds of smoke drifting through his mind, and he devoted too much time and energy to those so-called practical things, but never had time to enjoy the scenery around him.

He was shocked to realize what an important thing had been lost in the passage of time.

The voice of the girl next to her came into her ears: "It's a pity that I didn't bring a camera, I can't take pictures of such a beautiful starry sky!" Bai Xinrui's slender and thick black curved eyebrows were slightly raised at the center of her eyebrows.

William took out his mobile phone from the pocket of his dark blue pants, handed it to her, and said, "Who said you didn't bring it, take this picture." ”

Bai Xinrui's brows were playfully pulled together like the dragon mother Anerys, and then, holding her stomach and laughing, she said, "You...... Are you kidding me? Take a picture of the starry sky with your phone...... It's a blasphemy against creation...... At least use a Nikon D5 ......"

Although William doesn't know anything about photography, he can guess the difference between the Nikon D5 and the camera that comes with the mobile phone, and the most obvious difference is definitely that the thief is expensive.

He blushed and quietly slipped his phone back into his pocket.

Bai Xinrui was still giggling there, William didn't think it was wrong, looking at her rare joy, he thought it was very funny, and he couldn't help but smile on his face.

Only at this time is she more like a little girl of her age, carefree with a hint of cute silliness, unfortunately, there are not many things in this world that can make her truly happy.

Suddenly, William was pulled back to his senses by a crisp snap of his fingers, and the girl next to him stopped laughing at some point, happily raised her arms, pointed to the sky above her head, and asked, "Guess what's the name of that star?" It's the star directly above us, to the east of the Milky Way. ”

"If I'm guessing correctly, this is the brightest α star in the constellation Lyra."

William answered immediately without hesitation, which surprised Bai Xinrui.

"How do you know?" Bai Xinrui opened her mouth wide in surprise, turned her head to look at William, and the two thin white calves hanging in front of the car were swaying leisurely. She found it hard to believe that the star was not as famous as the Nine Planets.

The three buttons on the white shirt of the young Sheng Xue were open, revealing smooth and beautiful pectoral muscles, and a small silver cross pendant was worn on the straight neck, and the angular face was as confident and intelligent as ever.

William lifted his wind-blown red hair, moved his body to Bai Xinrui, smiled brightly, and said: "A few years ago, I read a novel called "Touching the Future", which was written by the American astronomer Carl Sagan. It's about humans building a device that can build a wormhole between the Earth and the stars α Lyra......"

"Huh? No, it's 250,000 light-years away! Bai Xinrui spread her hands suspiciously.

"Well, it's not strange, it's science fiction." William laughed, "Halfway through the book, I couldn't resist going to the Astronomy Center to find Dr. Johnson and ask him where the α star Lyra is in the sky. Dr. Johnson deliberately took out the four seasons and compared it with the constellation map to explain to me for more than half an hour......"

Bai Xinrui's face grew with a smile, her eyes widened, brighter and more dazzling than the stars in the night sky, the mysterious world in the starry sky was exactly what she wanted to explore, she felt that she had finally met her bosom friend today.

She leaned over a curious little face and asked, "What happened to that story?" Did humans travel to the planet Lyra α through wormholes? What's on it? Have you ever encountered an unknown creature? ”

The girl, who was as sleepy and tired as a little lazy cat just now, suddenly became energetic, and William was also interested, but he was not interested in those strange things, so he took the topic to reality: "...... The book doesn't go into the details of wormholes, but I did see an article that says that Dr. Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has succeeded in creating a theoretical model of wormholes based on a novel, and the basic principle is that anti-gravity matter is used to keep these wormholes open enough for a certain amount of time to pass through them without letting the huge gravity inside destroy the ship......"

Bai Xinrui listened, the light in her eyes disappeared, what model, what anti-gravity, these words were hard and unaesthetic to her, but she still listened patiently and looked at him with a smile.

Suddenly, William also realized that the theories he was talking about must be too difficult for this little Lori, who was only thirteen years old, and apologized: "Oops...... Am I talking too boring? ”

Bai Xinrui smiled without answering, pointed to the sky again, and asked seriously, "Do you know what the name of that star is?" When you look down, it's across the Milky Way, opposite α Lyra. ”

William squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of Bai Xinrui's finger, saw that there were several stars there, carefully distinguished them for a long time, and asked, "There is more than one star opposite α Lyra, where is the one you are talking about?" ”

Bai Xinrui dragged him to his place, eagerly stretched out his arm and pointed to the sky, and said, "If you look at it from this angle, it is just to the south of the Milky Way, between the two small stars, and it is the brightest ...... among those stars."

"Which one is it?" Poor William was still confused, his eyes fixed on the vast canopy, trying to find among the stars that looked almost identical.

Bai Xinrui turned over deftly, and suddenly stood on the hood of the Hummer, and she stretched out her hand and motioned for William to stand up as well.

William was a little unbearable about stepping on the shiny hood of someone else's Hummer, but he knew that Bai Xinrui had the same temper as the eldest lady, so he had to stand up with her traction.

Standing taller, the whole world seemed to be different in his eyes, and more importantly, they were holding hands at the moment.

"What about the star you're talking about?" William asked, looking up at the sky.

Although from a rational point of view, he is well aware that this little difference in altitude is completely negligible for viewing stars hundreds of thousands of light-years away from Earth.

He continued to search with a blank expression, the stars in the sky were beautiful, but in the eyes of most people, they really did not make any difference, and he felt completely defeated by this wayward little girl.

Bai Xinrui stood on tiptoe, stretched out her arms in a farther direction, and said excitedly, "Can you find the constellation Aquila near the celestial equator?" Just south of the constellation Lyra, north of the constellation Sagittarius......"