Chapter 11: Phantom and Shadow
I don't know where I am now, I look around, and the endless darkness envelops me, like I am at the bottom of the sea, a dead silence.
I groped my way forward, and within a few steps, my whole body suddenly fell downward, like following a pitch-black pipe, and I didn't know where the end was.
I don't know how long it took, when I opened my eyes, the dazzling light shot into my pupils, and I hurriedly blocked them with my hands, and it took a long time to get used to this bright environment.
I stood up and looked around, everything was so familiar, yes, it was the same campus where sorrow and joy had been lived, and strangely, there was no one on the campus.
Just as I was surprised, a familiar figure appeared in my field of vision.
"He Xiaoyang?" , I couldn't help but read.
He Xiaoyang didn't seem to hear my scream, and walked towards the teaching building by himself, at this time I didn't know that I was in a dream, so I quickly ran out of him, wanting to ask what was going on.
When I chased to the corner of the stairs, He Xiaoyang's figure suddenly disappeared, and then I only heard footsteps coming from upstairs, and I ran up in a hurry.
I kept shouting He Xiaoyang's name, and the footsteps didn't seem to stop, and I kept walking up the stairs.
There were thirteen floors in the school building, and by the time I climbed to the eighth floor, I was already exhausted and out of breath, and I listened to the smaller and smaller footsteps, and I thought that his purpose should be the rooftop of the upper floor.
When I ran to the rooftop, He Xiaoyang was standing on the edge of the wall, looking up at the sky, he didn't show a trace of surprise at my arrival, but said flatly: "You're here"
"What are you doing here? What about the rest of the people on campus? ”
"Do you see that star in the sky?" , He Xiaoyang ignored me and pointed to the sky and said.
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and there were no stars at all, and besides, it was still daytime, and there was only the sun, and there were no stars.
"Too... Sun? Suddenly, as if I had been electrocuted, I hurriedly looked up at the sky, only to see that there was nothing in the sky.
"I'm leaving soon, going to a distant place, and I may never see you again", He Xiaoyang's eyes were shining, and he kept staring at the sky, the direction where he said there were stars.
I looked at He Xiaoyang in front of me, he was still as handsome as before, sunny, 1.8 meters tall, slightly thin face, high nose bridge, with thick glasses, and his whole body exuded the elegance and gentleness of a scholar.
"Where are you going?"
I vaguely remember that he had left me, but I don't know if it was in a dream or if I was in a dream at this time.
"A far, far away place, where you can see endless starlight, no sorrow, no sorrow", speaking of this, He Xiaoyang's glowing eyes suddenly dimmed, and said in a low voice: "It's just that I can't take you with me."
"Don't you miss this place?"
"Nostalgia, but I have to go, because my time is up", He Xiaoyang turned his head and smiled at me, then pointed to the sky and said, "They are coming"
I looked intently, and saw a small black dot flying towards us from far and near, and in the blink of an eye, it had come to us, only to see that it was a circular flying machine, about thirteen meters in diameter, and the whole body exuded a faint blue light.
"I'm leaving!" , He Xiaoyang looked up at the sphere and pressed the thing he was wearing on his wrist, and then the sphere flew above us, and a pillar of light shot straight down from the sphere.
"Your parents, your girlfriend who didn't leave the door, and us, can't you really stay?" For some reason, I suddenly opened my mouth and yelled at him, tears already blurring my vision.
"Goodbye!"
I just watched He Xiaoyang's body dissipate into the pillar of light little by little, and I couldn't do anything but watch him leave me again.
"Maybe that's good," I said to myself, looking at the departing aircraft.
I took a cigarette out of my cigarette case, lowered my head and lit it, looking at the bustling city in the distance, and endless sadness came back to my heart.
Just as I walked downstairs, the earth suddenly began to tremble, and a huge roar came from the sky, I looked up in the direction of He Xiaoyang's distance, only to see a huge spaceship gradually appear in my eyes.
"It's... What the heck? Before I could react, the building had begun to collapse, and my body had fallen to the ground with the broken wall.
"This time, it's dead!" A sense of hopelessness filled my heart, and I closed my eyes and waited for death to come.
As I was about to smash the wall to the ground, an invisible force dragged me out of the rubble, and I opened my eyes to a green vine wrapped around my waist, and at the end of the vine was a woman dressed in black leather.
Before I could understand what was going on, the woman jumped to her feet and dragged me toward the clearing not far away.
I don't know how far I ran, until the earth stopped shaking, the woman stopped, the vines around her waist also turned into green light and dissipated, and I slammed into the ground in mid-air.
I struggled to stand up, my whole body aching, and I looked at the woman in front of me, with golden wavy hair, a fair face, and a pair of big eyes staring at the spaceship in the distance.
"Who are you? And what's going on with that spaceship? ”
"Was it your friend sitting in that orb just now?"
"Yes, who are you?" I asked again.
"Who are you? How did it end up here? The woman asked rhetorically.
I didn't ask again, I didn't answer her, and I looked at the familiar and unfamiliar places around me, and I didn't know for a moment what was going on.
"Want to save your friend?"
"Isn't he gone?" , I replied very puzzled.
The woman didn't answer, she took out a silver-white ball from her waist, and as she pressed the switch with her fingers, the ball glowed brightly, and as the light faded, a round-headed and round-headed thing appeared in front of me.
I saw it flutter its wings behind it and come to me, and two green lights emitted from a pair of round eyes, scanning me up and down, and then flying into the woman's ear, muttering something I didn't understand.
After saying that, the round thing flew in front of me again, and it pressed the small blue dot raised on my chest, and a light screen appeared in front of my eyes.
In the screen is the huge spaceship in the distance, and in the ruins below the spaceship, there is a burned out wreckage of the flying machine, yes, it is the one He Xiaoyang is riding.
"Who the hell are you?"
"Time Man"
"What is the Time Man?"
"A person with the ability to travel across time and galaxies"
I looked up at the ship in the distance, it was now fully unfolded in front of me, the huge hull obscuring the sky, I didn't know what it was all about, and I didn't know what the woman's origin was, because it was all beyond my knowledge.
"Then how did you get here?"
"The ship in front of you is called 'Marauder', I have followed it across many galaxies, and I came here to destroy it here", the woman looked back at me with a pair of blue eyes, and asked, "You, will you help me?" ”